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its own—with two other ladies; Atouia, an Arab, not much inferior to her rival in j personal appearance; and Ferrah, origi nally a Yezidi slave, who had no preten sions to beauty. Amsha, however, always maintained her sw T ay, and the olhfrs could not sit, without her leave, in her presence. To her alone were confided the keys of the larder —supposing Sofuk to have had either keys or larder —and there was no appeal from her authority on all subjects of domestic economy. — LayarJ's Nineveh and its Remains. ARAB WOMEN AND ARAB WORK MEN. M'hen F first employed the Arabs, the women were sorely ill-treated, and sub jected to great hardships. I endeavored to introduce some reform into their domestic arrangements, and punished severely those who inflicted corporal punishment on their wives. In a short time, the number of do mestic quarrels was greatly reduced, and the women, who were at first afraid to complnin of their husbands, now boldly appealed to me for protection. They had, however, some misgivings as to the future, which were thus expressed hy a deputa tion: “0, Bey! we are your sacrifice.— May God reward you. Have we not eat en wheat bread, and even meat and butter, since we have been under your shadow ? Is tlieie one of us that has not now a col ored handkerchief for her head, bracelets and ankle-rings, and a striped cloak ? But what shall we do when you leave us?— which God forbid you should do. Our husbands will then have their turn, and there will he nobody to help us.” These poor creatures, like all Arab women, were exposed to constant hardships. They were obliged to look after the children, to make the bread, to fetch water, and to cut wood, which they brought home from afar on their heads. Moreover, they were entrust ed with all the domestic duties, wove their woo! and goafs hair into clothes, carpets, and tent canvass; and were left to strike and raise the tents, and to load and unload the beasts of burden, when they change .Aun vtn. ■ [.■ f tivti 1111 Ot/tl ■ IXI l? possessed sheep or cows, they had to drive them to the pastures, and to milk them at night. When moving, they carried their children at their backs during the march, and were even troubled with this burden when employed in their domestic occupa tions, if the children were too young to be left alone. The men sat indolently by, smoking their pipes', or listening to a tri- fling story from some stray Arab of the desert, who was always there to collect a group around him. At first, the women, whose husbands encamped on the mound, brought water from the river; but I re leased them from this labor, by employing horses and donkeys in the work. The weight of a large sheep or goat’s skin fill ed with water is not inconsiderable. This is hung on the back by cords strapped over rttr ttird ttjnm *t, Vti rttWVtYvm, tvnr frequently seated the child, who could not be left in the tent, or was unable to follow its mother on foot. The bundles of fire wood, brought from a considerable dis tance, were enormous, completely conceal ing the head and shoulders of those who tottered beneath them. And yet the wo men worked cheerfully, and it was seldom that their husbands had to complain of their idleness. Some were more active than others. There was a young girl named Iladla, who particularly distin guished herself, and was consequently sought in marriage by all the men. Her features were handsome, and her form erect and exceedingly graceful. She car ried the largest burdens, was never unem ployed, and was accustomed, when she had finished the work imposed upon her hv her mother, to assist her neiehhr>= completing their’s.— lbid. -P U J N J Sffl i> ® iJ h „ CURIOSITIES OF ADVERTISING I LITERATURE. Gems in this department of letters con- 1 tinne from time to time appearing in the pnblic prints, and among the last we have an announcement of “a very delightful res idence to let, making up ten beds, within the Regent’s Park.” We presume that the \ beds in question, being within the Park, are either flower-beds, asparagus-beds, or strawberry-beds, but any of these would, we imagine, be rejected by any but a thor ough Bedlamite. The same day’s paper contains the particulars of a place in Dor setshire, which “combines the advantage of fishing, with a particularly dry situa tion but we presume there must be some patent process for hooking the finny tribe, since it seems rather difficult to fish in a situation whose dryness is remarkable. We imagine that the sport is intended to be limited to that unhappy class of the Ani mal Kingdom known as “fish out of wa ter,” who would fall an easy prey to the designs of the