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m ' 1 - ,....:.??. " ' _ A REFLEX OF P OP ULAR EVENTS. | Deootefc to ^rogvess, lt)e ?txgl)ts of tlje Soutlj, arttJ tlje Diffusion of Useful Unoiult&ge among nil Classes of XVorKiiig iitrxx. VOLUME IV. GREENVILLE. SOUTH CAROLINA. THURSDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 10.1857. NUMBER 18. ] &Jjt $autlimt Cnttrjmsr L IS ISSUED EVERT THURSDAY MORNING, t BY PRICE A McJUNKIN. if WILI.IAM P. PRICE, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. C. M. M'JUNKIN, PRINTER. TERHI8. On* Dollar and Firrr Cents in advance; Two Doll a ha if delnyod. CLUBS of FIVE and upward*, On* Dollar, the money in every instance to aeeontpany (he order. ADVERTISEMENTS inserted conspicuously at the rates of 1ft cents per square of 18 lines for the first insertion, ana 871 cents for each subsequent insertion. CoutracU for yearly advertising made reasonable. AGENTS. W. W. NValkcr, Jr., Columbia, 8. C. 1'crr.a SrnAOLKY, Esq., Flat Rock, N. C. A. M. P*i)K."?, Fairview P. O., Greenville Diet William 0. Bailrt, Pleasant Grove, Greenville. CArr. R. Q Amdzrson, Euoree, Spartanburg. ^flcrttb |*nrtn|. Hymn of the Harveatert. We gather them in?the bright green leaves. With our scythes nnd rnkes to day, And the mow grows big, as the pitcher heaves 1 11 is lift in the swell'ring liny. O ho 1 a field 1 for the mower's scythe, Hath a ring as a destiny, Sweeping the earth of its burthen lithe, 1 As it sung in wrathful glee. We gather theni in?the nodding plumes Of the vellow and bearded grain, I And the flash of our sickles' light illumes Our inarch o'er the vanquished plain. Anon, we come with the stoed-dravwi ear? The cunning of modern laws ; And acres stoop to its clanking jar, As it rocks its hungry jaws. We gather theni in?the mellow fruits Kuan the shrub, the vine anil tree, Willi llieir russet, ntnl rrolden. and nurnleMiiits ? e ?* ? i To garnish our treasury. Ami each on? has a juicy treasure stored All 'neath its tainted rind. To cheer our guests at the social hoard When we leave our cares behind. We gather them in?in this goodly store, Hut not with the miser's gust, For the Great All Father we adore, llath hut given it in trust; And our work of death is hut life, In the wintry days to come? Then a Messing upon the Reaper's strife, And a shout at this Harvest Home. ftlisrtllnnfous Trailing. The Advantages Men Accustomed to Work Have. 'n looking about us, we saw that our course would not ascend much at first; but we hod to oass along a rough an*, irregular crest of rocks, here and there giving place to ice when there were large gaps or inter vals between them ; the general direction of this part of our route being a gradual incline upwards, which led to the base of the last oone. The whole of the ridgo was exceedingly narrow, and the fall on each side desperately steep, but the ice, in some of these intervals between the masses of rock, assumed the form of a mere sharp edge, almost like a knife ; these places, though not more than three or four short paces in length, looked uncommonly awkward ; but iike. the sword leading true believers to the gates of Paradise, they must needs be passed before we could attain to the summit of our ambition. These were, in one or two places, so narrow, that in stepping over them, with toes well turned out for greater security, one end of the foot projected over the awful precipice on the right, while the other was on the beginning of the icy slope nil the left, which was nctrcely less steep than the rocks. On these occasions Peter would take my hand, and each of us stretching a? far as we Could, he was thus enabled to get a firm footing two paces or rather more from me. whence a spring would, probably, bring him 9a fltA riVilr ?vr? llta alKar virle Iran round, he railed mo to cotne, and taking a couple of steps caiefully, I was met at the third bv bi* outstretched hand ready to cla-p nunc. and. in a moment, Mood by his ode. The other* followed much in the same fashion. Once my right foot slipped ou the imp towards the precipice; but I threw out uiy left arm in a moment, so that it caught the tey edge under my armpit as I fell and supported me considerably; at the same tone I cast my eye down the side on which 1 hud slipped, and contrived to plant my right foot on a piece