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^HHkj H^fM^nEttof lev* ud inth; .flXL' _ K. ^ ?i_f t .A alter wraifining ioei, JPMt itlfrinn ?ftft better hope* ; wRf These things shall never die. Th* timid hand stretshsd forth to aid A brother in his need. That kindly word In griefs dark honr That proves the friend indeed; The plea of meroy softly breathed When justice threaten* nigh. The sorrow of a contrite heart; These things shall never die. The mnnory of a olasping hand, The pi eflsure o( a kiss, And all the trifles, sweet and frail. That make up love's first bliss ; If with a firm, unchanging faith. And holy trust and high, Those hands have clolped, those lips have St, These things shall never die. The cruel and the bitter word That wounded as it fell, The chilling want of sympathy We feel, but never tell, The hard repulse that chills the heart Whose hopes were bounding high ; In an unfading record kept. These things shall never die. Let nothing pass, for every band Must find some work to do | Lose not a chance to waken love. Be firm, and just, and true ; 80 shall a light that cannot fade Beam on thee from on high, And angel volets say to thee: These thing* shall never die. letter Prom Hon B. F- Berry. 7b the Editor* of the Columbia Phoenix: There is ons important and vital fact which should bs remembered by those who : ? - * la: m.. 1 ?rw ?viu^ vu *uvr lur n cviitvuviuu. a ho ? military bill makes it obligatory on the I convention to provide for unqualified negro t suffrage in tbe State Conatitutlon. No dla. t oration ia left with the eonvention, to adopt < or reject thia odiona feature. Thee are not < allowed to eatabliah impartialmffrogt, and 1 require property or intelligence in the i voter, wnetlier white or black. All mnrt t vote who are twenty-one yeare old, wlirlh- I or or not they have property, or can read i and write, or are white or black. This < fundamental error, thia hlaek " Trojan I horse," fall of atrife and woe, matt l>e In < traduced into the 8tate Gonatitntion. There i ia no help for it, if wa go into a oonven- I tion. i If tbe military bill left It discretionary 1 with the eonvention to form aneh a Conetitotion aa they, in their wisdom, might see < proper to adopt, then there wonld be no me I excuse in voting for a eonvention. But when ortUred and rtqnirrd, in violation of I all right of self-government, to iaeorporate so mischievous and degrading a feature In i their Constitution, it does seem that the i people of South Carolina, prompted hy the spirit of liberty, aboulrt ery out, " touch i not, handle not, tbe unclean thingI" They roust know that it will be Impoeeible to I maintaia a Just, wise and permanant republican form of government where a majority of tha voters are ignorant, stnpid, demiaavage paupers They ought to see, too, that the pewee and quiet of tbe State cannot be preeerved where there are two an tagonietie races clothed with equal political powara, and tbe inferior race superior to it In numbers They mint come in collision ID tnetr contest* for power. In two-lnlrda of the Districts of ftouth Carolina, the nt groea hara the majority of voters. They may and will elect their Sheriffs, Clerks, Oraitjaries and Tax Collectors. They will send their own members to the Legislature, and eleet their own Governor and members of Congress. If we lived In a monarchy, or were to be eoatinned under military rale, then both raeca might be properly governed and made to do justice towards eseh other. In a republic, the people ere the sovereigns, and they aaost be wise and rirtnona, or their government will praetiee the most revolting tyranny and oppression. Look st Mexico, where they have had a republic fonnd ed on a stupid, ignorant, mongrel population. Their Government haa been nothing bat a succession of bloody revolntiona and eruel military usurpations. Without the highest virtue and great intelligence on the part of the masses of population, it is impossible for a republic to stand, England attempted one in 1?40, bnt it was a melancholy failure, owing to the Ignorance and vioiou?asas of the masses. France haa tried the experiment twiee, and after wading through rivers of blood, had to seek repose is despotism. In both England and France, BP UP* U/JIO inoN cnoni wcr? nmu?", mnc ware thousands distinguished for their vk toes end talent*; bat the great maetee were ignorant and uninformed, end were swayed by their pensions end rices. But bow infinitely euperiev were thoee meeeee to the freedoeen of Bowth