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Oai-t. 11 Q Anderson, Enoree, Spartanburg. !>clfcttii ^nctcq. [From the Rational Intelligencer.] "A Hundred Years to Come." Where will lie the bird* that sing, A hundred years to come ? The flowers that now in beauty spring, A hundred years to come; The rosy lip, The lofty brow. The heart that beats So gaily now? O! where will be love's beaming eye, Joy's plea?nnt smiles and sorrow's sigh, A hundred years to come ! Who'll press for gold this crowded street b hundred years to come ! Who'll tread yon church with willing feet A hundred years to come ! Pule trembling ago And fiery youth, And childhood, with Its brow of truth, The rich and poor, on land and sea, Where will the mighty millions bo A hundred years to cotne ? We all within our graves shall sleep A hundred years to come! No living soul for us will weep A hundred years to come! Hut other men Our lands will till, And others then Our streets will fill; While other birds will sing as gay, As bright tho sunshine us to day, A hundred years to come ? a??????????mm 51 iMrrtrii ftnnj. THE FIRST SHAI30\V7~ BV T. 8. ARTI1UH. Ida was a bride. Onward through a whole year of patient waiting, had she inov* ed towards this blessed estate, all her thoughts golden over, nil her fancies radiant with love and beauty. And now she was a bride?a happy bride. lie who had won her, was worthy to wear her as a crown. Kind, honorable and gified?his ?: - t... is? ,.f oil ...on pnirtJ WW* Oil inc ??|'o W| nti iovm. Yen, Ida was a h-ppr bride. It was the blooming, fragrant spring time. Singing birds were in ail the tree*, musical waters, gliding through the peaceful landscape ; and a cloud I.-sh sky trending over all. The blessedness of this new life was greater than she had even imagined, in all iho waiiutn of her maiden fancies. A moon had waxed and waned since the lover l?eeame.the husband; a moon, dropping the sweets of Mount IIybla. It was evening, and Ida stood by the window, harking out through '.he dusky air, waiting and wishing for the return of her husband, who was later than usual from his home. At last, her glad eyes caught a glimpse of his well known form, and starting hack from tho window, blie went with springing steps to meet him at the door; opening it ' f ere his hand could ring the bell. " Dear Edward 1" What a gushing love was in Iter voice 1 She raised her li|rs for a kb*, and ? kiss was ifiven. Hut somehow, ha warmth did not go clown to tier heart. BH: m Are TM not well, dear I" ?he imlcel. very teiaUrrly, as they euterod their pleasMST Milt lil'le pallor; and she locked up into hi* face and tried to read ita expression. liut the twilight was too deep. "Quite a* well a* uhiiaI, love." The voice of her husband was low and gentle; lag it had a new and changed sound for the rouug wife's ea??a sound that made her heart tremble. And vet, hi* arm was around Iter, and he held one of her hand*, tightly compressing it within his own. It grew daik in the room before the gas watt lighted. When the strong rays fell suddenly upon the face of her husband, Ida saw arrange there also. It was clouded, heavily clouded?but still in shadow. '. s*. I Steadily and earnestly she looked at him, until lie turned his face partly away, to escape the senrehing scrutiny. " You are not well, Edward.*' Ida looked serious?almost concerned. " Don't trouhle yourself. I'm very well." lie smiled, and patted her cheek, playfully?or rather, with an attempt at playful ncss. Ida was not deceived. A change had passed over her husband. Something was wrong. lie was not ns he had been. In due time tea was announced, and the little family pnrty of two gathered around the table in the neat breakfast room. I " Burnt toast and dish-water tea, as usual !" These were the first words spoken by the yonng husband, after sitting down to the table; and the manner in which they were uttered, left Ida in no doubt as to his state of feeling, llow suddenly was the fine gold dimmed. A few hours eailier the young husband had I called in to mm? Ids mother, an orderly, industrious woman, and a notable hou.