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phase of existence. Indeed, lie never
could find words to depict the genial
feeling-; which possessed him, before lie
made the discovery that he was in love.
And the very idea of his lady-low >
even when out of her presence, was
sufficient to aw a wen all these feelings.
This was the dawn of love. It was
happiness such as falls to the lot o!
mortals but once.
Strange that the discovery of his
own affection should destroy all this
happiness; but so it was. But not
withstanding the fact that, he was un
easy and moody, and unhappy in her
presence, he was irresistibly attracted
to her side. Soon it became evident
to him. that he must relieve his heart
bv unburdening it of its secret, and lu
sought an opportunity 61 doing so.
lie found it. He asked her to walk
with him, one glorious moonlight
night, through the beautiful shrubbery
around Bentwold, and then and there
he opened his heart to her. It is a
thankless task in any one to relate what
words were used at a declaration of love.
All declarations are so much alike, says
every one. What a mistake. How
cold and business-like are some! How
impetuous and full of ardor arc some !
How gav and thoughtless are some !
How full of confidence and trust an
some! But alas! how utterly hope
jess and desponding are others!
Frank’s declaration was made with
out much hope of success, and so lie
told the lady. He declared his love
merely because it was as a consuming
lire within him, and it must out. He
loved, he said, involuntarily, as In
loved'without —he was mistaken. Not
• entirely without hope.
None \v thout iio;-e can iove the brightest'fair;
Au<l love can hope, where reason would despair."
It was the love of a virgin heart,
too—a first love, incredible as it might
ecem. Indeed the lady expressed her
self as incredulous on this point. She
thought he was using the common vul
gar tricks, by which men seek to in
sinuate themselves into the affections
of a woman. The insinuation wound
ed him deeply, but he concealed the
wound. He replied that he did not
refrain from expressing all his feelings
since he had commenced to unburden
his heart. He also told her how plea
sant lie had found the dawn of love.
How happy he had been before aware
of its existence—how unhappy, when
made aware of it.
Finally, he said that he did not
make his declaration with thq expec
tation of receiving An answer, lie
did. n ot wish an answer. He dreaded,
lest it should prove to his hopes a
death blow. He had rather remain
ia ignorance of her real feelings to
wards him, and he should still cher
ish her iittggg, and indulge in the in
toxicating* dream which had so
brightened a short period of his exis
tence. And longklid he love her, with
a fervor and devotion, but at the same
t>me with a hopelessness, such as is
seldom seen in this world of fickleness
and cold-heartedness.
His conversation with Kate that
night, was his last for many a long
day. Her companion, had arrived
that afternoon, and the next morning
she took leave of Bentwold.
TO BE CONTINUED.
(Gimmuiicatd).
27th Sept., 1854.
J. A. Trr'-EC, Esq.:
Dear Sir—l notice that for ex pres*.
®ing a doubt as to the utility of female
cq}leges*' you have called forth the an
imadversions of a president of one of
these institutions. I know you will
not retract anything you have written,
fjagjd I hope-you will not be deterred
froi%»y further expression of your
opiiiiorSfoon this subject by the “aston
ishment” %k! “surprise” of this, or
any other “dWcher.”
I have a and parental inter
est, in 1 iie subject oi female, education,
and tm and: anxious to ad
vance it, by allwoper means, but I
cannot regard thcjafcfcrnale colleges, as
the fountains 'VoniMh ich pure streams
are to ilow. On. l w contrary, I look
on tin; most of tbeak as not only an
“evil, bat a positjvapiuisanoe. They
ha\c spiung up iiu gjjbr the country,
with a mush root! %fcwtii. Nearly
c-\ery village has, preparing to
have, its I emalc .Ojpl'egc,' its Female
High School, itgSponio Female Col
lege, its FemaldfCoiregiate Institute,
or somcthimyjfthc kind, with a high
sou nding lapTio' attract the attention
and jtimmr of the people. I hazard
ibJPsisertiori that with the exception.;
• the'female college at Macon, n6t
oiw of them has becii gotten up for
th# purpose of d ispCnsing female edu
ction as a primary object. Other in
tcpiist is the moving cause —a desire to
improve the, town, to increase the
erf the merchant, of boarding
houses and o( other departments of
j|wsiness,. is at the,bottom offal} these,
.and if I ajn not mi&ta-
the signs of the times, the most
of Item will go down, to the groat • n>-
coptaple of the thifigs that were, with
more rapidity, if possible, than that
with which they arose.
