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— ‘ - - - ■ - _ BY WILLIAM CLINE. THE WIRE-GRASS REPORTER, I\ E. LOVE & WM. CLINE, ‘ 1 . EDITORS. SUBSCRIPTION, Ths Wiuk-Oiiass Reporter in published Week ly at Two Dollars per annum, in advance. ▲ll orders for the Reporter, to receive attention mult be accompanied with the money. ’ Subscriber* wishing the direction of their paper changed, will notify u* from what office it is to be transferred. The foregoing terms will be strictly observed. ADVERTISING. TERMS. — Advertisements will be published *tOstt Dollar per square of twelve lines or less, for tho first insertion, and Fifty Cents for each subsequent insertion. Those not specified as to time will be published until forbid aud charged ae cordingly. Obituary Notices, not exceeding six lines, will be published gratis; but Cash, at the rate of One Dollar for every twelve printed lines exceeding that number, must accompany all longer notices. jy Advertisers will please hand in tlieir favor* ou Monday when practicable, or at an early hour on Tuesday inorniug. Contract Advertisements. The Proprietors of the Press at Thomasville, in order to bnng their advertising columns within the roach of every one, have remoddied 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 cun in no ease be departed from.— Each Square is composed of twelve solid Urcvior line*. 1 square 3 months $5 0(l!f> squares II months4l2s 00 i “ c aoo 5 “ 12 “ an oo 1 “ 9 “ 10 00 6 “ 3 “ ja 00 1 “14 “ 12 00 6 “ 6 •* 24 00 2 “ 3 8 00!C “ 9 “ 30 00 2 “ 6 o •* nook) “ 12 “ 3500 2 “ 9 “ 18 OOj.j column 3 “ 25 00 2 “ 12 “ 20 00 4 “ 6 “ 30 00 3 “ 3 “ 10 00 4 “ 9 “ 35 00 3 “ 6 “ 16 00 1 ! “ l'i “ 40 00 3 “ 9 “ 21 OOjI _ “ 3 “ 35 <K) 3 “ 12 “ 25 00 | “ 6 “ 44 00 4 “ 3 “ 12 00;| “ 9 “ 52 00 4 6 “ 17 001 “ 12 “ 60 00 4 9 “ 22trl “ 3 “ 50 00 4 l2 “ 26 00i 1 “. 6 “ 60 00 5 “ 3 •• 14 •00:1 , “ 9 “ 70 <KI 5 “ 6 “ 20 00l f “ 12 “ 80 00 IT* All fractious 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. It.—This schedule shall mtt, in am 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. ( 7* linsiiiess Cards, for the term of one year, will be Charged in proportion to the space they occupy, at One Dollar per line. “* Special Notices (loaded Brevier) will be charged Ten Cents per line for each insertion. 1, . (!. BRYAN, S.mtltfru Enterprise. WM. CLINK, Wire-Grass Reporter. Legal Advertisements. All persons having Occasion to advertise legal sales, notices, etc., are compelled by law to comply ■with tho following rules; Sales of Land and Negroes, by Administrators, Executors, or Guardians,are required bj law to be held ou the first Tuesday in the month, between the hours of ten in the forenoon and three in the after noon. at the Court house in tile county iiCWhich the property is situate. Notices of these sales must be given iu” a public gazette FORTY DAYS previous to the dav of sale. ‘ ‘ Notices for the sale of Personal Property, Snust be given at least TEN DAYS previoniCto the (Tiy of sale. Notice to Debtors and Creditors of Mi Kstnte must bo published FORTY DAYS. / Notice that application will be niniTc to the Court of Ordinary lor 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 Aduihiis t ration, monthly for sir months —for Dismission from Guardianship, forty days. Rei.f.s for foreclosure of Mortgage must be pub. lished monthly for four months— for establishing lost papers, for the fall spareofth roe. months —for compel ling titles from Executors oi Administrators, where a bond has been given by the deceased, thrfnll spare of three months. ty Publications will always be continued ae cordiug to the above rules, unless otherwise ordered All business in the lintyof Printing will meet with prompt attention at the Reporter Ofjti k. SUPERIOR COURT OAhENDAR, PATH, TERM, 185 R AUGUST. Ist Moiidsy, Floyd Lumpkin Sd Monday, Clarko Dawson 3d Monday, Forsyth , Meriwether Walton 4th Mond'y, Baldwin Ghattaho’ehe, Glascock Heard J ackson Monroo Paulding i Schley Taliaferro SEPTEMBER. Ist Monday, Appling . Chattooga Cherokee Columbia Coweta Crawford Madison | .