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<!T ? - *** O . ^ - r ?"****+4r "tn THE CAMDEN JOURNAL. c?gBg???CTra???ra?nc i i 11 ill a^??m????r??????????????t VOL.10 CAMDEN. SOUTH CAROLINA, JUNE 20, 1849. NUMBER 25. THE CAMDEN JOURNAL, PUBLISHED WEEKLY, BY T. W. PEGUES. r REASONS FOR RISIBILITY'. Sweet coz ! I'm happy when I can, I'm merry while I may. For life's utmost a narrow span, At best a winter's day ; If euro can make the sunheain wear . > -- K.,n S\ Drigmer, nuuuvi I.av, The evening star "bine out more fair, The blue sky look more blue, Then I should grow u graver manBut since 'tis not the way. Sweet coz ? I'm happy when I can, > v , And inerry while 1 may ! 1 * If sighs could make us sin the less, Perchance I were not glad? | If morning were the sage's dress, My garb should still he sati; But sinco the angel's wings are whito. And ever, the young saints smiles' Sinee virtue wears a brow of light, And vice a robe of guile? Since laughter is not under ban, ^ Nor goodncsa clad in gruy? Sweet coz! I'm happy when I can, 0^ And merry while I may! C- I've seen a bishop dance a reel, | And a sinner fast and pray, A kuave at top of fortune's wheel. And a good man cast away ! Wine have I seen your grave one's quaff, Might set our feet afloat, But I never heard a hearty laugh From out a villain's throat; And I i.ever knew a mirthful man .Make sad a young maid's day? So, coz ! I'm happy when I can, And merry while I may ! * ? LECTURE ON THE NORTH AND THE SOUTH, Delivered before the Young Mens Met collide Library Association, of Cincinnati, Ohio, by Elwood Fisher, Jan. 1(5, 1S49. CONTINUED. Tiiejfele of Ohio, a new Slate and an KgricfntOra! one, and very prosperous, may ? Ikj presumed to enjoy a tolerable equal dis.. ? _ tn but ton ?f property. There are in this * * " - I * CI.,. fT Ntale, by the last assessment, aimui nny thousand pleasure carriages, and the posses m ? 4Mt of one of these, is an indication of a * comfortable condition of a fainilv. In Vir^ginta there 'were in 1847, over 19.000 ; atul ^ Trtiite popirhui . -i no moo onm iw great as otirs is now. This proves that the decree of comfort which such establishments indicate, is more diffused in Virginia than in Ohio. The proportion of dwellings built in a year, is another indication of comfort and the degree of its diffusion among a people.According to the returns of the marshnlls in 1840, Massachusetts, whose white popula. tion is nearly the same with that of Virginia, built 3*24 brick houses in that year. Virginia built 402, or nearly one fourth more.? Massachusetts built 1,249 wooden houses in the same year ; Virginia, 2.G04, or more than double. The cost of the houses in Massachusetts was 8767,234 ; in Virginia, only $1,367,393, or about half. Now if this excess in the c?ist of the houses of Massa. li_... .i ..n...,.: chusetts Oe ailrinuiame m me tm-ew >u ne6s, or manufacturing structures among them, it swells the proportion of dwellings built in Virginta, and thus displays a still greater progress in comfort among the population of the latter. But if the excess of cr?st in Massachusetts is owing to the superior style of her dwellings, it proves, since the *- number is so much less, a still greater inequality of property. A comparison of the ^ houses built in New York, the same year. Willi those of Virginia, exhibits similar res. ults. And 1 will add that the same thing is true, by a comparison between Virginia and Ohio, although one is considered the most declining, the other the most advancing State in the Union ; one supposed to be the most unequal in the distribution of property; the other the reverse. In 1840, Ohio built 070 brick, and 2.704 wooden houses, at a cost of S3, 770,823. Thus, whilst we had twice the white population, we built only a fourth more of houses. .Kentucky, also, as well as Virginia surpasses Ohio in this respect. Kentucky built 485 brick and 1.757 wooden houses: thus with only 40 per cent, of the number of houses Ohio did The fact is that Virginia and Kentucky constructed in that year, nv.re buddings in proportion to ilio tvhnlo rwuitllnl idlt. black and white, than Ohio anrl Alasnchusc'ts. This remit docs not appear, indeed, in the cities, or in the principle streets of cities, and thcrelore has not come to tlie knowledge of fugitive and superficial observers, or newspaper item, mongers, but it is demonstrated by the labors of the officers of government who were required to visit the country as well as the towns, the by-ways as well as the high-ways and