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' .1^ - v. TTZZII . J? ? * <% , A REFLEX OF POPULAR- EVENTS.: '^r'r w n. ma?P?? - " Deooleir to Progress, li)e Rights of tl)0 Sontl), anir l!je Diffusion of Useful linorolefogc among all Classes of Working f&en. VOLUME IV. GREENVILLE, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY MORNING, JULY 16. 1857. NUMBER 10. ^mtrrwi-Trtrtri i 1 l^r m irrrniig ' ' ' ' <$ Cjlf ^nntljtrn Cntrrprisi IS XMUBD EVERT THURSDAY MORNINO, BY PRICE & McJUNKIN Win.I-.IAM P. PRICE, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. C ! M . M'JU N K 1 N , PRINTER. TBBMI, One Hollas and Pirrr Cents in advance; Tw Doll a as if delayed. . CLUBS of FIVE and upwards, One Doll a the money in every instance to accompany th order. ADVERTISEMENTS inserted conspicuously a the rates of 75 cents per square of IS lines To the first insertion, ana 37i cents for each aubsc quent insertion. Coutracts for yearly advertising made reason able. . AOBWTS. W. W. Walkm, Jr., Columbia, S. C. . Furas Stradlev, Esq., Plat Kock, N. A. M. Pkdkn, Kairvlevsr P. O., Greenville Dis1 Wiiii.u II It . I i.kv Ploimmit. Ornv.. (3 i-ix-n villi Art. It Q. A*dkM'>!?, Enoroe, Spartanburg. The Little Coffin. We cannot imagine anything more ex quisite of the kind than this poem, by Mn H. L. llostwick. It is one of those poem that one cannot see to read through : 'Twas a tiny rosewood tiling, Ebon bound, and glittering With its stars of silver white, Silver tablet, blank and bright, Downy pillowed, satin lined. That I, loitering, chanced to find 'Mid the dust, and scent nnd gloom "Of the undertaker's room, Wailing, empty?ah ! for whom ! Ah 1 what love-watched cradle bed Keeps to-night the nestling head, Or on what soft, pillowing breast Ik the cherub foriu at rest, That ere long, with daikcncd eye, Sleeping to no lullaby, Whitely robed, and still and cold, l'ale flowers slipping from its bold, Shall this dainty couch enfold ? Ah ! what bitter tears shall stain All this sntin sheet like rntn. And what lowering hopes be hid 'Neath this tiny coffin lid. Scarcely Urge euough to bear Little word* that must be there, Little words, cut deep and true, Bleeding mothers' hearts anew? Sweet, pet uame, and " Auku Two Oh ! can soirow'a hovering plume Round our pathway cast a gloom, Chill and daiksome as the shade By an infant's coffin made ! From our arms hu angel flies, And our startled, dazzled e\es. Weeping round its vacant place, Cannot riso its path to trace, Cannot see the angel face 1 <?>rigitml. ASTROLOGY, Or, the Language of the Stara In the present day, when meu of tin greatest learning have turned their attenliot to Mesmerism, Clairvoyance, Table-turning and other similar subjects, endeavoring t< tind out whether there may be any trutn ii the statements of those who profess sue I things, it is nt least remarkable that so smal J-T. -J 1 _ I II I . a uttgreo consiuenmoii muouic ue evince* for Celestial Philosophy, and to iiltle desin shown whether Astrology has really an) pretensions to tiuth, or whether it bo only * mas* of absurdities, as people have hitherto been generuliv led to believe. Is it not siir prising that men. of high mental qunlifica lions, when applied to for information on this subject, should reply that Astrology i< a remnant of the dark ages?one of the relict of superstitution f Why should any one, obviously ignorant of the science, declare that to be a superstition, and an absurdity, which others havo made their study for so many years, and still continue on unwearied in the pursuit f Are all the students ol Astrology men of such very weak capacities that their minds will bear no comparison with thosa of their neighbors f Is it possi bio that such men as Flanslcad, Galileo, Lord Bacon, Lord Napier, Kepler, Itogei bacon, Guido Bonatua, Nostradamus, Valentine Naibod, llio poet Dryden, Tyihc . brahe, Bir Isaac Newton, and a host ol names wh'?? world-wide feme will live til! earth shall be no more, could have been be liever* in a tissue of absurdities ! No I? These men were Astrologers, convinced o iu truths by their experience in the study ol it as a science. Where would have beer the ateain-engine, electric telegraph, an< other thousand mechanical and scientific itn proven enU of the present