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TOOMIfIIL SUBSCRIPTION'. ONE YEAR.. $3 OO SIX MONTHS * 1 OO THREE MONTHS 5O CLUB KATES: jrVK COPIES, or Imm than >O, each 1 715 TEN COPIES, or more, each, 1 50 Turn —Cash in advance. No paper sent until money received. AU papers topped at the expiration of time. tudesa renewed. VEGETINE l'urlfie the Stood, Renovates and In vigorates the whole System . Ita Medical Properties are ALTBBATIVE, TONIC. SOLVENT AND DIURETIC. Vxostink is made exclusively from the jui ces of carefully-selected barks, roots and herbs and so strongly concentrated, that it will effect ually eradicate from the system every taint of Scrofula, Scrofulous Humor, Tumors, Cancer, Cancerous Humor, Erysipelas, Salt Rheum, Syphilitic Diseases, Oanker, Faintness at the Ston ach, and all diseases that arise from impure blood. Scia tica, Inflammatory and Chronic Rhumatism, Neara<gia, Gout and Spinal Complaints can only be effectually cured through the blood. For Ulcers and Eruptive diseases of the Skin Pustules, Blonhes, Boils, JTetter, (Scald head ahd Ringworm, Vegetine has never failed to effect a permanent cure. For Pains in the Back, Kidney Complaints. Dropsy, Female Weakness, Leucorrhoea, aris ing from internal ulcertion, and uterine diseas es and General Debility, Vegetine acts directly upon the causes of these complaints. It in vigorates and strengthens the whole system, acts upon the secretive organs, allays inflam mation, cures uloeration and regulates the bow els. For Catairh, Dyspepsia, Habitual Costive ness. Palpitation of the Heart, Headache, Piles Nervousness and Generous Prostration of the Nervous System, no medicine has ever given sueh perfect satisfaction as the Vevetme. It purifies the blood, cleanses all of the organs, and possesses a controlling power over the ner vous system. The remarkable cures effected by Vegetine have induced many physicians and apotheca ries whom we know to prescribe and use it in their own families. In fact, Vegetine is the best remedy yet dis covered for the above diseases, and is the only Blood Purifier yet placed before the public. PREPARED BT H. R. STEVENS, Boston, Mass. What is Vegetine ?—lt a compound extrac ted from barks, roots and herbs. It is Nature’s Remedy. It is perfectly harmless from any bad effect upon the system. It is nourishing and strengthening. It acts directly upon the blood. It quiets the nervous system. It gives you good sweet sleep at night. It is a great panacea for our nged fathers and mothers; for it gives them strength, quiets their nerves, and gives them Nature's sweet sleep,—as has been proved by many an aged person. It is the great Blood Purifier. It is a soothing remedy for our children. It ha relieved and cured thousands. It is very Pleasant to take: every child likes it. It relieves and cures all diseases originating from impure blood. Try the Vegetine. Give it fair trial for your com plaints ; then you will say to your friend, neighbor and acquaintance, “Try it: it has cured me. Vegetine for the complaints for which it is recommended, is having a larger sale through out the United States than any other one med icine. Why ? Vegetine will cure these com • plaints. VALUABLE INFORMA7ION Boston, Dec, 12,1869. Gentlemen- My only ooject in giving you this testimonial is to spread valuable informa tion, Having been badly afflicted with Salt Rheum, and the whole surface of my skin be ing covered with pimples and eruptions, many of which caused me great pain and annoyance and knowing it to be a blood disease, I took many of the advertised blood preparations, among which was any quantity of Sarsaparilla, without obtaining any benefit until I commen ced taking the Vegetine, and before I had completed the first bottle I saw that I had got the right medicine. Consequertly, I followed on with it until I had taken seven bottles, when I was pronounced a well man, and my skin is smooth and entirely free from pimples and eruptions. I have never enjoyed so good health before, and i attribute it to the use of Vegetine. To benefit those afflicted with Rheumatism, I will make mention also of the Vegetine’s wonderful power of curing me of this acute complaint, of which I have suffered so intensely C. H. TUCKER, Pas. Ag't. 0. B. R. 48-lrn 60 Washington Street, Boston. VEGETINE 18 SOW BY ALL DRUGGISTS. SECURE AN AGENCY *0 and SSO or SIOO per week. “the eves ready and never out of order” HOMESTEAD S2O SEWING S2O~ MACHINE FOR DOMESTIC USE WITH TABLE and FIXTURES COMPLETE ONLY S2O. A perfect and unequalled, large, strong