North Carolina Newspapers

A Family Paper, devoted to State Intelligence, the News of the World, Political Information, Southern Rights, Agriculture, Literature, and Miscellany. (?BY JOHN J. PALLIEB,? EUROS AXD I'ROPRIKTOK. J CHARLOTTE, MECKLENBURG COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA. $2 PER ANNUM In Advance. OfBco on Main Street, ONE DOOR SOUTH OF SADLER'S HOTEL. S (VOLUME4. New Series XT - I NUMBER 22. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1855. I ' OF THE BSfOK AD JOK ij ft" Having recently Waited New-York, and se lected from the old ami tr.'uit foundry of Geo. Brace, Lsq., A jl NTITY OK 3irm nnii ,f usjjionablt tSqpr, We arc now preps! (. Execute Iitl ilio Best Style, A r. K I X I S OF - - t -pr fi ' .Wiflpy it .titans, ami you mnltipiy the Results," Is one .it' the established maxims of business. OK ki:s FOB PAMPHLETS, HANI HULLS, CARDS, CIRCITLAUS, LABELS, I CLERKS' BLANKS SHERIFF'S do. CONSTABLES' do. MAC ISTRATES'do. ATTORNEYS' do. OK FOB &tiired by the business Connnunity, (TILL BE EXEC'tTTEIl W ITH - I I S I A T 35- A N 1 "rr S-SS-S'"" Various Jxxa.ci.js oi HlvdJ OuYtl ALWAYS ON HAND. FASHIONABLE TAILORING. THE subscriber announce la the poblic generally, that he is bow receiving large assort ment ' new Clollis, f assinteres A Ml fur Gentlemen's wear, ami will be i ' i-( for Cash at a BBiall srofit,or made toor tler according to the latest styles. Shop next does to Kims' Orocerv Sti.re. S, pt. 29, 1884. 10-tf D. I,. REA. REMOVAL,. F. YV. Beckwith lias remove.i his Jewelry ' How, three doors Soath j of Kerr': Hotel. I .10-ly j SADDLES & HARNESS. mCKlBEftS have entered into co- JSsTOPGl ' . ' W.I J 111 partnership ami open. . sa. iiTn h w Saddle and ilviritc 3WCaSt23.XjTEiO'tClT3r, ! AT R. SHAW'S OLD STAND, In Suin.s: Baica Cokner Bciutiae, where they have constantly on hand a larire and splendid assortment of SadJ Bril!e. IS a r ol every description, according to th most approved style and fashion of the day. They are also prepared to manufacture anything; in their line in the most sabstaaHa and work manlike manner and better than the best. We resnec-Muliy invite the public to call and exam, i, e for themselves. Repairing done at short notice and with neatness and dispatch. SHAW & PALMER. March 2, IS'5. 32 tf IT PAYS WELL N0W-A-DAYS TO LOOK ROUND AND FIND The C 'hfiipi.st VUut. t iajf Goods, cm much nionr if run be siirnL partiruhirlij trhi u HQ) ha if flu Cash. AT have jast received one ol the l irjcst and bast 'selected stock ufrood. we have i have just received one ol the largest ever brought to this market. Wc have a large stock of i jj y y u id j o l,aly C loaks Kt'aly-Tlalt Clothing, ot all kiuds, very cheap. Boots Shoes, Hardware, and amain oftbei in very clicai Kei ro BLANKETS. And wc are diM.-rmo....! n i . -' sen mir usual as low as any house m Carolina. All we ask is ! an examination of our :ood .ind prices. And mm we ukc creat pleasure showill? our j iiOocs, calf and sec before buvin 1 mLOWH, BRAWLKY Co. Oct- 9, 1855. tl tt" j J2 jp BOONE WHOLESALE AND " RETAIL DK tLEK IX y D Ti il M 3 tt7 f Trt ji I is J iU J.; .1 rr r. I J d, . W ' jj w- ;1J1 v -i - . . hEATHKR.Uu SK 1 NS, Ll.NI.NG BlBBI.XS ! .... -Skins, Shoe Tools - - r-ts. x CHARLOTTE, N C Oct. 20, 1854. if 1 S Li .C S , Jit t'eb. 16. 1855. o F"KrST III 1. I a THE WESTERN DEMOCRAT. I m Published every Tuesday a Containing the latest News, a full and accu rate Report of the Markets, &c. IKKBSia 1 For the year, if paid in advance $2 00 If paid within six months, 2 50 If Mid after the expiration of the year, 3 00 .nv person sending us five new sub scribers, accompanied by the advance sub scription (10) will receive a sixth copy gra tis for one year. 1 Subscribers ami othe rs who may wish to Bend money to us, can do so by mail, at our ri.-k. ADVERTISING. 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We are tit the commencement of a new CoBgivas, and parties in the House of Representatives are much divided. Or ganization seems impossible without coali tions: and rumors of coalitions, corrupt i coalitions, abound. The only party of the , three that retains its old name, and its old j organ! ation, is the Democratic party. Agein, we are on the eve of one of those ! great political contests which occur every tour years, and in which the several partu s will struggle with unusual activity and energy for ascendancy. The basis of tin1 Democratic creed is the sovereignty stud equality of the States of the Union. That is the corner stone of the edifice. From that it comes that it has always been jealous of a great overshadow ing, central, federal power. From that it comes that it has opposed United