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_ r 1 a. ?..* 1 H?n I.ji.wwm.1 Iimr*vnnn? nmniuw. r^-^TT?%- >W , y , at w?m . ?.. > , - -, ., i w r m 11 11 rim mm?? IJSf'C f ^ lltecs? BY W. A. LEE AND HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C., FRIDAY. AUGUST 28, 1808. VOLUME XV1--NO. 18. NO BABY N THE HOUSE. No baby in the house, I know, 'Tis fur too uioo and denn; Ko lopa by carcloss lingers thrown Upon the floor nre P'.cn ; No finger-marks nrc on tli?s pnncf", No scratche3 on the chairs; No wooden men set up in rows, Or marshalled oft' in ]<nir?; No little stockings to be darned, All ragged nt the toes; No pile of mending to he don??, Made up of baby clothcs; No little troubles to be soothed, No little hand to fold; No stories to bo told ; No tender lii=sc3 to be given, No n! ;l;iianic8, "Lovo" and "SIouso No merry froliea nfter tea? No baby in tlio liouae. GAIETY IN THE HOME. Gaioty is indipponpablo to childhood and I doubt whotbor it can be dieponsodwith in after life. Thoro is an innocent craving for it even in old age. God has scattered flowers upon our fallen earth, and sent us tho songs of birds. YvTby should \to turn away from them ? Why should tnirth and hearty laughter scandalize us? Tr mor?^T r\P no /1a wnf Iawa Afc VA UU UV ?IW IV/ Y VI VfUL homes, the reason is far, far from explicable. To tell tho truth, 1 havo but a poor opinion of homeB whoro laughter and morrimont, and jokes and puns, nay, oven absurdities, aro unknown. ATcasuro tho hearllessnoss of that eonfension of Foiilonolio, "For tho last half contury X havo neither wept nor laughed." Tho two host things in lifo, those which provo that wo havo a heart and au imagination ao well as a brain, wero loet to tho man wboso univorso wa6 academies and crawing rooms. Wca.ro quite aware that thero is a forced gaiety and u ' forced laughter, than which nothing is more pad ; and that this spirit may bocome chronic, to tho annihilation of ovory serious thought. It v.-ould bo difficult to chooso between the Fun tenollo, who never laughed, and the"! man who ha always laughing; difficult to say which of tho two had sunk tho lowest. Without seriousness family lifo would hardly doseryo the name. There is nothing bo serious as lifo; nothing bo Berious ao happiness, duty, responsibility, tbo education of childron, personal education. Is thoro anything so eeiiouB as our Bins, our ropentance, our prayers 1 any ta&k more sorion than the charge of bouIs that we love? Bat in proportion as seriousness is gonuino, cheerfulness will bo bo too. Thore will be "tbo time to laugh and tbo time weep.1' Solomon tolls us that the"wi8dom of a man makcth his face to shine, and his countenance is no moro Bad.", This is tho magic of wisdom ; it is when the heart is lurnod towards God that the countonar.co is when tho boart is turned towards God that, tho CQuptonauco is joyous ai:d beneficont. A hearty laugh i6 ouo of tho best and rarost of tilings; gaioty is tho privilogo ot tho simple minded; is one of tho surest symptoms of moral health though of course this is a rulo by no moans wjlhout oxceptions. Ennui must? not bo classed among tho values : wo must not givo way to mo^ rose and languid moods, I know houses whero Micro is a perpetual liighingovcr tho evils of humanity, past, preBont, and to come ; after tho evils oomo tho faults, and after tho f&nltA tJin APrnrtJ <511 fKa w?- ? - v> y-f vti* VUV AUUiUiUWUUilJ' catalogue is .gone tbrougb; but that doos not prevent; it figm being resumed on the morrow. There are complaiutH, political, rcligiouB, moral artistic and literary, always in abundance. I remember once viaiting a lady who was very deaf; gvory one made it a doty to contribute something for her amusement; the speaking trampetwas passed from hand to, hand j. and what were the themes that' passed through it but the sorrows and oalamHfoa of .the neighborhood how opo poor gontleman bad broken his leg} how some poor, tody had taken the small pox, and another hud . lost her child.. Thpmost communicative added do tail t? of tho fial^(H^4* -exxitftttkoB of tho govoriimon^v'C^f tainod as to the oi the atmdry attcm|^jy>?