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An Independent Family Journal?Devoted to Politics, Literature and General Intelligence. HOYT & CO.. Proprietors. VOLUME 4.-N0. 49. gtlutnl gtafy. PERILOUS HEIGHT. Thrilling Adventure on a Chimney-Top. The most intensely exciting narrative we have read for many a day, is the fol? lowing alary from a new London maga? zine, entitled the Quiver : A man will go blind, and mad too, from fear. I have seen it happen; and if you don't mind listening, will tell you the story! I was: apprenticed to a builder when I left school, and soon got to like the-trade-very much, especially when the work, was perilous "and gave me a chance to out <jlo the other lads in daring. "Spi? der/' was my nickname in those daj-s, given partly on account of my long legs, for I'had outgrown my proportions, and partly because they said I could crawl along ? roof like my namesake. When I wasabout three-and-twentyI was work? ing with the famous Mr. -, and went down to Swansea with his picked hands to carry out a contract he had taken in that town. While there I fell in love with tho prettiest girl I had seen in . Wales, and that is saying a good deal. !Por a time I fancied she liked me, and that I was getting on very well with un? love-making, but I soon found my mis take, for an old lover of hers joined our tnen, and Mary gave me tho cold should? er directly. You may believe this sweet? heart of hers (who was called Ben &loydd) and I were not the best friends in tho world; but I am nut tho sort of fellow.to harbor malice, and when the biddings to the wedding went round, and I knew that my chanco was gone, I made thebost of it; I kept my sore heart to myself, and determined to boat down jealousy, by being great chums with Ben. I went to the wedding ; and there were ifoi'many days when I did not steal half an.hour to sit by his fireside, which was as blight and cosy and homo-like as you'd Wish to see?Mary being the soul of order and industry. It is not, perhaps, the usual way of driving out envj', to go and look at the happiness another man has done you but of, but you know the pro Verb saysj "Whnt'is otic man's meat is another man's poison ;" and so it was, I got to look upon Mary aft a sorfr of a sis? ter, and Ben had no cause for jealous}', 'though there were plenty of evil tongues ready to put him up to it. ? The? contract was nearly up when a lightning conduc'torupon one of tho high? est chimneys over at Llanelly sprang, and. the owner of the works offered our master the job. "It's just the sort of thing for you< Harry," said Mr. ?? , when lie told us of it. I touched my cap, and accepted it off-hand, and then Ben stepped up and said he'd volunteer to be the second man, two being required. * "All tight!" said the master, "you arc the steadies-, headed fellows 1 have. The price is a good one, and every penny of it shall be divided between 3 011. We'll not fix a day for tho work, but take the first calm morning, and get it done quiet ly." So it was that, some four or five morn? ings after, wo found ourselves at Llanel? ly, and all ready for the start. The kite by which the lino attached to tho block was to be sent over tho chimney was flown, and did its work well ; the rope which was to haul up the cradlo wa?" ready, and stepping in, Ben and I began the ascent. There had been very few peoplo about when we went into the cradle, but as we got higher ? saw that tho news had sproad, and that the streets were filling with sight-seeers. ?'There's plenty of star gazers, Ben," I said," waving my cap to them; "I dajjc say they'd like to see 11s come down with a run." ?''Cannot you keep quiet ?" answered Ben, speaking in a strange tone; and t turning to rook, I saw that he was dead-' ' ly pale, and sat in the bottom of the cra? dle, hoddlod up together, with his eyes half shut. "You're not frightened, old chap ?" I asked. \ ".What's that to y<wj ?" rtOh, nothing; only we are getting up protty quickly, and you'd havo a better head for work if you'd get gradually used to the height." rio said nothing and never' moved. Then looking up I saw 'we were close to the top?a few yards more and we would be there, j-ct those who were turning continued with unabated speed. A sud? den chill run through my blood and set my flesh creeping. They had miscalcu? lated the distance, ar.d with the force they were winding at, the rope must in? evitably break when the cradle came in contact with the block. There was no time to attempt a signal, only an instant to point out tho danger to Ben, and then to get hold of the rope, and by going hand over, reach the coping before the cradle came up. This was dono almost quicker than 1 can tell you, Ben follow? ing. The cradlo came on; then, as I antici? pated, the rope