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All Obituary Notices exceeding six lines, and Communications recommending Cand dates for public offices or trust-or pulling axhibitions, will be charged as Advertise . nents. JAll letters by mall must be paid to i: - sure punctual attendance. Annual Fair of the South Carolina Institute, For the Promotion of 4 rfs, Mechanical Inge nuily and industry. It' The FIRST ANNUAL. FAIR of the above Institute will be held in Charleston, con noncing on Tus.so.tv 20th November next, and continue open during the week. Specimens of ART, INGENUITY, ME. CIIANICAIL, SKILL and lNDUSTRY of ov' try description, is solicited for the Exhibition, from all the Southern States, and liE.\I U Ms will be awarded to those presenting the best spo einnens. As this is the first effort made in the South ern States to advance the Mechanic Arts, by means of an Annual Fair similar to those that have proved so beneficial to the Northern Mechanics, the Board of Managers earnestly solicit the co-operation of all who feel an in terest in the prosperity of the South, and ap peal to every Mechanic, Manufacturer, and all persons engaged in pursuits ofskill and in dustry of whatever.description, to send some specimen to this Exhibition, and they hope that every district in this State and of our sister States will be represented at the Fair. All those who intend sending articles for exhibition, will please give notice to L. M. IIATCII, Chairm:n Cosmmittee of Arrange nents, at as early a day as possible, and every Specimen sent will be carefully attended to and returned after the Exhibition. OFFICERS OF THE INSTITUTE. WM. G itEGG, President. . WM. KlitK\VOO), 1st VicePresident. VM. M. I.AW''ON, 1d Vice 'resident. E. C. .IONlES, Secretary. 1. S. GRIGGS, 'reasurer pro le(m. I F.rCTOrs. Joieph Walker. C. I). Carr. G. N. Rleynolds, Jr. 11. 1). Walker. J. Hi. Tay .or. F. .J. Poreher. E. W. Edgerton. 1). N. Ml'ltatosh, W. G. Desaussure. - '. V. ltichrdsum. L. M. Iatch. Wmtn. Lebby. Oct 6 51 tf BUILDING. The sub-cribers respectfully inform their fel low citizens that they havo uaociated theis selves it hu,.iness for tihn purpse of undertasking and sexscsr:So contracts for limalings of any diecription and carpentess work i general. We have mude such urrangtsemts as t,, ena ble us to haild for our friends and eaapl..yers, completing their work in every depurtment, puttmng them to no inconveninco whatever; merely having to give us an idea of what de scription of building they reepaire-in a reason able time receive th'o keys and fork over the needful. Ve posses ample mneans of funi-hing the best Lumsber, [tricks, Ssmhwork. Peasnts, Limne, etc., etc. Together witha good workmn andu many years experiensce as praetieal msechsanics we are determninedl as fair cs osur hub~ sphere extendals to wipe off'the reproachsat tachaed to te nobslo old South Carolisa-and arouse her flip Vatn Winakle slumabers, anad leave Californsia to take care of thersolf. G. C. JO)NEN, T.' J. COGIILAN. Aug. 29, 1849. 44 2 PAINTING. The subscrsber having just returnsed fronm Charleston, is now fully prepared to Execute, in a hinished style of WVorkmanshslip-ansy Pu'a. .tig, either Plaits or Ornamaemac-ssd hsope by Isis constinued exejrtionss to plese, to maerit n, conhtiutnce of patronago frost his friendas oand ihe public generally. A LBERT If. GR A Y. Sum terville, Oct. 8, 50 .3 Plantation for Sale. The subscriber olyers for sale his Planata tio~n ins Sumrter District, two mniles sousth of 13tateshburgh, consistinag of a tract of sevens hutndred and fifty acres (750,) a largom portion Oak and Ifickory asnd asdmirabaly adapted to the cualtivation of (ottonI. Th'lere is ans excel. Jenst D~welling I Iouse--good out buildinsgs stable and brarns-anda houases for thse accostm mnodation of forty or fifty hnegroes. Thec goodl lands and sdecidled health of the plaice comabitne to rendler it a desirable purchase. For terms apply to W. J. REES, Jr. Statesburgh, Sept 19, 1819. 