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' " ~ " : ^ ^ Br==*== =aE=H^= -s?== --- " - BY W. A. LEE AND HUGH WILSON ABBEVILLE, S. C., FRIDAY. JUNE 12, 1SGS. VOLUME XVI?N0^8."" UANUIUA'L'I'JS. The friends of ROBERT JONES. respectfully announce him as a candidate for the office of Tax Collector at tho ensuing election. He is the only candidate who haa come out squnrely;oa the ;J >einocratic platform and lieuce lias entitled Himself to the uuanimous support of .the party. ?.; J\ I. . / . ' MANY VOTERS. fSy" The fy^en'lji of Mr. Jkl. S. INQRAUAM T?i>psetCully knajuuQce him as' a-, cuudidate for Tax CoWc&tar 4&|B*i)?xt election. ' 1ST The frieudd o( W.D. GALLAHER r?sp?j;tfiH)v enoouace him a candidate for the oriice of "Tax Collector for Abbeville District, . at the enHUin'g election* ... * The friends of C?pt. W. S. HARRIS respectfully annonnce hitn a candidate for Tax (Collector at the n?xt election. The friends of WM. H. TAGOART recpect .fully auuouuce Uiid a candidate for Ibe office of Tax Collector at tho next election. * The raany friends of E. M. SHARP re#i?ectfully nominate him for the oflice of Tax Colloctor for Abbeville District, at tho eusa> i?g election. S3$~ The fiiends of J. W. JENNINGS re, pectfully nominate him a candidate for Tax , Collector at the next eleotion. * The many friends of L. IT. RUSSELL respectfully unnnunca him a candidate for Tax Collector at the next election. * W? arfe uthorized to announce DAVID CRAWFORD, a candidate for Tax Col Iccter nt the ensuing election. * The frieuds of Cnpt. W. R. WHITE I respectfully announce hirn as a candidate for -Tax Coliuclor, at the next elecliou. " _ ~~ ' I MlLLUmtY! LAP^KS ar^.ijespeo.tfully informed that \J'liiiVc opeo?!cl litis day a fresh supply 01 the L:ttot>t Style of v- ' I JIATS, BONNETS, ^LOWERS, ^FBOSTED NETTING, jjIBtfOXS, LACKS, XVJiicli I am olferinp: at VERY" LOW rates. Cull early auU procure bargains. Jeasette Schvarz. Received tins day, a fresh lot of Confuctionery and Fruits, at ^ ,. MRS. SCIIWAR7/S k - ' : Fruit Store. ^ V May.29, 18G9, 6 tf * FRESH I ARRIVALS! \ v BUD. C. It. SIDES, r v T * ' /.;** -a. 1 - - ? * v r J SHOULDERS, V *J Tierce Fine HAMS, , * - 3 o, V L??f LARD, ^ a 2 Sack* Best Rio COFFEE. 1 2 Bbl. C CulTec SUGAH, ' 2 Btu. Extra SYRUP, Titrjt Ctnlina R[ C2, , 250 Butlitli Prime White CORN, | 2Q I " " " MEAL, | Q Hackt D?st Country FLOUR, for Sale Low for Casli, by THOS. EAKIN. M?y IS, 1868, 4, tf 300 BUSHELS OF CORN AND sum FOR SALE AT WILSON & HUTCHISON'S MILLS, piaicE, $1.25 PER BUSHEL. J one 5, 7?tf PHENEmON WORKS, Columbia, S. C., GOLDSMITH & KIND, Proprietors, ALL kind* of.Mill Castings, (Saw'and Grist,, , Railings for HoutM,Gardent,Grave Yard*, BapafMiU*, Boilers. MaoKiae works and Agri cuiium impisinenia msDufaoiured. Orders afe aojiaitod ?ai/?feout?d ?b cheap term*. r^TOor rates are from FIVE lb TEN PER ? CENT, JLOWliR than formerly. .Attention is spewtH* mIM to our 8ufr?r Can* Mill*. f ' ? :< M. GOLDSMITH, June 5, 186fc,p; ^tp. M. Kllfo. ' WOOL!.W0QLJI pOLill The Highest Market Prions PAID FOB t#dSx/>' IN EXC^NGE POJa .GOODS/ riMJ# *o?f?o0t b*-free from tnirc and foreign JL matter., Will be taken either washed at unwashed* . ' ' " i MILLER & ROBERTSON. Jom % ji ?r 2 " * Z A >; ; "COSTAR'S" Preparations EVERYBODY?Tries Them! EVERYBODY?Uses Tlieni! - EVERYBODY?Believes in Them! EVERYBODY?Recommends Them! "Costar's" Exterminators. For Hals, Horn-lien, Ants, ?Lc "Co star's" Bed-Bug Exter. A Liquid?Killa?"Sure thing' ''CostarV' Insect Powder. For Plena, Motlmf Insects, ?tc. < "uostars" uorn Solvent. t For Corns, Bunion*, <?e. "Costar's" Buckthorn Salve. For Cuts. Horn*, Bruue?, tfcc. J "Costar's" Bishop Pills. t (isugar Coated) Dinner Pil1. Costar's Cough Remedy. For Coughs, Colds. A'C.? Costar's Bitter-Sweet and i Orange Blossoms. t Beautifies tliK Complexion. . Wakes I lie rfkiu fresh aud fuir. I!! Beware ! !! of all worthless Imitations 4 Lsr Kotic Geuuine without "CosiarV Signa- I ture. d 2du. ard 50c. sizes kept by nil Prnggista. , tSf" $' sizes s#ut l>y muil on receipt of price. ESS?" ?2 pays,tor any three ?1 sizes by Express, t 1%S~ $o pays for eight f 1 sizes by Express i, AddrfPS HENRY R. COSTAR, v 012 Broadway, W. Y. t ^ fy i*?ir ouit; i?y f, DR. E. PARKER, Abbeville, S. C. v And at Wholesale 111 all the (jilien and urge towns in the U. S. May 2'J, 18l'?