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W. F. DURISOE, Preprietor. EDGEFIELD, S." A-PRIL 3,1851.
WRITTEN FOX TUE ADVERTISER.
MOUNTAIN DEW.
OF morning or of evening dews
Sings not my soul-enraptured Muse,
But what the sly Highlander stills,
Upon.his wild romantic hills.
One drop of this delicious " dew,"
With such a friend, dear Judge, as you,
Makes all the kind affections flow,
And e'en the coldest heart to glow.
Soon as we taste the "Mountain dew,"
The past is of a brighter hue ;
Like heat applied to secret ink,
It brightens memory's dullest link.
And, if a little more we take,
Our thoughts still brighter will it make;
And scenes long faded and forgot,
4 Become once more a shining spot.
Then, like old soldiers fight we o'er,
Our battles, fought in days of yore
(Our battles in the field of Venus,
No others ever came between us.)
The "dew" that sparkles now so bright,
Makes all the cares of life look light,
Makes life itself, tho' dry and sear,
Still fresh and green as youth appear.
Like oil once poured on Aaron's head,
The " dew" is o'er our feelings shed;
The kindly influence we feel,
Upon our inner senses steal.
Not Helicon's long-boasted Spring,
Whence issues all our power to sing,
With such inspiring nectar flows,
As that which in this goblet glows.
TIE MOCK ARRZAGE.
A PHYsICIAN's SKETCHES.
How truly pitiable it is when talent
and genius are arrayed against the sim
plicity of innocence-when those rare
qualities-given to their much favored
possessors for noble purposes, are divert
ed from their proper channels, and made
topander to vice and iniquity.
I. as sitting one morningin my study,
culling from my notes some of the most
interesting records of my diary, when my
servant came to tell me that a young lady
wished to'see me.
"She seems hir, very ill,".he said, and
"In the. tCsroom, Ie
~ple- as aeatW '
-J immedia anhastened to the
room where she-was,=and there, half ly
ing onia sofa, withher:face hidden in her
hands, I saw n'young and apparently deli
cately-formed'female.- She was sobbing
piteouly, and scarcely'heeded my, en
trance.
J went up to her and said
"My name is -. You wished to
see me?"
"Oh, help'me.-elp me !" she: cried,
vehemently, falling on her knees attiimy
feet. "Save me, for the love of God
oh, save me from eternal perdition. 1-I
have taken poison!"
" Poison t"
"Yes-yes& Eren now 'tis ',urning
thro' my velas like Ifquid fire. Oh! save
me, doctor-save me! I thought to end
all my miseries, and to rush to the obliv
ion of the grave; but now, now-oh,
God! my guilty soul shrinks in horror
from death. Give me life-life-life."
"For Heaven's sake," said I, " waste
no words in oxplanation now, but tell me
what you have taken?".
"Arsenic-arsenie," she gasped.
I immediately rang the bell, and when
my servant appeared. I said
" Bring me eggs, and soap, andl water
here immediately."
Accustomed to obey me promptly, the
man instantly left the room, when there
came such a thundering knocec at my
street door, that I thought it must have
broken in.
"Never mind the door," cried, " bring
me what I have ordered you."
"Yes, sir," said my man, and away he
ran; at the instant that another appeal,
more loud than the former oneo, wvas made
upon my knocker."
" Save me, save me !" the young lady
kept crying, "I dare not die nowv. Oh, I
cannot die !"
" Everything shall be done for you,"
said I, "that the skill of man can suggest.
Wait one moment."
In no very patient mood I ran to the
street door to open it myself, and scold
the, person who knocked so furiously, and
ansl just succeeding in opening it as anoth
er knock was about being admnitstered.
" How dare you 1" cried I; and then I
paused, for the deathlike paleness of the
young man wvho staggered into my pas
sage stopped me from saying more.
"Good God!"cried I, " what's the mat
ter!"
"She-is here I" he gasped.
"Whot-who 1"
"A young person; I saw her go in.
She has taken poison."
"George !" shrieked the young lady, as
she rushed frdm my parlor, and fell into
arms of the young man.
" Ellen-Ellen!l'? he eried, frantically,
"is it true that you still live I"
"I-am dyinlg-dyin~g!" she gasped.
" Tell-tell my father and'inther--".
She would have falfen on the floor it'1
had not caught her in my arms. I car
ried her at once into the parlor, and there
was my semant with .the remedies I bad'
directed him to procure; but they were
of no avail in her present state, and with
utmost exertions it was full ten minutes
before I could restore her to conscious
ness.
