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TO MBM MISS. J. A. TURNER. EDITOR. VOLUME I. dkiflimil. FOR TffE I.vnFFKNPEVT PRESS. THE INVALID. iiV DAVID L. ROATH. Oh, Death in Life ! Tlie hours tlieir course so slowly roll. The clock sounds like a funeral toll. A closing strife With all belonging still to earth. Xhat bends to tears or lights to mirth. I lie and mark The glorious progress of the sun I' util the weary day is done, And all is dark; And as the shades still deeper get, I wonder that 1 linger yet! All through the night Strange figures haunt mv troubled sleep, trround my couch and laugh and weep. With devilish spite; And morning, making nature glad, Finds me all unrefresh'd and sad. I hear the hum, As busy thousands onward move To do the work of wo or love : Not one would come. However sunk in misery. And change his wretched state with me! I look within, And seek for something from the Past, To buoy me up against the blast— I try to win My thoughts from dwelling on the pain My sinking frame may yet sustain. The Days of Youth! Wlut>- from the World my heart was free, And .Toy was ever near to me, And Hope and Trutli In loving tones their lessons told— i.-.-ssoasforgot as I grew old! The store of wealth, To gain which 1 have fought for years 1 I- Tittle that the conscience sears, For simple health I would exchange without a sigh— < 'h that 1 could this blessing buy! Put all is vain! The bed on which I weary lie, 1 ...ne from wliioV I cannot fly: My bed of pain!— Until the life, now but a thread, Leut and I am of the Dead! IttisrclliintDus. FOK THE INDEPENDENT PRESS. * • Thomson ism , ’ ’ Hot an ic~ ism , A'c. When first the truths of Thomsonism ; v/erc heard to issue from the cheerless j h-nths of a New Hampshire forest, so | 'tartling was the sound, that it awoke ! the slumbering jealousy of a powerful I profession. Uttered by one unknown ! t ) the annals of the famed, they would fain have been consigned, in sovereign contempt, to the abysmal vortex of eternal forgetfulness, but for the bold id--with which they courted scrutiny. The blighting anathemas of presump tuous arrogance, and the burning sa tyr*- of learned wit, were alike power h*ss for their destruction. Strongly tiny appealed to reason, till common 1 sense seized the banner-staff, and un | furled to the breeze the glorious mot |to of -i Medical Reform,” beneath which I rallied fearless spirits, akiu to those of | ; '.T -verity-six.” Then contempt became I malice, and ridicule,'-persecution. Lc- Igislative despotism swayed her ebon in the very birth-chamber of Sfireedom. The Arclyimeden lever of Irnind —the press —with a influential craft as its fulcrum, was subsidized, and lJustice foully suborned, until, by the I hands of his enemies, the immortal I Thomson was christened as the grand | heresiarch of Medical Philosophy. To dissipate the impenetrable gloom luvhich has enshrouded, like the fore-' pshadowings of death, the highest tem poral interests of the world, tench - i less light, of truth dawned upon Thom pson’s mind, growing brighter and ■brighter, as it passed through each I successive sign of its ecliptic course, I until it has at length poured its noon tide rays upon the wo-draped'couch of '-•disease, and the cypress-wreathed cor f ridorsof the grave. Here, the god like philanthropist, whose heart beats high with the noble resolve of devot ing the bloom of his youthful years to the acquisition of wisdom, which shall lit him tor the holy functions of a sa cred cilice, and the vigor of his ma tured powers to the alleviation of hu man misery, may leafu ecunmCic prin cipies, w Inch, g sfepgijfl| primordially from cornmou-seuse, arid approved by reason* expand Under the genial influ ence of inductive philosophy, into the irrcfragable apothegms oUcertain sci- % MlccMn journal:—ilcbcitcti to'literature, |t)olitics, anti#eiieri[ Ipnctlaitii. once. Here, too, the writhing victim, deep amidst the quivering fibres of whose tortured frame the barbed ar rows of disease have sunk withcauter | iziug force, may find a balm for his ; cankering wounds, more certain in af fording relief, than the Moly of the j Egyptians, or the grand eatholicon of i the Greeks. The superiority of the Thonisonian system, as regards certainty, arisse from a triple source. The first, feature which presents itself, is the unadorned simplicity of its principles. Among these are the unity of disease, the I power and mildness of its therapeutic ! ! processes, and their accordance with ! ! flic laws of life. No vague conjec ! tures, nor