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‘’ . . -’ ‘ ‘:''•• .■ _ .... BY WILLIAM CLINE. TMC WIRE-GRASS REPORTER. P. E. LOVE & WM. CLINE, EDITORS. SUBSCRIPTION. The Wire-Grass Reporter in published Week ly t Two Dollars per annum, in adcunce. All orderi for the Reporter, to receive attention ntatt>e"CCOmpnied with the money . Subscriber! wishing the direction of their paper ■changed, will notify us from what office it ia to be transferred. The foregoing terms will be strictly observed. ADVERTISING. TERMSAdvertisements wilt he published t Orb Dollar per square of twelve lines or less, tfor the first insertion, and Fifty Cents for each subsequent insertion. Those not specified as to Hime will be published until forbid and charged ac •eotdingly. Obituary Notices, not exceeding six lines, will Ibe published gratis; but Cash, at the rate of One Dollar for every twelve printed lines exceeding that number, mut accompany all longer notices. fy Advertisers will please hand in their favors ■on Monday when practicable, or at an early hour on ‘Tuesday morning. - Contract Advertisements. The Proprietors of the Press at Thomasville, in •tinier to bring their advertising columns within the reach of every one, have rerooddled and considera bly reduced their prices below former rates. They have adopted the following uniform scale for Con tract Advertisers, which are put down at the lowest living rates, and can in no case be departed from.— Each Square is composed of twelve solid Brevier lines. 1 square 3 months $5 00 5 squares 9 montliss2s 00 1 •• 6 “ 800 5 “ 12 “ 30(H) 1 9 “ 10 00 6 “ 3 “ 18 0(1 1 “ 12 “ 12 00 6 “ 6 24 00 3 •< 3 “ 800 0 “ 9 “ 30 00 3 “ 6 •* 14 00 6 “ 12 “ 35 00 3 - “ 18 00.5 column 3 “ 25 00 3 l2 “ 20 001 “ 6„ “ 30(H) 3•• 3 10 00 4 “ 9 “ 35 00 3 “ 6 “ 16 00 4 “ 12 40 00 3-9 “ 2100 J “ 3 “ 35 00 3•• 12 “* 25 (H) | “ 6 “ 44 Oft 4 “ 3 “ 12 00! | “ 9 “ 52 00 4 •• 6 17 00| “ 12 “ 60 00 4 •• 9 “ 22 001 “ 3 “ 50 00 4 “ 12 “ 26 00 1 “ 6 “ 60 00 6 “ 3 “ 14 00 1 “ 9 “ 70 00 5 6 “ 20 00 1 “ 12 “ 80 00 tW All fractions of a square will be charged as a whole square. *.* No Contract Advertisement over six squares admitted’ to the inside more than once per month. N.’ B.—This schedule shall not, in any way, affect the integrity of existing contracts. All contracts for the year, or any other specified time, shall only cease with the expiration of the period for which they were made. IT* Business Cards, for the term of one year, will bo charged in proportion to the space they occupy, at One Dollar per tine. *,* Special- Notices (leaded Brevier) will be charged Ten Cents per line for each insertion. 1,. C. BRYAN, ■Jfbnithcru Enterprise. WM. CLINE, Hire-Grass Reporter. Legal Advertisements. All persons having occasion to advertise! legal •ales, notice!, etc., are compelled.by law to comply with tiie following rules: Sales of Land and Negroes, by Administrators, Executors, or Guardians, are required by law to be held on tlje first Tuesday in the mouth, between the hours of ten in the forenoon and three in the after noon. nt tiie Court house in the county in which the property is situate. Notices of these sales must be given in a public gaxette forty days previous to the day of sale. Notices for the sale of Personal Property, must he given at le'astTEN days previous to the day of salo. Notice to Debtors and Creditors of au Estate must be published forty days. Notice that application will be made to the Court of Ordinary for leave to sell Land-or Negroes, must be published weekly for two months. Citations for Letters of Administration, must be published thirty dags—for Dismission from Adminis tration, monthly for six months —for Dismission from Guardianship, forty days. RULES for Foreclosure of Mortgage must be pub lished monthly for four months— for establishing lost K for the full space of three months —for compel led from Executors or Administrators, where a bond has been given by the deceased, the full space •of three months. XST Publications will always bo continued ac cording to the above rules, unless otherwise ordered. All