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TWO DOLLARS PER ANNUM.] ''txx33 X*xixqzi o*? zjiBxiztTT Xiaf stbrnaIj vioiiiAnos.1' [PAYABLE IN ADVANCE BY DAVIS & CREWS. ABBEVILLE, S. C., THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 17, 1859: VOL. XV .....NO 43 From the f.omlou Times of January 10. S ENGLISH VIEW OF THE AMERICAN ARMY t AND NAVY. England may certainly learn something from the administration of the United V States, though tlio lesson happens to be v forthcoming exactly on that topic which v Mr. Bright would ho unwilling to select. . Americans have an excellent judgment in 11 military and naval matters, which they han 7 die in a spirit always liberal and generally K sagacious. It was so from tho very begin ning of their history. They never passed through a period of infancy or routine, but took the field, when they did take it, iti w a fashion nt once superior to that of old- n Ui: 'HI - ? 1 ' *- Cl ?muiv?ivu moy iihvc me mem j of anticipating even the French of the repub- J w \ic in discarditi": everv ihincr like precedent, i 11 . I 11 and going straight by the shortest cut to j the mark before them. They were the first j I1 lo maire the t itle tell in war, and in the | ^ struggles for independence picked oil' our s< officers like biids from a tree. They were ll the first to see what we have only lately S( discovered?that a musket ouydit to be 01 tl fired with as much paitis as a fowling-piece, and at Bunker's Hill they caused us fright- L>1 Ful losses by this simple observance. They 1 were the first to mount infantry on hoise- 1,1 back, as wtj aro now doing in India ; and " fit Kaw Oflun.?B * ' ~'n ? 1 iV ? v.. v/iiviiiio mcir nuuiiiLiju ruieiiieu It'll r our advancing force without a moment's depose. In every campaign in which we encountered them tlicy resorted to some U! expedient or other, generally of great sini- ?' plicity, which told against us with a sever- ~~ ity quite unexpctected. It was the same at sea. They had got no great fleets, er hut th?y bethought themselves that they vv could t?r? <j?t single ships, and that ^ by adopting models of llieir own they could make those ships stronger than 11 ?ny others afloat. Accordingly, they built frigates and corvettes of a size and ar ^' rnament without parallel, took pains with their gunnery, and turned the tide of na. su val victory against us, until IJroke put the . Shannon's crew into training and beat them at their own weapons. Their modern policy lias been precisely similar. Tliej' l|. Imve got the Dahlgreen gun and tlie new-. frigate of tlie Merritnac class. Whether lltese inventions arc to lie considered sue- . cessful we cannot yet say, but inventions ^ they are, nor are they the Inst or the most astounding of their kind. They have j ^ been quietly at work upon a monster ^ steam ram, and now we are introduced to submarine boats which are to be navigated Oil at the bottom of tlie sea. This last discov . . . l" ery, nowever, seems to have been too much even for the American Government, and it j. has found its way to Kugland. It is when we ascend. hmvovor from ' " ' go particulars to principles that wo see how ^ much wo may learn from the management 3 * on of the United States. In the recent report of their Secretary of the Navy?a docu- ^ merit which corresponds to our navy esti- <r< mates, taken in conjunction with the ? speech of the First Lord in introducing . them?the Americans are made acquainted j at once with the system on which their naval administration is based. Nothing j. can exceed the wisdom and precision of >t the views expressed, which read like the n? opening of some good practical lecture at oV a naval college. " In the construction of a u war vessel," says the American Secretary, jir every thing connected with it has ultimate fi(J rofofence to h single point?tlie use of the j(, gun, by which alone, as the niuaiis or instrument of jidWer, important results arc to be accomplished. To place it iu the pros- p:i once of thq enemy or beyond hi* reach iu lit tbo shortest possible time, and to use it no with the greatest possible effect; is the great pa object to be sought for in the construction se of a uavy for tho maintenance of it- auxil- jo iary establishments." These simple princi- 01 pies are susceptible of a much wider sippli- lii catiou than has been given here. They lie th at the bottom of the whole science and th theory of war, whether by land or sea. eti Kvcry battle and every campaign must denend mainly unon " the use of the cun." sc Tlie gun is tho instrument l?y which the soldier acts, and all the professional training of a soldier tends to the one point of l'' placing this instrument in position with (lie greatest rapidity and employing it with the greatest effect. This is the identical 1,1 phase into which the latest incidents of our Vl latest war are passing at the present ino- l)' ment. Wo have armed our infantry with Enfield rifles, and are placing thein upon J? camels1 backs. But how have we got to these points ! Not by rule of three, but by rule of thumb. ^ Sailors, oae after another, and Sir Charles Napier among the foremost, assure us that j1' /mii> o/lmtralitioa kn?