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Newspaper Page Texto BMC. jty jamcs. Montgomery.^ There is a land <ff every lend ibe pride. Beloved by Heaven oVr dll The world bea.de i WhTjre brighter sons dispense eeroner light. And milder moons erapwwhee the night; A land of besotf. virtue, valor, ‘truth. Time-tmored age, and !»ve-«altcd youth ; The wandering mariner, whose eye explores The wealthiest isles, the most erehanted shores, Views not a realm so bountiful and fair, Nor breathes the spirit of a purer air ; In every clime the magnet of his soul. Touched by remembrance, tremblesl*< that po.e. For in this land of Heaven's, peculiar grace, The heritage of nature s noblest race, There is a spot of earth snpreraely'blest, A dearer, sweelcr spot than all the rest. "Where man, creation's tyrant, casts aside 'His sword and sceptre, pageantry m:d pride. While in his softened looks benignly blend Tbe sire, the son, tbe husband, brother, friend ; Here woman reigns; the mother, sister, wife. Strew with fresh flowers the narrow way of life! In the clear heaven of her delightful eye, An angel-guard of love and graces lie ; Around her knees domestic duties meet, 'And firesidepleasures gambol at their feet. Where shall that land, that spot Of earth be found; Art thou a man—a patriot ? look around ; O, thou shalt find, howe'er thy footsteps roam, That land (Ay country, and that spot thy home. too proud to b.-g, In: I termini 5 to placv h-.-.nscif beyond the place, of physical want, and shot han sel f as above stated, and now cemes the most sin gular portion <rf this most extraordinary an' 1 /- Notwithstanding the loss of a portion of the brain Thursday he was able to sit up in bed and con verse intelligently with all-v.ho called upon him. There is no doubt of the truthfulness <Vf thcetate- ment. and The case is one of those wonderful in stances that are occasionally recorded, where parties have r e c overed from the effect of wounds in those parts of the system whish. under almost aity circumstances, if lias been considered certain and immediate death to distuib. The affair has excited the earnest attention of the medical pro fession. it Oamr at tbe Bead-Letter Office. A female correspondent of Life Illustrated giv ving account of a visit to the dead-letter the following office at Washington: We had been-fortunate enough te procure the Notwithstanding—— r ,, and the perforation of the eknll, by the bullet, air. entree to this place through special favor and in- Brown is in a rapid way towards recovery. On fl uenC e, although, as a general thing, no visitors * Pi L flemri* Opinion el Argrors ana \egro 'Slavery. One of the most talented and distinguished, and hv far the mo«t sensible of all the English men who have visited the- United Slates, is Mr. G. P. R. JAMES, the great novelist and the .present ‘The Heart ie Krer Seeking. 1 BY T. A. EDGAlt. In youth we seek for pleasure, And oft we toiling go, And, 'when at eve we’re weary, ‘We wonder whywe’re are so ; But, with the coming morrow. Again we’re oil the bound, And chase, with keen desire, The echo of a sound. The heart is ever seeking, seeking— The heart is erer seeking For something not yet found. When we’ve attained to manhood. We enter in the strife, And bring upon us troublee That vrr.ir away the life ; We seek to find a true friend, On whom we may depend. Who’ll cheer us in the struggle When we have to contend. Tbe heart is ever seeking, seeking— The heart is erer seeking For something not yet found. And when the weary days come That maketh sad the heart. And we. from w-orldly pleasures, Forever would depart, We seek to build-cur hopes, then, Ori something far-above. And dream we’ll bud a ho.nf, there, Of endless peace and love. The heart is ever seeking, seeking— The heart is ettr seeking For something not j et found. August: Pvjri. King Solomon's Blacksmith. And it came to pass when Solomon, the son of British consul at Richmond, Va. Mr James has resided in the South for the last six years, and has had frequent opportunities to see and judge of the institution of-slavery. He has improved these and his prejudices against that institution, if he brought any to his country with him, have all been removed. In a long and well written article on “Virginia Country life,” published in the last number of The Kmick rbucker, occur.-; tho'following paragraph; The negro life of Virginia differs very little, I believe, from the negro life all through the South. In return for food, clothing, houseroom, medical attendance, and support ic old age, about one- third ofthc labordnieli ’ is required of the white man iu most countries is demanded of the black. He performs it badly, and would not perforin it at all if he were not compelled, time is spent in singing dancing, laughing; chat tering and bringing up pigs and chickens. That negroes arc the worst servants in the world, every man I believe, but a thorough-bred Southern man will admit; but the Souther has been reared among them from his childhood, and in general has a ten derness and affection for them of which Northern men can have no conception. Great fare is taken by the law to guard them against oppression and wrong; and after six years’ resident in the State— I can safely say I never saw more than one in stance of cruelty toward a negro, and that was perpetrated by a foreigner. That there may still be evils in the system which might be removed by law, and that there may be individual, instances of oppression and even had treatment.' 1 do not de ny, but those instances are not so frequent as those of cruelty to a wife or child in Northern lands as displayed everv day by the newspapers; and in point of general happiness it would not be amiss to alter an old adage and say: ‘"As merry as a ne gro slave.” I must not pursue this branch of the subject farther for I can pretend to no great love for Dr. Living- stone’o fri-nds, the Makololos. There are are be yoi.J all doubt,-some very excellent people among them; but as a race, the more I see of them the less do I think them capable of civilization, or even fitted to take care of themselves. are admitted, lt'was a large light room, with two or three desks, at which were seated aged officers in silent occupation among literal drifts ot letters. The walls were lined-on evety side with huge mail sucks, which had been -returned -full of un claimed epistles, from myriads of post offices. There might have been tifty or a hundred of these sacks, and each probably contained thousands on thousands of letn rs! •‘How rapidly you dispose of them! said I, watching the speed with which the clerks tore open th>- epistles, glancing over them to see that no drafts, checks, or other important documents, were inclosed, and then threw them upon au im mense beep of opened letters at their feet. •‘It is all in habit, mi'sm." said the gentleman nearest me; "we are accustomed to open a certain number daily, audio those who do not understand the expedition and accuracy with which we woik. David, had finished the Temple of Jerusalem, that he called unto him the chief architects, the head ariiticerg, and cunning workers in silveraud gold, and in wood , and in ivory, and stone—yea ail who had aided in rearing the Temple of the Led, and he said unto them: “Sit ye down at my table; I have prepared a feast for all my chief workers; aud cunning artifi cers. Stretch forth your hands, therefore, ai ' “at and drink, and be merry. Is not the laborer . or- tby ofhis hire? Is not the skillful arrificci de serving honor/ Muzzle not the ox that treadeth out the corn ’’. And when Solomon and the chief workmen were seated, and the fatness of the land and tbe oil thereof were set upon the table: there came one who knocked loudly at the door and forced him- liitnself even into the festal chamber Then Sol omon was wroth and said: “What manner of .man art thou?” And the man answered and said: “When men wish to honor me they call me Son of the’Forge, but when they desire to mock me they-call m<- blacksmith; and seeing that ihe toiling of working in fire covers me with sweat and smut the latter name O King, i» not inapt, and in truth, thy servant desires no better ” “But” said Solomon “w hy came thou thus rude ly and unbidden to the feast; wh-re none save the chief workman of the Temple were invi ted r “Please ye, my lord, ! came rudely,” replied the man “because thy servant obliged me to force my wav; but t came not unhidden. Was it not pro claimed that the chief workmen of tiie temple were invited to dine with the king of Israel?” Then he who carved the cherubim said. “This fellow is noscnlpture;” aud lie who in laid the roof with pure gold said: “Neither is he a workman in fine metals.” And he who raised the walls said; “He is not a cutter of stone.” And he who made the roof cried out: “He is not cunning in cedar wood: neither knoweth he the mystery of uniting pieces of strange timber togeth- 1 Story of Real Life— i be