business in the lino of Printing will meet with prompt attention at the Ukfoktkr Office.. SUPERIOR COURT CALENDAR, FALL TEHM, 1858! AUGUST. lit Monday, Floyd Lumpkin 2d Monday, Clarke Dawsoi) 3d Monday, Forsyth Meriwether Walton 4tbMond'y, Baldwin t'hattabo’cbe Glascock Heard Jackson Monroe Paulding Schley Taliaferro lEPTEKIBER. Ist Monday, Appliog Chattooga Cherokee Columbia Coweta Crawford Madison * “ Marion Mitchell Morgan Webster 2d Monday, Butts .. Cass Coffee Libert Fayette Greene Gwinnett Pickens Buniter Washington Frid’y aft’r, Pierce 3d Monday, Cobb Hall Hart Macon Newton Putnam Talbot Terrell Ware 4th Mond’y.Csmpbell Clay - Clinch EmanUel ■i Lee ‘ E Twiggs - White Wilkes OCTOBEIt. Ist Monday, Carroll 1 Dooly . Early Fulton ■ Warren Wilkinson OCTOPF.K CONTINUED. . Tu \ Pike after, ) Ralum d’y after, $ 2d Monday, Charlton \r* - Fannin Habersham Haucock v j Harris Laurens Miller Scrivcn 3d Monday, Burke Camden Franklin Haralson Henry Jones ; i >- Murray Oglethorpe Pulaski Stewart Union % Worth “Ef* i Frid’y aft’r, Wilcox 4th Mond’y, Decatur Dekalb Houston Irwin Jasper Lincoln Polk Tattnall Towns Whitfield Thursd’y ) .. . after, J Al ‘ lf,llr Frid’y aft’r, Bulloch Mond’y “ Effingham NOVEMBER. Ist Monday, Berrien Milton Randolph Richmoud Upson 2d Monday, linker Bibb .Catoosa Muscogee 1 3d Monday, Spalding Troup 4th Mond’y, Calhoun Walker T K, ! '} *■.“* Mon. after, Dongherty DEC'EMBER. Ist Monday, Dade Jefferson Thomas 3d Jlnud-ir, Lowudes Cam (Carba. JAMES C. ROSS, ATTORNEY AT LAW, THOMASVILLE, GEORGIA. jo 23 “ w ts HARRIS & HARRIS, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Iverson L. Hauius, I Charles J.Harris, . ... Milledgeville, Ga. | Thomasvilie, Ga. march 31 w ts r. s. Burch & wm. McLendon, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, THOMASVILLE, GEORGIA. oct!4 19 way BAUER & BENIVET, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Troupville, Lowndes Cos., Ga. sept 15 w ts EUGENE JL. HINES, ATTORNEY AT LAW. THOMASVILLE,"GEORGIA, Office over McLean’s store. (jan26 JOHN M. DYSON, ATTORNEY AT LAW, OFFICE next door to Dr. Bruce’s, Thomasville, Georgia. jans-ly. G. 11. DANIELL, ATTORNEY AT LAW, SAVANNAH, GEORGIA. Office, corner of Bull and Bay Streets. jan 12 w ly JOHN B. MILLER, ATTORNEY A[l’ LAW, MILL TOWN, BERRIEN CO., GA. WILL practice in all the Counties of the Brunswick Circuit, and Berrien and Lowndes Counties of the Southern Circuit. ma)’l2oy JOHN C. NICIIOLLS, ATTORNEY AT LAW, WARESBOUOUGH, WARE CO., GA. WILL practice in all the counties of the Bruns wick circuit, aud Lowndes and Berrien of the Southern niariiloy GEORGE 11. WILLIAMSON, ATTORNEY AT LAW, WARESBOROUGH, GA. WILL PRACTICE in the fuljowiug£ountiescf the Brunswick Circuit: Appling, Coffee. Pierce, Ware Clinch, and Chariton. mar3ltf SAMUEL B. SPENCEIt, ATTORNEY AT LAW, THOMASVILLE, GEORGIA. WILL give his entire attention to the practice ol Law, in the Counties of th* Southern Circuit.— Office on the second floor of D. & E. McLean’s brick building. (jan2ody E. €. HOKGAN, ATTORNEY AT LAW, NASHVILLE, GEORGIA. WlLL.practice in the counties of the Southern Cir cuit,and tiie counties of Dooly, Worth and Dough erty of the Macon, and Coffee, Clinch aud Ware of the Brunswick Circuits. Flat Creek, Ga., Oct. 7. ts HICE & MERSIION, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, MAGNOLIA, CLINCH CO., GA. ATTEND to all business entrusted to their care, in the following counties, to-wit: Clinch, Ware, Ap pling, Coffee, Chariton, Lowndes and Ilerrieu,Geor gia. Also, in the counties of Hamilton, Columbia, and Jefferson, in Florida. DAVID P. HICK. | IIKNRY M. MERSHON, jan 5 w Dm JAMES M. FOLSOM, ATTORNEY AT LAW, MAGNOLIA, CLINCH CO., GA. WILL practice in all the courts of the Brunswick Circuit and in -the com ts of Lowudes aud Berrien of the Southern Circuit. j Judge A. E. Cochran, Brunswick Ct. Kelcrences £ Judge p etor K Love> Southern ct . jan 5 w ly anmmm—nmmmmmmmmmnmmimmmmmm——dkmm Illcbicrtl (Curbs. S. S. ADAMS, | S. H. WILLIAMS. NEW FIRM. DBS. ADAMS & WILLIAMS, having formed a Co-partnership, tender their professional