-e-keeper. A* usual, lie was full of the praise ot liis beautiful young wife, in whom lie had seen nothing to blumo?nothing below petfection. Hul his mother had looked on her with different eyes. Living in the world was, with her, no holiday affair, and marriage no honeymoon. She was too serious in all her views and feelings to have much patience with what she esteemed mere playday life. A little jenlutis of her son's affection, she was, witlin ; and its going; forth to another, with an ardor so different from what it had ever gone forth to herself, made her feel cold toward the dear little wife of Edward, who was its favored object. " It is lime," she said, with a distance of manner that sui prised her son. " for you and Ida to l>e a little serious. The honeymoon is over, and the quicker you come down to sober realities the better. There is one thing about Ida that rather disap points me." Edward was too much sniprised at this unexpected annunciation to speak. liis mother went on, " She's no housekeeper " " She's young, mother. She'll learn," he said, interrupting her. "She had no right to tnarrv until she knew how to make a cup of tea !" The old lady spoke with considerable asperity. ?t VI.I" wvuin ' I say jtint what I mean. Not n single cup of tea have 1 yet tusted in your house that was tit to drink ! I don't know how you can put up with such stuff. You wouldn't have doje it at my table, I'm very sure." " Please, mother, don't talk so any more about Ida ! I can't bear to hear it." " You can't l?ear to hear the truth, Ed ward. I speak for Ida's good and your own, too. She's a wife, now ; not a mere sweetheart. And she's your housekeeper, besides, with something more to do and to care for, than dress, music, paity going and enjoyment. I must say, as I said a little w hile ago, that I am disappointed in her. What are girls thinking about now a days, when they get married ! Surely, not of their husband's household comforts." " If you please, mother, we will change the subject," said tlie 3*oung man, who was I.. _.i i? .L- - i cA\,cruiu^i| jmiwcu i lie ki run2^ iinpuii^ he had heard. (Id spoke so (irmly tliat the matter was dropped, and not again alluded to at the time. We have, now, an explanation of the change in the young husband's state of mind. There weie some truths in what his mother had said, and this made it so much the liaider to bear. The first shadow had fallen, that dimmed the brightness of hi> new and happy life. Still the defects in Ida?very small to his eyes, even after they were pointed out by bis mother ?were things of no moment, lie had not intended her for a household dimlge. Was she not loting hearted, accomplished and beautiful ? What more could lie ask ? True, lie bad intended her for the presiding genius of his home; and there were sober, matter-of fact things to be done in all homes. Hut her devotion to these would come in good time. How Edward came to s|a.?ak as he did about the tea and toast, was, almost on the instant he had given utterance to his words, a mystery to himself, lie started with the stmt lie gave his young wife, and trembled for the effect of his ur.'ciudly uttered words. He would have given much could he have recalled them. Hut they were said beyond miy power 01 unsaying. The reference of his mother to the indiffereni tea with wlncli she iiHii t*-en cerVeii Hi lii>* ti*hie, liad. not only mortified him. hut iimde some things distinct in his memory, which l?efore, were only seen dimly, and h? matters of indifference. V\ here all was so bright, why should he turn his eyes upon a few fragments of clouds skirting the fair horizon t lie would not have done so if let'; to himself. The clouds might have spread until very much larger than a man's hand, before their murky Hspect would have drawn his happy vision from the all pervading brightness. Ufa's hand, which was raising a cup to her lips, fell almost aa suddenly as if palsied ; a pafoneas overspread her countenance; her hps had a motion between a quiver and ft spuira. From her eyes, which seemed bound, fts by a spell, to her lui.-bnttd'a fare, 1 terra rolled out utid fell in targe drops oxer i her cheek*. Never before, since Edward had loolted i Upon that dear, young face, had he seen its I brightness no veiled. Never before, had a word of his been answered by anything but ? smiles and lore responses. I " 1'in softy, Edward." Ilow the sad. t tremulous voice of Ida rebuked the young husband's unkindnc&s. " It shall not be so i agnio." ' i And she kept her word. Suddenly, he ? had awakened her from a bright, dreamy ' illusion. She had been in a kind of fairy i land. The haul, every day working world, I with its common woi king day wants, by an ; unlooked-for shifting of scenery, bad struck < with nil unlovely aspect upon her startled vision ; the jagged edges of the real wounding painfully her soft ideal. Hut once aw a- j i acneo, sue never slept again. It was Mic I first shallow that fell iliinly ami coldly upon i her inarrieil heart?the first, anil to the lite experienced, we need not say the last. iftirnl toast ami had tea ! To think that I common things like these should have power to shadow a young heart basking in the < sunlight of love ! Ida had thought of her < husband as almost indifferent to the vulgar i wants his words made manifest. She saw clearer now. He