and durable machine, constructed elegant and solid, from the best material with mathematic al precision, for Constant Family use or manu facturing purposes. Always ready at a mo ment’s notice to do its day’s work, never out ef order, and will last a generation with moderate care; easy to understand and manage light, smooth, and swift running, like the well regulated movement of a fine watch; Simple, Compact, Efficient and reliable, with all the valuable improvements to be found in the highest priced Macines, warranted to do the same work, the same way, and as rapid ane smooth as a $75 Machine. An acknowledged triumph of ingenious mechanical skill, cssend ttally the working woman’s friend, and far in sdvance of all ordinary Machines, for absolute Strength, Reliability and general usefulness; will Hem, Fell, Tuck, Seam, Quilt, Bind, Braid Cord, Gather, Ruffle, Shirr, Plait, Fold, Scal lop, Roll, Embroider, Run up Breadth, &c., with wondrful rapidity, neatness and ease, snd ease, sews the strongest lasting stitch equally fine and smooth through all kinds of goods, from cambric to several thicknesses of broadcloth or leather, with fine or coarse cot ton, linen, silk or twine. Gives perfect satis faction. Will earn its cost several times over m a season in the work it does, or make a good living for any man or woman who desires to use it for that purpose; works so faithful and easy ihe servants or children can use it without damage. Price of Machine with light table, fully equipped for family work, S2O. Half Case, Cower, Side Drawers and Cabinet Styles each at correspondingly low rates’ Safe delivery guaranteed, free from damage. Explanatory pamphlets illustrated with engra vings at the several styles ef sewing, 4c., niaiied free. Confidential term* with liberal inducements to enterprising Clsrgymeu,Teach era. Business Men, Traveling on. Local Agents, Ac., who desire exclusive Agencies, furnished on application. Address John H. Kendall 4 Cos., 630 Broadway, New York. 243-ly. Vol. 3. TOVNO MOWBRAY JOURNEYING TO WE WARS. BY HART WALBINSHAH. Yonng Mobtay journeying to the ware, All belted he and eourred, From lady’s hands received a rose. And from her lips this word: “I load thee to my country’s cause. For glory not for doom. To be not slain but stay her foes, I deck thy knightly plume; Remember caution is not fear, nor rashness valor’s test. If he who fights and dies does wellwho— fifhtsand lives does best.” Now fierce the tide of battle laves, And fast the conflict flows j And high above the fight still waves The white plume and the rose; And gaily through the gathering fray, Our flower crowned warrior, see, Strikes many a gallant blow this day For Love and Liberty ! While high above the din still rings, with strike on foeman’s crest; “Ho! he who fights and dies does well— who fights and lives does best 1” Ah ! woe is me! that love’s kind hand, Love’s self should, hapless, mar ! A marksman viewed the helmet grand, And marked the blood red star ! A downward lance clove helm and crest, And bathed in crimson tide, Love’s fatal gift kisoed fainting breast, And murmuring thus he died: “Oh ! love, for Fame men strive and live For Freedom heroes fall 1 If he who fights and lives gives much— Who fights and dies gives all 1” THE TWO-THIRDS RULE. ITS ORIGIN-—PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION FROM THE TIME OF JEFFERSON DOWN. To the Editor of the xView York Sun : Sir— The action of the Maine Democ racy foreshadows an attempt, in the St. Louis Convention, to abrogate the two thirds rale. In view of the discussion which the effort will occasion, and par ticularly since some misapprehension seems to prevail as to the origin and policy uf this famous regulation, a brief review of its history may not be without interest and introduction. The Congressional caucus, itself bor rowed from the politics ot England, was the original of the National Convention. In 1800, at Philadelphia, a caucus com posed of Representatives and Senators nominated Jefferson and Burr for Presi ilrnt saiitl Viuc I‘icoldciiti vl *Uu UlllltJU States. At Washington on tjie 19|h ot Janua ry, 1808, a similar caucas nominated Madison for the Presidency; and in 1812 a caucus presented him lor re.