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, w a Jfc i i 8 a owiHiw ET... i v;. ' A FAMILY PAPER DEVOTED TO POLITICS, LITERATURE, AGRICULTURE, MANUFACTURES, MINING, AND NEWS. PRICE $2 PER YEAR In Advance. PUBLISHED WEEKLY.). " (fat Itaffj Dirtinrt a? tjrt Killom, but one cib tjjr $ra" RUFIJS M. IIERRON, Publisher. ROBERT P. vYlRIXG, Editor, NO. 2. VOL. 3. CHARLOTTE, N. C, FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST 4, 1854. lilH MM - -- MMMUMM SS-a MI StasintM Carta, rc. So p. Willis, .Hlorttty at I. nic, OJice in J.omrgans Brick Building, 2nd floor. CHARLOTTE, N. C. METT Jk KOBSON, FACTORS & COMMISSION MERGHANTS, iVo. 1 and 2 Atlantic What, CHARLESTON, S. C. FF Liberal advances ma'e on Consignments. IT" Bpsrisl atteattoa given to the .le of Flour, Corn, -fcc , and from o r 1 nig experience iii tiie 'jus.uess, we feci confident of (riving catM-factittll. March 17, 1854. 34-Iy Dry Goods in Charleston, So. Ca. biovi; a- .! an, IMPORTERS OF DRY GOODS, Nos. 20.1 and 211 King street, corner of Market Strctt. CHARLESTON, S. C. PUatttioa Woolens, Blankets, c, Carpetiaga and 'rt:iin M itcrinl. Silks -.nd Rich Dri-st io. ft. Cloaks, M intill nod Shawl. Terms Cash. One Price Onl-. Much 17, 1"54 34 ly HANK IN, PULLIAM & CO., Importers and Wholesale Dealers in roUEIGN AND DOMESTIC STAPLE AND FANCY Ml. 131 MKKTIXC RIBET, sept 23, 0 3 ly CHARLESTON. S. C. a. a. WHSSAia M . nufncluri-r and De aler PANAMA, LEGHORN, PUR. SILK A. WOOL set OPPOSITE ("II A KLI'STuN HOTEL, 83, 53 1 v CH A RLESTON , S. C. N. . COHEN. LEOPOLD COHK. N. A. COHEN & COHN, IM1' 'RTKKS AND DEAL E US IN FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC: DRY GOODS, NO. 175 BAST HAY, (10-ly.) CHARLESTON, S. C. fl IBDLiW, WALKER fc BI RXSIDC, mstm paoh AND COM M ISSIO N MERCHANTS, KUBTH ATLANTIC WMAHF. CHARLESTON, S. C. VT CMuaaaUM for selling Cotton Fifty cents cr Dale.. Stpl 23, 1-5:1. 10-ly. Where are the Dead. Where are the mighty ones of ages past, Who o'er the world their inspiration cast, Whose memories stir our spirits like a blast? Where are the dead? Where are the lofty minds of Greece? Where be The men of Sparta and Thermopylae? The conquering Macedonian, where is he? Where are the dead? Where are Rome's founders? Where her chiefest son, Beiore whose name the whole known World bowed down. Whose conquering arm chased the retreating sun? Where are the dead? Where's the bard-warrior king of Albion's state, A pattern for earth's sons to emulate, The truly, nobly, wisely, goodly great? Where are the dead? Where is Gaul's hero, who aspired to be A second Caezar in his mastery, To whom earth's crowned ones trembling bent the knee? Where are the dead? Where is Columbia's son, her darling child, Upon whose birth virtue and fredom smiled, The Western Star, bright, pure, and undefined? Where are the dead? Where are the sons of song, the soul-inspired, The bard of Greece, whose muse (of Heaven acquired) . .. - I : i m . ' i iiu uuunrauoii ages past lias nreu, The classic dead? Greater than all and earthly snn enebriaed Where is the king of bards! Where shall we find The Swan of Avon monarch of the mind The migbty dead? With their frail bodies, did they wholly die, Like the brute dead passing forever by? Then wherefore was their intellect so high, The mighty dead? Why was it not confined to earthly sphere. To earthly wants? If it must perish here. Why did thy languish for a bliss more dear, The blessed dead? If here they perished, in their being's term, Here thought and aspiration had th.ir term, Why should a giant's strength propel a worm? The dead the dead. There are no dead! The forms, indeed, did die, That cased the ethereal be ngs now on high: 'Tis but the outward covering is thrown by This is the dead! The spirits of the lost, of whom we 'sing, Have perished not they have but taken wing Changing an earthly for a heavenly spring: There are the dd! RAMSEY'S PIANO STORE. MUSIC A.ND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. NUNNS & CD'S Patent Diagonal Grand PIANOS; j Mallet Davis it Go.'s Patent I Suspension Bridge PIANOS; hickerings, 1 r a v e r s' and othT best makers' Pianos, at th ractory Prices. Columbia, S. C, Sept. 23, 19-' 3. 10-ly. CAROLINA IN, BY JENNINGS B. KERR. Charlotte, Jl. C. January 28, 1853. 28tf Am DKESS MAKER Mrs. A .. -. . , .