*■, Marion Mitchell s Morgan Webster i 2d Monday, Butta Cass j ’ Coffee Elbert Fayette - j Greene Gwinnett Pickens Sumter Wtiskiq gtrni ; Frid’y aft’r, Pierce 3d Monday, Cobb Hall Hart Macon Newton Putnam Talbot Terrell Whte 4th Mond'y, Campbell Clay Clinch - | Emanuel * Lee Twiggs AY bite Wilkes OCTOBER. Ist Monday,Carroll Dooly Early Fulton Gilmer Gordon Taylor Warren Wilkinson > J (ICTriBF.U CONTINUED > after, S jWedue- ( Rab jd y after, ) !2d Monday, Charlton Fannin Habersham ; Hancock , Harris Laurens Miller Scriven )3d Monday, Burke Camden t Franklin Haralson I Henry Jones Murray Oglethorpe Pulaski Btewa rt Union Worth 1 1 hursday j Montgomery ‘Frid’y aft’r, Wilcox ;4th Mond’v,Decatur Dekalb j Houston Irwin Jasper Lincoln Polk Tattnall Towns Whitfield Tlmrsd’y ( T , f • after, j Frid’y aft’r, Bulloch Mond'y “ Effingham NOVEMBER. fat Monday,Berrien Milton Randolph Richmond Upson 2d Moudny, Baker Bibb Catijosa Mdacoges 3d Monday, Spalding Troup 4th Mond’y, Calhoun Walker T a^r l ***U>* Moo. after, Dougherty “ • “ Liberty “ “ Colquitt “ ‘‘ Bryan DECEMBER, lat Monday, Dade Jefferaon Thomas 3d Monday, Lowndei Cam Cards. JAMEB C. BOSS, ATTORNEY AT LAW, THOMASVILLE, GEORGIA. je 23 w ts HARRIS A HARRIS, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Iverson L. Harris, I Charles J. Harris, Milledgeville, Ga. | Thomasville, Ga. march 31 w ts R. S. BURCH A WM. JTIcLENDON, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, T HOSfASVILL E, GEORGIA. oetl4 19 wey BAIil lt Ac IIEJV* ET, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Troupville , Lowndes Cos., Ga. sept 15 w ts EUGENE L. HIKES, ATTORNEY AT LAW. THOMASVILLE. GEORGIA, Office over McLean’s store. (jsn26 JOHN M. DYSON, ATTORNEY AT LAW, OFFICK next door to Dr. Bruce’s, Thomnsville, Georgia. jaiis-ly. G. 11. DANIELL, ATTORNEY AT.LAW, SAVANNAH, GEORGIA. Office, corner of Bull aud Bay Streets, jun 12 w 1y JOHN B. niLLEH, ATTORNEY AT LAW, MILL TOWN, BERRIKN CO., GA. WILL practice in all the Counties of the Brunswick Circuit, and Berrien and Lowndes Counties of the Southern Circuit. may)2ov JOHN CL M4IIOLLS, ATTORNEY AT LAW, , WARES BOROUGH, WARE CO., GA. WILL practice iu ai.l the counties of the Bruns wick circuit, and Lowndes and Berrien of the Southern murdloy GEORGE B. WILLI ARSON, ATTORNEY AT LAW, WARESBOROUGH, GA. WILL PRACTICE in the following Counties : f the Brunswick Circuit: Appling, Coffee. Pierce, Ware Clinch, and Charlton. luarjltf SAMUEL 11. SPENCER, ATTORNEY AT LAW, TfIOMASVILLE, GEORGIA. WILL give his entire attention, to the practice of Law, in the Counties of tho .Southern Circuit.— Office on the see,pud floor of D. & E. McLean’s brick building. (jan2ony ‘•< E. C. MORGAN, ATTORNEY AT LAW, NASIIVILL E, GEORGIA. WILL praetiiv in tin* eotiutk** of the Southern Cir cuit,im<l the eountioK of ]>ihi]v, Worth Mini ltoiiph- the Mneoti, ami Codec, Clinch and Ware of the firtniKwiek Circuit*. Flat Creek, Oh.,Oct. 7. ts hick a iii:ksiio\, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, w MAGNOLIA, CLINCH CO., GA. ATTEND to all business entrusted to tlieir care, iu ,the following counties, to-wit: Clincli, Ware, Ap pling, Ooflce, Charlton, Lowndes and Berrien,Geor gia. Also, in the counties of Hamilton, Columbia, and Jefferson, in Florida. DAVID I*. RICE. | HENRY M. MEnsIION, jail 5 _w 6m JAMES M. FOLSOM, ATTORNEY AT LAW, MAGNOLIA. CLINCH CO., GA. WILL practice in all the courts of the Brunswick Circuit and in the conits of Lowndes and Berrien of the Southern Circuit. 0 c S Judge A. E. Cochran, Brunswick Ct. References j j (|d * e Petcr F ,„ VOi S(ll „her„ Ct. jan 5 ’ w . ly iUcbical (Curbs. S. S. ADAMS, I S. R. WILLIAMS. NEW FIRM. DRS. ADAMS So WILLIAMS, having formed a ~ Co-partnership, tender tlieir professional services % to the public. aug2s-tf R. J. lIHECF, | R. 11. EATON. lira. EATOM, HAVING formed a co-partnership, tender their Professional Services to the citizens of Tliomns ville and vicinity. je23-tf Dr. W. H. HAEL, HAS disposed of bis interest in the “Wire-Grass Reporter ” to Judge Love, and will devote himself exclusively to his profession. He may be found at all times, when not profession ally ehgagod, at