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From the Temperance Crusader TOADYISM. BY A. B. SEALS. Oh muse! from realms of ether bright, From heights above, where golden light Is shed around Parnassus’ throne. Where oft at morn I kneel alone, Descend and this my song inspire. ’Tis not to sing of fond desire, Nor e’en the lover's heart to fire. With words of love; but tune iny lyre, And let its chords resound again In Epic, not to Teian strain. On yonder hill in mansion high. Whose towers pierce the clear blue sky. Dwells Johnny Bowls with wealth untold In piles of bank notes, heaps of gold. His parks are full of silver streams Where lovers oft indulge their dreams; The grassy lawns beneath their feet, round with hedges sweet, While flowers, pleasant to the eye, Bloom sweetly ’Death the vernal sky. His lambkins o’er the meadows stray, His kids around the brooklets play, The deer to crop the browsing grain, Stray o’er the wide extended plain. All tilings, to crown his festive board, Are safely in his garner stored. There’s nothing now to mar the peace Os Johnny Bowls; but let me cease On themes like these so long to dwell, On themes like these I love so well. Now Johnny Bowls’ extended halls Are filled with massive plate, the walls . Are hung with pictures decked in gold, From Vandyke, West and Reynolds bold, And music swells from harp and lute, Nor is the voice of lovers mute. Oh, Johnny Bowls! oh, Johnny Bowls’ (May Heaven foEgive their erring souls,) Those lovers woo thy daughters sweet, And fawn and fondle at thy feet. How sleek their flowing locks descend Their whiskers, curly, upward tend, w And dark moustache, all twisted ’round In sweet ambrosial essence drowned. Their Byron collars, white as snow, Peep out from satin folds below, Where purple, blue and crimson vie To beautify the rich neck tie: Satin, broadcloth and prunella Enrobe this fashionable fellow. ‘•My dear Miss Bowls, oh! charming love, Oh! fair as forms from Heaven above. If ever fonder lover sighed, If ever swain for loved one died. If Cupid e’er with cruel dart Hath pierced a fond and loving heart, I sigh for. thee with sad’ning tone— <>li! do not turn away those eyes, Blue as the soft cerulean skies, But let me, on my bended knee, Pour forth my loving soul to thee. < >h ! let me bring iny gay guitar, And let its chords resound afar, And let iny song on zephyr wing, Ascend up to thy lattice dear, The magic song you love to hear.” “Ah ! no, kind sir, those tender strains Axe suited for the inaid whose chains Os gold, like mine, can bind thy heart, That ne’dr was pierced with true love’s dart— The man who, lost to noble deeds, And ne’er the voice of valor heeds; And sighs to see a maiden’s eyes, And pours his love to midnight skies, Who longs to die beneath the willow That overhangs the raging billow, Fan never gain a heart like mine, I'd scorn the maid who would be thine. I cannot pluck a flower, but you Must claim it as a token true ; 1 can not drop my glove or fan, But you, unlike a noble man, Mlist press them with a thousand kisses : I’m not one of those silly misses Whose ears are charmed with fawning Vows: You sigli too much at dark eyebrows. Hast night I read a silly strain Os verse I called mine own; your.brain, You said, was all on fire, ’twould melt In strains of burning love. I felt As if an ape were near me then, A toady in the shape of men— (Jo, then, kind sir, nor e’er again Come in my sight; thy silly brain I would not melt for heaps of gold, But I must love a heart more bold ; My father’s wealth and acres broad Must claim some other, nobler lord. ♦ Auaclirouisms, and Other Incon gruities of Shakspcare. In the dramatis persona} of many of Shakspeave’s plays, we find a medley of ancient and modern names that is often extremely ridiculous. At Ephesus we meet Pinch, a schoolmaster; at Mitilene with Boult, a clown : and at Athens with Snug, Bottom, Snout, Quince, &c. In his later stories, English names are given to foreigners. Thus, at Vienna, we have Froth and Elbow; in Navarre, Dull, Cos tard, and Moth ; and in Illyria, Sir Toby Belch, and Sir Andrew Aguecheek. But these, strictly speaking, are not anachro nisms, but, on the whole, justifiable licenses ; for it would have been impos sible to transmit the humor of such char acters, as the above, to an English au dience under the disguise of foreign names, though it must be admitted that mere English characters, as well as names, are sometimes introduced. Nor is Shakspeare always responsible for such whimsicalities, for they are occasionally to be traced in the materials whereof his plays were constructed ; and others be longing to those authors whom ho had only assisted in dramas, tlio whole com position of which has been improperly ascribed to him. “ Merchant of Venice.’’ —English Ju ries aro introduced into the Venetian Re public. “Winter’s Tale.” —The transactions of this play arise in Sicily and Bohemia, and, though the characters arc imagi nary, they arc supposed to havo existed in pagan times. Notwithstanding this, we havo Whitsun pastorals, Christian burial, a hobby horse, an Emperor of Russia, and an Italian painter of the fifteenth century. “Comedy of Errors.” —ln the ancient city of Ephesus we have ducats, marks and guilders,and the abbess of a nunnery ; mention is also made of several modern European kingdoms, and of America; of llenry the Fourth of France; of Turkish tapestry, a rapier and a striking clock; of Lapland sorcerers, Satan, and even of Adam and Noah. In one place Antipho los calls himself a Cliristiau. As we are not acquainted v?ith the immediate source whence this play was derived, it is im possible to ascertain whether Shakspeare is answerable for these anachronisms. ‘ “ Macbeth.” —The errors here are con fined to the introduction of cannon and of dollars. “Kino John.” —ln this play wo also find cannon, with angels, half-faced groats, and three farthing pieces; cards, too, are introduced, and Basilisco, a character of the time of Shakspeare. “King Henry the Fourth.” —The ana chronism are very numerous in the plays „of this reign. We have pistols and silk stockings: gilt two pences and ten-shil ling pieces; a ballad with a picture on it, evidently alluding to the wood-cuts on , those compositions ; the game of shove great and slide-shift, which was not in vented before the reign of Henry the Eighth. Mention is also made of John Ohogau, jester to Edward the Fourth, and ‘ of Author’s show, though not introduced until a long time afterwards. “King Henry the Fifth.” —The Turks are put into possession of Constantinople, ! which did not fall into their hands till up wards of thirty years after Henry’s death. “King Henry the Sixth.” —Machia- i vel, who was not born till 1449, is twice introduced in these plays. Printing is also prematurely mentioned. “King Henry the Eighth.” —An old woman is made to talk of carved three- j pences: but these pieces were not known in England till the reign of Edward the Fourth. “Troilus and Cressida.” —Hector quotes Aristotle; Ulysses speaks of the ! bull bearing Milo : and Paudaras of a man j born in April. Friday and Sunday, and \ even minced-pies with dates in them are ; introduced. .