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LITERARY temperance (Crusader. 1 PENFIEIJ), GEORGIA. L. LINCOLN VEAZEY. Editor. “THURSDAY MQRNING^^MARCH 25, lx our notice of “ Grace Magnified,” by Bev -11. E. ’Taliaferro, of Tuskegee, Ala., a few weeks since, we omitted to state the price, leaving blanks . for that purpose, to be filled by reference to the | work which was not at hand at the moment of writing. It is 2& cents for a copy bound in cloth, , 20 cents for paper cover. It is published by the Southern Baptist Pub. Soe., Charleston, ,S. C. As will be seen from his advertisement in nn f Mher column, W. B. Seals is now receiving and i P§fening in this place a large and well selected lot of new Spring Goods. We feel safe in saying that a more handsome stock was never brought to this market. Call and examine before supply ing yourself elsewhere, and we are assured that you can find something to suit you in his tasteful and varied assortment. * The Greenesboro (N. C.) ‘Times, comes to us in a garb of mourning for its senior editor, E. W. Ogburn, Esq. He was in the 57th year of his age. The birds are singing, and their artless melody awakens warm thrills of happiness in the breast. Each note comes floating on the vernal breeze, with a richer sweetness than the harp’s bright chords ever awakened, or than ever fell from the lyre’s strings when tuned to the dulcet measures of love. . The flowers rapidly burst the winter bands that have wrapped them, and unfold their delicate petals, rs if to drink in the rich out-gush ing sounds. The violet hath bloomed in its dell, and the “balm of a thousand flowers” perfume’ the morning air. All nature seems filled with | gladness, and this delightful bird music which greets our ears, is but one expression of the gen- i eraljoy. The following young men from Georgia, have, received appointments as cadets in the United States Military Academy, at West Point: J. B. Johnson, 2; J. S. Blount, 3; J. A. Alexander, 4: E. C. Arnold, C; J. A. West, 7. The figures designate the Congressional District in whicVihey reside. The vacancy in the Faculty of the Medical College of Georgia, occasioned by the resignation of Dr. Means, has been filled by the appointment of Dr. Joseph Jonos, who now occupies the chair of Chemistry in Franklin College. The selection is thought, by those who-c information enables them to judge* to be eminently judicious. — 6kxtey’g Jau/j/’s Look, for April, is embellished with,* lurge number of fine illustrations. Godov, however, in common with several other ladies’ magazines, is devoting too much space to embel lishments, to the exclusion of reading mattter. We clip the following item firm the Macon Crawford county, last week, Jas. Revel was re- Uteaaengcr: “At the term of the Superior Court of turned by the Grand Jury as guilty of the crime lof murder, for shooting W. W. Hammack and Adams. He was tried for the murder of Wlammack, and found guilty, and sentenced by Judge Lamar, to be hung on Friday the 7th of May. Revel is quite a young man, as were those who were murdered. No circumstances were devel oped in the case to show any serious personal diffi culties between the parties, or immediate cause for the suit. He attempted also to discharge a revolver at two other persons, but the caps did not explode. Not even tho common plea of in toxication could be interposed in extenuation of tlm crime, with regard to any of the patru s.” Tmd.Wdi British //'•'<</;, for February, lias the following table of contents: Stanhope’s History, Walpole and Pultency, Naples, 1848-1858, Scot tish Natural Science, Logic of Deduction-Mill, Arnold and his School, Proverbs Secular and Sa cred, Rambles of a Naturalist, &e., Capital and Currency, Poetry—thcSpasmodists, Recent Publi cations. John Mitchell, in a letter to his paper, the Southern Citizen, written from Vicksburg, Miss., in the following paragraph, shows the impression which the great South-west has made upon him: i “ How deeply and urgently this nation needs a ; good rattling war! a war with some nation that is j fairly its match—to occupy its mind, and give a j career to its craving and impassioned youth. I • tell you it is like Garloton’s tailor, blue moulded j for want of a boytln; it will blow up, like any I other high pressure steam boiler: and it is not I insured.” j * 4ii THE remark has grown into triteness, that there ; are no boys in these days. They were an old ; fashioned institution that existed among our poor, j ignorant grandfathers, but have long since taken • their'places with the things that were. Then, j they had boys of fiftee l, eighteen, and even ! twenty; for not until their twenty-first birthday, i was their shoulders invested with the toga of man hood. Now, they are men before they should be released from the discipline of the nursery, as sume airs, profess a great knowledge of the world, and blush at the fogyism of their fathers, who cannot sympathize with the progressive spirit of the age. Their first and highest ambition, is to be considered “fast,” and to be pointed out as dil igent sowers of the cereal crop, known as “ wild cats.” They do indeed become “ fast;” so fast that they “run through” tho fortune which the misgtnaed kindness of their parents has given them, squander in dissipation the heaven-be stowed blessing of health, and sink prematurely into the |rave, at what ought to be the flower of their manhood. Such is the common history and fate of those who, at fifteen, court notice by sport ing a slender cane, cultivating a furze on the up perdtoin the first-stages of incipiency, and wear ing a large seal ring on the fourth finger. It would be a novel and refreshing sight, to set a real, genuine boy of the old stamp. IV e have so many men who have been constituted such by their own suffrage, that they have ceased to be prodigies; but a hoy who thinks himself so, would be a rarity. One who has not usurped the power “to do as he pleases,” and who is not ashamed to acknowledge that he is controlled by some other influence than his own will; one whose re spect for the individual whom common parlance dubs “the old man” or “the governor,” is