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CHARLOTTE, MECKLENBURG COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA.
EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
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VOLUME 4.
on Main Street,
TUESDAY, JUNE 3, 1856.
ONE DOOR SOUTH OF SADLER'S HOTEL.
UMBER 46.
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TERMS OF THE PAPER:
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lected from the lil and elegant
Fonndry of Geo. Brace, Esq.,
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ROKi:itT ttBIAVI7
TAKES this opportunity ,,f iatavauag the
puMic graerallv, and all who intend going
t. Kansas in parthalsr, that he intends to con
tinue thr
Saddle and Harness Business,
At his old stand, in Springs' Corner Baildiag,
wh. re he intends to keep t onstantlv on hand a
SllppU" ot
Saatatoi, Bridle, llanBess,4tc
OT Every description.
His friends are WspulfaJly invited to call and
apply tavawtlira, as every article in his ban
will h- sJkmlrd aa the most reasonable terms.
iu:i iiuc; i one at the shortest notice
and " ith aeatai ss and dispatch.
Charlotte, Feb. 9S, l"t. tf
CaMh Paid lor Blirtes.
' I HE big beat prices will 1m- paid tor Hides bv
S. M..HOWELL.
3 doors South af t!u Mansion Hotel.
Charlotte, Oct. '. I85C fim
PIANO FORTES.
MK. RAMSEY, of
Columbia, S.C.,
I'iauo I'm ic a;
Mamie Dealer,
isconstantlv reciv
1112 a good supply of
Tianos with the LATEST IMPROVEMENTS,
which has given them the premium over all
other. and i octaves from J-'-IO to $3I0.
6 to 7 $300 to $4aa. 7 to $100 to $450.
Carved BNMk aad Grand Fuumm :rom $500 to
$1000.
Mr. R. beias a practical Piano Maker can
insure to his customers a perfect instrument.
Columbia, June 2.1, IBM. tSly
FROM SEBASTOPOL.
fWlHF.KI" is nothing new from
M the t nroea. t the i tt ar
rival, hut tit Stbastoaol, on Trade
Srn'. r lhen is siiini thini' n w
n
andrcsujned h-is an hand of James Briaat,
b i Tv aim i.i.pioresfaioisnmenr, ami mvnes
the public to prive him a cali, umiiina aV that
he will accommodate them with articles of the
l-st aanlfty, aad in a style to suit the most fas
tidious tast.'. civ, 8ebastoool a call, and judge
tor yemschn s.
WM PHELAN.
Feb. 5, IHTsfi. tf
Pmh Fluid and Campkiaie.
a rt . . .
m i i i;ilcil.!!D'S Drug Store, von will
p. ....... , t ' . I . i
gallon--Can.j.hiue 'M cents, cash.
- ffei tb-M articles pure. Flui
id at 51 pi
fUI ?, 100.
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id U U SJJU;
K. W. DAVIS,
Attorney 6c Counsellor at Law,
i ii.tm.it r i k. jr. v.
Jnn. 1, 1G. tf
ROBERT P. WAKHV6,
Attorney at Law,
(Office in building attached to the American Ho
lei, Main street,)
Charlotte, N. C.
Jan. 29, 1856. tf
HAVIXti located in this place, respectfully
i- i - r r : l t ' . l
mm uuen nis i ioieMum n.-.- iu me w j
sens ot the town and vicinity.
OFFICE next door to Messrs. Drueker &.
Summers' Store. April 2-2, 1866. tf
ROBERT GIBBON, M. D.
OFFERS his professional services to the pub
lic, in the practice ot SURGERY, in all
its various departments.
Dr. GIBBON will operate, treat, or give advice
in all cases that may require his attention.
I j? Ottice No. Granite Range, Charlotte.
Feb. 19, 1856. ly
A CARD.
DRS. SAM 'L L. V JOSEPH W. CALD
YYKLL have this day associated themselves
in the practice of Medicine, and one or the other
of then can at all times be found at their ottice,
next door to the .State Bank, up stairs, unless pro
fessionally engaged.
In all dangerous cases Dr. P. C. Caldwell will
act as consulting physician free of charge.