“Timon of Athens.” —Paper is men- 1 Honed in this play. In a Roman drama ■ it might have passed, but we have no evi dence that the Greeks used the papyrus plant at this early period. “Coriolanus.” —Alexander, Cato and ! Gaten, are improperly alluded to, all be ing posterior to the time of Coriolanus. ; Other anachronisms are, the mention of I graves in a holy church-yard; groats, mummers, lackram, an3 a kitchen mal- j nin. Coriolanus describes the names of j Hob and Dick. “Julius C.esar.” —Cassius speaks of I a marker and reveller, and of the clock striking three. “Antony and Cleopatra. ” —Antony j talks of packing cards, and deals out his ■ knaves, queens, hearts and trumps, as if he were a whist player. His bestowing the epithet of gipsey on Cleopatra is whimsical, but may perhaps admit of de fense. The Selma Reporter, of the 31st, says 1 the steamer Eclipse put off two hundred thousand dollars worth of goods there, the day preceding. * —- The steamer Charmer, from Vicksburg, I says the Delta of the 30th, arrived last ! night from Vicksburg with 2,987 bales of cotton, the largest load of the season. All of these ere of the new crop except 7 bales. r Social Fruits of Ultra Prudence. It is hardly possible to over calculate the evils accruing to individuals and to society in general from this custom, grad ually “increasing, of late and ultra pru dent marriages. Parents bring up their daughters in luxurious homes, expecting and exacting that the homes to which they transfer them should be of almost equal ease; forgetting how next to im possible it is for such a home to be offered by any young man, of the present gene ration, who has to work his way like his father before him. Daughters accustom ed to a life of ease and laziness are early taught to check every tendency toward a “romantic attachment,” the insane folly of loving a man for what he is, rather than for what he has got; of being con tent to fight the worldly battle hand in hand—with a hand that is worth clasp ing, rather than settle down in the com* sortable sloth, protected and provided for in all external things. Young men enforced bachelorhood, hardest when its hardship ceases to be consciously felt. An unmarried woman, if a good woman, can always make berselt happy; find innumerable duties, interests and amuse ments ; live a pure, cheerful and useful life. So can some men, but very, very few. Scarcely any sight is more pitiable than a young man who has drifted on to past thirty without home or near kindred; with just income enough to keep him re spectably in the position which he sup poses himself bound to maintain, and to supply him with the various small lux uries which have become habitual to him. Like his fellow mortals, he is liable enough to the unlucky weakness of fall ing in love now and then, but he some how manages to extinguish the passion before it gets fairly alight; knowing he can no more venture to ask a girl in his own sphere to marry him, or to be en gaged to him, than he can coax the planet Venus out of her golden west into the dirty, gloomy, two-pair back, where his laundress cheats him and his landlady abuses him ; whence, perhaps, he occa sionally emerges gloriously, all studs and white neck tie, to assist at some young beauty's wedding, where he feels in his heart he might once have been the happy bridegroom if from bis enforced silence she had not been driven to go desperately and sell herself to the old fool opposite, ; and is fast becoming, nay, is already be j come, a fool’s clever mate—a mere wo man of the world. And lie—what a no ble ideal lie has gained of our sex from this and other similar experiences ! w.th what truth of emotion will he repeat as he gives the toast of “The bridesmaids,” the hackneyed quotation about pain and sorrow wringing the brow, and smile half adoringly, half pathetically, at the “min i istering angels” who titter around bitn. They, charming innocents ! will doubt less go home, avouching “What a delight ful person is Mr. So-and So. I wonder jhe never gets married.” While Mr. So and-So also goes home, sardonically minded, to his dull lodgings, his book and his cigar, or—he best knows where. And, in the slow process of inevitable deterioration, by forty be learns to think matrimony a decided humbug, and hugs himself in the conclusion that a virtuous, high-inindcd and disinterested woman, if existing at all, exists as a mere lusus na tvrcc —not to be met with by mortal man now a days. Relieving his feelings with a grunt, half sigh, half sneer, he dresses and goes to the opera—or the ballet at all events—or settles himself on the sofa to a French novel, and ends by firmly be lieving us women to be—what we are painted there! Good God !—the exclamation is too sol emn to be profane—if this state of things be true, and it is true, and I have barely touched the outer surface of its unfath omably horrible truth—wbat will the next generation come to? What will they be—those unborn millions who are to grow up into our men and our women ? The possible result, even in a practical, to say nothing of a moral light, is awful to think upon. Can it not be averted ? Can we not— since, while the power of the world is with man, the influence lies with women —can we not bring up our girls more usefully and less showily, less dependent on luxury and wealth ? Can we not teach them from babyhood that to labor is a higher thing than merely to enjoy ; that even enjoyment itself is never so sweet as when it lias been earned? Can we not put into their minds, whatever be their station, principles of truth, simplicity of taste, helpfulness, hatred of waste; and, these things being firmly rooted, trust to their blossoming up in whatever destiny the young maidens may be called to?— | We should not then have to witness the terrors that beset dyingbeds when a fam ily -of girls will be left unprovided for, nor the angry shame when some thought less young pair commit matrimony and rush ignorantly into debt, poverty and disgrace, from which— facilis descensus Averni —all the efforts of too late compas sionate relatives can never altogether ! raise them. A comparative statement of the cost of ! maintaining each person, per week, in some of the principal Insane Asylums i of the United States : Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane, i including officers’ salaries, $5. Illinois State Hospital for the Insane, j including officers’ salaries, $2 77. Kentucky Western Lunatic Asylum, ; including officers’ salaries, $2 70. i New York State Lunatic Asylum, ex clusive of officers’ salaries, $3 83. New Jersey State Lunatic Asylum, ex clusive of officers’ salaries, $3 24. Bloomingdale Asylum, N. Y., exclusive of officers’ salaries, $5 21. Retreat for the Insane, Hartford, Conn., exclusive of officers’ salaries, §3 89. Massachusetts State Insane Hospital, 1 exclusive of officers’ salaries, $3. Northern Ohio Lunatic Asylum, ex clusive of officers’ salaries, $3 20. Central Ohio Lunatic Asylum, exclu ! sive of officers’ salaries, $3 20. Southern Ohio Lunatic Asylum, exclu sive of officers’ salaries, $3 10. Hamilton County Lunatic Asylum, ex | elusive of officers’ salaries, $1 71. Somnambulism. It was stated yesterday iu the streets that about two o’clock iu the morning a woman was seen walking in her chemise i along dangerous edges of the roofs of houses on the north side of Dauphin l street, between Royal and Water streets. ! It was considered a case of somnambulism I —a rather extraordinary one. too. The I story grew more wonderful by repitition. i First it was a beautiful young lady. That was astonishing enough. Then it was j that this beautiful creature had gone along the gutters where a fly could hard ly maintain its place. All this and a i good deal more was related of this won derful affair. It turns out, however, that a drunken servant woman—under spir itual influences—rolled out of a window —or by some other process not exactly j known, into the gutter of the roof, where j she was discovered iu time to be saved from breaking her neck by falling to the pavement. There was not a bit of ro- j mance in the whole affair, as we are as sured by those who know.