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THE 5^E , Ul3B2£S2' 2mmEWSSI2 9 Will be published every SATL’RDA Y Morning, fa the Two-Story Wooden Building , at Ike Corner of Walnut and Fifth Street, IN THE CITT or MACON, OA. By WM. B. IIAKRISON. TERMS: For the Paper, in advance, per annum, $2. it not paid in advance, $3 00, per annum. will be inserted at the usual rites— and when the number of insertions de ,ired is not specified, they will be continued un til forbid and charged accordingly. If Advertisers by the Year will be contracted iritb upon the most favorable terms. jJ’Sales of Land by Administrators,Executors or Guardians, are required by Law, to be held on •liefirst Tuesday in the month, between the hours jften o’clock in the Forenoon and three in the Afternoon, at the Court House of the county in ■\liicb the Property is situate. Notice of these Sales must be given in a public gazette Sixty Days previous to the day of sale. 1 D*3»U>s of Negroes by Ad ministators, Execu tors or Guardians, must be at Public Auction, on the first Tuesday in the month, between the legal boars of sale, before the Court House of the county where the LettersTesiamentary ,or Administration or Guardianship may have been granted, first giv notice thereof For Sixty Days, in one of the public gaaettes of this Slate, and at the door of the Court House where such sales are to De held. jj-Notieefor the sale of Personal Property must be given in like manner Forty Days pre vious to the day of sale. to the Debtors and Creditors olan es ,ate must be published for Forty Days. that application will be made to the Court of Ordinary for leave to sell Land or Ne eroes must be published in a public gazette in the liate for Four Months, before any order absolute cae be given by the Court. ■ /’Citations for Letters of Administration on m Estate, granted by the Court of Ordinary, must be published Thirty Days -for Letters of Dismis sl9n from the administration ofan Estate,monthly for Six Months —for Dismission from Guardian ship Forty Days. for the foreclosure of a Mortgage, must be published monthly for Four Months— for establishing lost Papers, for the full space of Hint Months—fax compelling Titles from Ex ecutors, Administrators or others, where a Bond has been given by the deceased, the full space of Three Months. N. B. All Business of this kind shall receive prompt attention at the SOUTHERN' Tlllßl -\£ Office, and strict care will be taken that all legal Advertisements are published according to Law. Xj»AII Letters directed to this Office or the Editor on business, must be post-paii>, to in sure attention. i3ortrn. # ' ' Kissing no Bobbery. “Oh! quit—get out—now don't you— I really wish you wouldn’t! Oil ! quit—will you ! Oil, get out — You kuow you ought to shouldn t. “There now, you’ve got it—oil, be still! You shan’t have any more ! You've got —oh, take your f.icc away— What no man lias got before. “One more—there that will do—oh, doll ft You’ve rumpled up my hair ; If you'll but quit, I’ll give you one— take it—there —there —theic ! Like. This life, is one of those sad scenes, which when thoroughly comtemplated makes meu doubt. To weigh the good mid ill that wo enjoy in reason’s scale, adds melancholy to des pair. It shews that all our pleasing enjoyments are so transient and scarcely perceivable, that we just have time to taste, and they are gone as if they never were. Misfortune is unpleasant in her turn, and pre sents many an ugly picture to our view; and even prosperity, so desirable, with all her charms, so smiling and alluring, is so brief and uncertain, that we may consider it but a phan tom to amuse the mind. To consider things ns they are, to throw off the veil, and to behold the primitive realitires, makes me sensible, that the much striven for palm, riches, arc fleeting ; that grandeur and the world's applause, is hut merely fancy’s bubble, useful but a short time at best; for all must find a grave. What is the solemn dirge of death, to the car of clay ! Or the plaudits of the world, to the "tunes of the dead? They serve for naught. Why then, continual striving? ’Tis God's be. best, and must be obeyed, but is none the less unreal; for seen if nature continues immutable, *o all shall quit fancy's scenery, for a more solemn one. The the wise and the foolish, the •Nonarch and the slave, the rich and the poor, Will in fame, power and wealth, be equal. Ah ! Vo ambitious few. Leaders of the world though your enjoyments be ere so great, you must soon fall oil', giving your posferity the token, and they theirs in return, all to be in volved in one common mass. Tux Selfish Mam.