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VOL. XIV.
THE GEORGIA JEFFERSONIAN
Is PUBLISHED EVERT THURSDAY MORNING
BY WILLIAM CLINE,
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ihrrenller.
\ reasonable dertuc'ion w ill he marie to those
‘vho a>!vi*r*isr hv the yen .
AH advertisements not otherwise ordered, will
he eonlinneil lilt fortiul.
OF I.JFYDS by Administrators,
!''si-u*ors or Guardians are required bi law to be
held on the first Tuesday in liie month, between
the hours o'ten in the forenoon and three in the
snrrmmr. at the Court-House, in the countv in
whfc-h the land is situated. Notice of these sale,
nt'ist he iven >n a public gazrtte FORTY DAYS
iis , ”io'i to tbe dnv of sale.
8 IT.ES OF NEGROES must Ire marie at puh
auction on the first Tuesrlay of the month, bc
* V'tn the usual hours of sale, at the place ot pub
he i!-s n the county where the letters Tesln
nentary, of Administration or Guardianship mav
l>a*> t*een <jrnnrrrt; first -ivin” FORTY DJIYS
net •<*•’ thereof in one of the public gazettes of this
S’ at-, and at the court house whe e such salearse
1e t'C irelc*.
Notice fi.r the sate of Personal Property must
he given in like manner FORTY DAYS previous
fn lire dav of sale.
Notice t> rVhtnrs anti Greditors of an estate
must be published FOR7Y DJIYS.
Notice that application will lie made to the Court
Ordim r v for i.r %ve to sell land must be pub
lish and for Tiro MONTHS,
Notice for i.kavk to ski r. nf.croes must be
piiV'sY-4 TIVO MONTHS before any order ab
sohite sba'l ho made thereon bv tbe Court.
CITATIOYS for L'-tt-rs of Administration,
■n isi be published thirty DATs; for Oismission
from A'luiiuistrafion. monthi.t six months; for
T>is-nissi >n from Guardianship, forty oat .
Hides for’he foreclosure of Mortgage must be
pitdi-h-n! monthly for four months, estab
lishing >nsf papers, tor the full space of three
Months; for com,idling titles from Executors 01
•< fnii >is’ rat ore, wheie a band !as been given bv
d>oTase t. i!i-> fnli space of rhref months.
From the Southern Cultivator.
FAIR Os THE “SOUTHERN CENTRAL
AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY”
TO BE HELP WRING THE WEEK COMMENCING
October 17, 1853.
ORUER OF ARIIAXGEMENTS. \
Monday, Ocl. IT.—Articles and stock
will be arranged in their approp iale
! ‘aces. None but Members of the So
ciety, Exhibitors, Judges and Guests ad
n:i:tp<l to ‘he Fair Ground.
Tuesday, Ocl. IS—The Judges are
expee’ed to assemble in the Executive
tent at 9 o’clock, A. M., precisely, and
wi'l immediately entrr upon the discharge
of their dutirs. Tickets of admission
a? $1 nay he obtained at (he Secretary’s
efnee, on the Grounds.
Wednesday, Oct. 19.—The public will
be admitted by tickets at 25 cents each,
during i! is and the following days.—
Sales of Live Stock at Auction w ill
take place this day at 11 o’clock, A. M.,
but the animals cannot lie removed from
the Grounds untii the close of the Exhi
lii'ion
Thursday, Oct. 20.—T he Annual Ad
dress wifi tie delivered from the Public
Stand, at 11 o’clock in the morning, by
Rev Geo. F. I’iekce, D. D'., of Oxfotd,
G?.
Friday , Oct. 31. The Premiums will
he awarded from the Executive Stand at
10 o'clock. A. M.
are requested to take
c't'.crge of ilieir articles, immediately after
the distribution of tbe Prizes on Friday.
must attend to the de
liverv of their articles upon tl e Fair
Grounds, ami provide for the payment of
dra\age from Ivail Hoad, &c.
Entries of Live Stock, or any other
articles, may be forwaided to “Secretary
of Southern Central Agricultural Society,
Augusta, Georgia,” per mail, any time
alter first of Oclnbrr
Miscellaneous Articles should be on the
Fail Grounds as early as Saturday, Oct.
15; but “animals” may be brought for
ward at any time previous to 9 A. M-,
On Tuesday, Oct. 18.
D. W. LEWIS, Secret at y.
A Remarkable Man—The Re
ward tis Probity.
Andrew Johnson, who has just been
elected Governor of Tennessee, (over
the most popular whig in the Slate, Maj.
Henry, whose oratorical gifts are hardly
second to those of any other gentleman
in the Union,) is an extraordinary mar,.
