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MAURI AUKMhii Ami wifo nr* equally concerned to avoid nil oflfcrtfroa of cnoh other in tho beginning of tboir. conversation ; every little thing can bloat an infant blossom, and tlio breath of tho south wind can shake tho littlo rings of tho vine, when first they begin 16 curl like the locks of anew weaned boy ; but when, by age and consolidation, they stiffen into tho hardness of a stow, and have, by tho Warm embraces of the sun nnd the kisses of heaven, brought forth their clusters, they can endtiro . the storms of tho north, and tho loud noises of a tempest, and yofc&never bo broken; so nro tho early unions of an unfixed marj'iago; watchful and obsorvant, jealous and busy, inquisitive nnd careful, and apt to fake alarm to every unkind word. No man c:m tell, but lie that loves his children, how many delicious aCccnts tnako a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of thoso dear pledges; their childishness, their liitlo angels, their innocenco, their imperfections, their necessities,are so many littlo emanations of joy and comfort to him that delights in their persons and society ; but be that loves not. his wife and children feeds a lionets at home, and broods a nest of sorrows, and blesaing itself can> not make him happy ; so that all the commandments of God enjoining a man to 'iovo his wife/ are nothing but bo many necessities and capacities of joy. Sound Advice to Parents.?The Philadelphia Ledger, undor the head of "Early indulgence of Appetites," gives this sound .advice: Parent* should ponder well od the danger of an early and capricoua indulgence of the appetites and imaginary wants of tboir children. Repetition soon becomes n habit, and a habit once formed, even in childhood, will often remain during the whole of after lifo, acquiring strength every year, antil at last it sets all, human and divine, at defiance. Let parents who yield to the crie3 of their children for dainty and promiscuous food, or who allow them to torment domestic animals, or to strike their nurses, or to raise the band against any person, copsider well on tho consequences. The moral efforts of pampering the appeiites of children are moat melancholy. Is the mothor afraid of an explosiou of pasCtnn Krikfi la *a/v j I/IIW.13 KVW vtigu PUUJI9CU 111 ILltJ Bhape of a cake or (art, as a peace offering. Does it annoy a whole company by its h: boiatering or ill timed pranks, it is persuaded to be quiet by the promise of some sweetmeats. If it has been good, as the pliraso io, and loaraad I to loUoro, lLa r?irmj is still _ too frequently something for the stomach. Eating is regarded as] the chief end and object of life by a child, who sees in it the chief-incentive to good behavior. *# A premium would truly seem to be given for gluttony, TI19 use of the nobler senses, and of the faculties of the mind, the easy cultivation of the kindlier and better feellingof our nature?generosity, ./disinterested nieks, pity, filial love?all are overcome or postponed in favor of the one sensual, selfish and absorbing act of gormandising. ?g ? ? ? Mutual Affection.?If there is a sin gla blissful moment, like a star Bparkjing 1 in tho shadowy firmament of life, it is that which discovered a-long-nourished aflec? tion to he mutual.>&The moon as she rides ( on in the infinity of "space, has not a greats ^ er influence upon the ocean-tide, than tho passion of love ypon tho tido of human thought'?now permitting it to settle doVn in a stato of tempprary tranquility?and I now bidding it heave and swell by the 1 magic of its viewless power. Without it what would bo the world ? Asa creation , without light. Yet possessing it as wo do, j bow does it discompose Ihe soberest plans ] of reason?-how tho loftiest bulwarks <Jf stem philosophy bow down and disappear before the fragrance of his breath 1 It is ' poeiry ot thought whon reason^ slumbers ' on bor stately throne, or wanders away in - fcappy dteama.; It ia scarcely to bo feigned, for it nppeare in a halo of soft witching 1 v light, which dazzles while it fascinates the jniod'a eye. It is to the spirit what sunshine i?.to flowers, luring the /fragrance from its young nature, or as the hand of- I . beauty1 to the slumbering lute, passing over i ^ the silent chords till it doth "discourse most cloquentmmic.". . , ^ . A man who advertised to give Mtha best ' of sound, practical advice for fifty cents, would be applicable at any timft mil io &U pahoos- and conditions of life,' on f p- ' plication-^v a victim, upar mail,' sent tbo 1 folloytDg^;'^?tftif givo a boy a dime to ft tre? .V ^W^^twedc* ;*k ' . floirt vy:.' - ? -':-?>* *:- 7?mz&. .-1 --..i; .1 >: *>,,. . ' . ,|\l vv Cooj^:J?aqj<-"K?' ^ ^ viy book-setter, "No>^Ml?4 noW **? Clean-1 ttjfo. "Why V e*cViwj*3r :tfca >iUy Md . r i^ntifd u&y, ?rt*:*** }? 