it is triumphant evidence of the cxtra, ordinary airy regale prosperity and Widespread individual comfort of the States which have been selected bv the new school o' politicians and political economists as the objects of their sympathies and the victims of their theories. The same relative condition of comfort in the two respective sections of the Union is indicated in their food. Although Virginia is n< t an exporter of animal food, she is one one of the greatest producers of it, of all the Stales. In 1810, she possessed 1,902,155 hogs, which is almost identically the same number that Ohio had. although Ohio has twice the white population, and as is well known, is a large exporter of pork, whist Virginia imports, in addition to her own stock, a large quantity. New York, with three 1^- times the white population, was materially behind Virginia hi this respect. Now it is well known that the great mass of provisions I I U I I I I II II ... >' B?gp I I I ? ???g produced in any State, are designed for domestic consumption, as the cost of transporting them to the dwellings of an agriculral people is too great to admit of their im portation. Hence, the products of such a people afford a good criterion of the character of their food. The stock of neat cattle in New York was 1,911,214 ; in Virginia, it was 1,024,148, the proportion of Virginia being still the greatest. In sheep alone was Now York better ofT, having 5,118,777, whilst Virginia had 1,293,772, which however, is only about 150,000 less than her share. The proportion of poultry in Virginia is double that of New York. And in all these articles Virginia is still more the superior of Ohio than of New York. So also is Kentucky. So that if it bo said that New York is an importer ol such provisions, ami therefore consumes more than hor production indicates, what is to ho said of Ohio, which exports thorn all. Now in determining she relative comfort of the two civilized com{ rnunities in the same climate, the quantity j of animal food ihcv respectively consume is a well established criterion. Yet, here i: a State in the warmer climate consuming the greater proportion. For when it is conI sidered that the hug is killed for food at tin age of eighteen months or two years, am neat cattle at five or six years, it will appeal that the excess of animal food in Virginia 01 Kentucky over New York or Ohio is quilt large?is quite large, indeed, even if we in elude the slave as well as the free populatioi of the former States. A reference to the quality of breadstuff: and other vegetable food, leads to the saint conclusion. Virginia is the largest producei of wheal, the finest and costliest material ol bread, of any other State, according to- tiei population. Her crop of 1840, was 10,100, 71C bushels; that ol New York was onlv 12,260,418, of Ohio 16.571,001, All thosi are wheat cxporluig, as well as consu:nin? States, but still the great mass of that article must be consumed in the respective State of its production. In proportion to hci white population, Virginia produces twenty live per cent, more than New York. II?>v is the deficiency supplied in New York ?? Not by importation, bet by the suhstilutioi I nf nntatiiMt tli:?i rhennnst article ol VOgcta hie food, to wiiicli ilic misfortunes or impro vitlence of Ireland have driven her. Nov York, instead of producing her proportion o wheat with Virginia, which would he thirty live millions of bushels, instead of twelve produces annually ihiity millions of bushel of potatoes, and it is remarkable that Yir gima, with nearly half a million of slaves instead of resorting to this cheap food fo them, produces only about three millions o bushels of potatoes, and provides her lie Jjroes with com.-*nf wiurh hrr irntm^fr^rw and a Ivail millions <> bushels, and which is a much more cost!; and substantial article of food. The tendon cv manifested by New York to prefer tin cultivation of the cheapest, but the more pre carious and less nourishing article of vegela b!e food, is also distinctly visible in all tin Northern Slates, and is a fact which ahvay deserves tube considered in any estimate <i ilieir present and fuiiirc comfoit. In Mas sachusclts, agricu'ture is rapidly declinini particularly the production of the fine sort of breadstuff's?a fact which is admitted am lamented by one of her leading papers?tli Boston Atlas. The following statement are fro in the oflicial returns of the State. Bush, wheat. Indian c?rii. Baric is to, 210.000 2,203,000 lott.od 1&45, 49,000 l,i)5>o,(K)0 121,03 Decrease, H 'J,000 l.tteo.dOO 34,03 Kye Buckwheat. Potatoes 19-10, 503.000 102,000 4,950.00 1945, 447,000 32,000 4, T'io.O Decrease, ll(i,(KK) 7U,U<!0 SU.UU Oi course it is not pretended lliat Statu of a coiniiiurcial and manufacturing charac tor chiefly, should produce as much from tli sod, in propoition to popu'atioii, as tin: auri ouliural. 