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Bpr . i ?ii?- - Fvolume xiii. fir. a. p. townes. pr: EDITOR. I. J. C. BAILEY, Proprietor and Bub-Editor. p SUBSCRIPTION?%tt?O0 PER ANNUM. Thing* That Here* Die. The pure, the bright, the beautiful, That stirred oar hearts lp youlb, ^ The impulse otes wordless prayer, The dream of lore and truth. The lopginge after some thing lost, . j The spirit's yearning cry ; The striving after hitter hopes? These things can never die. The timid hand stretched forth to aid A brother In his need ; That kiodly word In griefs dark hour* That proves the friend indeed ; The plea of mercy softly breathed When jtiatice threatens nigh; The sorrow of a contrite heart? These things shall never die. Thevnemory of a clasping hand, *' tte pressure of a kiss, And all the trifloa, sweet and frail. That make up love's first bliss, If with a firm, unchanging faith, And holy trust and high, Those hands havA clasp'd, those lips have wist, These things shall never die, The ernel and the bitter word That wounded as It. fell. The ehilling want of .sympathy, Ws feel but never tell. The hard repulse that chills the heart, Whose hopes ware bounding high, In an unfading record kept, These tbiDga shall never di*. '? ' ' ?n * * Let nothing pass, for every hand Most find some work to do Lose not a chance to weaken love, Be firm and just and true. So ahall a light that cannot fade Beam on thee from on high, And angela' voices say to thee, Theaa things shall never die. -1 _ XU.JS i JkllU HAbUU Some two or three mile*from the little town of Aylesbury, England, there once lived three cousins of the family named of Barret. They were all married, and settled on farms within a mile of each other, and each of. them bad children grown up and around them.?They were not rich, hut in comfortable circumstances, and each had expectations. An eccentric uncle had gone Out to India when quite a young man, and rumor told them that be had become very wealthy, and would probably die a bachelor. ' Who, then, but themselves, would be heirs to his properly 1 ?they being at the time his nearest kin. " ' *' * One day these three families were thrown into great commotion by each of them receiving a letter, which contained, besides date and signature, only these words: ' * *' "lam rlol?. Fool a hare o?ll mo a nabob.? I wouldn't giva such a title to a oat. Nr - . matter?1 shan't live always?and when I die my property must go to somebody. I air coming to England to-fiud an heir. I shall come and s?e you, and hope yon. will -p)eas< me. I hppe yon are not troubled with beg gars. I do not like to sec them about." One dark, rainy night, about three , weeks after the reception cf these letten by the cousins, the family of Moses Bar ret was thrown into a great state of ex citemenl, by the appearance at the dooi of two men in livery, who announced ? it " * .1 r a f luemseives as in? avauni cowner#-o hit excellency, Joshua Barret, of India who would claim their hospitality foi the night. 8aying which, the meesen gars put spurs to their horses and dash ed away, without giving (he astonishes listeners time to ask even a single ques tioo. now, Moses Barret was a bunks, hi % wife shrewd, and bis three chiidret chips of the two blocks, but all under took to change their natures for tb< tithe?or ratber, to be ready to cbang< them on the appearance of the rich up cle?for what was the use of actinj with the eurtain down I ** Vow, Moee, you stingy old brute,1 aid bis wife, ' if toq know on wbicl aide your breed's buttered, it's to b boned vou'll have sotne chickens killec for his excellencyY'aupphr, which wa UOVf*n you did for Chriatmaa ; 1 an< some of that wine fetched op that y on' v bad in the cellar ai nee the year one and fire made in .the beat roomJ tba hasn't been there this (en year*; and al our nice cbothea put on, that ain' Much, for you'tb n<ver Alio* tu not bin] decent." V',-" " ' -7" . \ / " Aftd it i# to be hoped, old womkn,' retorted the angry husband," that yoO'l aoAen down that acreecbiaf voice c your*,'and twiat your wrinkles ioh smile*?and thritit Vie something 1'* natter seen done aincc the first week o . 0"rmarriage.'' . Great activity was displayed by al the parlies concerned in getting read to give the Hcb unde tirrijMlt reeeptjoi possible, and' all rejoiced, as mncb * such a hopefbLfamily could rejoice, tha (hey would be the flmt to receive a vial from him?hoping, of course, tbpi the, * * 1 |t -...1 :A.t might thus forestall the other relations h in hit good graces. It would have been y In'tile nibi'st of theiburried propn n rations, there appeared at the door an li old, feeble looking, white-haired man, r< thinly clad4 and with hie soaking gar- it menu clinging to hi* shriveled form. M Will- you be kind eoobghV good, si folks," he said, M to give me something it to eat and a place to sleep to-night 1" fi " We've got nothing to sn?