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Monday Morning) October , ISSii.
I>AEUKHT OITV OIBOOIiATIM.
- Fever In Chrlnto.
The Board of Health report seven deaths
from yollow fever iu Charleston, for the 48
hour* ending Friday night 10 o’clock.
Southern Kriueatton.
The Alexandria Gazette nays about tiOOstu
dents are expected nt the University of Vir
ginia, at the ensuing session.
The Tennessee Conference of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, South, will meet in Hunts
ville Ala., on the Bth of October, instant.
The Htate elections in South Carolina and
Florida, are to be held to-day.
Major It iit'ord.
‘This gentleman, says the Banner, passed
through Clayton. Ala., on Wednesday last,
cn route for his home in Eufnula. lie returns
home to devote a brief intermission from his
labors, to business, rust and family.
Cotton Ballooning.
The Montgomery Mail of Saturday, says
Colton went a ballooning yesterday and day
before, prices ranging generally from IIJ to
11}. Twelve Ims been offered and refused
for some lots.
it is n clear case, in our mind, says the
Mail, that cotton is going into the teens. When
there—like ilie girls in the same category —it
becomes highly interesting.
To-day, we quote 11A to I2\c. —principal
sales at lljjo.
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, .... Mutiny.
The Mobile Tribune, of the 2d inst., says
the crew of the ship South Carolina were
brought up before tho United States Commis
sioner, R. 11. Owen, Esq., yesterday, on a
charge preferred against them ly the master,
of having broken into the cargo during the voy
age from Liverpool to this port, and stealing
therefrom sundry cases of wine and uppropri
. utiug the same to their own use ; and also on
the farther charge of mutiny. On examination
of the offences charged before the Uoinmis
sUmer, they wore committed to jail to await,
the action of tho tSrand Jury of this district.
Dentil otT an Octogenarian.
Tho Edgefield Advertiser says: -Mr. John
Rirbsey, an aged and esteemed denizen of our
neighborhood, departed this life on Sunday,
the 28th tilt., nt his resilience near Edgefield,
the deceased lißd lived out bis four score
years in the peaceful ami quiet discharge of
his duties, social, domestic and religious, and
fell asleep in death after passing his eigbly
tourth birthday. He leaves a wife eighty
years of age, to whom lie had been married
*ixty years. Children, grandchildren and
great-grandchildren remain behind to mourn
his loss.
Abolishing the Negro Hare.
Mr. Spinner, a black republican candidate
for Congress in New York, says in a published
letter. “ 1 am in favor of abolishing the negro
race. He does not (says the New Hampshire
l’atiiot; explain the process by which he
would accomplish this object, but he would
probably do it by the Banks plan of “absorp
tion.”
The Slave Trade In Cuba.
A correspondent of the Charleston Courier
writing from Havana on the 23d tilt., says:
I learn that last week the brig P. Koule,
formerly a trader between New Orleans and
this port,, landed a cargo of about six hun
dred negroes near Cienfugos, and that she
was then run ashore. It was also stated that
it was the third cargo of negroes she had
landed from the coast of Africa.
Texas Items.
Ur. Branch T. Archer, the Father of the
Texas Revolution, died at the residence of
Airs. Wm. H. Wharton, in Brazoria county,
on the 22d ult.
Dr. Archer came from Virginia to Texas in
1.5)31, and from his fine intelligence and social
qualities, very soon became a popular man.
ffe had served in the Virginia Legislature,
The Columbia Democrat of the 2;sd ultimo,
says:
it is hard to say whether there will be any
sugar made nt all or not. Sometimes some of
thjc planters are sanguine of making a little,
at others they are fearful they will not make
seed The amount made, if any, will be ex
ceedly small, next to nothing. The cotton
crop will be better than last year, although
we understand the worm has made its appear
ance in some parts of the country.
