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- - - - & f4,4 DEVOTED TO SOUTHERN RIGHTS DEMOCRAY, NEWS LITERATURE, SCIENE AN I AT 4r. . R I. F R W CiI, PYrop rieto rs. , T a . - v ! s .1 1.0 S UMBIT 1611V ILL E, -.0a SoCoANUARtY 4, 18 s, TEM'P E R AN CE, To the ntelilons Pbile of Sati Carolina. Men and Brethren: The Sons of Tempel-ance, at their late annual meeting in Columbia, con. stituted the undersigned, a Con. - nittee to address you on the claims of Temperance. Is this necessary? Can it be pos. gible that followers of the meek and Jowly Lamb of God, have to be stir red up to the great work of Teat. perance? "Know ye riot brethren that Temperance, is thefruit of the %Vpirit?" Why is it then that ye are idle? Do you dislike our plans of labor? If so. point out other more elofectual means, we are ready to adopt them, an I to bear our part in lustaining them! At present however, persuaded as we are that there is but one sure rem *dy to prevent intoxication, that is by stringent laws to prevent the sale of intoxicating drinks. Except for -Medicinal and Mechanical pur. poses. We appeal to you to aid us in obtaining them; our project *would be sibstantially the enactwent of the Maine Liquor Law! What, it may be asked., is the -necessity of such a law? Look a round you upon society, and the an. awer is plain and palpable! For uear a quarter of a seentury the friends of Temperance have been the field, they have -acnny ished much; but they have failed to extirpate the ioce of Intem. 'perance. Thoy have exhausted mo tral suasion; they have brought a ma ority-a large majority of the peo. pul to acknowledge that their cause is a righteous one; and yet drunk. .egpas in high and in low lilaces a bonds. The 7reelaimed man, like he, saw that was. washed "retur.ts to her wallowing in the mire." Why are these things so? the answer is obviouq, temptation, in its most al Juring for-ius is everywhere present. edl. Your Cities boast of their Ex ,changes, your Towns of their htouss of refreshment, your Vil lages of their Groceries, and your .Cross-roads and -Country places, of 1.heir Doggeries, everywhere liquor is presented to the people, and some .times it happens, that a -Grogahop keeper ventures to call his establish mnent, after a distinguished Temper. -ance man. Who would suppose that. a Grog shop could be called the Vapper Ilmse? yet such -is the fact, in one of the most flourish ing Towns of the Interior! How is the land to be rid of these pest hous. e, these places of temptation? to 1alk to such men is "like singing -psalhns to a dead horse," they must be made to feel th3 strong arm of ithe Law! Our Biennial, local and Military Elections, are other fruitful sources of multiplying the evils of intemper. ance as long as a candilate can .have access to a Grog shop, and buy the keeper's vote, and influence, Pby buying his Grog, so long will Ihe work of reformation be maimed and destroyed. ~v ~'-- ~ Whence comes crimes? where are your slaves corrupted and destroy ed? where is blasphemy regarded ats -an accomplishment-where is the ,Lord's day profaned? where are .the young contaminated7 where - comes the curse of women and children? where do poverty, dis ,ease and death come forth as a troop on the pale horse? Truth, an aveors from the houses where intox icating drink is sold. Is it not time then! Wa--riors of the Cross, that you should gird on jdu' armour, and come to the "hop of the Lord,-the help of the lord against the mighty? to him .espeeially .who stands betwoon "the Porch and the Altar," the minis ters of God's holy religion, may we -rot say let us have your aid in this g.reat work. 'Tell me not, you can t' be a Son of Temperance! You are, a 'pledged man to your holy vo cation; .'u are a Nazarite, and you must be s'warato from wine and stron drink. Be so! and let us have your powerful 'Vrd to the pee. ple! say to them, "1'ome and go with .:Point thorn to the voor drunk aid in rags; covered with he blotch. *8. ofo disease, trembling wt. the ,Vweakness of his Vico, or oromchm with the fezl'rs and torments ol Sthe damned,' already upon him, Toint-them to him dyed withe -the Llr tw f .hi-: fgll .an or .rb under the lash for crimes against property,-say to them see there his deserted emaciated suffering wife and children, reduced to worse than widowed or orpbanage condition, and tell them these are the evils of intoxicating drink, and urge them by their love of life, character, home, wife and children, to be sober.