The;} real object of education is to
mould and fit the mind and feeling for
the duties and business of life. .Men
move tlnough life in various ways.—
Some are 'mechanics, some merchants,
some planters, some doctors, and some
are lawyers. Hence the importance
that their education should be more va
ried and extended. But woman moves
iu but one department of life. She is
the queen of the domestic kingdom,
and to rule and govern this, should be
the paramount object of her training.
It. is here she can shine—and her col
lege learning and college training will
mush for its ignorance. The young
lad v at college graduates when fiorn
eighteen to twenty years of age, and
then in all probability marries—for a
larmj majority marry at those ages—
die then lias lost the advantages and
benefits of a parental and home culture
and cut rs on her business of life, in
utter ignorance of its responsibilities
md duties—-and here it is, that the
vil of female colleges is manifest. But
enough for the present.
llespccfly your ob't. serv’t.,
Mr. Editor : —This correspondence
was not begun with a view to a con
troversy on female education, but simp
ly to ascertain some of the grounds
upon which you predicate the charge,
that Female Colleges are evils. It
was my hope that in your reply to my
communication, you would have point
ed them out, but' I was disappointed,
and since you have not seen proper to
give your reasons, I shall content my
self at present, by briefly noticing your
editorial.
'I award you all praise for the can
dor and boldness with which you de
fend your opinions, but it does not
always follow, that in doing so .you are
right. Neither do I maintain, that
public opinion is always correct, but
this much may be safely affirmed, the
judgment of the public is oftener right,
than wrong, and it is therefore, more
to be relied upon, than that of one, or
even a few individuals, and where a
man finds himself at variance with a
majority of his fellows, lie may with
propriety, question the correctness. of
his own position. Now, if Female
Colleges really be thceyife, w'.fecit you
3a y they arc, tl'.q public have had suf
ficient time vmd ample opportunity, to
bocertain the fact, and they would, ere
this, have taken steps to abolish them.
So far from this, however, all those
that have been established, are well
sustained, and their number is constant
ly increasing.
You allude to the opinions of Bish
op Andrew and Dr. Talmage. With due
defferencc to the wisdom of these good
and great men, I would simply remark,
that they have expressed apprehensions
rather than objections, which the his
tory of our colleges, thus far, proves to
be groundless.
But my assertion, “that no good rea
son had been urged,” had reference,
more particularly, to your articles.
My allusion to your knowledge of
the manner in which Female Colleges'
are conducted, was based upon the
vaguem-ss of your charge. The remark.
which appeared so strange to you, may
be explained, partly, in the same way,
and partly, because you do not ap
prove of so much attention being be
stowed upon the education of females,
while that of the males is somewhat
neglected.
Your satire upon my logic, is a mere
shuffling of the difficulty;
You state that you “have said noth
ing against a liberal education for fe
males —that this is one thing—Female
Colleges another.” An examination
into the course of study pursued at
any of our colleges, ought to satisfy
yon, that in decrying them you have
spoken against liberal education, for it
must be acknowledged, that they do
afford more liberal and extended ad
vantages than common schools.
Your plan for educating females
ahounds in objections far more formi
dable than any which' you can urge
against our Colleges. But this commu
nication is already longer than I de
signed to make it. Let me assure you,
in conclusion, that mv article was not
written against you. nor with a view ‘to
change your faith, but with a desire to
ascertain, whether the charges which
have appeared in your paper, were
really basad upon solid grounds or not.
For my part, 1 am unwilling to up
hold any institution-, which works evil
to the community, and far more so, to
be actively employed.in connumuialing
sueh results. Thus far, Female Col
leges have defended themselves, and
the disparagement which has been
cast ujkhi them, appears to'me entirely
uncalled for—manifesting; a . want of
consjdcraliop, and
b/ no small amount of uiotweK 6%ipsC
engaged in these institutions. ’ If they
afe* fed)y 'wfiat yon t{j(un to
be; and you cfoiMiufy my -mind of the
fact, by 'pointing' offt your reasons for
the opinions you have expressed,* I.
am ready to relinquish my position
and seek another profession. ‘*' 1
A TJEACKER.