Spanish Widow . There lived in the province of Galiea a lady so j porfectly beautiful that she was called by all trav- | filers, and indeed by all who beheid her, the * Flower ot Spam.” With those excellent charms I she possessed all the virtues which are so rarely I to be found united in such extreme personal love- it w ould seem, indeed, almost incredible.” As he spoke, a tiny gold ring rolled from the folds of a rose-tinted letter, whose pages were evidently written over by a delicate female had. "‘A-ehild's ring,” he asid, taking it up, “would you like to look at i-t, ma’am?” I took it in my hand—it was a fairy circlet of virgin gold, with the words “Mary to E. V.” engraved within—and I wondered who the Mary was, whether the little “E. V.,” who never re ceived the tiny gift, was di ad or living. Meanwhile, the clerk had been taking a rapid note of the signature, direction, Ac. “What will you do with it?” 1 inquired, return ing the ring to Ids care. “We lay all such things aside, in case they should be called for.” “And are they often redeemed?” ‘ Not often—not once in a hundred instances,” The rest of his j lie replied, taking a little gold dollar from beneath the seal of another letter, aud laying it carefully under the desk. We stood in silence regarding the pile of opened letters, which was growing higher with every moment. It was a strange medley of styles and hand-writing. Some were inscribed on huge sheets of foolscap, in a manner that conveyed the impression to your mind that the writer must- have grasped a pen with both hands, and gone at the paper as he would dig a spade into tiie earth, and folded with a glorious disregard of all geometrical precision, others again were daintly written on colored tissue paper, aud some were in that easy, flowing hand that bespeaks energy and re finement of character in the calligrapher. “Oh, how 1 should hke to read these letters,” said I, involuntarily. The official smiled. “This is what all the ladies say. It would be almost impossible to preserve our charge from the curiosity of the f-male sex, it, fortunately, our rules did not proiect us from many visitois.” “Do you ever read them?” “Never, unless they semi very important or con tain inelosuies of value. It is all we can do to keep up with tbe arrivafof the dead mails now. It we were to stop to read om- letter in a hundred, we should be lamentably behind hand; besides the privacy of these letters is a point of honor with us. We have no more right to read them here, when unnecessary, than to pry into any other personal secrets.” Here one of the clerks leaned over and handed our companion a tiny package. “From one of the letters,” he said, “I thought the lady might feel iuteiested in it.” It w as a single curl of golden hair tied with a j in mind as lie was ungainly in person. Beinp very wealthy, he fully expeded this beautiful j creature would .gladly become bis wife, the mor | born parentage. But she preferred to allow her : aff ctions to rest on a youu^ gentleman of small P a S e lliat »'«* ‘o. gladden the heart of the far away | estate but amiable character; and being married husband, to him, they retired to the provinces, and spent three years of as perfect happiness as is permit J ted frail mortals to enjoy. ! At the end of this period he was obliged to go ! to Madrid on business of a lawsuit, and was uti- i fortunately murdered on the way, leaving his un- j happy wife, with one little boy. aud in rather j straightened circumstances. Shortly utter the • otu Kiugtlt again proffered his hand, which she decidedly rejected. He neither respected the sacredness of her grief, nor her forlorn state, but | molested her so continually with letters and-pres- Tben said Solomon, “What has thou to say, Son of the Forge, why I should not order thee to be plucked by the heard, scourged aud stoned to death with stones?” And when the Son of the Forge heard this he was in no sort dismayed, but advancing to the ta ble, snatching up aud swallowed a cup of wine, and said: "O King, lit e forever! The chief -men of the workers iu wood, and gold, and stone have said that I am not of them, aud they have said truly!— I am their superior, before they lived was I cre ated..I am their master, and they are all servants. And he turned round, and said to the chief of the carvers in stone. “ Who made the tools with which youcarve ?” And he said “the blacksmith. And he said to the chief of the masons: “Who made the chisels with which tbe stones of the Temple were squared?” Aud he said “the blacksmith?” And he said to the chief of the workers in wood; “Who made the tools with which you hewed trees on Lebanon,and formed them into pillars aud roof of the .Temple/” And he said “the blacksmith.” Then said he to the artificer in gold and ivory: “Who makes the instruments, by which you work beautiful things for my lord, the King?” And be said: “The blacksmith.*’ “Enough, enough, pood fellow,” said Solomon, “thou hast proved that I have invited thee, and thou art all men’s father in art. Go wash the smut of the forge from tby face, and come and sit at my right hand. The chief of my workmen are but men— thou art more.". So it happened at tbe feast of Solomon, and blacksmiths have been honored ever since. [London Magazine. shrieks, they soon recognised it to be that of tiie t old Knight of Castle, though his countenance ' was so blackened and distorted as to appear scarce ly human. It was evident that he had died by poison, and as the unhappy lady could give rio account of the matter, in spite of her hitherto fair and unblemished reputation, she was thrown into prison as his murderess. The persecution she had suffered from the de ceased knight was generally known, but was now attributed to a dishonorable cause, and the mur derer of her husband never having been reared up, she was considered by many persons as guilty The BMf yinhuuitnl Compositor. We have seen the much talked of typesetting and distributing machine, recently patented by Mr. Aldea, a practical primer. We cannot, nor will we attempt to explain it, further than it has a rotary motion and picks up ;he type out of a case and deposits them iu proper position for justifica tion. it is certainly a great invention, but will never come into uuiversa. use. It can only set the type with a rapidity equal to our best Compositors, but then it combines one qualification which will nut be lost sight of, and that is that it distributes •the type at the same time the setting operation is going on, or in other words it keeps its case full all the time, tt might be used to ad-'autage by book publishers, or even on weekly newspapers; but on a daily morning journal it would rariier retard than facilitate tiie work. It ofteu happens in a daily paper office that a piece of copy has to be cut up iu what the printers call “tasks” of four and five iio-s each, aud divided between thirty and forty men, every one of whuin could probably accomplish as much in the few minutes that were allotted him as the machine. The only saving of time or labor in this new invention that we can preceive is in replacing the types after they have performed their duty. A good compositor will compose and distribute eight thousand euis in ten hones. This machine will do the work in about six hours, no time being lost in replacing the types: but it just as much requires the baud ot a practical printer to operate it as though it were nothing more than a “stick and rule.” A daily paper of fice would require nearly as many machines as it mw does compositors, and the cost alone which is about fifteen humied dollars each, would bar their entrance into such au establishment if nothing else. There is oue other advantage it has, which even printers themselves will hail with joy—it distributes “pi,” after being set up, with the same facility that it does ordinary reading matter. A’, y. Herald. lars, newspaper paragraph, bank bills, gold, car ls coarsely written messages from little ones, at home, w hose hands were guided by the mother or sister, so that the absent father, cousin, or brother, might have a little letter, and innumerable other affecting relics. “Where do all these letters go when they have been opened and examined? Are they burned!” “No; that was formerly the custom, however. We used to make great bonfires of them, but aside from the fact that bits of written papers would always escape from the flames, thus destroying all of both crimes, and the whole province was j privacy in the letters, it was found that many peo- stiocked that so beautiful a creature should have j I ,le made it a business to seek among the ashes for thus brought disgrace upon her sex and upon hu- j (he gold,jewels, dollars, etc , which olten escape mau nature. our not ? ce here, and go in the open letters. So At her trial the court w as crow ded to excess, 1 l )°' v they are all sent to a paper mill aud re-inanu- and the lady had nothing to offer but assertions