Indeed, there is more in his history to
encourage probity, industry, energy and
ambition in the youth of America, of all
-degrees, says the Washington Siar, than
in that of any other public man we know
of. At two years “*of age, Mr. Johnson
was fwe learn from those in whose
knowledge of his early history we pince
ev< ry an intimate ot the alms
b use of Wake county, North Carolina,
where he remained until his eighth year,
when he was apprenticed to a tailor in
Ualeigli. His master, if he tailed to
have him taught even the rudiments of
an English education, at least trained him
up to love ihe troth, work hard, and be
straightforward in his dealings with every
one. When his apprenticeship was up,
Mr. John-on married a woman alter his
own heart, who knew enough from books
Jo be able to aid him in mastering the
arts of reading and writing.
On marrying, just after he came of age.
he emigrated to East Tennessee, trudging
hare footed, it is said, with his faithful
help-mate by his si Ae, and his pack on
his hack. Assiduous labor at the tailor’s
trade, placed him, at the end of ten years
in comfortable circumsianses, as his
position in that region; and by that
time, by dint of hard study during his
leisure moments, he had come to be
actually a man of considerable general
information. Being a good talker on the
stump, he was sent consecutively lor a
term of two years to both branches ol
the Legislature. From thence he was
transferred to the House of Represenla
tivesof the United Slates, where he set
ved six years. Asa member of Con
gress, he has been distinguished for the
integrity of all he did. Whatever may
be thought of views, such as he at times
takes of public affairs, all do him the
justice to believe that a more upright
legislator was never in the Congress of
ifce United States
Mr, Johnson is not more than forty
sfven vear-i of at this time, having
Cljc t&conjin scffcreonian.
seen as much public service as almost
an} other man of his age, notwithstand
ing the trials and drawbacks by which
bis early* years were surrounded.—Mil
waukee Wisconsin..}
From The Home Journal.
Ouilins History ol tlic Chinese
Rebellion.
Hien Foung, the present (possibly,
the late) emperor of China, amended the
throne in the year 1850, when he was
nineteen years of age 4 His family have
ruled the Chinese empire for two hundred
years, and his race gained the supreme
power origiually by expelling a previous
dynasty, and conquering the couutry. But
the conquest was incomplete. Far off, in
the south-western extremity of the empire,
is the sterile, mountainous, inaccessible
province of Konang-st, inhabited by a
poor, but proud, sober, intrepid and war
like race, whom centuries of Tartar rule
never quite reduced to subjection. In the
most remote part of this region, still ex
ists an aboriginal tribe, who wear their
native dress, do not shave their heads,
and have never, in any degree, been b o’t
under the imperial yoke. I hese are the
Miao-tzes, whom the Chinese name the
Wolf-men, and who are to the rest of the
empire, a perpetual bug-a-boo. It is a
firm belief in Pekin, that they wear tails,
and that when a Miao-tze is born, the sole
of the child’s foot is cauterized, in order to
harden it, and to render the owner inca
pable of fatigue. The existence of this iri
eonip'etcly conquered region, is one of the
great facts of the present rebellion. Bear
it in mind.
The emperor is, in plain English, a per
fect fool; and in plain American, an old
Fogy of the first order. In China, as in
all countries, all communities, all families,
and all companies, thcie are too patties,
—the contented and the discontented, the
conservative and the progressive, Old Chi
na and Young China. The war with En
gland had the effect of intensifying and
concentrating party spirit. The rallying
cry of Old China became, “Down with the
barbarians,” “No intercourse with foreign
nations;” while Young China approved
of the treaty with the English, and urged
the removal of the remaining restrictions
upon commerce, and the admission of fo
reigners. Before the accession of the pre
sent emperor, the court and cabinet were
Young Chinese; but when Hien Foung as
sumed the imperial yellow, ho espoused,
with the utmost vehemence and intoler
ance, the party es re action. He dismiss
ed the old and tried servants of the crown,
and appointed in their places the most ra
bid devotees of the regular, orthordox, old
fashioned Chiuese politics. A party Presi
dent, or a Louis Napoleon, could not have
done the business more thoroughly. Young
China choked down the outward impres
sion of its rage, aud ramified itself in secret
societies, all over the empire,- nursing its
wrath to keep it warm, and spreading dis
content far and wide. This is fact the
second. It must not be overlooked.