States Banks, protective tariffs, systems of internal improvement, eve, by the General Govern ment. From that it comes that it has opposed all partial legislation all class legislation all monopolies, and that most odou8, dangerous and federal of all meas ures ever proposed in this country aboli tion u in. The Democratic party is essentially a State-rights party the State-rights party of the country. True, there are some men i in other parties who hold State-rights ,,;,,;,,. true, there are men acting witn the Democratic party who hold Federal opinions, or, in other words, give a latitu- dinous construction to the Constitution. I But such men hi-c misplaced politicians. The first ought to come to the Democracy: the last ought to 'o from the Democracy am loin tile 1- ei era l r.i mosii joji iur ill nisi, . ', ... , -i ..i i:. 1 .1 l, t tne opposition DC spur ami miuuihiivu as it may h by almost imperceptible and inappreciable lines that opposition is, and o necessity must oe. veoerai, cciurai. auu latitudinous in its character. It is the boast of the Democratic party that it is homogeneous; that its State-rights tenets compel an assimilation and an identity between its various members , that no ism and no idea of sectionalism can either in vidiously creep, or burglariously break into its fold. It is both State-rights and national in its character. Successful as it has been in consenuence of its correct nrincioles and its warm genial and generous nature, ami I great us are the rewards which individuals ' may reap from its success, it would be an- ! reasonable to suppose that hold, aspiring, I and unscrupulous men would not sometimes : be attracted to it. We do not deny that such have east in their fortunes with it. ! But they have been attracted to it not by utmtntvir f.,r its nrinrinios. but hv It : K"',!,atlou tor lT i,1J!i' I ' ' ,J-' love oi its rewarus. j We are warm advocates for the purgation ; of parties. The purer they are the more I certain and enduring will be their success. I An anscrnnulona sHflinc or pretermission 1 O of opinions or ii tiiiuduh nt and Jesuitical verbal conformity where there is an actual and vital disagreement, may sometimes lead j to ;i platform that will secure temporary ; succei but experience ha.- proved tnm , , , rm. BttCn oeoe9 cnu Ul- temporary only. 1 lie mst honest party is ever the boldest and proudest part v. and must alwavs be tlic most ucecsstul. fFashtmgton Si tdimel. Among the distinguished strangers now in Washington is Hon. John Branch, of Aortli L aiolma, becretarv of the Navy under General Jacksou"s administration. whole country will be pleased to learn that the veuerablo statesman is in the en joyment of 'Vigorous health LET US BE HAPPY. BY ELIZA COOK. Oh ! let us lie happy when friends gather round us, However ihe world may have shadowed oi r lot ; When the rose-braided hnksof affection have bound us, Let the cold chains of earth he despised and for got ; And say that the friendship is only ideal, That Truth and Devotion ore blessings unknown, For he who believes every heart as unreal, Has something unsound at the core of his own. Oh ! let us be happy when moments of pleasure Have brought to our presence the dearest and btst, For the pulse always beats to most hearenly mea sure, Whoa love and ocd will sweep the strings oi the breast. Oh ! let us be happy, when moments of meeting Bring those to uur side who illumine our eyes; And though lolly, perchance, shake a bell at the greeting, He is the dullest of fools who forever is wise. Let the laughter of Joy echo over our bosoms, As the hum of the bee for the 'mid-summer llow ers, For the honey of happiness is from love's blrsoms, And is iound m the hive of those exquisite hours. Then let us be happy, when moments of pleasure Have bronght to our presence the dearest and best, For the pulse always beats to most heavenly mea sure, When love and good will sweep the strings of the breast. Let us pleau noi a spirit too sad and too weary, To yield the kind word, and the mirth-lighted smile ; The heart, like the tree, must be fearfully dreary, Where the robin of hope will not warble awhile. Let us say, in our pride, that we care no Tjr others, And live in our wealth like an ox in his stall ; Tis thecemmerce of love, with our sisters and brothers, Helps to pay our great debt to the Father of All. TIilii let us be happy, when moments of pleasure Have brought to our presence the deaicstand bes, For the pulse ever beats with more heavenly mea sure, When love and good will sweep the strings of the breast. (General ntclligciut. A CASE FOR THE ABOLITIONISTS. The Semite of Virginia have lately passed a hill for the voluntary