angler. Another advertise ment commences with the startling words, “ Scotland—To be let furnished, for any period tliat may be required,” and a little further on we find an intimation that there is “Bath—To be let with immediate pos session.” A GROWING EVIL. We are quite astonished at the number of moustaches there are about town. The face of the metropolis is quite overrun with moustaches. You meet with one at every turn. This continental appendage is threat ening to invade the English physiognomy, and the British upper lip will soon lose its distinctive cleanliness. Where all the moustaches have suddenly sprung from we cannot tell, as we are not particular ama teurs in hair skins, but it is very clear that the course at Epsom was covered, this Der by, with four times its usual average. We begin to suspect that the cheap excursions to France have done it all, for it is very strange that an Englishman cannot go lo Boulogne without being immediately seized with a violent moustache. We propose that government barbers be appointed at Folkestone, and that they be invested with peremptory orders to take everybody by the nose who lands, and give the batch all around an easy shave for a penny. If some such Order in Council be not immediately issued to meet this growing evil, England will Be so much put upon by France, that she will soon have not a feature left on her face that she will be able to call her own. These cheap excursions must be stopped, or else there must be a bye-law instantly passed that any’ one who comes back with a moustache, forfeits his return ticket JENNY LIND. “ We hearthat Mademoiselle Jenny Find remains in Paris for the present, and that her marriage is broken off.”— Vide Morn ing Chronicle, May 21 st. Dear Jenny Lind has changed her mind, And run away to Paris: So Betsey Prigfc was right we find— There is no Mrs. Harris ! The Blessed English Weather.—As Whitsuntide never has a syllable of sun in it, but is invariably rainy, we suggest that, in all the future almanacks, Whit-Monday be known by the more appropriate name of Wet Monday. Again, as it is very clear that the Clerk of the Weather never knows his mind for two days together, but is always changing, we suggest that from henceforth he be known by the name of “The Charwoman” —or “The Scullery Maid”—or“TheCook of the Weather;” for it is quite preposter ous to suppose that, with the proverbial fickleness and incessant variability of the English weather, the person who has the management of it can be a man. The Great Sea Serpent.—This Salt Unknown has, depose certain folks—ap peared between the Cape and St. Helena ; whilst—according to the South Africa — others avow the snake to be -■. \jt oto* txr tt I tl,n iro _ ter in single file, and, in peculiar states of the atmosphere, mistaken for one unbroken creature of enormous size.” Thus the bird sends us back to Profes sor Owen’s implied calculation—“ How many gulls are required to make a sea ser pent ?” The Prince of Bricklayers.—We have great pleasure inobserving that Prince Albert, on Saturday last, laid the first stone of the Ladies’ wing about to be added to the Licensed Victuallers’ Asylum. Ilis Royal Highness is now always laying the foundation of some charitable institution or other, and we congratulate him on employ ing his time so creditably as in this very praiseworthy occupation of dabbling in bricks and mortar. The services of Her C’nrwmt nng;li* tn Vo rlnly uupai ted, and Punch, in order to reward him in kind, hereby spreads the mortar of appro bation, with the trowel of sincerity, upon a Prince who really appears to be coming out like a regular brick. ■gglß A aims A EL TXrtftBTANOF. OF WELL DIRECT ED LABOR. A single stroke of an axe is of little consequence ; yet with the continual appli cation of that small power,properly directed, what amazing effects are produced! The sturdy oak and lofty pine not only own its power, but whole forests fall before it. and the wilderness becomes a garden. Industry, well directed, will give a man a competency in a few years. The great est industry misapplied is useless. As an example, there is my neighbor, Seth Steady, the blacksmith, who is not only an industrious man, but his industry is applied to one object, llis hammer is heard at dawn of day, ami the fire Mazes in his shop during the evenings, from the 20th of September to the 20th of March. Go to his shop at any lime of the day for any kind of work, you are sure to be wait ed upon. The consequence is, his purse is filled with dollars, and his cellar well ill 1- j ed with provisions, and that is what I call | quite comfortable. Although suitably lib eral, and enjoying the good things of this | life