hypothetical speculations, j concerning the analogies and contra ! rieties of the modifications of disease, : spring up here to perplex, with theo retical difficulties, the mind of the dil igent physician ; but by resolving all ' abnormal phenomena into one ’morbif ic action, it opens the portals of Patho logical science, and bids him explore j the fields of controlling influences, in j order to adapt the principles of his gen ; eral treatment to the eccentric modifi i float ions they may produce ; while the practical lessons taught him by the Physiological laws of the human con ■ stitution, define with exactitude the | general indications to be kept in view in the treatment of every case, and the j peculiar character of the remedies prop j er for their fulfilment. The universal applicability, hence, jof the Botanic remedies, constitute | another ground of certainty. In noth ing did Thomson evince more superior ity of intellect, than in selecting reme dies that act concurrent V the a at\ the parts of the animal organ in their admirable combination yu what j is usually called “acourse of r Tv,-h hui 10 /' j so as to secure the greatest i. ve ar i.W' Tj | good, in the si, ylcst space offline, and j , with the smahU Lumber of means!'— | . In this we beyjld, not the fortunate | i inquisitivenese of casual discovery, but ! | the exalted powers of inventive genius ! : By the adopt ion of such a Meteria Med- ! : iea, he obtained command over the de-1 ; ranged functions of the various organs, i I and proved that disease, wherever lo ! cated, could be cured by general means, ! varied only in being specially applied !to the organ or tissue affected; and by : the institution of the process, in which | these general means are so combined as j to fulfil all the indications of cure, he I demonstrated the universal applicabil ; itv of his system to every modification 1 of disease. The certainty of these means of cure may be traced, thirdly, to their opera tion in accordance with those laws, of the animal economy, by which the phenomena of vitality are produced in the inception of life, and perpetuated through the entire period of existence, until they have reached the utmost limits assigned to mortality, when, by the fiat of the Eternal, the wheels of life are destined to cease their weary revolutions, and the dimming taper to flicker in its socket. Whether these laws result from the co-operatioft of combined causes, or originate from the specific influence of some isolated principle, they are never theless definite in their action, circum scribed in their bounds, and certain in their tendencies. They constitute as well she recuperative, as the conser vative powers of the constitution. The harmony of-our remedial agents with these laws or powers, is demonstrated by the fact, that they possess no ten dency to disorganize the most subtle tissue, or derange the most delicate function of the admirable frame work qf; man. /Here, however, I would not be mis apprehended. In maintaining on this ground the superiority of Thomsonism over every other system of medical practice, I.would not be understood as claiming for it infalibility of suc cess. By the incomprehensible agen cy of unknown causes, the best direct ed efforts of the most skilful practition er* may be paralyzed, and the livid im print, of death’s iron grasp be imaged on the pallid features of the hapless patient. Human wisdom is too short sighted, and human energy too impo tent, to succeed in every ease. A ten der biul upon a fragile-stalk, nourish ing the canker worm within the fold ed petals of its own bosoin, and expos - "eel to the pel.tings of warring c-lements without, and. gontemling’pas sions with in, eveu though gorgeously —“WITHOUT M'U.III, I\lT'OSl OR •tI'I'VUTIfKV ” EATONTON, GA,, SATURDAY, AUGUST 19, 1854. decked by the hand, and sweetly per fumed by the breath of his Maker, man lives but to die. Withered by the sun that expands the blossom, and chilled by the dews that refresh the flower, his ephemeral existence can be sustained only by omnipotence. Yet |as that omnipotence, in the cxecu j lion of his purposes, wisely adapts ap propriate means to the ends to be ac complished, the frailty of our tenure on life demands a careful investigation of the means proposed to strengthen the feeble ligaments, which hold the chafed spirit an unwilling prisoner in this ‘“house of clay while prompts the adoption of those least equivocal in their action, and most cer tain in their tendencies. The next feature of Thomsonism that merits our