-But above all tell them, oh! tell them! in voices of thunder, and with ton. gues of fire, that the drunkard has no part in Heaven; say! oh! say to our suffering bleeding country, noth. ing ought to deter from stretching out your strong arm, to succor and to save the people from themselves. Be instant in season and out of season, to warn and rebuke the mis erable policy of shrinking to do what is right. Religious men of all creeds, sects and denominations you can, you must aid in this great moral warfare. Let us have your example. Let us have your prayers; the fervent effectual prayer of the rigtcous man availeth much. Let us entreat you to huwt ble yourselves before the King of Kings and cry mightily unto him to bless the work. To you all we would say the Maine Liquor Law by simply pro viding that intoxicating liquors should alone be sold for medicinal and mechanical purposes, and that such sale sbould alone be made by agents appointed for .the purpose, and that all other intoxicating liquors round in the State, after a giv. en day should be as contraband and destroyed has effected wonders. In toxicating liquor has been banish. ed from Maine. Sobriety pervades every place, and the nane of Neal -Dow as the benefactor of his race is praised by men women, and chil dren, throughout the length and breadth of his north Eastern, gluri ous home. Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Minesota, Vermont, and Texas, have all adopted the pence preserving, life strengthening. God honoring policy of Maine, and bles. sings will be showered down upon them. Is South Carolina to be behind! When Massachusetts war cry of "Liberty" was heard at Con. cord and Lexingtoi, South Caroli na's guns of deliverance answered it from Fort Moultrie! Will she not again stand beside the descendants of the Pilgrims, the sons of the Old and noble Bay State? Will she suf. for the lone star %f Texas to culmi. nate in glorious effulgence in such a warfare, and fail to throw her Palmetto flag wherever it may lead? We will not pursue this address further; and yet we call up. on you in the name of the living God, to take your post, like the follow era of Gideon, around the camp of Midian, and be like them ready to strike, and follow to glorious Vic. tory. WILLIAM LEWIS. JOHN BELTON O'NEAL. W. TIIURLOV CASTON. "Committee." MISCELLANEOUS. TINE FIRST LOCONIOTIVE. Dr oss Wno SAW ir. The following capital story is from the pen of Charles A. Davis, Esqjr., of New York. It wvas originally published in the Knickerboeker Mag azine, and transferred to the Hoama Journal, from which excellent paper we copy : It is now very generally conceded, that of all the inventions of man, none holds any comparison with the steambaat. T.ihe mind can scarcely combine a calculation which may measure its importance. Some vague estlmate may indeed be formed of it, by imagining what would be the state and condition of the world, at the present day, were there no steam boats; were we to still find ourselvet on board sleeps, making an average passage of a week to Albany, ex posed to all the disasters of flawv from the 'downscomer,' and discom fiture of close cabins; or ascending the Mississippi in a keel-boat, pushei every inch of the way, against itt mighty current, by long poles, at the rate of 'fourteen miles in six hours. It is now just thirty years (writ ton 1839) sinco the first steamboal ascended the Hudson, being the firsl practical application of a steam en gime to water conveyance. Then boat; and now, what river, capable of any kind of navigation, has not been bepaddled with them ? It is not my purpose to enter the list of disputants lately sprung up, striving to prove that the immortal Fulton was not the first successful projector of a steam. boat. In common with the world, I can but mourn over the poverty cf history, that tells not of any previous successful effort of the kink. Steam, no doubt, was known before. The first tea-kettle that was hung over a fire, furnished a clear development of that important