shown only when the youngster’s pocket is rather short of funds; one who does not scent the air as he walks by day, with the fragrance of rich perfu mery, and - 'by night with odors ot the dram-shop, one who is alike ignorant of hair-dyes and mint juleps, who cannot distinguish an “ace of spades from a “jack of diamond#/ and whoso knowl edge of “Euchre” and “Polka” does not extend oven to tho names; one who is not hardened in “ affairs of sle heart ”at fifteen, and fondly im agines that he awakens love in the breast of every lady who condescends to notice him. Such a boy would be a sight worthy of seeing; but at the present rapid pace of Young America, we have .Tittle hopes of his over being seen. I TANARUS) AIN has usually been classed as one of the ills I JI of human life; vet, under the present consti tution of our natures, it is one absolutely essen ! tial to our existence. Without it, we would not j have that instinct of self-preservation, which i causes us to shun everything which experience or observation has taught us to be hurtful. We could not, without constant attention, know that the different portions of our bodies were safe, which, of course, would be utterly incompatible j with any mental or physical exertion.- A limb j might be mutilated, and the mind remain utterly • unsentient of the fact, unless informed by the eye. j The slightest injury inflicted on any portion of | the body, is now transmitted to the brain with a ; speed a thousand times more rapid than the j lightning’s flash, and it is this which insures our I enjoyment of health. ! The dread of pain is instinctive, being one of : the earliest emotions which we experience. The I infant, before its lips can syllable a word, will j avoid with evident design, anything by which it i has ever been hurt. In after life, it never be- I comes a thing of reason. We shrink from the ! feint of a blow when we know there is no inten tion of harm. In this, there is shown forth most | signally, the benevolent wisdom of the Creator. : Our reason is so slow in its operations, that had . our preservation depended on it, we would often i have been destroyed before it could have promp i tod action. ! Physiologists, who have made the hitman frame j ; their study, discover no less benevolence in the | degrees of susceptibility to pain which different S parts exhibit. The sensibility to suffering, lies | ■in a peculiarly high degree in the skin. This is | placed as an advance guard through which every 1 injury from without must make its way; and hence, ! it is important that it should be cognizant of the slightest danger. The suffering from any hurt inflicted here, is always lively and acute. Many form their notions of pain from what they feel | at the surface, and thence, infer that the deeper | the wound, the more intense the anguish pro j duced. This, however, does not accord with the | facts as substantiated by experiment. When the I knife has passed through the skin, the worst is over, and the pain continually diminishes as the ; bone is approached. These parts are sufficiently protected by their external covering, and to im part to them tho same exquisite sensibility was unnecessary. Some parts of the body which are insensible to one injury, are keenly alive to others of a dif ferent kind. Thus, the tendons and ligaments by which the bones are held together, may bo cut i or pressed without producing any unpleasant feel • ing ; but if they bp. twisted or drawn, they soon i give warning of pain. A sprained ankle or wrist, which almost every one lias had, will show how excruciatingly agonizing a hurt inflicted in this ; way may become. Tho trachea, which closes the , mouth of the windpipe, so that all our food and • drink passes over it, allows the passage of volumes of air; yet, if touched by a crumb of bread, will convulse the whole frame. Tho colobrated Dr. Harvey had an opportunity of exaxning a man whose heart, owing to an abscess, could be both ; seen and felt. To his astonishment, he found it insensible. When not looking on, he could not toll that his heart was touched. Shielded from all external violence by the strong outwork of the diaphragm, it is not endowed with this spe cies of sensibility; yet, the general consent of mankind has here located the seat of the finer emotions of our nature, our pleasures, sympathies, j griefs, hatreds, hopes and loves. Cases are not I unfrequent in which persons have dropped dead, i from the sudden contraction or expansion of this ! organ under the influence of some great excite j meat or strong passion. i Accurate observation has established it as asci , entitle fact, that the sense of pain in animals va : ries according to the amount of brain or develop ment of the nervous system. Man being superi ] or to all other animals in this particular, is there ’ fore capable of experiencing the greatest amount of bodily suffering. He is so constituted, that ’ the mind and body mutually act upon each other, • and every injury produces both physical and men tal suffering. In the brute creation, it is differ | out. Wanting the “discourse of reason,” they are entirely free from any apprehension in con ; neetion with pain. Every animal will endeavor | to escape from one more powerful that designs its ! injury. All the power of their bodies ate taxed j to the utmost, and many exhibit a sagacity when pursued, that has long been a matter of wonder and admiration. This is merely the instinct of ; self-preservation, wljich is common to all animals, : and is, we imagine, unattended by any such-euf t faring as man would experience under similar ; circumstances. They have no conception of what ! their fate will be if taken. It is a principle work i ing in them, flu* more sure than the deductions j iof reason, but with none of its light. The ox, placed in the stall, eats and fattens untU the day : appointed for his death, in all the 1 nippiness which an animal nature can enjoy. Could oue glimmering light of the future meet his gaze, he would languish and pine, in view of his destiny. With philosophic troth has Pope said, “ The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day. Had