Among the secret societies of China,
may be reckoned the Protestant missions,
under GutzlalF, Roberts, and others. Pro
testant missionaries are, generally, men
completely possessed of one idea, —that
of propagating the doctrines of tlieir sect;
and China offers a field for their exertions,
at once prodigious and convenient. It is
convenient, because nearly all Chinese
read, aud read the same dailect. A tract,
therefore, which makes conveits at Canton,
is competent to bring over the courtier of
Pekin, or the farmers in the most distant
province. Among the missionaries in
China, there have chanced to be several
individuals of uncommon zeal, energy,
talent, and perseverance; and they have
been assidiously, though quietly, laboring
for a quarter of a century, at the single
business of spreading a knowledge of Bib
lical history and Christian doctrine. In
their schools, a large number of Chinese
have been not only instructed, but brought
up and thoroughly imbued with Christian
ideas; each of whom, on entering life, be
came a centre of Christian influence. By
translations, books and tracts, of which
millions have been circulated, - shine faint
out-line of Christianity has probably been
communicated to more than half of the
whole Chinese people. Naturally enough,
but precisely in what way is not yet
known, it came to pass, that Christian
ideas and liberal opinions in politics be
came associated together; so that the se
cret societies became hot-beds both of trea
son aud heresy. It seems to have been as
natural for Voting China to break idols,
as for Roundheads to denounce bishops;
and as much, in course, for Old China to
worship idols, as for a Cavalier to be a
! a high-churchinan. This is the third fact
ofttu) Chinese rebellion. It is one of
great importance.
The rebellion h&s been in progress near
ly four years; but its early manifestations
in Konang-si, attracted little attention at
court, nor did the religious element ap
pear, until it had become formidable. The
first proclamation of the insurgents was a
most frank, but contradictory piece of
composition. In reply to the imperial
manifesto, they calmly said:
“There is really no sensible difference
whatever between ns, who lay under con
tribution the villages that we seize, and
the functionaries who, sent from Pekin,
forestall the impost. That which is fair
to take is fair to hold. Why do you, then,
without any show of reason, send troops
against us? Your proceedings scent most
unjust. What! have the Mantchoos, who
are strangers, the right to levy taxes from
eighteen provinces, and to appoint officers
to oppress the people, aud are we Chinese
to be prevented front taking ‘any money
whatever? Universal sovereignty belongs
to no individual, to the exclusion of every
body else; and no one has ever yet heard
of a dynasty boasting an issue of a. hun
dred generations of emperors. The right
of governing is possession .”
Trie insurgents were bad reasoners, for
this proclamation said far more for the
reigning dynasty, than for those who
sought its overthrow. It seems to show,
however, that the rebellion was, in the be
ginning, a mere effort on the part of a fac
tion to become a dynasty, and not a pa
triotic outbreak, or a religious crusade.
This is a fourth and significant fact in the
strange history of the Chinese rebellion.
The insurgents fought better than they
GRIFFIN, (GA.) THURSDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 13, 1853.
aligned. Their tactics were simple and
uniform. As often as the imperial troops
advanced, the insurgents pretended to take
flight; and as often as the rebels pretended
to take flight, the Imperial troops pursued
until they were caught in ambuscade, and
! there pitilessly massacred. Experience
went for nothing. The feint was made a
hundred times, and a hundred times whole
sale laughter followed. The effort of the
rebels was to continually advance towards
Pekin; because, he who rules Pekin, rules
China, and who has conquered all the rest
of China, and has not Pekin, is in the con
dition of one who possesses France, but
not Paris. They fortified no towns, left
no garrisons to keep open their retreat.—
Their plan has been, to capture a city,
levy a moderate contribution upon it, a
bandon it, and press on to the next; and,
ere this, they have probably achieved the
object of their desires, and are swaying
China, from the Imperial palate of Pekin.
The perfect stupidity of the emperor
has rendered the conquest of the country
easy. He has ruined his most faithful
adherents, by inordinate exactions of mo
ney, has shown no capacity for taking a
single judicious step; and has passed much
of his time during the rebellion, in com
posing a grand epic poem, for the purpose
of counteracting the proclamations of his
enemies. (On one occasion, four thou
sand buffaloes were got together, and twice
as many torches attached to their long
horns The herd was placed under the
charge- of four thousand soldiers, and the
expedition, prepared with the utmost se
crecy, set out one night in the direction of
the rebel camp. According to the plan
laid down, every buffalo, transformed for
the occasion into a fiery charriot, was to
make frightful ravages wherever it ap
peared, to kill every man within reach,
and to set fire to the camp. The horned
battalions advanced without obstacle, the
insurgents apprized of their intended visit
ers, allowing them quietly to defile. But
the Imperials were not vonchsafed so hon
orable a reception. By favor of the illu
mination they had themselves provided,
the r movements were well’ noted long be
fore they reached the camp. When they
reached it, the old scenes of carnage were
played over again. Almost every soul
was slain, as every buffalo had been eap
tnred. Not the least singular part of th,e
story is, that notwithstanding the double
loss of men and beasts, the stratagem was
regarded by the Chinese authorities as a.
splendid stroke of military genius, and
worthy of a nobler fate ) All the talbnt’,’
the enterprise, the knowledge, and the en
lightenment of the empire, seem to have
gradually ranged themselves on the side
of the rebels. This is another of the great
facts of the rebellion.
The sword, as we have seen, was un
sheathed in 1850. In 1851 the scissors
were drawn, and the rebels cut off their
‘ails, which, in China, is the last extremi
of treason, and indicates that the war is
to be one of extermination. Young Chi
na is tail-less, and when a man embraces
the liberal cause, he is docked forthwith.
