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Business Curds lor the term of one ! year, will l>o charged in proportion to the | space they occupy, at One Dollar per line spuce. tgf For all advertisements net in double col- j vmn, Fifty per Cent. extra will be added to the nhovo rates. DAVIS CREWS, j For Banner; \ LEE <t WILSON, for Press. MISCELLANY. The Sea Island. t Wo find the following in tlie American j correspondence of the London I litis (rated News. It is from the pen of the poet, j | Mackev, whoso descriptions of Charleston, j and of a visit to Gen. Gadsden's plantation, we have heretofore given. v From Charleston to Savannah l?y sea is a " distance of one hundred miles; by land? '] there being no railway communication ex- v cept by traversing two sides of a triangle? f the distance is about two hundred miles. A '' direct coast railway is in couise of construc- ^ tion ; bat at present most travellers, except '' those who are very bad sailors, prefer the s seapnssngc. As I had already gone over n j" considerable portion of tho bind route, ]s through Llie pine forests of Georgia and ' South Carolina? <Where, northward as you go, The pines for ever grow ; Where, southward if you bend, r Are pine trees without end; t Where, if you travel west, f Earth loves the pine tree best; "Where, eastward if you gaze, Through loug, unvaried ways, * Behind j'ou and before, S Are pine trees evermore:? s I preferred the sea, a? ofTuring more com- > fort, as well as more noveltv. than the land I: * route. No traveller in America, unless he 1 be very much pressed for time, or have . special reasons for the preference, will travel i by the miserable railroad if he can gel into 1 a steamer. The steamers are as invariably 1 good as the rail is invariably bad. Taking J my passage in the tidy little boat, the St. I Mary's, bound for the St. John's River in I l'lorida, and touching at Savannah, I found j i myself in comfortable quarters. The crew j i consisted entirely of negro slaves ; the only j < white men on boftfd, the passengers except- j I ed, being the cnptain and the clerk. There ji are two routes to Savannah by sea?ono the ; I outef, an(* one l'ie 'nner? route?and the St. j < Mary's btfing more of a river than a Ren 11 * boat, only ventures 011 the outer passage M when the weather is calm. This beins the I case on the day that I trusted myself on j i board of her, we made a short and pleasant I passage, leaving the harbor-of Charleston at 1 ntne in-, the m<jfn.uig, and arriving at i Savannah before siWn^n the evening. It was not until we arrived at the mouth of the Savannah river, and began to stenm up *M!1OA (A (IIA Attn ' ? iUl CI^IHWU IMIIBO w mo uini IIIC M'A'IIery-offered any attraction. On eai:h side w?i a low, flat, fertile country, with reeds twenty feet <higb?the Bummer haunts of the^|]ig?tors-p-rg^wing upon, die bank, and '1- tbe land studded with palmetto trees, rico^; 7 plantations, and negro villages. Aa the night darkened the of a burning for.^etJit'tJp the wbole of the land warcl horizon, afld ^ave lurid evidence that man waa at Work, and displacing tbe wilderness to make room Tor riee and, <3bUcfa. The flecks of #fld fowt upon thjo Savannah podkivfdfy, darkened the ai'e, and, when tho birdsli wrest, it' iw. (ft Gwrgia and ?k.. WtiinT of its length. It is navigable for sea steam- ' eis only as far as the city of Savannah, and j for steamers of a smaller draught as far as , Augusta, the second city of Georgia, 230 miles inland. The mournful avenues of live oak, and the equally mournful glades that pierce on every side into the profuse and tangled wilderness, are all hung with the funeral drapery of the tillandsia. To those who have never seen this peculiar vegetation it may be difficult to convey an adequate idea ! 01 us saonesa and loveliness. 