-. , wn "rWI T If A T.r"V-T (Residence, on Main Street, 3 doors south of Sadler's Hotel,) CHARLOTTE N. C. CT7 Presses cut and made by the celebrated A. B.C. method, and warrantrj to lit. Orders solicited and promptly attended to. Sept. if, IH53 8-ly. BAILIE & LAMBERT, 219 kin: street, CHARLESTON, S. C, IMPORTERS & DEALERS in Koyal Velvet, Tapes try, Brussels, Three ply, Ingrain and Venetian C A RPETI NGS ; India, Rush and Spanish MATTINGS, Rugs, Door Mats, -c. &c OIL CLOTHS, of all widths, cut for rooms or entries. IRISH LINENS. SHIRTINGS, DAMASKS, Diapers, Long Lawns, Towels, Napkins, Doylias, fcc. An extensive assortment of Window CURTAINS, CORNICES. cc, &c Merchants will do well to examine our stock before purchasing elsewhere. Sept. 83, 1933 10-ly- The American Hotel, CHARLOTTE, N. C. "T REG to announce to my Incur!, the public, and pre i -nt patrons of the above Hotel, that 1 It.tvc lease d the Maine for a term of years from the 1st of January next. Alter which time, the entire property will he thorough ly rep;'ed and renovated, and the house kept in first taa style. Tins H tel is near the Depot, and pleasant It ituated, rendering it a desirable house for travellers :id families. Dec 16, 1853. 22t C, M. RAY. T J. W F , G.-jii Baltimore Piano Forte Manufactory. TSE vt BROTHER, Manufacturers ol Boudoir ind and Square PIANOS. 1 hose wishing a good and substantial Piano that will last an age, at a fair price, may rely on getting such hy addressing the MaiitiUcturers, by mail or otherwise. We have the honor of serving and referring to the first families in the State. In no ease is disappointment siitferablc. The Manufacturers, also, refer to a host of their A llow citi zens. J. J.WISE & BROTHER, Feb 3, (854 2i-Cm Raltimore, Md. iff A RCH A SHARP, AUCTIONEERS and COMMISSION MERCHANTS, COL1MBIA, S. C, XT'ILL attend to the sale of all InmU of Merchandise, Produce, 4tc. Also, Real and Personal Property. Or purchase and sell Staves, fee, on Commission. S.vt.Ks R50M No. 2 Richardson street, and imme diately opposite the Cnited States Hotel. Feb 3, ISO I Tims. u. march, j.m. e. sharp. 1 . Livery and BY 8. Sales Stable, II. REA, T the stand formerly occupied by R. Morrison, in Charlotte. Horses led. hired and sold. Good ac commodations for Drovers. The custom of liiL tends and the public generally solicited. February 17, lt5 L 30-y H. HAMILTON. H . M. OATRS. HAMILTON 80 OATES, conmssio. 11 f h ( 1 : f t s , Corntr of Richai titan and Laurel Strettl, COLUMBIA, SL (?. Jjne 9 1S54 ly FaNhion. The favorable change in the weather has called into existence several new drt-sses of white and printed muslin, suitable for fetes-champetres and morning parties, or for a superior style of prom enade costume. Among the prettiest we have ob served are some composed of white muslin, orna mented with a small pattern in embroidery. The skirts are trimmed with two or three flounces, fin ished at the edge with a broad hem, within which is passed a colored ribbon; pink, lilac or straw col or being the favorite hues. Each flounce is sur mounted by a trimming, formed either of bouil Innne o! muslin over a stripe of the same colored ribbon as iht used for the hem, or of a ruche of of muslin scalloped at the edge. This ruche, in- stead of bring scalb-ped, is sometimes edged by a row of narrow Valenciennes lace, in which case the hem, with the colored ribbon inserted, gains i in appearance by having a bordering of Valen ciennes edging pl'iced above and below it. The corsages of these dresses are usually m ide open in front, and, together with the basque and sleeves, are edged round with trimmings of ribbon, mus lin, and lace, similar to those employed to orna ment the jnpes. An extremely elegant white muslin dres9, in tended to be worn over a slip of white gross-de-Tours. may be thus described: The dress has four vandyked flounces, the Vandykes being of the leaf pattern with the point turned downwards. With in each Vandyke a rose is embroidered in white. The flounces are headed by a bouillonne of mus lin placed over a band of light-blue ribbon. Un nn the bouillonne are fixed at intervals small bows of light-blue ribbon of two different lints, one deep er than the other. The corsage is high, and fas tens at the back; the front is ornamented with hor izontal rows of needle work and Valenciennes in sertion; under the rows of worked muslin inser tion are passed stripes of bright-blue ribbon, and and under the rows of Valenciennes ribbon of a paler blue. The sleeves are trimmed with four frills, one above the other, the upermost one be ing four or five inches below the shoulder; and the w hole surmounted by a bouillonne of muslin with bows of ribbon intermingled. Dresses of printed muslin in small patterns, con- sisting of bnquets of flowers, or