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12' TURN WOLD, GA., OCTOBER 6, 1862. To J. D. Both your quarters have been received, and the paper sent volt regularly (since the receipt of the first one) to Co. D, 2Qth Beg. Geo. Vols., Savannah, Ga. Wasn’t Pressing Hint. Bill H , so called in his schooLboy days, but now Wm H , Esq. of Thom- asville, Ga., was at college in Pennfield.— A committee on contributions for the pur pose of building a church, called on him for some money. Bill told them that his exchequer ran low, and he needed what little money he had to pay his debts' “ But,” said a member of the committee, “you owe a debt to the Lord!” “Very true,” replied the inimitable Bill : “ but the Lord isn’t pressing me like the balance of my creditors.”—The committee of course had -to cave, Chinese Notion of England. “A Chinese treatise on geography con tains the following description of England : ‘The kingdom of Yingkeihh (England) is a dependent or tributary state of Holan (Holland !) Their garments, aiid manner in eating and drinking, are the same. The males use much cloth, and like to drink wine. The females, before, marriage, bind the waist, being desirous to look slender. Their hair hangs in curls over their necks. They use a short garment and petticoats, but dress in a larger cloth when they go out. They take snuff out of boxes made of gold and threads.” This is a fit paral lel to the account given of our country by the Greek monk Malalus, in the Paschal Chronicle : ‘Britain is a city built by Clau dius Ca;sar, on the borders of the ocean !’ ” — 1842. Guessing. Why will many of the Southern people persist in imitating the Yankees in some of their worst provincialisms ? To do this was bad enough, before our separation into two governments. Even when North and South were held together in a kind of mechanical mixtifte, without any chemical affinity, as oil and water are sometimes stirred togeth er, all Southerners ot good taste avoided these Yankeeisms in language, as they would the plague ; and now that we have cut loose from them and their isms forever, we should much more carefully and rigidly clear our skirts from all Yankee peculiari ties, whether of opinion, manners, dress or dialect. Let us eschew the devil and his works. Of all the peculiarities that have served T H E COUNTRYMAN. to render Yankees supremely ridiculous in the eyes of Englishmen, none has contribu ted more to this end than their habit of “ guessing.Orators, poets, novelists, es sayists-, conversationalists, have all united in satirizing and expressing their contempt for this truly disgusting slang. They seem to feel a horror for it, which is*sometimes really amusing.' We are all now striving to convince the world that Yankees and Southerners are two* distinct races of. peo ple, and that we are not to be held account able for any of the sins of the former. Of late, the world has shown great willingness to be convinced, yet there are those among us who retard the good work by “ guess ing.” . Eor the sake of our reputation, fellow Southerners, let us watch each other care fully, kindly, and strive with all our might to point out and prevent all miserable aping ! Do let us have some self-respect and independence ! w. w. t. v - No l T se for Quinine. “ Mr. Editor : I beg to make public, through the medium of your paper, the fol lowing certain, and thoroughly tried cure for ague and fever : 1 pint of cotton seed, in 2 pints of water boiled down to one of tea taken warm, one hour before the expected attack. Many persons will doubtless laugh at this simple remedy, but I have tried it effectually, and unhesitatingly say it is better than quinine, and could I obtain the latter article at a dime a bottle, I would infinitely prefer the cotton-seed tea. It will not only cure, invariably, but, permanently, and is not at all unpleasant to the taste.—You^s truly, II. G. D. Brown, Copiah County, Mississippi.” Dancing. “ A recent number of the American Ec lectic contains a review of the Journal of two Parsees, descendants of the ancient fire-worslnppers of Persia, who spent two years and a half in Great Britain. As they were persons of some consequence at home, they received considerable attention while in England, and among the wonders of the great metropolis were taken to see the performance of a celebrated danscuse at the Italian opera. They took but little interest in it, and in their journal made the following remarks, which we commend to the notice of some of our own citizens : ‘ Only think,’ they exclaim : ‘one hun dred and fifty guineas every night to be paid in England to a woman to stand, for a long time, like a goose upon one leg, then to throw one leg straight out, twirl round thiee or four times with the leg thus extended—to courtesy so low as to nearly seat herself upon the ground—to spring occasionally from one side of the stage to another, all of which jumping about did npt*. on her part, occupy an hour, and to get more money for that hour, every evening, than six weavers in Spitalfields (who pro duce beautiful silk for.dresses) would earn, all of them, working fourteen hours every.-' day, in twelve months ! It does appear so absurd that a dancing woman should thus take out of English pockets, every night, for an hour’s jumping, more than would keep six weaveis of silk, their wives and families, for a whole year ! Had we not, •seen instances that convinced us the Eng lish were clever people, we should have thought them very foolish indeed thus to pay a dancing puppet..’ ”—1842. Indian Juggler. “His attendants having removed the cut-, lery, he called me to examine his eyes, which he opened very wide, and rolled about in every direction. They were clear,.. liquid, and expressive. He then closed the lids, put his hands upon his hips, gave a strain, then opened the lids, and in place of- his natural eyes, were two balls as of finely polished steel. He closed the lids again, strained again, opened again, and the steel balls were gone, and a pair of r burnished brass ones in their stead. Once more he closed the lids, and on re-opening them, looked at me with the eyes I had just . before examined. During the performance of this trick, he never took bis hands from his hips, and I was the only person near him. On rising, he called to his son, and made him stand before him. He then ask ed me to inspect very clcsely the youth’s left side, to press my hand heavily upon it, to rub it upward and downward, and to be sure that there was no lump below the skin. I did as I was told, and could feel nothing but the ribs. The father then placed his finger on a particular spot, and with an instrument like a lance, made a slight puncture, and got hold of a piece of coarse thread, which he drew forth, at in tervals besmeared with blood. He con tinued to draw forth the thread, in one piece, until 30 or 40 yards lay upon the ground, and said he would go on as long as I wished, or that I might draw it out myself. 1 declared myself satisfied, and he then clipped the thread close to the skin, gave the place a rub, and nothing re mained to show that any operation had been performed.” Solon says “advise not what is most pleasant, but what is most useful.”