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BY SAWTELL & JONES. Cljc vEutl)bcrt dipped. Terms of Subscription: *Okb Y*ar $2 tit) | Six Months $1 25 IXVARIABLY IX ADVANCE. Rates of Advertising One square, (ten lines or le*«.) $1 00 for the *ir»t and 75 e tiU fo*- each subsequent insertion. Contract advertising as follows : Space. 3 Months 6 Months 12 Months 4 Column $25 00 tteJHfXt, 75 00 i Column 40 Ol •One Column... 50 Oft'* 90 Oo 150 00 JB* Ohituades. $1 00 per square. WoMtan's Work. Darning little stockings For restless little feet— Washing lif4l faces, To keep them fresh and sweet; Hearing little lessons, Teaching catechism, Praying for salvation From heresy and schism. Woman’s work. Sewing on the buttons, Overseeing rations, Soothing with a kind Word- Other’s lamentations; Guiding clumsy servants, Coaxing sullen cooks, Entertaining company, And reading lecent bootts, WotfrttnM Woit Burying out of sight Hi r own unhealing smarts, Letting In the sunshine On other clouded hearts^ Binding up he wounded, ‘Healing of the sick. Bravely marching onward-- Through dangers, 1 ir’t ml thick. Woman's work. Leading little children. And blessing manhood’s years, Showing to the sinful How God’s forgiveness cheers ; Scattering sweet ruses • Along another’s path, Smiling iiy the wayside, 'Content with wliut site hath, Woman’s 'Wtfrk. Letting fail leer own le#rs, 'Where only Go 1 can see, Wiping off anothers’s— With tender sympathy ; Learning by experience, teaching tty example, Yearnitg for the gateway, 'Ghlden, pearly, ample, Woman’s work. At last there comes a silence, A day of deep repoes— Her lock* all smoothly braided, ■Upon her breast a rose ; Lashes resting geutly-*- Upon the marble cheek, A look so calm and traitqtiH ■Upon the fwehead meek, Woman’s work The white bands softly folded, the kindly phlses still, The cold lips know no smiling The noble heart no thrill. The pillow needs no smoothihjg feho craveth f>r no care— Love’s tenderest entreaty Wakes no responses there. Woman’s work. A grave dotvn in the valley, Tears bitter sobs, regret; Another lesson taught— That life may not torget; A face forever hidden, X race forever run'— “Dust to dust,” the prencMr saith, And woman’s work Is done. -Anecdote €or Children. The f blowing anecdote, we have no will both instruct and arti'fiSO ‘our youthful readers One of the Elders <f[ the Methodist ' 'Episcopal Church has a son, who inher Sud his father’s love for whatever is ■comic, and this son returned from school • few monthis since with a report of ■scholarship below the average. ‘Well said bis father, you’ve fallen Wiind this month, have you ?’ ‘Yes, sir. 1 ‘How did that happed ?’ •Don’t knqw, sir.’ ‘llhe father knew, if the son did not. 'Ha had observed a tiuYhber of dime novels scattered about tho house ; but had aot thought it worth while to i Anything until a fifing opportunity •hculd offer itself. A basket of apples stood upon the floor. And he said : Empty out those apples, and take the basket and bring it to me halt full of chips.’ Suspecting ’nothing, the son obeyed. ‘And now. he continued, put those •pplc* baek into the basket.’ When halt the apples were replaced the son said : ‘Father, they Yoll eff. I can’t put in «ny more. 1 ‘Put ’em in, T tell you. 1 «Brtt, father, 1 can’t put them in. 1 ‘Put them iu 1 No, of course j'ou can’t put them in. D » you expect to fill a basket half full f chips and then fill it with apples? You said you didn't know why you fell behind at school; and I will toll y>u. Your mind is like that basket. It will not hold more than so mPcli. And here you'ver been, the past month, fulling it up with chip-mht —dime novels V ‘The boy turned on hi* heel, whistled, and said, ‘Whew ! I see the point. 1 ‘Not a dime novel has been seen in the bouse from that day to this. 1 Homeopathy. —The Washington cor respondents say a petition, signed by a number of citizens of Massachusetts, has been forwarded to Representative Cox, of York, with the request that he auboiit it to Congress. The petitioners pray that their State be remanded to a Territorial Government for its treasona ble course in 1842, its unrepublican de nying the right of suffrage to those who cannot read and write, and for its con nection with the Hartford Convention. j- One hundred and fifty babies have been found in the little basket crib it the door of the New York founding Asylum since the 20tb of last Novem ber. Ml* In the eyes of modern society, to groove stains from character—Get rich. A Secret of the Sea. ■ed round the Horn and e ‘Roaring Forties.’— been washed down, and « and crew were rigging n smarter togs than usu F our first sunny, quiet when one of the men on ang out ‘A sail!’ It was i had wren since we had fairly gotten away from Sydney, and therefore it excited unusual interest.— The captain hade the man at the wheel change the course a point to the west' ward, that we might make sure of speak ing to the welcome stranger ; and when we came on deck again sifter breakfact, every glass on bord was leveled at her a«d the signal box was got out in readi ness. We made the stranger out to be a low black brig, with a round stern, a white quarter rail and very rakish masts —the lolver mast painted white. The spanker was hailed up, but all other canvas, except studding sails, was set —even a cotton main sky sail. The brig flew no hunting of any kind; hut something in the cut of her double top sails, and the build ol her hull and -White deck houses, led the experts on board the ship to pronounce her a Yan kee. In vain did vve run up our flutter ing lines of gay, fight signal flags. Up and down they went with good temper patience, hut the biig’s gaff still obsti nately continued dumb. Not a man or boy could we get the gliinj»se of on board her; and the way in which she was sailing was most tin Yllankee like, unless there was some piratical purpose in it. Now she was kept full, now she fell off her course with flapping canvas, and sometimes she slewed round, head oil the wind, and was regularly taken 'ifhsick. Then presently she would forge -round, flll again, and slant off on anoth er tack. If Vessels coil Id get tipsy — and one has heard of a'tight ship’—you might liave said that the brig had too much grOg hn board. Her remnrkuble manouvres puzzled us sorely at first, but presently our captain said con emptu ously, ‘Pirate 1 NrftTifbbh, I reckon. — It’s my belief that every man Jack on board is drunk. They Were drinki.tg ‘Swethearts and Wives’ a little too deep last night I guess; and now they are skulking, from the skipper to the cabin boy, Mr. Largie to the chief officer— -‘lower away one of the quarter boats and board her. 111 stand off and on till you’ve found out what’s up.’ •There's room for you, if you like to come,’ said Largie to me as lie went over the side; and 1 followed him down into'the boat. The excitement of -Che trip was at tractive alter the confined monotony of shipboard life; but, not wishing to make thyself out so be braver that I am, I will acknowledge that 1 felt ‘rather queer at ’first, when the davit-blocks were unhooked, and we had pushed off ■and were pulling away. For one thing, ns the light boat was sent up like a foam-bell on the hnfathoined waves, 1 begun to fear as to whether I had not boasted too soon of never being Sea sick. ‘For another, the waste df weltering waters, with no visible bottom urehor« to reassure a landsman's eye, seemed so drearily boundless, in spite of the sun light on them —the countless golden spangles on the count less ever-washing Witves, indefcd, rather intensified the feel, ing—that I more than fluff farfc'wd that I had foolishly tlrrftWn away my chance of evbr getting home across the watery wilderness, when the little boat danced off from the big ship ; itself looking so insignificant, when seen from the out side, heaving on the vast ocean, beneath the vast sky, that with a dreamy vague ness which suggested limitless sea and sky beyond. I gazed ruefully at the familiar faces clustered along the bulwarks, when these faces vanished, as the boat slid down into the through ‘of the sea, I seemed to be sinking down to the cen tre, or farther, as one seems to be fall ing through the bed in the same direc tion on waking from a momentary snatch of dyspeptic steep. ‘“Use isevx erytliing,’ however, end is soon full grown. After some half-dozen sledge like dips amt cork like rises, I ceased to look back regretfully at our good ship, and reserved all my curiosity for our ‘chase.’ A nice chase she led up, jig ging and reeling about as she did.— Time afrer time the mate bad to alter the direction of the boat's ©rose. At last, however, as we topped a ridge crisping into white foam for its fall, we ’saw the brig beating right down upon us. She was clipper built below the water line, hut had bluff, a! most apple bows above; and the spray vYhich fter sharp cut wa ter threw up, painted their blistered tar with rainbows. About she staggered again, when ©he bad almost run us down, and we pulled under her stern. ‘Heave us a line, you lubbers 1’ shouted Largie,as the boat bumped against her weather side. But no line was thrown; so the man 111 the bows honked on to the main chains; the boat was inude fast somehow, and we scrambled on board. The first tiling Lnrgie did was to send a man to the wheel, which was 'bobbing round’ in an eerie fashion.— The tiller-chains ground up down; the spokes went backward Mid forwards, as if unseen bands—some ghostly mar iner’s—were pulling and pressing at them. When the flesh and the blood man at the wlteel bad had the Course give* him the rest commenced our inspection. The brig looked most dismally lonely aloft and below. The only living thing -about the deck was a big ape in the foretop which showed its teeth, and jabbered down at us, as if it hud been frightened out of its wits, and then, slipped through the lubber-hole, and curled itself up between the mast and the futtock shrouds. Both the deck houses were empty. The bunks had been stripped. A pair of sea boots, a tea chest with the lid smashed in, a black cutty pipe, and a litter of rubbish were the only contents in either. In the gallery was a half bucketful of burn ed rice: and a pumpkin with a drop of something down in it that tasted like rum and coffee, stood ou the stove. The main hatchway was open ; the com bings and part of the deck ch>9e by were charred ; a very little of the cargo had also been burned. When we had cleared away the greasy black ashes that lay upon the top, we came upon charred hides. There were brow red splashes aud spots, plainly of dried up blood, upon the deck ; a sailor's greasy knife sheath; a pewter watch case, trodden out of shape, a heap of biscuit crumbs, with footmarks iu h; and a half-burned envelope with—“ gh ==•* P lar,’ alone legible upon it. Here and there we found a bullet in the bulwarks, that must have been fired on board;.and on one of the be laying pins there was a bloody wisp of grey hair. The water casks had been started and we could find no stores.