services to'tiio public. aog2s-tf *ll. J. BKUUE, I H. H. EATON. Dr*. BRirCE & EAT©IV, HAVING formed a co-partnership, tender their Professional Services to the citizens of Tiioruas viile and vicinity. ie23-tf Dr. W. 11. HALE, IIAS disposed of his interest in the “ Wire-Grass Reporter ” to Judge Love, and will devote himself exclusively to his profession. He may tie found at.ail times, when not profession ally ehgaged, at his Office opposite East aide Presbyterian Churc). je9tf (Reform Practice.) Dr. P. *. DOWER, OFFER his professional services to the citizens of Thomasville and vicinity. Calls at all hours promptly attended to. feb2oy DR. E. O. VItVOI.D WILL continue the practice of Den tistry in Thomasville and vicinity (mSaMSSL Any order left at the Poet Office or at his Offieeduring his absence from town will receive attention at the earliest opportunity. [jaus-ly , New Drug Store. J, tDrs. BOWER A ELLIS have opened a Drug Store at the stand formerlwpecupied bf Palmer & Bro., opposite E. Remington’*, and are prepared to furnish Drugs, Medicines, Perfumery, Inks, Fancy Soaps, So c. Upon fair terms to those who may favor them with a call. To their Reform friends they would say, that they have on hand a fresh and reliable assortment of Hotuilic Medicines. And will be glad to supply them with auch articles as they may need. Everybody. DR. A. W. ALLKN’S CELEBRATED SOUTHERN LINIMENT, IS A CERTAIN REMEDY for Strains, Sprains, Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Cramp, Nervous Head- Ache, Sore Throat, Still’ Neck, Tooth-Ache, Pain in the Head, Scalds aud Burns, or any thing like erup tions on the flesh. Also,for ail diseases to which horses arc subject. Dr. Allen’s All-Healing Ointment, IS a certain cure for Ring-worms', Scratches in horses, Gveese Heel, Thrush, Collar aud Saddle Galls; and all flesh wounds. Manufactured by Dr. A. W. ALLENy Columbus, Georgia. For sale ia Thoroasviile, by Baum & Shiff; in Monticello, by Palmer & Bro., and in Troupville, by T. W. Ellis. A. W. ALLEN. nov2 w Jy “* I ,-jUU4n* Hides; Hides. OAn A HIDES WANTED, for which Eight ttUUU Cents in Trade will be paid, by nisyfi E REMINGTON. THOMASVILLE, QEORGIA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 15,1858. DO THEY HIM MX AT HOME. Do they miss me at home, do they miss me t ’Twould be an assurance most dear. To know that this moment some loved one, Were saying I wish he were here; \ - To feel that the group at the fireside Were thinking of me as I roam, 0 ! yes ’twould be joy beyond measure To know that they miss me at homo. When twilight approaches, the season... , That ever is sacred to song, Does someone repeat my name over, Aud sigh that 1 tarry so long f And is there a chord in the music That’s missed when my voice ia away. And a chord in each heart that awaketh Regret at my wearisome stay. Do they set me a chair at the table, When eveniDg’s home pleasures srenigh! ‘ When the candles are lit in the parlor And the stars in the calm azure sky! And when the “ good nights ” are repeated And all lay them down to their sleep, Do they think of the absent and waft me A whispered good night whilst they weep. Do they miss me at home—do they min me At morning, at noon or at night, And lingers one gloomy shade round them That only my presence can light. Are joys less invitingly welcome And pleasures loss hale than before; Because one ia missed from the circle, Because lam with them 110 BAD HABITS—ADVICE TO YOUNG MEN. BY TIMOTHY TITCOMB. It is entirely natural for people to form bad habits, so that if the had habits be avoided, the good ones will generally take care of themselves. I had no intention when I commenced this letter of saying any thing about dogmatic theology, but J take the liberty of suggesting to those who are interested in this kind of thing, that if there be anything that demonstrates total depravi ty, it is the readiness with which young meri imbibe bad habits. I have seen original sin in the shape of “a short six” sticking out of the mouth of a lad of ten years. It is strange what particular painsboys and young