" As you value your life," said I, hand
ing to her the antidote I had now thor
oughly prepared, " take this draught
drink-drink-drink."
"I burn-I burn !" she cried; "oh,
heavens, I burn! George, forgive me!
say you forgive me."
" Ellen-Ellen, you will kill me," he
cried.
" Drink-drink," said I.
She gave a convulsive shudder, and fell
back upon the sofa. I saw that there was
no hope-she was dying. My looks, I
suppose, told the melancholy truth, for
the young man she called George burst
into tears, crying.
"Save her-save her, sir-oh, surely
something can be done ?"
" While poison is in the stomach we
can do much," said I; "but this ease has
gone too far."~
With a deep groan she now drew pu
her limbs as if in great agony, then a
damp cold dew came upon her brow; she
gasped convulsively for breath, and then
all was over.
There was an awful silence of a mo
ment or two. The young man seemed
stupified by the suddenness of the event.
He glanced wildly around him like a ma
niac ; then clutching his hands above his
head, he shouted in a tone that made me
shrink from him,
"Vengeance ! vengeance! I will have
his life !"
" My good sir," said I, trying to stop
him, "allow me, if you please. I --"
"A thousand arms should not stay
me," he cried; " I will have his life. I
will-by heaven-I will have his life !"
"But, sir, before you go, permit me to
ask who you are, and who this young
person is I"
" Ellen, Ellen, I will revenge you," he
shrieked, not at all heeding my quesin.
" I will crush him to the earth, were le
ten times what he is. Oh, Heavens! have
we thus metI Is this the end of the
bright dreaM- that li't my youthful fancy I
Save me from madness!"
said,- .
..Compose yourself, -sir, and tell me
wheyou are. What am I to do'with the
body of this youhg lady 1"
He rushed to the corpse, And seizing
one of the cold lifeless hands, he called
upon, her frantically to speak to him. He
conjured her by every tender epithet to
saybiit one word-to tell him she lived,
and would live for him. He kissed the
pale lips, and then, with a cry of'despair,
he rushed past me, and was out of the
house before I could interpose to prevent
him from going.
My position was anything but an agree
able one. Here was a poisoned young
lady lying upon miy sofa, and without the
least means of ascertaining who she was.
I rang the bell hastily, and when my ser.
vant came, I said,
"l Thomas, run down the street, and see
if you can catch the young man who was
here. If you do, detain him anyhow, till
I get my hat and follow you."
Thomas ran out, and in a few moments
I ran after him, but the young man was
gone, and we were compelled to come
back as wise as we went.
" Upon my word," said I, " this is an
awkward a predicament as any man
could wvell be placed in."
There lay the body--a hideous specta
cle-upon my sofa, and the hour was
close at hand when my usual patients
woukd arrive.
" Thomas," said I, "you must assist
nme to carry this body somewvhere else."
"The-the body, sir ?" said Thomas.
"I-I-oh, yes."
While Thomas said "Oh, yes," he
backed torards the door with at evident
repugnance to the job.
"Come, come," saud I, "you must not
have any of these foolish scruples; I can
not carry it by myself. It must be re
moved somewhere till I can see the parish
authorities, and have it take-n from the
house, so do you take the feet; betwe~en
us we must carry it into the back parlor."
" I-I-never took hold of the feet of
a corpses in all my life," stammered out
'Thomas.
"But you must now; so come, be
quick."
Thomas with great reluctance assisted
me to lift the corpre from my sofa, and we
got comfortably enough into the passage
with it, when a knock at the street door
so startled Thomas, that he immediately
dropped his end of the burthen, exclaim
ing, " Oh, lord sir, what's that I"
"' Why a knock at the door, to be sure,"
said I; " what a foolish fellow you are."
By dragging the body along, I now got
it myself into the back parlor, just as
Thomas opened the door. I heard a
voice ask for me, and the visitor was
shown into the parlor so recently occu
pied by the ghastly object I had removed.
In a moment my servant brought me a
card,. on which was written Lord Mandel
holme, and informed me that it wvas given
him by the gentleman in the parlor.
I went at once, expecting his lordship
hadt cmetomo for nrofessionali advice;
but when I entered the room, I was
struck by the peculiar paleness of his
face, and the agitation that seemed to
pervade every limb of him.