SAMITEL L. CALDWELL,
JOSEPH W. CALDWELL
Jan. -",, 1HS6. 1 y
lIC. P. C. CALDWELL will be
at the Office of Doctors J. W. & S. L Caldwell
from 8 to IU o'clock, every una uiag After that
hour, be will he at his own house, subject to the
call of any of his friends, unless professionally
haral.
IU R$. WHEALAM,
Dress M!a-lier,
Opposite the Eo-t-Olli e-
ALL DRESSES cut and
made by the celebrated
A-ll-C' method, and war
ranted to fit.
BONNETS
Trimmed in the latest style, at
the shortest notice.
Charlotte, Feb 12, 1856. tf
nits. Mm J. CRAIG,
Dress Maimer,
Three doom below Trotter's ( Carriage Manufactory
April 2-2, 1856. ly
AVj cN d 4$ dj m Ay.
lwv,,c bao a a.xv-c,,,v-
M avraj a is ' r i a i i i . ,ii.aa7 ai jiif
Charlotte.
S. M. HOWELL
; I B AVING made more extensive-preparations
Q fur t he Manufacture of
, wonW 1,,,,,f)lllv info cities of
North Carolina, that be is now prepared to fur
furnish SADDLES AND II 4 R N K.SS
of a superior quality, of his own manufacture,
at the
Very Lowest Possible Prices.
Wanting Saddles
lty leaving their orders, can be furnished as low
as thev can procure the same at the North.
April 15, I8Ti6 tf S. M. HOWLLL.
BOOKS
IT" or Sale
AT TUB
CHARLOTTE BOOK STORE.
rpHE NEW PURCHASE, or Early Years
JL IX THE Far West Bn Rtkert Carlton.
THE ADVENTURES OF IIAJJI BABA
in Turkey, Persia, and Russia Edit:d by Janus
SMorirr.
STANHOPE BURLEIGH, Thr Jesuit, s in
our Homes. due of the most interesting Novels
that has been written in many years by Jfhn
Dkm.
THE MUSEUM of Remarkable and Interest
in": Events, containing Historical Adventures
and Incidents.
BLANCHE DEARWOOD-a Tale of Modern
Lit.-.
EVENING TALES being ru -election of
wonderful and supernatural Sto'l. s, translated
from tin- Chinese, Turkish, ai d Genaaa, and
compiled 1 II, ni ij St. Clair
The True Masonic Chart, bv J. 1. Cross. ;. L
Mackey'a Alliu m Rraou of South Carolina,
rue Jfew Masonic Trustle Board.
The Free-Mason's Manual, by Rer'ad K. J.
Stewart.
THE ODD FELLOWS MANUAL, by the
Rev. A. B. Crash.
LOWRIE St ENNISS,
Charlotte. March 4, Hook-Sellers.
FASHIONABLE TAILORING.
THE subscriber announces
to the public generally, that he
is now receiving a large assort
ment of new
Cloths, Cassinieres
AND
for Gentlemen's wear, and will
be sohl tor CusA at a final! profiler aunia to or
der according to I be latest styles. Shop next
door to Elms' Grocery Store.
Sept. 29, 1S.'4. 10-tf D. L. REA.
RE!HfOAL.
R. W. Beckwith
has removed his Jewelry
Store to No. 2. Johnston's
Row, three doors South
ot Kerr's Hotel.
30-ly
F eb. 16, 1855.
A. BETHUNE,
j Kstress
3V Wm-f
MASONRY,
- Containing a definition 'Jrafcw
of all its communicable terms.
CHARLOTTE, N. U
. 5t ntral yntcllignue.
Slavery in the Methodist General
Conference. In the General Conference
of the Methodist church, at Indianapolis.
Indiana, the committees on slavery have
made a report, in which one article declares
slavery a sin, but "inasmuch as persons
may be brought into the legal relation of
slaveholders involuntarily by purchasing
slaves in order to free them, therefore, the
merely legal relation Shall not be considered
of itself sufficient to exclude a person who
may thus sustain it from the fellowship of
the church.
'Article 2. Whenever a member of our
church, by any means, becomes the owner
of a slave, it Khali be the duty of the preach
er in charge to call together a committee of
at least three members, who shall investi
gate the case, and determine the time in
which said slave shall be freed; and on this
refusal or neglect to abide by the decision
of said committee, he shall be dealt with as
in case of immorality.