factored as writing paper of her innocence, the servant Maria having sud denly disappeared, the advocated pass sentence of death. It was the custom in those days for a wo man who had committed murder to be fiist strangled and then burned iu the market place; before the sentence could be pronounced, a wit ness was moved by remorse to come forward iu her betialf. That was the servant Maria, who had hitherto been disguised in tbe body of the court. She stood oil one of the benches and earnestly entreated to be heard. She then confessed that she bad been prevailed on by the bribes and promises of the old knight of Castle, who declar ed lie intended to marry his mistress, to secrete bint iu the lady’s chamber, but solemnly declared she knew no other cause of his deatli except that on one of the shelves she had placed some sweet cakes mixed with arsenic to poison the rats, and that the knight being rather gluttonous, might have eaten them in the dark, aud so died. At this probable explanation, the court was instantly moved to declare the lady's innocence with one voice. She reviving a little at the noise, and be ing told of this providential discovery, only clasp ed her hands, and then, in a few words, commend ing her s-'ti to the guardianship of good men, ex claimed, ‘ 1 can never survive the shame of this unworthy reproach,” and with a deep sigh, expired on the spot. A Memphian and a Miracle —Jbe St. Louis De mocrat ot Saturday relates the follow ing: One of the most singular circumstances that baa ever come to our knowledge was related to us yesterday by a gentleman of this city, whose ve racity cannot be doubted, and who lias but recent ly returned from LaGiauge, Missouri, where the affair, which we arc about to disclose, occurred. On last Saturday, a stranger made liis appear ance in LaGrange, and after making unsuccess ful efforts to obtain employment, he resolved to commit suicide. Obtaining a pistol he placed the muzzle to his head and disci argetl the contents into his brain Upon ozaniir ation by a compe tent surgeon it was ascertained that} the ball pass ed through the skull between the eyes, and lodg ed in the back of the head. Part of the brain was scattered over the front of his hat. He was conveyed into the office of Mr. Gantt, of that City, a nephew of Tims. T. Gantt, Esq., of St. Louts, and medical aid quickly called to the as sistance of tbe sufferer. After 1,-in, ‘•The Bother of Waters.” Lieut. Habersham, his letters from China tc the Philadelphia Longer, asserts that the Missis sippi river, which we call the ‘Father of Waters," is not to be compared to the Vang-tse-Kiang river, to which he applies the name of ‘Mother of Wa ters.’ In proof of this lie compares the width and volume of the two streams: The Mississippi opposite New Orleans is not quite six hundred yaiiis wide, with a mean depth ,,f one hundred feet, aud a mean velocity ot near ly one and a half miles per hour. Thus a body ot water one and a halt miles long, six hundred yards wide, and one hundred feet thick is driven into 'he Gulf of Mexico every hour. A little more than one hundred miles Irom the mouth of tho Yang-tse-Kiang (the Son of the Sea) is lo cated the city of Kiang Yin. The river here is I 9-tO yards wide, has an average depth of ninety- nine feet, and a mean velocity of two miles per hour. Thus, we have, he remarks, a body of wa tt* two miles long, nineteen hundred yards wide, and ninety-nine feet thick hourly urged into the bosom of the Y'ellow Sea. Compare this volume w ith the first and it will be found to be almost double. Were tbe length of the great Chinese water course only known tiie comparison might be completed ; but that cannot be until the inte rior of China is opened to the world. Its esti mated length is three thousand three hundred miles. Lieut. Habersham estimates that tho wa ters of the Yang-tse-Kiang carry along in suspen sion the remarkable quantity of about thirty- tluee and a third per cent, of sedimentary mat ter. According to this estimate, 1,986,336,660 cu bic feet of mud is hourly transported to the sea by this river. Itseems quite incredible, but as earthy matter discharged by the Yang-tse-Kiang colors the waters at its mouth, giving to them the name of the Y ellow Sea. besides forming immense fiats, tbe amount must be very lnrge. The Yang- tse-Kiang, however, bears no better comparison with the Amazon, titan, according to Lieut. Hab ersham, the Mississippi does to the Chinese river. I nc Amazon, which is one thousand seven hun dred and sixty-nine miles in length in a direct line, or, including its windings, nearly four thous and miles, while four hundred miles front the At lantic it is more than a mile in width, and has a velocity of three and a half miles per hour, and in mid-current no bottom is found w ith twenty fathoms or one hundred and twenty feet. This noble ri-.er, with its tributaries, is estimated to af ford fifty thousand miles of inland navigation. We passed into another room where were many mementoes of the good old days before the law of pre-paying postage went into effect. There were of the huge stones which had been sent for “a joke,” involving an immense amount of postage to be paid by some unfortunate, who luckly never received the ponderous package—a gigantic rag baby, said to have been sent to some vinegar-faced old maid—a neatly manufactured night-cap, which some indignant old bachelor—name not recorded —refused, m high dudgeon, to receive, aud which consequently found its w ay here, and a daguer- reotyye of a young man, which had been cracked across the nose, aud wratlifully sent back by some fair damsel with whom he had quarreled. We asked the Postmaster General, to whom we were introduced, how it happened that all the employees in the dead letter office were gray haired old men. ‘.Because they have more discretion and less curiosity,” he said, smiling. “Younger men could not be depended upon: they would probably read the letters oi'tener.” “Aud why do you uot employ ladies? I am quite sure they could discharge the duties ad mirably.” Indeed,” said the Postmaster General, mis chievously, “I am afraid tin ir curiosity would be so extreme that the Department wonld fall into inextricable confusion, to say nothing of tiie number of secrets they would ferret out of the dead letters.” (lang broken up.—The Petersburg (Ind) Rcpubli- \ can, gives the details of the breaking up ot a band I of robbers that have for some time infested the i ifPighborhood. About a dozen liave been arrested. ' Oue of them was justice of peace and another was ; postmaster and constable. Miss Annie Law, of Tennessee, has accepted a Professorship to tiie Masonic Female College at ... .... , . After lying in an insen- , Lumpkin, Georgia. fiibl« condition during the day he recovered suffi- 1 cieutly to give the particulars which led to the comtnissin.i of he act lie gave l,is name as Brown, and claimed to be a native of .Memphis Tenr. Being poor and friendless, lie had not eat en anything since he left Cairo, a day or two pre- Discooragsd at not receiving employment, and The Lebanan llendd of the 26th says the crops in that region are sulTering.for rain. Late corn, in some localities, will unquestionably be cut short at least one-third. Early corn as a general thing will turn out well. The hog crop in New Y'ork, this year, w ill not it is said amount to two-thirds that of former years. Liebig.—7 he following account of the eminent chemist, Liebig, is from a European correspondent of Monroe’s Rural New Yorker: “On the last day which I passed in Munich, I went to hear the world-renowned chemist, Liebig, lecture. His laberatory aud lecture room are iu the same house in which he resides. When he entered the lecture room, the students all rose to receive him, and he acknowledged their attention with a slight bow. He wore a dress black coat and white pantaluoms. Liebig is a fine intel lectual lcukiug man, tall though not broad; has iron grey hair, which litis fallen off from his broad and projecting forehead; he wears no beard. He lectures iu a very conversational manner, part ot the time sitting: make many gestures anil good ones too. His face is expressive. He is, indeed, a good deal of an orator, and perhaps the best popu lar lecturer in Geitnany. Liebig was fifty-six years old on the 12tli of May, 1857. He was horn in Darmstadt, and at the age of twenty one was made Professor at Giessen. In Ie>52, he came to Munich, Between the years 1832 and 1856, he published oue hundred and .seventy-seven papers, many of which were very elaborate. He is said to be proud and overbearing; he is, howevei, on the side of progress, and heads the reform party in the University. I heard an American gentleman, who was well acquainted with him, express this opin ion: ‘I do not know a man whom a little ju dicious daninig would do as much good as Liebig.’ He ir cross and tyrannical to his assistants, and they do not deserve such treatment.” Prince Albert.