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LITERARY. _
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OUR PRIZES
We have to acknowledge the reception of one
more Novelette “Alice Lee, or The Sacrifice of
Love,” by a lady.
To the List of Poems 00 lines and over, wc add
three, viz:
Good and Evil—(A sketch.)
The Sinner's Prayer—(transferred.)
A Poem by J. T. E.
Os Poems under 00 lines, we have to acknowl
edge the following :
Lines to Ella, by Watcher.
The Approaching Anniversary, by W. D. B.
Corrine.
The City of the Dead.
Onward, a Novelette; and a Nation’s Bulwarks,
a literary essay, by a lady; and
Layard amid the ruins of Nineveh, a poem by
Algernon ; just received.
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TO CORRESPONDENTS AND REGULAR CON
TRIBUTORS.
We have to acknowledge the reception of the
following Tales, Poems and Essays.
Border Warfare in Georgia, by .the author of
“Barney Blinn.”
A Race, not yet read—tut, if we do not find
it good, we shall lie much disappointed.
History,— Au Essay by Tom Towley.
Bob Man's Sunday Afternoon drive, by Nom
de PLUME.
What I heard and saw at Frog Pond —by E. Y.
. Essay on the office of Woman in the fabric of
Civilized Society.
Bells by A. Z. Very promising for a “ first
prose-piece.” It shall have place in the Field
and Fireside. We wish all our correspondents
could inspect this communication, and then
know how much more likely an editor is to read
quickly aud criticise favorably, when the manu
script is neat legible and fair, carefully punctu
ated, with i’s all dotted and t’s all crossed, Many
are the articles, not so long as this of A. Z. which,
already, in our short experience of editorial la
bor, we have thrown aside, to be read when
more at leisure, solely because of the present
difficulty in deciphering them. We are sorry to
say it, but some, even of our lady correspondents
are read with great difficulty.
No. 1, from E. N. W.
We are glad to receive from M M her two
communications, No. 1 of Rambles among the
wild flowers of th° South : and No. 2, of Stray
Leaves from the Diary of a Country Lady. We
take occasion here to request our fair correspon
dent, and all eorresfgmdents, to write upon only
one side of their paper, and to number their
pages.
We have several sheets of critical matter un
der the head, of “ Frederick Law Olmsted and
Miss Murray ” —Also, from the same, six stan
zas addressed “ To my Heart, ” with a long pri
vate letter. We hope very'soon to find time to
read the literary communications of our corres
pondent, and to answer his letter.
We are sorry that we can do nothing for the
relief of “ A Subscriber. ” The prevention of
' such mishaps as he has suffered from, does not
<Nme within the sphere of editorial function.—
WtNte sovereign only in our arm-chair, and for
a few around it. Wc suggest that he read
a column dtFun and Philosophy, and he may
learn to bearVgii things with equanimity, or to
laugh in spite ofA^ m ,
Wc have Scroll of Life, by W. E.
C. —All things past am* by J. M. T.— The
Little Folks, by C. E. Father's Grave, by
Wenonah —What is Poetry q q The Con
fession, by A. Z.— The Lost Shiptovy O. H. S.
Chi'dhood's Home—The Young Nm*s, bv Annie
R. Blount —Welcome to LaFa ode, liy
W. Gilmore Simms— Ballad, to a younWjri by
same —June by A. Z.
The Song of the Lark, by A. J. Smith—lm
two poems, A Poet owns my song: and Evening i
Worship, by Yerena.
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“Footprints.”—Under the title of “Foot
prints Across the Continent,” Bishop Pierce has
commenced a series of letters to the New Or
leans Christian Advocate, descriptive of a jour
ney that he has set out to make, with his wife
and daughter, from Georgia to California, by the
overland mail route. lie left San Antonio, Tex
as, on the 21st ult. Bishop Pierce is to preside
at the first session of the Rio Grande Conference,
which is to convene at Goliad, Texas, in Decem
ber next.
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OUB BOOK TABLE.
