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SOUTHERN ENTERPRISE. LUCIUS C. BRYAN, Editor and Proprietor.! Terms, $4.00 a year in Advance. J Law and Medical Cards. _■ _ _ , t /- I BRYAN & HARRIS, attorneys at law, Tin\*vii.i.k. a %. I OFFICE first door i* second, Uory of Stark's Confectionary. LC. KWvan. K- B. HAjßißte | Mar 14 11 ts MITCHELL & MITCHELL. AT L.tw, TIIOMASVILLE, ; : : GEORGIA. Office over McLeatf** store —opposite | Mr list er.* .V Yrntti sr s. W. I>. Mitchell. R. Ct. Mitchell. ( i line G ! s. B. SrE.NCEit. C. P- Hassell. Spencer & Hansell, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, TIIOMASVILLE, GA. Will nave |>rotii|'t attention to all legal busi iu-ss entnwteil to tW-ir rare in tlie counties of tlte Southern Circuit —Ot-eatur of the South-. ( Western —*wl Cliuvli, Ware and Appling, of the Brunswick (i rcuit. net over Messrs. Wolff A Brothers Store. j W. M. HAYES. J- A. SEWARD. | HAYES & SEWARD, ATTOK.VEVS AT LAW, TIIOMASVILLE, GEORGIA* I nug B • ■ . j C. C. RICHARDSON, ATTORNEY j . AST) COUNSELLOR AT LAW. TIiO.nASVH-EE, C l. June 6 23 ts J. IC. Be id, H. I>. IV. F. DcWitl, H. . i>. It LIB & Be WITT, OFFER their services to the Citizens of j Thoutasritle and vieiuitv. VtTOFFIVE of l)r. Dr Witt* Drier Store i Feb 21 , ■ . Btf Ur. T. S. HOPKINS, OFFICE IN HAWK I,T willi KESIDE.\CB. j 1. O. ARIOI.B, RESIDENT DENTIST TnOMASVILLE, GA. \ A\r ILL Le found at the old V V stand occupied by him tor the last t*n years | Amt 23-12 in Dr. CLOWER II AVIXG permanently located in Thomas- j 1. ville, otters his I'rofo—ioiinl fkrri- i re* to the public. i at the Drug-Store of W. P. j Clower A Cos. I the house formerly oc cupied hy Dr, Brandon. lmtr 11 ly I’ItESH 1 DRUGS! OR IV S. BOWER has jtnst returned from New York and Philadelphia, with tt lunge ►.lock of FEES! 11 RELIABLE DRUBS. Purchased with a great deal of care from the best tnaiuifiicliUtrs iu tin- country—embracing every article in the Medical i>epartmeat— which lie propuscs to sell ou as good terms jis can la* had in this market. < | He would call particular attention to bis I large supply of FANCY ARTICLES, Such as. Soaps, Cologne, Perfumes, Pomades, Cosmetics, Hair and Tooth Brushes, Combs, . vVc., till of which he can sell at reasonable prices, considering the quality of the articles. , He has some preparations which will restore i to the bald head a beautiful suit of half, tarn | gray hair to its healthy and natural color, and ■ restore the bloom of youth to the faded visage. ! He would call special attention to Ids large ! stock of Phalon's Night Blooming Cerens,ami ■ Laird's Bloom of Youth, tftrr me v i'aW. I’. S. BOWEIi. .Fnm> 2fl 2.3-ts APOTHECARY HALL. W. P. CLOWER & CO., •DRUGGISTS. Have renovated and refitted tkeStore next I to VnHng's Hotel, for the purpose of es tablishing a First Class Drug Store. The new firm ask for a share of patron age, and invite the attention of the citi- ‘ eons to their well selected stock of Medicines, Fancy and Toilet Articles, Soaps ami Perfumery. Fine Green anil Riack Teas, j Kerosiiie Lamps ami Oil, BYE STI FFS, Together with every other anisic usually kept in ft well appointed Drug Storo. Ee?” Fkfftictant’ .Freecriptiona carefully prepared * 4—f f Jan 24’ DRUGS and The undersigned having purchased the elegant Drug Store of Dr. Little, take pleasure in announcing to the people of Thomasville, and the country generally". l&flLthey have just received a full supply of fresh Drugs and Medicines, Taints, Oils, Ferfumery, Stationery, et., etc. Call and examine for yourselves. By strict attention to business, courtcs ous and honorable dealing with our cus tomers we hope to merit and receive a libe ral share of patronage. WINN i CAS3ELS. .Tames N. Wins, Samikl J. Cassels. jan 17tf f AAUR .greatest Purifier and Disinfectant f- known—DARBY'S PROPHYLACTIC fXVID. For sale by e w r. clower; swig Druggies. Commission Merchants. Smallwood, Hodgkiss & 00, COTTON Factors AVD GENERAL COMMISSION | fSSBOHAKYS, \o. 1© Beaver SI., -Yen York. - / J. L. Sm vt.i.wooti, formerly Smallwood, Earle A. Cos., and J. 1.. Smallwood A Cos. Thos. H lloiutKiSs, Georgia, Y Late Hodgkiss, G. W. Scott, Florida, > Scott V Go., D. 11. Poole, Georgia. ) New York. arc prepared through R£ c i dent Agists j to Advance on aml Will < ollon iimllthe Woathern Fort*. or forward from These I'ortw to !