#/. ^2*1 - 111 v?. uaiv ciuier no By6iem or a wrong system; and certainly, if there ,l< has been any system pervading our succes tr slve administrations, we should be puzzled ai to say what it is. We see what they do a< in America. They pay no attentiou to 88 anything but principle, and are always on ^ (he lookout for some new principle better tl than the last. They do not throw away mucli money, though their estimates are on ^ (he increase, but they go straight to work w to get the greatest possible service out of a a{ gun. The Secretary tells the President w that (lie Department ha6 selected the arm which combines the greatest strength, accuracy, and power; thutacorps of skilled i? gunucra has been trained by coustaut in- la f traction and universal practice at sea; a hat, after that, the greatest pains ha iceu taken to get such a model for t essel carrying these guns and gunners >'ould combine the greatest rale of spe nth iho utmost economy of fuel. AVe do not forget that words cost not tig,and that a telling manifesto may 1 uilo compatible with an indifferent adtni itration. Neither do we profess to belie !iat wo are beliind the rest of the wor 'hen it comcs to results, but it cannot I enied that our successive Governtnen 'ould save a great deal of money, ai take much better work, if they would a artsiin the proper thing to do and the be ay of doing it. Neither in military n i naval management have we ever tak< lis care. In the army every single ii rovement coniuoted with "the im of t! mi " and the efficiency of the individu ildier has been forced upon the author es by public opinion in despite of then :lves. If it had not been for the pre ur soldiers would have been armed wil le old firelock at this very moment. Ne was there realized at the Horse (Sunn le fundamental proposition that the ult late object of all drill and all e<|uiptnei as to make the soldier move as rapidly : >ssible and send a bullet as truly as poss le to its mark. The very last thin loiight of in military instruction was "tl se of the gnn in fact, it was not thougl at all. It was quite possible a few yea -we mat almost say a few months?ag at a regiment might have been co?si< ed as in the highest estate of efficient hen not a man in the ranks had ever ai lired the smallest conception of inusketi actice, or perhaps ever fired a ball ca idge in his life. Take, again, the case of the navy.Iiere we are bound to say there has bee ) neglect of gunnery, nor had we bee iud to the impoitance of speed as a r< It of steatn power. Some of our lieav igates would sail round the Merrimac wit ,se, and the Renown, taken altogether, louglit to be unsurpassed by any vess< hint. Hut this does not finish the que; in. Our position imposes their oblig: ins upon us. We have not. only to eoi ler bow tbe most powerful artillery ca s brought with most rapidity into an et ny'a ; resence. or withdrawn again, bn >w a fleet of a certain tnagnitude cati 1 nt in the shortest time into tbe chanue ow. we have certainly had repeated dis ssious in a general way about " manniu: e navy," but we do not remember tlni y Mi'iihter ever propounded this priucipl administration in tiie American st\ U d then informed Parliament how he wa iing to put it into execution. Sir Cliarle ipier has come to the noitit mow ilmi ce in a plain, seamanlike way. lie no ily sees what we liave to do, but be tell how wc should do it. His plan may b iod or bad?we do not enter upon ilia icstion at present?but, at an)' rate, it is an calculated for a known purpose an tended to aflect that purpose. "Yo iglit have," says lie, "thirty sail of th 10 at Spilliead in a week or ten days, ow, this is a power which we trust ma sver be needed, but which we certainl iglit to possess, and if to possess i would cost very little more than ou esent system," we should like either t e the thing done or something bette >ne in its place. Titty arc Punning A way.?" They ar isfiing away." Atjiid the busy scenes c e we are often made to realize the hliorl :sb of this existence, by being called t ,.f ..ill, -I? < _: 1 ' < i ^ ....... iniiuv MOrtI IIICIIU. i.O-(lily W e a circle of friends in |>erfcct heatthyous l?y the prospect of long life; thei ily thought is for this world, and tli ippinoss in store for them. Tiut alas eir hopes are