'Mfft Editor .-—There is at this time
in Covington,’ Geo:, a negro boy who
is between thirteen and fourteen years
of age, and who hires this year for the
round sunt of two hundred and thirty
dollars. He isui cabinet workman by
trade, and so skillful is he at tlm turn
ing-lathe, that ho turns three entire
setts of bedstead posts, per day. This
he does with all ease and in the most
finished and'workman-like manner.—
His skill-in fitting joints—his judg
ment of length, heighth and depth,
&c., is almost without a parallel. In
his head the organs known to Phre
nologists as Constructiveness, Form,
Si/.oand Wright, are enormously de
veloped. Tills boy. has nn older broth
er who lias been an apprentice at the
same trade for four or five years, but
he knows but little more about me
chanics now, than lie did when he
first began bis apprenticeship. In his
head the phrenological organs, above
mentioned, are exceedingly small.
With such facts as these before us,
how can we doubt the truthfulness of
Phrenology? S.
11 o cto.
' %:) -D
FOlt THE INDEPENDENT PRESS.
[No. 21.]
Oil cease my truobled heart, be still.
Oh! ccaso my troubled heart, be still,
Or rend the chain that binds thee here,
And speed where Mary's heart doth thrill,
And tills her eye the pearly tear.
Oh! gush of feeling, cease to wake 1
fie calm within, thou raging sea,
Another throb tins heart must break,
’Tis sweet to know it breaks for thee-
Oh! dearer far than earth or heaven,
My bosom’s sad and dark to-night—
I’m tempest-tost and sorrow-driven,
'Tis out, ’tis gone, my only light.
Oh! heaven, and must her bosom beat,
Arid break as mine to know we part ?
If ’tis thy will we know ’tis meet,
But bitter poison tips the dart.
Well be it so—wo meet no rnoro
Unless* as other people meet —
Our hopes are gone, our dream ia o’er—
’T was short—'tis gone—as heaven 'twas street.
Tern wold, July. 1818. - ,
ItViscellaiicoiis.
FOR THE INDEPENDENT PREPS.
Slrahge Theological Isis
linctions.
A Calvinistic Clergyman of the
Missionary Baptist Church in a myste
rious discourse on Predestination and
Election, last subbath, made the fol
lowing, to us, very mysterious distinc
tions.
We give them, with a few com
ments, in order to elicit light, if any
can be had on the subject :
“Although it is true, my dear hear
ers, that we believe in the eternal and
unconditional Predestination and Elec
tion of God’s people to everlasting
life, we nevertheless believe and preach
that salvation is conditional —that the
very Elect themselves cannot be sav
ed unless they repent ami believe.”
What are we to understand by the
“eternal and unconditional Predesti
nation and Election of God’s people
unto everlasting life?” Why, simply,
that God did. from Eternity, by His
own sovereign will; without any refer
ence to their character or conduct, pre
destinate and elect a certain number of
tlie human family to eternal life, there
by “securing their salvation before the
world begun.” Now, if a man was
eternally and unconditionally pre
destinated and elected unto everlasting
life after this sort, we should like to
know, in what possible sense it can be
said, that his salvation is conditional ?
Will some one be kind enough to give
us a “little more light” on this myste
rious subject ?
“The elect-themselves cannot be
saved, my dear hearers, unless they
repent and believe.” True, O King,
but they cannot help repenting and
believing. For be it always remem
bered and never forgotten, that, accor
ding to Galvanism, all who were eter
nally'- and unconditionally predestina
ted and elected to everlasting life, were
also, and precisely in . the same man
ner “ eternally and ".unconditionally
predestinated and elected” to repen
tance and faith. They are then oblig
ed by the “eternal councils, and ever
lasting decrees of God” to repent and
believe. They can no more help re
penting and believing, than they can
defeat their own salvation, which, ac
cording to the 4th- article of the Bap
tist’s faith, “was scoured before the
world .began.” If this is not true, let
some one show it up false.
