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never permit it to appear in your outward
conduct, The bent way is never to think
anything about it. nnti? you have fully pre
pared yourselves for all the duties that de
volve upon the wife. Too much thinking
on this subject, is apt to be followed by dis
appointment in more ways then one. Above
all, look well to the disposition, character
and standing of the man, who addresses
you. Never judge of his heart by bis purse,
nor his head hy his clothes; but bestow
your affections only upon such as have
gained the esteem of the world, and have
proved hy their actions that they de
serve it.
5. Do you desire to be thought pretty?
Then you rnust never apply to aitificial
means to cover what you may consider the
defectsof nature, for this will make you ap
pear really ugly, when the trick is discover
ed. Only keep your minds employed as
they should be, and sufier no improper
thoughts to enter them ; let useful exercise
cover yaur cheeks with the blush of health,
and fill your bodies with the strength and
vigor, and our word for it, you will he
thought really pretty. Keep up no play of
deception that will make you blush for your
own weaknes in future, for the consequences
are often serious. Remember that people
of sense look to the mind more than the
face, to discover beauty, and that, to be pret
ty, it is absolutely necessary to be good.
6. Is it love of amusements ? Then a
conversation with your young friends, or
with your parents around the fireside on in
nocent subjects will afford more real last
ing satisfaction, than the confusion and ex
citement of a ball-room, or the folly and
lightness of a party of pleasure. The wheels
of time are rolling you too rapidly from the
scenes of youth, to pass even an hour in an
unprofitable manner; and if you yield your
self ufito idle amusements ; you but place
yourselves in the hands of a passion, whose
march is more rapid than even time itself.
7. Would you be thought singular?—
Then you have only to follow the advice
we have here given you, and you will be
different from most young ladies at the pre
sent day ; and you will he happy that such
is the case. Try it.
We do not know, that we have hit upon
the “ important subject,” hut promise our
correspondents and our fair readers that, in
future, we will bestow upon them more of
our attention. They certainly “richly de
serve it.”
An apt Illustration. —A person asking
how it happened that many beautiful ladies
took up with indifferent husbands after
many fine offers, was aptly answered hy a
mountain maiden: A young friend of hers
requested her to go into a cane brake and
get him the handsomest retd. She must
get it at once going through, without turn
ing. She went, and, coming out, brought
him quite a mean reed. When he asked ,
her if that was the handsomest she saw.— j
• Oh ! no !” she replied, “ I saw many finer i
as L went along, hut I kept on, in hopes of \
one much belter, until 1 gut nearly through, j
ami then I was obliged to take up with any |
one I could get ; and a crooked one at last.” j
g——’ J- 1 J—L-liS
(MMI-©£ILLA!NrY.
THE QFAIL.
We would walk six miles to shake hands
with the writer of the following at tide, and
would not mind, moreover, lending a lick
ourselves at the murderous darkey whom he
so justly anathematizes. The article is we
believe, from an old number of the Knick
erbocker : — Nat. lnt.
Some observations concerning Quails. —
The Quail is the bird for me. He is no
rover, no emigicnt. lie stays at home and
is identified with the soil. Where the far- |
mer works, he lives, and loves, and whistles.
In budding spring time, and in scorching
summer, in bounteous autumn, and in bar
ren winter, his voice is heard from the same
bushy liedgefence and from his customary
cedars. Cupidity and cruelty may drive him
to the woods, and to seek more quiet seats ; |
but be merciful and kind to him, and he will
visit your barn yard, and will sing for you
upon the boughs of your apple tree hy your
gateway. But when warm May first woos
the vnang bowel sto open and receive bet
breath, then begin the loves and jealousies
and duels of the heroes of the bevy. Du
els too often alas ! bloody and fatal; for
there liveth not an individual of the gallin
aceous order, braver, holder, more endur
ing than a cock quail fighting for his lady
love. Arms, too, he wiehleth, such as give
no vain blows, rightly used. His mandible
serves for other purposes than mere biting
of grasshoppers and picking up Indian corn.
While the dire affray rages Miss Qoailina
looketh on from her safe perch on n limb
above the combatants, imperial spectatress,
holding her love under iter left wing pa
tiently ; attd when the vanquished craven
finally bites the dust, descends am rewards
the conquering hero with her heart and
hand.
