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! 1 - ! I i ft" BY SAM. P. IVINS. ATHENS, TENJUJIDAY, JUNE 12, 1857. VOL. 1X.-S . si bn- rra rra M55. :. -I T K n n s : n POST l puMiiheil every Friday st per yar ,."n. Irani., or 1.ir payment la delayed until n'tirie. orle, fnrilieSretinwrtion.aodlOcenu lor T' I A liberal .le.luoiinn made lo ihoie whoedrertl-eby Ihe year. tWFfiniien'1in)fdrer- tlwioente nan murk the Dumber of lime iney aeeire them inverted, or iney will be continued autil forbid and for announcing the names of candidateifor office ,15, ?. Obituary notleeeoTer lJHnee,e!iarged sttheregular advertising rate". Allcnrainunlcatlntnlntendedto prnmotethe prlTate eii'la or Inlereata of Corporation', lvwielie,BCiiooiior Individuate, will bo cliargrfl aiivenue menu. JiH rVorU.ufh Pamphlets, Minutea, Circulars, OanU, Blanln, Hndlilll, Ac, will be executed in good . -I- . n i nn rannntle terma. All'letteri addreierd to the Proprietor, poit paid .will be promptly attended lo. Permno at a dl.tsnce lendinir in the namet of four Solvent uWrihera, win iw entuit-n 10 a nun copy mm, No communication Imerled unleia accompanied by Hie n.menf the author. ff- Office on Main itreet, nextdoorto the old Jack- ian Hotel. TM POST. ATlir'VS, IIIIIIU, J! ie, l5T. American NoMiSATloif The Americana of Roane. h:iv nominated James II. Johnson u their candidate representative. VASiirGTiN, Jur.e 2. Richardson, of Il linois 'pointed Governor of Nebraska Territory; VVrighl, uf Indiana, our Minister to Ku"si ; II. C. Marphy, of New York, our Minister lo ihe Netherlands; J. R. Diller of Illinois, Consul to Son I li.-nilcni; Gabriel Fleuritt of New York, Consul lo Bordeaux. Washiivgton, June 2. Yesterday ft Com pany of A.tillery from Fort McHcnry, Balti more, were ordered to relieve tho MariiU'H,mid Imve arrived. Ten lire placed as guard nrouiid tlii) Mayor's house, nnd other threatened plilC.CK. ' There is, however, nn disturbance1. Ilia ncertniin d Hint lliero were eilit killed and fifteen wunded. 'I lie Auti-Amcrican ticket in elected, and Imve also u majority in Coun cil. Washington, June 2. Gen. Scott linn just isued order to transfer I wo companies from Port Rand ill to Furl Lmvenworrh; the Col. of the 2nd infantry to detaeli ihreo com panies In in llmt regiment lor Fort Snelling und one for Fort Rifely; the filth regiment to lie replnced hy volunteer mid proceed to Jcfl'eisnn barrack, there lo await further orders; the 10th infantry are. ord red to Fort Leaven wi rth, in nil eloht cMiipniiies to pro ceed, first the two ut Fort Stealing mid Midge ly iin soon aa relieved hy hther companies inoveuieiila to be made forthwith. The lihovo orders have been telegraphed to New York and Leavenworth. , Nrw Oiilkans, June 4. Advice from the City of .. Mexico, hrinif no positive informa tion regarding the fate of Ornhbe. It is probable that the first report of thin destruc tion will be realized. The elections, jrenernllv, were progressing favorablv for ConiiimnforU Hoops Lately, ns n lady was stepping from the earn ot the Toledo, Wabnah and VVeslcra Railroad nt Napoleon, her dress cauij ii on the steps, and, the cars being in motion, she was drawn some 30 feet before her hoops K'live'way. "' "She waif not soriounljfl Injured, tlioufll Hie hoops were badly wrecked, iTrThe steaniboiil Marengo tirrivcd nt Mobile on the 28th May, from Aberdeen, JlisH., with only one bale of collon on board. The Capiiiin suid that "it was entirely loo ourly for the now crop, find he brought ull ot the old crop he could lied." " LooKiao Guiltv. Nothing can be more nbsurd than the idea that "looking guilty" proves guilt. An honest man charged with . crime is much more likely to blush nt the ac cusation I him the real offender, who is gen crally prepared for the event, nnd has his fa e "ready made" for the oc-asion. The very thought of being suspected of unylhing o.iminul will bring the blood tonn innocent mnn's cheeks, in nine cuses out of ten. The most "iu illy looking" person we ever saw was a mini arrested for stealing a horse which turned out to be his own properly. Extraordinary Fkat. The Harrisburg (Pu.) Telegraph, of the 19lh, sii)s:t-Two gentlemen arrived in this borough last eve- Ding, driving n lino bay horse, with which fiey Imd made the trip beUeen here nnd I'hiluili Iphia, by way of Lancaster and Co lumbia, n distance of about 104 miles, in 17 hours, lh ving slni ted from I'hiladelphia in the miming nt 3 o'clock nnd arrived here 6 o'clock exactly. They fed twice on the journey. This, taking into consideration all the It cis of Ihe case, is one of Ihu greatest feats uf Havel we have heard of lately. Tiik omkt. He is going off. And, ns he goes, they abuse him. They say he has Ijm his tail. Was ever comet so scandaliz ed! We now understand, says the Richmond Dispatch, why he will not hit the earth on the Mih of this month, nt 20 minutes past 10, A. M. A comet, like s fox, is nothing without a tail, although his tail itself is only nn iuliuite deal of nolhing. Uu the lBth ult., the comet was nearest the earth, and was twenty millions of miles nwny, Since then he has