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TIMES &BENTINEL COLUMBUS.GEORGIA. SATURDAY EVENING, JULY 17, 1858. The Modified Usury Law. —The modified usury law, as passed by the last Legislature, went into effect on the first of the present month. By this law money can be borrowed and loaned, according to the terms agreed upon between the parties. There is no restriction with regard to the rate. This is as it should be. There are times and seasons when money may be very valuable to an individual for a few days, and when he may feel justified in giving £an unusually high rate of interest. There may be other periods, as at pres ent, when rates are unusually low. But in a mat ter of this kind there should be no legal restriction. And lienee the policy and propriety of the new law. It cannot but exercise a beneficial influence and afford facilities which have not heretofore ex isted.—Phil. Enquirer. A move certainly in the right direction and we hope it will be seconded by our own legislature. It has ever been oui opinion that usury laws were both unjust and impo litic. They work injustice to the lender, injury to the borrower, and are an interference with the laws of trade, the free and unrestricted operation of which is necessary to the largest production and highest interests of commerce They are unjust to the lender because they violate his right of prop erty. They make a discrimination his capital by limiting the profit which he may make Irom its use. A man has the same right to the current, market value of his money that another has to the market value of his shoes, hats or any other article of tiaffic. Both are legitimate species of property and, in the view of the po litical economist, it is about as sensible to fix the value o the one as the other- It would certainly be more conso nant to justice to determine the value oiboth, than to say that the one shall be allowed to make only seven per cent while the other may make a hundred. An unaccountable. and,;toJour mind, unreasoning prejudice, exists and has always existed against the money lender A man has money of which he makes a loan to a merchant under the promiso of twelve per cent, interest. This, the mer chant invests in merchandize, and sells the same at a nett profit of twenty-four per cent. The latter is called a clever, honest, humane fellow, while the former is brand ed as a miser and extortioner; yet it would puzzle ingenui ty itself to discriminate between the humanity and morality of the two transactions. Neither, we presume, in making their respective operations had any object of general brnev. olence to subserve. Both were controlled and actuated by motives of self-interest. Both pocketed the same profit.— If these profits, in each instance, were exhorbitant, or ex acted under circumstances of oppression, they were com mon violators of the 6amelaw, and were doubtless im pelled by the same principle—avarice. Both might have been.right or both wrong. Usury laws are an injury to the borrower, because they do not accomplish the purpose for which they are design ed. It is notorious that the legal rate of interest is not re garded in contracts for loaning or borrowing money.— Whenever the borrower can afford to pay the interest de manded. he will.payjt, unless he can do better When the average of profit in other branches of business is greatly above the established rate ol interest it cannot be expect ed that money lenders will be content to receive the legal pittance. The consequence will be that all that class of men who, from honor, conscience or whatever motive, are not disposed to violate the law of the State, will retire from the business and leave it in the hands of the more unscrir pulous. The demand for money continuing, while the supply is thus reduced, the price or interest,as a matter of course, will rise. The value, thus artificially stimulated, is lurther increased by the risk to which the lender is ex posed. Should he attempt to enforce the usurious obliga tion of the borrower, he would encounter the hazard” of a plea of usury, by which he the whole of the interest. For this risk by the lender,the borrower must pay an additional premium. In theory, therefore, as well as in their practical operation, usury laws, while they cannot control, increase the price of money. It is possible that without a law on the subject, a man might demand, and by accident get, fifty percent, for his jmoney, just as it i 3 possible fora hatter to get ten dollars for a hat which is worth five; but this he might do, nay has done, with the law discharging its threats and thunders in his face, and we insist that the contingency is much raoto likely