Now begin the cares and responsibilities
of wedded life. Away fly the happy pair
to seek some grassy tussock, where, safe
from the eyes of the haw k and the nose of
the fox, they may rear their expected brood
in peace, provident and not doubting their
espousals will he blessed with a numerous
offspring. Oat harvestarrives, and the fields
are waving with yellow grain. Now be
wary, oh, kind hearted cradler! and trend
not into those pure whito eggs ready to
burst with life 1 Soon there is a peeping
sound heard! a prout mother walked) mag
nificently in the midst of her childien,
scratching and picking, and teaching them
how to swallow'. Happy is she if she be
permitted to bring them up to maturity, and
uncompelled to renew her joy in another
nest.
The assiduities of a mother have a beau
ty and a sacredness about them that com
mand respect and reverence in all animal
nature, human or inhuman —what a lie does
that word carry—except, perhaps in mon
sters, insects and fish. 1 never yet heard of
the parental tenderness of a trout, eating up
its little baby, nor of the fillial gratitude of
a spider, nipping the life nut of his gray
hended father, and usurping his web. But
if you would see the purest, the since real,
lit* gvwf affecting piety of a parent’s Jove,
SQiijraiiaißW mus<oib &il
startle a young family of quails, and watch
the conduct of the mother. She will not
leave you. No not she. But she will fall
at your feet, uttering a noise which none
hut a distressed mother can make, and she
will run and flutter and seem to Ity to be
caught, and cheat your outstretched hand,
and affect to he w ing broken and wounded,
and yet have just strength enough to tumble
along, until she has drawn you, fatigued, a
safe distance from her threatened children
and the young hopes of hei heart; and then
she will mount, whirling with glad strenglh,
and away through the maze of trees you
have not seen before, like a close shot bul
let, fly to her skulking infants. Listen now !
Do you hear those tlu ee half-plaintive notes
quickly and clearly poured out ? She is
calling ‘ the boys and girls together. She
sings not now “Bob White!” nor “ Ah
Boh White!” That is her husband’s love
call or his trumpet blast of defiance. But
she calls sweetly and softly for her lost chil
dren. Hear them “ peep ! peep!” at the
welcome voice of their mother’s love!
They are coming together. Soon the whole
family w ill meet again. It is a foul sin to
disturb them ; but retread your devious way
and let her hear your coming footsteps
breaking down the briers as you renew the
danger. She is quiet; not a word is passed
between the fearful fugitives. Now if you
have the heart to do it, lie low, keep still,
and imitate the call of the hen quail. Oh,
mother! mother! how your heart would
die if you could witness the deception !
The little ones raise their trembling heads,
and catch comfort and imagine safety from
the sound. “Peep! peep!” they come to
you straining their little eyes, and -duster
iug together, and answering seem to say,
“ Where is she? Mother! mother! weave
here!”
I knew an European once—he lives yet
in a hovel on the brush plains of Matowars
—who called a whole Levy together in that
way. He first shot the parent bird ; and
when the murderous villain had ranged
them in close company, while they were
looking over each other’ snecks, arid ming
ling their doubts and hopes arid distresses,
in a little circle, he leveled his cursed mus
ket at their unhappy breasts, aud butchered!
—“ What ? all my pretty ones ! Did you
say all ?” He did, and he lives yet! Oh,
let me not meet that nigger six miles north
of Patcliogue, in a placo where the scrub
oaks cover with cavernous gloom a sudden
precipice, at whose bottom lies a deep lake,
unknown but to the Kvvka: and the lost deer
hunter ? For my soul’s sake, let me not
encounter him in the grim ravines of the
Callicoon, in Sullivan, where the everlast
ing darkness of the hemlock forests would
sanctify virluous murder!
Decidedly the very best thing in the di
dactic line we have seen tLis year, is the
following from the Tallahassee, Fla. Sentin
el, aiiJ it may suffice for the edification and
correctness of more people than those of
Middle Florida.