Ceroltne. We bare a foretaste of negro legielation, eseieted by radical cunning, in tlie platform adapted at their Cberleeten eow vention.? Before I bey bare been allowed to cast a rote, or eserele* the first political privilege, tbey boldly proclaim that property alone, and not pcreeas, ia to be taxed Remember, tbia avowal ie publicly made by thoee who bare no property to be texed. In other words, the negroes are to pay no taxaa towarda the support of the Government; hot all taxes are to be paid by the white raaal Next, they dealers that their children neoet be educated at our expense, and their aged and Infirm parents muet be sap ported by oel We must rapport, too, their idle and vieisoe whe become psnpersl Tho heartj, hale negro men. who noakee hie hpadrod or two hundred doll are per annum, and apends It foolishly, moat not be taxed one rant to edaaete his own children, or to support hie own father and mother I They declare, aleo, that the lands most be divided Into email tracts, smt that It I# not good policy for l?ue to <rao n large Wr ^HpRIPin other wwdi, every n*HpHnNiTt a home. Tl?# viji and getting that home will be exHtd hereafter, in the convention ot 1*gBfature. pit would feelly eerrn, frotn this programme, that the blaclt raee are to be a ?ort of aristocracy In Soutli Carolina ihey xre, by their superior numbers, to fifcvethe reins of Government in tbeir handr, and sleet all the State and District officer*, to make ell of our law*, and he exempted from taxation, like tbe feudal noMe*** of Prauee, prior to their revolution in 1790. The white man must cultivate hie lands, pay the taxea of the Government, and obey Ihelaeamade by the freedmenl This fa what the friends of convention are inno eently preparing fur themselves and posterity I What worse can a Block llepublican " Hump Congress " do for us f But It is said that it is in vain to think if defeating the call of a convention. This is very true, whilst so many white persons ?re determined to vote for it. and a portion if the newspaper pr<as of the State refuse In publish anything on the otlier tide, if the white race were United as they ought to tie, by everj* principle of honor, patriotism ind interest, they could very eerily vote it town. Iu the country, remote fmm the inluence of vile, radical emissaries, the reedmen know very little at present, and ttre Ices. They will not go out to register ind vote, and manv ol tli. m will vote with heir employers. But this will not be the snse long. In all probability, the white tote of the State will bo larger at the enluing election than the black vote. It will lot he so in another election. In the last 8tate Convention, which ns?emhlod In Columbia, In 1868. there were lathered together ail the il las'i loos men of ho State. It wae a body of men onaur-tasred for their wisdom, virtue and talent*. Vol one of them ean be a member of the ^reposed convention. They are ail exelud d by the military hill, and deprived even if voting for members of the convention. Hie proposed assemblage will be composed if negroes, Noithern men, traitors to the itsts, and a few gallant and honorable roung men, who may possibly consent to iceome candidates and be elected, in some if the upper Districts. It will be a motey, heteiogenous collection of white, grev ind black spirits around the political caulIron, into which is to to thrown the hon>r, constitutional rights, republican prinei ilee and departing glory of South Caroina. To the few young men In that convention, hero will be something ineffably menu in tnowing that they have obtained their seats here by disfranchising and dishonoring .hose whom they have loved Jand honored 'hrough life. But this disgraceful sacrifice loee not atop with the convention. Itnmal tie continued in the (Jnvernment o( the Hate, and in filling all the offices in the Hate. Every Judge on the Bench, from he venerable Chief Juative down to the fonngeal member of the Judiciary, must throw aside his gown, and will no longer tie permitted to administer justice in South Carolina. All who have eerved in the Legislature, .or filled the office of Justice of the Peace, are excluded froin any participation in the adminiatration of the Government In the plaee of thoee Judge#, Governors, Legislators and distinguished men, who are disfranchised and declared unworthy of holding office, the negroes are substituted I It is nat surprising that the radical mem bers of C rgreea should wish to exclude from the councils of the nation all