in arabesque pat- I terns in blue, lilac, and pink, are frequently trim med with one very deep flounce. This flounce is bordered by three small ruches of the muslin Itself, the ruches being edged with the color pre dominating in the dress. A ruche of larger size than those at the edge surmounts the flounce. A more elegant style of trniming these dresses con sists of the substitution of ruches of ribbon for those of muslin. The ribbon should correspond with the dress in pattern and color. One ol the new muslin dresses, having the pattern in white and pink, has the flounces, corsage, and sleeves (rimmed with niches of plain pink ribbon. Bows of the same ornament the corsage, and loop up the sleeves. Another very pretty style of trimming these dresses consists of flounces edged with nar row fringe of one or two colors, harmonising with the tints of the dress. unie of the new silk d' esses present a noveltv in manufactures. Die founciny; is rosed with fringe woven in the loom. One of the most dis- i tingue of these new silks is glace, amethyst-color and white, the fringe at the edge of the flounces ! being of the same colors. European Times. Tbe Secret. Roger Bacon was an English monk, who taught in the University ol Oxford more than six hun dred years ago. He was a man of great learning, skilled in Lutin, Greek and Hebrew, but especial ly fond of chemistry. He used to spend many hours each day in one ol the secret cells of the convent, engaged in some experiment. While thus employed, he had found that sulphur, diarcoal, and saltpetre, mingled together in a certain way, would make a new and strange compound ; indeed so strange and dangerous did this new compound seem, that the monk himself was almost afraid ol it, and theiefore told no one of his discover-. Among the pupils was a youth who was so fond of study, and so prompt to obey his teachers, that he became a favorite with all, nnd Roger Bacon would often nsk his help in his laboratory a large room w here the students were instructed in chemistry; but he never allowed him to enter his private cell. This youth's name was Hubert de Dreux. Sometimes as Hubert sat reading or studying, or mixing medicines in this larger room, he was startled with sounds like thunder coming from his master's apartment ; sometimes a bright light shone for a moment through the chinks of the door, then an unpleasant odor would almost suffo cate him. All these things excited his curiosity ; but when ever he knocked or strove to en'er, Roger Bacon would sternly bid him to attend to his own affairs, and never again inturrupt him. The door was al ways kept locked, and every time the boy ventur ed to ask the cause, he was silenced by his teach er's gruff words and severe looks. Months glided, away, and still he eagerly but vainly sought to learn the secret. At length an opportunity afforded. Rger Bacon was widely known as a physician and surgeon. One cold November day he was called to attend on Walter de Losely, a rich man in the next town, who had been dangerously hurl. The monk gave all the necessar orders to Hubert, and bidding him to be careful to put out the fires and lock the door when he was done, he started on his errand of mercy. Hubert soon finished his task, and was just bounding up the oaken stairway, when an evil thought came into his mind. " Roger Bacon is gone; he will not be back for several hours ; I can now find out what keeps him so much in that dark damp cell." He looks anxiously around ; no one is near, and with a light step and fast-beating heart, he reaches the forbidden room. The key is not there, and so there is no hope of entering, yet pprhaps he may see something through ihe key-hole, and kneeling, he presses his cheek against the heavy door. It opens at his touch, for Roger Bacon, in his haste, had locked without closing it, and tbus the eager buy stands where for months he had longed to be. In vain he looks for anything new or strange, and with a sad face is turning away, w hen h:s eye falls on a huge book, whose open page is still wet with ink from his teacher's pen. It is written in Latin, but that is as plain to him as his own English, and in anoth er moment he had read the secret so long hidden from him. Now he must try it for himself, to see if the mixture is indeed so wonderful. " Ah !" he ex claimed, "this yellow powder is the sulphur; this hard, clear substance is the saltpetre, and this black powder must be the other. Here is the very bottle my master has used ; I will m:x it in this and see. The fire is not dead in