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JUi.N iIEMY SEALS, ) j an- n ‘Editors. L LINCOLN Y-iAZEY, j NEW SERIES, VOL i. TIMPIAIE CliHtMli rUBL/tHKC MW SATCKDIY, EXCEPT TITO, K THE YEAH, BY JOHN H. SEAIiS. TCEMS: in advance; or $2,00 wt ttj end of ibo year. R A.TEB OF ADVEIOTSIN 0. 1 square (twelve lines or lestn first insertion,. .$1 00 K>vch continuance, - 50 Professional or Business Cards, not exceeding six lines, per year, •V jouncing Candidates for Office,. 8 00 ST 4 N't >TNCt AT> V KBTI3 RMHVTB - 1 square, three months, - 5 00 1 square, six months, - 7 00 1 square, twelve months,.- 12 00 2 squares, “ “ 18 00 8 squares, “ “ 21 00 4 squares, ’* “ ” 25 00 not marked with the number of insertions, will be continued until forbid, and charged accordingly, ’ Druggists, and others, may con tract for advertising by the year, on reasonable terms. LEGAL ADV EIiTISEMENT3. ■Ssale of Land or Negroes, by Administrators, Executors, and Guardians, per square,... suO Rale of Persona! Property, by Administrators, Executors, and Guardians, per square,— 3 25 Notice to Debtors and Creditors, 3 25 Notice for Leave to Sell, 4 00 Citation for Letters of Administration, 2 75 Citation for Letters of Dismission from Adm’n. 5 00 Citation for Letters of Dismission from Guardi? ansMp, . 3 25 LEO AT. liIfoTTIH EXTENTS. f*ales of Land and Negroes, by Administrators, Executors, or Guardians, are required by law to L - held on the first Tuesday in the month, between the. hours often in the forenoon arid three in the after noon, at the Court House in the County in which the property is situate. Notices of these sales must be given in a public gazette forty days previous to the day of sale. Notices for the sale of Personal Property must be given at least ten days previous to the day of sale. police so LwUot sand Creditors of an Estate mrat i>c published for ty daye Notice that application will be made io the Court of Ordinary for kara to sell Land or Negroes, ,nuat be published weekly for two months. Citations fer Letters of Administration must be published thirty days —for Dismission from Admin istration, -monthly, six months —-for Dismission from Guardianship, for ty days. Rules for Foreclosure of Mortgage must be pub lished monthly for four months—tor compelling titles pom Executors or Administrators, where a bond has been given by the deceased, the full space of three months. Publications will always be continued accord ing to these,Ahe legal requirements, unless otherwise ordered. Thfe Law of Newspapers. X. Subscribers who do not give express notice to Vile contrary, are cotvaidereri syj wishing to continue their subscription, 2. If subscribers order the discontinuance of their newspapers, the publisher may continue to s >*tkl them until, uli arrearages arc paid. 3. If subscribers neglect or refus** to lake Ifceir newspapers from the offices to which they are di rected. they fire held responsible until they have set* tied the bills and ordered them discontinued. * 4. If subscribers remove to other places without informing the publishers, and the newspapers are gent to the former direction, thev art held resnonsi ik . . • 5. The Opum have decided that refusing to take newspapers from the office, or removing and leaving them uncalled for, is pritnafdeie evidence of inten tional fraud. 6. The United States Courts h.*re ilso repeatedly decided, that a Postmaster who neglects to per forth his duty of giving reasonable notice, a required by the Post Office Department of the reflect of a per ou to take from the office hwgp&pere addressed to him, renders the Postmaster fiable to the publisher for the subscription price. JOB JPHINTINOj of every description, done with ncattics# and dispatch, at this’office, and m reasonable prices for cash. AH orders, in this department, must be addressed to J. T. BLAIN. V R SP EC‘7 j; £ OF TTTF TEMPERANCE WADER, [quondam] TEMPERANCE BANNER. ,4 CTUATEQ by a conscientious desire to farther /\ the cause of Temperance and experiencing F-reat disadvantage in being too narrowly limited in Space, by the smallness of our paper, for the publica tion of Reform Arguments and Passionate Appeals, we have determined to enlarge it to a more conve nient and acceptable size. And being conscious of the fact that there are existing ir. the minds of a large portion of the present readers of the Banner and it's former patrons, prejudices and difficulties which can never be removed so long ms it retains the name, we venture also to make a change in that par ticular. It will henceforth be