Again, the preacher said—“ the
Atonement And live Bedemption of
-Jesus Christ are often spoken of iff the 3
pulpit as if thyy were synonimo.us.—
This is a givf error. They are, my
dear 1 icarers, two cl.oetri nes —separate
and distinct, and slnthjd never be con
founded. They'll,ffbr especially iff
this-—the atonement is general—the
•redemption is special or particular—
that is, Jesus Christ-died to atone for
all men, but ho did not die so redeem
all'men—nil men were atoned for, but
all men were' not redeemed.” Mvrd
hi.lci dicta.
Here, again, we find mystery muck,
and sop ustry not a little; and once
more we must respectfully ask for a
‘‘little more light.” ' Wo bave read
some and heard a great deal, blit up
to this time we have always been accus
tomed to regard the atonement ol Je
sus i hrist as the gracious act by which
mankind were ransomed or redeemed.
The only difference then*between atone
ment and redemption that we have
ever known or heard of before, is simp
ly the difference between cause and
effect —the atonement being the cause
and redemption the effect. The dis
tinction made by the preacher was cer
tainly a most novel one to us. We
thought then, and we think now, that
the inspired apostles knew nothing
about it in their day. This, however,
as a friend said to us the other day,
“is truly an age of new fangled no
tions.”
Wo can but believe that it would
have been much easier for the preacb
er, and a great deal more edifying to
his congregation if lie had come out
as the bold champion of his Calvanis
tic faith, and said, “jVTy dear hearers,
we as a church believe, that God did,
from all eternity, unconditionally pre
destinate and elect a certain number of
the human family to everlasting life —
that these, and these only, were re
deemed by the death of Christ—that
these, and these only, can savingly re
pent and believe —that these, and these
all, will most certainly and necessarily
repent and believe—and that these,
and these only, will be eternally sav
ed.” Or, if he preferred it, lie might
have quoted the 4th article of his faith,
which is about the same tiling when
understood, and reads as follows :
“We believe in the everlasting love of
God to his people , and the ETERNAL
ELECTION OF A DEFINITE NUMBER rs
the human race to grace and glory , and
that there was a covenant, of grace or re
demption between ts e Father and the Son,
BEFOg'E TUP WOULD BEGAN, IN WHICH
i TUEIR SALVATION IS SECURE,- AND
THEY IN PARTICULAR ARE REDEEMED.”
DID YM ITS.
Eatouton, Sept. 29th, 1854.
Wholesome Hints. —Never make
use of an honest woman’s name in an
improper place, at an improper time,
or in a mixed company. Never make
assertions about her that are untrue,
or allusions that you feel she herself'
would I>l usli to hear. W feu; you meet
with then who do not scruple to make
use of a woman’s name, in a reckless
and unprincipled manner, shun them,
for they are the very worst members
of the community, men lost to every
sense of honor, every feeling of human
ity. Many a good, and worthy wo
man’s character has been forever ru
ined, and her heart broken by a lie,
manufactured by ■ some bragging vil
lain, and repeated where it should not
have been, and in the presence of those
whose little judgment could not de
ter them from circulating; the foul and
bragging report. A sounder is soon
propagated, and the smallest thing do
rogatory to a woman's character, will
fly on the wings of the wind, and mag
nify as it circulates until its monstrous
weight crushes the poor, unconscious
victim. Respect the name of woman,
for your mother, your sister, are wo
men; and as you would have their fair
name untarnished, and their lives un
embittered by the slanderer’s biting
tongue, heed the ill that your own
words may bring upon the mother, the
sister, or wife of some fellow-creature.
[,Boston Mail.
A Yankee Down Below. —Burton
tells a capital st rv of the “Yankee in
Ilell.”—Ilis description of some of the
characters he found ‘down below’ is
laughable in the extreme. Nebuchad
nezzar, the King of the Jews, he de
sribes as good at “all fours,” and par
ticularly expert in the preparation of
“salad.” The introduction of the Yan
kee to his infernal majesty is peculiar.
“How d’ye dew folks,” said the
stranger, puffing away at a long cigar,
“is the boss devil to hum ?”
Ilis Majesty looked sulphur andsalt
petre at the intruder.
