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LITERARY Spppuje (|nt?siwlcr. PENFIELD, GEOBGIA. L. LINCOLN VEAZEY, . . Editoh. THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL _ We are indebted to Hon. Joshua Hill, Jr., for several Congressional Speeches. Hox. Edward Everett has telegraphed to Sa vannah, that he will deliver his Washington Speech in that city on the 7th, and in Augusta, on the 9th of this month. We regret, as no doubt many of our readers do, that the present issue contains so little from Mrs. Bryant. It was unavoidable, however, as her packet did not arrive until the outside hajl been struck off. We deem it a sufficient apology for her to state that sickness in her father’s family produced this delay. ‘ Last week we had three days of clouds, with almost continual rain, a portion of the time very heavy. It has cleared off warm and pleasant, and spring will soon have opened upon us in all her beauty. Those touching lines on the death of Mr. S. L. Peebles are from one who was whilom no stran ger to our columns. Though “the mighty instru ment of little men” has been professionally laid aside, may we not expect an occasional dropping from that pen that ever teaches morality in beauty and the truth in love? The influence of one man upon the world may seem but as a pebble thrown into the ocean; yet, who can tell where the last waving circle ends? Many have lived whose influence for good or evil shall extend through all the range of time, far into the uncounted cycles of eternity. Blackwood's Magazine commends itself to every reader who relishes choice literature of a substan tial kind. The March number contains, “ What will he do with it?” “Zanzibar or two months in East Africa,” “Our Convicts—Past and Present,” “Stories from Ancient Sind,” “Fooodand Drink,” “Sullivan on Cumberland,” “ Curiosities of Nat ural History,” “A few more Words from Mr. John Company to Mr. John Bull—published by L. Soott & Cos. New York, at $3.00 per year. Ax individual, living out West, and answering to the übiquitous name of Smith, lately resorted to flight as the most practicable method of ob taining that boon for which our forefathers “ fit, bled and died.” His amiable spouse (in a mo ment of excitement, perhaps,) sends forth the fol lowing message of love to reclaim the poor fugh tivp: “ Lost, Strayed qr Stolen. —An individual whom I, in an unguarded moment of loneliness, was thoughtless enough to adopt as my husband. He is a good looking and feeble individual, know ing enough, however, to go m when it rains, un less some good looking girl offers her umbrella. Answers to the name of Jim. Was last seen in company with Julia Harris, walking with his arm around her waist, up the plank road, looking more like a fool (if possible,) than ever. Any body who will catch the poor feliow and bring him carefully back, so that I may chastise him for running away, will be asked to stay to tea by Henrietta A. Smith.” (hr ITTLE DORRIT” would have gotten a slap I J last week, in return for the fierce maledic tions she has poured out upon our unoffending head, had not the Editor of the other page, to whom she committed her manuscript, been too guarded in his trust. We devote t\vo or three pick's of the present issue to her, and she may tliaqk her star's that her bodily absence prevents an application of the genuine baton de hois. She has shot wide of the mark, \yhen she sup poses us to have been engaged m the solution of h that abstruse problem.” We have never yet an affair de cwur, never framed a sonnet to a lady’s eyebrows or breathed in her ear vows which the recording angel bedewed with tears as he registered them in the eternal archives. We were once nigh unto forming the determination of “taking a companion;” (if possible;) but we fell to doubting; and though the prince of poets assures us that “our doubts are traitors,” we are not certain but that in this case they were mes songers of mercy, kindly sent to guard us against impending evils- >Yewill, however, giye the mat ter another deliberate consideration after awhile, and perhaps “ Jack may yet eat his supper.” “Little Dorrit” speaks of the “freedom” of a married Yuan as if she kncio something about it. We do not believe she does. She is a romantic school-girl, a spinster or a shrew; for certain we are, that were she the wife of a “free” man, she would be very far from writing for the papers, unless it were’to procure bread for her “ teething qhild.” Heaven', preserve- us : from ever being linked, by ipatnipony’s chain, tp any individual of womankind, bo she never sp charming, wllQ lays claim to “freedom.” We should dream every night of lying on the crater of Vesuvius. Oh! what a bitter anathema! We had no idea a woman could curse so hard. If this “Child of the Marslialsea” can thus caudleize in the public nrints, what might be expected when an uncon . geniality qi temper was, exhibited privately? Yeriiy, We should'prefer our lonely mansion, with ifs grub-street dinginess, even though she corn: roendg a band of furies to disturb our nightly slumbers. But we cannot believe sho meant what she said. Bhe merely wished to display her talent foi’ rhyming. We are not as yet sufficiently recovered from having “ the bark taken off us” to mount our Pegasus; were it otherwise we would inflict upon her three dozen Spenserian stanzas that would frighten her out of making any addition tQ. her btemplets poetical works” fgir the frekt six months, j .