as he goes on ; ten years of good health | will enable him to purchase a good farm. Asa contrast, there is my friend, Nat : Notional, the busiest and most industrious i mortal in existence; as the old saying is, j “he has too many irons in the lire,” and ; with all his industry he goes behindhand. I lie has a fine farm, but, instead of pursu mg the cultivation of it, lie flies anil seizes jon every new project that occurs. A few j years ago he concluded to give up the dai- j ry business, in consequence of the low price of butter and cheese; sold his cows at a low figure, and purchased sheep at a high rate, for wool then commanded a high price. By the time he got fairly into the I raising of wool, down went the price of wool and up went the price of butter and cheese. He then sold his sheep and’ pur chased cows again, for cheese was up, and wool was down. And finally, he changed his business so often, because he was not contented to thrive by little, as Seth Steady did, that be got completely ! used up, and is now only fit for California or some other wool-gathering project. So you see that well-directed labor is sure to meet its reward, while he who 1 ia©iaii© ©&2it?s?i§ a keeps a dozen irons in the fire, and none lof them hot, will as sure meet with the fate of poor Nat Notional. 3£ j ill TJi’ JS * A NEW MOTIVE POWER. The Ijonefon Mining Journal contains a communication from Adolph Count de Wetdinski, in which he describes anew motive power for the repulsion of carriages on rails and common roads, without en gines, steam, air, magnetism, or animal power. The subject of the patent has the advan tage of possessing greater expansive power than steam, and being at the same time more controllable and requiring less ma chinery. It is of the nature of gun-cotton, and is used by dipping any kind of veget able fibre for eleven or fifteen minutes into nitric acid, strengthened by an admixture of an’ equal quantity of sulphuric acid, then well washed with pure water, and dried about two hours. By this process the vegetable fibres become highly explo sive. The gasses evolved consist chiefly of carbonic acid and carbonic oxide, both permanently elastic, so that passing through cold air or water, they do not col lapse, but will follow up the piston to the utmost limit of its work. In using this material neither fire nor water is required, and it creates neither smoke nor any offensive effluvia, and with the exception of a slight moisture or pure vapor, it leaves no resideum behind. Among these gasses there is none that will corrode metals. The explosive qualities of the fibres treated in this way was first noticed by Professor Otto, of Brunswick, about four teen years ago, and again by Pelonzc, of Paris, in 1838, and finally fully published in the English press about the early part of the year 1845, under the name of gun cotton, as it was called, by Professor Schonbein : or xylnidine, by M. Pelonze. A great feature of this new compound is its complete tractibility. By compressing if tho pYLtlfiinn is rptanlpd or BnilTCiy pi*C vented. A slip of cotton or fibre prepared can be exploded in any required part with out affecting the other. By greater or less compression a slip has been made to explode with greater or less violence. Several small pellets of xy loidine were placed on a table, and each of them compressed in the middle with the back of a knife. A match was then ap plied to the projecting ends, and they ex ploded. The knife w’as then raised, and the parts covered were found to be unex ploded and sound as ever. These experi ments hint an easy mode of preventing ac cidents. The explosive qualities of this ingredi ent are so great that very small apparatus are required. For an engine of two-horse power a thread not larger In size than la dies’ sewing cotton is sufficient. A thread of this size, passed through either end of a piston, and divided by compression, and these parts exploded by electricity, will furnish the power. Air. Isaac Mickle, of Camden, New Jersey, has built one of this size. The working machinary occupies no more space than a man’s hat. Its apli cability to every thing that requires mo tive power is apparent at once, and its freedom from smoke, steam, and heavy machinery will extend its applicability vastly beyond any other power, if it should prove at all practible.