of rock as large as a cricket ball, which chanced to protrude through the ice. on the very edge of the p-Hipioe. Being thus anotiored fore and ;tfi. as it were, I txilieve I could easily have r*<ftv. red myself even if I had been alone, .though. it must bo confessed, the *itit*ti6n would have been ao awful one: as It waa^ I % Mv however, a jerk from Peter settled the matter very soon, and I was on rnv legs all right in an instant. The tope is an im mense help in places of this kind ; and if every one of the party makes the best URe of his wits, carefully watching every step of the man next to him, and ready to give his support with the rope to the men behind him, this principle of mutual protection is Suite enough to prevent almost any accienl from becoming serious, and real danger ceases to be more than infinitesimally small, however nlarming may be the appearance. Whenever we stopped for a moment on a secure piece of rock, and watched the approach of our companions, it was a curi ous sight to see them winding ar.d twisting over the rugged way, one scrambling down the side of a rock, while another was pulling himself up tlie opposite side, and a third, perhaps, in the act of balancing himself across one of the ice-bridges which we had just passed over. At last, we came to the end of this crest, and found ourselves ni I he base of our last difficulty. Fancy the dome of 8t. Paul's magnified to about five times its actual size slightly flattened on the top. and converted bv the hand of a magician into a compact mass of rock, with a coating of ice and snow laid over it all exeej t at the upper part, wherejagged rocks protrude from the central sulrstance through the icv crust. Fancy now a iliin slice, broader at the l*?t torn than at the top, where it becomes a mere rough edge, cut right out of the mid die of the whole dome, and placed with the icy side towards yon. and 1 believe you will have a tolerably faith fid notion of the llochtse Spitz, at the foot of which we now stood."?bummer Months Among the Alps. Going Barefoot The Boston Courier gives us the following bit of pleasant philosophy, in the course of a notice of Whillier's poems of " The Barefooted Boys:" " The insensibility of most readers, and perhaps all critics, to this exquisite piece, arises from the fact that they have never been barefoot boys themselves. The progress of so called refinement is gradually shutting us and our boys Irom some ot the purest and most natural pleaMires. One of these pleasures is the deiight of going barefoot in summer. Our feet are treated almost as cruelly as those of the Chinese women. Not a man in a thousand knows what to do with his toes. They are useless, pinched up. etiolated appendages to a foot, which civilization has reduced to a mere stump. Feet and toes are now* imprisoned from early childhood, thiough every stage of existence, and when (lie last pinch is over, they are stretched out in the coffin, and imprisoned in the boots they wore in life. Not one man in a thousand ever has a natuiul sensation of pleasure through his feet.? I heir only use is to serve as pedestals, pi ops to stand on, or supporters in locomotion. Now*, nothing is so delightful as the ftel of the fresh earth, w hen the Miinmer comes on, ' j the sole?it might almost he called the soul?of the foot. The first touch of summer, thus imparted, exceeds in exquisiteness the first breath of the V\ est w ind in spring?the first fragance and tender beauty of the violet?the first aroma of tho queenly rose. Besides, there h a seise or noerty, iroin casting aside t no stocking and the shoe, such as the galleyslave may fee) when the chain and l>a!l are knocked off from his lacerated leg. Now and then a sharp stone will cut, or btier will scratch ; but these aro too little pains that give a zest to freedom, and heighten the thrill sent through the sole of the foot and pervading the whole frame, from contact with good old mother earth. Depend upon it, city reader, who did'st never touch the soil with thy naked foot, thou has lost more than French boots, be they ever so delicate and costly, can make good to thee. Slip in to the country?to some remote and primeval place. Off with shoes and stockings and reclaim the original liberty of tho long im prisoned extremity. Yes, Sociales was right to