That Terrible Old Schoolmaster.- — If af
ter the first failure old Time would hut con
sent to a second trial under the same cir
cumstances, few would he unsuccessful.—
But, alas ! his car rolls on, driving us be
fore it, carrying us upon it, dismally pull
ing os nfier it, or at once, for a finishing
stroke, fatally running over us. llis lessons
are of use only in future life. When (as
often) he takes upon himself to give us a
punch iti the libs nr a knock over the cra
nium, instead of twisting, writhing, or
groaning with the pain, it is our proper bu
siness to take care that we get out of his.
way as far as possible the next time. Ex
perience is a hard old schoolmaster—one
that about as frequently kills his incautious
pupils as contents himself with a mild and
fatherly correction. For the last two years
or more he has taken the people of Middle
Florida fairly in hand, and, as the veritable
Slick says, he is “ lamming it into us like
blazes !” At every stroke of his cudgel—
hear the old villain, how he taunts us in our
misery. “ There take that ! —run in debt
again will you—(whack;) spend money, be
extravagant, prodigal, ride in carriages, ca
vort about, (whack, whack,) care nothing
about economy and frugality, (those homely
virtues,) buy fine furniture for cabins, drive
a conch and four out. of a rotten log stable,
give parties and bails, keep-race nags, drink
wine and frolic, (whack, whack, whack ;)
send to Virginia for negroes, to Kentucky
for mules, to new Orleans for bacon, flour,
rice, sugar, corn, and molasses, to New
York fut fine silks, laces, jewelry, and gew
gaws ; depend on others ; raise nothing to
eat, drink, or weaijyourself; borrow money
from Holland; chat ter largo batiks, get mo
ney from them, endorse, mortgage arid
mortgage again ; speculate, neglect busi
ness, morals, education, will you ! ( Whack.)
Oh, yes! I’ll teach you a thing or two that’s
worth knowing. I’ll never lay by my cudg
el till you strip off your coats, go to work,
and earn your porridge, (whack.) Oft’with
them I say ; toil, dig, leant to take care of
yourselves, earn money and save it, raise
what you eat, pay for what you buy ; give
no long credits, take none ; be sober, ptti
dent, circumspect; attend to your business,
and don’t speculate ; work, work, and let
your boys end girls do likewise !” says the
terrible old schoolmaster.
An act of Gratitude.. —The Noticioso de
Ambos Mundos relates that a young .Span
ish Surgeon, named Hurtado, after the bat
tle of Ocaria, undertook the care of a Pole,
who was dangerously wounded in that bat
tle. He dressed his numerous wounds con
ducted him to Madrid, where he was received
iri the house of a lady named Luj.i. This
lady arid Hurtado were assiduous in their
attentions to the wounded soldier, so that,
couttary to expectation, he recoveied, and
took his departure with the wannest expres
sions ofgiatitude to his Ikenefactors. The
Polish soldier proved to he the Prince
Brownoski. This prince lately died at
Warsaw, and in Ids will bequeathed to Sr.
Hurtado, who had become one of the fust
physicians of Spain, a legacy of 50,000 francs,
and to the Scnori Lujix a like sum, in grate
ful acknowledgement on his part, of set vices
which they regarded as a mere discharge of
a duly. Sr. Hurtado lately passed through
Bayonne, oo his way to Warsaw, for the
purpose ol"receiving payment of the legacy.
A Child's Prayer. —The following sweet
and simple expression of holy piety is from
i the pen of Isaac Pray, Jr.
Father! now the day is past, (
On thy child thy blessing cast,
Near my pillow, hand, in hand,
Keep iby guardian angel band ;
And throughout the darkling night
flees me with a cheerful light.
Let me rise at morn again
Free from every thought of pain:
Pressing through life's thorny way,
Keep me Father, day hy day !
A Paragraph for Children.- —And why
should we not give a few lines spacetosoine
thing peculiar for the children? Most as
suredly .ve see no reason for it. A little
hoy, eight or nine yeatsold, was walking
along Grand street the other day, on an er
rand for his parents. Near at hand, under
the shadow of an awning, was an apple
stand, kept by a poor woman, and covered
with delicious pears, blackberries, and apples.
The little buy thought he never had seen
such beautiful yellow apples—and he won
dered how they caine to he ripe so early iri
the season. Just at that moment while the
woman was busied at the far corner of the
stand with n customer, on of.the largest
and plumpest of the apples tolled fiom ils
pinocle off on the walk and down into the
clean clear Cioton w ater in the guttei, and
on, on, on, nearly two rods from the stand,
j The apple-woman did not see it—appar
j ently no body saw it but the little hoy.