|ia jmd the unfortunate his oyes to Hoavon an^^^j^ piteouBly j bht when tho eveniqg had' ended, every one congratulatoiji hiraaolf en haying bet^odto amuse'her.. Tor oh hour t Ifl'-wereaaked for arocipefor cheerfataew^l Vould^ayj Humbly efir iov tho pood An/I- !? * tux?~ ? ? ?^ o. ~ ' o r,-7 I "--V fuyoo around yotj tcndorly, realise that amiability is a binding Virtuo, and that yre. arfc bound todiffuaejoj around as in oar homes. Bat' theiro is just one more item in my prescriptionwo must bo willing to. anbond, oTon to w # stoop to a littlo harmless folly. A lovo for animals will cncourago this ; tho very preficnco of theso true but unrpesuming friends will do our hearts good. Wo ma}* talk nonsense to them, they introduce an clement of intel loctual rcposo. Dogs, cats, horses, poultry arc so many contributors to the gaiety and f-imp!ieity of our daily life. We cannot enjoy them without them, lam not going to enter into tho ranks of thoso who contend that they hare souls ; still 1 hopo my roador holds in equal abhorrcneo with myself tho pystoms of Descartes and Malebranch, which would make them out to be more machines. We have but to contomplalo the dog that follows ub, watches our movemontH, eharea our fatigues and perils voluntarily, oiihor to sink at our side, or porhajis to follow ub to tho p'iivo and die tborc?to reply lo tho theory of rnero mechanimn. Animals arc, in some sort, members of tho family. They aro the friends of your.g and old, and young and old alike enjoy and bocofit by their gleeful, irrational society. Good-Bye.?Tlio editor of tho Albany (N. Y.) Register comraonts upon these siraplo words, so common, and yet so full of eolomn and tender moaning, as follows: " IIow many emotions claBter around that word I How full of sadness, and to us how full of sorrow it sounds I It is with us a conBecratod word. AYo hoard it onco within tho year as wo hope never to hoar i!. st-;ain. It w;ir in tho ehambor of death, in tho Klill hnnr nf litrrlW'a imnn Tt./> tains io the windows wcro all closed, tho lights wore all shaded, and wc stood iu tho dim solemn twilight with others around the bed of the dying. Tho damps of death wore on her pale young brow, and coldness wcro on her lips, as wc kiased her for tho last time while living. 'Good-bye, my daughter,' wo wbisporod, and 'Good-byo, lather,' camo from hor dvin<r lio*. Wc know not that she ever fcpuko moro, but 'Good-byo* was ibc Iaat, wo ever heard of her sweet voice. Wo hear that sorrowful word often anil oft.cn as V7e nH alone, buried with the memories of iho past. "Wo hear it in the silence of the night, in tho bourn of nervous wakefulness, as wo lio upon our bod thinking of tho lorod and lofct to us. Wo hoar it in our dreams, when her sweot faco cornea back to us, as it was in lovolinoss and boauty. Wo boar it when wo sit beside her grave in tho cemetory, whero bIic sleeps aloDo, with no kindred as yet by bor sido. She was tho hope of our life, tho prop to loan on when ago should como upon ub, and life should bo runniag to its dregs- Tho hopo and tho prop is trono. and we carc not how eoon wo go down to sleep bcsido our darling, beneath the shadow of the trcen in the clly of the dead." -?? Da. Alek.vndeu as a Tkaciif.r.?The following in the Sunday School Times, v.c take to bo from Iho pea of the senior editor, Dr. llart: " Tbo prodigious iiiflueneo exerted by the lato Dr. Archibald Alexander of l'rinceton, upon the iniiul of the Fresbyterian /~11 1 ? - ?1 TT . * ? v^uurcu jo mo uimea Slates, was not duo bo much to bis lecturcs in tho Theological Seminary, for be lectured comparatively little, nor to his published thoolocal works, which arc lamentably few, but to his won derful power as a eatechiat. In the theological classroom, it seemed tbat tboro \va3 not a thought, or a perplexity, in the mind of any etudent, wbich did uol lie open to the penetrating ken of tho Professor, not a power