The ludinnola Bulletin, of the 26th ult. says,
that tho schooner K 1 Rosario, which had been
touml at sea, and brought into that port, had
been totally wrecked by the equinoctial storm,
on the 26th ult. No other damage was occa
sioned by the gale.
The Gonzales Enquirer denies that the Gor
man citizens of DeWitt county had held a
meeting to form a Fremont club. The rumor
had originated from some sentiments promul
gated by a preacher, which were tinctured
with abolitionism.
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Etmon of tiik Sun : In answer to the en
quiries of numerous friends in relation to the
office of Mayor, which no doubt lias been
caused by the announcement of a gentleman’s
name as a candidate for that office. I will in
form them that there must lie some mistake
with regard to the Mayoralty, ns 1 hare heard
ut no vacancy, the present, incumbent being
willing to hold the office for the good of his
fellow eilixon*. F. U. WILKINS.
Subscription Completed.
Several months ago Senator Douglas gave
leu acres of laud iu the vioiuity of Chicago,
for the founding of a University, provided
$106.00(1 were raised forthe erectiou of bttlld
iugs. This mouey, we learn from the Chica
go Journal, has been subscribed by tiie friends
of the enterprise.
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Preparing for NVar.
The Norfolk Argus states that Gov. Wise has
issued, through the Adjutant General, orders
to the commandants throgliout the State to
thoroughly organizo the militia, that it may be
qualified “To render effective service when
ever Virginia may call for it.” Is there any
probability of war?
Rntlvond Meeting.
Savannah, Oct. I. 1856.
The several committees appointed by the
Thomnsvillc Convention of the 4th ulr.. to
gether with the committee from the county of
Decatur, invited by said convention, met in
.Savannah on this inst. at 12 o'clock M., and.
on motion of Dr. .1. I*. Screven, organized by
tlie appointment of the lion, .fumes L. Seward
of the county of Thomas, to till the chair,
Willis AT. Russell, of the county of Decatur,
to act as Secretary.
The Hon. I*. K. Love being requested, read
so much of the proceedings of the Thomas
ville Convention as referred to llie object ol’
the present meeting.
The several delegations were then called,
and the following were reported present:
From the county of Thomas: James L. Se
ward, Peter K. Love, A. T. .Mclntyre, From
the county of Lowndes: S. W. Baker, M. J.
Culpepper, and M. S. Griffin.^From the city
of Savannah: J. I\ Screven, Win. Duncan,
Hiram Roberts. From tlie county of Deca
tur: Willis M. Russell, J. P. Screven, Wm.
Duncan (who were appointed as substitutes
by the committee.)
Col. Seward, of Thomas, urged, in a few
forcible and pointed remarks, tlie necessity of
a speedy organization of the .Main Trunk
Company, that conflicting opinions might be
harmonized, ami confidence and concert of
action secured. Col. Seward’s views were
sustained by Col. A. T. .Mclntyre, who pre
sented some conclusive arguments why delay
in organizing the company should be avoided.
Wm. M. Russell, of Decatur, stated that lie
was authorized to say that fifty-otic thousand
dollars had been subscribed by the citizens of
his county, and that if a sufficiency of lime
be allowed, the promised sum of two hundred
thousand dollars would be raised by them.
Hon. P. E. Love, of Thomas, offered the
following preamble and resolutions which
were read and unanimously adopted:
Whereas, an additional subscription of two
hundred thousand dollars is necessary to the
organization of the Atlantic and Gulf Bail
road Company, which it was expected would
be raised prior to this meeting, by t lie citizens
of Decatur county, and having learned
through her Delegates, that they have not
been able to raise this amount ; and, where
as, an early organization of said Company is
important and indispensable to the harmony
of conflicting; which have hereto
fore hindered said organization—be it
Resolved, That relying upon the good faith
of the people of Decatur, we expect them to
raise said sum before t lie 22d inst.
Resolved, That in the event that Decatur
county fails to make the aforesaid subscrip
tion, we pledge ourselves to use our best ef
forts to raise the deficiency.
