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J YATESf Editor and Proprietor Terms of SHhserijUhm Til it ee Doi.labs, in advance. CHARLOTTE, N.- C, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1868. 5 sevexteesth yotraEK d m b e b wo.i THE "Westera. Democrat I'vur.isiiKu By WILLIAM J. YATES, Editor and Proprietor. - o . Tkpms Three Dollars per annum-in advance. .VKertisements will be inserted at reasonable rate, or in accordance with contract. Obituary notices of over fire linea in length will fee t iling'! for at advertising rates. CHARLOTTE HOTEL, CHARLOTTE, X. C. Tliis first class and well known House, formerly ktjt by Maj. J. II. KEUIl, having been recently re paired and refurnished in every department, id now oj'c'i and ready to receive guests. Tiie T:iMe is unsurpnssotl, -and in point of convc iron e and comfort the House is not excelled hv any i, . the City. W. YV. HART, February 17, 18fi8. Proprietor. Robert Gibbon, Id. D., 1'HYSICIAN AND SUKGKON, Trion Strrrfy Charlotte, A". C, Ofliep nad Residence, one door south old State Dank, (f.ji-iuerly Wm. Johnston' residence). , .Ian 1, 1h;. y J. P. McCombs, M. D., ()!r-r Ii is professional services to the citizens of 'h:ir!'itte and surrounding country. All calls, both ii. iit ;iud 'hiy, promptly utteiided to. - 7itlp e N. o Granite Row, up stairs, opposite tho JIaii-iou House. Jainiury 1W8. A. W. ALEXANDER, Surgeon Dentist, CIIAIILOTTE, N. C. ((Yu( in the liratcLcy JiuilJintf, opposite the Charlotte V " Hotel.) ' rtrCiMi bo consulted on Tuesdays, Wednesday's, Tliursdaysand Fridays. Muirli -2',, ' . Dr. JOHN H. McADEN, Wholesale and Retail Druggist, CHARLOTTE, X. C, II.is on hand a large and well selected stock of PURE l)!:l";S. Chemicals, Patent Medicines, Family Medi-i-in'-s. Paints, Oils. Varnishes, Dye Stuffs, Fancy and Toilet Articles, which lie is determined to sell at the vvy lowest prices. May -0, 1 StlT. DENTISTRY. Tray wick & Bland, Having formed a co-partnership, tender their profes sional s.'i vice.s to the public at large. Their otiice will he ojien from S a m. to ) p. m., and cither of them, will visit jiatients at their residence when called. Olliee m ar t he Court House, Trade Street. Auirust it), 18t.S. . - B 2 rRACTICAIi Watch and Clock Maker, AMI DE I I. Kit IN Ji:w i:i.in fixe watches, clocks, Wifeh Mater vitx, Sperlacle Aug. 1807. CHARLOTTE, N. C. ANOTHER NEW STORE. McMUKUAY, DAVIS & CO., Have opened a now Grocery Store in Bryce's Build ing, ami invite attention to their Stock of Groceries. They keep A supply of everything usually found in a tirooi ry Store and wauted by farmers, such as Sugar, Coffee, Salt a'nd Iron, Cotton Yarn; Molasses, Fish, Shovels, Spades, Forks, &c, Crockery and Wooden Ware, Irish Potatoes, Meal and Corn. Purchasers are requested to call and examine this stock aud prices. frt-if Produce vvjll be bought or taken in exchange for tii oeeries, or received on consignment for sale. Particular attention will be paid to the sale of Cotton, Corn, Flour, &c, that may be sent to our care. J. W. McMURRAY, . March Hi, 1S08. J. X. DAVIS & CO. A. HALES, Watchmaker jg ani Jeweler, X'xt Door tv ike Mansion ILuuse, Chaht.otteN. C. If your Watch needs Repairing, Don"t get mad and go to sw earing; Just take it into HAXEg'.thop, lie will fix it so it will not stop. He warrants his work all for a year, f -t When it is utd with proper eare.' He will tfoft as low us it can be done, A u J do it so well if s sure to run. ' Ja nuary 1, 18ii& - y : NEW ARRIVALS At J. Kuck & Co's Grocery Store. 5,(00 gl N 1.000 Pouiivls Baltimore Racoo, J. Sacks of Rio Coffee. f0 Sacks Suit, common to fine, i0 Uoxe of superior Star Caudles,, j Tieros of Sugar Cured Hams, Barrels a( Sujrnr. all grades, 10 Hogsheads of Molasses, 10 Barrels of Svrup. March 30, 1S.8. At j. KUCK & CO S NEV.. STUCK OF tJKCUKKiik?. Hammond & McLaughlin, At Oat Comrr.) Have received a full stock of new Groceries, consist ing in part or " A largo ht of Bagging. Iron Cotton Ties aud Rope, Sugar, Coffee and Tea. Molasses, Iron and Nails, Salt, Leather of all sorts Anything ami everything iu the 'Grocery. line may be found at their Store. HAMMOND & Mcl.AUGIILI.V. SM-t 14.1S0S. The City Bank of Charlotte Solicits the Accounts of business men and others, and promises satisfaction. July 0, KSOa. W. A. WILLIAMS, Cashier. Bank Money. - The highest market price paid for old Bank Notes, an 1 orders for the same Solicited, at the City Bank of Charlotte. - )V. A. WILLIAMS. JulyG, 1808, " . Cashier. The Stream .of Life. -.