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-' - I- bu 3~~~~~~ 71 FRN;A1rpreo. r3 I dran DEVOTED TO SOUTISUMER RN .OA D I ITERATURE AICHARID Ill. DYSO Eq r-,, E- di W?.VFRANCIS9 IProprzi - -' ... .,-*- I Avae P VO0L.I. SUMTYE1VILLE, So Ce APIU11L 3,9 ASO NO 5 4 4 TE BANNER: T ER tS: 'I'wn DoUars in adnance, Two Dollars. and Fifty-cents at, the oxiration of six n0,ulth, Qr Three. Dollars at the end uf the yeat. 'o p~per discontioued until all arreara. g s are potM, paless at the option of the Pgroprietpr. . '.Adyertispnento ,inserted at 75 cts. per square, (14. livtes or let,) i'or the first 4i4l half .irit sum for each subseqauent tusertoiLn. N fr1' The number of insert ions to be nark - d'on all Advertiseoents or Ilthy will he pub.lished. until ordered to be discontinued, and'chargd. accordingly. IlTOne Dollar per ;quare. for a single insertion. Quarterly and Moithly Adver ,tisedmnts will be charged the s;1imo as a sh..bafiglen ertion,- and souii-m.ont-tily the ame-s ow-ones.,, All Obituary NotIces exceedig -six linos;, tormnunications reconnnending Candi for public offices or trust-or puffingE klhibitions, will be cliarged as Adivertisemente. 17'Ali letters by-mail inist. be paid to insure punctual attendaice. 07*Rev. Funiticr Rusut, is a travelling Agoet for this paper, and is authorized to Xecelve subscriptions and receipt for tine same. EXAMPLES .FR BoYS.--ovcrnor Ritner, who was for sonw tined member of the Legislareo e. sylvania, and afterwai ls ~ x.&rniuor of that State, wa8once a b tound to Jacob Myers, an itn petident "farm ho brought . * While he ~overnor, thea. w a celebra. the Fourth uLA I *, at which Mr. M 'ers gave the folj jinlg toast: - OSEPIIiNi-- wvas always a good boy, and hnstm grown bet ter; everytmht<hig 11iz he always dia l; h Made a - farmer, L96 legisator; and made a Sd Governor.' All, this Mt; S g6t (1he result Of hlis. ,in ils ublie t" strictl fro his A1Ig8lesinl a stejoec was diSCusS. San.i oine im when the question t to be taken, he always felt ' 'a voting as Mr Sherman did, orhasvoto& r iht.' T h.h was \ -.5erimai' Chsrw(eer-.er U -Iif if e inquire how It a-cano to be such, we must go back to his early life. Mr. Sherman's character was formed upon the pritciple of the Bi ble. And when lie was an appren fice, instead of joining in the rude and vulgar conversation, so comimion amongt he classes to which he then be longed, lie would sit at his work with a book before hin, devoting every moment to study that his eyes could be spared from the occupation in which he was engaged. When he was twenty-one years of age he made a profession of religion. le was as familiar with theology as lie was with politics and law. -He read the Bible more th~an any other book. Always, when lhe wont to Congress, he would purchase a cop~y of the Bible at the -commencement of the session, to read every day; and when he went home, he would preseit it to one of his children. Mr. Macon, of N. C., said of him, that he had imore comn mon sense than any titan lie ever knew. Mr. Jefferson, one day, as lie was pointing out to a friend the distinguished inen in Congress, said 'of him : 'That is Mr. Sherman, a man who never said a foolish thing in his life.' Mr. Sherman was a self-educated man, a shom~iaker, and a Chi-istian. Hie was brought up - after the 01(d New-England fashion. And, as was the boy, so was the aman. If you would be a wise man you must be a studious boy. If you twould have an excellent character, it must be formed after the model delineated in the Holy Bible. Th le superstructure must be laid upon the principles of God's word. A Good ON.-W clip the fol -lowing !aughable article from the edi torial colnmns of the Chuicago paper: --A certain limb of the law arguing a case in one of our Sucker- Courts, was informed by his Ihonor that the case had already been decided by the court. 'I know it,' responded teo at torney, with a peculiar nasal twang, for, which ho was then somewhat re mavkable, 'but I will show that the court is wronag!' And at it he went, right and left, w~hien the judge again nter-rupted him with-- -'I have deel. li that before.' 'Have ha'. with the ior~d accomipanuiment, resplonded the at %cont inuing his argument, - by hal jghe, pationce of' the j1 ;;de was y. ing~ exhaustedand lie wai- rathiei' inchlbm4Kto thojW,' anV - ki a somewhjat sedrel~ loio ho-saida. 