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* <ar i Q? v ' c a <%ti i -^ -, Yj jf^ ' |i l|j|>p ~S JsP 4 tU^' JJ/ fl ij>'.i^ ^| #j,DEVOTED TO LITERATURE, THE ARTS, SCI1HCE, AGRICULTURE, HEWS, POLITICS, &C., &C. TEHMS TWO DOLLARS PER ANNUM,] "Lot it be Instilled into the Hearts of your Children that the Liberty of the Press is the Palladium of all your Rights."?Junius. [PAYABLE IN ADVANCE.VOLUME 4?NO. 51. ABBEVILLE C. II., SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL 24, 1857. WHOLE NUMBER 207 1) ATra r\-n m. tmh ?-. I. The Proprietors of the Abbeville Banner mid I Independent l'rcu, have established the following rates of Advertising to bo charged iu both parors: Every Advertisement inserted for nlnss time lhan three months, will be charged by the in- ; ftertion at One Dollur per Square, (l? inch ?the space of 12 solid lines or less,) for the first Insertion, flnd Fifty Cents for each eubse- j tjuent insertion. 6^*" The Commissioner's, Sheriff's, Clerk's j hnd Ordinary's Advertisements will he inserted in both papers, ench charging half price. C5F" Sheriff's Levies, On?> Dolllir ''neb. Announcing a Candidate, FiVC I>oI? \ lam. ? T?_? rr> l ......H .... m, ?i (| iMMIiirS, to be paid by the Magistrate. Advertisements inserted for three months, or loDgcr, at the following rates : 1 square 3 months $ 5 uO ; 1 square G months 8 00 I 1 square 0 months 10 00 I 1 square 12 months 12 00 j 14 squares 3 months 8 00 ! \l squares ft months 14 00 I < !i squares 0 months 18 On 1 H squares 12 months 20 00 ' I tl squares It months 10 11O j I 3 squares ft months 1ft on ' < n squares 9 months ...... m 00 j | i} squares 12 months 'J.ri no ] 1 4 squares 3 months 12 on I . 4 squares ft months 2n tut ' 4 squares 9 months 2ft 00 ! I 4 squares 12 months 30 j 4 ft squares 3 months 1 "1 Oft ' , 6 squares ft months 25 tin ! . ft squares 9 mouths 31 on | fi squares 12 month* - - - Hfi on j | ? squares 3 months 2" nil ' I ? squares 6 months HO mi | . 6 squares 9 months :>ii no ; j 6 squares 1'2 months ... . . 411 <10 7 squares 3 months - 2.1 on 1 7 squares fi months on , I 1 squares 9 months II no | ( 1 squares 12 months - - - - - 4."? on j , H squares II mouths ...... ;{n <111 | 8 squares A months On 1 1 fi (iniinpflc Q nmntlia - - - - ?*' 1 '' -- ?1 - " " * 1" "" 8 equates 12 months ...... f>n on ;i Fractions of Si|iinrcs will bo charged in pro. ' portion to the above rates. U Husiness Curds for the term of on?- j | year, will be charged in proportion to th<- v ppaee tliey occupy, at One JtulUir per lino ! ppace. * } v For nil advertisement* set in </??/,/? < ../- ; v umn, Fifty per Cent, extra will lie milled to the j | above rates. j, DAYLS A- CREWS, ^ For Hauntr ; n LEE ?fc WJLSOX, For J'rcst*. j ????BB?aa??mp MISCELLANY. j v Greenville and Colombia Railroad. PRESIDENTS UKl'OKT. ! ,, To the Stockholders of the Greenville and s / (..i j /i i/viumviu iiuaruuti KyUmjvnnj : ; I Tlie rresident .and Directors submit lh<* j w following Report of the affairs of tlie Com- | ' pany for the year ending the 31st Decern- j J ber, 1856. j <> The Tabular statements of the Auditor ' and Treasurer will give you a full arid min- ? ute account of the finances of the Company. 'J From Table No. 4, it will appear that the " income for the year amounted to $307,808 80 f< m.. ! r ^ - - - - xuo Hicoinc ior iqoo was 2Yy,U 1 KJL 50 51 v Showing an increase of 58,790 '24 c From Table No. 3, it will lie 1' seen that the current expenses for 1 the year 1856, (not including the extraordinary expensps,) were 11 ?195,970 50 p The exponces for 81 1855 were 181,702 GO >> ci Increase in expenses 14,2.34 90 j'' a: Deducted from increase of innnmn Iaiivm i i rm ot h ? ?... l u t as net iocrease upon tlic year's 'l business. Sl The increase in tlie expenses was occa- l' atoned by necessity arising in maintenance ai of way, chiefly by lite rapid decay of trestles. <;l Table No. 1, is an exhibitit of tlie liabil- LM ities, properly and assets of tlie Company, 1,1 as they stood on the first of January last. ^ The value of tlie rond in this statement is r< set down at its cost, and the whole assests " is there given at &2,66G,875 88. The pro- c' perty is really worth much more than this ^ ?um. In the amount of bills payable is in- ^ eluded the debt to the Bank of the State, ei $73 ,500, originally coHtraeted on the faith e' of the assessment on the State stock, and a' $34,219 for work on construction acoount, a part, of Wuicli will not be due for twelve ?i months. If our bonds could been sold " at a fair price, this indebtedness would have ej been nearly discharged. Of tins Bonds or- ^ dered to bo issued only $48,500 were sold i " fin tlifl <vnirs? <vf Ilw? tout />?? l.?rwl I a *146 ,500 unsold. Before the end of Febru- j " Wy all the pay rolls up to 1st January lu>t ?' ^Bre!pa?d off, and also a large amount of the indebtedness mentioned in the statetneht l: tt is greatly to be regretted tbat the capi- P fcal stock of the Company falls sfyort of the " 'oost of the road; the deficiency?'bad to be " made up at great lose, and capitalists, who h have nocoratnon interest with us in the road, !V <are deriving a profit from it, Of the busi- u new of 1866, $307,808 80 n There were required forfex- * ...... lAf n>rn rn al IUU OUUJ VI 1 UJfU IV OU ^ Leaving a balance of 111,838 