\'ew York or liirerpool B>irec*t, as our friend* may prefer. Our connoctiona iu Liverpool rC Such as will give our eustyinere r.il the advantages of that market. July 4 27-ly Duncan & Johnston, COTTON FACTORS COMMISSION MERCHANTS, SAVANNAH, : GEORGIA. REFERS TO I Cot. A. T. Mclntire, Thomaaville, Ga. Col. E. Remington, “ Donald McLean, Esq., “ “ July 25 6m J R.S. DAVIS A CO., yVTJ CTIOjNT COMMISSION AND Foi'hbji'iiiig hjei , el);h]fs, THOMASVILLE, GA. J. R. S. Davis. G. A. Jeffers. \ July H 28 ts j TISON & GORDON, COTTON FACTORS, COMMISSION m FOHFARDING Mcrcliants, LSMS?,* SAVANNAH, G A WM. 11. TISON. WM. W. GORDON. May 1(3 6m lOHN W.ANDERSON&SONS, Factors and General COMMISSION m FORUMS Mcrcliants, Corner Drayton & Bryan Strrrts, SAVANNAH, GA. May 30 , 6m H.BKTAW, A. 1.. HARTRIMK, K. XV. S. NKKF. Ijftteof J. Savannah Ga., Cincinnati, O. ! Bryan k Son 1 Savanh.Ga. Bryan, Hartridge & Cos., COMMISSION MERCHANTS BEOKEEB, No. 163 Bay Mlreet, SAV.IXAAII, Gn, j Strict attention given to Consignments I and Collections. apr 11 Cm ; ; V. W. SIMS, Y / J. F. WHEATON, T.ate of the > 2 Late of the firm of Republican. ) (_ Wilder, Wheaton & Cos. i F. W. SIMS & Cos., SAVANNAH, GA., FACTORS AND GENERAL COMMISSIOB MERCHANTS, DEALERS IN Ylert'liamlisp, Produce, Tim ber, Lumber ami Cotton. Cun sign lneiiUjutd orders rosj'eotfuHv solicit* i ed, and whether hy wagon, riyey, railroad or , sea. will rebel VO the strictest attention. The Forwarding Business carefully and l promptly done. mar 7 lfMhn J. L. VILLALONGA. COTTON FACTOR FORWARDING AND COMMISSION M ercliant, No. 94 Bay Street, jan 1-ts SA VAXXAIT, GA. W. Carvki. Hall. Jas. E. Mveus. J. llavson Thomas, Jr. ■’ . _ i Hall, Myers & Thomas GENERAL COMMISSION Mcrcliants, No. 3, Commerce St., Baltimore. Reference* t J. Hanson Thomas, Pres't Farmers’ and Mer chant.- National Bank. Tison it Gordon. Sav'h Kirkland, Gmse A Cos.. Jno. Williams &. Sou, Williams, Bee A Cos., X. Y.. Brien Sc Car rere. N Y., C. Morton Stewart. H. L. Whitridge, D. -If. Gordon, Ya., Edward S. Myers, J. P. Plea sants A Son, Tlioe. J. Carson A Cos. Wm. H. MacFarland. Pre't Fanners’ Bank,Va. Mar 14 11 -6m VfOTICK. —Two months after date I shall XN apply t-o tlie Court of Ordinary of Col quitt County, fi r leave to sell all the Real Es tate ot William Vick, deceased. JAMES ALDERMAN, Au 30 60d Adm'r THE CLOSING SCENE. ) The following is pronounced by the ! Westminster Review to be unquestion ably the finest American poem ever written: j Within the sober realms of leafless trees, The russet year inhaled the dreamy air, j Like some tanned, reaper in his hour of ease, ] When all tlie fields are lying brown and bare. The grav bams looking from their hazv h'lls, I i O’er the dun waters widening in the vales, , Seat down tlie air a greeting to the mills, Ou the dull thunder of alternate flails. ! AH sights were mellowed, and till sounds \y tt, Bu O'lued, Jr Tlie hills seemed further and the streams * sang low, As in a dream tlie distant woodman hewed His winter log, with many a uiullled blow. The embattled forests, ere while armed with srold, Their banners bright with every martial hue, Now stood like some sad beaten host of old, Withdrawn afar in Time's remotest blue. On sombre wings the vulture tried his flight; ; The dove scarce heard his singing mate's complaint; Ami like a star slow drooping in the light, The villiage church vane seemed to pale and faint The sentinel cock upon the hill side crew— Crew thrice—and all was stiller than before; Silent, till some replying warbler blew Ilis altera horn, and then was heard no moie. i Where erst the jay within the elm's tall crest. Made garrulous trouble round her unfledged young ; And where the oriole hung her swaying nest, By every light wind like a censor swung. ’ Where sang tlie noisy martins of the caves. The busy swallows circling ever near— Fore boding, as the rustic mind believes. An early harvest and a plenteous year. Where every bird that walked the vernal feast, Shook the sweet slumber from its wings at morn. To warn the reaper of the rosy lust; All now was sunless, empty and forlorn. Alone from out the stubble, piped the quail: And croaked the crow through all the dreary gloom; Alone the pheasant, drumming in the vale, Made echo in the distant cottage loom. fhertJ was no bud, iio bloom upon the bowers ; The spiders ttloved their thin shrouds night by night, 1 The thistle down, the only ghost of flowers, | Sailed slowly by—passed tloisless out of sight: 1,. ; / / Amid all this—in this most dreary air, I And where the woodbine shed upon the porch i Its crimson leaves, as if the year stood t nere, Firing the floor with its inverted torch. Amid all this—the centre of the scene, The white-haired matron, with monotonous tread, Plied tlie