2.gd64fli^ v apl v y^y -v . ^A5r-r:^ " ' ' v +hdp v>-.' r A BbH*pr for Levi:.?A Gorman gentleman felt an amorous flame for a German princess. Sho was not insensible to a reciprocal passion ; and to have him about her person without giving scandal, sho c^oated him her general. Tliey lived some time much pleased with- each other ; but the princess boenmo fickle and the general jealous. He made very sharp remonstrances; the princcss, who wished to bo free, gave hira his congc, and he was constrained to quit hor. But his passion al every hour increased; ho felt that ho could not live out of her prosouco, and lie vi'iilnred to enter privately into her closet. Tho princess looked daggers, her eyes Hashed lightning, and Bhe condescended to givo no other answer to his tender appeals, than a command to withdraw instantly from her royal presence. The despairing lover declared he was ready to obey her in everything hnt that; that, ralhct' quit hor beloved presence, he preferred Lo dio by her hand. Presenting hie naked sword to tho disdainful princess, he bade her, rather thnn drive him from her presenco lo piurco I113 heart, that heart which beat alono for hor ; and the princess, being instigated by tho devil or lovo for another?pretty much the same thing in a furious women?took liirn ai ma wora, nna run mm mrougu tuc DotI\\ Fortunately, Lis wound did not provo mortal; he got well at the end of three months, and likewise was curcd of his passion,-which had flowed away with the c flu sion of iiis blood. A Pungent Sermon.?St.jJerome, in. one of his sermons, gave a rebuke to tho women of his day, which has seemed to to so apropos to our own, that it is circulated jupt now in Parris quite universal"Ah 11 shall tell yon who are the women that scandalize Christians. They are those who daub their choecks with red and fllfiip avaq nrlfli Klnnl* tUnoA w..va. v>u viuv? vnvoo nuu |Hnavut faces too white to be human, reminding us of idols?those who cannot shed a tear without its tracing a furrow on tbo painted surface of their laces?whosor ripe years fail to teach thorn that they are growing old?those whoso headdresses are made up of other people's hair?those who Chalk wrinkles into the counterfeit presentment of youth, and those who afFcct the demeanor of bashful maidens in tho presence of troops of grand-children. Eaiilv Impressions of Piety.?Knowl edge, planted by the hand of affection in tho hallowed sanctuary of home, is wont to. take deeper root tban "seed sown by the way side." Parents who write, with their own pencils, lines of heaven upon the fresh tables of tho children's hearts?who trust not to the hands of hirelings their first, holiest, most indelabla impressions?will usually find less thau others to blot out when the scroll is finished, and to mourn for when they read it in eternity. A man in Cincinnatt i recently cut his thrOat, because he lived next door to an amateur trombone player. Tho coroner held an inquest and returned a verdict of 1 'justifiable homicide.' ] 'This way, captain !' shouted an English : ?nlilier nfc Trilrprmnn *T Iiown ? ** Serine ' Well bring him hero.' 4I should like to, i jut the scoundrel won't let me go !' ( The old gentleman who undertook to -ako the twist out of the.maelstrom, hoe < yono out West to whitewash the Rocky : Mountains,. Ho goes for largo jobs. The advantage or ciianqe.?A porson asked an Irishman why ho wore Ihb stockings wrongaide outward. 'Because,' said he, "there's a hole on the other side. To enjoy life you should be a little misarable occasionally. Trouble, like cayenne, is not very agreeable in itself, but gives jreat zest to other things. < fj . . *. 1 An editor in Iowa Bays ho has become ( so hollow from depending on the printing , business for bread that he proposes to sell < himself for a stove-pipe. * The name of a man in -Vermont who , feeds his geese on iron filings, and gathers t steel pew from their wiogB, is Sharp. < Itita proverb at our colleges, that the J student* wjio graduate with the highest honor* are seldomever heard or after* \ wards, ' "Wby is the Delaware River like a hot- 1 tie .of ink1? Beoause Penn (pen) was the lint wbo pat i?in use. ; ' bld j^ hit you on purpose?' asked the 1 raagfetnX**f*0$b, xio, yer honor,' eaid^at. -j 'be jabbiraIjebitme on the head, atrce.' j SSK|' ' ; ? : #v'/?>^'rj. ?. * r. ^tSfi'.^i. ,' i* >* ;.' - - - '?*-. v^._ *frA** ~f* ar-i i 3ifcsaLi&,SS : . ? ? "*J THE LATE KEBET.LION IN JAMAICA. Tlio following letter, says' the New York News, is handed uq for publication l>y ft gcnllcmntr who has roqeiveil it from ft relnlivo in Jamaica, who has ft largo negro population under his spiritual care. It was wrilletf^ilhout ft view to publication: Oxfoiid, April 2.?Yon ask me for n sensible account of the rebellion nnd its' -^putting down. To understand tlio mailer properly it requires somo experience of ihe negro charactcr rfnd habits; rules that would apply to nn "instructed and indnstrious while population living where there was n considerable incitement to labor would bo inRpplieal^e to onr population. The people are an a rulo very barbarous in their notions. They have none of l!io self reppect or liner feelings, either of affection or taste, necessary to self-control or government, and are exceedingly cunning and uiitruthfnl to a degree as well suspicious in the extreme. They were, however, at the same time, considered by' all as utterly wanting in the power of organization, and trusted and looked upon as tioublesomo but harmless people, at