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nledicines, that the neither he kept waiting* nor able to be served with the \vion 0 medicine, from too rnanV’° rts carricl in basket n*nil,<-r. Oh .■r.auende.l ..| U T'l , n pail and brush, and bc ‘l* e “ r ” will. Ilia lime-washing- Ai first n was difficult, as has been said tu ■ i ,1,. i,id to volunteer tor this induce llie lu , . | Mr. Ivubv directed service, amt , much nn-umenl and persunsiou to wards .heir supped leaf o emer i„„ die coliasc* where people were Ivfne sick- This was not the rea son,’however, as Warrender ex plained, with downcast eyes when Mr. Kirby wondered what ailed the lads, that they rail all sorts of dangers all day long, and shnked this one. •“Tis not the danger, I fancy, said Warrender ; “they are not so much afraid of the lever as of going with me, I’m sorry to say.” “Afraid of you 1” said Mr. Iyu by, laughing. “ What harm could you do them t” “ ’Tis my temper, Sir, I'm a fraid,” “What is the matter with your temper ? 1 see nothing amiss with it.” “And I hope you never mnv, Sir : but i can t answer for myself, though at this moment l know the folly of such passion as these kid.- have seen in me. Sir, it has been mv wav to be violent with them ; nnd 1 don't wonder they slink away from me. But —” “I am really quite surprised,” said Mr. Kirby”. “This is all news to me. I should have said you were a remarkably staid quiet, par ser vering man ; and, 1 am sure very kind hearted.” “You have seen us all at such a time you know Sir 1 It is not only ihe misfortunes of the time that so bers us, but when there is so much to do for one’s neighbours, one’s mind does not want to be in a pas sion—so to speak.” “Very true. The best part of us is roused, and puts down the worse, i quite agree with, you, War renti er.” The boys wore not long in learning that there was nothing now to fear from Warrender. No one was sent staggering from a box on the ear. No hair was ever pulled ; nor was any bov ever shaken in his jacket. Instead of doing such things, War render mule companions of his young assistants, taught them to do well whatever they put their hands to, and made them willing and hap py. While two or three thus wait ed on him, others carried home the clean linen that his daughter and a neighbor or two were frequently ready to send out : and they daily changed the water in the tubs where ."D the foul linen was deposited. Oth ers again, swept and washed down the long steep street, making it look almost as clean as if it belong ed to a Dutch village. After the autumn pig-killing, there were few or no more pigs. The poor suf ferers eouid not attend to them ; could not afford, indeed, to buy them ; and had scarcely any food to give them. Though this was a to ken of poverty, it was hardly to be lanterned in itself, under the cir- cumstances ; for there is no foulness whatever, no nastiness that is to he found among the abodes of men so dangerous to health as that of pig styes. There is mismanagement in this. People take for granted ttint the pig is a dirty animal, and give him no chance of being clean ; whereas, if they would try the ex periment of keeping his house swept, and putting his food always in one place, and washing him with soap and water once a week, they would titid that he knows how to keep his pavement clean, and that he runs grunting to meet his wash ing wii h a satisfaction not to he mis taken. Such was the conclusion of the hoys who undertook the purifi cation of the two or three pigs that remained in Bleaburn. As for the empty styes, they were cleaner than many of die cottages. After a con versation with Mr. Kirby, Farmer Neale bought all the dirt-heaps for manure 5 and in a few days they were all trundled away in barrows —even to the stable manure from the Plough and Harrow—and heap ed together at the farm, and well shut down with a casing of earth, beat firm with spades. Bovs real ly like such work as this, when they are put upon it in the right way. They were less dirty than they would have been with tumbling about and Quarrelling and cuffin'’ in the filthy street ; in a finer glow of exercise ; with a more wholesome appetite ; and far more satisfaction in eating, because they had earned their food. Moreover, they began to feel themselves litile friends of the grown people—of Mr. and Mrs. Kirby, and the Doctor, and the Warrenders—instead of a sort of reptiles, or other plague ; and Mr. Kirby astonished them so by a bit of amusement now and then, when he had time, that they wohld have called him a conjuror, if he had not been a clergyman. He made a star —any star they pleased—as large as the comet, just by making them look thiough a tube*; and lie showed them how he look a drop of foul water from a stinking pool, and pul it between glasses in a hole in his window-shutter ; and how the drop