*re I and if S we had, we don't harbo beggars 1" re- fc plied the roaster of the house, in a coarse, brutal tone.' " v ' ' e M But I'm old, and feeble, and bun- I gry, and wet, and tired," said the e aged applicant, in a pleading tone, n " and if you drive roe away, I may perish." \ . ~y. . ' ^ . . . I " wen, mais just wnat you ought to c have done long ago," put in the cross d dame. " When people get too lazy to a work for an honest living, and start out i hegging. it's my opinion they're bettor f dead nor alive. Besides, we expect com i pan.y soon?a rick gentleman from In- s dia?and haio'l got uo room for the tl likes of you.* " .'** ' ~ y r." Well, then," returned" the old man. with a orrowfnl look. " eince you e can't keep me over night, please give t me something-to eat, and I'll go fur... a ther." .'/ "! _ s The dame caught up a piece of brown bread, with an angry look, and t was about to band it to the mendi- f cant, more for the purpose, as it seemed, of getting rid of him than fiom c apy feeling of compassion?bnt her 1 miserly husband interposed and said, 'sharply: _ I ,4.1 told you we hado't nothing' for | you, and so travel on I" n t 44 I'll set the dog on yon if you don't, t you old beggar l" cried a lad of ten.? 1 44 My rich uncle's coming here to-night. ? and'be cant bear beggars ; so you had t better bo off while .your bones are t whole !'* t " May heaven l>e more .merciful than " you," sighed the old man, ap ho. turned < and disappeared in the darkness. ] Some half an hour later he knocked at the doo> of Stephen Barre:, another ( of the nephews, and asked for food and < lodging..; ] * It isn't convenient for ur to keep ] you to night," said the master of the 1 house, in a mild, dignified tone. 44 Be- j ' sides, we don't like to encourage beg- , gars. If you are poor, and not able to , work, ihe parish where you belong is ' bound to support jrou. No one need j starve in this country, which the Lord, probed be His name, has so bountifully blessed. I trust I - am not wanting , 1 in chairity?as a humble follower of the 1 Lord Jesus Christ, I hope I-Am not? ; but what with taxes for the support of the Government and the poor, donations to benevolent societies and heath' en inisssions, it is as much as I can do | to livo, and give my family a respecta, ble mainlananco. Now.niy fnend, if I you are poor,. and not able to work, ? (though I don't see why you may not ' work as well as travel,) you had het ter throw yourself on the parish where s you belong." 1 " But I am tired, wet, and hungry," * said the eld man,"and all the parishes in the world can't do mo any good tor night." ' M, But you should have thought of that before you left home," now chimed ' in the good housewife, with a sanctified r air. " It is sinful to tempt ProvidenCo, as it is called ; and whoever sins must J" expect punishment. I never go awsy wilhourproviding for the journey, and, of course, I don't expect anyboJy to feed and shelter me for nothing. It is * a sin, too, to be idle when one is able to worn, and 11 is against my principle, as a true Christian, to encourage any 8 ooe in sinning." * / . ? 8 M Then, I suppose, I'm to understand that you refuse me both food and lodgi ing," said the old man. ? " Ar to food," said the pions dame, glancing at her hut-bTind, " if you ar6 1 very huftgrv, 1 suppose we can do some 8 tiding fbr you in that way ; but lodging ie oht of the rjuestjon?for two mount J ed couriers have been here to say that a very rich tfncle of ours from India 0 will be here soon ; and lie wroto some time ego, thai he didn't- liko to have J beggars about where he was, and we ' wouldn't like to do anvtbintf 'to offend 1 him. Tfti*,. we hmrdly expect be will % come to-ttight *r but, then, ho might, you ? know, end we wouldn't Kite to run any * w I . ? Welf,.then,* said the old man, whh 0 * will t*fc* the foodf if yba e please, end gp dn, if I' peti*b" f " i'ut your trust in -the. ford, my friend, put yon* trust in ihe Lord J" said II Stephen Bar/ef, splemuly.-' f * Yes/'yboerj hie wife, "'puf four n trust in the fowl/!---that "Is <b|)*t >eifo when in tfonhle.