30 '' Which, if the capital had been equal to t lie ^ <co*t of the road, could have been divided ^ amongst the stockholders; but instead of |Ibat, the interest upon the. debt had to be " m. which AmdooU. to about $75,000 antaoally, leaving a balance of only $30,888 30 ' Annual pronto over the combined amounts J ?f expenses and interest. The bu>iness and tx tne present year upjto this time baa been " considerably larger -tban it was up to the *' eouttd liftie last year, so that, it is believed," ? that a!! the i?tere?t due on the assessment, amounting to abotit 190,000, can be paid s< to the Stockholders iti the course of the w unupet, without embarrassment to the Com* j1 Alport of the Gefteral Superioten- P fulh.account of the Operations oTthfetoad apd its machinery. it will ba <5 seen tbal the road is in gpod conditio*, ft hp L is well supplied with motive power. Tin additions and improvements at the work shops will enable the men employe^ there to work in greater comfort, and tt turn out more work than heretofore. It i< believed that in a sho/t time all our car.? csui bo made there. Although some accidents involving loss have occurred, yet the running of the trains has been wonderfully successful and should be satisfactory. TIk officers and operatives in our employment are prompt and faithful in the discharge ol duly. The conductors of lliu I'assetigor trains and the Kngineers, or runners, are ,i... > iiijj 01 special commennation. I lie Engineers arc skillful, cautious ami prudent, and tilt; conductors art- accommodating and polite to passengers, and at tin* same lime linn in the discharge of duty. They arc men worthy of your confidence, honoring the stations that tIn:y fill. The work of building rock culverts and Tilling in the trestles, in which we were engaged at the time of your last meeting, has Im-cii pressed forward with all the energy ivhich the means of the Company would alow, ami a large amount of this woik has ?;en done. The sum of ><72.040 7(i has ecu disbursed from the treasury during he year upon this account, including the >ld and the new, added to the cost of the oad. In this way the road has been greaty improved. Thorough and extensive re?airs have la-en mad"-, which will more paricularlv appear from the Report of the Su?.|'ll.l..!..l '11. - l? I ' ' . III. i III- iMfdllj IT.\ lO COI111I1UU I.is work of construction, and liavc let out ipon contract the huildin of culverts and illin- up oflart*' trestles at Williamston, and t' utairt siiiidl ones at other places alonj; lie mad. A stuvi-v iias recently Ihicu made villi a view of I'liaiiixini; ihc location of I lie oad till the west of Saluda River, so as to ivoid the eitissiuti of Wilson's f'reek. The Miifftli of tlie new line is 4,400 f*et, the fradmir of whieh will cost less than the ,..:i I:.!. ... MH' i wi. 111 M-fi'^ across that stream iliii-li. wi'i'i ?v to rnnliiiiK* tlit* old line, mnlil liav-' ti> 1).* ivlmilt tliis vear. This rink will In- put under contract as soon as iraetieaMe. Most of the Trestles that should >e lilli-d tip, will Ik* filled in thce.ourse of the uvscnt year, a ft it which the expenses for iiaiiitainitig the way will ho greatly reducd. Application was again made to the Legisitnre of the State at its last sitting for pay* ii'itil of the assessment upon the Stale.Stock, fliifli application was rejected. As no L'asoti Was avsiirnefl fur tliis deeisinn ?m fti.? mi l ?>f 11 it* Legislature, it cannot tie thought liauge ih.it we ar<j not p;iti.-lif. 1 with it. he claim to us seems so well founded that e <lo not perceive whv the State, which ( sires to give an example of justice in its eatings, did not acknowledge the debt and rder it to be paid. An individual stockolder, with precisely the same case as that f the State, could not successfully resist the emnnd in our judicial tribunals; and the nmuuity of a sovereign only substitutes alfcoercion in its case, for the external >rc<; which might be applied in the case of subject. A mere glance at the question rill suflfu-e to show the strength of our laitn. 15v the charter nf tlm f!.imnam> ? ? ower is given to enlarge the capital as in lie progress of llie undertaking might be jinid necessary, either by additional assessment. not to exceed in the whole twenty er cent, on the original shares, or by new uhscriptions. The State embarked in this nprovement with the individual stockholdrs, and in the first instance subscribed to le capital stock an amount which when scertained yielded 1G55 shares ; and af>rwards as the load was extended to Abcville and Greenville, it subscribed the irlher amount of 3,750. In none of these ihcriptions did the State exempt itself from ic provisions of the charier authorizing the ?twsiiifiit ; l>ut on the contrary itsubscrib il with a full knowledge of the power grantJ to tlic Company. The State has receivI and and now holds the Company's scrip >r the number of shares above named?is gularly represented by proxy in the niceties of the Company, and in all respects laim.s the rights and privileges of the other tuck holders. The Stockholders, at theirleeting at Newberry, in Jnnuary, 1833, to lable the Company to go on with the work (ercising the powers given them, assessed II the Stock of the Company to the amount r r...... i-i.vii?.. -i * v.w. uunain I'VJI sililir, Ul