$, 6, fcui hi WOOL CARDS!! a fflcBee Mills, j U f~KUR Carding Machines are in first rate n K-P order, slid under the control of that well- b mown and competent manager, Mr- T. Y. g] BRIDGES, who will uHe every care to pre ent umifctseai y wubtc aud to ioaufc Complete attraction. r( Our facilHirs ore eucli that we caa afford to o tlie work on the Ci HOST LIBERAL TERMS, Did wo can safely promise to tura out prompty Excellent Rolls, i V If th? Gr?a?e is furnished to ub, (say one miuiiH of <?rea?e to eight pounda of Wool,) va will Card I'lain Wool at ^ HEN CENTS A POUND, c A ?m?ll advance on this rate will he charged C Jixed W?ol or for Cotton and Wool together. C3T Wool will ho ukeu from and delivered it CJ rcenv ille C. II. free of charge for trauapor n alion. t\ l?f~ The following namcl g^nllenen will c let aa AgerilH f<T lis in forwarding Wool, to *h?tn payment may he made: ^ I?. li. SONDUiY, Abbeville, tl li. M. CI'Alilv, C<ik?-ob?ry, \V. 1'. ANDEllSON, Greenwood, COI?. S. DON A I#f), L>??naM*,- t! J. J. SHIRLEY, lione* Path. T. 0. LlPSCf?MB. New Market, a F. CASON, Ninoty Six. W BRADY & HAWTHORN.: McBee Milln, Greenville District, June, 180*8. 0 May 29, 18G8, 6. tf ! RECEIVED: AT >' 'MARSHALL HOUSE CORNER," ' Hemlock and white oak sole lea z TIIEK, l J^IlENCll CALF SKINS, * T ININGS tad FINDINGS generally. U P THOWBRIBGE & CO. I may .??, isos, G, tt ] wheless&co., : Cotton factors, r AND t COMMISSION MERCHANTS, I (Corner Jackson and Reynolds Streets,) 2 AUGUSTA, GEORGIA., ? STORE and Bell COTTON and other JProduce. BAGGING and HOPE furnished ( at market price*. gy Wu. Wm. A. Latimer, of Abbeville Din- 1 triut, South Carolina, has become interested | with us, and will devote liia personal attention to tlie interest of hia friends aud acquaintances. ' W. ?fc CO. i May 22, 18G8, 5. lm j BACON I BACON ! I ; 4 A Clioice lot of this articlc ; .FOR SALE BY 1 WHITE, SMITH & CO. ; . i < <jneap tor uasn I May 15, 1868, 4, tf w laiffi AT : J, J. CONNMHABTS, A. NEW SUPPLY U -!n:s; ' P? MILES' SHOES, > 1 At RfMtlv TP.i1nr.Ri1 nrta f*l> * VWHWUU UIAVUUI fa rj -p *. "< May i5/lSC8,4, tf ? >- <. GOOD im&L and GRITS, FBOM Wilson A Hutchison's Mills, just received, pud for Mia by , * TROWBRIpGj: CO. - ?y 15,1868, 4, tf i AN ENGLISH SEOW. To plain Americans, -who valuo borne comports more than public confusion, and who lovo liberty moro than they lovo monarchy, the following, from Ifarper's Bazaar, giving an account of tho ceremony of presentation to tho Queen, will bo amusing: To bo presented to tho Qucon is tho )oast of Jthigiidh women anil men. l'ho presentation rooms aro on tbc t ? ~.l .l.? ~..i:?! utuuu awiyy ui'u vtuuj/j' iiiu uiibiiuj quadrangle of St. James' Palace,) >peuing ouo into the other through .he wholo suito. About six levees are held a year, [t takes a hundred men threo weeks .o proparo tho rooms. Everything is noasured by tho inexorable law of stiquctte. Tho dress is prescribed : 1 ho material, tho length of trains, 1 he modo of drossing tho hair, and ho stylo of tho garments. The loors would bo shut in tho faco ol ho highost lady in tho-land if sho leparted in tho slightost dogroc from ho well known law. The dress of ho ladies must bo velvet, satin, silk, < aco or tullo. Brides aro allowed to ] year whito tullo, and widows black j J ullc; butoach muet bo trimmed with ! i oses or variegatod ribbons. Peers,! < mbassadors, and military officers j i rear their full uniform. Judges wear ! 6 rigs, and lawyers appear in gowns of ' c harlot and blaek, according to their j ink. Bishops and clergy who have ! c iio run of the {Court come out in full s lericul costume. Tho Court dress 0/ lie "gentlemen," ia a black dress coat a nd pants, and whito vest, which J just be open, and whito cravat. The t taster of Ceremonies proscribes tho rder for dressing tho hair. Court 1 air dressers are low. They aro en- t aged not only hours, but days before <j etoro tho Presentation, and do thoir l loepirg in a sitting po?turo. L Tho Tbrono lloom ia a right royal t Dom. Tbero is not a seat in it ex- t Dpi the tbrono and tho glided chair i L the foot. On a platform reached { y three stops, and on a crimson carot spattered with gold, stauds a gilt c fothic chair surmounted by a cross, t 'his is tho Throne;' It is covered v rith a canopy of crimson velvet, t rimmed with heavy golden laco. On ho top of tho canopy is a golden <j ushion, on which rests a Iargor gold L l'Own. Tho Throne lioom is very >ng, nearly two hundred feet. Jluuing tho whole length is a hoavy iron s ince, full live feet high, cappcd with rimson velvet, .Between it and the I rail is a narrow passage leading from t 'jo entrance to the Tbrono, through rhich but ono person can pass at'a line. Tho great throng below, at a iven signal, como np tbo stairway, i jhicb is covered with cocoa matting j nd worn crimson carpeting. They {. nter tlio great Audienco Itoom thut ? pons luto tbo llirone ICoora. * e Tho Audience Room is very gor- c ;cous With 'satin hangings, radiant J ?ith vorinillion and gold, bub ib is all < ut up into little catlle-pens, mado of < ron