Now lie was very fond of apples, and he
had no money, and it was plain that he
could easily take the prize, and who should
kmnv any lliingabout it? Forlwofuil min
utes the child stood on the curb stone, and
many jarring impulses agitated his little
bosom. lie could take it—but w ould it not
be bitter to the taste; hut would the cheating
of a poor” apple-woman not he a wretched
business? He stooped down decidedly—
picked up the fruit and carried it back to
its owner. Now this paragraph may he
read by many thousand children. We love
them all—and we ask them to stop one little
minute, and turn over in their own minds
what were the hoy’s thoughts as he walked
onward along Grand street —and what would
have been his thoughts the rest of the at’ier
noon, if he had put the apple in his pocket.
Nt Y. Snn.
Dog Story. —Though we are the avowed
advocates of a law for the destruction of all
worthless curs, we should deem ourselves
less than men did we not admire the ani
mal, dog, in the abstract. We have there
fore been touched by a story told iti the
N. Y. Sun, of a Frenchmen and his dog,
who Had just arrived in that city from
Europe. He landed at the Battery, accom
panied by his fine mastiff, which seemed
overjoyed to get on shore, went up Broad
way admiring the city, which he saw now
for the first time. Lion seemed to like it
no less than his master, for he frolicked
about in every direction, still keeping his
master in sight. They had passed the As
tor House, when one of the dog killers,
who had been lounging in the shade, espied
poor Lion, and pursued him with upraised
club and fell intent.
The Frenchman rushed forward to save
his favorite. “ Mine dog ! mine dog !” he
cried. “ Mad dog ! mad dog !” shouted
the men and boys, mistaking the sound—
“ Mine dog !” screamed the Frenchman —
“ Mad dog !” yelled the boys. Lion rar.—
the crowd followed him. Broadway was in
consternation, and the excited Frenchman
arrived at the corner of Broom street just
in time to see the mangled remains of poor
Lion.
Imperfectness of Human Knowledge. —Tlie
caterpillar,on being converted into an inert,
scaly mass, does not appear to be fitting it
self for an inhabitant of the air, and can
i have no consciousness of the brilliancy of
! its future being. We are masters of the
! eanh, but perhaps we are the slaves of
| some great end unknown beings. The fly
I iHut we crush w ith our finger, or feed with
! our hands, has no knowledge of man, and
|no consciousness of his superiority. \\ e
suppose we ate acquainted with matter and
all its elements, yet we cannot even guess
e.t the cause of electricity, or explain the
I laws of the formation of the stones that fall
from meteors. There may he beings think
ing beings, near or surrounding ns, which
we do not perceive, which we cannot imag
ine. We know very little, hut in my opin
ion vve know enough to hope for the irn
mortality, of the better part of man.— Sir
Humphry Davy.
I Health rot Happiness. —Go iutnthe coun
try; behold the farmer at his plough ; eve
ry thing is sung and comfortable around
him. He has not wealth, and is conse
quently independent; His family thrive
around him, and blessed with health and
contentment, he enjoys as great a share
of happiness as evet fulls to the lot of mor
tals. Great wealth is too often useless or
misdirected—extreme poverty is fatal to
the most laudable efforts. A state of inde
pendent competence, between the two, is
the most likely to preserve our principles
untarnished—to keep our human sympa
thies refreshed, and to render us truly hap
py.— Washington Ark Tel.
“ Poor but Respect able.” —Noticing the
sudden death of a citizen of Franklin county,
the editor of the States Journal says that he
was “poor £td respectable.” Very singular,
indeed, for a man to he poor and respecta
ble ! How would it answer for tins Jour
j nal to sny in noticing the death of a rich
| man, “rich but respectable V Alas for the
| cant of this aristocratic world—“ poor but
respectable” “ Rich and respectable.” Os
1 course, rich and respectable !
j Imagination. —Rightly directcJ, wisely
| used, imagination is the greatest gift aud
| blessing of intellectual man. It raises his
| tastes, softens his feelings, purifies his de
| sires, ennobles his nature, dignities his life,
j and tranquilizes his death ! To him who
has imagination well-directed, the whole
universe and all its vicissitudes are hut an
instiumcuL of eternal music, and the hand
of God producing infinite harmony ut every
tonch.