IWL-lliy |ivr VCIIl. [ton (he original shares. The Slate Stock i common with the individual Stock was qually assessed. No burden is laid upon ic State Sto<-k that is not alike assumed by n.' individual Stockholders. TheludividuI Stoctkliolders have paid up the assessient on their Stock, but the Stale is still in ( fault. No doubt the individual Stockolders paid reluctantly ; they regretted the eeessity, but still they paid. To the good lith of the State, which has never yet reudiated an acknowledged obligation, it iusi ue icit lo.examme uic ground# upon diich it can IxHieved from its share of tho urden assumed by* those with whom it is ssoeiated, Under the circumstances tho Miftsment was a timely, wise and prudent icasure. Without it, it is prohahlu that lie enterprise would have failed, and all the lock paid in, both by individuals and the itate would in that event have been entiref lost; wilh it, the road has been pressed >rward to completion. Not only is the itato' Stock Bavtd, but already has the itatc been prqfited bv the immense wealth mparted to it l>y tl?o Jloftil, amounting to nore tlian double the stock paid in. llavig shared in its benefits, equity requires tbat lie State should contribute to its conrtnon tydens. As Stockholders ourselves, and 8 representatives, of other individual Stockolders, we gratefully acknowledge the librality of the State towards our Company j ut we think that there is with'some perans a misapprehension on this subject, rhich leads them to soppoaa that this liberIHy was greater than that shown to other ke Cotrtpauiftj, andH&tyby it, a reft^al tb ay the assessment is eiddaed. To correct U error tlpon thii suMaft wo institu^j <COD^pari!k)n .wjtji. opt ofthk many JomjSttiles aided by^kflfr8iate,.U> wit: the i Smith Carolina Railroad Company, tli - Charlotte and South Carolina Kailroa I Company, and the Spartanburg and Unio > Railroad Comp." The South Caruliti 3 Railroad with its tranches is 242 miles loin i i and besides loans and other aid in a sma j way rendered in the infancy of the Hoa< | the State afterwards subscribed ?800,000 < Stock, and guaranteed the Bonds of th i Company to the amount of ?2,000,00( The Charlotte and South Carolina Kailroai ' | is 108 miles Ion;;. Tim State subscribed t ; the Capital Stock of this Companv ?272 | 000. TIm* Spai l anburjj and Union Railroad i , ; not exe lint; ~(> miles long, and has a sul script ion of the State to the amount of ?250 000. Our road with its branches is 104 mile i long, and lias a subscription of ?348, 10C If aid were extended to our Company in tli l same proportions that it has been to thesi I Companies, we would frot with thr? Snml C.'iroiinn Railroad,stock aid (o llio amonn of ?">42, 14b, besides a guarantee o bounds ; or. with the Charlotte and Soutl Carolina 11 ail road stock to the amount o ?413.037 ; or, with the Spartanburg am Union Railroad stock to tlie amount o ?*>85,714. We have frit it to be our duty to present to you the foregoing statement as to this matter, so that you may under stand it in all its bearings ; and we arc now content to leave it to you to determine what course, if anything further,should b< taken in regard to it. I The increase in our business, heretofore i is in accordance with the usual growth o ! business of railroads. When the channc of cointmimention in connection with oui ! road shall be opened up with the north j west, a very heavy and profitable busines: j must necessarily be brought to our road ! The liluc Kidge Railroad, which connect! J with ours at A nderson, designed to bring in j to our State the products of that immense ; and fertile region of country, is a matjnifi i cent enterprise, which when coinpletet j cannot fail to add hugely to the greatness i and wealth of our, State, as well as th< ! prosperity of our Company. Tt is hope< i and believed that the present embarrass i mont of that Company will be but temno ! rary, ami that very soon its affairs will b( j put in a bettor condition than over before , and that it will go on to rapid completion j It is recommended to you to consider wlieth . er it would not be sound policy to extern j some aid to this Company, which may b< i done by carrvii.g materials, or in some oth | er way in which v"<> can serve them, pay , rnent to be mailt: tu us in stock in tlieii j Company. The snbj.-ct is brought to youi ' attention that you mav consider the same ami tin in I lie matter whatever you may | think right. Surrounded hy difficulties of immense j magnitude, arifitig nut only from the rug ! gedness of the country through whicdi yomjroad is located, and the small amount ol capital furnished, but. also from a want ol public confidence which still lingers around us, reluctant to yield, you have pressed forward this noble enterprise to its present condition of successful operation ; and it can no loncer be denied thsit. rnn li'.iuo a r^o.i 0 J .. . w.,v? of no small importance. Including its branches, it is 1C4 miles long running from the capital of the State through the Districts of Richland, Fairfield, Lexington. Newberry, Edgefield, Abbeville, Anderson and Greenville. It accomodates a large and prosperous portion of the State. Tim promptness and regularity with which it | lias done all the business that lias offered, is sufficient evidence to all