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... ... VOL. II. LOUDON, TENNESSEE, SEPTEMBER 6, 1S54. ,:: NO. 39. Mi r rVBI.lSHED WEEKLT ET JKO. W. & SAH'L E. O'BRIEIT. c on Cedar Street, East of the Public Square TERMS: Two Dollari in anVnnce; Two Doi- I.4.JIS ai Fiftt Cehts in six months: Thkkj l)ot. 1 AnT Ere r,r tho first, and 50 cents for each subsequent '.ceertion. YEARLY RATE 8. Professional Card, (five line?, $ 5 " " (more t'nn fivo"ii'nes,).... !0 Quarter of column , . ISA Half column ... 3" J Announcing cn, 7$3 .Te-Adclrcs 'the Publishers. rott.I'aid. LOUDON : WEDXE.SDAY, i : : : : SEPTEMBER, G. Co:iferen' c at Cleveland, Those Tieachers, who expect tQ bring their fumilies to Conference, will Yi'ease so inform me ly letter immediately. c. Daily. Aug. 23d '54. ttiish Copy KIS" Iw. A very impor'ant deciiion has been recently Tendered in the Eugli.-h House of Lords in a question of copyright. The decision is that a work composed by an alien cannot be copyright- ! in ureal kntain unless t tie am nor is res. - ding within the yuecn' dominions, and owing j .allegiance toh-r at the time of its pubhoation ( in CreM Uriuin.. This decision is of j greatest importance to all American authors j and puDhsoers. Jt is given 100 ny me nigae.M , 4udiri:i! antliontv in the kinrrdo-n, and is not subject to review or repeal. Jt may therefore b takyu as English law hereafter tlral Ameri cans caii!it take out copyr'hts of their works in England inlc-ss they go there to live, or at least nra rer-i dents tuero at the time of their publication. Si-i. Anicr. Si.lilicrs cf tl:e War of ISVZ. Jud re Sl'thkju.aivI) sia'c-s for the information O m f the manv thousand soldiers and widows and , ., , , nan ;.i -c . l ' children id the 1110:1 ot the ware! Ibis lutercstcj j in the bounty land bill, lhat it will be pressed to a C( nsideraticn in Congress early at its next essiou. The Judge was at Washington when Congress adjourned, and says from a conversa tion had with the Hon. Mr. Chvkchwkm.. of Tennessee, who reported the bounty land bill, t the House of Representatives, that be has no doubt that the bill will betaken up soon afrcr the session 'inem in December next. The Judge fives it h- his opinio , that the bill will pass if .the sildiers and wid.vvs and children justly en tilled to land troin Congress will write to or per sonally call upon each member in their repre sentative districts to vote in favor of the bounty land bii! oow before Congress. Charleston Courier. The Crops. In our rambles over the District we have had ample opportunity for judging the crops, and sum up by predicting an average cron of corn. ri"l .1 1 . V... t I ...,f ...,.1 i ne wneai narve.M iuis h'ji iun.cn "v. The oats w:u never better. More rain was i needed for backward corn, potatoes, peas, cw.; J which, from present in lica ions, are like to be cut short. Keuwee Courier. A specimen of building stone, popular in France, but hitherto not used in America, has been bron-ht from Havre lately, and will be used in the construction .f the new edifieo in tended for the Nassau Bank, New York city. It is yellow, and of two kinds, one hard and the other soft, b;..h of which are to have their du rability thus tested as 'regards this climate, there being some doubt on this point. j woods, as veil as of works of art, mosaic and Copper. inlaid won--, applicable for paper hangings, or The Hil'vi!:.', Va.' Torrent say.,we have been 1 for furniture, in the place of veneering, these shown a fine specimen of Copper ore bjt,Col. II. ; imitations being produced at an exceedingly B. IJrabsoH of Chattanooga, Tenn., which had ! low cost, while they rival in perfection the origi been taken out on the Iron Ore Lead near the ! nal objects, enabling those whose means are tipper end of this county. Thi3 ore. which he j limited to obtain decorations at once cheap and termed the Gray Su'pliuret, was obtained with- in good taste. Scientific American. in three inc'ies ofthe surface and is exceeding- j lyrich will yield GO per cent at least. The j The New York "National Democrat," which Col. and his company own a largcamount of j is a thorn in the side of the present national property in that suction which is thought to be the most valuable property in the county. The Hon. Green C. Bronson has reconsidered. hlfc resolution not to become a candidate for Governor of New York, and has consented to accept the nomination. He counts on a large support from the Know-Nothings, and the .sil ver Grays have promised him their adherence. Accident. 