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SOUTHERN HERALD. PUBLISHED EVt KY THURSDAY MORNING •T p, iff. Martin cfc Cos., jfTlCi rrtTAIICS •A»o*i BCILOXSO, EAST 51&E HILL ST. ftalei es Subscription. On*«°py on * J' e * r ** One copy eix mouths 2 Oh One copv three months, I 00 jjy" Order* for J< iB WORK »nd ADYKRTIS I}i(; respectlully solicited. end promptly attended to. Soulltrrn Text Book-, for Soiiftiern Families and St bools. From the Georgia Citizen.] This should be the motto and the fixed resolution of our whole population. Our safety, our interests, aud our duty to our S e!vc- and those amontr us, whether “ freed roen,” or those from other eouutries, demand this at our hands The warnings and sug gestions of the venerable ritshop Elliot, on these points, are most wi-e, timely and ap propriate. Books we must have. It comes then to this: we nulst cither provide and furnish them ourselves, or depend upon others in distant countries lor them. The former is orr only true policy, our bounden duty. The latter will result in manifold ,»vils It will drain off out of the South the cost and profits of their manufacture and importation, though, we have not a dime to spare We must lake such also as we can get, be they suitable or unsuitable. The opening of lfae door for one class of bo..ks will leave it open for all other kinds. We well know what kinds, at once demoralizing and pervertive ol all sound principles, have been scattered broadcast among us. Ihe ipast will repeat itself. Let us beware, be fore it he too late. “ OL*ta nrincipus” — shut ou r the beginning of evil Be this our steadfast ei.de not. Books which arc the t-flux of the present perverted mind and heart of the North, will never suit us. .Nor is tb< re the slightest necessity that anv such works—those for family and selm lastic u-e—should ever he imported. The South has learning and ability adequate to any demands that may he made f r any such purpose. (Jive her a fair field and she will achieve all desired results. But I proceed to state “ facts” which should beat' with icsistles force upon every Southern mind. Ihe stati.-nics ol “Com mon School Education” in N- r h Carolina show, that, fur several years previous to the war, -me u iHion doll is worth of school h ,oks” p r annum were import, and in to that State from tfie North. Now it is but fair to infer that *n equal amount was expended lor the same purpose by each of tlie South ern States —art aggregate ol more than ten millions yearly, for tfie-single article of ‘•school hooks” —in ten year., a hundred milli'ins. the probability also, is, that for other kinds of books, pamphlets, periodicals, pictures, engravings, &c , a still greater ex penditure was annually made, making, in all, two hundred millions in ten years, and in the last twenty years, before the war, four hundred miltams, ln view of th- aspects of our dilapidated country, and our low tide pecuniary condi tion who is he tlmt can do otherwise than npinhim i o'e.-.'egfading and ruinous policy? ,;[y w-hcu it is known that tin re are scores ot able , in ,) excellent Southern works u pm/ t., .- e t ! e light, and leap into the t'., sYi.-i of each family and school, could tv '«• fished on Southern soil. “ !” *.> i, •w. are too poor, we are riot able to pit* vh.” Then who will say that, we can aft oil t > lie made ten times poorer by our present neglect of a known duty ? .lust h»re a reflection and an incentive! Had the more than four hundred millions drawn diom the South in the last twenty-five years been retained and employed in the same lines of production at the South instead of the North, how tinny mammoth establish ments, with ample and complete ouili’s for n fl the purpo.