been running off ns fast ns he could ncamper, wilh his tail, or, what is left of it, t between his legs. It is believed that ho has gone to try and persuadd the oilier comets to cut oil' (heir tails also. This Great Dure . is now near the constellation of the Great Dear. The editor of Ihe Petersburg Demo crat saw him lately through a telescope of or dinary pi.wur. Alas! poor cornel! ho has lost his luil. Possibly it may be found iu the next number ef the New York ledger. I ff A young gentleman nt ball, In whiskiin' about the room, rnn his head against lady. IU began a kind of dandy-like npol cgy lor his hend-work. "Not word, sir" . anid the lady, "it is not hard enough to hurt anybody." Dundy disappeared among the crowd. f" The stenmboat I nuisians. was burnt In Galveston Hay on the morning 0f tho 31st May. There ere eleven lives lost, among . whom is Col. Jtainbridge, of U. S. A. ' Thiriy-i tie nte missing. Twenty-liv were laved by scuiuea from Gulvesloo. HOW THE PUBLIC LAND GOES, I From the Nashville Patriot. We have compiled a table of the amount in acres, of the public lands, that have been granted to the several States nnd Territories, for purposes of internal improvement, under the name of Railroads, companies, and indi vidunla and swamp lands, which we append This table does not include any grants for military purposes, for public buildings or education. To obtnip these figures, we have condensed the table incorporated in to S eech by Mr. Carlile, of Va., in the House of Representatives in Congress, which we published in full some time since, nnd which we understand to have been compiled in the land oflice at Washington, and is thought to be correct. To this we have added the estimated nmount of grants made by the last Congress, which we find in the Message and Documents, 1856-7, fart 1 adding in the case of llin ntsota our own estimate of four millions which hns beeu put down by others nt n much higher figure. We submit this table, dis closing the sources of our information, be cause it contains tho facts in a small compasp, of easy comprehension, and because we bi lieve it is more nearly correct than any other, which we have seen. We have only to add, for I., present, Ihnt in our estimate nnd calculation soma days since, in which we arrived at tho conclusion that Tennessee, if made equal to that Stale which had received the highest amount of the public lands, would be entitled to something over forty-three millions of acres, we took Ihe representation in the popular branch of Con gress, as our proportional basis. Mr. Dell's bill provides, that the estimate should be made upon the entire congressional strength including the Senators on the same princi ple of our elections for President. This would reduce our figures somewhat, nnd would perhaps, be the most proper mode of making up the nccnur.t. This, however, is merely a question of detail, nnd does not affect the great principle for which we con tend, the equal rights of all the Stales to share alike the benefits and advantages of our public domain. The following is the table : Ohio Indiana Illinois Missouri Alabama Mississippi Louisiana Michigan Arkansas Florida Iowa Wisconsin 'California Minnesota 10.113.556 3,075.005 5,034,366 5,712.653 4.57-2,214 6,557,178 12,180.728 13925.324 10,672.8n7 13.485531 " 8,700,007 6,249,796 600,000 4,340,00.) v fj?" Persons of nervous temperament are apt to offer, as it were, their diseased minds to the influences of imagination. These might profit by practising the courage over self, once evinced by n nervous und imaginative High Bailiff of Westminster. As this official was, on one occasion, in bed, with his arm extended to extinguish the lighted candle on the table by the bedside, he beheld Satan himself sealed in the chair near the table, uniting at him with "all his eyes." The nerv ous dignitary was terribly startled, but he was u courageous man, nnd choosing to think himself constitutionally sound, with no dis ease about him over which imagination should Imve the mastery, be quietly turned on his elbow nnd looking steadfastly nt the Father of Sin, he quietly remarked, "I'll toll you what it is, if you have nothing to do but to sit there staring, I have something belter to do than liu nnd look lit you. I'm going to sleep." And therewith he put out the light, nnd con scious of v victory over imagination, slept like a conqueror, and was never again troubled by shadowy visitations. Wealth of tub Rothschilds. According to the National Intelligencer, the aggregate we.il th of the whole concern of the Roth schilds is only about $40,000,000. A state meiit going the rounds of the press, w hich must of course be incorrect, represents them ns worth seven hundred millions of dollars in money, besides three hundred millions more in real estate, the annual interest uf which wonld amount to (i6(),000,000, a greater sum limn the whole of their present fortune. However, forty millions is better than nothing. Oriois of thi Pendulum.