7 A very serious accident occurred in Grayson Va.,on Saturday last which very nearly resulted in the death of three men, one of them Mr. Will iam II. Baldwin, a copper hunter from Tennes see. The report says they were preparing a blast in a shaft, which they w ere sinking; Mr. Baldwin was holding the needle and others were striking, when it exploded tearing Mr. Baldwins hand nearly off, and putting out one if not both of his eyes. We did not learn the names of the ether two men who were also severely injured. Mouutai Torrent. A Severe Resckk. Fletcher, Bishop of Nismes, was the son of a chandler.- A proud duke once endeavored to mortify the prelate, by saying at the levee that he smelt of tallow: to which" the other replied, "My lord, I am the son of a chandler," tis true; and, if ycur lordship tad been the same, you would have remained a tallow-chandler all the days of your life.". EncCATiox or Dogs. A writer in the Lon don Examiner lately saw a blind man look j with much apparent iniereaiai u. pnw !" 1 1 "VVKr mv fnoni 17 cowl we. "it seems you are not blind?" Blind! no, thank God, your honor," replied the man, "I ; . 2 have my blessed sight as auother." "Then why Orr, allias Aneel Gabriel, is again afloat hav do you go about led by a dog with a string?" ing been "bajjed out" on Monday last. He had "Why, because I bedicates dogs for blind men." ; better keep in more shallow water hereafter. "Sew Kind of Printing. hfc following from the ''London Journal of ' the tSocietv of Arts." describes a new disem-erv j i 7 F elix Abate, of Naples, for representing cer tain objects by printing dbect'y from them. F edeseription of the process, will be 1 remarked; perhaps w ith some degree of surprise the excessive sensitiveness of vegetable sub stances under the joint action of acids and heat so that an iufinitessimal dose" of the former, and j on instantaneous application of the latter, are ! s.ufficint t0 F,luec tl,e most MS ' effect.- 1 1 Iie process ls 03 follows: . object from which impressions are to be taken: I expose ths wood for a few minutes to the cold evaporation of hydroc hloric or sulphuric acid, or I slightly wet it with either of these acids di- i luted, and then wipe the acid well off from the j surface. Afterwards it is laid upon a piece of calico or paper, or common wood, and by a stroke of the press an impression is taken, which is, of course, quite invisible; but by exposing this impression, immediately after,tothe action of a strong heat a mo.it perfect and beautiful representation of the printing wood instantar.e- ously appears. In the same way, with the same plate of wood, without any other acid prpara- .. Tmm!.pr :mnroci:rtnc aunt Rg tQ hc exaUf.eJ nn(J the impre8sions faintf the ac;difi. t.slii.M1 Lftheplate must ba repeated as nWe. g() m rrogrcssivelf as ,he wootl ;3 nct in th(j ,eust WyncA bj ,he working of the process for a;;y number of impressions. All these im- presi jus show a general wco 1-like tint, most natural for the light-colored woods, such as oak, walnut, maple, &c; but for other woods"! that have a peculiar color, such as mahogany, rcse wood, &c, the impression must be taken, if a true imitation be required, on a stuff dyed of ch- light color of the wood. It must be here remarked, that the impres sions, as above made, show an inversion of tints in reference to the original wood, bo that the r ' light are dark, and vice versa, which, however, does not interfere with the effect. Tire reason of it is, that a'l the varieties of tints which ap pear in the same wood are the effect of the vary ing closeness ol its fibers in its different - parts, so that where the fibers are close, the color is dark, and light where they are loose; but in the above process, as the absorption -of the acid is greater in proportion to the looseness of its fibers; the effect must necessarily be tiie reverse ofthe above. However, when I wish to pro duce the true effect of the printing wood, I alter theproce.ss