— New York Post. Aurora Borealis. —The Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution has recently issued a series of instructions in connexion with the observatory at Toronto, Canada, for the observations of the Aurora Borealis , the substance of which has been published for the benefit of all interested in scientific matters. Though the Aurora hasrecevied attention during a considerable portion of the last two centuries, definite information is still wanting on several points which may serve as the basis of a sound induc tion as to its cause; and it is with a view of obtaining information on the subject : that an investigation is now instituted. The Smithsonian Institution has also pub lished a map of the stars near the North Pole for observations of the Aurora, and any person who may desire to possess a ! copy of the map can obtain one by addres sing the Secretary of the Institution. Manufacture of Gold. —The Ltver- I pool Albion says :—“ We have read that i Boyle once very nearly succeeded in ma i king gold ; that he showed the experiment ;to Sir Isaac Newton, when both became frightened and threw away the ingredients. | A gentleman communicates to the editor of the Mining Journal, that having experi mented some ten years ago on the stratifi cation of the earth, and the formation of mineral deposites he believes with truthful j results, he turned up one of his old e.xper j intents a few days ago, when he found run j ning in a kind of spiral string through one part a small quantity of gold. No gold was used in the experiment, and the con-, j elusion arrived at is that it has been form ed from some of the other substances. This, however, is nothing to what is asserted by an iron founder of this town. He declares that he has found out a process by which , he car. change any quantity of iron into [gold. Before three months are over he says we shall hear more of this marvel. He promises to produce gold in tons, in short in any quantity.” Pressure of the Sea. —ls a piece of wood which floats on the water, be forced down to a great depth in the sea, the pres sure of the surrounding liquid will force it iitto the pores of the wood and so increase ‘ its weight that it will no longer be capable | of floating or rising to the surface. Hence the timber of ships which have foundered in the deep part of the ocean, never rises again to the surface like those which have sunk near to the shore. A diver may,with impunity, plunge to a certain depth of sea; but there is a limit beyond which he can not live under the pressure to whidh he is subject. From the same reason it is prob able that there is a depth beyond which fishes cannot live. They, according to Jos lin, have been caught in a depth at which they must have sustained a pressure of eighty tons to each square foot of the sur face of their bodies. Magnetism.—The remarkable discovery has been made that all substances whatev er are magnetic or dia magnetic ; and tftat some, such as gold, silver, point East and West. Even the gases, and the flames of burning bodies, are subject to magnetic in fluence, and what, in a scientific point of view, is still more interesting, a relation has been found to exist between magnetism and light. The magnetic needle has also been discovered to be subject to violent ag itations and disturbances, and that these disturbances, occur at the same instant of time, on every side of the globe—at Toron to in Canada, at the Cape of Good Hope, at Sidney in New Holland, and in Europe and Asia. A Petrified Oil-Paint.—We find the following interesting item in the New Yotk Farmer and Mechanic : —Messrs. Quarter man & Son, 114 John Street, New York, have made a singular discovery of a petri fied oil-paint, which must prove valuable for a variety of purposes, such as roofs, mill races, cisterns, stucco work, &c., &c. We have before us a block of wood on which is a layer of this paint, and which has so much the hardness of stone, that a knife or a hatchet can be sharpened upon it. It can be made to be used either with a brush or trowel, and applied as a mortar to brick, ic. It is thought to be proof against fire. It is cheaper than while or any other paint now in use. It can be mixed so as to imitate any color. Mr. Quarterman has consented to give the re cipe of the mixture, which is as follows; 1 lb. Quarterman’s drier; 1 do. white lead; 2 1-2 do. clean sand, mixed with boiled lin seed oil. M) PETTIER THE LAUNCH, BY MKS. HOW ITT. A sound through old Trimountuin went, A voice to great and small, That told of feast and merriment And welcome kind to all; And there was gathering in the hall, And gathering on the strand— And many a heart beat anxiously That morning, on the sand; For *tis the morn when ocean tide, An hundred tongues record, Shall wed the daughter of the oak— The mighty forest lord. They dressed the bride, in streamers gay, iiv, urnnij v ciuiaiictr— And o’er her hung Columbia’s stars, And the tri-fold flag of France. They decked her prow with rare device, With wealth