—The only incident which occured during my stay in the quiet little city, was the viait of Prince Albert to his brother, Duke Ernst II. The P rinee came to his paternal State for the first time since Victoria’s visit in 1845. He traveled incognito, and was accompanied only by Col. I’onsonbv. In company with the Duke, he visited the new observatory, on which occasion I had the opportunity of being presented to him. He is now about forty years of age, quite stout, a little in clined to corpulency, and his brown hair is getting thin. I like him much better in civilian's dress than when 1 saw him in his Field-Marshal’s uni form in London. He is still a strikingly- hand some mau, and must have been captivating fifteen years ago. I was struck with the purity of his English pronounciation. Luke Ernst, although he is the older, appears to be the younger of the two. His manners are exceedingly dashing, off hand, unrestrained and frank, lie violates an tediluvian etiquette in a way most alarming to the old fogies, but the people like him, and there is no Prince in Germany who commands so much respect. He is a composer, an author and a capital actor, and withal as liberal in his political ideas as it is possible for a man iu his position to be. —Bayard Taylor's last letter. Cincinnati, Attg 2C—The committee appointed to investigate the affairs of the Ohio and Missis sippi Railroad Company, repot t that the contract ors did not perforin their contracts, nor do they intend doing so. BomaiKf In Beal Life—T(R *B*tefe’ Ctrl. The Washington (O.) “Register” has cooked up the following bit of romance and affirms that it is genuine. We have lately got in possession of some facts relative to to a thrilling incident, which conclu sively demonstrates fnat beauty and wrrth nn- adorned, as far more valuable than all the tinseled drapery of earth. Not over ten miles from Wash ington on one <tf tthese undulating farms that "looks so pleasant wher. covered with the verdure of June, is a pretty country residence, where a re tiled trader and his wife live, with their only son. in the enjoyment of wealth and ease. As we are not permitted to give the real naums of tire parties we will call tbe gentleman Mr. Landen. Among the “helps” in the house was a German girl who possessed remarkable beauty. There was an air of superiority in her manner and address; but the Laudens were somew hat a proud people and al ways treated her as many folks often do hired girls with distant hautvor. One pleasant day hist summer, the lady and gentleman had gone to visit a friend some miles distant, bnt Frank, being busy at something did i not accompany them. Soon after tiie carriage-was gone, Frank heard the sound of music. Some- ; what astonished, he stole into the house, and peep ed silently into the setting room. There sat Mary (as he will call her) with the guitar, which she played with a skill almost artistic. After execu ting a brilliant piece, she glided into a sweet French air, and then, with a rich voice, full of- pa’hos, sung one of the chasonette, of the Ber- angcr. The youth was entranced, and when she con cluded, he could not forbear an exclamation of sur prise and admiration. The girl turned hastily when she say the young man at the deor, whom she thought was oat with his parents;-she turned pale with dismay, tottered and fell fainting on the sofa. Frank ran to her aid, but was in a condi tion not much more rational; he had something ofj From the Charleston Mercury Aug- Min. Tbe CMstltutlmMriKt’s Defence of Mr. Steubws. The Auguste Constitutionalist. in an elaborate article, defends the Hon Alexander H. Stephens ffor his late declaration iu Cincinnati—' that he was in favor of the re-election to the Senate ot Judge Douglas, and he regarded the war by the I resi dent upon the anti-Lecompton men ot Illinois as wickedly foolish.” It quotes the Hon. James L. Orr ? of South Carolina in his iate speech at Cray- tonville, to prove that Mr. Stephens ‘'does not stand alone at the South.” Inserts that the issue in the Senatorial election is between Douglas and Lincoln—a ■Democrat or hr Abolitionist—and that between the two. the South ought to support the Democrat. Now, this is an error both ot tact anu argument. There are three parties in Illinois—the Lecompton or Administration Democrats. w ho de sire to return Mr. Breese to the Senate, t ic auti- Lecompton or Douglas Democrats, who desire o re-elect Mr. Douglas and the Black Republicans, who desire to elect 'Mr. Lincoln. The Uonsmn- tiunalist quotes an extract from a speech ot Air. Douglas, m which it is asserted that all differences between him and the Administration since the tri umph of his,policy in Kansas, is at an cm . u is this true? Cannot tiie Constitutionalist see that it is not true? Will not Kansas apply at the ap proaching session of Congress, with an anti- slavery constitution, for admission into the mmi, in spite of the provisions in the late Compiomise Act '—and if it does, will not a struggle arise in Congress, headed by Douglas, who will seek a neus triumph over-the Administration and the South, by overthrowing the Compromise, and forcing Kansas into tiie Union? Now here is an important issue directly before us, to be influenced by this elec tion, iu which Douglas is again, by the aid of the Abolitionists in Congress, to exert his power against the Administration and the South. Ihe Constitu tionalist thinks it. surprising that any one in tho S-iutli should be opposed to the election of Douglas. We are only surprised that a single man in the What blessed things Saturday nights wr, a what would tbe world do without them? Those breathing moments in the mafeh of life,, those lit tle twilights in the broad and gairish glare of noon when pale yesterday lroked'beautiful through the shadows, and faces, changed long ago smiling sweetly—again in the hush, when one remembers “the old folks at home,” and the old arm chair, and the little brother that died, and tiie little sister that was “translated.” Saturday nights make people human! set their hearts to heating softly as they used to do before the world turned them into wax drums, and jarred them to pieces with tattoes. The Ledger closes with a clash; the iron-doored vaults come to with a bang; up go the shutters with a will; click goes the key in the lock- It is Saturday night, and business branches free again 1 Europe. PACIFIC. AT ST. JOHNS, And the Africa at New York. St. Johns, Sept. 2.—The steamship Pacific ha« rrived with Liverpool accounts to August 2:{ r d Commercial Revs. Liverpool Cotton Market.—The sales on Mond iv August 23rd, were 111,060 bales, of which 3 :,i bales were taken by speculators and exporters Homeward Ho! Tbe door that has been ajar all I The market closed firm. the week, gently closes behind him, the world is uses belniul him, the workl is I Liverpool Breadstuff's Market.—Fiour w .s shut out! Shut iu rather. Here are the treasures j Wheat buoyant, and Corn dull. 1U L after all, and not in tbe vault, not in the book- j Lirtrpool Provision Market.—Provisions wen savf‘ the record in the old family Bible and net in I a ]|y were steady. ^ er the Bank. I Xacats.—Spirits of Turpentine dull at 3^ May be you area bachelor, trosty and forty.— j gg s . r Then, poor fellow, Saturday nights are nothing to j London Money Market.— Consols were nuofed n to you, just as you are nothing to anything - 955. equoreaat Got a wife, blue eyed or black eyed, but, above all a true eyed one—got a horn matter how little—a Tittle sofa, just large enough to hold two, or two and a halt, and then got the two am? a half, in it on Saturday night and then read this paragraph by the light of your wife’s eyes, and thank God and take courage. " The dim and dusty shops are swept up. the ham mer is thrown down, and the apron is doffed, and labor hastens with a light step homeward bound. j the family pride, and was of shy, retiring disposi- j South can he found to be in favor ot bis election, tion. Imagine the blushing, confused young | We of the South are to abandon the men and the man supporting with his arm the form of a lovely party which are true to us—to abandon Breese, girl in a fainting fit! Frank had never before felt j atid Reynolds, and l-'itch. and to support a the power of beauty, but he was not overwhelmed : renegade. We are to arraign t lie President as and,before sprinkling some drops of water on her “wickedly foolish,” because he supports a party lace lie took a hat tv, thrilling hesitating kiss, that i which lias been faithful to his Administration on a kiss was fatal. Mary recovered from tiie swoon, but. j great Southern issue—end which will be faithful Fr ink could not escape the effect^ of the kiss; study I iu another Southern issue which is yet surely to amusement, everything was at a stand; he seemed to arise—and we are to take into our embraces to be walking in a dream, and buried in restless 1 that man who has just aba doned and defeated us, thought. He would have treated tic girl with j and is prepared to repeat his gracious hostility. From the New York News. Nothing since the Foundation of the City of New Johns. York hnsprodueed the excitement among all classes that Prof. Wood’s Hair Restorative has done. AU classes, from the gray and bald-headed sire, and the silver-haired matron, down to the sprightly youth and beautiful maiden with her glossy ringlets, are crmvdin tii General Xotes. The London papers unfavorably criticise the bst paragraph in President Buchanan’s reply to the Queen’s message. 