his Office opposite East side Presbyterian Chnret. jclltf (lit form Practice,) Dr. P. *. BOWER, OFFER his professional services r to the citizens of Thoniasville and vicinity, Calls at all hours promptly attended to. feb2oy New Drag Store. Drs. BOWEK A ELLIS have opened a Drug Store at the 4^ jjjp stand fonnerly occupied by Palmer & Bro., opposite K. Remirigton’t, Jf and are prepared to furnish Drugs, Medicines, Perfumery, luke, Fancy Soaps, toe. Upon fair terms to those who may favor them with a call. To their Reform friends they would sj)r, that they have on band a fresh nnd reliable assortment of Botanic Medicine*. And will be glad to Bupply them with sufch articles as they may need. may26oy ’ Bank Agency. THE subscriber has been appointed Aqent'for the Bank of Savannah at this place, aud is prepar ed to discount Bills of Exchange, Drafts, &e.; and has for sulc Checks on New Yolk, j ill \22) EDWARD. REMINGTON. Notice to /Everybody. DR. A. W. ALLENI& CELEIIR Al’E I> SOUTIf EB N LIKTIMBKTT, IS A CERTAIN REMEDY for Strains, Sprains, Rheumatism, Neuralgia, CYatnp, Nervous Head- Achn, Bore Throat. Stitt Neek, Tootli-ftcb'e, Pain in the Head, Scalds aud Burns, or any thing like erup tions on the flesh. , “ Also, for all diseases to which horses are subject. .... „ ✓ Dr. Allen** iltsßealing Ointment. IS a certain cure for Ring-worms, Scratches In horses, Grecse Heel,Thrush, Collar and Saddle Galls; and all flesh wounds. v Manufactured by Dr. A. W. ALLEN, Columbus, For'sale in Thomasville, by Banin A Shiff; in Mpntieello, by I’almcr A Bro.,and in Troupville, by T. W. Ellis. _ A. W. ALLEN. -.-jUvv.sn: . y ir Hides, Hide**, (tides. “ OAYWA hides wanted, for which Eight UU “ THOMASVILLE, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 3, 1858. From Longfellow's New Poem. CHILDISH. Come to me, O ye children, For I bear you at your play, And the questions that perplex me Have vanished quite away. j. Ye open the eastern windows, That look towards the son, Where thoughts are singing swallows Aud the brooks of morning run. In your hearts are the birds and the sunshine, In your thoughts the brooklet* flow, But in mine is the wind of autumn, And the first fall of the snow. Ah, wbat would the world be to us If the children were no more ? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before. Wbat the leaves are to the forest, With light aud air for food, Ere their aweet and tender juices H*ve hardened into wood. That to the world are children; Through them it feels the glow Os a brighter and sunnier climate f n Thau reaches the trunks below. Come to me, O ye children, And whisper in my ear What the birds aud winds are singing In your sunny atmosphere. For what are all our contriving*, And the wisdom of our books, When compared with your caresses, Aud the gluduesa of your looks f Ye hre better than all the ballads That ever were sung or said ; „For ye are living poems, And all the rest are dead. From Household, Words. A Cornish Hug. - Gfrptaiii Billy Tregear was bound on tho visit dc rigner to London. Captain Billy traveled by mail, not by wagon, outside, of course. Billy sat behind the coachman, jn compa ny with three rather unusual coach passen gers. But as any kind of coach or passen gers would have beeu unusual to Billy, lie perhaps saw no more singularity in them than in the rest of his fellow travelers. They were certainly not the kind of people one is in the habit of meeting even in mixed socie ty. One of them was an Italian showman. His companions were a hear and monkey r Captain Billy accepted their companion ship cheerfully, as a perfectly natural and 1< - gitimate incident in his aboveground experi ences. At the outset of my story I confess there is a sort of Alpine or rubicon barrier of im probability, which flic reader may perhaps find some “difficulty in getting over. But he is requested to make an effort, with the nssu rance that his obstacle surmounted, he will find the rest of our mutual journey compara tively plain sailing, lie must make an ef fort, then, to believe—ns implicitly, if possi ble, ns I myself did when 1 first heard the