became like a pond, and was found to be swarming with loath some live creatures, swimming about, and trying to swallow each other. After these exhibitions, it is true the comet seemed much less wonderful and terrible than before; hut then the drop of water was in finitely more so. The lads studied Mr. Kirby's cistern —so carefully covered, and so regularly cleaned out ; and they learned how the wa ter be drank at dinner was filtered ; and then they went and scoured out the few-tubs there were in the village, and consulted their neigh bours as to how the public of Blea burn could be persuaded not to throw tilth and refuse into the stream at the upper part, defiling it for those who lived lower down. One morning at the beginning of December —on such a morning as was now sadiy frequent, drizzly, and far too warm for the season— the lads who went up to the brow saw the same sight that had been visible in thesame place one even ng in the preceding August. There was a chaise, and an anxious post boy, and a ladv talking with one of” the cordon. Mr. Kirby had learned what friends Mary Pickard had in England, and which of them lived nearest, and he had taken the liber ty of writing to declare the condi tion ofthc Good Ladv. His letter brought the friend, Mrs. Henderson, who came charged with affectionate messages to Mary from her young daughters,-arid a fixed determina tion not to return without the inva lid. “To think,” as she said to Mary when she appeared by the side of her mattress, “that you should be in England, suffering in this way, and we not have any idea what you were going through !” Mary smiled, and said she had gone through nothing terrible on her o*vn account. She might have been at Mr. Kirby’s for three weeks past, but that she really preferred being where she was. “Do not ask her now, Madam, where she likes to be,” said Mr. Kirby, who had been brought down the street by the bustle of a strang er's arrival. “Do not consult her at all, but take her away, and nurse her well.” “Yes,” said the Doctor; “lay her in a good air, and let her sleep, and feed her well ; and she will soon come round. iShe is better —even here.” “Madam,” said Widow Johnson’s feeble but steady voice, “be to her •what she has been to us ; raise her up to what she was when I first heard her step upon those stairs, and we shall say you deserve to be herjfriend.” “You will go, will not you?” whispered Mrs. Kirby to Mary. “You will let us manage it all for you ?” “Do what you please with me,” was the reply. “You know best Iniw to get me well soonest. Only let me tell Auntv that I will come again, as soon as I*am able.” “Better not,” said the prudent Mrs. Kirby. “There is no saying what may lie the condition of this place by the spring. And it might keep Mrs. Johnson in a stale of* ex pectation not fit for one so feeble. Better not.” “Very well,” said Mary. Mrs. Kirbv thought of something that her husband had said of Mary ; that he had never seen an\ r one with such power of will and com mand so docile. She merely pro mised her aunt frequent news of her; agreed with those who doubt ed whether she could bear the jolt ing of any kind of carraige on the road up to the brow ; admitted that though she could now stand, she could not walk across the room ; al lowed herself to be earned on her mattress in a carpet, by four men, up to the chaise ; and nodded in re ply to a remark made by one little girl to another in the street, and which the doctor wished she had not heard, that she looked “rarely bad.” The landlady at O seemed, by her countenance, to have much the same opinion of Mary’s looks when she herself brought out the glass of wine, for which Mrs. Hen derson stopped her chaise at the door of the Cross Keys. The land lady brought it herself, because none of her people would give as much as a glass of cold water, hand to hand with any one who came from Bleaburn. The landlady stood shaking her head, and saying she had done ihe best she could; she had warned the young lady in tiine. “Butyou were quite out in ynur warning,'’ said Mary. “You were sure I should have the fever : but 1 have not.” “You have not!” “1 have had no disease—no com plaint whatever. lam only weak from fatigue.” “If is quite true,” said Mrs. Hen derson, as the hostess turned to her for confirmation. “Good wine like this, the fresh air of our moors, and the. easy sleep that com£s to Good Ladies like her, are the only medi cines she wants.” The landlady curtisied low—said the payment made should supply a glass of wine to sombody at Blea burn, and bade the driver proceed. After a mile or two, he turned his head, touched his hat, and directed the ladies attention to a bottle of wine, with loosened cork, and a cup which the hostess had contrived to smuggle into the pocket of the chaise. She was sure the young lady would want some wine