There have been placed upon our table the
following new works:
The Living Pulpit —or Eighteen Sermons by
eminent living Divines of the Presbyterian
Church, (with a biographical sketch of the editor
by Geo. W. Betliune, D. D.) edited and published
by Rev. Elijah Wilson. This is said to lie a
i-oltection of much interest and value. It has
: reached already a tenth edition. Among the
names of the authors of the Sermons we see
those of the Rev. Clergy that are most known j
for piety and ability. The Rev. Editor is at
! present in this city, where he will remain yet
for a few days. Tiie volume is for sale at the
store of Mr. William Shear.
Dissertations on the Regenerate Life —and sub
jects connected therewith in harmony with the
Theological writings of E. Swedenborg : (by
James Arbouin, Egq.) First complete American
edition. Savannah, Edward F. Purse, publish
! er. Boston: Otis Clapp. For sale in Augusta
at the book store of Messrs. Geo. A, Oates &
Brother. •
The Good Shepherd, or the Saviour of Sinners
by A Sunday-School Teacher. Published in
Charleston S. C. by the Southern Baptist Pub
lication Society. Richmond: T.J. Starke, Agt.
Ya- B. S. S. annd P. Board. Price 25 cents.
The Inexhaustible Mine, by a lady, the author
i of Child Christian Matured—Pious Mother and
Dutiful Daughter—Lost Found —and other
Tales. Published in Charleston, S. C., by South
-1 ern Baptist Publication Society—Macon: Sam
Boykin— Richmond: T. J. Starke,— Selma: M.
Burns. —Anderson, Texas: G. W. Balnes.
Prose and Poetry, by Miss M. A. H. Gay. —
Second edition. Published in Nashville Tenn.,
; by Grates, Marks A Co.
Masonic Signet & Journal —No. for May, At
lanta, Geo. Edited by Samuel Lawrenee, D.
G. M.. and W. F. C. Camtbf.ll.
Some one has also laid on our table the “ Cat
alogue of the Wesleyan Female College of Macon
Georgia.
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[Written for the Southern Field and Fireside.]
THE STOMACH.
Some materialists, in theory, like the vegetari
ans. and others, in fact, like Falstaff, go so far as
to make the stomach the organ of moral account
ability.. If not the main wheel which moves
every system of morals, yet it is certainly the
maving principle of many moralists.
This organ, half material, half moral in tts
function, is the identical one wherein a man feels
sick when overpowered by grief or grub. When
artfully encouraged at midnight, by the bribe of
a “heavy supper,” it will help the brain to more
fantastic visions, than it ever, unaided, “ dreamt
of in its young philosophy."
The very citadel of the Soul—the Doctors must
always stand sentinels upon its watch-towers.
It is a treacherous organ, in the very heart of the
body, and the sharpest watch cannot prevent it,
at times, from throwing open its gates and giving
entrance to “ all the ills which flesh is neir to,”
that they may plot the ruin of tho town of Man-
Soul. A skillful cook one e flattered the stomach
of a gentleman, until, in a moment of gratitude, it
knighted him. This is but one instance to shew
the disposition of tho stomach. Byway of pre
face to the many more which have been entered
upon the record, it may be well to state in gen
eral, Jhat the stomach is of all things the most
unaccountable. It feasts or fasts as the humor
of the moment suggests. It is weak or strong,
kind or cruel, good or bad. as it may be. To one
thing constant, never. Proteus was but a physi
ological or rather pathological myth—intended
to personate that great demon dyspepsia. Could
we resuscitate a Roman, and introduce him to
this modern demon of the doctor books, he would
recognize an old acquaintance with whom he
had been on intimate terms in days long gone.
