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v LITEMIiY , ’ @ rmperanre <Crirca%. PENFIELD, GEORGIA. &/Arnje6z™ cffeunny, fi'-y ~9> / 859. U. I,TNCOL.N VEAZEY~ - EDIT?>R * ESP'* The Columbus fi'imes estimates tlio mini bev of members added to the Church in Columbus during the late revival at <3OO, of which 251 joined the Methodist, 160 the baptist, 100 Presbyterian, and 45 the Episcopal. This is exclusive of blacks, of which large numbers joined tlio Baptist Church. In another column will bo found an article on “motion” by anew contributor, from whom we r would bo pleased to hear often. IV e have per mission to state that lie is the author of “Mad eline,” a tale which has been appearing in the Atlanta American for several months past. Godcy’s Lady's Book surpasses all the lady s magazines in the number, elegance and variety of its fashion-plates and other illustrations. J t must he acknowledged, however, that this excellence has been attained at the expense of its reading matter. The August number, just received a few days ago, contains a beautiful engraving of “Sum mer.” Price, S3 a-vear, in advance. The New York Home Journal says: “‘Avery distinguished and accomplished gentleman from * Georgia, A. 11. H. Dawson, Esq. of Savannah, is promising to give us a taste of southern eloquence in New York this month, by lecturing in aid of the Mount Vernon Fund.” Plain Andrew 11. 11. Dawson is blessed or cursed with an inordinate desire for notoriety, and seem determined to make some noise in the world. If he will advance the cause of the Mount Vernon Association by liis Northern tour, we wish ! him the most eminent success. What a man preaches is no index of what he will practice. One will abhor the world with his j lips, while his arms embrace it with a grasp which 1 no force can unloosen. Another will inculcate I in his speeches, patience under provocation, en- i join upon his hearers the duty of turning the : other check when one has been smitten, when ! he will resent furiously an imagined insult, which ! those whom he tries to instruct would pass with- i out notice. Words arc easily spoken and easily ‘■ written, but the acts which they indicate are j jiften hard to perform. One word of commendation from a man of good judgment and sound sense is worth more than whole chapters of extravagant praise from empty-brained flatterers. Put there is more sin cere satisfaction in feeling that we deserve the approbation of our fellow-men than in hearing it x pronounced. A man cannot he crushed by the world’s neglect, if he he really meritorious and conscious of his own rectitude. The warm, rap turous sensations which we feci from lhe con sciousness of an honest, noble, generous, benevo lent action convey more delight to llie mind than the undeserved praise of millions. ., That genuine wit which charms us by its dis play never does harm. Its keen thrusts may create a momentary uneasiness in those against whom it is directed, but never causes positive pain. It is tlio bitter, malicious sarcasm that rankles and festers in the soul, converting all its kindly sympathies into revenge and hatred. * There never was a true wit who had not a kind, loving, generous heart, always ready to feel for human suffering, and lend it a liberal assistance. He may laugh at a folly, but lie never insults a grief. He may seek to bring shame upon vice, treats with a patient indulgence the weak nesses of an erring nature. There are men to whom a consideration of the frailties of others brings the greatest happiness they ever enjoy. No character is ever presented to their observation so pure that some fault will not bo detected. They will talk more loudly about a slight speck in a good man than about the dark-dyed corruption of the hopeless'v de praved. Looking with their optics, no wonder* they sec little good ; and yet, they never tire of abasing mankind for appearing as their imagina tions create them. “This world is not so bad a world As sonic would try to make it; but whether good, or whether had, Depends on how you take it.” *’ The author who reads largely will use much of liis reading in his own productions almost un consciously to himself. The thinker cannot al ways tell who or what it was that dropped the seeds of his thoughts into his mind. One has been sown bv a grave essay, another by a news paper paragragli, and perhaps another still by a public speech. Many have been gleaned from the varied objects of external nature, and some found ‘deeply hidden in the heart’s inner recesses. Hut •.all have sprung up and grown until the seed has passed away, and all traces of its origin been lost. A thought thus cut loose from everything that gave it birth, when it falls into some man’s brain, possesses all the vigor and beauty of orig inality. The Boston Conner recommends that when Mount Vernon shall have come into the posses sion of the nation, a statue of bronze or marble, in some appropriate part of the domain, be erec ted of the orator by whose efforts it has been secured. The suggestion is a good one, but the idea should be carried still further. Not only the statue of Everett, but those of all of the distin guished men of the nation, so far as they can be “ obtained, should be placed there. All the loved and cherished relicts of the past and the souve nirs of our natural history should be collected preserved there. 