46 tf Wanted to Hire 100 Hands, To work on the Rail Road, these hsands will hoeemployed out in tihe Pine woods suntil after frost, when they will ho pnlacedI on the side of thse Rliverswvamtp, thse work is ail high and dry, and thme htands will lbe suapplied withs an abutndatnce of wha~lesomeo food anal dry tents. Wanges good, and pai ' in Cash smonth ly, or as the ownser may prefer. Enrqiuire of C. S. Mellett osn the work near Manachester, or of the seubsacribser, in Sumter ville. 1). II. McLA URIIN. Aug. 20. 1849. 43 tf Groceries! Groceries!! "COMPETITION IS THE LIFE OF TRADE" So say FRIERSON & PRINGLE who take this method of introducing their nodest pretentions to the notice of "the dear people" of Sumter District. A "new broom sweeps clean," and for the purpose of making a clean sweep of all their Groceries, they have re solved to sell at such prices that will tempt all persons to buy who honor them with n call. Every variety of Groceries for Cash or Barter-in part as follows: 70 Pieces Dundee Bagging (best) 44 in, 17 cents. 50 Coils Rope, 12 cents. 100 Sacks Salt. 3000 lbs Bacon Sides. 1000 lbs. Best Hanis. 15,000 Segars. Nails 0 1-4. Sugar (brown,) 0 1.4 to 10 ets. " (white.) " Double refined. 50 Sacks of CofTec, Cuba, Rio, Java, 9 1. to 12 1.2. Molasses, Candies, Prunes, Pickels, Go shen Butter, Cheese and all "that's nice.' Picase call at the tirocery of FRIERSON &. PRINGTLE. Opposite W Vmndhapm's IfOtel NSumtecrille, S. C Sept 25 45 tf Splendid Assortment, T. J. SOLOMONS & CO. IInve just received and are now opening thei NEW STOCK of FALl and WINTEI GOOl)S,consisting, of DRY GOODS. GIO(:E RilES, IIATS, CAPS, lBON NETS, BOOTS SHOES, IIARDW A RE and CUTLERY, als a fine mmsortmnent of Ready Made Clothing, All of which they nre ofTring at the vEn i.owasrT Tuis-onm which they can be sold ii this .\t urlt.. They invite their FillENDS and the COM 11 US ITY to give them a call and examino fo thnselves before purchasing elsewhore. Oct. 10 50 if For Sale, As I am desirous of removing, I ofyer fo sale my Plantation situated on Santee, tei mniles frot Nelson's Fury. 'T'lhe said Planta tion contains about. Two Thousand Fou lundred Acres, six hundred cleared any under good fenceing, On the preamises is good comfortable tvo story DW ELILIN( well finished and all necessary out building& price Four thousand )oll/ars, and I wil throw-in my whole stock consisting of Ong hundred head of Cattle seventy or Eight head of sheep, the same of hogs anl sixty o seventy head of (Goats. For any further in formation address the sub.;criher iWright BliufI' Post-Olice. VILIA.\ M. DAVIS. Sept. 190h, 19-19. 47 3am. Head Quarters .111th lImor. 8. C. M. ) Oz.nroiun Si: r. 25, 119. ( 'he Forty-founri Ie goinent S. C. Mihtin wvilh parade at Tinimmons 'Town on Saturda' the (27th) twenty-seventh day of Octohe next, armed and equiped as the law direct: for drill and review. 'le cominnissiolled and nol-cointnissonef Otfliers will mmeet on the day previous a the above stated place for dri!l and instruc An i nspection of ariaes will take plat iliunineIh mte'y after liarl Bri.hd er Geneira I S:..i. It. Chmandlerauf Staff are respectfully invited to attend tIh perade. Bv Order of COL.. F..,M. MEL.LETT", W. T1. WILDElt, Adjt. Oct 2 49 4t School Boks, Of Every' IDescripti->n friomi the Elemenmtar Speller, to L.at in anid G reek, inc luinimg Stdi tionmary of all kinds, for Sale by A. J. & P. MOSES. Oct 2 419 tf Gin Bands. 