enslavement of a free negro of Southampton county. He is an old man. sixty years of age. and litis been lately emancipated, but is anxious to remain in the condition of servitude, which he kiiov., l.y nxnerience io. iJijni vaAmi the best and happiest condition for his race. So numerous arc applications of this char acter, that it has been found necessary to introduce a general law into the Legislature for the voluntary enslavement of free ne groes of the commonwealth. We commend these facts to Greeley & Co. They afford an all sufficient answer to their doleful Jeremeiads upon the oppres sions and misery of Southern slavery. I On Friday afternoon last, a man un der the influence of liquor was observed in the vicinity of Washington street in Bal timore, lie applied for some liquor at a neighboring shop, hut was refused. In a I short time a camphine wagon drove up, and while the driver was in a house supplying a customer he went to the wagon and seizing a measure, drew a quantity of the liquid and swallowed it. In a short time he be came overpowered with its effects, and a bout four o'clock was taken by an officer to the Eastern Station-house, and died about five o'clock on Saturday morning. . : "Xohlit, who murdered old Mr. Davis, in McDowell county, X. C, about a year since, and who was convicted, but appealed to the Supreme Court, where the decision of the inferior court was sustained, was hung Oil the 14th instant. . :VJAbill is now before the Semtt of Tennessee, authorizing a conventional rate of interest of ten per cent., but leaving the present legal rate of interest six per cent, to stand in the absence of any agreement between the parties to a contract fixing an other rate not higher than ten per cent. . I ? The South Carolina Conference have resolved to sell their interest, as individuals, in the stock of the South Carolina Railroad Company, "because the Company would wort on tne oaooaui uay, am. way m . wish to partaae ra muMiig uwwj i"- Sabbath." VrkBtarvv ,H, learn that the house of .. , tl rit . ,v.,s 4nt,.red en ,-. -. . , i 3 ii c .. Sunday night last by some daring thief or thieves, and a cold watch. Gov. .Manly s pn(1 otiier aTi., );f vahie stolen, faluilv h retired for the night Raleigh Xtandanl. y The Red Kiver hunters number 2,000 men. Their women and children number .3,000 souls. They have 1,8Q0 carts, and range with them from the Mouse river val- ley to the ilea mr t tne norm : auu ta-u year, in June and July, and again in Octo ber and November, carry off to the settle ments at Pembina and in the English terri tory, at least 23,000,000 pounds of Buffalo meat, dried, or in the form of pt-uiican. These people are simple-hearted, honest and industrious. "Tom," said man to his friend, "I think it bighl- dangerous to keep the biHs of small banks on hand now-a-days." "1 nn. answered the other, "I find it m-rc cumcun than dangerous." LATE FROM KANSAS. The St. Louis Democrat has news from Kansas that 2000 armed men are at Kicka poo, with six pieces of artillery, and says it is estimated that there are from three to four thousand armed men, regularly or ganized into companies, and chiefly from Platte, Buchanan, Clay and Jackson coun ties, Missouri, now in Kansas. Twenty of the most respectable citizens of W estport, Mo., have gone' to Lawrence to endeavor to prevent the shedding of blood. The citizens of Lawrence have held a meeting and resolved to obey all the demands of the authorities, but to resist mob violence. From the Kicknpoo City Pioneer. The demand of the Governor for the as sistance of all good citizens to uphold the laws of this Territory obliges us, as much as we regret it, to postpone the issuing of our paper for one week, as both editors march with the Kiekapoo brigade to the scene of action. It being hut thirty five miles to Leconip ton, and forty to Lawrence, we shall he able to give our readers all news of impor tance, immediately after it transpires, in extras. The whole country is aroused immense bodies of men are arming themselves and preparing to march to the assistance of the Sheriff of Douglas county. By next Monday the whole draft of Gov. Shannon (304M men) will be in the field. Deputy Sheriff S. W '. Tunnell, carried the news to Atchison, and having just re turned states a company was formed im mediately. The news is spreading like wildfire, and the pro-slavery sovereign squatters are hackling on their armor. The rangers will narch from here on Saturday, December 1 under command of Col. A. B. Hazzard an.l Brigade Major M. P. Berry. Incendiarism is abroad in the land. An effort was made by one r more black hearted abolitionists last night, to destroy Mr. B. D. Hamilton and his