'If you wish to persist in arguing thi case, you must carry it up to the Court of Errors., 'Must, ha! if thi! ain't a court of errors, I don't know what it is!' THE'a IllELV!D.&LFE APOLL.O. DY IiENItY HiART .Mis.MAN. Ilenir yi tile nrrov iirtle il 1t1" " i I It: irel y. thu 1 rgm ni ionsie-r's drendiii cry II tmin ietti injetiy ufcnln lisijlib. I'm taal of hi 1 miglat, v-t meoirimifil of the- m l:m is. The Iinv'sly Arelemr st:il'-in himmit birth No periktnle dlenizen of earth: Vmith oImon iinmmimrial i hi l bmreauileuss, fae.. A gmsil inl stirentwi WIth imore thi: godlike grirep All.:sll eeint-imstroiggi iig mImitmesmle glo ,ws. Tlirungh hvinmg veim ni) nanmhilling life-bloo14 filmi~ -4. ilnl im ji:te with cleity iilitm. Jin c l- leuss gim y lives t lie brl athirig sto e. IirictiI kii ig with a m c ili -rui r'tr n mo1m l I, lighat, ligt eve tr-k- 0il.-'arriw's ftiteft:1 flight; Ib trs is i'nmadignait clmcek with vetiigifeil fire, .%tllm hi is lit <Iiti fer-' n ith iistil irig ire; iirm fi 'i ll hi r:ml. ve: ligla . mts twlen fill higli Itie wnlksi tIh m1m6e1 ijmhicpallble r iml it'iaeis ky'; Thi rii-h liimrimtin'e of his lI air cmiitjil: hit grae-fled ritigle-tvm. wnisims (Ii time t it 1, Thamt lifms. inl tiort, im muntle':s ilnroiing flmld l'romtil to mlujimty tiat forim of faithlm'es inoitii. Thly r j ,ln lb .. lhe it : h~j~*1~e, iirighti cineamlae mit U.le m m' l f1ld eiarbli ea-spt to lIVf- nI girlt timnwe through brentit-ma mvrinals run 1imm mwimunmlt lpit lil 1h1ok of nm . -.I. l li' - nta-*mm'i. it ill I-lp i-tt lutm o-r . n en-l-ss e-um th- joviI imiurs; I i ty. u stN rllt ive ismivr. Nit lIpriic--y iVswn) -4-1ming thet fit-re-e f1anis.-broeuthing --e.<fin Iitmr-eotts as, visimin s ::ii ill reamiy imeep fi l ioly nmil onmi h-liph i unateel ste'-p, '31i 'i licl dim twilight II list i:i re grve 'Too fair tao worliiii, tmim l.i% in- tim ImVe. Yet (in tlnt formn. inl wil.l deliriim: trmm-. Withm tnmre iii-a re% 'rm'ei- gazed 'ite Main io IFnmm mmve ai D av tftit-r i st%- flt- Ims- i tmiik d am i n i With hiim 111r11-.. mor thtilst-.Ilt it soffist-h- ! 1'i' uhm-risih gri- . Ier I:ti her lean-vn t care. Il.-rmown f hiii p---.te ch ri.Ih b'-le :iir. Ot as ti. .li iig light l:-r i.ih t h.egimi-il. lirusiii iw Flir-imir ksik, awnl tiiight ih.- imiril I-mnileal; Oft breathlenm list'nimig !I--ar-l, mr S-emi'l tm hI:t r A viiime- of lici, meli iijpiim her ear. SIion Iy mhe %%waiell, tmimil -olii Pi-w--s!e 'riowi. CI m'ulm he-r din e-yes. lmersmlf iimmtilhi'lIl t1o stmmi Ct Iove il telth a slekly -N g i i '' Il . Oiet. mi rt. ie gazed, il fieblv -sililtIl tili, ilii'l. t m*Io ill ini thie ne-t of -itchiig tie ar oI n a i lit a .. e Verptit l i-lt. !Teforegoing~ fngt isi reluatml in .. L\ N11.q Mt 1._xN I). [Trom tilte Ilonion Tine::, .Limry 17.t It is, we feom, oliy l , probal that the er.op Ante* ic:mi Couo, wil! -'.is -,%rf :Tistu-hto in :renLj rice ot that most neces :r*tV ingiiredienit in the manuifactuili r'osperity of this country; and al thoiugh the actual deficiency mma Possibly le less than is feared, ye1 tite re sults will doubtless Supply v sullieient realization of tihe continigen eies which have been often Iescribem as involved in our present system ol letion. Almost all that is said re specting tihe importance of our Cottor Iimpor'ts imay be literally credited, fi so vast are the interests concerned that it is scarcely possible to over state them. Nearly1 as much de pends upon the Cotton crop as thc the potato crop; and a failure ill th<i former admits, besides, of' i) n Corres ponding compensation from privat< charity or public benevolenee. Yet speaking generaldly, it may be said that for the whole of' this staple im port of England, we are lhlplessly dlepend~enit on two prov~inices of a for eign Stato. It is this peculiar limi tation of' the pr'ouce which makes the case so anioumalous and so full of peril Wero coitton !css ani ar'ticle of thit very first necessity to Einglishi com mierCe, or were it Uro wn, like co1 in inl e veIy country of thme globe, thme ari guments which have been taken te regulate other' impjorts wouild be difference is this, that while ourii it por tations of corh could be affectedl only by a coinicidencee of so mantiy and such extraojrdinsary conditions 'as te hei almowst beyond the calculationus of: probabl~lily, our