vain. To-morrow, deathat silent messenger, enters tliat liapp rcle, and one of their number, with big >pes and expectations, ir> cut dotfn to b en upon earth no more. Look upon th: ippy family, now sealed around tbe houi rc side ; they know not. the meaning ( ie words " care and 6orrow"?will it cv< 5 thus ? Again we visit them ; but noi ey gaze in mule dispair upon the inani ate form of their darling. Death hi si led that family, aod taken the flower < e house-hold, and the youngest in tin lie flock. Surely now they must trul alize the force of that short sentence fbey arc passing away." Come with me to the death bed of tli brietian. ?1 is family are gathered aroun m, and are listening for the last time I a words of instruction! Hark! he iploring them to put no value on tli jeting things of this world, but place the ust on high. He too, has passed awa; id as his friends gather around his grav id bear those solemn words, " Mingi ilics, and dust with its original dost/' the el in their inmost souls the solemnity < *? nru _ ? ?j mini, - xii?y Hro passing away." Persons who are alwayA- cheerful an ood humored, aro very useful in tl orld ; they maintain peace and ha^pine* id spread a thar.kful temper amongst a ho live around them. The way to make a tall man sho to ask him to lend you a hundred d<j il'S. It J ''THE POWER OF WOMAN." vw I well remember tlio first limo that |le ventured home in a stato of intoxicatio as I knew my situation, and dreaded tliat u j wife should discover it. I exerted mys< to conceal it. I artected to he witty, atl' lj. tiouatc, and social, but it was a total Ij [(U uro. I fell the fatal poison momentari increasing. I saw the inquiring eye of n v wife fixed upon me with a look of unutt able grief. It was only with her aid thi , 1 was able to reach my pillow. ^ All restraint was soon swept away, and came home night niter night in a state mo revolting to the feelings of a delicate, aff< tionate wife. In vain my able coinpanic wept and expostulated. I was too muc entangled and corrupted to break aw;i -*n . ,, cither from my vices, or associates. The neither feared God nor regarded man. l(i was led captive by their devices. . I became, 1 will not say an iniidel, for ^ was too ignorant of the theory of seep cism to be one. 1 became a mocker.ss . " Fools make a mock at sin," and such Hi v fool was T. I knew just enough of the 1 k ble to make it my jest-book. I saw th; j this part of my conduct was extreiucl painful to my pious wile, and tried to r< ts strain myself from trifling with the 13ibl in her presence; but I loved to raise Ion laughter among my boisterous companion ? and the indulgence served so to strengthe l<? ? ^ the pernicious habit, that I was often dt iccteu hi tlie use of this offensive Ian rs 0 It was not till I become a father that he touching appeals on this subject reaehet ; in}' conscience. " Must this child," she would say wit ^ tears, " be trained up under these banuft intluetces? Must he bo taught by pareu tal example to dispise and redicule th Scriptures with his lisping tongue before h is able to read their contents, or rcaliz their heavenly origin ?" Our son had now become an interesting y I little prattler, imitating whatever he bean or saw. I perceived with a diaboiioa pleasure that the first effort of his infau lougtiu was to imitate my profane languagi the rci'ollfM'tiui: of which now sends a thril of gii<?f and horror through my bosom.? In va111 .ii-1 iii> sorrowing mother endeavo J ;?> iiiKuiaci the influence of my m js 1 ! i. i > * .... ?h.iv.-m l conunueu to sweai it mid lie to imitate my profanity, uncon scions of its terpitude. On a certain occasion T returned from oik of my gambling excursions, and found in] * wife and child absent. On inquiry, I asce taiued that she had gone to her accustom u ed place of retirement in a grove sonn ' distance from the house. I knew that sh< 8 a had gone there for devotion. I had beei accustomed to see her retire thither at tin t evening twilight, and though I thought he ^ piety unnecessary, I had no objection to i e as a source of enjoyment to her, but tha . she should take her child with her, excitec it ' my surprise. I felt a curiosity to follov j her. I did so, and took a position utiseei bv lier, but where I had a full view of he attitude and features. Slio was kneolin; e ' ? before a lock, on which lay her Bible be y fore her. One hand was placed on it v open pages; the other huld the hand o [ Iter fair boy, who was kneeling beside, hi ir eyes intently fixed on her face. She wa c pale and careworn. Her eyes were closed r but tbe tears were chasing each other d<5wi her cheeks, as she poured forth her burdei ed soul in prayer?first for her husband e that he might be reclaimed and 6aved >f but especially did she plead with God tlia I- her son, whom she unreservedly dedicate* o to him, migh bo saved from those sins wicl o were taught him by his father's example.? - "Save him," she cried with agony, "sav ir hirn from taking thy groat and holy nam <s in vain ; and give his anxious mother wis i! dotn, fortitude and grace, effectually t - correct and break up the habit of profane y ness." h I crept silently from my hiding-p1ac< o and returned home with a conscience hai it rowed up by the keenest self-reproaches, o knew that her feelings were not the fitfh >f ebulition of passion or excitement. I ha $r kI>rv lw<<)n /?nnuini?nr! !??