E3P George C. Fields, one of the wound
ed in the late brutal assault on the passen
gers at Panama, died at the hospital in X.
York on Tuesday, from the effects of his
wounds. He had received two sabrejwounds
in the face, each of which was about six
inches in length, and penetrated through the
bones and cheek, knocking out most of
his teeth. Besides these wounds, the con
tents of a musket loaded with buckshot and
slugs were poured into his forehead, and
penetrated the Hesh and scalp. John Fields,
an elder brother of the deceased, ulso lost
his life in the Panama riot. The deceased
was robbed of all the money he had on his
person (850) at the time of the riot, and
nearly all his clothes were torn from his bo-d'-
...
Fatal Explosion. The Pyrotechnic
establishment of Dennis McCrossem, in
Schenck street, New York, exploded on
Monday, with fatal result. The report was
beard at the distance of more than a mile.
One of the unfortunate sufferers was thrown
through the roof, and landed a considerable
distance from the place. The others were
picked up about the premises, all blackened
and mutilated, so as hardly to be recognized
by their relatives. Samuel Bedell, a boy,
was dreadfully mangled, and of course died
immediately.
.
Fatal Affray in Cahaba, Alabama.
The Selma Reporter of the 2(Jth instant,
states that a difficulty occurred in Cahaba,
on last Friday evening, in which John R.
Bell and his two sons, John A. and Charles,
and Drs. Tro' and Hunter und Judge Bird
were engaged. John li. and John A. Bell
were both instantly killed by Judge Bird
and Dr. Hunter; Dr. Troy was slightly in
jured on the arm by a stick in the hands of
John A. Bell. A legal investigation was
bad on Saturday, but we have not heard
the decision of the court.
Recommendation for Office. The
new Mayor of Philadelphia is besieged with
applications for office. One poor fellow
was arrested a few nights ago, uproriously
drunk, and upon searching his pockets, a
petition was found, setting forth that he
was a sober, stead7 man, and one eminent
ly worthy of a place on the police. The
drunken candidate for police honors was
taken before an Alderman, and sent below.
DAMAGES FOR HltEACII OF PROMISE.
In Bedford (Va.) Circuit Court, at its last
term, Wm. Steen, a gentleman 84 years of
age, was sued by a young lady for damages
for breach of promise, and mulcted in the
sum of $730. A new trial has been granted.
The "young lady" ought to be made pay
double the amount, for consenting to marry
a gentleman of eighty-four.
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Damages. In the Supreme Court of
Massachusetts, sitting in Warren city, Mr.
Taft, of Charleston. South Carolina, has
obtained a verdict of $7,2o0 against the
We.-tem Railroad corporation, as damages
for the loss of his arm last September, while
riding in the company's car-.
A Man about to bk Bubxeb Alive.
In Fremont, Sandusky county, Ohio, the
funeral services were about being performed
on the bod' of Daniel Stearns, Esq., who
was supposed to have been dead three days,
when a slight warmth was perceptible in the
body, restoratives were applied, and he is
now recovering.
Low Fare. The price of a ticket, for
the round trip, from Washington City to
the Cincinnati Democratic Convention, was
only lfi.25. Large numbers, of course,
availed themselves of the inducement this
afforded for attending the Convention.
Crops in Texas. Tlie Galveston Civilian
of the 10th says: In Texas fine rains have
recently fallen. The young crops of corn
and cotton are highly promising, the rivers
are up and in condition for steamboat navi
gation. A Russian Fleet Coming. The "Cou
rier" (French) says a Russian steam squad
ron now Ht Cronstadt. was to leave there in
May for North America, under the com
mand of Admiral Warakowitcsh.
Potatoes, which sold in Philadelphia
last year at 2 a $'2. 50 per bushel, are now
bringing only 50 cents a bushel.
by request.
INSTRUCTION FOR THE PEOPLE.
In a description by the author of "The
U. S. Naval and Astronomical Expedition"
of the rude and brutal character of some of
the emigrants to California, that State is
called "our accursed golden country." Such
traits of character are considered to be
"generated by the unhallowed thirst for
gold."
