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JOM HENRY. SEARS, ) .. ‘NU . . > EditOPS, L,-“LINCOLN VEAEEY. ) NEW SERIES, VOL. I. TfitfilMtl MAPI, p.rnt.fsn™ STEM 81TFJIMY, EXCEPT TWO, 15 TlfS YEAR, BY JOHN 11. STIAJ.S. TKR.'JS : rn ttdvftno?; or Si,oo at jJae o?i.1 us fbe-year. * R VTT.S Os ADVERTISES Gk l nqiiere-Ctyretes line* or less) first insertion, - -$1 00 X.ich continual.cm?, 00 Trrfc ■Hsionat orJJvtsiness not d-treecdmg six limrs. per year, •• 00 Announcing Candidates for Office Z 00 stanch no ar> vf.ktj*kveVstts’.’ V jqHara, three nsonths. ?’ ‘-"T 1 square, six months,— •'.• 00 I square, twelvamonths. ‘0 00 3 squares, 11 , .‘1 00 3 squares, A ‘ ** -- - -~1 00 i squares, “ * “ - 25 00 not rnarkod’witb the number <if insertions, wii) He continued until forbid, find charged accordingly. Druggists, and others, may con* erfcqt fur am ertisiug by the year, on reasonable terms# I. ICO V L AD V EETISK&EI^fSS. Siftle of Land or Negroes, by Administrators, Executors, and Guardians, per square,... 5 00 Sale of Personal Property, by Administrators, Executors, and Guardian's, per square,... 3 125 Notice to Debtors and Creditor',.:. 1 325 ifotice for Leave to bell, ,v Citation for Letters of Administration,. fr .-.. 2 75, t.Stfctlon for Letters of (Dismission from Adrn’n. 5 00 Citation for Letters of Dismission from Guardi anship, 8 25 LEG- Ah R E<sijm KMENT?. Sales of Land and Negroes, by .Administrators, Kjfocutora, or Guardians, are required by law to be held on the first Tuesday in the month, between the hefurs of ten in the forenoon and three in the after noon; at lho Court House in die County in which the property is situate. Notices of |h'-se sales must be given in & public gazette forty day? previous to the day of sale.. Notices for the sale of Personal Property must be £!ven at leu.-L t<y! days previous to the day of sale. Notice to Debtor* and Creditors of an Estate -r ove be published forty days. Notice that application will be made,to the Court of Ordinary tor leave to soil band or Negroes, most be published weekly for fieo •months. Citations for Letters,'of Administration must hr published*"? hiriy daps —for l.hsiftissi >n from Admin- j il’uardiaiistjip, forty days; * fiulcs for Foreclosure of Mortgage inu.-.t be pub- \ fished monthly sos four month* —for coir, oiling titles 1 from Executors. where a bond has i been given by the deceased, the, full wwv of ikr*.a j ifconth*. wih always U- • oTUiniied accord- . leg to these, the legal requirements, imU&; otlienvi ‘. : oroered. , 1 ThsLaw of Newspapers. . i It. Subscribers who do not give express notice to the aontrarv, are considered as wishing to continue their subscription. |. ‘lf subscribers order the discontinuauco of their newspapers, the publisher rauy continue to send them until all arrearages are paid. 3. If subscribers neglect or refuse to take inch newspapers from the offices to which they are d>- fected, they aro held responsible until they hare set tled the bids and ordered than; discontinued. L If subscribers remove to other places-without Informing the publishers, and this newspapers are sent to the former direction, they aro held responsi ble. • , e 5. The Courts have decided that refusing to take newspapers from the office, or reiTK” mg ami leaving them uncalled for, U prirna facie. •evidence of inten tional fraud. The United States Courts has e also repeatedly decided, that a Postmaster who neglects to perform jiif. duty cf giving readable riolloiy as require.