15.it the articles they do product and their proportions to each oilier, indical lliu quality <d food at least of the agnciilm ral portion of the population. Hence it ajj pears that the tanners ol .Massachusetts con sumo but little wheat bread, and use ryt ind:an corn, and potatoes as substitutes. 1 think now that if anything can In shown, bv facts, 1 have d'-monslraled the su pcrior wealth n| ihe people of the South ovo those of the North in proportion l<? their re spective niunhcrs , and tins, by eotupartn: the It.ss prosperous of the South with (h< most llouns'.itnj; of the North. Audi tlun 1 have shown the South to be lite most lot lunate in the distribution or equalization o wealth as well as in its acquisition. At ai events, 1 have rescued the controversy he tween the two sections from the control o hold assertion and slipshod declamation, am confined it to the umpirage of argument am document. There is a class of topics of a more iiitau giblc nature, but not less important, am which ->re much insisted on in this controver sy, thai now remain to he briefly considered It is urged, that religion and education an more prevalent and nourishing in the Norll than in the .South. It is true tiiat tiie font _r...... I<\.ir!^nfl mid !>. HI ruii^inii m AH,,? i .... . --_ law established, was extremely strict am self-deny inn, as that of Virginia, the Episcu pal, was then one of the most indulgent e Protestant sects. Hut it is well known tlia the Puritan character has been rapidly do generating and passing away. Jnleed, tlr forms of that faith are no longer dominant in their place, the Unitarians have prevail ed, and they are gaining ground rapidly ii New England. A change has occurred ii Virginia, but a change in the opposite direction. Instead of the Episcopalians, the Bap lists are predominant in Virginia. Thus, un dor the operation of their respective iuslitu lions, the religion of Massachusetts has re coded Irom one of the most strict, to one e the most relaxed vstems of the Protcstan faith, while Virginia has advanced from on of the most indulgent, to one of the stride forms of religious discipline. There arc n means of ascertaining the number of mem. bers in all the churches in the several Slates. Virginia has about 80,000 of Baptists alone; site has 30,000 Methodists,* and a larger proportion yet of Episcopalians than any other '! Stale. Altogether she must have her lull , proportion. But it is in education that the North claims ! ' 1 he great pre-eminence over the South. In j t(. Massachusetts, according to the census ol | *" 1840, there were but 4,448 white persons above the age of twenty, who could not read j and write, and in Virginia there were 58,7>7; in Ohio, there were 35.3G4; in Kentucky, 40.01G; in Illinois, 27,502; in Missis-J sip pi, 8,300. Thus it appears, that whilst i there are more than twelve times as manv illiterate persons in the oldest Southern, as I in the oldest Northern State the pmpor- j ti??n changes as we advance westward, j , until we find a greater proportion of ihein : in a new State of the Noilh than in one of the S-'Ulh. And thus it seems that in the New States, where children are | , not educated at public expense, and where, 1 i therefore their parents must provide for them, l the children o the South are heller cduea. ted, or rather, pcihaps it would secin. that I i the emigration from the North, is much more I ignorant than the South. Still, however, J r liio od<is of school instruction are decidedly 0 r with the North. This results from obvious j ; causes. The territorial area ol Virginia is - probably nine times as great as that of Mas- a i sachiHetl*. If. therefore, Virginia were (lis- j 11 inmcd to ad<>nt the common school system, j ; r 1 - n i u would require nine times the schoolhouscs ' j an i tcac.licrs, to all'ird the same convenieu- c r ces f'?r attending school that exist in Mas* !' T sachuselts.. Virginia is a thinly sell led, ug- " r ricuilutal Slate, intersected hy several ran* ? gus of mountains. In many places there ' 11 r could not he found ten scholars in ten miles j " i square. In such places, a population mi^ht j j he aide to live comfortably, but