-o Out from the myrtic depths, beneath ' the Eternal Throne,' - ' ' A silvery stream of living water flows, "' ' ' Wiic o'er the plains-of Paradise; and on, J - TiH earth's dry deserts blossom as the rose, " '' Beneath itar cooling touch; and where the brier grew, . There tspring the myrtle and the olive tree. " It is the stream of life; and for its source, f . , It has the fount of God's eternal love; . . .--And for its channels long and deep and wide, - It has the Saviour, -Christ the Crucified - " The Spirit, the best Comforter divine, " J- '; And Nature, with her vast, exhaustless mine. Roll on, thou stream of life! . Flow to the north,- J And to the south, aud west and east. .1 i . , O'er universal nattire roll thy waves.- . Till sin and pain and death shall all have ceased; Till the fierce, lion shall lie .down with the lamb, ;; Ahd'they be )ed by childhood's gentle hand, i . 1 Important to Planters and Country Merchants, JULIUS T. COIT, Cotton Factor, Commission ' S II I P J IX.G. A M E R G II A NT, CHARLOTTE, W. C Office uext dour to lirout, Brown $ Cot Ihrrdicare Store, . l'j Stain. ! . -"Having effected my arrangements with responsi ble parties in Sew York, I am now prepared to make liberal CASH ADVANCES on Cotton which will be .promptly forwarded, free of charge, or it will le hold or sold in this market if so desired. I will re ceive Cotton at any of the Depots between this point and Columbia, aud the money will be forwarded from Charlotte by Express, thereby saving time and ex pense. -, Consignments of all kinds solicited, either for sale here or tor shipment. . I shall give the business my closest personal attention, and shall try to promote the interest of the Planters. ' , r refer by permission to Hon. J. W. Osborne, Gov . '.. B. Vance; T. W. Dewey & Co., Bankers; First National Bank; Brem, Brewn&Co.; Hutchison, Bur roughs & Co.. Charlotte, N.C. ' Sept. 28,1808 - 8m THOS. W. DEWEY & CO., Bankers-a-n-d B rok ers, ,r CHARLOTTE, N. .C. We enter upon our second year of business on the first day .of October, and return , our thanks to our old friends and new friends for their custom aud patronage during the year now closing. : We are now prepared with Increased Means & Ample Capital To transact any safe and desirable Banking Business which may be offered us. We will receive deposits and pay same on call, and when left on time will pay interest on same accord ing to agreement. We buy and tell Gold and Silver Coin and Bullion, Bank Notes, &c. Will discount for customers good busiuess paper. Purchase and sell on commission Stocks and Bonds, and give our best attention to any other matter in the Banking or Brokerage line entrusted to lis. . Revenue Stamps Alwayson hand for Sale. Hours of business to suit dealers aud customers. TIIOS.'W. DEWEY & CO., At Building (formerly Branch Bank,) one door below Smith's Shoe St ore,-. Try on St. Charlotte, Sept. 28, 1808. , NOTICE. We have this day sold our entire interest in the "Long Shoal PaperMills" to WILLIAM TIDDY, who will continue the manufacture of Paper at said Mills, aud whom we recommend to our former customers and friends as well worthy ofthe support extended to us. . GRADY, BANNISTER & .CO. 7 Lincolntori, September 23, 1808. The undersigned will continue thebnsincssof man ufacturing paper at the "Long Shoal Paper Mills,1' lately owned by Grady, Bannister & Co., in connec tion with their well known "Lincolnton Taper Mills" and are now prepared to supply promptly large rptantities of Book, News, or Wrapping Paper, and solicit a continuance of the favors bestowed upon them and us. . WM TIDDY. ' Lincolnton Sept. 28, 18G8. lm It". TIDDY. Charlotte Female Institute, .CHARLOTTE, N. C. The next Session will commence on the 1st October, 1808, and continue until 30th of June, 1869. The Session is divided into two terms of -0 weeks each, and pupils can be entered for cither the whole session or for one term. OFFICERS AND INSTRUCTORS: Rev. R. Bi bwell, Principal, and Instructor in Mental and Moral Philosophy and Mathematics. John B. BtKWKi.r., A. M., Natural Philosophy," Chemistry and Ancient Languages. Mrs. A. Bcrwell, English Branches and Super intendent of Social Dut ics, i , j i Mas. Sally C. Wiiitk, English Branches. -Miss JIak:abkt T. Long, English Branches and French. , ( Mas. A." CI Pattox, English Branches and Music, on Piano. " ' . - Pbof. A. Bai maxx, Vocal and Instrumental Music. .Mks. Jtlia C. Pattox, Music. on Piano. . r Bkoit.. 