11 should become to our country what Westminster Abbey is to England —the burial-place of all the great and good; of all who eminently distinguish themselves as war jAors, statesmen, philosophers or poets. Let our - .people make Mount Vernon this, and it will be come a strong connecting link between different sections of our Union. Nature accomplishes all her great works by • gradual and almost imperceptible means. She never, in the performance of the wonderful, calls - on men to look with admiration at the grandeur t, ,0(f (hot4Cipe*4ions. The greatest mysteries which r’-she reveals to - the eyes of the curious, arc found in those objects most familiar to our every-day sight. The giant oak of the forest- throws out its concentric X’ings and lifts its branches aloft in towering majesty by the silently working chem istry of earth, air, light and water. Ihe moun _ tain that raises its head in sublime grandeur, was perhaps, slowly and unobtrusively by the long-continued accumulation of sandy particles. The vast ocean, whose waters cover more than <4ialf the globe, is supplied by springs that gush up in obscure nooks, and by gently falling shower. - a contrast is there between the quietude with which nature carries on her magnificent op erations, and the turmoil and parade with which man .performs Ids insignificant achievements, llis whole existence is made up of hurry, bustle and confusion; yet, too often it is all “ sound and Vnrv nothin"” J TT is a generally admitted fact that there exists ; JL among young men a great and increasing dis | inclination to matrimony, and somo have puzzled ►’ their wits to ascertain the causes. There are | many reasons very palpable to us which may be assigned for this state of tilings. One of the chief of these is to bo found in the quality, dispo sitions and attainments of those from whom they are to select wives. Our young misses of sixteen * are thrust into the matrimonial market (when they ought really to bo wearing pinafores and ■ conning the pages of Lindley Murray) with cre- dentials giving the assurance that they are ac l complished young ladies. They have been taught to look upon life as all a frolic, uumixed with seriousness or earnestness, and their highest idea of marriage is, that it forms a dolightful relief from ennui. The duties and responsibilities which would be theirs, were they educated single women, never become matters of their considera tion. Os the labors which await them as wives and mothers, their ignorance is equalled only by their unfitness to meet them. The light, frivo lous and ornamental have claimed their attention | to the total exclusion of everything of a useful natiu o. A sensible man (and there are more such than would seem) docs not want a wife who knows nothing of practical business, though she j nia J’ manipulate the piano with magic skill, and | sketch nondescript landscapes beautifully. But ! thoucli they do not learn to do anything towards maintenance, they do learn how to render their support a matter of very great expense. Extrav agance in dress is the besetting sin of all women 1 who claim to be fashionable, and no class carries j this to a more unreasonable extent than those ! who have just entered society and are using every i effort to secure universal admiration. What sums they expend on their wardrobes, they do not know ; for it is doubtful whether or not they could sum up correctly the amounts that stand recorded against their names on the merchant’s ledger. It is their business to make the purcha ses; that of their indulgent, but imprudent, pa rents to foot the bills. When one of these goes forth apparelled in gaudy splendor, she awakens a thrill of admiration in every beholder ; but to many an excellent young man her appearance suggests other thoughts. lie may admire her beauty as much as any, but will conclude that she is a more costly household ornament than he can afford. Even did lie esteem her character in every other particular, he could not consent to many one, the expenses of whose toilet would exhaust his income. Fine silks and laces may make a woman look well, but are not of much utility in procuring her a husband. They speak too plainly of continued toil, and utter croaking prophecies of embarrassments and bankruptcy. \'o honorable, high-spirited man could endure tlio taunt from his wife that lie did not maintain her in a stylo equal to that in which she had been brought up, and that she lowered her social position by marriage. To avoid anything of this kind, he seeks a. companion wlioso desires and habits are more suited to his abilities. We have no doubt that many women are compelled to I marry men whom they do not want, or to suffer ‘ | an old maid’s fate by these injudicious displays of vanity and extravagance. Another obstacle to matrimony is the continu ally increasing disposition among persons of mod oratc circumstances to imitato the follies ot the rich. A man with a bare competence will exert every nerve, and expend every cent of his income to dress his daughters finely and place them in what is called good society. They are •never taught to do anything useful, and are brought tip just as if they would always have nothing to do. In all this he may think he is advancing their welfare; but ho would promote that much more effectually by saving the money which he squan ders on them superfluously, in order to bequeath it to thorn In the form of dowries. This is pre-em inently a mercenary age, and we cannot conceal the fact that the answer to that question, “is she rich,” has much influence in deciding a young man’s opinion of the eligibility of a match. But there are many men who would marry a woman without a cent, if she had good sense and had been properly educated, though lie could not for a moment countenance a penniless girl that lias been raised like an heiress. Wo do not seoin reason any hope for this class of females ever to be supplied with husbands; for to a poor man, they would give no aid in lifting him from pov erty, and a rich one would not want a wife who, knowing only how to squander, is profoundly ignorant of how to save. Some find men foolish enough to marry them for their pretty faces, or fashionable accomplishments, and it may do well enough; for it is always a foolish couple matched in folly. These reasons, we think, are sufficient to ac count for the fact that so many young men are spending the bloom and vigor of their manhood