1 J The l)ombar,linent”of Jeddah took the French government by surprise, but explanations were made in London to Pelliser. Arrival of the Steamship Africa.. Nfav York Sept. 2—The steamship Africa has arrived with Liverpool dates to August 23. Re news has been anticipated by the Pacific at St some attention, but not a word, not a look could he win from her; she pursued her occupation with her usual diligence, and acted as if she had forgot ten the guitar scene. Seeing no other means, Frank one day took advantage of the absence of bis parents and candidly avowed bis affections, making honorable aud frank proposals. We have not space to describe the girls confu sion, nor tha avowal t.he eager lover won from her For ottr part, we support the Administration in its wise and consistent policy in repudiating all affiliation with Douglas. We are in favor ot the Lecmopton Democracy, and Mr. Breese for the Senate of the United States from Illinois. We could not favor the re-election of Douglas, unless we were secretly in love with his apostacy— desired the late Compromise Kansas Act to be violated, and aimed at the defeat and disgrace of : Depot at No. 312 Broadway; the former to be per- auentlv restored,mid the latter to possess themselves of tli.it which will prevent the inroad of envious time, and cause the appearance of youth anil beauty to linger to tin- greatest age. Besides, all, the popular Druggists i:i the country are constantly engaged in dealing out the ! Restorative to their customers, “and the cry is still j they come.” { Caution.—Beware of worthless imitations as several are already in tiie market, culled bv different names.— Use none’unless the words (Professor Wood’s Hair ! Restorative, Depot St. Louis, Mo., and New York), are { blown on the bottle. Sold by all Druggists and Patent ! Me lieine Dealers. Also by all Fancy amlToilet Goods I dealers in the United Sales and Canadas. 13 21. Sold here by ull Druggists. The President ;it Ihe Relay House. of tbe existence of some very tender sentiments in | the South. A faithless friend is always worse than her own bosom; also her own nairatiou of how she ran open enemy. What Abolitionist could have came with acquirements in such a -situation. Her I June one tithe the mischief Douglas perpetrated father had been driven from Austria for liberalism | on the South, the Administration and the Detno- and died poor and broken-hearted in New York.— cratic paity, at the last session of Congress? Yet : Familiar as our peopl — unostentatious habits of the Mary went to Cincinnati and then came into the country to hire out. When all had been explained, site insisted on the whole thing heing openly declared to Mr. and Mrs Landen; she would be a party to no clandestine measures. The disclosure was made; the pa.ents became indignant, and Maiy was sent away. Months of despair ensued. Mary would consent to no hidden correspondence. Franks health be gan to fail and the doctor to shake his head. The crisis was irresistable: .Mary was sent for, Frank got well, and they are now a happy pair, and Ma ry is the affectionate daughter-in-law of a couple liness. 8lie had, therefore, many wooers, but j pink ribbon, and wrapped in a little piece of pecially a certain old knight of Castile, as coarse f' 1 ?”/’ ou which was written “baby,s hair. 1 knew the history of that letter in an instant, though I had never looked ou its folds: I could see the fair young mother parting the sunny tressc particularly as site was of a poor though well- ] the iutant head, and placing it with halt a ~ ‘ to allow her suiiie and half a tear, within the closely-written who think her the greatest blessing heaven ever! sent them. Truly “lowness is young ambition's ladder. And he never received the letter. Per haps he died under the mighty shadow of Sierra Nevada; perhaps the turf of some Mississippi val ley lay dose ou his pulseless heart, while she, the taithtul wife, was growing more sad, less* hopeful with every day that brought no answering word. “Baby’s hair?” I could not bear that the blight curl should be thrown carelessly among the host of letters: it seenn-il Ml-.. “May I keep this little lock?” “Centainly, if you like.” And I placed it carefully in my reticule, with tender hand. I know not where the sorrowing uts. that, but for her fatherless child, she would j young mother’s heart is breaking, day by day, but have been content to die. At length she deter-! certain I am that there is an invisible bond of I mined to withdraw to some remote village, and to J sympathy between lier soul and mine clasped by i free herself from his odious persecutions | a lock ot curling, silky gold “Daby s hair. A few days before the time she had fixed on to I? would be vain to attempt to chronicle the remove to her country lodging, her servant, Maria, numerous enclosures which dropped from the happened to open the door nf a closet in her j various letters whteh were opened during the short mistress’s bedroom, when ont tel! the uead body of s P aee 11 ‘ tune we stood there. Bits ot rain bow a man, and the police being -summoned by her j colored silk, sent for ‘ patterns, tiny muslin col- A heavy frost fell in the neighborhood of Har pers ferry, Va., on the 20th ult Farmers and Iheir Vires. Said a young person to a lady, who sat holding her child, “Now what good will all your education do\ou! Yon have spent so much time in study, giadnated with high honors, learned music and painting, and now only married a farmer. W! do not you teach school, or do something ben fit the world with your talen’s or; if you choose to marry, why not take a teacher, a clergyman, or some professional man? But, as it is, you did not need so much learning for a rural life.” The lady replied, “ You do not look very far Into tk» future. Do you see this boy ou my lap’ I need all the study, all the dicipliue, both of mind and body, that I could possibly get, in order that I may train him aright. You see, I have the first impressions to make on the fair blank of his pure heait, and unless my mind was first cultivated, my own heart first purified, how could I well perform the task now placed before me? And, besides,do j ou not suppose that farmers have hearts like other men. tastesjust as puie, because they guide the plow, and till the soil for their sup port? Do you not suppose their minds arejustas suscptible of cultivation and -expansion as other men? Have they no love of the beautiful, in their nature or art? Cannot good paintings be just as much admired on their walls as others, or does the evening hour never pass as pleasantly with them, when they gather around the pianu after a day's labor is finished? Ah, my young friend, you have made a sad mistake in your reckoning.” Of all the occupations, give me that of a farmer. It is the most healthful, his life is freer from care his sleep is sweeter, his treasures safer. A farmer need not be a slave of any, for he has none to pk ase but himself. Not so with almost any trades man, mechanic or professional man. They have more or less to do with the world at large, and have all manner of persons to deal with, so that they have need of the patience o: Job to live.— They an- well aware that they must not freely speak their minds at all times, and if they do will lose custom, for they depend upon the people fora living, therefore, they are the servants of all. Then what can be desired more, what is more -peaceful, propspefons, honest, healthful aud happy than a farmer’s wile!