he thy reason, would he skip and play ? Pleased to the last, he crops he flowery food, j And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.” ; No animal has ever been found in which sensi- j bilitv to pain is entirely wanting. Even tho ani malcules, which can be seen only by high power of the microscope, are thought to experience some suffering when martyrized for scientific purposes. There arc many, however, in which this sense is very slight. Some insects have been known to : devour portions of their own bodies, with as much ; indifference as if it were some foreign substance.. Others may bo mutilated—deprived of wings or | legs, and even their bodies cut in pieces without j seeming to have their energies in the least affec ted. Leeches have been cut in two, while gorg ing themselves with blood, and they continued their suction, not seeming in the least degree in convenienced. From facts like these, we must conclude that the amount of pain which the lower order of animals are capable of experiencing is very iWnall. .Some have contended, that bocause the bvute creation are devoid of reason, they are therefore I incapable of suffering. Such an idea is at vari- I nnce with our observation, and with what com ! mon sense would of itself teach. Though doubt ! Ic&s free from mental anguish of every kind, we i know that many animals arc acutely sensible of j physical pain. This is so evident, that we could ! never think the man sincere, who professed to be lieve them mere machines, moving only at the 1 behests of intelligent wills. But there are many | who act as if they practically believed thus. Cru elty to animals, often the more cruel from being wanton and unprovoked, is by no means so un common a vice as it should be. Boys rob birds’ nests for their amusement, and often kill the pa ! rent, leaving her unfledged young to perish: yet, in these cruelties, they often only imitate exam ples set them by grown up mon. Such conduct is always indicative of badness of heart. Ho who would, for sport, crush a fly or an ant, would, if circumstances permitted, perpetrate the barbari ties of a Nero on his fellow-men. Cowper speaks the languago of true benevolence, which every man of calm reflection will endorse, when ho says “ I would not enter on my list of friends, (Though graced with polished manners and fine sense, ; Yet wanting sensibility,) tho man I Who needlessly seta foot upon a worm,” To man, pain is a moral teacher to whom the highest eloquence of the pulpit yields precedence. ; At its every throb, it warns him that his stay on earth is but for a season, and bids him prepare lor his journey to “that undiscovered country, from whose bourne no traveller returns.” Kind ly merciful in its task of love, it softly unwinds the heart's affections from worldly objects, and directs them to Heaven. llow blest is he to whom death comes heralded by such a messenger! The lightning’s flash, the earthquake’s shock, thebat tle’s angered fury, or the raging dash of ocean, have hurried thousands into the presence cham ber of God, with all the rank pride of sinfulness upon them. But he whom Pain takes kindly by the hand, and leads quietly down the valley of the shadow of death stands, not like the con demned criminal with a shrinking back from his horrid doom, but like the wise virgins whom the bridegroom found with oil in their vessels, and lamps brightly burning. And when death shall come with measured pace, he quietly yields like one ** W ho draws the drapery of his couch about him, And lies down to pleasant dreams.” The New York correspondent of theJNew Or leans True Witness, say?: “A Turkish gentleman is expected here soon, to make arrangements for buying some ships of us. The “city fathers”! have voted to spend two thousand dollars in doing i honor to him—a silly step enough, as the Pacha only comes on a trading expedition for his gov ernment, and has no especial title to a public re ception.” The American people talk and write republi canism quite enough, but there is very little of it j manifested in their actions. They express tho j utmost disgust at the doctrineof divine right, yet. j exhibit the greatest pleasure in listening to the j most insignificant trifles about the royal families j of Europe. Every titled foreigner who lands upon our shores, is lionized to an extent that is supremely ridiculous. Is there anything more inconsistent than to give a public reception to an unaccredited visitor from one nation of Polyga mists, while preparing munitions of war against another ? CLIPPED ITEMS. A line may be remembered when a chapter is forgotten. The people of Milledgeville are specula’ing about building a bridge over the Oconee river at that city. The former bridge was washed away, we. believe, by the “ Ilarison ireshet” in 1840. It is high time that our capitolino friends should have a good and substantial bridge, and it might not be unwise to so construct it ns to answer for a railroad bridge. “A word to the wise,” Ac, &c. A Constantinople letter of January 30th says : “We have thus far the severest winter that lias ever occtired in Constantinople within the memo ry of the oldest inhabitant. The snow is more than two feet deep on a level, and has been almost continually falling for thirty days.” Os all the mean and contemptible men in this world, he that sneaks through life on tiptoe, with his ear at the keyhole of everybody’s business, except his own, is tho most to be detested. Read our first page, you will find some capital articles on Farming, Gardening, Stock, &e. Nebraska is our largest Territory. 1t will make about eighty States as large as New Hampshire. Nebraska is about one-sixth the size of Europe. A fool knows his own business better than a wise man does another’s. J. F. Mixon has retired from the Type of the limes, of Covington, and W. H. Royal takes the Editorial chair. Mr. Choate delivered an oration on Hamilton and Burr, in Boston, on the 10th inst., to nearly three thousand persons. John W. Noel has been nominated for Con gress by the Democrats of the seventh district of Missouri, in place of Mr. Caruthers. A Kansas paper states that it is the intention of a gentleman in Virginia to carry to Topeka, earl}’ in the coming spring, two hundred thou sand grape roots, embracing the most productive and hardy varieties cultivated in his county. Some men livo as if they were poor ail their lives, in order to be wealthy at their decease—or rather, as if they wished to carry their riches with them. Lord Derby is now fifty-nine, while his prede cessor in office (Lord Palmerston) is seventy-four. Lord Ellenborough is sixty-eight: D’lsraleli is but fifty-three. A Calculation.