betore they stopped. “How kind every body is !” said Mary, with swimming eyes. Mrs. Henderson cleared her throat, and looked oit of the window on her side. (Concluded next week ) jMrsrtllnng. ANECDOTE OF RUBINI. Some thirty years ago. the little town of Bergamo, in Italy, became eminent ff r its chorus-singers, while by a singular contrast, the actors were in the inverse ratio but indif ferent. Some of the former became, afterwards, most distinguished, and indeed immortalized themselves throughout Italy as singers, compo sers, ancl musicians of the first emi nence, in the names of Donizetti, Cridelii, Leonora Biancho and Ma rio ; all of whom commenced their career as simple chorus-singers at Bergamo. Among other aspirants to fame, at this period, was a young man of very humble extraction, and to use a common saying, “poor as a church mouse,” but withal of a most amiable disposition—unassum ing, and much beloved by his com panions. In Italy the orchestra are not, or were not, so recherche as in France; in the former country you enter the shop of a tailor, and, ten to one, you find the master thereof playing “first fiddle,” while his ap prentices, by way of winding up the day agreeably, will make their appearance at the theatre with their various orchestral instru ments. The subject of this anec dote was one of this class ; and, in order to contribute to the support of an aged mother, united the functions of a chorister with the less harmoni ous,” but more lucrative occupa tion of an humble snip. One morn ing it chanced that it was his good fortune to be sent to the celebrated singers, Nozari, in order to accom modate him with a pair of inex pressibles. After gazing on him at tentively, Nozari asked the boy if he had not seen him before. “1 be lieve so, signor,” he replied ; “I have seen you at the theatre while l was engaged in the choruses.” “Have you anything of a voice ! ” asked Nozari. “No,” was the re ply, 1 can hardly go up to sol.” “Let us try, my little fellow,” said Nozari good humoredly, as he ap proached the piano. “Now begin your gamut.” Thisthe youth timid ly attempted, but when he arrived at llie awful sol , he jjot quite out of breath. “ Now, out with la “ said Nozari. “Impossible, Signor, I can not.” “Out with it, you rascal.” “La —la—la”—cried the lad.— “Now for si.” “O, Signor, I can’t.” “Out with it, or I'll out of the win dow with you !” roared Nozari. “Oh, don’t be angry, Signor—l'll try,” exclaimed the terrified hoy, beginning with la—si —la —si and ending with do. “That will do,” said his perceptor, patting him caressingly on the head, “and,” con tinued Nozari with an air oftriumph, “follow it up, and you shall become the first tenor singer in Italy.” Nozari’s prophecy was realized ; and the poor chorus-boy through the introduction of a pair of inex pressibles, became. “Tl jrrimo tenor d'ltalia ,” and the destined possessor of the immense fortune of two mil lions—and his name was —Rubini ! Vulgarity—u nsuccessfu l a fFecta tion. Fashion—successful affecta tion. The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new. A bachelor is like a jug without a handle ; there’s no taking hold of him. When a man is unhappy, people are ready to find him faulty, lest they should be forced to pity him. It is proper to have the conscious ness of having done well, but it is the height of vanity to wish to be informed of it. Some confine their view to the present, some extend it to futurity. The butterfly flutters round the meadows, the eagle crosses the seas. Public opinion is a jurisdiction which the wise man will neter en tirely recognize, or entirely deny. Philosophy, like medicine, has abundance of drugs, few good rem edies, and scarcely any specifics. The pains we take in books or arts, which treat of things remote from the use of life, is a busy idle ness. The glutton is the lowest souled of all animals, the butcher’s boy is to him an Atlas bearing heaven on his shoulders. Knowledge will not be acquired without pains and application. It is troublesome and like deep dig ging for pure waters ; but when once you come to the spring, they rise up and meet you. There cannot be a more glorious object in creation than a human be ing, replete with benevolence, med itating in what manner he might render himself most acceptible to his Creator, by doing most good to his creatures. There is nothing on earth so lu dicrous as the affected caution of a fool, after you have humbugged him. Perhaps the most acceptable kind of flattery consists less in eulogizing a man’s actions, or talents, than in decrying those of his rival. It is only the bitter time of afflic tion that the sancluaiw of man’s heart is open ; in quiet times the temple of Janus is closed. The vain abhor the vain ; but the gentle and unassuming love one another. It is the effect of sympathy with the latter, the