railings very high and strong, 1 ?hoy open one into another the whole f ength. of tho great chamber, making ' igzag passages from tho entranco to ' he Tbrono Boom. These pons arc 1 eharatep by heavy iron gates, guardd by officials, through which each 1 ierson has to pass. Prccedonco is 1 very thing. Whon the signal is giv- ' n belo.v, thon tho rush commences. Che fine ladies become a disorderly nob. They crowd on cach other, 1 end laces, trample velvets ^and salins inder foot j and with all theso guards o koep them orderly, tboy often ap >ear in the "Presence," as it is callcd, ill tattered and torn, and in a state of general dilapidation. ! Buck of tho Throno is the Queen's Closet. It is a dilapidated-looking oom, low studdod, scanty furnished, )ut old, which is tho groatest attracion. Hor Maj esty is painfully prompt. \t tho exact moment she comes out of nor lioyal Closot and takes her stand I 3n the lower siod of the Throne.! On the Bignal being given,"4ilor Majjsty's Ministers, with the Foreign Embassadors, enter from the private ioor file singly before the Queen, bow, and take their Beats in the centre.of the room, whore they remain. The crowd is admitted ono by one, passing through all the pens till they approach the Throne. To tnanago the train is no easy matter. Lessons are given in this art as on horseback riding, each lady has to take care of her train herself. She throws it over her arm, and in tbo carriage the huge pilo.towers over her head. She Carries it np the stairway the Audience BoomHere a ."Page, of the Prince,'\aa he is called, takes the train, holds it till she enters the Throno Room, when he drops it. mi - ? - xue pariy passes op the narrow pathway to the place ^ere the Queen statute, make* low bow, and then backs down the whole length of the toota. ' The lady cannot turn her baokon the Queen, nor take up her train. It is etiquette for the minis* istersfend Embassaeors, who occupy the centre- of the room to lift tho train ?nd pjtss it from one to another yrbil? tfco lady backs down to the H IK" I door. Tho moment sbo gets outnido of tlio Tlirono .Room ?ho mu(t tako caro of horsolf and r^ach hor carriago as best she can. Sho cannot rcmaiD. A strong iron bar proventn lior from rcpeatiug tho luxury of presentation. She draws her finery throungh tho crowd and disappears, and finds hor coach where she can, which may be half a mile off, for tho coaches of the nobility tako precedoneo. Tho presentation lasts about ono minato- It costs months of labor and anxiety, atid great expense. Tho finory will bo worn on no other occasion. But tlio party has been "presented at Court," and will toll it to her children's children. "When Mho Onnnn fc W holds Court il lasts just ono [hour exactly. During tho wholo timo sho Ht.inds lilcc a statute, as cold as insensible. She neither bows nor spoalca. l'lie mass filo beforo her as if sho were hown out of tho stono. "IN A MINUTE." "What do you think Johnnio's birthJay-present was 'I A wheolbarrow. lie was six j'ears old. And how rich 10 felt! '-Now I can wheel mother's >asket homo from market," said he; 'and 1 can help father, and do ever so nany things." That is right. It is 10 pleasant to do littlo services for >thor8, especially for our pareutsi" For two daj-s ho ofton askod, "Jilothsr, what can 1 wheel for you ?" 13ut ho had nothing to bo wheeled : "Thank you, Johnnio j by-and-by I hall have something lor you to do." ohnuic wished it was now, and not >y-and by. About four days after, Johnnio and lis barrow and somo boys wero down ?y tho frog-pond at play. And what lo you think they were wheeling? Tour iuud-turtlcfl, which one of the 103*8 found in tho swamp. I ^do not :now how much plcanure it gavo the urtles, for tboy could not laugh nor ulk about it, kut the boys had good un. In a littlo whilo Jonny's motlior ailed bim. He heard bcr call him bo first time and tho second, but he vaa too buBy to mind it. His ^biater hen camo to find him. "Johnnie, mother wants you to go lown stroct and bring homo [sonic ! ish." 'Don't want to," answered ho. ' Yen, but mother wants you to/ aid hid sister. "I'm taking my turtles to ride, and can't,'' cricd Johnny; "1 don't want o." "Come," cried his bister. ' In a mir.uto," acrcamed Johnny. Xlow long do you supposo that minito was T It was nearly half an hour, ind might have been a great deal longer had he not pitched into tho mud. 