* Ssrah J*no. ?o down A -in the eelfar ami bring np a conpie-of it tbose^cold potalpes for this ohf nran-^ jr ibjy.erd'tety flood jatinf wfceodnoiej ' N % " y^^11? J! *". ? GREENVILLE, SOUTH \ m - T ungry?I like them myself. Yes, pat our trust in the Lord 1 and don't leave ome again without means. By the y, .while I think of it," added the good omnn, laying down a cap-frill, on bich' ahA hp<l been busily at work liile talking, and looking up ilh a bright twinkle of her eyes, M I o'believe thai you can get a good ifrill's Inrlorintf at. TInrrv TiarrettV wlin o a ~p j -? ~ vm only a half a mile from hero, on the mad eoutb?,sa,iIe's a great hand for tak)g in gangers." She looked'at her husband, and both miled knowingly, for both were ihitikig that in case the rich uncle should na the beggar there, :t might increase tepher. Barret's chances of being the irtunate heir. Sarah Jane now returned and hand d the old man two little cold potatoes, Ie took them, turned them blowly over, xamined them on all sides, and murmured i " They have eyes?but can they see ? think not?for if they could they'd ilush red, instead of keeping such a laik color." Then glancing slowly round the neat, tidy. cheerful room, tnk ng in three prime girls and their pious arents, he quickly tossed the potatoes n the lap of the astonished mistress, aying, as he did so, " I beg your pars Ion. madam,but I did not intend to rob ou." "Ob. you sinful, wicked old creature!" xclaimed the good dame, in a holy korror, as the disgusted old tnan turned md went out and shut the door w)th a lam. - In less than half an hbur the unforunate wayfarer was trying his chances it the house of Henry Batret. " Gome in," said a strong, hearty, dieerful voice, in answer to his timid cnook. He entered a large, plainly furnished ipaitment, and beheld a group of six >ersons?father, mother, two sor.8 and wo daughters?seated around a pleasmt fire, wittr a bright light on the ta>le near them, and all looking contented ?nd happy. On seeing his visitor was ?n old man and a stranger, the master the house arose and invited him to .vallc forward and tako a sent, and all ho bthtrs dicw bwck feftpccifullv, l*? enlarge the circle and give him ihe best :>lace at the (ire., " T have called," said the old man, itooping and removing liin hat from his white head; " la ask if you would be kind enough to give rao some food and lodging for llie night ?" " Of course we will, my friend, nnd glad of the chancy to help a- fellow in need 1" ?nid Ilenry Barret, in a frank, cordial tone. " Sit down and make yourself at home ! Here, give me your itat ! Come, girls, hurry up something warm for the old gentleman, who is wet, tired and chilled through.*"** 1 can readily see. You ought not to have been out so late in this storm, father 1" " No, I know," returned the old gentleman, holding his trembling hands to the tiro," but the persons 1 applied to wouldn't take me in." - J' What ! refuse lodging to an old mar like you on such a night, In this j?hMarian community !" exclaimed the indig nant host. " Who were the inhospitable wretches f" The man described the house an<j people where he had called. M I eee," said lire host, with grinr smile, M I understand I The first famih kicked you out ?" '* Almost.'.' * > " Tho second familv prayed yoi out! " - 41 Almost," again smiled the stranger 4' Well, they are both relations o mine, but I am a*hamed to own tliem.' 44 They sniil, by way of e*cu?e," pur sued the old man,44 that they were ex' peo'.ing a rich uncle, from India, whc wouldn't like to see a beggar about." 44 Aye, my friend, and we are expect' ing the "same rich uncle, too?nn eccen trie old bachelor, who says he wants t< mako one of ua heir to his vast poses sibns. .'Two gaily mounted messenger arrived this evening to say he would hi here to.bight, or to-morrow, prbbablj the latter. But whenever he doea come he will tlnd us as we are; and if b< don't like our looks, or the company we keep, be OAn take himself off again.1 "Nnjyniy friend," said tho agei stranger, rising fn some trepidation, "d< not for the world, let my nresanoe ieop ardize your -interest*-with your rid kinsman I I will mefely pet something to eat, and travel on till 1 Bud apothe lodging." " No, you won't," said IJarrv TWret bluntly," " You won't leav#. this Ilous to-night, for all the uncles lljat all tK. Indies can (urn out. Sit down again sir.eit down and make yofiraelf at home I knriw the duty of a man who has fait I in God. and J!m going to do it. Wlia Is money ttf me t 1^ etkn't >>at it, no drink If.' nlVr wear it! nor carry it int< the other Vorld^and -Km sure it w'ouldn' bring me any happiness tha^, I don' no^r enjoy, apd I know it etrtildn't eve conj|?eu-ato urn for one ntM?n act. No osh'jin IWrlt setlfe ki?