story —that Captain Billy Tregear, either from a defective knowledge of mankind or from an impaired vision, the result of having had the sun too much in his eyes, whether in the literal or the metaphorical sense, (both cases being possible to a cornish miner just come aboveground for a holiday,) mistook the hear for a human being, outlandish perhaps and taciturn, hut undcncably human. Yon must bear continually in mind that Captain Billy had risen from the ranks to his present distinction in the depths of a tin mine. What could he know about man and beast iu the upper sun lit world ? I could point out a score of gentlemen—-either of whom, happening to be Billy’s traveling companion on the occasion, might easily have been mistaken by Billy for a bear. Is it then a wonder that the simple, untutored Comisliman should have mistaken a hear for a gentleman 1 I fear, in order to make my story at all probable (the difficulty enlarges as I ap proach it,) I must fall hack upon and cling to the hypothesis that Captain Billy had mounted tho coach in a hazed and muzzy condition; and had come aimed with a case bottle after the manner of sagacious travel ers; that he could not have been in a state to judge by ocular demonstration of the out lines of his fellow-passengers; that lie was merely aware of a dark, huddled-up figure of some kind fitting peaceably beside him, whoso outer and tangible garment appeared to he of a furry texture, and that Billy—as a natural consequence of his assumed condi tion—was disposed to be sociable aud com municative. We have hinted that the bear was taci turn. There was every excuse for his 6b serving this apparently churlish demeanor.— In the first place he was naturally ignorant of the English language. In the second, be labored under the physical disadvantage of be(ng muzzled. Billy, it may be fairly .sup posed, not able to notice this physical incon venience ; or it is probable that he would have treated the bear with greater considera tion than he did. ‘sfj However, it took a long time ;to offend Billy, lie wanted to talk. Having ex hausted general topics—in which the stran ger might bo naturally indisposed to take an interest—the gallant, but perhaps (well, yes, he must h|ve been, so let us consider the matter settled) intoxicated captain proceed ed to more personal questions. It struck him that he would start a delicate compli ment to his neighbor’s taste and judgment in dress. Now, to withstand that kind of blan dishment one must be a hear indeed.! . “Famous top-coat that o’yoUru, sir,” said Billy, admirably smoothing the bear’s left shoulder “ Beautiful top-coat, to be sure.’ The hear may have thought so too; hut, ns lias been shown, there were insurmounta ble obstacles to his expressing an opinion up on that or any other subject. H Good sort of coat that for the pits,” pur sued the undaunted Billy. “Water’d trickle off it just the very thing like off a oont’s* back. Wouldn’t it, pow 7” The hear was obstinately silent, and here, I think, be was to blame. He might have grunted, at least. Bill was not yet beaten. He pursued : “ Excuse my freedom, sir, as a poor man and a perfect stranger; but might I ask wbat would be the cost of a top-coat like that, for I should like to have oue, if witiuu means 7 Still the bear didn’t say a word. Captain Billy was now fairly huffed. Hu man blood is apt to get warm down in those gaseous tin mines, and Billy felt thia was a poor return for his persistent civility. He opened and shut his hands, loosened hia bi ceps muscles, and clutched at the bear at if meditating vengeance, in a Cornish manner, at the earliest opportunity. Having grasp ed and thrown a few imaginary foes over the back of the conch, and feeling himself in training for any encounter, Billy deliberate ly proceeded to provoke the hear by insult. lie spoke at the unoffeuding personage iu the third person. “ Well! I ain’t a judge of breeding, per haps, but it ain’t my idea of a gentleman!” Billy was quite right. The bear was no gentleman. The showman hero interposed. .He fully understood the state of the case, which lie had watched from the commencement. — Nursing his monkey affectionately in hia lap (and winking at the coachman and passen gers,) he said to Captain Billy—iu pretty fair English—with a mischievous Italian smile: “ You must not be offended with him.