-election. Meanwhile, much discontent with this method of selecting candidates had spread among the Republicans; so that on the 11th of March, 1816, when a Congressional caucus met in Washing ton to choose a successor ot Mr. Madi son, nineteen membeis of the party refused to attend. After a severe strug gle between Monrce and Ctawford, tlie former was nominated by a vote of sixty five to thirty-four. Monroe was re elected without opposition. In 1821, notwithstanding the popular clamor against the system, a caucus of Repub lican Congressmen presented Crawford for the Presidency, but his nomination was largely repudiated by the party, and ir default of a majority vote in the col lege of electors Adams was elected by the House of Representatives over Jack son. The result was to the last degree odi ous and disappointing to the country, and being imputed to the operation ot the method ot nomination, as well as to a shametul intrigue between Clay and Adams, ‘King Caucus, ’ as it was called in the slang of the day, was abjured forever, and its memory exists only for ‘admonition and reproof.’ Gen. Jackson was nominated, both for his first and second term, by the Legislatures ot the States. The first National Convention for the nomination ot candidates was held in Baltimore in September, 1831, by tbe anti-Masonic party, and they presented Wra. Wirt for President and Amos Ellmaker lor Vice President. (If more, information of this party and convention be desired, refer ence may be had to the venerable Tbnr low Weed.) In December of the same year a party styling itself National Republican met at Baltimore and nominated Henry Clay and John Sergeant for President atid Vice President. The Democrats, as they now began to distinguish themselves, had already, by the Slate Legislatures, presented Jackson for a second term ; but controversy ex isting in the choice of a candidate for Vice President, for solution of the diffi culty New Hampshire proposed the ex pedient of a National Convention. The first Dem ,cratic: National Conven tion was called to nominate a Vice Pres- ident only; and it met in Baltimore on the 21st of May, 1832. Robert Lucas, ot Ohio, was chosen President ot the body. In determining the selection of a candidate the convention, dp motion ot Komulus M. Saunders, ot North Car olina, adopted the following resolution: ‘ Jietolved , That each Si ate be entitled, in the nomination to be made ofe, a can didate for the Vice President*, to a □umber of votes equal to the number that they will be entitled to in thd Elec toral College under the new and appor tionment in votmg for Presidents and Vice President, aod that two-thirdl of the whole number of votes in the con vention shall be necessary to constitiifje a choiae.’ This is the origin of the dow famous two-thirds rule, Martin Van Boren received the requisite vote for the nom ination, and was elected on the ticket with Andrew Jackson. The next Democratic National Couveu CONYERS. Q-AJUTSTTE. 29, 1876. tion met in Baltimore, May 20, 1835, and by unanimous vote nominated Van Bnren to succeed Jackson in the Presi dency. In 184(1 Van Bnren was presen ted by another convention at Baltimore (or a second term ; but waa defeated by General Harrison, whom the Whigs lmd nominated in convention at Harrisburg. The ambition of the ‘Sage of Kinder iiook’ was not to be appeased without another incumbency of the Presidency! and accordingly his friends urged him for nomination by the Democratic Con vention whioli met at Baltimore on the 27tIrof May, 1844. But Mr. Romulus M. Saunder was again present with his two-thirds rule;* and on his motion the convention adopted it by a vote of 148 to 118. On the first ballot. Van Bnren received 146 votes, a majority, but not iwo— thirds of the convention. After the seventh ballot nn attempt was made to repeal the two-thirds rule, but was defeated by the same vote by which it was adopted, namely, 118 for and 148 against its repeal. On the ninth ballot James K. Pdk was nominated by a unanimous v)te. In the Democratic Convention whiefy met at Baltimore on the 22nd of May, 1848, the two-thirds rule was again adopted, and under its operation Lewis Cass was nominated for the Presidency. The same rule was re-enacted at Bal timore in 1852, and has been retained by every succeeding Democratic Con vention. It is not tine, then, as popularly re ported, that the two-thirds rule origina ted in the convention ot 1844, and was devised to prevent the nomination of Mr. Van Buren. It was adopted in 1832 by the first Democratic Natioual Convention ever held, and is, in truth, an original, traditional and fundamental principle ot the Democratic constitution The policy of the rule consists in its efficacy as a safeguard against the nomi nation of a candidate by States which cannot contribute to his election. But this original argument for its adoption is