unmarried, though we have no doubt many others might be given. We are no advocates for chil dren’s marrying; but wc have quite as little pa tience with the practice of wasting all those years in which conjugal felicity could be experienced, and then when dry, withered branches, uniting their fortunes merely to hear each other’s querel ous complaints. Yet, unless some refoi mis made in our system of female education, women must continue to become more unfit for wives and mothers, and the proportion of confirmed bach elors will continually grow larger. IE any one is excusable for entertaining a low estimate of human nature, it is certainly the publisher of a country newspaper. Were it a pleasure to contemplate the foibles of mankind, he could enjoy it to a most delightful extent. A man engaged in any vocation will, in his business intercourse with his fellow-men, find out many things which he would wish were otherwise. But to a newspaper publisher many men exhibit those little meannesses which are all the more annoy ing from the fact that they exist in natures inca pable of receiving a mild reproof. For instance: a man who throws away perhaps fifty or a hun dred dollars a-year on tobacco, cigars, liquor or other j useless luxuries, is very scrupulously careful, lest lie may pay a cent too much for his paper. Many men who seem honest and clever in their gen eral dealings, will endeavor to cheat the printer because they think they can do so. One will solemnly declare that lie has payed his account, when the books declare to the contrary. An other will say that he never subscribed, or that lie ordered it discontinued several years back, though he has taken it from the office and read it all the time. But meaner than all, there is lie who subscribes and takes a paper until ho is sev eral years in arrears, and then leaves tor parts unknown, with instructions to the postmaster to have it stopped. Taking all in all, the pathway °1 t ' ie publisher is rather a hard road to travel. Senator Jefferson Davis, of Mississippi, was on the steamer Joseph Whitney, at sea, on the 4th of July. 110 made a speech on the following sen timent, which con tains something good, said with a point: country will continue united. I rifling politicians in the South, or in the North, or in the u est, may continue to talk otherwise, but it will be of no avail. They are like the mos quitoes around the ox—they annoy but they can not wound, and never kill. James A. B. Hanks has been appointed Solic itor General of Cherokee Circuit, in place of James C. Longstreet, lately deceased. there exists m our issue of July 15th, several typographical ’ errors occurred on Mrs. Bryan’s page, which es-1 caped our notice until pointed out by herself. | Mrs. B. can boast a very neat and elegant chi- ’ rography, but mistakes will sometimes occur even in the best written manuscripts. She has indeed been peculiarly fortunate in this respect— very few errors having gone forth in her matter during the present year. Were our hast ilv written scrawls sent to the printer without our being present to correct them, they would often exhibit “confu-; ; sion worse confounded.” 4 ! ‘ Scratch the green rind of a sapling, or wan- ; | tonly twist it in the soil, and the scarred and I j crooked oak will tell of tlieo for centuries to | come.” lew ever think, in their intercourse with chi l- j dren, that every word and act makes impressions j on their young minds that will boas lusting as their lives. The character is formed, in a great degree, by what is seen and heard in childhood, ‘ though the man may not be able to tell what cir cumstance has developed this or that principle. Be careful what you say before children. The word may be small and lightly spoken, “like unto the mustard seed, which is indeed the smallest of all seeds,” yet, it may produce a rank and wide-spreading .sin. The twig, when bruised, may be light and fragile, and the scar impercep tible ; but as it grows the scar grows also, until it mars the beauty of the whole tree. | Clergvmax ix the Ball Room.— A eorrespon- j | dent of the Chicago Press and- Trebiaic, writing ! from Atlanta, Logan County, 111. describes the j i singular termination of the Fourth of July ball in that town : “It appears that the managers, .‘several days since, sent special invitations to the Ministers of the various churches in town, to attend the dance, | thinking to have a laugh to themselves over it; but to the surprise of tlioso present, after the ball had got under full headway, four of the aforesaid ministers made their appearance in the Hall, and soon were mingling with the bystan standers. The “set” being through, the an nouncement was made that the ministers having been solicited to attend, desired that a portion of the time should be set apart for them, which was acceded to. Then commenced the rellgovjs exer cises of (he ball. One preached, another prayed, and another struck up a good old religious hymn, when the dancers, seeing what turn matters were likely to take, ordered the musicians to proceed, and began the dance again, leaving the ministers to do their own singing, and make tlieir exit the best way they could. We see it stated that Hon. A. 11. .Stephens and his brother, Linton Stephens, Esq. left their homes a few days since for a tour in the north western States. Written for the Georgia Temperance Crusader, j MOTION. “ Music began and glittering stars awoke. And brilliant suns upon creation broke.” ALL nature moves. The flight of stars and of the luminous comet that is supposed to shako from its fiery mane pestilence and war; that courses through the illimitable fields of Heaven, and then returning homeward, merges its brilliant train in the dazzling splendor of the sun; tho vital air, beating and quickening; like a human pulse; the perpetual motion of water, penetrating earth, leaping like blood in the arte ries of tho human body, through