the time the rebellion | broke out. Iq the midst, then, of such a'j population, living in perfect security, at lh? I tail end of the island, a rebellion utterlj* unprovoked, but those who had rendered themselves amenable to the law for some petty offences were sentenced by a bench of magistrates, broke out with the most crucl atrocities, nil the white families being obliged to fly for their lives at night, without even clotliing, whilst, some, not fortunate enough to escape thus, were barbarously murdered. At this time there' wero but a few hundred soldiers in the whole island, and symptoms of dissatisfaction and rebellion before ttnheeded in the rest of the parishes, now understood in their full significance when looked nt in the light of the events of the day, ripened into action. From the nature of the people they wero incapable of understanding clemency, and the only hope of stopping what seemed to bo a dangerous rebellion was to make a stern exampli of those who lind risen in i?< iu3 against, me reprcsemauves 01 government. This Gov. Eyre did, and for it lias received, by innumerable addresses from all quarters and every das?, the highest approbation. The stories circulated of eight wells of dead, of women flogged, and people wantonly murdered, have been proved to be absolute falsehoods, intended to calumniato Governor Eyre and the officials. That the people are disaffected, have a notion that the Queen means to give them all the land for themselves, and has sent them presents which we are keeping from them, and consider themselves oppressed hccauso' they find they still have to worlc and can't eat bread in absolute idleness, I havu had abundant evidenco to prove; and when . people with such feelings aro worked upon by such men as George W. Gordon, n thorough paced demagogue, with nothing to lose, being over head and ears in debt and disgrace; who shut his own father in prison and nearly beat him to death; who mooJlngo c\l 1 ovor 1 i?o iclon/1 nncl harangued the people on their grievances, which existed only in his own brain, and bid lliem follow the example of Hayti; when he spoko lo thorn of the Governor as ajjad man, who was helping Iho white people lo enslave tliein?was it wonderful that their ignorant minds, worked up thus to a pitch of excitement, should burst out into ""rebellion, and require a strong haucLto put it down ? The Silk Spider ok South Carolina.?Dr. 13. G. Wilder, late 6urgeon of the 55th regiment, Massachusetts volunteers, gave the first of four lectures upon tho above subject in Boston, Tuesday evening. The Journal gives the following brief but interesting synopsis: The first of this species of spider was Jiscovercd by the lccturer on the north end of Folly Island, in Charleston harbor, while in camp there in August, 18C3. lie wound from its body, in one hour and a quarter, 150 yards of yellow silk. The next year anotnor otticcr wonnd from 30 spiders 3,484 yards, or nearly two mile3 of the silk. A Single thread of tl>is was strong enough lo sustain a weight of from 44 to 107 grains^, In 1805 Dr. "Wilder showed his specimen to Prof. Aggasiz nnd others, to whom the species was new. Returning to Charleston, he resumed his researches, and after a variety of adventures and disappointments, 6uccecded in getting a number of the spiders. In the course of tlio season these all iied, from luck of knowledge as lo their habits, mode of living, &c. From the eggs deposited, howaver, many others were produced. It is the habit of the stronger to devour the weaket, so that out of several thousand only a few hundred were raised. The fact, however, was clearly demonstrated. that they could be raised and live through a Northern winter. In the cue i:? i?? ... ;ccuiug Atjuiurcs me meinod. of securing '.be silk, and other facta in regard to this interesting discover/ will bp given. ? Specimens of the silk were exhibited, which were of a golden yellow and a silver white, and aa brilliant aa the metals in ^bp>. aearance.?JR. I. Press. A. Proposed Rail Road Convention. ?A call ha? been issued for the PresiJents, Chief Engineers and' General Superintendents of all tfie railroads of the; United States io. meet in Convention, at t^bifadelpbia. on the 4th of July ^lext, the object being to. consult, tela'the conalruo-' YaT10u8 8' ' " NE^;EaitlON.'jUSiPDBL(8Hld.' g l-<L- - wbh>n11bhi mil l CHUGS, MEDICINES, AMD AYS n gn<i<l ami sfb'cl stock of Good* on li.iml, citusitstiiig of ' R3&U&S, 39TTB 5? T U F F S , iSi)icos of.nil Kinds, PATENT MEDICINES, flI$T (KVOM, BRUSHES, BOOKS AND STATIONERY, 90MG66,'' PAINTS, O I XjS, George Heinmcl's Improved^remimn ESSENCE GOFFEE, GLASS AND PUTTY. BRAN39Y AND WINE ?ci* :j)TcCiei'il Vise, PIIII.OTOKEN^ or Female l'rieiitl. KEROSENE OIL, Chimneys and Lamps, WITH MANY ARTICLES NOT MENTIONED. 2Orders prompt!;/ attended to. Money required to attend all Order*, as the CASH SY"STh'M is entirely in .practicc. EDWIN PARKER. Abbeville. S. C., TVl.'y 1, 1800, 42, If. ELEGANT ROUBLE Harness, rnn run rur run drl.il tJl WIEE & CUNNINGHAM. Dec. 15, 1865, 0.">, If NEW STORE OPEM ! Gl? lURMt V xvjiJii 1 A/iiJlliUilSXIU . 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