to happen under the last than under the first hypothesis. Un disturbed by legislative intermeddling, competition will keep the price of money generally on a par with the aver age per cent.. of profit in all branches of industry. Cer t ain, undefined causes may lilt it above, as they may sink it below, this level, but they are causes which legislation cannot reach. Lightning Express !! I Through from La- Grange to Columbus in Fourteen Hours I! Nearly Five Miles to the Hour? We learn from about fifty worn out passengers who crawled down from LaGrange the other day that they made by railroad between that place and this, the above unpre cedented speed. We learn, also, that such is the time ap pointed by the new schedule. A good pert yoke of steers, leaving at the same time and coming the nearest route can beat the train. We believe we’ll go up. Cowench! Cowench ! Latest from the Cable Fleet, Boston, July 16.— A vessel has arrived here from Liv erpool which spoke the steamship Niagara on the 27th June. Two unsuccessful attempts had been made to lay the cable. At the last effort forty miles had been laid. Cyrus W. Field was in good spirits, and thought the enterprise would be successful, although the weather was very unfavorable. Ballooning Across the Atlantic.— A Mr. J. Steinel, of Harrisburgh, Pa., who appears to be anxious to figure in the category of Sam Patch geniuses, has projected an im mense balloon for voyaging across the Atlantic. The trip across, he calculates, can be made in seventy five hours. The machine is a very complicated affair—one balloon within another, and a float in the water connected with the main one by a cord. Florida Rail Road Company. —The Madison, (Flor ida,) Messenger learns, through a private letter from Fernandina, that the Florida Rail Road Company has transferred its entire interest in the road to a company in New York, consisting of George Law, Vanderbilt and others—all millionaires; and that they are about to estab’ lish an Atlantic and Gulf line ot steamers, constructed with all modern improvements, and will have the whole under their own control. It is expected that the work on the road will progress lapidly, and that the whole will be in full operation by the Ist of April next. New Canadian Tariff. —At a meeting of the Associa. tion for the promotion of Canadian industry, held in To ronto last week, and which was attended by twenty mem bers of Parliament, beside many others, resolutions were passed,“urging the necessity of equalising our tariff with that of the United States, with a view to preparing us for free trade in manufactures with that country, and also re commending that the Government should be empowered to raise the duty on cotton goods, after due notice, when ever there was a certainty that their so doing would secure the establishment of cotton manufactures in Canada.” t another column will be found a detailed state ment of“ Col. Steptoe’s defeat.” New York, July 16— Mrs. Blount agrees to return home to Mobile, with her daughter. She has lost faith in , Riviere. Van Cooter, W. TANARUS., June 4, 1858. Editors Columbus Times 6f Sentinel. Enclosed I send you a copy of a letter from an officer whose courage and coolness are undoubted, therefore the ut most reliance can be placed upon his statements. Reports of a painful character have reached us here, from sources which seem to admit of no doubt, viz: that the command went out from Walla-Walla, with only 40 rounds of ammunition,and the Dragoons without sabres, being armed as mounted rifles. This meagre supply o ammunition accounts for its early exhaustion, and the want of sabres, for the daring of the Indians, the fearless ness with which they fought—the defeat of our troops. Captain Steptoe is undoubtedly a gallant and brave offi cer, (witness the fields of Mexico) and did all that could be done. Under the circumstances, it was a well fought battle, and well conducted retreat. The only matter oj surprise is, that the Indians did not pursue and cut them oft entirely—and can be accounted for only upon the ground that their loss was very great, and their victory really a defeat. Friendly Indians bring in the report that Spollat-Kan,the principal war chief of the Sporkans, was killed early in the fight, and ’ hence his people fought desperately to avenge his death. They ackowledge to 40 or 50 woun ded, the killed cannot be ascertained. This may be con sidered the opening of the Ball. Another Indian war on our hands—perhaps a Tecumseh comederation west of the Rocky Mountains. BALDWIN. Tlie Fight with the Indians near the Fe lons e River. We are under a thousand obligations to some of our friends for the following imormation