the deep veins of the world; singing ami flashing in the brook: rippling and chafing in the river, and heaving and swelling in the grand old ocean; or glittering in tho sunlight in descending water-drops; or span ning Heaven’s bright arch in the gorgeous iris, reminding us of Heaven’s beauty and God’s cove nant. These move us with the greatness, the sublimity of nature in motion. Nations are rest less. Since Abraham said unto Lot, “Jf tliou wilt take the left hand, I will take the right; or, it thou departeth to the right hand, then I will go to the loft,” there has been a continuous motion of the human family. Upon the ruins of explo ded systems, splendid empires have arisen, like Phoenix from his ashes. Nations, formularies, sects, have been caught up in the terrible whirl wind of revolution, or born way in the eddying whirl of empire, hearts beaten into the dust be neath tlio foot of the wild war liorsc, and beneath the bloody ear of revolution human bodies have been crushed and mangled; but order and quiet and progress, and all the arts of peace have arisen. In the frozen and icc-ribbcd aortic regions, huge mountains of crystal-like ice lloat about, and glow and flash forever in tho dun, grey sunlight. Even those terrible ice chains cannot bind na ture. She rends the polar ieeburgs and sustains her eternal principle of life— motion! It is God’s life. With the Genesis of the world began an eter nal Exodus. When God, by his plastic call, brought together the elements of an unmade world; when God’s voice startled tho regions of night and old chaos; when glimmering light shot far into the bosom of darkness, sprangling and flashing; when old sol in his glowing and dazzling chariot entered the field of Heaven, a vital, living God teas felt. We hear His chariot in the rust ling winds—His voice in thunder. We feel His breath in the gentle breeze ; we sec Him in tho ocean that mirrors the deep blue Heaven above, and embraces stars in its folds. It is not, then, an unmeaning injunction of the Godhead, that wo shall live by industry. It rests not alone upon man, but upon every living thing that inherited that sad fall—creeping in sects ; the fierce tiger and roaring lion; the chirping little bird and the soaring eagle ; the little minnow and huge whale ; the slimy “ snake in the grass” and the mighty serpent, must all live by motion— industry. The great embodiment of earthly wisdom— Solomon— realized it and pointed to the little ant as an example of indus try, engaged noiselessly and sublimely in its mis sion of preparing an ingenious home and ample store. As without motion, as without this vital energy in the physical universe, system would bo involved in a “wreck of worlds and crush of mat ter/ 7 so without industry blight and ruin would accrue to mankind. It is not only true that the earth .trembles be neath the tramp of the mighty vanguard of empire and civilization —moving tow ards the sit ting sun, but investigation has shown that grasses, rocks, ilowers, &c. are following this progressive march. The oriental traveller, walking amid the ruins of of Babylon ; or Thebes that once boasted her hundred gates ; or J erusalem, through whose streets crowding, bustling multitudes once poured, is reminded of the migatory disposition of the human race, and lie beholds in the crimson II cst of an Italian sky the light that streams upon the patli of man and the armies of tho earth, with their sifplit banndks. The smoke of the evening incense no longdf* ascend to Heaven; no more hecatombS are paid; no more the children of Israel, with their young prophet Daniel, who could read tho Mysterious hieroglyphics on the wall, retire to the willow groves and palm-trees by the shores of tho Euphrates, and hanging their harps upon the clustering boughs, with no heart for joy and song, and lament the cruel per secution inflicted by a riotous King. Tho ruins that everywhere meet the gaze seem to whisper, they ore gone. It is all still and solemn. Here in the path of the great army of Xerxes is nothing but desolation. The earth in its diurnal revolu tion, whirling on in its grand career, has sent the tide of emigration rolling westward forever. Nature teaches by examples. How sublime her lessons ! J* S. The following contains the alphabet: John P Brady gave me a black walnut bok of quite si ■small size. A coquette is a rosebush, from which every young beau plucks a leaf, and the thorns are left For tho husband. Tim oldest living graduate of Yale College is John OleHiiu, Esq., ol‘ Woodstock, who graduated in 1785, seventy-three years ago. Nebraska is our largest Territory. Itwillmake about eight States as large as New Hampshire, and is about one-sixth the sizo of Europe. Experimental philosophy—-asking a man t o lend you money. Hard Times—sitting on a cohl grindstone reading tho President’s message. The fifth rank on the merit roll of the Third Glass at tho U. S. Military Academy at West Point, is held by Cadet Benjamin F. Sloan, jr .oi South Carolina. Brigham Young says, “If our enemies were to come here in proper spirit, they would in one month embrace our religion.” More likely your wives old follow.— Prentice. An old sailor, while on his death-bed, was asked what he supposed Heaven was fenced in with. With an eye full of hope and expectancy, lie exclaimed, Pig-iail tobacco.'’’ The Mobile papers inform us that'W in. P. Mon- Jett, of Dallas county, contributed on the 4th of July, live hundred and fifty dollars to the fund of the Mount Vernon Association. Hide in a closet half-a-dozen times,” and listen to the conversation which takes place between a couple who have been married one year, while they think themselves entirely alone. iW Tho Hon. J. M. Buchanan, of Baltimore, United States Minister to Denmark, and family of six porsops, sailed from New York last week in the steamship Borussia, for Southampton. “ I would do anything to gratify you, I would go to tho end of the world to please you,” said a fervent loverto the object of his affection. “Well, sir, go there, and stay, and I shall be pleased.” A duel came off at Schenectady recently, be tween two exquisites. They fought with lueifer matches, on the tow-patli. On©of the parties was slightly killod, and the other mortally fright ened. A ladv asked a noted doctor if lie did not think the small bonnets tho ladies wore had a tendency to produce a congestion of the brain. “ Oh, no,” replied lie, “ladies who have-brains won’t wear them.” 29§U“Thc learned Reynolds says-. Simplicity is an exact medium between too much and too lit tle; Grace is the medium of motion; beauty is the medium of form, and genteelness is the me dium of fashion. iSF’Tlie New York Repress says that the Fra zier River gold fever is likely to carry off a num ber of fortune hunters from that city by the next steamer, if the excitement holds out a large em igration will follow. ( Rev. Wm. Me 800, a minister of tho Baptist Church, died recently at his residence near Chat tanooga. Ho was said to bo the oldest man in Hamilton county, being at the time of his death in the 02d year of his age. A foolhardy sailor jumped from the rigging of a. vessel in Chicago one hundred and seventy feet to the water. He was taken out senseless, but recovered. Ho is badly injured. The leap was made on a bet of? 25 but lie will not be apt to repeat it. .1 Substitute for Horse-Radish. —Sam Slick, the clock-maker, in his book, “ Nature and Human Nature,” says: “ Take a turnip, scrape or grate it the same as the radish; mix it with fresh mus tard a little pepper and vinegar, and you can’t tell it from tother.” Sam is right about it. A young lad recently ran away from home and wcat to a tavern, where he was found by a friend vvitfe a cigar in his mouth. “What made you leave Lome ?” said hislYiend. “Oh, confound it,” said Ye, “father and mother was so saucy i couldn't stand it any longer, and I quit ’em.” Hie 7Jk% Martin. —Many of our most popular vul garisms hare their origin in some whimsical per version ©f Slanguage or of fact. St. Martin is one of the worthiest of the Roman calender, and a form of praver<eommences with these words: “O mUii beak Marik?’ which was corrupted to “My eye and Betty MfwSsfi.” It is estimated thatt (there are 103,500,OK) lay ing fowls in the country, of which 50,000,000 lay one egg a day throughout Ike year. This would givens the annual crop of 18,856,000,000 eggs ; and these at eight cents per doaqu, would be worth $121,660,606. This is more than ,tite cotton crop is worth. Near] 5’ twelve hundred thousand copies of IVebsters'n Spelling Books were sold by,one firm in Boston last year, and if is estimated that more than ten times as many arc sold of Webster’s Dic tionaries .*sof any other series in this country.. Four-fiftlisof all the school books published in tho Ul-kteJ States are sold to own Webster ns their standard. Thf/Piiconix.—ln tho East, they “suppose the Phoenix: to have fifty orifices in his bill, which arc continued to liis tail; and that, after living one thousand years, he builds himself a funeral pile, sings a melodious air of different harmonies through ’.ais fifty organ-pipes, flaps his wings with a velocity^hat sets fire to the wood, and con sumes hinTseliV— Richardson. The loir,” talked of debate between Parson Brownlow, editor of the Knoxville Whig, and the Rev. Abram Pry no, a congregational Minister, and the editor of an anti slavery paper, published in McGrawville, Courtland conty, New York, styled the Central Reformer, is announced to come off on Tuesday, the 7th of September next, in the city c f Philadelphia. A preachei* who attended the semi an of an other priest, was asked his opinion of the dis course. I see, replied, tire critic, that clear waters are not deep! The perspici ous orator sometime after became auditor of liis Learned brother’s oration. I sec, said the former preacher, that deep waters are not clear! A young convert got up in church, and was making his concession somewhat after tliis sort — “ I have been very wicked, indeed I have; I have cheated many persons, very many; but I restore four-toldwhen lie was interrupted J>y an obi lady thus: *■ IVoil, I should think, before you confess much j you had belter marry Nanev ±Stebbins, as you j agreed to.” A few nights ago, Mr. Jones, who had been out taking his glass and pipe, on going home late, borrowed an umbrella, and when his wife’s tongue was loosened, lie sat up in bed, and sud denly spread out the paraplauie. “ What you going to do with that thing?” said she. “ II by, my dear, I expected a very heavy storm to-night, and so I came prepared.” In less than two minutes Mrs. Jones was fast asleep. M. Deceit.— Persons *.vho practice deceit {jjtd arti fice always deceive themselves moro than they deceive others. They may feel great compla cency i\i view of the success of their doings, but they ape in reality casting a mist before their own eyes. Such persons not only make a false esti mate of their own character, but they estimate falsely the opinions and conduct of others. No pevson is obliged to tell all he thinks, but botli taffy and self-interest forbid hitn to make false pretenses. Sunshine and Clouds. —Some real lives do—for certain days or years—actually anticipate the hap piness of heaven and I believe, if such perfect happines is onco felt by good people (to tho wicked it never comes) its swoet effect is never wholly lost. Whatever trials follow, whatever pains of sickness or shades of death, the glory precedent still shines through, cheering tlio keenest anguish and tinging tho deep cloud. I will go further. I do believe there are some human being so born, so reared, so guided from a soft cradle to a calm and late grave, that no excessive suffering pene trates their journey. And often these are not pampered, selfinh beings, but; Naturo’s elect, har