* by the Post Office Department, of ti\t? neglect of a per son to take from file office newspapers addressed to him, renders the Postmaster liable to the- publisher for the subscription price, JOB PRINTING-, of every description, done with neatness and dispatch, this office, and at reasonable prices for cash. Ail orders, in this department, must he addressed to ’ J. T PLAIN. PBOSPECTtS OT TFC TEMPERANCE CRIMER. [qr OVD A it] TEMPERANCE BASMIi A’ OTUATED by a conscientious desire to further /\, the cause of Temperance, and experiencing great dmdyrurtagg hf being too narrowly limited in apace, by the smallness of our paper, for the* publica tion of Reform Arguments ana Passionate Appeals, tre have determined to.enlarge it to a mdre conve nient and acceptable sizet ‘ AVid being conscious of the fact that there are existing in the itunds of a large portion of the, present readers of the Tlafiner and its former patrons, prej'idj* anri difficulties which can never he removed so long as It retains the’ name, ico venture asT to make a change in that- par ticular. It will henceforth he ‘c&l!d, ‘‘THE TEM PERANCE CRUSADER/; This old pion-wY of the Temper*!see cause. U des tined yet to chronicle the fr uinph of its principles. H has stood the test —-pasaed throughplnf “itcry fnf ttaoe,” and, like the “ilcbr ;w. children,'* W-appexn and unscorcbed- XI ha- §uryive.i toe nvgnji‘ijjcv .hini\n& which has eftiteed, and -s stUl gain y excel-* lent journals and periodicals Lowin’:, TkV ‘bright ex htUaiiana i the evenin'./’ to rise no more, and it has even bera'iuoU- th t‘deith struggle• of many conti m foraries, laboring for tin* same great end with-itself, t “still !iv<w,”‘and “waxing bolder -* it grows older/’ {g now waging an eternal “Cr usade ’ against the “In fernal Liquor Traffic,’ standing Tike iho “JLgo i'lOvSt of the Israelite*,. who suxd hnweeb the people nt.*d (lie pUgfte that (hre-atoued dtsti tmii.tn. We entreat the inMlds of lay Te/ftpcraivce tfa OB* pj givb ’-*5 their influence io fcstcaditig.tno ,use.iuhH..ss of the paper. ‘ W*. intend presenting to the- poT-Kc a sheet worthv* of all attention end & IrtfSrH paiikmage; fgjf while it is Strictly a Temperance JawnUti, w shall endvftvor. ti) iuy p -its on sh < itm iperam* events throughout the country. .. i EfTßicr af Kcrotofeirc/'SI. stCc'J-. in auvaocc. john u. Seals, H Editor and Proprietor. Peefteki, G*, Dm. i, 1888. petotei* fntel%eitte, Ifctos, so. ‘?3lb- AaIIiUL __.r —: • —v. 7.. ;: Tue Mai no Law Causes an Increase la Liquor Drinking in til© State, 5 ’ Such is the assertfhn of the Prohibition—that the thalhtehanoe. of the Maine Law is ptoduetive of mo re liquor drinking'than there would We without if.- Passing the hardihotnl whirh courd make* .such an assertion, and tdid at the exhibition*-o*’ the argument, on the part of many -who would* pass for very re spectable temperance men. but who are soreiv grieved at the ‘* Puritanic and straight-sided"’ Law of Prohibition.’ we have been inciine<i*td believe, what every unpre judiced man in the State knows full welly that there is* far less drain drinking than be fore thedaw was passed. This our crimi nal records plainly- show, and- thousands of wives and mothers every where in the State do testify. The exhibition of the statistics, so often given, is not needed here in support of ike fact, which no sane man denies. That liquor is openly sold and -drank in all our large towns and cities, -and .that in great quantities, no one will deny* twJiiie every benevolent beartdaments that,ibis so. But that‘•more rum is drank now than before the passage of the Prohibitory Law/Lin the rural portions ot the State, c v aa-qjfiy be as serted ;n the lace and eyes’of all fact; and, be it remembered, that the population which fhfc cities and larger towns bear to the gen esc!.population us a niore fraction of the whole. .. It was-.inserted, apu shown, by actual count, at the recent annual meeting of the Stale Temperance -".'oefety olhlkew York, that, the repeal of the law in that State re opened 5,000 liquor shops which the La w had efTeetfiailv closed. Thai the same re sults would Icdlow a. like issue in Connecti cut, lio one, at all conversant .with Lemper airce statistics, would su far hazard his fep utation as to deny. TdiU the people see, or why do they sustain a Leg.slat are pledged to maintain the Law? Tins the people feel; •and no such assertion as that which heads this article will f.ave any other effect, than to conform in them the favorable impression which the ent weement of the Law has aj; jready produced. | Besides, if such be the sher, why all this outcry and moving of heaven and earth against the Law? Answer us this question, gentlemen. Where is your consistency?