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onpnnfm. □^apcasaf’iS’^® l TBMPEBAIVtK (JBUSjIDER. V I EI M, < 5 EOH QIA .- > fa s,M, lsr,s. negro, TA*roto, charged with be ing accessory to the murder ofJessc Jones in this conn some time since,has been re-sentenced to lng on the 22d of October next. have no doubt the sympathy of numerous friends will he fully enlisted when they learn that Pro fessor Mell lost his son, George, on the 19th mat. He also has a daughter quite low. A private letter from which we gather the above, says that this death and sickness resulted from eating ghinese sugar cane. More Attorneys. During the sitting of the Superior Court in Greenes borolast week, Messrs. J. D. Mathews, Del Mann and W D Sullivan, were admitted to the bar as practi tioners in the courts of law and equity An intimate collegiate association with the former of these gentle men 0 enables us to speak knowingly of his abilities. He is a good declaimer and a close reasoner, which, to gether with his energy, eminently qualifies him for the successful discharge of all the duties of an Attorney, and we can but predict for him great success in the prac tice of the law. He has our best wishes. Mortality from Chloroform.— lt appears that the mortality, in the London hospitals, has increased since the introduction of etherization, from twenty-one to thirty-three per cent., or, to vary the expression, in stead of amputation being fatal in a less proportion than one in four of those operated upon, it now proves fatal to one in three. The Medical Times A Gazette asks, in view of these facts, whether so enormous a sacrifice of life is not too high a price to be paid for anaethesia? The “Cable” has been a singular piece ot good luck to the New York jewelers, who were suffering terribly of the hard times, till they thought of an expedient to facilitate sales by working up the unused cable into breast-pins and finger-rings. They purchased it for SISOO per mile, and sell it as jewelry at the rate of $160,- 000 per mile. As long as there is a demand for these kind of keepsakes, the cable it is presumed will last, and if it does not there is a manufactory of the article close at hand whence the supply could be kept up. Somebody has said, and many have repeated, “A little nonsense, now and then, Is relished by the wisest men.” If the “relishing” of it makes it right, we might, with the same propriety, changing the reading slightly, con tend, that A little whisky, now and then, Is lelished by the wisest men. Ergo, a relish for a thing makes its indulgence right. We enter our protest against the doctrine. Very Sensible. Every word of the following verses is true—the expe rience of every successful man. Advertising is had re ference to by the ‘wise man’ when he declares, “there is that scattereth and yet increaseth:” Ye who in business would succed, This precept mark —’tis true and wise— Go to tbe Printer's office with speed And advertise! Yes advertise! The Printer’s Ink ! its magic power, None but a foolish man decries. If Panic clouds upon you lower, Why, advertise ! Yes advertise! Cotton. The Courier <s• Enquirer, speaking of this “king, says that one of the gratifying features of the commer cial world is, the renewed and steady demand for cot ton —a demand that increases in a much greater ratio than the increase of population. The European demand and prices are such as to furnish an ample guarantee of remuneration to our Southern planters for a few years to come. With all the available sources of supply from Egypt, Asia, Australia and South America, the cotton of the United States is not enough to meet the growing demand in Europe. Speaking of this crop in the Yazoo Valley, a corres pondent of the New Orleans Picayune says that the most sanguine do not now count upon a crop of more than two-thirds in the hills. The crop in the bottom lie estimates at an average one, which, for that country, This latter, we observe in some places in Greene county, though not to an extent to cause much apprehension. Whisky and Rats. Some genius proposes this novel and experimental plan for getting rid of rats: His own house being over run with this species of vermin, the servant girl, who had seen the effects of “Old Bourbon Whisky” on bi peds, thought she would try the experiment on rats. Accordingly, she took a very small quantity and made it sweet with sugar, crumbled in bread enough for the crowd and put the dish in the cellar. A few hours after, she went down and found a few rats gloriously ‘fuddled,’ engaged in throwing bean pods and hauling one another up to drink. These were easily disposed of, and those not killed left the premises immediately, suffering with a severe headache. The headache, of course, was merely conjectural; yet, it is very likely true, judging from thte effects upon hu man rate. To-be-sure, as the writer remarks, rats, like allelse than man, will not try a second dose. This plan is open, perhaps, to serious objection, for in order to accomplish the desired object, one has to “put the bottle to his neighbor’s mouth;” and rats are our most intimate neighbors; they are as “familiar as household words;” for while we have “slumbered and slept,” in the “small hours,” they have well nigh “put their foot in”—our mouth—as they scampered over our face. But bad neighbors deserve bad treatment, and rats now have fair warning that King Alcohol is ready to descend into their tribe; and if they should take fright and “vamoose the ranche ” that wHI “beat long tail.” Revivals in Atlanta. We are happy to know that the Methodist churches in Atlanta, under the care of Rev. Mr. Key and the Rev. Mr. R. B. Lester, have been for sometime enjoying most glorious and fruitful visitations of the Holy Spirit, which arc resulting in large accessions to the church. Some ninety or a hundred persons have already been admit ted, and there i3 but little or no abatement of interest in the meetings. Those able and pious ministers are wholly absorbed in the good work ; and they are dearly loved by their congregations and the people generally. We trust their labors may be blest by yet another hun- dred fold. Considerable interest is beginning to manifest itselt in the first Baptist church, under the charge of the Rev. Mr. A. T. Holmes, who also stands high in the affec tions of his people, and performs the duties of his pas torship with eminent success. The 2d Baptist church has noßastor—the Rev. Mr. Wilkes having resigned the charge of it. But, we are pleased to learn that Mr. J. T. Clark of Lumpkin will be there in a short time to fill the vacancy for a month or more, and we feel assured that he, though recently commenced preaching, will do it with ability and great success. We had the pleasure, a few nights since, of attending a meeting of tho choir of this church, and were delighted with the singing. Rev. Dr. Wilson has charge of the Presbyterian church. Only one of the churches of thisdenomination is supplied with a pastor. There are a number of other churches in the city difil riug in faith