—ls all the United States were as densely populated as Massachusetts, there would be a population oi 446,000,000, nearly equal to half the number on the whole earth. The Three L’s.—Hall’s Journal of Health says it is the three L’s Liquor, License, ancl Late Sup pers, which slay the anual lietacombs of North erners who visit New Orleans. Dr. Hall lived there ten years, and speaks from professional ex perience. The Tennessee House of Representatives has passed a bill, by a vote of fifty-three to seven, submitting to the people the propriety of holding a convention to amend the Constitution of that State. Its passage by the Senate is confidently predicted. Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people, because they have a power of looking at such persons as objects of amusement of another race altogether. Trust not the flatterer. In thy day of sunshine he will give thee pounds of butter, and in thy hour of need, deny thee a crumb of bread. We learn, says the Albany Patriot of the 11th inst, that two different have been arrested who are supposed to be Thomas W. Thomas, was sentenced to be hung in Lee county on the 12th instant for the murder of Joseph Cross. The parties were mistaken —Thomas has not yet- been arrested. Vine Culture in the United States. Considerable doubt seems to exist in certain quarters as to the success of the experiments now making in various parts of the country in the manufacture of wine from native grapes. The fol lowing extract from the News, published in Vevay, Indiana, which was settled by emigrants from the Swiss village of the same name, who were proba bly the first to introduce the grape culture in the West, states some of the causes of its failure: “ We have always looked upon it as a settled fact that any attempt to render general the culture of the vine would result in ruin to the party attempt ing it. Our seasons are too variable—one winter too cold—the next too open and warm-—one sum mer is too dry and too hot —another is too wet. The truth is that land in the Ohio river valley is worth more money per acre to raise grass and wheat and corn, than it is to raisegrapes. We re gard that any man who enters into the culture of the wine without a capital like that of Mr. Long worth of Cincinnati, will be ruined in ten years. Wc are sure that the results of the chemical anal ysis will slioiv that all the money Mr. L. has ever made out of the vine culture, has been done by adulterating the juice of the grape and making a little go a good way. In support of our idea, wo would refer to the experience of tho vine when commenced, where at an early day large amounts of money were expended in the preparation of the ground and planting grape vines. Now, thero is not a farmer who has any vines who takes pains to do more than raise grhpes enough for his family to eat, and to make enough to have a drink or two in tho hot weather. Indeed, we may say that in the vicinity of Vevay, where the vine growing was first attempted in America, it has been aban doned and men are raising hay, wheat and corn Parody on Othello’s ‘^Farewell.” “ O now, forever, Farewell the tippling shop! Farewell the glass! Farewell the gin-cocktails and brandy-smashes, That make intoxication come. O, farewell! Farewell, ihe boozy troop, and the shrill yell, The spirit-stirring song, the ear-piercing oath, The royal “ bust,” and all quality, Pride, pomp and circumstance sos glorious Run ! And O, you mortal soakers, whose red noses Will yet be fain to smell at dry bung-holes. , Farewell ! Othello’s occupation’s gone!” CHOICE SELECTIONS. Beautiful Allusion. —What quality of human nature is more ennobling, soul-elevating, more benevolent than tho pure love of the parent for its child ? and could this love be more charming ly illustrated than in the beautiful allusion of La martine to his parents: “I remember,” said he, “to have seen the branch of a willow which had been torn by the tempest’s hand from the parent trunk, floating in the morning light upon the an gry surges of the overflowing Soane, On it a fe male nightingale still covered her nest as it drifted down the foaming sti earn, and the male on the wing followed the wreck which was bearing away the object of hi3 love.” What could express the attachment of the lov ing parent for its offspring more eloquently than tho foregoing? And how could the parent ex press love for the child with more true and beau tiful simplicity than did the plain, unschooled man who had received his education principally beneath the open sky, in the field and forest, and w’ho had wielded an axe more than a pen, when he remarked, speaking to his children, “The lit tle chips are nearest the heart!” A Royal Publisher. The Shah of Persia is busily engaged in prepar ing a magnificent edition of the Arabian Night’s Entertainments. This edition will contain many tales and poems not included in former copies. A number of illustrative paintings, by the first artists of ihe country, added to the exquisite oeauty of the printed characters, will make this work a unique book in its kind. The artists, under the personal direction of the Shah, have been at work on this edition for the last seven years. Some notion of the splendor of the book may be sug gested by the fact that its preparation lias already cost in that country, where living is so cheap and money so dear, more than sixty thousand dollars tm i ♦- A Curious Wedding.