— Or have we been deceived'in this matter a!f j the while, and are these noisy sticklers for* 4 Lee sale of intoxicating drinks in our jnidsf the only true friends oi i’ernptffSuice after ail, anti do they really grieve at a measure which,causes more rufn to be drank than wn, ever drank and would be dftink Without iawf AJi, gentlemen, beware how you set traps to catch only yourselves in. • - But your Law, say these sagacious ones,- only drives liquor from the places of its le galized sale inte the household and the pri vate iahly iSM.n e ah mdantly .tarnished than ever oeforc. That this is true, to any gen eral extent, we unhesiiatingly deny; that and ‘may be true,- to a very limited extent*, we and shame confess. Because it., is made disreputable and illegal to* gratify their thirst for ardent spirits in a public man ner, there arc many vjhy* rather than do without it, or .drink it in public at the hazard of their reputation, will introduce it. into their homes, where they, can .indulge \heir appetites- v/itbout fear of public, condemna tion. But at dac make the assertion, .and wo covet an investigation, tharough.and Hearclfng ir, the'premises, that in oui: cities even, no* onq table in a Ijundred is., suppiid with nr.y intoxicating beverage. whatever, and throughout the State not. one table in five hundred 1.-, thus furnished. Let the opponents ojf tlie Law give us the statistics; the names and the households where* the table’is ordinarily, or eyqn occaf sionallv. furnished with intoxicating drinks* Won gree‘to pubfikh sqcji statistics, and will confess, when tve ‘are show.ii welj-attested* evidence of this nsscrJeci fact. Until.then lei our opponents rest satisfied that we shall .contindeTo assert and defend tlve Prohibito ry Law, as the great safeguard of Temper ance m our midst.— -Peoples ’ **• —t; 5- , The pv&i Sea. ‘ 1 \” in breadth. not, exceeding ten, miles, the Ijesnl Sea seems boundless to the vyc wruii iO.0Ring srom north to south, ajjd iiie murmur ot waves,.pg they break on its hdil-strewu suuie, together w.i\ii..yielmes .of unit wood and fragments of bitumen ok the. beaev-i, give to u, : waters a.yes.ep&blauce to toy * k ur.hHiS“U> experience- th^.-sen-* satmpp of s\\Aptly.i*g ai so -L ange 4 spa, I. pV'J t.'j - iie .test 1 lie accounts yj ‘die. extreme, b'.tiy, anc’y felt itj it, and i wqss quickly Qoi)- v'rhAed that there was no -exaggeration-.;u w iiat l -beard. I lotiUu..up> wafer ahnost te pid, and /o that .ih,e chief diLfi^ulty’ was to <-Nwp srUhciently submerged, the feet carting iip in’ the* Iffr. at ; eV^j.y 4 . vjcis stroke. . - When hhlf the boefy ro.ie .nhovfc the sufjkce, nh<T iv;th a; pillow, dme might have slept, upon ’ho : . After'■ some,fime the strangeness, or the sensation in some -'measure disappeared, .inti oh up proricnt’ng the !#rbf Fharf]g’?Mv dropped my teet to walk out, wdhmd io ! m/;f aTfuiddef bad ttr *fach. lre*e| 4 fle w *1 upwards.- the struggle To* feCOyyf' , 'l’hVkelf ,3*t .hy head do .vn, th>- Vile!# btiter and briny water, from which I had hitherto guarded my head, now rushed ‘into my mouth, dyes,ears, and nose, and for one hor PESyjfllLU, GA„ SATURDAY, AUGUST 23, I*. —r r;b|e moment she ynly .dpu.U-.-I. had .was’ whether J was to.be drowned-or poisoned,. Coming to'the surface, however, 1 swam tq land, making no further attempt, to walk in deep water, which I am inclined to believe is almost impossib!e>L -Eastern Travel. „ Qorard tlie Libti Elllsr. ‘Tii'.* tuo.st intfriiSul v interfes|rng bouk. -which I ijHVg read fdi’*suuMv ;av\ is .Ihr.r. W/dch records tin- d-:*;0 ! 