men will take to learn to do'tliat which will make them miserable, ruin their health, ren der tpem disgusting to their friends, and damage their reputation. ... Some of the fashionable bad habits of tbe day are connected with the use of tobacco. Here is a drug that a young man is obliged to become accustomed to before lie can toler ate either the taste or effect of it. -It,is a rank vegetable poison, and in the unaccus tomed animal produces vertigo, faintness aud horrible sickness. Yet young men perse vere in the use of it until they can endure it, and then until they love it. They go about tlio streets with cigars in their mouths, or into society with breath sufficiently offen sive to drive all unperverted nostrils before them. They chew tobacco—roll up huge wads of the vile drug and stuff their cheeks with them. They eject their saliva upon the sidewalk, in spittoons, which become in corporate stenches, in dark corners of rail road cars, to stain the white skirts of unsus pecting women, in lecture rooms and church es, upon fences, and into stoves that hiss with anger at the insult. And the quids af ter they ate ejected ! They are to be found in odd corners, in out-of-the-way places— great bonlders, boluses, bulbs! Horses stum ble over them, dogs bark at tbern, they pois on young 6hade trees and break down the of sweepers. This may be an exaggeration of the facts, but not of the dis gust with which one writes of them. Now, young men, just think of this thing. You were born into the world with a sweet breath. At a proper age, you acquired a good set of teeth. will you make of ono, a putrescent exhrtlation r Arid the other a set of yellow pegs? A proper description of the habit of chewing tobacco would ex haust the filthy adjectives of the language, and spoil the adjectives for further use; and yet you will acquire the habit, and persist in it after it is acquired. It is very singular that yonng men will adopt a habit of which every man who uses it is ashamed. There is probably no tobacco-chower in the world who would advise a young man to commence this habit. I have never seen a slave of to bacco who did not regret his bondage; yet against all advice, against nausea and disgust, against cleanliness, against every considera tion of health and comfort, thousands every year bow the neck to this drug and consent to wear its repulsive yoke. They will chew it; they will smoke it in cigars and pipes until tbeir bed rooms and shops cannot be breath ed in, and uutil- their breath is as rank as the breath of a foul beast, and their clothes have the odor of a sewer. Some of them take snnff; cram the fiery weed up their nostrils to irritate the subtle sense which rarest flow ers were made to feed—in all this, working against God, abusing nature, perverting sense, injuring health, planting the seeds of disease, and insulting the decencies of life and the noses of mankind. So much-for the nature of the habit; and I would stop here, but for the fact that I am in earnest aud wish to present every motive in my power to prevent young men from forming the habit, or persuade them to aban don it. The habit of using tobacco is ex pensive. A clerk on n moderate salary has no right to be seen with a cigar in his mouth.— Three cigars a day at five cents apiece amount to more than fifty dollars a year.— Can you afford it? You know you cannot. You know to do this you have cither got to run in debt or steal. Therefore I say that you have no business to he soon with a cigar in your mouth. “It is presumptive evidcnco against your moral character. Did it ever occur to you what you arc, what you are made for, whither you are go- 1 ing 1 Tint beautiful body of yours, iu whoso construction infinite wisdom exhaust ed the resources of its iogenuityy is the tea ple of a soul that shall live forever, a com panion of angels, a searcher into the deep things of God,- a being allied in essence to the divine. I say tbe body is the temple, or the tabernacle, of sneb a being as this; and what do you think of stuffing the front door of such a building full of