# !?#? . ? 'l*"*4 wv....?fvvu HJOV ugi WUUUVl W? w regulated by firm anil virtuous principle) i- and that the Diblo, which I so lightly ef is teemed, was the rule of her life. On he 'f return lo the house she was solemn, bu it the law of kindness still ruled her tongu< y Shu did not reproach mo; but from tha ? day she firmly and faithfully correct? our little 6on for th? uso of profane Ian ? guage, even in my presence, and when pe d haps lie had just caught it from my lips. ? Slie succeeded in conquering the habit i 18 her child; and when she had cured him, 16 resolved to abandon forever the use of lai >r guaKe which had cost her so much pain. di<1 abandon it from that time. I was no' e? effectually reclaimed from this vice. Bi 'e my habits of intemperance wcro daily b y eoming like braes bands. My morning an noon and evenjng dram, my loss of app tite and trembling nerves, proved the stron I grasp it had upon my constitution. | Mv. wife was in the habit of sitting up s s ' night till my return, however late it raigh II l?. She had, no doubt, in this way save me from perishing, as I was often too muci intoxicated to 6nd ray way to the doo rt without her assistance. >1- One cold night I had been out to a .tat hour, but returned freo from intoxicatioi On coming silently to tlio house, I saw my I wretched wife through the window, sitting " over :i handful of embers, with her babe nnd her Bible in her lap, and the big tears gushing from her eyes. In attempting to L'c enter the house, with a fresh resolution on 1 my tongue, 1 fainted, and fell on the lloor. '-v Upon the return to consciousness, I ' ,y fond my wife had drawn mo to the lire, ' ur and was preparing me a bed, supposing my swoon to be the usual effects of ardent spirits. 1 sprang to her side, full on my 1 knees, and before her and heaven voved ; ^ never to taste anothnr ilron nf ! i ; - s " j toxicating. Years have since passed over i " mc, and my vow is a (.ill unbroken.?Amcr't '* can Mcsscnycr. IV EVERY-DAY THINGS. *j "I am astonished at the number of ladies out to-day, and such execrable walking, j too," remarked a gentleman in my hearing', ,j as lie picket] his way through the snow, _ mud, and water of lJroadway. The next a ! moment, no doubt, the same person would jj have been 41 astonished" that American ladies are so fragile, and that they fade before they have seen their thirties. Beauti , ful consistency ! Why shouldn't they be I out in the worst kind of weather, provided j they are dressed accordingly !" All praise to them, I sav for it needs no small amount is of resolution to wade through what the n p gods send to a New York pavement, when ^ gentlemen congrogate on the curbstones at the street comers to take the measures of our ankles. I will declare no true gentle j man annoys a lady in this way. Talk about the " curiosity of women ?" Show I but a strip of white stocking above your I boot, or a bit of an embroidered skirt, or a x mimoral, and you may lead a New Yorker ^ by the nose all ove r Manhattan, through e . . 8 all Wall street stand waiting for him. ; e ? 1 When gentlemen show themselves more t civil on this point, perhaps want of exercise t may cease to become the bane of American ? ladies. I have positively seeu gentlemen i j i-tniid at the ferry gates when their arms t were half broken with bundles, eagerly bob- | bing their heads this way and that, to catch ( J a sight of the gaiter boots as they alighted | from the various omnibuases. And not all j young men either, but grey-headed old cod- j gers, who had grandpa written all over t them. "Why should a woman care about ^ ' it if her ankle be pretty?" "Care?1 It j may be jtist possible that if an exhibit! jii is ^ foreordained and inevitable, sho may prefer t to choose her audience. f " And while I am upon annoyances, tbe ^ "Wandering Jew" is a fool to the inevitable v pound of coffee, which is eternally and inter- t nally traveling up and down the Fulton Ferry cars from one month's end to another. f Now I have said before, and |I say again, j all bail coffee! Ithasmany