English Laboring Classes. —lt is nothing
since that vve published an article exposing
the pitiable condition of the laboring class
es in England. Here is another, from the
letter of a gentleman now traveling in Eng
land. \Y e have forgotten the paper in which
we found it.
A few days ago I was walking over one of
the most beautiful parts of Surrey, about 20
miles from London, when we saw a lad of
15 or 17 years old tending a flock of sheep.
I began a convarsalion with him, which, af
ter a few preliminary questions, went on as
follows: “ Well my lad, how much a day
do you get for this work?” “ Four pence.”
“Do you work on Sundays ?” “Yes sir;
but master don’t pay me for that. 1 gets
two shillings a week sir.’ “Well, how
much is bread a loaf?” (4 lbs.) “Seven
pence half-penny, sir.” “ And how do they
sell meat hue 1” “ I does not know, sir.”
“ And how’s bacon, then? “1 does not
know sir, because I never gets none, nor
meat neither.” “ What do you get then ?”
“ Bread, sir.” “What else?” “A few
Inters and a bit of butter sometimes, sir.”
“ What does your father get a week?” “Ten
shillings, sir.” “ How much does he pay
for rent ?” “ Two shillings a week, sir.”
That is as near as 1 can recollect, a verba
tim report of what passed. Now laborers
there aie far better off than in many dis
tricts. \et the total yearly expense of our
royal family alone, including the Queen
Dowager, &c., is equal to the yearly main
tenance of 150,000 at the rates of wages
earned by tlie shepherd lad l had talked with,
in one of the finest and most lovely spots
man ever saw. In my estimate of the royal
expenditure 1 have not taken the whole
civil list, as it is called, but only such parts
as relate to the Queen’s personal expendi
t u re.
Pusryism. —The contest iri regard to
Puseyism is raging with some virulence at
tlie North. From present indications we
should say that the Puseyites are in a ma
jority in the Episcopal church in this coun
try. These disputes about speculative
points of doctrine—always the more rancor
ous in proportion to their trifling importance
—do more harm to the cause of true reli
gion than the writings of all the skeptics in
the universe. ‘The world looks to the
church for examples of Christian virtues,
and, more than all, of charity. They usual
ly find in it, especially in its leaders, bigot
ry, intulerence and all uncharitableness. It
would really seem to a layman as if men of
moderation, tolerably inclined to viitue,
could find enough of purity nfbenrtand life,
of faith, meekness and love to God and man,
inculcated in the Scriptuies, to form the
neticleus of a church in which there should
be none of these everlasting bickerings
about the difference between tvveedle-dutn
antTtweedle-dce. A vast proportion of all
the theological controversies we have looked
into had no distinguished regaid whatever
to the practicial duties of Christianity, and
{liey have ever appeared to us to be the off
spring of pride and self-seeking ; and which
of the other controversies that have divided
mankind, will you find to have been prose
cuted with such bitterness and malevolence
of spirit ? — Picayune.
The Debtor. —Tlie man who is in debt is
obliged to look in the face people, and per
haps poor people, whom lie cannot pay, It
is a situation infinitely irritating and morti
fying. We are a people, I know to a prov
erb, reckless of debt—reckless at least,
about plunging into it ; hut no man can he
in it, and find the situation an easy one.—
No man can, without passing, I had almost
said through worse, than purgatorial tor
ment become callous to the demand for
payment. It turns the wheel of life into a
scene of misery and mortification—makes
its whole business and action a series of
sacrifices and shifts and subterfuges.—
Home itself—the last refuge of virtue and
peace—the very home that has lost its in
dependence in its splendor, that is not pro
ti cted from the intrusive step and c< n'emp
tuons tone of the unsatisfied creditor—has
lost its charm. It is no longer a sanctuary ;
and is but two likely to he forsaken for
other resoits. Many a man not only in the
city, hut in the country, has gone down in
character and self-respect, in viitue arid
hope, under the accumulated weight of these
overwhelming embarrassments.— Dewey.