was but flesh and blood | like the rest. i Very?very tenderly spoken were ell the words of Edward to Ins young wife, during the shadowed evening that followed this first dimming of their home light. Ami Ida, who fell tne kindness of his heart, tiieil to smile and to seem as of old. lint, somehow, she could not force into existence the smiles she wished to send out as tokens of forgiveness. Thoughts of the had tea and burnt toast, the " Usual?all ! there lay the smart !?evening entertainment she had 1 proxided ; or. rather, suffered to he provided by unskilful hands?were Iter own any more 1 skillful i for her returning husband haunted 1 her all the while. " It shall not he so again !" Not idly uttered were these words. All the evening she kept repeating them to herself, with a steadily increasing purpose and a clearer vision. " Edward shall never have another occasion for rebuke." Several times during the evening, tin* young husband was tempted to refer to tlrej' conversation held with his mother, in explan ! ation of Iris own conduct, luit he wisely kept his own counsel. Of all things lie dreaded an estrangement between his wife and m <ther. On the next morning, Edward noticed that his young wife left their chamber earlier than usual, and went down stairs. Not, however, to till their home with music, as she had often done. Her matinee was the singing tea kettle, not the stringed piano. She hail a heightened color, when she took her place at the breakfast table, and poured for her husband the fragrant coffee. made by her own hands, because she had discovered that her inditterent cook was igouaratit of her art. llow did she know the art ? It was almost accidental ; the recollection of some good housewife s talk had served her in the right time. The warm praise he stowed by Ed w are on the coffee was ample reward. Ida bought a cook hook during tho day. That sounds unromantic. But it was even so ; and she studied it for hours. During the afternoon her mother in-law came in; and Ida urged her to stay to tea. The old lady accepted the invitation ; not. we are Horry to say, in the very best spirit. She ( had opened the war ?>rr Edward'* " butter fly" young wife, and she meant to follow it ( up. When Edward crime home and found that his mother was theie his sprits fell, lie saW. by tlie corners of her mouth, that she had not forgotten their interview of the j preceding (lav ; and that tier state of mind was not a whit mare charitable. Ma's face was a little shadowed ; hut she was ctieerful, atwl lery attentive to his mother?and, happily, ignorant of h r true feelings. She came and went from the breakfast room to the parlor f erpientlv. evidently with house hold cares upon tier mind. Tea was at length announced. Edward's i heart trembled. 11 is mother arose, and, , with rather a cold air, accompanied her childien to the room where the evening i meal awaited thcin. The tahlo had an at- < tractive look, new to the eye* of l>oth Ed i ward and his mother. It was plain that i UliAlliar lioti/1 iltA .ori'iinl'u t nnv/t nvi iinuu w^ivivo iliu rVi ?mil o linn UUDII there. Ida poured the tea, and Edward served the hot brsct'k and cream toast.? The eyes of the latter were on In* mother, as she lifted, with an air which he under rttoial to *ny, " Poor s'ntf!" the cup of tea to her lip*. She lasted the fragrant beverage ?set the cup down?lifted and lasted again. Tin- infusion was faultless! Ye*, even to her critical taste. Next the biscuit, and' next the toast was tii?*d. Mrs. Good fellow herself could not have surpassed them. " Have yon changed your cook I'* The old lady looked across the table, curiously at Ida. " No, mother," answered the young wife, smiling. 44 Is this all your work. Fda t" Tl?e old lady spoke in a half incredulous tone. | 44 Yes, it is all my work. Don't you Jiiuk. if I try hard, I'll umke a housekeeper s in time?" i This was so unexpected. that the husband's s mother was delighted. Ida had gone right liome to her matter of-fact, every day heart. - Wl. v. yes. you precious little dailing !" die answered with an enthusiasm almost J foreign to her character. " I couldn't have ' lone better myself." . * * The shadow passed from the heart of Ida, ' is her eyes rested on the pleased countenance of her husband. It was the first ' diadow that bad fallen since their happy I wedding day. and moved 011 quickly ; but its memory was left behind. It waff like 1 die drawing of a veil, which partly conceals. 1 let beautifies a countenance, revealing the 11 enchanted expression. 