unprejudiced minds of its ability to do the business of the country. One train a day for passengers, nnd two freight trains from Columbia to ' Newbcny, per day, as at present arranged, i <lo tlie business with ease, and could do i double as much if afforded. The1 capacity , of I lie road would not be heavy taxed with I twelve trains of freight per day, which could I be run with the same ease, regularity and ; safety, as the present trains are now run, j This would involve very little increase of exi pensc iu the maintainance of the way. The ! principle increase in the expense would be j for machinery necessary to be added, and I mv engineers ana train tramls, all of which | would no amply repaid by a business such { as could then be done. The idea that i this roa'l is not capable of doing the busi} ness of the country, even in its most prosI perous condition, can be entertained only i by those who aro inexperienced in railroad ! management, or profoundly ignorant of j the capacity of our road, and who shut i their eyes to the light which would otherwise I t l. .1 - * - , uit-uk in u|iun iiiciii irom me experience ol ; the post, and the unsurpassed successful op' eratiotis of our road. Under the old adI ministration of the South Carolina Rail. road it was thought that a double tracli was impossible to the successful operation I of that road ; but the perfection that has I been attained there in the arrangement*, under their- present sagacious nud abh General Superintendent, has satisfied the direction that "the Company i6 fully prepared for a large increase of business, without the aid of an additional track." Why cannot a railroad that is capable of bear ing up one heavily freighted train per daj in eafety,bear up twelve or eleven fifteer HKe trains in equal safety? The flaghcitj of man is fully equal to the task of so. arranging the trains as to pass twenty trains per day up and (fcwn a single track, ovei such a road as ours, with entire sofety ai is often done upon railroads now in us< when so many trains are neidti. With a knowledge of our road, who will undertak< to sny where its capacity will bo limited \ It would now be a orratifvlncr slate of thinon if only one half the Amount of businea . which is is capable, of doing should be off 'ered to it... ' ' SineAyonr last mating death has ngnif visited us, removing^Wf^n Gilgore, one o .the first tyfceotors, end^n aMemi sUpnorte oftbp Co^jpany, and.our- awociate, Dray toa<J*inoe,who from iheflfitdrgaouation q tr Coinp*l?y ,BHtU W* de&ib hekj * sea^ ? rBdhrd. BytheaejftbtiVfc <ffoftutoaatio? of ProvidpLicQ t^o CoMpao^ lias faithfn V * , mm mmmmmm i? i friends, :111< 1 may well join in the Jamen ?i ! tations of the community. n I Bv order of tlie Hoard. a ' tuos. c.rKiniiN, r, ! J*resident. II Ghekxvii.i.k, March 2.>, 1850. ,f Discipline cf the Mind. t> It is not l?y mere study, l>y mere acctimti ). lation of knowledge, that yon can hope fo j eminence. Mental discipline, the exereisi o ' of the faculties of the mind, the r|uickeni?; r j of your apprehension, the strengthening o ! your memory, the forming of a sound, rapk s j and discriminating judgment, are of evet more importance than tin; stoic of learning Practise the economy of time. Considei time like the faculties of your mind?a pre - - .i - - v; wuip usiiiw j nun every moment of it wcl (. applied is put to an cxhorbitant interest e The zeal of amusement itself, and the sue a cessfnl result of application, depend, in t li great measure, upon the economy of time t ICstimate also llie force of habit. Exorcist ,f a constant, and umcmitting vigilance of ac li quiremcnt of habit, in matters that are ap f patently of indifference?that perhaps 1 are really so, independent of the habits they ,f engender. It is by the neglect of such trifle; that bad habits are acquired, and that the , mind by total negligence and procrastina . tion in matters of of small account hut fie . (picnt occurrence?matters of which tin ; world lakes no notice?bccomes accustom; ed to the same defects in matters of higliei importance. By motives yet more urgent by higher and purer aspirations, by the du ^ ty of obedience to the will of <?od, l>y the I awful account you will have to render, nol tnerelv of moral actions, but of faculties cn 1 f..*?..!i > ?ni.Eu ivi _iuu iur improvement?l>ynll tllt'St liit;li arguments do I con jure you '"so to mini her your days unto wisdom," unto that wis* dom which, directing your ambition to th( noMeend of benefiting mankind, and t?-ai h f ing humble reliance on the merits and on the mercy of your Redeemer, may support j you in the "lime of your wealth and in the hour of death, and in the day of judg4 incut," may comfort you with the hope ol The Federal CourtAlexander Mul ice and II. Leo Turston, Esq., have been appointed commissioners ol this Court for Greenville district. Mr, | Michael 1). Dickey has been appointed Deputy Marshal for Greenville. The juror? grand and petit., were drawn in Charleston hist week for Greenville. Mr. Dickey will soon have to summon them for the first Monday in August, when the Federal Court sits for Greenvillle. It is clothed I with all the powers of the Circuit Court, as ] a District Court. All notes due persons I lStfin/v j\?