want of it by the former. Hard boiled eggs are said to be a cure for love. They lie so heavy on the stomach, as to make the poor sufferer forget the weight on the heart. THE BEAUTIFUL FLOWERS. Beautiful flowers’, why are they not in every home ? There is no dwelling into which some ray of sunshine does not enter. The earth is cheap ; the l.ittle one may want can be had for asking ; and surely there are some in a family with sufficient ingenuity, be it ever so untutored, to nail together a few rough boards, and make a box for the smiling daises, or the red lipped rose. It is a pleasure, as the toiling dame busies herself with her ardu ous duties, to see, in some cozy I nook, or on some cleanly window seat, the pietty fragrant things, speaking all unconsciously of the heavenly Father’s kindness in en riching the dreary world-path through which his children travel to a better home. The heart of the hard working man grows kindlier, and softens even towards the task master from which he earns his slight pittance, as their rich and dainty colors feast his eyes. The little ones are wealthy if a single velvet leaf is bestowed upon them ; for they see nothing so beautiful out of doors, poor things! nothing but red bricks and damp pavements, in whose grey and black crevices not a blade of grass dare grow. A little sufferer laid in a high, dreary garret; and the beams above his head, and on every side were black and foul. His cheek was scarlet with the flush of fever, and the unnatural light of his eve flashed in the dimness of coming evening, like a diamond in its gloomy bed of anthracite. Some thing told the child that death was busy with its heart. It might have been the heavy struggling for breath ; it might have been an an gel; for angels gather in bands around the despised couch of pov erty. “ Mother,” he whispered, and a pale, bent woman knelt beside him, “ mother, is there one blown now? look, look !” For the twen tieth time the sickly woman lifted the tiny box of violets, and ihe red blood rushed to her face as she lie held one little, drooping bud, just beginning to unfold. iShe carried it to the boy, the child, almost an in fant ; and a sweet smile lighted up his innocent features. “ Put* it down, mother, where 1 can look at it till I die.” With a wild sob the poor widow placed it. upon his pillow, and watched his glassy eagerly as they watch ed the flower. Hours passed ; the brow grew whiter; the fingers that she clasped, more clammy; the round lips that had so often called her mother, more purple, fa ding into a bluish wniic, tremulous, as though the failing voice strug- O 00 gled for utterance. IShe placed her ear closer to his little face, and heard him utter distinctly, “ Good-bye mamma ; lake care of my violets.” And after the rough pine coflin was carried away and covered with the mould, while her worn fingers were nervously stitching on the ill-paid for garment, the spirit eyes of that mother could see a vision of beauty filling the wretched garret with light and loveliness, a vision of her early buried child, in the pure, white robes of heaven, bending above the box of violets.— Olive Branch. • An Irish gentleman was in com pany with a beautiful young ladv, to whom he was paying his ad dresses ; when on giving a shudder, she made use of the common ex pression that someone was walking over her grave. Pat, anxious for every opportunity of paying a com pliment to his mistress, exclaimed : “By ihe powers, madam, but I wish I was the happy man !” “What a dreadful prodigality some people manifest,” remarked Mrs. Partington after a call upon a neighbor. “There’s Mrs. Mayweed couldn’t be satisfied with the old bihle, that’s been a handloon in the family from the time immemorable ; she must go and get one with the apothecary in it. If people are go ing to read sich biblesjreligion will get to be a real drug.” And the pious old lady sought her closet to open her heart in prayer. editorial Cleanings. Woman with all her accumula tion of minute disquietude, her weakness, and her sensibility, is but a meagre item in the catalogue of humanity ; but roused by a suf lieient motive to forget al! these, or. rather continually forgetting them, because she has other and nobler thoughts to occupy her mind, wo man is truly and majestically great. — Mrs. Ellis . Vice does not depend so much on a perversion of the unde:standing, as ot the imagination and pas sions, and on habits originally founded on these. A vicious man is generally sensible enough that his conduct is wrong; he knows that vice is contrary both to his duty and to his interest ; and therefore, all labored reasoning, to satisfy his un derstanding of these truths, is use less, because the disease does not lie in the understanding. The evil is seated in the heart. The imag ination and passions are engaged on its side, and