swift wheel, and with her joyous mein Sat like a fate,and watched the flying thread. She had known sorrow. lie had walked with Her, Oft supped, and broke with her the ashen crust, And in tlie dead leaves still she heard the stir Os his thick mantle trailing in the dust. While yet her check was bright with summer bloom, Her country summoned, and she gave her all; And twice war bowed to her liis sable plume— Regave the sword to rust upon the wall. Regave the sword, but not the hand that drew And struck for liberty the dying blow, Nor him who, to bis sire and country true, Fell ’mid the ranks of the invading foe. Long, but not loud, the drooping wheel went °n. Like the low murmur of a hive at noon ; Long, but not loud, the memory of the gone Breathed through her lips a sad and tremu lous.tone. At last the thread was snapped, her head was l>ow<*t!; lase dropped the distaff through her hand serene, ! And loving neighbors smoothed her careful shroud: While death and winter closed the autumn st'ene. i - National Intelligencer,— | For more than one-third of a century the two owners and editors of the In telligencer never had a settlement of ; accounts, but each member of the firm drew from the common fund what money he desired. In that connection, I will here mention a few lemarkable business particulars, as follows : Be tween the year 1825 and 1859 both : inclusive, the monthly expenses of the ! National Intelligencer averaged 84,- ! 000, or $1,680,000 for the whole pe ; riod. The amount drawn out by Mr. Gales during that time, for his per sonal expenses, was $017,570.40, and I by Mr. Seaton, 8219,271.14--making together $80G,041.54, or a grand to tal of moneys disbursed by the office, i in thirty-five years, 82,510,641.54. — ! Os course these were not the earnings ] of the Intelligencer alone, but were ; greatly enhanced by the various Con gressional publications which bore the i impriut of Messrs. Gales & Seaton. I After the death of Mr. Gales, ’ the of j fice was found indebted to Mr. Seaton in the sum of &i70.(X)0, which was pre sented to him by the widow of his late partner. — Round Table. • * Why Onk Should not Swear.— 1 An article in the Pittsburg Preacher gives six good reasons why a man should not swear : 1. It is mean. A man of high moral standing would almost as soon steal a sheep as swear. 2. It is vulgar—altogether too low for a deoent man. 3. It is cowardly—implying a fear either of not being believed or obey ed. 4. It is ungentlemanly. A gentle man, according to Webster, is a gen teel man—well-bred, refined. Such a one will no more swear than go into the street to throw mud with a loafer. 5. It is indecent—offensive to deli cacy, and extremely unfit for human ears. C. It is foolish. “Want of decency is n want of sense.” Thomasville, Georgia, Thursday, September 13, ISG6. [From the Marion, (S. C.) Crescent.] The National Express anil Transpor tation Company. Our attention has been called to the subjoined letter of General W. S. Walker, agent of the National Ex- I press and Transportation Ccmpany, at 1 Charleston. We think that the facts i and arguments, set forth in the letter, I should be published for the informa- I tion of the public. Gen. Walker was for two years in command of the Third Military District of South Carolina, with headquarters at Pocotaligo : Office National Ex. and } Trans. Cos., > Charleston, July 27, 18GG. ) Dear Sir 3 It is reported to me, through your clerk, that you have a box to send to Marion C. H., for a party who have instructed you to send by the Southern Express, on account of the greater cheapness of their rates. 1 The box in question weighs 323 j pounds, which I am informed the i Southern Express will carry for 86,50. 1 t We cannot carrv it at this rate, for the reason that wc cannot afford to pay for the privilege of carrying freight. The Southern Express, as well as the National, pay to each road—the Northeastern and the W.ltnington and j Manchester Bail Hoad—at the rate of . I one dollar per hundred pounds. They,, j j therefore, pay for the carriage of this box to the fail road $6,46. This leaves an apparent profit of four cents. We all know, however, the great outlay to which an express company is subjected. Tho Adam’s Company (of which the Southern Express is a branch) have in this city a superinten dent, an agent, four clerk?, five mess engers, a large store a-t a high rent, four wagons, six drivers, and eleven horses. Between Charleston and Mari on C. II they have not less than ten way agents, with hired laborers for the reception