'O, dear, dear," he cried, picking himself up, and, and looking at his dirty :lothcfl. !Nnw lift thnmrVit. r?f mnfknp 1c could run to her fast enough, now .hat he had need of her help, but ho ;ould not gowhon she needed nis. O, .ho selfish littlo boy 1 Ilis conscience jmote him. lie was loth to show liimsclf; but go homo ho must for who would take caro of such a pitiful ooking child but his mother? "Oomo horo, my child," cried bis mother. Ah, that is mother; sho is llways ready to rcceivo her child, however sad his plight. The mothor took her boy wabhod him, undressod him, and dressed him again in clean clothes. Sho did not talk much but was very kind, and very sud too. Ah, sho did not serving him. Johnny felt her kindness, and inoro and more ho folt his disobedience. "Mother," at last he said, "I am going to kill my turtles." "Why?" asked she. "Becauso," cried Johnny, "bccauso tbey would rot let mo go down the street for you." "Did the poor turtles beg you not to mind mother?" she asked. . ".Not in so many words," answered Johnny, slowly ; "but they seemed Ln RflV. Rt.ftv. ntfiv ft minnfa " J I 4 ? J 1 " "And do you thibk it was the poor little turtles that Raid that?" flaked his mother, Beriously. Johnny hung down his headj as well ho might, trying to throw the blame of his disobedionoo on the turtles, and not where it properly bolongod, on hia own naughty will. Adam and Eve did Just so when thoy did b&t mind God in the garden of Eden. Evo said it was the serpent that made her do wrong. You see wrong doing is always cowardly, trying to make excuses, and throwing the blame upon somebody else, la it not mean ? "Do yoa really think," askefl Johnny's mother again, "that the poor little turtles are to blame for your not coming when* mother called you? Do you deserve to be punished V "No," cried Johnny, finding it hard to stand his mother's look; "do, it was only I. It was I that said, Stay, stay; and fcmothor, God punished me: he pitched me into -the mud; and yoa made me feel bad, you were so kind j" and the tears stroamod down JTohnny" cheek? "Do let mo go down street now for you, mother, do." And the mothor no longer need ? - ite yg(n(|j oil tho little tiorvicoa which he bad bogrudged hor. Tho Huh bad como up. "Sond mo on somo othoi errand," pleaded Johnny; but she bad nothing lor hini to do. And for all that day, aud for many days alter a sorrowful Rllfwlow nnnn lli/> child's heart, tor that lost opportunity of serving his dear, dear inothor. Don't you think ho minded her very quickly next time? ELECTRICITY ON MOUNTAINS. M. Ilenry do Saussiiro has published an interesting paper on a phenomena which lias but recently attracted attention. Having renchcd the summit of the l'iz Surley, a mountain composed of crystallino rocks, in the Grisons, and 8,200 metres in elevation, M. de Saussuro and his party laid their alpenstocks against a little cairn of dry btones which crowns tho Bummit, and prepared to take their repast. Almost at iho same instant tho narrator felt at his back, in the left shoulder, an acute pain like that produced by a pin slightly pressed into the flesh, and when he put his hand to tho spot without finding anything, a similar pain was felt iu the right shoulder. Supposing his overcoat to contain pins, betook it oft", but tho pains increased, extending from ono shoulder to the other across tho whoio back. Thoy wero accompanied by pricking sensations and sharp, shooting pains, such as a wasp crawling over the skin, and stiuging all tho time might produce. It next assumed tho charactcr of a burn, and M. de Saussure actually fancied that his waistcoat had caught fire and was about to tako oft" tho rest of. his clothes, when his attcntiou was arrested by a sound reminding him of tho reverberations of a tuning fork. These sounds came from the slicks which, resting against the cairn, sang loud'.y, emitting a sound hko that of a koltlo tho water of which is about to boil. All this lasted about four or five uiiouleB. M. de Saussure at odco guessed that bii sensations proceeded from a flow of electricity taking placo from tbc summit of tho mountain. No spark, however, was obtaiucd from the sticks; they vibrated strongly in the hand, and sounded very loud. Some minutes afterward ho felt bis hair and beard stand out, causing him to feel the sensation resulting from a razor passed dry over tho briatk-s. A young Frenchman, who was of the party, cried out that he felt the hair of Lis moustache growing, and that strong currents were flowing from tho tips of his cars', and they soon flowed from all parts of the bodies of those present. As tliey descended tho mountain tlic humming of the sticks and tho other phenomena (iiuiiuUhed and eventually cea&ed. The sky was cloudy, and the travellers had been overtaken by a shower of thin liail and sleet. Oc the same day a violent storm brolxo out in the Bernese Alps, where an English woman was killed.? Sleet, frost, and overcast tky appear to be the conditions necessary for the production of the phenomena sfbove described. Many of the guides have never observed them, and others recollect having remarked them odcc or twice in (heir lives. IJkcnkexncss.?The soi knows its bounds, but not the deluge of drunkenness. Its effects are many and hideous. 