1.1,3!. pKirKT, Drauing, Painting and Afotlern Languages. E.rjcnger Term fif 20 Weeks: Board (with crerv expense, fuel, lights-washing. &c.) with tuition iu Eugiish Brairches, $100.00 Tuition, day scholars, Prtmary DcparfWnt, t UO.OO 44 J!4-- t Ct)Hegtat '' 2.1K fusic. Ancient and Molefn Iingnages, Dravving and Painting, extra, at usual charges. For Circular aud Catalogue containing full partic ulars as to terms, &c , address ' Rev. R. B I'll WELL & SON, July ;, 1 80S. Charlotte, N. C. . Pictures ! Pictures ! ! - The undersigucd Photographic Artist, of Baltimore, Md , calls the attention of his friends, and the public in general, to his newlv opened PHOTOGRAPH and AMBROTYPE GALLERY where ho. is now pre pared to take A No. 1 Pictures of each, antlof every style and finish. Satisfaction guaranteed in every Picture. Copies takcR from the smallest into the largest port rait ALso pictures neatly fitted in Rings, Breastpins and Lockets. "All 1 ask is, "give me a trial " - X. B. Parties desiring to learn the trade and art of lakitig Pictures can do so by applying to HENRY BAIMGARTEN, Charlotte, N. C . ' Photograph Gallery over James ilarty's Store, Feb-1, 1808. Next door to Court-house. - Concord Mills." Having , opened a House in Charlotte,' near the Pvat Office, for the sale of our own manufactured goods, we invite the attention of merchants and others to our YARNS, SHEETINGS, SHIRTINGS OSNABHRGS. CARPET CHAJN," STOCKING YARNS, ftc., Ac- " . . ' Jf" Cotton taken in j exchange for Goods. We sell low for Cash. . j. Mcdonald & sons, August 12, 1808. Concord, N. C. ; 1 Washington -Items. ' , " ." ' Gen. Howard reports the total expenditures of the Freeduien's Bureau to August 1st, 1868, at seven millions, uine huodred aud thirty-five thousand .dollars. . .. ' -;Jen. Grant's return to Washington is defer red to the last of Oetobor. . The contract for printing; postage stamps, for four years, has been awarded to the "National Bank Note Company, at New York: , .Between 'ten and twelve" thousand people gathered to 'welcome Gen. McClellan " on his re turn from Europe. His appearance caused great cheering. lie confined ' hiinself , to thanking them for their welcome. ." ' ' . . - -. A Good Illustration. V, Hon. T. .A. Hendricks, of Indiana, the Demo cratic candidate for Governor, in a speech of great soundness and force, in showing the im portance" of. harmony and good feeling . between the North and South, and the . advantages of reciprocal trade between the South and (North western States gave; the following .happy; illus tration : . .'The sweetest lesson ; of our religion is to be found in the parable of the Prodigal Son. That son, you recollect; became tired of the best home in the world, and wondered off to seek his for tune among strangers, - Seceding from the pa ternal roof, soon poverty and hunger came upon him' and he concluded to return. If that father,' who "saw him away off." had been a Radical, what would he have said: "There comes my rebellious son! He thinks I will let him come back upon the same terms as the rest of the boys j- and girls. No, no! ' ' 1 That father as described to us in the parable was not a Kadical. lie' opened Iris arms, and welcomed him as he saw the erring boy return, and as he stepped into that honse, peace, love, and happiness returned. There was - a Kadical iu that family j though. The pther boy, as soon as he saw hishrother coming, commenced growl-. ing,.and- did not want the returning prodigal admitted. I ask you, as christian men andciti zens, -do you think we can build our institutions upon the bad .passions of hatred, revenge "-and jealousy i passions that come up from ' the dark caverns of hell?" Cutting Glass. Alex Taylor writes as fol lows to the Photographic News: .. ,lIn treating of glass, I may give you another way of cutting bottles, shades or any glass vessel the neat thing you wish, aud that is to. get a rod of iron heated to redness, and having filled your vessel the ex act height you wish it to be cut, with oil of any kindr you proceed to very gradually dip the red hot iron iu the oil, which, heating all along the surface suddenly the glass chips aud cracks right rouud, when you can lift oif the upper portion clean by the surface of the oiL . . - "I say, Jim, are there any bears in your country iu the winter?" "Y"-e-s; the ice bears!" Choice Virginia Seed FOR SALE. The undersigned will have about Wheat one thousand bushels of line SEED WHEAT from the Valley of Virginia, on consignment, this week, for sale to Plauters and Farmers, at Hie C. & S C. Railroad Depot in Charlotte. This Wheat