— He does not understand your language. He is a Russian.” “ Rooshan, eh 7” said Billy, rather exas perated than pacified by the explanation.— “ Brn-ave, ugly chap, sure lie is, too. Can he wrussel 1” “O, yes; the Russians arc very fine wres tlers,” said the Italian. “Well! there's wrusslcrs in Coruwall, too.” The wrathful Captain agaiu clutched the air as lie spoke. ” Y’ou had better uot try with him.” the showman went on. “He hns one terrible grip.” “So they saiil of the Wesmorelaud man. last winter, hut I throwed him over my head, aud could have done it with my hat on.” “Ah ! hut the Russians have one hug of their own.” “So’vewe; and its thought a good'un,” said Billy, tartly. And tlion I think Billy must have sought solace iu the case-bottle, and fallen asleep, murmuring contemptuous defiance agaiust tho Rooshan nation collectively. w History, at any rute, insists upon the fact, that at the first halting place, (Japtaiu Billy oil descending, staggering or tumbling from the roof of the coach, knocked against his late neighbor, the hear, lately assisted by his master in descending to terra fuma, to the ad miration of nuiiiefous bystanders, and became indignant at what lie conceived to he a fresh insult to the British Hag at the hands of per fidious Muscovy; Billy rushed blindly at his-iusulter, whom lie seized by the shoul ders, after the manner of his country, pre paring to initiate him into the mysteries of the Cornish ling. The hear, of course, didn’t like this, and retaliated after the custom of his race anil district. Equally, as a matter of course, Captain Billy Tregear didn’t like that. “ Here, I say,” Billy gasped, rapidly col lapsing within the slowly closing hug of his adversary, “this ain’t wrustling!” The bear was impervious to arguments a* on former occasions. To his horror, Billy felt sharp fangs entering a fleshy portion of his torso,_._lt~was a pitty he had not better studied the Russian character. “ Here, I say ! You’re a clan-ing me.— This ain’t fair! Help! Murder!” Billy's eyes rolled wildly iu search of prob able rescue among the terror-stricken - spec tators. There was no help in sight. In the midst of his agony he looked upwards and saw the monkey, who had not yet been lifted trpm the seat on the coach to which his mas ter had tied him. There was hope yet.^— Victory had already decided agaiust Billy. The British Hag was nowhere. Prompt ca pitulation wag the only safety. With the rcinnaut of breath left to him, he screamed out imploringly to the monkey : ” I ay, young gentleman, speak to your father in bis own language, and tell him if he’ll loose go I’ll ax his pardon.” Tho story always'finished here. At the time of my first becoming acquainted with it. Captain Billy Tregear was reported to be still alive and prosperous. I never learnt how he got out of Mr. Bear’s clutches, and conjecture fails to suggest a probable means of his extrication. But I never like to in quire too closely into the.reality of (food sto ries. They always come out fromthefire of scrutiny) singed like Michaelmas’ geese, of their feathery glories. I have not yet got over the pain of discovering, a few months ago, that Rob Roy wag not only a dirty sheep-stealer, hut that lie sold a fight to the English government in the great Scottish re bellion. ./ • ’ *; 0 * An onnt, reader, in West-country dialect, means a mule. . , THE HOAD TO WEALTH. Printer’s ink has made more men rich in this country than any other known agent,— Y'ct how few southern merchants make use of it to increase their business. There are a few exceptions we admit. And we have ’noticed that those merchants who advertise most liberally do the largest business and are most successful. Stephen Girard spoke the truth wlien lie said, “by keeping my business Continually before the public” he had been able to make many sales he would not otherwise have made. Fifty or a hun dred dollars a year, invested in advertising, will not be lost by the merchant. It will return to him an hundred fold. Try Prin ters Ink; keep 3'our business continually before the public. i i An honest farmer having a number of men hoeing in his field went to see how his work went on. Finding one of them sitting still, he inquired the cause. The man replied t * “ I thirst for the spirit,” „ ... “ Grog, you mean I suppose ; bat if the bible teaches you to thirst sfter the spirit, it also says, ‘Hoe I'*very oue that thimetb J"’ SCENE AT A GEHMAIf WATERING PLACE. I.auiks GAMBMXu.