importations of cot. ton are liable, as now shiowni, to be0 in. fluenced by occurrences of' the ver y cotmmnest likelihood. A change of policy, a false impuilse given to specu lationl, resolutions of hostility, or, what may occur in any season, andl must needs occur in some1 -a short crop; each and any of these cauises may imperil the daily bread of' foui millions of our poputlation, arnd deepiy affect the financial prosperity of the. entire empire. The case will appear still more ex. traordinary when it is rclemmbered on what wholly artifici.ul conditions its existenico depends. f cotton, lik. spices, could be only grown ini cortain limited districts of certain latitudes, there would be no aid for us but ii prudouce and p)atienlce. As the fatct stand, however, the presenit limitationi of the produce is not entirely acci dental, but is duo to none but our solves. There was a time when In dia did produce cotton; and therc was a time, very recently, wher G(eorgia and Carolina. did not. Mer etill inin) almn renvhaie the f..-t i Liverpool marke, ,and o tli ex'eto of the.present tiade is thwo pf scarc. ly more thanone generation. X-otton* is not n dig iys orpcia gh aGrg: p 11 its: dvgo was iroduced. - m ---consequence of our own demands; nd: New fected by the -.unrivalled enterpris and energy- of American planters; working under such stimulis. Grad ually, this cotton has obtained almost tle monopoly of our market; nor would there be anythiing objoctiona ble in such 'a result, due, as it is, to the natural operations 6f trade, if it were not for the hugo disproportion I between out own particular demands and this solitary' sour6c of siipply. -Conthiental countries take a little cot-, tonl; the United States themselves take a quantity somewhat larger, and which appears likely to be increased; the great bulk comes to Liverpool. .ut for all this aggregate consump tion, there still reymains practically QL iig but the crop of theie two pro vinl irteM years, iS sonw y. im ba(l seaisons- ruia ously deficient, and, at all times, a subject of anxious speculation and un avoidable misgiving The plain and obvious re-nedy for such evils is to grow Cotton for our selves, in some quarter or other of' our immense dominions, an umder 'taking which could lie accomplisled r without any resort to forced labor or unntatural cultivation. There are .several colonies fitted for the growth of the plant, but none so eminently calculated to fulfil all the retiusite Cowilitiois as India. This, as the reader of these colhmbs must be well aware,..is no new subject. Ithas re peatedly occupied the attention of I Parliament, of the Indian Govern ment, of the Administrations of the several Presidencies, and of the Con merinal Sbeieties of--Manchester and crpool. Bountieki hgv beri '61 '.ostw a en e sb t ere :sno ICotton. ev. ip iorthicoming from India. dN)-I drf wirtever has been thrown on t _aacity of the oil to pro. iruit: on the contrary,- rc?.!.N.1s of Indian grown Cotton L1w ' Ope r lV exhibited at ManchesL. . and h0 been pronounced fully equal the heat descriptions of' Americaii. What has not yet been obtainable is a copi (ns ard conitinuous supply, aid of this fatilurve the chief causes aire to be sought in the remissness of the Indian Government, and the extraordinary difeulties of transit. - We do not mean to charge the gov ernment of' India with the hereditary ilmits of its subject population. To prtsuime that iotlinig but edicts from (al'cutta were required to turn Can doish into a Carolina, is to argue without any proper iiformation on the question at issue. The one great eleinenlt of Amnericani success-An erian enterprise -can never, at least for' mnany gener'ations to coome, be im parmted to India. It is prheoster'ous to expect of' Ilindoos all that is achieved by citizens of' the States. D)uring the experiments to which we have alluded, an English plough was~ initrodhuced1 into one of' the provin)ces, and the natives were tauights its use and supleriority over thcir' ownm elumsv m~fViaciner. They' wer'e at first as tonishecd and delighted at, its effets, buit as~ so on as the agen'mt's back was se t it up on01 endl and worUshipped'cu it. Si ill, although the utter impotence of Our iWui ('lforts miearer hiome miglht sp.