cajlod, “THE TEM PERANCE CRUSADER” This old pioneer of the Temperance cunsc is des tined yet to chronicle the tr'uniph of its principles. It has stood the test—passed through the “fiery fur nace,” and, like the “Hebrew children,” re-appeared unseorched. It has survived the newpaperf/imin*, which has caused, and is stii! causing raanv excel lent jouUials and periodicals to sink, like “bright ex halations in the evaniny,” to rise no more, end it uhs even hepCde i tin “death-struggle,s of contcm porarjc>, laboring lor the saint* grea*. end with iiseu. If “still Hves.” and “waxing bolder as it grows, older,” is now waging an eternal “Crusade” against the “in fernal Liquor Traffic,” standing like the “High Pi iet-'t’ of the Israelites, who stood buWeon the people and the plague that threatened destrucfi'Ui. Wc i ntroat the friends of live letnperaucc. Cftuae to give us their influence in extending the usefulness of the paper. We intend to the public a aheet worthy of all attention and a liberal patronage; for while it is strictly a Tempm'M.U4 Journal, we shall endeavor to keep its readers ported on ftl! the eurreui eyents throughout the country. gGSC'Prco. as heretofore,-SSI, stridtlj'in advance. JOHN H- SEALS, Editor and Pit^Hetor. Pwflekl, Osu, I** 8,1865. BtWci) to Cmpcnnitc, JEtoare. i&itmtl fntdlignitt, Sttos. fa. “Silks aad Satins.” BY MRS. FEDBLEY. See, MWy, w’hnt a lore of a bonnet,” said Laura M*’>retrm to her sister, as they were taking a peep at the spring fashions, temptingly displayed in the window of a milliner’ establishment. “I really must impure the price of it.” •’Stay,;! ah” said ‘Mary, “you know wo have decided to get new straws, and 1 don’t think it prudent to put onrseivt.fi in the way of temptation.” “But it surely can d<> no harm just to step in for a few minutes and take a look at all the pretty things. I need not buy any; but if yon do not care about them you can go on to Mr. Ford’s store, and I will call there for you.” The sisters parted, and Laura was soon gaily laughing and chatting with a bevy of lively girls, who were engaged in discus sing the merit.:, of some splendid articles whicih were spread out before them. In r.ito ihidst of silks, sarins and gauzes the idea of l.he ‘'"plain straw''’ began to lie rath er distasteful to Laura, and after having,. at the solicitations of her young friends, tried on that love of a bonnet, it elicited such warm admiration that she decided on becoming its purchaser. The purchase was made, when she remembered that, bei best dress was getting rather shabby, and though it could be very well worn with a pl an bonnet, yet she could not possibly wear it with a pink eatin bar ornamented with plumes. So to the milliner’s great oatioL'i.c: ton she selected handsome silk, which she requested might hi made in the newest style. in the meantime Mary had hou ght a very I pretty straw bonnet, trimmed with a sim ple wreath of white jessamine, which gave it quite an appearance of elegance, and having chosen a delicate lawn drees, she quietly awaited her sister’s arrival, very well satisfied with nor inexpensive purcha- ses. Th e bonnets wero sent Lome during the day, and even Laura could not help con fessing that Mary’s unpretending bonnet was tasteful and becoming; bqt then she added, as she gave an admiring glance to her own, “it is only straw.” “I believe,” said Laura, a few days after, “dial I shall have to borrow a few dollars oi you r;ntil I get nn next quarter’* allow ance. * have not a coin left, and I hate to ask papa, hi is so particular'.” “I shall be very happy to accommodate you, ’ replied Mary. “But dear Laura, I Wish yon would be more careful in yonr expenditure. It is a Imd phut to anticipate your allowance, even if papa would permit it; but you know Low decided he is’on that point; he told us at first that it would be quite useless so make such a request, and really I think ho Avery gtmeroni-; and as we always paid in advance we never need be in debt, Winch papa strictly piuidbili,” “I do not wuridef why you are so miser ly, Mary, when you always have money by you. “Why would yon not afford yourself a nos?, -ilk bon nut and dress like the rest of the girls? [should like to know what you intend doing with your, savings.” • “Do you remember,” replied Mary, “poor old Mr*. Robm-ls, whom we both pitied so much fofo- wilder, when she crime r<> church tb‘Be co-ti days so poorly clad? Well, I determined to buy her ;t warm shawl and usefo before anotlhci* winter, and as papa has &o many demands on his purse for other charitable