the furnace; a few sparks will give heat enough, and then Hub ert de Dreux is as wise as his wisest teacher." AH that afternoon Roger Bacon had been bend ing over the sick man's bed ; he h-id done all he could to relieve his sufferings, and as night was coming on, he bade him good-bye and set out for home. The w ind w histied over the bleak hills, and the monk wrapped his cloak closer around him, and hurried his horse towards the convent's good shelter. As he reached the top of the last hill, Oxford lay before him with lights twinkling here and tliere, and its tall spires rising h'gb. Sud denly a stream of flame rose from his convent high 1 on the darkened sky, and in an instant a roar ; loud as the heaviest thunder burst on the still night, and distinctly amid this tearful sound was heard a sharp short cry of distress. One moment and j the whole convent was on fire. The tremb ling' monk dashed down the hill side to the scene of woe. As he sprang from his horse a man drew forth from the ruins the lifeless form of Hubert. The terrified crowd believed that Roger Bacon had been practisiong witchcraft, and without lis tening to his defence, threw him into a gloomy dungeon. For many years he remained in pris on, but at last he was released, and at the age of eighty, lay down in death. He wrote his well- kept secret in s'.range words in one of his books, and wise men studied long before they could read it. He had discovered how to make gunpowder. The terrible explosion in Oxford in 1282 does not seem strange to us, for we know the wonder ful power of gunpowder; but to the people of Eng land at that time, it appeared to be the work of an evil spirit. Thus, year by year, the world advan ced in knowledge, and the children of 1854 are familiar with m.iny things which were mysterious tu earned men six hundred years ago. How grateful we should be to God for nil our privile ges, and how careful to improve Ihem aright. The Southern Farmer. The following extract is from Dr. Pierce's agri cultural address, delivered in Augusta last lall : It is historically true, I believe, that no purely agricultural country has been great, prosperous and powerful. But the sun in his circuit never looked upon a continent which afforded the sme encouragement and facilities for the highest per fection of the art as our own happy Innd. Yet with all its advantages, ogricubure, even here, must depend for its profits, not upon the simple productions of the ground, however abundant, but on their marketable value. The want of a market fur the surplus produce of the farm has been in many section the incubus on the earning of South ern husbandry. Railroads nnd factories are fast removing this obstruction, and the stimulus is felt in the increased cultivation ol every article of con sumption. A yet further division of labor is necessary, and the Southern States, with that great staple which is all their own, might not only con trol the exchange and commerce of Europe and America, but make of themselves a power to be felt and feared in the councils of the country and tbe intercourse of nations. And though it is said the world is banded against us, yet by a wise use of Lhe means which God and nature have put into our hands, by being just to ourselves and faithful to our duties, we may defy our enemies, and in default of their respect, send them naked through the earth; for if the corn of Egypt in the olden time fed the world, it is the glory of the South that her cotton clothes it. This is our defence. 1 need not exhort a Georgia audience to stand by their arms. In developing agriculture, as an art, it is an ex traordinary advantage unknown, at least to the same extent, in other lands, that in this the planters and farmers are the proprietors of the soil. In England the farmers are tenants at will of the loruty owner, or at least for a term ot years, on the security of a lease; and yet, under all tbe dis advantages of such a system, England is a land of gardens. In France, the subdivisions of landed property are so great as almost to prevent im provement by the hopelessness of the enterprise. What reward can the French farmer expect from the culture of his acre, or less, beyond the support of his family ? Even this result, however, may demand science, skill and industry, and under the joint application these specks may blossom in beauty and gladden with harvest. But here in Georgia (nnd in other States) the free-born citizen counts his acres by the hundreds and they are his, in lee simple, "to have and to hold," to