— Mobile Tribune. | ♦ A New York paper says: The promi nent names now before the committee at j ‘lammany Hall for the nomination for mayor of this city at the approaching election, are Andrew H. Mickle. Daniel I. riemann, Isaac Bell, Jr., Jonathan Irotter, Arthur Leary, DanielE. Delavan, Algernon S. Jarvis, Gustavus W. Smith, Charles A. Clinton, Charles Yates, Elias S. Higgins and Royal Phelps ; the Hon. Isaac V. Fowler refusing to be consider ed a candidate. The names before the Mozart Hall committee, are Fernando Wood and Stephen P. Russel. Either Vtm. Curtis Noyes, or Judge Cowles will receive tho nomination from theßepubli- ■ can party. The entire police force of New York is 1,435 men. The whole number of ar rests during the last quarter was 19,202. ot which 2,GG3 were for offences against ! property, 1G,508 for offences against per sons or the public, 14,019 of which lat ter are traceable to the use of intoxica- ■ ting liquors. The total loss by offences ! against property was $29,027 25, of] which there wae recovered ,$17,101 78. 1 The Mystery of the Villafranca Treaty. A correspondent of the London Times, writing from Frauktort on-the-Main, Aug. slh, says the mystery of Villafranca still engages public attention, and the parties to it seem determined to balk the hopes of an explanation. It may therefore not be amiss to place with some detail the progress of events before your readers. On my accuracy they may rely. On the 4th of July the proposal of a basis of me diation, now known as the seven points, was communicated to Lord John Russell by Count De Persigny. Lord John re fused to recommend the project, but agreed to communicate it to Austria sim ply, and without comment. On the sth he laid it before the Court of Saxony, by whom it was made known in Vienna. On the Gth the French Minister in Ber lin, applied to Baron Von Schleinitz to propose an armistice, at the same time proposing terms on which mediation might be entered upon. These terms contained four points (not seven) and were identical with those afterwards agreed to by the Emperor of Austria, with the exception that Venetia was to i be erected into an independent Duchy for the Archduke Maximilian. Baron Von Schleinitz at once refused to entertain a project of mediation on this bakis, and took time to consider the propriety of an armistice. Between the 7th and Bth the armistice was agreed to by the princi pals, without intervention, and on the Bth the news was communicated te Baron Von Schleinitz by the French Minister in Berlin. It took him, of course, by surprise, and he instructed the Prussian Charge d’Affairs in Paris to express to Count Walewski his astonish ment at the answer of Prussia on the subject of the armistice not having been waited for. At the same time, he instruc ted him to state that, after holding a council, it had been decided net to pro pose the armistice, as it did not then seem opportune. Both propositions were originally French at Villafranca. The Emperor Napoleon showed Francis Joseph the project of seven points, giving him to understand that the neutrals were not averse to adopting it. Then he at once brought forward the four points pro posed, and rejected on the 7th at. Berlin. They were: first, the cession of Lombar dy ; second, erection of Venetia into a Duchy; third, the confederation of Ital ian States; fourth, restoration of the banished Dukes, and an amnesty. On the second point the Emperor Napoleon yielded to the reasoning of the Emperor of Austria, that he could not be expected to resign what he still held possession of. This is a somewhat lengthy statement, but you may depend upon its being in every point correct Artesian Wells. However favorable the dwellers in large | cities may regard the sinking of Artesian Wells, it appears that the farmers consid er them, for uses af irrigation, decidedly injurious. An exchange says : The California Farmer strongly con demns the use of Artesian wells for the process of irrigation. It states that it has made critical examination of the re sults, and not a solitary instance in which it not see a blight in some degree, and it asserts that within two years many fine ! and flourishing garden spots will have be come so diseased as to literally die out. It states, as a fact, that trees which pro duce fruit under this process become sub ject to be destroyed by cold and frost, and that trees and plants subjected to the sys tem make long, naked “tap roots,” and consequently bear fruit upon the extrem eties of their limbs. The Farmer does not believe there is a single gardener, nurseryman, or orchardist that will not soon deplore the error he has committed in thus being led into this unnatural sys tem. The systems of irrigation should only be in accordance with nature’s plan ; the earth must not be deluged ; gentle showering over the foliage at the even ing hour,to cleanse and refresh is always good, and that is about all that is needed. It adds that a great evil is now being felt at Santa Clara ; that the earth is parched up, and bitter and grevous complaints come from all quarters, for it is felt the evil (from the process of irrigation by Artesian wells) is increasing. ■ Practical Odd-Fellovvsliip. On Friday last a stranger, who was ; journeying, suddenly fell dead in the Cen i tral Rail-Road cars, near Gordousville. He was alone Examination proved him to be a Mr. John F. Dunn, from Louisi ana, on his way to visit friends in Provi dence, 11. I. In his pocket book was | found a card, bearing credible testimony I that he was a member of the Independent Order of OdJ-Fellows. WitE” that mys terious link of recognition, bis person was taken in charge and brought back to Rich mond, where preparations were made to pay the deceased stranger all the court ; eous duties that one brother or friend owes to another. A hearse was at the depot to receive the body, and it was es corted to Odd-Fellows’ Hall. “The Christian-like effect, and the moral, as well as pecuniary utility of in stitutions and orders similar to that of the Independent Order of Odd-Fellows, is strikingly exemplified in this case. Here is a stranger from Louisiana; he is trav eling northward, and worn down with S that fell disease consumption ; death I seizes him amid strangers, in the midst .of his journey; yet the fact of his being i of the Order of Odd-Fellows, makes him among friends, true* trustworthy and j sympathetic.”— Fred. Herald. The Indianapolis Sentinel relates it: On Sunday evening rather a rich scene occurred iu one of our city churches. A ! man and his wife have been living apart for some time, and it is said she has cho j sen anew protector, or, at all events, is the recipient of many kind attentions from another party. On Sunday night, the husband, the wife, and the benevo lent gentleman who waits on the wife, were all at church, when there was quite i a revival going on. Mourners were called up, and several signified their intention of joining. The minister seemed to hesi ; tate at one—a lady—and asked if there was any objection of her becoming a member. The deserted husband rose in his place and forbid the bans. “ The woman,” he continued, “ caused my wife \ to leave me—my wife, who is now living j in open and shameless adultery with another man; there she sits—there they both are.” He pointed directly at them, i and continued in the same strain until the meeting broke. A Faithful Wife. The Maresebal de Mouchy, having been conducted a prisoner to the Luxem buig, had scarcely arrived, when his wife entered the prison. The jailor observed to her that the order for the Mareschal’s arrest made no mention of her. She an swered, with mingled gayety and sweet ness, “ Since my husband is a prisoner, I am one also.” When he was carried before the revo , lutionary tribunal, he was still attended by his wife. The public accuser “having informed Madame de Mouchy, that she was not called upon to appear, she re plied, “ When my husband is called for, I am also called.” In a word, when the fatal sentence of death was pronounced upon the Mare schal, his faithful wife ascended the cart with him; and when the executioner ob jected, because she was not condemned to die, she answered, “Since sentence is passed upon my husband, it is passed upon me also.” ♦ i Henry Ward Beecher says of the “items column in the newspapers, that it “is worth more than all the small fry of cor respondents, with an editor thrown in to boot! Like a caravan, it stretches along , in columns, with packages and parcels, spices and gems, bits of fragrance or cun ningly wrought metals, gathered from the Orient and from the whole world besides. The items of the paper, like the stuffing i of a Thanksgiving tui'key, represent eve rything in the house, crusts of bread, crackers and allspices.” A Zouave lost one of his fingers at the the battle of Solferino. “Bon!” lie ex claimed, “just my luck to lose the finger ger upon which I wore my wedding ring. Now my wife will insist upon it that I gavejt to another woman.” J The Air of Cities—Health a Duty. BY JOHN STAIN BACK WILSON. 