as follows:, I wet tke surface upon whii h the impression is to be taken with dilute acid, and then I print with the veneeering wood .previously wetted with diluted liquid ammonia it is evident that in this case the alkali neutral izing the acid, the effect resulting frcm the sub sequent, action of heat will be a true represen tation ofthe printing surface. Such is thermography, or the art of printing by means of heat. Now it is nothing but nat- ural to anticipate in regard to this art, as well as to the other above-dcicribed processess for printing directly from objects, that they will afford most important services to the natural, I botanical, miaeralogical, and anatomical scien ces; as it is by their, means that the internal struct ure of bodies is unveiJed to the eyes of the philosopher, and the wonders of nature, in their inexaustil'le variety are indefinitely multiplied, to bs subjected to the investigation and to serve- t!:e gratification of mankind. But the new art will prove not les useful to the decorative arts, particularly in its applica tion to produce imitations of rare and costly adminisfration, is down upon the clerk of the House of Representatives in this wise: "We have all along been merciful to John W. Forney; but he must carry a little lower head, or we will strip a veil from his face which will disclose to the public view, a character worse than the one which the New York Her ald has-ascribed to him. The 'few effete poli ticians of New York' remember him, and bis sayings in relation to President Pierce, and his political mana;uvering and imprudent frauds w ill form a subject for several chapters iu the 'History of the First Year of President Pierce's Admiii:stralion,'which may appear in book form one of these da vs." Professor Stowe of Andovcr College, Mass., (the "Ieetless" half of Mrs. Beecher Stowe,) who was silly enough to make a vow that he would mt shave his beard until the repeal of the fugitive slave law is accomplished, has now upon his fice and chin, the Salem Register in forms us, a growth of fleece which makes him resemble one of the ancient patriarchs. It is as well, perhaps, that it should be so; for there sbou.ld be some distinguishing feature between t.h? man and his wife. , At a jreneral court martial, which convened at Fcrt Union, New Mexico, on the 10th of February, 1854, pursuant to Orders No. 7, of January, 2C, 18.U, headquarters department cf New Mexico, and of which Brevet Major D. II. Rucker.Assistant Quartermaster, was president, First Lieut. Wylly C. Adam 8, of the 2d regi ment of Artillery, was arraigned and tried on the charge of drunkenness on duty. Having been found guilty, ho was sentenced to be "cashiered," and on the 1 Cth instant the sen tence was duly carried out. To' Lou Ion Free Press. IJ.ilm for a Broken Heart. I feel again constrained to ask through the A "broken hearted woman," as she calls her ,. . . ., e ' j Mf--Mrs. Laura Hunt, of Montgomery county, med.um of your excellent paper, some inform I N y n0,.fi.g th(J pub,ic t,iroa,g the Amgter. tion relative to the "Roane County Agiicultu- j (am ltelligeneer, that her dear husband, Josh ral Society." I ask it through your paper be- j ua Hjnt, has left her befl and board, and stray cause I know that many of mv brother farmers i to parts unknown; and she forbids all girls , . , . . , . and old maids and widows to meddle 'with or are anxious aiso to be informed as to its prog- , marrj t)w penft Uy ofth(J bw s,Je ress,prospces, tc. We have looked anxiously, earnestly entreats all editors "throughout the but in vain, for a list of premiums to be award- ! world" to Jay the foregoing information before ed at the Fair in the fall, but we . are not even o'rwrrl that tlinro will ho o Ka.r! W hot n-ns I)P object in organizing the Society? V'e cannot believe Uiat the intelligent formers of your sec tion of the county and professional gentlemen of your thriving young city, would be at the trouble of organizing the Society without some pa Legislature for the encouragement of agricul ture, or has it beow lost sight of in the excite ment created in your community by "that dis ease" you have had amongst yon which cannot be called by any name without giving offence to somebodv. or that other