monious and br.:nigU; men and women mild with 1 oharty, kind arjents of of God's kind attributes. * But it, is not so for all. What then? IDs ! will be done, as done it surely will be, whether I we humble ourselves to resignation or not. “Gentle Words and Loving Smiles,’ ’ The snu may warm life “Task to tile, The dew, the drooping flower. And eyes grow bright and wat-eh the fight, Os Autumn's opening hour; llul word? lliat breathe of kinduess, A lid Mniles we know arc true,’ Are warmer than the summer time, , And brighter than the dew. It in not much the world can give, l ” VV itli all its subtle an, And gold and gems are n<>! tin: things To satisfy itie lii'aii. %,• t,)h ! it those who cluster round I ho altar of the. heart. Have gentle words and loving smiles, How beautiful is earth ! I he Richmond hnqwrrr says that the. request of (lie J a dies ot Jal l;i lias,see, Fla., MnxJiunp the Prin- Murat, lias been appointed Viet* Regent of (lie Mount \ ernot; association for that State. Madame Munit is the grind niece of Washington’ through the Lewises. By her marriage with Achillo Murat she beeame the niece, of Napoleon the first. Her mental endowments are of a high order. Mrs. Louisa J. (ireenough, widow of the distinguished sculptor, is Vico Regent fdr Massa cl insets. ——V<SS>s ‘fr* ■ —r —— Tf'c Ar/in'uivnf.-^ -The aquarium ib a novelty which is going to he, fashionable. Its general idea is that of a small lake, or pond, furnished with aquatic plants, and with fishes, and other inhab itants of water. ‘J in: new form is that which is adapted to purlnvs and silting rooms. It consists of a glass vessel, large or small, with soil at the bottom, and plant? and II he? living and in full view. By a suitable arrangement, the plants and fishes will keep the walei pun*; thus it will not need to he changed. Such ornaments, if properly managed, will be. beautiful indeed. They are being introduced m Boston and I’liiladelpliia. ANTi-r.vu-i.icK Society*. -A Society has lately been formed at Bordeaux to put down the super stitipndof evilomons. As everybody knows, it is bad luck to begin anything on a Friday—or to sit down at a table with thirteen—or to balance your chair on one log, or to spill salt between yourself and a friend. The new Society propose to have regular dinners on Fridays, to have just thirteen guests, and to turn on one leg and spill salt all around before commencing. In the one whole year during which 111 Luck has been thus defied, no singleiatalitYiias occurred to any mem ber! Fccoxj UV/Vc/x—This is a bad practice, and one that every hotel proprietor should discourage. Tt gives rich men, who can afford to squander money, an undue advantage. It is presumed that in all first class hotels, the waiters arc fairly paid by tlie proprietors for their services ; and they ought to do all in I heir power to promote the comfort of the guests, without a douceur. It is a gort of bribery that debts s the party accepting i,t ; : #nd is a tax upon the guest which the servant luts po right to impose. The public will avoid those wafcring-place hotels where this imposition is winked at by the proprietor. r- Fascination Taught is’ Twenty’ Lessons. —A French irqu;quis, reduced to call upon his own acquirements for a livelihood, Inis lately adver tised, as above, in ajournal of one of the German cities. He specifies, in his programme, the vari ous branches of/asnnadon, in which he can perfect a pupil. Whether it is wished to be a conversa tionalist like Talleyrand, or tin Ib'jwomtnrc like Balzac, or a dazzer like Theirs, or agestieulator like Berrycr, he can teach either. As to the fas cination of ladies by the art ofskilf'ul and flatter ing dialogue, lie can make any gentleman the master of that, in a short course. For each les son, occupying two hours, fifty francs. Smiles and hand-squeezing extra. Half price, where success is not warranted. Address Le Marquis deß , Hotel des Trois Etnpcrevrs. What Lotteries J>o.— Ten persons engaged in the sale of lottery tickets were arrested in ( moin natti lately. The Gazette says : The affidavits upon which warrants were issued for these parties, were all made by Frederick To denbier, a German mechanic, who relates his ex perience in the lottery business with emotion. He says that he has been purchasing tickets for years —that lie has spent all he earned, and all lie could borrow, in these ruinous speculations—that hehasimpoverished himselfand family t olive upon a single meal a day, and that of the most scanty character; in short, that lie become almost a ma niac upon the subject of drawing a prize, and at last getting his hard•earned money back, lie lias been driven to the verge of despair and destruc tion, and having become convinced of the wide spread ruin which the lottery business is inflict ing upon the community, is determined to do his to break it up. Todenbier assures (he officers that there is at least a hundred within the circle of his own acquaintance, who are daily spending their earnings in the vain hope of eventually draw ing a fortune. Ax Awkwaiuj Mistaki:. —We learn that a very ludicrous error was perpetrated at a baptism in Georgia a few Sundays ago. J t appears that some negroes had determined to he immersed, but pre ferring another church to the regular one which receives its members only through iminerson, they applied to a minister of another denomina tion.. The usugl crowd of darkies had gathered near the scc-ne, aiui after the candidates had been duly immersed, the officiating minister, who was not posted, as to the exa<t number lie was re quired to immerse, laid hold of the nearest wench to him and led her down into the water without resistance or remonstrance, slur being so complete ly nonplussed by the novelty of her position t hat she was unable to speak. She was soon “ buried in baptism,” went ashore dripping from head to heels, and as she wore no hoops, her dress of course fitted unusually close—and not provided with a change of dress, she had to foot it through town amid divers enquiries from the passers by as to how she became so wet. But aunt S/lna's trou bles were not ended. It seems that the bonnet she wore was a borrowed one, and as soon as the lender found out that it was ruined by being soused under the water, she hunted Sylcia out and gave her a sound threshing.