a lime lured a t me out of bed when no other earthly induce s t mem wouia ao it; but cotfeo in a crude j, j state?in a steaming, hcremelrically sealed ^ car, divorced from cream and sugar?bah! <] j that's quite another tiling. Now I have n made up my mind in a Christian manner t. y to the infliction of salt, fish onions, legs of t ' bacon, flabby, defunct chickens, and riw, sanguinary beef, oozing through suspicious j. looking baskets. I have had cabbages, j and heads of lettuce, laid temporarily in v my lap, while the search for that inexorable j| five-cent piece was going on, in unfathom i able pockets, or iu porte-mounaics with a torn linings. I hope and trust I may t never fall so far from grace as to reject a t ' baby under any circumstances, or grow red ' in the face at the pummcling of little kick ' ing feet. I don't mind being seized by the c ' shoulders and pulled hastily into the car 1 by over zealous conductors, or shoved oil" the steps as unceremoniously, with a "Come ^ 0 ?step lively," when I would fain alight ^ 8 decently on tny feet, in preference to sitting ' down in a puddle, as they seem to desire0 I was not surprised, a few afternoons since, ^ when returning from the city with a lady s friend just after dark, and moving to make 11 '' room for a new comer, lie trusting to the 1 obscure campheue luminary in the corner, x slid his arm around my waist in token of 1 '] his affectionate disposition. I have also v learned not to wince when a demi-iohn is f 8 1 set down on my toes, or an expert marks- ] man mistakes my dress for a spitton. I f have done raising my eyebrows when 6ome 1 ir coat and hat I never saw before nudges its < lt neighbor, with the democratic remark?"if c there isn't Fanny ?" but I will prdtest 1 1 against that omnipresent, locomotive pound ' ~ ot cottec, when the car windows are what 1 l* the conductors call "swelled/'and the used J r up atmosphere rivals tbat of' the Black 1 Hole of Calcutta.?Fanny Fern. 1 n 1 I A gentleman was so prone to exag- i n geration, that he found it neccssary to in- t I struct his servant to jog him, whenever he ^ w drew the long bow too freely. One day , lt lie was describing a fox he bad slain, a fox ^ with a monstrous long brush, quite "a d mile long." John immediately jogged his 8 ,Q master. u Well," said he, u perhaps not 1 ? quite so much, but I am sure it was h?lf-ft- I ' mile." (Another jog!) "Or if not? 1 lt alnmt a quarter." (Jog again.) "Well t I'll be shot if it was not a hundred yards 4 long!* (A. very hind jog!) The poor , I, story teller could bear this jogging no long- ] r er, but jumping up, exclaimed, 44 rascal i , will you not let my fox have a tail at < ? all?" 6 >. Observatiou is Ike best teacher. < All OVERWHELMING SPEECH BY A WID Tlio I!o?. Geo. N. JJriggs, ex-Clov< or of Massachusetts, delivered a tempera address somo time since, in the cours' which ho related tlio following aiiecd with thrilling elfeet : Mr. Uriggs said tlio question of the Iroduction of intoxicating drinks assut lomewhat of a practical from last spri in a thriving borough in Peiinsylvani.-i Hie inhabitants had assembled, as their custom, to decide what number tny, of licenses the town should petit from the county court, from whence t were issued. There was a full altendai Jno of the most respectablo magistn >f the boiough presided,and upon the p ibrm were seated, among others, the clei man of the village, one of his deacons, i Lite physician. After the meeting had been called >rder, one of the luo.-t respectable citiz if the borough rose, and after a si speech nioveil that tho meeting petition ho usual number of licenses. Tln-y 1 jetter license gaotl men, and let them > The proposition seemed to meet with nost universal favor. It was an excel 1 vay to get along quietly, and one and t! mother in their turn expressed their h hat such a course would be adopted. Tho President was about to put the <p ion to the meeting, when an object ? n a distant part of the building, and ;yes were instantly turned in that dii ion. It was an old woman, poorly cl ind whoso careworn countenance was )ainful index of 110 light sufferyig. / ret there was something in the Hash of right eye that told she had onco b vhat she was not. She addressed President, and said, whith !???