has been selected with great care, and is unmixed, having been pur chased by the car load from Farmers. W. W. PEG RAM, Sept 28, 18C8 lm Agent C. & S. C R. R Agricultural Implements. COOK ; & ELLYSON, Manufacturers of The Watt Plough, And Dealers in all kinds of . AGRICULTURAL TOOLS, Offers the latest Mind best -Implements at Factory prices, freight added. Call and see for yourself. Factory in the Navy Yard, Charlotte, N. C - W. F. COOK, T. II. ELLYSON, Sept 28, r808 tf ' ' k of Richmond, Va. Fine Store, and Elegant Goods. BUXBAUM& LANG Have removed from the corner store under the Man sion House to the newly fitted up store of Hammond & McLaughlin near Dates'-corner, where they have A Splendid Assortment Of Dry Goods,. Ready-raa'de. Clothing, Boots and Shoes, Hats and Caps, ami every other article usually kept in a first class Dry Goods Store; j . . - -To those who may pat ronize them they will say that tbey guarantee satisfaction in " ' Prices and Quality. Call at the New Store, 5Jd door from Oates' cornerj and see for yourselves. CAPT. C. II. ELMS is with Buibaum & Lang, and will be pleased to see' hid .acquaintances and friends and assist them in nifking purchases. Sept. 28, 1808. " .' , . JUST RECEIVED, A splendid lot of Bagging, Roping and Ties, at ' . B. M. PRESSON S. Also, o splendid lot of Cotintry Bacon. ' : r- . -B. M. PRESSON. Also, a lot -of Cheese, at - " " . ' . B. M. PRESSON S. : jg- Farmers can come ond get their Bagging and Roping to be paid for in Cotton Sept 21 I8li8. B. M. PRESSON. , New Store' and . NEW GOODS. . J. ROESSIiER & CO., (At Kuhntcfilcr od stand, 'Id door from Brem,JSroun cj Co's Store,) " -Have just received a large and general assortment of - Dry Goods, Groceries, &c, Which they offer to the public at fair and reasonable pricea. The Stock of Dry Geods, for Fall and Winter Wear,' Will be found to be one of the best' ever Irrought to this market. The ladies are partieDlarly, invited to call and examine goods and prices. V ; 1 ' t ' : Ready-Made Clothing, ' ' Of every deaeription, for men and beys, is being of fered at remarkably low rates. j- t - . ' CAPT. J. KOESSLEB respectfully requests his old friends fo give him a call this Fall and Winter, and he assures, them that he will .continue to exert biiaself to pleat them in the future as he hopes he ha'i done in the past: ' - Sept 21, ISCtf.- J. KOESSLER A CO. ' 1' ff:; Imsnpble". iMxayfpnoB. -! Each member of the Radical Lower House of Congress receives five thousand dollars salary. In extras he puts theuntry to the expense of .1!. i t V. .1 . vuirry-ave nunareu more tnese extras1 oeing in tie services, of men. and ', boys ' to wait upon theti, stationery, and wedon't know what besides. Each, one of these patriots, then, costs the United Staies 38,500. . - - ..-' - . . Ip the Senate each member last session spent fon hundred dollars for stationery alone, and cac received : eighteen penknives apiece at a cosfof forty-five dollars. They received also thirty-seven pair of scissors each, besides four pairs of kid ; gloves emblems ofMnnocense, we presixme--atid .igix luurbni8l'BQV- this is not all they received fifty-six- reams of paper apiece? and thirty-six thousand envelopes! - ; In addition to 8 'P this, they allotted them selves corkscrews and lemonsj th$ whiskey, we suppose, being charged under some - other' head. 3Ioreover, the country . has had to pay : for any quantity or nair-pomaaey soap, cologne, and we don't know what besides, for these fellows.' r r Now, what has been'done-with these knives, scissors, stationery,1 aud other articles furnished at such an enormous "cost, and which the mem bers c?uld not usefr Why, the only , apswer is, that they must have sold them, thus5 turningin tomoriey what they had appropriated under the ftrni of necessaries required for. their position as Representatives and Senators. , .'