We fear such charge may distract atten
tion from more important causes of reck
lessness and offences, which contrast with
the manners of civility and kindness which
are recognized among our Southern neigh
bors who complain of us; we think the
early instruction which children receive at
home has much more to do in causing rude
ness and insensibility than the desire for
gain, which is generally diffused among
mankind with many virtues. Any other
"unhallowed thirst" will be attended with
similar consequences, and cannot properly
be charged against a metal obviously de
signed for important uses among men.
The same objections new made against
emigrants to California were formerly made
against seamen, for a long time regarded
as a distinctly offensive cvste of men. If
wo regard the general causes which led to
their improvement we shad discover some
in the manners, instruction and advances of
those who control them as well as in
other means taken for individual instruction
on shipboard. In the very copy of the
Charleston News, 5th May, we read that,
"The U. S. ship Portsmouth is the first
United States vessel that ever left the port
of Norfolk having entirely dispensed with
spirit rations by the voluntary arrangements
of the crew."
Yet it becomes us to consider the variety
of preparations for the comfort, health, in
struction and humane treatment of the
sailors, which have gradual!" led to such
an abstinence by willing restraint. It is
not going to sea, nor digging for gold, that
teaches the conduct complained of. To
attempt to fix such a basis for (lie evil will
onlj delay other sources of instruction and
advantage. Tho whole community the
Nation, is interested in the conduct of every
individual of our society. The laws require
obedience sometimes when proper instruc
tion has not been offered. Moral law
preceded punishment! We are too much in
TllO li : 1 i t t vlwuvii.,- tttl'iy tho aav orlouo O
of morality or civil conduct in life, and to
think a certain want of good manners and
gentleness of demeanor, not becoming our
independent position! Morals or manners
are often of more importance than the higher
mental culture, which cannot, in all, com
pensate for their want. Civility, courtesy,
kindness and good manners, formerly char
acterized the people of the Isthmus we
presume since the opening of the Rail Road,
and to promote that improvement, many
changes have taken place. Rude negroes
from Jamaica, some other Islands and por
tions of the Continent have impressed a
different character as the multitude of
mixed races of all countries have changed
the name of "citizen" into one of degrada
tion, there. We want good schools, im
proved school-musters and mistresses ! Not
only to teach letters and arithmetic, but to
impress some feelings of humanity and
mercy into the hearts of scholars towards
others. The poor heathen Indians of South
America often exhibit more of the virtues
we call christian, than are found in certain
classes of tho most civilized countries of
Europe. We need instruction in "the
principles" of morality, as well as in those
of Algebra in our schools. We should
begin with the teachers!
A TRAVELLER.
GEN. CASS ON WALKER
In the Nicaraguan meeting in New York,
on Friday night, a letter was read from
Gen. Cass, endorsing the recognition of the
Nicaraguan Government. Mr. Cass says :
I am free to confress that the heroic effort
of our countrymen in Nicaragua excites
my admiration, while it engages all my so
licitude. I am not to be deterred from the
expression of these feelings by sneers, or
reproaches, or hard words. He who doesn't
sympathise with such an enterprise has lit
tle in common with mo. The difficulties
which ( Jen. Walker has encountered and
overcome will place his name high on the
roll of the distinguished men of his age.
He has conciliated the people he went to
aid, the government of which he makes part
is performing its functions without opposi
tion, and internal tranquility marks the wis
dom of its policy. That magnificent region,
for which God has done so much and man
so little, needs some renovating process,
somo transfusion by which new life may be
imparted to it. Our countrymen will plant
there the seeds of our institutions, and God
grant that they may grow up in an abun
dant harvest of industry, enterprise and
prosperity. A new day, I hope, is opening
upon the States of Central America. If
we are true to our duty they will soon bo
freed from all danger of European interfer
ence, and will have a security in their own
power against the ambitious designs of
England far better than Claytou-Hulwer
treaties, or any other diplomatic machinery
by which a spirit of aggression is sought to
be concealed till circumstances are ready
for active operution.
TENANTLESS JAIL IN SPARTAN
BURG. We had occasion to notice a circum
stance, a few days since, says the Charleston
Standard, which seemed favorable to the
character and morals of our friends of
Spartanburg. It was announced that there
was no solitary tenant of the jail in that
District, and we, as well as many of our
contemporaries, made mention of the fact.