of carving good, And they girt her with a golden zone— The maiden of the wood. The g&y tones of the artisan Fell lightly on the ear, And sound of vigorous hammer-stroke Rang loudly out and clear ; And stout arms swayed the pondrous sledge, While a shout the hills awoke, As forth to meet the bridegroom flood, Swept the daughter of the oak. And bending to the jewelled spray That rose her steps to greet, She dashed aside the yesty waves That gathered round her feet — And down the path right gracefully, The queenly maiden pressed, Till the royal ocean clasped her form To his broad and heaving breast. a is a. ns a ® m a ♦ Sunday Readings....for June 30 lb. BEING IN THE GARDEN WITH CHRIST. “ Did not I see thee in the garden with him 1” John xviii. 2fi. These words were addressed to Peter on a most affecting occasion; when, denying his Lord and Master, he was recognized by one of the servants of the high priest. There are many senses in which we shall find it both pleasant and profitable to be in the garden with Christ. In the exercise of sacred meditations. Oh! what have we to contemplate here ! What a scene of suffering, when, being in an ag ony, he prayed more earnestly, and his sweat was, as it were, great drops of blood falling down to the ground ! Let the gold en thread of prayer run through the web of meditations. With the eye of unfeigned Faith. Be hold the Man ! Do you not see Divinity enshrined in that agonized body ? the like ness of the Son of God in that countenance that is more marred than any man’s I Do you not perceive some rays of glory ema nating from his grief worn human form ? The Sun of Righteousness is about to set in darkness; can you not discern beamsof brightness gilding the clouds that are soon to shut his glories m ? With the tear of genuine repentance. — By meditation, we walk in the garden; faith sees the Saviour, and believes in the efficacy of his atonement; repentance stands weeping behind him, and cries, Oh the exceeding sinfulnessof sin ! It wassaid of Mary, u She goeth unto the grave to weep there.” Let this be said of you in reference to the garden of Gethsemane. With the expression of grateful acknowl edgement. While we should mourn for sin as ihe cause, we should rejoice in salva tion as the glorious resuit, of the Saviour's sufferings. Through death he has spoiled principalities and powers, finished trans gression, and wrought out righteousness; so that now, to the believer, sin has lo.giits dominion —the law its condemning power— death its sting—the grave its victory—and hell its terror. With a desire after close communion. In proportion to the nearness of our inter course with him will be our disrelish for the world’s pleasures, and desire after spir itual enjoyment : and when the inquiry is made with respect to us, “Did I not see thee in the garden with him?” we shall re joice to acknowledge the fact. With a resolution of entire devotedness. Our whole life in this world should be the continual presentation of a living sacrifice to him. Such an exercise will ennoble the mind, exalt the feelings, and rejoice the spirit. Amid the beauty, richness, and fra grance of the flowers of the garden, let me see him in the rose, the lily, the apple tree, and the trees of the wood ; and long for the time when I shall be in the garden of the heavenly paradise with him. — Christian's Daily Treasurey. i aLf u- TIIK VALUE OF COLD WATER. The Louisville Courier says.—“ We are much gratified to be able to state that Judge Me Kinly, the distinguished jurist of the Supreme Court of the United States, after having his vision so seriously impaired for fifty-two years that he could not see with out glasses, has recovered his sight so per fectly, that he is now able to read without glasses. For half a century this faculty was so seriously impaired that without glasses he was almost blind. It is the re covery of his constitutional health, by which the sight has been reinvigorated— Judge Me Kinly very properly ascribes it to the daily use of cold water on the head and surface of the body. Os the importance of the use of cold water in maintaining and restoring health, no one who hasever tried it can entertain a doubt. And we refer to Judge Me Kinly’s gratifying success in the restoration of his vision from its long sleep, for the purpose of encouraging other inva lids to resort to this cheap and powerful mode of medication.”