1. It makes room for the devil. All sins break in at the loss of tbe Capitol? reason. Thence the enemy commands the whole town ; the eyes are wanton, tbe tongue blaspheming, the hands stabbing ; all mischiefs, "invudunt urban somno viaoquc sepultamSo wero tbe Trojans conquered; and for this -cause, I think, ever since, drunkards are called true Trojans. It is a Dead Sea, no fish can live there, no virtue thrive there. It is a root of all ovil, the rot of all goodness, the devil could find no rest in "dry places." 2. It overturns tho estate. "The drunkard shall come to poverty." Prov. 23 : 21. He consumes more in a day than ha earns in a week. He is his own thief, devours hiuself. 8. It poisons the tongue. Swearing and lying are the ordinary effects. The drunkards made songs upon David. 4. It is an incendiary to quarrels and hotniuides, Drunben Alexander killed Clitus, for whom sober Alexander would bare killed himself. 0. It is a woe to itself. ""Who bath woe? who hath contentions? who hath wounds without causa V1 ' Toe Catacombs op Paris.?As grave yards around churches have been filled, and the ground sold for other purpose*, the bones of ilie dead have been romovad to the catacomb?, immense caverns, miles in lenertb. under the city." from which in past Ages rock has been taken for building. A vibiior^jHyB: "Down a winding atone stairway ol ninety 6tepB, and we reach the level of the first passage-way, and from thence commence a series of wanderings through vaults about eight feet wide and shout the same in height, for a distance of some twc or three miles, be fate we agair* ascend tc the open street. Untftber side of these vaults humtta bones are piled up from the floor to the ceiling, and so arranged that the faoes of the skulls are turned outward while between the alternate rows of these arm and thigh bones ard laid- aoroes eaol other, so as to present an even surface ir front, while behind tho piles thus careful ly arrayed the smaller bones of the bodiei are thrown pellmell. It ia said that the* caverns coptain the remains of over threi millions of human beings, brought hen from the various churchyards' of the city 'Death is indeed a leveller,' and ?trfno oni place of all the earth will this faot be mor< strongly impressed upon the raiud thai while viaiting the catacombs of Pari*." # ? - - ,1 THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. I Tho English languago is endowed wit 1 a higher vitality than any other now Fpo kon upon tho globe, and begs, borrow; steals, and assimilates words wherover i 1 oan find them, without any other rule c accretion than that the now word slml either express a new idea or render an olt one moro tersely and completely than be fore. Chaucer introduced many hundreds c words from tho Norman-French, which no ' even his great example was sullicient t< I nnt umlno nn#l o? ? l?i?" I , ... U mwi . \t.iy OJII.'IISC inaile a gallant btil unsuccessful attempt t< revive from the ancient Anglo-Saxon mail] excellent words which never should hav< been allowed to perish. Yet, notwithstanding these illustrious and many otlie failure!*, the languago has continued tc grow, expanding, like r. tree, by its owr inherent vigor, and only resisting addition: that aro chjarly unnecessary, or that, i necessary, are made too laviahly or suddenly by rash, unpopular, or incompolen! teachers. One great ndvantage which the English possesses over every European tongue i; that it is two fold. Like the star in the great constellation of Orion, which, seen by the naked eye, appears single, bul which, observud through the tc-lescopa, is found to consist of two equally bright orbs that revolve round each other, out specch may be described as binary. With in its broad and yearly expanding circum fereneo are coutaiued two separate forma o expression?the one simple, homely, strong solemn, poetical, passionate, and Saxon the other relincd, colloquial, argumentative, and Latin. lie who would without much trouble perceive the great dift'erence and yet the close relationship between the two, has but to read a chapter of the Old Testament in the recognize 1 English trans lalion of the reign of J:unes I., and compare it with the samo chapter in moderr French. The English version will be found full of dignity, solemnity, and gran deur; the French will be found easy, colloquial, familiar, almost flippant. Yet the story and the ideas are the same. The superiority of the English is wholly due to the Saxon