1000 Feet 4 inch Cipper riveted Gi Bandsh. (Oil Floor Clothi, Indlia Rtubber Cloth Brus sels Carpeting, together waithI a full aImssort imenut of Carriaige Trinning ms, Oils, Painm Vmmrnish &c. For Sale tiy A. J. & P. M~OSES. Oct 2 40'. tf On Consignment. AX lot of v'ery superior Woh i'n G oods from the Salim Fictory ini Northi Crolin wii~ ar rated free from abmolit ion amnd chleml.rau. Just received amnd for sale lhv fBROWN, LEE & CO. 10 Sept. 1819. 410 tf 100 SACKS Ill.l. SALT. .Just re c:eived anid for maet c by Sept 4 415 tf 20 COll.s Fil RST QI'~A.\llTV BAL I R()P E. Just reeiivedl nod( for sale lhv IBROWN, l.EI & (O. 40 PIECES DUtND)E LIlNlN hAG GING. Jtust received and for sale by 1lROWN, LEE & CO. Sept 4 45i If Notice Is hereby given that appilicat ion will hi made to thme Legislature at itsm next Session i< charter a Bank, to he located at Sunmtervilh ini the Dhistrict of Sumter. Sept. 41 45 3m Wanted to Hire or Purchase A good Cook, Wash~ler an td I ronr~ fi whom a fair prie will he gien m. She mm lbe caipable anid well recoi metndeid. Enmtpmmri at this cOfie. Au. 29. I OANCER CURED: No Cure----No Pay ! Dr J. C. HICKS would respectlully inform the citisens of South Carolina and other States. that lie has pormanently locatel himself in Sum ter District. four miles from Sumtorville, where he is prepared to practice in the art of removing and healing that formiduble disease, cancer; with out the use of the knife, ill porions who may he afflicted with this dangerous disease and wish his aid, will do well by calling on him. There are miany gentlemen In this State anti others, of high respectability anti utoderstanding who will testify to the officucy of his practice. Ie hits also been very successful in removing other diseases of the nervous system. Such as Rheu. tmatistn, Dyspepsia, sick and nervous head-ache puhonary atrections, Liver ceompla:nt, spittal affections, Tooth-ache, C'ontractions of the mu. sels, Pains, Weakness, in buck or joints, weak, sore. or iuflanmed cyes, scald head, teter, piles, dysentary, &., We the undersigned take this method of re. commending Dr. J. C. flicks to the publi-, as 3a man well woithy of patronage in his profession as a Cancer Doctor, from gener,d opinion anmd from our own observations we have been accu. toued to think cancers were far tho most port neurabin, after having attained aiy groat nee or size, but we have seen and known camcers cured by him in a very short time, which se.otned to defy all human skill, even the sig:ht of which drew from beholders remarks of fear and dispair; hence we gladly embrace this nmuta of recorn mending him to the commmnity, thinkim, we shall thereby co:fer a favor on mamtny, and taint the cause of humanity. 'hillip A. It. Cahoon. 1 D Nixingtonm, N C, John N. Iiutt, M D Woodville, N C Thomas S. Iloskins, sheriti' of ('howamn, N C William I. Skinner, I'ustnnster of EJcntui,, N C r Thomas Wilson Ilartford. N C Member of the Legislature. It. M. Graham, Sumter District S C .Sohn Ilipp, Newberry District, S C V.. A. Ilipp, Newberry District- S C Denj. Mitchell, Sunterville, S C Stephen Mitchell, Surnter I)istrict, S C Samuel C. Mitchell. Sumter Ditrict, S C ieddick Langston. Dairlingtont District, S C Ervin Laigatot, DItrlington District, : C Samuol Mloore. Wilinmsburg l)strict, S C. John Wilson, Darlington C. It. S C r 'Thoumas Stephenson, )arlington District, S C John Countnoy, Darmgton District, S C Sarah A McLollanid, Guhumtha, S C Andrew W. McLelland Columbia. C r We the undersigned having received great personal relief fron the mnysterious scienco of )r. flicks, take treat pleasure in stating that r so far as we kn'>w, or have henrcd, that he has given entire sattufct on; we are fa'y Sttisfied as to the truth of the science, and are induced tron what we have seemn and hoard, to reciot '}nmend h imn to the favorable consideration of the public. And would further state, that this sci enco is worthy of an investigaition; niet if per. sons would look into it, instead of standitg aloof, they would be comtpelled to reconmmend it ts a r mnighty instrument placed in our it:uids by the creator with which to benefit andi releve our fel low creaitures. Sarah A. .leLellttnd, Jatcksou Newman, S C. 3litchteIl. It. II. 