8 of the ..tamoii* ll oy killer in A r ixca, Aion-deiu .Gerard, oi France. _ Whoever, wishes* to learn all a bout.thf king of beasrs* ruusi rea l tide, book. X6t.only will he gala a ,mar of lSifer|pkti“'n from th- so: pages, res peeling -the habit* of rin- Ugn, hut Wc will’ Wan dor ohligatii’tif It/Gerard for enabling him to unlearn soniof t hings ‘winch arc niu/uv.; but which have hitherto- -passed cun'eat! Among the stories to id in this v\>funie,T| the following, winch is Sdely illuotrofed, as indeed.most of Gerard’s storic-s arc : f A native, by the Mainly if Samil, weitli distm^e*from homo {■j hY niarriedf In i’eh!ridWg*w : Mi’ fiL. bridg, HigKVcaitvd on. The parry had advat.ee-!'’ to within thwe-tniteft of 11 \ >iholtse of the I<r 1 1 egrd mu, whonra-’ huge lion, presented r> their.jrnth. What w.-s-tn beMbne*? Ti cv were .about, half way between the. fhiMc of the baidegroom’ and the bride, [r wiiioe qually <l-agerou& to return- or id adva There-were eight or ten guits'.belonging :- ■ the party, all loaded with .-IniTh The held-;’ v.’hb phicel in the- puddle off a h-df. square, ami the.eae -n mvodred on. Leaded •bv the gallant bridegroom. They came *o wjriu n tiiitiv paisas of the lion, and .yet iro had not moved. . Small ordered the p.-triv to halt; and then saying to hi* wffe, ‘judge wiieahyr you have married ?>. m ‘j nr no-f he wniked atralgiif- up to the beast, sum nnaivd him, iri a loud voice, to r.loar th*.- ro:yj, and tb allow him’ and ids party :o pass At twenty paces the i.h.n mised ids mon-tr<>uahead, and prepared, to unrig. Small, iii spite of the cries of his win- - mi the on treaties’ of ids friends, .who vimeoL e i him to retreat, bent ync if 7 oo to the cartii.v tpok if m, and ijred. The limp woun ded.by the shot., sprang, on the hiLmu.d’, hurled'hiui to the earth, and to him in ; ie-. c.es in the twinkling of an eye. Then he’ charged mi the group,, in “the mublieioi which stood the *rombling bride; ■•Lot no’ onb fire, 5 shouted The father us Srimil, LYu til he in within gun’e length.’ But ; the terrified men had not eeif-comrh ind U. .obey this advice. They all fired ftt onpe, utterly regardless where their Grill, won t . Then the lion fell on the grqopy dadiing. them hither and thither with liis moiistron paws, breaking the bones .ftnd tearing .flesh of all whom, he couMreaeh. . ’ •Some of them, however, escaped, carry- ‘ lug with them .the- bride, half fteud with terror. la a moment more, and thediou was .after them. There, was no refuge and n- defense; and the wounded i>.-ast. -seized and tore, in pieces one after ajidthor, ■ until but one ;aary whs left of.all the party . He more tortunaiy thay the ‘others, reached the f >ot ot.n rock, on which he,placed, the woman, awl then began climbing up after her. He had already, reached a con siderable, height, ivhen the Hon gained life foot of thy rock, zs furimts as oyer. Wirl. a single bound, he seized the unfortunate man by .the leg;, and'.dragged him back ward f.V the ground, while the woman reached thq aaaiiiiirdj’ the'rock, where she v ‘evred the horrid scene’ which was trans piring heloyd *AiasS the hist of her de ’tbadefsyoQij fell a victim to the fury .of tiie tiqn.’ ‘ * # The rest of the night passed slowly away to'-the-lonely’ Woman. When the morning davVncd“h*e had watched the bride all nigid-Mhe retired rehicfaptly to his lair. A foW morflints after, a group of cavalier? appeared on tin- plain. The v/tdo'W of ‘Small, without any voice to * call, waved, her bridal vail hs a signal of distress. The party cYtme'tfj bar mi a earrieil her to her latimrV toifl;, where she died tiie n?*xt uighi, at the Houfr oj*the wedding. & Mother's t - Earth has some sacred spots, where we feed like loosing the shoes-from our feet, and treading- vvith.holy revere-nce. where com mon words of social converse seem rude, and tiie smile of pleasure unfitting** places , where friendship’s-, hands have lingered in each ofrbfcrV, vows-have been plight ed, prayers 0 fie red, and tears (tl shed. O, how the titoughis aover arocma such places, and * travel back Through un measured s[ta'<?e to visit ihem. But ot ah the spots on this none is so sa- assilfi'ftt. ‘iyhiftre rcist,,'waiting the rsm> re uion,ithose we oqce*cl|erished and loved -mhir 1 >r>>thiftins,;oiur ijislejis, or our cinidi en. Hence in all ages the h“eitr part ol manloito haVe cho,sen i ;,tnd loved spots for