in refer ence to the recent fight with the Indians near the Pelouse river, on the 19th inst. We give the private letter of an officer who was engaged in the fight and dated the 23d inst: On the 6th inst., Col. Steptoe with C. E and H companies Ist Dragoons, and twenty-five men of 9th Infantry, with two mountain howitzers, left Fort Walla-Walla for Colville. The officers of the command were Col. Steptoe, Capts. Winder and Taylor, Lieuts. Wheeler, Fleming, Gaston and Gregg. After marching eight days we reached the Pelouse river, and were about passing into the Spokan country when we were informed by Indians that the Spokans would resist our entrance into their country. The Spokans have always been regarded as friendly to the whites, and when we left Walla Walla, no one thought of having an encounter with them, or any other Indians on the march. On Sunday morning, the 16th, on leaving camp, we were told that the Spokans had assembled and were ready to fight us. Not believing this, our march was continued until about eleven o’clock when we found ourselves in the presence of six hundred warriors in war costume. The command was halted for the purpose of having a talk, in which the Spokans announced that they had heard we had gone out for the purpose of whipping them out, and if that was the case, they were ready to fight us, and that we should not cross the Spo kan river. The Indians were well mounted, prin cipally armed with rifles, and were extended along our flank at the distance of one hundred yards.— After some talk, the Colonel told us we would have to fight, and we immediately put ourselves into position to move for better ground, determined that the Spokans should fire the first gun. After marching a mile we reached a sheet of water—it was decided to encamp and hold another talk with the Indians. Nothing resulted from this except the most insulting demonstrations on their part We dared not to dismount, and were kept in the saddle three hours, until the setting of the sun dispersed the Indians. On Monday morning we left camp to return to Pelouse, marching in the following order, H com pany in advance, C in the centre, with the packs, and Ein rear. At 8 o’clock the Indians appeared in great numbers about the rear of the column, and just as the advance was crossing a-small stream they began firing. In twenty minutes the fir ing became continuous. Seeing that we must fight, and that the action must become general, I was ordered to move forward and occupy a hill that the Indians were making for and upon which they would have a close fire upon the head of the column. After a close race I gained the hill in advance, on seeing which, the indians moved around and took possession of one commanding that which I occupied, leaving a'few men to defend the first hill, and deploying my men, I charged the second and drove them off. At this time the action was general; the three companies, numbering in all about 110 men, were warmly engaged with five hundred Indians. The companies were separated from each other nearly a thousand yards, and fought entirely by making short charges. At 11 o’clock I k was reinforced by the howitzers, and the two companies began to move towards the position 1 held, the Indians pressing closely upon them. As E company was approaching, a large body of Indians got between it and my company, so that having it between two fires, they could wipe it out at once. Gaston seeing this, moved quickly towards me, having the Indians in his front, and when near enough, and I saw he was about to charge, I charged with H company. The result was, that our companies met, having the Indians in a right angle, in which angle we left 12 dead Indians. After getting together, we kept up the fight for halt an hour, and again started to reach water moving half- a-mile under a constant and raking fire, under which our comrades, Taylor and Gas ton, fell. We finally reached a hill near the water, and occupied the summit, and the Indians having now completely surrounded it, we dis mounted and picketed our horses close together on the centre of the fiat-inclined summit, and posted our men around the crest, making them lie flat on the ground, as the Indians were so close and so daring as to attempt to charge the hill, but, although out numbering us eight to one, they could not succeed. Towards evening, our ammunition began to give out, and our men, suffering so much from thirst and fatigue, required all our attention to keep them up. To move /rom one point to another, we had to crawl on our hands and knees, amid the howling of the indians, the groans of the dying, and the whistling of balls and arrows. We were kept in this