'VTwdale. Sanuel .\loore, ll, z.-kiah lirunson, John Courtney, llen.j. .l,tlhkt.l. All persons who may be atll;ceted with t',a dreadful dise.ae Cancer etc. rknd are dis.<p'd to think tios a humuikg, can sttisfv theta eliems b tktldre3sing a letter to any or all of t.,e ;t-nhtlemei whose aninittres ire attuched to that atov'e cer tificates. J. C. lilt lS. [11' Persons coting from a distance to Shm r tervalle to see the Luctor can ahways he accon itolt,-d with t conveyane to his residence i applying to Mr. W1'ebb Clark, or Mr. John China Oct. 3, 18-11. 4 3t Fare Reduced to $20 from Charleston to New-York, THlE GiREAT .\l1Ill. RM II 'E FR.\M (C1IAIMLES 'ON, S. C, IE1A VI NG tha Whart at ti foot Of latu. rens-st. daily at 3, p. n. after t he ,rriv:iI of tht Sotttti'rn cars, via Vl ..lIN;''(. a; WE I.)ON, N. C. l'T:IElIlShIvRt;, 1ill. 1ONI), to W\Sh ItNG TON, '. \A h'I. - t t (stotkners of this huke, trIt~ Chrle..tIon tI W\ihingtoni, arc itt irst rate contdtiont, amt arett navigtedt bty wvell known'k attul experiencere omane rs, andk~ thle rail rorls are mt titte or d :er, theoreby sekenring both I stely and dispatch A TIlIlROUG1 ICK EItT~i h;iving~ alreada li hetn i operationt will be co: n)tnue onl ant: attest' I th first oft Oct . I1'49 , as a permtanet ::r. -rattgement frttin Charle'st:,n to New ~ or'k - P Iassentgce avaittg themsevs1.IC truot, wd : , htave thle option either to cnutinte n)1 .ishn delay' thiro~aub the ro'tut or o'therwi.e. to - iri'nce. Ily this rouht, trav.'lhk.:I i~ . thte Ste:kner to Woh'ioin, n4 lhkewIe onI Ih (ch:ktge' of cars. at the' m',r:'hate' p . n' For ot her inflorm:alti m nitire of At thte Anierik'can I1l01 c, Chat~rleston.: S. C. iAlay 1) 41t lv Notice is h'reby' gi..on, tha t ap~dIcat in w!!! heI tmadehr to te Lei'I. unre ' *'..ts npxt ress:.3 for ant Ac t of 13ne1.rpra oni3"lama IChutrch-. . oiL lOWI !EN.) ~ For Sa~ A iirst rate yunig I I()RSI acnstmed ti udraintg, hd ither skigle or duble barntess. For termts apply alt this otlico. 25 Scyt, 1'W9. -IN tf Bagging Rope and Twine. .Jmnst received a largol supp~lly of IIAGG(I NG, iO~I' tund TW'~INE. For Satle hvy I ~ A. .1. & i. NlI)SI> Instt received anrd for) .t' 1le b RRO\VN. l".tI:& . ' [From the Southern Cultivator.] PRACTICAL HINTS. Mr. Editor,-If you wish your lard to be as whito and as pure as the driv en snow, take out all the skinny sub stances from amongst it: soak it for three days, changing the water every twenty-four hours; then scour and scour and scour again the kettle in which it is to be tried, and during the process of trying, stir it so constantly that it cannot burn. Tin, or earthen ware vessels, in which to store it away, are infinitely preferable to wooden ones. In clearing land, do not have your grubbing hoe handles more than tnree feet long. The shorter the handle, the smaller the circle which the tool is part ly to describe, and consequently the quicker the strike is made. Moreover, the hand is compelled to stoop; there by enabling him the more readily to ascertain the exact location of the root. With a grubbing hoe which has a three foot handle, I can clear five acres in the same time that with a five foot handle it would take me to clear three. Horses and mules, when turned up on a pasture, should always be tied to gether, two and two, with a five foot halter. They feed just as well-they are more easily caught, or driven up, and I have never known them, when thus c(onlfined, to indulge in any of the vici-us propensities which so many are addicted to, such as tearing down fen ces, chasing and pawing colts and calves, &c. It is a good rule, to