go barefoot. Plato well understood the poetry of it when he immortalized, in prose as rhythmical a* the best of verse, that leis urelv stroll of the philosopher, outside the noisy city, along the margin of the Ilissus, into whose shining wavelets ever and an<?n the gieai master dipped his foot, and as he dipped, talk.d the most genial philosophy to his loving disciples. And what a restingplace?the grassy slope beneath the spread ing plane tree, where the Agnus Castas wavcd its perfumer] boughs to the soft summer breeze ! Iv vou see Jack's tinger end* rather inkv, and scraps of an acrostic uny where around, be assured that first love has caused the spoiling of some good stationary. Finally, if Jack is suffering from first love, don't meet the complaint with too strong remedies, lest it strike in, and Jack strike out from parental authority. First love is like the whooping cough, we must all have it, and it is best to catch it young. We are born at homo, we live at home, and we ail desire to die at home; so that the comforts and economy of home aro of more deep heartfelt and personal impor i tanoo *o us than the public attaint of all the i natious in the world. Always Finding Fault. There are certain people who cannot live 1 without finding fault, fco matter what snh- I jcct. or person, cornea up in the curse of i< conveisation. they start some frivolous objection. or make some censoiiou* remark, h Instead of trying to he in charity with their c neighbors, they take malicious plea-tire in tl speaking evil about them. They olmtinntelv y shut their eyes to good qualities ; while they v employ microscopes to discover and mag- c| nify evil ones; and afterwards they torture p language to exaggerate what ihev have v seen, so as to depieciate as much a- possible. M They do not, however, always speak out <| Ix.lillv. It..i i?.?? 1 (y?? uvni III HtllVII* "I || hints. and in ominous shakes of the head. i| Instead of frankly assailing in from, they hs ^ sassinate behind the back. Practically , they ti persuade others thai all men are so evil, thai .?] there is not even a chance of rcfottn. Even T in acts iucontcstiblv good, they pretend to a find latetrt selfishness. They spend their a lives in defiling human nature, like the foul || Yahoos whonr the satiiis' has de picted. To |( believe them, there are none virtuous but ] themselves ; all the rest ol mankind being a knaves. hinte* or devils. I ,, The proverbial fault findi i 1 i'i! thinks |, that, in censuring so main s uslv ai d indis ! eriminately. he is ? nl\ painting i.is< wu por i tl tiait. It is a seen t cnn-ctou-M-* ?.| hi- do j t, merits, a gnawing inge at the scj rioiitv of others, which is the real entne of his want of! i( charity, the principal induc? m? tit to his ? abuse. His own lu-art is the mirror f ottt i which he deseiibes mankind. The best i nun have la-en those invariably who spoke j t. the most kindly of their race. The great . v type of all manhood, whose pcifect burnani j fi ty is the admiration even of Pagans nnd | n Atheists, ever spoke in the benignant terms having charity even for " publicans and sintiers." It ts to bis precept that we owe the great doctrine of human brotherhood. In the ideal of the fallen Lucifer, we have, on the contrary, the incarnation of malice, hate. ?l.. ...i :ii ?:i? ?- i - rmnuci, ni-mii nnu evil speaKing. As I lie I ^ one is said to have come to bring " peace and good will to men." so the other first de filed the fair creation with stiife. and sowed i " war among the hosts of heaven." We t( never hear a professed fault-finder, hut our . thoughts recur to his type. We never lis- 1 ten to the beneficent language of one who . is in charily with his race, without feeling) ! that he is advancing more and more to" the | 1 perfect man"?Philadelphia Ledger. Advantages of Temperance. Solomon tells us that the glutton shall j ^ come to poverty ; warns us to he not among j riotous eaters of flesh, and even bids u^ put j ! a knife to our throats if we he men given to) !' appetite. Is there no loss desperate reined\ ?' ' Lord Byron once told a companion that I " if some demi god would dictate to us how ' much we ought to cat, it would put an end to half the miseries of the race. Jonathan Edwards we .