not to estab* j ; lish a school, or send their children abroad! s to board.ug schools. Hence, there must he ' r a considerable number without schools. In - commercial and manufacturing States, or : those of small farms and dense agricultural j, - population, this evil is not so much felt. i But Virginia has a system of oral instruc* | * - lion which compensates for the want of J 1 schools, and that is her social intercourse. ! v The social intercourse of the South' is probf ably much greater than that of any people j - that ever existed. There is certainly notliiuj; like the number of visits among the fam- ; s ihesof a city, or even the same square in a - city, as prevails in the country of the South. | >. And these visits art; not fashionable calls, ! r hut last for days and weeks, and ihev are ' ^ f j the great resources of the South for instruc- j | lion and amusement*. Ills true that persons iv j am ?m? rn?i*kt n? t* l I%.?t tli.ti* ?? /? fntnrhf In 111 Ilk D f 1( 1 COM* I i w i in;, ijiji tut v diu i.im-iu v v j converse. Tiiey au the occasions of in- j ( - | lorohanging ipmions and dilfusing intolli- J ti j genee; and l?> perforin ilie duties, to enjoy ! ' the pleasures of such intercourse, to please, to slime, and to captivate, requires a degree | e of mental culture which no custom ol the i , s Xortn so miifh duoiamls. Accordingly, the ' if South cxliihits the remarkable phenomenon j i- of an agricultural people, distinguished above | r, all others of the present day, l>v the elegance j s of their manners, and the intellectual tone il of their society. e The North excels in books. In hist??ry i s she has liuucrofi and Presleotl; in Poetry, Piryatit, llalleck, and Wluttier; in Criticism, ( f. Hverctt and ( banning. In sculpture she i 0 has produced a Powers. Her Franklin has ( 1 drawn tlic lightning from Heaven, and j ] ~ taught it to play harmlessly around our | very hearths?her Morse has even given ( {j letters to lightning, and lightning to her let- , 0 lord The North excels in the arts and - physical seituires, in inventions ami improvo0 ments. She excels in associative action, s not tncrciv lor railroads and manufactures, ( i- but for literary, benevolent, and religious obc jeets. I do not desire to detract one iota ' - from her exalted merits and high civilization. 1 ?? ..!?i ,.| ...i,,,. individual | Din hi mumiiiw i j e j action, the South excels. F??r a warm heart i * and open hand, lor sympathy of fcchnjg, li- | i- i didily of friendship, and lui?h sense o| honor; ' i- j for knowledge of the suhliine inechnnism ol j I man, and reason to direr! him, the South [ is superior ami when llie North comes into j \ action w::!i the South, man to man, in conn- 1 j i- nl or in the field, the "cuius of the South' r has prevailed from the davs of Jefferson to , - Calhoun, (Vom Washington to Taylor. And , r it is to the solitiidawhir.il the rural life of i| c the .South n!lord<, so favorable to reflection. ^ k and u is lo the elevated rural society of the < - South so favorable f?r the .study of human , f nature, that we must ascribe those qualities li of persuasion and self command Itv which j ( > luT statesmen and captains have moved the i k f public councils, and won so many a field, j * I I he abolition of African slavery in the South j I has be< u urued for many years hv a portion ' . of Northern people. And now its restriction j . to its resjienl territorial limits is the avowed j, j purpose of a most every Northern State. . . The basis on which this policy rests is the as- j -umptioii that slavery is sinful and unprofit- s L. able. The menus now relied on to arrest j , its future progress is not the persuasion of > t , the people nf the shareholding States, but j , I tin. m.mimci(ill r?.nver of the free Slates act* , i ^ r " V ! 1 j nig through ilv Federal Government. Sup- ' pose now the Smith ha.I a majority of votes, , ( f and were to announce its determination to , l arrest the progress of commerce and man- , . ufaetiires in conserjtiencc of their poverty, {, pauperism, crime, and mortality; what would he the sentiment everywhere fell in the North.' Why one of indignation, scorn, ( |: and resistance. Such does the South feel t ,| now! [7b be concluded. ; American Almanac. A jolly husband, not a thousand miles from Bangor, who had been on a "bit of a spree" J ,( was saluted hy his better-half on his return. , it with: "0, you hard hearted wretch! The has- ( e hand meekly replied that ho did not think his | r heart was very hard, for