* 1 1 i vmii. v>| LIIC OlitK; lliav OU useu ill tills Oourl, and judgement obtained the first ' , Court. Hereafter such notes will be used ' on in lhe Federal Court. Next session ol |-: Congress, Cul. Oit assures us we shall have j. an appropriation of forty thousand dollars to build a Federal Court House. It passed the Senate last session , but was lost in the confusion of the adjournment. We understand that Judge Magrath intends spending, some time in Greenville next summer, for the purpose of organizing and holding his Court. We have no doubt there will be n ' great deal of businessin the Court as soon ! as it gets underway and becomes known to ' | the people. Great honor is due Judge Mng| I rath for his exertions to make the Federal | ' Court useful to the State by extending his :J w ?iv j/.m, ui ooiuu v^<?r' j olina. 1 Sini-o writing the above, we have received the list of jurors, grand and petit, for the Federal Court at Greenville. A good many ' as them are on the jury drawn for the ex; tra Court ordered l>y Judgo 0'Xepll for 1 Greenville, which sits at the same time. Greenville Patriot. The following toucliiiiL'. simnle. and snr. rowful memorial of his wife was written l?y one of the greatest statesmen of England? Sir James Mackintosh?in a private loiter to ft friend.?"She was a woman," he write?," who by tender management of my weaknesses, gradually corrected the most pernicious of them. She became prudent from affection ! and though of the most generous nature, she was tauglit frugality and cconmy by her love for me. During the most critical period of my life, slie preserved order in my affairs. From llie caro of which she relieved me. She gently re. claimed me from dissipation, she propped my weak snd irresolute nature: she urged [ my indolence to all the exertion that have f \ been useful and creditable to me. and she was perpetually at lintul to admonish mv heedlessness and improvidence. To her I owe whatever I shall he. In her solicitude for my interests, she never for a moment forgot my character, iicr feelings were warm and impetuous, hot she* was placable , tender, and constant. -Such was she whom 1 have lost; and I have lost her whom a knowledge of her worth had refined my truthful love into friendship before age had deprived it of much of its original ardor. -I seek relief, and find it, in the consolatory opinion that a benevolent wis dem inflicts the chastisement, as well as be' -A - .1 - * ' aiows mo enjoyment ot human life ; Unit this dreary nnd wretchdd life l* not the whulo of man ; thnt a being cnpabto o( ( such proficiency in &cience and virtue; is r not like the beasts, that there is a dwelling } plaoe prepared for the spirits of the just; j that Jhe ways of God will yet be vindicated by man." * The Jawi&h'passover commenced on the <9th?jo?tant, It w in commemoration ol J the passing over of the Israelites when w the * iirst-born of Egypt porisl'ed, stul of their escape out of Egypt. During the time they tun, mazoi, or unleavened bread, which' ii ? made of the fincatr wheat flouir end parcel f water, kneaded by a wootlen loaver, nnc r afterward*' rolled pot between wooden rg f. l$c?? and tH&n oat* By tttadbiaerv, willvou h b&jng touched by foimnnlUwd. ' ? fthrplwHy ot life ^nd m&nften pmduoa I. tpwjjijfc'vf wi?d. _ A" ^ * Horace Walpole's Letters. A new edition of W?IpoIe,3 Letters, chronologically arranged, is announced bv liently, ot' London. Kvery one has heard of Wnlpolc, the wit, and the gossip-monger, and the following extract from one of his letters, addressed to Mr. Chute, will be rend with interest. It is a good specimen - of Walpole's budinurjo ; r Indeed' my dear sir, you certainly did u not use to be stupid, and till you give me ; more substantial proof that you are so, I f shall not believe it. As for your temperate 1 ; diet and milk bringing about such a rnetai 1 morpilosis, I hold it impossible. I have . I such lamentable moots uvurv ilnv mv I 4 ^ . ~ '"J r | eyes of the Mupyfying qualities ot' beef, ale, - : and wine, that I have contracted a inu.it reI ligious veneration for your spiritual noui i. ture. Only imagine that I here every day - see men, who are mountains of roast beef, i and only seem just roughly hewu out in. to the outlines of human form, like the gi} ant rock at J'ratolino ! 1 shudder when I - see them brandish their knives in the act to - carve, and look on them as savages thatde> vour one another. I should not stare at all ' more than 1 do, if yonder alderman at the ? lower end of the table was so stick his fork s into his neighbor's jolly check, and cut a - brave slice of brawn and fat. Why, I'll - swear I see no diiference between a country ; gentleman and sirloin ; whenever the lirst laughs, or the latter is cut, there run out p just the same streams of rrr;iw t 53 J ' ' , the sirloin does not ask quite so many qiies tiotis. 1 have an aunt hero, a family ! piece of goods, nil old remnant of imjuisi live hospitality and economy, who, to all intents and purposes, is as beefy as her s j neighbors. She wore me so down yester day with interrogatories, that I dreamt all night she was at niy ear with "who*," and s "whys," and "wliens" and "wheres"' till at last in niy vcry sleep I cried onf, "For 1 Ood in heave11'6 sake, madam, ask me no more questio,,s !"' 