\ r . • - . But though-her close is thus bitter, she seems in a paragraph a little higher up to lament our fate as a poor caged bird tuning the throat to a merriment which tlie heart cannot feel. Yes, we V are thus joyous because tfrp bars which, restrain uyr liberties are by our ken unseen. Gome, though, kittle Dorrit, lift the latch, throw back the dpor. efour prison-house on jt§ fringes and see lf w 6 will not—Hy out. jggpOxE hundred and tvyelyo students have just been suspended from the’ S'. Oarolina College, says the Charleston Mercury of Monday last, and there are about eighty-six left behind- Thirty five Seniors, three Juniors, seventy Sophomores, and three Freshmen have been sent off, the great er part until next October, fhr* is the second time within twelve months that this time-honored College, capable of doing so much good, has un de& different Presidents, been placed in this sor ry condition. The difficulty arose from the Faculty refusing to give the students a respite On Thanksgiving day. In revenge, a few of the students tarred the benches of. the recitation, rooms and chapel. The Mercury says that the course of President longstreet will be sustained. It is now said that Patrick Rronte (the father of Charlotte Emily and- Anne,} in ; early:life was himself a author, Two-volumes of poems from his pen were published in I§ll and 1813. His name may be found in Colburn’s Dictionary of Authors in 1816. A .ft “ * ft /A > , f ~ Inuary number of Blackwood appeared a paper on “ Hunger and Thirst”—many para graphs of which have passed the rounds. The same writer pursues the subject in the March number, in an article entitled, “'Food and Drink” —several passages of which we have marked for extraction. The first is the following, about CLAY-EATERS: Humbolt, a man whose word justly carries with it European authority, confirms the statement of Gumilla, that the Otomacs of South America during the periods of the floods, subsist entirely on a fat and ferruginous clay, of which each man eats daily a pound or more. Spix and Martius declared that the Indians of the Amazon eat a kind of loam, even when other food is abundant. Molina says the Peruvians frequently eat a sweet smelling clay; aftd Ehrenberg has analysed the edible clay sold in the markets of Bolivia, which he finds to be a mixture of talc and mica. The inhabitants of Guiana mingle clay with their’ bread ; and the negroes in Jamaica are said to eat. earth when other food is deficient. Accord ing to Labillardiere, the inhabitants of New Cale donia appease their hunger with a white friable earth, said by Vanquelin to be composed of mag nesia, silica, oxide of iron and chalk. The same writer asserts that at Java a cake is made of fer ruginous clay which is much sought for by women in their pregnancy. To conclude this list, we must- add Siam, Siberia and Kamtschatka as coun tries of clay-eaters. By a number of examples he thus demonstrates the fact that ONE MAN’S MEAT IS ANOTHER MAN’S POISON: There are persons, even in Europe, to whom a mutton-chop would be poisonous. The cele brated case of the Abbe de Viliedieu is a rare, but not unparalelled example of animal food be ing poisonous ; from his earliest years his repug nance to it was so decided, that neither the en treaties of his parents nor the menaces of his tu tors could induce him to overcome it. After reaching the age of thirty, on a regimen of vege table food, he was over-persuaded, and tried the effect of meat soups, which led to his eating both mutton and beef; but the change was fatal: plethora and sleepiness intervened, and he died of cerebral inflammation. In 1844, a French sol dier was forced to quit the service because he could not overcome his violent repugnance and disgust towards animal food. Dr. Prout, whose testimony will be more convincing to English readers, knew a person on whom mutton acted as a poison: “He could not eat mutton in any form. The peculiarity was supposed to be owing to caprice, but the mutton was repeatedly dis guised and given to him unknown; but uniformly with the same result of producing violent vomitr ing and diarrhoea. And from the severity of the effects, which were in fact those of a virulent poi son, there can be little doubt that if the use of mutton had been persisted in, it would soon have destroyed the life of the individual.” Dr. Pereira, who quotes this passage, adds: “I know a gen tleman who has repeatedly had an attack of indi gestion after the use of roast mutton.” Some persons, it is known, cannot take coffee without vomiting; others are thrown into a general in flammation if they eat cherries or gooseberries. Hahn relates of himself that seven or eight straw berries would produce convulsions in him. Tissot says he could never swallow sugar without vomit ing. Many persons are unable to eat eggs; and cakes or puddings having eggs in their composi tion, produce serious disturbances in such per sons: if they are induced to eat them under false assurances of no eggs having been employed, they are spon undeceived by the unmistakable effepts. And in conclusion, he has the following on the importance of COMMON BALT AS AN ARTICLE OF FOOD: Common Salt (chloride of sodium) is another constant and universal substance which claims rank as Food. It forms an essential part of all the organic fluids and solids, except the enamel of the teeth. Common salt is always found in the blood, in quantities which vary within extremely narrow limits, forming 0 421 per cent, of the en tire mass, and as much as 75 per cent, of the ashes. This quantity is wholly independent of the surplus iiujbod; for the surplus is either not absorbed or is carried away in the excretions and perspiration; and this shows it to be an anato mical constituent, not an accident. If too little salt be taken in the food, instinct forces every animal to supply the deficiency by eating it sep arately. ” “The wild buffalo frequents the salt licks of North-Western America; the wild animals in the central parts of Southern Africa are a sure prey to the hunter who conceals himself beside a salt spring; ard our domestic cattle run peacefully to the hand that offers them a taste of this luxury, From time immemorial it has been known that without salt man would miserably perish ; and among horrible punishments, entailing certain death, that of feeding culprits on saltless food is said to have prevailed in barbarous times.” When Cook and Foster landed in Otaheite they astonished the natives who saw them eating white powder with every morsel of meat; and every one remembers Man Friday’s expressive repudi ation of salt. But the savages who ate no “ white powder,” ate fislv, and cOolced their flesh in sea water, rich in salt. In several parts of Africa fnen are sold for salt; and on the