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A salary, of one thou sand dollars, per annum is ofyered, with hoard of himself, wife, and any children they may have under seven years of age, tree of chiarge. Tie MALE ASSISTANT mrt be a gen tleman of irreproachable, character, compe tent to instruct in Algebra, Geometry, Plain Trigohrometry, Rhetoric, Logic, the Latin and Greek classics. The Sal.. j oflered is Five hundred dollars, per annun, and board tfur nished. The FIEMAIE ASSISTA\-T imst he competent to instrnct in Sjpe'llin J c. JI did WVriting, Arithtinetic, Eunglishm Gr*a mauar, ti. graphy and IHistory. Salary Three hun.!red and fifty dollars. per annum, with hoard. A Salary, Four hundred dollars per amnnm with board, is oilbred for a Lady conpetent to instruct in Music on the Piano, and the French language. A Salary, of Four hundred dollars per an numn with board, is offired for another I.mldy competent to instruct in Music on the Piano, and Guitar, and who understands drawing and Painting in Oil and Water colors. For a BURSAR and his Lady, who will be required to discharge each anti every duty pertaining to that otlice a Salary of, Five hundred dollars, for t welve months cotiemm i ciug 1st of January, is offered with board of themselves, and their children iler se von years of age. At DRESS, post paid, 1) B. McL.\URIN, Secretary, SliT ER V;t Il dal. HENRY ). l REEN, 'resihni. Oct. 1st, 119. 51 lit OT Charleston Courer, and Soithe rn Christian Advocate will ltlea-se Copy twice a week until day of election, amid forward thei r bills to the See rt ary. Annual Fair of the Sottl r Crrolint finEtitte. For the 'roumotim of 4 ris, ,Mecchanicul lng - nua~ty awnl Inidustry,. 11WT The FIRST1 ANNUTAI. FA IR of the above Institmte will lie bebi? in Clha rb-ston, comn mnicing on T:;eriAY 2!thl Novembher next, antd conttinueo cpen during~ the wee-k. Specimnn of ART', INGEINUiITIY, M l. 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IIATlCll, Chanirmain('onritteei a' A:,roner mnets, at ais eariy ai day as pioss.il, andi e-a-r Specimten seint'wilI be carei 'utl atenrdedi t'o and returited after t he Exhiiti on. oFFIeEnIs oF Til E t~sTrI'I UTE. WVM. G REGG, President. \VM. KIRIKW.OODl,1st Vic~e P'resideitt. WM. M. LAWTFON, 2d1 Vice P'residenit. E. C. JONES, Secretary. IL. S. GRIGGS, Treasu'rer pro tema. JillR EcToRIs. Joseph Walker. JC. D ar WV. G'. Desatussutre. |C. Y. Richuaridson. L.. M. Hatch. | Wim. L~ebby. Oct (1 51 tf Notice Is hereby giv'en, thtat alplicationt will lie made to thle LegislaItire at its next session, for arn Act of locirporation for 1lirmonyi~ Chort-b. G. PLOWDi IEN. A g9,14,I THE OSMANTI, OR TURKS. A Constantinople correspondent of the Courier and Enquirer writes of the race now dominant in the more ancient seats of civilization as follows: We naturally regard the Turks as a species of outside barbarians, and it is a little difficult to survey them with a perfectly unprejudiced eye; yet an lion. est view afl'ords much that can be con templated with satisfaction. Their gravity of mien, soberness of gait, and rich flowing robes give them an air of gentlemanly dignity, in pleasing con trast with the hurrried expression, the impertinent carriage, and the stiff an. gular garments of Franks; and there is a natural ease and deieacy in their so cial forms and etiquette, that is far su perior to anything ordinarily observed at home. Personal cleanliness is not among them as among us a half' negleet ed 'scini-virtue,' hut a scrupulously ful filled religious obligation. Propriety and courtesy distinguish their mutual iltercourse, and hospiitality rendered to all without distinction of country or conditi n is an inviilable duty. Quatr rehng is extremely rare among them, and their treatment of the brute crca is fi' kinder than ours. The Koran prescribes the giving of one-tenth of their income to charitable