11 looks as it the very trees, instinct with life, had veiled themselves like mourners at a grave ; or as if the fogs and vapors from the marshes had been solidified by some stroke of-electricity, and hung from the trees in palpable wreaths, swinging and swaying to overy motion of! the winds. Not unlike the effect produced by the tattered banners hung from the roofs j of Gothic cathedrals as trophies of war in the olden time, or to mark tho last resting- J places of knights and nobles, is the elFect ! of those long streamers pendent fiom the overarching boughs of the forest. Many of thern are so long as to trail upon the ground ftom a height of twenty or thirty feet, and many of the same length, drooping front the topmost, branches of oak and cvnre*-. ilanule iii mill air. W hat adds to the awe t inspired l?v tin; rematkabli; beauty of this paia^itio plant is the alleged fact, that wherever it flourishes the yellow fever is I'roin time to time a visitant. It grows plentifully on the shores of tin: Lower Mi>sissippi from Cairo to New Orleans, ami throughout all Louisiana, Alabama, Mis>is ippi, Tennessee, Georgia, and South Caroilia. In North Carolina it is n<>t so comuiou md it disappears altogether in Virginia. ' tu New Orleans it has been converted into I in article of commerce, and, being dried j ind peeled, it is used instead of horsehair? vhich in this condition it much resembles ! ? lo'- stalling mattresses and cushions for j :hairs and sofas. As I had determined to return to Char- i eston by sea, 1 gladly awaited at Savannah ! he return of the St. Mary's from Florida, t was not until thirty hours after her ap- ; (ointed time that the little steamer, with . ler white captain and her black crew, rcapicared in the river. She had inet with ' trong head winds at sea, and, the bad ' leather still continuing, the captain deter- ! nined to try the inner instead of the outer j iassage. This arrangement was in every j my to my taste, as it would afford me the j opportunity of sailing through the count- ' es9 and picturesque mazes of the Sea ! slands. These islands extend from Char- j L-stoti downwards to Savannah, and as far j outh as the great peninsula of Florida, and ! ire fcmous for the production of the fine ! taple so well known and esteemed in all he cotton markets of the world?from New j Orleans, Mobile, and Charleston, to Liver- ! I >ool, Manchester, and Glasgow?as the ' Sea Island Cotton." In the summer this j I cgion is not habitable by the white; but in | he the early spring there is neither fog nor i ever, and the climate is delicious. Though 1 he storm raged in the outer sea, the weath- ! :r was calm, sunny, and beautiful ns the ( st. Mary's threaded her way for a hundred j ind fifty miles through the narrow channels i imid these low and fertile islands?Roinpj! is large as the Isle of Wight or the Isle of Man, others as small as tho islets of Venice. At times tho water-way was like tliat of a ! noble river, broad as the Mississippi, but | without its currents; and at others not wider than the Agent's Canbf, or tho New River at Islington. So narrow was it at limes that wo could have jumped ashore from either side of the deck; but the feat, though possible, and indeed easy, was not : inviting;.for, had anyone been I'rolicksomo enough so, he would have found himself up Lo the middle, or perchance to the neck, in ; soft bog and swamp. Wo had often to j twist and turn in places where it seemed rjuito impossible tlint a Bteamboat could I pass, and thenegros had continually to push i us out of difficulties by means of sturdy j poles ten or twelve feet long?an exerfcise in which some of the passengers seemed delighted to take part. The tail rushes and reeds grew up t^ the height of the deck; and, had it been midsummer, we might have disturbed many an alligator as we I'VUUU uui u'jriii nuu BUUUI, irnai nuu west, far into tlie bowuls of the land, and then out again towards the 8ea, in this intricate navigation. Twenty tirtles nt least the St. Mary's seemed' fast aground, and as' often did stalwart negroes launch the ship1* boat antl row ashore, to affix a towrope to a Hake left amid the long vegetation in previous voyages, to enable us to be manoeuvred off*Bgpin. Tbe whole voyage wad one constant succession of novelties of scene and adventure. From- toe deck we o^jldlook over a targe expanses of' c6Hn(ry, stud-, ded with cotton;6e)d?, wit^tjie .white roam j&lll ?fthe planters, with negro villages, with here and th ere a et r? tch of paaturi fand,i& >WA.'!