lie had been "souling , | o it" for the last forty-eight hours! < Remarkable Escape.?A friend informs s that among the passengers who came om I altitnore in the evenings tram of cars, n Tuesday, was a party of sailors who had een hired by the captain of the Georgciwn brigs. They were all about three leets in the wind, and it was \^jth difficul; that the conductor could keep them in icir scats. It so happened, however, that neofthe more boisterous of them succeedI in reaching the platform of one the cars, diile the train was going at the rate twenty lilesihe hour, and having maue an unintcnonal lurch, was thrown oft* the train upon a andhank, down vviiich lie rolled a distance of wentv feet. The person who witnessed 10 accident thought, as a matter of course, liat the sailor was killed, and he caused the ars to s!"p as soon as possible. On rein ning t'/ftic spot great was the surprise of lie passengers to meet the sailor "alive and irking*' who had been so unceremoniously rented. The fall lie received had complctey sobered him, and he was now puffing Ins ray aloiji for the purpose of resuming his ...? /.nil, iwnni-L' wnc *' IImvv l.ir is t to ihi: next station? I'm devlish thirsty, ltd want a horn."?National Intelligencer. Cholera Preventive.?Dr. Edwards id vises Ins friends of an easy and effectual node of securing Iheinselvcs front cholera. Ul they have to do is to wear a flannel belt round the body. The writer of this can mifirtn this experience. In 1832 the writer if litis run the gauntlet n| cholera in foiircitjs and though often uieuaced with the yinptoins of the pestilence, esraped from it it virtue of a flannel band, winch he wore light and day, and changed daily. Iox. Baltimore Sun. S am: of Government Vessels.?Yester. lay Messrs. Florance and Taylor disposed if the two remaining United States steahits by public auction. The Fashion, which tost near $10,000. was sold for 818,000. The Telegraph, which cost 818,000, was mid at 800(30. The names of the buyers ,vere not made public. N. O. Bulletin Juiic 6. Ancient Musical Instrument.?The Kityptian flute was only a cow's horn, with tidy three or four holes in it; and their harp ir lyre, had only three strings. The Jewish i umpels that made the walls of Jericho fall lown, were only ram's horns; the psaltery ivas a small triangular harp or lyre, with l*'otwl ufie ciriK'l' ivtlli nil iron ?IIU .111 uiPi >i uo omit .1 ...... ?... lecdlc slick; tlieir sacluit resemble llie ijjOULAiaUu Ui ihn jinisimL dayf a. sjye rf* till? timbrel \vn*5 P ln?nt???rii?o, ntul tic dutciuior a horizontal liarp with wire it rings, and struck with a slick like the psnlery?such as are seen about the streets of London in the present day. Imagine the lisoord produced bv 200,000 of such instru- ! incuts while playing at the dedication of Solomon's temple.?Scientific American. Wii.n Cat, tixn Scminole.?A letter from Cross 'l imbers, in Arkansas, published in the Little Rock Banner of the 29ih tilt., contains the following passage : " The In. Jians begin to assume a savage appearance about here, they all paint and wear scalplocks; we met two the other day almost entirely naked, with the exception of a Blanket and a small piece of cloth about their loins; they were armed with bows and arrows, rode with sandals, and in lien of a bridle had a piece ofr -pe about the lower jaw of ihc horse, tliey belonged to the Wachila tribe. About two miles beyond Little River ivo met the celt bratcd Seminole chief Wild Cat, with twelve warriors, all painted < Hid in their war dress ; they had plenty of ivhiskev which sold for twenty cents per jinf, and were ol course very drunk. Old Wild Cat is a fine looking Indian, hut he has j countenance, that would do honor to an nip of salan. IIis neck, wrists, armsaud waist, were encircled with silver plates ??;ven j inn at Washington, and engraved with his [ mine. The current report here is. that he ; s in league will! the Cnmanclies, and appearances seem to favor it. A lew weeks igo lie was at Fort Smith with some of his people, and there bought a quantity of gun lowder and whiskey ; with these he returned iikI is now on Ins way to the Grand Prairies; ivhat his re.il intentions are is not known, mi I think that lie intended nothing good. Jne tiling is certain, as all the report" rs coninn, that the Camaiiches and other tribes ire on the offensive. Game here is very tea roe. 1 should almost say extinct, if you cx:ept sonic squirrels and a few deer we have iceu since leaving Fort Smith. Tmtni: Coats in onb.?They