generation, if eve rjr one had been content to declare then absurdities I?for such they were supposed to be when the idea of them was first enter tained. If men of the present day were on ly to make themselves slightly acquainted I with the subject of Astrology befoie discussing its merits or demerits, they would not circulate such erroneous statements respect ing its seeming impossibilities. Prescience is an attribute granted to a greater or less extent by the All wise Creator, not only to inuti, but to the lower orders of creation. Most people are enabled to foretell what sort of weather the tuorrow will bring forth ; others go still further, and will forelull by the week whether it will l>r Miie or wet; rats are known to leave a falling hou.se, and few sailors would venture to t, sea in a ship which the rats had deserted e previous to its leaving harbor. Ants art invariably seen to quit their nests, earning ' their young with them, before an irmudatioii takes place. The peacock will cry for houi! previous to a change from tine to wet wealh1 er, giving warning of its approach. It may be argued troin thistliat their instruct teaches llieiu*?certain causes will bring certain effect*. Let it he so; the Astrologer wisher i nothing more granted to him, except a fail t" hearing of hi* case, and a fair study of tht rules of his science. That part of Astrolo gy which has been handed down to us from ilio ancients we know to he equally trut with that which has since been added In subsequent ages of expeiienco ami rerwrcli - The Astrologer does not profess infallibility any more than any other fallible being en l- in the pursuit of science or philoso i. phy ; tin eclipse falling, or the very rare oc s currence of a cornet stationary on the raJi cal places of the sun or moon, in any nativity would militate against any good thai might have beeu predicted, or might mag uifv the evil. God has granted pre science to man only to a certain extent, but quite suflicienl for his wants ; and man should he content with what has been allowed hint, and not refuse that which has been given, because it may not seem to him enough. We do upt say that the a hole Arcana ol the Heavens have beeu yet fathomed. Wo do not enter into the luiuutise of the especial character of each direction in force; wo know that in some cases a direction may effect one {mrson in u certain manner, and another in a different degree. We lei. you the nature of the event. As the science advances, undoubtedly we shall be enabled to cuter the more minute particulars of each direction aud tinnsit. It may be argued that Astrology, which has been undergoing investigation during so many thousand years, ought to have arrived at perfection by this time ; those who think so uro sadly ignorant of the ca->e. Let them, for ni>? mo. incut, consider the tremendous scope ol the Astrologer's undertaking; the almost overwhelming difficulties lie has had to encounter in measuring the heavens; the ris ing and selling of the sluts; their periods ol revolution; ilie many years ofcxpeiience, and the thousands of well authenticated na liviiics and lives of people, required to judge the true nature an I influence of each plan et; tho many impediments that have been thrown in his way ; the want of means ol communicating to others, and spreading the expeiience he might have attained during a lifetime of study. In all other sciencem everything necessary for praclico or oxpeiiuiuiil can, iu general, be readily procuied, whereas, proper nativities of persons born with any remarkable defect are seldom to : be obtained. It* a remarkable character be discovered, the correct time of birth of such a person is neai ly as difficult to be obtained as the philosopher's stone. Instead, there8 fore, of wondering why so little is known 1 relat ve to genethlincal Astrology, we ' might well be surprised that anything is > known. Iu early days, before the use of ' clocks, sand-glasses, or almanacs were du! vised, and among people where writing was but little known, their cpheiueris apaikled with diamond rays throughout the vast cou I i' I cave ui ueaven, uiotr seasons were regulated by the burning stars in the deep blue canopy above, they read their calender in the original type, at set by the Almighty