representatives who are worthy of being regarded as Southern men. They have so long indulged in vulgar and malignant abuse of the South, that they would naturally feel unpleasant in having a true Southern man listening to their billingsgate. It la very likely, too, that Mr. 8nmner and others might not, from old associations and remembra.iccs, feel exactly eafe in uttering their calumnies. But that any honorable and spirited Southern man should content to vote for such exclusion, is to me moat passing strange. South Carolina, and the whole South, a'illi nnn w otnn e/.tanl n<1 I n/? Ifffii n 11V In at fall, the constitutional amendment, which only excludes from office the leading men of the Southern States, and reduced our representatfbn in Congress It did not disfranchise any one or establish negro suffrage. But now, both these dishonoring and fatally ruinous principles are established by the military bill, and the people are ready to adopt them I What has produced this seeming craven and cowering spirit f It is urged that unless we vote for a convention, establish negro suffrage, and dis franchise our prominent man, confiscation will be adopted by Congress A friend said, the other day, that this ought not to scare us, for we were all broke and ruined pe cuniarily. and had nothing left to confiscate. He thought it was too late in the day to dishonor ourselves in order to save the remnant of our property. I think if any one will read the speech of Horace Greeley, in Richmond, oh confiscation, he will fee, aa I have always contended, that there is no danger en this subject from Congress Mr. Greeley *ay? that Thaddeue Stevens U the only prominent member of Congress who hna ever suggested euch a scheme, and that he ha* never, with all hi*ability and influenee been able to'persuabe other* toadopt it. lie then gpes on io ahow that such a |>o)iey would not benefit the freedmen, whilst it would entail ruin and starvation an the Southern States. Dut we are told that If we do not adopt the military bill and vote for a convention, something worn* will be imposed on the Sonthern Stales In my opinion, nothing worse than negro suffrage and a negro government can be forced npon na. It would be a thousand timet preferable la remain under military rule and submit to nil tha exactions of military authority. The officers of the army art generally honorable men, men of oer own race, anil intelligent men. who hove so mo regard for lh? opinion of the world and their own reputation. They are eetlng, too, under the direction of the President and h'u Cabinet, who are wise and enlightened statesmen, and will have some regard for junlee and humanity?whleh the stupid negro will not have, when hie aolflahnees ana passions are aroueeo. There are some who advocate tha voting for a convention aa a means of controlling the negro vote. They seem t? forget thai the convention is bound to establish negro suffrage, and that no dleeretiem la allowed on this subject. In my judgment, negro sotfrnge is the ?e plu? ultra of nil political and social e?lh. I have, in former letters shown the fallacy of hoping to control ihl negro vote in tha fulurs, and will not repeat 4 GREENVILLE. SOUTH < what I hiTl already eaid on this enhjeet. In n.l that I have aatd, f hnw that I am In a large minority at Uiie time aa I ?tt ta 1800, and that I have been censurvd and abuaed now, aa I waathen, for reflating and fighting to Ota laat mowont; what I believed i 10 be the Hlin and degradation of the State. I Mtneriticfl, which are ao fi luhtful to sum*, * have no terrore for me. I have lived !n < them all my Hf?i nod grown familiar with ? them. Indeo?i, I have i grflit respect and I sincere regard for them in litnesor political "dtcitement or panic, The/ have generally firmness and priucitile* which cannot always he said of majorities* however large lliey may be. I will conclude thla artlale with an extract from a letter received, the other day from a noble Udy, of South Carolina, whom I never had the idvnsnre of neelng, or correspond ence with before. It ?