-k-The St, Louis Dem ocrat is favored with an occasional letter from a European tourist, who is evidently a culti vated person and a graceful Writer. His last fr.ve a description or the fashionable water log place of Weisbaden, from which We make an extract which is worth resdiug: I •left the Rhine a little below Msyence, and made a short visit to Weisbaden, some eight or ten miles east of the i+rer. This is a beautiful place, and one of the Saratogas of Germany. The principal spring hero throws up water in large quantities, mingled with gas, which produces a constant gargling sound, somewhat like water running from a jug. The water of this spring, though clear as crystal, has a temperature of about one hundred and thirty, anil of course, is too hot to be swallowed without cooling. Its taste, when cool, somewhat resembles that of the Congress Springs at Saratoga, but when first dipped up it tastes very much like hot chiek eu broth, weii seasoned with salt and pep per. I took a stroll early one morning over the beautiful grounds, aud around tho springa, crowds of people, each with a tumbler in hand, were wnlking up and down cooling off the boiling draught before they could drink it, a and this done, returning to tho spring for another glass. The high aud the low seem ed here to meet together, for mingling in the erowd, I saw luces and rags, beauty and de formity, wealth and poverty side by side, all intent upon imbibing as much as possible of the health giving waters. Invalids form but a very small part of tho company here.— Counts and princes, lords and ladies, as well as belles and dandies, gnmhlcrs and black legs, are alt mingled together with cripples and crutches. In one part of the grounds is a largo palnce-liko structure called the Kursall, iu which are not only diningrooms, reading rooms, concert rooms and dancing rooms, but more conspicuous and more|fro quented than all the others, arc the gambling rooms. I was amazed to see the eagerness with which the infatuated crowds arouud these tables watched the progress of the pity, and often staked large sums upon the mero tarn of a die. 1 had before seen gambling on the Mississippi steamers, but compared with Wiesbaden that was no gambling at all. At these tables sat elegantly dressed ladies in white kid gloves, and slovenly half drunken hack-drivers, side by side, staking money of ten upon the siiine figure. Even old men, bowed down with the infirmities of age, were there, reaching out the money with trembl ing linnd, nnd laying it upon the hoard,while tnnylnip at their side stood a youth of fifteen with eyes kindled and cheeks glowing with the fires of n newly-begotten passion. Some timid ones, doubtless new beginners in the nefarious business, laid down silver, bnt the most part used only gold, and aomo staked thousand Iranc notes. Poor, deluded fools. They must know that not one in a hundred of those who take money aroond those tables ever wins as much as be loses. MIGHT ALE. During the month of September and Oc tober, throughout the United States, wherev er there are chills, and fever aud ague, inter mitteuts, or tho more deadly form* of fever, it is a pernicious, and even dangerous prac tice, to sleep with rite outer doors or win dows open, because miasma, marsh emana tion, the product of decayiug vegetation—all o t which are different terms, expressing the same tiring—is made so light by heat, that it ascends at once towards the upper portion of atmospheric space, and is not breathed du ring the heat ot the day, but