band, but we, of the present day, derive our knowledge of times, and seasons, and days, and mouths, and years, through so many trans laiious and copies, thai we never think of studying the original, and can scarcely be expected to understand the language of so remote a period. Yet we may be her* re minded that this golden writing is still pouring out its hyinu of wonder, bright as in the first hour of exulting life ; and the Astrologer is now the only one to read those dazzling words, to spell out the phrases of that sublime language, to understand tuore of the pie appointed coursesof nature's laws, as ordained by the Almighty Father. The cultivated and reiiued intellect of the philosopher, sees in the revolution of those mysterious orbs (which, we are told, are not onlv ! for seasons, but for signs,) iho shndowjng of an occult design; lie looks upon the planetary world as the vast horologe of eternal ' lima, by which the rolling uyclcs of age* . are recorded ; he is enabled to read there tho ultimate directions of the Almighty's ! will ; he sees that the hand of the Omniscient points to the events in an individual life, as an apportioned clement of u nation's ^ destiny ; he sees, upon this stai-strown dial, I the indox finger of All-wondrous Provi. dence, showing the seconds, the minutes, the hour*, the days, the months, and the A j years of hi)man destinies, oeolvcd at their g i ap|>oinied times and places, as they have ii been from the first syllable of recorded time. G and as thev are still evolving in the whirling I cycles of nn eternity, past, present, and fu- I' , ture; and so sure as yonder clock before us n will strike the hour, when those circling ? , hands approach a certain point in its config- si ; uiution, so surely, says the Astrologer, will e the events occur as indicated by the ana- " I- glvpical characters of the celestial horro w , scope. F Amf gazing on these brilliant constella [" , tiona of the silent night*, when the lesser ti stars seem raining light in the deep blue of mi tlie Heavens, and tlie gloiy or celestial crea- c lion awes tho soyl inlo purity of thought, a we do well to praise God in the firmament ll of hit poxaer ; then, indeed, we may find a " truer meaning in the inspired words of the ti I'aalmist, when ho tells us that not only do n the heavens declare the glorv of God, hut g al<o that the firinaneut showeth his handi- l< work. v f1 The pious study of Astrology tends to ii wisdom and happiness; it affords us conso- 1 lation in the time of adversity?it choers 1 our sorrowing hearts, by showing that the " darkness of the threatening storm will pass away, and that happiness will again beam I" upon us benigtianl'.y in the future. It fore- t warns us of evil, and, therefore, fore arms q against misfortunes; it leads the thoughts to ,1 a higher and holier contemplation of the im : I nteusity of the Almighty's power and the v ' wonders of his works. The study of it is f no tprejudicial to religion ; it is full of the 'most sublimo religious ideas, and its principle is accepted, at least, if not hoi row ed, by I tiie first am) gieatest of all religions. There is nothing, whatever, in Astrology that con * tradicts any one of the doctrines of the chris- c tian religion. Milton, the poet, believed in s it; Bishop Hall believed in it; Melanclhon, tho Protestant reformer and helpmate of Luther, believed in it; Sir Matthew Hale, an I eminent religious English judge, besides Lord * Bacon, nnd Archbishop Usher, and other f eminent christians, believed in it. With ^ such great names to guarantee the purity of its principles, no man can have any reii- I (fiOiio fiiiii' of dtilJ ysng it* j' I I T,- Mini,MI | | S HIisrrllnnraua HI railing. [From "Thing? Not Generally Known," by D. A. r W )! .] * I Familiar Quotations. L There are niaiiy phiu?es and quotaf liona which are as " familiar in.our mouth* ? Hi household words," whose origin is either l unknown or misconceived, and, without en- li crunching upon the sphere of the works de- k voted to this purpose, wo may mention a 1 few of them : e " Tlrere is death in the pot," is from the ? ( Bible, 2 Kings, iv. 40. " l.ovely and pleas- r ant in tiicir lives, and in death thev weie not | divided," is spoken of Saul and Jonathan, I j- 2 Samuel, i. 23. " A man after his own c , heart," 1 Samuel, xiii. 14. "The apple of i \ his eye," Dent. xix. 21. " A still small c j voice," 1 Kings, xix. 12. "Escaped with the akin of my teeth," Job, xix. 20. "That e mine adversary had written a book," Job, L ' xxi. 25. " Spreading himself like a green bay tree," Psalms, xxxvii. 