51. I). The whole atmosphere of cities and ! other places where numbers are congre . gated is more or less impure, as a neces sary consequence of the various foreiga elements commingled with it. But ove i feel confident, if the laws of hygiene were known aud dilligently enforced by city authorities, that the oiH-door atmos phere at least might be rendered com paratively healthful, sufficiently so, at any rate, to banish those wide-wasting epidemics, cholera, yellow-fever, etc. Still the best directed efforts of city au thorities can do but little more, iu the present state of things, than to abate ex ternal and public nuisances, and cheek the spread of epidemics ; for, after all, health-preserving measures, to be effect ual, must begin at home. The people, with whom every radical and permanent reform must commence, must be taught the laws of health; aud they must be taught, moreover, the, great truth that obedience to those laws is second in im portance to the obligations of the moral law. And indeed those laws may be properly regarded as part,and a most ma terial part, of our moral obligations: for no one can be held guiltless iu the sight of God who remains in wilful ignorance of them, or who disregards them when known, and thu-* becomes guilty of the crime of self-destruction. Oh, that all could receive this great truth ! Oil, that all would consider the preservation of health as a duty, as a part of their reli gion, as a sacred obligation due to them selves, to their Creator, and to their race. One of the greatest evils of city life is the crowding of multitudes iu garrets, cellars, and other dark, damp, narrow, filthy, and confined habitations. Ah, it is enough to make the heart sick to think of the moral and physical deterioration of our fellow-creatures, where the sexes are huddled together like cattle, without distinction, in these pestilential dens. From these centres of infection issue streams of corruption, which poison the atmosphere and spread contagion, and death, moral and physical, through our cities. And these hotbeds of disease are to be found in every street, lane, and alley, while the death-producing emana tions from them are comlhingled with a whole atmosphere loaded with the effluvia from distilleries, cow-stables, hog-pens, soap-factories, slaughter-houses, grave yards, and ten thousand other air-con taminating agencies peculiar to cities. No wonder, then, that “death rides on every passing breeze,” nor wants for victims to feed upon in our populous and dirty cities. Dry Rivers. Many readers remember John Ran dolph’s characteristic but somewhat ex aggerated description of the Ohio River, “dry for one-half of the year and fro zen up for the other.” Bishop Fierce, in his “Notes Across the Continent,” written for the Southern Christian Advocate, of this city, comes upon a river answering in part to this description. He writes: At midnight the regular stage took us, and we traveled together to the break fast house, at Turkey Creek. In the meantime we crossed the Nueces, a large river on the maps, famous in the disputes of Texas and the United States as to the Western boundary of Texas, but, to my astonishment, not a drop of water in its rock-bed. During tho long, dry seasons common to this region the water sinks, and it is only here and there that man or beast can find “a hole” that still contains the precious element. The channel where we crossed is wide, the banks high, and there is room for a noble stream. The timber is thick, and forms the hid ing place of what people call “vaymints,” such as a bear, a species of leopard, and wild cats. Turkey Creek is a beautiful little stream, abounding in fish, with a clear, gushing spring on its bank for the use of the only family which as yet has retreated from the haunts of men to find a home in the lonely solitude. With society here is a pleasant place to live : the range of moun tain and prairie for stock, plenty of live oak timber, never failing water, game in abundance, deer, turkey, bear, fish of various kinds, pure air and good health. I never saw so many wild turkies in all my life as I saw in this place. The corral (a cow-pen) was full of cattle, an improved stock, and near the house—if erect poles, without a roof, may be so called—and the flies, attracted by a plate of honey on the breakfast table, swarmed-like bees, and took possession of everything. I did not dispute title with them, but paid my fare, and retreated fasting. Bishop Pierce, we may remark, is an excellent traveler and travel-writer, pos sessing a coup d’ocil and facilities of ready and comprehensive observation and insight such as have beeif enjoyed only by the greatest travelers. He sees everything before him and around him, and judges for himself, and sees more than would impress a common eye within the time allotted. Charleston Courier. ♦— Salt Mines near Mew Orleans. We saw yesterday a dozen demi nude laborers hard at work, with picks and wedges, on a solid mountain of salt, nearly as hard as marble, and requiring to be worked with tho same appliance and labor as the mines of Cracow or Liv erpool. The mass was about twenty feet high, how wide we could not discover, but we were told that it contained several steamboat loads of the purest salt. De tached lumps presented beautiful speci mens of crystalization. The working upon this mass of salt had the nearest semblance to mining we have ever witnessed in the delta region. That the distant reader may not be de ceived into the idea that salt mining is a profitable business near New Orleans, we should state that in this case the mine was an imported one, having been brought here from the Mediterranean, and stowed away several years ago, in a damp condition, in the Brooklyn ware houses, where it has congealed and crys talized into its present solid state.— N. O. Delta. Tight Rope Rivalry. The war between Blondin and Do Lave will end, says an exchange, iu tumbling them both into the water. Neither cares to be outdone by the other. Blondin is next to take a stove and cooking utensils half way across his rope and there get up omelets ala Francaise for the passengers of the Maid of the Mist. The Rochester Union thinks De Lave the best man; per ! contra the Buffalo Republic, which sa>s I that just before De Lave crossed the rope at Rochester, he confessed himself doubt- ! ful as to his ability to cross safely. Blondin stood by him at the time and said to him—“ Ter well , Dc Lave; you no cross Igo cross myself—with my boots on, just as / am.” This roused De Lave, and he de termined to go, whatever might be the hazard. Blondin would haved crossed just as he said, and when we consider that he was dressed in a tight bodied coat, strapped pants and patent leather ; boots, it might readily be imagined that the feat would have been no bagatelle, even to so incomparable a performer as Blondin. Mon-Political Character of the Sons of Malta. A correspondent” of the Tribune, writ ing from Lafayette, Indiana, seems to be greatly concerned lest the widely-spread order of the Sons of Malta should be a Democratic electioneering movement.