gave a shrill, pinging .30.und, like a rifle ball passing through the air, and snapped. Down went the cradle and there wo were left, nearly ihree hundred feet in the air, with noth? ing to rest upon but a coping barely otghfeen inches wide. Ben shrieked that he was a dead man, and cried : "Tell me where I can kneel, Harry ; nhow mo whore I can pray to Almighty God, for I cannot die this way !" "Plush, lad !" I said, "don't loso heart. God can hear you just as well sitting as kneeling; and if you try to get up you'll tumble to a moral certainty. Think of Jtfary, man, and keep up." But he only shook and swayed more and more, groaning and crying out that ho was lost; and 1 could sco that if he did not mind, ho would over balance. "Gat hold of the rod," I said, thinking that even sprung as it was, the touch of it would give him coinage. "Where is it, boy ?" lie said hoarsely; and then looking into his face, which was turned to mc, I saw that his eyes were drawn together, squinting and bloodshot, and knew that the fright had driven him blind. So pushing .myself to him, I placed my arm around' his waist, and worked round to the rod, which I put in his hand ; and then 1 looked below, to see whether they were trying to help us; but there was no sign. The yard was full of people, all running hither and ?thither, and, as I afterwards knew, all in the greatest consternation; the cradle having fallen on one of the overseers of the works, killing him on the spot, and so occupying the attention of those near that we unfortunates were for the time forgotten. I was straining my eyes in hopo of seeing some effort made to help us, when I. was startled by a horrible yell, and brought to a sense of new dan? ger, for looking round, I saw Bon champ? ing with his teeth, and foaming at the mouth, and gesticulating in an unearthly way. Fear had not only blinded him, but crazed his brain. Scarcely had I time to comprehend this, when he began edging his way to? ward me, and every hair of my head seemed to stand on end, asl moved away, keeping as far off as I could, and scarce? ly during to breathe le9t ho should hear me, for see mo he could not?that was my only consolation. Once?twice? thrice?ho followed me round the mouth of that horrible chimney, then, no doubt thinking I had fallen over, he gave up the search, and he began trying to gebon to his feet. What could I now do to save his life ? To touch him was certain death to myself as well as him, lor he would inevitably seize me, and we should both go -over together. To let him stand up was to witness his equally certain de? struction. I thought of poor Mary, and I remem? bered that if he died, she might get to care for me. The devil put that thought in my mind, I suppose; but, thank God, thoro was a stronger than Satan near, and at the risk of mv life, I roared : "Sit still, or you will fall, Ben Lloydd !" Ho crouched down and held on with clenched teeth, shivering and shaking. In after days, ho told me that bethought that it was my spirit sent to warn and save him. '?Sit still,'' I repealed from time to time, watching with aching eyes and brain for 6omo sign of aid. Each minute seeThed to be an hour, ily lips grew dry, my tongue literally clave to my mouth, and the perspiration running down blind? ed me'. At last?at last?hope came. The crowd began to gather in the yard, people were running in from distant lanes, und a sea of faces was turned up? ward; llton somo one who had got a speaking-trumpet shouted : '?Keep heart, boys, we'll save you !" A few minutes more and the kite began to rise; higher and higher it comes, on and on. How I watched the white-win" ed messenger, comparing it in my heart to an angel ; and surely, us an angel was it permitted to come to fit? poor sinners hanging on the verge of eternity. Up it came, nearer und nearer, guided by the skillful flier. The slack rope M'OSScd the chimney, and we were saved. I could not shout hurrah, even had I dared; but in every beat of my heart was a thanksgiving to the God that I had never truly known till that hour, and whose merciful providence I can never doubt again. The block was fixed, the cradle come up again, and Ben, obeying my order, got in, and I followed ; but no sooner did I touch him than he began trying to get out. I got holdtof him, and taking it in his head that I was attempting to throw him over, he struggled and fought like the madman ho was?grappling, tearing With his teeth, shouting, shrieking und praying all the way down, while the cra? dle strained and cracked, swinging to and :fro like the pendulum of a clock. As we camo near the ground 1 could hear the roar of voices, and an occasional cheer ; then suddenly all was silent, for they hud heard Ben's cries, aud when the cradle touched the ground