--Galileo, when under twenty years of age, was standing one day in the Metropolitan Church of Pius, when he observed a lamp which was sus pended from the ceiling, nnd whieh had been disturbed by nccidei t, swing backwards and forwards. This was a thing so common thai thousands, no doubt, Imd observed it before; but Galileo, struck with Ihe regularity w ilh which it moved backwards und forwards, re flected upon it nnd perfected the method now in use of measuring liuie by menus of a pen dulum. Growth of Soutmkrn Citif.s amd Towns Uy the census of 1 85(1, the popu ntion of .Memphis was over 8,000; it is now esllinu ed to be over SU.flOO. Tlmt of Nashville in 1850 over 10,000; now estimated ul over 20,000. That of Hunlsville estimated nt 3,000. . In 1855, ihe census of Atlanta gave over 5,000. Some of its residuals now estimate ii mush larger. In 1850, the census of Charleston was over 43,000; its population Is now estimated by a compiler of its Directory at near 60,000. Ftvt HufiDRRD Dollars Reward. The Superintend nit of the Western & Atlnntio Railroad, offers a reward of 5lX lor evidence snllicieiit lo convict the person or persons who placed a eross-tie on the track ol the Road near the Dttllon depot, on the night of ihe 23d ult. The cross-lie was fortunately discovered by means of the head-light reflec tor, la time lo preveutdamfige. BOLTERS OR LATTER DAY SAINTS. Since the fourth of March, anys an ex change, our curiosity has been slightly exer cised, to ascertain the number of Colters or Southern transcendental Whigs, who have been rewarded for their desertion of Mr. Fill more. We have no disposition to criticise too closely, the motives of these gentlemen, who, according to their own arguments, did a positive wrong to their own consciences and judgments, that they niiyht effect a relative good for the country. To nil such Jesuitical casuistry we have nothing to oppose, except that such excuses have never been wanting to justify the darkest deeds which ever dis graced human nature. It is but another phase of thiil exploded and . mast damning Papal heresy, that the end justifies the means that if good is to result that there is no evil in sin. Such sentiments when reduced to prac tice, have ever been the prolific mother of murder, treachery and cruelty, which blacken the pages of the records whereupon is writ ten the crimes nnd sufferings of man. We, however, have no wish to call these Bolters to an account for the violations of that "higher law," which each one carries in his own bosom. If that law has been broken we leave them to "Heaven and to the thorns, which in them lodge, to prick nnd goad them." We now wish merely to recur .to some facts connected with the defeat of Mr. Fillmore, nnd the agency nnd the pretexts for that agency, ns declared by certain Southern Whigs, for bringing about a result, us we think, calamitous to Ihe whole country and especially so to the South. We shall endeav or to be ns concise ns we cun,cuDsistent with being Diideratoud. Mr. Fillmore, when President, discharged Ihe duties of his oflice satisfactory to the whole South. When he came into power louds nnd darkness had settled upon the political horizon when he retired the sun shone bright in Ihe skies, and the rainbow of pence spanned the heavens. So acceptable was his administration to the South, nnd es pecially his faithful execution of Ihe Fugitive Slave Ijiw, that men of nil parties joined in one chorus of praise. When he failed to re ceive the nomination instead of Generul Scolt, even ultra Democrats did riot hesitate to de clare their choice for him, rather than any other man in the Union. General Scott is defeated, and from the great influx of foreign ers, encouraged by Northern Emigrant Aid Societies and the known corrupting influences which these foreigners exorcise in our elec tions, the American party sprung into exis tencea party composed both of Whigs and Democrats. Mr. Fillmore, with his acknowl edged popularity, nt the South received tho nomination both of the .Ann-rimi) and VVIiiu Conventions. -r question flow is, wny was such a pure man and such an able statesman featedl Why the display of Southern in gratitude ns exhibited in the last Presidential election! Had Mr. Fillmore proved faithless to the South! No! Why then should ser vices so valuable, intelliger.ee, integrity nnd patriotism bo exalted, have met from South ern hearts no poor a reward ! Was Southern mind so dull Southern honor so worthless and Southern era tit ml o so reduced that such quali ies ns Mr. Fillmore possessed in an eminent degree should neither be seen, felt or acknowledged except wilh neglect and contempt! buch a conclusion would be a reflection on Southern character. Thousands saw the straight line of truth, but were in duced by others to pursue the crooked cords of policy. It was whispered in their ears that every vote that is given lo Fillmore is a vote to Fremont, and to secure the South and the Union, you must vote, nol according to your convictions, but to avoid the greater of two evils. Now suppose nil the talent nnd char acter and energy which was employed in such sophistical reasoning as this, had been exer cised in behalf of Fillmore nnd the Union, who could