purposes, and benevolence with them is no transient impulse, but an abiding sacred principle. I look here in vain for the squalidity and beggary that us ed to meet my eyes everywhere in la belle France and 'Merric England.' Intemperance, the curse of so many ('hristain lands, is driven away fromt the followers of the Prophet by the divine law which forbids the use of' wine. The fatalism, for which the Turks are re proachied, is not the stupid folly it is represented. They ac as ea'nest in averting calamity as other men, but when calamity comes, with su51ime re si::t i clo they :are rea; fi exvlaim, ('God l tt willed it.' I tmth auf hone.sti they are inf'rioir to ! v. otier pe'ol'. anol are certai:nly fair superior to the .es and (hristiinus that dwell among them. I'olvgamny is tolerated by the law, but public opinion dicided ly condemns it. It i:; the magnates of the laud only who have a 'luralityv of wives; even they seblom have more than two or three, and the Sultan himself' never more than seven. The Koran permiits hushands to chastise aid divorce their wives at pleasure; but these privileges are not of ten abused. Chilren are trained to honor and subinit to their parents, anid great affection and kindness ustiallyv ie'rvad.le thitr flunily relations. ''ife w-t men, inead of being keipt in tlhat st int restraint :o genetally imgi ned, are inl reality nure i'rte than in any contimenal CooIIIryrf ' estern LEurope. Thy.' repair to the mnosqlues, ran.e the hazaars, and ride into tihe e'nut rv on pleasure parties in perf 'et litiI t v. Multitudes of them of all csse Wo every IFridlay nattended to the valle of the Sweet waters~,, five miles uap t h'e Gole O llorn II). 1I have been amaon-i theim th er'e, and h ave. seld om bieheld mere u nrestrainaed and yet itnntocen t jen-. joymenllits. It is tpirue th a t ..ah otmedan females are no'. allowed to app~ear' in pulie tun~veiled: but tis is nto great hardship', nir ce thmeqe'/ue, which is of' white n'tdin. is ually, e.eelc l1 if the face is; pretty, so thi anl t in-'ir enit that thle featturcs are eail I, d*een. iblec. TJhme S5ul taa frequeni'tl Is i edicts, prescribin.; the! th 'I~nn of t he veils and' the imod* of t:i' I tem atid the coimpli-mm. i.. Whose dfra:~'ry huusr' we una 'da freely.' It is true that aimng Mahoimedants somnen are noit ranked soI h)ligh in the cnte oif crpeatin asl It 'on; hut the lpre mailing idlea that femudes are deem ed to mnve no souls, is a str'ange misauke. l'hey' are regarded as i:mnoritd blins, md as sub ject~ to reli~ ins obl)1igtiuon s md1( respoiisiliit ie(s. Iilsands inay or ay not, as they please, admit thir it nyecs to share wit&h thme heuris t heir love' a the abodes of' bliss hereaftei; but thme .ives who are exclided are nieither' an ibilated nor dammed, buit go) to dwell I sepat'to appropriate places of enjoy t ent. he TIur'ks still cotntinue to wash withI (Orien tal secrupullity," an to . recite mcir' inmaz five times a ay wvtan punctiliousness that cannot be surpas sod. The mass of the people yet es hibit a fidelity and devotion to thei faith that ought to. inae Christian blush for shame. But the Moslem rc ligion has lostLmuch of its fire and en ergy. It has iated it fierce intoler ance; and now, though it still ;threaten apostacy with death, it seldom insults and never persecutes, those who hav< never been the followers of the Prophet The uppere class of society are general ly infidels, and conform externally t the regulations of the Koran only fron fear of the civil law and of public opin ion. The great body of the people cling to their religion, not from fanati cism, but because it is interwoven wit) all their civil and social relations, and i: completely identified with the history o their country. ''hev know their crcec only in its broad feautures. IIavir no priest-hood, they receive but littli religious instruction. Ignorant (f Ar abic, the Koran is to them a Scale( book; it has never been traiislated int' Turkish, because, flt.s :l, its hl charm cisists in its A rab-ie jinii. which is as untranslatable into a, fir eign tongule as the EndJish invluilv o Iii-diddle-diddle. 