require your little negroes to be brought into your presence every Sunday morning, wash ed, dressed and combed clean. By way of inducement to bring them up more readily, you can serve out their breakfist to them with your own hand. Diarrhcca frequently visits us an epidemic. When it first makes its ap pearance on a plantation, its progress may be elfectually arrested by the use of the sweet potato. This esculent is, par excellence, the thing for negro children. When it is much used, the two diseases which sweep off more young negroes than all others (worms and diarrhoa) are rarely ever known. In purchasing negroes, particular notice should be given to the appear anee of the teeth, skin, hc. A negro whose teeth are much decayed and covered with tartar, whose face wears blotehes, and the palms of his hands are dry and husky, is sure to be unheal thy',. D.inJoIns. Montgompry co, Ala. Tue NEW Co-rox.-'Prol'le Pome y anat."--Last year the Mobile pa pers 1)'''im'd i notices of this new Cot tn, which induced us to formh a deter rmination to see it growing, and make a report to our readers, based upon per sonal examination. Accordingly we took occasion a few days Sitce to ride out to Ced ar G rove,' the platation of Ge~neral G. 1). Mitchell, situated in this coiunty, a! uout fourteen miles North cast of Vicksburg; anad in his fields we saw the 'prolific pomlegranate' in valri ous stages of growth, and can conscien eiousl y report so far as we a-e able to judge, itis an eminently superior vari ety of the Cottn plant. T1he stalk grows fromit four to six feet htigh and is neryjits as wecll as thicker, and snerthan~i the stalk of the common plant. The branches and stems are very numiierouts, and are so fruitful as to pre :;'t to thei eyes; a literal mass of s gures and tolls. WVe selected a spe eneni at randol'm, and countedl one imadred and( hiity squiares and bolls; :md on an uothier an id larger stalktog scaree!y abve '.e vee we conted tvwo huindredl andi lify sursand bells. a one hbor b.aniich a foot long, wo saw v t as line sqae and boils as we ever ex~:isi- rn onJ I anothecr limb "ut i een inches1V in length, there were oety-three e-;eellent bulls and squar:. Wedid not eclect these facts show, btwe found theme in a very lar'e and by no mieans a rich field, over the whole extent of which the 'prolific p)omIegran ate' displayed its singular frutitfulness ini a mianner at once delight fuil to the eye. General Mitchell in formed us, that this singular membel)r oif the gossypiumn family produces bet ter mi proportion on poor1 than on rich soil; and we had occasion to observe v'erificatins of this statement. The staple is said by those who have criti cally exatm;ined it, to be excellent, 'm ore 1beau tifl~ and silky thani the best pe tit rulIf.' So sysa Mbilel itnr who had the specimid bdfoeobhii"Wheni he wrote." We are not sh experi nced agricu turist, and shall not; .therefore, aftempt to contrast, the 'prolific, ponegranate with the various other now , -varieties which are now claiming. the, attention of planters. But its superiority in pro ductivoness to the common cotton, with an excellent specimen of which we com pared it, is very plainly evident;, it Will certainly yield a great deal more on any land, the difference, as above re marked being greater on the poorer quality of soil. 