<t the spontaneous effusion of a spirited and patriotic heart. ? She rays: "I believe T speak tlio feeling of at least every hwios In Sonth Carolina, when I aay wo heartily endorse your views, nnd each and every sentiment you express in your recently*published latter. We pray you to continue your efforts to save us from such dishonor and sneh degradation, to which the pain of twenty violent death* war* pref> ruble, and may Heaven aid you lo recalling th* manhood of our State to'a aeuae of what is due at least their raee." This is the entire It tier, with the exception of the address and the name of the writer. Such patriotic ant spirited sentiments from one lovely woman fully e'.tnpens-ites for all the criticism* and abuse which have been heaped on me. I now repeat what I have en id in my former articles. Let every one, not dislrancliised, go and register Ills name. This lie must do, if he has any regard for the preservation of hia life, liberty and property.? Then let him go-to the election, without fail, and vote for good men. endorsing on it, " againtt convention." These are the words of lit* military bill, and mnst be used instead of " no convention." Let him influence others to vote the same ticket, with the same endorsement. Having done thin, he will have dieoharged his duty to the country nod himself, and dona ill he can do I. .a... a L a * L a QlaSa IW BO ? C UIC UVUUI VI II oilll-r. 11. F. TERRY. . c Letter from Ex-Governor Perry. r We nublifh, tills morning, another letter from Hon. R? F. Perry, in which hie viewe of the political eitnalion an?J the doty of the people of this State are very forcibly presented. Ilia sentiments, we have no doubt, find a response in the bosoms of many South Carolinians; and while they ma}- disagree with him ns to the wisdom of the policy he recommends at the coming election, yvt we believe that nearly all accord to hltn sincerity, consistency and lion- "J esty of pnr|>ose. We think, therefore, tlie ' Governor is in error when he speaks of the 1 " abuse " lie has received, for we li?v-? oh-. v served little or none of that commodity in 1 the'crilicisma or comment* of the press of c this State on his letters. c With tha writer, we wish to see the white " people of this Slate thoroughly united, for I we believe that, so united, by voting for a I convention, tbsy will be enabled to control ' its organisation. That being done, the I framing of the new constitution, by the best * available and quaiiAed men we can select, ' will be the mod important work. If they < should fail to frame one acceptable to the t dominant party in Congress, the people of South Carolina will at least have done their ' duty, by complying with the requisitions I of the law# in nil their forms; and then, 1 should they be a'ill excluded, they would < be in no worse?-indeed, In not such a bad? 1 condition as if they were peremptorily to ' refuse the main requisition of the law?the 1 calling of a convention. While we deplore any movement that < would be likely to produce division In this o.A : * ? t. i.: .L i mitie lib in? coming orueai inrougi which her people are celled to pass, yet we cheer- < fully tlv? plaoe to ihe view* *o ably pre sented by Governor Perry, that the people may hear beth side#, and aet a# their judg ment, after mature reflection, may dictate. [Phcrniir. i The Truth from an Unexpected Qua> ter?How the Laboring Men are Humbugged. The Aurora (Illinois) Ilerahl, a Radical sheet, and an advocate of (he eight hour law, odt more regardful of its party, than the sueceaa of any movement likely to benefit the workingmen at tba expense of party success, attempts to persuade the work* ingmen of Illinois that the " disproportion now existing between capital and labor, is but the result of a cause." A cause t Of eoursc there moat be a cause: but what cause! Hear this Radical sheet, which says: "That oause is fonnd In enormously high protective tariffs, in usurious rates of interact, and in the dangerous polities! power acquired by the oonceotration of wealth in the hands of monoplieta and its unscru piilous employment in influencing legislation. Tne attempt to reform by merely attacking the effeels without first removing the cause, is ae if a boat's crew should attempt to bnil out their boat without first stopping the yawning leak through which the water flows in." No truer words then the above weraever ottered by a public journal. In trying to save its party, and the support of the workingmen to its party, the Lieraid makes the above acknowledgment. It is the most complete vindication of the democratic the ory for conducting the government that we have aver seen from an opposition Prea*.? There are crimes known as offences against nature. Ware, high tariff*, exeaaatv# taxation, are the Crimea of thie day againatlalor. Labor baa to pay all, and y?t, atrange aa It may anpaar, the laboring man support the party that pnta theae excretive burden# npon them. It shows bow mankind oan be humbugged. ? Wabiiikotow, May 27.?Jobo Q. Surralt waa brought into tba Criminal Court to-day, to be tried for murder and conspiracy to kill President Liooolo. Ilia b'rotber laaao bad been brought from [ Texas, and waa in lb# court room. Tba defence waa ready for trial, but tba Uoi I ted Statea waa not : the latter preaaotcd > that they bad used dua diligence, but aa yet bad beee ouaucceaaful in procur the attendance of four or five itn\ portent wiloetLta. . , ,* .4 V?? 