and removal of goods. You will also note that in every par ticular enumerated their expenditure is greater than ours, with the excep tion of the amount paid the rail roads. The salaries of all their employees are higher, and they support a larger num* ber of horses. And yet, although our expenses are less than theirs, we ■know from eareful calculation, that at the rate of charges proposed by them to Marion C. 11. wc would sink at least 25 cents on every hundred pounds. The purpose of this remarkable ac commodation of the public scarcely needs comment. But how is the tax on their resources supported ? Partly by enormous capital, secured by high charges through many years of monop oly, enabling them to afford a present loss in order to obtain a future gain after the destruction of a dangerous rival. But they also indemnify them selves for losses here by a high tariff on the rail roads where the National Express Company does not compete with them. The losses at one point are made up by large gains at another. This system of underbiding, therefore, cannot last long after the introduction of our competition over all the roads where the Adams Express is running. We are willing to submit our charges to the scrutiny of the public, and can show that, though our rates may in some instances exceed those of the Adams’ Express, yet our profits are very small. We confidently appeal to substantial and intelligent men to sustain us in charges that will allow a small profit. They know that a South ern company,in its infancy, cannot oth erwise be supported. It may be a light tax as compared with the temporary charges of the Adams’ Express, who have an important object to attain in the future by sinking money for the present. But, if we are maintained it will be found in a few months that the charges of both companies will be about equal, and both at reasonable rates. Whereas, if we are driven off by a penny wise and pound foolish policy, the rates of the Adams’ would be at least doubled, most probably trebled. We are the only competitor in the field of the South who stood a chance of success. If a company started under the auspices of General J. E. Johnston, appealing to the Southern people on the ground of patriotic sympathy and mercantile in terest fail, who can expect to suc ceed ? The communications of the Company have recently been extended through Montgomery to Mobile and New Or leans, by the Albany and Gulf Road J ’ to Thomasville, in Southwestern Geor gia, and to Jacksonvile, Florida. The route has also been reopened via Wilmington and Vfeldon, after a legal contest. The stockholders have shown I a tenacity and determination to sup ; port their enterprise that deserves suc cess ; and we deem it demonstrable that it is for the real and permanent interest of the community that it should be sustained by their liberal patronage. Very respectfully, Your obedient srv’t, W. S. WALKER, Agent. THE FIELD OF SA.DOWA. The name of the village where the great battle between “the Prussians and Austrians took place on the 3d of July is not Cudowa (which is a watering place in Prussian Silesia), nor Sudowa (which is a village on the other side of the Elbe), but Sadowa. It is a small place between the town of Ilorie (pronounced Horschitz, i e., Fireplace) and the fortress of Konig gratz, five miles distant from the latter city and— miles from Jacephstadt. Horic is the seat of tho Bohemian calico manufactory and the great pro duce market of lticsengebridge [Giant Mountains]. It has seven thousand inhabitants, of whom two thousand five hundred are occupied iu the cal ico factories. In the neighborhood of Sadowa is the renowned castle and park of Count Harrach, one of the richest noblemen of Austria. The castle is a real won der-work of historic curiosity and ar tistic splendor. It is built in close imitation of Windsor Castle, in En gland, in the midst of a park and old forest of twenty-seven square miles. The large hall, called the Kaiserall, [the Hall of Emperors] is remarkable tor its splendor. It contains the por j traits of all Emperors cf Austria, | painted by the first masters of Ger- I many and Italy. The walls are frescoes in Pompeiian style. The floor repre sents, by inlaid woodwork of the most costly kind, the renowned painting of i Kaulbach, “the Hunncuechlact’’ [the battle-of tho Huns.] Every piece of] furniture is of ebony wood inlaid with ! ivory and solid gold. Another hall is called King Edward 11 Hall. The furniture was brought over from the Castle of Carnavon, and the identical furniture