have invened in London a sort of coat that is. at once, luce dts for a gentleman. It is called a 1 Nicoll.' The owner, when the day is cold, j >uts on a warm winter coal; next day the i .veatiier may be very mild; he then, by a most ' simple contrivance, can remove the warm I iningand wear a light summer paletot; again, i his said lining, when detatched of itself forms j i rcadingordrcssitit: jacket nl exceeding com-1 oil. Yet, with all this nnvellv the tout en \ 'cothlr. of the paletot is as ever; indeed, no I Iillerenee can he observed in its exterior, .vliich presents the same graceful appearluce. How to Ki:ki' Dkv.?Dow, Jr.. is one d'the dnjrst chaps we know of. Here is no of ii:s <Iry morsels, furnishing a little rood advice lo those who arc troubled willi 1 super quantity of cold water. Sonic of nir readers may think of it when caught out n a rain storm: "To keep continually dry, always wear in oil cloth dress, carry a good umbrella, md practice rum-drinking. The first two irliclcs arc only essential in protecting the intsidc from superabundant moisture, but [he latter keeps the inside dry as a stove, aipc. I never knew a drinker but be was uternnlly dry in all kinds of weather, lie goes to bed dry .and gets up dry, and keeps himself dry through the day. It is not to <l< be wondered at; fir how can he be otherwise than dry when he keeps the blue blaze ,ri eternally burning in his bosom, by pouring ^ dis'illed destruction down his throat forever. " In fact, my friends, the more he drinks the ?' dryer he grows. On his death bed he cries 1 for more drink, for the last time, and then oj he goes out of the world as thirsty as if he had lived on codfish all the days of his life. u We think Down's receipt for drying, in e this case is rather a scorcher. ;t P Tnn spice of life.?It won't do for a ,| man, when a horse kicks him, to kiek back a in return. \ It won't do for a politician to imagine p himself elected to the gubernatorial chair, .\ while the hack counties are not heard from.' a It won't do to extol the beauty of a lady's u hair before you know that it did not once belong to another lady's head. It won't do to crack jokes on old maids in s the presence of unmarried ladies, who have l' missed the aire of fori v. - It won't do to plunge into a law-suit re. lying wholly on the justice of your cause 11 and not equipped before hand with brim- ^ ilung purse. ^ It won't do for a chap to imagine a giri is indifferent to him, because she studiously a avoids him in compmy. a It won't do when in a hurry, to cat soup a Willi a two pronged fork, or try to catch Hies v with a fish-net. n It won't do to be desperately enamored of a a pretty face until you have seen it at the breakfast table. It won't do for a man to bump his head < against a stone post, unless he conscientious* ( !y believes his head is the hardest. 1 a "Mother," said an interesting little bov one ' morning at breakfast, -1 want some miik so a bad. Why don't father buy a cow? Old f Mrs. Wilson's got one now." "Be patient," 1 said the affectionate mother. Mr. Wilson ^ has joined I he Sons of Temperance, and I j hear 'em say I lint your father has a notion f of joining too; then we will soon be able to j buy us a cow." f . f A club of women in Paris who contend for the widest and most extended right, have a code of by-laws. One of the article runs t in this wise : I "Any young woman who finds herself I - i ? _i 11 i married to a man ot ji/iy years 01 age, snuu have a perfect right to swap him off for two I of twenty five yeanreaclt." How to Obtain Puke Air.?The New Yoik Sun says ; "Dissolve one pound of cblor--1-. -r 1;-r- '-*-i KTtlirnw rf Pinter pup gftljpp,, of thrown into a nink ?very cftiv ft J noon will keep the surrounding pure and healthy; or, il preferable, half a pecli. of quick lime thrown into the sink every week will havo the same effect. "In crowded or damp rooms the air may he purified by keeping a saucer full of chloride of lime or a plate full of unslackcd lime, on the floor. As soon as the hmo slacks it is unfit for use in rooms hut may lie used to purify gultors or sinks. The chloride of lime when it has lost I lie odor which distinguishes it from common lime, is no longer useful as a purifier. "When it is desirable to obtain the purifying virtue of chloride of lime in large quantity, sprinkle a little vinegar upon it. Oil of vitriol sprinkled upon chloride of lime will disengage the chloride .still more rapidly hut this should he done only under the direction of a physician