and order from those we have mentioned, which exhibits the extraor dinary religious privileges enjoyed by the people of At lanta. None are better supplied, and we hope the reli gious feeling now pervading a very large portion of the population will spread until scores without number shall be united with the people of God. We arc happy also to note an unusual awakening at almost every point in our own and adjoining counties. Nothing could be more welcome. We recognise in it the greatest auxiliary in furthering the cause which we trust is not far from a complete triumph, and which it is our peculiai province to advocate. We are greatly en couraged in the hope that the enlightening influence of that Spirit which is shed abroad in such large measure may lead to the correction of that evil in too many pro fessing Christians, viz: dyam-drinking. Would it not be well to specially enjoin upon those recent converts to Christianity that the spirit of its greart founder is totally in opposition to this destructive habit—especially when proven to be the most prolific source of ‘shipwrecks’ in spiritual affairs? We throw out this suggestion in no spirit of .dictation, hut because we sincerely desire to sec a continuance in well-doing. And besides, this W. K. Hunter. Our readers will recollect, in.a recent article giving | a brief sketch of Sir. Hunter’s labors since April last, j we remarked that “ij would seem that the friends of J the good epuse he advocates will keep him on the move w herever he goes;” and from the following,clipped from the Petersburg Express, wep>resume that in£tei| of ta king th£ “respite” lront his labors which he contem plated, be is out in the field again : Free Lectures. —We lake pleasure in announcing to the citizens of Petersburg that WM. R. HUNTER, Esq., of South Carolina, an earnest and successful advo cate of Sunday Schools and the cause of Temperance, will commence a series of FREE LECTURES in our city within a few days, of which due notice will be given. MR. HUNTER is endorsed by the press of South Carolina, Georgia, North Carolina and other States in which he has labored, as a gentleman of un blemished reputation and a good Christian, and we doubt not that the friends of Sunday Schools and of the Tem perance cause will manifest their interest in the noble work in which he is engaged by a full attendance on his lectures. J. C. COURTNEY, I I. C. SCHOOLFIELD, j Committee L.C.TAPPEY, of Invitation DANIEL DODSON, invitation. J. A. JEFFERSON, j We are glad to perceive, by the following item from another of the Petersburg papers, his efforts are as highly appreciated in other States as they have been in Georgia, and as he returns among us in October next, we can assure him of a hearty welcome in his former field of labor. By a private letter from Mr. Hunter, he informs us he will return soon to Elizabeth, N. J. and when more at leisure, will give the readers of the Cru sader a sketch of his visit to Petersburg, Va. where he had the. pleasure of finding a live Division of the Sons of Temperance* numbering about four hundred and fifty members: W. R. Hunter, “The Children’s Friend.”— Our community is being favored with a series of lectures, on Sabbath Schools, from that noble-hearted philanthro pist, whose name heads this item. He has lectured in the First and Second Presbyterian and Washington Street Churches. On each occasion a very large num ber of adults and children were present. We have ne- ver witnessed a greater manifestation of interest by an audience, than that exhibited by Mr. IPs hearers. He possesses, in an eminent degree, the happy faculty of enlisting and enchaining the attention of adults and children at one and the same time. He takes strong hold on the feelings of his hearers, and keeps them deeply interested to the close of his leoture. In ad dressing children, he seems to know just what to say and how to say it. He is in earnest; he speaks from his heart; in this is the secret of his success. We loarn that he will lecture again on Sabbath Schools next Sabbath afternoon, and on the following Monday and Tuesday evenings, on the subject of Temperance, on which occasions we hope ho will bo greeted by full houses. In addition to the gift of eloquent speech, Mr. Hun ter bears a character above reproach. He is a lay mem ber of the Presbyterian Church, and has with him tes timonials of the highest order, as to character as a Christian gentleman, from the pastor of his church and others. He is also engaged as a voluntary Colporteur in distributing bibles, tracts and other good books, whenever opportunity offers, depending entirely on gratuitous donations to aid him in the work. That he renders more than an equivalent for the aid given him, no one, who has ever had the pleasure of hearing his interesting lectures, can doubt. We take pleasure in commendingdiim as a profitable and interesting lecturer—a true philanthropist and Christian gentleman. Here, again, we find the Express further noticing Mr. Hunter in the following most complimentary manner: Mr. Hunter’s Lecture Last Night. —This gentle man’s lecture at the Tabb Street Presbyterian Church lust night, on the subject of Temperance, was listened to by a vast audience. The entire building— galleries, vestibule, and indeed every inch of available space, was crowded almost to suffocation. The ladies were well lepresonted. The speaker occupied abont two hours in the delivery of his remarks, which were liber ally interspersed with anecdotes, recitations of verse, ete. The interest was well maintained throughout, not a seat being vacated from the commencement to the The Sons of Temperance paraded in large numbers, and the Centre Division from Ettricks attracted consid erable attention with their neat regalia, bright banners and soul-stilling music of drum and fife. Mr. H. will address the Sabbath School children to night. California. Drunkard Restored to liis Family. One bright Sabbath morning, in the year 1853, W. a poor California drunkard, who had been a capable bus iness man, and who then had an interesing family on the Atlantic shores, chanced to be sober. Passing down Commercial street, in San Francisco', jo get his morning bitters, he heard in the distance the sound of a song, which so excited his curiosity, and enlisted his feelings, that he hastened on in the direction of the sound till he got to Long Wharf. There he saw the singer, surrounded by a crowd of attentive listeners. The song ended, a text was announced, and while the preacher was dmdingthe word oflife.jmd uiviniMp “SpTTirapplted it, and W. said to lnmself, as he after wards testified, “There’s a good man; if he was not, he never would preach in such a place as this; and he is telling the truth; and if that is the truth, then there is an awful hell, and I am going down into it as fast as I can travel. Yes, I’m traveling to hell.” Look ing around at this moment, he saw a miserable drunken bloat, in rags, having on one old shoe, and carrying another in his hand, and minus his hat. “Yes,” re” peated W. “I’m