gold coast it is the most precious of all commodities. On the coast of Sierra Leoqe a iqan will sell his'sistpr, his Wife, or his child for salt, not having learned the art of distilling it from the sea. The properties of salt are manifold. It forms one of the essential conditions of vital processes. It renders albumen soluble, and is necessary for digestion, being decomposed in the stomach into hydrochloric acid for the gastrieprocess, and soda for the bile. It has also a most important pro perty, namely: that of regulating the interchange of fluids through the walls of the vessqis;, in ac cordance vyhiefr that law o i, endpmosis, ett wfrich so mArty vital'processes depend, but which we cannot stop now to explain. So great are the ser vices of salt that we may confidently endorse the statement of Pr. Bence Jones, tfrat’it is M a sub stance as essential to life as nitrogenous food, or non-nitrogenous food and water,” and if so essen tial, then assuredly Food. In the essay on the curiosities of “ Natural His tory,” we find a paragraph on SNORING: The variety of povyer in tliefiasa'l organ is great. yos haVei the punhb shore;- commencing on a weak kpy, and passing away into a thin whistle, which we*have mistaken for the wind playing through the keyhole oy some other dauny. Then there Is the’ great sonorous snore, pealing awfully through the house in the silenco of the night. We once had a.visitor with such gifted nostrils that we can depose, that although he did not awaken any responsive concert in the pond, he set our two terriers, at dead of night, into a fu rious lit of barking. It was an ew terror to thoxq, and we had the greatest piiiiouliy : explaining to piliy and Pepper, That hd harm was meante that no invasion of the premises was threatened it was vox et prater ea nihil. The great snore is often varied by wild unearthly cadences, har monising with the howling winl without; and in listening to such a performance, we are free to confess that sometimes on our solitary pillow we have felt a little eery. But the most characteris tic and best denned sqQra.i&tbP sudden*.quick convulsive snoje,'"properly described, .as a snort, It is as like as may he to tUo snort of the WW hoise, or to that Os the startling, struggling loco- I motive f-*;. which it has been more than once mistaken by a half-awake traveller, who had to go by an early train. The h comotiye seem 8 clearly to haye copied from the human engine* If apy one wishes'to study the subject, let him fake liis station clurfng night in the lobby oftho bedroom-fiat pf a large hotel, His opportunities will be better if the hotel ia much frequented by pqnmyerplal gentlemen- The stewed kidneys and stout gin-toddy in. which they indulgo previous to retiring, form a good basis for a full nocturnal diapason-- t “From their fullrpcks the gcn’rous steeds retire, Dropping ambrosial foams and snorting fire.” A full rack seems to be the approved method Qf tunjng the instrument. It is a vulgar error so 3upp°gethp,t a large proboscis Is necessarily .an; organ of. great, power. ..On tiro in the huge cavern (the, air seonas to lose itself; and we have seen an Insignificant snub that would. have outsnored the most exaggerated Roman variety. It is stated in telegraphic dispathe-. fvcuu lyew Orleans, that a severe storm wai} ebepeVienced on the Giilf a few days Ago. 1 > , Jp ‘ — ll ‘• i Mr. .Tolin Autrey, living about eighteen miles from Anderson Court House, in South Carolina, commited suicide by shooting himself at his resi dence on-the 27th of March. “There’s no discharge! thy scene of strife Is (he last battle-field of life; Thy banners never must be furied, For thou must struggle with the world, And with thyself! the war will cease, Only when death shall whisper ‘ Peace.’ ” thy ease” was the address of one of JL old to his soul in a moment of bliss. Boun tiful supplies of all which he imagined could con duce to happiness had been laid up in store. His enlarged garners were filled, his coffers were heaped with richest treasures, and his mansion was a scene of many delights. But amid tuisban quetting of the carnal appetites his soul was de manded of him. Though rich to superfluity in all the world’s goods, he could not furnish to his summoned soul a scrip and staff for this unknown journey. Poor and wretched it had to enter the high chancery court of Heaven, without the cov ering for its nakedness which the Son of right eousness alone can give. What a sadly impressive commentary is this upon the ends sought by human ambition! Some toil through long years of ceaseless ansuisli for glittering gold, whose gleam attracts but to de ceive, and when obtained, is as ashes to the lips of the famished; others follow the still more illu sive glare of fame, and boldly mount the rugged height, whence it shines to find it nought but an empty vapor. Some eagerly pursue the lightly tripping pleasures, while others think it the aim of existence to repose on the downy couch of ease. Lost wanderers, we need some light from on high to point out the way of our higher dosti ny and purer happiness. In the whole range of human aspirations, there is none so vain, as far as this life is concerned, as that which many cherish for ease. It cannot be found in all tlie moving, hurrying panorama of the world. There is indolence, idleness, luxury, bestial enjoyment and unnatural hilarity, but no ease. You may point to the sluggard, who spends day after day, month after month, year after year, without earning the salt that seasons his food; you may name the gay butterflies of fash ion, who “toil npt, neither do they spin.” These enjoy ease of the body. Their limbs labor not, nor do the muscles and sinews ever feel tlie fa tigue of exercise. But there is no ease of the soul. It is harrassed by care, distracted alternate ly by hope and fear, or sunk? in the dark gloom of despair. _ “Wo unto him who is at ease in Zion,” is the language pronounced by the voice of inspiration, With equal truth, we may say his fate is sad who is at ease anywhere. A benumbing of the facul ties, a hardening of the heart, a deadening of its sensibilities, a