element of the language The literature of England is, for this reason, under such heavy obligations to the Uible ^independently altogether of questions of morality and religion,) that it i* impossible to believe that our poutry coul<J be, as it is, the noblest body of poetry ir j the world, if the pious divines and rip< scholars of King James's era had taken i I upon themselves to translate the 15ible int< the polite languago of the Court, or in ani other than that employed by the plainminded common people. Next to the Bible, and influenced by iti literary example, the poets have been the great conservators of tho English language the business of poetry being, above al other things, to appeal, in the first instance to the heart, and rather to that than to .tin fancy or the imagination, the true poet: choose, of necessity, llio simplest and 1110s passionate words for their purpose. Tin great poel speaks to all his countrymei and country women, and not merely ti scholars. If he would be understood o all, he must use tho best and stronger words, and such as express most erophat ically the most precise shades of meaning It is the ponts who make one word do th ffliee of a whole sentence, who crystaliz ideas into tho most compact forms, am who give their countrymen, in one iinfnoi tal line, the quintessence of a though which ordinary prose writers might sprea ovor whole pnge3. In the present day, in the English portions of the world?European, Asiatic African, Australian, and American?a! educated people use three different kind of English; Bible, or old Saxon Englisli when '.bey go to church or read good po' etry; vernacular, or colloquial Englisl; not altogether free from slang and vulgar ity, when they talk to one another in th ordinary intercourse of life; and literar English, when they make speeches or sei moua, and write or rend articles, review: or books. This' threefold division of th language has Always existed, though th great bulk of tho people, up lo very recec times, may have only been familiar wit the first, and its limited range of noum verbs, and adjectives, chiefly composed c clrnnr*. nluin mnnnoulloKloo nf Annlnfim OI | J ? ? Win on and Scandinavian origin and their itv mediate derivatives.?Blackwood's Mage zine. ? m m Tim Sootcii Robbers.?One day, t 1 Archbishop Leighton was going fror Glasgow to Duublane, a tremendous tliur der storm came on. He was observed b F two men of bad obaracter at a considera 1 ble distance. They had not eourage t rob bim ; but wishing to fall on some mi ( tbod of extorting money from hitn; on > said, "I will lie dotfn by the wayside, as > 1 were dead, and you shall inform th 1 archbishop that I was killed by the ligh ' ning, and beg money of him to bury me, When the archbiBhoj^ipved at the sp< , the wicked wretch told him thlf fabricate i story. The archbishop sympathised wit me lurnvor, gave mm money, and pro "s ceeded on lm journey. But when tl j man returned to bis companion, he fouc a him realty dead. Immediately he begs 9 to exolaim aloud,. "Oh, sir, he's dead * On the archbishop discovering bis frau< t be left the man with this important refle ! tion, "It is a dangerous thing to trifle wil the judgments of God." - nrr ? - -w THE PRESERVATION OP LEATHER. h A contributor of tbo Shoe and Lcathtr _ Reporter givee Homo valuable hints in !f relation to tbo preservation of leather, t Tbo exlremo heat to which moat mon ,f and women cxposo boots and sIiocb [1 during tbo winter deprives loathor of j its vitality, rendering it liable to i- breale and crack. I'atont leather, particularly, is often destroyed in tbis if manner. When loathor becomes ho I warm as to givo off tbo scont of lea3 thor, it is singed. JN'ext to tho singr ing caused by firo heat, is tho boat i and dampness caused by tho covoring j of rubber. Closo rubber shoes dei stroy tho life of leather. The praclico of washing harness in r warm water and with soap is vory , i uamagmg. If a coat of oil is put on i immediately after washing, the dams ago is repaired. No harness is ovor f so soiled that a damp spongo will not - remove tho dirt; but, even when tho L spongo is applied, it is always usolul to add a slight coat of oil by tho uae of another spongo. , All varnishes und all blacking cons taining tho properties of varninh , sliould be avoided. Ignorant and indolent holsters aro apt to use such . substances 011 their harness as will ; > g?vo the most immcdiato effoct, and f these, as a goneral thing, aro most de . structivo to Icathor. When harness loses its lustre and f turns brown, which almost any leather will do after long exposure to tho . air, the harness should bo given a now . coat of grain black, tho grain surface should bo thoroughly washod with , potash water until all tho grease is . killed, and after tho application of tho I grain black, oil and tallow should be . applied to the surface. This will not . only "fasten tho color," but make tho , louther flcsiblo. Harness which is . grained can bo cleaned with kerosino . or spirits of turpentine, and no harm will result if tho parts affected aro . washed and oiled immediately aftor? ward. i Shoo leather is generally abased. , Persons know nothing or care less . about the kind of material used than thoy do about tho polish produced. 