—Moore's Until Xcw Yorker. Il’inc Making —To make Catawba or Scupper- nong Wine, the first requisite is good ripe grapes Gather on a fair day, after the dew is off. Pick ofl’ ail rott'-n and green berries, and c«t off the foot stalks close to the grape. Mash all you gather in the day, aud put the mashed grapes, pumniace or “Marc” in a stand, as you would peaches after ire called upon to re-commission this miserable and unprincipled deserter, and, as a leading De mocrat of the Northwest, to put him iu a position where he can again bring discomfiture uf on the 'Democratic party in its Southern policy. But it is absurdly urged that we are called upon to seleet between opponents more or less bitter. If the Democratic party of Illinois obtains the balance of power in the Illinois Legislature, they will compel the Donglasites to elect Breese. Nor in any case is it a choice of opponents. We are to fetch this traitor into our camp, give him the right hand of fellowship, and install him in power. We are to forgive his contumacious desertion and betrayal, tu set up th ‘ evil example of his course for imita tion of Northwestern Democrats in similar emer gencies. We are to sow the seeds of treachery broadcast through the remnant ot the party North —the seeds of distrust and alienation throughout the South. Demoralization and defection will follow. Ruin and destruction to the party. North and South, will be the fruit. These are the evils of pardoning and supporting Douglas. The elec tion of a Black Republican is nothing in com parison. If Douglas be re-admitted into the Democratic party and Kansas be brought into the Union as a free State, after her rejection as a slave State, and in violation of tHe late Compromise, the Democratic party is forever gone The party is now weak at the North. It will be divided and repudiated at the South, and between the sections fall hopelessly to the earth. We can well under stand how the innumerable band of selfish Southern aspirants to the Presidency or other high office, witli their many friends and followers, can seek to improve their momentary chances at the expense of the respectability, purity and per manent integrity of the party which they are each using for his own private ends. But we cannot understand how the party or the Union are to be benefited by the ignoring of faithless defection on a question of vital importance to that section where the strength of the party lies. In a shifting, shuffling policy the party must go down, disor ganized and destroyed. Its only hope is in the strict maintenance of its doctrines which uphold the rights of the South. If these are abandoned to save the remnant of the party at the North, naught but a faction in search of spoils is left, and the fate of such in these times of excitement may be predicted with certainty. Wire-pullers cannot much longer hoodwink tho people of the South. arc generally with the chi.-f officers of our Government, one cannot witness them, with tbe knowledge of the pomp of show of royalty to in vite the contrast, without involuntarily indulging it. On Saturday last, President Buchan in arri- Ydloic Fcr-rin Mart Orleans. New Orleans, Sept. 2.—There was forty-two deaths in this city,on Wednesday, by yellow f-. vcr. Market Reports. New York, Sept. 2 -Sales of Cotton to-dav 1,50') bales, with a buoyant market. Flour firm with sales of 16,500 barrels. Wheat dull, with sales of 35.000 bushels; Southern lied Si' 17 , $1,35. and White $ I ‘28 a 81 47. Corn heavy sales 31,000 bushels. White 84 a 85 cents Sugar buoyant at an advance of 1-8 cent. Spirits of Turpentine heavy at 48 cents. Rice quiet at 3 a 3 1-4 cents per pound. New Orleans, Sept. 2.—Sales of cotton to-day 100 bales, with a firm market. No change in other articles to report. CARRIAGES AND BUGGIES. . yy’"OOD2A.Xm , CO. Having with drawn their agency from Milledgevllle, now keep their entire Stock in Griffin Ga , and would respectfully invite tho patronage of those who may want ,1 at the Relay House, or Washington Junction | CiirrillgeS, BligffieSOr Plantation Wag FOILS. , en route for Washing- _ ... Fire at Cinrimiati—Terrible Hestnidion of Cat tle— Shotting Nrenes. The dairy stables of William Hogan, at Cinein- natti, were destroyed by fire on Tuesday night, with sixty six cows, five calves, three horses, one mule, ten or fifteen tons of oat sheaves, four hun dred bushels of corn, and three bundled bushels ot oats, involving a loss of $7,060, and no in surance. The Commercial says: “Mr. Hogan describes tiie scene in the stables iu tiie midst of tiie conflagration, as most piteously and indescribably harrowing. The live stock were all tied in their stalls- The horses and mules were haltered in the usual manner, and the cows were bound around 1 hi ir horns. When the II tin s first commenced their ravages, the poor animals snorted and bellowed vritli hideous and frantic force. As the heat increased and' the fierce fires began to iiek aud scorch their quivering flesh, their as it is mure properly called ton City. There was a rumor abroad that he to arrive, and the visitors had consequently group ed about tbe bouse when the train came along. Wo soon perceived the President coming from the cars to the platform, looking hearty, but thor oughly travel-soiled, smiling and cheeiful. By his side, and evidently offering with gentlemanly def erence the courtesy of attention, was a rather rough-looking itidvidual, whom we took tor a conductor or brakemau. The gentleman will ex cuse oar blundering in such a matter—but upon inquiry we were informed he was Sir William Gm e Ouseley. On passing into the bar-room, the President threw off his coat and bis white neck-cloth, care lessly pitching them over a chair, opened his shirt collar, and fucked up his slei vesfor a wash, con veniences for this purpose being in the apartment. At the time, however both basins were occupied bv two young men, neither of whom seemed to he awaro that the President was about. He waited patiently some time, when some one spoke and in vited him upstairs lie declined however, quiet ly remarking that lie would “wait for his turn. — And as soon as the basins were vacated, he “took his turn” iu a jolly good wash iu the public bar room. This done, lie seemed rather perplexed about the arrangement of his neck-cloth, and seem ed likely to tie his nose and mouth up in it.— Somebody just then offered assistance, and the President was briefly equipped. At about tliis time, a person who bad come into the room, sung out pretty near to him, “Look here; I thought the old 1'res. was to be here to-day—.” The speech cut short by a nudge, while a momcn either in the vioinitv of Milledgeville .or in sm other part of the State. Orders can he filled by shipping direct from the NORTHERN FACTORY’ to any point designa ted, which will save some freight and enable those wishing to pay cash, to get a choice Concord Bug gy, (which is the best now used,)or any other ve hicle at a luw price. Address. WOODRUFF & CO., Griffin, Ga August 7th, 1858. 11 tf. P. K. Rouse’s I’oiut, Clinton co., N. Y. Perry Davis—Sir :—Although personally a stran ger to you, yet the benefits 1 have received from the use of your invaluable remedy, the Pain Killer, induces me to pen a word of praise for it, and gratitude to you its inventor. I lim e tried a score of patent medicines of various kinds, and consider the Pain Killer the very best of its kind in use. It is not a punacea for alffhe ills Hesh is heir to, hut it is certainly u grand specific f ur many diseases. Two years experience lias convinced me that for Headache, Indigestion, Pain in the Stom ach, or in any other part of the system, Severe Chills, Weariness, Common Colds, iioarseness, Cholera. Cholera Morbus, Dianhu-a, Dysentery, Tooth-Ache: Ac., &.C., there is nothing better than the P?in Killer. I have this hour recovered from a severe attack of the Sick Headache, by using two teaspoonsful, taken at thirty minutes interval, in a wine glass full of warm water. 1 am confident that, through the blessing of God, it saved me from the Cholera during the summer tary comical, expression passed across the face of I 0 f 1843. Travelling in Connecticut and Massachusetts, that same “old Pres- A cigar was handed to him (amid heat, dust, toil, change of diet and constant ex- by a friend; lie took a good satisfying drink of- not “old rye,” which he is said to affect, when prime—but ice-water, bad barely fired up his cigar, when the bell rung, and “all aboard” summoned the Chief Magistrate of the United States to his seat in the cars, and away they went to Washing ton. We took our admiration of this scene of republi can simplicity quietly with us into tho cars for Baltimore, and mused with some complacency over the sterling honor of heing an American cit izen. — Baltimore Sun. posure to an infected atmosphere, my system was daily predisposed to dysentery attacks, accompanied with pain, tor which the Pain Killer wus a sovereign remedy: oue teaspoonful coring the worst case in an hour, or at most, half a day! My brothers in the minis try have used it with much success in various diseases. 1 have heard many cases the country over, of Dysen tery being cured by its use. Put in the teeth, it wonld sotp the tooth-ache in several minutes. Gratitude, and a desire for its general use, has drawn from me this unsolicited testimonial in its favor. The .4 Liteki/ Discovery for Xcw York.