agent. But all I can say now, is, that I never heard of a steambo,at, before the 'North River, moved her paddles on the Hudson; and very soon after that period, wbe'n it was contemplated to send a steamboat to Southern Russia, a distinguished orator of that city, in an Address before the Historical So ciety of this city eloquently said, in direct allusion to the steamboat : ATie hoary genius of Asia, high throned on the peaks of Caucasus, his moist eye glistening as he glances over the destruction of Palmvra and Persepolis, of Jerusalem ard of Bab ylon, will bend with respectful defer euce to the inventive spirit of this western world,;' thud proving, conclu sively, that the invention was not on ly of this country, but that no other country yet knew of it. In fact, the invention had not yet even reached the Mississippi; for it was not until a year after, that a long-armed, high shouldered keel-boatman, who had just succeeded in doubling a bend in the river, by dint.of hard pushing, and run his boat in a quiet eddy for a resting spell, saw a steamboat gal lantly paddling up agaiiist the centre current of that 'Father of Rivers;' and gazing at. the scene with mingled surprise and triumph, he threw down his pole, and slapping his hands to gether in ecstacy, exclaimed : 'Well done, old Mississippi ! May I be eternally smashed, if you ha'i't got your match at last ' But, as before binted, it is not my design to furnish a conclusive history of the origin of steamboats. My text stands at the head of this arti cle, and I purpose here to record, for the information of all future time, a faithful history of "The First Loco .motive." I am determined, at least, that that branch of the great steam family shall knov its origin. In the year 1108, I enjoyed the never-to-be-forgotten gratification of a paddle up the Hudson, on board the aforesaid first steamboat that ever moved on the waters of any river with passengers. Among the voya gers, was a man I had known for some years previous, by the name of Jabez Doolittle. lie was an in dustrious and ingenious worker in sheet iron, tin and wire; but his great est success lay in wire work, espe cially in making 'rat traps;' and for his last and best invention in that line, he had just secured a patent; and with a specimen of his work, lie was then on a journey through the State of New York, for the purpose of disposing of what lie called 'coun try rights;' or, in othier words, to sell the pr-ivilege of catching rats, accor ding to his piatenlt trap. It was a ver-y curious trap, as simple as it was ingenious; as most ingenious things are, after they are invented. It was an oblong wire box, divided into twvo departments; a tat entered one, where the bait was hung, which lie no Sooner touched, than the door at which lie entered fell. His only apparent escape was by a funnel shaped hole in tho other apar-tment, in passing which, lie nitoved another wire, which instantly re-set the trap; and thus rat after rat was furnishedi the means of 'following in the foot steps of his illustrious predecessor,' until the trap was full. Thins it was not simply a trap to catch a rat, but a trap by which rats trapped rats, ad infinitum. And now that the re collection of that wonderful trap is recalled to my memory, I would r spectfully recommend it to the atten tion of the treasury department, as an appendage to the sub-treasury system. The 'specification' may be found on file in the patent-office, number eleven thousand seven hun dred and forty six. This trap, at the time to which I allude, absolutely divided the atten tion of the passengers; and for my part, it interested me quite as much as did the steam engine ; because, porhaps, I could mioro easily compre hanid its mystery. To me tho tatmn engine was Greek; the trap was plain English. Not so, however, t6 Jabez Doolittlei I found him stu dying the engirie with great avidity and perseverance, inasmuch that the engineer evidently becarme alarpged, and declined answering any more questisons. 'Why, you needn't snap pg so tarnal short,' said Jabez; 'a body would think you hadn't got a patent for your machine. If I can't med. die with you on the water, as nigh as I can celculate, I'll be up to you on land one of these days.' These ominous words fell on my ear, as I saw Jabez issue from the engine room, fullowed by the engin eer, who seemed evidently to have got his steam up. 