sell, or bequeath to his children after him. This fact and this feeling of property might be made the basis of improvement and the best reason for it, if local attachment did not act so loosely upon us as a people. The wandering tribes of earth, though savage, linger about the graves of their lathers; and with them, distance from the familiar objects of childhood and the resting places oi the dead they Icved, is exile. But we are restless, migratory, sigh for the distant and the untried. The desire of fortune, the love of gold, over rides the instincts of nature, the sentiments of the heart. What of our birthplace, the memories of of childhood, the hallowed friendship of house hold love, the consecrated churchyard, where lie our parents and ouf children in nature's last sleep? The very idea of home, sweet home, with all our progress, civilization and refinement, we seem to regard as the myth of some dreamy poet's brain. Where is the Southern planter's home? Where? Why on virgin lands at government prices. A bag of cotton to the acre ah ! there is the Louisiana, Texas, no matter what, there is the land of promise. Farewell society, churches, schools, old friends, and old Georgia too. Six bags of cotton to the hand can never satisfy the boundless cravings of our ambition. "More land, more cotton, more negroes," that's the sentiment we admire, the poetry we love, the tune that makes music ir. our souls. But 1 hope this evil is abating, if not by correcting our views of the great ends of life and moderating our chase of fortune, yet by the creation of ties that will hereafter bind us to the land of our birth, and save society from the mutations which have retarded it progress and de feated its hopes. Nr. Slow on Sympathy. The Boston Post reproduces tho following moral reflection of Mr. Slow : " Bimelech," said Mr. Slow, solemnly extend ing his arm like a pump handle, "you are now old enough to understand lhe words of wisdom being eleven nnd a half, in other words hall-past eleven and I wish to advise you never to inter fere with nobody, nor to interfere w iib nothing that dont belong to you. Shet yourself up, like a gold eagle in your pocket book, and don't get spent io too much concern for Others. If people is in dined to go to ruin, let 'em go if they're a mind to what business is it of your'n? If neighbors quarrel, what business is it of jour'n ? Let 'em fight it out. Why should you risk your precious head in trying to save tbeir's ? When you trade allers look to your side of the bargain ; and leave the one you are trading with to look after his. If he gets bit 'taint your (fluff. Take keer of num ber one is scripter, the real golden rule, and he that acts unto it never can die poor. Never have anything to do with sympathy. Sympathy does'nt pay. "Paint worth one cent. But if you must be sympathetic because it's popular, be sure be fore you begin that it ain't agoin' to cost you any thing", and then p'raps it will do to invest in it. Nobody never lost anything by not be:ng gener ous, so lay by for yourself what folks expects you to give to poor people and other vagabonds, and when you are old it will not depart from you. You will have something to count on to make you happy. Pay your doctor's bills; confound a hos pital, and buy a grave-stone full of exalted virtoos. Be careful, 'Bimelech, allers look arter the main chance, and beware of sympathy." A"Gbkat Ci ujctky!" Mes of America. The greatest man, ' lake all in all,' of the last hundred years, was Gen on American. The greatest doctor of divinity was Jonathan Edwards an American. The greatest philosopher was Benjamin Frank lin an American. The greatest living sculptor is Hiram Powers an American. The greatest living historian is W. H. Prescott an American. The greatct ornithologist was John Adam Audubon an American. There has been no English writer in the present age whose works have been marked with more humor, more refinement, or more grace, than those of Washington Irving an American. sumptuous palaces of the capital. The future: I he greatest lexicographer, since the time ot ruler of an empire may be unconsciously digging ; Johnson, was Noah Webster an American, in yonder field ; and this very school may he, un- ! The inventors, whose works have been produc- Af t God. theannointed means of revealing his un. ; live of the erentesl amount of benefit to mankind - - - With what a scornful disregard of wealth and the position of the moment, Almighty God scatters tbe priceless gift of genius among his children ! The great poet