Resolved, That a committee be appointed
to confer with Messrs. Arnett, Mannerly and
Sims, in regard to their success, from time to
time, in raising said subscriptions.
The Chairman being appointed by the meet -
ing us one of the committee of correspondence,
be then appointed, as the others, Dr. J. P.
Screven, of Savannah, and S. W. Baker, Esq.,
of Lowndes county.
On motion of Dr. Screven the meeting ad
journed over until to-morrow.
Oct. 2.—The delegates assembled at 12
o’clock M., and proceeded with business; and,
having fully considered the action of yester
day, rat ified tiie same, every delegate present
expressing the confident belief that tiie Alain
Trunk Company would be organised on the
22d inst.
On motion, it was resolved that the proceed
ings of the meeting be published in all the
city papers ; after which the meeting adjourn
ed sine die.
JAMES L. SEWAIII). Chairman.
Willis M. Russell, Secretary.
F.hgUmt, France anil Prussia —Their
Political Relations.
The independance Beige contains a letter
from Paris, under dato of the 10th of Sept.,
from which we extract the following:
It has been said, that the good understand
ing between England and France has suffered
somewhat recently. Though it will be well
not to attach too much importance to it, it is,
nevertheless, of interest, to enumerate the
points on which England and France have
found themselves divided or jealous of each
other in policy. As such may be adduced
the marked preference which was shown to
Count de Morny in Russia, though the Aloni
teur carfully avoided to render this visible iu
its reports. Next, it is not thought very
proper on the other (the English) side of the
Channel that the grand cross of the Legion of
Honor should have been conferred on General
O’Donnell. The engagement between the
Prussian corvette, the Dantzik, and the Ilift’
pirates off’ Morocco, has further (though the
announcement of a projected expedition was
premature) led to a certain understanding be
tween Prussia and England without tho French
government having been consulted in the mat
ter, which may have induced tho French gov
ernment to give up the idea of an armed in
tervention in Morocco, which for a moment it
seems to have entertained. Lastly, there is the
question of the future arrangements with re
gard to the Panubian principalities. Here
England, if repeated communications from
Vienna are to be relied upon, has allied her
self with Austria and Turkey, iu opposing the
plan of the severance of the two States from
tho Turkish Empire, and their fusion into one
great Roman State; an arrangement which
France, Prussia, and Russia are known to ap
prove.
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Kngltsli Girls.
The English girl spends more than one-half
her waking hours in physical amusements,
which tend to develop, nud invigorate, and
ripen the bodily powers. She rides, walks,
drives, rows upon the water, runs, dances,
plays, sings, jumps the rope, throws the ball,
hurls the quoit, draws the bow, keeps up the
shuttlecock—and all this without having it
pressed forever upon her mind that she is
thereby wasting her time. She does this every
day, until it becomes a habit which site will
follow up through life. Her frame, as a na
tural consequence, is larger, her muscular
system better developed, her nervous system
in a better subordination, her strength more
enduring, ami the whole tone of her mind
healthier.
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Southern ltank of Georgia.
This Institution, chartered by our last Le
gislature, goes into operation under favorable
circumstances by the payment into the Bank,
by the Stockholders, of fifty thousand dollars
iu gold coin as required by the provisions of
the Charter, which will be seen from the cer
tificate of Judge Law. Ordinary for this
county, who is required by law to count the
money.
The officers of the Bank are N. L. Cloud,
Esq., Cashier, with a Board of five Directors,
who are safe, reliable men, and of good busi
ness capacity.
An institution of this kind has been much
needed in Southern Georgia, and under its
present munagemant will doubtless lie profita
ble to the Stockholders as well as safe and ad
vantageous to the community. —Uuuxbridgt
Argilt.
Montgomery County, Texas.