'There is a getsr impression among Ilahoniehlnis tha their religion will soon begin to decline This impression is derived from tw traditional sayings of the Prophet--%Ml religion will first increase and then de crease;' and 'My religiou nill survive r thousand years, but not two thousand. A few respectahl! schoqls have lite ly been established by Governent ir (2onstantinople and Snvrna; but nc such thing as a system of public in struction yet exists in the Sultan's (10 minions. It is not among the wants o the people. There is no inclination tc in(uiry--no dispo sition to learn. Ini telleetual vacancy is as precious to the true Moslem as physical repose. IIt is perfectly content to go on hclievin that the earth is flat. and is suspended by fr ; i eb :i' to a t remitlu volcano, V6 1166 w it i j Ir i s e n o C a earth .1tmts--tlat the skni sets iii a Loa of mud, which which makes it Cool in the tnornini--and that the stars are big lanils hung ii the sky by Divine Merey to piease pour mortals. Yes, well con tent is the true Moslem to believe al this, because with him 'ignoramee i blies,' anid 'thought would destroy hi. paradhse.' iBur,'idI Alier.--A Scotchman by thc name of Mcluito.h, w:s last week en gaged in this villhge in walling llp 1 well for Mr. Grute--the w ell was thirt v feet deep, the wall had been raised teii feet deep, the wall had been raised ter teet-when, in remwoviing the lIow tier el erihinig preparato rv to r:iiig the wall still higher, Mr M. discovered the sand and gravel toinv ing'. Tinjiking it oily a sliglit jti antity that had (imllnl iene'I sliding, lie adjusted the short lialak over the top of the walled part to pre. vent thme dirt from ibilliig into it. While doing this, the cribtbin ig gave way fmau~t all sidce, when in ai instant he0 was cJv. ceed with silahs. p lank and1 dirt to the dletth of teni fith ing. .ab nt Atw. ty' feet fromn the su~rface'. .1 n s : lposed( that lhe nas1~ instanth- k ill--d.h t iest the life ofi a ellow bei. mi-t2 he sac ri ficed lby n g;ieet,.' *:rati.iu-; w : inuse~t','itely coiiumenced for -t ing imn out p.Th ea 2 in th.lc bein the hips ini t he s".d thau hadlu in a eldent~ al ',it?in of6 rbt'hS5 nd t ha ris distnrhinigi~ them. lin this sitnattiui, his life~ etuin up..ni thle i/.,iTh/ f sliidne sand. he wais doimued to 3uer four hioui miore., till lby handlfills theC dirt was care fully cleairedt so as til get him within the enrh, from wh ich lie wasu Iifted. in to t he fre and'ili ope aCir il amid the deafemnin cheers oft the anxioius speCtaltors. Tlh'e "ave in (lPenred at aitint 8 1 -2 P. M.: hie was~ reiee abitoi 1 I-> .* i Ji ORIGIN OF LITERARY DEGREES. The practice of conferring honors of r literary institutions on individuals of g distinguisl.ied erudition commenced in - the twelfh century, when the Em - peror Lotharie, having found in Italy a copy of the Roman law, ordained that 3 it should be publicly expounded in the schools; and that he might give encour 3 agement to the study, lie further or dered that the public professors of this law should be dignified with the title of Doctors. The first person created a doctor after this ordnance of the Em peror was Bulgarius -lugolinus, who was greatly distinguished for his learn - ing and literary labor. Not long af 1 terwards, the practice of creating doc tors was borrowed from the lawyers by f divines also; their schools publicly I taught divinity, and conferred degrees on those who had made great proficien i cy in that science. The plan of confer ing degrees in divinity was first adopt I ed in the Universities of doon ge, O;. ford, andI Paris. (See Matler's Mag. 11 ?ia Christi A mierica na. i3. IV., t. 1 f ) It is remarkable that the cele I Irated Dr. Sanmel Johnson, when lie had lLecooe eminent in litera ture, could not obtain the degree of Master of Arts, from ''rinity College, Dublin though po wet ful interest was made in his be. I half for this purpose by Mr. Pope, Lord Gower, and others. Instances of the failure of siniliar applications, made in favor of characters still more distinguish ed than Johnson then was, are also on record. So cautious and re:erved were literary iinstit'itions. a Fittle more than half a century ago, in bestowing their honors.