-'ose us to apipreciateC more reason ably thme task of introui -' ' industry anid enterp rise aumng a Ilplless popu-t lation, yet it is im possible to deny that enough has niot been done. Though~ the lIlindoo has few wanits. nas little oi' no ener'gy, and is teach. able only up to a certauin point, yet lhe has nione of the true Celtic inidolenuce, lie is given to handierafts, and has a natural aptitude for many kinds of labor'. Of' such a material more mig~hit, suirely, have been: made, had the government of Calcutta seen to its own intere'sts more clearly, or de piartedl ?. little, in a ctse of such nec cessity, tr'om its tradhitional track. Even this cause, however, in its inflhunce upon thle general result, is far' inferior' to that arising f'rom the utter w ant, of' any salli'2ient means of' tranisport; a deficiency w hich, while it is moreO or less detiimental to all kinds of cultivation, is absolutely ruin ous to cotton produco. The most available cotton lands are situated in the .Bombay and Madras P'residen cies, and though lying in great part at no very long dlistance from the shore, yet between them and thie huge chain of the Western Gits The consequence is that theottobt must bd carried some hundr, l-of miles op the backs of bullocs, ad ,when it arrives, if it over doesso, aW its destination, its value is ruted by at least one half. Th*e *i inal produce of the pod, is, as i4W a said, .ecual to that of GCoPj W CArolina, but it suffers; fitsk Athe cleaning; secondlv,- in the e Though-the best saw gins ha been introduced into Dombay. C has *been found hitherto imnprat i e t. naturalize the Amcrican m , of clcaning ainong the nativqs, does the nature of the tranlygQ r yt" e admit of any effectual kind . ago. The cotton, then, impiitectly cleaned and insecurely packie, is strapped to the back of a buIldqk, to be draggcd through dust, diA, and mud, For some two or three hinidred miles, till, at last, when the dIoVe ap -peas at the port, the vorth.of the .article is nearly gone, and it .sonly producible it Liverpool in small -qptatiitres, ald Zf quality miserably inferior. The one true renehdy for all this lies in railway commninnipation. If the table lands of the Deocen were but connected by these means v,ith the ports of the Malabat evist, the whole difliculty would cease; rbr not only would the shipments of eqttgu be multiplied twenty-fold, but th f very peculiarities of national chiara'tei- -to *Wbich we have referred igiht dis nlpear before an agency more, likely Ethani any other to effect so futudauaen tal a change. (IFonn the ScienUtific Atmt riv } THE' ELECTRAI LIU4&c. During the winter oi VIER. eY jate Col. Bomford, ok -thG Y sec Department, and MY1 ed in some qxperIJ* A teir bl jel tbo J . rfr avto ry power. During the course of ex perimients I becamo satisfied that Bo long as the whole boudy of water around )e poles remainied a'condac tirev Lir diMIn ti, kiU, f the assine Ccrrents would be t!and the results desired unat' no able. With this view of the subIJ. I sought for soic method by wh~ia the atoms of water in contact with the pole. could he efTeetually barred fron conimmunication with any conduc tive substance, and yet admit of a continual supply of the water to be decomposed. Believing in the doctrine of impon derability and inimateriality of the electric fluid, all efforts to accomplish the desired result failed, and tho ox periment was about to be abondoned, when a doubt as to the truth of the books, o'n the question of the nature of electricity, arose iii my min, and on the faint hope held forth, the ex perimnents were renewe-d, and the re sults more thana realized the most sanine expectation; for niot only was the insulation of the water per. feect, and the decomposition rapid, but the electrie fluid was found to be sulsceptible) of' accumulation andl con densation to an unlimited degrece. - The ease and irapidity with which the the water was resolved into its comn ponenit gaises, naturally suggested the idea of applying the discove-ry to sonme priactical use, aind that of light was selected, as the most simple and iexpesivein its alp Ilicatioin. IBut on the very' thrieshold of the experi mnent, :an appiar-ently a usurnountable obstacle w as met in thme inability to sepairate the gases. A fter a inlber of serious exj plosionms, the cnt rea ties of my amly co mpelled mec to desist. Although the pra':tical expJ-lerimts w~ere