going to hell, and this is my travelling companion. O my God, what a road. What com pany, and what a hell when the journey is ended.” At that point, said he,” my agony of soul became so intol erable I could listen no longer. I hastened down the wharf to get away from the sound of the preacher’s voice, and if possible, to get away from myself. But my distress increased. The pains Os hell seemed to get hold of me. I returned immediately to the preach ing. The rest of that day was the most miserable pe riod of my lile. That night I went to the ‘Bethel,’ and heard the street-preacher again. My distress was in supportable. At the close of the sermon, a pressing in vitation was given to poor sinners like mvself, to come to the altar and seek religion. I felt I ought to go, but my proud heart said no ; and yet to live in that dread ful state of mind was too intolerable to contemplate. “1 sprang up from my seat, but instead of going up to the altar, I walked out of the church, and went over to that bar on the corner ot Davis and Clay sts., and called for a glass of brandy. Just as I was raising the glass 10 my lips, something seemed to say tome, ‘Drink that brandy and you are damned.’ 1 set it down in a asked in place for a cup of coffee, which I drank. Then, as quickly as I could, I hastened back to the church, and walked right up the aisle, and kneeled at the altar. I then give up, and cried to God for mercy, and, G glory be to God, for the sake of Je sus, ‘he heard my cry, and brought me up also out of an horrible pit, oqt of the miry olay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings. And he hath put anew song into my mouth, even praise unto our God.’ ” I was witness to that struggle, and the fruits of the saving grace of God as displayed in the salvation of poor W. He now has his family with him in San Francisco, an intelligent pious wife, son and daughters ripening to maturity, and full of useful promise. How pleasing it is to sec that redeemed and pious father bowed with his wife and children, as oft I have seen them, around their own family altar, and there breath ing forth their songs of praise, and their earnest appeals to the compassion ts God for their salvation. But for the street-preaching ns an instrumentality in the hand of God, there can be but little doubt that friend W. had long since gone down into the dock, and his soul into the drunkard’s hell, and his wife, followed by his or phan children, would now be walking mournfully in the weeds of widowhood, sorrowing as those who “have no hope.” Wit and Humor. Wit was originally a general name for all the intel lectual powers, meaning the faculty which kens, per ceives, knows, understands; it was gradually narrowed in its signification to express merely the resemblance between ideas; and lastly, to note that resemblance when it occasioned ludicrous surprise. It marries ideas, lying wide apart, by a sudden jerk of the understand ing. Humor originally meant moisture, a signification it metaphorically retains, for it is the very juice of the mind oozing from the brain, and enriching and fertili zing wherever it falls. Wit exists by antipathy; hu mor bv sympathy. Wit laughs at things ; humorlaughs with them. Wit lashes external appearances, cunning ly. exaggerates single foibles into character; humor glides into the heart of its object, looks lovingly on the tflhrfnaties detect*, and represents the whole man. VVit ts abrupt, darting, scornful, and tosses its analogies in your heart. _ Wit is negative,analytical,destructive; humor is creative. The couplets of Rope are witty, but Sancbo Pnnza is a humorous creation. Wit when earnest, has the earnestness of passion, seeking to des troyi humor hasthe earnestnessof affliction,and would hit up what W seemingly low, into our charity and love. Wit, bright, rapid, and blasting as the lightning flashes, strikes, and vanishes in an instant; humor warm arid all-embracing as the sunsnino, bathes its objects in a genial and abiding light. Wit implies ha tred or contempt of folly and crime, produces its effects by brisk shocks of surprise, uses the whip of scorpions ape) tb® branding-iron—stabs, stings, pinches, tortures, goads, teases, corrodes, undermines} humor Implies a sure conception of the beautiful, tfie majestic, and the true, by whose light it surveys and shapes their oppo sites. It is a humane Influence, softening with mirth the ragged inequalities ofexistenee—pronioting tolerant views ofiife —bridging over the spaces which separate the lofty lrom the lowly, the great from the humble. Old Dr. Fuller’s remark, that a negro is ‘the image of God cut In ebony,’ ishurnorptis: Horace Smith’s inver sion of it, that the taskmaster ip <the Imago the devil cut In ivory,’ is witty, Wit can co-extst with fipree and malignant passions; but humor demands good feel ing and fellow-feeling—feeling not merely for what is above us, but for wfiqt js qround and beneath U. — Pd? win P- Whipple. If a man is sincerely wedded to Truth, he must make up his mind to. find her a portionless virgin, and love her for herself alone. The contract, too, must be to love, cherish and obey her—not only until death, but beyond it; for this is a union that must survive not only Death, but Time, the conqueror of Death. 1 JlTever Despair. The N . O. Picayune, in its relation of the following, encourages many a poor desponding soul, and adminis ters a severe rebuke to those who shed crocodile tears ov^ h m bad Jr k - “***# hunter, who was the |#ofits of Ills ;singulaf>usiifcss, t|at Hefiame to ■this city, like lioif sands of others, in the belief that ntonev could be made iu almost endless profusion with very Jittlreffort, and wearied with disappointment, and just on Ac point of coining under the eye of the the police as dangerous or suspicious, being without a visible means of living, he wandered into the suburbs, then into the swamps in the real of Jefferson City and neighborhood, where he made his first acquaintance with the Louisiana alliga tor. His bump of speculation was at chice excited. Such a creature was of some utility; his hide, his tusks,per haps his bones, might find purchasers. So borrowing from a man who occupied a hut in the neighborhood a gun and some ammunition, he declared war upon the alligators. He dried their hides, he extracted their oil, he took out their teeth, and sure enough they proved to be merchantable articles. Commencing in* May last, he had, up to last Sunday, killed 400 alligators. Having gained experience by practice, he now hunts at night and carrying a pan of fire.. Attracted by this usual light, they come up close to him, when he finds no difficulty in bringing a mon ster down at every shot The skins of these alligators arc readily sold at seven ty-five cents a piece. They are manufactured intowa ter-proof boots, and the most valuable and expensive shoes to be found in our market are made from tanned alligators hide. The oil, tusks and hides of these 400 alligators have produced in the hands of our new hun ter acquaintance $560, besides