as the chloride gas when breathed in large volume has a very injurious effect upon the lungs. The safest way to use the chloride of lime in a room is to keep it in a saucer." [licit and Low Classes.?The following is from the Philadelphia Ledger: "A high and low class" certainly do exist in all cities. Hut who constitutes the high class? I Why the otderly, the sober, the quiet, the law t l^vi.w, -m l ih.? npace nreserving citizens, with r*7? r o out reference to rich or poor. Were it other- t wise, society could not hang together fornn : hour. Who constitute "the low class" hut the \ law.breakers, the peace-disturbers, the riotous, ( the brawl ng inebriates and the incorrigible : loafers. Not the poor, for there are at least as : many poor among the sober and quiet portion j of the community, as rich. The distinction of \ high and low," in classes, when properly fie- t filled, involves no invidious sarcasm, ignoiniui- i ous degradation on the poor. Who constitute i the police? The poor. Who make up the ranks t of the mili'ia? The poor. If the Sheriff calls r out his p issesse eomuiitatus, who obeys the call? j Not the rich hut the poor. Who light the bat- ! lies of the country in war? The poor. Who 'i produce property, and then protect it, hut the * poor? We have hut two classes, the idle and / the indo-ti ions, and the latter only discharge all I the duties ol good citizens. I Tun Oliiust Max i.x Amkrica.?George Ruckhart living in Harian county, Ivy., is one of the most extraordinary men of the age, and perhaps is the oldest man now known to be ( living. Ho is one hundred and fourteen years i old; was born in (Jermantown, Pennsylvania. I and lias lived for several years in a hollow f sycamore, tree, of such large dimensions as ?o < contain his family consisting of a wife and live t or six children, bed and bedding, cooking ? utensils, &r. The exploring agent of the | American Bible Society, in his travels in Ken- t lucky, recently lliund him, and aUo saw several i respectable gentlemen who had spent one or < more nights with liiiu in this singular home. < lie professes to hold the Lutheran faith being ol t a German family, and received the Bible with t peculiar manifestations of gratitude. What a \ life lor one man to spend! What a long train ( of events has marked this century through which ho lias drawn tin* tliivad ?1 existence. < Bible Society Record, for May. Tub (ioli) Dollar-?The Philadelphia Rul- j rtin says that nearly on hundred thousand of ( the new one dollar pieces have neon already , coined at the mint. The first one was struck , on the Silt ult. , The Bachelor's Difficulty?"You have | only yourself to please," said a married friend < i.. nl/l li-wn lor. "True." replied he, "hut ' jon cannol fell what n. difficult task 1 find it? 11 Thf. last op the Red Coats.?The Loni )n papers briefly announce the death ofthe (Jest commissioned officer ih the English ar* ly, Field Marshal General Sir George Nugent, I. C. 8., at his seat at Great Martov His agA as ninety two. He entered the army as em gn in the 21st regiment in May 1773, when 0 was only seventeen years old. He dune i'h his regiment to oOr snores id the early part f the revolution, and served in the eipedUknl nderSir Henry Clinton and General Vaughn p the Hudson in 177?, when Forts Monigom* ry and Clinton were taken, and Esopus, or a* is now called, Kingston, was burnt. HA irticipated in other battles during'lhe war, at te peace in 1782 had risen to rank oflieuten.. nt-colonel. He $erved under the Duke of ork in Holland, and was a short time in the eninsula. He was one of the fourteen field* Jarshals of England at the time of bis de^h* nd the last British officer who fought against s in the revolution. Tin: Pine-thee Iksect.?Sortie weeks since ays the Wilmington Chronicle, we mentioned at the insect which was so destructive last n?i? Ia tha ninn nana !n tk!? M tPO?! Ot nlKof arts of the country had re-commenced opera* ions with the warm weather* We have re* enily, to oar very great salisfadliorii betfn in,irmed that the shoW of the middle of last month ail the effect, as is supposed, of checking thtt vil in a great degree, and, in conjunction with outlier cause, will, it is generally supposed; rrest it altogether. This other cause is the Pfiearnnce in immense swarms, of a large $y; t'hich attacks and kills the tree insect. Tbid nay scum a strange statement, but it is, as wd re assured by men of veracity, strictly true. Gunpowder versus Cholera. -WKrtStt* Jholera visited London in 1832 and '83,'the ity authorities tied small quantities of gunpo'w* ler tightly in strong paper and fired tba itleyi ind densely populated portions of the great ineropolis. The concussion disturbed1 the 'tfirf ind odor from the powder displaced obnokious 'ffluvia and purified the atmosphere'. , It Was ised in theatres, churches and schobf mmms, ind was found to be a powerful dislnfectiog igent, the smell remaining upWards of 24 hours ri the building. It was used in the. lazaretos .fi'.;?oia on/t \fntin a?