—.l fontgowery Mail. Goixci to Law. —An Eastern paper states that a lawsuit of twenty live years’ standing was recent ly decided between two men worth twenty-five thousand dollars each at the commencement of their legal contest. The result was a verdict in favor of the plaintiff, and the complete pecuniary ruin of all the parties concerned, the lawyers ex cepted. got their fees, amounting to all the real estate and other property of the plaintiff and defendant! Tlio contest ended in the settlement of the contestants themselves, as well as of their claims in dispute ! They are now in the condition of the two unfortunates so graphically depicted in an old English book: An upper and lower mill Fell out about their water — To war they went, that is to law, Resolved to give no quarter. A lawyer by each engaged. And hotly they contended; When fees grew slack, the war they waged They judged were better. The heavy costs renfaining s’iil Were settled without pothtjj— One lawyer took the upper tnilUg The lower mill the other ft A COOI) 07.?) MANX * A good old man is the best Antiquity, and which we may with least vanity admire: one whom time hath been thus long a working, anti, liko winter fruit, ripened when others are shaken -down. Ho hath taken out us many lessons of the world as days, and learnt the best thing in it the. vanity of it. lie looks over bis lormor hie as a danger well past, and would not hazard hmisd to begin again. The next door ot death sat •- uni not, but ho expects it calmly as his turn in and fears more his recoiling back to cinichshne&s than dust. All men look on lam as a commo father, and an old age, for his sake, as a reverent thing. Ho practices his experience on youth without the harshness of reproof, and m Ins coun sel his good company. Ho has some old stones still of bis own seeing to confirm tvhat ho says, ami makes them better m lie tolling; yet is not troublesome neither with thesamo tale again but remembers with them hoW olt ho has told them. He is not apt to put the hoy on a younger man, nor tho foot on boy, but can distinguish giti\ lty from a sour look ; and tho less testy he is the move regarded. You must pardon him if he likes his own times better than these, because those tilings are follies to him now that were wisdom then; yet, he makes us of that opinion, too, when we sec him, and conjocture those times by so good a rolie. He goes away, at last too soon whensoever, with all men’s sorrow but his own ; and his mem ory is fresh when it is twice as old.— Bishop Earle. COSTUMES. The full dress of a mayoral, or overseer of an estate, is thus described: “ A wide-rimmed straw fiat: blue-striped small-clothes, fastened to tho waist: a blue, embroidered shirt, banging loosely over them like a sack: a. very large, straight sword with a silver handle, ornamented with pre cious, stonos; the shirt-collar and sleeves confined with gold buckles: an embroidered cambric hand kerchief tied loosely round the neck ; pumps, cut quite low ami adorned with heavy silver spurs. Occasionally a European-Spaniard is to bo seen with an open jacket of greCn velvet highly em broidered, with light leggings of the same mate rial, .ornamented with a profusion of silver but tons: bis linen of the purest Yvhite; his high, round hat decked with beads, and carelessly or jauntily set aside; a second jacket also richly embroidered : with dark, purls carefully arranged round a high .crowned, broad-brimmed hat: and a countenance of manly beauty. A Catalonian or an Andorian cavalier is seen in bis vestof blue velvetlds reel silk sash, ami fine cotton stock ings appearing over his hempen spartillas. Not unfrequently a peasant is to be seen, with a red moMcro cap, with bis Capa- over his shoulder, and with loose linen lixujos or trousers. A Gulgara, pith liio wild, dark eye, expressive gesture aptf miperuu’babh* solt-possession, is seen in a vlchly ” oi ked?lni t of line linen, worn on the outside, qs is I UM ! il : a * on p a, ‘d elegantly embroidered cambric : sa* a, la>tuning to his side, the silver-handled i sword, or outchr/te ; silver spurs and low slippers. I And sometimes monterog, or ebuntvvmcu, are seen | galloping through the streets, each withhishigh | crowned straw hat, with broad rim, his loose shirt j over Ids other garments, its tail fluttering in the j breeze, and bis long sword lashed to bis waist by ! a handkerchief, and dangling at his back. The i Oreole-.SpiUiiard is sometimes dressed in a ca unset, j of striped gingham, breeches of ticking, and a i c.hcqv'da, or sleeved tunic, of the same material as 1 the atm Isa ; half-boots or moccasins of un tanned hide, a sportsman's belt, a girdle furnished with a heavy limiting knife, and a wide-flapped Som brero, or hat of palm-loaf, ‘completed his equip ment. <>f some of the cabeHeros it may almost be j said, as was reported of some of the black slaves : of I >arien, that their summer costume consists of a shirt collar and a pair of spurs. The large black eye, and raven hair escaping in endless tresses —- the duik, expressive glance--tho soft, blood-tinted, olive of the complexion, make the unwilling En glishman confess the majesty and beauty of the Spanish female. The Moorish eye is tho most characteristic feature of the Andalusian. This is very full, and reposes on a liquid, somewhat yel low bed: of an almond shape; black and lus trous. Their eyes have been pleasantly compared* to dormant lightnings, terrible in wrath, and hi , ding liquid tires.