-ee nothing in his ' dairy: * } "I find that I cannot he convinced, in the 1 lime of eating, that to eat more w ould be to I exceed the bounds of temperance, though 1 * hn*e had two years'experience of tire like, I and yet three minutes after 1 have done. I ' am convinced of it. Hut yet again I over* c eat, thinking I shall be somewhat faint if I " leave oflf then ; but when I have finished, 1 0 am convinced of excess, and so it is fioin time to tiiue. I have observed that it more really se.ems to he the truth, when it is ac *' corning 10 my inclination, than when other j y wine." jj' Jefferson says tliat " no man ever tepents 1 eating too little." ' Sir Isaac Newton often ?1 inet] on a penny's worth of bread. Ahernethy cured his indigestion and re- " gained his flesh by " going into tlm country, t where be could got good milk and eggs, and t living upon three ounces of baked custard, j v taken three times a day, with no drink but t ginger water. On ibis quantity of food be h regained hi? flesh aad uniformly got better." t Marion and bis men waxed strong and j e valiant with no food but sweet potatoes, no i I shelter but the sky. | ^ " Besides brown bread, the Greek boat- ; i men subsist almost solelv on their native if fruits, tig-. grapes and rai*itis. Tbev ate e the ttlost iiiinbte. active, graceful, cbeeiful, I and even merry people in the wot Id." t Grant Tlmrburn attributes his cbeeiful e old age to the fact that be " never eatsI i enough," and thousands of his countrymen j I are wcaiing out their liodie* not so much j I ny me exce-* u! nusiness or the multiplicity ?>f cares, as l?v the over-work' tley crowd upon ihein iu digesting surplus anft unnecessary food.? Home Journal. ?- - ? ?? Hykon and iiis Lady.?Lord Byron told Trelawney that his separation from his wife proceeded froin a few hasty words, uttered when he was unaware of her presence. During his financial troubles his wife had coino into his study so quietly that Byron did not know it. Thinking over his condition, and how much his marriage had rendered his ruin more unpleasant, he cried au dibly enough for her to hear, " Lady Byron is confoundedly in my way !" She roused him from his brown study by saying, 44 Indeed. my lord ! I can easily get out of it." Byron would havo it the never forgave ibis escapade. PlKKNIX on thk Acooudf.on.?John 'hoenix, lately traveling by railroad, was lored by a boy wiih nil aecoideon, ar.d tbis * what befel thereon : ' It was after eleven o'clock ; tbe train ad passed New Brunswick. and tbe paasen;ere were Irving to sleep, (lia ! Iia !) wlien lie boy entered He was a very seedy nth, with a seal skin cap, a singularly dir v face, a grev jacket, of the ventilating or er. and a short but very lemarkablv broad air of " corduroy corduroys." He wore no iiurmous bag of haversack about bis neck, nd bore in bis band that most infernal and electable instrument, an accordeon. I de* ise that instrument of music. They pull lie music out of it. and it comes foith strag ling and reluctant, like a cat drawn by the iil from an a>h bole, or a squirrel pulled liiiokiiig fiom a hollow log wiih a rani rod. 'bis unprincipled boy commenced pulling t bis thing, and horrified us with the most wful version of that wretched " Hog Trnv " lia* I ever listened to. Then lie walked otind tlie ear and collected forty-two cents, hen he returned to the centre of the ear, nd standing close by the stove, which was mI hot?the night being cold ? he essayed ? pull out " I'op Goes the Weasel," when iiddenly pop went the hoy ; he dropped lie accord eon. burst into tears, and clapinof his hands behind him. executed a frant dance, accompanied by yells of the most ionizing character. I saw it all, and felt woeful to a retiibntive Providence. He ad stood too close to the stove, and his orduroys were in a ligh' blaze; a few inelis lit low the termination of the great jacket ras the seat of his woe. After he got on ire, the conductor put him out, and a sweet nd ineffable calm came over me. I realizd that 'whatever is, is right,' and I fell nto a deep and happy sleep !" CoruTiNc.?"I don't see why people canot do their courting by daylight, thereby aviiig an expense of light, fuel, and foreioon naps." A breakfast table remnik. Whew ! preach that doctrino until your lead is gray, and yon are as toothless as a tew horn hahc, and still young folks will 'set up" till the stars grow tired of watch ng. and the roosters begin to crow ! 