—A letter from New York, relates the following: An interesting wedding took place a few days since, between a Mr. Henry B. Melville and Mrs. Sarah K. Seymour. The parties have both been married before, and each have a family of seven children —those of the gentleman comprising six daughters and a son. and those of the lady six sons and a daughter. The sons acted on the occasion as groomsmen to their future father, and the daughters as brides maids to their future mother. The whole four teen children, dressed alike, according to their sex, entered the church arm in arm, and ranged themselves on either side of their parents, who are both remarkably handsome, and looked su perb. The bride is wealthy, and was richly dressed in a pearl-colored moire antique, with costly laces and a diamond brooch and bracelet. The Value of a Good Book. The shilling Testament, purchased in N. Orleans previous to the Mexican war, not only saved the life of the possessor, but was the means of saving his soul. It was in this way. A young Illinois girl purchased a small testament for four dozen eggs at three cents per dozen. When her brother was about to start for Mexico, as a volunteer, she put it into his vest, pocket. There it remained, wrapped in the same paper and same pocket, until tho battle of Buena Vista, when the wearer received a wound through the Testament, which broke the force of the bullet, which lodged in his breast, and sent him to the hospital. There lie read his bo i>k ; and the last time I saw him, he was in an Illinois college, preparing for the pulpit, or rather for a missionary field in the Methodist church. A Start in TnE World.—Many a parent works hard and lives sparingly all his life, for the pur pose of laying up enough to give his children “a start in the world.” This kind of worldly wisdom is great folly, especially where it lqpds to tho neg lect of their moral training. Nay, it is often fol lowed'by the most ruinous results. Setting a young man afloat with money which he never aided in earning, is like tying bladders under the arm of one who has never learned to swim. Ten chances to one he will lose his bladders and sink to the bot tom. The true policy is to teach him to swim, and then he will not need the bladders. The pa rent who gives his child a good education, who trains him to industrious habits and bases his principles firmly upon the great laws of truth and duty, leaves hint an inheritance more valuable than the wealth of the Indies. This sort of “ start” makes “fast young men,” who not only soon ‘ stick fast” by the way, but. become utterly worthless to themselves and others. —Spartanhvryh Express. An Irish Legend. —On the west coast of Ireland near the Cliffs of Mother, at some distance out in the bay, the waves appear continually breaking in with white foam, even on the calmest day. The tradition among the country people is, that a groat city was swallowed up there for some great crime, and that it becomes visible once every seven years. And if the person who sees it could keep his eyes fixed on it till he reached it,it would then be restored, and would obtain great wealth. The man who related the legend stated farther that, some years ago, some laborers were at work in a field on the hill-side, in view of the hay: and one of them, happening to cast his eyes sea ward saw the city in all its splendor emerge from the deep. He called to his companions to look at it : but, though they were close to him, lie could not attract their attention. At last he turned round to see why they woukl not. come, but, on looking back when he had succeeded in attracting their attention, the city had disappeared.— Blackwood. - The Monkey and tue Hawk.—The cook of a French nobleman, whosechateau is in the south of France, had a monkey, which was allowed the free range of the kitchen, and which was so intelligent that by pretty severe training, his natural propen sity to mischief had been subdued, and lie was even taught to perform certain useful services, such as plucking fowls, for instance, at which he was uncommonly expert. One fine morning, a pair of partriges was given the monkey to pluck. The creature took them to an open window of the kitchen, which looked directly upon the park and went to work with great dilligenee. He soon finished one, which he laid on the outs r ledge of the window, and then went quietly on with the 1 other. A hawk, which had been watching his proceedings from a neighboring tree, darted down upon the plucked partridge, and in a minute was i up the tree again, greedily devouring his prey. The consternation of the monkey at this unto ward adventure may be easily imagined. lie knew he would be severely whipped for losing it. He hopped about in great distress for some min utes, when suddenly a bright thought struck hiVn. Seizing the remaining partridge, lie went to work with great energy and stripped oft’the feathers. He then laid it on the ledge, just where he placed the other, and closing one of the shutters, con cealed himself behind it. The hawk, which by this time had finished his meal, very soon swooped down upon the partridge; but hardly had his claw touched the bird, when the monkey sprung upon him from behind the shutter. The hawk’s head was instantly wrujjg, and the monkey, with a triumphant chuckle, proceeded to strip'offthc feathers. This done, he carried the two plucked fowls to the master, with a confident and self-sat isfied air, which seemed to say, “ Here are two j birds, sir; just what you gave me.” What the cook said on finding one of the partridges con- j verted into a hawk is move than wo are able to i toll. ■ Artificial Precious Stones.