the cool nights of the fall of the year condense it, make it heavy, And it settles ou tbeground, is breath ed into thr lungs, incorporated into the blood, and if iu its concentrated form, as in certain localities uear Rome, it causes sickness and death in afow hour*. Tho plagues which devastated eastern countries in earlier ages, were caused by the concentrated cmauatiorj’ from marshy locali ties, or districts of decayiug vegetation, aud the commou observation of the higher class of people was, that those who occupied the upper ijtoicir not even coming down stairs for market supplies, but drew them up by ropes attached to baskets, had eutire immunity from disease, for two reasons ; tho higher the abode, the less compact is the deadly atmos phere ; besides, the higher rooms in a bouse, in summer, are tho warmer ones, and the mi asma less concentrated. The lower rooms are colder, making the sir more dense. Be, by keeping all outer doors and windows closed, especially the lower ones, the build ing is less cool aud comfortable, but it ex cludes the infectious air, while its warmth sends what eutors through the crevices im mediately to the coiling* of the rooms, where it congregates, and is not breathed, hence it is that men who entered the bar-room and dining-saloons of the National Hotel, remain ing but a few brief hours, were attacked with the National Hotel disease ; while ladies who occupied upper rooms, where constant fires were burning, escaped attack, although re maining in the house for weeks at a time. It was for the same reason that Dr. Rush was accustomed to advise families in summer time not being able to leave the city, to cause their younger children especially, to spend their time above slairs. We have spent a life-time ourselves in the \Vest and extreme South, and known iu our own person, and as to those who had firmness to follow our re commendation, that whole families will es cape all the forms of fail fevers, who will have bright fires kindled at sunrise and sun set in the family room. liut it is too plain a prescription to secure observance in more than one family iu ton thousand. After the third frost, and until the fall of the next year, it is an important means of health for per sons to sleep with an outer door or window partly open, hnviugtlie bed in sueh a position as to be protected from k draught of air/We advise that no person should goto wqrk or take exercise in the morning on an empty stomach ; but if it is stimulated to action by a cup of coffee, or a crust of bread, er appls, or VOLUME I—NUMBER 59. orange, exercise can be taken, nt* only with ‘•npuwtjr, bet to high advantage, in all chill *oa sere* localmea.— ZfHtelfk. ™ *AH3tOTH TMJta 1 ‘t On the 23d and 84tb of Jane 1 railed the celebrated Mammoth Tree Grove, i CW rena county, aecemamued by brother J. Blain and brother 11. Bland and lade W reached the grove at four P, M„ oa the 83d end put up at “the Mammoth Tree House, the only public, indeed, the only dwelling house at the grovo. The dationa were satisfactory. A semi-weekly KB . entitled the Big Tree Bulletin and hy'a Advertiser,’ hi edited end fitetod on the stump of what i* called tfea % tree, though it u not by any means the hugest tree in the grove. There are ninety-six of those wonderful trees la a circuit of Mont one mile. These trees do not stand alone, but In a forest of large trees, generally pine and et dass. They are truly wonderful, and like our greet lakes, ono must see them fully to appreciate their vast dimensions. Sugar pines, eight feet in diameter, anti more than two hundred feet high, standing in the ncir neighborhood of these wonderful growth*, seem mere saplings in comparison. “Tko bather of the Forest,” lies in stately gran deur oil the ground, having been blown down nobody knows when, his huge form measuring one hundred and Twelve fedt in circumference, and ly estimate four hundred and filly feet in length, 1 say by estimate, lor the topis broken offthreo hundred feet from the root. Bates the tree is eight feet in diameter where it is broken, h is reasons - bly supposed, judging from the general to per, that one hundred and fifty foot must be added to complete the length. “The 3£oth er of the Forest” excites commiiweration.