1 "Oh ! my dear.sir, don't you find that nine parts in ten of the world are of no use ' but to make you wish yourself with that tenth part ? I am so far from growing ??L>? iu iiiaiiKiiHi i>y living amongst tiicm, that my natural ferocity and w ildness does i but every da}' grow worse. They tire, fa* tigue me : T don't know what to do with them; 1 don't know what to say to thorn ; I fling open the windows and fancy I want 1 air, and when I get to myself, I undress myself and seem to have had people in mv | pocket, in mv plaits, and on my shoulders! I 1 indeed find this fatigue worse in the cottn| try than in town, because one can avoid it | there and has more resources , but it is | there too I fear'tis frrowincr <?1?1 but. I J O O ? , literally seem to have murdered a man 1 J whose name was Ennui, for his ghost i-* j ever before me. They say there is no En. glish word for ennui ; I think you may ; translate it most literally bv what it is calj led "entertaining people," and "doing the honors;" that is, you sit an hour with somebody yon don't know and don't <yire for, talk about the wind and the weather, and ask a thousand foolish questions which begin with, "I think you live a good deal in the country," or, "1 think you don't love this thing or that." Oh,' tis dreadful 1" now the American Did.? When tlie vote of censure of the Hritish Ministry for the Chinese war was under discussion, in the House of Commons, Lord l'almerston made a three hour's speech, in which he is said to have poured a continuous volly of ridicule, sarcasm and invective in the onno ? * ir ! silion ranks. He spoke of the action of the j American Captain who battered down one : of the Chinese forts, of whom he said : I have heard of a word and a blow; I but lie preferred a blow and a word. [Hear J hear. Jle judged it better in tho first i place to knock down tho offending foil, but { for the insult to tho American flag, twen ty-four hours were given to the Chinese to make the apology, but before that time had elapsed the American Captain, with a shrewd eye, saw something going an in the fort he was lying noar, which induced him to think that, at the end of the twenty-four hours, the answer, if unfavorable, would find him in position not quite so desirable as tho one he then occupied, so be renewed his attack without waiting for the expiration of tho time ho had fixed. I j think, sir, that the honorable member must. i at least, admit that our proceeding was the ! extreme of forbearance when compared with that of the American, [Hear, hear. Sad Bkiieavmbnt.?Sunday afternoon witnessed a melancholy coatege in the street of New Orleans. It was a long and sad procession following to tne grave tlic mortal remains of two of the daughters of our esteemed townsman. Dr. William Rushton. Thqy died, ono at midnight on Saturday night and tho other a few hours later, of that dreadful disease the scarlet fever, and now lio entombed together; one a young wife, who leaves her fiast infant sick of the same disease : tho other a promised bride, whose wedding was to take place within a few days. They were tho gracoofthe best pociety in N. Orleans, lovely, well natural, refind and tenderly beloved?bill a week ago tho centre around which clustered the most joyous hopes of ' fond hearts for tho future ; now tho tenants of a common grave watered by. passionate tears. The nawa.of this terrible affliction, as soon as announce*! on Sunday .u: II ? a - iiiumiug, Buuuuuttu iue wiioio oily. We have never witnessed a rnpte profound and aniversal sensation.?Picayuhe. > m i m r Rktirrd.?Rev.L.M. Pease, of -New ) York,the noted vFive Points -missionary, lias retired feom his work in consequence ofl falling hoaltb, induced by* too'lassiduous.de> votion to bis labors. It is etfcuwUfd' that L during tbe seven yeata of Ibis mission flfce i thousaqg children have been reclamed from 1 vice and Warrant#. r . *> Th6.4rpung.tAM/ -who kwt Jnr hwrt M; ,4* IW h*? foofcd It aga'iD, though ijirtyly- w?n?J^dr THcirCttmaUno^ * -...M .1? -n S ' rr) OtfVf J / r Tho Homestead. It is not lift it used to be When you and I were young ; Then round ench elm and maple tree The honeysuckles clung; lint still I love t lie cottage where I passed 1113- early year.", | Though not a single fence is there I That memory ejidears. ! * It is not as it used to be, The moss is oti the roof, J And from their nests beneath the cave, The swallows keep aloof. ! The robins?how they used to sing When you and 1 were young, And how did Hit the wild bee's wing The opening flowers among 1 It is lUtf tio\t* n< if nj?.l K.. ' The voices loved of yore. And the foniu we were wont to see, We see and hear no more, i Ko morel Ala?, wclook in vain For those to whom we clung, And love aa wc can love l>ut once, When you :in<l 1 were young. Chinese Sugar Cane, i G. W. Kendall, of the Now Orleans Pic! ay line, thus adds his testimony regarding the j value of this product, lie is fanning no a i large scale in Texas : "In October, 1853, I purchased in Paris a small paper of the seed. 1 do nut think ; there was more than two heaping tablespoonfuls of it, or three at the outside. 