'I here is a sort of fascination in it, a poslive denial to the contrary not withstand ng. An indesctible, undeniahalde charm? ha'tn in being the sole occupant of a front enU>r, with nothing to molest or make i\ _ 1.1 . < I - l ? - 1 * -? ? * iratu ; me miiji urawn uji iH'fiH'C llie sinning ;rate, and the lump regulated lo a steady laze, iliat will not eclipse the brightness of yes. or made particularly pleading in heariig the last pair of household feet take a ee line departure for the upper chambers, ltd feeling that the ever swinging parlor our will remain closed until one of lite par y cornered choose to open. Talk of courting by daylight! Think of amiug one's arm by quick, hasty v ithI raw Is from arottml a certain waist at the neessant ringing of the bell, or seeing the ruff-combs ami curls fly in evcy ilirection, by i sound of coming footsteps. Imagine troud lover at the feet of fair lady, pulling brill an eloquent, long avowal, with extra rdinary expressions Hitting over the face; ,nd at the same moment, a puzzled little ouutenance peering through the folding loor, wondering what makes Mr. M pray with his eyes wide open." and more lisagii cable still, have " mamma*' open the loor, w ithout the prelude of a rap, of course, list at the moment you have ventured to est the temperature and sweetness of her laughter's lips.?Margaret Verne. A Cool Avknokiv.?A certain English [ontleman, who was a regular frequenter of ho green room of Drury Lane Theatre in he days of Lord Byron's committee, and >ii?> <o???ys muuu quieuy on me iieariu rug hero with his back to the tire, was in his i?ual place one night when a narrative was elated by another gentleman, newly return(I from the continent, of a barrier-cucl that tad taken place in Paris. A young Kn [li-hman?a mere boy ? had been despoiled ii a gambling house in the Palais lioyal. lad charged a certain gaining Count with In atitig him. had gone out with the Count, lad wasted his fire, and had been slain by he Count under the frightful circumstances if the Count's walking up to him. laying its hand on his heart, saying: " You a.e a ?ra*e fellow ? have yon a motherf" and on lis replying in the affirmative, remarking oo|v, " I am sorry for her," and blowing us victim's brains ouL The gentleman on lie hearth paused in taking a pinch of snutl _ l i... 1 - 1 i ? i? iicni uiu wiuij, auu uumji veu wiiii j^reni ihtcidhy, u I am afraid I must kill that rasinl.'* A few nights elapsed, during which he green room hearth-rug was without him, uid then he re-appeared precisely as before, ind only inci<lenlly mentioned in the course >f the evening, " Gentlemen, 1 killed that ascal!" lie had gone over to Paris on lurpose, and tracked iho Count to the same (ambling house, had thrown a glass of wine n his face in presence of all the company as embled there, had told him that he was some to avenge his voting compatriot?and tad done it by putting the Count out of the vorld, and coming back to the hearth rug is if nothing had happened. [Household Words. iMMHnMMaHBMHDnBmna IIow to Usk Fm*iT8.?To derive, from I tlie employment of fmits and berries, all ; that 1 H-alt!iIn 1 anil nutritive effect which be longs to their nature, we should? 1st. Use fruits that are lipe, fresh, perfect, raw. 2d. TVev should le used in their natural state, without sugar, cream, milk, or any other item of food or d*ink. 3d. Fruits have their best effect when ua ed in the early pail of the day ; hence we do not advise their employment at a later hour than the middle of the afternoon ; not that, if pei feet and ripe, they may not be eaten largely by themselves, within two hours of bedtime, with advantage; but if the sourness or decay should happen to taint l then), or any other liquor should inadver* i tently be largely dinnk afterwards, even cold 1 water, acidity of the whole mass may fob | low, resulting in a night of distress. So it is better not to run the risk. T#* ,i^t .i :.i_ i i; i -iT -. ' IV UCIIIV ? IIIUIC uaiUL-U 1UCUICUI I HWl, fruits should l?e largely eaten soon after rising in the morning, and about midway between breakfast and dinner. An incalculable amount of sickness audi suffering would be prevented every year if i lie V liole class of deserts were swept from our tables during summer, and fresh, ripe. I>eifeet fruits and berries were substituted ; while the amount of money that would be saved thereby, at. the New York prices of fi nits, would, in some families, amount to many dollars?enough to educate an orphan child or support a colporteur a whole year in some regions of our country. [//?