to them the cure must be'applied. * *■ * ‘lfany thing can rouse, it is the power of lively and pathetic description, which traces and lays open their hearts through all their windings and disguises, makes them see and confess their own characters in all their deformity and horror, impress es their hearts, and interests their passions by all the motives of love, gratitude and fear, the prospect of rewardsand punishments and what ever other motives religion or na ture may dictate. — Gregory. On tht Beauty of the Psalms. —The fairest productions of human wit, after a few perusals, like gathered flowers, wither in our hands, and lose the ir fragraney ; but these un fading plants of paradise become, as we are aeustoined to them, still more and more beautiful ; their bloom appears to be daily height ened ; fresh odours are emitted, and new sweets extracted from them. He who hath once tasted their excellencies, will desire to taste them yet again ; and he who tastes them oftenest will relish them best. — Home. Crowding our memory is no more improving our understanding, than filling our coffers with pebbles is enriching ourselves ; and what is commonly the name of learning, what usually denominates us very learned is, really, no more than our memory heavily and uselessly bur thened.—Anon. The inconsiderate and thought less may laugh at vice— may give soft terms to very had actions, or speak of them as if they were rath er matter of jest than abhorrence ; but whoever will reflect whence all the misery of mankind arises— what the source is of all the evils we lament ; he cannot but own that it anything ought to make us seri ous — if we ought lodetest anything, it should be that from which such terrible ellccts are derived. For llic very same reason that we prefer health to sickness—ease to pain, we must prefer virtue to vice. Moral evil seems to me to have a necessary connexion with natural. .According to my notion of things, there is no crime but what creates pain, or has a tendency to create it to others, or themselves; every criminal is such, by doing something that is directly, or in its consequences, hurtful to himself, or to a fellow creature. — Anon. Man can of himself give birth to no new idea, can originate no new thought. But some men may be made mediums of ideas which are directly received from attendant spirits ; while the mass of mankind can only receive ideas from other men, and in their turn communicate these same ideas to others like tben'iselves ? they act like interme diate wheels to extend the action or perhaps vary its direction ; and a third clagsis found so stupid that no important idea “can be beat into them;” they may, perhaps, (ill the lowest offices of the social machine shop, may like posts and sills sus tain some of the more perfect parts, but can enter into none of the men tal or moral movements of the age. As man’s natural province is to vary and convert to his convenience the various physical forces, so in a higher view he may adapt the spir itual and moral influences he re ceives, to the special wants of bis mind, or having modified them by bis own peculiarities, transfer them to those who are in a capacity to re ceive them. As many of the mo tions of machinery are reversed by intermediate pullies or the crossing of belts, so those powers which were originally given to man for di rect and useful purposes, are by him converted to such as are quite opposite to the primary design. One powerful engine is often made to set in motion many little wheels. So in the intellectual world, one great mind will put in motion ideas, which require q#ite a community of smaller minds to bring down into the numerous ulti mates of -thought.— Anon. Women have the choice of many means of bringing their principles into exercise, and of obtaining in fluence, both in their own domestic sphere, and in society at large. Among the most important of these is conversation ; an engine so pow erful upon the minds and characters of mankind in general, that beauty fades before it, and wealth in com parison is but as leaden coin. If match making were iudeed the meat object of human life, I should scarcely dare to make this assertion, since few men choose women tor iheir conversation, where wealth or beauty are to be had. I must, however, think more noblj’ of the female sex, and believe them more solicitous tomaintaiu affection after the match is made, than simply to be led to the altar, as wives whose influence will that day be laid aside with their wreathes of white roses, and laid aside forever. If beauty or wealth have been the bait in this connexion, the bride may gather up her wreath of rosps, and place them again upon her polished brow ; nay, she may be stow the treasures of her wealth without reserve, and permit the husband of her choice to “ Spoil lier goodly lands to guild bis waste ; ” she may do what she will—dress, bloom or descend from affluence to poverty ; but if she has no intel lectual hold upon her husband’s heart, she must inevitably become that most helpless and pitiable of earthlv objects—a slighted wife.