paying his current ex penses. This enterprising original is now looking out for a suitable location for the investment of his gains in real estate, content that the vicinity of New Orleans has an abundance of the raw material which forms his staple of trade. Tle Queen and Pilnce Albert on the Road. The officer who conducted a correspondent of the New York Express through the stables at Windsor Castle, what an honor to a native, related the following incident: It seems her Majesty, as well as Prince Albert, loves fast horses, and she never rides without her nags are upon the quickest trot. Well, she had'heard of the speed ol the New York horses, and somehow the rapid movement of a pair of them in London reached the ears of the Prince and the Queen, They were both anxious to see their movements and try their speed, which being made known to the American owner, lie forthwith chal lenged Prince Albert to test die mettle of his animals between London and Windsor. The royal party were to have twenty minutes start, and change horses on the road, while the American trotters were to go through the entire distance. The affair was wholly private, and yet what was in the wind leaked out among the grooms, and ail was excitement. Having reached the half-way house and road, with fresh horses again for a start, they all looked anxiously back for the Amciican horses. The Queen and Prince Albert were as interested as it their crown was the is sue; and remembering the yacht race where the Amer ica was victorious, by a wave of her hand to her postil lions Victoria urged them forward. But itdid’notavail. 1 be American trotters were soon insight, and it was but a few minutes before they were “neck and neck” with the royal party; to their utter amazement they soon passed them, as trotting horses are sometimes accustomed to do on the Bloomingdale road When the Queen and Prince reached Windsor the American horses were all nicely groomed, and ready, it need be, for another start. This exploit led to the purchase of some trotting animals; but. having jeopardized the lives ol the royal party, they wisely were abandoned. This is the postilion’s story, and there is no cause to doubt itstruth. /Flie Maniac’s Sermon—A Camp-meeting Incident. BY INVISIBLE GREEN, ESQ. It was 11 o’clock on Sabbath morning. Two ser mons had been preached during the forenoon, and the “horn” had been blown announcing the third. The people flocked into the meeting by thousands, for a very popular divine was to preach at that hour. Soon the rough seats beneath the tall forest trees were filled, then the aisles’•became crowded, and there was not room for those who wished to hear the words of the em inent minister. The owners of the tenements looking into the space, in a spirit of kindness, threwtheni open, and they, too, were fi’led with eager listeners. The scene presented within that church of trees, a natural Temple to the Living God, was striking and impres sive. - The eloanmmUVisAeVr^mdrey, arose. ~ All was instantly hushed, and the stillness of midnight reigned in that vast assemblage. He opened a book and read therefrom, softly, sweetly, musically, a hymn, which he requested the congregation to sing. ’ The music of a camp-meeting! Who that has ever heard it, has not paused to drink the rich melody into his soul ? It comes with a grandeur, yet softness and sweetness that can be heard nowhere else. The meas ured strains of a multitude of voices, united in charming melody, and unkrokeu by walls, swell in solemn gran deui t and roll deliciously through the forests, awaking re-echoing cadences on every hand, and “Untwisting all the chains that tic The hidden soul of harmony.” After the hymn had been sung the minister offered i up a brief, eloquent prayer, and then resumed his seat. He had taken the Bible on his knee and was searching for his text, when he and the whole congregation were started by the appearance of the Maniac Smith. The young lunatic, who was known to nearly all pres ent, ascended the pulpit with folded arms, bowed head and slow and steady pace. Facing the immense con gregation, he gazed carefully around, and amid breath less silence, spread forth his hands, and in the most thrilling manner said: “Your music is the music of heaven. The pretty birds in yonder tree-tops are hearing it with their songs to the lips of angels above, who will convey it as sweet incense to the omnipotent throne of God. Joy is thine O Israel. You possess the living soul, that rejoices in light of reason, that lives in the waters of purest love, and rejoices in the glory of immortality. My soul is dead! A cherished child of piety, I became recreant to the God who gave me being, and sold my fife, my hap piness, my immortality, to the Prince of Darkness. Like the traveller who has a well-trodden path before him, but is attracted to dangerous places by the gaudy show of some poisonous flower, I have wandered to my death. My feet were placed in the straight and narrow way, were covered with the sandals of piety, and the Chrisiian staff was placed in my hands, and yet, 0 God ! I wandered to my death. The gaudy baubles of vice, the showy, yet thorny flowers of wickedness, drew me aside. 1 iett the smooth surface and ascended to mountains of trouble, and yet I gained not the object ot my fate. The Wicked One, who sought my des truction, lednicon, and I, cursed with remorse, followed 1 knew I was plunging into ruin, but with a soul al ready accursed, what cared I ? Voluntarily I had sought death, and it came. It was one night, and oh ! a fear iul night it was to me. Exhausted, doomed and ac curs and, 1 was still clambering up the mountain of sin. I came to a chasm, deep and fearful. The liohtnins of heaven flashed about me, and the thunder oT Omnipo tcnce pealed in my ears. I felt myself moving towards the fearful chasm! Death, eternal death, stared me in the taco, and I screamed piteously for help. No one came to aid me. My companions in vice listened not to my cries, and he to whom I had sold my soul deri- I ded me in mockery! I was moved on nearer and nearer to the precipice. Frantically I grasped each shrub and rocky prominence winch lay in my way, but they crum bled in my hands. I reached the edge of the precinice’ I glanced into the deep abyss of death! Oh’ terror’, terror! I plead Heaven ior mercy, but great God it was too late! ’ “My sin-covered soul trembled with the agony it suffered, and was pitious in its appeals. But the thun der told me—'Too late.’ The lightning told me, ‘Too late,’ and gracious heavens, my o%vn cowardly soul told me—‘Too late!’ I felt myself going over the precipice I clung with tenacity to everything within my reach, but nothing could save me. I shrieked! I groaned! Down to perdiliou went my soul-.'” Here the maniac paused. His vivid portraiture of his career, had started the whole congregation, some of whom shrieked outright as he presented his soul’s frightful descent into perdition. He paused a minute only. Then calm again, he softly said: “I am living without a soul! you people of God, may sing your praises, for it is sweet incense to your souls, But you sinners,” and here he again became excited in manner, “but you sinners, must repent this day, or your souls will go after mine over that deep, dark, fearful abyss into hell! Will you repent, or go with me into eternal perdition ?” The effect of this was more than terrific. Screams and groans arose from the gay and giddy in the con gregation. A year or two before, this young man Was brought home one evening Insensibly drunk. The next morning tqund him the victim of a terrible fever, brought on by sensual indulgences and extravagant course ofiife. Os that fever he was, after many fearful (lays, and much tender core by his relatives, cured, but it left him a r j Vl ma, M ao > a frightful lunatic. So fearful were his mad efforts, it became necessary to confine him in a lu natic Asylum, to keep him from perpetrating mischief on himself and others. He remained there until within q few weeka qf the camp-meeting, when he became suf ficiently restored to be returned to the custody of his family- He was still insane, but ho was mild and obe dient, and under those circumstances ho was taken with the family to the camp-meeting, the utmost vigi- Ishqp being exercised oyer him. Young men 1 beware of the cup, the destroyer of the body, and worse, the destroyer of the soul. The Janesville Gazette says that a small quantity of borax, dissolved in carriphene, will entirely destroy the explosive propensities of that fluid, without injuring its i properties for giving light, j i'irenlatioit of the Blood. Blackwood, for August, in a continuation of its in- g teresting paper upon the blood, treats of the circulation of the vital current, analyzing the claims of alleged dis coyeriss in regard to the forces which impel it f 4t&l the mode ol its operation upon the human systcnlt- Har vey's merits were that he discovered the fact oflhecir cttlaiioti, out lie did typtascertain tjb course the bibod i takes, nor the cause of its motioo/ lie knew that the i blood was carried from the heart through the arteries to j the tissues, and from the tissues through the veins and ; lungs hack again to the place whence it started. But i he knew not how the blood passed from arteries to ■ veins, nor why the blood thus moved. These facts were left to be disclosed by other scientific suvans. By way of digression, it may not be amiss to state that Michael Servetus, whom Calvin burned, with God ly fervor, for speculations of another kind, was the first to announce the existence of the pulmonary circulation, in a work which was burned by the theologians. No thing can be less equivocal than the description given by Bervetus, of the passage of the blood from the heart to the lungs, “ where it is agitated, prepared, changes its color, and is poured front the pulmonary arteries into the pulmonary vein.” To resume the purpose ofthisabstract ofßlackwood’s article, what is it which causes the blood to circulate? The heart, answers an unhesitating reader. That the heart pumps blood incessantly into the arteries, and that - this pumping must drive the stream onward with great force, there is no doubt; but although one puis sant agent in the circulation, the heart is not the sole agent; and the more we study this difficult question, the more our doubts gather round the explanation. Let some of the difficulties be stated. There have been ca ses of meft and animals born without a heart; these “ monsters ” did not live—indeed, could not live; but they had grown and developed in the womb, and consequently their blood must have circulated. The motions of the heart consist in the alternatceon traclions and relaxations of its muscular walls. Du ring each beat two sounds may be heard, one dull, which may be imitated by pronouncing the word htbb ; the other, quickly succeeding it, has a sharper sound, like (lup. The former sound is supposed to be due to the contraction of the muscular fibres of the ventricles, and the thump of the heart against the chest; aided, no doubt, by the rush of blood, and the closing of the valves. The latter sound is caused by the shutting of the semilunar valves of the aorta and pulmonary artery. The number of pulsations varies greatly, not only be tween cliflerent sexes and different individuals, but at different ages and conditions of the same person. Du ring the first year the beats are from 115 to 130 per minute; from the 7th to the 14th year, from 80 to 90; from 14th to 21st year, 75 to 85; from the 21st to 60th year, 70 to 75; old age, 75 to 80. The female has greatly the superiority over the male in respect of fre quency, her pulse beating from ten to fourteen times a minute beyond that of man. What is it that causes the beating of the heart ? Hal ler and his school attributed it to the irritability of the muscular walls, which are stimulated by the presence of the blood. There is this fact in favor of such an hy pothesis, viz: that after the heart has ceased to beat, and its irritability is extinct, a little arterial blood ejec ted into it will cause it instantly to resume its pulsa tions. This, however, is met by another fact, that the heart continues to beat long after it is empty of all blood. In the substance of the heart there is a com plete little nervous system, consisting of ganglia and nerves. The ganglia are to be found at the base of the auricles and ventricles. One ganglion lies just where the great veins enter the auricles; from these two nerves join two other ganglias, close to the junction of the auricles and ventricles. Nerves are thence distrib uted through the muscular substance. That it is to this nervous apparatus we are to ascribe the spontane ous activity of the heart is easily proved; for. if any part be severed from all connection with the ganglia, the pulsations cease at once in that part; but if any part be severed which still retains a ganglion, the pul sations will continue. The movement during life or death is thus seen to be due to the ganglia. But why these ganglia? retain their power after the circulation has been destroyed, and why a similar power is not ob servable in other ganglias, still remains a problem. It seems certain that the power is only retained during the continuance of those molecular changes which we vaguely name vital; for if the heart be subjected to the influence of foreign gases, or be dipped in oil, its pulsa tions suddenly cease ; on the contrary, if arterial blood be injected long after the cessation of all movement— haa.not_ vacuo, which excludes the idea of the atmosphere being the stimulus that sets it going. While, on one hand, the pulsations are not, in them selves, evidences of life ; on the other hand, their cessa tion is no evidence of death, but only one among the many sigos ol death. When death follows a long or painful illness, the irritability of the heart vanishes al most with the vanishing breath; but if the decease be sudden, the heart will continue beating for some time afterwards. Harless observed it beating in the body of a decapitated