//'$ Journal of Health. HoNon the Good.?The truo basis of distinction among inen is not in position nor possessions?it is not in the circumstances of life, but in the conduct. It matters not how enviable a position a man occupies, nor how much wealth he has in store; if there l?e defect in his behavior lie is not entitled to that consideration and respeet due to one who is superior in a mor al point of view, though he possesses riches nor honor. It is not that which gives us place, but conduct, which makes the solid distinction. We should think no one above us but for liis virtues, and none below us but for bis vice#. Entertaining this view, we should seek to emulate the good, though it be found under a coarse exterior, and pitv the i I evil, though it he clothed in the finest garb j i and dwell in liixurv. \V? <tir.nl.1 i - _ y * "?'v. oteoinc obsequious in the wrong place. Call no man mean, low, or vulgar, because lie tills the 8??il or stands before the work-ben eh, for, in point of true worth and real manhood, he may be much superior to | the president of some bank, some eminent iiquor dealer, or Wall Street broker, or the | rich nabob who dwells in yon marble palI ace. The viituons and light-minded sons of toil are Nature's noblemen. They are lovers of| good, lovers of truth, lovers of nature, lovers of each other, and lovers of Cod. They i were not born to shine, nor to be the recipi-1 enis of empty honors ; but they were born ] to be men. the leaven of earth, and a na- \ lion's bulwark. The art of visiting is well worth special j treatise. Whom to visit?when to visit? I how long to visit?these would form the staple of a useful essay, if any body would take the trouble to write it, and would wirte) it cleverly. Some people visit nearly all j the lime, and spoil their own lives and their j triends substance: some rarely visit at all, and ' so deny themselves and their neighbors ofone j of the greatest pleasures of social existence. I Some people make their visits so sboit that j tliey are not worth the trouble tliev cost: j others slay so long that the visit becomes a I visitation?like a fever or famine. As use is always essential to excellence in any art, only those who have had a certain amount ' .it npojtltnA tnA..- I.... t o ..? II. -l:> I X'l |/<IIV>IVV( AMUM IIUH IV/ ? I.^II Wfll , WI11lt?| those who visit too mitcli sin in another way, and become bad visitors from imprudence and carelessness. Hut we are writing | the essay which we begun with simply sug- ! gesling; and will only add, in conclusion, j thai all rules must vary more or less with ! the character of the visitor. Here is an old epigram: What, smiles and welcomes would I give Sumk. friends to see each day I live; And yet what treasures would I pay If some would always stay away. A Great Truth Illustrated.?The late I Rev. T. Toller, of Kettering, in discounting! fiotn Isaiah xxvit 8?'"Lot him take hold of I my strength, that he may make peace with ! j me ; and he shall make peaco wiih me ? ! remarked : " I tlimk 1 can convey the meaning of this passage, so that every one may I understand it, by what took place in my | own family within these few days. One of) iny children had committed a fault, for: which I thought it my duty to chastise him.i 1 called him to ine, explained to him the evil of what he had done, and told him how grieved I was that I must punish him for it. lie heard me in silence, and then rushed into my arms and burst into tears. I could "ooner have cut off my ai m than have I struck him for fault. lie had laid hold of my strength, and he had made his peace ' with me."?Memoirs oj Mr. Toller. 1 ... 1 - Stor Now.