attention, is its safety. Many of the considerations which I have urged in substantiation of its certainty of principle and practice, might be again adduced to prove its superiority in this respect. Its univer sal applicability, as deduced from the general action of our simple remedies on the entire organism, and the fulfil ment of all the indications of cure, as well as its harmonious co-operation with the laws of vitality, and the re cuperative powers of the constitution, go far to establish the innoxuous na ture of each individual remedy it com prises, and the salutary effects result ing from tlieir proper combination and judicious exhibition. Here, again, science sheds the lustre of her brilliant light to demonstrate that, what, with out her aid, might have been regarded as the dim outline of conjectural spec ulation, is, when closely examined, the well-defined form of truthful Philoso phy. Medical Botany acquaints us with the physical properties and medical qualities of the remedies used ; while Chemistry shows their perfect .compat ibility, and their proper combinations. Therapeutics teaches the indications to be fulfilled bv their exhibition. Phys iology and Pathology, as developed by anatomical research, prove their adap tation to the purposes of the curative process ; and the principles and prac tice of medicine, together with the cognate branches, instruct us in their skillful administration in the various forms of disease ; all establish their perfect safety, and their unrivaled ef ficacy. This is a matter of no small impor tance to mankind. The life-long mis ery inflicted on thousands by the em ployment of remedial agents, possess ing no affinity whatever with the con stituent principles of the living body ; having no harmony with the fixed laws of vitality, and tending only to organic leision and functional derange ment, presents a fearful picture at which sympathy sheds full many a tear. But when wc enter the noisome vaults of the charnel-house, and behold the mouldering bones of those who have indiscriminately fallen a prey to the heroic medicines in countless multi tudes, like the crushed populace of the fated Jerusalem in the terrible on slaught of Rome’s conquering host, we shrink from the desolation around.— As we emerge from the pestilential at mosphere of the carnage chamber, we ask in despondent tones, if there is no escape from the alternative of death ; and we are pointed to the temple of Medical Reform, where we may read the holograph of the immortal Thom son, bequeathing the priceless legacy of innocuous botanic remedies. To the invalid, worn down by a long pilgrimage of woe, nothing is so desirable as a speedy deliverance from the accumulated ills with which he is overburthened. On the score of expedition, the Thomsonian system stands without a rival. Disease, the force of which required long days of painful agony, and nights of restless tossing on a burning pillow, before it could be broken, may, by a proper medication upon the reformed princi ples, be cut short, sometimes in a few hours, and at most in a few days ; leaving the ensanguined rose of health to bloom in pristine beauty on the cheek, and the fire of vivacity to en kindle again on the wasting features. Physio-Medico. Covington, .August 7th, 1854. # ' • ' It is estimated that no less than 31,- 500,000 of the people inhabiting this globe have passed into the valley of the shadow of death during the* year, iqxq ■ ° ‘ • English and dimer lean Orators. Nothing strikes Englishmen so much in reading debates in Parliament and Congress, as the superiority of the lat ter in vigor and information to the former. The Americans are, by far better speakers than the English.— There are few good speakers indeed in England ; and as to orators, there are none, with the exception of Mac aulay, and he is almost done up. Dis raeli is nothing urdess he is personal; he has not the slightest pretensions to the higher order of oratory, such as distinguished Burke, for instance. ILe never enunciates great truths in po litical or social philosophy, and works tuem o”t, “S tllC great man jU.lt men tioned. Disraeli is model is the profli gate Bolingbroke, who was an atheist in every sense of the word, for he had no belief in human virtue, send he was only actuated, like his modern disciple, by ambition and revenge. Disraeli’s object is to attain the summit of hu man power in England, which can be granted to a subject. He has no de sire "to benefit his country and the world'—his onlj- wish is to show what talent can