scarcely a man dared look in. The first who dtd saw a horrible sight, for exhausted b}* the struggle and excitement, so soon as the cradrestopped I had fainted, and Ben feeling my hands relax, had fastened his teeth in my nock. No wonder tho men fell back with blanched faces; they saw that Ben was crazed ; but they thought he had killed me, for as they said, he was actually wor? rying me like a dog. At last the mnMtergot to us, and pulled Bon off me. I soon earno round, but it was a long time before he got well, poor fellow; and when he did come f?::t of the asylum, ho was never fit for his old trade again, so he and Mary went out to Aus? tralia, and the last 1 heard of them was, that Ben had got a couple of thousand shocp, and was doing capital!}'. I gave up tho trade soon after, finding that I got queer in tho head when I tried to face a height. So you sco that morn? ing's work changed two men's lives. ?.-# ? Breeding of farm stock is an art, and 60 high an art just now, in view of the price of beautiful animals, that boys and girls may well consider whether it is not as well to grow perfection in form as to paint or sculpture it. ? The test of an egg is to hold it to the light from a dark place?in a dark room to a candle, or in both hands tunnel lorm, to the window by day?if it; show3 a yolk color it is good ; jf opaque throw it away. 1 fp-tfcHattc0Mis jUticlcs. From the Cincinnati Railroad Record. The Southern Railroad. In regard to what should be the termi? nus of tho Southern Road, and what were the great objects to be accomplished, we have expressed ourselves freely in past [ articles; but, since the arrival of numer? ous Southern Delegations, and the strife for the Southern terminus has become so active, it may be interesting to state the case again, in tho light of cost and geo? graphy : 1st. The People of Cincinnati want a South jine of Railroad. To meet this want, two points are proposed; Chatta? nooga and Knoxville. The direct South line passes between these two points, and hence, it will not be a material variance to go to cither of them. 2d. But, Chattanooga is GO miles farth? er South, and hero arises the question of cost. Will Cincinnati be committed by establishing the terminus to make the road to that point ? If the lioad is to be be? tween thoso two points, and Cincinnati is herself to make the road, which the new law requires, how can sho help making the whole road? In that caso, why should sho make 60 miles moro road than is necessary ? But, it is said, that the city will buy tho Kentucky Central, and in the same way will buy some road in Tennes? see, to be made to the State Line. Sup? pose this done, why buy 60 miles more than is necessary? If the city of Cincin? nati is to buy, or to make a railroad from Covington to Chattanooga, it will require all of ten millions and more. Hence, we think it safer, simply on tho ground of cost, to make Knoxville the Southern ter? minus. But, we confess, that Chattanoo? ga is on the straight line from Cincinnati to Pensacola, which is our Cincinnati and Mackinaw Lino, completed. 3d. But, there are other considerations, mentioned in our former article, which makes Knoxvillo as the proper terminus in the South. It is absolutely necessary, it Cincinnati would derive any great ben? efit from her ten millions of dollars, that that she'should have a road connecting her with the South Atlantic ports. This sho will have ultimately with Norfolk, by tho Ohio and Chesapeake Road; but whero will be tho connection with Wil? mington (X. C-), Charleston ^S. C), Sa? vannah (Ga.). unless her Trunk Line is so made, as to connect with the Systems of Huiiroad in North and South Carolinu ? Now, tho North Carolina System ot Rail? roads is to come down the French Broad to Knoxville; and the South Carolina System is to be continued through the j Bahun Gap (Ca.), by the Little Tennessee to Knoxville. Ii is true, that those roads may be connected with a Trunk Line to Chattanooga, but only 60, by extending branches farther than is necessary, and by Cincinnati making a longer Trunk line than is necessary. 