family, residents of Salt Creek, by fire. Mr. Hamilton is an undoubted pro-slaveiy man, and this Is the only cause that can be assigned for setting fire to his premises. A few days will finish abolitionism in Kansas, and the perpetuity of the Union be saved by the firm action of southerners. ti.v j, i-.u.i c Ov-rnr Shaimon- of Kansas, published on the 2.0th of Novem ber, after stating the fact of there being an tinned force in the county of Douglas, which had rescued a prisoner from the sheriff, and which defies the laws of tie Territory, calls upon "all well disposed citizens of this Territory to rally to the sirpport of the laws of their country, and requiring and com manding all officers, civil and military, and all other citizens of the ttrritory, who shall be found within the vieitity of these out rages, to be aiding and assisting, by till means in their power, in quelling this armed organization, and assisting the said Sheriff and his deputies in re-capturing the above named prisoner, and ailing and assisting him in the execution of ill legal processes in his hands." Lucian J. Faustin, G sneral of the 2d brigade of Kansas ruilitin, calls on his com mand to meet at Leavenworth city on the 1st instant, armed and equipped. The following call, signed by "Many Citizens," is also published: to arms! to arms! It is expected that every lover of Law and Order, will rally at Leavenworth on Saturday, December 1st, 1855, prepared to march at once to the scene of rebellion, to put down the outlaws of Douglas county, who are committing depredations upon per sons and property, burning down houses, and declaring open hostility and resistance to the laws, and have forcibly rescued a prisoner from the Sheriff. Come one, come all! The Laws must be executed. The outlaws, it is said, are armed to the teeth, ami num ber one thousand men. Every man should bring his rifle, ammunition, and it would be well to bring two or three days' provisions. Let the call be promptly obeyed. Every man to his post and do his duty. A late number of the St. Louis Kepulili can, gives the origin of the Kansas troubles : It appears that a man by the mime of Cole man a pro-slavery man settled in the abolition part of the Territory; that the abolitionists attempted to drive him off; that he resisted, and killed one of them ; that one of the abolitionists, engaged in this outrage, was arrested by the government officers, and afterwards rescued by Un armed abolitionists ; that Coleman's house and sixteen other houses had been burnt, and the families turned out of doors ; that the abolitionists, under the head of Robinson and others, have from five hundred to one thousand men in the field members of the sworn secret legion armed with Sharp's rifles; that these men deny the authority of the present Territorial government, and tire plotting for its overthrow. THE PrF-SUiENT AXIl TUT. 1'lLI.inrSTERS. President Pierce has issued a proclama tion, warning all persons against enlisting or hiring others to enlist, within the terri tories of the United States, for military operations against Nicaragua. The pro clamation is timely, for the news from Nicaragua represented that Col. Kewen had pone to San Eraneiseo, to raise five hunched volunteers to Rid Walker. THE INDIAN WAR IN OREGON. The Indians in Oregon are making a de termined war against the inhabitants. A battle occurred on the .'1st of October, at Crow Creek, between three hundred Indians and four hundred regulars and volunteers under Capt. Smith of the United States Army. The fight commenced at 1 o'clock, p. in., and continued till 10, the Indians retreating all the while, and firing back upon the whites. At length it was deemed necessary that steps be taken to provide for the wound ed, and a halt ordered, when the Indians rallied and commenced firing upon the men, to whom prudence dictated tin course of retiring to an open space, where a more effectual stand could be made, which they accordingly did. It was then ascertained that 18 of the Captain's men had been killed, and 25 wounded some mortally, others dangerously, and a few slightly. A mes sage was then despatched to Capt. George, at Althouse, who started immediately with SO volunteer recruits. It is expected that a renewal of the encounter will take place. A scouting party of six returned with intel ligence that about 250 Indians were in the vicinity of the heads of Antelope and Buttee Creeks. Captain Thomas Smith, with about 100 men, immediately started out, ami it is feared that a Serious encounter would take place. Major General Wool and Stall", with five hundred picket men, and four thousand stand of arms, had left San Francisco for the