1 Ida's husband was a man, like the rest. * whii man s common wants anil weaknesses; and lier inanied woild one in wliieli iiands ; must take hold of common duties. But 1 die Roon learned that, in the leal world. I were real delights, substantial and abiding. ' Bravely did she walk in the new path that lay at her feet. She had her reward. Tea and toast but expressed her household Juties, none of which were rightly performed during that delicious honeymoon. Bui she failed in nothing afterwaid ; and soon learned that the ground in which tine happiness takes deepest root, and from which it springs up with strongest branches, is the ground of common, homely duties. Jflinttllantous 1\ cubing. A Revolutionary Heroine. Many will remember that towards the 1 close of the war, Col. Taileton passed ' through North Carolina. Owing to some ' cause u??t known, ho spent two nights ?n ' Halifax county?one within the ho.-pitahle 1 grove of Willie Jimcs, near the town of Ilal ifax ; and the other higher up the countrv, near " Qnaiiky Chapel." Either because lie was scarce of provisions and horses, or from ( a malicious desire to destroy the property of American cilzens who were opposed to " the British, he caught all the horses, cattle, I hogs, and even fowls that he could lay ! hands on, and destroyed or appropriated 1 them to his own use. The male, and most ' of the female inhabitants of tlie countrv. tied from tlie approach of ihe British troops, and ' liid themselves in the swamps and forest* ' adjacent; and when they passed through ' I lie country, while every one left the preini ' sen on which she lived, Mrs. Powell, (then 1 Miss Bishop.) " stood her ground " and faced the foe fearlessly. But it would not do; they took the hor- J ses and cattle, and among the former, a fa- ' vorile pony of her own, and drove them off to the camp, which wits about a mile dis- I tant. Voung as she was, she was deterinin ' cd to have her pony again, and, as >hu must neve-ssaiily go to the Biitish camp, to go alone, if no one would accompany her.? And alone she went, on foot, at night, and without any weapon of defence ; and in due lime arrived at the camp. By what means she managed to get an audience with Tarleton is not known ; but she appeared before him, unannounced, and raising herself erect, saiil : * 1 hate come to you, air, to demand re st oral ion of my properly, whieli your knavish followers stole from my father's vard." ?. r ... ..... i,.~. i M:.,., ?> :.i < IIIC Iiuucinuimi J uu, ill liw, ."iiMi Tarlefon, completely taken by surprise. '* Well, sir," she said, " your roguish mot; 1 ii> red coats came to my father's house about 1 sundown and stole my pony, and I have walked alone and unprotected to claim and demand him; and. s?r, I must and will have him. I fear not your men; they are base and unprincipled enough to dare to otfer in stilt to an unprotected female; but their cowardly hearts will prevent their doing hei j bodily injury." And just then, by the light of the camp liio, espy ing her own dear little pony at a short distance, she continued : "There, sir. is inv horse. I shall mount him and ride peaceably home; and if you f have any of the gentlemanly feeling within you, of wiiich your men are utterly desti- ( lute, or if you have any regard for llieii safety, you will sec, sir. that I am not interrupted. Hut before I go, I wish to say ( to you, that he who can, and will not, prevent this base and cowardly stealing from | lien-roosts, stables and barn-yards, is no better, in my estimation, than the mean, good- .( for-nothing, guilty wretches who do the dirty work with their own hands. Good niirhr, sir." . 1 ?f4| 4 *.? ^ .1 * _ A 1 _ I * aIiu wnnoni waning lurmer, sno iook lier pony and gallojied safely home, for Tnrle ton was ho much astounded llnti lie ordered idle should be permitted to do as she chose. Mrs. I'owell died in lier nativo country in 1840, after she attained a green old age. One of lier grand sons. Win. 8. Parker, volunteered in the Mexican war. and died at Ueralvo, in Mexico. Another, Uirchard B. Barker, i* residing in ffalifax county, N. (J., h most estimable ami worthy citizen. And a grand daughter, Mrs. Mary E. Sledge, (wife of W. '|. Sledge, and sister of the two (trst named gcntleiue..,) also lives in Halifax county; Ircsulcs other relative*, who all, no doubt, do yuatice to her memory ; but oiheit I Iiould do likewise, tor she was one of the iolile spirits of" the times that tiled men's ouU." To the Girls. Dow, Jn, lias said a great many good , liings, and lias ntiered many a sound truth , u his quaint style, half comic, halt* serious, | >ut ho never said anything better than the j -Mowing address: Ladies! you caged birds of beautiful plum- , ige, but sickly look ; you pale pets of the < inilor, vegetating in unhealthy shades of a , ;iveiiish complexion, like that of a potato n a dark cellar?why don't you go out in he open air