— Mrs. Ellis. FRIEND OF THE FAMILY. E. J. rURSE, CITY PRINTER. Proceedings of Council. SAVANNAH, October 24 th, 185 h Council met. Present His Honor R. Wayne, Mayor; Aldermen Posey, Turner, Cohen, Mallery, Screven, Griffin, Walker and Purse. The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed. The Information and Fine Dockets were read and confirmed. Reports Read and Adopted. The Committee on Streets and Lanes, to whom was referred the Petitions of sundry lot holders, to have removed the obstructions on Lot No. 24, Curry Town, on Montgome ry Street; to open a street to the Hebrew Cemetery, and to open West Broad Street from Rail Road Street to the City line, re spectfully report in favor of the same. Hiram Roberts and Solomon Cohen, Esqrs, have with a praiseworthy liberality offered to give to the City whatever ot their ground is required for widening West Broad Street; and the Committee are of the opiniou that other patriotic citizens, in view of the in creased value that will be given to the prop erty in that section, will be induced to follow their example. The Committee offer the following Resolution : Resolved , That the Mayor appoint five freeholders, to act under and in conformity with the piovisions of the sth and Gth Sec tions of an Act passed by the Legislature of Georgia, in December 1839. TITOS. PURSE. j Com. on JOHN F. POSEY. I Streets THOS.*M. TURNER, s and ROBET H. GRIFFIN, j Lancs. His Honor the Mayor appointed as such Committee, Thomas Purse. Thomas M Tur ner, John W Anderson, Robert Luchlisou, and Richard R. Cuyler, Esqrs. The Committee on Streets and Lanes to report upon the Petition of lot holders on Jones Street, relative to front steps, made a verbal report adverse thereto, and were, on motion, discharged. The Committee on Streets and Lanes, to whom was referred the petition of H. A. Crane, through Aid. Purse, Chairman, re ported verbally that they had made arrange ments to abate the nuisance. Petitions. The Petition of O. H. Lufburrow. Attor ney for Mrs. E. Smith, praying the renewal of lease of Lot No. fi, New Franklin Ward, was read and referred to the Committee on Public Sales and City Lots. Resolutions’ Read and Adopted. By Alderman Purse, seconded by Aider man Walker, Resolved , That the lot holders in Wash ington and Green Wards, be allowed three months to complete their pavements. Resignation Real and Accepted . The Resignation of Donald M. Mclntosh, as Inspector of Turpentine for the City of Savannah, was read and accepted. On motion of Alderman Purse, the Clerk of Council was directed to give the usual no tice than an Election for Inspector of Tur pentine, for the City of Savannah, will be hold at the next Regular Meeting of Coun cil. Amount of Accounts passed, $1,578,19. On motion. Council adjourned until 10 o’clock Monday next. EDWARD G. WILSON, Clerk of Council. Board of Health. Sexton's Report of Interments for the week ending October 23, 1850. Anthony Bet ran, 34 years, Billions Fever, New Orleans, non-resident; John 11. Brown, 49 years, brought deed to town. South Carolina, not.-resi dent—lnquest ; Ann Dolan, 16 years. Congestive Billious Fever, Ireland,, non-resident; Margaret McGrath. 58 years, Fever, Ireland non-resident ; Frederick Srhundat,* 25 years Prussia, non resi dent; Zachary Russel, 3 £ \eaf-q Spasms, Savan nah, resident; William Hogan 7 mouths, Infantine, Savannah, non-resident; William Storbuck. 6 .Years. Billiou* Fever, - Florida, non-resident; Marv * , 15 years, Bidious Fever I:eland, non-re sident ; John McMahan, 21 years, lever Ireland non-resident; Andrew F. Bennett, 35 ye-rs, con sumption, South Carolina, resident— Total, 11. *Died at the Poor House and Hospital. Black and Colored * —Charles, 15 years, Fever; |Wtt. 6 years, Fever; infant, 6 days, Infantine ; g'fant, 3 days, Spasms ; John, 10 davs, Convul sions ; Infant ten day 9, Spasms; Infant, 8 days, ..‘•■anting; Infant, 10 clays. Cholera Infantum ; In ‘ant, 6 days, Spasms—Total, 9. T ~ B. Lathrop, Sexton. „ E - J - HAEDE N, Chairman p*o tem B. H, o. A, T. Lawrence, Sec. THE FRIEXD OF THE FAMILY SAVANNAH, OCTOBER 26, 1850.