of thinking which the l'rofessor did not stimulate into lively action. He seem* cd to touch, a3 if with the wahd of an en chanter, all Iho hidden spriugs of thought and whatever of montal power was in a man came forth. It was thus he moulded ; and developed alt thobe great minds which ! have exerted, and which are now exerting, . such a controlling influence upon the doati* nies of the Preebylerian Churoh in America. Dr. A]e*fcnder,1ike Socrates among the ancients, has written comparatively little. But hi# power pa 4 teacher was second, to none, not even to that,of "Socrates, and it will go on penetrating, and reproducing itself for age# to come" . , Wokdebs of a Wori^.?That natural hietory, especially that branch' of it relating to animated nature, should receive so licUe r - vi ' m * HueauQii in popular euucftpon, is raarveioifiL' lie facts are mprb wonderful .and mora charming thab libraries of fiction. The field of Ha wondora is boundless. Take up tbo common ground-worm as it wwggfd? aejjwjrouf mojnjngpath after a jaoid^JSWroTOSf^bowor.. A,a it tries loojr&wl ' off lB#^)aIru of jour band you experionce a of rooghnesj on your skin. If you.tako a pocket lens, and examine' 'carefully the. under side of the worm's belly, youAviH perceiro aeveral rotfa pf fitra fcbarp books, extending-from ono end to | tin other,, eacb nnnulatod division (for the worm'* body fo, as you doubtless know, * I . 1 ! composed of ring*) being furnished with | ! our pairs of these hooks, which arc situaK 1 i upon small protuberances 011 the creature's ! skin. These minute hooks causc the rough j j fcnsntion alluded to; ar.d that poiliotiof; 1 the body on which they are placcd corns-' ponds to tho abdomen of tho higher animuh. tho hooks themselves being u. thing more nor less than rudimentary I c?-t to aid tho worm in its progress. Tt has, perhaps, never occurred to you to inquire how it is, when you endeavor to draw a worm from lint cnrf.li. flmf if. <vm | ('fiur such resistance to your ('(Torts as nl! most to necessitate your taking it in two before you can extract il; and why, as I soon as you relax your hold, it disappears with such rapidity under tho soil. These hooks aro tho cause; and they are retraotilo at the will of the animal, and operate;] so as not to impede its onward progress; hut when a portion of its body is oncc extended, and has penotrated into the soil, they koep it firmly fixed, whilst the remaining parts aro drawn after it by muscular contraction. <?> SPEED OF THE SENSES. Thoro ftro thirty-one pairs of com jivuuu iiurvuM in niu iiwman nouy, me sonsory and motor fibres of which arc so commingled asTo render it an impossible undertaking to separate them by any means at present known. Now if, for instance, a needle be stuck into one of the fingers, the sensory fibers take the impression through the nerve and the posterior root to the spinal cord and thence to the bruin. The command goes out to "draw the finger away.'* The mandate travels down lb-* spina! cord to the anterior < ., .,.1 < 1 ...? < 1... i. < : * ? i .'V't, tuMt i nv iha un; fibres of (in: nerve to the muscles, which immediately act. and the linger hi at once removed- All this takes place with great rapidity, hut ye! with nothing like the celerity once imagined. The researches of Ilelmholt- ' a distinguished. German Physiologist, have shown with great exactitude the rate of rpi\-d with which the nerve-fluid travels;and other observers vers have given a givat of time to this and kindrvd questions, As the result, of many deliberations, it was ascertained that the nervous lluid moves at the rale of about 1)7-1 feet in a seej ond. Now electricity travels with a speed exceeding 1,200,000 Rot in a second, and light over 000,000,OuO. A shooting star moves with a velocity of 200,000 feet in a second, and the earth, in its orbit aroun the sun, 100,AAA A 1. .11 1 vuu, j\. cannon uan mis a mean velocity of 1,S00 feet in a second; an eagle, 130; and a locomotive, 95. \Ve thus perceive tho nervous fluid lias no