“Reptile !” he exclaimed in a voice
like thunder, that rumbled and rever
berated in the depth of a pit without a
bottom ; who are you that dare intrude
upon our sacred privacy ?”
“ Whew !” said the stranger; “ don’t
tear ybur shirt! Why, what’s the use of
vour going off half cocked in that way ?
Why do you jump afore you are spur
red? there aiii’t sueh an almighty occa
sion for you to get your dander riz, just
as if you wahted to bust your bilcr. —
Seein’ that your climate is rayther of
the warmest, it would only be doin’ the
,civil thing if you jest had said, ‘Mister,
toe your mark, and take your bitters.”
“ Worm ! hence to your appointed
place in the yawning gulf ! there —in
the hottest flame.’’-
“ Waal, Iguess not,” drawled, out the
the man with imperturuble calmness. —
“ I’ve got my ticket, mister, from the
regular agent arid I don’t choose a birth
so near the enjine.”
Stammering, (says Coleridge) is some
tiyi.es the cause of a pun. Some one
was mentioning iii Lamb’s presence the
cold hearted ness of the Duke of Cum
ber land, in rest r; ii ning th e dll eh ess fi-orn
rushing up ito the embrace of her son,
whom sire had not seen for a consider
able time, and insisted,on her receiv
ing him in state. ‘‘.llow horribl.y cold
it was, ” said the narrator. — “ Yes, ”
said Lamb, in his .stammering way,
“but yon know lie is the Duke of <&-
cum-bvr-lqnd,
JYeiv York Correspondence.
New' Fork, Sept 28. —It is scarce
ly to be expected that outsiders should
understand the complicated, state oil
our political parties, while they con- j
fuse our own ; ideas of clearness and
perspicuity. Already nine conven
tions have been held in this State to
select candidates for the November
election, while there are four others
yet to convene. Already four tickets
have been nominated. The Seward j
party thus far have' the advantage.— j
The adjourned Saratoga Convention
endorsed that ticket, not unanimously,
however, as a portion seceded, and
nominated Clark, the Wilier candidate,
but struck out Raymond and others,
substituting candidates of their own.
The temperance party have also en
dorsed the Whig candidates, Raymond
having pledged himself to labor for a
prohibitory law. The other conven
tions that are to meet are mostly seg
ments of the great Anti-Slavery, Anti-
Nebraska-aboJition circle into which j
the politics of this State arc divided.
The Know-Nothings will holdacon
ventum on the 4th of October, in this
city. There are, to-day, rumors that
the Soft Democratic State, ticket will be
withdrawn, Seymour being sent to
Madrid to supersede Soule. The Cen
tral Committee of both the Hards and
Softs meet at Albany on the same day.
The President and his Administration
have advised the Softs to support
Bronson, rather than allow the Se
ward interest to triumph. If this On
ion is consummated there will be one
of the most terrible political struggles
in this State this fall that has been
witnessed in years. The Whigs will
secure the votes of all the strong anti
slavery factions and the Maine Liquor
Law zealots; the Bronson side will at
tract to it the whole Democratic
strength of the State, Moderate and
Union Whigs, and the opponents of
radicalism in every shape and form.
For the last few days a young pub
lisher—T. L. McElrath—son of one of
the proprietors of the Tribune, h?,s
been firing a broadside into the mam
moth concern of the Harm-rs. This
young McElrath-publishes a statement
of the manner in which the Harpers
attempted, to break him down, which
j u-qm what we know of the ‘‘Barons of
Cliff-street,” is probauly true. It seems
that when Dickens commenced the
publication of “Household Words,”
Putnam first re-published them. He
sold out the enterprise to Angel & Cos.,
and from them it passed into the hands
of McElrath & Lord. When “Hard
Times” was about being completed, the
advance sheets were forwarded by the
author for a consideration to this young
house, and they issued it for twenty
five cents. In a few days the Harpers
published an edition, selling it for
twelve and a half cents. Os course
the young house went to the wall and
made a dead loss. The Harpers seem
to have queer ideas of liberality and
the courtesies of business, while they
have grown so great that no one dares
to censure them as their conduct de
serves. It is not the power or influ
ence of the Harpers of which we com
plain, but the abuse of it.