— That paper corrects the impression, and states with a confidence indicating knowl edge of the facts in the case, that the Sons, in this part of the country at least, are utterly indifferent to political opin ions; the only qualification for member ship required is to be a whole man in good standing in society. This establish ed, he will readily find access to the Veil of Mysteries, where he will find that he has very probably been a practical Son of Malta ever since boyhood, and will in stantly recognize the peculiar applicabil ity to his own case of the inside pass word and the sign of salutation to the Grand Commander. The only member of any lodge whom he will be likely to envy will be the G. R. J. A., or perhaps his j first assistant. lowa, which had but 100,000 popula- j ,lfttiao4P lgiO, hah how 600,000. Personal Appearance of Literary People. A correspondent of the Springfield Re publican, gives (he following pen-and-ink sketches of prominent literary people : Emerson looks like a refined farmer, meditative and quiet. Longfellow like a good-natured beef-eater. Holmes like a ready-10-laugh little body, wishing only to be “as funny as he can.” Everett seems only the graceful gentleman, who has been handsome, Beecher, a ruddy, rollicking boy. Whittier, the most re tired of Quakers. And thus I might name others. Not one of these gentlemen can be called handsome, unless we except Beecher, who might be a deal handsom er. Mrs. Sigourney, the grandmother of American “ female” literature, in her prime, (if we may believe her portrait,) was quite handsome. Katherine Beecher is homely Mrs. Beecher Stowe so ordi nary in looks that she has been taken for Mrs. Stowe’s “Biddy.” Mrs. E. F. El let looks like a washerwoman. Marga ret Fuller was plain. Charlotte Cush man has a face as marked as Daniel Webster’s, and quite as strong. So has Elizabeth Blackwell. Ilariet Ilosmer looks like a man. Mrs. Oakes Smith is considered handsome. Mrs. Julia Ward Howe has been a New York belle. Fran ces O. Osgood has a lovely womanly face. Amelia F. Welby was almost beautiful. Sarah J. Hale, in her young days, quite lovely, unless her picture fibs. The Da vidson sisters, as well as their gifted mother, possess beauty. If we cross the ocean, we find Madame de Stael was a fright, but Hannah More was hand some ; Elizabeth Fry glorious; Letitia Langdoa pretty; Mrs. Ilemans won drously lovely; Mary Howitt. fair and matronly; Mrs. Norton regally beauti ful ; Elizabeth Barrett Browning in physique is angular, aud though she has magnificent eyes, her face is suggestive of a tombstone. Charlotte Bronte had a look in her eyes better than all the beauty of features. But if we look at British-men cf first class craniums—Shakspeare and Milton were handsome ; Dr. Johnson was a monster of ugliness ; so were Gold smith aud Pope; Addison was tolerably handsome, and, Coleridge, Shelly. Byron, Moore, C impbell, Burns, all were unan imously so. Sir Walter Scott looked very ordinary, in spite of his fine head. Ma caulay is homely. Bulwt-r nearly hid eous, although a dandy. Charles Dick ens is called handsome, but, covered with jewelry, lie can but look like a simpleton. Branding Flour. The editor of the New York Examiner has been sojourning in Rochester, where lie visited one of the large flour mills, and was initiated into the mysteries of branding flour. He says : Branding to us poor outsiders has been a source of a good deal of mystery. In our simplicity, we have supposed that a brand was a true indication of the place where the flour was ground, and the wheat it was made from. But this is an egregious error. “There arc tricks in all trades but ours.” Only the very best flour is labeled by the name of the mill where it is ground. Inferior flour is branded Corinthian Mill, New Mill, or some other mill that is owned by the man of the moon. All these practices are known in the corn exchange as well as at the mills, but to us poor consumers, who buy a barrel of flour once a quarter, it may not be uninteresting to know'that all the best family flour is branded double extra superfine, with the real name of the mill and manufacturer. Genessee flour is as übiquitous as Orange county milk, Goshen butter, or relics of the ship Constitution among the curious. Gen nessee flour is for the most part made from Western or Canada wheat. Itecallcd to Memphis. Avery geuteel and named Charles F. Johnson, was arrested in this city some ten days ago, by Mar shal McGibbony, at the request of the police of Memphis. Tenn. He had been doing various parties in that city, by false bills of credit, aud by other means, and escaped to this city, where he was about entering into business when the ban fell upon him. He remained in our calaboose until Monday night last, when a requisi tion and a Memphis police officer came for and took him off. He was so genteel and gentlemanly in his bearing, and seemingly so anxious to confront his ac cusers in Memphis, that he excited the sympathy of our officers, and they con cluded not to have him “put in the pa pers.” But when they went to release him from his manacles, they found upon his person a very neat and effective saw, made from his pocket knife, by which he had very nearly effected his escape, and whicli he would have completed in a short time. This led his friends to believe him guilty of that worst of sins, ingrati tude, and also to the conclusiou that he was not anew hand in attempts to escape from tight places — and hence this expose. Montgomery Confederation, 81s/. Public Meeting in Baltimore. The extent to which rowdyism has gone in Baltimore, and Us latest bloody and brutal manifestations, has caused a gene ral reaction in the feelings of the citizens there, and a public meeting is called for Monday, the 4th proximo, to devise meas ures for putting a stop to it. Unless the citizens of that city do some thing, and that speedily, to suppress rowdyism and install order and law, the evil will soon be without remedy. Lieut, S. 11. Lockett. The Montgomery Confederation makes the following mention of our old acquaint ance and school mate: Brevet 2d Lieut. Samuel 11. Lockett, Corps of Engineers, U. S. A., passed through this city on Sunday, en route for West Point, New York. Lieut. L. has been assigned to the pest of Acting As sistant Professor in Department of Span ish at the U. S. Military Academy, West Point, N. Y. He graduated with distinc tion at that institution in June last; and has been spending his furlough with his friends in Marion, in this State. Confidence Man. The pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church, at Knoxville, Tenn., has issued a circular, cautioning the public to be on their guard against a man calling himself J. M. Barnes, who, according to the Cen tral Presbyterian, of Richmond, is travel ing about the country in a clerical dis guise, swindling the unsuspecting of whatever he can lay his hands on. He is described as a man about thirty years of age, of medium height, short* hair, in flamed eyes, and a decided weakness for flashy fob chains. His last field of ope retion was Knoxville, where he success fully played the “confidence game” on several persons. M. & O. Rail Road. The W’est Point (Miss ) CitizeD, says: “The track is laid ten miles above West Point, to the Aberdeen and Palo Alto road, and Messrs. Leonard & Bell, with unparalleled energy and a strong force, are driving ahead with the business at the rate of one mile per day. They will reach Prairie Mount, the third station above us and 247} miles from Mobile, by Saturday next. They confidently expect, to reach Okolona by or before the first of October. The Fauquir W'hite Sulphur Springs were sold last Wednesday, to Mr. Hug gins, of Caroline county, Va., for $32,- 000. The watering place known as the Rockbridge Baths, in Rockbridge county, was sold last Saturday to Wm. A. Mann, for $21,000. The Cold Sulphur Springs, in the same county, were also exposed for sale, but bid in by the proprietor at $20,000. Mad Cows. 0 The Mobile Tribune of the 27 th inst. says: We learn that several cows have recent ly been killed in the outskirts of the city, near Government street, which showed unmistakable signs of hydrophobia. A cow was killed yesterday morning which attacked everything in a very furious manner that came near her, even chil dren. She appeared to be blind until an object, man or beast, came within ten or fifteen feet of her. We make the state- all on their guard. ARRIVAL OF TIIE STEAMER J A SO N . St. Johns, N. F., August 30. The steamship Jason has arrived from Gal way. She brings Liverpool dates to Au . gust 20th. Liverpool Cotton Market. — ihe sa.es of the week amount to 34.000 bales. All qualities had slightly declined—lower and middling qualities the most. Inferi or grades declined Jd. The market was quiet. London Money Market. —Consols were quoted at 951 to 951. SECOND DISPATCH. Liverpool Cotton Market.