1 ; brought it with me to New Orleans, and on ! arriving sent it here to be planted. When I I reached this place, early in May last it wjis i inst oeerintr ?bi?vi> tin* ~ c ,? iO &;,,J"a 01 it in :i ten acre field, which litis been devoted in the main to millet, oats, and a little I Indian corn, and four short rows in our garden ; the latter was planted last. j "About the 8th of July two rows in the ' larger fit-Id had shot up, headed out and i ripened, notwithstanding the drought, aud ' heavy heads were cut for seed. The oats, meanwhile, had come up, the millet was I hardly above ground, while the Indian corn ; was parched and drying up for want of rain, i Two or three mornings afterwards, on hrnki ing at the field from a hill close by, I notic; ed that two rows of Sorgho Sucre had enI lircly disappeared, while rows of Indian corn on the other side were still standing. On i close examination, I ascertained that a lot of j hogs?hogs are apt to do such things?had i broken into tlie Held, and dcvouied the ; Chinese sugar came root and branch ; it was ; cut clean to the ground by the porkers, not ! a single vestige was left, while, as al! ready stated, the stalks of Indian corn on I ciliiui sum were icu standing. 1 was thank; Jul I had saved the seed, and thought little ! more of it. "Some few days after this?peihaps a fortnight?the rows planted in the garden 1 were examined, the heads of seeds found to ; he ripe, and the greater portion cut and i brought to the house, leaving the tall stalks j still standing. On cutting down one of the latter, which must have been ten feet high, j I found it to be exceedingly heavy, and on i tasting the cane it seemeed to me to be as full of the saccharine juice as the ordinary ! sugar cane of Louisiana. At the same time ! I had two or three imported French merino ! sIlOPli ill II1V vnr.l ifwrrnot ? j 1 J J > o""" fclCCll j fodder, and on cutting the cano in small ! pieces, I found that they devoured it with j ilie greatest avidity. After this I fed them 1 daily on it for some time, a single stalk fur| Disking a good bait. I also gave some of it I to a favorite mare, she eating it even more ! greeilily than the sheep. Some three weeks ' after the ripe heads of seed were cut I noj ticed that new heads had shot up from the ; same stalk ; and these new heads blossomed, filled and ripened in September, and were cut and brought to the house. All this time you must recollect wo were sutleriug from the unprecedented drought, and Indian com and sweet potatoes, water melons, pumpking*, and the like, had died down to tl?i? rorv nrrnnn/l "I now becnmo more interested in tlie Sorglio Sucre than ever, and though I still fed out daily to the metinocs and mare left, a portion of the stalks standing. Soon new heads were seen shooting out, and-these in turn blossomed and ripened as did the j first I kept no account of dates, but think this third crop of seed from tho same stalk, ifso I may call it, was gathered about the first of October, it might have been during the second week of that month. 1 planted some of this last seed, by way pf experiment ?it came up rapidly, looked thrifty, grew up until it was nearly knee high, and was ? k.. f 4 J- XT 1? * aiuiijr v/ut> uunu uj iiuat ill nuYCUIWjr. -?Y great number of shoots of suckers, which bad sprung up from the stalks first planted, were cut down at the same time. -The Sorgho Sucrc can stand anv kind of*drought, but the first sharp frost kilU it to the ground. And what amount of seed do you think I purchased in Paris ? Nearly, if not quite, two bushels ! and bad not ttl6 hogs brpken into the field, I believe I should have had ihred. It certainly yields in tho most mira'culou? manner; beats everything for dry weather. "Of its properties for the production of sugar I can s$y nothing ; I only know iliptt, it | acf AQ 1 *i I'A (fin iinfrtmnn o nrttf* ? HAU lliu VVIIIIIIUII OU^UI VUll^j uuu is full of juice about the time the first head ripens, Aa a green fodder, it atop, beats everything which grows; horses, sheep and bogs are certainly inordinately fo$d of. it, and so full are tho stalks of saccbjfctf tie matter thaUtbey must be both nutHfio.ua and fattening. I cannot say?pbat kind of bread or calpp the seeds will afford/nor oaii I telj, whai'kind of dry fodder the platit Will mafct* vfhon^cut green } these eiuferitnehfa I have . vet to trv. and nnw (lint. n?M^ika u^l I t mt?(id to do it on a. soaie. I shall pUnJ. it in rows or dnlfcr, shaH ?o# it and cut it ft?, different atage?, to Xry its qualities ,jji a dr^ftWjfer. tM om rtpwA^over and over ac^R.^batriO^ands a urti uglit bettor than anyihing wd bafO?iloea, not seem to . her )/%x ?n?if^rotty^jprl 'Satfta-tc kWy&k .*fcf '*. / /v-Vrv *',!.: tlil-|1tl|| fn,|1|i,l,|ll,^.: The Chinese Empire. A very interesting account of the actual COtidition of China, from the pert of Sir John IJowring, the representative of tho IJTitish government at Hong Kong,- has been recently published in the London Times. Tlie penal laws of China makes provisions for a general system of legislation ! and, with this aid, and the most thorough investigation, the write? estimates the present population of the Chinese Empire at between three hundred and fifty million's and four hundred millions of humaii beings. The population in China, he says, ia grouped under four heads ; 1, scholars*; 2, husbandmen ; 3", mechanics; 4, merchants. There is a numerous class who afo considered almost as social outcasts, such an static-players, professional (ramblers. be" gars, convicts, outlaws, and