purpoecß, I resolved to retrench my own expenses a little ; anu would you believe it, the difference oi cost in cur dresses only will t riable me to sup ply her with those articles, as well as to aid her in many other ways. The luxury of dplng good j§ to (tie tM gteaicst ofilav nries,” “I am afraid I shall never be half as thoughtful as you arc,” rejoined Laura ; “but could you not supply your protegee from your own wardrobe, and then you need not deprive yourself of anything?” “No,” said'Mary, “Mrs. Roberts has seen better days, and I Would not insult her by offering her cast-off garments; be sides, you forget our poor nurse’s little or phan, dear mamma used to be very kind to them, and now that sire is gone I wish to supply her place us much as possible; be sides I feel as it they had u claim on me tor tbs.dr poor mother’s Kike, wh< nursed us io. kindly during onr ‘ infancy. iSo you see,” she added, smiling, “u y old ward rob* U disposed “fi, and I food! be very glad to res.vive’ t ,iM e-mrl'lOuDon?- iV>an vours.” ”i can hardiy uivWra tail'd v,->nr-jdvas ot charity,” observed Laura. “it was but the other <lav <ii.it veil refuse.. l<> contributefo the AiVis a. Mfefoon* ” “Because,” said Marx. “my rm.ins of being useful are very i inbred, and l prater selecting objects nearer homo, ami which appear i-o have a greater- diMnnttd on my assistance. Not but that i warmly approve (4 Foreign MisA<<i)~—but 1 should be. glad to bee more Home Mtesimmry Societies-* ti tabiishmi—the poor ami ignorant of our own immediate “neighborhood cry aloud for help and instruction —axel slmuld they not receive it at our hands?” “Well, Mary, you are a good girl and will make an excellent minister’s wife some day; but as for uie, as the song says, PESFIELD, GA., SATURDAY, AUGUST 16, 1856. I lovtyrausic-and dancing, Ami ehayiiag with.the beau*.; * .To saying, Laura tripped lightly from the room, leaving the more sober sister to continue her eiiiplbvmcut of preparing so bio articles of ctetmnrg fora poor woman who was tn'great distress through the in temperav hG.ff- - T her husband. ’ A t'bw morn lugs after the conversation, t : m fatrhionViLV world of the little, bustling town of Hastings Was thrown into a state of great excitement, by the announcement of a grand pic-nie, to he follo wed by a dance in the evening on the lawn at Mr. Seaford’s at whose house his nephew. Lieutenant Hawthorne, with two .or three naval offi cers, were staying. “Only think, Mary,” said Laura, “three or four officers —how delightful! I think our Hastings beaux will fall a little in the* estimation of the young ladies after this. I shall wear my new bonnet and dress, they are so exceedingly becoming,” and Laura gave a glance at her really pretty face in the glass. “What a pity, you did not buy anew silk too.” “Oli,” replied Mary, “my lawn will do very well. Besides, don’t you think it bad j taste to Wover-dressed'cm such occasions ] Rural fetes are not like city balls.” ‘‘That may be,” said her sister, “but the Harwoods, posters, and Trevors are all'go ing to he splendidly dressed, and it would appear odd not to do as others. Ido hope it won’t rain, as I should hate -to spoil my. hat; rc mere her it. is the day after to-mor row; the carriage will call for ns tit t*-Vi in ’ the morning; we are to take our dinner it the woods nt Berly.-and then return to Mr. Sea ford’s; dancing is i-:. cuimneuco’ about live.” The pic ni<* and dance passed bvgV, asj such things gcn -.ra-ly do, when n rumber of goou-uatured .people assemble togelhe” with the view of enjoy trig 3; nnd to do she young ladies of Hastings justice, they were neither jlbnutujvd nor difficult to he pleased. No gay bonnets having been spoiled, everything went off harmbuicush', and the hid it* were in rapt-tiro* wji'h’ Those delightful oflieera.’ woofie inipar.tiM and polite attentions to all, left no room for heart-burcing or jeatousiee. The young people, gathered round the breakfast-table at Mr. S'eatbrd’s the next day, were a joyous group. The proceed ings of the last evening were being canvas sed, when Annie Seaforti, a merry girl of fifteen, exclaimed, “Now I want you all to tell um who- was the belle yesterday. Each gentleman will of course be guided by hia own taste,” and turning to. her. cousin, she added, “I chal} begin with you.” “Rather a serious matter to decide on,” replied the lieutemim, trying to assume a demure countenance, “and one which re quires great- deliberation; but hs I r;m the. junior of the party von must pormh me to yield the precedence to my seniors. ’ J The other gen tie men laughingly bowed their aeknowiP'fgtperjts, wlu.