indeftinitoly strengtheiWd by tho modern practice ot a unit vote in convention. A large number of States now cast their vote as a whole, without re fere roe to the will ot the minority. It is obvious that it all the States were to adopt this expedient, a candidate might he chosen hv the minority of the con vention. lor illustration: las® mree States with three votes each; in each of two States a particular candidate has two votes, and one against hnn, while the third (State gives its three votes for the candidate of the minority the other two Siates. This latter candidate has actually floe votes, and jthe other four, vet, by operation of the unit rule, the man witfi four votes is nominated over the man with five votes 1 As affording some guarantee against this absurd and iniquitous result, the two-thirds rule should be held inviolate. Rook* A. Pryor. Errors iu Printing. Probably one of the worst businesses un der tbe sun is that ot a printer. His ev. ery deed seek the light ot day 1 hose of live lawyers lie in dark boxes and -be tween dusty shelves ; the doctor places his indifferent handiwork in the grave ; the tradesman has but his customer to please and satisfy when his work is en ded, but the printer—every ignoramus spells over the work ot the printer. Fellows who would fiud it impossible to put twenty letters together grain mat/ ically will point out with glee a fatt Hi his work—indeed, it is usually this cjdss of individuals who make it a point ot finding out every little discrepancy. Did the public know tbe thousand of different i haraoters, different letters and atoms composed in a printer’s eveny day life—did they know the variety eft alto gether foreign subjects he has to ! set up read, correct revise day after dajr, they would wonder bow he kept out of the lunatic asylum. But piactice mafes per fect and cousiani friction has rubbed off all the rough edges from the character of the man of letters —nothing takes effect upon him—he can view error® of the most frightful description with calm ness. After all, what is an error,\ gram matically or otherwise! Simwy so many atoms out of jdac?, that’s aud quite enough—to upset the equabimity ol ttie printer.—[Exchange. A Lesson in drummer* ‘Jake, did you ever study gramnaer ?’ ‘I did sir.' ‘What case is Mr ?’ ‘He's an objective case.' _ ‘How so?' ‘Because be objects to paying his sub scription that's been owing lor a year and a halt.’ ‘Right. What's a nouu V ‘Don't know ; but I know what a re nown is.' ‘Well, what is it?’ ‘Running off without paying the prin ter, and getting on the black list as a delinquent.’ ‘What's a conjunction r ‘A method of collecting outstanding subscription in conju"ction with the con stable, never employed by printers uutil the last extremity. •That's right. Go on to yonr seat and quit shooting paper wads at the girls.’ The following rhymes are furnished by a contemporary for the use of Radical poets: ‘Hayes, blaze, craze, daze, amaze, prays, gaze, neighs, raise, ways, brays.’— [Ex. ‘Py Schiminy, how dot poy studies de, languages !’ is what a delighted el den# German said when his four year old shn ~ailed him a blear-eyed son ol a tfaw borae. A Hustle Courtship. Sam Freeman, of the Ellijay Courier, tell it this way : I hitched my ofier olose to hern at}’ shet my eyes an’ sed : 'Hal, yotibe the very gal I‘ve bin hankerin' arter fur a longtime. I Inv you all over, from the ioul ot your foot to the bed of your crown, an’ I don‘t ke*>r who knows ft; an' ef you say so we‘ll be lined in the holy b inds ot padlock. Epluribus on ions, gloria Monday morning, sick tem per iartantula, non compimentns, world without end,’ sez I, and I felt as tho’ I had throived like an alligator, I felt so relieved. With that she fotehed a scream, an arler a while she sed : ‘Peter !’ * r hat is it, Sally f ’ es,’ sed she, hiding her face in her aprn. pcm may depend upon it, I felt orful Jerusalem !’ sez I, ‘I must holler, Ssljbr I‘ll bust wide open, Hooray ! hodpy I I can jump over a ten rail fence; I can do anything a feller could i or ort to do. With this, I sorter sloshed myself down beside her ami clinched the bar gain with a kiss. Talk about your sugar, talk about your lasses, talk about your mte*blooming serious, they warn‘t no where: you couldn't have got me ui’ ’em ; they would have tasted sour arter that. Broomstraws with lasses on’em! Et Sal‘B old daddy hadn‘‘ bawled out so loud: ‘lt‘s time all honest people waz in bed,’ I do really believe I‘d stayed all nite. He was an old man, and he had a bit of conductor's pasteboard stuck in his hat. He walked into the drug store and inquired: ‘Have you got any goed whiskey V ‘Yes, sir,’ replied the gentlemanly druggist, ‘Gimme half a pint V ‘Have you got a doctor's prescription?' ‘No.’ ‘Can't sell it. then, sir. Jury in ses sion ; must be strict ’ ‘Whore can I get a doctor?’ sadly in quired the aged iuebrmte. *l‘m a physician, sir,’ winningly re sponded die druggist. a b*"- •" —you call it, 'scriptioii ?’ ‘Well, I might.’ And the doctor wrote out a prescription blank, calling tor so many ounces of spirituous for menti. He filled a snug looking bottle with the article, pasted a label on it, numbered to correspond with the paper, and presenting the bottle to the venera b'o royaterer, remarked in the most busi ness like way imaginable : ‘A dollar and a half, sir.’ ‘A dollar and a half,’ gasped hisaston ished customer. ‘Ain't that pretty high, mister?’ ‘lt‘s our medicine —a dollar tor the prescription aud fifty cents tor the medi cine.' ‘Ves. well,’ slowly replied the wicked old duffer, as he slowly buttonel up the half pint in his overcoat pocket,‘l guess, boss, that I don‘t want the ’suription. Here's your half a dollar,’and he stuck his tongue in one side of his mouth, winked impicgHy~at' TVinrof the mortar and ppstlejand walked ouV \ Tit tor Tut. \ Among the annoyed and dripping fe desirians who sought the aid oi a Grand, River street car the other day to help shorten the way home was a mar, with gray locks and an old maid with bcau.catchers and false teeth. They seemed to hate each other at first sight, tor he was hardly seated beside her when lie growled : ‘lf you women didn't wear bustles there'd be twice as much room in street cars.’ ‘lf men didn't sit cross-legged there'd be three times as much room ?’ she snap ped in reply. ‘lf I was a woman I wouldn't be gad ding around with the vain pouring down in this way,’ he remarked. ‘Yes you would. If you were a wo man you'd want to .go out aud show those feetl’ He drew his No. ll‘s under the seat, flushed up a little and growled: ‘They are not false, like some folks’ teeth!’ No, and they don't turn up quite as much as some people's nose!’ she an swered. lie was asienced for a time, but pres ently recovered himself and went on. ‘Thirty years ago women got along without paint, powder bustles, straps, buckles and such nonsensical fixings.’ ‘Thirty years ago,’ she piotnptly re plied, ‘it was a rare thing to see a man come out ot a saloon wiping his mouth on his thumb 1 ’ He didn't say anything more, but he, wondered if she wasn't looking out the wiudow when he signalled the c^rf. \ Directory tor 1 mmigraifts. To what county shouldx'weak man go? Wjjiy to ‘Union there is strengths-——■ Where should those go who are too warm t To Fannin. Where should they go who want mon ey ?, To Banks. Where should those go whojhave beef to sell T To Coweta. Where should those go who want b/ead ? To Baker. Where should those go who want to make brick T To Clay. Where should those go who desire a new country 1 To Karly. Where should those go who don’t take the paper ? To Greeue. —[Cher- okee Georgian. Giggling: 'Girls. The te lies. Perhaps you don't know them by that name ; well, then, suggest a better. They rre the salt of our soon ety, in one sense—girls of good minds —minds that will bo good if they sur vivp the giggling age—crirls of good families, well dresser], polite and line looking, but possessed of the insane idea that they must laugh noon all occasions, whether there is anything to warrant it or not, else they are not jolly gay girls utid lively company. A bevy of them came into the public library the other day. One had just liad an adventure whioh was to be recited. She dropped into a chair, bent over and held her sides, and they all chorused in. They hadn't heard it vet, but. of course it would be awful funny when it was told. She was coming up K street when she stepped on a rotton p'ank—te, he, he, ohontß, te, he, he—and down she went. Q dear— te, he, he—and her foot got tangled—full chorus te, lie, he, he—and a man came along with a horrid check shirt on—he, he, he—big checks—per fectly horrid—he, he, ha—and helped her up—lie, he, lie ; then a waiving ot bodies back and forth and a grand te, lie, ad libitun, all together. Now, I did not make this up; not a hit ot it. They were splendid girls—l speak sincerely; but what an exhibition! I saw nn old greybeard take a book lie didn't want ami hurry away. Then an other girl took it up and said her book was so comical she just howled over it ; they must all read it; they would laugh so, as if that was the chief end of a girl's existence. When a man is amus?d he laughs with gusto, and then straightens his face till the next time, and it lias some meaning; but the perpetual grin or giggle is do testable. At a lecture recently I saiv six young ladies seemingly convulsed with laughter for five miirji.es or more at llie accidental dropping ot a paper of candies over the floor. I think 1 can go into a social parlor and select the groups of married ladies from those of the girls—not by their faces or their dresses, but by the amount of giggling done. Matrimony subdues the snicker.