disease, a little less fatal, but much more prevalent, which ha3 caused such a rush to the mountains and sach ) j a scratching up of dirt mid turning over of rocks in search of indication? At the same time that I state my unquali fied bclief,that it has been the two latter causes, that have kept the Society slumbering so long, and ask pardon for insinuating the other cause, I must be permitted to say that the delay has been construed into ''indications" not very fa vorable to the standing and reputation that those who have embarked in this cause, have ; 0t!icr parts of the county as agriculturists and men of business. And we believe farther, that if the last meeting had been held at Loudon and the nxl appointed to be held at Kingston, or Post Oak Springs either, that months would not have been permitted to pass nway without anything being heard of the "Roane County Agricultural Society." I make this statement, not, for the purpose of making invidious com parisons between places, but because there has been culpable neglect on the part of your end of the county;(you cannot expect the lower end ofthe county to attend your monthly meetings;) and because 1 want the thing to be resuscita ted, and to go ahead and do some good. And now gentlemen, members of the society let-me proposo, that if you trill not do any thing far ther to promote the cause, that you have a call ed meeting at Loudon and adjourn to meet, some time not very distant, at Kingston, and let us make an effort there. What do you say to this? Do not fall out with me for making this proposition it is not done icislti.iy you to agree to it, by any means for I am well con vinced that in this matter, we will only have sufficient strength in union divided we must fall. But for one I had rather fall in a struggle to do something than to slumber on and on,and never make an effort that is not the way we expect to accomplish any thin;-, out in the Drt Digoixs. "There is," says aBoston paper, "a very curi ous and ingenious safety money drawer, which is to screw up under the counter, and has no lock, but 03 sure as a rogue touchesit, an alarm bell rings, and he is glad to escape; yet it opens to the right one. with ease and without noise. There are two hundred kinds of these t ills, made with a difference, so that it would take an adroit thief all his life time to find out. how to rob them. The five men-of war, composing our Mediter anean squadron, returned to Spezzia previous to the 2oth ult., all well, after displaying the Amer ican colors at the various Mediterranean ports. They were to be offagain, after taking in stores. &c. A letter from Spczzia to the N. Y. Co;i mercial Adcmi$er says. "Commodore Stringham ha'a; transferred his flag from the frigate Cumberland, Capt. Har wood, to the steam frigate Saranae, Capt. Long, and leaves in her for Constantinople. The Cum berland is to cruise on the coast of Spain, with the St. Louis, Capt. Ingraham; and the Levant, Cap.t Turner, is looking after pirates, roving near Smyrna. Capt. Ingraham; who had leave to return to the United States, prefers remain ing to the expiration of his cruise, and and Capt. Morri?, who was to command the St. Louis, is now the flag captain." Patents in Great Rritain. Our London agents caution American inven tors against the operations of parties in and a bout Washington, who act in concert with agen cies in LorTdon, for introducing good improve ments into Great Britain as soon as the patents are-issued here. They mention one case where the inventor, upon reaching London, found to hisgrent mortification that his invention had already been secured by another, who had re ceived it as a communication from some one on this side. Cases of this character are represen ted as not uncommon. We have no personal knowledge upon the subject, and write upon the hintofour agents in London. It is a very dirty business to purloin the iirvention of anoth er and we hope to hear no more of it. If well authenticated fact3 come to our knowledge, im plicating parties in such transactions, we. shall not withhold their names from the public. Scientific American. The New Orleans True Delta, of Sunday says; "If the telegraph, as at present managed in the Southern country, is not. a humbug, then we