the illustrious statesman theelo quent orator, is as likely to go lorth from the brawn faced laborer's cottage over the way, ns from the suspected destiny to him and the world. Pro essor Flto I. in the last century, were Godfrey and Whitnev all Americans. The Albatross. The Albatross is the most poetic object on the ocean. There is nothing in all nature so noble, ethereal, spiritual nothing animate that so brings the sense of infinity and mystery and boundless spuce into the daylight. His home is in the south ern oceans, below twenty degrees south of tho line. Here he ranges alone, or in company over wastes of water that it takes fast ships from forty five to sixty days to sail across. His flight is not high; it is in long, low swings, a mile or two each way. Except in alighting and getting under weigh again, he rarely moves his wings, only sometimes giving a lew grand, -strong flaps ; then sailing away, now on one side, now on the other. now far astern, and again across the ship s bow's ; he may be watched in any weather going over a hundred miles of distance to the ship's one. No gale sends him to leevard, no calm 'essens the swiftness with which he M shaves with level wing the deep." Sometimes there come hundreds of his kind ut once, at others I have watched a soli tary one for days together. I never saw one alight except to pick up something which had fallen or ws thrown from the ship. Their alighting and rising is gooselike and ungraceful, but once afloat, their motions have an almost supernaturally sub- George Washington j lime beauty. It is possibb they may sleep at n'ght on the waves, but we never lell in with them as we did with Cape Pigebns in Ihe dark. I have thought I could perceive when fhe latter were tired, after several days of rough weather, but never the Albatross. On a ship's deck they are powerless, except to bite with their str!(lr hooked bills. So far from being able to M perch on mast or shroud." they are web footed, and cannot fly from the deck or even stand upon it, except momentarily. Their plumage is white, spotted, often most beautifully, with various shades of brown and black. Fifteen feet is a low average for their stretch of wing; some that we caught measured more than this, and I heard of one being taken that reached twenty two. The expression of their eyes as they look around them, helpless on the deck, is that which might be ascribed to proud, noble women, made the mock of pirates. Nothing not human ever wore a look so high, so imploring, vet so daunt less. y. Y. Courier. A Wkdoing Spoiled. On Sunday morning a German named Charles Schork, desirous of taking unto himself a "a rib" after the manner of" men, proceeded for that purpose with his lady love to the German Catholic Church in William street, where after making known their wishes, the priest fRev. Mr. Baillies) proceeded to tie the silken cord that binds two willing hearts. In accordance with the usual custom on such occasions, the question was asked if there were any persons present who hud any objections to the proceeding- whereupon a Mr. Martin Stultz rose and made some very weighty objections, to the effect that the said Charles Schork had a wife and family now living in Germany, and that he (Schork) had a few dnys since received a letter from his wife, which he could not read, and so brought it to him (Stultz) to read it for him, the substance of which was, that she desired to come to this country, and asking him to send her the necessary amount of money to defray her expenses and those of his children. Mr. Baillies becoming satisfied that the charges were correct, refused to consummate the matrimo nial purposes of the disappointed bridegroom, whereat he became exceedingly indignant at Mr. Stultz, swearing vengeance against him, and after the dismissal of the congregation, commenced a furious assault upon, and would probably have killed him but for the interference of the crowd. Complaint was made by Mr. Bnillies to Justice Baldwin, who issued a warrant lor his arrest, which was accomplished yesterday morning while following Mr. Stultz through a number of streets, storming and threatening to kill him. He was taken before the same Justice, who committed him to the tender mercies of the "lock up." The in tended bride is a very respectable German girl, and expresses her entire satisfaction at her fortunate escape from such a gay Lothario. . Newark, N. J. Mercury. Mechanics' Institute at Richmond. A Mechanic's Institute is about being formed : in Richmond, Va. The Constitution proposes the ! institution of a School of Design, a Chemical Laboratory, a Library, Public Lectures, and an Annual Exhibition. All these enterprises it is not supposed, can be promptly put in operation, but in due lime they can be accomplished. We hail wiih great satisfaction this movement in our State. To elevate the character of the mechanic,. 