—A few days since, says | B'c City item, wo read an account of a man who, [ bavin, accumulated a property, said to himself, “soul thou hast much goods laid up for many years—take thine ease—eat, drink and be merry,” and, it is added, that notwithstanding his great wealth and fancied security lie was cut efT that very night. Ihis little story made us very sad, and yet the originals of the picture so vividly drawn, may he found in every walk of life. Thousands upon thousands, like this poor fellow, centre all dieir hopes on the accumulation of wealth—they turn a deaf car to the piteous talo of honest j poverty—they think of nothing but self, self, I Sr -H i and when they have amassed a great pro- P er 'y, death stares them out of countenance — I 'heir souls are required of them, and they die I "murning an ill-spent life. I We arc very tar from sneering at those who I " lre to lay up something for the support of de | h "' ln ß years, but we would have every one re- I 1 mber lug accountability to his Maker, and I Ull > tolellmv man. As lifuisshortandun ""i let us do good while uc may ; and let ’’ list drive selfishness from our hearts THE SOUTHERN TRIBUNE. NEW SERIES —VOLUME 11. solft C c a l. From the Augusta Constitutionalist. The Right of Secession. It is to be hoped that the time will nev er arrive in the South when it shall be come necessary to demonstrate, by argu ment, the right of a State to secede from the Union. On this subject, hitherto, the opin ion of the whole South has been unani mous, or so nearly unanimous as to cre ate no serious division among our people. No political party at the South has yet dared to proclaim as a tenet of its creed, that a State has not the right to secede from the Union whenever she may, in her sovereign will, choose to do so. We had supposed that this was the doc trine held by the Washington Union, which claims to be a firm advocate of State rights and State sovereignty. It has ever since its establishment, been distinguish ed for its vehement appeals to the people to resist the march of federal enchroach meut, and the insidious steps by which power is liable to become consolidated in the General Government at the expense of the rights of the sovereign States of the Confederacy. When General Jackson, under the impulse of great emergency, and by the momentary influence of counsels too deeply imbned with federalism, put forth his proclamation against South Car oliriia, the Richmond Enquirer, then under the editorial charge of the senior editor of the Union, protested against its latitudina rian doctrines, and its fedetal heresies.— No feature in that proclamation was more bitterly assailed by the whole State Rights press of Virginia and the South, than that which denied the right ofa State to secede from the Union. General Jackson him self afterwards manfully ad mited that he lmd gone too far and qualified some of the most offensive of the positions assumed in that proclamation—among them this very position. Had he not done so, his popu larity in the South would have been forev er prostrated. We recall these facts because we fancy taht the Washington Union is now despos ed to shrink from indentifyiug itself with this doctrine of the right of secession. In its issue of the 21st inst., in defining its position to its Southern supporters, the following passage occurs, one sentence of which we iutalicise : “On the other hand, some of our friends from the South take exception to our course, because we avow unqualifiedly our attachment to tbe Union. They allege that such unqualified declarations are uu wise and unpatriotic, Inasmuch as they deny to the people that right which all people, under all forms of government, claim, viz: the right of revolution—the right to resist oppression, when the duties and the relations which exist between the government and the citizens have been i ulhlessly broken and trampled upon by the former. In reply to this, we have supposed that we were always addressing intelligent men, and that there was no need of our always qualifying a declaration in favor of the preservation of the Union, with an additional declaration that the light of resislence and revolution existed, when the government of the Union had transcended its legitimate powers pre scribed in the constitution, and had be come so oppressive upon the people and the States as to render such a measure justifiable in the judgment of the civilized world. That right (to say nothing of the right of secession in a confederacy of States, which many citizens, faithful and loyal to the Union, believe the States possess) exists in all nations, and under all forms of gov ernment. It is an inalienable right of ihe people—an insuperable condition of their existence. It is given to them by God himself, of which the most potent despot who has ever yet cursed and afflicted man kind cannot divest them. It exists in the firm] purposes, the unconquerable will, and the physical power of the people. It is above and beyond all governments, and must be exercised in defiance of them.