the roost disgust* nig weeds that you can find, or setting a slow match to it, or filling the chimneys with snuff? It looks too much like an endeavor to f* smoke out the tenant, or to insult him in such a manner as to induce him to quit tbe premises. You really oiigHt to be ashamed of such behavior, A clean mouth, a sweet breath, Unstained teeth and inoffensive cloth ing—are not these treasures worth preserv ing? Then throw away tobacco and all tligughts of it, now and Be a man. Be decent, and be thEnkful to mti “for talking so plainly to you. But there are other bad habits beside the use of tobacco. There is the habit es using strong drink—not tbe habit of getting drunk, with most young men, but tbe habit of ta king drinks occasionally in its milder forms— of playing with a small appetite that only needs sufficient playing with to make you a demon ors dolt. You think you nrc safe.— I know you are not safe if you drink at all; and when you get offended with tiie good friends who warn you of your danger I know you are a fool. I know tho grave swallows, daily, byscores, drunkards, every one of whom thought he was safe while he was forming his appetite. A young man who forms the habit of drinking, or puts him self in danger of forming the habit of drink dog,'is usually so weak that it don’t pay to save him. “3 ■ - I pass by profanity. That is too offensive and vulgar a habit for any man who reads a respectable book to indulge in. I pass by this, I say; to come to a habit more destruct ive than any I have contemplated. Young man! you who arc so modest iu the presence of women—so polito and amia ble, you who are invited into families where there are pure and virtuous girls; you who go to church and seem to be snch a pattern young man; you who very possibly neither smoke, nor chcjv, nor snuff, nor swear, ;nor drink—you linvo one habit ten times ! worso thaii all tbeso put together—a habit that makes you a whited sepulchre, fair with out, but withjn full of dead men’s bones aud all uucleanliness. You have a habit oi impure thought, that poisons tho very springs of your life. It may lead yofl into lawless indulgences ty it may not. So far as your character is concerned it makes but little dif ference. A young man who cherishes im pure images, and indulges in impure conver sations with his associates, is poisoned.— There is rottenness in him. He is not to be trusted. Hundreds of thousands of men are living in unhappiness and degradation to-day, who owe their unhappy lives to an oarly habit of impure thought. • To a young man who has become poi soned iu this'way, all women appear to be vi cious aud weak; and when a young man lo ses respect for the sex made sacred by tiie re lations of’‘brother aud sister, be stands upon the crumbling edge of ruin. I believe it to be true that a man who has lost his belief in tyoman, lias, as a general thing, lost his belief in God. 1 The only proper way to treat such a habit as this is to fly from it—discard it—expol it —fight it to tho death. Impure thought is a moral drug quite as scductivo and poisonous to the soul as tobacco is to the body. One should have more respect for bis body than to make it the abode of toads, and lizards, and uncieati reptiles of all sorts. Tbe whole matter now resolves itself into this: a young man is not fit for life until lie is clean—clean and healthy, body and sonl, with no tobacco in iiis mouth, no liquor in bis stomach, no oath on his tongue, no snuff in his nose, and no thought in bis heart, which, if exposed, would send him sneaking into darkness from , the presence of women. From the Newmk (O.) Times. WONDERFUL SPIRITUAL MANIFESTATIONS “IN A HORN.’’ A few weeks ago, two ladies—Mrs. Garner and Miss Vinccut—arrived in Newark and were shortly afterwards announced as “ Trumpet Mediums.” In a very short time rmuois.began to circulate that all other pha ses of spiritualism were eclipsed; and the spirits the ladies hqd in charge were quiet, orderly and dignified, disdaining tho uncivil practice of upsetting things ; turning a cold shoulder to all material agencies, and making their communications by word of mouth (or rather trumpet.) Being somewhat incredu lous and of inquiring mind, on Tuesday even ing we repaired to the “ spiritual rendez vous,” In order to ascertain what truth Mad am Rumor had carried fortli. We found some half a dozen seekers for knowledge of unsceu things present. Our first cate was to make a thorough examina tion of the room ; we explored every hidden recess, and examined the walls and ceilrog carefully, and are confident what we witness ed was independent of mechanical or indi vidual agency. A half circle was formed before a stand, upon which was placed two ordinary tin diouer horns, very much batter ed, minus mouth pieces, which bad been bro ken off. We examined the horns-atid found nothing snspicious about them, nothing dif fering from other horns. The door was lock ed and medium, Miss Vincent, (Mrs. Gar ner being in Dresden) seated herself at the end of the circle. The lights were blown oflt and several pieces of church music sung. At the expiration of about fivo minutes, we beard a sound as if a hall had been shot in to tho hotn, accompanied by a quick flash of phosphoric light, when it began to rock upon the stand. “ Brother King (the guardian spirit of the medium) is with us,” announced’ Miss Vin cent. All was hushed ns death, and a deep fcoL ing of solemnity sccined to pervado the en -1 tire circle. Presently the horn slowly as cended the wall, crept along tho ceiling, and then flew off in different directions about tho room: The medium ftquested the spirit to manifest itself to members of the circle; im mediately it passed along, giving each a gen tle rap and an opportunity for feeling it. If returned to the stand, and the medium inquir ed if it had any communications to make.— The horn instantly left the stand and roahed through the room with great velocity, issuing a rtoise like steam escaping from an engine, and scarcely With leas power. After several circuits of tbe room it halted and stood in air, just bcfuic the circle, and a voice which no unaided mortal could be suspected of imitating, slowly but rather indistinctly uttered : “Ye are the children of earth, but lam the child of heaven, invisible.” .The voice undoubtedly proceeded from the horn, and waa of ao much power that it eould have boon heard a square. It sounded as the voice of a person speaking through la bored breathing. Several ’ commnhieatTdhi were received purporting to have come from the Spirit-Land, and descriptions of departed ones which are said to have been accurate. Conversation waa continued with the ghostly visitant for about ten minutes, when he drop ped his horn and bade us adieu . The candle was re-lit and the circle broke up, erory member of which was tally con vinced that a supernatural agency controlled the horn. The most curious part of the manifesta tion, however, is the fact that after the de monstrations, the Interior of the born, which before the circle waa formed was clean and bright, was fonnd, upon examination, to be thickly coated with a limy substance. The whole thing may be an imposture, tbe skillful work of a cunning brain, bat we aro cqpfidont the agency was indenpndont of tho medium. She was seated in the circle, during the manifestations, with her hands held by one of our citizens, in whose hones ty we have great confidence, and her voice was often beard at the samo time tbe horn was speaking. Mrs. Van Uuskirk, the lady at whose liouse the mediums are staying, en joys the confidence of community, ana sbo states that often in the night the horn will visit the bed of the modiutns, and hold long conversation with them, and that she has long been awakened by these nocturnal viai tations. From the Cosmopolitan Art Journal. LAUGHING, >. “ Laugh and grow fat,” 4s an adage so old that it is almost denied a place in the memo ry. llut it should not bo forgotten ; there is a well of philosophy and psychological truth in its wisdom. Wbo does not know tbe fre est and kindest souls are always susceptible of a real hearty fit of laughter T And, on the other