32. " Hanged our liaips upon the willows," l'sulm*, cxxxvii.2. " liiches make (not take, us it is often quot- c ed) themselves wings," Proverbs, xxiii. 5. ll " Heap coals bf lire upon his head," Ibid, v xxv. 22. " No new thing under the sun," n Kcclusiuste*. i. U. " Of li.nkinrr mmiv I I. . -? -- ; ? J there is no end/ Ibid, xii. 1*2. "Peace, h peace, when there is no peace," (made famous n l?y Patrick Henry,) Jeremiah, viii. 11.? p "My name is legion," Mark, v. y. "To v kick against the pricks," Acts, ix. 5. " Make e a virtue of necessity," Sliakspeare's Two Gentelmen of Verona. " All lliat glisters is not gold," usually quoted "All is not gold that glitters," Merchant of Venice. " Screw your courage to the slicking place" (not point.) w Macbeth. " Make assurance doubly sure," h' Ibid. " llang your banners on the out & ward (not outer) walls." Ibid. " Keep the ? word of promise to our (not the) ear, but H break it to our hope," Ibid. " It is an ill ' wind thut turns none to good," usually quot- 01 ed, " It is an ill wind that blows no one any good," Thomas Tasser, 1580. * Christinas comes but once a year," Ibid. " Look ere v lliou lean,'lbid ;and "Look before you ere you " leap," lludibras, commonly quoit*], " Look u before you leap." " Out of mind a* soon a* p out of sight," usually quoted " Out of sight, ' out ol mind," Lord Brooke. " What though the field be lost, all is not lost," Milton. '* " Awake, arise, or be forever fallen," Ibid. " " Necessity, the tyrant's plea," Ibid. * That 'I old man eloquent," Ibid. "l'eaoo hath her b victories," ibid. " Though this may be play to you, 'lis death to ua," Koger L'ts- ol traiige, 1704. 8< " All cry and no wool," (not little wool,) ^ lludibras. " Count their chickeua eie (not l' before) they're hatched." Ibid. "Through B thick aud thin," Dryden. " When Greek* I" joined Greek*, then wiw the tug of war," B usually quoted " When Greek meet* Gre^k, then cornea the tug of war," Nathaniel. Lee. * 1002. " Of two evils, 1 have otiose the least," Prior. " Kit-hard is himself again," ni I Colley Cibber. " Classic ground," Addison, it ' " As clear at a whistle," Byron, 1733. M A c< ood hater," Johnsonians. " A fellow feel n ijjf makes one (not us) wondrous kind/' n litrrfck. " My name is Nortal," Jolin t< loiue, 1808. " Ask me no questions, and w 'II tell you no fibs," Goldsmith. " Not I luch the worse for wear," (not none the r< roiae) Cow per. " What will Mrs. Grundy ay," Thomas Morton. " No |>ent-up Uiica ontracts your powers," Jona. M. Seweil. Ilath given hostages to fortune," Bacon. His (God's) image cut in ebony," Thomas 'uller. " W ise and masterly inactivity," Mackintosh, in 1701, though generally atlibuted to Randolph. "First in war, first i peace, and (Irst in the hearts of his fellow Itizens," (not countrymen) resolutions pre- u silted to House of Representatives, Decetner. 1799, prepared by Gen. Henry Leo. Millions for defence, but not one cent for Rl ribute," Charles C. Pincknoy. " The Aloighty Dollar." Washington Irving. " As ood a? a plav," King Charles, when in Parianient, attending the discussion of Lord Loss's divorce bill. " Selling a bargain " is a Love's Labor Loai. " Fast aud loose," uia. " l umping a inau." uiway s Venice 'reserved. " Go snacks," Pope's prolonge [> Satires. " In the wrong box," Fox's lartyra. "To hunin in the sense of to enl," King am) no King, by Ueaumont and 'let char. The hackneyed newspaper Latin [notation. "Tempore nmtnntur, nos at muam us in illis," is not found in any classic or jatin author. The nearest approach to it , vhh " Omnia nmtanlur," <fcc., and this is t oulid in Horbonioue, a German writer of the s niddle ages. | | ' Smelling ">f the lamp " is to be found in | s Autarch, and is there attributed to Pythons. I ' A little bird told me," couiee from Eccle- ? i as tea, x. 20, " for a bird of tlie air shall u arry the voice, and tliat which hath wings w hall tell the matter." v " lie that fights and