murderer an hour after the execution. Margo found the right auricle beating two hours and a half after the execution, although not a trace of irrita bility could be detected in the other parts of the heart. Dietrich, Gerlach and Herz found that both ventricles contracted, if one were irritated, forty minutes after death. Retnak observed the rythmic contractions in the hearts of birds and mammals two days after death; and Em. Rousseau mentions that a woman’s heart had these rythmic movements seven and twenty hours after being guillotined. The writer in Blackwood favors Professor Draper’s hypothesis that the arterialization of the blood in the lungs is the cause of the circulation. The arterial blood has an affinity for the tissues, which causes it to press forward in the capillaries; and no sooner is that affinity satisfied than the blood becomes venous, and is pressed forward by theadvancingcolumn. The various tissues require repair; they have an affinity for one or other of the constituents of the blood; they take the material they need, and their affinity issatisfied; or se creting eells originate a drain upon the blood, and the moment they have removed from it the substance to be secreted, they have no longer any relation with it. So processes of oxidation, of nutrition and secretion, all conspire to draw the current onward from the arteries, and push it toward the.veins. The Old. Clock. Fifteen years ago, I knew a rich man, and I recollect of going to his house at that time. I remember just how the furniture looked, and particularly a large Jam ily clock, which stood in the corner of the room, which was said to have cost $l5O. A few days ago I was in the town, and called on busines at the house of a rum seller, there I saw about the room some of this farmer’s furniture, and in the corner stood the same old clock. I need hardly tell you the reason of this change. The farmer had died a drunkard, and his property, even to his furniture, had passed into the rumseller’s hands, as the wager that his master, Satan, had given him for ru ining his soul. On this Dr. Newton says, “That story about the old Clock, what a lesson on the sad changes produced by intemperance; what a lesson, too, on the • responsibilities of the rumseller, and the dread account he must at last render of the wide cast evil lie has done in this world.” There that clock stands in that rum seller’s house, with its solemnly slow but steady tick tick-tick, day and night, while its rightful owner sleeps in the silence of the giave—and that tooa Drunk ard’s Grave ! Oh, that the rumseller would only think as he hears that old servant thus speak, how many swiftly rolling years it kept the reckoning of time for a happy family, and how many wearisome years it kept the same reckoning for the same family in their misery, and that misery occasioned by himself. How many nights the pale care-worn wife sat listening to its lonely sounds waiting for her husband’s return, while lie was carousing in his shop, and if he would think, as he now hears that ever recurring tick, tick, tick, that every swing of tlie pendulum brings him one moment nearer the lime when he must meet his victim face to face in judgment, when time shall be no longer, and retribu tion measured by no reckoning of time, shall begin, never to end. Ah! if he could think of all this, how would he bo overwhelmed with the extent of the ruin u H P ro( htccd, ruin that shall abide after tho clock shall cease to tell of it; after these busy scenes of earth are passed away; after the world itself is burned up— yea, forever,/ereeer. But, no, the Rumseller does not think of half this, he puts down his conscience which ever and anon rises like a ghost to upbraid him ; he shuts out from his sightso far as he can doit, the horrid results ofhis traffic in this life, and looks not beyond to another, he! goes on piling up his heap of shining dust, reckless to the misery tie is scattering around him. But the time will soon come when his hand shall relax Its grosp on the muck-rake, with which he scrapes up that perishable pile, when tho visions of earth shall be come dim to the sight, when the ticking of that clock shall grow fainter upon his ear—hedies—and afterdeath the judgment—and what after that ? Ah, the clock of eternity will strike upon his ear, slow and heavy, tick tick-tick, never to run down, but go on tick-tick-lick, through the never ending ages of his torment. — Glens rail Messenger. roTTßsyiw,E, N. Y. A life. He commenced his fife as a grocer.”— Douglas. “The only difference between Judge Douglas and myself on the grocery question is, that while 1 have stood on one side of the counter, he has been equally qqtive on the other.” — Lincoln, [Special Correspondence ] Scenes and Incidents in Georgia. _ j M’ AN ERUJMTE CONSXAISLE. is a constable residing in one of (lie cities of tills StH tej noted for the beauty and regularity ol its streets, who has but very little respect, for the King’s English. He was once a witness at a Police Court aguiust a man who had violated one ol the city ordi nances. After stating that he had warned the man not to persist in violating the laws of the city, and the man refused to desist but became pugnacious, lie said: “as he retreated on me I advarced backwards to Ibe railing of the market.” One of the police officers received a circular offering a large reward for a man who bad fled from justice, and describing, among other things, that he was a man with a “sprightly mind.” This was read in the hearing of this erudite constable, who hap pened to have seen the fugitive, when ho exclaimed : “sprightly the devil! he’s as large a man as you are !” He very often sees persons in “ expilious ” looking places. A letter, in his liandwrite, would no doubt be replete with many additions to the vocabulary of the English language. A.N ERUDITE MAGISTRATE. Avery singular case was tried before a Magistrate’s Court, in T——county, some years since. A simple debt case had been died before the justice, judgment entered up for the plaintiff, and execution issued against the defendant. The plaintiff, thinking that things were working well, went home, hut had scarcely arrived there, when he was sent for to come back immediately. A marc, belonging to the defendant, had been levied on 4>y virtue of the execution, and he had filed a plea ot illegality. This was the way “things were working” when the plaintiff’ arrived at the court-ground. The Justice asked plaintiff if he knew the age of defendant’s marc? Plaintiff answered in the negative. A tall, gawky-looking backwoodsman was placed on the stand, and interrogated as to the age of the mare ? He replied that, to the best of his belief, she was eleven years old. But what bearing bad the age ol the marc upon the pica of illegality ? The plaintiff and his attorney could not divine. The Justice gave his decision in the following laconic style: From the evidence submitted to this court, it is evident that the marc, belonging to the de fendant in this case, is eleven years old. The