%?' fiSWe'. wefer feeding. $bfootfmea ? wtTo clumps of pines ami evergreen oaks,- . all hung with the melancholy drapery of ; the tillandsia. At one turn wo came sud- ; denly upon u negro village, and several ! little "daikies," from the ages of three to j ten, some entirely and others partially naked, ! who were upon a dungheap, set up a shout i of delight at our arrival, which speedily] brought forth the sable elders of the plaee, 1 as well as the dog.?, to take a look at us ; the adults grinning and showing their white teeth, the dogs and the children vying j with each other who should make (he most i noise in our honor. Many of the o'anters1 I houses which wo passed wore largo and i sui rounded by groves of magnificent oak, 1 cedar and magnolia, all evergreens, giving tin* ]>laee all through the winter tho leafy attractions of an English midsummer. There is throughout all this countiy a very ' considerable population engaged in the cultivation of its valuable staple?tho Sea Island cotton ; and the villages as well as country mansions were numerous ns we passed. Ilere, for four or five months in the year, the planter lives like a patriarch i of the olden time, or like a petty despotic j monarch, sin rounded by his obedient sub- t jeds, with a white "oikonomos," or overseer, ! for his prime minister, who on his part is ; condemned to endure the climate the whole year, that the slaves may be kept in order, ; wluio tin- master liini-i-ll' hurries awav will) ! Iii> family tit I lie far North?to New York j or to .-aratoga, and verv often to London and Paris?to spend the abundant revenues ; of his cotton crop. We passed one cotisid- ! eral'le town or city, that of Beaufort, the ! capital of tlie Sea Islands, and pleasantly | as we'll as imposingly situated ; and then, ! steaming through the broad channel of the j \\ ha poo, reached Charleston, after a long ; but by no means disagreeable passage of forty-eight hours. C. M. Bed Rooms and their Ventilation. The heats of summer, which are now upon us, tilings with them their accustomed tvpes of disease, the most voilent, if not the most deadly of the'ills which flesh is heir to." As liiaiiv of the disorders, irieulj.nt 1.. ! tliis season of ilie year, have their orgin in badly aired beds ami indifferently ventilated bed-ioonis, a few cautions on these subjects may be a public beuitit. We therelore copy from an artiele in the 1'hiladel|>bia Ledger the following: ( A beil-ro?m ought to be the largest room in the hon-e, onjjlit to have the highest i ceiling, ought to be so constructed as to be j i ventilated with the greatest ease. Yet all j I these rules are violated in our bed-rooms.? All that can be done, therefore, is to venti- I late them in the best inafTner their constriction will permit; for a supply of fresh air is indispensable to health. Investigation < has shown that every adult person vitiates I four cubic feet of air every minute. Now, i if a bed-room is occupied for eight hours, j tlm nmmmt nt ;iir inm/? limn I cnteeu hundred cubic feet. If two adult persons occupy a chamber, the quantity vitiated in eight hours, is about thirty-five hundred cubic feet. If children also sleep in the room, the amount is much increased, i A man and wife, occupying a chamber ten feet square and eight feet high, will lender all its air unQt for respiration in less than two li'tfiirs.' In ordinary apartments, the cold air is below, and the hot above?the purest below, the imnurest above. Hence. .1 low hprlstond ! as a general rule, is healthier than a high j one; care being taken, however, not to have it so low as to be swept by currents. Beds I on the floor are injurious, for example, j because the draught t'roin under the door i often goes over them. Wherever there is | an open fire-place, there is a continual suction of air towards it from the doors nnd window#; anft in such apartments a bed should never be made upon the floor. Currents of air are indispensable, nevertheless, if a room is to be kept healthy. But it is not always easy to establish such a current. If wo open a window at tho bottom, when t1w? t^iiin^riitnro nf ji olifitnhpr iu liu-rltot* thai out of doors, uo exchange of air is produced, and the effects are the same if we open a window at top, when the air without is hotter than the air within. To ventilate a room, under such conditions, we must reverse this process. The popular notion, which is an erroneous one, is that it is only necessary to raise a window to produce ventilation, no matter what (lie conditions may be. Holding a candle in tlie aperture will show when a current is established ami when not. The best ltgjthod of ventilating a room in summer is to door-frames and windowframes fitteo to their various openings, and covered with wire-cloth, mosquito uetting, millinent, or other loose fabric, through winch air will dus freely, but in a diffused ^manner. Wh economy has to be consulted, the free opening of windows and ^ doors will generally answer^ but it is ba&t .to open all, rather than only one, if this hie to- create a draught over the/ bed?? Where a<f?rrenUof air cannot be abided, or "where jauch a?T.urrent is, desired for its coolingveffeots,,it" Should be made to flow A/MIAIIH Aim* (KA IDIirClA nAPQAn on IKib /la. cijunvij u?vii uro n uviv |/viwn| ?