suspension of all the vital energies would follow naturally as the results of such a state of existence. Some think idleness ease, and look forward with bright anticipations to some period in the distant future, when they will have nothing to do. This hope has solaced many a poor over-worked laborer in his life struggle; but when it is attained, he finds that “ freedom from occupation is not rest.” He enters in a state where lie is unhappy, because there is nothing to desire, and miserable though ho has nought to fear. No ! the spirit cannot be at ease in this life; so occupied is every moment with some anxiety, trouble or vexation. ’Tisaboon which it is ever craving, but which, while wedded to this mortal frame, it can never gain. “All is action—all is motion, In this mighty world of ours! Like the currents of the ocean, Man is urged by unseen powers.” Plod on tired soul; perform with patient dili gence each day the task which duty shall allot: cast your eyes aloft; there is rest ahead ; rest that shall not be broken; where ten thousand charms shall yield delight to every sense, and throughout eternity thou cans’t take thy ease! gentleman of Alabama haying beep con : atituted a “Knightof Mt. Vernon,” tfie Tuscaloosa Monitor wants to know what this is. Haying asked the question it goes on after this style: “ But a ‘ Knight qf Mount Vernon’ to be associ ated in idea with the Republican simplicity of the citizen George Washington, does sound so ludi crously ridiculous that we can only he surprised that Mr. Yancey, or any other sensible man in this country, wouldaccept the foolish title. Wash ington from liis very heart loathed these geyY.-g.aw titles and nonsensical distinctions, of European re galism and snoLoeracy and every true scion of American freedom should detest them just as cor dially.” ■ [Written for the Georgia Teraperaneq OjusadftrJ On the pegth of It sr. &. L, Peebles., a mm,ber. of the ’ Sdji/iomore ‘ Class, Mercer University. Hark! ’tis the tolling bell! What means yon strange array ? Not thus the students meet Upon their holiday With pall, and hearse, and solemn tread; No! thus bear they forth their dead. One foot amid their ranks, No more will tread the aisle • One eye r.p i;toye riia'.l hash, One'fip no more'shall ispille; A bVight head .'mid them now is low— 'Death dame afid struck the'fatal blow. The trues W gay with flowers, ‘ |t is the bright spring time; fiut rosemary and asphodels Are fittest here to twino Above a brow, all pale and cold, And lips which left life’s talc half told. Strike! strike! oh sadly strike The iuneral knell this morn! No father follows ypn da<k bier, >)o mothev weeps’ forlorn ; v.Y It niattejrs no„t —bear forth his clay— We’re mourners, all of ns, to-day. The classic page unoonned, The lamp unlit at evo, Will make liis fellows pause, And turn away to grieve, Oft will they think in such sad hours, Os him who perished ’mid spring flowers. lie perished not ! the Soul Still liveth on for aye! Death cannot div.. its he riittrs the 1 clay— A sftident stfllheyond time’s flood • He reads the page Christ wrote in blood. General Haskell, for same time a patient in the lunatic asylumn at Hopkinsville, is recovering his mental and physical health. John 11. Li\(shheld, the American Consul at Boyt° Oab'feUo, ‘died lately of paralysis, after three days’ illness. The nomination of Col. Johnston, command ing the army in Utah, as Brevet Brigadier Genep al, was confirmed by the Senate on Gduesany. Cowles, in his history of plants, thus laconi- . cally notices t.ha virtfte. -of, hemp': “By this co.r ftUge ships are guided, hells are rung, and TOgftea ape kept in awe.” Tho LaGrango J Reporter announoe3 the death of Mrs. Haralson, widow of tho late Hon. H, A. Harafton. She died of pneumonia on the 2dd inst. Charles Mackay, the English song writer, is in Washington on a return from Ins recent lectur ing tour through the Southwest. He is next lecture in Baltimore, Henry Heine, the German author gives the foliowing. He says: “Take a word into the mouth turn it around therein, and spit it out. that’s English.” Two young men named Tully, tried ftt ipntlac, Mich, for the pf their •father, have been copyfeted. • V.'iV.fttt • A ‘ “ ‘ ‘ *’ Tlie Methodists in Indiana have 1,069 churches and 78,486 members ;> the Baptists 512 churches, 27,630 members.. The removal of tb° Bennsylvania capitol from Harrisburg to Philadelphia, seems highly proba ble. A resolution to that end has been kindly received bv the nresent Leffialatnre. CHOICE SELECTIONS. Spring’s First “Oh ! the flowers upward in every place, In this beautiful world of ours; And dear as the smile on an old friend’s face, Is the emileof the bright, bright flowers.” Spring has come again—the merry fairy-fooled Spring. Her garlands of green buds are on the trees—her soft breath steals over mountains and hills, and nestles in the peaceful valley. What glad strains of bird-music echo through the woods : and the delicious trill t rembles, and ascends high er, and higher, till the wholo air is quivering with melody. Every face we meet seems to wear a more cheerful aspect; earth smiles, the sky melts into a bluer tint, and Aurorci’s blushes deepen to radiant crimson dyes. And Spring’s first flowers —what a song of joy they bring to our hearts! We greet their return as a (tear long-absent friend; and their delicate fragrant breath lightly touch ing our cheek as we bend above them is sweet as the soft kiss of affection. When the first gale of Spring comes gently from the South, how eagerly we watch for the tiny blos soms peeping from the earth, and the unfolding of their tinted petals. llow we fear the stern old Frost-King will make a mal-apropos return, and with his rude kisses, blight the beauties we so tenderly cherish—while every ray of warm sun shine, every balmy breeze and shower of pearly dew are welcomed as so many benizons; and the first fragrant flower we can pluck and twine in our hair, or wreathe in a graceful bouquet, is sweeter, dearer, and proudly borne as the poet’s laurels, or the halos of glory, clustered about the hero’s brow. The modest violet, hidden