.Wo copy the following description of the
soil and productions of Montgomery county,
Texas, from an editorial correspondence in the
Houston Telegraph :
MoNTt.’oMKHY, Sept. 23d, 1800.
Montgomery county was laid off’ by tiie first
Congress of the Republic, in 1886--’37, and at
that date was the only county besides Robert
son, North of Harris—most of the territory
from the Gulf to Red River, between the Bra
zos and Trinity being comprehended within
the limits of Harris’ Montgomery and Robert
son. Tiie present counties of Grimes, Walker
ami Madison, and a portion of Folk, west of
the Trinity, were part of Montgomery proper,
until 1840. The present area of Montgomery
is very little over the constitutional limits,
1)00 square miles. There is very little prairie
iu the county, but that is generally of the best
quality of black, stiff land, intermixed with
sand, very productive, and easily kept in cul
tivation. A bale of cotton to the acre is
claimed as frequently realized on these lauds,
though the average product is less. Thirty
five bushels of corn is a common yield with
good cultivation. The prairie region runs
mainly through the centre of the county, from
East to West, and is occasionally bordered
with a heavy growth of oak and hickory laud
of a very superior quality. Nearly all of the
country between the black prairies and Spring
Creek, the Southern boundary, is poor and
covered with a growth of small pities. On the
creeks, however, and especially Spring and
Walnut, the timber is larger and the lands
proportionality better. There is also an ex
tensive pine country on the San Jacinto and
it- tributaries; some of the timber is very
tine, and already becoming valuable for saw
ing purposes. The country about Danville
sustains a heavy settlement, and is considered
first rate upland. Wliatjjis extensively known
as Big Thicket, lies on the Eastern border of
the county, between the forks of the San Ja
cinto. A great deal of this land is high, san
dy and very productive, covered with a dense
growth of large timber—l’ost Oak, White-
Oak, Black Walnut, Hickory, Ash, and in
some places .Magnolia and Wild Feacli. There
are also extensive cane-brakes similar to those
on tho Totnbigbee, in Alabama. These lands
are generally held iu very high esteem, and are
selling readily, unimproved, at So to $lO per
acre. Very extensive settlements have been
made in the Big Thicket within the last five
years. The best uplands of Alontgomcry arc
generally held at $4 to $lO. Pino lands can
he bought at from $1 to sl.
The town of Montgomery', the county scat,
is a handsome and thrifty place, containing
about 300 inhabitants. It lias a good Court
House, several church edifices, an Academy,
and a good many pleasant private residences.
The Hoop Skirts.
But the skirts! Oh, Venus de Aledicis!
how can we embrace them all? Positively
there is no getting around them in one effort!
Skirts have swollen to that extent of fashion
that no door is wide enough for them to pass
through, without considerable squeezing. Real
belles of the fashion now seem like moving
bells, literally so that mullets and men have to
steer Well in the streets, else they will run
against ropes, hoops, bag matting, crinoline
and the deuce knows what, which completely
take up the sidewalk and inhabit the dress.
As for the girl, by Jove, >he seems no where !
The other day- we happened to sec two of the
dumpy kind of the moving “bells” of fashion
going along the street, ala pointer style—
—hands close and skirts out. At forty paces
distant they seemed like miniature pyramids
of silk, at twenty, we smelt cologne water and
other essences ; at ten paces, a little lump
like a bonnet was discenmble at the top of the
skirt pyramid; at three paces distant we
heard the imbedded voice of a female in the
dress ; at two paces, we discovered four ring
lets of slim appearance, resembling cat tails
dipped in molasses ; two eyes of weak and ab
surd expression, like boiled onions, lips like
unto thin sail Iwielies with a bit of discolored
meat sticking out, thin ai:d dry, and cheeks
rouged with meeiifnm (Chinese coloring.) Pos
itively this is all that could create in us the
impression or imagination that the above
things, dry goods, &c., formed a woman. We
moved aside and went on our way’ rejoicing
that such was not our share, to say nothing of
our future “ better half.”