-? .u Uw stray* the liability to take cejd. It ta alwny? best to open a window at botb top And bottom. In thiaeaee, if the air without is hottefctfun within, the current enters at, 'ho top nnd- phases out' at the bottom ; but wy^jr^s hotjMty the current ^0*^^n going to bed, ^this out of doors, CO thai ibe *lo?p^r i?,W?k*d up *#* '3mlF not, oo reA Qarattireftro?ch foprovet^tliwcsse. * ' *^8^^ -v,. t^'t '-^ ^ -r^|l ii |,|||||Uj A Curious Marriago and Divorce Suit. I The raw gossip of the week concerns i most c-pcciullv those who go down to sea j in ships, and may servo as a warning lesson j to those who prefer present .security to fu- I ture life am) happiness. A year or two ago, M. Malfllatre, lienor, ! hope ami heir of a renowned calico printer, | stocking maker and night cap vendor of i Kouen, set sail from Havre to proceed to I Sydney, in order, to superintend the busi- j ti'-ss which his father carried on in that place, and which the death of his partner liad left without surveillance. One of thoso accidents which will hap ju-ii, 111 spue 01 captain or compass, even to j tin: best governed ships on the ocean, Imp- j pened, as a matter of course, to a rotten Illtie bark in which M. Mallilalre set sail ? ami on the inhospitable shore of Wall is' Islands was it wrecked ; everything lost hut M. Maltilatre, to whom everything was lost hut honor. The plump pen-on and defenceless statu of the young merchant became a groat temptation to the dainty inhabitants of Wallis" Island, who have disgusted the missionaries by eating each other, and thev carried him away to lite chiefs hut, with' loud shouts of triumph at the sweet morsel which the waves had thrown upoii llieir ' shore. The Catholic, missionaries have a j small establishment oftlie Maristes on the j Wand. Tli.'V work niirhf. and da v. with hiiremlt to.l i zeal, for the conversion of tln-.se savages, i and haw; crol a> far as the prevention of in- I fatiticide Ibr gastronomic puposcs, which is j a'great st?*p; luit they have not as yet been ; able to inspire that w holesomc dislike of hn- | in.in flesh, which should certainly form the fits! step in every conversion to Christianity, t The poor young man, in his dilt.Miima. ap- ! pealed piteously to the reverend fathers; j but tln-y confessed that they possessed no i i illuence?that the}' were barely tolerated, and dare not interfere. The only rescurc j to ho expected could be obtained by eiioos- j ing a wife among the native women, and consenting to remain on the Inland forever. . After much persuasion from the missionary, j he accepted of the latter alternative, and the . holy father, according to tho custom of bis ; ,1 .. I.... i" c nntiuii, ?.:iiou>? a unuu lor me young man, anil took espccial can: to choose a good j, parly?no loss a otic than the daughter of : the chief. One thing, however, the father! insisted on; the marriage should bo solein- ' nized seriously with Catholic rites; and, at , all events, the bridegroom should bo bound ; by proper registers, and not bo permitted 1 j to treat the sacred cermony with the same i lightness as it is elsewhere. Everything was consented toby the young j man, who had grown attached to life by j i means of a good suvper; and accordingly j ! dii the next day, the beautiful Suleta, all j fleshly tattooed from head to foot?her fair | proportions undisfigured by crinoline?was, ed to the alter of the Muristes by Malfi- !' latre. Hut, of course, oni hero from Ron- . I I'll had tlOlllcd lll?> wlinli* lliiurr ei lilll? I harmless expedient to keep a sale skin and whole hone in thi.s hungry land, and soon began to look out for an opporlunity of quitting the scene of his connubial felicity. 