in tlie dark re cesses of the wood, we search for almost as eager ly as the alchemists of old did for the fabled Philosopher’s Stone and the snow-drop’s purity, the coral-lipped woodbine, the star-eyed daisy, and the merry little crocus, each finds a place in our hearts as we joyfully greet them—heralds of Spring. And “ There is A daintiness about these early flowers, That touches me like poetry.” It breathes upon us as we inhale their delicious fragrance and from their radiant loveliness, drink deep inspirations of the good, the beautiful and pure; while the low, silvery tinlile of fairy bells seem to float on the perfumed breeze, mingled with the rustling of gossamer wings. Tradition has said that flowers sprung from the footsteps of angels as they wandered sorrowfully upon the earth, after the gates of Paradise were closed upon our first parents ; while we admire the exquisite poetic beauty of the legend, we are inclined to admit its authenticity ; for with Heav en and the Angels, we associate all that is beau tiful, bright and glorious; and what is more radiantly lovely than the world of beauty spread out before qs in the homes of the fair bright flowers? To train their graceful tendrils, to nur ture their growth and watch the gradual devel opment of their bright beauty, affords an exqusite pleasure which none can know but those who have cultivated a taste for an employment, so full of interest and healthful recreation; and which operates with a refining influence upon the mind, and touches all that is good and beautiful in our nature. Cold, indeed, must be the heart that does not love them —that can look unmoved upon their innocence and lovely simplicity. A great many persons have a fancy for flowers, or ad mire brilliant and variegated hues ; but they do not love them—their hearts never rebound with a gush of tenderness to the sweet welcome of their smiling faces. They do not read lessons of meek ness, purity and goodness in their bright eyes ; they cannot talk to them as to some dear friend and catch the soft strains of melody—the messa ges of love and gentleness breathing from tli@ir bright-tinted petals; they only admire their bril liant hqos, as we do a beautiful but lifeless paint ing. Someone has beautifully and truly written, that “ flowers are the poor man’s poetry and birds the poor man’s music.” None are so pov erty-stricken that they cannot cluster around I hern at least a few of Flora’s sweet treasures; and (ht. bird’s glad music is not poured upon, the lighted halls of the fashionable concert room? but trills freely for all, and trembles as sweetly around the homes of the poor and unfortunate, as the places of the rich. In the deep shadows of the forest, by the dreamy, murmuring stream—in the fields and meadow—on the rugged mountain, arid in the quiet valley; the angels have loft their foot prints, and bid the ftovyers smile alike on king or peasant; and the gilded mansions of splendor and wealth ’ can never present amid tftaij cold grandeur, the fresh, the pure soul-to.uchmg beauty that blooms in the gardens of nature—.the poor man’s Bdau-h&me. And may our hearts be filled \vith gratitude to our Heavenly Father who has enriched our earth with so much lovoliness, and given us here a type of that better land where flowers bloom in spring-time beauty forever, and ever! Atlanta, Georgia. — Nat. A>)\siy RENA. Be Ghnclemex at Home. —There are few fami lies, we imagine, any where, in which love is not abused as furnishing the license for impoliteness. A husband, father, or brother, wijl harsh words to those he loves b.q,s,v, ay,d tho,se vv-ho, love, him best, rimplv, because, the. security of love and family pride him ftoin getting his head bro ken, It is a sliame thus that a man will speak more impolitely, at times, to his wife or sister, than he would to any other female, except a low, a vicious one. It is that the honest affections of a man’s nature prove to be a weaker protection to a woman in the family circle than the restraints of society, and that a woman usually is indebted for the kindest politeness of life to those not be longing to her own household. This plight not so to be. The map vyho, hecausg, ft will not be resented, inflicts his spleen and bad. temper upon those orbis faestrth’ - stone, is a small cowapd and a very mean man. Kind vyords are circulating mediums between two gentlemen and ladies at home., and po polish exhibited in society can atone for the harsh language and disrespectful, treatment too often indulged in between those bound together by God’s own ties of blood, and the still moresacred bonds of conjugal love. Why we nAVE no TnuNDEU ix the Winter Professor Espy, in his fourth Meteorological Re port thi\s explains why v?e have. no. thunder in the winter : •** ” “ If it’ is asked why \yo have no thunder in the winter, though fops of the storm clouds rise even Ip this seasonto a region where the air is at least con siderably charged with electricity, perhaps the an swer may be found in this—that the storm clouds in the winter are of great extent, and of course the tension of the electricity, being extended over a very large surface, is very feeble; and the sub stance of the cloud being itself framed but of vapor much less dense than that off summer clouds this tension may ’nbt be able to strike from one p&rticlAol’ the Cloud to fcho next adjacent one, no general discharge can take place. Besides, even in the winter, during a very warm spell of weath or, with a high dew point for the season, we some times have a violent thunder storm from a cloud of very limited horizontal extent, ae the thunder clouds always ate in the svnin % et\ Shell a clor and is in reality an pillar of hot air, mingled with vapor, having just given out into the air itself its latent caloric, causing the air at the top of the cloud, in many cases, to be 00 degrees warmer at its top than the air on the c,utside at the same level.” i * TnE PewESi u’ Sweet Sounds! —Where is not’ jhe,iy might acknowledged? They ring not alone in the “'dim and mighty ministers of old times,” blit through all; of Nature’s realm: in winds