runs away, f, May live te tight another day." These lines, usually ascribed to Iludibras, c ire really much older. They . are to be v ound iu a book published in 1650. The < aiiic idea is, however, expressed in a coup- ^ et published in 1542, while oae of the few t ragmclila of Meiiauu'er, the German writer, H hat !:ave been preserved, embodied the , nine idea in a single line. The couplet in I lidi bras is : For those that fly may fight again, C Which lie cmi never do ihnl's slain." a u There's a good time coming," is an ex- i ireeaion used by Sir Walter Scott iu Hob v toy, and has, doubtless, for a long time c icen a familiar saying in Scotland. t A'ripuit ca'lo fulmcn, nceptrutngue tyran- n ii, was a line upon Franklin, written hv a *nf.r.,t it ..r ivim i. _ tnu iMinaaivi *'l ijuum a\. I ft* II l>, C lowever, merely a modification of a line l>v n Cardinal l'olignac, Eripnitque Jovi fulmcn, k ?hocboquc Sii<jita$, wliicli, in turn, was tak- ti >n from a line of Marcus Mntiilus, who says c >f Epicurus, Eripuitque Juvi Jul men vi- ?i etque Tonanti. c Vox poj>uli, Vox Dei. The oiigin of r his familiar phrase is not known, but it is i I noted as a proverb by William Malinesbu- i V, w ho lived in the early part of the twelfth i eniury. i Ultima ratio regum. This motto was j ngraved on the French cannon by order of c jouis XIV. \ " Whistling girls and crowing hens, V Always conic to some bad end." a In one of the cuiious Chinese books, re- g cully translated and published in Paris, g his proverb occurs in substantially the same fi >ords. It is also an injunction of the Chi- s ese priesthood, and a carefully observed i< ousehold custom, to kill immediately every I en that crows, as a preventive against the l lisflll-t II On which lllu nironmelon.-i " " osod to indicate. The same practice pre- <1 ails throughout many portions of the Unit- s d States. Epitaphs. e We suppose tliere is more hard lying on J >111 booties than in all the books in the ? 'oild. How is it that man's good qualities | lioutd never come out till he is in the f, round ? That, like a potato, he flourishes h uly in the mould?that he never becomes ei tender husband, good father, sincere |? iend, and devout Christian, till he has bo- u jino an offence to the olfactories f cl Let us suppose that Jones, after an ab- |, ince of twenty years, re-visits his native ei illage of Squash Hollow and takes a t| louruing stroll with Brown in the Ceme- Hi try. whore so inanv of his old neighbors, tl ach in his narrow coll for ever laid, tl no ^very; ruuo lororutner* ol tlio hamlet steep. I 0| We can fancy Junes' astonishment when b e tome* to the grave of Suiggs, and find* r? nder a little owl?intended for n cherub, di uttering?without anything to ait upon, it hi aving been cut away to let it soar?an in Ht triplion that it is "Sacred to the Memory 1' f John Snigg*, who was a model husband, tl >n, father, grandfather, el cetera /" when he 1J nows that ho was exactly lite reverse of all fr ies? ! In his innocence Jones says to w rown, " Well, I ain glad that Sniggs re* hi anted and became so good a man !"? ^ rown smiles as be assures him that Sniggs f, got worse and worse, until bis death was public bieAsing !" Indeed, it would be utterly impossible for ny man reading the inscriptions on the nnbstouea to recognize his oh! acquaints 1- tl is and neighbors. We have an idea that ci melt result* to thewoild from this posthulous puffing. There is no encouragement f > be virtuous if a man get* a aaintship 'ithout deserving it. We suggest the fol- j; >wing style of epitaph would lead to a great | .'form in living mortals: a Sacred to the Memory ? of John Stokes. He was a bad man, and c a worse liushand. t He died universally despised, t v and but for this tombstone, which is erected as a warning to others, I he would be speedily forgotten- i If the public liked a little poetry, they ? light add in the style of * * > Afflictions sore i Lontr lime he bore. ?kc. omcthing like this : ] An evil doer, I And bar room bore, l All good advice whs in vniu ; ( Till one fine night, He got so tight, * i lie died of muddied brain. ? So, reader, dear, , Shun lager beer, . Gin tods and whisky punch ; ( Or you will go , Like him bvlow, To make the worms free lunoh. This is a very serious question, and de- < namk an immediate reform. Let not that < nost suggestive and solemn of all earthly | pots, a church yard, he made the Necropo- i is of lies, i^et the epitaph he a just verdict, i o that the dead, who have been the eue- uiea and oppressors of their fellow creatures, j i nay be thoroughly ashamed to read their j c wii tombstones, and the living may hell /nrned in time of what precious figure tboy I i .ill cut in their lithograph, if they don't re-! 