. . t - , Now.it -is to be expected that members of Congress wilTurnish themselves with, anything they want "and plenty, of it too but such swin dling as this, was never before perpetrated. Yet such men as have thus stolen from the. I government to such an unheard of extent, have tuc yuruuiery iu urag; ui iiiwr.cwuuuij ; ,; .... , That the country with such evidences , before tbiir eyes of' downright! roguery, all. proved j)y palie documents, should ( tolerate such . fellows a have Wen guilty of this swindling, is a strange feature ofthe times. ; Yet it is even so, and not nly will the people not consign to infamy these ibtainers of goods and money under false pre tences, but" many of them will be returned to tleir seats iu the.halls of legislation to be guilty of still more atrocious rascality, . . ; The toleration of ( such knavery makes us sometimes almost despair of the Republic, and fear that as we are becoming ; utterly corrupt as a naiion, the measure of our wickedness will soon be" full, and. Providence will leave us to our fate as not worthy longer to enjoy, the blessings of Uberty which has been. so wickedly abused. J ' ' . ' TVlIAT THEY ' SAY OF EACH OTHER. A genteman, who heard a discussion," a few dajs since between "Judge" Tourgee and "Windy Riliy Henderson, the bolting and regular Radi cal candidates for Congress in the Fifth Distuet, descrbes it as execediug, in personal vitopera- tiond- billingsgate,' anything which lny eyer 1 tiearu pu inersvunip ueiuic. ne. jcu ii inai Tonrgle charged Henderson witli having stolen the lat-books of the late Benj. Kittrell, of Lex ingtoW with having forged a note on the old Rrauji Bank of Cape Fear at Sulem; and, also, with fee mule business. - In reply, Billy accused Tourtie of having been ca sacd by a negro, and ejectel from atonement which he had rented, and fc which he had failed to pay, and with disgracing the bench of North Carolina by par tisan inhibitions and dertravitv! And of such is Ralicalism! There is an old adage that when "roguls fall out, honest men get their dues!" - Red. Sentinel. - i m , wm Th cattle plague has appeared in. Kentucky, and. Cjjv. Steveuson, on the 2d inst., - issued a proclapation forbidding the importation of cat tie for, the next GO days from any. State or locali ty whpe the disease prevails.; : ; - ' The Comet Visible. Our Exchanges say, EnkeB comet is now visible. It is located near the cdistellations Gemini and, Cancer,, a nd can be sem with the naked eye from nine iu the cveniig till three, in the morning. ; t EXECUTOR'S SALE. Aslfeeutor of the last Will ami Testament -of Silas Culdwell, deceased, I shall sell at public auc tion or the 27th instant, at the late residence of said Testatir, all the .property directed by the Will to be sold. Consisting of a Tract of Land, upon which said Testator lived, containing about one hundred and sixty teres, subject to theDoWr of the Widow. It is agopd. fract of-Land, well .improved. .-: - Attje-same tiruev I.wiU, sell all the ..personal Pro perty, consisting of three Horses, one good four-, horse Wagon, Buggy and' Harness, Cattle,. -Hogs, ShcepJ Farming Tools, Corn, Cotton, VTieat, House hold aid Kitchen Furniture, &e . ' ' A ciinlit will be givecu Tertasraade known on the day oSale. . E. P. COCHRAN, Exr. Oct.5, 18Ca. : . ; ( : f FURTHER NpTICE. ( , . All persons having claims against the Estate of Silas Caldwell are hereby Teiuirei to present them within the time prescribed by Law; or 'this notice will be pleaded iii bar of their recovery, and all per pons indebted to the Estate are required to pay, or their debts will be put in sujL , , .... " . . " . Oct. 5, 1868. 4w 4 ' E: P. COCHRAN, .Exr. . WONDERFUL DISCOVERY! Dr. Byrn's Magic Pain Cure.: . This is a new al wonderful Melicice. If is used for the various forms of Headache, which, in ordin ary cases, it 'cures In, a few minutes .time: also. Neuralgia; Nervousness, Cold in the Head,, and Weakness of the Nerves, "is speedily brocght Under its influence. Ordinary or mild case of CaiarrU in die Head, can also be checked by its use,, ana pre vented from going farther, winch is of' great impor tance, and even cases of long standing can be cored by persevering in the use ef.the medicinel .It isper fectly harmless, and is warranted to givesafcisfaction. ' People oft en express wonder .and astonishment to find thcmselve so suddenly relieved from all pain; yet the remedy contains no Opium, no Chloroform no," Ether, nor any thing of a narcotic nature.", It is prepared from roots, barks,IeatcsV giimi and powers, and ia absolutely harmless, even for an infant. This remeily is a nervine, and is used as a liquid, and this ia nn rp.isnn whv it cures so ouicklv- , There ore no diseases more common than tbose for whicVit is re-, commended. Milliens of aaffering hioHaW vooM be wiUing to gay almesf any price to secure a few hoars relief and rest if Iheyjcncw of afemedy Jhat would give immediate ease. " Then hj all "?ens tbe curd permanently by using'tbe Magic Pain Cure. " Price 50 eenrs: v- ' ' "' -.'"