" Doctor," he said, "although unknown
to you, I have heard your name very fre
quently."
" I trust I may be of service to your
lordship," said I; let me beg of you to
be seated."
"My visit," he continued, speaking evi
dently with difficulty, "is not a profes
sional one. Do you know a family named
Sarsfield I"
" Sarsfield," said I. " Yes. Some years i
ago-at least seven, I should think-I
knew intimately a family of that name.
They went to settle at Boulogne perma. I
nently, since which, my professional en
gagements have prevented me from seeing i
them. I know them very well indeed."
" At that time," he continued, " there
were two young children-the one a lit- i
tle over ten years of age, and the other I
ycunger."
'" There were, and Ellen, the elder, I
was as beautiful a child as ever- "
He sank into a chair with a deep groan.
" What is the matter, sir," said I; " are e
you illI" r
He looked up at me with an expression E
of face I shall never forget, and, in a hol- I
low tone, he said,- t
" Doctor, you have read Shakspere, no I
doubt, often attentively, and I may say
in the words of one of his bright creations, I
'Who can minister to a mind disease ' I v
am ill, but it is a sickness of the soul. I
have come to say, that should a young F
lady come here, and announce herself as s
Ellen Hargrave, that 'is Ellen Sarsfield." c
" Indeed, sir, and under what circum- t
stances do you expect her to come here I"
" She recollects your address as a L
friend of her father, and might come to p
you as a mediator. She was seduced by f
-by-one who--" h
" What !" cried I, " Ellen Sarsfield, the r
beautiful creature who a few short years b
ago was the darling and- the pet of a
large ' , *fl- t irn hr.(,;rjr !0d--l
rather -
si r, sh --
Rleave.
ind ait
aintly. -
iOmGdeu I With some, mw which i a
Iropped 'a little ammonia, which recover- a
ad him from the faintness which. seemed o
.o be coming over him. h
" Doctor," lie continued, " if you have
lve minutes' time to spare I will tell you
ll ; but should she come here, you shall h
know her by her long hair; it is worn
tow, and wound up in it is a small thread v
Df silver." it
I started from my seat as at once the a
Donviction came across me that poor El- g
len Sarsfield's corpse lay even now in my fi
parlor. He saw my emotion, and likewise
rose with a face alarm. a
" Whoever tore her from her home," N
Dried I, " has a fearful account to settle." E
"'Twas I-'twas I," cried Mandel.
iolne; "say what you will to me. Up- n
braid me as you will, my spirit is now h
broken, and I can bear all. I took her it
from her happy home-I tore her from h
the encircling arms of those. who loved c
her."a
"Good Heavens! what inducement ti
could you offer to her to lead so horrible f<
life ?" d
" Marriage ; I offered her marriage ; n
but spare me. She swore this morning
she would take poison, but that first she y
would come to you to leave a message for
her parents. Since she left me, my heart u
bas been wrung by fiends. I am a man p
fsorrow. Oh ! should she come here,
tell her I will fulfil all promises; tell her
she shall be mine, and that the mock mar- y
riage which deceived her shall be suc- s
needed by a real one, and she shall smile,
aigain.' p
" A mack marriage; sir/' said I; "so
it was by that most vile stratagem thatgr
poor Ellen wvas undone. No wvonder, -
ir, your heart is full of bitterness; but e
you do not know the worst. Heaven ex
tend its mercy to you. But were I El- h
en's father I should have to pray for pa- I
tience. Ellen Sarsfield is now-'-" a
A tremendous knock at my street a
:loor at this moment startled me, and h
nade Lord Mandelhome fall back in his
seat, looking like an apparition. In a
moment [ flew to the window,- and saw
what I did not knowv before, namely, that
a carriage of Lord Mendelholme's was at
my door.I
As I was looking from the window, l
Thomas opened the door, and in an in-b
stant the young man who had run off so
suddenly, and whom the dying girl had
called George, came into my room. a
" Where is he 1" he cried ; "where is
the seducer-suborner of justice-the foe
af the innocent, the virtuous and the a
beautiful. Ha, the villain !"h
He strode towards Lord Mandelholme, si
who rose with a cry of terror, while I b
threw myself in betwveen them, crying e
" Hold-hold, gentlemen!i I cannot si
have my house converted into an arena f<
for your quarrels. Peace, sir, peace !" h
"Nay sir," cried the last arrival,'"come si
riot between me and this man. You know
sim not. By acts as base as-villain everl
mained. he tore from the armr of thana uq
who loved her6 a piece of nature's
workmanship 'se sed the world.