— We suppose that these self-evident truths were understood by all, and that this U nion, as well as all other forms of govern ment, existed subject to the condiiion that if it violated its powers, and became so oppressive to the people and the States as to justify, in the judgment of the world, a resort to tli eultima ratio of nations, it must submit to the fate which befalls gov ernments, thus derelict to the paramount and transceudant obligation which they owe to the people. Therefore, we did not suppose that whenever we express our unqualified attachment to the Union, any body could be found who would persuade himself into the beliel that we denied thesefundmental conditions upon which all governments rest, and which every ration al and intelligent man concedes. Now this l ight of secession is here bare ly alluded to in a parenthesis, is a doctrine held by a comparative handful of citizens. “Call ye this backing your friends,” The allusion, despite its respectful words, lias a cavanier and disparaging air about it.— Those citizens, the Union says, who ven ture to hold this opinion, thus parenlhi cally alluded to, are nevertheless very faithful and loyal citizens. It is a mere harmless speculative opinion. It could, under no circumstances, disturb tlieUnion. It would never he invoked to practicle use, for the handful of citizens who hold the opiuoin, aio very faithful and loyal t» the. Union — very. It is a mere iilletheory of theirs. If this is not “damning with faint MACON, (GA„) SATURDAY MORNING, MARCH 9, ISSO. praise,” by a quondam advocate of it, a dcctrinc which lies attlie foundation ofState Rights and State Sovereignty, then the manner of saying a thing has no longer any significance. Whenever the people of the South yield the right of secession—the right of a State to withdraw from the federal com pact, whenever in the opinion of the sov ereign people constituting that State, it is expedient for her to do so, then State sov ! ereignty is an unsubstantial thing—a mock ery and a delusion. Then the people must realize that the government is not a league—a confederacy of sovereign States, but a consolidated empire, calling itself a Republic. The very term sovereignty implies the idea of power in a State to act as a unit, and with an independent regard for its own rights and interests. The very term confederacy implies that the panics to it are not a consolidated mass of people, act ing as such in forming it, but distinct and independent communities, each acting for itself. The history of the formation of the confederacy is in consonance with this ob vious view. Each State came into the confederacy as a State separately, each acting for itself. Rhode Island and N. Carolina did not come in until some months after the other eleven had done so. When the States go ont of the confedera cy, if they ever do, they will go out, each as a State acting for itself. That this event should ever take place is to be deprecated. It is sincerely to be hoped that no such dire necessity should ever be forced upon any one or more of the sovereign members of this confedera cy. But it is not the less the duty of ev ery sincere advocate of the sovereignty of the States to insist upon this right of seces sion, and on all proper occasions, to give it a prominent position. It scarcely less than an insult to “many citizens,” “faith ful and loyal to the Union ” withal, to poke this right into a parenthesis, as something little worth, and dilate at the same time in senorous paragraphs upon the inalienable right of revolution. The serfs of Russia—the poor, misera ble, starling peasantry of Ireland, have that light. It is the gift of God in com mon to all, the mostwietched of his crea tures. But the people of the sovereign States, at the South, claim the right of secession by States—as a clear and un qualified right. There was no earthly power authorized to force them into the Union. None has been created,orintend ed to he created, to force them to stay in. It id a matter of free choice in the first in stance. It must remain a matter of free choice. More especially is it true, that no State is under any