1 Vitriol blacking is used until every " particle of the oil in i.lm lnn?li?r i | slroyed. To remedy this abuse the I | leather *hould bo washed once a month ! 4 with warm water, and when about half dry, a coat of oil and tallow J .should bo applied, and tho boots set 1 aside for a day or two. This will re) now the elasticity and life in the lea? 7 ther, and when thus used upper leather will seldom crack or break. Hand leather is not generally properly used. When oil is applied to s belting dry it docs not spread uni> formly, and does not incorporate itself with the fibro aa when partly dampened with water. Tho best way to oil a'bolt is to take it from the pal1 lies and immerse it in a warm solution ? of tallow and oil. After allowing it j to romain a fow moments., the belt t should bo immersed in water heated to one hundred degrees, and instantly 3 removed. This will drive the oil and 1 tallow all in, and at tbo samo time c> proporly temper the leather. [ MORMONIsiflN PERIL. There seems to be a reason for tho opin;. ion some are expressing that the inrasion 0 { of Utah by the projected Pacific Railroad e 1 will shatter tlio peculiar institution of I Mormor.ism, if not Mormonisru itself. Bad i as this world is, there are some tilings too ' ' bad eveu for it to ondure when fairly iu t j contact with them. l'olygsmy, and oth(1 j er characteristics of Mormonisin, have | prospered as they liavo chiefly by being I withdrawn from much association with tho - rest of the world, and, in a sort, hid away . among tho mountains of tho far West. II Even eo much contact as other portions of the country have been compelled to have 8 with them has excited infinite disgust, end '? fostered tho conviction that they are much - loo bad to live ; and when a great thor, oughfaro of travel and trade comes to pass through the very midst of them, it cannot be loug ere the moral sense of the nation 0 will make itself folt in their overthrow. y \v o see Jt Btated lliiit Brigham Young % appears to be preparing for the crisis by ; an attempt to bring in new installments of 'Q fresh converts, and that a fund amounting to about ono million of dollars has been 6 raided for "missiouary" purposes. The it I Qeld of principal operations will doubtless h be, as heretofore, the countries of the old , world. Any portion of the United States is much too near to Utnb for the beauties of its peculiar institutions to be apprecia'' led, while among the ignorant and poor of l" the older continent the promise of eaBilyi won competence in the present life, and a Mahometan paradise in the lile to come, is much more likely to have effect than among the keen and independent people is of America. Whether to increase the n numbers of a garrison hopelessly beleaugured is wise policy, Brigliam Young may learn in due time. Most people would ? say that such a course promites only to ~ make the ultimate starvation and surrender o more sure and more swift in coming. Let j. him try it, however, if he feals disposed. e .f Cleaning Knives.?A correspondent of the "Country Gentleman" t aaye: A small olean potato, with the ? ond out off, is a convenient modi una ol ' t applying brick dost to knives, keepj it about the right moisture, while the h juice of thefipotato assists in removing stains from the snrfaoe. W? o?n io get a betted i polish by this method j than by any other we have tried, and with loss labor. " 10 J <c ?-e- ... . India Bobber whioh ordinarily is J, cat .with bo much difficulty with a c- knife, may be quite readily severed il .h the [operation is performed aadet DR. BETHUNETS WIT. ' Tbe Rov. Dr. Bethune, whoa introducing a lank clerical friend of tha Baptist denomination to another intimate companion, with a twinkle of tbe eya, and in tones which none could more amusingly employ, added to tbe coremonial announcement of his namo and position, ''But bo's rather sunk in the wetting." A young friend, who bad joined tbe wnpiiaia, approacueu uuu timidly, lost th? doctor might ceu3uro his choioe. After sotnc hesitation bo broached the subject with the remark, "Well, doctor, yosterday I joined the army of Ziou" "Did you ?" was the