8ml to give him that due weight and importance in society which he merits, is his own work. Mental culture is alone needed. When the mind co-operates with the physical powers, all must see and acknowledge the dignity of labor, and its val ue and importance. Let us have our mechanics well informed, well educated, and well improved, and, with their means and capabilities, there would not be such a body of men in the world. Capital nnd labor would move on harmoniously together, the latter using tho former for its good, and repaying it ten fold; and the former only conferring employment, blessings, and happiness. Mechanics Institutes ; with their laboratories, li braries, lectures, and schools, would be no places for the designs of the vicious, the disturbances of had hearted agitators, or for fomenting disputes, and exciting jealousies and discontents, which in variably end in loss and discredit to lhe working men, and not unfrequently the ruin of themselves and their families. Tbe mechanics of the country see and know this. Alex. Gazette, July 19. The Spanish Revolution. Ii will be recol lected that some two months ago we took occasion, in writing of the condition of Europe, to explain bow and why it was thai the first serious conti nental revolution would occur in Spain. Already that prediction (founded on information only ob tainable, on this side of the Atlantic, in Washing ton city) has been confirmed Letters received by various parties here this morning from Lon don, Paris and Madrid, confirm our previous ex pectations of the serious character of this contest. It is not to he doubted thai the revolutionists, who have hoisted the republican banner, already have the upper hand in M nir.u and also in Barcelona and elsewhere in (he Provinces. Though (Jen. O'Donnell is the nominal head of the revolution, in London and 1'aris it is understood by tho best informed persons that Espartero (a sincere Repub lican, and the lender of the Spanish Progression ists) is the real head of the movement, and that Narvaez will very probably soon be found to btt engaged with him. So far as the future of Cuba is lo be affected by the result of this revolution, we have to say, that be that result as i' may, it cunnot fail to has ten our acquisition of the Islund. If the revolu tionists triumph for any considerable time, they will return to the government without a dollar in hand, and with no other means of obtaining mo ney than the sale of the I .land to the United States. Thus Providence is work'ng in our favor, as it were. Washington Star. Insanity. In a lecture recently delivered be fore a London Society, a distinguished physician stated that there is one form of insanity which, al though unknown a few years ago in England is now becoming quite common, It appears in men of all classes, but ssidom in women. Its causes are mostly to be found in anxiety, reverses, nnd in over exertion in depressing circumstances. Its commencement is marked by neglect of business and an indulgence of extravagant fancies. The patient considers himself on the eve of possessing great wealth and high rank. He speaks of vast designs, his temper becomes capricious, and the physician notices a peculiar lingering in his speech and a slightalteration in his manner of walking. But he appears in fine spirits and ncknoWleges no illness. By and by paroxysms of irritability attack him, and his malady mnkes rapid advances. His speech becomes more indistinct, and his strength, both of body and mind, grow less. Nu trition goes on well, and the exhilaration of spirits often remains when the patient can no longer walk or rtrnk sn as In he linriratonrt This u hid of insanity is believed to be incureable, although i !! . - ----- - i;r . ,;.., .i a 7 'ry Fitch, Fulton, the patient's life may sometimes be prolonged for years. Its usual denomination is general para lysis. The Socth United. A few years ago a bit ter feud separated and agonized the southern peo ple. Now they are united as a band of brothers. Who would disturb this concert ol action and of leeling? Who would exchange the present stale of good-will among men for the animosities and criminations that preceded and succeeded the ex citing