doubt but the result would have been a triumph of truth nnd patriotism and that defeat even, would like Antaeus, have added ten fold power to the South. As it is, we have nn 'unditided South" nnd a united North confronting each other in hostile array. We have n Northern President, whose equal, tur sovereignty and ulien suffrage doctrine, will sooner or later grind the "peculiar insti. lotions" of the South into powder.. We have one portion of the Union in geographical op position to the other, und hot ns our Demo cratic Southern friends siy, one National Democratic party, North and South, but two exclusive sectional partiei, divided by a line, . nd nearly equal in power. The one parly knows, it now has a gignut'a strength that its strength is constantly Increasing from for eign immigration and whin the time comes, it will use that strength likr a giant. We think, the responsibility of this elate of things is mainly attributable lo the South, em Bolters of the Wh'g rty. They, in (he hour of victory Bought favor and protection in the camp of the enemy. They shook hands wilh the traduorrs of Clay, and turned their backs on his inosl cherished principles. Verily, they shall hays their reward ! A Rklio or tub Pitt. The good bark William &, Anne arrived nt this port from Barcelona yesterday, khere lr lonjr and successful career bmugat her into immediate notice. She was built ti 1757, nnd in 1759 carried Gen. Wolfe M Cluebee. She was originally built alter tin old English man-of-war fashion, but lias h-en modernised by having her slern rounded nfT. She la com maiided by ('apt. Magllknnd looks staunch snd strong, as though she could weather many more voynges.-ftia. Rep., Xlth iasl, Iner Jones, (who tliuks Hint Smith hns been a little too freeJ-Mr. Pmith, I wish to speak to you privnMly. Permit me to take you apart for a fesr moments." Smith (who isn't In the less frightened,) "Cer tainly, sir, if you'll prouise lo put me together goto" 1 , THE LIFE ALL AOUND US. Life presses all srool us, wherever we are curious, solemn, inlnysterious. We can scarcely wonder at t Hindoo superstition which holds life sac re, On every side, in small things ss in gftt, man finds a living record of eternal gooness ss well aa eternal wisdom of sustuininfirovidence as well as a creating power. W read it in atoms as well as in words, and not less gloriously written. Every frsgjent of the mighty whole bears the sumeMne autograph. The animalcule, lo whon drop of water it a shoreless sen, in its eautilul form, and ex- qui ite c loring, and (rfect organization, at test ns truly the authntio impress as the mammoth forms of nrenrlier creation. The scum which floats tneviry stagnant pool re solves itself into a regantion na perfect and graceful as nny thai clotas our valleys, or waves upon our b'lley The very foumbells which crest the breikg wove having their brief life in death rflect such colors ns mock all the resource of art, and nre such as God's own glorious rlinbow alone can equal. We hear of the one ileal Artificer in the per- fuciion of every soui in the soft summer breeze ns il i unties hfully among the ripen ing corn, and in theivintry blast as it roars through the leafless joods, making rude har mony wilh desolaliii; in the palter of the falling rain; in the pish of the mountuin stream ns it falls froi ledge to ledge, spread ing as it falls; in the itrange tumultuous up roar of the rising seuLr in the thunder whose miohty peal shakes en the everlasting hills, and wakes up a thoilaud echoes, ns it wan ders, now here, now (here, seeking a place in which lo die. s. But if there is lifj and beauty ill around us, it is a precarious ife, a transient beauty. About the glory thei is not a defence. The swelling bud, the fa tug lent, the slutting unquiet tide, clouds uccceding sunshine, und darkness chasing lijit, are a true comment on the fashion of tlis world, which passeth away. The grass wi inure th; the flower fudcth; for the earth is blighted nnd accursed. Death is the perpetual handmaid and servitor of life; life itself is but suspended death. In the glo rious chord of universal harmony is one sor row ful note outspciiting all the rest; in the great symphony is due plaintive strain which cannot be mistaken, knd Nature's choral hymn is her own requiem. The whole creation groaneth and truvallelh together in pein. There rises from it one long, loud wuil of anguish and despair; and the loudest of all from man anguish that is only alleviated by the pruBptct of unolhur life, nn undying slate new heavens nnd a new earth, wherein dwellelh righteousness. Napoleor add Alexardrr. A Paris cor- "r"u ' "-.r,.... v...i. .... . . lin ing to the intimacy thai lias grown up be tween Alexander II and Louis Napoleon, says: 1 know that the Emperor Alexander II has intimated to his Imperial brother, Napoleon III, a desue to meet him at liorlin, in the mnnlh of Augnst next, nnd that that inter view will take place if the Russian Autocrat declines the pressing invitation to come to Hans, which the Count de Mnrnv was em powered to convey, and is endeavoring to have accepted. 