are entirely unacquainted with the definition of that expressive wonL" The mother of Sam Patch died at PawtnckeJ; R. L, last week,at the advanced age of 80 years. She is spoken of as having been a Samaritan to the poor, "going about doing good," and whose tears had flowed "like rivers of water," for the pad fate and early death of her son. definite object in view. Has that object ireen nltoinnn in tfOftm.Tr , , , , , , . Len tinder the law passed at the last session of our t . renters, m 1 1 nni win pie we 10 perceive . . ' 1 1 ier and Enquirer.' And we too. NT. Y. Transcript. . And we three. Cin. Mirror. And we four. N. Y. Standard. And we five.' Western Methodist. And we six. fZion's Herald. A iid we seven. Maine Free Press, Au1 .we e- I .Mo. b ree Fress. ma openeC-J Woodstock W hi.' ve- ter ucu au'd "bord, the villian rme ten. National li.agle. nd strayed to parts unknown, the vagabond! Wv we eleven. Albany Advertiser. And we make up the dozen. N. Y. Com. Advertiser. He left her bedl Oh ! the vagrant! And we a baker's dozen. Pitts. Amer. And we start him again. .Miner'jf Jour. Keep him moving. Salt River is too good for him. Jackson Courier. May he have corns on his toes, and pains in his ribs all the days of his life. Leave a wo man's bed and board, the graceless knave ! We'll give him the sixteenth kick. Carlisle Reporter. Uli ! the vagabond! he deserves an additional kick, and we'll give hi in the seventeenth. - C!ev. Herald. We underwrite the eighteenth endorsement. Cour. !c Eikj. And we give the rascal the nineteenth shove. Eaton Argus. And here goe3 the twentieth American Sentinel. Pass him around! Start him again the scoun drel. And here goes the twenty-first kick, Utica Daily News. We givehim the twenty-second. Brethren add your mite. Vergennci Vermont. Here's our kick. No. 21, put it into the scamp .thick and fast. Concord Freeman. Break a woman s heart the faenu I lalie taat too. Pahiesville Til. And we repeat her wrongs and his shame to our twenty thousand readers. Saturday Cour ier. , Oh, the awful critter ! He'll be a courting our Peggy next paragraph him, brethren, with vengeance paragraph him. Washington In dex. Ticcalc his nose, the varmint! And ' until he returns, may ducks nibble him! grass-hoppers kick him! bed bus bite him, and night-mare haunt him! May he have hair in his victuals, corns on Lis toes, a flea in his stocking, and a bite on his nose! Cleveland Plaindealer. We arraign him as a heartiest disunionist, in thus dissolving the union between himself and Laura, and breaking the poor woman's heart. Geauga Freeman. Sreak a woman's "heart!' Miserable mis creant! Earth and life load him with all stings and torments; crush out. the last spark of his miserable existence, and send him down to his father's (old Pluto's) regions, there to dwell, where the angelic presence of woman was never known. (Union. luay be swallorw just a quart Of cholera at each breath! May musqutioes hunt him out And pester him to death! Toledo Blade. 'Left her bed,' has he ? How verdant. He must certainly be a Now Nothing; didn't know when he was well off. We give him two kicks. Lou. Times. We think it is time for abuse of this poor fel low to stop. We have no doubt his wife was old, ugly and crossgrained, or he would not have left her. Somerset Gazette. Hold, Gazette man; nor dare add insult upon injury to the "broken hearted woman!" But, Let his bed be no bed The wretch give him a pnllet among the fif.. What! and"stroyod to parts unknown":left herbs wed Did be? By a catapiller's wreathe entwined, Let Lira wink out by degrees. Loudon Free Pros?. Know Nothings. Considerable stir is made in the Democratic party in relation to the new organization usu ally termed Know Nothings, it has been de cided by that party, in this country, that every candidate for office shall take an oath that hc does not know, nor has he ever belonged to any such organization. This will narrow the chan ces of candiates somewhat, and will bring out on the other side a pretty stiong demonstration, it is supposed. In the meanwhile, everybody denies.the knowledge of the existence of such an order, and nobody belongs, to it. It is sup posed, by the knowing ones, that members of this Order are a little like Topsy they are