4th. But. there is another point of ma? terial importance. Supposing that Chat? tanooga is selected, is not almost certain that good engineering will require the use of two thirds the Chattanooga and Knox? ville Road at any rate ? If you take up tho map of Tennessee, you will find that the railroad from Chattanooga to Knox-, ville goes for two-thirds of the way, al-, most on the direct line to Cincinnati, being but little east of north. It is not probable, that a good engineer will find any better road from Cincinnati to Chat? tanooga, than to go directly to near Wil? liamsburg. Ky., crossing tho Cumberland Mountains, on a direct South line to Jacksborough, and thchco to Knoxville and Chattanooga, and not far from the exact South lino from Cincinnati. It is very well ascertained, that the Jacks borough route crosses in the most practica? ble gap in the Cumberland mountains,and is on the whole tho easiest made. . We think that this modification of the Knox? villo route would probably be better than either one of those proposed. If tho Chattanooga terminus be selected, we feel confident that this will bo the result ot it; the present Knoxville and Chatta? nooga route will bo used for 110 miles of tho distance. If this bo true, and the map shows that it is, wc can not see why Cincinnati should make, or what is the same thing, buy or become responsible for 110 miles more of road than is necessary. Some people seem to think that it is no matter whether we have a direct railroad to the Southern Atlantic or not; thr.tjtis only necessary to have the trade from the Southwest! If this be the caso, the ten millions Cincinnati is about to expend, will be as completely thrown away, as if it were pat in tho ocean. The straight line to Memphis will he made in a tew I days via Louisville, and tho Bridgo over tho Ohio will soon complete it. Memphis is the center of the Southwest. To Nash-J ville wc have already two lines, one by j rail and one b}' river. Whatever is wan-' ting to tho Southwestern Lines will soon be made by private parties. The object of Cincinnati is a very different tbing from this. The object is to make a Direct Trunk Line, which while it admits of all collateral branches necessary to connect Tennessee and Alabama with the main line, nevertheless looks to Georgia, South and North Carolina.as its real ultimatum. Anything short ot that will be 'a failure; and a fatal failure lor Cincinnati. Wheth J or Cincinnati shall adopt Chattanooga or Knoxville as the legal terminus, may not in itself be very important; involving on? ly more or less expense. But, it is all im? portant that this city should not mistako its own purpose. If it does, the immense captinl to be employed, and secured and partly paid for by a tax on the people, will be Completely lost. Behind the State Lino ot Tennessee, and beyond any special point, that may bo named, lies this im? mense region, which furnishes a great and peculiar market for the products of the Ohio Valley, viz.: the great cotton States of Georgia, North and South Carolina. These States comprise a space of 120,000 square miles; and in East Tennessee, Southwest Virginia, and East Kentucky are 80,000 other square miles; and thus there arc 200,000 square miles of territory, and 3,000,000 of people, who are to be brought by means of the Southern Road to trade with Cincinnati; who have here? tofore traded with it only through other cities, if ft traded at all.- A new com? merce, a new market, a now growth in wealth, is to be created, and Cincinnati is to take a new start in growth, enterprise and prosperity. But, this start will not be taken, if the capital and energy which are required for it arc thrown away on a Southwestern Road, which comes of course, without any need of advance on the part of this city. The plan of 1S36, still remains the best and wisest; to make a Trunk Lino Railroad, which shall con? nect with the Blue Ridge Railroad of South Carolina through the Rabun Gap, and thus complete the line from Cincin? nati to Charleston, as well as connect the city with the whole system of Southern railroads. ?-:-^* The Southern ?i?torical Society. There was a meeting last evening in the rooms of the Howard Association, on Camp street, of gentlemen who were prominent? ly identified with the can*e of the South in the late war, both in civil and military capacities. The object of the meeting was to organize a permanent society for the purpose of collecting and preserving the records and memoranda of the Confedera? cy. As yet there has been no full and comprehensive history of the war from a Southern stand point, and froin the very nature of things such a history cannot be written for years to come. Hence the ne? cessity for the organization of a society which shall be a repository of those facts concerning the great struggle, some of which now live in print, but by far the largest proportion of which are unwritten history, recorded in the memories of such men as Lee, Jeflerson Davis,. Johnson, Beauregard, Bieckinridge, Gen. Cooper, Bragg,- Maury, Toombsj Beniaminj Mallo ry, Hood, Wright, Judge Campbell, and a host of others, who from their position were cognizant ol the interior workings of the Government, of which the outside world could obtain but a superficial and necessarily imperfect view. The North and South; both,- have had their would-be historians, who, from hasty and incorrect data, have given to the world what they