1 The writer states further, that an alliance, offensive or defensire, will soon take place between the two Empties, and that it will lend to the dissolution of the Austran Empire. This is rather startling, but by no means im possible. Brief but to thr Point. A friend, re cently traveling in Mississippi, had an oppor tunity of attending i wedding of Ihe real old fashioned sort in one of the remote rural dis tricts of that State. The words of the par son officiating on the occasion, struck our friend ns slightly peculiar, and he therefore penciled them on hii bootleg, for iuture ref erence. Here they are: "Mr Solomon Huesbrit, do you take Miss Terressn Brilton, who you hold by the right hand lo be your bed'ed nnd wed'ed wile forsaking nil other women but her promis ing to love her in lickness nnd in health in madness, in illness, snd in contrariness so long ns you shall live on this yearlh? Miss Terresu Brilton itc, &.c. Sich being your ptomisesl pronounce you Husband nnd Wife, nnd bid you gs in Pence, nnd may the Lord keep both straight Amen." Sold. Observing a wag the other day grinding up some white domestic gunno, nnd carefully enveloping it in a paper, we usked him w hat he was gniiif to do with it. "Comu on, snd I'll show you," was the re ply. Following him into a doctor's shop, lie handed it to Pills, and naked him what it was, saying that he had found il in the road, and il it was medicine he might have it. The "doo" first applied it to his nose, then lasted X, looked wise, nnd answered. "The very best article of quinine!" Tho result of this scrnp is there nre two of us who will never Like any of that doctor's quinine. Thr Wat of tiis World. First boy "Say Bill, then you re gettiug a dollar a week now." Second boy "Well, you might a knew that, bv seeiu' all the fellers come aonpin' around me, that wouldn't a noticed me when I was poor." I if A young man who wns desirous of marrying a daughter of a well known Boston merchant, after many attempts to broach the subject to the old geulleinun, In very stut tering manner said: Mr. II ,nre you willing to le-Ie-let me have your daughter Jane! Of course I em, gruffly and quickly replied the old man, 'and I wish you would get some other likely fellow to marry the rest of them.' frrThe Salem (Mass.,) Gazette anvs that sincu thai paper wns established by Samuel Hall. forty-nine other newspapers have been started in that city, forty-aix of which havs been broken up in bankruptcy. A TRUMPET BLAST. BT ROVIRO HARRT. Don't like freedom of speech ! Well, my dear air, what do you like t Don't like free discussion ! dont like to hear an opinion ad vanced contrary to your own notion of things L Why, sir, a body wonld think you belonged to the times of Galileo, or some other antiquated period. One might sup pose you were educated under the ancient regime, had fallen in trance, and just been resuscitated that you had been playing the part of Rip Van Winkle, and had alept away an age or two. Why, my dear fellow, this is the nineteenth century, the age of free dis cussion. In these times we have a press ss free ns the air we breathe; a free nrgti menta tion of all kinds of topics, nnd a freedom of opinion nnd faith as broad as the universe. W hy, air, a princtple, a belief, a sentiment, nn opinion, or whatever else you have a mind to name, is not worth the holding unless it will bear the closest scrutiny. What is any dogma or opinion good for if it will not bear the light of reason! Every . principle or doctrine advanced should bear handling with out gloves. When you embrace nny belief, do nol fear to look the tiling full in the face; turn it round, nnd examine it in nil its bear ingSjiind ascertain whether it is likely to ben efit you in this life, for that which will do you no good in time will not be likely to benefit you in eternity. None but a restless being would trust him self with a gun the atrengih of which had not been tested; and none but (hose whose minds need expansion would subscribe lo any creed or dogma, unless i was for the ac complishment of some selfish end. Do you wish to have the limits of your thought and action circumscribed! Do you want your mental , faculties enthralled ? Would you wish to be enslaved, and not al lowed the privilege the glorious liberty of giving vent to your honest convictions ! I think not. Then, if this be to, do not un dertuke to hedge in the mind man's high est gift, but give it perfect freedom. Ah, you do not fear to hear opposite views lo your own! You would not hesitate to discuss any subject, or rend books nnd pa pers about things which you do not believe 1 You have no fears, then, of having your oicn mind changed from the tenets you now hold; but you do feat the influence of such things upon others! Now, why are you not will ing to allow others to depend on their own judgment as well ns you ! Do you consid er your mind so much superior! Yes I see how it is, every body thinks himself the best judge in matters of faith, and each one wish es to draw out a creed for himself, oud have all the world subscribe to it. . Awsv wilh ----ca - k iiKi nave long