—- Before we looked for them, however, Largie had taken as much sail as he could manage oft the brig, for the weather had charged, and the wind was freshing rather disagreeably. The men tried to catch the ape when they Went aloft, but ho Bwung hinself from rope to rope, rested for a moment to jabber witch them, and then again sought some unsociable nook of refuge. The blend ing of fear and ferocity in the eyes was something horrible to witness. ‘The mi ckle beastie is a na canny,’ said a compatriot member of Largie’s crew, sagely shaking his huge, greyeyed. San dy-thatched Aberdouia head. Before, we bunted for Ihe stores, too, we had been down into the cabin, and had seen a sight there which I shall not easily for get. Upon the floor, umler the table, lay a green painted iron box, with the lid prized off the hinges. A cane bottomed lounging chair, with a taper white fore finger blood-glued to a rail of tb*e carv ed back, was overturned in one corner of the cabin. In another, on its back, lay a corpse of a man—a short, spare man, with a yellnw ‘goatee’ beard ; the upper part of his head was frig)dully battered in; and his shirt and green gi itss-cfotb hip jacket were stiff with the blood that had gushed, and drippled, and clotted from the score or so of stabs and shot-wounds with which he was riddled. The flesh on the back of his hands was slushed with knife cuts; clenched in one there was a fragment of frayed black barge. Amongst the jumple of disordered furniture lay a batten'd barometer. The cabin had been sacked; lockers and !>oxea had both been forced open. We found tio papers—nothing that c<>uld give us the least due. The brig did not carry her name upon her s ern ; her quarter boards had been wrenched off and all her boats were gone. The only thing we did find that shed any additional light upon the lawful tragedy that had plain ly been enacted on that cramped stage, was a photograph in the sleeping birth. It had fallen between the battens of a tumbled bunk ; but the open hd of its case had kept it from dropping to the floor. It was the likeness of an exceed ingly beatifid young woman, nursing a plump baby, with a short, spare, gou teebearded man leaning on the back of her chair Interested—flesh-creepiugiy interested—ins I could not help Teelmg in our gloomy search, I was very glad when Largie-said that it was time to put an end to it. -For some time the brig had been pitching and rolling in a manner wny alarming to landsman, who remembered that he had to be toss ed in a cockle shell of a beat before be could once more feel himself homeward bound. Our ship was taking in reefs; it was high time to get on board. Ac> cprdingly, Lorgio ran the brig in as near as he dust, and then, lushing’the helm to keep her clear, we went over the side. The pull back was not a very long onei; ;byt I, at any rate, was very glad when ft was over. The boat was nearly stove in when she got along side. I never telt Ynore ’thankful in my 4116 than when I was pushed and hauled on deck, drenched to the ttkfti. When safe back amongst cheerful faces and voices hi our own good ship once more, I felt as if only in a nightmare dreitm could I ever have been on board the blood stained floating hearse that was slan ting away into t!he distance—left per force to the wild will of the winds and waves ; the murdered captaiu lying stiff in his cabin, with the jabbering ape in the rigging for a sole mourner. A Touching Obituary. A disconsolate husband thus bewails the loss of his wife and apostrophises her memory : Thus my wife died. No more will those loving hands pall off my bodts and part my black hair, as ooly a trr-8 wile can. No Vnore will tho'se \vilHtVjg feet replenish coal hod aud water pail. No more will she arise, ’mid the tern pestuous storms of winter, and gaily hie herself away to build the -fire, without disturbing (lie slumbers of a‘man who doted on her so artless-ly. Her memory is embalmed in my heart of heaits. 1 wanted to embalm her body, but 1 found that I could embalm her money much cheaper. I procured of E i Atudget* neighbor of mine, ft very pretty gravestone. His wife was a consumptive, and he had kept it on Viand several years in expect tition ot her death. But she rallied that spring, and his hopes were blasted. Never shall I forget this poor man’s grief when I asked him to part with it. ‘Take it, Skinner,’ said he, ‘take it, and may you never know what it is to tiuve your sou! racked with disappointment as mine has been !’ And be burst into a flood of tears. His spirit w«8 indeed utterly crushed. 1 had the following epistle engraved upon the gravestone : ‘Trt the rnern<>ry of TabithU, wile of Moses Skinner, E*q , gentlemanly edi tor of the Trombone. A kind mother and exemplary wife. Terms, two and .1~ lars a year, invariably in advance. Of fice oVei Coleman's grocery, up two flights. Knock hard. ‘We shall miss thee, mother; we shall miss the, motif er,’ ‘Job printing solicited.’ Thus did my lacerated spirit cry out in agony, even as Rachel weeping for her children. But one ray of light penetrated the despair of my soul. The undertaker took his pay in job printing, and the sexton owed me a lit tle account I should not have gotten in* any other way. Why should we pine at the mysterious ways of Providence and viciuity ? (Not a conundrum.) I here pause to drop a silent tear to the memory of Tabitha Ripley, that was. She was an eminently pious wo man, and could fry the best piece of tripe I ever slung under my vest. Her picked up dinners were a perfect suc cess, and she always doted on foreign missions.’ ttfg~ Two little girls were hea r d one morning engaged iu a as to what their *mothes could do. 1 The dis pute was ended by the youngest child saying: “Well, there’s one thing my mother sail do that yours can't—my mot lie r can take every one of heir teeth out at once. 1 . • *«' CUTHBERT, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MARCH 24, 18Z0. To Let—lnquire Within- The lady flounced out in a rage.— Two young damsels and a Spinster aunt followed, and after a lengthy inspection of the premises, came to a state coun cil in the parlor. ‘Very good, ma'am,’ said Nahum, rubbing his hands, and scenting a spee dy termination to his trials. ‘Name 'em.’ ‘The door handles must all be gilded, and I should like the bouse newly pa pered in velvet, and repainted, and the partitiue between the parlors taken down and replaced by an arch, and an extension dining room built on behind, and anew style of range in the kitch en, and a dumb waiter put in, and new bronze chandeliers throughout, and another furnace in the sub-cellar, and— ‘Hold on, ma’am—just hold on one minute, said Nahum, feebly gasping for breath. ‘Wouldn’t you like the old bouse carted away, and anew ooe put in its place ? I think it would be rath er less trouble than to make the trifling alterations you suggest.’ *Btr,’ said the spinster, loftily. ‘I don’t think we can agree, ma’am.’ •Very well—very well—come, gills.’ With prim dignity the lady mar shalled her two cha ges out, muttering something about the extortionate ideas ol landlords now-a-days.’ While Nahum wildiy rumpling his iron-grey hair with both bunds solilo quized : ‘Well, if Job had teen alive, and had a house to let, there never would have been any book of Job written. There goes that everlasting bell again 1 I’ll haul it out by the mots, if this thing goes on much longer I’ll tear down tlie bill, and put i.p the place at auc tion.' Another lady, but quite different from the other—a slender little cast-down lady, with a head that drooped like a lilly of the valley, and a dress of b ewe silk, that had been mended, and turned, and re-turned, re-trimmed, and even Nahum Briggs, man and bachelor though he was, cou and see how shabby it whs. Yet she was pretty, with big blue eyes, and shining brown hair, and cheeks tinged with a lair fleeting color, where the velvety roses of youth had once bloomed in vivid carmine. Aud a golden-haired little lassie clung to her dress, like the tiny little buds to a blooming chime of flower btdhs. As Nahum Briggs stood looking at her, there came back to him the sun shiny days t*f youth ; a fieid of bloom ing clover crimsoned the June light like waves of blood, and a blue-eyed giil leaning over the fence with her bright hair barred with level sjnset gold, and he knew that he was standing face to face with Barbara Wylie, the girl he had qualified with years ago, and whose bine eyes had kept him an old bachelor all his life long. ‘This house is to lie let, I believe ?’ she asked timidly, with a little ‘quiver in her mouth. ‘I believe itfia, Barbara Wylie.' ■She looked up, starting with & sud den flush of recognition. And then Barbara turned very pale, and began to vrevp, with the golden haired girl diugiug to her skirts, and wailing— ‘Mamma, mamma-what’s the mat ter, mamma ?’ ‘Nothing now,’ said Barbara, reso lutely brushing away the tears. ‘lf you please, Air. Briggs, I will took at the house-; I am & widow toW, and very poor, sliid I think of keeping a boarding house to earn my daily bread. 1 hope the rent is not very high ?’ ‘We’ll talk about the rent afterwards,’ siiiu Nahum, :fiercely swallowing down a big lump in his throat that threatened to choke him. ‘Come here, little girl, and kiss me ; I used to know your mumma when slie wasn’t much bigger than you are.’ Barbara, with her blue eyes still drooping, went all over the house, with out finding a word of fault, aud Nahum Briggs walked at her side, wondeiing if it was really fifteen years since the June sunshine lay so brightly on the clover -field. ‘1 think the bouse is beautiful, 1 said meek Barbara. ‘Will you rent it to me, Nahuift ?’ ‘Well, yes, 1 said Nahum thotigtfully. ‘l’ll let you have, my house, if you want it, Barbara. * W ith the privilege of keeping a few board eVs ?’ ‘No, ma’am T Barbara stopped and looked wistful ly at him. ‘But 1 d.,n’t think you understand how very poor I am Mr. Briggs. 1 ‘k es 1 dir.’ ‘And that I cannot afford to take the house, without the privilege of board ers.’ T teH .yon what B trbara,' said Mr. Briggs dictaiorially,‘l’ll give yoU the privilege ol keeping just one boarder, and hitn you have to ke- p all your life long, if you once take him.’ ‘I don't think I quite understand you, Nahum Briggs,’ said Barbara, but 'she blushed very becomingly, and we are rather inclined to ihiuk that she told a haughty little fib. ‘What do you say to me for a board er Barbara ?’ said the old bachelor, ta king both the widow’s hands in his. — ‘Barbara, we were young fools once, but that is no reason why we should be old fools now I like you just as well as ever I did, and I'll do mv best to be a good husband to you, and a good father to your little girl, it you’ll be my wife.’ Barbara blushed again, and hesita ted, but Nahum was not to be eluded thus. ‘Shall I take down the sign ‘To Let, 1 Barbara ?’ ‘Yes, 1 she murmured, almost under her breath, So Nahum went deliberately out, and coolly tore down the bill, to the great astonishment and disappointment of a purty of rabid house huOterSj who were just ascending the steps. ‘And wheu shall We be married} Bar bara ?’ lie next demauded. ‘tn the summer, perhaps,’ said Mrs. Barbara shyly. ‘To morrow,’ said Nahum decisively, and ‘to-morrow’ it was. ‘Upon my word, Barbara, 1 said Na hum, on the first day of May, as he watched bis wife’s blooming face be" hind the coffee urn, ‘you can't think hoW much j >llier it is with you for a housekeeper than that, bag, Mrs. Tar ley. Barbara only laughed, and said ‘ht? was a dear, good old stupid.’ So the probabilities are that neither Mr. Nahum Briggs nor his brown *tone house will be in market again or ‘To Let—lnquire Within.’ Enterprising Reporter. —The follow ing good story is told of a zealous Eng lish reporter, who nearly got himself „in to serious-trouble by his efforts to get a “beat” on a rival sheet: He lived a mile or so out of town, and on one side of the road, for a considerab’e part of the way, was a thick grove. As he was re turning home late one night, after hav ing seen the paper to press, he observed that one of the trees near the roadside had an unusual appearance. Going within the fence, he discovered that the body of a man was suspended from one of the branches. Hurriedly cutting it down, he drew the body into a part of the grove -where the undergrowth waa thick feteedieg to conceal it. This done, he went home. Next morning he was taken into custo. dy, on a charge of wilTul murder, and brought before a magistrate. A game keeper, going through the wood at ear ly daylight, had discovered the body in its place of concealment, and Borne oth er person remembered that about mid* night, he had seen the reporter issue front the giove. The case was suspicious—until a com staple, searching the pockets of the dead man, discovered a written state ment. containing his name and place of abwde, and declaring that domestic mis fortunes had made life so unbearable that he had resolved to commit suicide. Os course the reporter was discharged. His -explanation was to the effect that, finding such a fine bit of “local” as this too late for bis own paper, he hud . concealed the corps in order that the rival journal, which was to appear on the next day, should not profit by the discovery. But for the suicide’s confes sion, a pretty strong case of circum stantial evidence might have been made out against the knight of the pen. Love at EighYynThree —LaPt Tall, a well known citizen of La Crosse coun try, Wisconsin, a venerable, hut hale and hearty old gentleman. 83 years of age, met with a most, romantic incident while on an Eastern trip. By some ac cident the train was delayed, and the gentleman, .lustin Jacobs, Esq., went to aTesidence near. Judge of the old man’s surprise to find that the lady of the house Vitas one whom he knew in early life. Indeed, when both were young, in their Eastern home, they h and loved each other; but lie fates, as the fates will oftentimes do 6uch cruel work, separated them. Both had travelled a long way down the hill ol life’s journey, and both hail 4ost their -consorts. What more natu ral than they should talk ever the olden time and revive the affectionate scenes of early life, and Vhat more battira! than that there should spring from this revival the old love, kindles anew, and That -it should burn into a bright flame? Such was the case. Then and there again pi ghted their troth, and the squire came home a happy man, and thanking Providence for the railroad ac cident which gave him anew lease of life’s joys. In a lew days Squire Jacobs leaves his home to go East, that his happiness may be made complete. Senator Ran ney and Postmaster Lottridge, of La Crosse, were appointed a committee to aide the old gentleman “at what period in life does niii-Tial felicity become ex tinguished ?’’ The old veteran’s an swer was, “Boys, you must ask some man older than lam whereupon the committee adjourned sine tlie. The good old squire is a hale and vigorous man, who walks his four miles daily to the West Salemn post office for his “mail matter* He is a great read er. A few years ago, while holding court as justice of the peace, 'tie sum marily settled a sadly snarled -quarrel between two litigants, the eonfliciting testimony of whose witnesses had bad ly mixed the court and audience, about a spotted caff that 'Was the cause of liti gatfon and strife. Squire Jacoby tvith a look of unutterable disgust for all con certied, decided thus; “I dismiss the suit, and pay the costs tnyself, if the parlies will cry quits.” uproari ous applause, no one appealed Trom the decision of the 'Court. Loss And Gain —Two persons who had not seen each 6theY for some time, Tft'et accidentally and -one asked how be did. The other ’replied that he was very we 1 and had married since they last seen "emiti other. Thai is good news indeed, said the first. Nay > replied the other, not very good either for, 1 have married a shrew. That is bad. Not so very bad, either, fofr I bad ten thoiisand dollars with her. Hu ! that makes all well again. Not so well as you think, tor I laid out the m'oViey on a flock of sheep, and they died of the rot. That was hard truly. Not so hard neither, for I sold the skins for more than the sheep eost me. Yon were lucky, at any rate. Not so lucky as you think, for I pur chased a house with the money, and the house burned down uninsured. That, indeed must have been a great 108-». Not so great a loss, I assure you, for my wife was burned in it. The Earth's Shape. —A Writer in the Scientific Opinion say that the ob late spheriodal fonn of the earth, which has been adduced as proof of its origi nal fluidity, is one of tho supports of Laplace's nebular hypothesis ; but that in fact the supposition of such original fluidity is not necessary in order to ac count Tor such form. He says that if, for the purpose of illustration, a spheri cal form be assumed for the earth; —oh indeed aiiy other form capable of rota l tion about a fixed axis,—it is easily shown that it must always tend to as l * sume and maintain the fbfiil of an ob late Spheroid* simply from causes at present in action, such as rains, rivers, and glaciers. The material eroded from eireiiihpolar continents must be spread upon the bottom of the equatorial ocean. This form is that of equilibrium between the centripetal and centrifugal forces ; and the conditions required to bring it about upon a revolving globe, strC aque ous stud atmospheric envelope, time, and an internal source of disturbing power, lie concludes that LapUee’s hypothe sis ih no manner derives an argument for its support from the preseut form of the earth. I The Preservation of Meat—lm portant Discovery. About ago, in consequence of the increasing price and scarcity of meat, and of the danger incidental to bringing live animals, possibly affected with contagious dieasts, to the Toads and pastures of Englund, Professor Gamgee, formerly head of the new Veterinary College at Edinburgh, com menced a series of experiments with a view to determine the best method of preserving the flesh of animals for f.iod. His early attempts were not? altogether satisfactory. At last, however, Profes sor Gamgee bas returned to England the