position until eight o’clock P. M., when, as night came came on, it became ap parent that on the morrow we must “go under,” and that no one of us would escape. It was plain that nearly destitute of ammunition, we were completely surrounded by six or eight hundred Indians, and the most of these on points which we must pass to get away. Therefore, it was de termined to run the gauntlet, so that, if possible, some might escape. Abandoning everything, we mounted and left the hill at nine o’clock, and after a ride of ninety miles, mostly at a gallop, and with out a rest, we reached Snake river at Red Wolf crossing, the next evening, and were met by our friends, the Nez Perces. We had two officers, five men, and three friendly Indians killed, and ten men wounded; Sergeant Ball, of H. Company, missing. The Sergeant distinguished himself very much during the action, and we all hope he will yet come in. Capt. Taylor was shot through the neck, and Lieut. Gaston through the body; they both fell fighting gallantly. The companies fought brave ly like true men. We brought our horses back in good condition, except about thirty, which were shot during the fight. The Indians made no cap tures. Before the battle was over, the Indians pieked up nine of their dead; how many of them were killed is not known, but I can count fifteen; they acknowledge having forty wounded. It will take a thousand men to go into the Spo kan country. —Oregon Times. New Parties and Platforms. There is a strong disposition manifested in many quarters of the confederacy to get up new parties —to construct new platforms —and to fuse with any faction, or all factions, and to enter into incongru ous, temporary alliances, and to make antipodal elements operate in harmonious conjunction, so that the old fogy fathers of the various delectable schemes, and their immediate adherent*, may be enabled to obtain possession of the Government af ter the next Presidential election. No tlong since, a large number of the citizens of Delaware met in the town of Dover, and adopted a national “People’s Party” platform. We pub lished it in full, and commented upon it as we deemed proper. Asa whole, we did not like it at all, and so expressed ourselves. It looked, or rather squinted, North all the time, and did not vouchsafe a favorable glance in a Southern direc tion. Its second plank was “Devotion to the union of the States,” without qualification or reserva tion. This we can’t stand and won’t stand ; for it binds the minority section irretrievably to the ma jority section, and constrains “devotion” to plun der, oppression and misrule, according to the meas ure the majority may see fit to impose. The third plank proposed an additional tariff for protective purposes, which would amount to an increased be stowal of bonuses upon Northern industry, which would have to be paid principally by the agricul turists of the South, as has been the case from the formation of the Government. We, and the South ern people generally, we think, are now opposed to tariffs of all kinds, and in favor of the repeal of revenue laws, the abolition of custom-houses, and a resort to direct taxation to support the General Government. The Government could be carried on, we verily believe, at thirty-three and a third per cent, less cost, if direct taxation was the order of the day. The tax payers, released from the delu sions of indiscretion, and knowing exactly what they had to pay from their own pockets directly, would very speedily put a stop to the squandering of millions upon millions of their money, which has been extremely fashionable in Congress for many years past. The remainder of the Delaware platform is not pertinent to our present position , and therefore we will forbear further mention of the sagely antiquated, delectably selfish, and fear fully feeble manifesto. It is clearly out of the pow er of the mighty State of Delaware to “save the Union,” if it can’t save itself without Delaware’s redoubtable assistance, or for Delaware to obtain further taxes upon the productive industry of the South for the exclusive benefit of the North. A week or two ago, a large mass meeting was held in Philadelphia to devise ways and means to effect an enormuus increase of the tariffat the next session of Congress. All the evils flowing from the late commercial and financial disasters were attributed to the lowness of the tariff, and no reme dy existed, at least in the minds of the speakers, calculated to prevent similar evils in future, except in raising the tariff to a high protective—almost to a prohibitory standard. These genllemen forgot to say that the South passed through the ordeal comparatively