euougn oeen ariving down the current of time in the nnrrow channel; it is high time for each nnd every one to open his heart and mind to receive truth and goodness from what ever source it comes, andstrivo to advance in the light of life as becomes an immortal soul. When, oh when will men and women lenrn, and teach their children, to love their Cre ator with ull their hearts, nnd each other equal with their self love ! When this takes place, and uot before, may we expect to see the dawnings of a glorious millennium. Warts to get Datkd Back On a beau tiful Sunday afternoon last Fall, a young cou ple from an adjoining town came down to our village, stopped at one of the irotels, sent out for a clergyman nnd were married. The young man paid the fee, look a marriage cer tificale, and they left the hotel a happy cou ple. A few days since the young man cull ed upon the clergyman with his certificate, "and wished to get it dated back." How far back do you wish it dated" inquired the cler gymnn. " Why, as near as we can calculate, about a couple of months" replied the young man. This the clergyman seemed to decline doing, but the young man wished he would, "as he would rather give Jive dollars than not have il dated back." The clergyman regret ted the necessity of dating back the cerlili t-ate, and was very sorry he could not com ply '"ith his wishes: so- the young man left with his $5 und marriage certificate, Ihe lat ter being "at near as they could calcu late about a couple of months loo short. Ha vana Jour. Cr To make a horse feel good and have fine hair the following receipt is given: RTake Brushuset cuiricomus Ad libitum. Elbow greasus Quantum sufT. Illanketisus Firstratus. Slnbulus Never say d ictus, but mealus et otus. Exercisns No compromisus. The effect of the above is truly wonder ful. It results in coatu ahinus, appelitus wolfius, muscularitus two-forly-itus. Studious Bur. -Juhny! I advise you not to be s good bovl" Jhny "Why!" Studious Boy "Because in books all good boy die, you know!'' I VVhin tho first steamboat nnaaod nn a. - . 1 the Savannah river, an old negro vented his wonder nnd. admiration' thus: "Goramity ! White man kin make enny ting he try lo, ' nigger, nnd w hen be try dot, he mighty apt to muke mulatto!" Montgomery MaiU rsvtlntil the thirteenth centurv straw waa the bed of kings nd previous to that time, the king nnd his family sleep in the same chamber. tilt" Instead of '1 eniov bad health.' anv My health is not good.' In stead uf 'My clothes have become two small for me,' say 'I hare grown too stout for my clothes.' Hoors. Here Is a verse lro;n sn old poet. which we have nol seen published aiuoug the lulUr-doy waifs: , "If Die nu.hand anee (tree way To hie wlfe'ioaprlcloua away, for Me breeehra he next day May (o wuoep sod Hollow." Wboop-ee. Uf Tbe "Msxiesn Extraordinary" takes deoided ground In favor ef a total divores of cbnroh aud State throughout that republie. Air ard Watrr A qusrt of wster is daily passing through the skin of a sound person. It evaporates through Ihe minute openings which cover the whole surface, and if these be plugged np, is compelled lo trav el through the kidneys, and gives rise to in ternal disorder. Ablution, therefore, if sound health is to bo preserved, is a duty of the first importance. Pure air is also essential to health and at night the free supply of it is of especial moment. , Each aleeper drawa into the cheat, about fifteen times every minute, a certain quanliy of the surrounding atmos phere, and returns it, after a chai.ge within the body, mixed with a poison. One' hun dred and fifty giaina by weight of thia pois onous ingredient are added to the air of a bed room hi one hour , by a aingle sleeper, more than one thousand during the pight.- Unless there bt a sufficient quantity of air to dilute this, or unless ventilation provide for a gradual tumovnl of foul air, while fresh eeuiea to take its place, health must be seri ously underiuinded. . . " . The Graveyard. The following el oquent nnd beautiful extract Is from "The Graveyard," written by the Rev. Mr. Green wood of Boston: f , I never shun a graveyard the thoughtful melancholy which it inspires is grateful nil her than disagreeable to me; it gives me no pain to tread on the green roof ot that dark man sion, whose chambers I must occupy so soon and I otten wander from choice to a place where there is neither solitude nor society Something human is there but the folly, the bustle, the vanities, the pretensions, the competitions, the pride of humanity are gone men nre there, but the pulsions are hushed, and their spirits are still malevolence bus Inst its power ol'hnrminL't appetite is anted, ambition lies low, nnd lust is cold; anger is done raving, all disputes are ended, ull rev elry is over, the fellest inimosity is deeply buried, find most dungeroiis sins are safely confined by the thickly t piled clods of the valley; Vice is dumb anil powerless, and vir tue is waiting in silence for the trump of the archangel una the voice ef God. One Prays and Arotiier Pumps. The ship Senntor, which arrived nt New . York