accomplish and to confound those who despise him as an adventur er. He has all the indifference to country, the hatred of mankind, and the pride of race which distinguish the people from whom his family have apostatised. The very reverence which he assumes for the English aristocracy is mockery. lie despises them as a worn out and doomed caste, unworthy the privileges they enjoy, and he only courts them to make them the step ping stone to his ambition. Disraeli is an English Mephistophiles. Look again at Gladstone. This man is noth ing but a fluent casuist, and is looked upon as a sort of Brummagen Belial. Lord John Russell would never have occupied the position lie does if it were not for his social rank and family in fluence. Palmerston speaks well-on subjects lie understands ; but there are scores of better speakers in Congress. Such men as Miall and Lucas in the House of Commons, although both of them are journalists, are miserable fa natics. Their only aim is to exalt their own sect and to curse all others. Fox, the Unitarian, is a good speaker, for he is an admirable thinker, and on education his orations in Parliament arc philosophical and exhaustive of the topic. Bright and Cobden are un doubtedly the best speakers we have in England, and bear the greatest re semblance to the business orators of Congress. Bright surpasses Cobden in that he is more discursive in his studies, and understands more great questions. Both, however, grasp a subject boldly, exhaust it thoroughly, and have remarkable powers of persua sion. They are crotclietty on many points, which mars their usefulness. — No one can deny the fact that there are no orators in England, now living, with the exception of Macaulay, equal to the great ones of bygone days, such as, for instance, Chatham, Pitt the younger, Charles James Fox, Grattan, and Burke. In this humbug, Barnum age, as it may be called, such orators would not do in England. They would be too exalted, and the country would not be worthy of, nor appreciate them. England really does not seem to be so good a country for rearing good busines speakers and orators as the United States. Even English lawyers have declined. There are no such men now as Erskine, Plunkett, Curran, Flood, Brougham, Scarlett, Follett, and others who flourished years ago. The barristers and judges here are but very inferior men as orators. Baron Platt is an old woman, and got his judgeship because he was standing counsel to the Times newspaper. Bar on Maule is only fit to write jokes for Punch. Judge Coleridge is more fit ted to wear the cowl than a judge’s wig. As for the present Attorney General, he is fluent, but there is not a spark of oratory in him. The most prominent of the several attempts made to manufacture paper from wood or straw is that patented by Couptkr & Mellier and prac tically applied in this country by Mr. Nixon, at Manayuk, Penn., where the paper used by the Philadelphia Ledger is made. This process is described at length by Mr. Beaumont, the agent of the patentee," in a communication published in the New York Tribune. It seems that the conversion of vege able fibre into pulp for paper is no novelty, but that Melmer’s process is the first that has proved sufficiently eco nomical for practical use. It has gen erally been spoken of hitherto in this country in its applications to straw, but by its means an oak or a poplar board or any other fibrous substance can be converted into pulp a? well, and the only reason for using straw ex clusively is .that it is the most con venient and economical form in which vegetable fibres are found. Mr. Beau mont states from good straw 45, per per cent, of fibre or pi up may be ob tained. The inventor claims that while. the manufacture costs something more ' than with rags, the raw material is jso much cheaper—•only about one fifth the cost of rag paper—that the former can be sold at a handsome profit J< One of the Ean&ingburg Stays. r i he Troy jail has often been made the home of very curious characters.