remarkable rate of speed?a fact which, among many others, serves to udicate its r.on-idenity with]] electricitv. lVof. J)oiider?, of Utiveht. Holland. has recently been making some interesting experiments in rcgrad to the rapidity of thought, v. itich are : likewise interesting. J'?y moans of | two instruments, which lie calls the noemutaohograph and Ihe neo ma tachometer, he promises some iinportant details. For the present he ani nounces that a simple idea requires the brain to act for sixty-seven one thousandths of a second for its elaboration. Doubtless the time required is not the same for all trains, and thr.t by means of the instruments, we may oinam ueuinite indications relating to the mental caliber of oin* frindsl For tlie eye to receive an impression requires seventy-seven one thousandths of a second, and for the ear to appreciate a sound, one hundred and fbrty-nino one thousandths of a second is necessary. The eye therefore, acts with nearly twico tho rapidity of tho car. Ciucap Pleasures.?Did you ever alody tho choapne88 of some pleasures ? Do you koow how little it Ukea to jnaka n multitude happy ? Sucli trifles as ? pMiny, ft word, or a pmil? Ho thn wnrfc. . Tharo art* two or throe boya passing along-~givo them each a chestnut, arid "how amiling-ihey look 1 they will pOt be cross for some time A poor widow lives in a neighborhood who is-tho mothor of half a dozen children, send them half a pock o( sweet apple?, and they will all bo liappy. A'ohild has lost'his arv 'row?the world to" him?and he mQrn9 6addly; help hiin to find it, or niako him another,-and how quickly wfll tho sunshine play upon his sober fac& A boy has as much as, ho can <3o to pile up a load of wood; assist him.a few momenta, or.speak a pleasant word to him, and, he.forget^bis. Ia!I an/1 ^ li ivii nuu nviu nnnjr witiiyut imiimug-n. Your apprentico has broken a mug, or ou tho VMf too large/or sb'gbtiy injured a pi#*# of work say, TTon sooqpdrcl/ and be feel* miserable; but remark, '! am.aotry,' atid'bt:will-trjr.tO do botter. You employ a man?-pay Eim cheerfully, and speak a pkatanl word to liirrr, and bo leaves your home willi .1 contented heart to light up his own hearth with smiles and 0i.idncss As you pass along the street, you moot a familiar facc?say, 'Good morning,' a3 tho' you felt happy, and it \fcill woilc admirably in tlio heart of your neighbor. 1 Measure is cheap?who will not bestow it liberally '( If thero nro smiles, sunshine and flowers ad about u?, le! us not grasp them with a miter's fist, and lock them up in our hearts. No. Itather let us take them and scatter thorn about us, in the cot of tho widow, among tho groups of child \ rcn in the crowded mart, where men of business congregate, in our families and everywhere. Wo can make the wretched, happy; the discontented, cheerful: tho afflicted, resigned; at exceedingly cheap rale. I Who will refuse to do it? THE MIRAGE. IVofosr or Looinis, in his new workon Metcorology, ain.1 thus alludes to the curious illusions of the mirage: Mirage is atmospheric phenomena which produces an apparent displacement of distant objects?sometimes elevating and sometimes depressing them ; sometimes leaving the image erect and sometimes inverting it, as when objects arc seen reflected from a trinquil water. It is frequently observed on Handy plains intensely heated byjtho sun, especially in Egypt and Arabia. Lower Kgypt is a vast sandy plain, with occasional villages situated upon small eminences. In the middle of the day those villages, soon from a distance, ap; ar as if situated in the iiiidsi <;l u l:c . in whitii are seen llio inverted images of housed anil trees. The on (lino of llieso images i:? a little indistinct. often exhibiting s?n undulatory motion, as if reflected from agihitod motors, As the spectator approaches (lie boundary of ilio apparent lake, the "waters seem to retire, and the same illusion appears around the next vilhiLje. Similar plu'iiomena sire common in pome parts; of C-:d;for' h?. ami are occasionally neon in all i-nri- of the I'niti d Siat-'s. Thi:? is explained in this way : Th?" -{vatnm of air \vhi( h ve-f.s upon the :-and becomes healed 1a* it; this heat * i ivnn< Jrt H?? i\? . .1 ^ l > ?