— Scientific Ameri can. CURE FOR THE CHOLERA. Lord Ponsonby, in a letter published in the British journals, says, that to his own knowledge, dissolved camphor has proved a certain cure for Cholera, both in Paris and Germany, and if taken in time, the cure is generally effected before it is possi ble to procure a physician. The following > fhn KU>i|w\ • Recipe. —One and a half ounce of spirits of wine; one-quarter ounce of camphordis solved in the wine. Get a small vial of spirits of hartshorn. Directions. —First give a teaspoonful of hartshorn in a wine glass of water. Begin immediately and give five drops of spirits of wine, (camphor,) filling the tea spoon with cold water, and a little sugar. Re peat this every five minutes, until you have given three doses. Then wait fifteen min utes, and commence again as before, and continue half an hour, unless there is re turning heat. Should this be the case, give one dose more, and the cure is effected. Let patients perspire freely, as on this life de pends; but add no additional clothing. HYDROPATHY. Last summer says the New York Even ing Post , a girl on Long Island, attacked with fever and ague after being two or three times cured, <is it was called, by quinine, impatient at the obstinate recurrence of the disorder, ran in the height of the fever and jumped into a mill pond with her clothes or>, she came out cured; the disorder never returned. An Ohio practitioner of the name of Cook, adopts a similar practice—our readers are aware that with the learned it is called hydropathy. The editor of the La Fayette Daily Journal thus descibes the method in his own case: “He literally dragged me from my bed, forced me under a shower hath, while the chill was full on me, my lips, nose, and fin gers purple ; my teeth chattering, and my whole convulsed body giving terrible evi dence of the severe nature of the malady. There he held me, changing my positions under the drip, for more than a minute— and the chill was gone. It was the second, and of congestive type, that 1 had had in the space of five hours. Next, he put me under warm blankets. I slept for over an hour. Finding the fever to be consuming me, he again pulled me out of I ed, and forced me a second time under the bath. In less than five minutes, all traces of the fe ver had disappeared ; and the bath, from having at first been horrible beyond des cription, became delightfull; and 1 could have stood under it to* hours, wooing the droppings of its congenial waters. I came out a restored man.” Love or Water. —Some persons shrink from bathing, but when they once get used to it, it is indispensable. A medical wri ter says: “Let a child wash himself all over every morning for sixteen years, and he will as soon go without his breakfast as his bath.” If the pillar of salt into which Lot’s wife was turned, is now (as Lieuten ant Lynch asserts,) upwards of forty feet high, after being wasted by the storms of 4000 years, more or less, how tall was Lot's wife when she met with her sud den change I We ask for information. What is better than Presence of Mind in a Railway accident? Absence of Body. grata. There is a’ gloom in deep love, as in deep water: there is a silence in it which suspends the foot: and the folded arms and dejected head are the images it reflects. No voice shakes its surface : the M uses themselves approach it With a tat dy and timid step, and with a low and tremulous and melancholy song.— W. S. Landor. How many fond mothers and fru gal housewives keep their pretty daughters and their preserves for some extra occa sion—some “big bug” or other, till both turn sour. This seems to us marvellously poor economy. Castor oil beans are found to make excellent candles, equal to sperm in every respect. We tremble when the thunder cloud bursts in fury above our heads; the poet seizes on the terrors of the storm to add to the interest of his verse. Fancy paints a storm-king, and the genius of ro mance clothes his demons in lightnings, and they are heralded by thunders. These wild imaginings have been ‘the delight of mankind—there is subject for wonder in them. But is there anything less wonder ful in the well-authenticated fact, that the dew-drop which glistens on the flower— that the tear which trembles on the eyelid —holds locked, in its transparent cells, an amount of electric fire equal to that which is discharged during a storm from a thun der cloud I—Hunt's 1 — Hunt's poetry of Science. Alas! how little do we appreciate a mother's tenderness while living. How heedless we are in youth of all her anxie ty and kindness. But when she is dead and gone—when the cares and coldness of the world come withering to our hearts— when we find how hard it is to find true sympathy—how few will befriend us in our misfortunes—then it is that we think of the mother we have lost. In the “Vestiges of Creation,” pub lished several years ago, is the following passage: “The United States might be expected to make no great way