-Aliller's LtY <of Johns Jio. MOrUNTAIN SCENEn.--There is something in the wildness and sublimity of mountain scenery that tends to re mind us rather of eternity than decay; the perishable works of man are no where to be seen. No city lies in lomn:.V to show the outlines of tivled 'gItat nes; no worship that passed away. -We stand upon the mountain, and we scarcely know that man exists upon the earth. This is not the land where arts have died, or science has been Forgot; those rocks never echoed the ,'quence of orators or the songs of poets; the waters never bore the proud ships of the merchants; the soil never yielded to uian the fruit of his industry. It is not there that the finger of time can he rec\.gniscd. In vain would he set his nark on snows that never fail to disturb the fast bound form of adaman tine ice. In vain he stretches out his hand where the rushing torrent and the . avcrinIg water-fall, blest with an etern ity of .onth, dash on their headlong cour*e, r a rdvles of the blhJiting pow. I er that w inters strength, or lulls to rest I the erca iin of the creature of mortali ty. Ili er we may pause and say that tine has lst its power. I [ere may we view the iaint etforts of time over thrown in an instant. Changes there are, hut the work of an hour has de f'ate: the sow progress of decay. The Ilit nini of' the thtumler-storm, the bloh.win.: teist , the enigulping flood, lhe ore tpri'ngii~ av alan chie, have ef laced fromt the surfnee of nature the iutprs of' time, and naught ih the Ith.nges to remind uts of age. LGurelv thiere ate scenes in life which seem crec utdea u akct ini mtankitnd the rocol lecion'Cteve timei& cani lose its pow-. ert. Go1iil nott fell the nothingness a i ' pI~tieSe, the cares, nay even t som Va ofotur ptty span, when for i n.n.t hie dwells with his heart andI Us it will de'r the gay--it will coin Ti Vt .. TtceI.rn lmda - 0 th itten-~7 .1 * : ri. E n-ka* er1i China, h on han h1 fr.n Ptekin., hr (order ofi h. t Fo ' - or ( 'hii.. Tiht.v alrrived n a 'at ialler: a;;Lreat deal of'sufe"ring, wh Ort they V w're rececivedl by D~r. P'ark-~ er, wh tok thema from the hands of Kying,? ti.ing Pm own persoiial security that they'~ shonhl~ leave the coutntry, utn tilch ite t hey were kinidlyv eit:-r ainedt by D r. U'-iker, at his own h oue, *wherze onie of' them died. Last Jfune, Dir. lParker received from the iPropa-. 'andta a vauiablo gold medal in token oft tie g.ra'titudeht of that body for his k ind ness to their missioniaries. On one side of the medal is a likeness of the Pop ~~e, and' the itnscriptions ' Pius I X, P. I'd. A\. Ill 1 Juis Municipal Restitutor."' )a the t her side are Iig~uries represen ting Moses and the Children of Israel, and the inscriptions, "Corstitucs, Mag. stras, per Blibus, Deul: XVI." :owER oF Love.