- ? try jiii! LitUi^ VUillIilUi:ji:UU'U l?J l!K! Mlperincumhent strata, so that the densily of the siir increases rapidly as wo ri.;e above the earth up to a moderate Ik ight. The olleet is similar to I hat produced by 1 lie reflection of a tree from the surface lake, and the observer is thus led to imagine himself to be surrounded entirely by water. Mirage is produced at sea when the atmosphere is perfectly calm, and the air in contact with the water is colder, and consequently denser than the stratum of air immediately above it; this second stratum is denser than the one above it, and so on. In sneli a case, an inverted imago of a distant object, as a ship may be seen with a distinctness almost equal to that of the object itself, and this object will be formed above the object. ?-Q> A Toccmxc Incident.?Tho following inciilciit of travel is narrated l>y a correspondent of the Daily Suralof/ain. It look place on tlio Ilensbclacr and Saratoga Rail road: " When tlic train baltod at Saratoga) among the paEsengers from tlie West cntuc a mnn of about thirty years of .ago, elbowing hj? way through iho crowd, and boaring in his arras a child, lie was a poor man; bis clothes wero poor; bo looked oor. Around his hat was tied a pieco of soiled, worn crape. It wa3 evidently all the morning hi3 pcanty moans would per rait; for the mother of tins child was dead "This man was rou^h in extyior, yet his face was an houe3t one. lie handled the Dnoy awkwardly, yet, moro tv?3 a tenderness in his ead look that showed iho parity of j? father's lovo. The littlo follow lay asleep on h'is coarsely-elad kneo; a stray sunbeam glanced across its tired- face. They wore both tired?the father and the child?-for they; had come froro the far West; and as be placed his hard, toil-worn hand* to.shield it from the golden- rays, there was in feis look'a mirfture of sadness and care, as if big pent-up feelings had been so crowded back into-the iner cells of his heart tbnf even (ears could have been of no relief to the hid den anguish thai "was making Lis life a misery. "The -poor child cried; it might be the -little'thing was tifpd j'itihigfit be it missed its molhef; perhaps ib was hungry; perhaps it was sick, end bo it oried. The teaM rnllaxl <)nnn if J Knktt /?h?nV? (l>? er wiped irway tbe-dow dro?m fca they JieiH", .and then tfigd to-feed-it He tr.at so'awfc ward wifh the bottle?bis bad beofcia lifQ of toil 6jid Tiai'dsbip?and {ie-krtew hot how rto gi?e bi& 'darling its' noUrisbmott A8*ba wada effort' aftaf effort to stiffo Hb? orlas and obocI'thO tears of bis motheriess babe, h'dW hi' must hava missed hoi^wbo in hift lifo of 'labor and privation, tiad bdea bis soluoo and comfort! An unbidden tear parted to bis eye, but he brwbod it qniolc y away. All who saw bim piticil him. 1 At length a woman, richly appareled, with an infant resting on the lap of his nurso ' beside her?she hiul been watching the < man?said in a gentle tone; "(Jive nio the child." The poor fellow looked at her j 1 with a look of gratitude, for thorowasaji mother's tenderness in her voice. "With , I j humble resignation, ai though it wero pain to part with him, even for a moment, he '< gave her his boy. Tho woman took it; its ; soiled cloihes rested on her costiy silk; its tiny hea l was soon bebcnth her shawl, and in a moment all was tlill. L?:ko the Grecian 1 daughter who, through the iron bars foil her starving father, so <lul this high-liorn la-.lv from her breast feed tho hungiy child, and when on her gentle bosom the little ono la}- in cr.lm and uimxed sleep, ?!iy jtut ;.3:.dc the shawl. 