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Death, in the last few weeks, lias been busi
ly at work in North Alabama, and has taken
to himself some of our noblest citizens. Not
many days ago, we were called to mourn at
the graves of Judge Weakley, of Florence,
Alabama, and Col. Robert Fearn of this place,
who were stricken down in the midst of rs ca
reer of usefulness: and now we are called to
shed a tear over the bier of Cupt. Nich. Da
vis, who died full of years and honors, at his
residence in Limestone county, ou the night
of the 129th ult. lie was one of the oldest
and most respected citizens of North Ala
bama, and was well known throughout the
Southern country.— Huntsville Democrat.
Newton sinned away his early advantages,
and became an abandoned profligate ; but the
texts and hymns his mother had fixed in his
mind in his infancy and childhood, were never
effaced, and finally fastened him to the cross.
Cecil tells us that in the days of his vanity,
though lie withstood so many pious endeavors,
lie novel* could resist his mother's tears. Wil
sou, late Bishop of Calcutta, in his narrative
of intercourse with Dillingham, tho assassin,
says lie could make him feel nothing till he
mentioned his mother, and then he broke into
a flood of tears. “In the morning sow the
seed, and in the evening withhold not thy
hand.”
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The Wine Crop In Missouri,
The vintage in Alissouri, which commenced
a week or two ago, will terminate in a lew
days. According to the German Volksblatt
of Hermann, the quality of this year’s yield
of wine bids fair to be excellent, ss the grapes
have attained a uniform ripeness and perfec
tion hitherto unequalled. The fruit nowhere
exhibits any symptoms of decay. We regret
to add, however, says the Volksblatt, that in
point of quantity the crop does not realize
our expectations. The tteyerp cold of last
winter injured the vines to a greater extent
than was at first supposed. It is not, there
fore, probable that the prices of the Catawba
wine will recede this season.
The prospects for the next year arc highly
favorable. The vines present a healthier and
more vigorous appearance this fall titan ever
before, and unless the coming winter should
prove ns severe as last, Hermann and its vi
cinity will next season produce at Jeast thirty
thousand gallons of wine.
An ardent admirer of the News (says tiie
Irish News) begs us to bring out our paper
earlier than we do. “Indeed,” says he, “if
you could manage to have it uut leu days be
fore it’s dated, the circulation would be won
derful.” We shall seriously consider the sug
gestion of our friend, and try to make ar
rangements with Messrs. Gimard & Collins
for th • premature production of European
event,’.
TKLEaRAPHIO. I
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From Charleston.
I‘ll AELKSTON. Oct. 4.
There was a brisk demand for Cotton to
day, and sales reached eighteen hundred
bales, at an advance of one-eiglit cent on pre
vious rates.
From New Orleans.
New Orleans. Oct 4.
The sales of cotton to-day readied 4500
bales at an advance. Middling 11£ to 12£c.
Receipts of the day 11,000 bales.
Late from South America,
New York, Oct. 2.—The steamship Tennes
see front San Juan, arrived to-day. She
brings advices to the 22d ult., which state
that Lt. McDonald, commanding a portion of
Gen. Walker’s army, had attacked the enemy
ut San Jacinto, and was repulsed with tiie
loss of six men killed. In a second attack he
was again repulsed, although one hundred ot
the enemy are reported to have been killed
and wounded. General Walker was prepar
ing to make a third attack.
Latest from Kansas.
•St. Louis, Oct. 1. —Our advices, full and
direct, from Lecomption, (K. T..)are to the
2bth Sept. All armed bands hail dispersed,
quiet and order reigned iu all parts, and citi
zens and residents were directing their efforts
and attentions to private business and inter
ests, under encouraging prospects.
Gov. Geary had issued warrants of commis
sion to Jones, Stringfcllow, and other leading
citizens, for the purpose of enrolling and or
ganizing Companies of Volunteers, only to be
employed and called on to preserve the estab
lished peace, and to repel all disturbing inva
ders or marauders from any quarter.