Our Bar. —Thirty years ago, gin and
whiskey were drank by Judge, Lawyers
and Jury, in Court and out of it. Judge
Striven was the first man who attempted a
reformation.,, He called a meeting of the
Bar, and placed before it the impropriety of
drinking spirits in Court. The lawyers ac
knowledged their error, and a resolution
was passed, pledging themselves to abstain
from drink in the Courthouse. The next
day, one of the lawyers, H , a clever
and kind-hearted man, who made all his
speeches ardent hy tlie use of the ardent,
had a case called—feeling the want of the
usual stimulant, lie arose and asked fur a
short delay, as he felt a little faint and wished
a little water. Then raising his voice, he
called to the bailiff, “Mr. Bailiff’, bring me a
glass of water,” and in an undertone, hut
equally audible, added, “and be suie it’s
half gin, do you hear.” Look at our Bar
now! what has not Temperance done ?
A vgusto, 11 T ashington ian.
Ingenious device rs a Convict to procure his
Pardon. —The following letter from a con
vict iri the Sing Sing Prison, to a comrade
of his in this city, was found in a bag in his
cell— we publish it, verbatim.
Dere Frond git up a peetition this way
for to have Sunday School and Bible class
es, and our Lybrary of Books A gane tell
them that you want to lay it before the in
spectors of the Prison git printed hed for it
20 or 30 and hand it to different Ministers
of churches and tel them that you will call
on them for it at such A time and when you
git 3 or fore thousand signers take of them
beds and pool them All to getber and then
pool A hed on A copy of my trial and then
goto Judge Linsh Judge Sanford Judge
Mortis the Mare, and the Juree that con
victed me you can find out whare they Live
by my Indictment hut git them All to sign
it before you pout my case to it. — N. Y.
Eve. Post.
Charcoal and Plants. —Messrs. Editors:
Weobsetved in your paper last woek an
extract front a Buffalo paper stating that
the w heat crops in France had experienced
great improvement, by using charcoal in a
manner similar to lime. With your per
mision, we will add a few facts upon the
same subject. In n visit to the country
this Summer, a friend, residing near Wil
mington, stated that the Messrs, Dupont
had been for some time in the habit of us
ing charcoal with much success for agricul
tural purposes, and they had also profitably
employed it ;'n horticulture. The willow
charcoal, prepaid for making gun powder,
was broken into pieces about the size of a
small pea, and slips of plants or trees, stuck
into it when they were found to grow with
amazing rapidity. By tins means vegeta
bles were produced earlier and much liner
than those placed in hot-beds. Tiopical
plants and fruits, which they bad in vain
tried to produced in the hot house, when
planted in earth, were made, when placed
in pure charcoal, to grow from the smallest
slips. Fruit trees, also, were thus made to
flourish from slips, hence hearing fruit,
hereafter, without the necessity of grafting.
He showed me some plants which he him
self had set out, and they presented a fine,
flourishing appearance. On arriving home,
three or four weeks ago, vve immediately
communicated these facts to a friend, who
takes great interest m cultivating flowers,
when she set out some small slips of gera
nium in tumblers of charcoal, which have
grown much more rapidly than when plan
ted in sand or in any other way. These
facts go conclusively to substantiate the
new principle in agricultural chemistry, that
plants do not, as was formerly supposed,
derived their nourisment from the soil, but
the air. The charcoal, having an wffitiity
for the oxigen of the air, sets the nitrogen
free, which unites with hydrogen of mois
ture, thus vve obtain carbonic acid, ammo
nia and free oxigen. We think the results
would repay any attention those who fur
nish our markets with vegetables and fruits
might give to this subject.
The Hen and Kittens—An Extraordina
ry Pact. —A few weeks ago 1 was at the
residence of Mr. Barney, pastor of the Con
gregational Church in Seekonk, R. 1. He
invited me into a little shed, and there
showed me a very extraordinary example
of animal instinct. It was a lien bringing
up a litter of four kittens. In all respects
so far ns they could receive it, she gave
them the same attentions as she would her
own brood. She scratched vermin and oth
er things for them ; called them to partake;
she clucked for them, and brooded over
them night and day, as they had need* It
is true, they could not. enjoy the food thus
offered for them, neither could they follow
her in her wanderings as thickens would
do.