—Within a j Pain Killer is a blessing to mankind, and needs but to >i-k three steatnerr have left New Y'ork fur Fra- be known to be admired. May you be richly rawaril- 7. r river, one of which (the Hermann) goes round the Cape. A correspondent of the Rich mond Whig says they were all loaded down with passengers bound for the El Dorado, including 25 well known pick-pockets and house-breakers. It is a curious fact that the California gold fever i d as its distinguished inventor. Y'ours respectfully, with constant gratitude, 14 St. D. T. TAY’LOR, Jr., Minister of the Gospel. For sale by Druggists, and Grocer dealeisgetter- and the Nicaraguan scheme hAs ac^d 1^* a satV fCo., 8avain.ah; and Ravi- ----- - - ■ land, Chichester & Co., Augusta, Wholesale Agts. ty-valve upon New York, draining off the rogues in large numbers, many of whom have since been heard from in responsib’e positions, and as active and respectable members of society. It is said by these means New York has lost within a lew years upwards of four hundred of the most noted scamps aud vagabonds that infested the com munity. Rheumatism—Is only cured permanently by ‘ I inch's Anti-Rheumatic Powders," ns it is the only emedy extant that attack tho root of the disease; all others heing ointments, embrocations, Ac., are merely palliatives. It is sold, wholesale and retail by J. G. Gibson, Eatonton, Ga., and retailed by James Ilerty, Milledgc- viile. Ga. 21 tf. beating. (I have them mashed with tbe hand in a j ul j es an j groans, and furious struggles became tub.) Let the whole stand until a slight degree ofl fermentation commences—say ten to twenty-four hours, according to tin heat ot the weather. Then draw off' the juice or ‘-must” and subject the pum- mace to the action of a press until all the “must” is separated from it. The nicest point is to decide when to put the pttmmace to the press Take-it too soon, ami yon lose part of your “must.” Let it work too much, and your wine will have a roughness imparted to it from the foot-stalks and hulls. When I begin to mash, I ascertain the weight of my “must” by the hydrometer. When good aud the grapes ripe, it will mark ten deg. on LU- ume’s Hydrometer. I th :n take a gallon of the "must” and weight aud add sugar till it marks Ifij or even 17 deg. by the instrument. After the ‘must” is ail measured, I proeeede to add the sugar, and turn ail into a clean and sweet cask. I never fumigate with sulphur with fresh “must.” It requires from 1J to 1| lbs. sugar to the gallon (use loaf or crushed sugar. Reserve 6 or 8 per cent, of tempered “must” to till up with. Place your barrel high enough to decant next spring into a fresh barrel without moving it For the first week, fill up every day, leaving the bung open for two or three days, or until a white foam begins to work out, then drop in your bung and fill up every other or every third day. When the fermentation subsides to a fret, tighten the bung, but place a small gimblet bole by its side, with a peg loosely dropped in it. Finally, when all fermentation it over drive all right. In tlip following march, decant into afresh barrel fu migated with a sulphur match. On the. third year or after the second decanting, the wine will be fit for bottling. Tin Scuppernong “must" is treated by adding one pound of loaf sugar and one quart of good brandy to each galfonof “must.” Then proceed as with the other. Last year I varied my process with the Catawba juice. I added a fifth part brandy and one pound sugar to every gallon of “must” as with the Sciip- pernong. It will make a good wine one year sooner, but the cost of the brandy is ail objection now—next fall it may be lower. II. B. Southern Cultivator. Hoaxed.—A paragraph from a letter-writer at Saratoga lias been going the rounds of the press accusing Lord R. Grosvenor and Lord Cavendish, the English noblemen who are now traveling in this country, of indecent attire, and very unbecom ing conduct in a Saratoga ball room. It now turns out, cither that the letter-writer was hoaxed bv two pretensions individuals who assumed to be noblemen, or else that he has hoaxed the pub lic, as the two gentlemen alluded to have not visited Saratoga since their arrival in the vicinity of that famous resort. We may add, in this con nection, that so far as we can learn, the conduct of these young noblemen, from the first moment of their arival, has been such as to win for them the respect and esteem of those who can appreci ate modesty and worth and none know them could have been imposed upon by the representa tions now so emphatically contradicted.—Journal of Commerce. The Blue Sulphur Springs, Va., have been sold to a company of gentlemen for $24,0611—O W. Buster, the present manager, retaining au interest in them. Interesting Reminiscences.—One of the most in teresting features of the recent Atlantic Telegraph celebration at Boston, says the Boston Herald, was the illumination of the old John Hancock mansion on Beacon street. The old gentlemen, (nephew of the Revolutionary patriot,) who now owns and occupies the premises, gave directions that in honor of the event, even the lightening rods plant ed by Franklin himself on his mansion, should afford some indications of thejoy universally felt on the accomplishment of this great undertaking. The mansion was illuminated from the floor to the attic, and the same candle sticks were used which were employed to celebrate the establishment of peace in 178o’ in lcsjo, and the introduction of Cochituate water iu 1848. agonizing. Some threw themselves headlong upon the floor or leaped uptight at full length with frenzied energy, and vented- their agony in tearful scaeams. The horses broke from tin ir halters and dashed through the consuming blaze in desperate dismay. The tortured and suffo cating cows tore away their horns and rushed through the blazing piles, and encountered each other in destructive collision, their flesh broiling and cracking in trie heat with sickening effect opou the senses of human beings w ho gazed hor- lor-stricken upon the wretched scene ot suffering, without power to mitigate the agony of the tor tured brutes. The yells and despairing cries of the different classes of auimals commingled in horrid concert, and broke through the roar of flames and crackling timbers upon the still night air, and was borne away in terrifying echoes to the ears of persons two miles distant from the dread ful scene. Two or three horses and as many cows plunged through the flames and burst in wild affright, through tho sides of the consuming structure, and fell headlong, w hining with misery, upon the ground outside, sprang again to their feet and sped with frenzied fury across the fields until they drop ped lifeless from sheer exhaustion. Some rolled upon the floor of the stable, screaming with unmitigated pain, until suffocated ami destroyed by the fierce heat. Their contortions, their awful w ails of distress, infinitely more piteous and har rowing than those of human beings in tiie dire ex tremity of torture, are described by those who gazed spell-hound upon the terrible spectacle, as surpassing the power of human imagination to conceive. Happily the agony of the poor brutes was not greatly prolonged. T he timber composing the stables burned like tin-ler, and tbe hay and oats straw, some forty tons, blazed and perished in tii^ee heat like lncifer matches. But the flesh of the carcases quivered and blazed and broiled all night long, and fifled the a tmosphcrc with a sick ening effluvia. Cotton. In 1770, there were shipped to Liverpool three bales of cotton from New York; four bales from Virginia and Mar; land, and t hree from North Caro- j veUer should be without is Pern- Davis’ Pain Kill, t linn. In the year after tho treaty which closed the Revolutionary war, ami secured the . . - ,, . . , recognition of the American Independence by | b,,s can bc lff ” ctual, .V and mstaneoosly releivcl by Great Britain, a vessel that carried eight bales of A pleasant traveling companion, and one that no trn- A sudden attack of diarrhoea, dysentery or cholera raor- j cotton from the United States to Liverpool was seized in that port outlie ground that so large a I quantity of cotton in a single cargo could not be | the produce of the United States—so humble wore 1 the begiuings of this now extended culture. The I invention of the cotton-gin by Whitney, in 1793, I by cleansing- tbe cotton at a very cheap rate, most ‘ powerfully stimulated production. Mr. Bum. iu | his valuable statistics of the cotton trade, said the j cotton wool imported into England, 1781, only I amounted to 14,6 )3 bales; in 1656, it had reached ! the enormous quantity of 1,860,660 bales, an ex- I ample of extended commerce, in sont- compara- | lively a short period without a parallel. In the j same year, the consumption in France, in the ; North of Europe and in the United States amount- e-l to 1,675,66;i bales, making the total crop of the (year 1855, 3, 475,066 bales. 14 8t. Lime and Yell lie Fever—An acquaintance of ours, who some years ago worked at the business of brick masonry in New Orleans, informed us a fen- days since that it was often remarked, while he was in the city, that four carpenters died of yellow fever where one brick mason died and that tne latter were more exposed to the sun, and under ordinary circumstances would be more liable te take the fever than the former. He sajs the dirfer- 1 nee in favor of brick masons was attributed to their working so much lime—Planter's Banctr. An Item for Drinkers.