that stir the grass apd gleaming earn, that linger roqnd the ylolet and “ about the sunset rose tree deep in June in the birds, those sweet natur al musicians that “ sing the song which Nature taught,''’ in the pattering rain and dashing wa tertall we trace the workings of the same, grand spirit of Harmony. But we fancy by this time our Editors have grown any thing but harmonics over our dull pages, and beside silver Tongue in the corner says it is time so ely*t s so withihe half unsaid we leave oi\r chapter of spiritual Songs and Hynpi& t ‘- --V’ • Picture of Life. —ln youth we seem climbing up a hill on whose top eternal sunshine appears to rest. How eargerly we pant to gaiys its! sum mit 1 But when we have gained it, now different is the prospect on tho ‘other side! We sigh as we , contemplate the scene before us; and look back with'a wishful eye upon the flowery'path we liayu passed, but may nOver more retrace. Life is like a potentdus cloud fraught with thunder, storm and rainr but religion, list those streaming rays of sunshine, udllcloilib it with light as with a gar ment,'and 1 fringe its shadowy skirts with gold, “ Steel your heart,” said a oopsiderate father to his son, “ for you are going now among sorao fascinating girls.” “I had much rather steal 1 their’s,” said the promising young man. LADIES’ OLIO. Advice to Young Ladies. —I would speak ten derly to you, for in many of your follies you are encouraged by- the sterner sex. Yet there are some which are your own. Let me speak of two things —extravagance and monstrosity in dress. In the days of your mothers, six or eight yards of silk was enough for a dress, ;mw you must have six teen. This enormity do is not beautify you; it renders you hideous. There are some of your fashions which are so disgusting as hardly to be spoken ot—l mean all those devices which have tor their object the swelling out of your forms, so as , to fl‘ ve prominence to—what shall I say? As if to imitate the peacock—the very emblem of folly and vanity—you make your heads, the seat of the intellect, as little and insignificant as possi ble; while the hips are amplified into the dimen sions of a balloon! . This, my young ladies, is madness. In the first place, it is very inconvenient; with your hoops and crinoline you are troublesome and annoying, especially in publie places; in the street, in the’ church, the theatre, the omnibus and the railroad car. Your trains, disgusting as they sweep up the mud and dust in the streets, and wipe the filth upon youv pretty feet and ankles, are very irritating to crowded places, for they will be trod upon, and then voulook daggers. Society at the South. ■ The society of the South, we regard as in some respects superior to that of any part of the world. The English are proverbial for their reservo and stateliness—the French for their elegance and vivacity, and we of the South are a kind interme diate of the two, having tlx efortiter in re of the for- > mer and the suavitcr in tnodo of the latter, boaufci- 1 fully and harmoniously blended together. This we regard as the'seeret of the fascinating influ ence that is exerted by Southern ladies and gen tlemen at home and abroad. But with all°the many advantages that society at the South en joys, an observing eye will not fail to perceive a want of sincerity pervading the intercourse of the sexes, which can be found nowhei’O else. Even under the easy familiarity of Northern society, there exists greater confidence than with us. The spirit of coquetry seems to prevail in our midst- as a mania. It has infused itself into the various relations of Southern Society, and has become so common, that but little if any confi dence now exists betweeix opposite sexes. This disease of society is not confined to castes. The high and the low, the educated and the unedu cated, are alikesubject to it. Neither is it limited to one sex to the exclusion of. the other, or even to the unmarried, for some that have assumed the holy vows of wedlock are voted decidedly fast. The youth just entering the attractive saloons of the gay and fashionable, soon becomes entan gled in the artful meshes spread by a belle that has sjient two or three summers at a waterin'* place, or oixe that has enjoyed the advantages of city life. He drinks in with delight the delicate compliments bestowed by this seemingly most in nocent and unsophisticated of all human creatures —surpassing even the ingenuous manners of a country school-girl. He listens to the soft, sweet Bates of her. israfelian voice, as she sings some beautiful and touching song of the affections, and soon realizes m her his beau ideal of a lady. She with that quickness of perception ao peculiar to her sex, seeing her poison working successfully, gracefully presents to him a bouquet of rare and odoriferous flowers, and this after refusing to part with them at the solicitation of her many admi rers. This last master stroke fills him with a per fect deliriuin of pleasure. He escorts her to her carnage—she gently pre-noa his hand as he as sists her in, and softly whispers in his ear, that she will be pleased to see him soon at her home. His destiny is fixed—she has sown the seed of his eternal unhappiness; and she, a gay, brilliant, at tractive and heartless coquette, yath-os to hel* boudoir and sleeps calmly arid quietly-—the meas ure of her vanity bein'! iu ’- i feo overflowing. Our young hero follows, up in quick haste his seeming good fortune and early declares his enthusiastic iovo : ,. -Sira, true to her nat-ure, affects the utmost surprise at this feeling revelation—she coldly looks upon him, and with a haughty nod of the head, rejects his proffered love; but assures him that she will be pleased to consider liim as one of her best friends. He, disgusted with society, turns wo man-hater, and soaks pleasure in tho wine-cup anfl £Vt thqgaming table, and is soon lost forever! But, to reverse the picture, how often do we see a thoughtless young man, by marked atten tions apd co.urtly phrases, win the esteem of an uVjpuisiv-e girl—-lead her to expect t-liat he will som© day solicit her hand in honorable