band, who does not know that the cold, cynical smile is always indicative of re serve and mistrust 7 Qive ns the man or wo man whose laugh riugs, and we will show you a person of kind heart. But place us in the presence of a sickly smile, or a dry, hollow laugh, aud we button up our affections as If we were in tho keeping of a dark thought. “ A man may smile and smile, and be a vil lain but it is hard for a man to laugh and laugh, and still be a villain. A laugh, in it self, implies something good, and kind and generous, and His hence the dark-hearted person does not harbor any thing like a “ loud smile.” This subject may impress itself more for cibly on our minds if we turn to childhood aud learn character by action. jfThe child who is always quiet, sedate, little Dombey likc, attracts our care and sympathy, and we would give the world if it would laugh and be merry as other children. We are fain to believe wrong in such silence.— But tho child who is ever light-hearted and riotous in its noise, we can easily understand and read tlnvcharacter in its ini pulses aud un affected action. Now apply the same judg ment to big children—sometimes called grows Arsons —and we can easily sec how nfltcb good and how modi evil is in the countenance, if never distorted into the convulsions of a musical opera of wit and humor, there ia something wrong, and it behooves us to be chary of confidences until we learn—if we ever do—tho character and disposftiOH'of tbe quiet, immovable face. W e do not wish to preach metaphysics, but we do wish the whole world could laugh more, would see more of tho ludicrous in each other’s actions, would imitate childhood in its merry-making and unaffected pleasant ry. Then should we see fewer sad, care worn faces in the street, fewer pale sufferers by the fire-side, less misery everywhere.— We always had a childish belief that the millenium promised in the good book was tho time when every body should learn to iSugh ; and now that we begin to grow out of our childish weakness, still that one belief is with us—the millennium will be here when every body learns to laugh. From the Boston Post A FUGITIVE SLAVE CASE. New Yoke State, August, 1858. Dear Post Let me tell you about the fugitive slave case, tbe one before which the Boston one pales its ineffectual fires. There is a town in the interior of the Btato, tbe name of which town tortures couldn’t drag from me, but the first two let ters of its nick-namo are tbe Saline City.— Now, the inhabitants of this city bare a great and abiding horror of tho fugitive slave law. They have a fugitive slave bellt to bo rung upon dire emergency; they have a fugitive slave vigilance committee, and are cocked and primed generally for United States Marshals. Now, some wicked man, name unknown, oqcc telegraphed from Buffalo that the slave catchers had seized a colored gentleman in that eity, and that they and their victim would be in the Saline City by the 12,20 train. Immediately the fugitive slave bell was rung; its effect was marvellous. It remind ed one of Mrs. llcinan's “ Bended Bow,” or Roderick Dhu’s Fiery Cross. Every colored person who heard it, drop ped whatever be was doing and hastened to the square. Barbers’ apprentices left aston ished and irate old gentlemen half shaved, boot blacks left incensed exquisites with but one polished boot, waiters caused late break fasters to go,hungry, and in tbe twinkling of an eye the Square was filled with a dense mass of “ thick darkness that could be felt.” Tbe crowd were told of tbe canse of their being called together, and were admonished to be at the depot when the 12,15 train came in. . When the 12,20 tftiii carte, the depot pre sented a strange spectacle. Not a white face was to te seen. An Englishman, who was VOLUME I—NUMBER 52. on board the train. m/U a tjk -7” et book that a eity in Centra] Hew Tort wee entirely populated by negroes. They eest y found au manifestations of fesHwH lie ebwddjbe"re “ Don’t be afeerd child! Dey shant neb ber git you again. Now, honey, yoe’s all right Don’t be seared at cbm white trash