the burial ‘of tltejn dead, and .on these,spots they t)n\ e loved to wander übeveutida to nieditaie andl w-oep,. iiiit-of* all places even among the ol the dead, none tsso sacied as a Mother's Gravi?! - .. .. TbcfiS sleeps tl/e ndfse of our mhincy tlieguid f e ol our youth-—the coun.ioior q* our riper veurs —-our friend when qUiers desert ed us!;” she whose h6arf was a. stranger to uv-tiry other feeling but love, and vvlio could it! way a fliid excuses for us vvnen we could find h-Se’tor Tnwe she slheps. and we lovo*the very Cartli for her'^ake. With sentimehts like these i turned aside from ti>e guyeties of life to the narrow hab- iUitrons pi the dead. I wandered among • nrise .u no had commenced file with me in uope. , Hei.e di-tmctions were forgotten; at least, by the .quiet siumberers around me.- i l ' !av ’ ilJe ■ and tho great, who scorned toe poor, and snunned them as if infected plague, quietly sleeping by their side. t TJi3 Use of Hum will do you no Good. It \oi not increase vour property ; no uisvu.ncjKn vYidiu doom h relish for it essen- Bal.tu- n good v lerk, or partner in business. It Will nbk invigterato your body ’ or your m;nd; for phy&icians tell us it contains n*> more*n^nr;sion;=ntohim fire or lightning. It Will n.'t iiiereaso the number of your re-: *?pcctubte friondig no one, in his right mind won!4 esteem ■ o brother or. neighbor the anore, or think Ink prospedta the bester, on account of,his occasional use..of intoxica- Uqg hq-io X’.t.wUl it in the least puri vY. jour ittlVctions; or tit. you for j of ibmn siie jiL.; no par- ] 1 eifr, snohid uo ..It tea* his tkuighf er, would i v ;e u b>v<’.r of ai-! uenl--;Y for, uopfo ’.'hv phr'iphet, wine * a a-..-foY’ iudolgeUce^-“takes away iuo i).viL*ri*', “\Voy,Y ; ien, Hh*.-nid ratio?mf forifor capable dt* tlia pfirfea’t enjoy moil t. yie-Y vo A. (juste:a in no rnspocc ns-- ml: .but iwriioi riib eecaaion 6f*coUntiesa - miseries ? Lb.de.So tjicy ca.n show some offsev to the v;;B arn--';n*Td- o( t vil which - they ocaasii.nfo b -- ;;;y sawdy to be'ruled out of gorirt. Bu-r =4 fopv Y- % pa o'pared v--> inaintai?i ’.that M drinking usages are ueCanary, or even ns-. Li, vh-.u nifor should. n?e iritoxica tinir'nqnorif as, a b-.-re rage? Do *!my add ; ■■■ t • or stferigvb to intellect, or--. or ruUlV \y tic. ite-art, or roditude to the -cm sci may? The experience of thousand, an eve for? dhoti t has fiusw&rbd this ques ‘Hofl. Ir. •'dmoet ovvry age and quarter of ihfo. world, but tj*pe-v.‘.;tiiy witluj the last twenty-.five v--: and in onr. own lurid, nttw.y tn.-si offomtlre abstinence from -ul uitat cAi-i uooxtente. Haw few of rhonp will cayfoes that they have Buffered from it, either ?•: iteaifch of body, or elasti- Cioy of cpirifo. ■; r energy .met activity of mindl,. ilov m*-uy will testify that* in •each of thfoo r : -.-*.pect-s, tiic.y wro sensible g.uiters from ch. tiigo fh-ey ivriounced the. \ih al|’ aighoiic MimulnnU —-Spirit of tlu. Tar. •• . Hr. Motlibd of Writing. The lull owing letter -received a lew tiny's since by Dr. J. Henry Clark, of ibis city, author df “-Sight and Hearing, how - pre b; rpiU lio.vv lufet, 5 ’ describes a motho/i by which thu .blind rftuy wftte, and corn- UHinicntes an interesting fuel in relation to Jtho infirmity against which the great histo rian lias struggied in the attainment of ins’ unequalled tamo iii lifts 1 departaiyat* (Mass.) J nry 20,1856. Mil tkar Sir: loon...much obliged to yon (or your work, which ; you have been eo kina us to sene me, on Sight and Hearing. As far ak T cab judge —and I have had some experience in .regard >6 troubles con nected with the former- —it seems to me ex tre'mcl'y Well suited -to the objects for which it vvsu: intended.. I sincerely hope that tliii young and inexperienced may profit by,the salutary counsels it conveys. * jL on the apparatus which I.use in writing. It ie-oi u very simple kind, consisting of ft frame of ihe -size of a common sheet of ‘let ter paper, with’ brass .wires inserted hi it ip corves po iid with tho. n amber of the lines marked. Ot4 