1 Some mouths elasped, however, before this 1 upportunity occured ; but, at length," ono af- < Lei noon, wandering disconsolate on the beach, lie described a vessel in the oiling. It was an English vessel, whose boat's in answer to the signal of the distress hoisled the bridegroom, hastened to the rescue i and bore him oil'to the ship without discovery on the part of the natives, who would have killed and eaten tliein all bad they been aware of the treachery intended. Mr. Mallilatre landed safe and sound at Havre only two months ago. lie found that, great cliages bad taken ^daco in his father's household during his absence. An inheritance had fallen in?fortune had smiled most graciously upon the old man ; and tlio son, after all his wretchedness and misery, returned to find himself the heir of wealth he had never dreamed of. The first thing for a rich man in France to do is, an we all know, to provide himself with a rich wife ; the father began to look around him, and having found a suitable match, the parties were straightway brought forth to be married. But now arose the difficulty?young Malifilatre could not deny his marriage at Wallis1 Island by a Catholic priest, according to Catholic rites. The mnrriai?o was legal in everv noint of view, excnntiiinr in thA nn* ^ I ? -----j n " ?" ~ point of the non-confient of the parents of bridegroom. So, therefore, a notice was served by a huissier upon tbe "Demoisolla Snleta, falsely calling herself Madam MalfiIntre," to show cause why she should not be dispossessed of that title. Of course, the whole affair was considered a mighty good joke by the gossips, and laughed at accor-. dingly ; for after the delay expired, no partii civile appearing, judgment would go by de? fault, and MalHIatre might bo free to marry whom lie pleased. Thus did the affair stand until last week, when lo! to the utter confusion of the san guiiie unat'groom ana iiih ricit bride, the Bishop of Australia and Ooeanica, in whose diocese lies that paradise of which we have giv?nsomeof the most striking traits de tn&urs, and in dyfenc&pf morality and religion, proclaims hiin&elf vqidy to become partie civale in this case, for the protection of tho helpless Suleta. Wo may judge of the ^onnternatiou thrown among the Stinks of jewelers, costumiers- and modjstes, all engaged for the rrch manringe?tlie tears of the rich bride?<-the ravings of the rich bride' groom. The debates, which .are to come" on <yrectly, willbe full of ioterest, and ?f warofng at the same time. The case, is considered one of the most carious oaaixe cord, and baa been "^complicated sincethe issue of the first rnis en demeuro, by <tbe Arrival of the hews of the birth, 'at; Wyllia' Island, of * son to the bouse of who now shares the.:hHerest hithei^d'absorbod by the; tattooed Snlet'a* .j. Parit' Cotrespondefr^ qf*th4 Boston ppst. wmm aggngngingmi |,11 "If I Were a Man." Don't I wish that I were a man! j Wouldn't I sot the Leaver hatted population ! an example of brilliant perfection. Wouldn't j I make myself generally agreeable to nil the J Indies, and talk to 'em as if they had souls j above bonnets! What a glorious man I j should make! I wouldn't stand 011 the hotel steps and ! pull" clouds of villainous tobacco smoke into j the eyes of all the pretty girls that go past, 1 nor spit on the pavements to spoil their j little shoes and injure their tampers. I wouldn't set my huge heels down on j trains of their biiken dresses, to tear Yin j hah off; and I think I'm not quite sure, i but I think ? I'd knockdown the first brute j who dared complain of the ciieumference ] of their garments ? And when they come into the car or omnibus, I wouldn't stiek my noso into a j newspaper,or look abstractedly out of the window, nor get up grumbling* "Always 1 the way with women!"