*Wton?y A* hi chooses?III arrange my Conscience l( roitwytetf!" ' " '' ' * , - j , 1867. be able to trace, three or fuur years after, the efcact spot where it was marked." He quoted the old couplet which contained much truth : " The uso of limo without manur?, Will always tnako tho fartnor poor." He stated (what has been discovered in this country) that there may be a complete absence of lime in soils rest ? D'PXJLA.rt CAROLINA. FEBRUARY 21 " God bless yoa !" murmured tLe old man, in a trembSng voice ; and bowing his bead upon bis hands, be wept in silence. - I " He remained at that hospitable house during the nfeht, and was entertained like an honored gnest. The next day being fair, h? took.bis leave. As he was about t# depart, Harry Barret put a crown into his hand, saying : " Take t,my friend, and not a word 1 I don't krow.who you are, and I've not felt it my duty to inquire ; but this I know?fropi your appearance, manners, and language?that you are not a com mon beggar, and that you have seen belter days, which I sincerely hope you may ?o again. It's as much as my circursstancos will justify, and it may, peihaps, serve to keep you from starving some night or sleeping by the wayside." " God will repay you I" said the old man, solemnly ; and he walked slowly away, wiping the tears from his eyes. " He has already 1" nmsed Henry Barret, placing his hand upon his heart. " I litve it here?principal and interest." Bong, and in vain, did the selfish families of Moses and Stephen Barret look for the appearance of their rich uncle from India in a carriage and four, ajul great was their disappointment and vexation tberoat. Then camo the intelligence tliai lie was sick in Lordon. Next camo the news that ho was dead and had loft a will ! What an intense desire to know the contentsof that will! What a wild, furious excitement when its contents became known ! ' To Moses Barret he devised one pound to buy a cofiin for the dog that his precious son had threatened to set on a beggar. To Stephen Bnrrctvhe had bequeath ed one pound thro# pence?the pound to bo devoted to paiisli poor?the three pence to boy cola potatoes for beggars, with the hope that ho and his pious family would put their trust iu the Lord. To Iler.ry Barret, and his heira for* ever, lie had willed all the remainder of. his vast wealth, sorao half a million pounda sterling, with a hope that he and tliev would sometimes recall with pleasure the visit of the old while haired man they had puce so kindly enter; tained. i , The old beggar of lb at dark, rainy night, was no other than Joshua Barrel -himself! The Use of Lime and Marl. Tho English agriculturists have used lima extensively for a long time, and ha\e acquired a great deal of experience relative to its application. At a lecture gi"e? a while ago by Prof. Nesbit, b<* ' fore the London Farmers' Club, h< etnted a number of ascertained facts 1 which, brletly related, may be interest inct la eitfOi cS r?nr rnadpra nc d^cirA in. formation on this subject. In speaking of liming Hnd marling, he said it mad* little differente, generally, whether cal cerous matter was applied in the forrr of chalk, disintegrated by frost, marl quicklime, or disintegrated limestones, Limestone is burnel, and thus reduced to very fine powder, it very soon returns to carbonate, precisely the sam< state as before burning, except that it.mechanical condition is entirely changer to fine powder, l'his he regards as tin chief object of burning. For lime act: beneficially for many years in a soil lon j after all traces of its caustic nature bav< disappeared. Some limestones contaii a considerable quantity of potash am sulphate of lime, which sometimes ad< much to their value. Here analysis be comer of great use. As to the ration ale of its action, he regards it as op eraling in several ways. First, in dis solving the alkalies for the use of grow ing plants, a result which has beci found by trying the experiment dutinj a pariod of six months, in the laboratc ry. Secondly, in effecting a slow dc composition cf organic matter in soil for the sarpe use, which is striking! shown by the fsct that new land or new ly broken fields are altogether the mot benefitted by its action. 'Die same op eration takes plate upon manures in th r soil, j ne ammoMii w men nas Deen at eorbed, is fed lo plants through the ae siitanoo of lime. Hence, on hard croj 3 ped land, which has been nearly ex s bauated of organic constituents, lime i 1 of little use. ' It has Mso been Btate ( that its application npon undraine r land is of no ralue whatever. On th other hand,'if soils aro deficient in lim< I,, $von a manuring of guano will be c e little comparative use. " If you go t 0 such * pi?ce as Exmoor," eays Professo V Nesbit, " where the land has not-bee* ! turned up within the memory of mar > and where the soil contains only euougl t ' lime for a chemist to swear by, you wi] r find the use of any other manure of n ) ' avail without i\. I have myself observer) t I in certain parts of that moor, whi'r f'| lime had been pftt, turnips were spies r did," but the ?npt?n\ yon passed the lin 1 up io which lime had been applied, th i orop entirely failed. If you