-n Mr. Seaford looking up from his newspaper oxclainicu, “1 protest ngaingt such'inquisitorial pro ceedings Annie ! Hastings ims at ways been celebrated for the beauty of the la r portion of its inhabitants, -and really i hardly know where you will meet with a handsomer set. of girls than those who gra ced the lawn last night, and good-natured girls too.” “I dare say they are sir,” robbed his nephew, “but with all your prepossessions in their favor, yon'‘must acknowledge that they displayed very little refinement of taste; only to think of silks, satins, tis sues and plumes at a country pic-nie ! They must have ransacked all the stores in town for their finery. There waft but one well-dressed girl among them—l forgot her name—but she had filae eyes auu golden hair; if was quit® refrtbhing to h'ckalher.’ “Oh! you mean dear, sweet, Marv More s on,” cried Annie, “how Ido love her ! I wish she was my eister-aiA* nay cousin,” she added, looking archly fxt the lieiiten •arit, who blushed in spite of himself, as the eyes of all’ present were turned toward him. Annie mentally resolved that if should not bo her fault, if her two favorites did not become better acquainted; wheth er or not she succeeded, in the plums which she began to form, time will unveil. “And so Mary Moreton is ready going to be married, and to an officer —who would have thought it!” said Ellen Trevor to her. sister Julia; “I always fancied her settled down in a siing little parsonage as n min ister’s Wife.” “Why you don’t'fluey,” said Julia, look ing tu> from her sewing, “that Mr. Ck-v ----ari aired Ik.H” Mr hhffi a yourg clergyman who had recently Li ken change of the parish . “1 know bho has beffiu very nsefnl amung the poor, but { presumg Tidt* plitofi cai.) be supplied.” (Miss* Julia had lately taken to visiting the sick, and was establishing a Dor cat* Society;) “No,” said Ellen, “1 hardly think ‘ so. Mary had such a qnidfr, way of doing good;”* and r.a she gave a glanee at a iiOftp of lb*unci and calico which lay before her sister, she added, “she never paraded her chanty.” **[f Lieutenant Hh wtliorne had chosen Laura,” said Juilu, “i shouki not have been surjxrised: ebo is by far the haxidsom er of the two.” “Oh! ves,” said Ellen, “everybody knows that Laura is good-looking—but sensible men want sensible wives—women that oas ; think of Bt.unut.hing more than silks and sa tins. Annie fold rue that her cousin fell in love with Mary at the pie-isie. So you see we wore our fimririresses to little pur pose; and now I suppose all the girls will be \vearing close-cottsge bonnets and color gowns.’ Heigh-ho! I wonder, a?aunt Ra chel would say, if this will teach the belles of Hustings, that elegance, and simplicity s>l dres? and manner, are far more.captiva ting Than as ostentatious display of fine ry .”— Peterson's Magazine. Love of Flowers, Thedave of flowers is universal. There is no one thing in mutters of taste in which the world is more agreed than in this. It is true that we once in a while meet with one so engrossed with accumulating money, that this, with every other emotion of a re fining character, is destroyed. And now and then, though very rarely, the fanner is so touch of a churlish • utilitarian, that he never looks upon his daughter’s flower-beds without longing to see there beet-tbps of po tato© vines. With such rare exceptions, flowers arc objects not merely of admira tion but of love. Few and small are these early flowers of spring. The i railing arbutus is one of them. Its little white flower, with its delicate pink tinge—sweet emblem of modesty—peeps out from the midst of its rude leaves some times as early as the latter part of March, •boon, too, you find the wild violets, a-nd the anemones, those delicate little flowers that move with e very breath of air. These first flowets generally have no fragrar.ee. the warm temperature of sumrpe? seeming to be necessary to develop that The trailing ar butus does, indeed, have some fragrance, but it is slight compared with that of most summer flowers- It is in mid-summer that w s have the greatest profusion of flowers, and men the air is filled with their fragrance. Through the whole warm season of the year there’is a succession of them; so that, although each flower- lasts generally but a shot grime, there are always serne in bloom to speak ‘O. us of tha kindness of oitt* Hea venly Father, and of his love for the beauti ful. The universal fondness for flowers rs shown in the peculiar delight which they give to all when preserved mid the dreari ness of winter. It is not merely where the appliances o.f wealth are brought mto ser vice in the preservation of plants, that ;ve have evidence of this affection toy them.