execu tion is scarcely a day old. If the court understands the law, aud it thinks it does, it is of opinion thut the mare is the oldest, and therefore not subject to the execution KNOCKING TIIE BLACK OFF. A case was tried several times in the Superior Court, •3fC county, to recover some land claimed by a poor young man, but then in the possession of a gen tleman of ample fortune. The wealthy gentleman was represented by Col. H , a lawyer of eminence in that tsounty, while the poor young gentleman was represen ted by Col. P , of'B counly, an ex-nienibcr oi Congress, and a lawyer of extensive legal acquirements, holding a very prominent position among the members of tlie bar, in the Third Congressional District, for tal ent and eloquence. Col. P. was successful in every trial. Col. H., although an energetic and indefatiga ble lawyer, having used every exertion in his client’s behalf, concluded to give up and knock under. Arising from his scat, at the conclusion of the last trial, when the verdict was rendered adverse to his client, he in formed Col. P. of his determination, and said: “lac knowledge, Col. P., that you have fairly knocked the black off'of me.” Col. P., with the utmost serenity, arose and replied : “ I can inform Col. H. that if I have knocked the black off of him that there is nothing left.” I will simply add that there is no man in Georgia of purer morals than Col. H. TKAYING FOR RAIN. 3n a county, situate in the South-western part of the State, there lived, many years ago, an old-fashioned Methodist Class-leader, who disdained all attempts at display, and .vas a plain, practical, pious, praying per son.’ He was not what might be considered a highly “oddicated” man; but what he said was always to the “pint.” He took the diameter ofa subject, and not its circumference. He never indulged in a circum locutory style. When he prayed he asked for what lie renlly desired. A long season of drought had prevailed in his neighborhood, and the members of the church, with their neighbors, assembled at the meeting-house to implore the Ruler of the universe to bestow upon their parched fields copious showers of life-giving rain. Our worthy brother had an extensive “new-ground” suffering for want of rain, and therefore was included affoquent style, with wounded sentences and pleasing jingle of sound. At last our good old brother was called on to pray. lie felt the necessity of having good show ers immediately, and was in earnest. He thanked God for preserving the sinful lives of the people, and for the manifold blessings bestowed upon them, and acknowl edged their entire unworthiness and utter want ofrnerit, and concluded thus: “ Heavenly Father, ifit ispleasing in Thy sight, and consistent with Thy Holy Will, send us rain at this time; give us a real potatoe rain—a reg ular new-ground soaker.” It was not long before the neighborhood was blessed v ith abundant showers. “i HAINT GOT NO PRAYER.” Sandy Squillers was also a resident of the same county. He was of a pure, white complexion, the re sult of frequent conflicts with “fever and ague.” He was generally considered as a real “ ladies’ man ;” but whether the ladies admired him as much as he admired them, I will not presume to say. One Sunday he dressed up in his best “bib and tucker,” and went out on a courting excursion. He was mounted upon a pale faced, stub-tailed pony; he escorted his favorite piece of “ calico” to meeting. Having recently united hini- self with the church, he took a front seat among the members, where, with self-complaisant air and elonga ted face, he would alternately cost a look of admiration at the minister and the girl. The minister was well pleased with his approbation, and highly delighted that so good a brother had visited his meeting; and having learned his name, at the conclusion of his sermon, said : “Brother Squillers, will you pray with us?” As this was a gilt that Sandy was not very proficient in, he affected not to comprehend the question, and sim ply ejaculated “ ba!” Thinking that the good brother was deaf, the minis ter slightly elevated his voice and repeated the inter rogatory, “Brother Squillers, will you pray with us?” Sandy was nonplussed, but articulated “ ha!” in re sponse again. The minister now elevated his voice to its highest pitch, determined that il the brother had ears lie should hear, and propounded the question, “ Brother Squillers, will you pray with us?” Sandy knew that there was no retreat for him, and determined not to say “yes,” lie positively declined giving the succinct reason for it in the following an swer: “ J habit got no prayer.” After that, whenever young ladies desired him to leave them in their “maiden meditation fancy free,” they had only to say, “ Brother Squillers, will you pray with us ?” and his speedy retirement was certain. , THE widow’s appeal. An Irish widow, who had a bright-eyed little boy that was extremely ill, and to whom she was ardently attached, made the following earnest appeal to him. The little boy was in a kind of stupor, taking but little cognizance of passing scenes, llis mother was in a frenzied state of mind, fearing that her “little darling” would be taken from her. Approaching the bed, she caught hold of him and shook him very roughly, saying to him: u House up! rouse up ! Peter, me dart bit, don't be afther dying on me hands as yer ould father did!” Peter recovered. W. An Extraordinary Machine. —Mr. David L. Mil ler, of Madison, N. Y., has invented a machine which, from the representation given of it, is deemed a very extraordinary affair. Mr. M. has been of the opinion that some ancient application of the mechanical power of the wedge, lever and screw, has been lost, as modern mechanism could hardly accomplish—if it could at all— the labor of erecting the pyramids and other huge an- cient structures. He thinks lie has supplied this lost art by his machine, which embraces the three princi ples above named, together with a double cylinder. It is portable, weighing only forty-five ‘pounds. At the Norris Locomotive Works, in Philadelphia, where they have one of the machines in use, one of the workmen, a man weighing 156 pounds, lifted, with facility, the enormous weight of 37,332 pounds, or more than eigh teen tons, merely by the application of hia strength, through his hands, to the levers. “.And where was the man stabbed, sir ?” said an ex cited Irishman on Friday night last, on Fourth Street, to a physician. “ The man was stabbed about an inch and a half to the left of the median line, and about an inch above the umbilicus,’? was the reply. “ Oh, yes; I understand now. But I thought it was near the Court House.” WROI OHT INTO CiOLB. BY MRS. cfv. DENISON. I saw a sniilc—to a poor man ’twas given ; And he was old ; The sun broke forth ; I saw the smile in Heaven Wrought into gold— Gold of such lustre never was vouchsafed to us; It made the very light of day more luminous. 