'Well,' said I, 'Jabez, what do you think of this mighty machine ?' 'Why,' he replied, 'if that critter hadn't got riled up so soon, a body could tell more about it; but I reckon I've got a leetle rption on't;' and teen taking ine aside, and looking carefully- around, -lest some one should overhear him'. lie 'then and there' assured- ine iteconfidence, in profound secrecy, tIt -if lie didn't make a wagon go bYViteam, before he was two years then he'd give up mvention. first ridi culed the idea; bu thought of that rat trap, ani d1WVbefore we a man with sharp A ij*Ag gray eyes, a pointed nose, y line of his visage a charnW . estiga tion and invention, c:'d Tesist the conclusion, that i li e ver did attempt to meddle: ' ^"Nvi t -wa ter, we should hear 1.. Time went on. St h Wbatmdiul tiplied; but none dre ,d To f a; tam wagon; for even t 4Y motive' was thAn a . 16. cofoco.' WIlen, -about a year after the declaration of tpliast war with England, (and may it be the last') I got a letter from Jubez marked 'private,' telling me that lie wanted to see me 'most desparately,' and that I must make him a visit at his place, 'nigh Wallingford.' The din of arms, and the destruction of insur ance companies, the smashing of banks, and suspension of specie pay inents, and various other inseparable attendants on the show and 'pomp and circumstance of glorions war,' had, in the meantime entirely wiped from memory my friend Jabez, and his wonderful rat trap. But I obeved his summons, not knowing but that son .hing of importance to the army or navy might come of it. On reaching his residence, imagine my surprise, when lie told me, he be lieved he 'had got the notion.' 'Notion ?-what notion t' I in quired. 'Why,' says he, 'that steam wagon I tell'd you about a spell ago;' 'but,' added lie, 'it has pretty nigh starved me out ;' and sure enough, lie did look as if he had been on 'the anx ious seat,' as he used to say when things puzzled him. 'I have used up,' said ie "pla guey nigh all thre street-iron, arid old stove-pipes, and mill-wheels, and trunniel-heads, in these parts; but I've succeeded; and for fear that some of these 'cute folks about hero may hiave got a peep i~broughi thre key-hole, and will trouble me when I conic to get a patent, I've sent for you to be a witness; for you was thre first aind only nian I ever hint ed tihe notion to; in fact,' continued he, "I think tire most curious part of this mycnition is, that, as yet, I don't know any one about here who tins been able to guess what I'm about. They all know it is an invention of some kind, for tha't moy business, you know: but some say it is a thirashning mrachime, some a distillery; andl, of late the~y begin to think it's a shirt. gle-splitter; but they'll sing another tune, when they see it spinning a long past tire stage-coaches,' added hre, with a knowing chuckle, 'won't thiey'' This brought us to the door of an old clap-boarded, dingy, long, one-story building, with a window or two in the roof; the knot-holes aind cr-acks all carefully stuffed with old rags, and over the door lie was unlocking, was wvritten, in bold let. ters, 'No Admittance.' T1his was his 'sanctum sanctoruma.' I cound occuipy pages in description of it, for every part exhibited evidence of its uses. The patent-office, at Wash ington, like your magazine, Mr. Ed itor, may exhibit 'finished produic tions' of 'inventive mini-'kn bu i yo could look into. the port-folios of your contributors, in every quarter of the jJnion,-pnd see there the sketch es of half-finished essays, still-born po ems, links and fragment. of ideas and congeptions, which "but breathed and died,' you might form some 'no tions' that were' presented to me, on entering the workshop, of Jabez Doolittle. But to my text again 'The First Locomotive.' There it stood occupying the centre of all pro vious conceptions-rat-traps, churns, apple-parers, pill-rollers, cooking. stoves and shingle-splitters, which hung or stood around it; or, as my Lord Byron says, with reference to a more ancient but not more impor tant invention: 'Where each conception was a heavenly guest, A ray of inmortality, and stood - Star-like around, until they gathered to a God.' And there it stood, 'the concentrated focus' of all previons rays of inven tive genius--'The First Locomotive.' An unpainted. unpolished, unad orned. ovenshaped mass, of double riveted sheet iron, with cranks, and pipes, and trunnel heads, and screws and valves, all firmly based on four strongly-made - travelling-wheels. 