from Liverpool, In a leuky condition, met with a very severe gale of wind just after leaving port After several days of hard pumping, the crew notified the captain that Ihey should uot pump any longer. Captain Coffin said, coolly: "It is now just 13 o'clock; at the rate the ship is now leaking, I calcu late we shall all be in the other world , at about half past 3. I nm going below to say my prayers," end went Into his cabin. One old fellow dcclured he lind rather pump than pray. In a few minutes, the Captain heard the pumps going again as lively aa ever, and they did not cense go ng, except nt short in tervals, until the ship arrived in New York. I and J. There nre not two letters in the manuscript alphabet of Ihe English languagei which causes so much misconstruction as I and J, as most people write them exactly alike. The rule for writing them properly, and which deserves to be universally adopt ed, is to run the J below the Hue, and the 1 even with the line. Juvcnilr Wit. An old physician was de claring in our hearing the other day, upon the propensity which a majority of people disply in eating unripe fruit und vegetables Said he: "There is not a vgelable growing in our gardens that is not best when arrived at maturity, nnd most of them nre positively injurious unless fully ripe." "I know one thing that ain't so good when it's ripe ns 'tis when it is green," interrupted a little boy, in a very confidential but mod est manner. , "What's that!" sharply said the physician, vexed nt having his principle disputed by a mere boy. "A cucumber!" responded the lad. The doctor winked ut us with both eyes, but suid nothing.- J96r Never brenk your neck to bow nt all to a "sweet sixteen," with flounced dress, who is ashamed of her old fashioned mother; or to a strutting collegiate who Is horrified at his grandmother's bad grammar. A Quaker once hearing s p rson tell how much lie lelt for another, who was suffering and needed his assistance, dryly asked him, "Friend, hiiat thou felt in thy pocket for himr . t-WA man tried in Boston for stealing a horse and wagon, being called upon to speak for himself, said: ! hnva niitliinrr In anv In reirtiefllnr. Tim fact is, when I get half or two thirds drunk I think everything belongs to me.' Whereupon the Boston Post makes this parenthesis: , , ' TltAra ra anmA varv anber fiannla who net as if they think just aa Joe doea when he isarunkv Danvillr, Pa. June 3. The Coroner's jury rendered a verdict, that David T'ig8 and Mrs. Clark men uy poison, supposed to have been administered by W. J. Clark nnd Mrs. Twites, who were committed for trial. fjEP"A thief broke out of jail on the Snb balli, but being captured, told the policeman i. ...!..!! j.u..,iii.,(4.H,if I,a k.fl ... .ii- mni no ill ik ii i""" " ..... . scieittious scruples ubout traveling on Sun- ony. im Tl. - 1. -..-! i.r I la Iiium tlii. anil nf ,c mem "i .. ... life ia work; the sninr of life, poetry; the wn ter of life faith." Hand us the bread and sugnr, never mind the an It. t-WA character In Mrs. Ilentz's atorv of "Love After Murriane" lays down the law thus: "If mnn is nol nifly enough to fright en his horse he hi handsome enough to mar ry.- " -fy n lilinin - j m vp-wii mi i aiiinu jij m . I . !n I.L- M.,.nnu. A..m . I. A .. n .. I I. We wninrn, ill imw 'I tl U1T nw uif-uiihi- ings rf the world prey upon honest labor, i r..in n It aim iuilch uywn , pjf The duties levied on a barrol of flour, at Hnvnns, snd ot sll the ports In Cubs, amount to $U 65. I he duty on corn frac tion over forty cents per bushel. sraV"Polvirnmv is allowed In Zealand, but the head wile is the only on who is allowed to commit suicide when the husband dies. The other wives art denied thia privilege. Does thi Earth Revolve DaTS long been a favorite theory of asiTt ha believed bv many to oe verified by Ultra. that the earth revolves daily; but a wn the London Chronicle says he can prove theory untrue. Follow him : Tlia rbatanea nf thr aun from the earth it eighty two millions of miles, and placing tho aur. iu the centre of the ecliptic, the diameter will be at least 164 millions of miles, snd tho circumference 5l5,'i'Jl,I95 miles, w hich, in about 365 days, it is said the earth sur rounds, at the rate nf 1,410,598 miles each day, or 68,774, i-J2-24 miles each hour, w hich is 979,34-00 utiles every minute of lime. Now, suppose the poles of the world nre to be placed perpendicular, , the earth would move horizontally around the ecliptic circle; luit tithe saia poles aie io ie I unxoi.uuiy iilnced. tlten the earth would have to ascend and descend in surrounding the circle. The snlnr Hvsleinista also assert the earth hna daily revolution of more than 1000 luilea eve ry hour; who can believe tfiis when the eurm advances nenrly 1.000 miles every minute of time i l declare 1 can demonstrate in eaun hna not a duily revolution. Struck bt the Comet. Tho good peo- -pie down at lndiunniiolis, Ind., were terribly frightened on Tuesday evening. They be ricve'dnwn there' that the comet is going to . knock our little plnnet "nil to smash,' nnd 1 have been grently excited about it for