?Not a bit of it! , I'd spring up like a patent India rubber ball, and if the old bachelor on the left hand ' side, didn't compress themselves into the j smallest possible space, to make room for J the crinolines, I'd know the reason why!" j A ..1 .1 1 r ... ' " .iiiti inuii, wii'.mi i n?;t marriec (tor to j wliat and was I created, it* not to pay liie ! milliner's bill* of some blessed little bit of i womankind wouldn't I make a model ' husband ! i >o you suppose 1 should bother ( her sweet life out of Iter, by grumbling' bu- ; cause a paltry button bad dropped off a shirt j rollor, or a string off a die key ? Do you , think I'd explode like a cumphenu lamp ! every time I found a rip in my gloves ] I'd like to see myself otooping to any such little- ! nesn. I wouldn't consult the almanac every Lime she bought a new bonnet, to see just how many weeks she had worn the old one; iind I wouldn't snarl like a cross tiger-cat whenever the coffee happened to be cold or j Llie beef steak raw, just as if I wanted her to abase herself in dust ami ashes ; and burn up her rosy little face before tho kitchen fire, while I sat with my heels on the table reading lite paper in the next room. 1 wouldn't use profane language when she n^ked tno to button up her sweet little gaiter boots, or fasten her gloves, or oven to carry her parcels down Broadway, on a rniny day ?which I consider to be nn infallible test of patience and meekness. I wouldn't gorge myself with wine, and oysters, and cigars at a fashionable downtown restaurant, while my wife dined at home on cold mutton, and then look as an ' * overcharged thundercloud when the grocer's "little bill" camc in ; I wouldn't expend a ! small fortune in diamond shirtr&tuda, extravagant broadcloth, and fancy, canes, and then mutter about "hard times," when she ventured to ask me for half a dollar to buy check for the baby's aprons? And I rather think I'd go shopping with her, too, when she hinted to that effect instead of inventing excuses about Smith, Brown, or the club?aye, and pny her bill*, too; without screwing up my mouth as if I had the cramp in my face! And if she looked into a shop window*, and admired a thirty dollar collar, I'd walk straight in and buy it tor her, instend of feigning to be absorbed in the signs opposito, and "forgetting to hear" what she said. When I came homo at night, I wouldn't make a l?ear of myself, behind tho evening paper and answer savagely, when she timid- ; ly asked what I was rending, "woman enn't! understand politics!" No, indeed! I would I read her all tho anecdotes, play with tho children, pull the pussy's ears, and tell her how becoming her. new silk was. That's the way to keep the women good naturcd, tako my word for it; and what prettier sight is there in nil the world than a good humored woman??Mind, I don t ?Bk tho incorrigible did bachelors ; first bccause it isn't any of their business, and'second, bov causaihcy're not^mJgesof the'&rticle. But put I he question to any sensible fBllowjbe* tv/een the'' ages of eighteen and"1 i#6ntyeiglit;>?nd.8ee what he'll My ! " I'd make a point o^'ilwtfyfi o'skjng; ray! wife's advice before I wen'^fc vote, and do-ing just as she said sure to be always right.1 'A^;ifatfrSflfrnh elor friend of ask me to an oyster fflipper,. vHg&jint'i Del udping my wife in the invitation, do you snpose-I'd do? Ask my mtfther-in-IWraJjout 4hot/ "? I wouldn't go tokening partieif and flijt desperately with ailoer. ladies, and ta^c about "my poor, dear wife, whose ill health' precluded her enjoyment o^gocietXj." whtjn 1 knew very well that she waa tittingytUiorae alone with thereat, apd crying her eye#.out over one bf my.tittged old coats. Good gVirtlfouiFf 'what .a. ^We field (9^ improvement there.i? among toe bepig|ited ?*n? of Adam,1 I^puU o?n^>loteIy ogt, of breath^ to ^hin"I'd ?r..i iiS?i r m'-jm *.' -^ru - ' ' - ^ w^.j. Success or Failure?A Contrast. Mnny wise and witty tilings have been saiil and written in all ages, to show tlie difference with which tho sumo enterprise : , is viewed when it results in failure. Wo i I have never had any better illustration of I this than wo have now in connection with the great enterprise of tho age. After the j first and second attempts to lay tho Atlan- j tic eablu had failed, wise-acres shook their ; heads in sympathetic disapprobation of Mr. ^ Field, and said, "what a foul ho was.' It' r was evident to them all along that the thing could never succeed, and they could not tin- i del-stand why a sensible clear-headed man j like Field would ri-k his whole fortune in ' such a railroad to tlm moon undertaking. If he had ventured a third of it or a half, ; there might he some excuse for him, but to have placed it all on the hazard of a die ' where the chances were hundred to one, against him?worse even than tlie Wall- i street lutery, conducted under the name of! the Mock exchange was tm evidence of fol- | ly and ahsnridty which they could not over- ! look and for which he deserved to suffer. Now nil that is changed. Midnight 1i:ik ; given place to noon. The sun shines brighti.. > i * - - iv 111 me neaveiss, ana Ui<? stiuUOws ol tin* | night have passed away anil are forgotten. 