— Sales of the week 34,000 bales, of which speculators took 3,500, and exporters 4,000 bales. Inferior grades and sandy descriptions declined still more than other qualities. The market dull. On Friday, the sales were 7,000 bales, of which speculators and exporteis took I, bales. The market was quiet. The quotations were as follows : Fair Orleans 8 and. Mid. Orleans 7 and *• Mobiles T%A. “ Mobile <%l. “ Upiands 7%d. “ Up1and5....613-tad. Latest — Liverpool, Saturday noon.—Cot ton dull; sales of 4,000 bales. Stock, 057,000 bales, of which 588,600 bales were American. Quotations were barely maintained. Liverpool General Markets. —Flour quiet. Wheat firm ; all qualities of French had slightly advanced. Corn declining ; holders offered freely, but showed no dis position to press sales. Beef heavy ; holders were pressing on the market. Pork heavy ; holders were pressing on the market. Bacon heavy ; declined Id. to 2d. Lard quiet. Coffee quiet. Rice dull. Spirits of Turpentine steady,* at j 35s od. On Saturday, breadstuff’s were quiet. Stale of Trade. — Manchester advices were unfavorable. London General Markets.- On Fri day, su gar was very dull. Rice steady. Amer ican securities unchanged. On Saturday, sugar was dull, and declined 6d. Con sols 95}. Havre Markets.— Orleans Tres Ordinaire was quoted at 113f., and Las at lOOf., and declining. Sales of the week, at Havre, 5,000 bales. Stock 82,000 bales. i Money Market easier. Wheat firm.— Provisions very dull. General News. —Nothing was known in regard to the Zurich Conference. The Empress Eugenie is enceinte. j The National Assembly of Tuscany de clares that the dynasty must not be re called. The National Assembly of Modena was taking strong grounds in favor of nation al liberty. Mons. Fould had accepted the Dicta torship of Parma. The work on the fortifications of Koen i igsberg was vigorously resumed. Cardinal Autonelli had resigned the Presidency of the Council of Rome. The King of Oude had been released. The harvest prospects in Great Britain were favorable. The ship Tranquebar. from Savannah, arrived at Liverpool on the 13th. The ships Mackinaw and Chicago, sailed from Liverpool on the 13th, for Charleston. The U. S. Agricultural Fair. Chicago, Aug. 26.—The preparations making for the fair of U. S. Agricultural Society, to be held in this city, on Sep tember 12th, are rapidly approaching completion. The rail roads centreing here have made arrangements to carry stock articles to the exhibition free, and visitors for half price. The superinten dent is in daily receipt of letters from all’ parts of the country, containing applica tions for room. The prospects for a successful Fair are very flattering. Death of Eminent Merchants. Baltimore, Aug. 27.—George Brown, Sr., of the Baltimore Banking House of George Brown & Cos., and immensely wealthy, died at his residence this morn ing, at an advanced age. James Swan, another wealthy citizen, also died this morning. Both of the deceased were ex- Presidents of the Merchant’s Bank of this city. Democratic Congressional Conven tion. Bangor, Me., Aug. 26.—At the Demo cratic Convention held in the Third Con gressional District a few days since, Wm. 11. Burrill and James Y. McClintock were elected Delegates to the National Conven tion at Charleston. Both gentlemen are friends of Judge Douglas. Strong popu lar sovereignty resolutions were passed. Failure of Wholesale Grocers. Cincinnati, Aug. 26. — Messrs. Holmes & Conwell, grocers and commission mer chants, have assigned their property. Conwell has absconded. Another Triumph for Flora Temple. New York, Aug. 27.—Flora Temple beat Princess and Saratoga three straight heats to-day; average time two thirty four two-thirds. Shooting Affair. New Orleans, Aug. 28.—There was a street shooting affray to-day, between Dr. Foster and Dr. Choppin, both Charity Hospital Physicians. Dr. Choppin re ceived two pistol shots, and is considered dangerously wounded. The cause was professional jealousy. Late from Havana. New Orleans, Aug. 28.—The steam ship Philadelphia arrived to-day. She brings Havana dates to the 24th, and Key West dates to the 25th inst. News unim portant. Sugar dull. Sterling 141 to ! 15}. Exchange on New York 5} to 61. Gold 5 to 61 premium. Rifie Arms in Warfare. A correspondent of the London Times, writing of the Austrian army in Italy, says : It is not alone the rifled cannon that has changed the conditions upon which modern armies must now fight—the use of rifled arms of every description must alter the old system of manoeuvring in the field. Austria, with its fondness for old established rules, has not realized this as the French have done. An Austrian sol dier retiring from the field of Solferino, remarked that the French fired much quicker thau their opponents. Numbers of them, he said, fire from the hip with out taking aim. This is true The French, instead of a simple line of skir mishers in advance of tlieir columns, had a double line, the rearmost of which fired over those in advance of them. Thus it was that the ground in rear of the Aus trian front was alive with projectiles, which, although propelled without aim, did not fail to annoy severely the regi mental reserves. It was this system of firing at high elevation which rendered the Rocca hill at Cavriana untenable by the Emperor of Austria and his staff, long before the French were in close proximity to the spot. Canaries. Canaries should be kept in secure ca ges, suspended in an isolated position, I intact by any wall or other obstacle, by which access to them can be gained by rats or cats. A pair of beautiful canaries, belonging to a lady on High street, were attacked by rats on Friday night last, in a manner showing how ingenious these mischievous vermin are, when on a thiev ing expedition. The cage was in six , inches of the mantlepieee. The light had been extinguished in the room aud the lady took a seat near the window, when the light of the rising moon presently re vealed to her two rats climbing nimbly up the corrugated pillars of the mantle. She watched them until they gained the top safely; then they proceeded towards the cage, when one raised himself on his hind legs, the other placed himself in his paws, and in this way was handed over to the rim of the cage. This produced a swinging motion in the little prison, and as it swayed over, rat number two jumped aboard. They were then about to paw through their intended victims, when the lady put an end to their calculations by putting an end to them. The store of Benjamin Barton, at Al exandria, was robbed on Friday night, the 26th, of watches and jewelry to the value of $7,500. The entrance into the store was effected through a building un ; occupied. CALIFORNIA POLITICS. Broderick oil l)r. (twin —The Liuic l ointer, and ich” Took Han Out of the Dirt. From a report oi Mr. Broderick s speech at Quincyt that appears in theSaci auietito Uni. m. e make the following extracts: THE SENATOR! W. ELECTION —TIIE UNGRATE EEL LUCE. POINTER. Fellow citizens, I have too much re speet f.--r mv audience and myself to in dulge in the low scun i ity in which Dr, Gwin evidently luxuriates In whatever 1 may have to say o’ him a:ul !