-: ". "'" ' ' E. L.,SHRnELLv P-M.rat SheYteir Ford. Ca tawba cot:nty, N. C, is agent for the counties of Ca tawba, Lincoln, Iredell, G&stoii, Rowan and Meck lenburg, Jf. C. ! " '' - - For sale by Druggists in Charlotte anI by. Drug gists generally. '" r' Spi 21, 18CS Smpd ) .yjhs Biblai and Sdence. . : Commodore M.-F. Maury, in the course of his aaaresson the occasion of his recent installation as Frofessor of -physics in the Virginia Insti tute, in addressing the young gentjenienof thcr institute,' alluded as follows to. the Bible and Science: ? ::.--:' .; : - .-'-- '- v . btnve in, all '.things aml-ai all times to be riguimmaea; and as you are conducted along those beautiful walks ini -the ; fields of physical research, which modern Investigation has made so lovely and instructive, guard agaiost the se ductive arguments of those authors who delight to point out what they call contradictions to the ;Bible.V Jv-: .' .-'', ;. My dear young friends, always remember tKe author of that; Book 13, nature's GTocU-that the revelatiotfs of science and the" statements of that Bible are both true, and . that truth cannot con tradict itself. "K .j "'' ' Now, 'when yoii fancy yon discover, as,' "many gay they do, discrepancies between, "science and the Bible, be not fast, as Colenso and others have been,'" to pronounce the Bible, wrong. Keep from presumptuoiis sins, and believe that the Bible is'1 true that science 'is true, and that if there be discrepancies between these two records it .is. not me iauit 01 eiuier, outot yoursell, their interpreter. . siue recorus are rigut, DUt .tlie ,in terpretatiorf has on' many occasions been" wrong. Science is, progresstVe, and 4f6r its healthful advancement speculation is often necessary. , The boldness of ; such , speculation,' uttered . in the shape ol hypotheses, has sometimes startled the world,1 and needlessly disturbed the minds of Christian people: bometiuies the reading of the Bible has been wrongs and sometimes of the volume of nature, but . in the! end .the dark say-, ingi of each' h-vve ic6a found to throw light upon the other. Oallileb,' in . 'advance..' of . his time, maintained that the earth turns on its- axis .and ''Mother Church'V in those days was offended, She pronounced the doctriue'a damnable heresy and required him to renounce it. As he signed the recantation and 'turned, away, he muttered : uYea, remember, but it turns for all that' So, too, with the Nebuhx) hypothesis,-about .which you are yet to learn, but which some good men haye Jbeen disposed to regard as a modern heresy, because of its author, lleceht discovery . and scientific investigation are now presenting it in a .new light,' without in the least disturbing any religious belief whatever. . V; First,' hypothesis, then theory, then demon stration these are the steps by which he science of astronomy has reached 'its present advanced state. ' At first, the hypothesis was that the earth was .the centre of the universe; that :it stood still, and that the heavens rolled round it from East to West. But discovery and research soon convinced astronomers that this theory was not consistent with the results of observation. Then, the theory was that the heavens stood still, and that thcjearth turned arpund daily on , Us"axia"rimTvrest1tor East, '. and aunually, in orbitual' rev6lution,"'round the sun. "' "Observa tion and research furnished data by which the truth of this theory, as far as it goes, was de monstrated. Finally, it was discovered that the sun is moving through space with f he velocity of cauuon balls,'carryingin its train the earth and the whole retinue of planets, asteroids and satel lites, and so hypothesis was brrJuiiht'to the dignity of a theory, which reconciles all' the known facts of the case: -- ' . - Though we may hot claim that the Nebulae' hypothesis has, as yet, attained to the disnitv of" A theory, nevertheless its plausibility appears to be such as to bring it within the range Of proba bility and, thereforej it may "or may not , have truth for its corner-stone. ''-.' '",; The Nebulae hypothesis is the conception of a great French geometer- named Laplace.1 This hypothesis is more profound in its reach thari Newton's laws, for the Englishman with his beautiful theory of gravitation only dealt with tlie heavenly bodies as he found them. The Frenchman, soaring beyond that, attempted to deal with them from "the beginning," to com prehend chaos and to show how, when the earth was without form and void, the'yarious physical processes took - place by which the inorganic matter of the universe was-condensed into suns aggregated into planets, thrown off and converted into satellites, sent