—A very curious i and interesting report was presented to the French | Academy of Science, a short time since, bv an in- : genious mechanician, M. Gaudin, on the result of ■ many years’ experiments, having for their object the production of artificial precious stones. After j twenty years labor, M. Gaudin has succeeded in fabricating imitation of jewels so perfect as to de ceive tho most practised eye. The imitation of | the ruby—the most precious of stones—has readied ! a rare degree of beauty and utility ; for it is pro- j ferred by competent watchmakers, ns pivots for j watches, to the real ruby, being eqally durable, | and much harder. M. Gaudin expects by means j of recently discovered process, to be able t i pro-j duce the ruby and sapphire of a sufficient size to be used in the manufacture of chronometers and clocks. An old gentleman, who had dabbled all his j life in statistics, says lie never heard of more \ than one woman who insured her life. Ho ae- 1 counts for this by the singular fact of one oi the j questions on every insurance paper being, hat j is your age ?” A Sister of Charity. —Tho Richmond corves- j pondent of tlie Petersburg Express writes: It is not perhaps, generally known that the j Hon. Edward Everett has a sister now perform ing the sacred duties of a Sister of Charity; yet, j such is the fact, and she is about to take the po- . sition of the Lady Superior of St. Joseph s berm nary in this city. She will probably arrive nearly J at the same time with Mr. Everett, who is coming i to deliver his grand oration on the character ot j Washington, ! ~ LADIES’ 01,10. A Blush.—What a mysterious thing is a blush, that a single word, look, or thought should send | that inimitable carnation over the cheek, like the, | soft tints of a summer sunset! Strange too that it • is only the lace,—the human face—that is capable | ;of blushing. The hand owtfbot does not turn red ; with modest}’ or shame, more than the glove or i sock which covers it It is the face that is heaven ! i There may be traced the intellectual phenomena j j with confidence amounting to certainty. | 1 know that if women wish to escape the stig- [ j ma of husband-seeking, they must act and look 1 I like marble or clay—cold, expressionless, blood- I less; for every appearance of feeling, of joy, sor- i row, friendliness, antipathy, admiration, disgust i are alike construed by the world into the attempt j !to hook a husband. Never mind ! well-meaning ; women have their own consciences to comfort ’ them, after all. Do not, therefore, be too much | afraid of showing yourself as you are, afVeotiom I and good hearted fdo not too harshly repress j sentiments and feelings excellent in themselves, i because you fear t hat some puppy may fancy that ! you are letting them come out to fascinate him ; do not condemn yourself to live only* by halves, j j because if you showed too much imitation, some 1 ’ pragmatical thing in breeches might take it into | his pate to imagine that you designed to dedi cate your life to his inanity. —June Eyre. i Lovers Taught Engineering.—From .Smiles to ! the Station at Kisses is live hundred sighs; from | Kisses to Pop the Question is one thousand five hundred sighs: and from thence to the Terminus ! of Pa’s-Consent is two thousand five hundred sigh.-—making a grand total of four thousand i five hundred sighs. To arrive at Pa’s-Consent, however, the engine of Love has to ascend a steep S incline, the gradients of which are enormous — ; two in three—causing a vast number of sighs to be heavily drawn in reaching it. Some senti mental surveyors have, therefore, proposed to fa : eilitato the communication between Pop the | Question and Pa’s-Consent (which mav easily be ‘done, if they can sufficient .capital,) or, failing that, to form a loopline to Mas. Being personally interested in the undertaking, we wish ii success, with all our heart. The esti mated saving is not far short of a thousand sighs. j Boston Pox/. o There often a ripple on very deep streams, and a dimple on the waves of the mightiest oceans. The eagle does not pursue a direct course through , the upper ether ; she •■Screws the night heaven till lost in the blue.” j The leviathan “(avgheth at tlm shaking of a spear,’’ ! and the horso neighs amidst his tremendous gal lop. This curveting, carolling, rejoicing, is a sign of strength, not of weakness; of earnestness, not of indifference ; of enthusiasm, rapture, arid en ! ergy. Just as a man who I:as done a manly day’s ; work will sometimes sing at its close, or as one ; who has climbed a mountain often leaps and dances in delight, so .Rogers, with Paschal, C'ole | ridge, and other thinkers who have reached lofty altitudes, sometimes express their feelings at the far-stretching sight by shouts and lively laughter | —laughter, however, speedily suosiding into seri • ousness again—as they see the “clouds anddark : ness ” which mingle with, and shade the pros | poet from every vision. — —- Controlling her Temcer.—The husband of a lady of fiery temper says, that before their mar ! riage he was warned of her fiery disposition, and ! to test the accuracy of the information, one eve ning, as he sat next to her at dinner, he man aged cleverly to jog the servant’s elbow, as a plate of mock turtle soup was oHerod her, which of course was upset over the young lady’s white dress of tulle lace. No complaint, nor even a frown being evinced, the delighted suitor conclu ded that what he had heard was a mistake, and (he marriage took place ; but soon the lady’s real character displayed itself, as is always the case af ter marriage, but never before, and his wife like a human Stromboli, was subject- to fiery eruptions every ten minutes upon an average. “ How is it, my dear,”said the happy husband, “that having such a bad temper, you stood the ordeal of soup so well?” “ Why,” answered the,lady, “L may have appealed indifferent at the time, but- good heavens ! you should have only gone into my room a little while afterwards and semi the .marks of j my teetli on the bed post? ” j Literary Hex and their Wives.—l do main- j ! tain that a wife, says Sarah Coleridge, whether j | young or old, may pass her evenings most happi- ! j ly in tlu 1 presence of her husband, occupied her self, and conscious that lie is still better occupied, though he may but speak with her and cast his eyes upon her from time to time—thit such even ings may be looked forward to with great desire, i ! and deeply regretted wityn they are passed away j forever. Wieland. whose conjugal felicity has , i been almost as celebrated"as himself, says, in a ! letter written after his wife’s death, that if he but ; knew that she was in the room, or if at times she i I but stepped in and said a word or two, that was | enough to gladden him. Some of the happiest j and most loving couples are those who, like Wie land and his wife, are both too idly employed ! to spend the whole of every evening in conversa i tion. • -♦* 9 1 Hasty Marriages.