It has been well said, that “heknows me well
who knows my stomach; and he is my best
friend who will bear with patience its eccentrici
ties.” Napoleon blundered in a battle, because,
forsooth, he had no “ stomach for the fight,” after
dining hastily upon Bologna sausages. Bluff
Queen Bess, alias Gloriane, Queen of the Fairies,
(for, says Spencer in that Fairie Queen, “I con
ceive the most excellent, and glorious person of
our sovereigne the Queene”) Bess was a Fairie of
powerful digestion. It is well for the English
constitution that she was. Old Dr. Dictionary
Johnson was a good man, particularly after two
blood-lettings and a fast. If he damned the
Scotch, excommunicated the rascally Americans,
and advocated duelling, it was Mrs. Thrale’s
fault, who should have known that his heart
played second fiddle to his stomach. Alexan
der’s stomach once held the destiny of a kingdom
in suspense, while lingering to discuss the quali
ties of an oriental dish. At another, time it was
guilty of murder, and Clytus died a martyr to the
truth, that his master had at least one of tho
faults of humanity, and the same one which
marred tho domestic felicity of the immortal Mrs.
Toodles. Byron acknowledged no purer inspi
ration than that which gin and water furnished.
He also took salts occasionally to relieve his can
tos of too much grossness. Bayes regimened
his muse most cruelly. Poor thing—“ for a son
net to Amanda, he used stewed prunes”—for
“ sterner stuff —beef,” No wonder she served
him so unfaithfully. Aristotle, Dryden, Shell}',
and others, proved themselves equally inhuman.
Julius Caesar —that “ man of most unbounded
spinach”—was, perhaps, so characterized from
havhg devoured the revenues of a province at a
meal. \pd, perhaps, it was because he had a
“ lean and \yngry look,” that Cassius prevented
him from up more provinces.
But we have «o room to catalogue the in
stances which go to prove the stomach’s unac
countability. The Doisicir’s carefully indexed di
etetic tables look well inWint, but every man's
stomach is “a law unto itself" and will not di
gest by the code. There are many leaves upon
! the trees—there are many faces —and there are
many stomachs. They are all leaves, all faces.
; all stomachs; but no one loaf, no one face, no
one stomach is like its neighbor. Each stomach
is the centre of its own system, and is of most
potential influence over all subordinate organs.
It eats and drinks for itself. "Gne man’s meat
is another man’s poison." To the delicate ner
vous organization of a stomach recovering from
sickness, a beef steak lias proved intoxicating,
while another complains that it cannot get drunk
upon five bottles of brandy. As of individuals,
so of nations. Diet which makes one individu
al different from his brother, plays even a great
er part in distinguishing peoples. It can be
made a test by which to distinguish the coarse ;
from the cultivated, the saint from the sinner,
the Jew from the Gentile, the Mussulman from
the Christian. The hill of fare which served
the sons of Adam on yesterday, is a curi
ous registry. Comment would lie superfluous
where quotations are ready. Beef, boots, bats,
and birds nests, earth worms and elephants,
snakes, snails, frogs, feathers, clay, crabs, arsen
ic, and assafeetida, Ac., Ac. It is not copied
from imagination, but really makes a part of the
diet list of the lords of creation. To particular
ise, my “dear Wilholmina. who dines so daint
ily upon sherbet, and ladies fingers, is sitting at
the same table with the Esquimaux, who takes
the edge off his appetite with ten pounds of Wal
rus liver, ami a gallon of train oil. Modern in
stances are sufficiently numerous to illustrate
the capacity of man's voracity. We will not,
therefore, give the details of that “noble Ro
man’s” dinner, which was composed of a hog, a
sheep, or so, Ac., Ac., and which he ate just to j
please the Emperor. The Tartar who eat his
forty jiounds of raw horse in twelve hours, will
serve us instead. That genuine geopliagyst,
the Guinea negro, will eat you his pound of clay
per diem to prove (perhaps) that his “instinc
tive fondness for mother earth” is something
more than a sickly sentiment confined to the
poet's heart. The gentle Hindoo is “own dear
brother” to the Tartar, and yet a handful of rice
will suffice him for the day. Tho pure vegetari
an is of the same stomach with the cannibal,
whose love for his fellow man is something more
than a mere abstraction. Falstaff— gentle Fal- i
staff—thou much abused “ton of humanity!” j
oh, what wouldst thou not have been, without
tliy insatiable fondness for sack ?