'It's a curious critter to look at,' says Jabez, 'but you'll like it bet. ter when you see it in motion.' He was by this time igniting a quantity of charcoal, which lie had stuffed under the hojler, 'I filled the b'iler,' says he, 'arter I stop. ped working her yesterday, and it lian't leaked a drop since. It will soon bile up; the coal is first-rate.' Sure enough, the boiler soon gave evidence of 'troubled waters,' when, by pushing one slide, and pulling an other. the whole machine, cranks and piston, was in motion. 'It woiks slick, don't it?' said Ja b ez,'. I' ''II. -".- -*, -''. 'But,' I replied, 'it don't move.' 'You mean,' said lie, "the travel. ling w'heels don't move; well, I don't mean they shall till I get my pa tent. .You see,' he added, crouch ing down, 'that trunriel head, there -that small cog wheel? Well, that's out of gear just yet; when I turn that into goar, by this crank, it fits, you Bee, on the main trovelling wheel, and then the hull scral.e will move, as nigh as I can calculate, a little slow er than chain lightnin', and a darn'd leetle too! But it won't do to give it a try afore I get the patent. There is only one thing yet,' he continued, 'that I han't contrived-but that is a simple matter- and that is the shortest mode of stoppin' on her. My first notion is, to see how fast I can make her work, without smash ing all to bits, and that's done by screwing down this upper value; and I 11 show you-' And with that. he clambered up on the top, with a turning-screw in one hand, and a horn of soft soap 'n the other, and commenced screw'ing down the valves, and oiling the pis ton rod and rank-joints; and the motion of the mysterious mass in creased until all seemed a buz. 'It is nigh about perkfction, ain't it?' says he. I stood amazed in contemplating the uobject before me, wvhich I confes sed I could not fully unmdestand; and hence, with the greate-r, readiniess, per mitted moy mintd to hear ofT to oth er maitters more comiprehenisible, to the future, which is always more cilear than the present, nder similar circumt stanices. I heeded not; for the very best reatsont in the world, because I uin derstood not, the complicated descrip Lion t~at. Jab~ez was giving of his still more complicated invention. All I knew was, that here was a machinie on fouir good strd, wl-braced wheels, and it otnly requj~ired a recorded pa tent to authorize that small connect ing co)g-whieel, or 'trmmnel-head, to be throwvn '.into gear," when it wvould move)V of, wihout eats, hay, or horse shoes, and distance the mail-coaches. As I was surrounded with notions, it was not extraordinary that one should take full possession of me. It dawn ed upon me, when I saw the machine first put into motion, and was now full orbed above the horizon of my desire; it was to see the first locomo tive move oft. The temptation wvas irresistible. 'And who knows,' thought I, 'but some prying scamp may have beeni 'peeping through the key-hole,' while J ahez w~as at work, and, catch ig the idea, may be now at work at aomne cltimsy imitation?-and if he do(es not succeed in tnrning the first trick, may at leas-t divide the honior's with my friend1' 'Jabecz,' said I, elevating my voice above the noisa a'f the machine, 'there is one thing wantig.' 'What is that? saya he, eagerly. 'Imumortalltv!' sid -. 'audl .vou shall have it, patent or np patent!' A rid with that, .1 pulled the crank thati twisted the conniectin' trunnol-iead into the travelling.nweels, *anrd in un -instant away went tire machine, with' Jahpe pp typ of it, Wvith the whiz and rapidity of a fhuihe'd' par. tUidge. The side of tie old build ing presented the resistance 4f ivet pa per., One crash, and the 'first lpppyno Live! was usiered into tins brenth ing world. I hurried to the opening, and had just time to clumber to the top of a fench to eatsh the last glimpse of mv fastldepartg friend. True to his purpose, I saw him alter nately screwing down the valves, and oiling the piston-rod and crank-joints -evidently determined'thrt, altipugh he had started off a little unexpected ly, ie would redeem tihe pledgo be had given, which was thrat whien it did go, it ")opuild go a leetle slow er than a streak of erains lightnin,' and a darn'd leetle too!' 