You have seen li' r-you know her.
Let me get-at the n. I will tear his
black heart from- t
"Keep hir. .ff ep him off!" said
Lord Mandelholm 1 would not have
bis blood upon my ds but I will de.
rend my own life
"You may wel o cried his oppo.
aent; "for no man ould be more afraid
to die."
"Gentlemen," -I will not have
riolence here. G of you into the
itreet, if you most but it is most
inseemly here."C
Lord Mandelhol w a pist6l from
is pocket, as he
"I will defend will defend
ny life."
"Fiend," criedh on the unhappy
dirl had called Geo fiend-monster
n human form! yd have made many
iearts desolate, an*d will not now be
iaulked in 'my reve Nay, it is jus
ice-a more saer nie. I too am
rmed. Here are ^ ons."
He struggled so h with me, that I
aw there was no c e of holding him
auch longer; there as a last re
ource to stop bloo I suddenly let
im go, and in a mo, throwing open
be. folding d w two
arlors, I cr M
"Behold! 'lei ght disarm you
oth in this house. ane not death by
contest in its -awfu ece."
On the table lay orpwe, as I had
laced it, and, for r ent, they both
tood as if paralyzd en Lord Man
elholme, with. a Ion irove to leave
ie parlor by the -do ending from the
assage, but his 4j nt darted after
im, and, ere, b e accomplish his
urpose, dragged'e kaaimn. Be
re I could interfere udehome fired
is pistol; in an in ere-was another
.porta loud e ek, and the no
le seducer l w , ien his blood.
"Tako i!n .v i"" 4 j,
ot had entered- somewhere near i ear,
Ai most probably lodged, about the back1
r his neck. His eye,, though, told me
3 was dying; there was no hope.
tIs he dead I" askdie other.
"No," said 1; "t, butsoon will be
! is dying."
'rho young man then-dropped the pistol
,hich he held in his-hand, and walking
'to the next room, he, I with a deep sob,
hproached the corpsemof. the unhappy
id. He kissed cobvilsively the palo
e.
"Helen, Helen," he. said, "yo are
reng,-d! Rest, rest, pure spirit. He
,ho turned your gaze from the light of
aeaven is no more.re
I was so bewildered'that I could take
t steps to prevent him from leaving the
Duse, although, as I %v" told afterwards,
was unquestionably- my;, duty to detain
in. He, hodwever, made good his es
temy sotsvands, wereanlece yrd
Ote p al d ayops, fa at he hadn
tor asifaraye d.he henard estee
eror uth, Ioma reoedi from the
"Callose, poled ' crekdai. Be-ota
Bfre ann could eMndelolmee
tered-a loadntra , and the no-ak
" Gn~ul accen si ma- ~id
"olt h imenerd-oe.her a dyig."r
"Tel msraboy od'sd aout herc
u rins nc.ai ye h~oughac toldm
He Ishoo hidead ade thetra
"Noe," said I;"btesonwle
"isteyn."ItikHaenw iem
rTh forn mane pdroped the opitor
-toiconfes myl inikdaed, and ayn
s oth evetlop ed iutrae.psb
becronced fothe servpssf the uassstmy
rid we raised hisheaulin the pal
sof cHeen, Hen, afer saidw "yomenare
reagain spok, ret-uesii.H
[eattil nomre." vnndet
rI her no wfe that shIrbe cofl tken
ha ses by prehet h frow ei Whe
vue), andouh aI covetd tol akeftrseads
wa Isughur estirmuton t ei
im.e roe heverfr me like ai bates
e, whic herets washo-esartng,
dantheshos Iand ereooet roun,
~ute her or, anyn at he haoud marry
r assisteland hen, - her fthe'se
our shavthe psoewatreover fromn hm,
Seag reebepuo rsr. eligi
"e wals the wie' I aeroleman, an stos-ha
seedno manbon? as h eue
Beo aln time culhd wonr Manouhof
ttre affcint gronnd thden, andak
ienfulaents, cnsaitd,"
"e N nowi go;Ia vdying."
sutrindse mybt'ocii in.e Ith,"
then, his voice was much weaker, as he
said,
" She consented. A note was left with
her father, and she eloped with me. We
were married in London-"
"Married !" said 1.