'K C -? I i ?hi i i t K * * ^ jf ijLJni , 4 14?^ flT U IJiLIl CAROLINA. JUNE C. 1867. 9 X.. ' L Republics* Protest Against the Bubvereive Theories of Jadge Kel- ? ly And Others. ' We adverted on Saturday last to the re- j lotion in Northern sentiment, and eren a imong the Republican party iteel', on ao- r fonat of* the attempts on the part of some r >f its leaders to ereate, wliat has been term- j >d, a negro goyermsnt for the Honth. We H lave illustrated the evil tendencies of sueh ittcmpte, and that their only result will he y he disruption of society. The injury In | lueh a ease will be common, hot the negro t ace. In such a contest, owing to their ini- I inrlty in the whole Soath, must go under r rhe fact that they are in a numerical ma- f ority in some few loealities cannot avert n he fate which th?ir pretended friends, hnt -f eal enemies, will thus have invoked for c hem. The colored race, of nil others, are I nost deeply interested in cultivating rein Ions of harmony with the white race of heir own State and neighliorhood. These inva no feelings of hostility to them. Of I his they onght by this time to he assured, fc tnd, If antagonism ensnea, it will be a mat- f er ol their own seeking, and the respond .. dlity for which will rcat upon their owe " lends. C The Albany Evening Journal, one of the v nost influential of the .Republican papers, f, n the State of New York, and in fact In the ^ lonntry, has taken distinct ground against he " sweeping measures which are sought ' o he inaugurated " at the South. It. knows t nil well that persistence in these will not I inly overthrow all aeenrity and right in n h??e Slates of the South, lint there will . dlow in their train the destruction of the ' ihert'.es of the commonwealths of tho ff.,.,1. T, ,i ?._ >i.. o l it? y can stand hefo-e the country on any anch dst'orm. It is repugnant to the common ense of every friend of free institutions, c ind utterly incompatible with the presorv ' u tion of Repnbliean self-government. Its n 'lewa ate important In the present juncture. Q ind doubly ao from the source from which hey emanate. It claims for the Republican v larty In the past, more than it is clearly * milled to In the light of history. But. still 1 peaking from that stand.polnt, its utter- f ineea ngninst the theories of dominance, iroclaimed by Judge Kelly and others, are >n tlint account the mofe significant. We f ommend its ai tide to the attention cf our i< cadets: e [From the Albany Evening Journal.] How rr Wobkb.?Rumors come to Ms from he South, of a spirit of arrogance and disatisfactinn on the part of certain classes of I lie blacks, which threaten* most serious re- j nits. Not content witli the allowance of . he franchise that recognir.ee ?heir political quality, it is said that they are demanding r :onces'i?in to thsir numeiical superiority. Il Nuts, for instance, a telegram of l his morn- v ng states that the trcedmen of New Or- j eans are proposing to run Mr. Jordan, a renlthy and popular negro, for Mayor of ? lint city. In Richmond, the claim (or pe- I tuliar social privileges has on several oc- t adons Involved the hazard of riots. And m, from different direet'ona, we hear of a urbulcnt and disordered feeling, that is in tainfttl contrast to the hnrmony which pro railed a fevv months since, and which then promised a peaceable arrangement of the -ontrorersiea arising from the addition of in immense hndy of unlettered and recently nfranchiaed persons to the voting populaion. If wc look for the cause of these disturbinIt w tint ltfir?l tit tf ml. TIiiin t\ wtch Announces that a speech of Judge j Kelly, In New Oi loans, wab followed by an jut hrenk of ill* negroes, who rioted ! through the streets, took possession of the noree cars. And forced the conductors to let them ride beside the whites. At Seltnn, I last week, a meeting was held, st which | r>ne of (he speakers read the declaration of j Wendell Phillips In his Brooklyn oration, , that every negro " should hare forty acres of land under