Northern 1 l*h?gs.
Some of our cotemporarics seem to
entertain the opinion that the "Whigs
of the South ought not to go into a
National Convention with those ot the
north, to nominate candidates for the
next Presidency. What, then, are we
to do ? Let the democrats have every
thin" their own way? We have kept
a pretty close eye upon Northern pol
iticians, and we think the Whigs just
as sound as the democrats on the slave
ry question : and therefore we tar them
all with the same stick. The demo
crats have upon two or three occasions
made a little better showing in Con
gress ; but then there were more of
them. In their State Conventions and
district meetings they have shown more
hostility to the peculiar institution of
the South than the whigs.
Now, our notion- is that we should
wait and watch, ‘Sufficient unto the
day is the evil thereof.’ W e can go
into Convention with a protest. If
national men, known to be sound, re
ceive the nomination, support them.
If fanatics be set up, we can take our
hats and retire. General Scott was
was greatly injured by the imprudent
remarks of Southern papers made in
advance of his nomination. Let us
learn wisdom from past errors.
[Albany Courier.
Dancing with a 800 " Black, —
A correspondent of the New York
Times, writing from Saratoga,. is res
ponsible for the following :
There has been aristocracy here of
all grades and shades, from the gen
uine “simon pure,” down to the “mush
room and codfish and I looked in
one evening and saw the valet de cham
bre of a gentleman at one hotel, walt
zing with one of the haughties, who
was a denominated belle, at the other,
lie may have been quite as good as
his master : but 1 doubt whether the
young lady would have smiled so gra
ciously on him, or permitted his mous
tache to come so near her cheek, if she
had known that he had spent part of
the evening brushing coats and black
ing boots.”
A Cheap Barometer, —A corres
pondent of the “Country Gentleman”
urges that henceforth farmers, instead
of watching the locusts and crickets
for signs of weather, devote their
meteorological observations exclu
sively to their wives’ camphor bot
tles. lie says :
For some years I have been in the
habit of watching the condition of the
gum in my wife’s camphor bottffi,
which stands in our bed room, ami
wlien not'disturbed makes us a capital
weather glass. It answers my pur
pose as well , as a barometer that would
cost me from $25 tosso. When there
is a change of weather from fairto win
dy or wet the,thin flakes of gum will
rise up, and sometimes wheu there was
to be a great storm, I have seen ■thpm
at the top. When they settle clown
clearly at the bottom, then we arc sure
of grand weather.
Prm’cdsk Mu cat has recently pur
chased a residence in the viciijity of Tal
lahassee, which she is improving and
ornamenting, to her own taste. She
lately sent the editor of the Florida
Sentinel an Irish potato weighing fif
teen ounces as a sample of her crop.-
We rather suspect, however, that this
is over an average, specimen- The
Princess Murat, our readers know, is
the widow of AehilLe Murat, son ol the
Bean Sab re nr, King Joachim ot Na
ples. She is a Virginian lady, daugh
ter of Hon. Bitilt Willis.
Cotton Crop.— We have now re
ceived from all sections f the State ve
ry good information of wiiat we may
expect from the growing Cotton crop.
In consequence of the long continued
drought the plant has matured too rap
idly to expect a heavy fall picking. The
genwal opinion prevails that we shall
not have-an average crop. In some
parts of our Lower Country, the worm
lias been very destructive, and here the
yield cannot exceed one-third. We
have news of drought throughout the
South and we believe that the crops in
Texas are.better at present in than any
other State. —A us tin, Tex. Gazette.
“The Lone on Times.”—The Lon- j
don eorrespqrident of the Boston Post, j
gives the following information relat ve i
to the Times newspaper:
It may seem very strange to an j
American that no other newspaper in j
England, none other in fact in Europe, I
can bring to its support an array of j
talent at all comparable to the Times; I
but it is nevertheless true. Other news- |
papers may receive the highest govern- j
ment patronage, may be supported by i
all the strength of public sentiment, |
may enlist the cleverest men of the
age as their contributors, may be back
ed by an almost exhaustless amount
of capital, and be conducted by the
most sagacious men of the land, but
they fail both to come up to'the stan
dard of the Times, and to command in
an equal degree the public attention.