in civilization till they be fully peopled to the Pacific; and it might not be unreasonable to expect that, when the event occurred, the greatest civ ilization of the vast territory will be found in the Peninsula of California, and the nar row strip of country beyond the Rocky Mountains. EDITOR’S DEPARTMENT. WM. C. RICHARDS, EDITOR. Sltfjcus, Ccorfita: H Saturday Morning,..June 30, 1549. SKETCHES ON THE BY-WAYS. A Sabbath at Jonesboro'—A Glimpse at the Place—lts Aristocracy—A Picture for Hogarth—An Odd Sign—“. Mine Host of the Inn"—The A'ightmare—Friends abroad—Schools in Coiceta—A fine Li brary—A new Railroad—A Break Down —Mechanical Surgery—Repose—Comp be/lton—i remarkable dinner—Railroads — Finis. AVe love, occasionally, to go into the by ways of the country, afar from the sight of telegraph posts and the sound of the steam whistle, that we may obtain a few glimpses lof the old-fashioned world. For a few days i past, it has been our lot to realize this fan j cy, and we have a mind to let our renders ; see a leaf or two from our diary, careless ] and unrevised as they appear in the orig ■ inal. j June 17 th. A Sabbath at Jonesboro’ is j certainly far less endurable than it would be in the remotest depths of the wilderness —for here, with the iron track of steam and “ the high-way of thought” both in full view, there is not one token of the refine ment which such contiguity might suggest. They are but a mocking, and the eye turns j from them to rest upon a group of log huts ; ami cabbage gardens, with an occasional glimpse of a small party, or a single horse man, wending to some church in the neigh borhood. Twice a day, it is true, the iron horse rushes by with his heavy train of cars, but he deigns only to stop for a mo ment, and seems to disdain so insignificant a place! And yet Jonesboro’ has its grades of so ciety ; its aristocracy and its canaille. We were the guest of the village doctor, who was in the habit of “ taking in” travellers, | and in the afternoon numerous visiters drop | ped in, so that the chairs and the trunks and | even the beds of the doctor's parlor, were i all put in requisition as seats. The chief visiters were a Indy and her daughters, from an adjacent cabin! In the course of conversation between our hostess and her j visiter, the suhject of tlicir neighbors very I naturally came up, when the bitter remark ed, with an admirable air of condescension, j that “ there was but one family in the 1 town (!) that she hated. As to that family, she had no use for any of them. She could get nlong with all the others ; to be sure, there were several whom she never visited, who nevertheless frequently called at her , house—and of course she treated them ‘civ- j illy’!” So, thought we, even this little! hamlet of a twelve-month’s growth has its j upper anil its lower tens ! the offspring of that unquenchable pride which is nourish ed in the human breast. June 18 th. What would the gay denizen of some far-famed metropolis think, if he j could be suddenly transported from the’ midst of splendid streets and magnificent j palaces, and set down in the “ square” of a back-woods county town like this where w# are now writing—the village of Fayette ville. Would that we had the pencil of a Hogarth, to draw a picture for his delecta tion and astonishment. Let film imagine himself seated in the piazza of an old and semi-dilapidatcd barn, which we will call the hotel de Fayette. Immediately across the street is a sign which the inimitable painter aforesaid would have rendered im mortal could lie have caught but u glimpse of it. The post is the trunk of an old tree,- from which, at the height of eight feet, ex tends a long branch horizontally for six feet, when it takes an upward course. The trunk, and the branch sawed off to a level, constitute the standards for a sign, which would probably have puzzled Champolliotf more than the hieroglyphics of F.gypt. It reads as follows: A PICAYUNE BUSSNES& NO nOGRY. Perhaps readers better versed in Georgia village shops than tlio renowned antiqua rian, will detect the meaning of the sign- To their sagacity, at all events, we com mend it. “ Mine host” of the Hotel de Fayette, or) as ho calls it, the Eagle Hotel, is not one of the S. of TANARUS., for we observed shat he was’ fond of doing “ a picayune business” ; and wc could scarcely thunk him for his polite attentions to us at the dinner-table, since they brought his head into too close prox imity with our nasal organ ! We could not help asking the old gentleman if the S. of T. were numerous in Fayette, and if they had done much good—questions to which he gave us affirmative, though, we fancied,- grudging answers. Inferior