his feet," and it was received i with enlhnsiAstie cheers. Judge Kelly, it < is welt known, goes South as the special ; representative of the ultras, who are not i satisfied with the positions assumed by Sen- I ntor Wilson, in hia public addresses, and who propose to build up a party in all the i States like that led by llunuicutt in Virginia?a party committed to ostracism, eon- i fiscatlon, and a general policy of malignant i revenge. Thus we have the first fruits of the new " Radical " crusade, which Thad, Stevens made haste to announce, in a letter dedicated from his sink bed. The negroes, who would else have been satisfied with the very liberal advantages guaranteed to them under the Reconstruction Ac', are taught to look for and expect mere sweeping measures in their behalf. They are given an Inflated and exaggerated Idea of their political consequence, and their ability to * punish'* the whites. They are made to believe that par tltion of property will oeenr. In which the estates of their former maateis may be divided among them. And they are told that it is right for them to aik the highest official positions?even before they have once exercised the suffrages of eitlsenship, or have learoe I the rudimentary les?ona con ceruing Its responsibilities and dntiea. The time Is coming when the Republican ?a?*u (mill ka anmivglUil ?a I*Va A Haflnt Ia I w ** ? ? - ? ? position in refsrene* lo the Imom thus presented. And we her# no question whet its attitude will be. N-ither in the platform of its eonrantions, nor In the Acta of Congress, e Urge majority of which was ehoeen by it, nor throogli any other authorised exponent of its principles, does itttan-l committed lo the doctrine of confiscation, or of negro superiorIty at the South. It is a cruel deception, end una which will react with fearful effect, to induoe on the part of the poor blacka a bcli.-f that these ultra dog mas will ba carried into effect by the Government. The Republican party was committed to the abolition of slavery?and abolition has been consummated. The Republican party waa pledged lo secure the clril equality of the blacks, and their rights be fore the law?and those ends were ettained by the organisation of tho Kroedinen'e Bu rean ana the passage and enforcement of the Civil Rights BUI. The Republican party has taken ground for impartial manhood auffraga?ana under the processes of the Military Reconstruction Act, this grand advance ft. tke direction of liberal democracy will likewise be made. But I he Republioan party has never declared for confiscation, nor annonneed itself in favor of a eonfllot of raaaa, such aa would inevitably follow upon that mcasura and tke building up of a negro faction at tha South. When Thad. Stevens and Judge K*lly and othersoT that ilk proclaim these doctrines, they do not EVENTS peak the sentimenlEa of the Republican or [anisation, nor have they. any right to be cgardori^ representative*. In the name >f the party, in the name of humanity, we >rot?st agnlnst the promulgation of theories o Mlterilte of all sound idoie of Governnent, so incendiary in their effects, and so nncli calculated to embatrars and delay the >roccM*s of reconstruction, that had been o auspiciously entered upon. Let us keep plstnly before na the duty re one to the freedmen, of scenrlng them n the emjoymrnt of all the rights that na orally appertain to their new condition.? Jut let na not forget that we are equally vcpvumvic wu iiiv vuuiurj inu mj me wonu, of a careful avoidance of every extreme seneure the! mny Involve anarchy end eonitsion, or may revive at the Bontb thoee onfliota wliioh should be forever terminated >y ite acceptance of the Reconstruction Act Commendable.?The freed people of hie town have, for several months past, een devising means to raise necessary unds for the establishment of a school or colored chilldren. Last week, a ommitee of throe from this claM canassed the town, asking subscriptions rom their white fiietids in sufficient 1 mount to buy a lot for the erection of ho proposed building. In a short time, he amount required was subscribed.? t is understock that the Bureau will ppropriate funds sufficient to erect the uildiiig, when the site is furnished. [ Yorkville Enquirer. Napoleon.?" Burleigh, M the Paris j orrespondent of the Boston Journal, rho Is anti-French to an amusing decree, contradicts the stories of Napole> 1 n's declining health. He says those rbo expect to find the Einperor a feeble nd waning man will he disappointed, le