How long this pre-eminence may be
held by that paper, it is impossible to
conjecture,
j As everything human is mutable,
| they day will probably come when the
| proud position it occupies will be dis
| puted by successful rivals ; but to all
appearance that day is far off. Its
corps of editors, or reporters, of for
eign and domestic correspondents and
of managers, constitute an army —not
one individual of whom ever acknowl
edges his connection with that paper.
It is often whispered at public dinners
and other gatherings, that such and
such a person connected with the
| Times is present, but the individual
| who will confess to the soft impeach
j ment is never found. The a "minis
j umbra of the editor of the Times is as
impenetrable as the author of Junius.
It is said that no one person claims that
; position—and that it* leaders are
j written for a stipulated sum by men
> who never enter its sanctum—and that
! more communicati ns from the first
writers of Great Britain are rejected
from its columns than are furnished
for all the papers and periodicals in the
kingdom.
Not Qualified. —A young law
student, who wrote a good, clear, .and
round hand and who wasaboutfinishing
up liis studies, one day handed an in
strument which ho had just written
o t to his uncle, a clry wag, who had
called to see him, and to inquire of his
progress in his profession. The uncle
took the manuscript; arid after reading
a few lines of it, gave it back to his
nephew, stating, with an arch, pecu
liar smile, “you are not quite a law
yer tot, James.” “What do you find
out of the way in it, sir?” queried the
student in astonishment. “Whv,” re
turned the waggish old critic,' “any
body can read that writing.”
A man srtikes m > with a sword and
inflicts a wound. Suppose, instead of
binding up the wound, lam showing it
to every body ; and after it has been
bound up, I am taking off the bandage
continually, and examining the depth
of the wound and making it to fester
till my limb becomes greatly inflamed
and,my general health is materially af
fected, is there a person in the world
v» ho would not call me a fool ? Now
such a fool is he who by dwelling up
on little injuries, insults or provoca
tions causes them to agitate and in
flame his mind. llow much better to
put a bandage over the wound and
never look at it again ? — Simeon.
A Strong Sermon. —A man in an
Eastern city, somewhat noted for wrest
ing, sparrin", and kindred physical
feats, having been persuaded to enter
a church on the Sabbath, and “sit out”
a long doctrinal discourse, was asked,
on retiring after the service, what he
thought of the sermon. “Think?” said
he: “why, if I couldn’t preach a bet
ter sarmont than that, with one hand
tied behind me, you can take my hat!”
A decision has just been made by
the Court of Common Pleas in New
\ ork city, which is of pretty general
interest. It is known that the whole
sale merchants of New York have an
agent, iu ‘every town and village of im
portance in the country whose traders
purchase their goods in that city.—
These agents inform themselves as to
the standing of said traders, and re
port accordingly. The ease just tried
was between a house in Columbus,
Mississippi, as plaintiffs, and the New’
\ oik agent in that place, as tliQ de
fendant ; and suit was brought to re
cover damages for an alleged libel on
the part of defendent, in having writ
ten disparagingly of the plaintiffs.—
the issue has now- been tried - fqr the
sccoud time, the defendent having on,
the first, trial, being mulcted in dama
ges;to S6OOO, and moved lor anew
ti ial on tlie ground of the rejection of
legal e\ ldehce. No neqv facts, liowevr
er, were dieted,‘and the jury render
ed a verdict for the plaintiffs for the
sum pt soogo.
To Editors, and Clerks of
County Courts.
We are pleased to lea'rn that the la
bors of Rev, John P. Campbell and
many of his Agents, have been suc
cessful in collecting materials and sub
seriptions for his
“ Southern Business Directory and Gen*
end Commercial Advertiser .”
It is proposed that in'addition to a
full list of .all the Manufacturers, (by
machinery,) Bank, Insurance, Railroad-
Steam Packet arid Milling companies,-
together with the population, number
of high schools, churches, commercial
prospects, &c., of every principal town
in the States of Kentucky, North Car
olina, and all the States South of
them, (eleven in number,) that the
cards of all the Newspapers be insert--
ed also, that the names of Editors and
Proprietors, and days and terms of is--
sue, and that a copy of the “Direc
tory” be- sent to each of them as a
reinuneration-for two insertions of this
article in their editorial columns. This
exchange of courtesies has been made
between Mr. Campbell and editors
South.