— • There is. oft enless here than there is where a few common plants are kept in a window, aud their buds are watched one by one as they open their pure blossoms to the light .of heaven. The care sometimes exercised •by. ihc poor over the few fresh and beauti ful things of God, which thoir scanty means enable them to guard again-ft the cold, is of ten a very tender care. And their sorrow when, with ail their watchfulness, they have unwarily jaiieci. some bitter cold night, to guard their precious oharge sufficiently, is oStfen truly effecting, ft is a loss different A m a similar accident coming upon a green-house stocked with costly plants.—. This latter loss can bo rnndt up by money; bin the other can not bo. There is an indi vidual affection lor eaci) of the few plants and affect lon is not easily transferred. Perhaps some child qi the family has had iu affection .fastened upon someone. o.f the plants, and i*. has been cherished as one of her favorite pets; and wher; she sees it do zen in the m'qruing, she feels as if she had lost a friend that always smiled upon her. Earn aid ty True to Itself! The human race, however featttred and perverted, has sfili much in it that is lovely, and which serves to indicate its high origin and immortal destiny. If vve look on socie ty with a fault-finding disposition, we cap discover enough ia deprecate. We shall find selfishness, jealousy, anger and malice; but if we look candidly we shall see far more that will make us love our race. The child, following* the guidance of its native “instincts, the very warp of its. being, rushes into the sunshine, and hunts, i;o; far poison ous weeds, but for fragrant flowers. The tear that nature bids him weep, is irradia ted with a smile before it leaves his cheek; and when he turns his trusting face up wards, it is to admire the glories of the gor geous day or the .brilliant beauty of the star ry night, not to frown on clouds or to search for approaching storms. In like manner he . looks trustingly into the face of humanity, expecting to find truth, purity and affection. Nature teachcc him to expect that which belongs there, and if he finds it no\ t how keen the ’disappointment. We. who are children.of larger growth, hou id imitate his example. We should 1 look for sunshine, .for flower < and smiles— for truth, benevolence and ju dice in our fol low-men ; and treat all, however rough and uncouth the exterior, as if we were dealing with those who have a yearning for love, < ighbousness, and immortal blessedness. The dirty urchin, barefooted and ragged, that balls us for a penny on the street ‘corn er a{ night, when the chill wind whistles or the pelting storm rages, may be a noble bov struggling heroically to save a giek mother ai;d starving sisters— or he may have been sent there hungry and cold by ;t drunken latijer, to beg far money to buy rum, under the penalty of a flogging if he goes back empty-handed. Spurn not the little fellow rudiy; an angelic nature is his~a diamond UNIVERSITY OF QEQRGiA LIBRARY in the rough it may be, and needs only 10 be polished to shine lustrously. Give him a bath, a dinner and a smile, and the good and the beautiful of his nature will -be brought to the surface, appreciable bv ail. Human Nature, after ail, is a kindly thing, and capable of nil sorts of virtues. The ve ry tact that we blame error and sin, shows that vve appreciate virtue and goodness. and expect them from our fellow-man. As we stroll through the marts of trade, where all that is selfish in man is. supposed to prevail, or wander through those pre cincts of the great city where the poor and the abandoned are packed into mean and filthy abodes, we are often reminded that the spirit of goodness still lives in man, How ever much it may be obscured from genera! observation, We saw a wretched, dirlv; rum-rinned loafer wandering to find a friend to treat him. or a six-penny job that he might treat hi ruse! i—we saw this man pars ing 0 little, sickly, hait-fh-d beggar child -is she sat crouched by a hatchway. Weil dressed men had scorned her plaintive sup plication, and repelled her little skinny hand; but, this vagabond gazed a moment at the cnild, and while ms eye** moistened and bis ; hp quivered, hunted through the etnph pockets of his tattered garments and at hod. tounu a solitary