used by the re nowned English King. The dining saloon is called the Ilirschsaal [the Deerhall]. The chairs, tables, goblets, doors and floor are made of deerhorn. The door of this splendid room has cost 5000 florins or $2500. To give in short, an idea of the costliness of the whole, it may suffice to state that Count Harrach devoted, during twelve years, the income of twenty-two of his estates for the building and decorating of the castle, called “Schloss Ilara dck.” Count Harrach himself is not only a nobleman of the highest standing, but also a manufacturing lord. The great Bohemian glass manufactory at Neuwald, an immense iron work num erous cotton mills, linen spinnerics and coal mines, and vast estates in Bohemia, Moravia and Stirla, give him an income of nearly 2,000,000 florins [81,000,000]. The Prussian army, therefore, will find a splendid camping place in the large doer park of the Count, and the prussian commanders splendid headquarters in the Castle of Hradek. q,. ■. G i ■■ D-D • ‘ The Soathrrn PnciHc Raiirond.’ In connection with the Mexican question we spoke yesterday of anew and magnificent trade which at no dis tant day will spring upon our Pacific border. Take Guaymas, Sonora, It is a most desirable port, with a choice, safe and capacious harbor. It is tho terminus of a projected, railroad, the surveys of which have already com menced. In December and January last a surveying party, under charge of Mr. Maxon, in the service of a New York company, made survey of three hundred miles from Guaymas through Hermosillo and Magdalena to the Arizona boundary, to the town of Santa Cruz. From that point the route turned eastward to El Paso, on the confines of Texas. A more feasible route for a road can not be found on the continent. From Guaymas to Cruz is as level as an Illinois prairie—the entire dis tance. From Santa Cruz to El Paso, the same. Thence across Texas, the whole country knows about. That Southern railroad will be built. The surveys would now be completed but for iterruptions occasioned in Febuary by Apaches. The maps of the survey made are now in New York. The work of survey will soon be resumed and then when that road is built, Guaymas will be, like San Francisco, one of the grand ports connecting the United States)' by lines of steamships and vessels, with Japan, China and the Indies. The silver and gold and copper of this new territory, with its flour, and cottoon, and tobacco, and hides and wool, and its countless flocks of sheep, and h'eMs of cattle and mules and horses, will .make it the the richest portion of America.— St. Louis Re publican. A Recipe M r ortli One Thousand Dollars. —“Take, one pound of sal soda, , and half a pound of unslacked lime —put it in a gallon of water and boil twenty minutes. Let it stand till cool then strain off, and put it in a stone jug or jar. Soak your clothes over night, or until they are all wet through —then wring them out, and rub on plenty of soap, and in one boiling of elothes well covered with water, add one teaspoonful of washing fluid.— Boil half an hour briskly—then wash them thoroughly through one suds, and rinse with water, and your clothes will look better than the old way of washing twice before boiling. This is an available recipe, and I want every poor tired woman to try it. I think with a patent to do the little rubbing, the Wash : WQrpan might take the last novel and compose herself on the lounge, and let the washipg do itself. The woman who can keep a secret has known this a year or two, but her husband told it while on an electioneering tour..” So says the Ohio Cultivator. A Few Wnnl'i to the Respectable Col ored I‘eople. We understand that the sober, staid, respectable cotorcd residents of this oity are much chagiined by the am bitious pretentions and disorderly and minatory proceedings of the organized bands of c lored men, whose military parades were stopped by General Ter ry. They complain that these organ izations are composed, for tin most pait of colored persons who have neith er homes nor permanent interests in this city ; of idle, dissolute and dissi pated vagrants, who have wandered to this city from distant quarters. Wc learn also that our respectable colored people complain of the evil influences exerted by white emissaries from the North, and that they intend to adopt some satisfactory method of making their opinions known. They have found out also that the Freedman's Bureau is for the most part, adminis tered in the interests of the Radical party, and not the freedmen ; that it i is a