/t ivofl tried fti* Padm in' 1833, and also In Montreal. In (be jatofchr :annon were placed in the narrow street* and ired with blank calridges. T. D. Stewart, op Mobile.?This person,A-ho was accidentally wounded by a maskef mil, while getting out of a railroad car, ii} ftief flowery, during the Aslor Place riot iii New1 Fork, is recovering.^ The ball, a very large one, las been extracted. The description of the vound and operation, contained in the New fork Evening Post, makes it almost miracuous how he escaped ihstnnt death. Tbe bat! mtering the neck and passedjb||^ween two pf 'ran Inch of each other, and lodged in tba bodk, ibout two inches from the surface. The SU ending surgeon, who took ti <WT", s"4Yi itiat' TTTH ctTPTies were separated by the (bite of the'ball, itid thus escaped being severed, a thing which Ami Id not probably occur more than once in..* million of cases. "Chivalry of South carolina.***"-The Rutherford Banner has an article affecting to idiculo the "Chivalry of South Carolina."? This we think is in exceeding bad taste, and nust recoil upon its author. Whatever ni'ay jo the political errors of South Carolina, no me can deny that she has sufficiently vindtcacd her character for genuine chivalry. If ber tervices in our revolutionary struggle are' forgotten, the hlood of her sons so freely pburcd >iit on the plains of Mexico, comes up'aftesh i) attest heroic and patriotic devotion. "Aninis opibusque paraii" is her proud motto. Who Aill say that she has ever disgraced it? We iopo then, to hear no more "me&htHgless and mntemptihle twaddle" in ridicule of her chiv* ilry.?LincoliUon (N. C.) Courier. The Decency Party.?The venerable* Editor of the Washington Union, is* a* sore horn in the side of the no-party administration. Hie presses belonging to the party, in which is ' * 1 " II -I? .1 ika nniinlpv O he IOIJTICJ "ail I HO UCCDUb; w. >uu iro availing him on all-sides with the most >'iru!<Mit abuse, but the old Roman, in no wimr launted, puts the whole yelping pack at deiiinee, and maintains his ground with an energy iiid spirit which would do credit to a much ,*oung<T man. The National Whig, (the (kmrite organ of Gen. Taylor) has the following lelicate morceau of whig decency and refine* uent. Says the Whig, "Speaking of the c/yr.g abuses of the administration, we think hose of the whimpering dotard of the Union ire the g/patest." To which- the Cincinnati ' Inquirer ad Is tho following comment: 4'If dr. Ritchie of the WaNhington Union is the old granny' thai the Whig presses are imprecating him to be, what must be thought of the hrcr. whig editors that it requires to match dim." The Enquirer is into these whig worthies ua eel" or so?if not more. [Palmetto Stale Banner. i lienor II. U. Ondkrdonk. In the Kpis opal convention sitting at Philadelphia on the norning of the 17th, a resolution was offered iv the Rev. Dr. Coleman, expressive of the lalisfaction that would be afforded to the cleri. a! and lay members of the convention and to lie church generally in the diocese of PeonivIvmjuh. hv the removal of the disabilities im wised upon the Right R?v. Henry U. Onderloiik by the home of bishops: inasmuch as hereby the declining years of this eminent and If voted servant of the church would be con* ioled. and his many excellent productions justly sleemed by posterity, while such an ecclesiasieal act would bo in accordance with the hea cniv charity taught by the great Apostle of the Jentiles. The resolution passed almost without a dissettling voice. "To erh is human."?A clergyman having udiilgnd too freely in filling up his glass, went ? ?_r.u?.u inin,Ka nnlnit. and having given MItJ II ima? luv ? .| , nit a hymn to his congregation, eat down; the m-lody of the sacred song soon lulled him to sleep, and ho continued for some time to play i treble base symphony with his nose. At length one of his deacons ascended to the sa. ;red desk, add told him the hymn teas out.? 'Well," says he. "Fill it up again, and charge it to Jim limes." ' . ' " \ , M