1 .''The father's heart 6wclled with gratitude, lie baiJ, as a tear welled in his eye, and his voice was not thielc with emotion : "Thank you; I'll take him now.' Then tho woman's Jnaluro spoke forth, as she gently answered : 'Notyet; you will wake him ;' and for mile after mile tho noble hearted woman held that poor man's child ; and it was not until her own babe required such nourishment as only a mother can give, she gently rose and placed the stranger boy with his father." From (he Atiociute Reformed Presbyterian. Leavisviixe, S. C., August 11, 18G8. Mr. JOorroR :?I am again at "Low isville, but expect to leave to-morrow (or tho fertile fields and large hearts in North Carolina. Week before last I wan at Hopewell attending the meeting ol" the Rocky Creek .Bible Society, and on Sabbath assisting at tho dispensation of the Lord's Supper. Of these matters, 1 gave some account in mv last. I returned to Union Church on last Friday, partly to get rid of my mule and buggy?to assist at the administration of the Supper, and get some more Iklpfor the College. At Jlopewell 1 received eight one hundred dollar Mirjscrijiiiuii* arm may gci one or t wo ' iiioiv. At Union and Neelv's Creefc U'-n one hundred dollar subscriptions !iave boon secured. Some of these subscriptions have been made by sin.4,1 o subscribers and some by several : uniting. Eveiybody claims to be poor, distressingly poor?but let the poor in all the churches subscribe five, ten or twenty dollars a year for five years and the present plan of Endowment will soon bo completed. Let the churches do as well as those already visited and the "Life of the College" will be insured for five years more and then.? I am riding round among the good people of Chester eating fine dinners, and enjoying pleasant social intercourse You, pooi- fellows, about Due "West gnawing 3'our crust and looking blue, will be wanting this ageney next year 1 nnrl W VAU nntr inA 1 * 'J * will learn yon in "five lessons" how to ' got money out of poor folks for a good cause! Ah I borincc abont in 1113- buggy ovor the rooks and gullies I ain forccd somewhat to examine the geological r character of old Chester. I have come to the conclusion that hero we have the "Flint Hock Formation." , The geological savans may not havo . discovered this formation ; it is too . near the surface for men -who arc al. vrsiyxpantering away down in (he lower regions of the globe among shells I and bones, trying to "calculate" the groat antiquity of the earth. For my part I am disposed to believo the simple and plain statement of Moses . that "God created the earth find the heavens too in six days. It is supposed i that ample time is allowed in Genesis i i: 2 for the formation of the great geological strata before the six days commenced* May be so; but there' is no such time allowed in the Fourth I Oommandmont.?Ex. xx: 11. "For in six days tho Lord mado heaven and oarth, the sea and all tbatinthomia." Hore it is clear that alf creation? i heivven, earth arid ?oa, was created in t six days?:ahd the strata about which thcrro is bo much trouble, must have been formed since; and with the mean$ at command?rivers, rains, floods", storm?*, and especially tho great ocenn 'with its currents-?aiid' suiiririff : - - . ^ . o i lnllowft clashingagainst the sliore oii all ^jiiloBOr sweep ingoyor bjio hidden mountains of the sea.and rortrfd her isle?all r these; agents at -work would form, in dertain'favorablo loealUiofr, Iho vallies , "bf tile oottan-^voVy thick strata in a* Very short time. "Whore ifi thO-uso oF it t?Wrmiiial)ld age9 to accompliafy a W^lfcihat' coultl ho comjloted in' a few. hiindrcd J-oarB7" Why,"_\vhatra conti1 ncnt of mud Mias. gone down from i; Oh6ster *aj?d all the country datuig'thc ,, fast cotatinry;T This/deposited in* the. vales of *oa, and not sprCjwt over th? whole floor of tho occaa, would -.?noi\ ffarm vcry^lhifJk layers. If vital eonhl lie done in tvii centuries? Now, that T aid to bo absent from he Stai\- lor si (iine, if you hear that ?'?)v. S^??(t :i!kI his Congress arc in jiii'-' ol" si Stsi!?' fiei>higisl} yon can ? (. tin i ? know whore U? lind the right man. IT there are any marl beds or lime <|u:irrso? in the Stale porhsij'S I hose making laws eosild ho jim i>rohttiMy i nsj?h?yod in working these beds und scattering manure a-? in ruling (ho F->t :i( A ml i!' 