—The newspapers have of j late given frequent accounts of dashing bigamists j who have made themselves particularly notorious, i ! It is rentalkablo, in almost every instance, that j these scoundrels arc almost invariably married on ! a very short acquaintance. The lesson which this conveys should be that, j not only should careful search he made into the j antecedents of all men proposing marriage, but | that in all cases some months at least should ! elapse, during which inquiry should be instituted | relative to the. early life and connections of men j | who have thrust themselves, by ready address : i and plausible stories, into respectable society. - Nothing is so common n< to hear of some exposed | adventurers. “Well, who would ever have thought | it? Why he talked about the ary first people as , | if he were perfectly, familiar with them !” Os ; course—it is apart of the stock in trade. Who | is there that has some experience in the world who cannot recall the impression made, and the I influence acquired, by some shallow rascal who ! had simply learned the art of repealing a list of | first class names ? The world is easily humbugged in many ways, i but in none, perhaps, more readily than by lend j ing faith to what people say of themselves. It is ■ j a peculiarity, however, of this, more than of any | other country, that girls who regard themselves ; as shrewd enough, can here he induced to stake their happiness, and thatjof their friends, at a few ’ hours or days notice, simply on the stories which a man may choose to tell himself. In large cities, where human nature is a little better understood. ; there is less of this: but after all, the amount i of such credulity which criminal courts bring to ! light is reallv remarkable.— Xus/tAlfc Ecceftc. ■ No family is perfect without a daughter or sister lin it. A round dozen of great big brothers will not | compensate for one soft-eyed, sunny-hearted girl, i Such a treasure, ntunbere I in the household, has j a humanizing and civilizing tendency—better to a rough, ungainly follow in boots and wiiisa a's ! than to season at a dancing school, or a year at college. One can almost in variably select atom i ; I that has no sisters to bless li m. He is awkward j 1 as an auk, and one of those fellows t hat wproverbi j ally “afraid of the girls,” and blushes like a caul . ! iflower at the sight of one. And yet it is not be- • , ! cause he is modest, but because ho is a sort of ! unblanketed savage. Blessed :s the circle that has 1 a sister in it. There is something lovely m the ; | name and its utterance never fails to call up the ; ’ warm affection of the gentle hear,. She is a gem i of mildest light, calm astlie mellow moon, and j set in a coronet of pearls. j s Father Here ?” —A young man came into ! a city station house yesterday afternoon, and in quired: Is father in here?” “I do not know—! what is his name?” said the Lieutenant on duty. | The name was given, and the record exhibited ! with “ drunk and disorderly” attached as the j j charge. “Can 1 see him a moment—he is my father?” 1 was the response, and the young man was con- i ducted to the iron cage where the father had been 1 confined since morning, now sobered and in his ; right mind. “ Father,” said the visitor, “ Janets I rlead!'■’ And the young man choked at the sen- j tence, while the strong-nerved father vented his j grief in tears and loud expressions of sorrow. While the sister and daughter lay upon her dying bed the father had indulged in liquid po-; ; tations that dethroned reason, and had been ar rested and confined in the station house. The son asked for his release, and the kind-hearted j officer opened his prison door, and with a word of comfort and warning, set him free. Such are some of the daily scenes a “ Local” meets with in | his daily rounds,— Cincinhatti Gazette, > FARMED ’S COLUMN. t’OTIHEMCtiU. Avgusta, March 22nd. — Colton.— Sales’ to-day KBout i goo bales, at verv irregular prices. The market closed for Middling Fair lip but very unsettled. The j tendency is downwards at present. Charleston, March 20. —Cos lon. 1 lio maiket, at orening to-day, showed decided symptoms ofweakness, j and prices were all of }(§.}c. lower, and buyers, alter the advices were made public, were demanding a fur ther concession. The sales were limited to I.SOO bates, ■ and were made on the iollowing terms, viz : 59 bales at 10; 4 rt 101; 23 at 11; 000 at Ilf; 55 at Ilf; 44 at i 114 ; 27 at 113 ; 200 at Ilf; 31 at Ilf : mid 263 bales at 12c. 1 Savannah, March 20.—Cotton.— 811 hales sold to-day at the following particulars: 32 at 81; 7 at 10; 9 at ! 10} ; 85 at 104 ; 2 nt 11: 18 at Ilf; 400 at Ilf; 6 at 11} : 35 at 11: ; 120 at 11 3-16; 2 at Ilf; 31 at 12. Augiida Trices Current. WHOLESALE ntICES. BACON.—Hams, q* !b 10 @ 10} Canvassed Hams. q* lb 13 (gi 14 Shoulders, qt ib 9 @ 10 Western Sides, q* lb 10} Cu) 11 1 Clear Sides, Tcnn., q} lb 11 @ Ilf- Ribbed Sides, lit lb n (3) 00 Hog Round, new, q* lb 10 (a) 10} FLOUR.—Country qi bbl 450 (y C, 00 Tennessee q* bbl 475 @5 60 City Mills $ bbl 550 @7 50 Etowah q>, bbl 500 @7 50 Denmcad’s r> bbl 500 @7 00 Extra bbl 700 @7 50 GRAIN.—Corn in sack q* bush 65 @ 75 Wheat, white bush 1 10 () 1 15 Red qj Ib l oo @1 05 Oats q< bush 45 (a) 50 Rye qt bush 70 (o) 75 Peas r (A bush 75 @ 85 Corn Meal ft bush 10 Q) 75 IRON.—Swedes q* lb 5} <<( 5J English, Common, qt fl> 3} Os) “ Refined, ft lb 32 (<4 LARD.— Ulb 10 (g) 11 MOLASSES. —Cuba ft gnl 26 (5; 28 St. Croix fl gal 40 Sugar House Syrup gal 42 @ 45 Chinese Syrup qd gal 40 (o) 50 SUGARS.—N. Orleans ft tb 7} (a) 9 Porto Rico -ft lb 8} (a) 9 Muscovado Ulb 8 (a, 8} Refined C I?- lb 10 @ 11 Refined B lb 10} (3) 11 Refined A qt lb 11 @ 11} Powdered ft lb 12 () 13 Crushed lh 12 @ *l3 SALT.— ft ? ack 90 (ft 1 00 COFFEE.—Rio V lh 11} (a) 12V I Lnguira qi ft> 13 @ 14 Java q> lb 18 ( ii) 20 Manure Maxims. At a late meeting of the Farmer’s Chib of the American Institute, Mr. T. W. Field read a'pa per on manures, in which he said : The whole subject of manure may be stated in this proposition. 