aban~idoned , the mencutal action on the subject was not, iad dur-ing some time in the fall of- 148, I concluded that the law whieb demanded an aqueous comnmunicationai bet ween the poles, or that the positives anid nega tive poles should both center one body of water, was not corret-a conclu sion which a very shnmplo experiment decided to be correct. (iue pole was inserted into a glass of' water in the corner of a large room, and the other pole in another- glass in the op po(site cornmer, anmd an electrical coim umun icat in maide betwiVen. All the water in one glass was decomposed, atwl hydrogen only obtained. All the water was decomposed in the oth er, and oxygen only obtained. The result was knowna, the explerimnent wvas considered fully successful, and a small electro-mnagnetic apparatus, having its helices kept in motion by clock wvork put in operation at:~ my dwelling, and was found capahi-- of supaplyinag three bur-ners with' :m ana n om h --ses t .-. .a this period of the experiments that Ir ' issued the circular announcing the u dis'overy and with an invitatioi to r the citideni60f* thi plaeoto: call a hi h examine for themselves. ( In the spring of 1840, a light S house was erected 'on an enence, a near this city, an4 the experiment' a tried on a large scalc for several. ' months-at the light-house, besidesip lighthigof a store in the dity, the r04, ti sults being ciitirely'successful in both places, aud fully justifying the as. a sertions made in- the circular of an- o nouncement. - And here I wish it to b be understood, that this must not be tj .considered a mere statement of mine, b 'but the history of the fact is familiar to all whose appreciation of the dis- r covery was sufficient to piompt them 1 to visit my tower or dwelling. The '] experments at the light-house don tinued until September, when an r explosion occurred which cast a mo- 1 mentary damp upon the bright pros- i pects of the discovery. This explo- h sion was not due, s* intimated by & Carburetted Hydrogen,' to the ex-. c plosive . nature of the gases, but to an I entirely different cause-one peculiar c to the construction and action of the i instrument under consideration.- i 'That state or action of electricity . known as Galvanism, produces decom. position; while that -known as intensi -ty. causes repulsion to take place at I the cldtrodes, and deflagration of the decomposing cells is the consequent a %result. Itwas to-the latter action ;that thctexplosionwreferred to. wa due; the gase "being -fired by "tia melting electrode. I The realizing of the .pojility of such an accident mad6 itaparent ' that some method should be Other. than that of personal anCof to prevent such expl .t future. The same agent thtit 0 .n t, nadp to re o ene. in ni endr was, t 6t our ig.od me to contempt as a humbug, and- nothlier to contiuc ment as at er, !)r' tl~ic e of science, that t+r are generally stubborn be m", nrmnly believing that they are I dle to perform all they promise, ainst all the sneers or contempt that s be brough t to bear against them; I so in this case, perhaps, the'cap- T aous,' feeling saved the invention, for a the difficulty was overcome, and the a apparatus made to govern itself, by . the breaking of its circuits when a surcharge is passing. It has required the labor of months I to accomplish this last mentioned part a of the invention, and although at the t period of writing this, the danger of P an explosion is entirely removed, yet i the loud reports made by the break- a ing of the circuits, are deemed ad verse to the successful introduction 9 of the invention to the public, but it ' is confidently expected that oven this e dlitficulty will be overcome in the a course of a few (lays. Meantime the 0 apparatus and its action is the daily a subject of inspection at my rooms inb the Exchange- nothing being screen. * ed but the interior of the helices and ti electrodes. The whole process of the.t decomplosition can he seen, and if " neccessairy, felt of. The results of all SI ('expeiets uip to this date are ass llows: The decent of' weight, 67 *' lb~s. a distance of 9 feet, will generate " 800 eubic feet of the gasses, at noa ote uxese thanithe inter o theb Yumay use the gausses for light, it power orproe of caloric. (I " have as yet experimented only with l2 the former,) and make your own dleductions. i I receive many letters from your readers, asking what I claim as my P inuventionm :permit ine here to reply,~ that I claim to have discovered a new principle in electricity, viz: pon- E dermability, materiality, and obedience to thme laws of gravitation. I claimn C to be the first to accumulate and coin- d press the electric fluid; and I claim to g have invented a maclino or appara tus which enables ime to use the elec- " tric fluid for useful purposes in the hi arts and1( sciences, at no0 other cost e than the interest of its price. lHmuy M. PamnJ. * Wor-cester, March 7, 1850O. a s THiE AUi'rioR 01F TuxE RAIway n SYSTEM.