Now it was that Tien-te, the leader of the
insurgents, wlio had hitherto kept in the
background, assumed the imperial, cana
ry-colored’robe, adopted the style, and
performed the duties of emperor. He is
described as possessing a rare political sa
gacity, and incontestable superiority of
mind, and, above all, that active and en
ergetic spirit so peculiar to men reared in
the shade of secret associations. When
Tien-te receives envoys, his language is
dignified, his air serene, his demeanor affa
ble and kind. On the other hand, his pre
tensions are boundless. 11c is the “Celes
tial King, lie is the younger brother of
Jesus, aud in 1837 was taken up to Hea
veu, where he was instructed by his Hea
venly Father—-from whom he received
books and doctrines—in all celestial mat
ters. His celestial mother, and the hea
venly sister, his wife, are described in the
published pamphlets of the revolutionary
army, and the work committed by God
to his hands, is given in detail. Now,
too, the religions element comes into play.
The progress of the revolutionary army
tfas marked by the overthrow of pagodas
and the destruction of idols. This in it
self was a feature too striking and unex
pected not to create a profound impres
sion on every mind: A’ Vast stride had
been made when tails were flung tb the
winds, and rebellious hair sprouted forth
at its own good pleasure. But what was
the clipping of mortal tails to the break
ing up of divine emblems? The Christianity
of the rebels .is, of course, tainted with su
perstition and error; yet the fact that they
possess, in any tolerable correctness, the
substance of the Christian faith, is one of
the most striking facts, not only of tins
rebellion, but of modern times.
The curious reader may wish to know
how we obtained the information given in
this article. His desire shall be gratified.
An article of seven closely printed columns
on the History of the Chinese Rebellion,
appeared recently in the London Times. —
We read this article carefully, and have
endeavored to give, in these few words,
the substantial facts therein stated. We
hope the reader is much obliged to us, foe
we found it a long and troublesome piece
of work.
From the Chattanooga Advertise)'.
Mineral Wealth of East Tennes
see.
Tbe #upcriorily of our Stone Coal is
admitted by the best of judges, both in
the Smith’s forge and in the Coke. The
blooms made from the latter commands a
high price, the Coke containing so small
an amout of sulphur as scarcely to be de
tected, by the closest aualysis. Our man
ufacturers, when they enter the market
with Pig lion or Blooms, are exempt from
those annoyances, which sometimes bring
bankruptcy and ruin on their eastern
neighbors, thiough their iron being “red’
short,” having been refined by Coke made
from coal, containing a large amount of
sulphur-
Again, the Coal through this rpgion con
tains less volali-fe matter ihdn any coal yet
analyzed in the Union, or has ever come
under our observation; it is then, better
adapted for manufacture of those kinds of
Iron \vhere toughness and tenacity are
the principle charactere-tics; it will also
produce one fourth more iron from a given
quantity “f ore than any. other kind of
I coal.
i Anew vein of Slate Coal, has lately
i been discovered and is now in active op
[ eration; fine specimens of it can be seen
. at different places; in some, its color is
intermediate between velvet black and
dark grayish black; It is termed Peacock
Coal, .having the coiof of that bird’s fea
thers on its surface; it break?, out in egg
: shaped concrelions and has a beautiful
lustrious appearance; it burns longer than
canal coal, cakes more or less and leaves
a slay.
This coal lies in deep veins, never less
than five feet, and as high as thirty; this
coal is very valuable if properly managed
in the mines; it makes but a small quanti
ty of fine coal, it generates a large quan
tity of carbonic acid gas, and requires a
good supply of fresh air to keep the
mines well ventillated.
Canal Coal, color between velvet and
grayish black, and is sometimes called
parrot coal; this kind always commands a
higher price in market than any other
species of this mineral; it is so resinous
it can be ignited as easily as a candle and
gives out a clear white flame, burning
with great brilliancy. This coal is not
only a favorite in the parlor and cook
stove, but is invaluable in the works;
a pound of good canal coal, properly
treated in a small aparatus, gives fiye cubic
feet of gas, equivalent in illuminating
power to a sperm candle, 6 in the pound.
On a large scale however, three and a
half feet of good gas is all that should be
expected from one pound of coal. The
canal coal can be cut with a knife or turned
on the lathe into tumblers, tea cups, su
gar bowls and and sells
readily in the bank at about twice the
price of any other kind of bituminous
coal.