^ TO CLTJB3. The Friend ot the Family and Arthur’s Home Gazette will be sent for one year for three dollars, in advance. The Friend of the Family and Godey’s Lady’s Book or Graham Magazine for oi, e year for three dollars and fifty cents, in ad vance. The Friend of the Family and the Daily Morning News for one year for five dollars in advance, Or three copies of the Friend for $5,00 “ SrtVcn “ “ “ “ 10,00 “ Twelve 4 ‘ “ tc 15 00 “ Twenty “ “ it 20 00 Oj The Friend of the Family, Arthur’s Home Gazette, either Graham’s Magazine or Godey’s Lady’s Book, for one year will bo sent, for five dollars in advance. Wo would call the attention of the public to the advertisements of Mr. Job,, Poole, wholesale and retail dealer in Paint# Oils. ice. House, Sign, and Ship Painting, Gilding, Graining, and Glazing, are also ex ecuted by him in the best possible manner and with great promptitude. It will be seen by reference to the advertisement of Messrs. McArthor & Morse that they have on hand a very extens ve as sortment of Tin Ware, comprising everv arti cle in their line of business. Also a great variety of Stoves of all descriptions, not to be surpassed for durability and excellence of workmanship. We invite attention to the advertise me at of Mr. J B. Cubbedge. in another!column. He has been at considerable expense to enlarge and otherwise improve the appearance of bis store, and is now laying in a very hand some stock of Books and Stationery and fancy articles, and is prepared to suit almost any customer in his line. Mr. C. deserves the support of our citizen and we cordially re commend his establishment to the public. HP 1 Since the rains of last week, we have been experiencing some of the finest weath er, the real bracing, lively, comfortable sorr, surely all trnco of Break Bono fever, and such like disagreeables, must entirely disap pear under its health giving influences. • Arrival of the Steamship Florida. The Florida arrived in this City’, on Tues day Morning at half past 8 o’clock, having made the run from New York in G3 hours, with 202 cabin and 89 steerage passengers, an unusual large number for a single trip. Among them, were many of our own citi zens, whom we felt pleasure in welcoming home. Depopulation of North Carolina. The Fayetteville Carolinian says, that large numbers of persons, comprising men of substance as well as the poorer classed, are preparing to remove from that State, to the West and South West. Inquest. Mr. Coroner Eden held an Inquest on Thursday afternoon on the body of a negro man named George, the property of Mr. James S Wilkins, of Bryan Connty. The body was found in the Canal on Thursday morning, about three miles and a half from the city, which lie left on Wednesday Inst, on his way to the Patent Brick Press, where he was employed. Verdict,‘‘found drown’d.'’ The Electrical Eel. Dickens in “Household Words” gives the following description of this marvellous fish, which is in the possession of the proprietors of the Royal Polytechnic Institution, in Re gent Street. London : “This specimen of the Gymnotus Electri* cus was caught in the River Amazon, and was brought over to this country by Mr. Potter, where it arrived on the 1 2th of Au gust, 1838, when he displayed it to the pro prietors ofthe Adelaide Gallery. In the first instance there was some difficulty in keeping him alive, for whether from sickness, or sul kiness, he refused food of every description, and is said to have eaten nothing from the day he was taken in March, 1838. to the I9;h of the following October. He was confided upon his arrival to the care of Mr. Bradley, who placed him in an apartment the tempe rature of which could be maintained at about seventy-five degrees Fahrenheit, and acting upon the suggestions of Baron Humboldt, I® endeavored to feed him with bits ot boiled meat, worms, frogs, fish, and bread, which were all tried in succession. But the ani mal whouid not touch these. The r ,nn adopted by the London fishmongers for I# 1 * tening the common eel was then had recoup to ; —a quantity of bullock's blood was put in to the the water, care bein': taken that it should be changed daily, and this was atten ded with some beneficial effects, as the ani mal gradually improved in health. In month of October it occurred to Mr. Brad ley to tempt him with some small fish, ! 1 the first gudgeon thrown into the water l- e darted at and swallowed with avidity, from that period the same diet has been continued and he is now fed three times a day, and u[ - on each occasion is given two or three carp, or perch, or gudgeon, each weighing l ,tlH two to three ounces. In watching liisnio'e ments we observed, that in swimming about he seems to delight in rubbing himself B£ alllSt the gravel which forms the bed above which which he floats, and the water immediflt* becomes clouded with the mucus from wh 1 * 1 he thus relieves the surface of his body- When this species of fish w T s first discos ered, marvellous accounts respecting h iea were transmitted to the Royal Society- 1 was even said that in the River SuiinaW, the western province of Guiana, son e e* ted twenty feet long. The present men is forty inches in length : and ® eighteen inches round the body, 00 physiognomy justifies the description £ by one of the early narrators, who ie o that the Gymnotus “ resembles one o