marriage ? but ho abandons her and leaves her to repine over misplaced and unrequited love. He thus boldly and recklessly tampers with the most sa cred thing of liic, the tend er feelings of an unex perienoad girl, to.’gratify Ids unequalled self-love for the. passing moment, ; nd this too regardless of the fiW tlLttt lie is embittering the future hap piness of a warm-hearted and gifted woman. He can do all this, according to the present organiza tion of society, an 1 still he is recognised by some as a gentleman. <( |iOT-e is of man’s life a thing apart, ‘T'is woman’s whole existence.” We regard the practising of such arts by a lady as qnite a fault, but with all their faults we can but like them—-and will endeavor to overlook this trait of their character, for the charming crea tures can’t help it. But in a man it is feminine and absolutely dishonorable, and as such we must condemn it. It must be regarded as one of the evils ox society, and is without doubt a great drawback to the divine institution of marriage. It has done more to diminish theincrease of pop ulation than all the fallacious principles promul gated by Mai thus and his deducted followers. Wo have no remedy to suggest, and must close by wishing that the God of Love may have mer cy upon the souls of all that have sinned in this particular. —Edgefield Advertiser ,-jj <^o^oo* The Broken Hearted. “ I have seen the infant sinking down like a stricken flower to the grave, the strong man fiercely breathing out his soul upon an agonizing death-bed, the miserable convict standing upon the scaffold with a deep curse quivering upon his lip. I have viewed death in all its forms of dark ness, vengeance and terror, with a bold and fear less eye, but 1 never could look upon woman, lovely woman, fading away from earth in beauti ful, uncomplaining melancholy, without feeling the very fountains of life turned into tears and dust. Death is always terrible, but when a form of angel beauty is passing off to the silent land of sleepers, the heart feels there is something lovely ceasing from existence, and broods, with a sense of utter desolation,, over the lonely thoughts that come up like spectors from the grave, to haunt us in our midnight dreams.” “It cannot be that earth is man’s’ only abiding place. It cannot be that our life is a bubble cast upon the ocean of eternity to float a moment upon its wave, and then to sink into darkness and nothingness. Else why is it that the aspirations which leap liks. angels from the temple of our hearts are forever wandering about unsatisfied ? Why is it that the cloud and the rainbow come ’ over us with a beauty thatis notof earth, and then pass away, and leave us to muse upon their faded loveliness? Why is it that the stars that hold their nightly festivals avound the midnight throne are placed above the reach of our limited facul ties; forever mocking us with their uuapproach . pblo glqry ? And finally, why is it that bright forms of human beauty are presented to our view and then taken from us, leaving the thousand streams of our affeotions to flow back in Alpine torrents upon our hearts ? Wo are born for a higher r destiny than that of earth. There is a land where the rainbow never fades, where the stars will bo spread out before us like islands that slumber on the ocean, and where the beautiful beings that hero pass before us like visions, will remain in opr presence forever!” O- - -- One’s Mother. —lt has beau truly said that the first being that rushes to the recollection of a soldier or a sailor ip his direst difliculy, is his mother. Sha clihgs to his memory and’ affection in the ’ midst of all the forgetfulness and hardihood in duced by a roving life. The last message he leaves is for her, liis last whisper breathes her name. The mother, as she instills the lesson of piety and filial obligation into t ho heart of her infant son, should always feel that her labor is not ip \.aip, ‘fih'o may drop into the grave; but she has left behind her an influence that will work for her. The bow is broken iihe arrow is sped and will do its office. .: A’ 4 —- A Emblem of Heaven.-—0 what ohecr • In ideas, * strength and pleasures did the primitive Christians reap front the unity of their hearts, in the way and Worship, of Goal Next to the c.o light of immediate communion with God thevo is none like that which rises from * monious exercise of the graces, of t ... their mutual duties apd communion an other. How are their spirits de liglted and lie freshed by it! What a S heaven ! The courts of princes *ftoid no suou He ights.—Flavel. | FARMER’S COLUMN. COMMERCIAL. AUGUSTA, April 5, — CoUon.— Sales Saturday af-* ternoon, 140 bales, at 11J cents. Bales this morning, 77 bales: 45 at 10J, 2 at IQJ/- 30 at 11’ cents. Our market is quiet; offerings are light; holdersfirm at full prices, and buyers not disposed to operate. CHARLESTON, April s.— Cotton. —There is a fair demand to-day at firm and hardening prices. Sales 1000 bales at 11 to 112 c. . SAVANNAH, April 3.— Cotton.*— The sulc-s for the day reach 75(J bales, at 10! to|2J cents. J : % Prices Current. WHOLESALE PRICES. BACON.—Hams, ft lb 10 @ ICi Canvassed llams, <jß lb 13 © ‘ 14 Shoulders. Jb 9 10 Western Sides, ft lb 10i @ 11 Clear Sides, Tenn., ‘P lb 11 © 114 Ribbed Sides, lb 11 @ 00 Hog Round, new, lb 10 © 104 t iff'Cß.—Country %% bbl 450 @6 00 1 ennessee / bbl 475 @ 560 Mills ft bbl 550 ©7 50 Etowah ft bb i 5 00 ©7 50 Denmeud s ft bbl 500 © 700 kxtra $ bbl 700 @7 50 Corn in sack bush 65 © 75 Wheat, white ft bush 1 05 @ 1 10 £ ed U lb 95 © 1 00 £ ats bush 45 @ 50 £> Te 18 bush 70 © 75 £ eas , Ift bush 75 © 85 TV C °™ 1 $ bush 70 @ 75 IK ON.—Swedes Ift lb 5* © 5i Eiiglish, Common, lb 31 @ tapp Re ® ncd & 32 © LARD.— 3ft lb 10 ful 11 MOLASSES. — Cuba $ gal 26 © 28 St. Croix Ift gal 40 Sugar House Syrup Ift gal 42 © 45 Chinese Syrup tp gal 40 © 50 SUGARS.—ffe Orleans fib 7* © 9 Porto Rico s{ft lb © 9 Muscovado & lb 8 ‘ ‘ 84 Refined C 3ft lb 10 11 Refined B tp lb 10i @ 11 Refined A, ft lb 11 @ lli Powdered ft lb 12 @ 13 „ A C ™ shed Ift Jb 12 © 13 ‘<p sack 90 ©1 00 COFIEE.