-es of publishing, binding, cn gravin''. f.’'d distributin': through all the Stoics nii"-ht since have been found among us? How mmy tli e,-d:.ds of em ployees would thence have receive 1 their supp.irt ? What energy, effort, skill and taste would have been displayed in the different depart ments! What tli lift would have been pro duced! How different an aspect would have been given to our whole character and condition as a people ! And now that our resources have been so largely cut oft, necessity demands that we take the wise counsels of “ experience,” re pent and do our long neglected and lty. Let patriots and capitalists reflect upon these facts and aspects of our condition—take measures to wipe away the reproach ol this shameful dependence, and shut down the gate against this ruinous wastcagc, and in augurate for the whole fraternity of those engaged or about to engage in this noble and beneficent bu-itiess, anew era—one of permanent thrift rid widely extended use fulness. Think ot twenty or thirty millions per annum expended among our own paper makers, authors, editors of periodicals, pub lishers. engravers, printers, binders, sales men, &c &<• How 'numerous and great the beinfi’s tii them, and how salutary the re sults to our whole country ? Auctor. The Coming Intestine War. — The Rev. Horace Greeley calls Mr. Raymond's disclosures of the bloody plans of the Radi cals, *• Chinese thunder.” Mr. Raymond in j an editorial in the Times, retorts crushingly : i The muttcrings of the storm which her-j aided the rebellion, were, in the Tribune's judgement, merely •' Chinese thunder."— The firing at Fort Suinter was only “ gong heating,” to be laughed at as of little moment. Through all the early stages of the war, our coteuiporary displayed the same foolish bra vado—the same inability to comprehend to kens of danger, or th<> same dishonest desire to belittle them. For months it assumed, the most valorous airs, being always ready at any moment, to undertake the suppres sion of the rebellion by contract. At length • consciousness of danger came ; and then where was the Tribune? On its knees pleading for peace, down on its marrow-hones echoing the prayers of Colorado Jewett lor an abandonment of the struggle for the Cn ion ; running in sore .affright to Niagara, to hob nob with the Thompsons and Sanderses of the rebellion, and to patch up the terms of *n inglorious surrender. The great railroad bridge over the 'usquehanna at Havrc-de-Grace was reeent- V wtffiTMl hr a tornado. Loss ?! don SOUTHERN HERALD. BV D. MAKTIV & CO, S o u t B c r n i) r v a U). «.» itlin, Georgia, August!). ls(j<». ir-i—-i i-r—■ m■ i SI. gilt I v Mistaken. Montgomery Biair, in a letter to the Xa tional Intelligencer, requesting the publica tion therein of a letter he had received from the Hor.. A. 11. Stephens, refers to the lat ter as the “recognized exponent of the Southern sentiment at this moment.” The Maryland gentleman, according to our view, is sii.-htly mistaken in reference to the status of his Georgia friend. Mr. Stephens never was, during the whole war, entirely up to the popular standard—rather being led, or pulled, than leading. At pres ent, we think he has got a little too far ahead of the slower masses The latter are jogging along by the light of their men ex perience, and though Mr Stephens has been put forward, obtrusively, as a “ rceogniz-. -1 exponent,’ we doubt exceedingly whether lie is so regard, and by one in ad- zen of the old sinew and backbone of the staunch yeo manry of the country. It is tru that nearly everybody, when called upon, will sign a request for .Mr. Ste phens to mate a sptecli; most of the news papers will reproduce the aforesaid speech when it is delivered—and it generally is de livered—and pav it some dainty little com pliment, full of perfume ; editors will invitg him to their sanctums, hold long conversa tions with him. atol thereupon dotty! that perhaps Mr. S is nanynine, or Mr. S iv'eva on 'the fad (lection*, or Mr. S. inculcates faith, h ye, <tttd (han't)/, &e., &o. ; and these morceaus. gingerly cut up in paragraphs, will run the rounds of newspaperdom ; and yet, after a'l this, it never strikes one that these dfjnoi.strai ‘‘T>s are any thing more than the more negative, passing courtesies we ijallanthj give to those we wotlic: not of fend. The real truth of it is, tint*, those who are fitted to be recognised as “ exponents ol the Southern sentiment ’’ are either in their graves, or in chains, or in exile, or are nutet at liter homes, discreetly reticent, cios ly. watching events, compromising not them- | selves or their friends, determined sullenly to retnaiu enslaved rather than be eternally begging and dingdonging for a precarious \ freedom at the hands of a treacherous mas ter. Their Status not Changed.