The little things lived as do other kittens,
by sucking their real mother puss. They
obtained this privilege by the assistance of
ftiends, or in the occasional absence of the
hen. When the hen was present, pass
could not come nigh her kittens, for though
she was much stronger than the hen, yet she
shrunk as many larger animals do, from her
noisy threats.
Occasionally, in the absence of the hen,
puss would come and steal her kittens, and
carry them by the neck to another place, to
oversee them herself. But very soon the
hen would find them, and take possession
of them as before.
You are doubtless all enquiring how this
happened. 1 asked the same question, and
was told that puss had her nest near the hen
while she was sitting upon her own eggs.—
When the cat first left her kittens alone, the
hen hearing their infant voices, probably
supposed them to be her own. She there
fore left her nest, with her eggs unhatched,
and took possession of the nest of kittens.
Having first pitied,she next loved them, and
continued to watch for their welfare.
Family Lemonade, according to Punch's
Receipt.-*—Get a jug, and run with it to the
water-butt ; wash out a small quantity of
aqueous fluid, and wipe dry with a clean
glasscloth. Now you may take your lem
on, being careful to choose the very best
you can meet with. Slice w ith an ordinary
knife into a common plate, and throw the
pieces smartly into the jug, taking care that
they reach the bottom. Seizing your sugar
basin, sweeten at discretion, adding a
little more when you think there is need of
it. take your kettle and pour your boiling
water over your lemon, stiring all the while
with the handle of a toasting-fork. Be care
ful not to leave off stirring until you know
your sugar is dissolved, when you may sit
down arid wait for some time, to cool the
refreshing bovetage. Serve up in tumblers
or mugs : or, in default of which, you may
drink out of the pitcher.
American ’Manufactures. —A merchant of
Troy, engaged in the Eastern trade informs
us that.he found it extremely difficult w hen
in Boston last week to obtain a supply of
domestics by the 14th of August; orders
already received by the manufactures be
ing so full as to keep them constantly at
work. Thete have already been exported
from Boston to China, the present year, 15,-
000,000 yards of cotton goods, while from
Great Britain to China the export has only
been 12,000,000 yards. The celestials giv
ing our cloths the preference.— Troy Whig.
I Vester n Man vfact urcs. —M Cinufactu res
of woolens are rapidly increasing at the
\\ est. At Akron, Ohv.i, five large woolen
factoiies have recency been put in operation;
and an extensive one lias just been comple
ted at Milwaukee, Wisconsin Territoty.—
At the former place, 120,000 lbs. of wool at
an average of 23 cents per lb., have been
purchased the present season.
JTow to clean Kid Gloves. — Take a piece
of flannel, moisten it with a little milk, rub
it on a cake of nice hard soap, and then ap
ply it to the soiled part of the glove. As
soon as you have removed the dirt, rub the
kid with a dry piece of flannel. Care must
be taken not to make the glove too wet. In
these hard times, people miist scour up, and
make every thing go as far as they can,
Canal across the Isthmus.—The project
which has been so long mooted, and which
ought long since to have been carried out
joining the Atlantic and Pacific by a canal
across the Isthmus of Darien, has, it will he
seen, by a paragraph in an another column
been at length undertaken by a firm whoso
ample resources and public spirit afford a
guarantee for its speedy completion
Messrs. Barings, of London. The canal, it i a
stated, will be completed in five years. As
suming the report to be correct as regards
Messrs. Baring, and if so, it is certainly
complimentary to their spirit and entet prise
still it is almost to be regretted that the
leading nations of Europe, in conjunction
with the United States, have not “clubbed
together” to make this great connecting link
between the oceans public property.
Trade with England. —One of our packet
ships now loading for Livcpool, has on board
the following articles, which compose her
cargo so far, viz :
200 hhls. flour,
650 hhls. lard,
500 ferkius butler,
600 casks and boxes chees,
50 tons spermeceti oil,
2 invoices, about 20 tons measure of clocks
Going into Partnership. —A western man
who for aught that we know to the contra
ry, might have been from tlw Devil’s Fork
on the Arkansas, was treading the upper
deck of a steamer, with measured strides,
on which, chained to a poast, almost in his
path, was an ugly, ill natured cur, who as
the man passed, would growl, and show his
teeth, and snap at him. “Stranger,” says
lie, at last when his patience was exhausted,
“ L should like to own an interest in this here
dog, and if I didn’t shoot my share of him,
d—n my eyes.”