wheeling on thetr-orbits about the sun, and, then turning on their axis. In comparing these two philosophers, I'speak of their intellects, not of their characters. - You. know all the planets revolve in the same direction, how. they grj round the sua in a direc tion opposite to the hands of a watch, and have their orbits , nearly in the plane of the sun's equator; that l they also rotate on their axis in the same-direction, and that with the single ex ception, perhaps, of the .two, outside, and most distant jilauets, . all their moons do the same. They could not move as they do by. any chance, for there 13 no' chance, in nature, neither jtt'the heavens nor in the earth; moreover, '-according to the doctrine, of chances, the odds are millions and millions to one against such an arrangement as that which t we actually behold among, the planets as they move in their orbits . ''.. - ( .. . It is assumed, as our point of departure, that this arrangement in the planetary world tnuet be. according to design, and .in obedience to law. Upon other assumptions equally plausible, its author ' founded his hypothesis, and then pro ceeded by analogy aud ijjusj ration to develop it, and that with a degree, of probability, which, if it do not carry conviction to our,iuiuds, must at least challenge our respect and admiration.; It assumes that f-in the begiuuiug" the earth, u and moon, with all'the pliiiiets, wcreln a gaseous stqte r that when this was the case the planetary spaces were filled wilh this, rare and attenuated matter. ' --f ( ' .- : I '; What are the rcaVns for these assunipt ions? Chemistry tclLs us that all the matter of which this earth cousrsfs the . rocks', the ,mctala!aud t'ne mountains is made ffoin sixty-one or sixty' L1 two simple suDsiaoces ; xuat tne greater para 01 all the" solid matter iilhe world is gaseous; that One-half of the earth's crust consists of oxygen alone, and that all "tho water ;ih the sea is con pnsed of but two gases, and nothing elseand tliat all, the other sabstapees known upon the earth may, by heat, be either Tolatib'xed or con verted into fumes , or .vapors, as rare, light and attenuated, as the gasscs themselves. -v With such materials, which the Frenchman called nebulous he, with his theory, filled -the planetary epacea. That this assumption may receive from you its due wejght, it is necessary to fctatc that we have recently discovered, and can now - prove almost that the nebulas are of just such materials ai that hypothesis calk for. t ! . . ' -f . , 1 As this chaotic mass of mattci began so rats tho hypothesis--to radiate off its heat, (for tho assumption island it is supported by many anal ogies)that the centre of our planet is still in an incandescent state as, therefore, this chaotio and high lyl heated mass began to radiate off its heat and.to cool, it began to eontract, and thus inotionp8 generated from that motion, the hy pothecs derives the jtrimum tnobiie or the power whictr first gave the planets the motion in their orbit&'( r; ' - 'ir; -l;:.r Suebr in brief, are the assumptionai,Laplace and, beinggraoted, the rctit is ' philosophical kv duction. ' Newton's laws tOoV no notice of the great firsttaue thatsent ' the jjlahets wheeling ronnd the sun in their peculiar orbits, and sent them all revolving and rotating, in the ' same direction on their axis ; nor did his. laws attempt to account for the satellites and rings which at tend someof the planets. , ' , s ' , In going beyond gravity and grappling with first causes ztid jtrtmum mobile, the frenchman stalked; forth into dark regions and traveled proudly upop grounds which the Englishman, as great and as gigantic as was his intellect, had not ventured to essay. To explain the nebula) hy pothesis upon the basis pf these assumptions, let us avail ourselves of familiar instances for illus tration. . You .have observed, while driving fast along a muddy road, that the carriage wheels threw, the mud, not straight off from the carriage to the side of the road, but forward and. nearly in the place in which the wheels turn. If you will watch the larger pieces of mud closely you will discover that they have a rotary, motion, like the wheel, and in the same direction. . Bear iiig in mind this homely illustration, let us re turn to the original nebulous mass. .It is highly heated and easier of attraction by being globular in form. . Consider it to be at rest and the pro cess of cooling to have commenced, and see when , it takes place. "The cooling is from the outside,, the