others ; and these probably form no part of the population returns. In the more remote rural districts, on the other hand the returning officer most probably contents Jiimsclf vfrifh giving the average of more accessible and better peopled localities. Sir John had uo means of obtaining any saisfactorv tables to show the proportions which different ages : bear to one another in China, or to fh'H average mortality at different periods of human life ; yet to every decade of life the Chinese apply some special designation j the age of 10 is called the opening dogreo \ 20, youth expired ; 30, strength and mar* riacre: 40. udinijillv mil r.o . o ' ' V "I * ' ' mg ; GO,cycle closing ; 70, rare bird ol ago ; 80, rusty visage ; 90, delayed , IOC. ages extremity. Nearly a teuthof the population deriro i their means os support from the tiaherie.^ | The river population is enormous ; a popI illation, says the writer, "who lived only in boats, who are born and educated, who marry near their families and die, who, in a word, begin and end their existence on water, and never have or ever dream of .my shelter other than the roof, and who seldom I tread evcenf. on f lm rli-i-L- nr linnr/1 r?f sampans, showing lo what an extent tlio land is crowded, and how inadequate it id to maintain the cuinberers of the soil. In the city of Canton alone it is estimated that 3000,000 persons dwell upon the surface erf the river, the boats, sometimes ttventy of thirty deep, cover some miles, and hava their wants supplied by ambulatory salesmen, who wend their way through every accessible passage. Of this vast population some dwell in decorated river ''boats used for every purpose of license and festivity { for theatres, for concerts, for fe:ists, for gafftbling, for lust, for solitary and social recreations. Some crafts, arc employed in conveying goods and passengers, and are ia a state of constant activity,, others are moored, an J their owners are engaged as servants or laborers on shore. Indeed, their pursuits are probably as numerous as thoio of the land population." Iu addition to boats, they dwell an artificial islands which float upon tbo lakes?1 islands with gardens and housos raised upon the rafters, which the occupies bava bounded upoff them, and on which they cultivate what is needful for the supply of their daily wants. The Chinese, say Sir John Dowriflg,have no prejudice against any articles af food except milk, lie never saw of heard of butter, cream, milk, or whey at any native Chinese tables. They, however,- eat everything ; dogs?especially puppies? i rats, mice, monkeys and snakes. Tliev arcs particularly found of unhatched duclcs and chickens, and prefer their fish m the early stages of putrefaction. They have but two ? daily meals, 10, A. M., and 5, I'. M. In no part of the world, says the writer, are the harvests of mortality mare sweeping and destructive thau in China. SluffrHtions, inundations, hurricanes, each stteep off multitudes. The late civil * wars, it U believed, have destroyed millions ; the- sacrifices by executions arc faithful. Pour ur five hundred are said to fall daily by tho hands of the headsmen in one proviuco a --ii.. r* .% luuu. Aiuuuii^iue, ej-jujciuiiy 01 it-maie ciiMi dren, sweep oft" ita crowds 5of vjctittiS; There is no reverence for life whatever Dead bodies are ofteu left to pntrify ttbefe they fall. Yet, tbougli infanticide is common* a childless person is deemed unhappy, if not degraded. .The domestie affections afo said to be strong. Parents are fond of their children, and children obedient to their parents. "Order is, indeed, the first law of Confucius ; authority and submission tRe apex and bafia of the social pyramid. There are no hereditary honors it) China, exeept those which reckon upward from tliA rtUtilllYllinll/rl enn trt tlm grandfather,and the-whole lineiof of ancestry, which may-bo ennobled'by the IHdrajy or martial genius of a descendant'?thesis- ? I tinctions of caste are unknown, and sbeoe?sful student even of the loweat origin wfetihl ? be deemed a at matob.for the roost opulent" and distiiiguisbcdjfemale in the couaittdnity> In which respect the-Chinese show mnftj good sense and reasdn' thdn UiVoQ^ide barbarians." . 's .. Tiij* emigration from Ching, accojdip? tb gu uuiiu ib immense, yut uoes noi Via^Diy Meet tbe redundarioy of the popuUtioni 'Aboutjtlireejupillion, from lhe province A*' lone, fcre eeuldd in foreign conn tries, tn Si&m there are 1,500,000 Chineie. Tho islands ofthe Indian Archipelego and Coeh* in China, teem with them. Multitudes go to Auatftiita and other inviting regions, and there ie a great emigration tp Havana. . These emigrants are alt males. There is not a woman to ten IhoiAntl men. . j v Richmond Dispatch. Tlie efflcaoy of tSe" OZygenated BHter*, in-caws of Dyspepsia, Asthma, and General Debility, bias been Attested by raan^ citizens who are well known1 to .the public, and % ? whose atXleirierita are ansple proof that twa ufedfoineis one of jjw>t Vafue. ' v. , "There are varioua Key*" aafd a young man to another, "suob a* 0* aul-key, bul^tik. itn4 tu-Itkv lull th* nn1? Va<t I* rAtir 1 ^ JS* * Ly\. 4 w, "It m<ty bo ^"replied the other, "hut !'$?(? Jj ' anytfitygto reach yoV>r heartbntwjtffc^t*?* j *^HTyiifciarft-i'i-r i~iliifrri8flirt*ifflfiiiilfcHifiilti' ifttiWi I