— I oiitedFlutesand Cuba, Bea Whole Woman, Young woman, you avc entering upon the voy age of life, which is a part of duty. ‘ Before you, wide open, is the pathol honor,right and upright womanhood. _ You are tobecomeawife,amother, a counsellor, an adviser, a friend. Duties more delicate than others, because they underlie all others, will be devolved upon you. You must do your part toward fashioning the character of a generation, and shaping the destiny of a state. To accomplish the task set before you, you must be a whole woman. Aim to instil into every act of life the noblest principles of your and stamp, in burning letters upon your conduct, tho whole truths of womanhood. Turn aside in dis gust from the glitter and the gauze, and the meaningless, butterfly display of the world’s Van ity Fair. Shut vour eyes and stop your ears to the rounded form and alluring tongue of vice. Bea whole woman. Learn to sew, to trash, to cook, te> bake, to read to talk, to act. Give ns the true woman, who is not afraid to soil her hands by contact with honest dough, nor twirl her finely moulded arms in a pot of greasy water. Give us the woman who knows how to keep tt house in order, to make beds, to dust chairs. Let her be able to shed the graces of an intelligent conversation around the pathway of her daily life, and to impart the energy, the vig or, and the honor which shaped the impulse of her own life, to all with whom she conies in con tact. Leave the feeble accomplishments of tho unmeaning fashion to her ivlio is made upof silks and furbelows, big bustles, and paper-soled shoes, whose powers of admiration arc excited only by carefully cultivated mustaches, and whose sym pathy is kindled only by ..lie fast, flashy, tlirashy, sensual and foolish French novel. Let them con tinue thus to weaken and poison society, and to become the mothers worthless and wicked sons, But the true matrons of America arc of another class. Tho Infidel and the Christian Child. I ” Uncle Bob” was a great scholar. He had taken degrees both of “physic” and “divinity” and was a student of many’ books besides those handled by him in Colleges. Ilecould quote texts from the Scriptures, as well as from the infidel writers. lam sorry to say that he preferred read ing the infidel. If is little niece Nettie, about 12 j years of age, was a Christian, and she felt truly i sorry for uncle Bob, and for all the people who ! do not love God. She said to him one day, “ Uncle why don’t you i love God.” : l ’ 1 love in'/ God.” j “ Who is that, Uncle?” “ It is the beautiful—beautiful objects i and art.” I “J>o voumcan the Niagara Falls and the Crvs : tal Palace.” j “ Well, yes.” “ Who made the falls, uncle?” j “ 1 don’t know Nettie.” •• 1 f you could see t lie one made the falls, uncle, ’ you would love him.” “ If that could be, I should adore him.”’ | “ t love him, uncle,” said the little girl, “just j aa well as if 1 could see hi n, and I love all who ; love him. You must read about him in my new ’ Bible.” | “ I know the Bible, Nettie. It is nothing but a piece of Jewish mythological history.” “ Are there nnv propheae ,v or other mythologies, I uncle?” | “ Well, no.” j “All the world knows, that tho Bible prophe- I eies have been fulfilled, ands should like to know : if any kind of mythology has over been spread all | over the world, and created love, and peace and I joy, in people’s hearts, like the history of our Sa ! vioiuv” i Uncle Bob made no reply'. I’oiinii.Aix AX'D Eautiikxu'ark.—Porcelian is dis tinguished from common earthenware by its beau- I tiful semi-transparency, as well as by its greater hardness and strength. Our knowledge ofpor ! celain dates only from the discovery of the passage j to India by the. Portuguese, who first brought spe ! eiinens of this ware from China, composed of kaolin, a pure clay drained from the composition ■ of felspar and petutzo, the latter aquarzose felspar partly decomposed. The clay alone is able to pvo | duco only’ a white opaque body', like any other | sort of clay ware, but when a proper portion of j the petuntze is incorporated with it, the fusible j felspar at once imparts new properties to the bis ! cuit, rendering it semitransparent and very I strong and sonorous. Thus porcelain differs from I common earthenware by being somewhat assimi lated to the nature of glass. _ Tke felspar fuses in the boat of tho furnace, owing to the potash or soda it contains, and the fused portion so complete ly permeates the whole mass that the clay be coiugs as it were, saturated with glass, until it lias I the peculiarity of semi-transparency belonging to it. Porcelain is also distinguished from common ; earthenware by its glaze, which is formed ol pul verized felspar, and has, therefore, tho same com -1 position ami hardness with the body of the biscuit. This glaze lias no lead in its composition, aud thus differs in a most important particular from the' glazing of obaquo ware. The latter may be removed from the body which it covers by me chanical or chemical means, and often chips off and cracks; no such accidents can happen to the porcelain glaze, which, owing to its being of the same constitution with the body of the ware, is completely one with it, and suffers no fracture from any equallity of expansion or contraction between the two materials. Sad Coincidence. —On. the 11th day of July, 1704, Alexander Hamilton was killed in a duel by Aa ron Burr. On the 11th day July, 1858, his son died, having been drowned when embarking at Richmond, New York. He was one of the 7th Regiment of New York, and was with them to attend the Monroe obsequies. Owing to the rush of the crowd when the regiment was going on board of the vessel to return home, ho fell into the river, and the noise and the confusion were so great his cries, if he made any, were not heard ancl he was not missed until the next morning. His body was taken to New York, and there 4n foyrnd one dav last week.