- The following sketch of n Thomas Gray, the author of the Rail- b way System, we tako from the bi Painzesvitle Telegrapha: Thomas Gray, was born in Leeds, a England, about half a century or S more ago-and this is all we' know, i of his early history. The Middleton fi Collinry had a. railway for cairying 4 )al to: Leeds, -distance qf threi siles. The cars moved along at the. ite of three. and:a haif miles per our. It:,was, laughed. at-not' by ray--but by the wise public. Gray iwii,this little 9rkfomething tha( ugit e..augmenteinto reatness, nd he~thought upon thie subjeet of jcneral Iron Rlail*ay''until the peo-; le' declard hidU. at . peti( Oned Parliament; sought interview ith the Lords of other great men, nd thus became the laughing stock' r all England. le received nothing ut rebuft wherevei he went. All' ils took place in 1820, or therea outs.. But he succeeded at last. The ailwayi were laid.. The world has cen benefitted bfy the madness of 'homas Gray. Well, what became of him, the eader will ask. We do not know; ut believe he still lives in Exeter, to rhich place he removed. Up to 1846 e had been neglected. 'While thou ands have been enriched by the onsummation of his brilliant scfieme, e remains forgotton-forced by pOV rty to sell glass on commission for a ving. Howitt, in his people's Jour al,'a few years ago, gave a some-. rhat lengthy sketch of his career. hus bringing him into public notice.. Ve have seen nothing in print in re ation to him lately. Elliot wrote a. ,reat truth, in these words: Ilow many men who lived to bless man kind, -Ive died unthanked 1" Hlow many of the railroad projqc or, agitators, stockholders &c. v0n heard of the subject of ketch.. . gTlt.' dtMG. 'F .N13A LS. n w ,imals have t-he power of specch,3Phis ia takc g r granted thathey have it' on,. OP, ye V f communicating tliri eas ihoso 1na~' n animals seern to possesstlf oer~ i mhe no remarkal dgrCe, hat live tugethui in eoimmnities ir ocieties, as to them it would f course e most necessary. Bees are able to make different ounds by' the means of their feelers, nd these sounds convey various aeanings. When they are about to warm, scouts are sent out to find a uitable location; those return, report 'hat they have seon, a buzzin noise i made, and the whole swarm start 2r the place on which the scouts have xed. A wasp, which has found Dme store of food, has been observed go to its nest, and in some way im art such information to its associates iat they have flown to the place in body. Ants possess this faculty in a still reater degree. When they are at -ork, there is evidently a cormmuni ation between the muaster-wvorkmen nd the laborers. So when an army f them is moving, the march is con ucted with a regularity that would e impossiblo unless they understood ich other. A t a given signal-from ue leaders, they are seen to quicken ucir pace; scouts are,despatched, re iforcments brought up, messages mnt from 0one portion: to another, in. much that theu various movemnents som almost to be directed by hiumani tei ligence. An ant that has fonnd piece of' food too large to be carried y itself unassisted, will return to its est, and bring to its aid secveral of s comnradles. Dr. Franklin gives s an instancein point, lie had sus ended a pot of molasses by a string omn the ceiling, in order to preserve from the ants. One of the trouble ne visitors had remained on the ~t, and was seen ascending the ring, and betaking itself to its holo, ot many muoments had elapsed be reO a large compan1y of ants were seerned making their way to the dtremity of the string; theydeen ad to the pot, ate their fill, and then ave way to another band of their ungry fratornity. It would seoem, this