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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,