—Mcny of tJ’.e Radicals of the South arc frequently al luding, rather complainingly, to the fact 1 that the Secessionists arc not willing to uffil . iate with them so, AiUy —thinking themselves : superior to the Cnion men. This is one al legation the said test-oath Unionists arc j making, about which we find no cause to quarrel We quarrel with them, however, i for the reason that hey (the Southern Rad icals) are trying to get it out that they arc I ostracised from good society sob Ij on ae \ count of their l monism. They do not make it convenient o recollect that most, of these complainers were shut out from fiist-class circlcs, \ears and generations bes-re Seres siuii or l nioni-tn was ever dreamed of—or, at least, ever seriously di.-cu-scd. The incense burnt in the Chinese empire in idol worship is said to cost §450.- 000,000 an uually Exrhamje. That is no money at all. A certain over poweringly-delieious incense —Eoquet d’Af rique—i:i this country has already cost the Government five billions of dollars, within the last live years; and as this precious per fume is getting, daily, more and more ad mired, finite Arithmetic palis before the task of ciphering-tip the untold sums it threatens to cost in the undevelopedT’uture. Richest Joke Yet—The Richmond j Examiner , —a journal accused of having damaged the Southern Confederacy, design . edly or undesigncdly, more than any other half dozen papers all combined —lias been ex ercising itself in a patriarchal homily to “ thus ■ impractieahles at the South who would reject the invitation extended to it, to; s nd delegates to the Philadelphia Convou - e ] non Something New in North (-akouina. ! The editor ot the Raleigh Standard has seen anew invention called the V\ atcli Dog, or Sleeping .Man’s Protector—an iron box nearly square, weighing sixteen pounds, con taining a gun or small cannon, and so ar ranged by wires that it will explode at a slight touch. The rammer of the gun is used as a lever to raise a strong spring, which, when set, may he released and thrown upon a percussion cap which discharges the I gun. by the touching of strings which are : attached to four wires and may he extended to any distance. The noise of the explosion will 'itself startle a thief, to say nothing of ! the shot from the gun. This invention is by Mr. M. 1 Hepstin stall, of Halifax county, N. C. It may he used in stores, smoke-houses, corn-cribs, barns, orchards, and indeed in any situation. A Grand National Convention of the colored population is to he held in Nashville the Ist of January, I§G7. • ! lU.N4ES (T Orv. jonssToy; — tier Jo seph K. John t in U serif.'..-iv HI in RaUn:-re “Tl.e I’rn is Hiclitiir lliun tin- Suoril." liiiimv, CEofiwi, Tiimsim uohmxu, must 9, istic. The Atlantic Cable. BY A. R WATS- N. G«*4 !*<* praised! The deep id spam.td, Af«l through lb’ astonished water, i 'lb*- iiM»tiier-iai*(l. wall lips ol tire, feuiutt-s her p ame uaugLter. The old m «1 new rre trebly bound Ia < utiiliations. Six hundi*-»J leagues of iron tongue Are talking to the nations. Praided Itt t!»e wi k! AVbst ruun has done Is Godsglory; I 11 1 tightniiig i> the t-lonu^ra-e That tells the world the story. A whisper through the silent deep Rii g- r and the earth like thunder, l We greet tlo* new apocalyj *e \\ ith gratitude and wonder. Now God be praised! What he hath done Between thedistu t nations blinll ring, with giory to His name, AJowii llie generations. Praised he His name! The end achieved Has justified tin* pn'snpv*, >ou let us telegraph to Him A universal messag**, That Flu to glorify liis power Made man tin* humhle lever ; And l»*t tie- iWme, with rapt acclaim, i G«» soundii g oti forever, i i And while the world withs uggidi sense Begins to learn the M-uy, Wc-ll wiite the nan.e of Hyra* Field A top the mast of glory. Gcuei al Miles and ui gt on ( raven AN EPIGRAM. Ontf, Mi le* sfbod for soldier, or for hero, ! And ('raven meant a poltroon, or a Nerr, — Now Milt* turns out to he a heartless coward. And (fhiveii proves nnotlur rarne for Howard. £ A nut Lit Battle in Selma.— The Selma ( Ala.) Me*.'* mjt r of the 25th says “ the quiet of t!io city has been broken for two nights in j-uectssion by rows between freed men and the Federal >oldiers. The trouble began by : an unprovoked attack, go far as we can learn, ol Mime hall a dozen soldiers upon the ne ; grocs at a freedmciTs ball, with the design jof robbery. The frredtntn defended them selves, and a liberal use of fisticuffs and firc j arms followed. On the second night, the j firing near the Baptist church, we utider j stand, was still more lively. We can hear ! of no one who is seriously hurt, hut it is i high time that these grave disturbances | should be suppressed. The soldiers are vow j vergenm o against the negroes, and the 1 negroes arc arming tin him Ives for defense ainstthe soblier.