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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.