not born, but they graic. At all events, they seem to be invincible, as well as invisible. They come un in the ni,Tht, overflow the ballot boxes ' 1 c i ' and then disappear. In the meanwhile, no one knows anything, and the rule is, to "say nothing to nobody." The whole affair is as clear as mud only it is a little harder to get. at, and is not so easily gotten over. Does anybody know anything? Saturday Evening Mail. . Necessary Precaution-. On a late ascen sion of an aeronaut, a gentleman requested to be allowed to accompany him into the serial re gions. "Are yon good tempered?' asked the aeronaut. "I believe so," said the other, 'but why do you ask the question?" "For fear we may fall out on the way." . John W. Davis, of Washington City, has been removed from the Pflst Office, because he was alleged to have been elected to the City council by the Know Nothings. Kxow Nothings Proscribed. The Phila delphia Pennsylvanian endorses the demand made by the Argus, of that city, that all Demo crat who have joined the Know Nothings must be excluded from ths polls at the primary elec tions and insists that no such "trators" shall be nominated to any office by the Democratic party. Dean Swift held this doctrine; that there were three places where a man should be allow ed to speak without contradiction; namely, the bench, the pulpit, and the gallows. For London Free Press. I see i:i the Knoxville Statesman, a commu nication headed, Hiwassee College, and signed A Student. I suppose it was . written by a specimen of the learned cf that Institute, busy ing himself, and insinuating of His capacity to enlighten an intellectual community. The con tents of his loiter, was pitched at some articles written for the Free Press by Medicus. With pleasure I say that I never was a student of that school, had I been after this I would ever be ashamed to acknowledge it, f t the writings of the cracked student,I consider to be a stigma upon any Institution, he may or has been as sociated with. I will ask no further questions, and diagnose his case, as one of malformed head, and unusual intllect. As an idiot in delusive iraa:rinalirri he a.itieipatA$n?V'w-to the enlightened world." br hi34-t.1lt?nTTn Fr .- m .i 1- tin An t ! , 1. ..,i.a t i l i 1'" "ilu -'"'I'" " the science and arts of the present generation Teachers, you who may be or has been the instructors of this beautiful fellow, as I look upon him being a fit subject to receive the kindest sympathy, from all sympathysing men. I suggest to you, for the sake of your reputa tion, and the anxiety I foel for the parents of this youth, to turn him back to his ab's, and let him remain twelve months at least, and to correct disturbed functions; I will suggest, to bathe his head every morning, on rising from his bunck, with cold water, and curry him down with a flesh brush. I will farther sug gest, as he is a backer to the dojtor of Knox ville, to institute in his case Croton Oil, ,as all men in this condition labors under the greatest numbness or deficient sensation, to restore the functions of digestion, and to equalise nervous influence by meaus, applicable to the great nervous centre of the brain: nothing better, could be advised, than to turn him back to ab for twelve months, cold water and Croton Oil. Mr. Student are you anticipating to accomplish victory over the healing art, or do you expect to immortalise yourself, in the practice of law, for your own benefit, I appeal to you, to take the above advise, to prove the correctness of this treatment. I have witnessed many in your delapidatcd state, restored to sound mind, and in language of Holy Writ, made fit subjects to multiply and replenish the earth. Stick to your abs, and w hen you jrogressto banishment let me know, and I will say to the world, by in dustry you have been victorious, over two syla bles, with your corporeal system much improv ed. Mr. Stud?nt, I will rest content upon your success if you will put into requisition the means above named. Reader, look at the inconsistency of mv friend student, after many he says, young heads are trying to enlighten the people of East Ten nessee, where he himself, professes only to be a student, he surely b entitled to all his concieted greatness, my friend, lick