Starving, by the by, is a wonderfully resin- :
ing process. The experience of people who have j
hardly' escaped death from starvation, bears us j
out in the assertion. Every function of the j
brain becomes intensified. Memory, perception,
volition—all “ loose their fealty to flesh.” Such j
an experience is worth a life time of sensual
prosing. Shelly “often forgot to eat.” Aristotle
was n vegetarian. Both could “mount with the
lark to bathe in the bliss of cloud-land expe
riences.” It is recorded of a Patagonian—
But, enough. We will presume that the world
has dined. Princes, peasants, Patagonians, Par
isians, Paddies, and all. It only remains to
serve up the moral, which is tho same as that
attached to the thrilling narrative of Jack Sprat i
apd his spouse.
“Jack Sprat could cat no fat,
llis wife could cat no lean, %
So ’twixt them both, they shook the cloth,
And licked the platter clean.’’
Moral. —No two stomachs are alike. Ethnol
ogy must unite man into one family by means of
other sympathies than those which govern the
stomach. Doctors must learn to study stomachs
—their eccentricities, idiosyncracies, Ac. Pa
tients must learn to learn to prosper by learning
that disease sits enthroned upon a pic crust.—
They must learn that life sits enthroned upon a
three legged stool head, heart, stomach.—
When the stomach gives way the heart gives in,
the head gives out, and life gives up—the ghost.
Every man should recollect that his stomach is
the “centre of sympathies”—the focus of sus
ceptibilities. It makes saints of sinners, sinners
of saints. It mars domestic felicity. In short,
it has broken all the ten commandments. It is
the central scource from which emanates those
strange vital influences which govern man phys
ically, mentally and morally.
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[Written forilie Southern Field and Fireside.]
MY MOTHER’S FIRST SPECTACLES.
I was just twenty-two; my mother had seen
twice that number of years. With her, the
bloom of springtime had departed, and the
bright rich greenness of summer, in obedience
to that law of growth, maturity, and decay—
doubtless, a wise one—which governs all earth
ly things—was exchanging its vigorous fresh
ness for the mellow hues of autumn. The leaves
upon my mother's tree of Life were beginning to
fade.
Hearing her, one day, allude, with the Christ
ian cheerful and resignation which ever charac
terised her, to the necessity she would soon be
under of assisting her failing sight by tho use of
glasses. I immediately resolved to procure for
myself the sad satisfaction of associating my
name affectionately and inseparably with that
) memorable epoch of human life which is marked
by the use of “ My First Spectacles."
I went out to the jeweler’s, selected a pair of
delicately mounted gold spectacles, with glasses
to suit eyes that were just beginning to fail;
and the next daj she found them upon her toi
lette, with the following remarks written upon
the sheet which enclosed them:
Alas! that we should be compelled, day af
ter day, to mark the infirmities of our nature
silently creeping over those we love, without
the power to arrest, even for a moment, their
slow and withering progress! Wrinkle after
wrinkle traces its furrow on the cheek: one grey
hair—and another—and another—well, well I
but whore’s the use of such reflections as these ?
Accept, my dear mother, the accompanying pair
of spectacles. And may you long live to wear
them! May you live and wear them, till, after
many years to come, it shall be necessary for
myself to borrow them that I may read to you,
of an eveuing. the current news of the day!— j
May they assist you in detecting the first grey
hairs in the head" of my youngest son! and. after
that, when that son's infant (my own litttle
grandchild) shall lie presented to you for a good j
night kiss, may these spectacles assist you in j
finding the way to his ruby little mouth. j
Blessed! thrice blessed! be tiie inventor of j
spectacles! He hath enabled us. for once, at !
least, to get the better of Time. He hath ren
dered harmless the spitefulness of the old churl
—he hath fairly outwitted him: and surely,surely,
since no power, short of that which originally
created, can restore the sight that Age hath j
matle diin—he whose genius hath so signally \
relieved one of the saddest of the infirmities in
ciilent to humanity—who hath so well supplied
the clcarless of seventeen to the decaying vision
of seventy, deserves to be hailed as the benefac- >
tor of liis race. Honor, then, exceeding the lion- j
, or of Alexander the Great, to Alexander de
Spina!