'The poet Campbell, soon after the birth of his first child, wrote as follows to a near friend! The passage teems with all the tender fervor of a mother's heart: Our first interview was when he lay in his little crib in the m'idst of white muslin and dainty lace, prepared by Matilda's hands, long before the stran ger's arrival. I verily be'ieve that a lovelier babe was never smiled upon by the light of -leaven. He was breath ing sweetly in his first sleep; I durst not awaken him, but ventured one kiss. He gave a faint murmur, and opened his azure lights. Since that time he has continued to grow it grace and in stature. I can take him in my arms but stilf his good nature and his beauty are but provocatives to the affection which one must not indulge; he cannot bear to be hugged, he cannot yet stand a worrying. Oh! that I were sure ho would live to the day when I could take him on my knee, and feel the strong plumpness of childhood waxing into vi gorous youth. My poor boy! shall I have the ectsacy of teaching him thoughts and knowledge, and recipro city of love to me? It is bold to ven ture into futurity so far? At present his lovely little face is a comfort to me; his lips breathe that fragrance which is one of the loveliest kindnesses of nature that she has given to infants; a sweet ness of smell more delightful than. all the treasures of Arabia. What adora ble beauties of God and nature's bounty we live in without knowing! How few have ever seemed to think an infant beautiful! But to me there seems to be a beauty in the earliest dawn of in fancy, which is not inferior to the at tractions of childhood, especially when they sleep. Their looks excite a more tender train of emotions. It is like the tremulous anxiety we feel for a candle newly lighted which we dread going outs CHILDREN OF THE POOR.---Poor peo ple, said a sensible old nurse to us once, do not bring up their children; they drag them up. No one has time to dandle the darling, no one thinks it worth while to coax it, to soothe it, to toss it up and down, to humor it. There is none to kiss away its tears. It grew up without the lullably of nurses, it was a stranger to the fondle patient, the hushing caress, the attracting niov clty, the costlier play thing, or the cheap er off-hand contrivance to divert the child, the p rattled nonsense, (best sense to it,) the wise impertinences, the wholesome lies, the apt story inter posed, that puts a stop to present suff erings, and awakens the passions of young wonder.--Charles Lamb. SonE~R ADVICE.--Lastly, if length of days be thy portion, make it not thy expectation. Reckon not long upon life, but live always beyond thy ac count. He that so often surviveth his expectation, liveth many lives, and will hardly complain of the shortness of hia days.---Time past is gone like a shadow; make time to conic present; conceive that near which may be far off; approxi mate thy last times by p resent- appre hensions of thoem; live like a neighbor unto death, andl think there is but little to come. And since there is something in us that must still live on, join both lives together; unite them in thy thoughts ar-d actiois, and live in one but for the other. --le who thus order eth die purposes of this life, will never be far froem the next, and is, in some manner already in it, by a happy con formity and 01080 'apprehension of it. Sir Timmnas Brotene. DEArr.--The body is a more export, dialectician thanm the soul, and buffets it, even to bewilderment, with the empt~y bladders of logic; but the soul can re tire froem the dust and turmoil of such conflict, to the high tower of instinctive fihithm, and there, in husband serenity, take confra of the symnathizing stnr. him for the monster, wiich ilp fate and :rooked glass presents him. -amea R. Lowell c :SCANDAL. What glyes each tlie-pf easiadal to the streetl The liiteLCSu'S ieuuder and the parlpr's reatil See the pert hoilseinaid to the ky bolo By. When husband stortis; wife fret., or lovid sigh; See Tom vour'pockets raneaok fqr eich note, And feud your scorets.while he cleans .YOUI boat sde, yes, th listen lee v06 Madam deign, When then ng sempire~sspoiurb tier reedy sitraen. This wings the lie-that in'allee breeds in fears' No tongue so tils bht finds a kindred ear; Swfl flles each tale of laughter uhame or folly. Caught by Paul Pry mu.1 carried hohmeto Pally; On this eacja foul ealuminiatur iWanb, And nods and hins tshe viliang hb means;' Full well he knows what latent Wildfire lies Is the close.wbisper and the dark surmise; A muffled word, at wordless.wink has woke A warmer throb shun if a bexter spoke And be, o'er Everett's periods who wond nedi.' To track a secret half the town has trod. ., - Npregue. 