one iide of this frame is pas ted, a ! leaf of thin carbonated paper, such as is used t-> obtain duplicated. Instead of a pen, the writer makes use of a stylus of ivory dr agate; the last better, as harder. - Aii-hht leajAfaouU b# put . into the sheet vfcbu-oh is. to be written- -on, us tf.e paper : vyonifj-OfhbrK'iso yield to. ,tho pressure of the pen. The great difficulty in the way of a blind tuau’s, f wri f -bi- ;> thy usual a way. Arises j .from his not knowing when tho ink is ex hausted.in js*H pen, and moreover his lines run into one un-Aber. \ Both difficulties are obviated by this simply writing.case, which enables one to do !h*.'-work” as well in the •larkfts in the light. Though my trouble is not blindness, but iPdisorder of the nerve of the eyy- the -fiVci. (is fur as- this is eon *ce-rnhd, is the sitnic, and Tam wholly’ in-ro ywiMadror i&rilmy- -in the o-rdumry yvry. 1 should .t- i-l ‘it would, lie .more e-an rvdn.hmt'.fo hatcfaafa frame, boat) a with Ifadhp.r-oh r&efa itua atracbed to .porttb lio. .--This is mg way tyir.n iai'ne. ■ \ tuo'd el,however,betf - ’ than dercfiptldp; end I tut ve Trc.*Jn#n 1i v. iisf) tl^s. \dey ,u;;e faf fnr-. nirthuig.my ‘wriylij.g'ca-fc, which was- made ia rhigfdiid'; many -fr.>o.i -v-bfyb fa oors-have beet) made here for vho-e wn-> ‘wpiv- laboring under #n'. fyoft r. ‘ eye. 7 ‘ * r . With g! -,'nt';v;g;;rd |re me in, dear sir, f.Otir ‘dbiigwi >ih‘d obi'dlynt syrvi'uir. •* * Wmv ir. ¥*Xst>.+rr. ;J ; .IT-x Vy, y M. lb ■’ ?• ■ EmgiiterSJarriage, v\,T ; ot:vg'; >1 th fafagiifar -things- recorded •yf ihc nvhwvu noth* yiig jqu.lj • i.jUe h >Jhaving, which Wy clip jjC’iro ih and ivnioo :> -per. A young truuTre nn'iag who under an “* in.-ot *4* marrfag*?-w;id* a’ young lu !vy died on Friday hdt. Bqth the gentle men and lady, a# well Wt families, wore firm believers m the doctrines of the spiritualists, and notwithstanding the death of the former it was determined that the marriage should take place between the disembodied spirit of the young man and the living, breathing body of his affi anced bride. Accordingly, on Sunday the marriage ceremony was performed between the clay-cold corpse and the warm, bloom ing bride. It is understood that this was in compliance with’the directions of the bridegroom. Tine devotion of the la iy to the spirit or the memory of her lover car ned her through this trying ceremony without faltering, but it must lead to nn happiucsH, for she no doubt considers hor sell us.fhq.wifc of-one whan? she fih.all meet in the body'never more. We cannot but regard -the affair a® • eminently foolish, .and certainly the voting ladyY delusion j must have been perfect to loiid. her to nuc.b i a step m the haa taken.— Newark 2£er&*~ 1 jry. - Coffeo.* A Brazil correspondent of the New > or’k Journal of Commerce givc-B an inter i -utig‘sketch of the history of this univer se’ beverage, so papular amongjall natiorib [ winy her eivilGcd or setru-civilize {, which have become acquainted with it© proper ties. Wherever it has gained a tootbold it? advance ha* been most sure. It has i urivor made h retrogadc movement, though assailed by ecclesiastical bodies, or by col leges of physicians of every school. ML hammodan Muftis thundered anathemas against it; moru than three-ecu turies ago the wittiest writers of the court of Tx*>uis XIT squibbed it. The illnstrions Dr. Murray (A-lopafoiic) reproached coflee, when in dulged in too tYv.dy, with producing ver tigo, trembling ot the iinilis, cutar.eons eruptions on the taco, hysterics, hypochon dria, Ac, Are. Hahnemann, the great high prioct of homeopathy, accusing it of caus ing tie .decline, of the.. German (his own) race. Coffee is. a native of Abyssinia, and not j ( >f Arabia, ua many believe, and abounds in tin- province of X&ffi), whence it derives Ttß tuime. The eoffov tree waa not trans- ( planted ireia Abyssinia into Asia nr, til the lath century, when its culture was begun )i\ Arabia Felix, where, in the environs of Mocha. it prows’ to perfection, The Wes tern workl learned the use of