We I ave traveled through most of the
great mining Slates, and having no inte
rest in the matter, whatever, we are al
liberty to say we have not seen ar.y place
where minerals abound to such an extent,
and have the same natural and artificial
facilities, as there is here. In Pottsville,
Pa, they have to sink deep slopes or
shafts; in Richmond, Va., the same; some
of them several hundred feet deep The
Maryland mining company have had to
lay down a track, at great expense, before
they could get their coal to market, and
in nine out of ten instances,'in those pla
ces, the iron ore has to be conveyed;a
long distance to the coal, or the coal tft
ihe ore. But here the case is different,
the ore and the coal being almost in all
cases located together.
Enough then has been said on the coal
and iron subject, to give mdn of capital
and enterprise at) idea of the inexhausti
ble beds of coal and iron in our midst.—
They will see at a glance that there can
not possibly be a better*'locality for the
manufacture of every Sesci ‘ption of iron.
Bolling Mills erected here would find a
market for all they made, at their own
rates, for years. The roads con
struction. chartered and projected, will all
want iron, and there is no better place
to make it than East Tennessee.
Yours, OBSERVER
Pram the N'cw Orleans Dali a.
Yellow Fever and Slavery.
The New York Tribune, ever intent
upon new and starling ideas, contained,
some days ago, an article in which it at
tempts to prove that yellow fever was
one of the consequences and penalties of
slavery; that its origin was coeval with
that of Ihe slave trade; and it has contin-j
ed ever since to insist those countries
where slavery prevails. The facts stat
ed are not true. There is no slavery in
Mexico, in Central America, in several
of the South American States, and in
several of the West Indies, and yet this
disease scourges them all with equal se
verity. Besides, the theory of the Afri
can origin of the yellow fever is generally
repudiited. Even thos-j who maintain
the doctrine of importibility and transmis
sibility of yellow fever acknowledge it
to be a disease peculiar to this Continent
having but slight analogy to the fevers
which prevailed on the coast of Africa.
The theory of the Tribune, however
suggest another, and the very oposite
view of the subject, which we commend
to the consideration and digestion of
Greely and Ihe other abolitionists. We
refer to the conclusion in fevor of slavery,
deducible from the? exemption of our
blacks from the attacks of a fever which
seizes nineteen-twentiehs of our white
population. Out of the 20,000 blacks in
New Orleans, there have not been over a
hundred deaths during the epidemic, from
yellow fever. On the plantations on the
coast, in all the \ illages, where a dense
slave population exists, white persons
have been seized with the fever, but ne
groes have been spared.
Suppose that white laborers had occu
pied the places of these negroes on the
plantations: who can estimate the
motaiity which would have marked the
progress of the pestilence up the coast,
on plantations wherefre quently three
and four hundred negros are collected,
living in huts, and taking but little care
Os themselves? Os the poor laboring
class in this city, it has been estimated
that at least three out of every four who
were attacked died. A like atality
would have occured on the coast, if the
laborers employed by our planters had
been whites. But there we find masters
and their children, creoles, dying of this
disease, while the ignorant stolid, earless
negro escapes. Such a mortality a
mong the laborers on the plantations as
has occurred in this city, would nearly
extingaish the sugar culture of Lmisis
anna.
But there is another remarkable fact
in the history of yellow fever. Whilst
the negros- who remain here are exempt
from the fever, those who go to the
North and abide-there any tsruve and retu-rn-,
arliable to it. Hence, neafly all the
negroes who die here of the fbver are free.
To the superstitious, it’ would seem that
God intended to mark with his punish
ment and frown any- attempt of the negro
to exist id climates and regions, which are
adapted to the organization of the white
man. On the other hand, it is proved
that slavery is the condition best suited
to his physical improvement and devel-
opement, as it exempts him from a dis
ease, to which he would render himself
liable by the exercise of his freedom,
, Railroad in France.
However, riding on the top of an om
nibus is nothing to riding upon a railroad
car, a distraction which such of us as
spend the summer in the country enjoy
night and morning. We turn our backs
upon the engine locate oursplves in very
comfortable seats, and contemplate the
prospect. When it is windy we go in
side of course. There is a station upon
the route of those W’ho travel wasl worth
a moments notice. This is Asnieres
four miles from Paris. The lines for
Versalles, St. Getmain, Havre, Rortien,
and Cieppe, start from Paris together,
and branch off for their various destina
tions at this station; 104 trains stop at or
pass it going out every day, and 104
going in. On fete days when the
great wmters of Versailles or St.
Cloud play, the number of trains is
increased up to 160 each way, 8000 peo
ple get out and in every day here, and
only one accident ever happened. An
engine some six months ago, blundered
into a baggage car, and slightly bruised
one man. As the Versailles train passes,
the switch is turned, and this simple
fact is signalled along to the station in
Paris. The St. German train, five min
utes later, is sure that ist path is clear.
On all the frequented roads, too, the pas
sage of the various trains is signalled
from each successive station, back to
thpir point of departure.