condensing is consequently on the outside? wherefore a movement commences from the cir cumference towards. the centre and because it Is from the circumference towards the centre, it is a rotary motion. : : .It is such a motion as we see in the whirlwind t on land and in the whirlpool in the water. This begets a revolving motion either to the" right" or to the left, and in the nebula? of the solar sys tem, it was from the right to the left. . Thus the , nebulous mass was set in motion. . . ; ,, ., As it continued to cool and contract, the outer particles continued to flow inward, and, as in ell , revolving bodies, the particles at the circumfer-' ence travel- faster than the particles near ths ; centre these in rushing particles carried their momentum from the circumference to the centre, impressed it there, and gradually accelerated the , revolving motion to such an extent that the cert trifugal force at the circumference became greater than the ccntripcdal, and so fa lump or a ring was thrown off, first one and then another) for, as ' the nebulous mass continued to tool and eon- tract; its" velocity of rotation continued to in crease, and so, first the matter for Neptune and his satellites; then foo Uranus, then for Saturn . and his rings, was thrown off all in-and1 near tho , plane in which the great central mass itself wad revolving. ' 1 , These fragments were not thrown off in tbfl .. solid state, but as liquid or gaseous matter; for we know that Saturn, Jupiter, Mars and the , earth are all spheroids, and of sueh shape as a mass of -matter only in the fluid condition revolv-.'' ing about its own axis could assume, and we. know that the interior of the earth is still in a fluid state, which is quite oonniiiUut with the idea that the whole wus once fluid. Saturn is still in the sky with his rings to ' attest this mode of sloughing of matter; nor is ' the sun altogether without them.' These rings so holds the theory were afterwards broken up into one or more planets with or without moons with or without rings ; all of which con tinued to move nearly in the same plane, and to rotate on their axis; they revolve, every one with the exception already mentioned, in, the sama ' direction around their priuaarie. ''' The stream of the asteroids between Mars and ' Jupiter now stand oat under this grand and ' l ublime hypothesis, not as fragments of a broken jdanct, but as pieces of a severed ring. November and August meteors constitute , ring. The sodiacal light is also a ring, and om . of the most remarkable nebula? in the sky are, rings. 'Striking analogies are afforded by some of them in favor of Laplace's hypothesis, as the ucbuhc iu Canes Ycnatici with its .central ag glomeration, its rings and planetary nebulous mass in .the distance. Then again, in Leo, Lord Boss' telescope re- ' veals nebekp that make still more plausible the great Frenchman's hypothesis. . Iu other parts of the sky. and as if to show that nebula do grow into atars ond suns, that uionster telescope has picked up planetary nebulae that are apparently stars in the process of forma- -tion. ; . . ' - .But Saturn presents the mott grand andstrik- ' ing example of all, though we find in the heavens. -nebuhe of more fantastic forms and carious shapes. ' than-Saturn with his rings and moons, t " JIatuimonial 3lAnKirr j.v New Yobk. A fair relative of the Governor 'of New Yor has had a remarkable career. ' Louisa J. Fcnton, J a 04 her name eight years ago, - when she was a maiden beauty, of TSerenteen. !'.She found her . Cite in. the person of a young man of good family whom she loved, altogether too well, but who finally married her under legal advice. . : She had, been a wife hardly a year, when the conduct or her husband in the way of infidelity, enabled hir to get a divorce. . IVhen free, she went to Boston (m the story goes) fascinated s gentler. . .t' . . t - man ot means iu tnas cuy, ana waa bwict. GoIn to New York about a yearaftcrshe fellin . with her former husband, the old love came back, ; and she soon gave her new husband ample cause ; for securing a drvorse, which he did. . As soon as the decrce'was entered she was re-married .t4! he first love. Th is . time they. , bekl together until some six months siro, when the oU trouble 1. caused a new divorce, and now .the handsome thric-divor(5el woman, is engaged to a rich and prominent New YorkerJ ' - - ; ' - ' ' ; ':."'. mm m r --r-t t; Iv .Th herb ' doctors think, that to bo healthy ' i ami vigorous, a man, like a'trcc, must take root. .