1 jrui. We are convinced that the world < rould be more afraid of an epitaph than a j onstable. Suoggins, who beats his wife, i vould be more terrifieri at her saying? < ' IIow will it look ou your tombstone, you i iruto, that you gave a woman a black eye 1 ban if she hauled him up before the Judge nd hud him sent to prison for three iioolbs. A He 1.1 oion for Man Everywhere.? }hrUliauilv, like the Subhaili, is perfectly alapted 1o the nature, religions, and desti- I lies of man everywhere. It is a religion that' rill never grow old. Other religions l>eome sickly exotics when you transplant hem from their birth-place : change ot clinnte is fatal to their constitution. .(Jliristi nity roots in every roil ; it flourishes iu ( very cliiuate. You cAnnot plant Mohain- ( iK-danisin in China, or Confucianism in Tur- ( ;ey. The subtle system of lliudooisin will >ot do for the untutored mind of the Afrian. But, thank Cod, Christianity is alike < idapted to them all. Other systems are < onient to slumber within their own terrilo- i y ; they make no attempt to acquire dominon over that which is the proper sphere of I ; elision?the kingdom of iiiiud ; Christianity dins at, aud avows its intention of coinpletug the conquest of the world, in distant rails of the earth its banner is now waving, >f hope to the nations; and still its watchvord is, " Farther, still farther! Onward ! vhile there is a spot of earth unexplored, or , ! child of man unconverted." Other religions, after they exist for a century or two, ;ivo signs of inanimation and feebleness; the ( railty of ago is upon them; whereas the j trenglh of Christianity grows with its years ; I t t is not subject to the wastincr influence of' . iine ; age brings with it uo feebleness; cen ' uries, aye, centuries of centuries, write no | crinkles on the brow. It is eighteen hun- ( lied years old, and the dew of its youth is till uj>oii it. Thk Necessity ok Exercise.?The ben- ^ fits of exercise to those whose occupation j oes not lead them to make any physical I xertlon, cannot be loo highly estimated, j j he body must undergo a certain amount of j , iligue to preserve its natural strength, and | laiutaiu all the muscles and organs in prop- ] r vigor. This activity equalizes the circu- j iliou, and distributes the blood more etfec- g tally tlirough every part. Cold feet, or a . bill anywhere, shows that the circulation is inguid there. The muscles, <1 tiring exerio, press on the veins, and help forward v le currents by quickening every vessel into 1 * Ltivitv. The valves of the heart are, iu jj lis way, aided iu the work of sending on 1 lis slrnaill unit mIiih'AiI of a t?at-lflin amount ? f labor. When exercise is neglected, the n looJ gathers too imk-h about the central s igion, and the oppression about the heart, illicultv of breathing, lowness of spirits, ixiety and hcaviuess, numerous aches and ? itches, are evidences of this stagnation, eople are nfraid to lake exercise, because icy fancy they want breath, and feel weak, tl ut the very effort would free the heart om this burden, by uigiug the blood for- fi ard to the extremities; it would case tbctr reathing by liberating the lungs from the line superabundance; it would make tbe 21 amo feel active and light, as the etlecL of * jualized circulation and free action. * [Laws of Health. y Better l>e smitten with a young lady ian the rheumatism. Depends much on ( rcumstauces, however. - m . r ... A oossiim'ikq club is said lo hare been armed down East fur the purpose of more ffectuallv ascertaining the bustneaaof other >eople generally. It already has Attained n nrge membership, and promises to become i nourishing institution. The following are ome of its rules : Any member of the society who shall be onvicted of knowing mure of his own busi* ie?s than another's, shall be expelled from he society without a hearing. No member shall sit down to his own ta> >le, until he has ascertained to a certainty vlml his neighbors, within three doors of inch side of his house shall hare to eat? vhether they have paid for the same, and f not, if they expect to. Every member who shall see two or three persons engnged in conversation, shall place limself between them until lie has heard all Ifty have to say, and report the same acsordingly. Rvsti'it momlioe b1>a11 ? ?