We are requested to tender his
hearty thanks to Parish, District and
County Court Clerks, who have remit-*
ted to him lists as above, and that, if
the Directory with their office card in
serted, will not compensate them for it,
they will please forward their bill
with the list, to him. It is important
that every county shall be represented
soon.
Every Newspaper in the above
named States will please copy the
above twice and send their card or
paper containing it to the Southern
Business Directory and General Com
mercial Advertiser, Nashville, Tenn..
Clerks and Agents address the same.
Fresh Air.—Horace Mann has
well said : “People who shudder at a
flesh wound and a trickle of blood,
will confine their children like con
victs, arid compel them month after
month to breathe quantities of poison.
It would less impair the mental and
physical constitutions of children; grad
ually to draw an ounce of blood from
their veins, during the same length of
time, than to send them to breathe for
six hours in a day, the lifeless and poi
soned air of some of our school rooms.
Let any man, who votes for confining
childten in small rooms and keeping
them on stagnant air, try the experi
ment of breathing his own breath only
four times over ; and if medical aid be
not on hand, the children will never be
.endangered by his vote afterwards.”
Indian Corn. —A French farmer
has succeeded in giving to Maize or In
dian Corn any color he choses, by
the following plan.:
Having received from China a speci
men of a pearl white color, the
grains of which were very small but ve
ry beautiful; he was desirous to obtain
the same grain but of other colors.—
For this purpose, he planted by the
side of some of the American maize ot
of a red color, and the result was a
crop of grain of a pink tint, with some
ol a blueish, and others of green color.
He made a similar experiment with
the maize of Tusarora, the grain
which is as white as Carolina rice,
and he thus obtained a crop, the
ears of which were about 14 inches
in length, and the grains of a blue col
or. Another time lie planted some
maize of the color of amber among
some of the black maize of Syria.—
The cars attained the length of 22 in
ches, and the grain was of different
colors. The yellow maize on being
planted near some of the brown maize
of Central America, produced some
dark brown color which ripens eight
days sooner than the other sorts. —
The farmer now possesses one hundred
and fifty-three different varieties of
maize, arid his object in continuing his
experiments is not only to change the
color at will, but also to obtain varie
ties which will ripen earlier, as well
as larger and longer ears, and thus in
crease the produce.
A New Thing Quite! —The para
graph below we find in the ITomc Jour
nal. It is only a proof how ladies’ at
tractions are multiplied in these latter
days. In this region the performers
are .goner illy feminine, and the “Page-
Tumors” wear mustaches and panta
loons:
“Avery excellent contrivance has
been patented,” says the Court Jour
nal, “under the naiue of ‘The Magnet
ic Page-Turner,” which * enables the
pianoist to turn over the leaves of
of the music before him without leav
ing off for a instant from the rexeeu
tipn of the piece he is playing. Thin
is a desideratum which we believe
has often been attempted, but by the
application of the magnet in a simple
yet elegant way, it is readily and
comp 1 etehyteoomplished. The instru
ment being fixed on the piano, is operat
ed upon by a lever under the foot, which
sets a rod tipped with a magnet, in mo
tion ; this passes to the corner of the
music, upon which small metal wa
fers are” fixed, the attraction is ac
complished, and with a rapid back
ward movement, the leaf is laid up
on the -oilier side. The page-turner
is a most ingenious bit of mechan
ism, and, being simple in its construc
tion, is not likely to get out of order,
iis light and elegant appearance. To
the finished pianoist it will be invalu
able:”
A Parisian author has translated
Shakspeare’s line, “Out, brief candle! ’
into the ,Frenchj thus, ‘Get out, you
ishorfecandle!” This is not as bad as
the. translation of an exclamation of
Milton’s bra Frenchman, who render
ed “Hail ! horrors, hail!” thus, “How
d’ye do, horrors? how d’ye do?”
The bank where , the wild thym*
grows-lias declared a dividend of ten
“scents” on the share,