penny, which he placed in the child’s hard, saying: “there”, take that; itis all I’ve got, 1 wish if wax more.” He passed on, and vve t hought of the good ‘Sa maritan and the widow’s two mites. We saw a lady rich and fashionable! enough, one Would suppose, to be hear dess, imperious and utterly* selfish, waiting to cross Broadway through the crowd of carts and stages, when a laboring man who \va : passing with his little daughter, kindly of- Terad to escort her over; she accepted his assistance, but while protecting the lady he received a blow from a passing vehicle which injured his arm end ruined his coat. The lady, seeing hoy much lie had risked and suffered on her account, and the u.ier dismay with which ho and his little girl re garded the ruined garment, told him to come to her house, No. —, street, and she would not only give him another c :-at or the means to buy one, but also an entire suit fur his little daughter, together with an order for a year’s petition in one of the best select sqhoolsin the city. .We turned away with ‘swimmingeyes, anti left, the little group ex pressing to each other their mutual thnnks ; assured ay these little-incidents, which a single stroll had brought us to witness, that hurban nature, whether in rags and wretch edness* or fluttering in silks and iaces, is, alter all, God’s own handiwork, and capable of goodness and happiness. Let us, th§y. give it the smile- of recogni tion-—a w ord of hops and encouragement; and, whenever we can, a strong hand to help and protect it. God bless humanity, and lead it to duo sense of its powers and its worth, of its duty and high destinv. Extraordinary Bless Dry. An Englishman. :t a ecu tain time, came | to Frederick the Great, of Prussia, for the • express purpose of giving him an exhibition of his power of recollection. Frederick went to Voltaire, who read to the King a pretty long poem which he find just finish ed. Tho Englishmen was present, and was \o such a position that he> ecifid hear every word of the poem, but was concealed from Voltaire’s notice. Alter the reading of the : poem wub finished, Frederick observed to the author that the production could pot be an original one, as there was a foreign gen tleman present who couhl recite every word of it, Yoltafre listened with amazement to thf stranger-, as he repeated, word for word, the'poem which he uad been at so-finuah pains in composing, and, giving way to a momentary freak of passion, he iow the rnanusciipt iu pieces. A statement was then made to him of the circumstances un der which the Englishman became acquain ted with his poem, which had the effect to mitigate his anger, and he. was very willing to do penance for the suddenness of his pas sion. by copying down the- work from a se cond repetition of it by the stranger, who was able to go through with it hi before. The Twc Wishes. i was listening the other day to an address to a company of Sunday-school children. — It was at the close of the school for the sea son. The minister told them interesting things, and, among others, bespoke of their future prospects. “Perhaps,” said he, “some of the tittle boys before me may become governors, some of them may be judgas or senators.” When he was telling that some of them might be governors, I saw one little bov j turn his blue eyes up to his companion and whisper, “I should like to boa governor, shouldn't you, James?” 1 have since read of a little boy who had higher ambition than this. He was very sick. His father and mother were there; his brothers and ids sister were near. As thev watched his countenance they saw that he must die. When so feeble that he could hardiy speak so as ;.c be understood, he aaffi to his mother, who was bending her face close to that of her dear boy, “I 3 hou id love to be in angel; shall ibe au angel, moth er ?” 1 would wish that all the children who read this paper might, by gaining knowledge while young, be fitted for governors or for some other useful station when they become j men, and by being good, and loving and TERMS: &I.QO IN ADVAiTC j JAMES TANARUS, BLAH, V. PKXKIJ. VOL. XXII.-KUMBEB :if obeying the Savior, be prepared to beeoml angels when they die.