unscathed; that her people were solvent and prosperous; that the storm which raged at the North would not even have obscured her horizon but for her disastrous commercial and financial connections with Northern bankruptcy and insolvency ; and that Northern extravagance, over trading, wild speculations, and natural, inhe rent poverty, alone superinduced the crisis. The South sustained the North as long as she was able, and as soon as her support was withdrawn, the imposing, bloated bubble bursted, and a most mor tifying exposure was the result. We don’t think these Philadelphia gentlemen, whose city displayed the rottenest bank system in the country, are like ly to obtain further governmental favors. If they retain what they now enjoy, they may esteem themselves fortunate. Similar movements, platforms, programmes and schemes are getting numerous, and will continue to increase in number until the spring of 1859. When we see one that even professes ordinary justice to the South, we will let our readers know. But what have appeared, and what are likely toap pear, judging the future by the past are calculated to delude the Southern people for the purpose of burdening them with more taxation hereafter, or to consolidate, directly or indirectly, the power of the Black Republicans. The last movement is a “Crittenden Amend ment” movement, evidently got up by Rip Van Winkle Old Line Whigs, discarded National Dem i ocrats, repudiated and disappointed Americans, displaced Black Republicans, and the debris of all parties and factions which have been scattered loosely around since the last tumultuous commo tion of the political waters. The originators of this notable scheme seek to reconcile these repelling and discordant elements—are trying to make oil and vinegar mingle—and if they can do so, of which they are confident, think they can defeat the Dem ocratic party at the next general election. What unmitigated nonsense! None but those who have outlived their time would speculate upon such an absurdity. A sugar kettle would float with as much safety during the fiercest storm that ever swept over the Gulf of Mexico, as such a party survive the fierce gales of a Presidential canvass. It would fall to pieces, go down and disappear, before even violent winds commenced blowing from the four quarters of the political compass. And, should the miracle occur, and they succeed in overwhelming the Demociatic party, it would be in turn over whelmed by the Black Republican party. We publish, elsewhere, a full programme of this redoubtable movement, which has been kept secret heretofore, but which, we know not how, has been divulged. It is evidently the fruit of a considerable amount of Congressional caucussing; and, when perused attentively, the reasons for the ami-South ern votes of Messrs. Criltenden and Bell, on the original bill for the admission of Kansas, are pretty well explained. Both, recent events have made quite apparent, were animated with Presidential as pirations aspirations, and those aspirations swal lowed up the duty, high, holy and sacred, they owed their immediate section, and induced them to act and vote with the Abolitionists. We think both are destined to suffer the keenest pangs dis appointment can inflict; nor will those pangs be mitigated by the consciousness that they forgot their obligations to the South and consorted with ( her direst enemies, and helped to defeat the only vital principle involved in the determination of the Kansas controversy, in which their constituents had the remotest concern, in obedience to the prompt ings of selfish ambition. It will be seen that the proposed new party is to be called the “Crittenden Amendment” party; and that the programme is signed by Mr. N. Sar gent, an antiquated politician of Washington City* who probably, like most of his associates, has not learned anything or forgot anything within the last quarter of a century. It will be recollected that Mr. Crittenden introduced an amendment to the original bill for the admission of Kansas under the Leeompton Constitution, and by his vote and speeches helped to defeat the bill and the South at the same time. His amendment, although re rejected, was called the “Crittenden amendment” hence the euphonious name of the new party.— We are of opinion that both name and party aer destined to a very brief existence.