obligation, politic al or moral, to remain in the Union a sin gle day after the terms of that Union are deliberately violated, and her reserved rights invaded by the Government which is the common agent of all the parties to the federal compact. This doctrine is essential to the slave holding South—the weaker portion of the confederacy in the Union, hut abundantly able to take care of herslf oul of it. Let heryieid it, and it is impossible fur the imagination to place a limit on the amount of oppression and wrong that will be per petrated upon her by the free States. The Slavery Agitation. —There is a homely maxim that “it is ati ill wind that blows nobody good.” When the slavery agitation began to assume a threalning as pect, that is, within two or three years, we regarded it as a Pandora’s box tilled with unmittigated evils. But we have had time to look around us, and pregnant with mischief as we supposed, ands ill believe it to be, it recalls to mind the max im we have quoted. The taunts and le velings of the North have engendered bit ter prejudices among us, and these are becoming deeper seated astlie provocation continues. This is to be lamented, and we would that it were otherwise. But we are not to blame because it is not so.— The North has provoked it by a series of outrages and wrongs that are as familiar to every Southron as household words. The consequnces are becoming apparent. — The South is seeking to become indepen dent of the North by encouraging manu factures of every sort at home. We scarcely open one of our Southern Ex changes without seening an account of some new manufactory, of cotton, iron or wood, springing up in our midst. And what is an encouragement to still greater advances turning our labor into these chan els is found to be profitable. It must therefore go on, till Northern pockets w ill surely feel the loss of Southern custom. But this is not all. Since the North has become expert at kidnapping ournegioes, our people have learned to stay at home. Not one in ten of those among us, who spent their summers at the North ten years ago, now show their faces there.— Mineral waters in many localities have been discovered. Bathing and other pla ces of recreation have sprung up among us, w here, with the luxuries of life in pro fusion. our people cf leisure and of means, spend their summers, secure from the in solent sneers of the fanatic and with their property safe from the kidnapper. These results are gratifying, though the causes of estrangement that have produced them, are every way to be deplored. It might have been far otherwise, il the consetva tjve spirit of the North had not suffered it self to be beatded by fanaticism, till it shrunk back into passive submission to her fiercedictates. And we have no doubt the same spirit would have been prompt enough to stand up for the simple rights of her best customer had she seen to what results tbe agitation tended. But it is now discovered when it is too late. We learn that letters have been pouring into Washington, from Northern busiuess hous es, during this session, entreating their members to compromise the proviso ques tion and allay the agitation. We shall soon see whether their entreaties will be heeded. But whether they are or not, the deep seated determination of the South to become independent,Vannot be arrested. Mobile Register. From the Madison Family Visitor. The Old Jlan and the Snow Flake : A Fable. BY MISS C. W. BARBER. ’Tis Nature's law. That none—the meanest of created things — Offorms created the most vile and british, The dullest or most noxious, shall exist, Divorced from good.— Wordsworth. Near the close of a rough autumn day, a weary man sat down beneath the naked branches of an aged oak. His garments were worn threadbare, and his teeth chat tered in the wind which swept in fitful gusts around him. “Oh,” said he, “this is a wicked world ! The smiles of Fortune are as changeful as an April day—one moment sunshine, the next shade. I never thought thatlshould he as poor as I am now, that 1 should ever come to this. There was a time when I was blithe as a lark and gay as the mor ning. My pockets were well filled with gold and silver—friends bowed and smi led around me—a happy wife and rosy cheeked children were mine. But my riches ‘took to themselves wings,’ and my friends deserted me—my wife is dead and my children cry for a crust of bread. A las ! alas ! how sad is my condition !” A snow-flake which had listened to the poor man’s moans, looked out from beneath a withered leaf, ami thus addressed him : “Ah! my good friend, l am sorry to hear such complaints from you. It will do no good for you to wear that settled look of despair. The best thing we can do in adversity is to ‘hope on—hope ever !’ as sweet Mary Howitt hath said. My life has, in some respects, resembled yours. 1 was a brilliant rain-drop once, and floa ted in the bosom of the blue cloud, or slept in the bell of the lily or at the heart of the rose. The summer birds waved their wings and sung their sweetest soties above me. Sometimes the beautiful belle, who was bound for the ball-room, took me upon hei'jewelled linger to bathe her brow and lips, and when 1 returned to earth again 1 joined the noisy stream and dashed onward to the green waters of the ecean. My life seemed one long sunny day of delight. But this blighting, freezing weather came, and I was congealed into a flake of snow, now I am blown about by every saucy wind, lfl presume to kiss the cheek of the gay damsel, she brushes me oft’ with her fur-covered finger and shivers to let i .u... i .... i ..... I fit? twiuvv iiiOb x aui an iuuuuui. * um not admitted into the halls of the rich, and even the beggar seeks to expel me from his hovel. “But 1 am far from despairing; 1 am | going to observe everything that trauspi- j res around me and note down all my wants j so that 1 may kuow, if I ever again be-1 come a rain-drop, how to pity the flake ofj snow.” Just then a sudden guest of wind turn ed the leaf over beneath which the snow flake was hidden, and a yellow sunbeam : came and melted it. Its feathery form \ assumed that of a brilliant crystal. A smile of delight came to the lips of the way-faring man. “ Oh,” said he, “what a foolish fellow I was to think that the wheel of Fortune would always keep me down. I shall yet rise above all want; I sec my fate mir ored in that rain drop. 1 will arise and go my way with a cheerful heart, while 1 keep a sharp look-out for the sunbeams of fortune." Vegetable Ivory. —This extraordin ary nut from the solidity it acquires at a certain age, is rendered an object of pecu liar interest and astonishment to those who contemplates the economy of the vegata bie world. The shell or outer covering of the nut is barley as thick as that ol the common hazel, and is so extremely hard that no instrument will make an impres sion on it. It is only removed from the kernel by pressure. Bears and other ani mals are said to eat tbe nut with avidity, ere it has acquired its solid state, and de rive considerable nourishment theiefrom. The learned Dr. Ludley classes the tree among the family of the palms, and it is common in the Mascaren Islands, where it is called the Tagua Plant. Persons describe the nut and its shell as being en closed in a prickly head or drupe, ihe kernel, in an early state, includes a limpid liquor which become milkey and sweet, and at length acquircres the solidity of ivory. The Indians cover their cottages with the largest leaves, and the English manu facture all kinds of fancy articles in the nut, which, in color, surpasses the elephant ivory. The shavings of this plant, when boiled, afford a milkey liquor, and are not at. all gelatinous, as the shavings or dust of the ivory are known to be when boiled down. — New Haven (Conn-) Reg- Thoughts for a l'euiig HI au. Were a young man to write down a list of his duties, Health should be among the first items in the catalogue. This is no exaggeration of its value ; for health is in dispensable to almost every form of human enjoyment; it is the grand auxiliary of usefulness; and .should a man love the Lord his God, with all his heart and soul and mind and strength, he would have ten times more heart and soul and mind and strentgth to love Him with, in the vigor of health, than under the palsy of disease. Not only the amout, but the quality of the labor which a man can perform, depends upon his health. The work savors of the workman. It the poet sicknes, his verse sickens; if black, venous blood flowers to an author's brain, it beclouds his pages; and the devotions of a consumptive man scent of his disease as Lord Byron’s obscenities smell of gin. Not only "lying lips,” but a dyspeptic stomach, is an abomination to the Lord. At least in this life, so dependent is mind upon ma terial organization,—the functions and manifestations of the soul upon the body it inhabits, —that the meteiialist hardly states practical results too strongly, when he affirms that thought and passion, wit, imagination, and love, ate only emanations from exquisitely organized matter, just as perfume is the effluence of flowers, or I mustic the ethereal product of an .Eolian harp. In regard to the indulgence of uppetite, and the management of the vital organs, society is still in a state of barbarism, and the young man who is true to his highest interests must create a civilization for him self. The brutish part of our nasure governs the spiritual. Appetite is Nicho las the 1‘ iist, and the noble faculties of mind and heart are Hungarian captives.