'Like a cloud in the dim diiarnce fleeting, Like an arrow,' ,i flew awayl But a moment, and he was here; in a momeint ie was there; and now where is .h.--.or, rather where is he not? But that for the present, is "neither here nor there.' Tle vile Misleii riaiculed the be lief so religiously cherished by the Christian Don, that in all tie bloody conflicts that laid the crescent low in the dust, Eiaint lago, on a white horse, led oi to battle, and secured triumph to the cross; but as this has become matter of history, confirmed, by tie fict that on nunerous oceasion's this identical 'warrior saint' was dis tinctly seen "pounding the Moors," successfully and simultaneously, in battle scenes remote fiom each other, thus proving his identity by saint ly ubiquity; so we may safey in dulge the belief, hiat tie spirit, if not the actual body and bones, of Jabez Doolittle, stands perched on every lo conotive that may now'be seen in ev ery -direction, threading its. way at tire rate of thirty riles an hour; to tire total annihilation of space ai'd time. The incredulous, like the Moors of old, may indulge their unbelief; but for myself, I never seen a locomotive in full action, that I do not also see Ja bez there, directing its course, as plain as I see tire immortal Clinton inI every canal-boat, or the equally im. mortal Fulton in) every steamboat. Unfortuhately, however, these, like Jabez Doolittle, started in their ca reer of glory without a patent; trust ing too far to an ungrateful world; an~d now the descendants of either may (i' they pity their passage) in*dulge the luxury that tie 'inventive spirit" 'of their ancestor has secured to the age. But my task is dpre. All I )low ask is, that although some doubt and mystery hang .oyer ghie first inven tion of a steumboat-i-m which doubt., however, I fir one do hot participate -none whatever niv exist in regard to the prigip pf the loconotive branch of thre great steam finily; and that, in all future time, this fragment of authentic history may enable the la test Posterity *to retrace, by -back track and "turn out,' through a long railroad lire of illustrious ancestors, tire first projector and contriver of 'Tie First Locomotive,' their m niorpd progenitor, "Jabez D4 q!ittle, Esq.,nigh Wallingfbrd, Connecticut.' Inr the umber of tre Kniekerboek er, succeedinrg tire one inn which tihe above appeared, wte find thre follow-| ings characeteristic letter from thnat' golden-hearted genitlemran, Washuing tori Irvimg, wich we also eopfo the edificatiorn of our reaiders:-J 'Z To te .Editor* of the En~iickerbIocker, Sir:--In your last immnber,' read withr great interest air article, en titled, 'Tire JFirst Locomotive.' It throws light upon an incident ahrich has long beenr a theme of miarvel in tire f'ar WVest. You must know that I was oine amrong the f~rst baird of trarppers that crossed theo Rocky Moun tains. WVe had encamped one nilght on a ridge of thre Black Hills, arid were wrappled up inr our blanlkets, in the midst of' our first sleep, wvheni we were roused by the man who stood sen tine, who eried out, 'WVild fire, by --!' We started on our feet, arid behreld a streak of fire coming across the prairies, for all tire world like lightning, or a shooting star. We had hrardly timec to guess what it might be, whenrr t camne up, whrizzinig, arid clank. ing, arid markirng a tremenrdous raek et, arid we saw somietbing huge and black, with whreels arnd traps of all kinds; and air odd-looking being on top of It, busy as they say tire devil is in a gale of wind. Inr fact, somec of ouir people throught, it was the old gen tlemran imseif, tarking air airinrg in 0one of hris inrfernal carriages; oth ers tirotighrt it, was tie oppgnjng of one of the seals ini thre Revelations. Somre of tire stoutest fellows fell on their knees, and began to pray; a Kentuekian