— New Orleans Crescent, The Franking Privilege. The Mississippian publishes some statistics showing who used the franking privilege in the lastU. S. Senate. Members from the slave States used one hundred and twenty nine thousand 850 franking envelopes, and members from the free States used 681,780. Douglas, of Illinois, used 198,000: Bright, of Indiana, 100,000, and Se ward, of New York, 68,000. Hunter, of Virginia, used 2,900; Mason, 2,700; Brown, of Mississippi, 10,000; Green, of Missouri, 14,000 ; Reid, ol North Carolina, 200, and Biggs, of the same State, only iOO. State Fairs. The following State fairs are to bo held during the year, Ala. at Montgomery, NovemberlS to 22. California, at Marysville, August 23 to 28. Connecticut, at Hartford, October 12 tols. Illinois, at Centralia, September 14 to 18. Indiana, at Indianapolis, October 4 to 9. lowa, at Oscaloosa, September 28 to Oct. 1 Kentucky, at Louisville, September 27 to Oct 1. Missouri, at St. Louis, September 6 to 16- New Hampshire, at Dover, October 6 to 8. New Jersey, at Trenton, September 15 to 17. New York, at Syracuse, October 5 to 8. Ohio, at Sandusky, September 14 to 17. Rhode Island, at Providence, September 15 to 18. Vermont, at Burlington, September 14 to 17. Wisconsin, at Madison, October 4 to 7. United States, at Richmond, Viriginia, Oct. 25 to 30, and Pennsylvania, at Pittsburgh, September 28 to October I. A Tale,of Terror. The following rather marvelous story is told by one of the Vienna journals :—As a farmer of Or sinovi, near that city, wras a few nights ago re turning home from market, he stopped at the road side public house, and imprudently showed the innkeeper, a large sum which he had received. In the night the armed with a poig nard, stole ‘ into the farmer’s chamber, and pre pared to stab him; but farmer, who from the man’s manner at supper, conceived suspicions of foul play, had thrown himself, fully dressed, on the the bed without going to sleep, and being a pow erfull man, he wrested the poignard from the other, and useing it against him, laid him dead at his feet. A few moments after, he heard stone* thrown at the window, aud a voice which he re cognized as that of the innkeeper’s son, said:— “The grave is ready !” This proved to him that the father and son had planned his murder, and to avoid detection, had intended burying the dead body at once. He thereupon wrapped the dead body in a sheet, and let it down from the window; he then ran to the gendarmerie and stated what had occured.—Three gendarmerie immediately accompanied him to the house, and found the young man busily engaged in shoveling earth into the grave. “Whatare you burying?” said they, “Only a horse, which has just died!” ‘You are mistaken,’ answered one of them, jumping into the grave and raising the corpse. ‘Look!’ and he held up a lantern to the face of the deceased.— ‘Good God !’ cried the young man, thunderstruck, ‘it is my father!’ He was then arrested, and at once confessed all. One of Sut Lovengood’s Yarns. You have often heard, but perhaps never ven tured to publish, a good yarn on Dr. Thompson, of Atlanta, a generous, good man, and a tip-top landlord and wit; but he certainly caught it once: A traveller called very late for breakfast, the meal was hurriedly prepared. Thompson, feeling that the “feed” was not quite up to the mark, made all sorts of apologies all round the eater , who work ed on in silence, never raising his head beyond the affinative influence of his fork, or by any act ac knowledging even the presence of mine host.— This sulky demeanor rather “flea’d” the doctor, who, changing the range of his battery, stuck his thumbs in his vest arm-holes, expanded his chest by robbing the room of half its air, and said : “Now, Mister, dod durn me if I haint made all theapo'o gy necessary, an more too, considering the break fast and who gets it, and now I tell you, 1 have seen dirtier, worse cooked, worse tasted, worse looking, aad ah-lofa sight smaller breakfast than this is several times.” The weary, hungry one, meekly laid down his tools, swallowed the bite in transitu, placed the palms of his hands together, and modestly locking up at the vexed and fuming landlord, shot him dead with the following words: “Is—what—you—say—true ?” “Yes, sir,” came with a vindictive promptness.” “Well, then, I’ll be d —d, hoss, if you haint out traveled me.”