1. Manure does not waste so long as it is unfer ■ merited, or undissolved, and these conditions may bo effected by drying saturation. 2. Fresh manure is unfit.for food ibr jdants. • i 3. Fermenting manure, in contact with inert -.! matter has the power of neutralizing vicious pro • I perti . such as the tonic acid of peat, and making • j it a fertalizer. 4. Manure wastes in two ways —the escape ofj gas, and the dissolving of its soluble salts, j o. The creative power of manure, mixed with other mu stances, is capable of multiplyiiu ii value many times. j 0. The value of manure to crops is in proportion !to its divisibility through the sor. This golden ’ value of farming should be small quantities of ma- P 1 liure thoroughly divided and intermingled with the soil. - How.to Cur Glass with a Piece of Iron.—Draw with a pencil on paper any pattern to which you | would have the glass conform; place the pattern j under tun gku’ r hoi in both togeiher in the loft hand, (for the glass must not resi on any plain ; surface,) then t. ke -a common spike or some sim- I ilar piece of iron, heat the point of it to redness, | and apply it to the edge, of the glass; draw the : iron slowly forward, and the edge of the glass will | immediately crack: continue moving the iron | slowly over the glass, tracking the pattern and 1 clink in Hie glass, will follow at the distance ni | about half an inch, in every direction, according !to the motion of the iron. It may sometimes bo ■ found requisite, however, especially in forming Cor ners, to apply a wet finger to the opposite side of the | glass. Tumblers and other glasses may be cut. or ! divided very fancifuFy by similar means. The 1 iron must be reheated as often as the crevice in ’ the glass ceases to flow. —Scientific American. . Lime for Potatoes. —A correspondent—Smith Groom, of New York—informs us that his expe rience in the culture of potatoes has convinced 1 him that about a handful of dry slacked lime, | placed in each hill, tends to pi event the potato rot. The lime, lie s'atis, brings the potato to ear lier maturity, and imparts to them a vigor which resists the at tacks of the disease. An experiment with lime can be conducted by any of our farmers ! at a small expense, and if it does not prevent the potato rot, the lime will certainly enrich the soil for other purposes. —Seicntifie Amerleau. Grafting.—'drafting is performed in the spring. The last of March is the proper time for plums . and cherries: and April for others. In grafting, thrifty young stock should he preferred. The i operation is simple and consists in cutting oft’ the stock at the point where we wish to insert- the 1 scion, and splitting the stock down the centre: the scion is cut at the lower end, in the ionn of a wedge, and inserted in the split in the stalk : the outside hark of the scion should tit nicely the bark on the stalk. A salve made of one pound ] of beeswax, six of rosin, melted with one pint of j linseed oil, is then used to cover the seams made in the operation, so as to vender the whole aiv tigiit : the salve should be looked to occasion ally, and kept smooth and tight on the seams, for it sometimes gets open and lets in the air, which ; will destroy the scion. Scions should be of the last year’s growth, and have upon each two or three buds. (Tttixi; Grafts.—Scions for grafting can be cut at any time during the winter or spring, and if properly pres nod, are in a better condition than when permitted to remain on the parent tree until the bud have begun to swell. It cut when the ground is frozen, they can be preserved in the cellar in saiid siightiy moistened oceasion i ally : or if the ground be not frozen, they can be stuck two or throe indies into the soil, and loit , there in perfect safety until needed. Vv'e find it to he a good plan to stick the scions in the ‘'round at the bottom of the tree from which tiiov are taken, by which the name is safely retained. We have never found cold weather fol lowing the cuttingof scions and partially cover in’- them with earth, to bo the least detriment to them. — i it r/iH>ilti'W>i I ‘eyraph. To Preserve ll.vms tiirough the Summer.—Make a number of cotton bags, a little larger than your h.:m; after the hams are well smoked, place them in the Vans; then get the very best kind of sweet, well made hay, cut it with a knife, and with your Uqnds press it well around the hams in the bag: tie the bags with good strings put on a card of the year to show their age, and then hang them up in th§ garret or some dry room, and they will hang live years, and will be better for -b-'iiing than on the day you hang them up. This method costs la t lit tie, as the bags will last for years. No dies nor bugs will trouble the hams if the hav is welt pressed around them ; the sweating of the hams will be taken up by the lmy, and the hay will impart- a fine flavor to the hams. The hams should be treated in this man ner before the warm weather sets in. To Raise Extra Early Potatoes.—Cover the bot tom of several shallow boxes with six inches of equal parts stable manure and\loam and put an early variety of potatoes over kite jfhrf&ce two or three inches apart: then covPr th'emuvitfi six inches of the compost. Nail slats W an open cover over the top, and bury in the side of a fer menting manure bed, the warmth of which will soon start the potatoes into growth. If the heat should be too great, remove a portion of the ma nure from the,top, and admit air inside the box. When the weather will allow planting out, re move the which will contain a mass of roots apd whitish colored stalks. Leave them in the open air for a few days to harden off, and having watered them.copiously, take out the po tatoes with as much earth as possible, undis turbed about the roots already formed, and trans plant in rows. You will then have potatoes at * least two or three weeks earlier than when planted at first in the open grounds. The middle or lat ter part of March will be a proper season for put ting them in the compost heap, in this latitude,— American Agriculturist.