your flint and try it again, rub the lamp of intellect, and see that your effort is not a mere flash in the pan. Mediccs. Axecdote of Gex. Lee. When Gen. Lee was a prisoner at Albany, he dined with an Irishman. Before entering upon the wine the general remarked to his host that after drink ing he was apt to abuse Irishmen, for which he hoped his host would excuse him in advance. "By mysoul, general, I will do that, said his host, "if you oxcuscme a trifling fault which I have inyse.lt. Jt is this: whenever t hear a man abusing ould Ireland, I have a sad fault of cracking his sconce with a shillalcb." The general was civil during the whole eve nin The New-York Courier 0 Enquirer learns from reliable imformation that the remarkably has'y journey, lately made by Lord Howdex, from Madrid to France, was connected with some piuttif.l understanding between theFrencn and British Governments, respecting the inten ded proclamation of Don Pedro, the Fifih of Portugal, as head of a new united peninsular empire. -North Caholixa Legisi.ati:re. The House of Commons is composed of 63 democrats, 51 whis and 4 Southern Rights wbigs. The Sen ate of 40 democrats and 20 whigs. The suit instituted before Squire WoOLET against the Jeffersouville Rail Road, claiming damages because the company refused tocarry as a passenger a colored person who could not prove his freedom, Las been x decided against the road. An appeal will be taken to the Cir- cult Court, and if necess.irv to the sunreine'tri- , , ..T v t. j r.i bunal ot Indiana. The decision of this case is a matter of interest to the inhabitants of Ken tucky, since it materially effects the safety of their slave property. The New York'Couricr and Enquirer com mences an editorial on the Grey town affair with the following: "The Union has spoken and the Administra tion backs out. But, no; even backing out is too straight forward a movement for the Admin istration or its organ. They slip, and squirm and wriggle; they shift the burden of responsi bility from the Executive shoulders to those of Commander Hollins; and then they pat him on the back, and tell Hm and the world what a strong back it is, and what a wise head is a top of it, and are indignant that any one could sup pose for a moment that t heir hero could do any thing that was not perfectly right he should do And yet again they say that the Administra- tion must not be held responsible for .every thing that this terrible fellow did; because it is not quite certain that he did exactly as he bid to do, ratist look at bis instructions, and then perhaps they will find out, and perhaps they j won t. i ARREST OF CAPT. HOLLINS. . New York, Aug. 25. -Capt. Hollins, of the Cyane, was arrested hereto-day on a charge of destroying the property of Calvin Duran, a cki-. zen of Greytown, and "held to bail in the sum of $20,000. The cholera is decreasing. The daily reports from the hospitals have been discontined. CHAPTER ON KISSES. Kisses cannot be defined;too much of the iob tile essence ofthe highest poetry, too much of the choice dew of Heaven too much of th foretaste of immortal happiness, is bom, and dwells in their roseate being to render their de finition possible. . Gentle, enchanting, etherealizing, soul inspir ing kisses, ye are neither of Heaven nor of Earth, of reason nor of fancy wholly. Ye ara rosy bands falling upon our spirit, with a dnjeet violence, and restraning it "amid the sqmbrs scenes of life with a power of greatful resigna tion ! Divine Kises,ye came from among the itain, and when your balm distils itself upon the arid lids of humanity, those stars seem not far dis tant, nor does their music appear to hush. ' The true and sweetest flowers of MisteicrthV .quid poesy ot the heart, and the gionouu pie- turing of some bright hope, are in Kisses. They associate all blissful memories, fleek the heavy Future with golden clouds and violet skies, and gather together the brief pleasures of the known Past, and seal them, and make thcia longlast ing with thefr Hyblean breath. All kisses have honey in them, though mora or less, a drop or nn measured quantity, accord ing as theyjare received, and from whom. A mothers kb-s is holy and Heaven befittingdt re sembles a voiceless prayer, and the soul growi