"Yes, yes, a mock marriage. My valet
was. the mock priest; she believed herself
my wife, and then she claimed my promise
of returning the following day to her pa
rents. By one excuse and another I put
her off, and then I wrote a note to her
parents as if from her, bidding them adieu
forever. The reply came. It did not
suit me, for it was full of love and expos
tulations. I wrote an answer myself,
imitating the handwriting as well as I
could, and that plunged her in despair, for
it harshly discarded forever. Well, she
insisted upon going to throw herself at
her father's feet. I entreated, I command
ed, and finally I told her all. She rushed
from my house, and-and there-she is,
dead-dead! Oh, Heavens, haye mercy
upon me!
He tossed his arms wildly in the air for
some moments, and then lay perfectly still,
the only indication of life being an occa
sional low moan.
" Go to the next street," whispered I to
my man, " and call M. -, the surgeon.
Thomas ran off, and in less than ten
minutes came back with the eminent prac
titioner I had named to him.
" A bad accident have you here, doc
tor I" he said.
" Yes; look at him, I fear--"
Mr. - shook his head, after care
fully examining the eyes of the dying
man.
"No hope I" said .
"None !" was the reply.
Suddenly Mandelholme sat upright, and,
stretehing his arms up towards the ceil
ing, he cried
" Help, help! Helen, save me-save
me".
He gasped for utterance; a dull, rat
Ling sound in his throat succeeded, and
the sednetar anired.
-anu from Liiee iitLu Cliings iedy sWe
times learn great lessons. BRUCE is said
to have gathered courage for a seventh
struggle, from observing a spider's per
severance. NEWTON saw an apple fall,
and was led by it to a knowledge of the
law of gravitation. A mind that is too
great to stoop to the consideration of the
lesser objects of creation or too refined
to take cognisance of an ordinary cir
umstance, is in great danger of running
into metaphysical abstractions that will
result in no important good. The truly
great are the truly useful; and stch men
baye, generally, drawn their wisdom from
the humblest sources, as well as the most
bidden and abstruse. Of this class was
BURKE, of whose habits of minute ob
ervation the following anecdote is illus
trative.
ATTENTION OF GREAT MEN TO sUP
POSED LITrLE THNGs.-Sir Philip Fran
eis once waited upon Burke, b)y appoint
mnent, to read over to him some papers
respecting Mr. Hast'ng's .delinquenscies.
He called on Mr. Burke, in his wvay to
the house of a friend, with wvhom he wvas
engaged to dine. He found him on his
garden, holding a grasshopper? " What
a beautiful animal is this !" said PVtr.
Bourke ; "'observe its structure ; its legs,
ts wings, its eyes." "Howv can you,"
said Sir- Philip, "lose your time in admir
ig such an animal, when you have so
many objects of moment to attend to !"
"Yet Socrates," sa.id Mri Dlurkie, ". ac
cording to the exhibition o'f him in Aristo
phanes, attended to a much less animal;
be actually measured the proportion which
its size bore to the space it passed over in
its skin. I think the skin of a grasshop:
per does not .exceed its~ length;. let ud
see." " My dear friend," said Sir Fran
ds, "I anm in a great hurry ; fee us wvalk
n, and let me read my papers to you."
[nto the house they walked; Sir Philp
began to read, and, Mr. Burke appeared
:o listen. At length, Sir Philip having
isplaced, a paper, a p-ause ensued-" I
hink," said Mr. Burke, "that naturalists
are now agreed, that locusla, not cicada,
s the Latin word for grasshopper. What's
your opinion Sir Philip ?" "My opin
on," answered Sir Philip, packing up his
apers, and preparing to move off, "is,
~hat till the grasshopper is out of your
end, it will be idle to talk to you of the
~oncerns of India."-Butler's Reminis
~ences.
SH EEP.--A gentleman who had reached
San Francisco by land, from Santa Bar
bara, stated that he had passed on the
route eight thousand head of sheep, wvhich
vere being driven from the State of
Bonora to the San Francisco market.
A happy home is a glorious and instruc
~ive sight ; one which it does the heart
ood to see, and which, once beheld,
eaves an ineffaceable impression on the
nipd..
World's Yair.
WE Copy below a notice of things da'id
thing-um-bobs, already arrived at the great
World's Fair. What a Babel will old
London be during that multitudinous and
multifarious carnival! We understand
that even the old back-woods district of
Edgefield is to have two Representatives
at the grand Exhibition. What shall they
carry up I Why can't we think of some
thing! Can any one else think of any
thing? We hope so, but we have our
doubts.