'hey return to that humble calling (hey v, it! need Home one (o saiix'riptcinl sis heretofore, t ,,^,....1 l t n..i . ..li J till! lib X ?ll II VM1I,, UtIIIi'?l iii honor of 31 r. Lewis, of this vicinity, I suppose, and not in defer unco to any of tho French Emperors. J t .*< "l is tlint t ho xvifo of one of the Chc.-!er ''lJjirneys" walked to this place a few days ago with a lndf bushel of wheat on her hack. Now, a man who is getting six dollars a day and mileage. ought to do better than thai. "What! a Representative of 'Sdd Chester" along for miles with a poke of wheat to selll But better days arc expected for Airs. J>., counts on such a heavy tux on land that tho owners will bo forced to sell and then tho darkies will sceuro a "homestead." If Barney's constituents had the money to purchaso lands thus forced to sale, the troublo would be to keep thoin, unless they had money enough to support their families without selling the homestead. The best thing for tho negro is to discard politic.*, got a home with goml men who have good lands, and who will give good wages, anil furnish supplies when needed. 1 have reached the. hospitable homo of I):*o. Chalmers, but more of this again. On the train I met with Mr. iiosser, of the firm of Sanders, House r & Co., cotton factors and commission merchants, Memphis, Tennessee, a worthy gentleman, an Elder in the Presbyterian Ctfnrch. I commend this firm to friends in ^ennessee who trade in Memphis. n. From tlic Associate Reformed Proabytoiian* Tho Way of Sin Down HILL To any ono who has obsorvod thoir courae, it muut havo been apparent that 111 o last Congress war. making rapid strides in the path of crime and daring infidelity. When men throw off tho restraints of prinoiplo?when thoy no longor rogard tho binding obligation of an oath?when they practico, unblushinglj*, tho doctrino of "rulo or rain"? when thoy aro apparently abandoned of God, it is frightful to witness their rapid and sudden descent to tho depths of crime nnd infamy. Not patiefiod with trampling on all tho principles of right and justico, overriding tho Constitution?violating their Eolemn oath?theso mon crown tho long, black list of their crimes by holding their last session on tho Subbath. Thus showing to tho world, what has long bcon apparent, that they neither four God nor rogard inan. If it bo truo that "when tbo wicked rule tho peoplo mourn;" need wo wonder that lamentation, mourning and d of pair should darken and consumo tho light, and joy, and poucc of our Buffering country '( In tho light of suoh facts, how can an onlightonod and Christian peoplo contiauo to sustain and parnpor Bueh a sot of mon ? Such corruption should stink in tho noetrils of all good mon. "Whom tho godH will destroy thoy first mako mad." Everything at prcsont iudicutes that tho destruction of this peoplo draws nigh. It id tho duty of all good men to rnrav that A hnM.rsr mind mit*r ftinnn Ihom, and that tho awful doom may bo avortcd.. > k. . B* Kind To Yooa Sistbob.?Boys bo kind to your shitors. You may live to bo old, and never God such tender, loving frionda as these aistere. Think how many thioga tboy do for you; how they love you, in spTto of all your ill-temper and .'rudeness ; bowthoughtful thoy are for .your comfort. Try and bo thoughtful of (heirs. Be over ready to obligo. them ; to perform any lililo oflico for them that lioa in your power. _ Think what you can do for lucip ; anu- u moy exprqsa a wisu, ua ready to g/at!fy itlf po9aibIa. You do not know Jrt>w much- bappluoss you will find in ro doing. I nevor yet know a liapp/aqd reapepldd man who was i;ot,in youlb- kip? to hia-aislcrs. Tkero is a beautiful poem which- eays: % "Be kJqH toyonr aistors?not many inay ktioy,i Hie depth of true a!stei>ly Iovo^ Tho. wcaltV-of tbeoccna lfles fathoms bclofr "Th o Bntfaco that sparkles above.1' * Wiee stings us Won in our m'C?t but *uv pntne.? CHILDREN. BY MRS. E. D. PECK. Children arc tender buds?"their sweeUnl loaves yet unfolded"?ehield?.