* r??rm>cci - I'~ ibo wished to say a few words to tlie nv ng. She had como because she lie hat they wero to decide tho license <p ion. " Yon," said she, " all know who T : fon once knew me the mistress of om he best estates in the borough. I o lad a husband and fivo sons ; and won icver had a kinder husband?mother tic lad fivo better or more affectionate sons iut where are they now I In yonder bit ng ground there are six graves, filled !.at husband and those five sons, and < hey are all drunkard's graves. Doc iow came tbey to be drunkards ? vould como and drink with them, and ; old them that temperate drinking wo lo them good. And you too, sir, addr iijj the clergyman, would come and dr villi my husband ; and my sons thou hey might drink with safety, because tl aw you drink. Deacon, you sold th uin which made them drunkards, "Ii iave now got my farm and all my propei nd you got it all by rum. And no he said, I have done my errand, I go bi the poor house, for that is my home 'ou, reverend sir, you, Doctor, and 3 leacon, I shall never meet again unti ncet you at the bar of God, where 3 00 will meet my ruined and lost husba hose five sons, who, through your me; nd influence, fill tho drunkard's grav< .'he old woman sat down. Perfect silei icvailed, until broken by the Preside tho rose to put the question to the nu ng?shall we petition the Court to is icenses to this borough the ensuing ye; >nd then one unbroken "No?" which 111: he very walls re-echo with the sound, t he result of the old woman's appeal. Seasonable Advice.?" Like the gnar >ak that has withstood tho storms j hunderbolts of coiitnriAG mon t..if jins to dio at tho extremities. Keep eet warm and dry, atid wo can snap < ingers at disease and doctors. Put or. 1 >air of thick woolen stockings, but k his toyourself; go to'some honest son of Crispin, and have your measure taken fo tout pair of winter boots or shoes ; sh ire bettor for ordinary every day use, hey allow the ready escape of the odi vhilo they strengthen tho ankles by acc oming them to depend on themselves. rery slight accident is sufficient to causi prained ankle to a habituated boot-wea liesides, a shoo compresses less, and lie idmitaof a more vigorous circulation lie blood. But, wear boots when you i >r travel. Give directions, also, to have sork or India rubber about the soles, o place betweon the layers of the sc rom out to out, a piece of stout hemp ow-linen which has been dipped in mel >itohv This is absolutely impervious vater?does not absorb a particle?wl ve know that Cork does, and after aw] Decotnes 'soggy' and damp for weeks When you put them ou for the first ti llp.VF Will KA flfi OOO" oo An UU ' ? ..... w VHOJ (MI UU UiU OliVUj i 7ou may stand on damp places for lie with irapuuity."?HaWs Journal of FIci O ? ? " I novor complained of my conditu .ays the Persian poet Sadi, " but onco w iiy feot wero bare, and I bad no money t>uy shoes; but I mot a man without ind was contented with my loL" ^ > > ? A French writer has said, that, to drc gloriously, you must act gloriously wl fou are awake ; and to bring anglos dc jo converse with you in your sleep, ; must labor in thecousoof virtuo durinir lay. u If you beat me, I'll call out tho iiers,n says the drum. OW. From the S<il>iri(ni/ / .Wiling Pvt. jrn- RAINY DAYS. The day if cold, ami dark, ami dreary ; ilice jt raill!t al?| ||lt, wind is never wi arv ; e of Tl.e vine still eliuijs to the mouldering w 1 tut at every ?ril*t till' de.ul leaves fall. Ote, And the day is dark ami dreary.? I'll at may do for :i poetical ooucepti 1,1 very well, l?ut I wonder it' Mr. Lotij?fcli< m' j was ever shut up ill a lioitso with sev In=>' . children, through the ntorlally ! hoi | o." a rainy day ! I fancy it would j^ive h " ,ls more practical ideas upon thesubjeet lli ' '' lie ever before cherished. L'"n ' 'I* these said seven cli.'dren, tlie tin ht,y linic ,ljirl< are not much t rouble, there I lce" inix implanted in the feminine heart, fr< ^cs an early a^<-, a vast amount of selt'-respi ''l^" ?sonielinnjscalled vanity?which acts p'5' I II kind of mnrril eln.j-1.- r.?5?i ! > t-.< , - - r."S I 1,1 : lilllo otio in "rdvr. Uut t!ii-o arc tin | thief terribly active, oiior-?. lit" to j aii!?s<!'l an?l k< t>t wiiiiiu rational ttonif el,s i an<! the ?>aby, jv?or 15:tl>- nni' '.Innalv, w 10,1 ( is e.\j'L?et.4!'.l t<> sleep through al! the noi i <lav. No wotkler mamma ! ??!<* with *! """* i may uiivii Lilt; bright little fa;?..-> that hi . , i i 1 >L j round tl.o hi\\\kfast table. :l Xod?the vi i v I'Uibodimotil of ni!~<-li c"'1 ?i.s already making a propositi >11 to 1 " next younger brother,-? a v?ry little In ul'? with a verv large head, and who isgem-r Iv known as " Fatty "?i?? play at "huti ,os" or" alter breakfast, lo which the delud ose yj0|,|s ;i ready consent. a" As a pleasure eoinineneement to tl co" day of disorder, Charley, the little tin year oIJ, tumbles down stairs whilst mai 1 ma is washing the breakfast things, and uu' so doing acquires a lump on bis head tl would puzzle a phrenologist, and whi uc" fairly casts the bump of cautiun into t l'ie shade. Ity a successive application on' arnica, oil, lumps of sugar, and the stc 2ot" of The Three Bears, Charley is restored ait^ good humor, and the mother of the fain Ies~ applies herself to the soul cheering occuj tion of darning stockings ; but the work im* destined to interruption, for cries of d 2 ?