— Were we to see a rich banker exchanging eagles for coppers by tale, or a rich mer chant bartering silk for serge by the pound, we should deem them worthy of any epi thet in the vocabulary of folly. Yet the same men buy pains whose prime cost is greater than the amplest fund of natural enjoyments. Then purveyor and mar ket man bring them home head aches, and indigestion, and neuralgia, by hamperfuls. Their butler bottles up stone, and gout, and the liver-complaint, falsely labelling them sherry, madeira, oi port, and the stultified masters have not sense enough to detect the cheat. The mass of society look with envy upon the epicuie, who, day by day, for four hours of luxurious eatiug, sutt'ers twenty hours of sharp aching; who pays a lull prire £»r n K«.t. suoner. aiul is so pleased with the bargain, that he throws in a sleepless and tempestuous night, as a gratuity. English factory children have received the commiseration of the world, because they were scourged to work eighteen hours out of tweny-four ; but there is many a theoretic republican who is a harsher Pharaoh to his stomach than this ; who allows it no more resting-time than he does his watch ; who gives it no Sunday, no holiday, no vacation in any sense. Our attces.ors enacted a law that suicides should be buried where four roads meet, aod that a cart-ioad of stones should be thrown upon the body. Yet, when gentlemen or ladies commit suicide, not by cord or steel, but by turtle-soup or lobster salad, they may be buried in con secrated ground, and under the auspices of the church, and the public are not ashamed to read an epitaph upon their tombstones, false enough to make the mar ble blush. Were the barbarous law now in force that punished the body of the suicide for the offence which his soui had committed, we should find many a Mount Auburn at the cross-roads. Is it not hu miliating and amazing, that men, invited by the exalted pleasures of the intellect, and the sacred affections of the heart, to cornc to a banquet worthy of the gods, should stop by the way-side to feed on garbage, or to drink of the Circean cup that transforms them to swine! If a young man, incited by selfish prin ciples alone, inquires how he shall make his appetite yield him the greatest amount of gratification, the answer is by Temper ance. The true epicurean art consists in the adaptation of our organs not only to the highest, but to the longest enjoyment. Vastly less depends upon the table to which tve sit down, than upon the appetite which we carry to it. The palled epicure, who spends five dollars for his dinner, ex tracts less pleasure from his meal than many a hardy laborer who dines for a shilling. The desideratum is, not greater luxuries, but livelier pupil Ice ; and if the devotee of appetite would propiate his divinity aright, he would not send to the Yellowstone for buffaloes’ tongues, nor to France for pate tie fuis gras, but would climb a mountain, ot swing an axe. With health, there is no end to the quantity or the variety from which the palate can ex tract its pleasures. Without health, no delicacy that nature or art produces can provoke a zest. Hence, when a man de stroys his health, he destroys, 60 far as he is concerned, whatever of flavor, and of savor the teeming earth can produce. lo him who has poisoned his appetite by ex cesses, the luscious pulp of grape or peach, the nectareous juices of orange or pine apple, are but a loathing and a nausea. He has turned gardens and groves of deli cious fruit into gaulens and groves of ipecac, and aloes. The same vicious in dulgeucca that blasted bis health, blasted all old:aids and catie fields also. Verily, BOOK AND JOB PRINTING, Will be executed in the most approved stile and on the best terms,at the Office of the SCTJTHEP.IT TPwlßtriTPl, —BY— WM. B. HARRISON. the man who is physiologically “ wicked” does not live out half his duys; nor is this the worst of his punishment, for he is more than half dead while he appears to live. Let the young man then remember, that, for every offence which he commits against tbe laws of health, nature will bring him into judgment. However gra ciously God may deal with the heart, all experience proves that he never pardons stomach, muscles, lungs, or brain. These must