leply; "in whish Church?" "Ia the I'ierrepont street I3aptiat,** came the altering auawer. "O! I understand," said tho doctor, "but I call that joining the navy." Thq young man was thus placed at his ease, and perfect fellowship was established. Ono of the Scotch slorieB ran as follows; it rotated to the times of Claverhouse, when the poor Covenanters wore m> fearfully parsecutdd by his dragoons:?"A scotch lad was reading to Lis parents the scripture iu,-lhe book of Revelation, and came to that passage, 'And lo I another wonder in' heaven, a great, red dragon, which ho pronounced dragoon; 'Hoot awa', landio,' criod the father, 'that's no' richt, fur L'se aye sure that uane of Claverhouso'a men gang to heaven ; read it ower again.' So the boy repeated the sentence, spelling the word dragon as before, dragoon. 'Sure enoo', its dragoon, noo'lry it again, an' if ye no' read it richt this time, I'll e'en gie ye a thrashing/ said the euraged father. The youngster, attempting the passage the third time with great care, still rendered it in the same manner. The father was about seiziug his cudgel to correct the reader of heresy, when the mother interposed, saying, 'DinDa1 fash ycrsel', auld moo, dun ye no speer (see) it was a wunner in heaven, tlict ane o' Claverhouso's men happened to get in !'"? Van Nest's Life of Bethune. m m Tiie Germans and the South.?Perhaps the most encouraging sign for our future is to be found in the fact that the Germans seem at last thoroughly aroused to tbe advantages presented by the South ta llia o"'' 1 -uv .uxii,^ nuu luuuciriuua lllliuijjrinb We see it stated that Reuben Golding, Esq., of Stokes County, North Carolina, has sold bis forge, situated on Dan River, witb about one thousand two hundred ncres of land attached, to a company of German capitalists, who intend bringing a colony of Germans to that county. It is the inteution of tbe company to go largely into tbe manufacturing business. Ia Hamburg they bave formed a stock company, with a capital of $250,000, for starling a Gorman colony in Florida. It is expected that twenty thousand North Germans can be directed tbitber in the course of two years, which would make the speculation ao exceedingly successful one. Tlie Germans in Texas are ovef sixty thousand in number, and it is estimated that at least three fourths of them are engaged in agricultural pursuits. Careful and intelligent observers believe that at least one third of tho whole cotton crop of Texas is now planted and secured by their labor. - ? How to get bio Caors.?At a rule, farmers aro much more anxious to get big priccs than big crops. There ar? few farms whose average production could not bo doubled in a very short timo by moro capital and labor. It ia safer 10 uso capital in farming than ia altnost any other business. The oredit of tlio plow is qui to as good as that of the loom or the anvil, and the capital will como if it is called for. Use more manuro, and get thirty bushels of wheat where you now got fiiteen, and eighty busheis of oorn where yon now gub xurty. xne quantity of grain grown per aero is mainly a question of manure and tillage. A big compost heap makes a full gtain bin. With high manuring, tho soil needs deeper stirring, and a gradual bringing np of the subsoil to the surface. With tbe present horae harrows and cultivators, nearly all tho cultivation can be done by horse power, at a groat saving of expense, and a groat increase of the orops. Plant for big crops this season.?Am. Ag. # Family Economy.?There is nothing goes bo fur towards placing your people beyond the reach of poverty us economy in the management of their domestic affairs. It is as much impossible to get a ship across the Atlantic with half a dozen buts started or as many bolt holes in her bull, as to conduct tbe eonoerns of a family without economy. It matters not whether he furnishes little or muoh for bis family; if there be a continual leakage m the kitchen, or in tbe parlor, it r^.ns away he knows not bow; and that demon, waste, orios ' "more," like the horse-leech's daugh? tor, until he that provides has no . more to give.. It is the husband's duty to bring into the house, and it is the duty of the wife to sea that aotfo> goes wrongfully ant ef it. i vj . No ons who wishes that conversation should be pleasant to bis neighbor* as well :ui j as nunseir, anould speak more than two or three sentences at once. Bowover much he may Lave to say. it will bo alt the mora . agreeably said for giving others tb* ojjr? . . > portunity of assenting,. illustrating, qoall> P fying, or even ooutra^icting. Th?| ball j needs to ba returned by the oppjeke plafe it mat* a lively game. , ] ' 1 1 -. * .tf .. - I,, ,i- --- Vi J