DOMESTIC SUMMARY.
University of the South. —We see it stated
hiit Bishops Elliott and Polk have raised in
New Orleans, without calling upon tho citizens !
generally, $250,000 for this purpose. No single
application was refused. They expect very soon
to raise the three millions required for its en
dowment. Messrs. Armfield, of Tennessee, j
j Groom, of Albama, and Warren, of North Caro- j
lina. have each subscribed $25,000 to the “Uni
versity of the South,” and nineteen other per
sons the aggregate sum of SIOO,OOO, making
$175,000.
; i Camels. —Some enterprising citizens have im
ported a number of camels into South Alabama,
for the purpose of testing their utilttv for plan
tation uses. It is said they walk off with the
i greatest ease with two bales of cotton on their
backs over roads impassable to drays or wagons.
It is not designed to discontinue the great
overland California mail, but the point submitted
by the Postmaster General for the Attorney
General’s opinion involves the question as to the
power of the Department to reduce the number
of trips.
On Tuesday night last, about ten o'clock, the !
citizens of Columbus were aroused by the cry of 1
fire, Upon arriving at the scene of the disaster, j
it was found that the Alabama Warehouse, oc
cupied by Messrs. King, Allen A Camak and
Allen A CamiA; the Fontaine Warehouse, occu
pied by Messrs. Hughes, Daniel A Co., and the
Columbus Factory Agency.
The loss in very heavy, reaching fully five
hundred thousand dollars. Eight thousaijd and
thirty-four bales of cotton were burnt, part of
j whicli was insured, besides large quantities of
! bagging, rope and other goods on store, the
amount of insurance on which we liavo not
| learned.
It is estimated that of the amount of cotton
burned, held by planters, about fifteen hundred
: bales were not covered by insurance,
j There are a variety of conjectures as to the
I origin of the fire—the generally received opinion
| however, is that it was the work of an incen
i diary.
Texas. —The Galveston Civilian, of the 30tli
ult. has the following notice of a tight between a
detachment of the second Cavalry and a body of
Indians:
From a report of Captain Brackett, second ca
valry, dated May lOtli, it appears that on a re
cent expedition of his company, second cavalry,
on tho Great Camaneho Trail, when near the
Rio Grande, opposite tho old and deserted Pres
idio de San Vicente, on the 2d of May, discov
ered a considerable party of Indians about ten
miles below camp, who were immediately at-'
j tacked and routed. Two Indians were killed
and one wounded. Capt. Brackett’s force was
I sixty-six strong, and lie was accompanied by
Lieut. Owens, second cavalry. The Indians at
tacked are supposed to have been Camanclies,
Their number is not stated.
The Arizonian of tho 19th is filled with ac
counts of the proceedings of a band of regula
tors, who had driven all Mexicans from Senorita
Valley, and committed several murders. The
Africans at Tubac publicly denounced these out
rages, and a company of troops had been detail
ed from Fort Buchanan to suppress their further
proceedings.
The Utah Mail brings a proclamation issued
by Governor Cumming, commanding the imme
diate dispersion of various parties of Mormons
associated together in a military capacity on the
mountains surrounding Salt Lake Valley.
The Valley Sun complains that this proclama
tion was not put in the hands of a Federal offi
cer to execute instead of a territorial marshal, and
asserts that treason is as rife in tho territory now
as before the advent of the army.
Washington, June 6.