coffee from the Orientals; but how the Orientals learn ed to*ee it is a difficult, question to solve. An Arabian author of the 15th century re cords that it was n Mufti of Aden, who* la the 9th century, was the firnt to use cof fee. At this epoch r t was already known in -Persia, where common tradition ascribes its discovery to one Mol la Chadeilv, a pi ous Mussulman, who was mncli troubled by drowsiness during his nocturnal medi tations. He invoked Mahomet to come to his aid, who caused his faithful Mollah to meet with a goatherd, who led him to a coffee tree, and informed him that when ever his goats at e of the berry of that tree, they passed the whole night wide awake, leaping and capering. ‘ The devout Mollah prepared nn infusion of the berry, which after drinking, gave him for the whole night n most delectable state of sleepless ness. Ho made known his discovery, which was adopted by all the dervishes and doctors of the land, and the new bev erage rapidly became popular over the whole Orient. There are other versions of the discovery of the use of coffee as a beverage'* It is believed that the dervish es learned this means of overcoming sleep from the CL nobite Christians ofThebes and Ethiopia, who adopted the practice of drinking coffee. The Mohammedan prieet soon became enemies of the new beverage, however, r.3 it led the people to forsake the mosques and flock to the coffee-house, and they hurled the fiercest anathemas against it, but without avail. Before the lTdi century, coffee was on ly known by name in Franco, and it did not Ucome fashionable nntil Soloman Aga the. Turkish ambassador to the Court of Louis XiV, gave nn eclat to coffee by of fering it to the high-born dames of the realm. Curiosity and vanity led them to AgaV residence, where, hr received them with oriental magnificence, and coffee was the rage. About the same time it became a favorite in Vienna, the method of its pre puratiou having i>een learned from some Tm lea captured in battle, Twenty years before, if was introduced into England by a British merchant, returned from Con stantinople. In Franco the coffee-house became,exceedingly popular, ai;d notwith standing the immense quantities of wine drank in F ranee, there is probably no eouti -11 y, excv pt T n rkey and tKe United St at ee, so UiproughK given to Coffee. Tea is hard •iv known outside of ■ the great cities. A oig’dficant index of the universal use of coifeeds the fact that what we call a tea .spoua, the Freftch invariably call a coffee- Bpoon, Up to the 18th. century all the coffee which was eonsumod in Europe came from Arabia, but in. 10.99 the Dutch introduced it. into Batavia, where it grew to periec tiyn, and in iTlu a plant was sent to the botanical gardens of Amsterdam, where it llouriahoJ. Au offshoot was presented to Louis XIY, who sent it to the Jardin des Plante, and it became the ancestor of all the coffee planpitious in the West Indies : the French government succeeded, in 18- 20, In fritrodtKrhog it rrrte Martkdqtre. ( TERMS: f 1.00 IN ADVANcI ) JAMES T. BLAIN, 1 1 FBtNT^k vol. xm-miMRKR. B It is uncertain when the coffee #hmt vfl carried to Brazil, but htt* I growth and cultivation boon so Jirid rapid. There are li J who saw th# first sm*il mtmp shipped frfl Rio Janeiro, and now that port i the lfl gest coffee mart in the world. The U ports from that port for the year end* June 30, 1855, wore 2,352,284 bags, I 160 lbs. Portngne.se,) nearly one-hrtlfß which immense amount came to theTlM ted States. Good “old washed Rio” wfiß ia said to bn equal to the best Java. Story of a Highwayman. Not many years ago, an Irishman, who finances did not keep pace with the deman maoe on his pockets, and whose scorn honest labor was immediately unfavorab to their being legitimately filled, borrow* an oid pistol one day, when poverty h< driven him to extremity, and took the hig way where he was most convinced, he wj likely tc find a heavy purse. /l toxly old farmer ccme jogging alon anc t :5 irishman put him down instantly < a pro tv who possessed those