-, and it has become unsafe t"r ou?h ,#( ® ers * even <0 vonturo ndo the streets aft-r „ Jhth.V. XVe lu, P c ,lic civ!l i l ry riMM W.','. 1 w-epeiMte u. preserving the petfec of the city, f.,' ‘Wmmgl, it nee ry, both the a'lhlbTs :ma ,'‘ lu ["grocs. A» i ‘ample of the feeling existin'? „'" lwce J> the two'"las-c-. Carter, an indintriousarid wci. conducted freedman in ihe employ of Smith, Motes, A- Cos., wl.o had not been "If his em ployer’s premise- Ur the two nights in ques tion. was ye-ferd v ln-oiiiiiir knocked down and severely hea'en by two soldiers, who cltaroed with p . "itsitiun in t lie melee.” Wu publi h tli • 1 've lor tin* special edi fication of the New Y'rk lrdnint, whose editors s-tin very fond of put ailing In fore their readers evidence of cruellies practiced on 1 reedmen by southern rebeis— L'olum bm Sun. Wigwam eor the Ptiiladei.viiia Con vention —A great “ wigwam ” for the ac commodation of the National Union Conven tion i» to he erected in Philadelphia. The News refen ing to it, says : The plans are now in the hands of the architect. They will be rapidly carried into execution, and the building probably com pleted by the 10th of August. The wigwam will he the most extensive pyramid of can vass ever crec'cd in the United States. It will exceed in size the ever memorable wig wam in which the Chicago Convention of IbUO assembled. It will seat ten thousand persons. A special gallery lor ladies will be a prominent feature of the building. It will he erected on the Central Skating Park of Dr. Jausen, at. Fifteenth and Wallace streets, : and will occupy nearly ail of that, quadrclat | oral. The Convemi m that is to be assem | bled within three weeks will be the largest | and most important body «» statesmen over i Convened in America. The wisdom and | forethought of Die National Union Johnson Clip of this city in erecting it is commendu- j hie. Without it, no place of meeting for i the Convention could have been afforded in j the city. OitE Candid Witness. —Mr. B C. Tra-i man, special correspondent of the New j Yoik Times, thus writes from Georgia: “ The more 1 sec of Southern people, and | the more ooportunit.irs 1 have of witnessing j their deportment.the more 1 sympathize with tiiem in their gloomy hour. I candidly be- i lieve that, ha i wc taken ihcut by the hand i and treated item like brothers, as it seemed j we would do immediately after the surrender’ of their armies, a better state of feeling would have presented it- if now than has existed before in thirty years. ggt, The Hon. Obadiah Browne and Mrs. Cura Browne were re married a short time since, at New Haven. They were firA married nearly a quarter of a century ago; lived happily together for some time, and became parents ol two sons now grown up. Trophic came and they were divorced. Mr. Browne married again, and after living with his second wife,-a number of years, removed from her lie finally renewed the acquain tance of his first wife, an-1 the result va.s that he has now led her to the altar for the second time. AdS" The Nashville Dispatch gays of Gen. Sherman : ” Whatever else tnay be reserved for our astonished gaze by the wheel of po litical change, of one fact we may be as sured —to wit, that the crazy incarnation of the demoniac fiend of civil war will never be called ly the Jrccly given votes or his fcllow i itiz -n* foh'e the Representative and Exec utive~"f tr 'evr TMi. ver*t> U-pM/Dan tv o How 10 Mrtke loffcc »T CUtXUX A. IEA.LT. The virtue of coffee consi.