were t > take a handful <Sf slacked lime and in tftribo your name oft the soil, you vouh ""ft uru iinicowuc, tmu iiittiiuuun cnses where the limestone has been within six I inches or a foot of the surface, and not the thousandth per cent, of lime on the soil itself, and add# that in some of the South-eastern countries of England they are actually liming the Chalk Downs to great advantage. Theories of Advertising. " 'the theories of advertisers upon all these conditions, particularly the last, are wonderfully various ; those who disbelieved in advertising at all, being now too Tew for mention. One man believes in advertising in publications where all his competitors advertise \ another, where he will be alone ; one thinks ad* vertising needless, when business is brisk, and useless when It is dull, while another thinks the reverse. One believes in the eitv. another in the town ' one bases bis hopes on mere length, and another tnkes half a page to print a few sentences, while another puts his. announcement upside down.' Some advertise mo?lor?t?ly nru1 steadily, and some make showy displays occasionally. Large cities are full of devices outside of newspapers. Boys distribute handbills at the ferries, and on the streets ; a painted bed with nettings looped up greets the eyes of those who cross Fulton ferry in mosquito time. Men niprch solemnly about, dressed in fiiJine mysterious garments that proclaims the merits of India rubber goods and weather-strips, or covered with buttons from crown to sole, or bearing sign boards of chiropodists; a nuisance in the shape ' of an advertising van haunts Broadway, and tho curb stones, the fences, and the very pavements everywhere are aflame. " It may be called accidental, but the .fact is that nearly nil of the large fortunes made in trade during the last thirty years, both in this country- and 1 in England, have boer. made in con 1 nection with persistent and studied advertising. I>is. Jayne, Biandeth, and * Ay re, Davis's Pain Killer, Russia Salve, Bonner's Ledger, Plantation Bitters, ' Ilostetter's Bitters, Spalding Prepared t Glue, Ilolloway's Pills, Eastman's Business College, and Barnum's Museum, are good examples. The amount of money sometimes paid for advertising I is almost incredible ; some firms having I expended fifty thousand dollars in a sin 5 gle week, And even tens of thousands j upon a single advertisement. Besides burdening tho fences, several parties , have their own poets and advertisement writers,at liberal salaries. Messrs.Pba 1 Ion Son are reported to have such a iimu, iu wuuiu tuuy piw iiirets iiiuuniihi , dollars a year, and whose duty was, for \ a time, compiised in devising a new _ conundrum every day which should set ! forth anew tlio night blooming cereus. 'The secret of judicious newspaper ad vertising may be briefly stated. It consists j not in long standing advertisements which are inevitably placed in obscure , corners, but in short, fresh paragraphs, 4 renewed frequently, and possessing the j interes of reading matter. These are 9 read for their own sake, and make new , customers, as well as guide old one..." I Tiik CuELrna.? How Mrs. Victoria i Guelph (as her Britannic Majesty used 1 to be very irreverently styled in tbt i columns of the United Irishman) eamt i- by her sur name, may not be known tc - all our readers. From an old History ! of Germany, loaned us by a friend, w? extinct the following legend in regard to the origin of this dynastic title : n The family of the Gnelphs can b< jr traced so far back as tbo reign of Charle ? magne. About the year 800, there wa< ! a Count Allotf, in Suabia, whose do Is scendants, according to an old legend y obtained the name of Guelph in the f >1 r- lowing manner: Isenbrand, his son ant it successor, saw once an old woman wh( i- had three children at a birth, and, think e ing this unnatural, he called her ai > ad u! tress. The old woman, in anger a ! this insud, prayed Heaven that Irinen> traut, wife of the Coiujt. might, have a; many children at a birth as there ar< w months in the .year. Iler prayer wai d answered, and Irmentraut was deliver(I ed of twelve boys; but, fearing the severe itv of her husband's character, she corn j, mantled hor servant to drown eleven o if then). Whilst the latter was proceeding to obey Iter mistress* orders, tb< r Count mot her and asked her what wa* n in the basket aire was carrying. Th< i, girl, frightened, answored that thoy I) were guelphs (poppies.) Hut the Count II not bt ing satisfied with the reply, toot o rff the cloth from the basket, and judg I, ing that the children were his own, frorr e their liveliness and strength, ho pres^rv ed their lives, educated thcip secretly e and when they were gtbwp tip tool e tbem all again to their mother. On* o of the twelve, (Juefph the First, was lb* successor of leenhraod. J [Charleston. Courier. NO. 30. , I?. ?