.The yverseer of the station at Versail
les is thus at once informed of the arri
val at Paris of ihe last train he despatch
ed, and vice versa. The mode of signal
izing is to cause a large round sign-board
to present towards the next lookout man
in order its fiat surface, instead of its
edge. It is turned by wires, running in
stakes just emerging from the ground
sometimes a distance of a quarter of a
mile. These cranks and pulleys are ne
ver liable to he deranged, as no travelers
or intruders are allowed on the railroad,
on any pretence. To prefane a cemetery
would not he half so serious an offence
as to trespass on a railroad. This nicety
and sense of respensidility carried
through the entire system, renders steam
conveyance in this country what it is
—absolutely secure. 1 have read with
pleasure your editorals on the weekly
outrage at home, ant! hope earnestly that
some remedy for ihe evil will speedily
he found; for I have been told more than
once by Frenchmen, that it w r as useless
to talk of enjoyjng Iberty if it is out ol
the question to eujoy life, and they pre
faced living where the monoply of killing
belonged to Louis Nepoleon, and where
the railroad companies shared with him
only the priviiegd of transporting. —Paris
Cor. JST. Y. Tsmes.
Living for show only.
There are two kinds of people in the
world,those who live for comfort, and
rinse who live only for show. The lat
ter are more numeroris than might besup
posed. They Crowd every condition of
life, hut are ofienst found among persons
in moderate circumstances, and exist in
country as well as in the City’, though
more numerously in the latter. To
keep up appearence*, they sacrifice com
fort, economy, and sometimes eve.i health,
ambitious of living as handsomely as
their wealthier neighbors, and forgetting
that people of sensa never estimates
others by outward show, they [inch and
pare, and of en almost starve, in order to
wear fine dresses; IvSve rose-wood fnrni
ture in the parlor, or give expensive in
tertainments. Instead of living within
their means, and thus being always inde
pendent, they are continually exceeding
their incomes and making themselves
slaves to debt. Nor dojthey, after all,
secure that gratification to their vanity,
which was the paltry reward for which
they sacrificed so much. Much as they
strive to outshine, there is always some
body, whom they know, to supass them,
somebody who has a finer house or more
elegant furniture, somebody who wears
a costlier brocade, gives a handsomer
party, or drives a superior equipage.
A man must be more or less of a hyp
ocrite, who lives systematically for show.
If he would look into his heart narrowly 7,
he would find that, in other things besides
his style of living, he was striving to ap
pear what h-e was not. A person cannot
have a weakness of this description with
out its affecting his entire character, even
though it may be unconsciously. The
iruthful man feels inexpressibly degraded
at seeming to be what he is not. lie
scorns as much to act a lie as to tell one.
It is also, we fear, a mark of a trivial na
ture, to live for show. Life is too cohe
rent a thing, and involves too many mys
terious duties, to he consumed in a petty
pursuit of appearances. It is as if sol
diers, instead of defending their camp,
should spend their time in chasing but
terflies.
The wise man lives for his own com
fort, for the good he may do, or for the
elevation of his family; but never for
show. He does uot, however, imitate a
hermit, by repudiating altogether the ele
gances of life, hut confines himself to
such as ate within his means, Ho thus
escapes being harrassed with bills: he
thus avoids the pang of envy, and he is
secure always of knowing that he is es
teemed for himself alone. The man who
lives for comfort, gets the happiness for
which he bargains. But he who lives
for show, pursues an ignis fatuus, that
eludes his grasp aud cheats him continu
ally.
Fanny Fern on Schoolmistresses—l
was never cm an august school comtnit
tee, but if I was, I’d make a sine qua non
that no school murm should he inaugura
ted who had not been a married mother.
I don’t believe iu oid maids; they know
very well that they haven’t fulfilled their
family destiny, and I wouldn’t have them
wreaking their billious vengence on my
urchins, if I had any. No woman gets
the acid effectually out of her.temper till
she has taken matrimony “thtt * natural
way”
Atmospheric Telegraph
The success of the experiment in trans
mitting packages from one point to anoth
er, by ineansof Richardson’s atrpospheric
telegraph, as exhibited at the Mechanic’s
Fair, is quite complete. We cannot dis
cover, after having examined its opera
tions carefully, any reason vvhjr packages
may not be eventually, and before long,
transmitted in this manner from one city
to another,'With’ ail ffie certainty with
which they are now carried by railroad,
and at a rate almost equal to that of the
magnetic telegraph, or as Mr. Richardson
states, 1000 miles per hour. In ail at
mospheric telegraphs heretofore proposed
the motion of a long column of air, be
hind the plunger or ball, has presented an
insuperable obstacle to its operating ef
fectively. To obviate this difficulty, new
air is admitted along the line behind the
plunger, and thus anew force is added.
The feasibility of the plan seems to be
established.