—We copy the following 1 for the benefit of that ciass of drinkers who make j a practice of imbibing to excess and -‘lying I around loose.” May they profit by the warning: ! At Cincinnati, the other night, a man named I Jolia Butts, while going home intoxicated, fell in j the street, and rolling over into the mouth of a I sewer, came near being eaten by rats. It seems that as officer Lewis was going his rounds about twelve o’clock at night, he discovered a pair of legs sticking out from the well hole of the sewer. He forthwith repaired to the spot, and failing to arouse the owner of the legs, caught him by the heels and drew him out, when it appeared that one of his ears was eaten off by by rats. Tbe ver min had just commenced their repast, and would doubtless have finished him by morning. Life, at the Springs—A writer from tho White Sulphur Springs, Virginia, says: “Last night a young man here was borne to another world on the w ings of spirits—that is, died nf mama putu Another impetuous youth is said to have dosed himself with too much morphine, through the habits of too much love or folly.— They say too that he is dead. There aie many more fast boys about —some dovoted to tiie sex—some to horses—some to “smiliintr and some to the “tiger.” Ex-Govenor McRea, of Mississippi, has received the Democratic nomination for Congress, to till the place left vacant by the death of the lament ed Quitman. Hnlloirafs /*./.’. 0 R.'in 'do for Dyspepsia.—No one who ims seen the effect of Iloilo way’s Fills in cases of St. Johns,N. F. Aug. 26—The repairs on the steamship Europa have beeu so nearly completed that it is announced by her agents that she w ill sail from this port for Liverpool to-morrow eveu- Tlicre is an ordinance in tiie city of London, re quiring a five-eighth inch-tube to be inserted near the ceiling in every room,J lor She purpose of let ting gass off in case of accident or carelessness.— Such an ordinance in force in the cities of our country would prevent many fatal accidents. Four hundred gallons of intoxicating liquors of variour kinds were seized at Portland Me,, on Thursday. dyspepsia, can believe for a moment that depressing and dangerous disease is incurable. The paticut who Ims suffered from it for years, whose strength, appetite and checrfuhteg*, seem utterly gone: to whom life is a burden, and who hashing censed to hope for relief may be radically cured by a course of this powerful stomachic nml mild aperient. Hundreds of instances of this kind are on record. Two women had a rousing fight in church at Exeter. New Hampshire, last Sunday week.— Cause—-jealousy. Cranberries frost l/ittrn—The frost yesterday mor ning was very destructive to the cranberry crop iu this vicinity. Mr. Fisher, of Dedham, lost one hundred barrels, valued at $5 per barrel. A sample picked by him show s eleven out of fourteen frost bitten on au average.—Boston Traveller 25?/i ult, Appointment by the Gocernor.-Mr. E. Young Hill Jr., having resigned the office of Solicitor General of the Coweta Circuit. Thomas L. Cooper. Esq , of Atlanta, has been appointed to fill the vacancy. Newly Diseorrred Gtdd Mines.—Booneville, A no- 28.—Monsieur Borden and party have arrived in Kansas City, from Pikes Peak, Nebraska Ter ritory. He reports newly discovered mines, lie brought with him several ounces of gold, and con firms the existence of gold mines on Cherry creek branch South Platte; latitude 39. Cotton Cultivation in Cuba. The Havana correspondent of the Savannah Republican says, in the course of his lett- r of Au gust 25th: “Auotin r thing which attracted much attention was a field of growing cotton, planted with see l sent out b v a society at Manchester, England uuder- ; He auspices of a joint stock company here called the Algovonera. There is no doubt that cotton can be successfully cultivated iu the West Indies. It w its tried some years ago in Jamacia, and ouly failed because, tbe requisite continents labor could not be commanded. Should the above referred to fieid succeed, as from its present appearance it will probably- do, then it is likely many ot tbe planters of this Island will turn their attention to tin- cul tivation of cotton, and Georgia, the Carolinas and the other cotton growing States, may yet find (Juba a rival in the cotton markets of tHe world." Heavy Punishmen: —Alexander Penan It was re cently sentenced to two years imprisonment in the penitentiary at Montreal’, Canada, for stealing two pence from the poor box of the Cathedral iu that city. The Telegraph Controrersy.— A correspondent of the New Y ork Times says there is another claimant lor the honor of inventing the magnetic telegraph. The matter is thus stated: '1 he controversy between Morse and Henry is idle. ’1 he truth is. Win. Frost, an humble indi vidual, was the inventor of the electric wire me dium. Morse, as before stated, o'-cupied rooms in 1 He University. When there. Frost exhibited his aparatus. Morse expressed his astonishment, and offered to get out the patent at his own expense aud divide. Before this Professor Siliiman liau an interview with Frost, at which time he was in formed that he had made this discovery, and di vulged it to the Professor, who nromised toexpe- rimeiit on it. Soon afterwards, in this city, bp ad mitted to 1- rest that his experiment were favorable be expressed himself iu high terms of its wonder ful utility. Besides the lion. T. Frelinghuysen, who also occupied apartments in the University, was advised and knew of Frost’s invention. All these facts will bo fully proven, and will be made public. A Word io our Fair Readers. Health the 3asis of Beauty. "Beaut v is only skin deep,” says the proverb, and un questionably a pure transparent complexion is essentia! to female loveliness. Such a complexion is -to evidence of health, while sallowness, opacity of the skin, t-rup- tioua, boils, dty encrustations, and externalinflanintiom are indicative of a disturbed condition of iie stomach and the liver. Upon these organs the famous aperient and tunic known a> Holloway's Pills, nets with a direct ness, precision nml rapidity, uupnrailelled in medical science. But the distinguished chemist and patlioleeio to whom we owe this iiK-stimable remedy, hns C'liqded with it an application which removes every outwii'n disfigurement, occasion by impurity of tiie animal while tbe pills are regulating anil renovating the vitai nineli'nicry within. Holloway’s Ointment scemo t" purge the vessels of the skin of every irritating particle and to clarify and import a roseate to delicate and sensi tive envelope. We would say to ladies who valut a smooth, fresh unspotted complexion, avoid all eosnu-tirt They suppress the natural evajmration of tlieskin.drive the acrid iHimoi's which seek a vent through the p ro. into tin- sources of vitality, ami she who contrives by their aid toimp.-uf a temporary beauty toller fare, reck ami arms, i.- but a whited sepulchre with “dead eorrnf- tion mining all within.” . 11' our fair readers will bctsi honest council, they will banish washes and p" v '‘ ' ’ from their dressing rooms, and seek to plant the lily ac' 1 the rose pennnnently on their cheeks by the use ot IDj' lowav’s remedies. If the blood is overcharged 1,1 pure, rosy, healthful stieam through evety artery l- and vein. If ulcere, pimples, boils, tumois, or scrofula ,u any of its unsightly shapes are developed in the skin, the glands, or the fleshy fibre, the Ointment, pen — ... •.. .. ... :>i nit. m-niMo, vi uir uurv, lilt* » mn in* • 1 ting to the very roots of the exoresencc, will remove without leaving a discoloration or senr. f.\. y. Sat.Pol. Gazettei fX. F. .Vat. Pol. tlu~- r <* W I Lady Fined for lira ring Crinoline. The .I*'^ pendenre B-ige states that a young Indy livl0 * Hanover lias been sentenced by a court 01 ( town to pay a tine of two francs "for havuj£ a dress which occupying the whole breadth ®„ pavement, is an obstruction to the public va)- THE tiKEAT ALAKTIC CABLE. A sublime idea-aa Iron arm which reaches from ^ oft lie ocean to the other, just in fi.esjime way us u* eu arm of 8. Swan & Co., stretches from one em ■ great Union to the other. Th. one gives news ot r eral importance, and the othes news ot special M tiiime. namely, that if we scud to thosegcullctac ^ Augusta, Georgia, ten; five or two and r. hint 11,1 . 1. they will give us a whole, half or quarter ticKet, mav realize us from twenty to seventy thigutan* which •'its; in one of their single number lotteries, draws every Saturday. Frost.—At Saratoga, on Monday, the thcroweR^ went as low as 5D degrees, and there was a 1 . in the valley of Mohawk. In several place 3 , Connecticut the melon vines were nipped • killed.

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The federal union. (Milledgeville, Ga.) 1830-1861, September 07, 1858, Image 2