called histo'-ies of the war, hut which are really crude volumes, in every pige of which is evinced their partisan character. The Southern Historical Society will endeavor to collect only such data as are perfectly reliable and correct of the work? ings of the Confederate Government, cam? paigns, battles, sieges and exploits of any character, and they invite,communications from all those who may be. cognizant of interesting details and iacts, or who may be in possession of valuable papers and documents,collected during or since the war. The society will extend throughout the Southern States, and vice presidents will be appointed in each State. The Rev. Dr. B. F. Palmer is President aud Gen. Braxton Bragg, Vice President. Gen. R. E. Lee is Vice President in Vir? ginia, John C. Brockinridge in Kentucky, Alexander Stephens in Georgia, Ex Gov? ernor I. G. Harris in Tennessee, etc., ete. Those who may forwaid contributions to the society are requested to state sim? ple facts, without comment thereon, as the idea is to compile statistics from which, in the future, history may be written., The movement is one which must re? ceive th* endorsement of all right minded men, as it emanates from a desire which exists i:i the hearts of all true Southern men that their actions and motives may be handed down to posterity, divested of the clouds by which ignorance and mis? representation have obscured them.?A'. 0. Picayune, May 13. A Political Veteuax.?Mr. Caleb Cushing is now in his seventieth year, yet to all outward appearance not over sixty. He was graduated at Harvard in 1817, aud has been a close student all his life. In 1838?thirty-one years ago?he was in the House of Representatives, and was regarded by his friends as a victim of con? sumption. Yet he bids fair to outlive all his contemporaries in public life at the time. ? The Central Georgian says that at the recent session of the Wilkinson Supe? rior Court, Judge Robinson defined what it required to be under tho influence of liquor, so that parties might make no mis? take. Said he: "It is not necessary that a man should be wallowing in a ditch, or bumping his head against j our posts, that you may know him to be drunk, but whenever he begmfrte tell the same'thing over twice, theft he's drfink ! - ? ? An itinerant quack doctor in Texas was applied to by otic of Col. Hays' ran? gers to extract the point ot an Indian arrow-head from his head, where it had been lodged for sometime. "1 can not 'struct this, stranger," said the doctor, "becase to do so would go nigh killiu' you ; bit I'll tell yon what I can do?I can give you a pill that will melt it in vour head.'*' ? General Butler was taking tea at the house of a lady friend in Washington the other day. The General seemed to look as though somet hing was lacking, and the following dialogue took place : Hos? tess?"Can it be possible. General, that you have no spoon?"' Butler (rising in? dignantly and holding out both hands)?j "No, madam ; if you don't believe you can search me." > ftaltti?s mA Ihnes. Anoth er Picture of Grant's Administration, The Washington .correspondent of the Cincinnati Times criticises the administra? tion of President Grant in the following style, with much more of similar import. The Times, be it remembered, is a Repub? lican paper, arrd h?s been a staunch friend of the administration: The recent attack of two of the leading Republican papers of the West?the Chi? cago Tribune and Republican?upon the preseut course and policy of the Adminis? tration, created quite a breeze in this city, and awakened responsive echoes in the breasts ot many Republicans. Men who a few months ago were most extravagant admirers of President Grant, have sud? denly lost confidence in him, and, so far as can be judged here, fifty per cent: of those who elected him believe him to be the " creature of an accident," if they did not before. There is no denying that the Administration thus far has been a failure. When tue flourish of trumpets with which the inanguiation was ushered in is recol? lected?when the magnificent promises and auguries of the opening of the new regime are recalled?the depth to which the President has fallen will be more readily appreciated, and the contiast between the expectation and the fulfillment of his futnre becomes more and more apparent. So far President Grant has not done a brilliant?and can hardly have said to have uttered a wise thing since he assumed the Presidential chair. All the talk about economy has vanished in smoke. The magnificent declaration that ability and efficiency would be the only tests for public honors and position has proved it to be mere buncombe. The public service is no purer now, and far less able, than it was under President Johnson. The most astute and