From Washington. —The Home Squadron is
to be still further increased. Tiie frigate Sabine
will soon proceed to the Gulf. There will then
be ten* vessels of war there, with an aggregate
of two hundred and twelve guns. As one ves
sel has already been ordered to Tampico to land
marines and other forces if necessary to protect
American citizens and property in the event of
an assault by Miramon on that city, the impres
sion prevails here that a similar course will be
pursued at other points wherever such interven
tion may be required by American interests. It
may not be generally known the sailors are con
stantly drilled in the practice of small arms as
well as ordnance. The latter can be used on
land, as carriages are provided for their use in
such an emergency. %
Executed. —One of the two negroes convict
ed of the murder of Mrs. Sadler, in Decatur
county some time since, was hung on E’riday, the
3rd inst., at Bainbridge. His confederate in the
crime has obtained a new trial.
Children for the West.— The Directors of
the Juvenile Asylum sent out by the Erie rail
road, under the care of Mr. Pearcy, Superintend
ent of the House of Reception, another company
of children, viz: 16 girls and 26 boys, from 8
14 years of age, selected from about 400 in their
institution at the High Bridge. Thus children
are gathered from our streets, brought under
careful and judicious training, and so soon as
they are broken of idle and vicious habits, re
moved to carefully selected homes in tho West, ,
and indentured.
The General Assembly of the Presbyterian
Church, O. S. is still holding convention at In
dianapolis, Their discussions have been very
animated, especially on two subjects; first, tiie
location of the proposed North-western Theo
logical Seminary: and, second, the establish
ment in the Sonth and West of agencies of the
Ceutral Board of the Domestic Missionary So
ciety.
Tho first qnestion was settled by the city of
Chicago being selected for the Seminary. C, H.
McCormick, of Chicago, offered to endhw four
professorsh,ps with $25,000 each, if that city
were selected,
The second question, in which Rev. Dr. Pal
mer, of New Orleans, earnestly urged tho im
portance of establishing an agency of the mission
here, was rejected altogether.
FUN, FACT AND PHELO3OPHY.
Tub Love op Contradiction. —A story is told
•of HaUam, the historian. After a night of con
tradiction at the Holland House with Lady Hol
lane, Luttrell, Sam Rogers and Sydney Smith,
HaUam returned to his house, his tongue still
tipped with ready contradiction. “ Past one
| o’clock,” cried a watchman, loudly, with a yawn,
i " No,” cried Hallam, tartly and loud, throwing
up the sash of his bed-room window, watch in
| hand, “ it /-ants three minutes.”
The chain cables of the steamship Great East
ern weigh seventy pounds per link.
Religion at Home. —Religion begins in the
: family. One of the holiest sanctuaries on earth
|is home. The family altar is more venerable
than any altar in church built with hands. The
education of the soul for eternity begins by the
j fireside. The principle of love which is to be
carried through the universe i» first unfolded in
the family. "Let them learn first,” says the
apostle, "to show piety at home.”
A young man, a member of an evangelical
church advertises in a New York paper for board
in a pious family, where his Christian example
would be considered a compensation.
L I axd J.—There are no two letters in the
! manuscript alphabet of the Englfsli language
; which occasion so much trouble, or cause so much
| misconstruction as the two letters I and J, as
many inadvertently write them. The rule for
writing them properly, and which should be uni
versally understood and adopted, is to extend the
J below the line, while the I should be written
even with the line. If those who write I for J
knew how it sometimes puzzles printers, they
would remember the above suggestion.
“A single falsehood,” says Balzac, “forever
destroys that confidence, which with certain
minds, is the very founffition of love.”
“Doesthe razor take hold well?” inquired a
darkey, who was shaving a gentleman from the
country. “Yes,” replied the customer, with
tears in his eyes; “it takes hohHirst-rate, but it
don't let go worth a cent.”
Strength of the Camel. —The Mobile Adver
tiser says: A trial of strength was made with
| one of Machodo’s camels yesterday afternoon,
j Two bales of cottc . weighing together one thou
saud one hundred pounds, wero lashed together
and placed upon his back, with which ho march
ed off apparently as unconcerned as though they
were not there. This was not one of the large
camels.