A company is now being formed with
a capital of $500,000, for the purpose of
constructing a line of telegraph from B is
ton to New York, having a cylinder two
feet in diameter, by means of which it is
believed that packages may he tausmitted
from one city to the other in fifteen min
utes. It has been objected by some that
the power required to exhaust the tube
for so great a distance, would be so great
that no reasonable number of pumps
would be able to accomplish it. But this
objection is answered by the fact that it
is not proposed, by (he plan of Mr. Rich
ardson, to exhaust the air through the
•whole length of the tub£ at once; but
as a portion of the air is ‘exhausted and
the plunger rushes through the tube, the
air is cut off behind it and anew column
of air commences to act upon it. The
scheme is attracting favor.
Boston Traveler.
Cleaning Stained Cotton.
Joseph R. Black, of Abbeville, South
Carolina, makes the following communica
tion to the Independent Press, which may
be very valuable to Cotton Planters, all
or nearly all of whom, have stained cotton
this season. Let tire method be tested:
Mr. Editor: — Having discovered a
simple process by which cotton soiled by.
the late rains, may be cleansed and whiten
ed. I make the suggestion for the bene
fit of farmers. Take a common wheat
thrasher, and raise the cylinder one inch,
the box one-half inch, which will throw
the frails an inch from the cross bar, and
by placing the cross bars an inch apart,
the dirt and trash pass through and fall in
a heap near the thrasher, and separately
from the cotton. In this way I cleansed
enough dirty cotton to make some three
bales of ginned cotton in about two hours.
It can be cleaned as fast as several hands
can feed the thrasher, and when done, is
as white as that which -has opened since
the rain. Very respectfully,
Joseph It. Black.
Johnson’s Creek, Sept. 23, 1853-
P. S. —The thrasher I used was from
Enright & Starr’s Factorv, at Abbeville
C. H.
Washington National Moniinfeut.
The Washington National Monument
has attained a height of 142 feet. Tho
last contribution was from the territory
of Utah, consisting of a’ block of stone
about three feet long anl nearly two
wide, brought from Salt Lake City, The
device is centrally a beehive resting on a
table. Around are festoons of flowers
wreathed with fruits, and above is the
All-Seeing Eyes, with an inscription in
these words: “Holiness to the Lord.”
At the base of the block the word “De
seret.” The stone is not very hard, and
is similar to that known as “Bath stone.”
The execution of the sculpture is only
tolerable.
“From two specimens of Tennessee
marble ser.t to the monument;” says the
Intelligencer, “It has been judged the
v ry best article yet furnished, and so
high is its character, as to be deemed su
perior to any in the world for hardness,
durability, and polish. We hear that it
is contemplated to use it for the interior
facings, and decorations of the new Cap
itol buildings.”
Tiie Art op Arranging the Hair.—
How often do we see a really good face,
made quite ugly by a total inattention to
lines. Sometimes the hair is pushed into
the cheeks, and squared at the forehead,
which gives a most extraordinary pinched
shape to the face. Let the ova!, where
it exists be always preserved; where it
does not, let the hair be so humored that
the deficiency shall not be perceived.—
Nothing is more common Ilian to see a
face which is somewhat too large below,
made to look grossly large, by contract
ing the hair on the forehead and cheeks,
and there bringing it to an abrupt check:
whereas, such a face should enlarge the
forehead and the cheek, and let the hair
fall partially over, so as to shade and
soften off’the lower exuberance. A good
treatise, with examples in outline of the
defects, would be of some value upon a
lady’s toilet, who would wish to preserve
her great privilege—the supremacy of
beauty. Some press the hair down close
to the face,which is to lose the very
characteristic of hair —ease and freedom.
Let her locks, said Anacreon, lie as they
like; the Greek gives them life and a will.
Some ladies wear the hair like blinkers,
you will always suspect they will shy if
you approach them. A lady’s head-dress,
whether in a portrait or for her daily use,
should, as in old portraits by Rembrandt
and Titian, go off into shade, not to be
seen too clearly and hard all round: should
not, in fact, be isolated as if out of sympa
thy with all surrounding nature. The
wigs of men of Chailes li’s. times had at
least that one merit of floating into the
back ground, and in their fall softening
the sharpness of the lines of the dress
about them.
A country poet has addressed the fol
lowing lines “To Laura:”
Them charms ot yourn must soon decay,
With all the joys that youth has brung;
For beauty quickly fades away
{ Then go ii, lady, while you’re you-ig.
A Warning to Girls. —A man named
James Mamrrd, recently stopped at Si.
Louis, having in company with him a
young lady whom he had married only
seven days .before, at Decatur, in Illinois.
While in Decatur he professed to be a
minister of the Gospel, preached sermons,
held prayer meetings, and otherwise af
fected the manners and calling of a cler
gyman. This lady, to whom he was uni
led, married him under the belief that he
was a preacher. After remaining al St.