1 Failures have bwn on!\ the stepping-stones i to success the most brilliant. Tlie cable is j laid ; and now tlu' nmst honored name in the world is thai of Cyrus W. Field, al- j though but yesleulay there were. Xoae so poor to do him rcrereuvo i The wise-acres who shook their heads ihe other day, and piltied while they condemned liiin, an: now among the foremo?t in his praise, and help to make his name a household word. Uells are rung and guns ...... r?.j ?i t --?! ? " ' <tiv uicu, aim uiiiiuiiign aro niuminated in i his honor throughout the length and breadth of this land ; and prominent among nil devices, and first on every tongue, and uppermost in every heart is his name. Had he hot, like the gieat Bruce, persevered in the face of repeated failures until his efforts were at length crowned with success> ho would have j been held up to the growing generation as | an illustration of the danger of allowing our ' minds to be absorbed by au impractiblc idea, and his history would have been served up in play and romance, and used To point a moral or adorn a tale. As it is. the nation is nronrl r>f Vim <Kn world know him, and all mnnkind is bis j debtor.?New York Ilcruld. How to Boll Me^t. j Any meat, boiled an nine-tenths of the cooks boil it, loses the larger proportion of its valuable qualities, and becomes a mass of dried sinews, but little better fitted for purposes of food than so much vegetable fibre. But there is a method of boiling j meat$, fresh or salt, so as to retain their j juices almost fls perfectly as those of baked ! meats. The moat should first bo put into water that is boiling briskly. This coagulates the albumen near tho surface, filling up tho pores and preventing tho escape of the interior juices. So far many of our own cooks understand the true theory. But the remainder of tho process, with the most of them, is wrong. They keep up the heat, and keep the pot boiling vigorously, till the moat is thoroughly cooked?usually, j in fact, till it is ouite overdone. This is all ! wrong, and counteracts; in a great measure, I lliougli not entirely, what ha9 been gained ' by putting the meat into boiling water. The ! water must not be kept at the boiling point j moro than- three minutes after the meat is I put in. - It should then be cooled off by the , addition of cold water, and be kept at about ] 1808, the temperature at which meat is! balcfcd, until it is cooked through. It should j not be allowed todboil at all after tho first J tliree minutes. Perhaps the readiest means of keeping up tho proper temperature will l>e to keep the pot 011 the top.of the stove if there is much fire. At any rate, as we understand it, tlio essential thing is to keep the water alinoflfj but not'^mte, ?p to the boiling point. Our authority tells us that ment cooked in this way comes out "'tender, Jtucy^avory end nuUioious," having all the Qualities of ^onst meat, with nd^^bn^r ten 4?rn|8fc Tho pot liauor 6f meat boiled in iffaia way will bo of Ad value. There will be nothing in;jt to naakelsoup of. 4* To mXl^r80up, the process is quite differepti/ ^tfere -the objects tttgejr- Jl^e^ic^a otlt of The meat inttf Wfe^ifrfcter. T^i'ho meat a^ouM bo cut fine, put iri(o> colli1 wat>r, nndr hpnlful nn vflr? rrriitinillo (n llii'Knilin/y [' ' t" j &" "* " """ V- wvi' "'b point, bttt should be bgijed a chOr^ time: The meat will OitwW^- .'-bo'lted "to rflga," and afcejj!teii5^,Squeezed, will be ^g9* ^But l,e soupj nrtnr>sitfl ??? Vn~:k-? Wth en$rjg*/ aqd.?o Idbg vtn*t.tl>e njeat co'im^ out m'dr? ?n& ifcstpfod ?.^be re'n*in<J$r' biscuit," 4*4 t|j^f.WVor of tV?e ] ouoii bk)f e*?pof<rt^ Th&o ?Hff?re*Vj *k.x, - .