*rd 1 A Horrible Tale> A newspaper, published at Colim*. Mexico, tella the following frightful story, and calls upon the pnblic to pan* ish the criminals t When General Pueblita entered the town of Afo, in September last, be et* acted a forced loan rrom the people, and a portion of it fell^ upon the curate of the palace. The curato acted as though, he would pay, but be did not make nU appearance at the point designated for - ? . 1 r> 1 n- i-i-'.. j j iucui, mm uviivim JLuuuniu oruereci him to be arretted. A part; of men went to his dwelling, and knocked at the door; there was no answer, and they broke in. They found no one in the house, and were about to leave it, when they heard a frightful voice, pros ceeding from the ground, saying, M I'm hungry." The officer in command webtbaqkto Gen. Puebiita, and told him about the voice. The General appointed a commission to examine the house. Thia commission went to the curate's dwell* ing, and, after a careful examination, they found a movable stone in the floor, and under this was a stairway leading down to a vault, which was entirely dark, and had no connection with the air, save by the staircase and a small hole that served as a ventilator. In this vault, they discovered a few articles of furniture and a woman who had been shut up there for eighteen years. She was taken to General l'ucblita's quarters. When brought into the light, whero she saw a number of persons, she faint-* ed. After she returned to her tenses, a thousand questions were asked her, to which she replied that she had been buried in that vault for eighteen years, without going out for a moment', that she had been married, and had children by her husband, but she knew nothing of their" fate; that while imprisoned in the vault sl)6 had had children by tbo curate, but she knew nothing of what . had become of these children ; and after that much, becatno obstinate and siknt. While this was passing, a sergeant of the Puebiita Brigade, then present, discovered that this woman was his moth* er, and she recognised him as her son, and embraced him. The son then ran for the father, who camo and recognized Lis wife. The husband, fifteen years ago, was imprisoned three years, under charge of murdering his wife, this woman. Gossip With Contributors. No notice will be took?from this date hereafterwards?ov letters that hain't got no postage stamp onto them. Don't write only one side ov manuskript, and don't write much onto that. Don't send a manuskript unless yon can read it yourself, after it gits dry. We pay, all the way bp hill, from ten cents to one dollar, for contributions, according tew heft. Aul settlements made prompt at tho end of the next ensueing veaf.- * Poetry and prose pieces respectively serlicited. , . * The highest market price paid for awful raleroad smashes, and elopements with another man's wife. No swearing allowed in our paper. Isaac.?Yure article on "frogs" it received. It made mo lnff like lightning. Yuro idee that " frogs might be increased l>y propegalion," is bully. Yure idee that frogs wae diskivered , hy Christipher Columbus, in the year I 1492, had slipped mi memory. ; You also say " that frogs grow more i hobtailed as they grow older. This is > toocus-tnl good to be entirely lost. > Noah.?rWe very humbly decline t your essA on tho Hood. ' Yure remarks might possibly lead , one more man to think a* you do, and i we don't want our collums held responsible fur increasing the number of * phools. . The world has already got mora phools than thar is any need of. J Thare aint no doubt in my mind but ^ that the flood was a perfect success, and I have thought that another just such an one would pay well now in some soktions of ibo country. ; ; ' JOSH BILLINGS. j .r.t ) Strip Bcildino.?It i9 asserted that ? at the present time there is not a single new merchant ship or steamer building . at any of tho numerous shipyards of New -York, Brooklyn or Jersey City, f and but few in all the yards of the coun? try ; and further, that there is no pross peel of any bfcinj? built until the present -condition of affairs is altered, Thon* sands of workmen connected with shipbuilding are now out of employment, and aro likely to be for the present.? a.. : .Li lul k WIU3 InlloV lur IIIIB l? IU? IHgU i at? of taxation upon materials used in > ship building- But that can hardly be ? the cause altogether, as the business is , quite as dull in England as in thiscoun* ; trv, and in one ship-building district in a London fifteen thousand mechanics have a been out of woik for months, and the " families of many of them arc now pant pare.