FURTHER BY THE AFRICA.
Commercial Intelligence.
Liverpool Cotton ALuiket.—Liverpool,
Sept. 20th. — The Market is quiet and without
change, although prices barely maintain them
selves. The sales of the week, closed on Fri
day, are 48,000, of which 6,000 are set down
to Speculators, and 4,500 to Exporters. On
Friday, 19tli, the sales were 8,000, including
2,000 for Export and Speculation. On the
day of the Africa’s departure (Saturday 20th.)
the sales were 7 lo 8,000.
LIVERPOOL COTTON QUOTATIONS.
Fair Orleans, 7}
Middling, 6g
Fair Mobiles, tij
Fair Uplands, 0
Middling Uplands, .... Oj
The Stock at Liverpool is now reported
675,000, of which American Cotton furnishes
550,000 bales.
Liverpool Breadstuff*. —Flour lias exhi
bited no change. Wheat has experienced a
decline of 2 a 3d. Corn is very dull, but
without change otherwise. The quotatiitUs
given by the Circular of Richardson, Spence
& Cos. arc : —Flour, Western Canal and Balti
more 29 a 315.; Ohio 31s a 31s. 3d. Wheat,
New Red 6 a 9s. 6d.; White Bs. Od. a 10s. fld.
Provisions.—The market generally is steady
and quiet.
Naval Stores.—ln Rosin a fair week's bu
siness has been done at slight concession, 4s.
4d. a 4s. od..—ln Spirits the transactions have
been unimportant. American tar is quoted
13s. od. a 14s.
London Market. —The Money Market.—
There lias been a decrease of £36,000 in the
bullion list of the bank of England. Consols,
after some fluctuations, closed on Friday at j
below the highest point of the preceding day,
and stood 94} for Money, fu American stocks
and securities little had been done. Sugar
has advanced 6d.
Havre Markets.—Aiavrc, Sept 16.—The
sales of the week closed, reach 16,000 bales,
and the stock now on hand here is 79,000.
The Breadstuff's Aiarket is inactive.
General Intelligence.
Some meetings had been held at Brussels,
preliminary to the full opening of the Inter
national Free Trade Congress.
Numerous arrests have taken place at Paris
under suspicion of design to assassinate the
Emperor.
At Madrid the Queen and O’Donnell are be
coming equally unpopular.
The Swiss Federation pledge themselves to
resist all encroachments on the rights of the
Republic.
The London Post says diplomatic inter
course will shortly terminate with Naples.
England as well as France will send a pow
erful naval force, through which the Allies
will communicate with the King.
New York Market,
New York, Oct. 3. —Cotton has advanced J
cent—sales of to-day, 2,000 bales—Aiiddling
Orleans 12} cents; Aiiddling Uplands 12|
cents: Fair Upland* J3J cents. Flour has
declined—Ohio 50.55 to $0.70; Southern
steady. Wheat has declined 3 cents. Corn
steady. Spirits turpentine dull. Rosin $1.70.
Rice quiet. Freights firmer.
Political.
Gov. Floyd, in his speech in this city yes
terday', promised the electoral vote of Virgin
ia to Fillmore, if it was necessary, in order
to defeat Fremont.
The Kivpr.
The rise ill Red River is an event of such
magnitude, that we cannot refrain from pre
senting all the testimony on the subject that
comes to us. We clip the following from the
Washington Democrat, of the 16th instant:
“Red River continues to rise, and now lacks
but eight or ten feet of being even with the
banks at Fulton. The Clarksville stagedriver
reports considerable backwater in the Cosse
tot and Little ljivof, and Red llivcr, above, is
overflowing in the low places.”
Hail Storm.