-,ts in ils volatile aroma and its fixed extractive matter. The happy combination of these with hot water jis the pr<di!rtn for the C'-ffec maker. This happy c in fin at ion, in my opinion, when re alizeii itSperlecuon, implies that all the aro ma ami ail the extractive matter of the enjund coffee he got into the hot water, and retained there. It seems to me that no ar j?mnent is required to show that any aroma 1 which escapes into the air, oi any extractive i matter lef in the grounds is so much virtue wasted Now, to f?et at the same time the whole of the constituents of coffee has seemed very difficult. It boiling water he filtered through ground coffee—this is the French plan t.e aroma is promptly extracted, aud I very little else, for the tix--d matter needs more coaxing. If the ground coffee ho boil !cJ a lon - time in water —the Turkish and more common American plan—the arouiu j escapes with the sf am. The French waste the extractive matter ; the Turks, the aroma. The plan which secures one of the ingre i dietit.' allows the other t.i escape, i Baron Liebig has investigated this suLp ct, 1 and those who have read his inter,sting pa mrs published in the ,S' irntijic American a short time since, will perceive that so far I have only repeated his ideas. lie proposes ito avoid the difficulties in the case in this way . lie boils three fourths of the ground coffee, and thus secures all the extractive matter from that; the other fourth he adds after boiling, and secures the aroma from j that. 1 know that Liebig's coffee is excel-' j lent, for I havo made it; hut I respectfully submit that it is not the perfict coffee, it is not the happy combination, which wo arc seeking for. Liebig loses aroma l'roui three fourths of his coffee, and extractive matter from one-fourth. I now { ropo.se a plan which on reflection and after a considerable < xpcrience I find to l e nearer perfection. My coffee making is a continuous process, and may In- carried on for a life time. It takes two days to get well started, hut after that there is a daily routine. To begin, L take ra'licr more than the usual amount of coffee, and pour on it hot water when it is ready to he used ; in other words, I make French coffee. The grounds from this operation I leave to soak in the pot till the next day, when l begin coffee making by pouring hot water on these grounds, which hot water 1 use according to the French plan in making coffee from fresh ground coffee. The process is now in full operation, and every time coffee is wanted the inani- I pulations of the second morning are repeated. 1 thus extract all the soluble and useful mat ; ter of roasted coffee, and waste nothing. ! To put the art in the most practical form, | 1 liuT" found it necessary to modify the coffee not. I’erhapS the simplest apparatus is the i ;, )o<t 0l '-'nary pot p.-ovided with two strain ers. The strain*.? ot>'? form, and fit into each Other nn,l inr- tliC top C flic pot For use I set a strainer on the toj, oJ tlic P 0 !' and into the strainer 1 place fresh grou,.. C 0 ‘ tec j over this 1 use the second strainer, con taining the grounds of the last operation. Now hot wafer is poured into the upper strainer, and percolates down into the pot, carrying with it all the goodness remaining I in the grounds, and the aroma and much of' the extractive of the fresh ground coffee. When the water has passed down, I throw away the now useless contents of the upper strainer, and upset the contents of the lower strainer into the po‘. Delicious coffee I ii now ready to he served to the appreciative household . — Scientific American. American Opium Cultivation —lt has long been known that the species of poppy from which opium is obtained, is indigenous in Northern Mexico, where it grows in great profusion in the extensive plateaux of that country. According to the report of Maj. ! Duffield, United .states Marshal in Arizona, this plant is also found growing in its natu- \ ral wild state in the valley of the Santa Cruz ; River. j Mr. Emanuel Weiss, of Pennsylvania, has j recently visited the regions where the pop- j py is found, for the purpose <>f examining j the country with reference to its availability J for opium culture. In a circular which he | has just issued, he exhibits .the China trade with England and the United States, from which it appear, that the British Govern ment exohangu opium’with the Chinese for tea, and transfers a large quantity of the lat- I ter article to the United States for which we pay in gold. If it lie true, as set forth in l I this circular, that “ two families with but \ : two able field hands Can put ten acres of | poppies under cultivation, which will yield ! about 1,200 pounds of merchantable opium. I containing nearly ten per cent, of morphine,” I it will prove one of the most profitable crops jin this country. The poppy matures rapidly, | and is harvested within 100 days from the S date of planting. The greater part of the year ’ could therefore he employed in the production of other cro{«, in stock-growing, or in mining 1 operations, for eithe of which the Territory ; of Arizona affords ample facilities. 