— At the present lime there is one young man confined there, whose operations have been of the most extensive char acter, reaching from Lansingburg on the east to Cincinnatti on the west, and as far south as the South Pacific, ithout tracing his early history, which is not necessary for our purpose, we propose to briefly sketch his opera tions for the last month, and exhibit a case which, we hope, w ill teach a mor al, if it does not adorn a talc :—Ar riving at New York from'the Isthmus, lie made his way to the town of Peek* skin, where he put up at the best hotel iu the place, made a flashy display of gold chains and finger rings, exhibited a libeml supply of coin, and was very profuse in his patronage of the bar and livery stable, in short, pursuing such a course as would make the greatest possible impression in the least possible time. He at once became the lion of the town, and his company was sought after, not only by the sterner sex, but fair damsels put on the most “killing airs” to attract his attention. The result was, that he was introduced into families of the first respectability, and ladies of education and refinement were but too happy in complying with his invitations to carriage rides, where he acted the part of gallant. In short, so rapid did he do up the work that in five days he had so far driven his scheme that a young lady of sweet sixteen was willing to link her destiny with him for life. A young man of this village who happened to be there, went through with a mock marriage, giving a certifi cate ; this was not enough for our lie roe’s purpose. It did not bring him into that confidential relation with the young lady’s family which he so much coveted, or entitle him to a dividend from the drafts forwarded from Cali fornia by the young lady’s father. — Consequently an evening walk was proposed, the residence of the Metho dist Minister sought out, and the young lady, unconscious of the real character of the man at her side, pronounced the fatal words which will forever cast a shadow over her life. A fee of $25 was handed over to the officiating clergyman, and the certificates furnish ed the parties. The denouement soqn followed. On their return to the res idence of the young lady, the mother was informed of what had taken place Horrified, she would listen to no such story. The girl was locked in a room, while the mother cast about for the means to avert the impending ruin.— It had been whispered to a brother of the gifl that the young man was not what he appeared to be, and that the criminal records of Rensselaer county would show him up in his true charac ter; that a police officer of Lansingburg at this very time would be very glad to see him. “Charley” was distinctly told by the mother that he could not “bring disgrace upon her family, and live.” The result was that the broth er was despatched to this place the next morning ; found the stories were too true —that several indictments were hanging over the fellow’s head— and, armed with proper papers, re turned to Eeekskill to have him arres ted. Officers Seaman and Brooxs went after the prisoner the next morning, and in a few hours his anticipated plea sure vanished into thin air; his career was brought up against a jail. He took his departure from Peekskill with one wrist locked in a handcuff, while offi cer Seaman made the other part of the same fast to his own wrist, (rather un comfortable position for a newly-made husband to be placed in.) In this shape he reached Troy, where he will prooably have time to reflect upon his past career, the unrequited kindness of his friends here, and an impending fu ture. This brief chapter, we think, should also place our females upon their guard agaiast the numerous trav elling mountebanks who infest the community, destitute of character, and whose object is to ruin the innocent and confiding. In this instance the mother’s shrewdness was too keen for this fellow’s duplicity, and her prompt ness of action prevented the consum mation of his deep laid plot. [ Lansingburg Democrat. •f Poor Man's I Pish. I asked a student what three things he most wished, and he said: Give me health, books and quiet, and I ask nothing more. I asked a miser, and he said, “money, money, money.” I asked a drunkard, and he loudly cried for strong drink. I asked the multitude around me, and they lifted up a confused cry, in which 1 heard the words, “wealth, fame and pleasure.” I asked a poor man, who had long borne the .character of an experienced Christian ; he that all his wish es could be met in Christ. He spoke seriously, and I asked him to explain, lie said: . “I greatly desire these three things— first, that ,'I may be '.found in Christ; secondly, that .1 may be like Christ, thirdly, that I may be with Christ.” much of liis Tele % rah between Europe A* ,im erica. We take the following extract from the European correspondence of cm of our exchanges: Meanwhile, while we are zealously alive to the duty of setting the Old World on fire, and carrying slaughter and extermination among their inhab itants, we are, on