— There was posted in the front door a small nigger, especially to tell the wayfaring man “dat he didn’t owe nuffin dar, surtin sure.” After he was fairly under way, Thompson was observed creening from the attic window, taking a prolonged rear view of the sieed and his rider with a four foot telescope. It has been intimated that the doctor hesitated many seconds between the choice of the glass and a double-barreled shot gun. Summer Friends. —Like leaves touched by a frost, the “Republican” friends of Douglas fall from his support. Even his unfortunate bid for strength from that quarter, by taking exceptions to the Dred Scott decision, is not heeded or listened to. The Tribune, in an elaborate review of the Senator’s late Speech at Chicago, closes as fol lows : We deeply regret that Mr. Douglas has seen fit to plant himself on the quicksands of “Squatter Sovereignty,” after they had been robbed of even the semblance of secure footing by the Dred Scott decision. On that ground, he cannot fail to be beat en, unless his opponents shall be so unwise as to degrade the contest from the high ground of prin ciple into the mire of personality. His avowed principle can hardly fail to be refuted and explo ded. Alas ! for those who leave the house of their friends —they find no roof to give them shelter ! N. Y. Daily Neics. A Grain of Truth. —The London News says : With the sole exception of this country there is not one great empire within its boundaries in which the people have the management of their own af- so highly civilized —the cradle ofart, science and literature—is, with this exception, and that of the small States of Belgium, Holland, Den mark, Sardinia, Switzerland, and other still pettier powers, or municipalities, which exist upon the suf ferance of their rapacious neighbors, enslaved by military autocrats and tyrants.” Who is the Author of “Home Sweet Home?” —A Question for the Curious. —We think we have something new for all who are curious about, or interested in, literary and musical matters. John Howard Payne has always been supposed to be the author of that beautiful and world wide known song, “Sweet Home,” and no little credit has been awarded him for this admirable production. But we are informed by a gentleman residing in Bos ton, and one whose authority for any statement would be considered unquestionable, that Mr. Payne was not the author of the words in ques tion, but that thev were composed by Washington Irving ! He states he has seen the original manuscript in Irving’s handwriting, and that the fact of the au thorship has long been known to Mr. Irving’s inti mate friends. This is a very extraordinary statement and we confess our surprise at it; we should as soon doubted that Sir Henry Bishop composed the charmingly appropriate music to which the words of “Sweet Home” are adapted and have always been sung, as questioned the right of Payne to the authorship of the song. There should be no un certainty about such a matter as this, and we should like to be assured of the truth in regard to the authorship of “Sweet Home.” Who has any information to impart on this subject ?—Boston Atlas. “Good Night.” “Good Night, Papa !” These are the words whose music has not left our ears since the gloaming, and now it is mid night. “Good night, darling / God bless you ; vou will have pleasant dreams, though I toss in fever haunted by the demons of care that harass me through the day. Good night!” The clock on the mantel struck twelve, and no sound was heard in the house save the regular breathiug ol those little lungs in the next room, heard through the door ajar. We dropped our pen, folded our arms, and sat gazing on the lazy fire, while the whole panorama of a life passed before us, with its many “good nights.” It is a great thing to be rich, but it is a rich thing to have a good memory—pro vided that memory bears no unpleasant fruit, bit ter to the taste ; and our memory carries us back to many a pleasant scene—to the little arm chair by the fireside; to the trundle bed at the loot ot the bed ; to the lawn in fror.t of the house, and the orchard behind it; to the butter-cups, and the new clover, and the chickens and the swallows, and the birds’ nests, and the strawberries, and the many things that attract the wondering eyes of child hood, to sny nothing of the mysteries of the starry skies, and the weird gloom of the moaming forest. But, then, there were the “good nights,” and the little prayer, and the downy bed, on which slumber fell as lightly as a snow fiake, only warmer, and such dreams as only visit perfect innocence!— The house hold “Good night /” Somebody, in whose brain its rich music still lingers, has written his: “Good night?” A loud clear voice from the stairs said that it was Tommy. “Dood night! murmurs a little something from the trundle bed— a little something that we call Jenny, that filled a large place in the centre of two pretty little hearts. “Good night!” lisps a little fellow in a plaid rillle dress, who was named Willie about six years ago. “Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep; If I should die before I wake”— and the small bundle in the trundle-bed has drop ped ff to sleep, but the broken prayer may go up sooner than many long petitions that set out a great while before it. And so it was “good night” all around the home stead ; and very sweet music it made, too, in the twilight, and very pleasant melody it makes now as we think of it, for it was not yesterday nor the day before, but a long time ago—so long that Tommy is Thomas Somebody, Esq., and has for gotten that he ever was a boy, and wore what the bravest and richest of us can never wear but once, if we try—the first pair of boots. And so it it was “good night” all around the house; and the children had gone through the ivory gate, always left a little ajar for them—through into the land of dreams. And then the lover’s “Good night,” and the par ting kies! They are as prodigal of the hours as the spendthrift of his coin, and the minutes depart in golden showers, and fall in dying sparks at their feel. “Good night.”— JV. Y. Atlas. ‘Wanted A voung Man of Industry, Ability, Integrity, cfc.” This meets one’s eye daily in the column of “Wants.” and it is as true as the Pentateuch.— Wanted? Of course they are—always wanted. The market can never be overstocked ; they always will be called for and never quoted “dull,” or “no sale.” —Wanted for thinkers ; wanted for workers ; in the mart, on the mam, in the field, and in the forest. Tools are lying idle for want of a young man ; a pen is waiting to be wielded; a tree to be felled; aplowtobe guided; a village to be founded; a school to be instructed. They talk about staples and great staples. Hon est, industrious, able young men are the great sta ple in this day of ours. Young man, you are wan ted, but not lor a doctor. No, nor a lawyer. There is enough of them for this generation, andj one or two to spare. Don’t study a “profession,” unless it be the profession of brick-laying or farming, or some other of the manual professions. Don’t use tape if you can help it, It is honorable and honest and all that, but then, perhaps, you can do better. Of [all things, don’t jrob the women. It is their prerogative to handle silks and laces, tape and thread. Put on your hat like a man, don an apron and go out of doors. Get a good glow on your cheek, the jewelry of toil on your brow, and a good set of well-developed muscles. We would go if we could, but then we were young, longer ago than we like to think, and you know when one’s “old, he can’t,” Besides, if you become a doctor you’ll have to wait. “Because you haven’t experience,” says an old practitioner; “because you are too young,,’ say all women. If you are a lawyer, and likely to rise they’ll put a weight on your,~<z la Swiss, to keep you under, or, if you make a good argument, some old opponent, as gray as a rat, will kick it all over, by some taunt or other, because you were not born in the year “one.” And so it will go, until you grow tired and soured, and wish you had been a tinker, perhaps “an immortal” one, or anything but what you are. Bea farmer, and your troubles are over or rath er they do not begin. Your own what you stand on, “from the centre of the earth,” as they used lo say “up to the sky,”yyou are as independent as possible all day, and tired, not weary at night, for there is a great difference between those two words if one only stops to think of it. The more neigh bors you have, and the,better farmers they are, the more and the beiier for you. There is one thing more, young man. You are wanted. A young woman wants you. Don’t forget her. No matter if you are poor. Don’t wait to be rich. You need a companion while you live, and not after you have done living. Effort is life and cessation therefrom, a grand and gloomy “has been.” So, do not vt ait nntil your time is all in the yesterdays ;it you are fit to be married. Marry while you are young, and struggle up together, lest in the years to come, sornebody'shall advertise,, “Young men wanted,” and none to be had.— B. F Taylor. For the Ladies. —The Paris coirespondent of the Picaynne, after noticing some fashionable Rus sian baths. which “ask only six weeks to eradicate all disorders engendered by a winter’s dissipation,” describes two artificial baths which are greatly used in Paris, “especially by persons going into society.” He says : If any of your lady readers would try them an hour or two before going into company, I think she will scarcely them. I allude to the starch baths and the bran baths. To prepare the former, place two pounds and a half of starch in the bath ing tub as soon as hot water is turned on ; to pre pare the latter, place a large bag of bran, securely in the bathing tub, and turn the boiling water on it The cold water in both baths should be introduced only after the bathing tub begins to fill. The bath er should squeeze tfie bran frequently after he eft* ters the bath.