(! and wrapped by tho calyx of a HKilher'n lovo; if tlieso buds do not properly expand, and open to perfeo lion, they will never yield tho goldof c fruit in tlie autumn of life. Their minds have been compared to sod ciay, that at first can bt) easily V. lVilHrJi f. 111.1111 ntwl nrt/Nil I#I#i s\ .?1.~ r>"*w ??icu ujjjt form, or fashion, but as the years increase they bccomo hard and cannot bo remoulded. Upon thoir fresh minds aro engraved those pure precepts that will lead them homoward; or thero will be engraved, in ineffaceable characters, i dark stains that will blur thosoul, and make it unfit to rcfloct tho imago of i God. j Children aro busy as booe, collecting | ideas; these bocomo fixed in tho mind. ! Tho most trivial occurrouco oftimca conduce to bias their minds for good or ovil: thoy never forgot first imprcBsions; thoy aro deep and lasting, ana aro linDuod Ixko tho dow, as rain is by tho floworB. Studies should bo given thom oa thoy arc ablo to digest thom; innocent healthful plays should bo intorsperecd and minglod with theso. I havo thought that tho most suoccssful educators of childron, wero thoso who dismissed their pupils early from tho cloao confinement of tho school room, and took long rambles with them through tho fields and woods; and who pointed to tho niOBt insignificant objects beforo them, and explained all their intricato mystoris. Why, even tho littlopcbblo that wo spurn from our feet, as wo walk along the path, can furnish us food for much thought. It has been in existence ever since God spoko tho earth into being. Volumes might bo written about its formation, ero man "walked the earth. If it could sco and speak it " Might tell ub , ( llow the world lookod whon it waa fresh aad green: New worlds have rison, wo btvo lost old nations ; And countless beings have into dust been tumbled ; Whilst scarce a fragment of itself haat Grumbled." It might tell of Davids, who havo clung it with stifliciont forco to slay Golialis?of citios that havo flourished, and then crumbled into ruin. Yea, how many volumes of history might, ho -\vrittou of tho wonders that it eoiilil iv>v??nl Even tbo flowors, that childron gather with bo much delight and then carelessly throw away, aLinnams could upend a life time in examining into their species, and analyzing them. Let us as parents ho over on tho alert* in instilling knowlcdgo into tho minds of our children. Littlo children have hecn called tho poetry of life; and thoir laughter may bo tho music. Precious littlo children! tjicir innocent prattle beguiles us of our dull caros; they teach ur patience and forbcaranco. " Unless wo become as littlo children, we shall not enter tho kingdom of lleavcn"?"for of such is tho kingdom of lleavcn." Then let us instead of warping their tender minds and moulding them into tho cold unfooling beings that wo ourselves aro, strivo rathor to lcifivn frnm f finm Tintrr in cmiln amidst our tears. Let us learn to have the samo trusting, confiding love for lleavonly Father that they havo for us; and loarn to kiss tho hand that chastisosuB.?Richmond Christian Ad* vocate. ,?o . Beautiful,?The hot few hours of the i venerable D. NoltV life were peculiarly irapreseive. He sank into * second childhood thai wob peculiarly tender. He lay on his bed, blind, and apparently unoon? r ecious. His wife sat by his bed tide and sang to him day ;by day the songs of hie childhood. He Vfas hashed to repose by them like an infant on itipillow , Many a true heart that would hate come back like a dove to the ark, after its first transgression, h?s been frightened beyond recall,by tby angry look and msnaoe, the taunt, the savage charity of an unforgiving spirit... % . . .: " * ' i -MBK fit "i" Tho BhariffV-^fRoe of EdgeSeld Dial riot, S; O.f Las tx5oa r*bbad of thirty-one huix* dred dollfcrp?^ ' ~ - Mifee O'K^ly had an offloe worth f?0,dOO per annrfco. Ho made a great tufa.Jails* ito Boston.?^Butler was braised seriously B ,te<A,faIl frt>m a carriage. I :T * .