*. Life of Bishop Caper*. Dr. Wighttnan has laid tbe entire reading public under obligation by producing one uf tbo most acceptable biographies off" the nge. It may be our own profound veneration for the man, whoso portrait he has drawn?it may be our partiality ' for the biographer, that has absorbed us in this nairative ot an active, though not an eventful life?as the world would count it?but we think it is neither?hut an unbiassed judgment, as of on?j who might give it knowing neither parly. The autobiography is one of the most attractive fragments of personal history wo have ever road. The simplicity of Bishop Capers' character and hissingle-hearledneas shine all through it. As a narrative of religious experience, it is a well-spring of instruction lo voung christians, especially to those called to the ministry. With the utmost frankness and naturalness, in an attractive style, ho narrates all the exercises ui ii iiiiuu, hi in. eiise 11 itlii ciirisiiai) oDjigatioiis arc fully assumed, mid then pressing forward into every opening path of duly with a charming sincerity of purpose. Ho tinis tells his own story, until he" lias coma to be known and appreciated as in the foremost rank of the Methodist ceranitiny. But hn does not say so?nor seems ever to know what position he has reached. Then, when the pen has fallen from hia hand, one takes it up, tp finish thq portrait^ who is everyway suited'to (he task?by congeniality of spirit?by similarity of taste and antecedents?by knowledge of the subject?by cultnrcand by genius; and'he has used the material furnished by a life, more devoted to routine duties than to accomplishing famous deeds, in such wav as to give us a faithful picture of a devoted,, christian man, who could readily' forego-the honors of the present passing scene, in view of the eternnl good that liis faith' ever presented to his choice. . < > But why need we dwell,upon tbe-roerita of a book, that will certainly find ita way into the household'of every "Methodist iathe laud ? It is full'df excelIerTce8,%&nd!the; mnn or woman is greatly to he pitied who can read it, without being made better, as~ piring to a Higher ? usefulness, longing for more of the "riches of grace," or esteeming more highly that religion of Christ,- that fonntioa rtnHnnrtrt ? ?4' %vuvuvo j/ni.iy-uv,v| cuyuHiuuCj ouu puilljr VI purpose, and Divinely strengthens weak man-fur llie , exhibition of these virtuesEspeoialljvwill youn'g. preachers find in it an example set forth, and an -'^Dcouragemei.t'to the performmic6<>f'"<^uty, tliat-will relieve many a deapo'iiQingiolil'and banish, many a complaint of Sou tkerp Jshri'sjtun J^yocate. How "to ReSa^yrlth/Profit. For the sake of those who are not greatly accustomcd to systematic reading, we make some suggestions as to the'best inodo of reading so as to gain the books you narnsfi r??? , '* j, Ascertain llie aim of thenuthor. ^Yqu will tlius know what to exp6itt from hia book, and may save much .which might otherwise bo spent in loolcmg Tor what you could not fjpcl. An ?t$^DtfVe reading ofrtbe title page, preface, and table of content*, will ehnbje you to judge pretty accurately what tlio' author i.3 about.? Some facts, too, which float only among intelligent men, will aid greatly io'ttiese matters. , ' ' ? -"=( 2. Kent! wake/ully and attentively *-*nd with a determination to comprehend t?''oughly the book vou-are parqsing.' neither crednously jior hkeplicallyV'-^ut candidly : endeavoring to go to the -rqot of the matter, if possible. One ijour" of stfch reading is worth a week of the* superficial reading which is so cqmrnon* 'ryL 3. Read with a gncxl dictionar^'at ijytn? elbow, and consult it freely, whenever yoii meet a word whose meaning you are not sure you understand- Webstef" or Wof cester is the bc9t in general use; Vffftee Webster. 3Sf?fcer pnsa nn irrypot'tariit <vord without m'fianipg, Wthe work j you nre reading. In tbis-^y yoU'vrill sooto ' gain a good stock of words for; yoijr use, while you ar$l$arning?ll|c' meaning of the book you nr^rGading. ' . ^ Jj,' 4, After.reading a chapter, clpsd^the&ook, and^try t6 roertll and state ^fh;fly*'i>,,your own language, the mbstan^fe fef^fsb'cbnpter,. in the order which, the author puvprnea.? This is one"of the most prntfitilble cxenjjfse*. ii, auuwa yuujllBb JiOW mUlV JH>U dU*V? ^ gained by your reading. 'IT ^'ou^-fina^pu cannot do this, jnst read tl>fe^lw?ptor*?grtln? The second reading probably* <&"y good. Xho^firat re^liiig hpsboojcT.^fr. AitHo usft-fd^you, if you are Unable t<f#EalQ; wU?tJtho nVflto though tar are. a, ; 'ic- . vJi'?1>ook ia y^ajMoV*A?-?bot Jib r bor/oWed n?*rk ^wtopji-Uie ujost Itariofflbv ^?^%vJQ?7 ; * i) I ^e rnfr^we?*^^??d catfrefer. t<5 them renddy. '& .+-*&' Sdoptiog^^^ggfl^ionMoi^^ea^ ' ^ 3ltf ?* Awr?> ,3fr, j