On the 20th September a violent hail storm
passed over Mcckicubcrg county, Vu. The
Tobacco Platit says:
“ Entire fields of tobacco are in utter ruins,
only enough being left to show tho extent of
the injury. The calamity is really a most se
rious one under existing circumstances. The
corn crops of this entire county are such com
plete failures that the farmers have relied
upon Hie proceeds of their tobacco crop to
buy them bread. This resource being swept
away from them, they arc left ip a very un
pleasant situation. Much of the tobacco de
stroyed was very promising.”
The New llaven Register says : “The ras
cal who is now in jail for robbing Rev. Air.
Lamb, of Suffield, of S7OO, made a Fremont
speech, only a few evenings previous, in
which he declared that ‘no Christian man
could vote for Buchanan.’ During the night
he got up, stole the parson’s money, and start- I
ed for anew Held of operations, flis “shrieks
for freedom,” will hereafter be given in the
region of Wethersfield. The laud is overrun
with a set ot irresponsible fellows, lecturing
mi Kansas—not one in ‘>o of whom probably
ever saw Kansas, and many of whom are no
doubt as great scamps as the fellow who rob
bed Parson Lamb! ”
Home Influence. I
Let, us look into several cottages inl m i •, I
by working men and women. Here i s q
where there is health, and strength, and
ular wages, and little children, o and a
hearted husband and an affectionate * B
What prevents it from being a happy p'l
What sends its master, cross and discount I
evening after evening to the jovial t av ! I
and brings him back night after night , I
gering and brutal ? The want of CO mF ■
Instead of a bright little fireside, a C omf 0 . I
ble arm-chair, a singing teakettle, a I
room and merry children, which would Jf I
the weary man’s return a pleasure and a ‘ I
fort, he finds the fire out—no foodprepar 7’ I
the children squalling—every chair tilwl
with dirty clothes, or candlesticks, or UIIW J‘ I
ed dishes—the wife dirty and forlorn, chan? it I
oh, how changed, from the smiling Jean on? I
early courting days. He had a few p eace * I
his pocket. The tavern is not far off. 1
ky is cheap, and does instead of food or 1 1
Whisky is cheap and raises the spirits. \Vj I
ky is cheap, and the sellers and buyers the/’ I
of arc comfortable and merry. Little won |!~ I
then, that the working man takes up ],j s p I
and is off to drown Ills cares in poison y I
the husband is blamed and the wife pitj (1 I
Very likely the want of order in the mistr*. I
of this uncomfortable home proceeds f hl i I
want of knowledge. Perhaps she was af.i I
lory girl, and after working she did noth/ I
but dress, and visit and gossip. So she I
ignorant of cooking, darning, washing, a/ I
managing a house, and she has had no th,, I
to learn since.
The consequence is, that instead ir hav :
nice, wholesome, cheap, hot little dit ,/ I
husband dines upon bread and chee ot
meal or potatoes. His porridge in u
ing is lull of knots and shot, and
tallow, and is as salt as brine; his tea at r , I
is made with unboiled water in a dim I
pot; the washings last twice as long as tliev I
need do ; fire smokes because the chimney is I
never swept; the stockings are full of holes, I
and the Sunday clothes ill-kept and moth-1
eaten.
Let us try another cottage, and we will find I
an active bustling mistress, but still the saint I
weary story, the wife wanting in all good in- I
fluenee, the husband drinking away the warn I
which would lift his family above hunger I
and misery. Here the cause is want of tern- I
per. The husband comes home tired and ir- I
ritated by the unpleasant toils of the day, ami I
instead of being soothed and comforted, ht I
finds his wife in what is popularly known a> I
“the dorts.” The poor children are scolded I
and slapped till they cry—the husband inter- I
seres angrily, and is answered by rude and I
rough reproaches for some offence of tire day I
before, and so comes on a miserable quarrel, I
and the husband rushes to the good tempered I
host of the tavern. Perhaps he is not given I
to drinking, but lie cannot sit by the bright I
fire and join in the merry talk without taking I
at least one glass for the benefit of the house: I
and oh ! the thousands who are ruined by the I
beginning of “just one glass.” Wives and I
mothers of oiu* working men. when will re I
learn that unkind words and rude manners are I
crimes, because they produce crimes, awful I
and eternal iu their consequences? When I
will ye remember that the way to convince? I
husband of his wrong and unkindness is not I
to scold, but to love—not to repulse, but id I
win ?