1 The production of opium as an article of export would add materially to our corn j merce, and would remove the necessity for a large exportation of the precious metals. A'. Y. Tribune. Slave Trade Probably.—A sloop was overhauled in Mobile J."wer Bay early on Tuesday morning, July 17, by a United | Statc-S cutter, having on board 160 negroes, 1 whom the parties were about to carry to 1 Cuba and sell into slavery. The negroes had been collected at different employment offi- j ccs in Louisville, Nashville, and Memphis, under a promise ol SoO per month to work on a plantation. The captain and crew of the sloop were ironed and placed on board the sloop ot war Augustine for safe keeping, and will be forwarded t« Washington Joan or Are. —The Emperor Napoleon has just subscribed ten thousand francs to wards the e rection of a monument to Joan of Are, and the restoration of the donjon town: a! I’.- in, where ’-hr wa« tortured. 10L. I, NO. 33. A Irw < ure.for Cholera. Great interest is just now felt in the suc cessful cure of cholera by Dr. Kubini, of Naples. Camphor, as a cure for cholera, has long been used by both school* of medicine. 'and Dr. Kubini’s innovation consists in the ' method or preparing the remedy. The es sential fact- of the case 1 will n >w *t.Uo as they have been reported hero by an Lug- I hah geutieiuaa : Dr. llubini's prep aration consist* of equal ; parts by weight of camphor and spirits, and to the power thus obtained he attributes his j success in the treatment of th* disease— j And here 1 may say that the quantity of ; camphor which water will lake up is small. To obtain, therefore, the “ saturated spirits of camphor of llubini,” it is necessary to distil spirits of wine, aud get rid of so much of its water as will bring it to sixty degrees over proof, in which condition it will d® solve and hold iu solution ita owu weight of i camphor. With this ‘ saturated spirits of cample r," !’r. llubini, an eminent Neapolitan phyfi i eian, has treated in Naples five hundred and ninety-two cases of Asiaatic elioU ra, without j the loss of a single patient. Os .those five ; hundred and ninety-two eases, two hundred j were cured in the lioyal Alms House; eleven ■ in the Royal Poor House, and otic hundred j and sixty-six in tho Third Swiss Regiment jof .Wolff. That the three hundred and j seventy-seven eases treated by Dr. llubini in ■ the public institutions were all genuine eases i of Asiatic cholera, and some ‘ terribly sc | vero,’ and that all recovered, the evidence jof the following distinguished individuals, with their offi ial seals attached, sufficiently attests—ll Generale Governatore Ricci; 11 Maggioro Gominandanto Nicola Sodero; Generate Coummndante Filloppo Kuoci; Colonel KJuoro Wolff. ‘ The method oi i cure ' is as follows : ‘ When a man is seized ■ with the cholera he bhould at once,’ says llubini, 1 lie down, he well wrapped up ip blankets, and take, every five minutes, four drops ot the saturated tincture of camphor, in very severe cases the do es ought to be increased to from five to twenty drops every five minutes. In the caseof a man of advanced age, accustomed to wine and spirits, where the drug given in drops has no effect, give a small coffee-spoonful every five minutes, and in a very short tifne the coveted reaction will occur. Ordinarily, in two, or three, or four hours, abundant perspiration will come out, and then cure will foil w.’ ‘ The pre. ventive method,’ writes Dr. Dubini, ‘is this: let those who are in good health, while! liv- - ing in accordance with their tieosl habits, take every day tivo drops of the raturated spirits of camphor upon a small lump of su : gar (water must ne'er be used iwt a medium, lor the camphor will become solid, and its | curative properties cease,) and repeat the ; dose three or *four times a day. Hpices, , aromatic herbs, coffeC, tea, and spiritous , liquors should he avoided.’ | Ingenious Mechanism.