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VOL. XIV. THE GEORGIA JEFFERSONIAN Is PUBLISHED EVERT THURSDAY MORNING BY WILLIAM CLINE, At Two Dollars and Cents per an* nnm. or Two Dollars paid in advance. AiIVERTISE.MKNTS are inserteri nt O.Vfc nnr.r.lft urrsq"nr\ for she firs! insertion, and FIFTY CE.\TS per square, lor each insertion 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.