The London correspondent of the Sci
entific American, speaking of the ap
proaching World's Fair, says:
There are arrivals every day of articles
from foreign countries, and a keener ex
citement among the masses is perceptible
respecting what is to be seen at the great
rargesho . .8. Anerfulathings ave
alrea y'-A ror distant places. Scot
land ind Ireland ; have sent up some rare
curiosities, among which there are from
Edinburg, model of modern Jerusalem;
sculpture in freestone and plaster of Par
is; imitation of Mosaic tables; model of
John Knox's house; design of Free Church
College; Plaster of paris models of Ar
thur's Seat, Salisbury Craigs, air-tight
vessels to support persons in the water in
case of ship-wreck, land cultivator or
digging machine, model of a steam plough,
paper cutting machine, paper folding ditto,
model of high-pressure steam boiler for
preparing bone manure and steaming food
for cattle, model of steam-ship; fire es
cape, machines for sowing and dressing
corn, railway signal lamps, model of
house, illustrating a simple mode by which
ordinary rain water may be rendered
available in cases of fire, model' of a car
riage constructed .so as to prevent horses
from running away, a portable shower a
bath, a set of miscellaneous acting level
crossing gates for railways, a locomotive 2
-~-'- z.ie s:p dippinir apinrits, i
the,
anisto O'!*Wn trjt
aioieihiatena1 employd -
at a short distance from the e
have all the effect of the be d#ldest
line-engravings, of which, 'itee they
are clever imitations; but yhen closely
observed, they are discovered, to be ex 1
quisete specimens of needlework; On
of them, a view of the Giant's Causewa
frotn the Eastj is wrought with the t
lings of black drape' upon a grounof
the finest Irish linen. Another,an Itali
landscape, is wrought with the ie kind I
of thread, upon fine white sik in
a view in the Arctic regions
with white and black threads, .n.d
grey silks to represent the -siuzl 1
and upon white silk to rdpresedut saG ,
clad foreground. Vain would b h
attempt to convey axi adequate idea of
the admirable nicety-.-tlie absolute per- C
fection-with which the faintest, as well t
as the deepest,. shades are managed by 4
this process,. from the finest pencilings -
of the skj tinis to the broadest masses
of color in the foreground. Even: where I
figures are introduced, the~ folds of The t
draperies and the lines of the countenances
are to'uched off with surpassing delicacy. '
I awvait with no little restraining of my t
curiosity bump, for the display o'f Shan C
and Yhan from China, along wvith my e
countrymen from. Canajoharie, Scoharie,
Canesota and Minesota.
NXcELsioR:.'
DON'T Hun.-We heard a pathetic h
tale of a gentleman, now very podr, wvho h
was deprived of a .largo estate once in b
conseqiience o'f being i too nich of a
hurry. A dying man had quarreled with,
his heirs, and was dtetermined ihey should ~
not have his money: He had made a P
will, giving all his money to this individu- c
al, which only wanted his signature. His 1
sands w~ere running low, and calling his g
friend, bade him take the will from the p
drawer and bring him the inkstand.- 'rears ti
blinded the unfortunate donee's eyes, as e
he exacted the command. He seized a h
small bottle from the mantle piece1 andl e
dipping, the pen,- the testator wrote his i
name, lay back and died. The will was
put back in the chest, and the old man
was buried, but when they came to look
for the will they found it had no signa- g
ture. Alas! the truth was plain-in his tI
haste for the ink, be had got the wrong d
bottle, and the will was signed with
paregoric. So the heirs got it after all.
-Pathfinder. Y
A CHAPTER OF DoN'Ts.-Don't get h
tipsy, don't smoke, don't chew, don't quar- ti
rel with your friends, don't fancy yourself ~
the nicest man in Christendom, don't des
pise the poor, don't condemn any body ~
unheard, don't strike a man beyond your
reach, don't pay particular attention to SI
more than one lady, and don't forget to "
pay for your paper. .
To MAKE FINE HAiN :oR SHAVING
SOAr.-Cut up a bar of good ivhite soap, ~
and moisten into paste; iith' sweet oil, E]
and scent wvith rose, lemon, musk, or any e:
othnr. sumalling fa-nr yon'Jike.
New Discover.