political machine whose aim is to foment discord between the whites i and black. Those colored people who j are intelligent, who have property, or j regular occupations, have no interests in common with the vagrants who, | under the influence and direction of j low white men and the paid agents of i Radicalism, are threatening the whole 1 South with disturbances. Soouer or later the orderly, well-behaved colored classes will have to draw the line be tween themselves and the disorderly classes. The sooner they publicly take their true position, separate them selves from the turbulent characters whose aim is to involve the whole col ored population in trouble, and exert all their influence, privately and pub* licly, individually and in aggregate, to put down the mischievous blaek men, and infamous white men who stand at their backs, the better it will be for us all There is no reason why the two races, each maintaining its true and natural position in the scale of society, should not live together in. harmony. Thq better classes of whites exert, all their influence to these ends; why should not the better classes of colored people do the same? If they disap prove the turbulent conduct of the inferior classes of their own color, or of the mischievous interference of white Radical incendiaries Irom the North, and are satisfied that our courts and our citizens will do them justice respect their rights and protect them in their person and property —they ought, in some authentic form, so to declare, so as to silence the number less calumnies invented by the Radi cals.— Richmond lVhiy, Avg. 7. Rcuinrkabtc Escapes of Eminent Tien. Some years agQ a young man, hold* ing a subordinate position in the East , India service, twice attempted to de ; prive himself of life by snapping a loaded pistol at his head. ‘ Each time the pistol missed fire. A friend en tered his room shortly afterward, when he requested him to fire it out of the window; .it then werit off without any difficulty. Satisfied thus that the wea pon had been duly primed and loaded, the young man sprang up, exclaiming, “I must be preserved for something great!” and from that moment gave up the idea of suicide, which for some time previous had been uppermost in his thoughts. That young man after ward became Lord Clive. Two brothers were, on one accasion, walkingtogether, when a violent storm, thunder and lightning overtook them. One was struck dead on the spot; the other was spared, else would the name of the great reformer, Martin Luther, have been unknown to mankind. Bacon, the sculptor, when a tender boy of five years old, fell into the pit : of a soap boiler and must have perished, had not a workman, just entering the yard, observed his head and delivered him. When Oliver Crnmwell was an in fant, a monkey snatched him from his cradle, leaped with him through a garret window, and ran along the leads of the house. The utmoat alarm was excited among the inmates, and vari ous were the devices used to resoue the child from the guardianship of his newly found protector. All were un availing ; his would-be rescuers had lost courage, and were in despair of ever seeing the baby alive again, when the monkey retraced his steps, and deposited its burden safely on the bed On a subsequent occasion, the waters had well nigh quenched his insatiable ambition. lie fell into a pond, from drowning in which a clergyman named Johnson was the sole instrument of his rescue. At the seige of Leicester, a young soldier about seventeen years of age, was drawn out for centry duty. One of his comrades was very anxious to take his place. No objection was made, and this man went. He was shot dead while on guard. This young man, first drawn, afterwards became the author of u Pilgrims Progress.” Doddridge, when born, was so weak ly an infant he was believed to be dead* A nurse standing by fancied she saw some signs of vitality.