and add lustre to your eyes, ( ind vigor to your frames ? Take early j noruing excrciso?let loose your corset | ilrings and run up the hill for a wager and . low a again for fun. Liberty thus exercised . md enjoyed, w ill render yon healthy, bloom- | ng and beautiful?as lovely as the graces; i [trolifie as Dovers. The l?nx??m, bright-ey ^ ad, rosy -cheeked, full-breasted, bouncing lass ?who can darn a stocking, mend trowsers, make her own f ock*, command a regiment ?f |iota and kettles, feed the pig*, milk the :*mvs, and be a hulv withal in company, is just the sort of a girl for mo or any other young man to marry, lint you, ye pining, oiling, screwed up, wasp-wnisted, doll-dress- i id, putty-faced, consumption-mortgaged, music murdering, novel-devouring daughters nf fashion and idleness?are no, more fit for matrimony than a pullet is to look after a family of fourteen chickens. The truth is, my dea>- girls, you want, generally speaking, more leg exercise, and less sofa ; more pudding and less piano ; more frankness and less mock modesty ; more corned beef steak and less bishop. Loosen yourselves a little; iiijov more liberty and less restraint of fashon?breathe the puro atmosphere of free loin ; become something nearly as lovely as lie God of Nature designed. Separating the Sexes in SchoolOn this point, Mr. Slowe, a celebrated Glasgow teacher, uses the following language : " The youth of both sexes of our Scotch peasantry have been educated toirelher; and, as a whole, the Scotch are the most moral people on the earth. Education ii England is given separately, and we nevar have heard from nractical men that anv benefit has arisen from this arrangement. Some intluential individuals there mourn ?vcr tiie prejudice on this point. In Dublin a larger number of gills turned out badly. who had been educated alone until they attained the age of maturity, than lb x?e who were otherwise brought up?the sepaintion of the sexes has been found to be injurious. We may repeat that it is impossible to raise the girls as high, intellectually, without boys as with them?and it is iinpossible to raise boys as high, morally, without girls. The girls morally elevate the boys, and the boys intellectually elevate the git Is. But more than this?gitls themselves ate morally elevated by lite prosencc of boys, and boys are intellectually elevated by the presence of girls. Girls brought up with boys are more positively moral, and buys brought tip in schools with girls are more positively intellectual, by the softening influence of the female character. In the Normal Seminary at Glasgow, the most beneficial effects have resulted from the more natural course. Boys and girls, from the age of two or three years to that of fourteen or fifteen, have been trained in the same class room, galleries, and play-grounds, without impropriety ; and they are never separated, except at needle work." Working Girls.? Ilappy Girls! who j tsr:.i. -.1 i :% l~?11111 iv v iiiuiii i n il iik,o roses, luight eyes, and elastic step, how cheerfully hey go to work. hlessed indeed will those men bo who sccute such piizes. Contrast ;h"se who do nothing but sigh all day, and live to follow the fashions, who never earn ihe bread they eat, or the slroes they wear; w ho are languid and lazy from one week's i?nd to the other. Who, but a simpleton md popinjay, would prefer the latter, if he were looking for a companion ? Give us ilte working girls; they are worth their weight in gold. You never seo them mincing along, or jump a dozen feet to steer dear of a spider or a fly ; they have no affectation, or sillv airs ahout them. When iliey m iet you, they speak without putting ?n ? dozen silly airs, or trying to show off Lo a better advantage, and you feel as if you were talking to a human being, and not to n painted automation or a fallen angel. If girls knew how sadly they missed it, while they endeavor to shew off thvir delii . l' i 21 _ .1 l_ 2 . . i _ . . ;ue nanus anu unsoiieu ^kmis, arm pm on r i hotisand aii3. they would give worlds for ho situation of the wot king ladies, wlio are ar above them in intelligence, in honor, in everything, as tho Heavens aro nhovo the Mirth. He wise, then ; you have made fools of yourselves through life, Turn over a new leaf, and bvgin, though late, to- live and act is human being* ; as companions to immor tal mini, and not to playthings and dolls. In no other way can you be happy and sub ?erve tho design of your existence. Look not mournfully into the past?it annot return ; wisely improve the present ?it is thine ; go forth to meet the shadowy fear, and with a manly heart. Tiik Greatest Natural Bridge in the j World.?Tho Abingdon Virginian contra- < diets the statement, recently published, tbat ' the greatest natural bridge in llto world fs lliat over Cedar creek in Virginia. It extends across a chasm 80 feet in width and 250 feet deep, at the bottom of which r creek flow*." The Virginian saj-s : " The writer is mistaken, not as to the dimensions of the bridge, but as to the fact of its being the ' greatest natural bridge in the world.'