expiate their offences j/n-vicariously. What wreck so shocking to behold as the wreck of a dissolute man; the vigor of life exhausted, and yet the first step in an honorable career not taken; in himself a lazar-liouse of disease ; dead, but by a heathenish custom of society; not buried ! Hogues have had the initial letter of their title burnt into the palms of their hands ; even for murder, Cain was only branded on the forehad ; but over the whole per son of the debauchee or the inebriate, the signatures of infamy are written. How nature brands him with stigma and oppro brium ! How she hangs labels all over him, to testify her disgust at his existence, and to admonish others to beware of his example ! How she looses all his joints, sends tremors along his muscles, and bends forward his frame, as if to bring him upon all-fours with kindred brutes, or to de grade him to the reptile's crawling \~— How she disfigures his countenance, as if intent upon obliterating all traces of litr own image, so that she may swear she nev er made him ! How she pours rheum o ver his eyes, sends foul spirits to inhabit his breath, and shrieks, as with a trumpet, from every pore of his body, “Behold a Beast !” Such a man may be seen in the streets of our cities every day . if rich enough, he may be found in the saloons, and at the tables of the “Upper Ten hut surely, to every man of purity and honor, to every man whose wisdom as well as whose heart is unblemished, the wretch who comes cropped and bleeding from the pillory, and redolent with its ap propriate perfumes, would be u guest or u companion far less offensive and disgust ing. Now let the young ma.i, rejoicing in his manly proportions, and in his c< meli ness, look on this picture, and on this, and then say, after the likeness of which model he intends his own erect stature and su blime countenance shall be configured.— Hon. Horace Mann. Farmers should take Newspapers. — A friend of ours, whose business has occasional travel « anrwl —«* cently in the counties west of this, expres ses much astonishment at the fact that many, even rich farmers, do not take a newspaper. He told us of one or two in stances of the sale of hogs, of the finest and fattest kind, at I<V cents per pound nett, when two cents might have been got just as readily, in the markets. He said he had no doubt, and we have as lit tle, that hundreds of farmers will this season lose enough in this way to pay for a good newspaper us long as they live.— W e can’t help feeling sorry that men are so short-sighted, even in regard to their pockets, as well as the improvement of their minds ; but we don’t know but it is wrong to be sorry, for it is their own fault, and they hardly deserve pi y fur losses which they make no effort to avert. News papers have done more for the people of this country than can be estimated ; and yet there are thousands of full grown men who do notseethematall except by chance. If a large majority were as indifferent and solid as these, we would not be above the level of Mexicans—and become subject to political and other rogues, who prey upon ignorance and credulity. —Palmetto State Banner. A Frenchman in Trouble. —“ Vat a ver comical language de Anglais is!” said a Franch gentleman the other evening, at table. “Do you think so 1” “Oui, very droll; I tell you. I arriv ed atDovers. I very much htinigeye, I look ed in my dictionaire for‘pottage,’potage soup—sopc. ‘Madame,’said I, *1 will take some sope, if you please.’ In a minute de lady beckoned me. 1 went vid her to de chamber. ‘Dis is soap,, said she, ‘and de water,’ ‘Pardon Madame, not savon, but sope.’ Dis is soap.’ said she. ‘No, no, madame, not dat potage sope.’ ‘Well sare dis is soap.’ ‘Parbleau, Madame !de sope —sope comprenez vons 7” ‘This is soup.’ ‘Dal sope ! dat potage ! Madame I am notone imbecile, one fool ! 1 want de sope —not one lump savon soap raad ame. But she wouldn’t understand, and so, sare I vashed my hands vid the savon and vent to bed. De hands ver clean— but for want of ue sope de stomach was very empty !” Examining a Witness. enquir ed the Attorney of a hurley Dutchman, “What color was this hog when you first knew him 1” “Vel, ven I first became acquainted wid de hog he was a very eetle pig, and he wasdena'ite hog. but ven he got to be older, he got to be kind of sandy like, and I should den call him on de whole, a san dy hog.” «■ What ear marks had he.” “ Veil, ven l first became acquainted wid de hog, he had ne very particular car marks, except a very short tail.” “ Take your seat, sir,” said the Attor ney ; “ we’ll tall the next witnecs.” NUMBER 9.