Louis a few days, he fled, leaving his,
wife in a destitute condition, at the hotel
where they stopped. It has since been
ascertained that he had stolen the horse
and carriage, and a large quantity of val
uable goods at Alton. The young lady,
thus deceived and deserted, returned to
her mother in Decatur. She probably
married the man,’ a3 too many young
ladies do, after a few weeks’ acquaintance,’
knowing nothing of his previous life. A
little prudence, on the part of young la
dies, and as much discretion as they
would exercise in buying anew dress,
would save may of them the shame and
mortification of such deception.
Misdirecting Letters— Occasionally
articles are published in your paper cen
suring the Post Office Department for
delays and losses which occur in trans
mitting letters through the mail.
Has it ever occured to you that the
writers of letters should receive a share
of the blame so lavishly bestowed upon the
post-office? A vast many letters fail to
reach their proper destination owing to
the imperfect manner in which they are
directed. Sometimes the town is named
without the State; sometimes the State
is named without the town or post-office,
the writer probably supposing that “John
Smith” is well known in Pennsylvania,
and a letter so directed will certainly
reach the proper person.
A memorandum has been kept for
two or three years past of the number of
letters to cashiers misdirected to New
York, who reside elsewhere, and it is
found that it averages fifty a month.—
Having a ii.-1 of cashiers of banks in the
United States, the errors of the writers
are corrected as far as they can be.
In the weekly list of letters advertised
in Boston, Philadelphia and Baltimore,
it is always the case that many letters
from New York houses are found to be
directed to those cities. lam well satis
fied that thousands of letters yearly fail to
reach their destination, owing to the care
lessness of the wrters thereof.— Com. in
A r . L., Jour, of Com.
Mormon Doctrines. —Brigham Young,
the Mormon Governor of Utah, has been
lecturing his people, and in the course of
his lectures lays down the following,
which it must be acknowledged is a little
more than “an eye tor an eye and a tooth
for a tooth.” “K you want to know
what to do with a thief that you mav
find stealing, I say kill him on the spot,
and never sutler him to commit another
iniquity. This is what I expect 1 shall
do, though, never, in all the days of mv
life, have 1 hurt a man with the palm of
my hand. I never have hurt any person
any other way except with this unruly
member, my tongue. Notwithstanding!
this, if I caught a min steiling on mv
premises, 1 should be very apt to send
him straight home, and that is what 1
wish every man to do, to put a stop to
this abominable practice rn the midst of
this people.”
Singular Occurrence. —The St. Louis
News relates the following: “Yesterday
afternoon, a lady and gentleman who had
been at Bcllefontaine Cemetery to attend
the funeral of Mr. Goodrich, clerk of the
Columbus, were returning in a buggy.—
Near the Harlem House the gentleman
was smoking a cigar, when a spark of
fire from it fell on the lady’s dress. It
was not observed until it broke out in a
blaze, threatening serious consequences..
She became alarmed, and jumped to the
ground, although the buggy was being
driven at a rapid speed. Fortunately,
two gentlemen, Mr.. Montgomery and
Rev. G. W. White, were driving along
not far behind them; they hastened up
and put out the flame before the lady
was seriously injured. They burned
their hands slightly in accomplishing it.”
Bread —A pamphlet containing in
structions for making unfermented bread,
has been published by Dr. Lewis, of New
York. He states that a barrel of Hour
will make 252 pounds of bread by fermen
tation, or 285 by effervescence.- His reci
pes for making uufermented bread are as
follows:
No. 1, To make White Bread —Take of
flour, finely bolted, 3 pounds, avoirdupois;
bicarbonate of soda, in powder, 9 drachms;
hydro-chloric (muriatic ) acid, 11 1-4 fluid
drachms; water, about 25 fluid ounces.
No 2. To make Brown Bread. —Take
of wheat-meal (unbolted) three pounds,
avoirdupois; bicarbonate of soda, in pow
der, 10 drachms; hydro-chloric (muriatic)
acid, 12 1-2 fluid drachms; water, about
28 fluid ounces.
Wash for the Head. —A Mother asks,
What is an efficient remedy for rcmovrng
Dandruff in the Hair, as she has an ob
jection to using an ivery comb?” This
objection is well founded, as it increases
the evil. The following wash, applied
with a small piece of flannel, to the roots
of the hair, will he found excellent:—
Three parts of oil of Mcqonds; one part
of lime-water; to tie shaken up well, and
can be procured of any chemist.— L B.
Early Marriage. —At a recent elec
tion in Sn Antonio, Texas, a Mexican
‘ boy” attempted to vote, but from his
youthful appearance his vote was ch&N
lenged, and it was proven on oath'that h ( e
was but (13) thirteen years of a*"*
Ledger says that he has v, nn j „
child one year old, for the of
gratifying CUrtO-’ty, the editor of that
paper was led to consult a physician on
the subject, and was assured that this
boy could not have been exceeding
deve i yean at the time of- his marriage
No. 41.