? There is a natural bridge within 52 miles of this place, in Scott county, Va., compared with which, tho bridge over Cedar creek is a mere circumstance. The Scott bridge extends across a chasm more than twice 80 Feet in width and is 420 foet deep, nt the bottom of which Hows a much larger and more rapid stream than Cednr creek. The neb of the Scott biidge is not so peifectly formed as tbat of Cedar creek, but it is not less a bridge, with a broad wagon-road lo.... ... 'i-v - ? luku 11. me survey ll>r IIIO L/Uinlrarland Gap llailrond passed through tlie arch of this budge. It is, perhaps, the widest and most stupendous natural curiosity in tho United States, and yet it is comparatively unkuown. Your County Paper.?The following, from Fowler ?k Wells' Life Illustrated, is to to the point, that we recommend it to our friends without further comment: " We occasionally receive letters in which the writer expresses the determination to stop tlroir county or village paper, and take our publications instead. We think u man ought to suppoit his own paper first, and then if he can afford to take a paper from a distance, let him do so, and we will be happy to furnish him with 4 Life Illustrated.' The country press is, in our opinion, the most important in its effect cm the cnlightment of the nation. It conveys, in ten thousand rills, intelligence to every homo in the country. Tho country press ought to receive a cordial support. Every place should try to have its paper of such a character that people could justly be proud of it. To this end, let tlieni jmy promptly, advertise liberally, recommend warmly, and in every difficulty stand by the editor as tbey can conscientiously. Pearls Found in Spartanburo.?There were shown to us, a few days ago, by Dr. W. C. Kilgore, three beautiful pearls, which he informed us had been taken by one of his neighbors from some muscles found in lien's Creek. They were submitted to the inspection of Mr. Charles Bechtler, of our town, who has been engaged in the watch and jewelrv business for a number of years, all.I 11, - * * I.MU ? ku?nvi? xvi y compeieill lO JUOgfi Ol their character, and he pronounced them genuine pcarh. Tlrey were of a bright, brilliant color, almost transparent. \N e would judge ibein to be of considerable value. [Sjxirtanburp Express. Tttr. Snuff Box Question.?Gen. Jackson's gold snuff box is likely to lead to a war au.ong some of the military " heroes " of New York. Majors Fairchild and Taylor, and other officers of the New York regiment which served in Mexico, are out in a card, in which I hey allege that Major Dvckmau, the successful claimant, did no more in Mexico than others of the same regiment ; and that the facts assumed in tho report in his favor does gieal injustice to every other soldier in the regimeut. The difference between a republic and a monarchy is thus pointed out by somebody : " Pile all the people into a pyramid with the President for an apex, and you have the symbol of a republic. Yon can shake tho I'rmiibnt lini vr?ti oun't ....:.~j w?. j v? vmii v satvrw ll!c iiii11 uu force of llie people. Invert that pryamid, with a King for its base, Mid you have the symbol of a monarchy. Trip up that King and the whole structure falls into confusion." Attempted Wiiolksai.e Murder.?Two boys belonging to Col. T. J. Roberts wero detected, on Wednesday, in an attempt to throw the train oft' tho Abbeville Hranch road, whether by removing the rail or placing obstructions oti the track, we did not learn. Olio of the miscreants was arrested and is now in jail; the other mndo h:? escape.?Abbeville Press. As Indcstriocs Mas.?The Postmaster General has nearly completed the arrangements by which to concentrate at Cincinnati, by the most prompt and expeditious neans, the great northern and eastern mails, thence to be distributed through the western Slates and territories generally, lie in also endeavoring to improve tbe southern mail service. _ Onk of the inost important female qualities is sweetness of temper. Heaven did not give woman insinuation and persuasion in order to be surly; it did not give her is sweet voice to be employed in scolding. lie who is not haudsome at twenty, nor strong at thirty, nor rich at forty, nor wise, at fifty, will never be handsome, strong, rich nor wise. ^ Not what we eat, but what we digest docs us good. So with reading.