The Oil of Bene Seed is successfully made
by Mr. Mclntyre, at Ouachita, La., who
thinks it may he very profitable. He calcu
lates that forty bushels of seed can he raised
per acre; but assumes twenty bushels as a
fair average. This will yield at least fifty
gallons of pine oil, which, at $1.25 per gal
lon, would be worth $62 50 ; deduct S6, the
cost of crushing, pressing, etc , leaves $56.-
50 the product per acre. Mr. Mclntyre
says a hand can cultivate as much land in
bene as in cotton ; but take only eight acres
as the average quantity, and we have the re
sult of $442 as the product of each hand.
Asthma. — The following cure for the
distressing complaint called the Asthma,
was recommended to an acquaintance of
ours some years since, whose case was a
desparate one; lie is now in the enjoyment
of good health—and as vve have nccidentaly
laid out hands upon the receipt itself, would
offer it to our readers for a trial.
One pint of Linseed Oil, boiled over a
slow fire until perfectly clear, then, after it
becomes cool, add a half pint of honey, and
a quarter of a pound of garlic.
The dose is a table spoon full morning
and evening.— Yorhvi/le Compiler.
Mercer University. — The Faculty elect
ed, at the late meeting of the Board of Trus
tees, consists of the follow ing gentlemen :
Rev. Basil Manly, D. D., President and’
Professor of Theology.
B. O. Pierce, Professor of Chemistry and
Natural Philosophy.
S. P. Sanford, Prof, of Mathematics.
Rev. P. 11. Mel], Prof, of Languages.
T. I). Martin, Tutor.
We have not heard whether Dr. Manly
has or will accept the office tendered him.
The exercises of the College were re
sumed on Thursday, 10th of August. The
new arrangements, relative to the Manuel l
Labor and Boardiug Departments, are to
be earned into operation at the commence
ment of the next year.— lndex.
Ominous to Office-Holders. —The last
“Democratic Union” published in Pennsyl
vania, in an article - on the subject of “ the
Presidents nomination,” says—“ The uni
ted Democracy of the Keystone State de
mand of the next U. S. Senate the most
prying inquiiy into all Mr. Tyler’s Cabinet
appointments.
The Richmond Enquiier copies the b
bove, and adds : “The scrutiny may take
a wider sweep-. Rumors have reached us
about appointments-to office which have
atartled us.”
(£?” The editor must be nervous indeed
to be shocked at anything of the kind sow
a-duys.
Choice of a Wife • —Prefer the person l>e
fore money, virtue before beauty, the mind
before the body, then bast thou in a wife
a friend, a companion who will bear on
equal part in afi thy toils and affections.
Literary Curiosity. —lt will be observed
that the following line may be read both
ways alike.
“ Lewd did I live Sfcvil did I dwelt
ffmmtuuU.
married,
On the 17ih instant, by the Rev. William Arnold,
MADISON KILVATRICK, to MARY A. S. DEN
HAM, all of T'otnani county, Georgia.
Head-Quarters, I
Madison, (Ga.) August 22, 1843. ’
The ConimandingOfficer regrets to state that in con
sequence of the disorganized condition ol the 29th Reg
iment at tlie time of his assuming the command, it has
been utterly impossible lo organize a i.egal Court of
Inquiry for the trial of defaulters at the last Regiment
al parade. The chief difficulty arose from the expira
tion of the commissions of the Breveted Officers who.
had been commissioned by Colonel Ai.den which,
commissions expired previous to the duy appointed for
the Court. Without remedy in such a case, the Com
manding Officer has been under the necessity of pas
sing over the delinquencies at the Review and Inspec-.
lion held on the Hth of July last. But he takes this,
opportunity of assuring those under his command that
such exigencies will be guarded against in future, and
that, ao far os is in his power, the laws of the State rag--
ulating the Militia will hereafter be rigidly enforced.—
lie respectfully invites the co-operation of the respect-,
ive Officers of the Regiment, in his effort to secure ft,
thorough organization.
By order of Colonel C. R. llanlzite*
JARED E. KIRBY, Adjutant.