Court is in session at this County site, and we are told that an unusual num ber of Writs of Ca. Sa. have been issued. The Court House is a very substantial and well-built edifice, and the business at pres ent in progress is conducted with more de corum and dignity than is common at many County Courts. Next to having the nightmare yourself, is the delight of being suddenly awakened by the horrid groans of some poor victim of its attack, whom you fancy is being murdered in tlie anjoining room. Wc were in the lat ter category last night, and were just about to fly to the rescue, when the linn ied sound of feet and voices approaching the chamber, induced us to lie still. We don’t know pos itively, but we fancy that the sufferer was one whom wc saw, on the previous evening, earnestly regarding the curious sign alrea dy described, which he more than once ap proached, perhaps for a minute inspection. We have made some pleasant acquaint ances in the village, and experienced some courtesies that will make our memories of it agreeable. June 21 st. There is a great difference between visiting a place where you have some esteemed friends, and one where you are an absolute stranger. We have felt the truth of this during our sojourn in Newnan. which, though in reality the longest star we have yet made, nppears the briefest, and is about to be terminated with regret on our part. Newnan is the centre of a large and fer tile County, having a population whose in telligence is evinced by the very handsome support extended to two or three extensive Schools, to one of which, the “Longstreet Institute,” under the direction of Mr. Smith, we made a flying visit. Another, the “ Rock Spring Academy,” is also in excellent re pute. The society of the village is attrac tive, ami affords evidence of refinement anil good taste. We find here the best private library, both of law and miscellaneous works, that we have met With in all this region. It is the property of Mr. Ray—to whose family we are debtors for kindness rendered to a stranger. The good people of Newnan are looking forward to the great improvemcrit of their village, wt : t shall become a depot of the Atlanta iij . tVest Point Rail Road, now un der contract. We cord'ally wish them all possible prosperity, as we now bid them, and our friends especially,- adieu. June 24 th. Thanks to bad roads, We have had a genuine ndventurc, which must cer tainly find a brief chronicle in our day book. Half-way from Newnan to Campbell ton, which is called 20 miles, but which we shall certainly put down at 40 if ever we make a Map or Gazetteer of Georgia! while 1 picking our way along at the rate of two \ miles an hour, we were suddenly brought i to, all-standing, by a monstrous stump, and almost before the warning Was uttered— “ Take care, Rob"! or we shall break down,” snap, snap, went both the shafts of our car riage, and we looked in blank amazementat the wreck! One of them was what the sur geon would call a transverse fracture —the other was as clear a case of the pipe-stem break as one would wish to see. After a few forlorn agitations of our puzzled heads, we set about repairs, and being in the woods sans axe, sans even a stout knife, the pros pect was not a flattering one. Collecting j all the spare straps about the vehicle, ami all the.odd pieces of cord we could muster, we proceeded to set the broken limbs and to bind them up secundum artem. Our success was so tolerable, that we did not come to another halt until we had reached a cabin two or three miles nlong the road. Here we obtained an axe and a “ slat” out of which we made sundry splinters, and again exerted our best surgical skill, h was nearly sun-set when we got once more in motion, and tlie village to which we were bound was still six miles beyond us. Short ly afterwards, we found our progress bar red by a huge pine tree, at least ten feel in circumference, lying in the road, and stretching fifty or sixty feet into the woods on either side. Not a vestige of a path around it could wc discover, and without an axe to clear a way, the chance seemed fa vorable for “ a night in the woods ” B ,lt “ where there’s a will there's a way,” it 19 said, and we had the will and found the way around tlie tree. Wo “ headed” it, a la Potts, though we trembled at every jump of our carriage over the saplings, for fi ,c integrity of our straps and strings! A mih forward we emerged into a gloomy swamp and proceeded on foot to explore the road. A dozen different routes presented them selves, all obscure and scarcely passable by reason of stumps, holes, dilapidated cause ways, and similar accompaniments to a marshy road. When we were fairly throng!’