Columbia river, (Oregon.) The General, we doubt not, will give a good account of himself. USURY LAWS. Gov. Johnson, of Virginia, in his late message to the Legislature, recommends a free system of interest, as follows : " I beg leave to cull your attention to the repeal of all laws on the subject oi usury, a subject which has recently attracted pub lic notice in this and the adjoining States. However necessary restrictive measures of this character may have been in former times, there is obviously a strong prejudice against them at present. All experience has shown that every effort to keep down the rate of interest by legislative enactments has proved abortive, and failed to accom plish the end ; that the price of money, like every other commodity in the market, will le regulated by demand and supply, cunt that any laws intended to control it are constantly violated, evaded or disregarded, the tendency being to demoralize society by inducing an habitual disregard of the laws of the State. It is moreover confidently be lieved that the laws now in force tend to in crease rather than diminish the rate of in terest paid, and operate to the prejudice of the borrowers, who arc generally the more needy class, and whose interests were inten ded to be guarded. And indeed it is diffi cult to understand why the liberty of the citizen should be restricted in regard to moneyed transactions, while he is deemed competent to the management and control of other commodities in his possession. Without entering further into discussion on the subject, I would respectfully recom mend a repeal or such modifications of these laws as would leave the citizens free to sti pulate for such rate of interest as may be agreed upon by the contracting parties." FILIAL INGRATITUDE. "Ingratitude ! thou marble-hearted fiend, More hideous when thou show'st thee in a child." Our sensibilities have perhaps never been more rudely shocked than they were last week at the County Court, when a case wtis called in which a son had ca-saed his lather for a trifling debt! The old man came limping in on bis staff, with eyes bent upon the floor, feeling, no doubt, "How sharper than asarpent's tooth it is To have ;i thankless child." But the half is not told: That son mad up an issue of fraud with his father, and, by all the testimony that he could rake up, attempted to convict the old man of con cealing a small quantity of corn and a few head of cattle, for the purpose of hindering and delaying the collection of the debt ! We have no comments to offer upon such a case. We believe that not many more of the kind arc likely to happen in Camber land : and for the credit of humanity, we hope they may occur no where else. "Hon or thy father and thy mother ; that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God gtvetfa thee." Fayefff villc (N. C.J Argus. ADMONITION TO YOUTH. "Honor thy father and thy mother, that thv days maybe long in the land which the Lord thy God givcth thee." If there is one command in the whole blessed book that should be obeyed more than another, it is the above. However debased may be the parent, however low he may be sunk in the scale of humanity, it is the child's bound a duty, through evil and good report, through sickness and through .sorrow, to sustain him until the clods of the valley have, covered him. How little do we know, and how much less do we appreciate the cares, the anxie ties and the troubles of a parent, in the bringing us from childhood up to manhood, and never can we repay them fully, if our days are lengthened to the longest life. The child who would neglect his parent that would fail to soothe him in the last trying hour that would not by all the means in his power, endeavor to render his last hours comfortable and happy, should be convicted of the great crime of ingrati tude should be branded with the mark of Cain, and he driven out from all civilized society. MISCBLLAN Y. ON WIVES. Ti:vt: Then cherish her dearly, And love 1st sinceivly ; Be faithful, indulgent and kind ; Make not a slight failing A pretext for railing, If seel you should happen to liud. O. do not misuse her, And never refuse her, When proper her wishes may be ; And thy cost, care and trouble, She'll recompense double, By tin- kindness she'll lavish on thee. My DEAR FalEKDe : I am not speaking of horses, hut I do intend to say that a wife is as nice a creature to work in double har ness, if you use her properly, as a person need wish to drive, but to possess. Yes, J sin- works well, if rightly served and badly. if abused : she won't put her foot over the traces, nor hold hard on the hit, with pro per treatment; but with severe and unjust