—[ Sunny South. A Merciful Mcxmtuiii Lion. It Captures a Uni' and Oawuks it Five Nil ns, but Hanoi.ks it With Caiik. Last Wednesday several families of emigrants, traveling to Oregon by wag on, camped tor the night i:ear Point of Rooks, a station on the Union Pacific, Mountain Division. In the dusk of the evening, tbe children were at play a short distance from the wagons, when piercing scream, proceeding from the bevif of juveniles, alarmed ‘.lie camp, and called the men to the rescue. They were met by the a frighted youngsters, who said that ono ot their number,a two year old girl, had been carried off by an animal. From the description given by the children and the size and shape ot the tracks ihe beast was supposed to he a mountain lion. A diligent and exci ting search for the child was kept ,up until midnight, but unsuccessful, meantime, the mother of the child was raving in a most frenzied manner, re jecting all hope of the recovery ot her offspring, and refusings to he comforted. At dawn, Thursday morning, the search was resumed. The tracks ot the beast were traced a distance ot five miles from camp, when,owing to rocks,they became too indistinct to be followed further. The search was continued, however, and at o'clock in the afternoon, one of the searching party found the child on lop of a huge upheaval of rocks, rising two hundred feel above the level of the surrounding sand plain. The child, nearly denuded of clothing, and with several Ugly-looking sera dies about the face and breast, was lying on its back, perfectly quiet, and its eyes dozing un der the sunlight. With the exception of of scratches, or the claw—marks, the lit tle thir.g was uninjured. When the in fant was bkrne back to camp, at sight of it the districted mother swooned, and ors being restored to consciousness clas ped her child in frenzied fondness, and insisted, fof some time, that it was dead notwithstaiing that the rescued cherub was kicking, squalling and squirming in the customary way, The blending of grief and gladness in the camp was highly pathetic, if not a litrle pictures que. Tbit the lion could have lugged that baby 'five miles without severely injuring It, and left it high and dry on the loneiome ledge, seems almost incred ible, but the above facts are reliably vouched lor. The mountain lion is know/to be very powerful, and this one appeArs lo have tempered its strength widf mercy, and simply kidnapped the infant without making a meal off it.— News. Plain Jug.—Yesterday forenoon a boy about eleven years old stood tor a long half hour in front ot a Detroit sa loon inspecting the display of bottls in the show window. lie saw round, flat and other kinds of pint and quart bot tles, some with silver plated caps and others with gold labels, and he had be come deeply interested when another boy lounged up and inquired: ‘See anything there that reminds you of home?’ ‘Nawthing,’ was the solemn answer. ‘Don't drink whiskey at your house, eh ?’ , , ‘Dad does,’ answered the boy, aftei waiting to spell out another Jabel, u he keeps her in a plain jug, and all the printing he has on it says ‘Good foi rats!'—[Press, To every bird its nest is fair. im imam Advertisements, i First imertion (per inch spnoy) $1 on Hiu. ii dll insertion 75 CtTA libetul discount allowed those „ive.. ♦ iain < for a longer period than three months. Curd of lowest ratea can be ha,l on app.i jalion to the Proprietor. .Local Notice* 1 Ic. per line first insertion ami 10c. per line thereaftoi. Tributes of Respect, Ohitnariee, etc., pul linhad free. Annonucyinonta, )£.