—Rio lb 12 © 13 V a S ulra 18 lb 134 © 14 Java ft m 18 © 2Q Hints to Farmers. Toads are the best protection of cabbage against Plants, when drooping, are revived by a few grains ol camphor. I eats are generally improved by crafting on the mountain ash. Sulphar in preserving grapes, eie from insects. Lard never spoils in warm weather, if it is cooked enough in frying eut. Os feeding corn, sixty pounds ground go as far as one hundred pounds in the kernel. Corn meal should never bo ground very fine. It injures the richness of it. 1 uni ins of small size have double the nutritious matter that large ones have. Rats and other vermin are kept away from grain by a sprinkling of-garlic when packing the sheaves. Money expended in drying land, by draining or otherwise, will be returned with, ample inter est. t ■ 0 cure scratches 011 a horse, wash their legs with warm soap suds, and then with beef brine N Two applications will cure the worst case. timber, when cut in the spring, and exposed to tl\e weather with the bark on, decays much sooner than if cut in the fall. Wild onions may be destroyed by cultivating coni, plowing and leaving the corn in the plowed state all winter. Plantation Gardens. The economy of a good gardener for the plant ation negroes is no longer doubted. The garden should always be planted for the number of hands worked. It should always abound in collards, kale, squashes, okra, onions, shallots, peppers, snap beans, with many of the pot herbs, also spring and tall turnips. If the planter is a good manager, he will have something green from the* garden, served up for his negroes each day in the year, ihevo are varieties of the kale which may be sowed every month, that make delicious greens, and yield abundantly. The collard is a standard plant, both nourishing and strengthen ing. . the cabbage tribe contains more muscle making nutriment than any other vegetable. Okra is a plant of easy culture and very produc tive. The bush squashes yield profusely; onions shallots and peppers are indispensible. Onions are not only a wholesome food, but are said to check the spread of contagious diseases, and pep pers will cure the disease after it is contracted, it was observed that the plantations on the Mis sissippi, that used pepper liberally with the ne groes’ food, were exempt from cholera during the vicissitude sos that scourge. And those who had the cholera wese successfully treated with strong infusions of red pepper. \ egetable soups duriug the hot months of summer and fall, fed to the hands, will save many a doctor’s bill and keep the 1 lands hale and hearty. —Planter A Soil. - • -, On. moot a New Source.— An important branch CH manufacturing at Marseilles is tho production ot cil from peanuts, and for making soap it is said to bo preferable to other seed oils. The shell is not removed, but is crushed with the kernel. In the process of extracting the oil the nuts are sub jected to several operations. They are first passed through a series of crushing clyinders, and then are crushed again under millstones. After being thus treated, they are placed in wrappers, made of hogs’ or goats’ hair, and then put into hydraulic presses, which express the oil, and its Rows off into a bucket. In the centre of the. bucket rises a tube nearly to the height of the rim, which tube passes through the bottom of the bucket and fits as a socket upon a large tube or pipe, from which the oil is constantly being pumped into very large casks. The use of the tube in the bucket is to cause the hevier parts of the oil, together with all refuse matter, to sink to the bottom, while none but the purer parts of tho oil pass into tho large tube or pipe. There is no process of clarification. The oil remains in the casks from six to ten days without being touched; at the end of which time it is found to be clear. The nuts are orushed and pressed three times, at each pressure the superior nut yielding a different quality of oil, and it is only after the third pressure that the cake is formed. The oil resulting from the first pressure of the nut is used for eating that from the second pressure for burn ing, and that from the third for making soap. Tomatoes. — A correspondent of the Gennessec Farmer gives his mode of growing tomatoes. H© forwards his plants in a hot-bed of green house, and grows them in pot3 until they are a foot and a hall high, turning them out about the second week in May. He plants them three feet apart in rows. When planted he drives down a few stakes, six or eight feet apart, leaving them about, four leet high the whole length of the rows, ami nailing a strip ol wood all along the tops, and tying one or two lower down the stakes, to make a trellis. The ground should be dug deep and made rich with manure, and a spoonful of guano mixed with the soil around each root. We quote 5 “V\ hen they have grown sufficiently long to tie to the trellis, I select two or three of the longest shoots and tie them, loosely to the trellis, cutting: away all other small laterals which may grow on the main branches. I let these main branches; grow until they come in flower and set the first bunch of fruit; then I pinch out the top, one joint above the fruit, leaving the leaf entire. 1 then allow it to go on again until it has flowered and set another bui\eh of fruit, when the top is pinched out one leaf above the bunch, the same as tho first, and so on of all the rest, taking care to cut all the laterals which may grow on the. main branches down to the axels of the ea as often as they are produced but leaving the leaves entire, H any one will take tra trouble, he will be amply repaid an.i l abso aey “nd three ,dys or a week earher. When Ape they will hang longer on the vines ‘ havin'* The situation can hardly be loo” W* -““ Jtam best,” A orentlman died recently in Baltimore leaving to a nephew in Cincinnati!. Among the slaves were three negro girls, 0110 a remarkably beauti ful and intellectual mulatto. The nephew told them that he intended tb take them to Cmcnv natti and give them their freedom exibiting the papers of liberation. He, however, took them to Lexigton, Ky, and sold them for 1000 eaek I