requisite wmch he so much stood m need ofhimsel I resenting his pistol, he commanded th farmer to “stand and deliver.” he pocr fellow forked over some fifr dollars, but finding Fat somewhat of a green horn, begged a five to take him home? a die fance o . aoout half a mhe. The reques was complied with, accompanied wiih tm most patronizing air. Old Ae> es and Koodi was a knowing one. Eyeing the Pistol, in asked Pat if he would sell h. “Is it to sell the pistol ? Sow!, an’ it/ that same thing I’ll be afther doin’. Whl. ’ud you be afther givin’ for it?” “Fit give you the five dollar bill for it.” “Done; an’ done’s enough between two gentlemen, Down with the dust, and here’s the tool for you.” The bargain was made by immediate transfer. The moment the farmer got’the weapon he ordered Pat to shell out, and pointing the pistol, threatened to blow his brains out if he refused. Pat looked at him with a comical leer, and buttoning his breeches pockets, sung out, “Blow away, ould boy ; divil take the bit of powder’s in it.” We believe the old man never told the fast part of the story but once, and that was by the purest accident. A Fine Picture. A lady, in.a letter from Providence, fur mshes a graphic account of a picture has attracted much attention among the lov ers of the fine arts in New York. It is Paul Delafoche’s Marie Antoinette at the Revo lutionary Tribunal, now on exhibition at Goupil & Co.’s: “You ascend a spiral stircase, properly illustrative of the giddy heights of ambition. A gentle pressure of the green baize door, rarely fails to bring you face to face with some masterpiece, but seldom before one so emotional as this of Marie Antoinette. At first you do not notice the accessories of the scene. Vision fails you for aught but the noble figure of t hat most unfortunate among unfortunate women. She is just coining from tho Tribunal, and the early light of morning falls full on her loyal face ; she has received her condemnation ; but there is no drooping of the head, no womanly weak ness perceptible, her air is a6 regal ai in her proudest hours; her lip wears a smile, bit ter as must have been her thoughts; but her eyes, under all their proud disdtin, seem to be looking above and beyond the crowd to the life that is to come. Her hair, that beautiful hair that turned gray from grief, is brushed from her brow, and every line there tells of the struggle of her haughty will against that tiger nation. The nortous grasp of her handkerchief calls your atten tion to the delicate minutiae of the whole, the details of her costume, the robe of black, the white kerchief knotted over her brtast. In the background are the judges, with the sickly glimmer of the lamps falling over their hard, haggard features. A!! the differ ent types that went to make the Revolution stand watching their queen as she crosses the threshold; in all that throng there is but one face that looks on her pityingly. It is that of a young girl. We bless htr for her womanliness i But these subordinate fig ures, admirable as they are. do not impress you as aiiying reality, as does -the queen. She is a living, breathing woman, that has appeared before you, told you her sorrows, and is departing from you. In this picture you will find all the pathos of Burke’s Apos trophe. 57 Tkelltk^lfide Once, in a happ) home, a sweet, bright baby died. On the evening of the day, when the children gathered round their mo ther, all sitting very sorrowful, Aiice, the eldest, said, “Mother, you took a!! the care of baby while she was here, and you carri ed and held her in your arms ail the while she was ill; now, mother, who took her on the other side?” “On the other side of what. Alice?” “On the other iide of death ; who took the baby on the other iide, moth er; she was so little she could not §o alone?” “Je&us met her there,” answered the moth er. “It is he who took little children i* his arms to bless them, and aid, ‘Suffer them to come unto me, and forbid them *ot, for of such is the kingdom of heaven!’ He took the baby on the other side.”