far-seeing of our politicians predict that we shall los? nearly all the close Congressional districts within the next two years, and that parties will be more evenly balanced in the loWer House of Congress before that time. The Federal patrotiage was never prostituted to such an extent under any administration as under the present. The creatures of the President have all received the fattest offices and the best places as rewards for their i^ycophahcy. No man ever threw himself so irretrievably ihto the arms of his favorites as Lirant has done. The advice Of the best men of the party has been f lighted. The warnings of the press have been unheeded?the experience of the past has been ignored. The man ?vlio, it was fondly dreamed, would prove to be a model President, whose acts would be so many beacon lights in the future, has followed so pernicious a course that, as things look now, posterity will revert to him as one more remarkable for his errors than his wisdom. Earnest Republicans wore rejoiced some weeks ago when the clear-headed editor of the New York Sun had the honesty and boldness to contrast the shameless acceptance of presents by the Executive with the refusal of gifts and benefactions by our earlier Presidents. The gentle remonstrances of the New York Ihnes on the subject of the distribution of the patronage to his personal friends were greeted with approbation, and it was believed that those high in Authority could at least be shamed into decency if they were not prompted to its practice by feeling and instinct. Thinking men here rire fast settling down to the opinion that Grant has no policy whatever. His Cabinet is one of the weakest which has ruled the country since the foundation of the Government.? Boutwellj Cox and Cresswell are the only live men in it. Fish and Borie are two of the greatest humbugs in the public service, and, with Hoar, are mere clerks, who, when ordered to do this of that, do it and ask no' questions. If it were not for Rawlins, who has always supplied the brains for Grant, the administration would tumble to pieces from its own want of cohesive power, and the presence of a superior directing mind. When Grant was in the field, the enemy's opposing force stimulated him to action, but now that he has to arouse himself to great efforts, he appears to have sunk into' ? condition of apathy and indolence, because he thinks no one has the power to call him to account, no matter whac he may do. Ho smokes incessantly, and seems to have given himself up to sensual enjoy? ment. He has shut out " the multitude " from seeing him, and to gain an interview with him is now regarded as a great favor, not as a right, which1 every citizen feels he has to call upon' the Chief Magistrate. And if one does secure an interview, little or no' satisfaction is obtained, for the President looks at his visitors with that stolid, indifferent air that seems to express tho most perfect indi?erence to what the visitor may have to say, and few can ever get a decided answer from him one. way or the other. And then the inevitable cigar is scarcely out of his mouth, no mat? ter who maybe present. Propriety would seem to dictate that, he should at least try to restrain his desires in this respect, but not so. He seems perfectly indifferent as to what impressions may he created upon observers by his indulgence in nar colian enjoyments. ? For colic in horses a correspondent takes soft water, adds more salt than it I will dissolve, and with a woolen rag bathes the horse on the small of the back with this brine, rubbing it in hard. He has never known it to fail to relieve tho animal. ? Hens often acquire the habit of eat? ing their own eggs and the eggs of their companions. Nothing teaches this habit to fowls more rapidly than allowing them to eat egg shells. Immigration. The cotton crop of the current year doe.4 hot promise to be any larger than that of the past year, if indeed, so large. The plan? ters, stimulated by the high prices, are trying to increase the production, but the difficulty lies in the scarcity of laborers. This scarcity is owing to two causes; First, the black population under the in? fluence of the social revolution through which they have gone, arcjdiminishing.in numbers, and there are, in consequence, fewer laborers of this race than there were; in I860. Secondly, field work is distate ful to them, and they prefer to congregate1 in towns and cities. No considerable amount of white labor has heretofore been devoted to the production of cotton and other field crops in the South, and there' is not much hope of largely increasing the amount of ??r agricultural labor by any other means than immigration. But whilst we are in want ?f field laborers, bur section stands equally in need of