1 saw a toiling woman sinking down, Foot sore and cold; A soft hand covered her; the humble gown, Wrought into gold. Grow straight imperishably; and it will he shown To smiling angels gathered round the judgement throne. I saw a grieving babe, and motherless ; I found a fold With a poor widow ; how sweet her caress. Wrought into gold, Made her face glisten, and her eyes grow bright with feeling . * The innersight God gives his chosen saints revealing. Wrought into gold; we that pass down life’s hours So carelessly, make the dusty way a path of flowers, It we would try, Then every gentle deed we’ve done, or kind word giv en, ... Wrought into gold, would make us wondrous rich in Heaven. A City iu lltc Air—The Mirage on flic F.ains. From the Mavsville (Cal.) Express, we learn tha travellers across the Plains assert that they have seen on Noble’s Pass Route about thirty miles this side of the Humbolt river, the most wonderful phenomena that they think ever have been witnessed in any part ol the world. It is no less a thing than a city in the air complete in every aspect and concomitant. It is seen in the early morning and stands self poised above the dead level ofa broad and airy plain, which is covered with a light white dust that rises in small clouds at the touch of a horse’s hoof, or ascends in magnifi cent spiral towers in tlie breatli of the little whirlwinds that are occasioned by the intense heat. The line of the base ol the city forms an angle with the line of the plain, so that the city seems to lean over towards the earth, and a full view ot its streets and buildings is pre rested. All the streets seem to tend to one point, where they concentrate, and whence of course they diverge. The architectural beauty and splendor of this city in the air, arc ofa character uncqualed by anything upon the face of the earth. The buildings rise, one after an other in proud, palatial grandeur, and their tall towers glitter like molten silver in the sun. Clean and perfect was the work of the mysterious architect who iranied those marble looking wonders of theair. Theapparent extent of the city is about six miles in circumference, und the nearest approximation of the base to the dis tance of about fifty feet. Not having seen this phenom enon, of course we enter into any minu e description of it; we can only give the general idea which we have presented. We are assured that the illusion is perfect —nothing wanting whatever to fill up the picture—a magnificent city, silent as the bottom of the sea, but glittering in the full life of the sunshine, and self-sus tained in the heavens. American Chronology. America was discovered by Christopher Columbus in 1482. He was a native of Genoa, and in the ser vice of Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain. The continent of America was discovered by John Ca bot in 1497. He was a Venetian merchant residing in Bristol. Corteral, under the King of Portugal, visited the Amer ican coast in 1501. He stole fifty Indians, which, on his return to Europe, he sold as slaves. Verrazzania visited the coast of North Carolina in 1524. Cartier, a mariner of Saint Malo, andain the service of France, visited the northern shores of America in 1534. The French settled in America in 1604, at Port Roy al. The city of Quebec was first settled in 1609. Juan Ponce de Leon discovered Florida in 1612. DeSoto discovered ihe Mississippi in April 1541. He came upon it below the Chickasaw Bluff’, 20 or 30 miles the mouth of Arkansas river; and on the 21st of May 1542 he was buried beneath its surface. The Harbor of St. Augustine was discovered by Me lendez, the Spanish governor, in September 1566; and the building of the town was immediately com menced. Sir Walter Raleigh landed on the coast of North Caro lina on the 14th of July 1584. and took possession of it in the name of Queen Elizabeth. It was the southernmost of the islands forming Ocracock in let. Tobacco was introduced into England by the emigrants of Sir Walter Raleigh in North Carolina, on their re rp/ ~ *“ “AC a F EI “‘•"Wi-rancis lJroko, in /586. r bLnm M T, ng ? f Fa glish , parcnls in America was born on the Islaad of Roanoke, on the 18th of August 1087, and was mined Virginia Dare. Cape Cod, the first in New England ever trtd by Eng- IhcTS’olMaynW * ‘ i noU Sa VIRGINIA. T lStlfofMay , 1607. JameStOV '” conimence ‘ l Tobacco begun to be cultivated by the settlers in The first colonial assembly that ever met was convened at Jamestown m June 1619. ~cu A written constitution was established in 16*1 It in sured to the colonists an assembly of burgesses or r,iX i “7s;r^„ e , , r n by “" j N x r ; in by cap - C ?'<r. “ as plan,ed >n America as an expc.iment in Tl ‘® ( I I nd,ans attempted a general massacre of the white settlers on the 22nd of March 1622, and 347 persons were murdered They were led on bv the vounjer cipalchief. ‘ afan ’ who had *“*& him aspnn- In 1660 a law was passed voting the “total ejection of mercenary attorneys,” and also an act agaimTthc enforcement of debts that had been oon.raeS in Eu- orn i- r Ol TUE Cincinnati Grape Crop.—Within fed HI ? twch, y- fivp “>'l p s Os Cincinnati it is com,"” ~.1, “ ‘, ICre are acres ol ground devoted to the culture of grapes. I„ favorable seasons the avera” eTf wine per acre, is two hundred gallons, equal five hundred thousand gallons ns the whole crop lorthesec- Th” r eS | CriJC< ’ ‘ vonl '’ fresh from ihc press, $500,000. 1 he failure of the grape crop is therefore a serious loss n“c..?r a " J *"• .. *e, I,y !r : nication m the Cincinnati Gazelle, that to the general osb of the fruit crop of apples, peaches. & c . in Ohio this season, that ot the grape is to be added. Thewri mL. ayS ‘ 1 - ,c r' r ? p ’ lus ycar > lm, y be designated as al !u!ri^ entire failure. Some few vineyards will have something of a crop; but, in the aggregate, all the wine produced will not pay the expenses of tending the crop Light aud Love. Ilall s Journal of Health says: “A fimrer nail is re newed in an hundred and thirty-two davs in win.lt* the t r req Anf a rr y r i . hUndre<l and *” ™ warm wea-’ ! Ltl’.i u lgl,l hastens vegetation, so it is known \° Ur great * a, l ,er in proportion as charity keeps nth of I iT f, un,mer ** * our hearts, while SieSS! ?nd truc ;& 3x “Thtbtooaer Might of all tM&*i hpp| nm .n : ~ W. R W m Mr? WIT Taliaferro coumyfGa*’ ‘° M ‘ 9B Vi,oh,:a H * in ihubt Tall and Winter Styles! iJi Hats, Caps, Botnets, Umbrellas.]! AT WHOLESALE AX'D RF.T \ J I, Gem s fall style Moleskine an(l Cas sim e re Jf 1 . r ?i* ch and American Felt “ chiidr,,,', JfSbt"” W ” 1 valiely oj’quality same goods can be bought anywhere 08 l ** e CALL AND SEE. GEO. W. FERRY, Sept 23. ISCB Ma9 ° nic - Augusta, Ga. A 1 i IS J R ATpK’S S be sold b*- fore the Court House door, in Crawfordville Tal taferro county, on the first Tuesday in November nit * six hundred and forty-three acres If land beint 2 oHess, adjoining the lands of Howell F. Bunk es Wm A-PFS* and . ° thcrs - Said 1 ,nd sod 8 the’estate of C. C. Alexander, deceased. Sold under „ If the Court of Ordinary of said county and r f MARTHA R. ALEXANDER Adm'r „ WILLIAM A REYNOLrs’ Idm’!’ sept. 13, 1838. ‘ * iSc/LiL a, Adm r, /