—One of the i most rematkau.o curiosities in mcbiutuu*,. | recent invention, in London, is so worthy of that we send your readers a minute description. D a w?tch belonging tnt a member of Parliament, designed and made expressly for him, by James }' erguson Cule, the celebrated London sratcb and ohrouou*- jetcr maker. This unique packet chronoitt- J j eter litis a silver d>al, on which are fi* o I hands indicating respectively the Imart,-1 minutes and seconds ; tl>« days of the week ; ! the days of the m-mth; the month of the year, [t eorn-cts itself for the unequal months ; that is to say, change* when they have thirty and when thirty one days ; anil also corrects itself for leap year. Tt is so constructed that any flight agitation of the watch, such as the ordinary cxcreise of walking, winds it. Thus it may he worn and will go perfectly for years, without re quiring even to he opened, although it can also he wound by a key in the usual manner. The dial is arranged in five circles, and with 4 in the largest, the hour circle, is a semi circle, showing the moon’s age and phases by means of gold on a ground of blue steel. At the hack of the watch is a gold i'.dica tor for ascertaining the time in the dark by touch. The complication of the meehaiistti may be imagined, and yet the watch is of l ordinary dimensions and may he convenient' jly worn in a gentleman’s pocket. It Cost the sum of three hundred guineas. Mr. Cole the inventor, is at present engaged In bringing out n work on horology, wich,' it ia believed, will contain more interesting mat ter relative to the science than has eves be* I fore been published. *>• ' ■*» vbr. An Interesting Baptism —■“ Old Christ Church,” in Lancaster county, Vir ginia, was recently (during a convocation of clergymen of the Northern Neck,) the scene of a most interesting baptism-.! ceremony. An observer on the occasion g ves the follow ing description : s The ample shade of the grand old walptlt trees was soon shared bj an immense con course of people, anti ere the hour arrived, every scat and resting plaCc and nook was filled. There was a secret inf dehec pend ing the minds of that multitude, saying, i» the silence of their hearts, “yourftthers far generations past have worshipped within these venerablo and majestic walk.” The services of the day were very aolenrn. The pure white old Italian marble font, of three feet diameter, was to be need. Mark S. Ashburnc was baptized, and then present ed his little boy. “ Name this child,” wus pronoun ?«d by the ; rector officiating. j Ali was Mill in that kr*ge old churek, as the standing congregation had every «yo riv eted on the foirtal scene. But *hat a death like silence c-amo over theta when the lather aaswered for the child: » “ His name is J offers at Davie 1” > . The minister faltered as ho akwK- pro nounced that name. Tears bedewed many cheeks as they trickled down; hearts were bleeding, battle fields, the buried dcsifphe casemate and the prisoner—thi/ was ‘the ' <ecne rts* cam'- h- r *»v <mr rnind«. 1 Uv<7 /, 1. fl. SOI TIIJ.K.V HERAI.V. *4TE»6f »*?> 4X>ranHM. (J«*«c W 4 jar. ...... . 00 < r v **tpr ;. .. t .T Oft O:.** * ■; _ *'*:■* m+mi—... . ; 1 vt IXYOimt l« AI*VAX4K zff t*f Gif !:«• A<!r«rt • ti tt (t# of <>t> Itrißar usri khf i *w%» per of l>o Litm% tor tho i -ai.*i 4 #ot4r tor * it RvrtiAr; m ajm. Liberal <L.lurliont ma*i*t on conuacta lor mdttt *:*rroon|c running !br< smooth* U'ikrgfr ■■■■ui* mi NEWS, FACTS, AC Mr. £• wud, it ut staled, tUcUrcd moni emphatically, a few days since, that Mexican ijmxliua would be tctied within ninety day.. It is a-‘ rtod ia r..r;» that Au-tria bar consented to retire fr-jra the t7ermaTj Con fedvMtlon It is said tl at tho President has determ ined to remove Lav- Newton, Cvmtnumontr of Agricniture. Googratui i Uiry -iupatciic* liav* pa*»ed be- Iwctu the of England, and the Presi dent oftbe I nltcd States, on the completion' of the Atlantic cable. Tho river Danube flows through two Kingdoms aud empires. It begins ass Protestant xituh t, (ben becomes a Rumau Catholia river, and fitmlly turns Taric. Tho Uoxo CtHirUr says that the story re cently published of is negro who hod de tained a white woman several days in th® woods, and. at her request had been skinnhd alive, is s lie twit of whole sloth. A prnat wigwam m beirur creeled in Phil adelphia for the Aconijtmodalion of the Coe veation. It will be the Jgiost extensive pyramid of canvass ever erected in the Uni ted States, and will seat Tft,Ooo persons. The Freed men's Boren u In Princess Anne c-mr-ty, Va , bars a- eldnyl that a ws gm who sto'o