good mechanics and manufacturers. The im? portation ?f a sufficiency of laborers to cultivate the entire cotton lands of the. South, and the consequent production of a full crop, would result in a decline iri the price of our great staple. The manu? facturers of the North and of Europe could then supply themselves with the raw material at low figures, and would hail with delight the return to the ancient condition of things. But it is very ques? tionable whether, with a heavy production of cotton, attended by low pi ices, and ? return to the old plan of obtaining pro? visions from the Northwest,- the "South would be any better than at present. An increased cotton crop is not the great desideratum of our section. What we want) is the production of more grain, fruit aud manufactured goods. . ??? The historian; Macauley, in tractfig out the causes of England's prosperity, attrib? utes her rapid improvement i:i the'raeehan ic arts, during the last two hundred years, in a great degree, to the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. That Edict granted re? ligious toleration to the Protestants of France. Its revocation by Louis XIV exposed them to all the horrors of a cruel persecution. Thousands of them made their escape to England; Among these were a great number of the finest mechan? ics of Europe. They contributed largely to the improvement of their adopted country in many arts, and richly repaid the generous hospitality with which they had been received. So, in more recent times the Northern and Eastern Stales have been built up, by the influx of skilled mechanics from Europe. What we need hero in the South,; chiefly, is a manufacturing and mechanical population, with Sufficient capital to give a permanent establishment to ipanufaetnr ing industry. We should have been-glad to have seen a small appropriation made by the General Assembly, at its recent session,for the collection and dissemination of facts illustrative of the manufacturing, resources of our State. If the capitalists, of New England, of Old England, of Switzerland.and other countries could be made to understand the advantages they would enjoy here, the delightful climate, the magnificent water-powers, the conve? nience of obtaining the raw material, the proximity of the market, and the cordial welcome which would be extended t? j them by the people, they would not be I long in finding their way in this Country; There can be but one objection raised; [The people of the South are not a manu? facturing people, and it. would therefore1 j be difficult to obtain skilled labor here.' ' This is true, but the difficulty can be met and easily overcome. Let the capitalist come and bring his skilled labor with him. He can afford to pay them more here than, where he now operates, because manufac? turing Is more profitable here than else? where.? Carolina Farmen -o Divorce Cases at Greenville.?Three petitions for divorce came up for hearing' before Judge Orr ?n Friday last. Two of the applications Were from the wives of wicked husbands, one from the hus? band against tho wife. The first case was from a lady, Mrs Mary E. Cameron, residing in Charleston, for a divorce from j her husband, Robert Cameron, in Phila? delphia, from Whom she was by his cruelly \ compelled to separate several years ago ; I he having also since the separating un? lawfully married another woman in [ Pennsylvania, with whom he is now living/ I The unlawful wife on application furnish? ed an affidavit stating that the husband represented himself as a widower; and so* she married him in ignorance of the cx istence of the lawful wife. Judge Orr, alter hearing the petition anil evidence, readily granted the order for divorce in this case, On motion of Perry & Perry, solicitors for the petitioner. The other parlies all reside in this Conn' tv. Judge Orr granted tho order of di? vorce in the case of Mrs. Amanda C. Lendcrmau from the husband, Francis M? Lenderman, who, it was proved had cruel? ly treated her and had married or taken up with another woman. In the case o? the petition of John W. Walker fur a di? vorce frorti his wife. Mary .1 Walker, on the allegation of her desertion some six or erjiht years ago, and her violent temper and abuse which occasioned it% aud tho hopelessness of a reunion, tho Judge was not satisfied that he ought to* grant the husband a divorce,but intimated to the counsel that ho would turfcher con eider the case. It aoems to us that our judges ought to? restrict the granting of divorces to tbus one Scriptural justification indicated by the Judge of all tho earth, in Matthew 5: 82. Thus far the eases actually decided by Judge Orr appear to come within that rulo.?JSnterprise, May 26. ? Always be cool when you. I3n.d; your> self in a hot place.