controversy of 1850? Who would hear the cry of separation advocated by Americans who were misled by apprehension or by anger, and by the most violent threats of force? Let us thank God that all is over, and neither seek to in quire into the cause that has produced this happy and healthful change, nor lo give f fie victory to cither section of the Union ir the premises. One thing is clear from this prospect, and from sur rounding facts that the South slid not rejoice in the spirit of triumph for she gained only what belonged to her when she saw the people of the United States ready, in one imposing acclaim, to recognize her rights in the most formal and prac tical manner. At the same time, the Nori can recall the past and compare it with the present with feelings of high and peculiar pride. The union of the South maddens such fanatics as Gree ley, however, and he is laboring to furnish a con trast to it by exci'ing dissensions at the North. H has failed at this game before; he will again Washington Union. The Phoposal of Rijsia to Sell Sitka to the United States. A Paris letter in the New York Tribune, it appears, was the authority on which was based the despatch, published yesterday, stating that a special R ussiun agent was about to come to the United Slates, in the steamer Indiana, with important proposals, including tbe sale of Sitka, to our Governrmnt. Tbe writer in tbe Tribune goes on to sav : "These roposiuons are entirely neutral al re gards the present war, being questions lhal might be considered in time of peace as well as now. A gentleman formerly resident in tbe United Stales, late Conseiller de Cour of lhe Emperor of Russia, has left hi? position near the person of the Grand Duke Conslitutine, to go to Washington, t mpo rarily, as a special messenger to the United States Government. The strong sympathy, amounting even to love, which the Court of Russia manifests toward the United Slues at ibis moment, open tho way for negotiations with that power on mullers disconnected with the war, which mav never occur again. Russia desires American jmpathy, she has need of American money; and so strong a hatred has lately sprung up against England, that she will sacrifice much of her personul interest to irritate that power, and to cripple her on American soil. There is without any doubt, therefore, a propo.ii ion on its way lo V aldington, having in view the c ssion of important territory lo the United States for a money consideration, as well as propo sitions for the promotion and extension of com mercial relations between the two countries. Russia is making preparation lor a ten years' war, on a scale of magnitude which must more or less her finances, notwithstanding her ex'roor resources, and a money friend, such as America, will be the most indispensable to her." Eloquent Extract. The tea is the largest of cemetries, and ils slumberers aleen without a M r monument. All graveyards in all other lands show symbol of distinction between the great and the small, the rich and the poor ; but in t'lat great ocean cemetery the king and the clown, the prince and the peasant, are all alike undistinguished. The waves roll over all lhe same requiem song by the minstrelsy of the ocean is sung to their honor. Over their remains ihe same storm bests, and the same sun shines; and there, unmarked, the weak and the powerful, the plumed and un bounded, will sleep on. until awakened by the same trump when tbe sea will give up ils dead. Fatal Accident in C i;m hkh lan d County. We sre informed by a gentleman resideng at Litlle Rockfisb, Cumberland County, that a boy named Matbew Perry, about seventeen years of age, was killed at the Kockfish Factory on the 18th inst. He was amuking hims.lt' in the third story of the Mill, when violently pushing against the slats which protected the open door, they gave way and falling upon the steps below he was instantly killed. The owners of the Mill regret the accident very much, it being the first that has occurred sines tbe Mill went into operation. Tub Youb Fence Posts. It is mentioned ss a curious fact that a farmer in Connecticut, who recently took up a lence after it had bren standing fourteen years, found all those posts solid which A man had better be poisoned in his blood than had been inverted from the way in which they in his principles. Begin nothing until you have considered how it is to be finished. originally grew, while all those which had set ss they grew were rolled oflT at liie bottom. Heads down, therefore, seems specific again. I dt-cny.