-r-Young man, if you are just commencing or practicing any vie* or bad habit, the time to stop is now. You have arrived at n stopping place, and you may slop now, if you please, but if you suffer yourself to be whirled on by appetites and passions, you may be so far, that when you desire to stop, it may be out of your power to do so. If you swear, or drink, or break the Sabbath, "stop now." If you tliluk evil thoughts, or tell things not quito true, or sometimes tell n little more than truth, " stop now." If you are going to a dance, or a play, or any place where you may meet bad company, "stop now." If you are in the habit of jesting about religion, or ministers, or preaching, "stop now." If you think there is time enough to become religious by-and-by, and that you will pursue the way you are going a while longer, "stop now ;" lor the eouisc you are going leads to death.?Puritan Recorder. Whistling.?The Albany Times thus discourses about whistling: * Tlie man who don't believe in wLiailing -liotil.l go a step further, and put n muzzlo on bobolinks and mocking birds. Whistling is a great institution. It oils the wheels of care, and supplies the place of sunshine. A man who whistles has a good heart under his shirt front. Such a man not only wotks more willingly than any other man, but he works more constantly. A whistling cobbler will earn ns much again money as a cordwainer who gives way to low spirits and indigestion. Mean or avaricious men never w histle. (?) Whoever heard of a whistler among the sharp practitioners of Wall Street ? We pause for answer. Tho man who attacks whistling throws a stono at the head of hilarity, and would, if ho could, roh June of its roses?August of its meadow-huks. Such a man should be lookcd to." ^ ^ ^ Court Plarter.?Everybody is familiar with this peculiar article, hut few are aware of the manner of its production. Black silk is staiued and brushed over ten or twelve times with the following preparation : Dissolve half an ounce of balsatn of benzoin in six ounces of rectified spirits of wine, and in a separate vessel dissolve one ounce of isinglass, in a very little water. Strain each solution, mix them, and when the clear lionid is colli it uill f..rm o Jail*. . " j"-v? which must be warmed before it is applied to the silk. When llie silk coated with it is qoito dry, it must be finished off with n solution of four ounces of Chinese turpentine in six ounces of the tincture of benzoin, to prevent the coated silk from cracking. Sr. Helena.?We learn by private advices from St. Helena that the Emperor Louis Napoleon has purchased the site of the tomb of his uncle, the great Napoleon, for S3,000, and Longwood, the farm on which the conquered conqueror's last years were passed, for 8,000. A commission is expected soon to arrive for the purpose of putting Longwood in complete ordei, and decorating the grounds. A fine monument is also to be creeled over the tomb. [iVirur i'vrk Courier. Novel Inscription.?There is an inscription on a tombstone, at La Pointe, Lako Superior, which reads as follows: "John Smith, accidentally shot as a mark of affection by his brother." This, says the North Californian, reminds us of one on a tombstone near San Diego, which runs as follows : " This yeie is sakrid to the memory of William Henry Skrakin ; who cam to his death by bein shot by Coll'a revolver?one of the old kind, brass mountid and of such is the kingdom of heavin." A lady asked a gentleman at a dinner table, if lie was fond of salad. 441 am a par nomar admirer ot iho ladies," answered lie, 4 and it will be readily conceded that the ladies are Jlesh. According to Scripture, all flesh is grass?salad is a species of grass; thcnfore, 1 am very fond of salad." Thekk is nothi ig like courage in misfortune. Next to faith in God, and in his over ruling I'rovidencc, a man's faith in himself is his salvation. It is the secret of all power and success. It makes a strong man as the pillar of iron ; or elastic as the spring steel. Union or Georgia and South Carolina.? A despatch last evening to 1'iesidcnt Caldwell informs us of the connection of the Geoigia and South Carolina Railroads, bv the completion of one of the tracks, at 4, v. m., yesterday.? Carolini m. i m i ?--One of our exchanges tells us of a I my genius up his way, who, being asked, as he lay sunning himself on the giass, what was the height of his* ambition, replied. " To marry a rich widow that's got a cough." Gouon recently defined moustaches to be the uppor lip in morning for the loss of i brains. | i Every wooden leg that takes the p'.ace I of a leg lost in battle, is a stump t-pecih I ngninst war.