— Thus the feeble spark of life was saved from being extinguished, and an em inent author and consistent Christian preserved to the world. John Wesley, when a child, was only just preserved from fire. Almost YOL. YL—No. 37. the moment after lie was rescued, the roof of the house where he Had been fell in. Os Philip Henry a similar in stance is recorded. John Knox, the renowned Scotch reformer, was always wont to sit at the head of the table, with his back to tho window. On one particular evening, however, without being able to account for it, he would neither himself, nor permit any one else to occupy his place. That very night • a bullet was shot in at the window, purposely to kill him ; it grazed the . seat in which he sat, and made a holt} in the foot of the candlestick on the table. Many years have now elapsed since three subalterns might have been seen struggling in the water of St. Helena; one ot them, peculiarly helpless, was succumbing. lie was saved to life as Author Wcllcsly, Duke of Welling ton. The life of John Newton is but the history of marvelous deliverances. As a youth lie had agreed to accompany some friends on board of a man of-’var. lie arrived too late ; the boat in which his friends had gone was capsized, and all its occupants drowned. On another occasion when tide surveyor in the port of Liverpool, some business had detained him, so that he eamo much later than usual, to the great surprise of those who were. in. the hab it of observing his undeviating piinet uality. He went out in a boat, as heretofore, to inspect a ship, which blew up before he reached her. Had he left the shore a few minutes sooner, he must have perished with the rest on board. - Drink Less* With Your Meal*. —One great error that we commit is ’ that we drink too much at our meals. Before we have sufficiently masticated and insalivated our food to enable us to swallow it, we force it down by taking water or warm drinks. This . not only dilutes the saliva, but weak ens the gastric juice aftor the food gets into the stomach. Many persons take a swallow of fluid with almost every . mouthful ■of food. Look along the dinner table in any of our. hotels and fashionable private dining rooms, an 1 you will be surpriged at the quantities . which are drank during the meal; and if your mind be not takeft up with observing the errors of pthprs, you ‘ may discover the same .evil in year- . self, and thus be led to correct it; — ■ This habit, sooner or later, ends in producing dyspepsia and constipations, than which there are no afflictions more destructive of health and comfort.—- . When we are thirsty, at our meals or at other times, we should drink to al lay suich thirst only.. All.solid food should be thoroughly ground and mix ed with saliva in the. mouth, unaided and undiluted bv water or other-drinks. Rely upon it, this apparent necessity for drinking is a mere habit, which we can correct at will; and all who prizg health at its true value will not con sider its preservation or purchase too, high at the cost ot attending to so simplo a matter. Quick Work. — We heard a story told on a ‘Yank : which we must re peat. lie belonged to Sherman’s crockery smashing squad when on their little pleasure trip to the sea. Being separated from liis command one dark night, he found himself hotly pursued by a squad of yellow rebels. Racing down .a. rough ravine, his horse fell, throwing him a stunning fall,- and then galloped away. When he recov ered he commenced feeling round in the darkness for his. steed-. Ihesently he encountered-the carcass of a skin* ned horse; after feeling it carelully all over from noso to tail, he came tq the sage • conclusion that it was his own. “Well,”'said he, ‘1 swow- t° gravy, if that ain’t quick-work; no sooner clown: than the hide’s ojJ'. ‘ I’m glad they did.n’t And me.’ lie gave his opinion on his return to camp that. leather must be ? pesky skerse among the rebs,’ and that they beat.‘creation a skinning quick.’ A hard shell preacher wound up a flashing sermon with this mag nificent : “My brethern and sistren ! es a man’s full of religion you can't hurt him ! There was the three Ara- . bian children; they put ’em in a fiery . furnace hetted seven times hotter than rt could be het, and it didn’t swinge-a hair on their heads. And there wag John the Evangelest; they put him— and where do you think, brethern and sistern, they put him? Why they put him into a caladromatie of bilin ile, and biled him all night, and didn’t faze his she’ll! And there was Danile they put him in a lion’s den—and what, my fellow travelers and respected auditors, do you think he was put into a lion's den for? Why, for praying three times a day. Don’t be alarmed, breth ren and sistren ; I don’t think any of you will ever get into a lion’s den ?’’ It is dangerous to. use guano in thq soil of Kansas. A vexacious writer says : “A few hours after planting cu*. cumber seed with guano, .the dirt be gan to fly, and the vines came up like a strpak,. and although he started off at the top of his speed, the vines ov ertook him and covered him ; and on taking out his knife tq cut the thing, he found a large cucumber gone to seed in his pocket ” r