the contrary, anxious ly thrownm open our arms to the New. The project of connecting, telegraphi cally, England and America is serious ty engaging public attention. The more daring engineers are sanguine of the practicability of laying a sub-ma rine cable directly across the Atlantic, from Galway to Capo Race, in New foundland. The principal question is whether, if a line were laid, an electric current can be passed through 8,000 miles of cable ? By an enormous bat tery power this possibly can be ac complished, through wires suspended in the air; but can it be effected along a vast length of gutta perch a coated wire, passing through salt water? — There is such a thing as too great an insulation, and Professor Faraday has shown that in such circumstances the wire becomes a Leyden jar, and may be so charged with electricity that a current cannot, without the greatest difficulty, move through it. To es cape this, another proposition is to car ry the cable from the northernmost point of the Highlands of Scotland to Iceland, by way of the Orkney, Shetland, and Ferroe islands, to lay it from Iceland across to the nearest point of Greenland, thence down the coast to Cape Farewell, when the cable would again take to the water, span Davis’s Straits, and make right away across Labrador and Upper Canada to Quebec. Here, that it should lock in with the North American mesh-work of wires, which hold themselves—so to speak —like an open hand for the Eu ropean grasp. In this way the cable required would in no point exceed one of nine hundred miles in length. Kossuth’s Poverty.—Mrs. Stowe seems to have hunted up all the cele brities when in England, among others, Kossuth: “We found him in obscure lodgings on the outskirts of London. I would that some of the editors in America, who have thrown out insinuations about his living in luxury, could have seen the utter barrenness and plainness of the reception room, which had nothing in it beyond the simplest ne cessaries. “I inquired for Madame Kossuth, and he answered, T have not 3’et seen her to-day, adding, ‘she has her family affairs you know, madame; we are poor exiles here ; and fearing to cause embarrassment, I did not- press an in terview.’ We may be thought inquisitive, but we should like to know what has be come of the $70,000 the Hungarian swindled out of Americans. [Nw. Jour.x o Cour. English and American.—Mr. Cobdcn, the celebrated English states man, tells the following: Once an editor of a small American pa per called, who had been making a tour through the rural districts of Eng land. He said that he had asked some mowers how they were prospering.— They answered, “We ain’t prosperin’ —we’re hay’n.’ Said Cobdcn, “I told the man, ‘now don’t you go home and publish that in your paper,’ but he did, nevertheless and sent me over the paper with the story in it.’ I might have comforted him with many a sim ilar anecdote of Americans —as for instance, the man who was dead set against the tariff, because he well knew if they once got it, they’d run the old thing right through his farm;’ or those immortal Pennsylvania Dutchmen, who, to this day, it is said, give in all their votes under the solemn conviction that they are upholding General Jack son’s Administration. Affability of Queen Victoria. —The qUeen is perfectly idolized by the people; she mixes among them fa miliary ; but while she pats the heads of the children whom she meets in her early walks, she takes care to mingle a graceful dignity with her condes cension. The.royal children, after they have worked in their gardens, go out to walk, and they are especially instruc ted to be courteous to whoever falls in their way. Sometimes her Majesty will enter a cottage —perhaps at the dinner-time of the occupants —and, sit-- ting down at the table, partake of the, food.—- London Atlas. Life in* New York. —A somewhat celebrated and vain physician, living in the Fifth Avenue, New York, went to Europe with his.family last week. The fact was duly chronicled in the papers, but lest, it should not be ? seen, a notice was stuck on the front dopr, “Gone to Europe.” This was a sufficient invitation to the burglars, so they ef fected an entrance .on the doctor’s house, one night, and spent a week in his residence, eating and drinking what they could , find, stealing what they could carry away, and with an, air" of. impudent familiarity, gassing themselves off as temporary tenant-. TERMS, $2,00 A YEAR. NUMBER 18. Supreme Court of Georgia.