anymore.” ■ y , And be was borne In triumph through the crowd and hurried into a coach, which e waiting ohtsido. By this time be ve petri fied aud speechless, saying bis prayersin wardly, and making hurried preparations to die a violent death. His liberators, swelling with just pride, tat surveying him with tbe pleasing concrioea ness of having done a good action; but the coach had not gone many yards before toe of them began to rub bis eyes and look sav age • Then be broke out— “ Look here! Isn't dis Sam Johnsing, who libs up in Sait alley end moods boots and shoes dare 7” ‘*- * * * W “ Yes, sail I” faltered Sam, who had Hip bom in tbe city. ’ ? •''’lff; Den what do you mean by fooling twin dis way, eh 7 Get out of bear imtaedfcto, and take that wid you.” That waa the asaistanco of a No. 14 square toed boot, which sent Mr. Johnsing out of the coach flying—and coded the Great Fugi tive Slave Case. shaving a note. . 7 *f| Old Skinflint waa tbe most celebrated bro ker in Philadelphia—bia “ shaving” opera tions wore famous, as he usually took net only the board and whiskers, but •* one pound of flesh in addition.” Young Harry Scare* was one of those dashing chaps who love wine and bones, and who form a majority of tbe borrowers. Harry bavingriiany wants, on varions occasions borrowed of Skinflint at three per cent a month “ off,” and having at sundry periods made “ raises,” paid off his responsibilities. At last be got tired of swill constaut borrowing and repaying. It would be six veers before bis estate could be sold, under the terms of bis father’s will, who bad prudently postponed that event until Harry should reach the age of “ thirty,’-’ and Hurry i concluded it would be better to make a heavy operation at onee, and be rid of tbe bothe ration ‘of continued borrowing. Away to Skinflint's be hied, determined to procure a good round sum, and so be done with if. “ I want ten thousand for six yean.” “ Hem I what security will you give I” - Oh, you may have my bond—that will bind my property ” ‘‘ Hem I wbat discount will you gives You know my rule is always to take discount • off—besides, you owe me one thousand, due to-day, and I lent you ten in tbe street the other day.” “ 1 won t pay wbat I have been paying: < and a quarter per cent is enougT Y& tike It ” out,” end take wbat I ewe ypu bo rides.” 2 “Hem ! well, here's a bond for ten tbod* sand dollars at six years; sign it, aud It will all be right.” No sooner said than done. Harry affixed his autograph, and hummed a tune while Skinflint got bis check book and made e cal culation. “ Have fan got ten dollars about your* I *hed Skinflint in a momentif so, let me “ Ali right, old hoy,” said Harry, suppo i *'ng be wanted to make change, “here it ie.” “ Hem I bem!” said Skinflint, locking up bis desk and making preparations * to shoot.” , “ Stop, old fellow,” said Harry. “Where’s • my money 7” vf* i “ Your money! you’ve got it!” “ Got it 7 what do you mean TANARUS” “ Why. I was to take * off * the discount, wasn’t I, and the thousand I” * | ” Yes; I want my money!” m * “ Why, my dear fellow, you’ve got it.—* Ten thousand at one and a quarter n month (or six years, is nine thousand—e thousand i you owed me, and just paid me the ten, rt> i all right, my dear boy — a fair business trana • ‘ rrorurmEs"” 1 Stepping into a ehnrch aisle, after dismis sion, and standing to converse with others, or to allow occupants of tbe pew to pa* out and before, for the courtesy of precedence, at ! the expense of a greater boorishnem to tboM behind. To guzzle down glass after glass of cold ‘ water, on getting up in the morning, without any feeling of thirst, under the impression of tbe health giving nature of its washing oat 1 qualities. To sit down to a table and “ force” your -1 self to oat when there is not only no appetite, ! but a positive aversion to food. To take a glass of soda, ortoddr, or saflga rcc, or mint drops, on a summer day, under 1 the belief that it is safer and better than • glass of cold tap To economize time; by robbing yourself of - dicr 7 Because he could write about fecc.