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10 LITERARY. _ WILLIAKI W. MANN, Editor. The Southern Field and Fireside IS PVBLI9HEI* EVERT SATI RDAT. TEKM9—S2.OO a year, tnvariatily in advance. All Postmasters are authorized aients. TRAVELING AGENTS: Charles Pemble. I»ris Cobmick. Jons L. Bncra», William Clark. W. 11. Crave. W. M. Kcssell, W T. Beall, Wm. P. Bottom. | L. K. White. Kow ard A. Hii-l. R. D. Phillips, R A. Bees. Henry Tyler. JoßßPiirs L amp. J. W. Taliaferro, R F. Crqi'harTj J. B. Overstreet. Each Traveling Afrent lias a written authority to col lect and receipt for subscription signed by the Proprie tor, and his signature verified by the Mayor of the city of Augusta, with the seal of the city attached SATURDAY ~JUNE 11, 1559. PREMIUMS TO POBTMASTERS—FIVE HUN DRED DOLLARS IN PREMIUMS. We invite attention to the preminms offered to the Postmasters of Georgia. South Carolina, Alabama. Mis sissippi and Tennessee, for the largest lists of subscribers to The Southern Field and Fireside. Sec Prospectus. c ■ ete NOTICE TO BUBSCBIBEES. It will be impossible to send receipts, in future, to each subscriber, owing to the large number of subscriptions coming in daily. The receipt of The Soutiiebx Field and Fireside, after the money Is remitted, will be evi dence to each subscriber that his money has been re ceived and his name duly entered on the mail book. >»> Toil and Victory, by Miss Annie R. Blount, suspended for to-day, will be continued in our next. 1 111 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. —-—— 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. l ■ l “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. \ 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. hi [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. i«i [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.