purer, better, loftier beneath its giving. The pressure of a sister's lips is calm and sa cred, and glowing with goodness and affection, and bennevolenee, that give them much life in the mind after they have died upon the place of their falling. Then the kiss of friendship too; this reeeivet its chiefest charm from an inward thought; it i$ but a sign ofthe internal appreciation; it may fc cold, for the kiss of frienship is but a symbol on 1. Such Kisses are not truly kisses, not th children of Love the violet-strewn pathways to the delicicus labyriths of passion, where Cythe rea and a host of shapes of splendid beauty wel come him who entereth with a bruised heart, though a willing and a generous purpose. Myterious and delicious kisses, who has not folt them with a thrill, a pulse bounding with hope against the fetter of his earthiness? Kiss es seem to hasten the destiny of men, and t send his soul to Heaven ere its appointed time. Glorious Kisses, what were the world without ye, where would the certainty of an undying bliss in the great To Come awken within as, un less at your delicious shrine 7 Lip3 were made for kissing. It i3 strange i( the heart rebel against c"dd custom, whrn heaven-made tnoutlis, moist with nnkissed beauty and heavy with sweetness pass before the vision? Those mouths are like dreams of unattainable things; and when they are touched, they are dreams still, because not to be wholly realized. Danger, and power, and fascination, and ir resistibleness lin.er in a kiss, which can almost make or nnmake a soul. A kiss has destroyed and established empires has changed the fata, of thousands has poisoned and given new lif with its sweetness. No stoicism can withstand a kiss; no philoso pher hath power against it. Adamant melts, and resolution fails, and oceans dry benenth th o heaven of a kiss! the touchstone of our com mon nature, revealing the eternity of loe. But kisses must be gently dealt wit& tney o are delicate there is the strangest of refine ment iu them, and the soul m33t regulate their conduct and be3towment. They cannot be tanght, for they are felt and their power cC hap piness in inuate. Beware of kisses! they may bring harm or Heaven: they re the weapons of the gods, and the plundered b!is3 of Paradise! The Danville Road. The National Intelligencer, after announcing the crossing of Staunton river by the cara aays: The Danville road, which is stretching over towards North Carolina, ha3 surprised even its best friends by its auccess. Very moderate re sults were anticipated, but it has proved to bw an enterprise of great value,, not only to Rich mond, but to a region of country & one timw very host'le to internal improvements. Iti ef. fects have been magical. Ax Ixcidevt or THE Choi.era. The Char ottesville Jeffursonian, alluding to the appear lance of cholera in Staunton, says: It is said that one in a funeral procession passing a shop where whisky was sold, stopped and asked for some of the fiery liquid; he was advised not to drink, but took the fatal glass in his hand, saying I know it will kill me if I drink it, but I must do it. lie drank it, and was soon afterward a corpse. The Jefforsonian throws out the following suggestion: If Col. Crozet would hereafter employ no -nan"" as contractor or laborer, nnless he would giro an express pledge not to sell or drink intoxica ting liquors, the work at the tunnel would go on without any delays. The Orange and Alexan dria Railroad invariably enter into such a bar gain with every contractor on their road. Yoniisr America. The following from the "advance sheets" of the forthcoming "Know Nothing Almanac:" Irish Mother "Arrah, Johnny, and where hive yees bin, so long?" Native Sm "Why, me and. the boys has been licking an Irishman." Mother "Wait, ye spa'peen, till yor daddy gits home you'll be afther catching it !" Son "Oh, he be blowed! That's the man we've liclcedV Exit Mother, with upraised eye sand a half- whistlin(r Hail Columbia. A ytw rrxD of Potatoe. A Texas paper 6ays we have seen a leaf of the Tara or Tltal root grown in the garden of Jas. B.Lee, which, measured 1? feet in circumference, aad 3J fee in diameter one way and 2J fet the other r The seed is from the Sandwich Islands, and ie eaid to be a delieinos frnit.