— The Myrtle . . Asiatic Mysteries. I The Arnsterdamshe Gourant contains thJ following: •‘lt is well known that East Indians havJ innn\ i*iVGntions i.ink.novvr* to l^uropt^nnsJ and that they possess secrets incomprehen sible to us. Ihe Chinese understood th art of printing several centuries before* Western nations, and they also used gun powder a long time before it was known in Europe, in Bengal the art of serpent charming strikes foreigners with astonish ment. -In Chili the Spaniards instituted a system of rapid correspondence by means o! the human voice, which, at that period, went aheaa ot every other mode of commu nication. In the knigdom of Montezuma videttes were established at stated distance# Vv;:o transmitted the orders6t-Government, ana tor warded iniurmation with the utmost rapidity trom one endofthe kingdom to the other. *li as a recognised tact in British India, ddat. m 1815. the Governor of Bengal re ceived nouce or a sudden revolt of the tribes o’, the interior. Xlis informants proved that ‘.be natives had obtained information of the Allies having lost the first day of Waterloo (ffiaUres Bias.) The rebeis also knew, a ’ bwrt time, subsequently, that the battle (o’ aterioo) had been gained by tho British uud their allies. Three- weeks later tho Governor received official notice of this event; v. inch news had been immediately expedited to him by the Guke of Wellington, by means of couriers despatched from the baffle field. A similar circumstance has just taken place. Letters.renewed lately from'Calcut ta. announce that the European mail is awaited with much anxiety, as the people of tne interior have already received the an- Ueipatisd news oi the conclusion of peace. i -hio new ol which, as yet. the European population knew nothing, and could know uoaihig, oec.ause no mail had arrived, and i eactied v.aleutta in advance of steam, had even distanced the telegraph from Bombay to Calcutta.’'’ Sight Drinking Families.. The following startling statements are made by the New dork Cabinet, respecting eight different iambics in a single town: Their parents were moderate drinkers. Can heads of families read these facts with out concern ? The first had one child, a daughter. A great <uia was expended on her education. ■She died from the effects of Strong Drink, The seeciiu had an only son. He was educated with great cure and at great ex pense., but was killed by wine. The third had four sons and a daughter, i he daughter is a drunkard, and one son has gone to a urankard’s grave. Tiie iouriti had three sons. One died of intemperance, one was killed in a duel, and the other-is a drunkard. The filth had a son who killed himself by drinking, and two step-sons are drunkards on wine. Tho Sixti! had five sons. Four are drunk ards, and one through the influense of liquor is-an idiot. j he eighth ;.ad five sons and three neph ews. Four of the sons have been killed by alcohol, and the fifth is ° drunkard; and the three nephews .we in the drunkard’s grave. Tvzq Mistaken An Irish pig merchant, who had more money hi his pocket, than his appearance denoted, took an inside passage in one of our stage coaches during the late severe frost. A dandy of the first order, who was a follow passenger, was evidently annoyed by the pr essence of Pat, and having missed his handkerchief taxed him with having picked bis pocket, threatening to have him taken, before a magistrate at the coach of fice. Before they arrived there, however, the exquisite found his handkerchief, which he had deposited in his hat. He made & very awkward kind of an apology upon the occasion; but Pat stopped him short with this remark : ‘Make vonrselfaisey, my hon ey. there’s no occasion for any bother about the matter. You took me for a thief and I took you for a gentleman; and we are both mistaken; that’s all, honey.’ Tho Shadows of Childhood. God bless the little children! We like their bright eves, their happy faces, their winning wavs, iheir rosy dreams ! Noth ; iog seems to weigh down their buoyant spir its long; misfortune may foil to their lot, but the. shadows it casts upon their life-path are dee ing as the clouds that come and go in an April sky. Their future may, per chance, appear dark to others, but to their fearless gaze it looms up brilliant and beau tiful as the walls of a fairy palace. There is no tear which a mother’s gentle hand can not wipe away, no wound that a mother’s kiss cannot heal, no anguish which the sweet murmuring of her soft, low voice cannot j scathe. The warm, generous impulses of | their nature have not been fettered and cramped by the cold formalities of the world; they have not yet. learned to veil a hollo ,v heart with false smiies, or hide the basest purpose beneath honeyed words.— Neither are they constantly-on the alert to search out our faults aud foibles with Argus eyes; on the contrary, they exercise that blessed charity which “tbmketh no nrfl,*