IF the discovery inenoude .
joined extract, be not one of- thehu .n g
of the day, it is certainly destiued.i ork
a decided revol'ution iW' ths rie' - d
partment of Art. Theoldstylem
however meritorisii,-. Wi be, lbred og
to lay aside the brush and. the asel audd
to bow before the advances of meie in.
strumental excellence.- A port for
which we now pay fifty dollars, mayikrda:
short time be obtained for Ave.". T
(among many otheis that are no v
piring) suggests to us the eniiiriss*le
not Art and Capital deposing Geniuizsd
Industry? is it for the better or for the
worse -
In our article, page 189, oni
we stated that we had been informed that
zne of our artistslhiiB disugrj2g,
,ess of taking pictures, showing- all the
.olors as well as the lights and shad'o.
The discoverer is a Mr.. L. L.Aill, f
Westkill, Greene Co., N. Y. Ii a recent
irticle in the Photographic Art.Journal,
ie says "the discovery is due to sonie
:hemicaF compound-ii nondescript to ime,
hough I have made the scienceIofthebem
stry my study for years. That'iisuiew
ubstance, or combination of sibstinig,
am. positive ; and this is all- li-'Fon
erning it. It is simply and o'i w
laced, but not by any law stated in the
arge number of chemical worsaiwith,
rhich I am familiar. Doubtleskhowe*f
correct and thorough aualjYiswill de
ermihe itfs'nifdi."
He had 40 specilepa b .
*n by his disovei-y -the ft &
tter to the Journal spoken of. Tie
if these arethus described:.-,
"1. A view, ebung a -o
reen- grass anu e,_ o c
f the tees, vo
hdie*of red a Jd oral
ientaloni~ aceothepding,
Linblueof th sbee
etweedtIha an&
olor e1i~
given.;a m
nd delicate richness of hes. n
et red,. blue, orange, vio t &d- -
2eir various tints. The whole imrib
Wmjpg the lights S shade 's
ri ound, and"iniellow.&ll, -
agerrean image hbav
.a nost esquisite type of m
tjrl, (one year old,) taken in the act
fcying, the plate not favinibeen ex
oed a full second. At the samn, 6me,
f ligbt require fteen seconds for ai
aguerreotype. iture has caught
be expression g6_' c y both of the eys
nd whole face On one cheek isise'a
right tear drop, and the coloFAsling"
hifough it much deeper than the turround.
ig parts;- which %atter, Isuppose,is owing
x fhe refractive action of the fluid.'
The discover is named Hilliotyp.
lie only diffc ynow experienced is id -
aking yellowv colors, We hope this di -
o'very is all that it is stated to b.e S
ntifie Aiderican.
A NEw KIND oF FE~eE.--Mr. JohR'
~eigton, of Montgomery, Alabama, (ther
rrentor of the Remnington .Eriar BrigeY~
is patented a new and useful invention.I
a cement, for making solid fences, as duis.
le as granite, and at a ver'y reasonable cost
I' construction. The chief 'ingredient- is,
rnd,-and it can be easily manufacturedby
lantation hands.- The cement panels are'
myveyed to the spot where the fence is to'bbe~
rested, and the two legs of eneh let intoithW
round like common posts. 'l'he eost to'eih
lanter is estimated at 10 cents per ppel%?
m feet by five-ftour inchies thick-f4ar~Ilcap
E than the wire fends. It doe .not,-or at
cst should not detract from the' mbrit oft
is invention that it hails from.: Alabamia,
is time, rather than from Maine oi-Ponn
Ilrania, or that the modest littli-' tveund
omgofnery ventures competition-ih'the
-eat manufacturing cities of the 1l8sto'y
le honor of originating some dgtheutejfu.
scoveries of the age.-Chuarleston-Courier.
3MAzUFAeTURE OF . grE3egaRE-nF
yung fellow citizen, Mr. Mind H. Ewaig
ho has succeeded to the butsiess carried oui
ere for many years'b'yhis father, continues
manufacture 'at .his establishment," i2
ing at.,every varietyof siLver-ware, waitera,'
stors,goblets, cups, forks, spoons, &c'at
,ts diamsonds, pearh~ and otherped us.
ones. Mr. Ewan received the fghest.pted'
ium, at. tho late Fpsit-.6f the 1nstitate,'ifor
e best articles ini his litte made 'Ilk 1Icy
nr steady and inutii gigin
rye to receive' aihiudi ofp ~~ a
r. Ewan has'enlisha tiebc. gpallfl'
tionsain a brauchiof 4ul

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