A godly woman who lived fifteen hundred |
years ago, used to say that if the fists of the I
husbands were rough, tiie tongues of tlieii I
wives were sharp, and that she knew the truth I
of the proverb, that “a soft answer turned: I
away wrath.” Her mode of management ami I
success in domestic life she described in these I
words: “When my lord and master scolds, 1
pray ; when ho is angry I forgive him, or give
him kindly words: and thus 1 have not only
calmed hi* anger, but it has come to this
blessed issue, that he lias been converted, and
is a Christian.” —Sunbeams in the Cottage.
Successful Application of Electricity in
tHe cure of Disease.
Dr. Robert Remak, of the University of
Berlin, Prussia,"known to the medical protec
tion of both hemispheres as a eminent physi
ologist, and noted for his valuable discoveries
in the sphere of miscroscopical observations,
has lately invented and successfully applied,
a newmetlied of introducing constant galvan
ic currents into the nerves and muscles of pa
tients, whereby cases of palsy of every kind,
apoplexy, atrophy of the muscles and of the
spinal marrow—some of them ten to twenty
years standing—have been, it is said, entire
ly cured within a few minutes. Within a pe
riod of six weeks, out of four hundred pa
tients that had lost the use of their limbs and
muscles, upwards of two hundred have been
entirely restored to health, whilst the re
mainder were rapidly improving under the
treatment. A printed synopsis of this scien
tific discovery and its results, transmitted by
the author, will appear in the next January
number of the Medical Journal, published in
tliis city.
One of (He Incorrigible*.
“ Young man, do you believe iu a futtuv
state?”
•• In course I does—and wliat’s more, I ‘ n *
tend to enter it as soon as Betsey gets hr*’
tilings ready.”
“Yon mistake me; do you believe in a fu
ture state of reward and punishment?
“Most assuredly ; if I could cut mug* wit*’
a red haired woman, 1 should expect my hat
indented by the first broomstick she coni'’
lay her hand on.” .
“Go to, young mail, you arc incorrigible-
Go to.”
“Go two? If it wasn’t for the lawof big
amy, whip tnc if I wouldn’t go a dozen. l ,ul
wlio’c supposed, deacon, that a man of y'" m
years would give such advice to a r.anjn
sturting in life ? ”
This took tlie deacon down
A Fugitive Reclaimed.
The Carlisle (Penn.) Herald, say's
arrival of the train from the West, o “
day morning last, at 7 o’clock, a negro m
passenger, was arrested by a couple ot cm*
zeus of Virginia, who laid claim to him • ‘
fugitive slave. He was taken before Thoin.i
Al. Biddle, Esq., U. S. Commissioner, aou - l *
ter a hearing, we understand, was idonti i
as a fugitive. He was, therefore, g' vo ” 1
possession of the cluiumnts, who in an j""}
or two more were on their way with him
to shivery. We were not present at the keit’
iitg, and did not leant the names ot an) 1
the parties. The ‘matter caused no eW -
meat.
There is nothing so becoming to either m*
or woman as a good head of hair, yet 1,1
many who, from carelessness or noglcd
their hair become so dry and frosty that it 1
really not fit to be seen, while, if they t'”
only procure one bottle of Wood's Hat’
logißive and use it, they could have 1*
riant a crop as any body else.
BACON ! BACON !
M'ENNKSSKE mid Western Baton for oil.’ *
1 prion* nt tin* niirii of tlm Hog. __ ,
Sept. 27. ISiO B A. KICHAKDi i