management, she shows the spunk charac teristic of her sex, and which I, for one, take thi' responsibility to admire. She cx- pects to be treated like a human, at bust ; and when a brute of a husband endeavors to make her his slave, and kick her about like a dog, it must be supposed that she will throw herself upon reserved rights a broom-stick, a pair of tongs, or a particu lar lover. My friends, a wife should be cherished dearly. Consider the amount of love laid out to get her, in the first place the cost, of attending the preliminaries and the af ter expenses so cheerfully defrayed. Con sider these things, 1 say, and then think, if you can, that she is not worth preserving and protecting as a pearl of great juice. You take her for better or for worse, just as you buy a colt. If she prove better you have reason to rejoice ; but if she turn out to be worse, you must consider it your mis- j were not so comfortable and desirable, and fortune and bear the burden as wi ll ns you j t,lilt Tand my own dear Mary would indulge can. The predicament was no fault of j ourselves in a little quiet leisure in these hers ; she didn't ask you to take her ; but j mce rooms, and if wo choose, in loungin you popped the question and she replied: j ou tno d'as and rocking in these cushioned "Here, sir, I give myself away now take me as I am !" So, you see you are bound to cherish her, under any circumstances, let her he good or bad a direct descendant of the devil, or a legitimate off-spring of hea ven. My worthy hearers : after you have got a wife see that you continue to love her sin- eeri ly, if not ns warmly as when you first breathed into her ear the tender sentiments of your heart, (-ling to her with all the af fectionate tenacity of a hop vine ; and when the tempest winds of trouble blow, elinr tighter still, like a coon to a limb in a hur ricane. You must love her, and love each other, if you would keep fresh and bright the fairest blossoms in the boquetof connu bial bliss, and see little jumping-up-johnnies ever and anon springing in your flower beds of domestic joys. But I know how it is with you young husbands ; your love is too apt to boil over in the beginning, and put out the fire then the liquor grows cool by degrees ; and sometimes it gets so low in temperature, that if a thermometer were introduced, I think it wouldn't stand a great ways from freezing heat. You walk into matrimonial Eden, and imagine that double breasted joys, and india-rubber pleasures sire forever to attend yon; but, directly you fall afoul of the fruit fill yourself al most to it surfeit and then say in your in wards, "This place isn't near so nice as I thought it was ; I don't know but that I wouldas soon be a bachelor again, perhaps a s little sooner!" 0, you easily duped vic tims of disappointment! you must not raise your anticipations of conjugal felicity of quite m high a pitch. Bring them to a lit tle lower standard, and you will be us much surprised tit the true pleasures, and com forts attending thereby, as I was at the en joyments of a turtle-soup party the other day at my friends', the Messieurs Burnharn on the BMonungdaTe road, about three miles beyond Corporal Thompson's, u quar ter of a mile beyond Mr. Griffin's, half a mile this side of Col. Struckman's (Striker's Bay,) and within a mile of Capt. Trusdell's (Abbey Hotel.) It is a good thing to be particular in pointing out locations. My hearers : be faithful to the w ife ; pay her .ail the attentions you peasshly can. Don't fiiddle about among other wives, be cause if vou do, you will stand a chance, like my friend, Gen. Scott, of being expos ed to two fires one in front, and the other Be at home evening?, and tit 1 ic rear. all times when she has a proper right to ex poet vou: he kind and indulgent to her, as you value her and your happiness ; for. if vou foolishly oppose a wotnnn in her ways, vou face an enteqrisinjr and energetic tr- You must not take advantage of any lipit failing of her nature ; but if you find a Maw, instead of making the crack wider by picking and punching, you must cover it all over with the soft, soothing and all-healing plaster of patience and you will find that it is Icr disposition to mend, rather than to make breaches. 