— 1 here she stands denuded of her bark, ona bundled and twenty feet from the ground.*— 1 his was done about four years age, and yet so tenacious is she of life, a few green tufts still adorn her head. The framework of the scaffolding ts sti!f standing, and the spiral stairway, formed by large pins driven into the tre. We did not ascend this stairway, as the gentlemanly conductor thought the pins might not be reliable. “The Big Tree” was cut ar rather bored down some time Mot The leveled stump foVm the floor of V bor, in which, at stated above, is the editing and printing office of the Big Tree Bulletin. Iho but log, some thirty feet Jong, lies on the ground, and is asceuded by a neat stair way of twenty-six steps. Tho trees are per haps oil named. Besides those above men tioned, there aro “The Two Guards,” “lie Three Graces,” “Tho Twins,” “Hercules,” •‘The Hermit,” “The Beauty of the Foredt.” doc. Borne tako the names of tho several Btatos oud of our distinguished lueu. Wind field Scott is a tree of most noble dimensions and most grandly represents the nolle chief tain whose name H bears. But enough about the big trees. —Mu hop S'Mii't Letter*. s . xuamoM aucsote. The following story is told of a revolution nry soldier who was running for Congress ; It appears that onr hero was opposed by a much younger man, who had never “been to the wars,” and it was the wont of old Wo lunonary” to tell the people of the hardship, ho endured. Bays be 1 t u UI H ** “hip the British and the Indians. 1 hove slept upon the field of botUo with no corerii.g lot ‘the canopy of Heaven. I have walked over fro zen ground till every footstep was r**rktil with blood.” Just about this time, one of the “sovere igns,” who had become very much affected by his tale of woe, walks up in front of tko speaker, wiping the tears fisim bis eyes with the extremity of his coat toil, and iuiemiat ing him said : U ‘ , * “Did you say you fought the British and the Ingincs 1” “Me*,” respoaded the old “revolutionary.” “Did you say that you had slept on the ground, while serving your country, without any kiver I” “Yds, sir, I did.” “Did you say you had followed tho Vne my of your country over frozen ground till every footstep was marked with blood t‘ “r S L e l XQltio *ly replied the speaker. “ m el], then,” says too tearful ‘sovereign/ ns bo gft ve a sigh of painful emotion b dis 1 don't think you’ve done enough for your eoeqtry, sed I’ft tote for the otdei man.” ... * „ ~,•: The origination of the term, t!i* “First Family of Virginia,” it thus explained by oa excliange: In the early settlement of that State, it was found Impossible to colonize It unless women went there. Accordingly a ship load was sent out, bat no punter was 1- iowed to marry ono of thorn until he had first paid one hundred pounds of tobacco for her passage. When the second ship load came, no oue would pay more than sevoqty. five pounds for tho matrimonial privilege, except it were a very superior article. Con sequently, the doscendaots of all those who were sold for one hundred pounds of tobao co wore racked as the first families, while those who brought but seventy,five pounds are now ranked as the second families j and the reason why no one can ever find any of the second families, is ‘ ocause you can’t get a Virginian to admit that his mother only brought seventy-five pounds jrf tobacco. At a festival, a pretty miss waited upon an editor with a pie plate of antique manufac ture, in the centre of wlrish he espied the following interesting couplet 1 . “OueeweetNee’ Is the pries of tWa” ‘,s‘4 1... This excited his feelings, and aa soon as an opportunity presented Itself, te qrotiotfod the young lady to lls sido, and pointing his knife to the line, said: “ Your pay is ready whenever you present your bill.” H It is a'remarkable fact that', however well young ladies may be versed In grammar', very few of them can dentine matrimony. A fop Is like a cinnamon iroelL-th* qj worth more than the body