-The sentiment of love is too frequently made light of; that which has. been the central fire of many revolutions is mockingly referred to as if it iere a subject for trifling. - But love in a woman has a true mean ing. Love in a man is an ennobling passion; it is as dew upon the fowcrs, as -purple drawn upon the sky, as the quiet streamlet in the: valley, ns an or chard resplendentw tUi early blossoms; it is a morning prayer; it is an evening hymn; it is a child asleep dreaming of heaven.. It may be as a deluge that spreads around tt viewless waste, with out a dove, olive branch, or rainbow: it may be as a fruitful field witherd with a poisoned wind; it maybe as a delecta ble mountain thrown asunder by the in ward fire; it may be as the home sick ness of the exile; it may be despair; it may be insanity, that sings low and melancholy airs; it may be insanity that laughs aloud and then expires. Love while its object loves in purity, makes a poet of him with whom it dwells--the ploughboy in the field-the sailor in the shrouds has his dreams and glories he has in his own way the most passion ate imagination-it kindles up the dor mant faculties-it rouses fancy in the stupid-it looses the tongue of the stammerer-it lends the most illiterate speech and eloquenc-repressessensu ality, and tames even the savage;- it gives joy and fear and happiness; it ren ders even the mean heroic, and fills them self-respect. Out of visiols of youth may have come the names that have illumined the path of greatness. The captain in his floating castle, the general in his tended field, the magis trate in bis duties, may each, if he will look back and find in love the impulse that led him on to power.--Girles Lcetures on Do. Quiaote. CumsE BURIAL PLACE.-NO peo ple possess so much veneration for the memoiy of their fathers-as the Chinece; and the worship of their tombs is b; far the most solemn and apparently sincere ceremonial in the shape , of rcligious worship they exhibit. In order to per form its rites, men (women take no part in it) who emigrate to distant lands often return, at much expense and trouble, to the place of their birth; and their fond clinging to the memory of the dead-more than love for its insti tutions-is said to be the strong bond that binds the Chinese to their country. But they have no consecrated place of interment, and if they have any rite analogous to episcopal consecration, it must be so simple and easi!y executed as to have effect anywhere. At any rate, they have no accumulation of graves in particular enclosed spots; they dlo not set apart a few acres for that purpose, and surround theia with walls, seperating the silent tenants from the living world, and formiig a grea t m.-ison house for the dead. On the other hand, every one chooses the spot he liker, best for the final resting-plae of those he best loved. The country residents iou ry their dead on their own land, vecry often close to their own dlwelling~s. Th~e tombs are often of porphy-ry, fiished with some minute chsellings, and come times in toleramble mnonmm:nmtal taste; placed on rocky eminenees, often in p)articular-ly picturesque situations, un dler- the shazdow of cedar3 and ey presses. Music by Td'egrap>h.-We had the pleasui-e tis ev'eing of listening to the tranisimission of music hy telegra h, over- the wires frma, ] oston to N\ew York. We hap enedl to be in th:' oflice, No..5?, JHanover' street, in thi, city. when there w~as a paumse in buiSi youngi bu't sklflgator ini the nos toni (Iice, aske-d us v:h::i tunie we would haive? I Wein rel'(ed --Yanko.Lr I Deodle," anud to our surprise-, 1he innnieiatelv com-n plied with our request. 'l he instr-u ment c->mmencedl drmoin, theO notes of the tune mas pei-fectlyv ami as distin tly as a skilfld drmmner- could have made them at the head of a r-egi ment, and many will be astoishe ~d to hear- that '"Yankce Doodle" can travel hv liuht. ning.- We then called for 'Hail, (Co lumblia,"' when the notes of' that nation al air were distinctlr- beat off. We then asked for "Auld' Lang Syue," the notes or- sounds of which were also tr-ans mitted. A friend called for "Old Dan Tucker," when Mr. Porter also sent that tune, and, if anything, in a more perfect manner- than the others. So perfec ctly and distinctly were the sounds of these tunes trnsmited that good in strumental performers could have had no difficulty in keeping time with the instrument at this end *of the This is one of many telegraph$ ---N. Y.' Herald.. Salt with the uVlten d i Bem, and his companions have dten ; Abdul Medjid's salt at Widden; and the Sultan will hot throw them as garb- t' age to the Russian bear. We love peace, but let us, at all cost; I pi,4 e spirit of hospitality. 