pluck ed tip courrage enouigh to hail the hiferal coachnman as )e. passed, aid ask whither he 'vas 4 li~ng bus"th'b sopeed whth "dih ha w-hrle4 ava t e rattling of his machine, en our catching more, than- theij4 4 words; Slam baaig to -strnalln ) b Ina fve mi'n'tes pore, he was he'nsak prviries, heyond the -Black "l we -saw hitn shooting, uicepye tern) over te Pocky Mounthn. The next day we tracked hlou& ie had cut through a great droye)d bpffalo, sopie hundred or t pf 'ivhi lay cut up as tughd il ntpers1'hIN been there; we heard of hin affai ward, driving throu'h a ile Black Fee, apd sinaiiing the- 1i g he chief, witj all lis OhilBe yond the Rocky 34phtaips, 11 -1td hear nothing more of him; sp tha, we concluded he had ended : hi bruit @tone pareer, by 'driving In'o one of the craters that still smoke among the peaks. 'This .cireprnstan.c~e, sir, a I said hai caused much spreulation it the Fiai Vest; but many set it doiwn as 'trapper's story,' w ich is about equiv alent to a traveller's titl; neither would the author of 'Asthria' and 'Bonneville's Adventure's admit it in to his works, though heaven knowa hie has not been over squeanish In such matters. The article in your 1a6 number, above alluded to, -has n'6' oleared up the matter, and, henceforli, I shall tell the story without fear of being -hooted at. i make no donubt, sir, thIs supposed infernal apparitit was nothing more nor less than Jabb Doolih.tle, with his locomotive:op a way to Astoria. "Who knows, who knows what wastei le Is now careering o'erf.': as the song goes; perhaps scouring Cal fornia; perhaps whizzing nayay to tho North Pole. One 'thing is ertiiian satisfactory; he is the first person'ties ever crossed the Rppky ifouptainso0 wheels; his transit spows thatthbs mountains are traversable with ringes. and that it is perfectly eas have:a railroadto tpo P l ' such road ever be eo hope, in honor ti 'Who, 1edA Yh 'Doolittle Railroad;' unl" should have been -given as;cha'ster tie t6 snoe of the many railroad already in progress. Yoiir hum bI servalit, IIhnAU* CRIAOENTTORRE, of St. Louis. A SURE MARKSMAN.-We fiuwd'jr the " Autobiography of Jerdan, the following concerning Lord 'q Tabley's shooting: "Lord de Tably was the Iurcst ghot I e.yer saw in the ?e]4. -i piece was rarely raised bpt to kill, and twenty snipes in SUCCeSsion havi fallen in proof of hig acpcurgey of aiD: And with the pistol he was still more wonderful. The head of a pwallow peeping over a corning in the olI tuwer wais a sufficient object for q bullet 4bout the sipe of g pe. A wagtail hopping an alipping -pOa the lawn was a gone bird if I ki for another specimen of skill, thoug he wag out of pr aptice since the time he %Fred for a wager of a thousand guineas, laid upon him by the princ * regent, the evidence of-the wnppg of which bet was testified by 'a car4 with wo holes in the centre, resein blin, the ace of clubs, and wvhich b" been perforated in that way P the duelling distance of twelve pace.m He wou!d have stood a pooi chance in a duel who ventured to meet Lord de Tabley. The loading of the pistol was a bit of minute sdenop which amused me. The gunpowdpr was carefully measured in a ram rod with a funnel end to receive it, and smoothed by a fine Card; the pistol was inverted over this, and.b. ding' y-eversed every particle was deposited in the breech. The rest of the lopd img was equally precise, arid, as his lordship never med I was bronght; to the conclusion that three or foni of the finest grains of powder, more or less, mnad3 all the diflference in the . hitting and missing. There is a flourishing grape vino growrng op a farm in the vicinity of Elkton, Ala., with stae following in~ gular history : Thoe seed from which it germinated, formed a .covered but ton or clasp to a lady's kid glove, which was imported frot paris, among a lot of othierp, by a mierchant of Philadelphia, who sold It to Em, pirr chant in Elkton. A lady purcha~d the gloves containing this grs~ee, wore themi ouit, discoyer, caused it to be plante, ad it now a flourishing vine. WoRTH TRYIN.-A 'lump o ,wet palaratus applied to the sting of is waspor beb, .will stop the paip a one moment, and prevent it from a~' ling. It Is ,a sure remidy forlait 'gde bltis i~f applied idicdiotel~