seems to he in the prime of life and nil vigor of health. He has none of hat sleepy, drowsy look represented in ticture*. lli* air is not heavy and sol d. 11 is face is full of thought, and his ire. when he chooses to lift Ids head is rrilliant. When Mary the wife of William 'rince of Orange was asked what she ntemled her husband should he if she tecame Queen, she answered. "All i.le and authority shall t>e vested in lim." There is hut one command rhicli I wi?h him to abey ; and that is rIutbands, love your wives. For myelf, I shall follow the injunction, Wives, te obedient to your husbands in all hings. The Orange (Va.) Expositor publish> a cen?ns cf 180C for Virginia. From t we find the aggregate number of Mters in llio whole State a* follows: While, 124,702 ; black, 78,004. '"These dntistics," cava the Hiohmotul Dispatch, ' ought to satisfy the negroes that there s no-more prospect of their carrying Virginia in the next election than there a of the while men carrying Massachusetts." ?? ** Fux tx a LtXATfo Asylum.? The editor of die Newark Advertiser relates the following r?ractic?l joke, which was played off by a jolly patient In Dr. Geo. Cook's Lunatic Asylum, nn'the shoresof Canandaigua Lake: " Dr. Cook receives many inebriates and is very successful With them. Sometimes [>dd incidents occur. One morning, three years since. Cook entered the breakfast room where some eonvslescenta from insanity, and a number of reforming inebriates, were chatting cosily over their eggs and coffee, and told them to he m readiness for visitors,ns a " Teachers' Institute" would be up from the town during the morning, to study the treatment of the insane. As the Doctor left, the room, an inebriate, whom we will call Smith, said, Now, Cook will come in here with a long string of peda goguea and school inarms behind him, and tell them that wo are perfectly harmless, and that they will not see any dangerous Salients. I'll show him to the contrary.'? mith has been in the service of the North, west Fur Company, and when the Doctor came in with his teachers and made the ex neetpd aa?tiranee of snfetv. Smith, who was watching from a crevico of hi* door, dashed out of hi* room clad in complete Indian eostume, face painted, hair flying, and tomahawk in hand, giving a tremendous warwhoop o* he plunged at the head (nan of the ' Institute.' The soene was indescribable. Ttie teacheis went flying ont of doora and window*, Smith chasing them around the grounds, and the poor Doctor, half mad witii annoyance and half killed with laughter, and the break tost table party, who were in the aecret, all in convulsions of delight Explanation was impossible. The Doctor bore hi* sorrows like a man, the ' Institute' passed resolutions of censure, snd the jolly Smith rejoiced in the success of his practical joke, calling it the b>st spree of his life. But we hope nobody will go to an inebriate Asylum for the fun of It Oo or No Go t?We had n hearty laugh over the following little " squib," the other day : " Iu the days of the Patriarchs, a woman's condnet was the Index of her heart When, for example, the lather of Rebeekah asked her if she would go with the servant of Isaac, she replied at ones, ' I will got'? Had she been a daughter of the nineteenth century. she wonld have answered, Oh. pshaw 1?go with him ? Mr. Isaae mnst be ft a /v ?1st LI? Aff I MA.ls ! 8ICR I l#Q wnn inui I wi w?ir?c i wuii v i And then?aha would hare gone with him I* ? ??? tf " What news to day I" said New Orleans merchant to hit friend lately. " What news!" responded the other?" nothing( only thing* grow belter?our people ara getting oq their lega again." ' On tbair leg* !" aaid the first, " I don't *ee how you ean make that out." " Why, yea," replied tha other, " folks that naed to ride ara obliged to walk now ; is not that getting on ^thsir legs again I" cis%a NO. 2. |f||g ^Tkate Very Odd." * A gentleman was recounting bit trarel* one evening after dinner to a friend, ncd commenced in tbia war : * When I ?? travelling in Russia, I wa* attack ed, in crossing a forest, by a pack of twelve wolves, and from my post-chaise window, 1 fired mv revolver and killed the first wolf; and, strange to say, his companions stopped and devoured him, and then oame on agaia in the fight. I shot another, and my postillion killed a third, both of wbieh were devoured, and so we went on until oaly one wolf remained, and 1 killed him as we were entering the town, and I observed that be was immensely fat. He of cow tee, bad devoured all his companions/* " Dear me," said the friend, u that's veiy odd." 44 Very odd." said the traveler," bat not near so odd as that which happened on the following day. I waa oat shooting antelopes, and fired at one aa he stood on top of a crag, and, odd to say, the ball passed through his neck, and killed another wjiich was standing on a crag a quarter of a mile further off." 44 That's very odd," said the friend. 