'I DoN'T KNOW,IDON'T KNOW AnOUT TnAT.'y-Of course you don't endless. croaker. No one ever knew" you to be quite satisfied with anything, except? perhaps your own opinion. Theie ney er was a plan proposed to which you did not object; nor an enterprize under taken of which you did not complain; if it failed on knew it would; and .if it succeede, it was more by hit than~ by wit in the projector. No line can be drawn so straight that your squint eye cannot detect a curve in it; no web can be woven so closely that your sharp eyes cannot see through it; no wall built so compactly that you cannot pick a flaw in it. You have indeed a wet cloth to lay on every body and every thing that comes within your reach. It never rains when it should, and as it should; it is always too wet or too dry; it is too hot; or it is too cold. You fret yourself, and you fret all around you! and that continually. In a word, you are a poor unhappy croaker. Now, such characters, more or less fully de= veloped, are to be fbund in every, com munity, ever surrounded by an atmos phere peculiarly their own, in which neither the luns nor the heart of any. one but themseIves can freoly play-an atmosphere like that in which the poor needle-grinder labors--full of shar and and deadly particles Tiiotailts bid iivsic.--Singing is happiness. Why all the foolish specti lations about the happiness principlol'! -singing s happiness! From all ags the old men eloqtient ofwhom wi have read of, were men who loved ', good song, or a good psalm-go as 'far. ack oven as that prince of Israel, the venera blo David. Often, when his duties of command were over, joyously to his stat.ely hall walked he, touching to-lofty measures the sounding harp, till inspi ration came like a oloud of fire over his heart and brain-joy, like- madnessg poured out its sparkles from the clear depths of his eyes,' and the. aged king leapt up and sung the measure of his own dance. What, without singing, is love? How glowingly burns the eye, and how passionately trembles the. lip' of a listening lover.; when, recliing on the mossy bank among the woods in the calm of evening, the beloved of 'his affections singeth to him the joy of her heart-and 'of all the birds of that iwild forest, there is not one that hath' such' tones of pathos, and passion, and del light, as those, .which love ours out from its altar in that tunaen's breasti-What, without singing,~ i$ friendship?.-Fame? stupid, sickepuing barren, and unbearable. -Andd ollit? a dead letter! How in thenramWdif tei sanctum sanctorumn, can a dose1m'friends sit round the table, with' the sparkling, wine before them, and feel 'the joy of' a new delight,' and no son g?-Blck* wood. THE ROAD OP AMDITION.-The high er it ascends the more difficuilt it be comes, till at last it terminates in somd elevation too narrow for friendshiip, tog steep for safety, too, sharp for repose, and where the occupant, above t~ap.symua pathiy of man, and below the friendsip' of angels, resembles in the solitude, if not the depth of his sufferings ab Pro' metheus chained to the Oauoaslan rbekb The Corn trade, with abundant crois in almnost every dep~artment as have been secured at home, prornises for: bomne timew little or no change, anid prlQes ,mtjt coni. tiueu to rule low. Au regards, potatoe the yiel is so unusually a rge, that thir a ppearanuce of thsense mn va rious q anrters, is not likely tq ufkect the value of the a