case, that information must ave been given by the first discov-. Ver. A crow perched~ on a loft~y limb, hile its comnpaniohs are feedmng, by single eaw, which is at once uder ~ood and acted on, give r.otice of pproaching banger. Indeed the ote of danger is one which all ami tals seem to understand. A lhen, y' her well known calls, will collect er chickens under her wings, as ox editiously as- Ii iuman mother can ather her childrpn bywords. "Wh wallow," says an obsrvan~naturae it, "that, shriekitig, darta in devious ight through the -air when a-hawk lpears, not only calls unj the hirun dines of the dillagebutit understood, by ery fiaoh row, and its wpeing tid" a Mr..MIdn'afIS History relates:many case communication am n one sb much to the nt ha not resist' gUti)g "4An old oose th fort-night hatching ina rm en, was perceived o asudd violently ill. She soon fte nest, and repaired to an out.hite where there was a young gooe'of the first year, which she brought withi'et into the kitchent Th yo'ung onei mediately scrambled into the old die s nest, sat, hatched, and t fwrwatd brought up the brood. The old geo1 as the young goose had taken- her place, sat down by the side of the iLt and 'soon after died. As the young goose had never been in the habit of entering the kitchen before, I knlow of no way of accounting for this fant, then by supposing thit the ol one had some way of communicatid hi thoughts and anxieties,' Wbish- te other was perfectly able- to 'under stand." 0 4 Cattle have been known to hold a consultation and agree upon. rs6 of action, such -as making-aWIhtt neons attack upon maliciousoihl: natured ones of their numbet.A dog, which on one occAsio6rWeiW rather hard treatment from a'*1i, and fierce r -ighbor, soon after e4-to the Lce where he had reie ,6a the injury, with a *iend stronger than hiinself to hie'ige the'wrong These are but a few of th ease n record, but they -suffice to ho (tat animals have some meana6f Iiiunicathtg wW" each qtherei sound , expresi6n, orgestee these , uuswewecannot bu future difseries in ols n ,doubt make them clea.r.:; 0ng and their missiou to * o. gether in a one-hors. 'agon. e was quito a ardent'i poh. mot so profoub ac im black-letter learni'pgjandogic made up m'an aliaadgtt flow words; set speeches, snatces of litical oratore, &c., which. heha heard at different caucusses,-I which his retentive memory hoared\ up ready to be delived upon Zfting, occasions. ... lhey had not proceeded Ar on their journey when the man of broad' cloth asked his companion if he in' tended to make a speech, and upon receiving an affirmative told him he should like to hea , l as, probably, it was all Ict abd dra Accordingly, our limb of the law d livered himself of his speech-the 1a- - bor of more than one long night-to our 'snapper-up of trifles,' who, after applauding it much, and criticisngit a little, desired the lawyer'to go through with it. again, which swas complied with.~ After-discussing fhe ly its mer-its; and its cipceSfer i provement in the delivery n~oie 3 pecily, theman of'noasure,' acta' ally prevailed upon theaspeechifie~ 4 go through with it "agalm; the_ - phmtented thie victim by tellin~ ~ a that 'twas now perfect, and it coukb'l ho bettered. Immediately upon their arrival at Concord, they repaired to the chama~ her of the convention, which had juso been organized. Our man of cloth watchedl the chance, and before his companion could say 'Mr. Speaker, bie anticipatedl him, got the floor, and to the surprise and astonishment eg his friend in general, and his cedhippa ion especiaily, recited' the whole speech as ho caught it on the journey rrpm the unconscious lawyer's' lipse ve'rbatim et literatim'-t hen cobly' Look his seat amidst thunder of a plause.--oton Post.ap PLAIN IBoILED RICE PUDDING.-. Wash and pick some rice, thro* among it some pimento, finely poun dod, but not much; tie the r ice in a I cloth, and have plenty of r'oom for it to swell. Boil it in a quantity of wa' tor for an hour oi'two. W~hen done, eat it with butter and sugar, or milk~ Put lemon peel if you please. It is very good without spide, an eateni with salt and butter, PUFF PUDPNGs.-Pour scalding milk upon white bread sliced; -et i stand till well soaked; thoi edM t well four oggs, . little ur.) grated nutuim ~~I'' :oups, which The absenb.'t these puddinge~# bi cato stomachs.