— Judge Penning decides that the Su preme Court of Georgia is co-equal and cq-prdinate with the Supreme Court of the United Statcs, and not in ferior and subordinate to that Court. That as to reserved powers, the State Court is Supreme; that as to the dele gated powers, the U. S. Court is su preme, that as to powers, both dele gated and reserved —concurrent powers —both Courts, in the language of Hamilton, are “equally supreme;” and that as a consequence, the Supreme Court of the United States has no jur isdiction over the supreme Court of Georgia; and cannot, therefore, give it an order, or make for it a precedent: The Czar is now employing every means to induce the Christian popula tion of the districts which he is forced to evacuate, to accompany his army, and to emigrate to Russia proper. Where promises and blandishments are not sufficient, the cattle of the peasant are seized, and his crops mowed down, in order to force him to emigration.— About 6,000 Bulgarians irom the Dop rodja were in this way induced to cross the Danube with the retreating Rus sian army, and it is said that the same system is to be carried into Wallachia. Not able to conquer the province, the Czar has given orders to make it a des ert. Six at once. —A German woman, in a one horse wagon, passed through this city on Tuesday, going from her residence a few miles west of town on a visit to her husband, who had beeu taken sick at the place where he was working in the country cast of town. She had with her in the wagon, snug ly propped up in a wine basket, six children, all the product of one birth. They were not much bigger than ap ple dumplings, but seemed to be wide awake and kicking. They were six months old, all boys, and all as near a size as possible, except the runt of the party, which is described as being the smallest mortal of its age ever seen. We state this with serious misgivings of its truth, relating it as it came to us, at second hand, from an eye witness — a lady of character in this city—who saw and counted the children, and had the mother’s word that they were all hers at a single birth. —Dayton Ga zette. “ Big Words.” —A fashionable lady in Buffalo once said to a friend: — “My new house, now ‘directing,’ is to be sublimated and ‘splendiferous.’ — There is to be a ‘ Porto Rico’ in front and a ‘Pizarro’ in the rear, a ‘lemon ade’ all round it. The water is to come in at the side of the house in an anec dote’ the lawn is to be ‘degraded’ ami some large trees are to be ‘supplanted’ in the ‘critic’ in the rear.” This is the same lady that told Gov. Clinton how remarkably stormy it is apt to be when the sun is crossing the “ Penobscot.” An honest Dutchman, in training up his son in the way he should go, frequently exercised him in Bible lessons. On one of these occasions he asked him: ‘Who vas dat vould not sweep mit Botiver’s vife?’ ‘Shoseph.’ ‘Dat’s a coot boy. Veil, vat was de reason he vould not shleep mit her ?’ . ‘Don’t know —shupose he vasu’t shleepy.’ A Deacon’s QuoTaTiON of Scrip ture. —Mr. Secretary Marcy recent ly told an anecdote at a dinner party in Washington, which runs thus: He said that a lew weeks since Gov. Sey*j more of New York wrote to him, thatj since he had vetoed the liquor lawohe v had received various letters from gen tlemen in various parts of the State, they approving of his course in the premises. Among them was one from an honest old deacon, who resided in the centre of the State, which commed cd his action in the strongest _ terms. The old gentleman alluded to, inform ed the Governor that he was deeply in terested in the debates of both sides of the question, and did not let one “jot or little” escape him. He had,- too, he said, “looked up” his-bible from Genesis to Revelation, in order to see how the liquor question was| there treated, and after mature delib eration he came to the conclusion that all the great and good men, as Noah, Moses, David, Solomon and Jesus, were uot only partakers of the “ rosy,” but recommended it to others; in a word, in his researches he found only one instance (that of “Dives,”) wherej a man called for Cold water, and then ,< he* was in h— l, where he ought to he . , Cure for Corns.—Mr. Cooper, in' his “Dictonary of Surgery,” has the following infallible cure for corns : , Take two ounces of gum ammoniac; two ounces of yeJMy wax, and sum drachms of verdigris; melt them tn| gpthcr, and spread the composition on soft leather p efft away as much pfjH| corn as you can,‘then apply the pla«Kg| and renew it ever. t.>rt|i corn is away. rp, I town so modest*' that he will not cm . i.r.e-e an opportunity.