Truth and Falsehood, traveling one warm day,
met at a river, and both front in to bathe at the
same place. Falsehood, coming first out of the
water, took his companiqn’s clothes, leaving his
own vile raiment, and went on his way. Truth
coming out of the water, sought in vain for his
proper dress—disdaining to wear the garb of
Falsehood. Truth started, all naked, in pursuit
of the thief, but not being swift of foot, has
never overtaken the fugitive, and has, ever since,
been known as “Naked Truth.”
The poet Rogers once observed to a lady how
desirous it was in any dauger to have presence
of mind. “Yes,” she answered quickly, “but
I would rather have absence of body."
The Philadelphia Tract Society distributed
one million six hundred and forty four pages of
tracts the past year.
The aukl will apeak, the young maim hear,
He canty, but be gude and leal;
Your ain ills aye hae heart to bear,
Ani tiler’s aye hae heart to feel!
(Hlu Alexander Boswell.)
What a monster the editor of the New York
Observer must be! He calls Lucretia Mott,
Susan B. Anthony, and - woman’s rights females
generally, “ crowing hens. ”
It lias become necessary to remove the Cincin
nati Observatory from its present location, on ac
count of the accumulation of smoke, which ren
ders it impossible to take observations, except
by day, or early in the evening.
Cultivated Women. —Sheridan said, beauti
fully, “ Women govern U 3 ; let us render them
perfect. The more they are enlightened, so
much the more shall we be. On the cultivation
of the mind of women depends the wisdom of
men, It is by women that nature writes on the
hearts of men.”
Noggs. Jr. speaking of a blind wood sawyer,
says: “Whilenone ever saw him see, thousands
have seen him saw,”
Strawberries from the South sell in New York
for two dollars a quart.
The manufacture of silk was introduced into
Europe in the year 551.
The society of virtuous females is the best
guard to preserve a young man from the conta
mination of low pursuits.
Why are A and C the most alluring letters in
the alphabet? Beeauce they form the centre of
attraction.
It is asserted that a man’s finger-nails grow
their complete length in four months and a half.
A man living seventy years renews his nails one
liundrod and seventy times. Allowing each
nail to be half an inch long, he has grown seven
feet and nine inches of finger nail on each finger,
and on fingers and thumbs an aggregate of
seventy seven feet and six inches.
Conscience is moral sensation. It is the hasty
perception of good and evil, the peremptory de
cision of the mind to adopt the one or avoid the
other.
A negro once gave the following toast: “De
guberaor ob de state—he came in wid berry
little opposition, he got out wid none at all.”
A whole regiment of the Imperial Guard left
Paris with a bouquet of violets of Parma stuck .
in the muzzle of each iHta, the officers carrying,
in their hands large bouquets the same—the
gift of the ladies of the neighborhood. What is
all this but the poetry of war?
The Vtofef is the emblematic flower of the
Napoleonists in France, as the Lily is of the
Bourbons.
Man/ a true heart that would have come
back like a dove to the ark, after the first trans
gression, has been frightened beyond recall, by
tho angry look and menace, the taunt, the sav
age charity of an uuforgeting world.
Chicago and Minnesota papers, receiyed at
New York on Wednesday, report a serious flood
in the upper Mississippi.
Burning after Death. —Prentice, of the Lou
isville Journal, is the author of the following:
“ We see that the sprightly, though naughty au
thoress, who calls herself George Sand, has ex
pressed herself very strongly in favor of being
burned after her death. Ifthere is any truth in
the scriptures, we guess she will have her *
wish.”
“ Used-up.” —Mr. Staunton, the chess-player
of England, was, at last accounts, incapacitated
from keeping Ids professional engagements, in
consequence oniis having incautiously taken an
over-dose of Morphine. >
Bo systematic and energetic in what you
undertake and success will crown your efforts.
It is computed that not much less than one
hundred thousand pounds of sugar will be made
in Liberia this year.