a gentleman * br> udiag sow, and kept her until she bad pigs, is entitled 1 1 the pigs if he returns tie sow. Mr. Rogers, on the 28th July, m*Jc * minority report from the .To lidary Fommit teo, showing the perjury and utter worth lessness ot the ovidsece to ssttbliSl: (hb al ludg'-d guilt ol' Mr. Davis, and others, in the tuc-assiuLtion ot Mr. Lincoln. George l'.l’.i jtt, (Miss Evans,) after s*cing leer la-1 .book, “ 1 etix Ilglt,” out of press, took the money she rcceivod for it, t'2o,flOO nnd went abroad, to svoid reading i blc notice* of it. A Kziiwta papir says: ,l Two men of tho boro thieving fraternity danoed in tbo air on Lightning Creek one day last week. They immediately retired to a hole ground after fhtir exorcise." Reports received from various porU of Illinois, Wiseonain, lowa and Indiaaa.M* to tho effect that tho wheat crop will bo more than an average oqc in respect to both quantify and quality. The barley,' oat, and rye crops also protnise well. Mm per ot- Mns »rnn.\'T*f—Tt was positively provedj on tire examination of Merritt, tlmt tho Secretary of War. Edfia M. FtantoD, jaid heVwceu five and six thousand dollar-t for his serripcs as a witness before i htt'-mtht ary eornmiwdon ’ liroehh/* KdtfU <toMi>RAM*T*n;-aTh* Now Vofk (Jidsea says: J ,‘ Wc bive authority to ooutradiaUtlao rupoft .that, Jiff. .Davii lepudiatea. stiy por tion of Col. Craven's Ito A. On thp contra ry, Mr. Davis lore testimony no hiicr than last Tuesday loHhc tnarOelous accuracy with WnICQ tllff COflaaa v s«yv... * V., .• »* Priaon Idfe addjng tbit be vitdied Cra vea badmvt hutn so accurate, as toms of tho, reported remarks about South or a politician* andgoncr'alswore extremely embarrassing.'" I'n-ntice says that tb* man who to tlitf adoi litnent of (tonfbderale grave* would aeateWy hesitate tw violate tbem Tnr l*irTr,ADft.M!fA v fiSfr#*v+ufS‘ro rf* L'noivttw ui* nv UrAidite—Tho eom-spon-t dent oi' the New York. Cwasnaercfo/ Wfitco from i’bil.Hlelpl.ia : The tA'mvcntion to bo keld here in At gust iindet tho dircotiwn of Mersrs. Doobltie and Doinpsny it re*arded with great disfa vor here Tbn returning r tldiera and fin companies Dooly and openly dcckro that they intend to break up the gatheiaWg, autl a amvetnont Ibokibg to that cad is now laid, to be on foot. ' Thuro are a large number of in valid and oobvnlescoot aoidieca atitt about tb*r, hospitals here who aOtiate to a conwdetabie extent with the firemen, anfl assert that they can prevail tho balding of aEyaued! mart in g, especially WpuWiO mntmaawt is agpansf it. Ant violetiee,’ bowovor, wib of coortobe Enmnrarily headed off audptrtbhdtL hartaa rive prepartttens art- being made to tender a warm greeting and welcome to those atten ding tK£Pe#ftvrMJoioa*€**teß*i«» wWoh iucet? in h’cptembw»r adoL The pmpoi-ftloTto p toll lion and it half of dollars ftp the ffepsfir «# the IcveCs of tho M» saippt rivor, wat re jected by the Roprasengatigea on tim 27-th ult. The House that would not vote this sum for the preservation of proper ty (h Which mHJioiwi of both whftn hid blacks arc ad deOply interested, appropriated cloven millions w*U a half to continue the Freedmtn’a Bureau in the Sooth for oao year longer. The repair of the levoiJ Would have secured gt&d wagt* and good homes tot a'millionof freed men ; while tho RarceW 4teb not promke ahcai smplkmrg that k eot ae- OBftd to them by **w without ka agency. Tiir- ALTY st (t*nTca -J-Aw*fl»appy PrUMnan inveoH r me t lueklc&ely aanomrod Just at the pmseut jtutegare bia diaqpvcqr rs i«* cartridge and a terribly ex plosive Lufiet, two eecreta which it la »>d WiH ffrakd'the PrnMart army ItfviWeiMd ted so tUtercnof i is thr fhavammat ikdtth® secret shall a Aeao3pc # that,ibe mao iaguard wl night day by *; quad o| twelve aol diofc ; every letter whmh he writes « in spected, and he b not allowed to eommum cate e illy with -awjr pevwte, oatept i« tea fdemmoeofhisgward. Balbte aWefte* alty for genius. . ... g . 1 #• ;1 A named Horace Greeley has been arm ted ia Charleatoa for the aanier kuiUS- Khett. Ua coofi-saea that h»Md another negro, named John the deed. . ... If rtfs rirc tl&t tod gftve asi/hjeet to jdt> on, we would ks that it a h«t a repeWtkm of history ; for was not Mr. Rhett, the great advocate of ncecsbiee, killed by Horace Greeley an the fcpreaefttbUm dl tka anti slavery feelingnf the John Bull — Ave/Hsta Pr-i«-