possessor of a method of preserva tion that he is prepaved tp expose to all reasonable tests, and by which he ex pects at once to remove butcher’s meat from the number of perishable commod ities. In the introduction of a purely chymical process to the general frater nity «<T buretiers, Professor Gamgee bas been materially aided by the Messrs. Bonsor, of Newgate Market, who had the sagacity to perceive that imperish able meat would be of at least as much value in the ordinary course of the re tail trade at home «b to the business of the importer from abroad. By the help of Messrs. Bonsor, a certain number of ‘preserved' carcases wore offered to the butchers for sale, and these were eager ly purchased, at a somewhat enhanced price. It may be presumed that cus tenners made no compluiat, for the botcher-purchasers- unanimously ‘asked for more;’ and since then a continuous supply has been thrown into the mar ket, and has been sold with readiness. As far as regards colour and appear ance there is very little, and as regards flavour and texture there is nothing, by which the preserved meat can be dis tinguished from that which has been slaughtered in the ordinary wav; and the thief or only difference between them is that the former will keep good for periods varying from three to twelve months, according to the length of time during which it has been exposed to the gases employed. Au Australian stock breeder bas taken away with him some preserved sheep, in order to try how they bear the packing tmd shaking in cidental to ship transit, aud to exhilit to his fellow-colonists the results that been attained. If these carcasses reach Aus tralia in good condition, it is not too much to hope that the problijm of a meat supply thence will be solved, and that colonial breeders will next turn their attention to the quality of their sftock, and will endeavour to produce animals equal in condition and flavour to those that now form the staple food of the better classes in Englawd. The chief ageut employed is sulphurous acid ; but in order to prevent this from flavouring the meat, there is a preliminary expos ure to curboDi'c oxide, by which the col ouring matter of the bloud and tissues is rendered able to resist the reducing or decomposing action of the acid. In the first place the animals are killed by being made to breathe carbonic oxide, that is, by a process analogous to the administration of chloroform. Insensi bility is quickly produced, and then the auimal is bled, acd the carcass dressed in the ordinary way. Iu a temperate climate it is left to cool and set sponta neously ; but in a hot climate an artifi cial process of refrigeration is required. By this the carcass is reduced to about 6U degrees Fahrenheit; and it is then placed in an air-tight chamber, into which an atmosphere of mixed carbonic’ oxide and nitrogen is drivun by a blow er. In this chamber there is also a wooden case, containing charcoal, char ged with sulphurous acid; and after the carcases have been for a ceitain pe riod exposed to the carbonic oxide and nitrogen alone, the lid of the case is •drawn off by a thong passing through a stuffing boX, and the chareoal gradu ally gives off its acid to the meat. The chamber is left undisturbed for seven or eight days in the case of sheep, ten days for pigs, and 18 or 20 for bullocks. After this the d<>or is opened, and the meat is taken out ready to be stored or packed. In boi climates W6t only do the carcases require to be cooled at first, but a Stream of cold bribe frotti a refrigerator is kept flowing Wver the chambers during the whole of the pro cess. The expense of the plant and method is inconsiderable. In addition to the butchers required to kill ad dress llie Animals, the largest establish ment would only need one man to drive the refrigerating machine and blower, abd one to attend to the charging ol the charcoal. In England the cost of pre serving amounts to two or three pence for a sheep and to about a shilliug for a bullock London Mail. The Chinese and the Duke of Edin burgh—We give the following on the authority of the contemporary :—“A correspondent, writing from Shanghai, states that the respect of the Chinese for the power of European States is by no means increased since they have seen H.s Royal Highness the Duke of Edin burgh. ' This, however, is not the fault of the Prince, who is rather to be pitied than blamed It had been Honored before his arrival that the son of the Qttcen of England was ten feet high and had three eyesv Great and ndl unnatu ral disappointment was, therefore, ex perienced when it Was discovered that lie uossessed no other a'dVahtAge& of height and Vision than those enjoyed by ordinary mortals. The British residents have been much humiliated by this un avoidable destruction of an illusion which had taken a powerful hold on the blinds of the natives.!’ Lamps.— Some always Use a pair of shears to trim lamp wicks. I never do. A better way, and one which I invariably practice, is to pfnbh or wipe off the black crust with a piece of paper • you may keep a cloth for the purpose, if you wish. You will find that the dame Will be perfect in shape, and exactly in the cen tre of the lamp chimney, and also that the wick will last twice or three times as long. Quite a desideratum in the country, where I have known it td be necessary to llaftittes the horse and drive to town for lamp wieks.— Amri* can Ajriatltnradst. An affectionate husband once said : ‘Ah, dear doctor how is my wife to-day ?’ The doctor shook his head and replied : ‘You must prepare for the worst.’ ‘What,’ said the husband, ‘do yon think she is likely to get over it.’ Elegant Extract Bishop Eingsley says, there is a plat of ground between Hudson and the East River that not inaptly illus trates our theme. A few years since it w»s one of the most dismal portions of the earth. Jagged and unsightly rocks with dark and dungcrous crevices, cov ered a great portion of the area. Thor ny brush wood mingled and struggled with stinted cedars, appearing half dead and half plucked up by the roots, while clinging to barren rooks. Deep and dreaded ravines filled with putrid air from decaying carcasses, and miry sloughs, where filthy swine wallowed, alternated with rocky ledges, the haunts of loathsome reptiles. Wojn-otlt horses 1 were led here to die, and Unclean birds hovering over impatiently awaited a post-mortim examination. Homeless dogs wandered litre to feed on carrion. Thieves met to conceal or divide their plunder; and assassins sought conceal ment from the sheriff. Men felt them selves in danger in such a place, and note Sought for any attractions it con tained. unless it might be the floor ma nine, whose own mental min found shocking sympathy in the desolation around him. Such, not more than twelve years ago, was the condition of shat is now the New York Central Park. The transformation is truly marvelous, and almost past belief. Now spacious and splendid avenues traverse the plot in all directions; winding walks fringed with flowers of rare fragrance and beuuty de light the visitor; beautiful lawns with exquisite statuary, and fountains gush ing up in the sunlight, greet the eye; paths meander through delightful ever green bowers; mountain and prairie scenery mingle in beautiful contrast.— ' There is the cascade with its silver J spray and rainbow circle. The miry slough bus given place to the crystal lake, in whose waters the gold fish sports, and whose bosom the swan sits gracefully. Cool grottos invite the tiaveler to explore what before seemed the dreaded haunt of some vvil spirit.— The unsightly rooks have become beau tifulio their new relations to surrounding objects. A river, which once took aU other direction, now passes through this charming spot, and supplies the. great city of the continent with pure water. The inhabitants now by thou-’ sands visit this place for the purity of the air and the beautiful scenery. The place is already exciting the admiration of men of all nations. Now what a dreary w>aste is in the physical world,- human nature is m the intellectual and moral world without the enlightened and transforming power of Christian ed ucation; and what the New York Cen tral Park has become, and is yet to be come under the influence of refined taste and skillful engineering, human nature may become through the power of intellectual and moYal culture. The Printing Office as a School.-- For a young man who is altogether a fool, who has had the advantages of an ordinary education, the printing office is mrdxnibtediy a capita! school for in'- teflectual advancement. In regard to general knowledge, no class of men who laboY lor a living can approach the printer. The studious among them, if their natural gifts be not below the lev el of mediocrity have equal chances with the members of the so-called pro feßsions, to acquire both WOrdTy honors and literary fame. From the days of Caxton to those of Franklin, and from his day to our own, the craft has pro duced eminent men in every profession and in' every walk of life. A good printer is generally a critic, not only of language and punctuation, but of the intrinsic literary meritß of Whatever come under hand. It is im possible that he should be otherwise, since so great a part of his life is made up, as it were tip, as it were of facts that enforce refk4ctieii. The labor that einploys his hands gives his mind neith er exercise nor care. His fingers m >ve intuitively to the exact points reqniste for the proper appointment of his work-, while his mind seizes the idea sought to be conveyed by the writer whose work he i's engaged on, and is only expelled thYefrom after his judgment has passed sentence upon its merits. * Many a one, without knowing it, pos. sibly owes some unknown compositor or proof reader much more reputation a& a writer than he would be willing to ac knowledge. If, by changing the read ing of a sentence without effecting its meaning, ho can give it strength of smoothness, a good printer asks no ques tion about the matter but changes it At once. There are some printers, it ift true, who can never learn the plainest rules of composition or punctuation. To such a one might w© use the identical words spoken by a well known diYine, sjiesking to a yo'ting, hut particularly silly candidate for ministerial orders “Young inah, you haVe tnade a mistake; you have been called to another-Mhe cornfield ” ,‘Wiiat SUall that Bov Bo ?’— Who will tell ? The boy who reads this, what will he do ? When he becomes a man will he do many things ? Will he read, and so be intelligent ? Will he briDg the powers of mind and body into ex ercise, slid so be useful and healthful and Strong ? W ill he pray, and be pious, good—-of a noble and virtUonS soul ? Will he write* and so be graceful in speech, ready in communication, and of a strong influence ? Say, mjr boy, what are you going to do ? What you like tb drinow, yoU will be very likely to do by and by. Do yoii Swear now ? Do you cheat, deceive, lie, steal? Do you do dishonbrublb things ? Are you disre spectful to, or do you disobey your pa rents add teachers ? Remember, the boy makes the man. ts the hoy is bad the rAaii will be. If he is idle now he will be idle tfhett a man. What will you be ? Spiritual Marriage. —A couple of spiritualists lately married themselV.es in Michigan, by the following ceremo ny : ‘Frank, will you consent, before these witnesses, I acknowledge you as my true and loving wife.’ The bride responded i ‘I, too, William, with yous consent, before these witnesses, receive you as my loVed and lawful husband. Our Souls united, we shall be ti de* to each other here aim in the grand hereafter.’ After the ceremony the guests, some fifty in number, partook of a bountiful and handsomely arranged repast; VOL. IV—NO. 19, A Night im a Japanese Hotei Prof, Pumpelly, in his admirable b of travels round the world, gives the lowing very correct sketch of the ic ner of Sleeping in Japan : > < ‘As I was about to pass my 1 bignt in a Japanese house, I vrate anxiously the preparations for sleepi They were simple enough ; a matti in the form of a very thick quilt, nb seven feet long by four wi£e. \ spread on the floor; and over it t laid an ample robe, Very long, and he i!y padded, and provided with la sleevt-s. Having put on the night dr< the sleeper covers himself with anot <juilt and sleeps, i. e. if he has so yeai’s* practice in tile use of his bi and. “But the most remarkable feat* about a Japanese bed is the pillow. This is a wooden box about four incl high, eigut inches long and two inct wid-e at the top, It has a cushion folded papers on the «pper side to r< the neck upon, for the elaborate mi ner of dressing the hair does not p niit the Japanese, especially the worm to rest the head upon a pillow. lsv< morning, the uppermost paper is tak off the cushion, exposing a clean s face without the expense of washing pillow. “I passed the greater part of** night iu learning how to poise my he in this novel manner; and when I fin ly dosed my eyes it was to dream th 1 was being slowly beheaded, and awake at the crisis to find the pillc bottom side up and my back resting i the sharp lower edge'of the box. °D Ting my stay in the country I learn many of its customs, mastering tire n of chopsticks, and accustoming my pt ate to raw fresh fish ; but the attem. to balance i«.y head on a two-inch pillo I gave up in despair, after trying vain to secure the box by trying it my neck and head. A Great Trade in Horns.—The Bo ton Commercial Bulletin, of the 12t savs: ‘A cargo of horns was landed on or of our wharves this week direct froi California. The number received int Boston annually is immense, and the come from very distant lands. Sout America sends the hulk of them, thong many come from Texas, and not a fe\ from California. The last lot receive numbered 27,500. They are mostly o horns, and are very large. Some bu falo horns, are received from Asia, hi in small quantities. There is quite speculative business done in these art cles, and they ate put to very man uses unknown to most ol OHr readefs.- A short distance from Boston is the fa< tory where these are ail Bent, and a that place they undergo n chemici change, by which they are transforme into many articles Which arc both us< ful and ornamental— combs, knife-hai dies, paper-cutters and buttons. Be sides these, they are now making great variety of parlor ornaments, am piles of jewelry, some of which are ver elegant in their designs. They have preparation that changing horn int nearly every color, and much of thi jewelry, bought cheap for pure ruhbci is made from ox horns and colored.’ A LckCy Streak of Lightning.— Some months ago Dr. Chas. Nes, of thi borough, was call 3d to visit a poor ol lady, four or five miles in the countrj who stood in need of a physician. Tii day Was n dark and gloomy one, th ram falling in torrents, and the sky a times disturbed by fierce flames of lighi uing and loud bursts of thunder. Th doctor knew he would get nothing so his visit and service, yet prompted b that spirit of benevolence for which h is characterized, he nevertheless starte out in the storm to look after this pa tient. When he arrived at tho hous he found that the lightning had strucl into a corner of it and had melted up i gun barrel which had been standinj there. The house was uninjured, i careless inspection of tho solved meta suggested a thought, and that in retiir begat another, until the final result wa the discovery of the manufacture r steel by means of electricity for whic the doctor now holds letters patent fror the Government of the United State and which, we are satisfied, will l> among the most important discover I .* of the age. The storm, the sick lady, her impovei ished condition, the doctor’s wellknow kindness of heart, the old gun barn Slid the lightning stroke led to it, an if It had not been for this singular coii cidence of things this discovery migt never have been made. Dr. Nes ncv< received pay from the bid lady Tor h visits or Services nor would he have r ceived it, probably, tinder the circun stances, had it Dbt been tendered, bt he tiOw holds in his hands letters pater for an invention suggested by the ci ciimstailces of that Visit, which may r< altie for him millions of dollars. “Cat thy bread upon the waters and tho shalt find it after thany days.”— Yor [Pa.) Lemberg 4 MaNur* foe Potatoes —An exchang says the following receipt for raisin potatoes is worth the price of any pape for one year .any,farmer who is shoi of manure. I&js as good as the bes superphosphate of lime, and it will nC cost half so much. It has been trie two years, and is good on dry land.- Take one cask of lime and slack it wit water, and then stir in one bushel of fir salt, and then mix in foam or asbr enough, so that it will not. become moi tar; it will make about five barrels - Put half pint in a hill at planting. A manures containing potash aie parfic larly suitable for tire potato. Ash' contain more than any other natural fe tilizer, and should be freely used an carefully saved. • * B£U An Irish woman who had kept Vrttle grocery 6hop, was on her deat bed, when she called her husband her bedside. “Paddy,” she faintly said, “there Missus Malony, she owes me six sh lings.” “Och 1” exclaimed her husband, “Li dy darlint ye’re sinsiMe to the last.” “Yes dear,- an’ there’s Missus ] Craw f owe her half a sovereign.” “Och ! be jabers, Biddy, and ye’re 1 foolish as ever.” fggr A young lady being recomm* dedexenn*® for her health, g would jomp at an offer run t risk.