>is perfor mances. 1 shall endeavor to be guided within the limits of the record, and within the common rules of decorum and de cency. I have but one epithet to apply to him, and to that one he can raise no possible objection ; for it is of his own creation, born of his own love, and nour ished to day by the regretful memories into which lie falls while engaged in de livering each and all o! his well consid ered stump manuscripts. It us a name that h - might well flatter himself was connected with posthumous glory ; for no well informed American citizen shall en ter the Golden Gate for many a year to come without thinking of the wisdom and honesty which characterized the first attempt to secure Government possession of Lime Point. I found the Lime Pointer in the dirt , deserted by his own friends — by the men to whom he had given position and influence. In such a condition he sought me for the purpose of obtaining a re election to the seat which he now occu pies, and which he had held for six years previous. lie told me that he had been de sorted by the friends upon whom he had con fidently relied, and he beyged of me, in the most humiliating manner, to take him with me ■in the United States Senate. [Laughter.] Well, I despised him at the time, but 1 had to make a choice between two evils. Latham had deceived and endeavored to betray me, and I had no one to select other than Latham or Dr. Gwin. McCor kle was my first choice, the man whom I preferred over any other in the Mate, but it was discovered that his election was impossible. Therefore it was that 1 de termined to use my legitimate influence in favor of the election of Dr. Gwin, and by that influence, unquestionably, he was elected. ABOUT CRUELTY TO ANIMALS. In his Forest Hill speech, he perpe trates an undoubted witticism by stating that he would not violate the law’ against cruelty to animals, by meeting me on the stump. His conscientious regard for my feelings, expressed in such an elegant and gentlemanly comparison, finds no re sponse in my bosom. I neither appreci ate his forbearance, nor do I believe that if I had the advantage which he claims for himself, and was in the position which I know him to be, that I would exhibit his gracious consideration Possibly, if I considered an opponent of mine to be of no higher grade and of no more intel lectual worth than a beast, I might take into consideration, before I attempted to inflict a direct and severer punishment upon him, whether liq. was an obstinate animal, and was likely to prove dange rous under the merciless administration of the rod. [Laughter and cheers.] Os course, I cannot say whether Dr. Gwin’s reflections extended this far or not. I give him credit for not having been cruel or even severe in his attacks upon me, thus far, and I repeat once more, that I would welcome the scourge which he boasts of having in bis band,; assuring him that neither I nor my friends will take advantage of any constitutional pro visions, or any statutory enactments, to punish him for “cruelty to an animal,” in the event that he falls savagely upon me and spares not. [Cheers.] GWIN ALLEGED TO BE “AGENT” FOR THE PACIFIC MAIL STEAMSHIP COMPANY. I here accuse Dr. Gwin of having been the paid agent of the Pacific Mail Steam ship Company. [Tumultuous cheering, and cries of “That’s true!” and “By G —d, we all know it.”] THE LIME POINT BUSINESS.’ My colleague, (Gwin,) and Messrs. Denver and Weller were anxious to se cure an appropriation of $200,000 for the purchase of the Lime Point property. You will recollect that my predecessor, now the Governor of this State, wrote tw 7 o remarkable letters upon this subject. Doubtless you have all seen them. They will be found in the report of my Placer ville speech. Mr. Gwin made a state ment to the effect that this property would not sell for less than $200,000. Mr. Fessenden, a Senator from Maine, replied to Dr. Gwin, stating that he was a member of the Military Committee at the time, and that no such understanding was had wheu the appropriation was madp. My confident belief is, fellow citi zens, that Dr. Gwin and Governor Weller were both interested parties, or else they would never have taken the trouble that they did to urge the payment of $200,000 to the owner of this property, when they knew that a sufficient amount of land whereon to erect the contemplated forti fication, was not worth over live or six thousand dollars. Gen. Denver and Dr. Gwin are both telling the people that if the appropriation had been made and the purchase consummated that the process of erecting the fortifications would have commenced immediately, and hundreds of your men would have been given profi table employment in working upon them. Why, fellow citizens, they intended to leave only SIOO,OOO for the purpose of beginning the work. That would scarce ly have commenced the foundation. The fort which now stands at the entrance of San Francisco harbor has already cost $500,000, and is not completed yet. GWIN READS HIS SPEECHES, AND IS PROSY. I made a speech during the last Con gress on the Pacific Rail Road bill, while it was before the House. I did not read it, as Dr. Gwin read his, although I tried to urge its passage in as emphatic a man-* ner as possible. He at that time made a very long speech. He read every one out of the .Senate save myself and Mr. Doo little, of Wisconsin. I took notice of his speech in the one which I made,- which served to bring liis remarks into some prominence. I did not speak of it for the purpose of ridiculing him. But it seems •very singular to me, knowing him as well as I do, to hear him talk with importance and consequential airs, of arraigning his colleague. If he is the great man which he represents himself to be in his written speeches, and if I am as insignificant as lie, in bis nice phrases, declares me to be, would it not be better for him to come before the people and address them with me, instead of taking printed or written speeches and reading them from a public stand? He would then be able to give convincing proof of his super : ority by the immediate contrast which would-fee made. New York Dry Hoods Trade. The market is now active. A large business is doing in staple goods; still the importers are not satisfied, as they are putting out circulars to keep up prices —which, if they were certain of their ground, they would not do. Desirable goods are maintained in prices, hut unde sirable styles, with which the market is inundated, are offered at low figures. The purchasers, who are increasing in num ber, continue their bills to small amounts, in expectation of buying more bv-and-by, at lower rates. The auction rooms are being crowded with French and German goods, which will be offered later in the season. Prices in England, of rnanufac tnred goods, are firmer, but this will not affect our market, already over supplied from France and Germany. Some im porters are more ready to extend credit a Lttle, to facilitate the sale of their goods, but this last resource of overtrading is a dangerous game to play. The domestic market is more active than the foreign. Ldt a woolen and cotton staple goods are in better demand than supply. Delaines, however, ♦ave given way in price. Fancy styles of cassimere are the most active article of sale in woolen %oods. The im portations of foreign dry goods continue heavy. The following is a comparative statement bf the Imports of Foreign Dry Goods at the port of New York, for the week, and since January Ist r For the Week. 1857. 1858. 