* "si ? ?? ? ? j mviuwi nuv nunil DVW 11 gCllUCUIlll) visiting a young lady more (ban twice, shall :iicu!nie the news thai. tuey are going to bo narried, and said members are required to eport all manner of things about tbe genelman to the lady, and ditto about the laly to the gentleman. This will break up Hatches and aftord much gossip. Pretty near the Mark.?"I was in company the other night, a number of la.lies being present, when a young man proposed a conundrum, which he said be had read in the papers. It was this : * When s a lady not a lady 1' There was a pause ?' Give it up,' eaid all around*, when, to the nfinite horror of the whole party, querist exclaimed, 1 when alie's a little buggy? Noxnly laughed?some were demure, some udignAiit, and som# no doubt inclined :o scratch querist's face a little. He was .reappointed. Fumbling in bis pocket be pulled out a pa|>er, which consulting for a moment, he ejaculated, ' O, 1 beg your pardon, indies, 1 made a mistake. The anover is, when she .is a little rulky! I knew it was some sort of a carriage.'" Night spectacles, to see in the dark, are suggested by a correspondent in the Selenitic American. " They would be very desirable," he thinks, " in some situations, to ice clearly when quite dark, when acting as pilot, for exainplo, on the river steamboats. The idea is practicable. That which avails !iu owl to see iu the dark will enable a man to seo in ilie night, llerschel could ?ee, with the aid of an optical instrument which he constructed, the dial on a steeple clock a mile distant; it was so dark that ha could see but a few feet with the naked aye." The officer of the deck on boArd a man* jf war, asked the man at the wheel, one iay,44 IIow does she head ?" It was blowing a gale of wind. 44 Soutb-ayat," replied Pat, touching his hat, but forgetting to add sir to his answer. 44 You'd better put a few more s's in your answer when you speak to me," said the bully lieutenant. 44 Ay, ay, sir-r-r," returned the witty Irishman. A day or two after, the officer called out again, 4* How does 6he head now f" 44 South-ayst and be south, half south and a little southcrly, sir-roa, your honor, sir," screamed Pat. ? ?? Triumph ok Faith.?During an earthquake that occurred a few years since, the inhabitants of u small village were generally much alarmed, and, at the same time, surprised at tho calmness and apparent joy of mi old lady whom they all knew. At length one of them, addressing the old lady, Mud; 44 Mother . are vou not afraid t" ' * No," said the mother in Isreal, u I rejoice to know that 1 have a God that can diuke the world !*' Successful Phovaoation of Fish.?A few years ago, it whs difficult to procure mlirion in Paris for less than from two to our shilling (English money) per pound. Now, in consequence of their fast increase h rough artificial bleeding, they hare been old lis low this season as sixpence per >ound. " Ciiarlet," said a father to his too, rhile they were working at a saw-mill, wnat possesses you to associate with such rill* as you do ? When I whs of your ago could go with the first cut." ~ The first ut," said the son, as he Assisted the old uhii in rolling over a log, 44 is always a I ah." < ^ ^ 8f.ki.vo upon his wife's shoulder a largo IiawI pin, Mr. 1). said : * In the military, ah ; got to be Cap sin.'' She instantly remarked, pointing to m bird Imhy in her lap : 44 No, recruiting sergeant in the third in* sntry." a Srtvos of insects are accompanied by in acid poison. One of the l?est remedies, ? we have fully proved, is a paste made of alernlus and water. A paste of fresh ashes vouM be good, as it neutralizes the poison, . i ^ i ? Mna. Adams Advertises that her stock of Jorsets must be sold at whatever sacrifice of lives, we suppose she means.