* tress arc heard to issue from the hath-roo ,,ce and upon investigation Fatty is found lyi ,an in the tub, (fortunately not full of wale w:r where the amateur butcher, Ned, has ji * left him tied hand and foot. The culprit iry- i - nuiiiiiiuiicu ivj rt'uuivu *i severe rcjirmui ^ fioni an indignant mother, whom ho d It 1 ' arms At once by innocently explaining: lor, ? "Why, mamma, l'atty is my calf, and LOU had just killed him, and left him to We ^'ou in the slaughter house, until I was ready 11cut him up." ess- The scolding that was to be ends in ink laugh, and Xed proclaims his triumph in ght series of gymnastic performances on t !iey floor and over the sofa, in *vhieh he dc em everything but swallow himself, winding rou with a backhanded somerset that over-tur rty, mamma's work-table, and creates univcm w," havoc. The mother is too well accustoi tck ed to these little accidents to lose tempi ? but on the other hand, is rather glad of -on as the picking up of spools, scissors, I I will alford some occupation to her sad rou restless hoy. It is but temporary, liowevi nd? and Ned goes ofl' whistling " I'op goes (1 ins Weasel " so loud that the baby is awaken is." thereby, and comes down to mainni nee whilst nurse performs some household d !n'? ty. AVliat a never ceasing fascinatii !et- there is about the baby ! Each child Sl|e clamorous for l!ie sole and entire charge IU' liim, and so lie is hugged* and kissed ai u'c pulled and jostled, until, good-natured I by as lie is, lie is driven to yelling in se defence, and refuses to he comforted un ]fe(| a cake makes its appearance. This, j course, excites tlie hunger a!was lying 1 jjt! tout in the childish .stomach, and cakes I t]10 couio a universal panacea. The little git ou in order to prolong and enhance the euj<i ment of eating, have a " party," and all eep having asked for and obtained a thousai little accompaniments to the cake, t 2>icce ilc resistance of (ho feast, they ; oes fair,y u^^ur way. But now comes a m< ,(S scnger to complain of Charley's gormam ors z'"? Pl'0l,tJ"s,t'<.,s. keeps asking for ca ,u all the time, and you know mamma, it isi ^ good for such little children, says his ear I'inn liffl/i cicf/U* liie ennlnw 1 .rr J a "J -Jiio ycar. Charley ia finally managed "by being gr.i nce ted a table and party >ill to himself, by 1 0j- much enduring mother. But meantime ide l',csc I'Ml? an<l j:irs have so work s no UP0U iny niaid nervous system, that ^ut order to preserve my temper, I put on >les wo* weather costume and start for a wa ( 01'. thanking my stars that the management tC(j seven children docs not como within i to range ef duly. ^ tiile If010 to Win the 1'avur of Ladies.?' liile win the favo* of ladies, dress and manr ? must hove* be neglectcd. Women lo me, more to senso than to beauty, and a m find shb'Svs his sense, or his want of it, in ev( nirs action of his life. When a young man fi ilth finds himself in the company of the otl )H ? sex, he is seldom free from a degree of bs hen fa'"6*9* which makes him more awkwtt to than ho would otherwise appear, and foet y ?ften em 'ro,n roa' ignoranco of wl ho should say or do. Though a pro] feeling of respect and kindness, and a !ft,n siro to bo obliging and agreeable, will liilo vvays be recognized and appreciated. y0U Eltiqueltc of courtship.?If you wi the to offer your hand to a lady, cho< your opportuuity. The best time to sob it is whon sho is getting out of an o nibus. AN EXTRAORDINARY CASE 0? OSSIFICATION. Tlio Voltage ('utility >liio) Democrat gives tin* particulars of the ossification of nil. of the joint* of a citizen of that county, a Mr. I'erkens, now forty live years of age, which certainly is one of the most extraor: diuary cases we ev heard of. The DcmuW octal says: I'ntil ho was eifVfii years old he enjoyed "' s rolxtst li?*;iltli. Al that time the family had 1,11 | teitiovcd t" (''inland. I.ako coiiniy, in thin a" j Stall', fii June of the year he was eleven, | he was thrown Iron: a horse ami hurt one rce j }iii,| then going into the river to ',0" j bathe, he took cold in the injured part; ,in j inflammation ensued, ami 'he cartilages ^ j ami ligaments were destroyed, ami ossificn as j tion took ]>la- < . ,\iter this had trans}iired, j the itiiinjuicd kin-e was attacked with in >aC | 11 animation, ami finally hvcamu completely ! ossified. Then joint after joint passed l's> i through tin; oi<l"al, until he is now in tho ho | coii'iiiioii liK'iitiuiii il. Tins same disease ' -y j ponnm.