44 Yes ; but the odd part of the story is to come. The report of my rifle so alarmed an old be bear which happened to be up in a tree, that be fell to the ground, broke bis neck, and died on the spot." 44 Well," eaid the friend, M upon my ?oul, that's very odd./ "Yes, odd, said the traveler, "but not so odd as the sequel to my etory. A thunderstorm came on and 1 sought refuge in a hollow tree, and, to my horror, I descended into a neat of young bears, where I had not been very long when I heard a strange tapping, tbnoninistakeable signs of the return of the she Gear. She ascended the tree and waa deecendtng the hollow. With the rapidity of lightning I seised by ber tail and plunged my hunting knife into her haunches, upon which she started upward, dragging me with her, and as she went down one side of the tree, 1 escaped by the other." 4' Now, really, that's very odd," said the friend,44 for it's the first time in my lite I ever hea'd of n bear with a tail. 44 Yes," replied th% traveler,44 and it was the only time I ever met with one, and that's very odd." * - m i? TTatr ta T? s?r TKn mnsnlifw a/ tlui lehta is fractured sometimes; a writer lays down the ennon of eatibg as follows: When you are about to begin eating do not turn your sleeves up aa though you were going to Wash your hands. Do not tread on any one'a feet under the table. If you wnut. to give an order to a servant, do not call hiui "waiter;" reaaember you are not at a hotel. Do not hold your plate out, or adopt any other manoeuvre with the view of being help* ed first. Only men who are decidedly ill-bred tako salt with their ti?gers. If you want to be In the lateat fashion, hold your fork in your left hand. Do not throw your bonea under the table, or anvwhere else in the room. Plaee them on the edge of your plate. If you have a bone In your fingerr, do not gnaw it too eloeely, aa if you wera a jackal. Never eritielae what i? given von, or compare it to a diah which you have found much better at some other houae. Do not wipe your fingers on the table cloth. The English wipe their fingers and their knives also on a piece of bread, but this is not the custom in France. Finally, the gneel ia enjoined not to sing at dessert, unless he asked; not to pelt other guests with pieees of bread ; and if any one dare to drink ont of a lady's glass, under nretenee of guessing their thonghta, to htT* him thrown oat of th* window, m n impertinent and bad man. A IVabniso to Yocao Mr*?We noliea that bj the laet report* of the Scottish Register Office the death rate among bachelors is double what it is among married between the nges of 86 and 80; between 80 and 86 it remains at the same proportion ; while, on the whole, taking married and singia in lump, hnsbands live twenty years longer than unmated gentlemen. Here is soasething which we trust onr young men wilt seriously take to heart, In addition to all the other areoeietions, romantic and otherwise, that have clustered about wodloek, this is the consideration,based on statistics, Scotch at that, tliat to marry la to live, to remain single Is to dia before your time.? Hymen has become Hygiene. What is it lhatro sweep* off the bachelor*?whether it is grief, loneliness, want of ears, or that destructive officer, general decline, we are not informed. N-r le it materiel, for to live aa a husband is better than to expire any way as a beche'or. We trust therefore that our ingenious young men who am having regard to good habits, to gymnastics and to other m>-t' <"a of prolonging their days, will now turn their attention (they probably never thought of it before!) to matrimony, the best of all lifo-preesrver*.* Thb New Orleans Picayune saye: We learn that the party of Kantuckians and Misaouriana, who Mi tbi* city about the middle of February, on the bark Elisabeth, for Vcnesuela, arrivid out safely, and were well received.? They had an interview with the Governor, and found their grant of land confirmed* Letters from members of the party speak in gloning terms oj climate and produclioo\ they found the eenoritas particularly charming.