46 1 s Abdul Medjidthe Ttr,7' O e best favorites:of Chist'anri'a kg , . The magnainoe Mahometan may joy an imaginary ahake of the hand with every decent Briton. We ear phom, nate way; but we hae a d6 hared t of treachery. . In the cause of the &id' * taus silt we would riot hesitai to ire away more than a little saltptre. Again, to do proper honor to the no ble Sultan! This is a time for testimo nial to Constantinople? Something that shall typify the virtue of the reigning Turk! Therefore, we beg to suggest the gift of a magnificent salt-cellar, _ And for the device, a turkey-a ; ier fine turkey-with its wings cohering figure of wounded freedom frord thox teeth and paws of a grisly bear. PtcA. DIATHS FROM CILORoFOR.--A re recent number of the Medical limes says: 'An accident of a .very melane.. choly nature has just occured in .GOlaj gow. Dr. Adams, Resident 'Phys clan to the Clyde Street Hospital, hav - ing occasion to use Chloroform inhaled it himself to try its strength, but with out any serious consequences; repeat ing, however this experiment, incau tiously increasing the dose, the effect was fatal; he fell back and immedi ately expired.' The L'Union Medicale of Sept. 8th, says: 'On -the 23d, August, Madame Labrune, a, healthy mared Woman re siding at Langres, in France, died from the effects of Chloroform vapor. - She wished to have a tooth extracted, and prior to the operation inhaled the vapor, which was given to her at her own desire. Complete insensibility was not produced at the first -trial; more Chloroform was placed on the handker cheif, and she drew a full inspiration.. Her countenance immediately became pallid; her features were visibly alter ed; there was dilation of the pupils, with a convulsive rolling of the eyes, and no pulse could be felt. Every at tempt was made to restore life, but. without success. She died as if struck by lightning.' The public have already been made. acquainted with the fact that chloroform of ali narcoctic agents, is the most powerful. Since the discovery and in troduction of it. by Dr. Simpson, of Edinburgh, hardly a month has passed without furishing an instance either of death or extreme danger attendant up on its inhalation. Fatal effects have followed not only in the hands of those uigtunprofe::sionally, but also in the practice of regular and skilful physi cians;. The public should therefort be ass;ured, that to employ it mnerely to save pai is not warranted by many of the judicious~ anid cautious practition. ers of this country and of Europe, and' that many of its friends have abandon. ed it, and now resort to the other, which aiffordls the advanlttages without the dan gors of chloroform Ah me! said a pious old Scotch lady, 'aur Iimster was a powerful preacher for, theQ short timie he ministered the wmd among us, he kield: three puil lita t pieces, and banged the inards out of five bibles! G ENExuw.--Au Irishiman u as ask ei how his imother didl. 'My jewel,' saod no, -1 am much obliged to you for your inqurires, lbut I never had a moth~ erc.' H ow is thratt' said his friend.. Why, dlon't you know,' said l.'addy,. 'that I am a son of my aunt!' wife hiasr mad my oru,"said a gen. tieman of great possessions, "by her trtprudecnce, and cheerfulness, when I a uthegingig. "And mine has lost my fortune," answeered his companion bitterly, "by useless extravagance, and repining when I was doing well." What a world does this open of the imfluence which a wife possesses over the futuro prosperity of her family. Let theo wife know her influence, and try to use it wisoly and well