0, do not, I beseech you, my dear friends, never misuse your better halves! Thev were never fashioned nor built with surficient strong timber to stand abuse ; but. rather to be cherished and pro tected, like hot-house plants, nnd thev are screened from the frosts and sheltered from the beating storms of the world. Never re fuse them any wish within the bmits of your circumstances give them a kiss when you feel a disposition to kick do all in your power to ph ase them and, no matter what the cost, care and trouble may amount to. they will repay you with compound kind ness, and gladly look after the multifarious duties attendant upon the matrimonial state. So mote it be .' OTJT3rDij GUTTER AND INSIDE GLOOM. Many homes are elegantly furnished, with small addition to doiue-t ic comfort. In this fast age the Mrs. Potiphurs often live in pa latial residences, overlaid with gorgeous de eoialionsfor the eyes of fashionable visitors, while the home-loving Mr. Potipher sighs fiu the quiet ease of the humble old home stead. The HarysViBe Tribune gives nn amusing sketch of the inner life of one of these comfortless households : "I declare, Mr. Smith! this is too bad. Here you are stretched out on the sofa, muss ing it Bp, and my nice carpet is all spoiled ly the tramp of your coarse boots. I shall be ashamed to, brine; any one into the parlor again and I have taken so much pains to keep everything nice! 1 do think, Mr. Smith, you are the most thoughtless man I ever did see you don't appear to euro how much trouble you give me. If I had no more care than you have, wo would soon have a nice looking house it would not be long till our BCW house and furnituve would be just as bad as the old, ' said John Smith's wife to him, as she saw him in the parlor taking a Dap on the sofa. Mr. Smith rose up eagerly andansweerd, 'I was fin d and sleepy, Mary, and the weath er so hot, and this room so quiet and cool, and the sofa looked so inviting that I could not resist the temptation to snooze a little, i thought when we were building a new house, and furnishing it thus, that we were j doing it because the old house and furniture arm chairs, away from the muse of the fa mily, and the smell of the cooking stov.- "I diil not dream of displeasing you, Mary, and I thought it would ive you pleasure to see me enjoying a nap ou the sofa, this warm afternoon. 1 noticed when Merchant Swell, or Colonel IMgmaa, and their families were here, you appeared delighted to have sofas and cushioned nrm-chuirs for them to ! sit in or lounge upon. 1 thought the hou-e and the sofas were to use that we were seeking our own pleasure when we paid a large sum of money for them ; but suppose I was mistaken, and that the house nnd fur niture are for strangers, and that we arc to. sit in the old kitchen, and if I want to take a in i j or rest a little when fatigued, I am to lie down on a slab in the wood house ; and if you want to rest, you can go to the chil dren's trundle bed, in the little close bed room were the flies can have u chance at you." The irony of Mr. Smith's reply only pro voked his wife, and seeing hi: lsclf threaten ed with n repetition of Mrs. Smith's speech, with unpleasant additions and variations, and knowing thai he would get tired of gain ing victories over her in argument, before she would think of getting tired of defeat, he took himself out, and left Mrs. Smith to fix up and dust out, ami lock himoiit, of his own house, and took n sent on an old chair in the kitchen, which Mrs. Smith said was good enough to use every day, in ihe kitch en, where no one sees it. Poor, mistaken Mrs. Smith, thought I. And yet many are like her. They want a fine house, ami when they get it they want an out house built to live in, and they con fine their families to u few small rooms, poorly furnished, while the main room, well furnished, is never seen by the family, only when visitors come ! Both house and fur niture are loo grand for use. The carpet is too fine for him to sec or use. Ju.-t so it goes' ; we dress, (we women, I mean, I am sorry that many men urn as foolish as wo are,) to ph ase others, or rather to excite their remarks ; wc build houses and furnish them for those outside of the family, and live as poorly wheu we are rich as we did when we were poor; as poorly in the new house us in the old. It is a fatal day to en joyment, when a fnrni- y gets n house and furniture too fine for use ; and yet many have an ambitior tohavo it so. Better would it be if they were con tented with such a house and such furnitur' aa is suited to every day ue; the house large enough to accommodate one's friend.-, and the furniture such as all use at homo. -J odor," taid an old la Iv the oilier 'lay to hat family physician, "kin you tell tne how some folks is lxrn dumb "Why, c rU'mlv, nmdam," replied the limit ill , "itV owltg to the mat that thev come into the world without the power it speech." -La, nm !" remarked the old lady, "now ju.-t see wliat it is to liave a physic edica lion; I've nxed my old man motVa a bun dled times that ar same thing, and all I could get out of him was, lkase thev is.' n