-nei d at t! ; roou of his limror and |s* | toe nails. Ti.e nail:; came. oil. and :i new 1,1 * substance, resembling nails grew out, at ! right atiji'-s 1'iom 1?lingers and Iocs, full :o' liaif an iiu:!:. His jaw:. have been .set ami j _ _ ' . ^ ^ n?i>li<>nl<'<"i l'?>r tliiiiv yi-ars, ami his front J}"' i teeth haw !oo.-. itetl and come out, forming :l'' 1 an aperture through which In." taller an<l ro ! coives 11is I'.mil. I'is fooi'. is all prepared for <JI' him i:i a suitable manner, nn<l Ins has at ways retained a good appetite, though lie ,,s is not gluttonous. Twenty-four yours sincc v0 he became Mind in one eye, and for in* twenty-three years he h; s been totally blind* 1,1 All his other senses remain as perfect and ftcute n? those of any other person. TTis limbs remain as perfect and acute as those h** of any other person. Ilis limbs remain noa- the sirte. they were when he was hurt. "7 If is head, neck, and body have attained full size. Ilis neck is nearly as large as I)' his head, nnr! measures nineteen inchcs in )il* cireumfeience, while his wrists measure ls only four and a half inches. Ilis weight is ,s* about one hundred pounds. Ilis body is I"? in a semi reclining position, and he is not "g a Heeled by heat or cold nu much as people ' ) ordinarily arc. He is always cheerful, and st very fond of talking. Ilis intellectual pow 'ls crs are fairly developed for ono in his posi j tion, and his memory excellent. It is said 1S" of liiiu that he cr.'n toll the names and ages of a laryc proportion of the town of Man * tua with accuracy. He does not sleep C<1 more than persons in good health, and ia not troubled with sickness, aside }froin the disease which has taken possession of a him. lie talks freely of death, aud at a times entertains different opinions nWon tho 10 subject. OS ?.... .... up The I'k.yiue Dou.?The prario dog, as ns it is called, though in fact, it is no dog at sn) all, hut a marmot, is certainly one of tho :l). most curious of the living creatures found er( in the praties of North America. It was it( named dug, fit-lit chicn, by tho old Canadian c., trappers, on account of its peculiar cry, ly somewhat resembling that of a dog, and 3it the name has continifcd in nsc to tho lie present day. The almost incrcdiblo extent L.,l of the settlements or villages, as they are |ft called, of the.se peaceful little inhabitants of II. the esil'tll <*!?!? li? iihi?hM>!n!n.l toIumi i'n" f>>?' m lor days ami flays together you are is traveling among small liills, every one of (,f which niaiks an establishment of this kind, u] The single dwelling is generally irghteeu ,a. or twenty feet aparl, and the hillock at tlie If. entrance of each consists of a good wagon til load of earth, which has been gradually 0f thrown up into the light of day l?y tlie lit:t. lie inhabitants in constructing their subterlC. rant-ail abodes. .5omo inhabitants have ]Si one, others two entrances, and the firuily,y. trodden path leading from one to the Q'tiiOf ci gives rise to the conjecture that relations of i,tj friendship niv.sl subsist amp,,g tl.cso lively lie little animal. J'heir Cnoice of a site for ;et their vill-.ges upp^.ars to be determined by s. ihe p:et.cne? of a peculiar kind of short ?j. crisp gr-.as, which flourishes on these eleva. I- I-..1 ? t i - ? ? i ' -* * m: | ** ? jmiuus, sum which iorms ineir sole nouri'; islnnent ; and their populous republics are |y to l?u found even on the lofty tablo lands of Mexico, in places where for many miles in. round there is not a drop of water, oud ,js where no rain falls for many months.? {,ll Water can only bo obtained there by diged o'"g lo a dep h ?f 0110 hundred foot, so that it is to bo presumed l.!lHt tho prario a dog docs not ne^J it, but is satisfied It with the moisture afforded by an occasional 0f heaty dow. Tho winter they doubtless ny puss in sleep, for they lay up no store for that season, and as the grass is withered in the autumn, and tho ground afterwards bound ijj hard frost, they cannct obtain their f6od in tho eustomary manner.? When tliey feol Thnt llieir sleepy time i* approaohing, which is coinnionty towaids ^ tho hist days ol Oiflftber, they close all their entrances to their obode, to protect ^ themselves against the winter's cold, and then settle themselves to their long sleep, j ^ and (Wrvot wake ngain till the warm spring days rqjsnll them to joyous life. The In,at dians say that tho prairie dog does some* )er times opoii the door of its house during tho ^ cold weather, but this is a suro sign of warmer days approaching. . ^_ * isli A beautiful form is better than a beau* )se tiful faco; a beautiful behavior is better do than a beautiful form ; it gives a higher m- pleasure than statues or pictures; it is Uiq finest of the fine arts. ?