some time. Wilh this belief, snd under this ex- .' ciiement, they were thrown into a state of alarm on Tuesday evening that in described ss 'perfectly awlul,' by seeing the moon rise from behind the eastern hills, ns red na blood, and looking like the great head of a fiery dragon. They thougnt it wns the comet thai it was about to strike that the end of nil earthly things was at hand, and they Set themselves to work wilh prayers, nnd tentn, und supplications, In 'make their pence,' and to be ready to 'go up.' So frightened were thev. savs the Lafayette Journal, that tho . alarm bells were rung, and the fire enginea brought out, and the excitement Ki-.d eontu. sioii tors few Uioinents was indescribable. The iden of calling out (he engines, under such a circumstance, wns worthy of the gen ins of Dame Partington, who undertook lo repel an invasion of the. Atlantic wilh her mop. The appearance ol tne iuii oro aoovo the horizon soon restored the people to their senses, and converted their shrieks of affright and frenzied appeals to heaven into a general guSuW. , . . ;'. Gettwo to Heaven by way or New Orleans. The Philadelphia correspondent of the New York Dispatch gives the follow ing': . A few days since, a young man who had long been attached lo the church, nnd who was about to leave for New Orleans, came to bid his pastor furewell. "And so you are going to that degenerate place, New Orleans, are you!" said the p .stor. "Yes, air; but ' I don't expect to be influenced by any extrane ous pressure of any kind," responded the young mnn, with considerable eutueatness. . "Well, I sin glad to see you ao confident. I hope the .Lord will guide vnu. But do vou know the temptations which exist there t' " "Not nnrtielilsrly, -'." -W,ll-1-ow-Vu. - will find wanton women In the guise of Paris, templiiiL' the very elect; nnd rare wines nnd ardent drinks; and you'll find fine coupuny, und night brawling and gambling, nnd dissi pation, and running after the lusts of eld man Adam." "Still, sir, I hope to combnt these successfully." "I hope you w ill. my dear Christian brother," was the reply. "I hnpe you will. And let me give yon liiis much lor' your consolation iu case you should tall from grace. The tempter is worse than the sin, nnd the greater temptation, the more merit there is in resisting it. The man who goes to I leaven hy way of New Orleans is sure to have twice as high n place in elernnl glory aa he who reaches Paradise through the quiet portuls of Connecticut or Pennsylvania." Cheap I, ivino. People who wit-h to live well and cheap nt the same time, should go lo Antioch. Mr. Neule, in his recent works on Syria, says he tried to be extravagant there, but found it to be impossible, "huuse rent, servants, horses, board, washing and wine included," to spend more than 40 a year. Oh, that Antioch were in London ! Fancy H Ids. of good mutton for Is! fut fowls for 2d. apiece ! 70 lbs. of fish for Is ! and nil possible fruits nnd voi."etilles ""IK" cie.nl for one's household foi 3d. n week t If we remember Aright, the garden of Eden waa somewhere near this place." tfSoint ardent young gentlemen of Springfield went a serenading, and while do ing their sweetest with sentimental songs under the windows, of the fairest of their lady acquaintances, tho sash was thrown up, and the man ol the house exclaimed: "Co away! Go away! if you can't make a better noise than that. I thought somebody's sick cow was dying." Remarkable Case or Supkrstition. Near Lam-aster, Pa., on Sunday of Inst woek, the bodyof.Mss Sophin Bauman wns exhumed by her surviving relatives, to see if the corner of the winding sheet wns nol hi her mouth. Since her death, by consumption, several of her relutives have died from the same disease, and those who survived believed the sheet had gotton into the mouth of thu corpse, und it was "sucking them into the grave. Miss B. had been dead nine years, mid both body and shoel had crumbled into dust. A woggish fellow, somewhat trou bled with nn impediment in his speech, while one day sitting at s public table, hud neension to use a pepper-box. After shaking it with nil due vehemence, snd turning il in vuriona ways, he found that the pepper -corns were ill no wise inclined tit count forth. "T-t-th-lliit p-pe-pepper box," he exclaimed, with face tious grin, "is so-aoine-souielliiiiK li like my- . sell'.". "Why so!" interrogated a neighbor. "I'.poo-poor delivery," was the reply, . UnronruRATB Typo. A young man named Knox, a printer, lias met with a snd bereavement. An uncle whom he had never aeen, died the other day, and left him, $75, 000. Mr. Knox lias the sympathies of the entire craft. Pecan Nuts A letter ariter, addressing the United Stales Patent oflice, from Kerr county, Texas, expresses surprise that that department hod not policed the pecan nut, which grows abundantly in Texas. About 300,000 bushels of the nut have been expor ted from lhatSlnte to Europe and elsewhere, producing f400,000. 4f It la said that no fort ever suffered ' so much from a single buttle, as baa the piano forU from the battle of Prague. , iTih, thy H I'M I il !i