■>, in adrsuo . No. 49 Artvioe toJJ Youngr Men. Young men, get. married' Yon will never he worth u last veni’s robin's nest until yon do, The fruits of disobedience are misery and inis'ortnnc, and you will never be truly Imppy while Jiving in dis obedience lo God’s coininandme'ils to our first parents in the garden. Jtmhein ber, that there nre 75.000 more niarnoge able women in the United States than men, and 800,000 more females than males Imagine yonrs-lf nt the bar of judgement with 75,000 spinsters with toothless jaws mid tomiues sharpended on the grind Mons of temper, and honed on the strop ot unrequited affection, as accusers: yoiir chance for eternal bliss would not be very fluttering. And fur thermore, remember that unperformed duties always oome home to roost, so you will he likely to go through the world will) holes in the heels of vour stockings, and your elbows out, miJ fi nally die unregretted and forgotten like any other brute. An Insurance Agent’s Trials. [From the old time stories fl >ating through tho coluiiiiis of tho country Press, j Between Kenoslm and Milwaukee, says a Wisconsin paper, an insurance agent entered the car, and having issued tickets for several of the passengers, up proaehed an elderly lady, who, it after wards appeared, was deaf. ‘Madam, would you like to insure against accidents f inquired the agent. ‘l*m going lo Oshkosh to vimt my dar tar who is married and got a baby.’ The agent raised his voice a little:— ‘Would you liko to insure your life against uco'denlbt’ ‘She‘s been mnrr.iad two years and a half. It‘s a gal.’ Agent, still louder: ‘l‘m an insurance agi nt, madam ; and m‘t you want your life insured against aooidenls V ‘Oh, Id dn't understand you,’ said the old lady. ‘No; her name is Johnson : my name its Evans, and 1 Jive live miles from Kenoslm.’ The agent vanished. The Language of Kings. In caßo of a gentleman wishing to tnar-y —literally in the market with his SOT .11 RiiVUL I eart) hand. VV lien success attends his suit, and lie is actually engaged, the ring passe* to the second finger. After marriage it passes to the third finger. If, however, the gent drsires to tell the lair ones that he not only is not ‘in the market,’ but he does not design to marry at all, he wears the signet upon his little finger, and ail ladies may un derstand that lie is out ot their reach. With the fair sex the ‘laws ot the rings' are: A plain or chased gold ring on the little linger on the right hand, implies ‘not engaged,’ on the plainer words, ‘reaily for proposals, sealed or otherwise.’ When engaged, the ring passes to the first finger ot the left hand. When married the third finger receives it. If the fair ono proposes to defy all seige to the heart, she places the rings on her first and fourth finger—one on each like two charms to keep away the tempter. It is somewhat singular that this disposition of rings is rare. A gentleman now living in Taylor county cleared the land, made two crops, hewed the sills and built the first hou-o where the city of Macon now stands 1 lie served on the first juries in the coun ties of Bibb, Houston, Taylor and Ma rion without moving. This was done by changing county lines and making new counties. He is now seventy-four years old, Making Sugar front Melons. The manufacture of sugar from melons is about to bo established neaf San Fran cisco. The superiority of melons to beets for the manufacture of sugar is to be conclusively proven, and already a company lias been formed and land pur chased on Andres Island, where the manufacture will commence in a short lime. Water melons are to be raised principally, the cost, both of raising and reducing being much less than any other class of molons or fruit suitable for the purpose. Besides producing sugar, the melon is said to g ; ve a delicious syrup, while the seeds will be used for the man ufacture ot table oil. Regarding the superiority of the melon, a writer says: As compared with beets, the syrup which is mifillor use, ar.d the impnrw ties, for which expensive detergenoe is required, the pulp of the melon being tree from impurities, needs no complex treatment; no carbonic acid, little bone black, and but a fraction of lime, an! a mall per cent, of watery elements to be evaporated. Beets are planted in rows two feet apart and eight inches asunder. Melons in rows twelve feet apart and six feet asunder, requiring only one-tbird tho plowing and not one fourth the weeding. Thu harvest is clean'y an. not laborious as in beets. Li the mm beets require washing, melons not; tho juice ot beets is iiabie to’turn black and run into fennenUlio- : melon juice never blacks, andforseve.nl days has no tend ency to ferment. Bor catt.e feed tho infuse from melons is more frictitious and palatable. The New York Herald says the social question in the South is, whether a man shall live on cotton or starve on corn. Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.