1859. Entered at p0rt....52.519,736 $1,230,432 $3,345,128 Thrown on market 2,(343,545 1,573,847 3,521,703 Since Jan. lat Entered at p0rt....72,555,010 37,633,522 82,107,678 Thr’n on murket...09,673,872 44,138,938 82,035,660 r . — lndependent. ! A Fearful : ragedy at St Louis—A Bur glar Cut to Pieces. A public house on (lie k'er, at St. Louis, having been lately Irequently en tered by burglars. J lie barkeeper, named John Davis, armed himself with a revol ver and bowie- knife on Monday night, with the view of keeping watch. The Morning Herald says : Between 12 and 1 o’clock lie was a wak ened by hearing someone enter through a small window in the rear. There was no light in the bar-room, and after de manding of his visitant who he was and what he wanted, lie fired at him one charge of his revolver, which, strangely enough was loaded with powder only. The load took effect in the right shoulder, setting the fellow’s clothes on fire, but of course inflicting no injury upon the bur glar’s person. At this moment the bur glar, whose name subsequently proved to be Nicholas Watkins, made an attack upon Davis with a pocket Unite, which Davis succeeded in wrenching from him, not, however, until he w,-.s severely in jured by having the open knife drawn through his hand. Davis, terribly light ened,°anl with a full comprehension of his own great danger, made an attack upon his violcut and unseen assailant, which is without a parallel in the most bloody rencounter of which we have ever heard. With one blow of his bowie knife a nQ *', sharp, and most murderous wea pon, with a blade seven inches in length he stabbed Batkins to the heart, the knife severing one or two ribs and pas sing through the heart and iiings. ahe blow was quickly followed by eighteen or twenty others, some sixteen or more of which, it was found on the post mortem examination, were necessarily mortal. In the meantime Davis was lustily call ing for the watch. Officers John Ryan, Hugh Logue and Daniel Bollard, of the | night police, happened to he in the imme diate neighborhood, rapped at the door, I and were admitted by Davis, who was in 1 the act of lighting the gas. Watkins was | found in the other room dying. He lived I but a few seconds after the entrance of the officers. In the rear of the premises were found his hat and shoes, which had evidently beezi removed for the purpose of enabling him to operate more noise lessly and safely. It was shown at the inquest that the ! deceased was a uative of Maryland, and ! about forty years of age. He was for merly a steward on a boat on the Chesa peake aud Ohio canal; afterwards entered 1 the army aud was sent to Florida. Last March he was sent to Fort Leavenworth, and was there tried for a homicide. He I was, however, acquitted, on the ground that the act was done in self-defence.— | Davis has given himself up, But will no doubt be discharged. <V Mobile Sea Island Cotton. Mr. S. S. Taylor, formerly of Marengo County, Ala , where he had been en gaged for many years in the successful growing of cotton, for the three suc cessive years, was credited with having produced th*e finest samples of petit Gulf . cotton sold in Mobile, has latterly devo ’ ted himself to the culture of the long staple Sea • Island cotton, near Sanders’ Mills, Ala. The result has been the realization of his most hopeful expecta tions. Having procured a bushel of seed of the celebrated “ Lawton Cotton,” of Charleston, S. C., one month later j than it ought to have been planted, he j sent to Mobile one stalk of the crop, at I the request of a gentleman who walked ! over his patch with him. We annex the following extract from liis letter, to the Mobile Tribune, of the 28th: The stalk has four hundred and ten bolls and forms on it, and this with care less culture, and -without any fertilizer whatever being applied to it. Nor was there any manure whatever put on this land last year, but a heavy crop of Chi nese sugar can; was grown on it, which 1 yielded two heavy cuttings of cane and ! which is known to be very exhaustive of land. Two years ago 1 manured my patch with stable manure and planted it in potatoes. Why this may not be turned into a Sea Island and rice country I am unable to see. I acknowledge, sir, that we are in the piny woods. Corn cannot be grown to profit here: but why not raise cotton worth from thirty to seventy-live cents | per pound, grow rich from its culture and fat on fish and oysters, rather than start to Texas and die on the road, or soon after reaching your destination, or muck away in the canebrake mud and stagnant water, each gallon of which contains a thousand wiggletails, and one chill to the i square foot ? I send you facts, hoping your nume rous readers may be as much profited by them as by the many stories that find their way into the papers, of less real value than discussions on agriculture. At a more advanced stage of this cotton, 1 promise you another stalk or sample, with something more about the soil, cli i mate, &c. S. S. TAYLOR. Make Haste, Slowly. It is the general conviction, and a com mon saying among people, that literary and professional men are lazy. There is no greater mistake. He who can succeed so far as to acquire reputation in litera ture or in a profession, must have been and must be an immensely industrious man. His labor may be unseen and un appreciated by the world at large, and it is commonly so. A general and casual observation of the class spoken of would justify that opinion, but watch such an one, when be has withdrawn to his study or his office, know his wearisome hours of night labor, and unseen, solitary toil, and the opinion will vanish. The truth : is, there is a little piece of philosophy j underlying this opinion of tlqj world not | perceived generally. ■ i There is a repugnance between great and continued intellectual exertion and rapid corporal movement. Hard study, severe thought, strong emotion, any great intellectual or moral exercise, arrests and retards physical action. For exam ple, let a train of thought suddenly strike a man, and he instantly becomes self-absorbed, his physical powers become quiet, his motions slow; and the deeper i the thought, the slower the motion, and the more habitual reflection becomes, the slower and more deliberate will be his . actions. Lord Kames, in his elements of criticism, somewhere says, in substance, that tlie rapidity of a man’s motions are a pretty fair gauge of his mental exer cises. A fidgety, fussy, rapid-moving man has fidgety, fussy, and rapid (and, of course, evanescent) ideas and conclu sions, while profounder and more valua ble reflections accompany slower motion ed men. It is not alone among professional or literary men, that this philosophy holds. Look at your merchants aud mechanics, who have been successful in labor, fame and fortune, and see if it is not also true of them. Look at them—they move slowly, even in their walk—they are de liberate—they ponder well—they would not be taken for industrious men by per , sons to whom they were unknown. On ! the other hand, yonder is a man always rushing, pushing, driving—he is called industrious. He has been moving at that rate for a lifetime. Enquire into his history, and ten to one that you will find that it is made up of thriftiessness, in stability, and perpetual failure. Os course there are exceptions to all rules—but it is a safe maxim, make haste slowly. Everything valuable and permanent is the product of time and slow continuous labor. Lay your foundation well, and build slowly.— Richmond Morning Xews. * An entirely new idea has made its ap pearance on Broadway, New York. It is a snug little saloon called “The Spa,” at which very correct imitations of the cele brated German waters at Baden-Baden and elsewhere, may be obtained. They are manufactured by Dr. Smith, formerly of Cincinnati, who has made the analyz ing and re combination of waters a life long study. His imitations are said to be perfect by German Spring drinkers, who have tried them, and among his regular patrons are many old continental travel ers, valetudinarians, who visit his estab lishment every morning, and take one or two glasses from the “Spa.” The waters are served out at precisely the same tem perature as the original, so the illusion is almost complete.