A gentleman from that vicinity, however,
has favored us with a version of the story
which gives another face to the affair. He
says that, not long since, a man named
Smith was convicted of an offence which
rendered it necessary that he should be
whipped, and amongthose who commiserated
his condition deeply, was his wife, who set
a woman's wits to work to help him. To
the end of seeing what she could do in that
wny, she called at the jail one cold evening
about the 10th of March, and, finding the
jailor absent, gave a sad accouut of her
afflictions to the jailor's wife. That kind
woman was penetrated by a sense of her
sufferings, and as night, cold and bleak,
came on, could not withhold from Mrs.
Smith, the offer of her hospitality until
morning. While she was busy with pre
parations for the entertainment of her guest,
and with that object had occasion to visit
the kitchen, the guest took the key, slipped
rapidly to the rooms above, unlocked the
doors, and returning, restored the key to
the place where the jailor's wife had left it,
and was sitting as demure and miserable, as
ever when her hostess returned. The es
cape of the prisoners was not known until
the next morning, when breakfast was sent
to them; and nothing could equal the sur
prise of the jailor's wife, except the surprise
exhibited by the wife of the prisoner, at this
remarkable occurrence.
A CIRCUS RIOT.
We learn that a dreadful fight occurred
at Pittsborough, Chatham county, about a
fortnight ago, between a party of men be
longing to Robinson & Eldred's Circus and
some citizens of Chatham, in which some of
the latter were dreadfully beaten, and one,
Mr. Joseph Stone, a very respectable citizen
and merchant, so badly beaten that he is
since dead. One report states that the
Circus men were bailed; another that four
of them were in jail. It is said that the
difficulty in this case grew out of the mis-
..iJuot of a Uyo doalor of Chatham, and
that the Circus men were not so much to
blame as they generally are. But we think
it is manifest, from the violence and rowdy
ism and drunkenness, and dissoluteness,
and disease, and kidnapping, which so often
mark the progress of these people, that the
people should call upon the Legislature to
prohibit them from coming iuto the State
at all. The price is too great to pay for a
night of vulgar amusement. Fayettecille
(N. C.) Observer.
VILLAGE DESTROYED.
Every house in the village of Cedar Hill,
Texas, was levelled to the ground, and
several blown entirely away by a tornado,
on the 15th ult. Among the persons killed
were John Hart, wife and child; J. Berry,
wife and child ; Mrs. Dickinson ; Mrs. Allen
and a negro girl. The money chest of
Miller & Berry's store, containing $i00,
was blown off and not found again. The
storm commenced about 4 o'clock in the
afternoon, and was accompanied by thunder
and vivid lightning. The scene the next
morning is described as heart-rending. A
large number of cattle were killed on the
prairie adjoining.
Avoid Them. Southern men should not
patronize the Astor House, New York.
Why ? Because the proprietor, Mr. Stetson,
was one of the Yice Presidents of a Black
Republican Mass Meeting lately. Southern
families should not send their daughters to
Miss Dutton's Female Academy, in Hart
ford, Conn. Why 1 Because she has given
twenty-five dollars to buy a Sharpe's rifle,
to shoot southern men with in Kansas. We
must love our enemies and do them good;
but about tho only way to win an abolitionist
from his ways, is to cut loose the bonds of
pecuniary interest, and leave him to reflect
in monetary isolation. If this fails to bring
him to his senses still let him alone.
Raleigh Christian Advocate.
.mm
Important Discovery. The Norfolk
Argus learns that a gold mine has been dis
covered on James river, in Charles City
count v, Virginia, about eighty miles from
Norfidk, on the farm of Z. F. Nance, Esq.
Some men being engaged in cutting timber
on the land, one of them, who had worked
in the gold mines in California, observed
soil that reminded him of what he had seen
on the other side of tho continent, and on
examination, found that the earth contained
gold amounting to nearly twenty five cents
in value to every quart. The quality of the
fold has been tested and found to be of the
very purest kind.
Expiation. The Boston Post says that
Mr. Herbert. M. C. from California, who
killed the waiter, Keating, at Williard's
hotel in Washington, has given to the widow
of the deceased a neat house, settled upon
her a handsome annuity, and provided for
the education of her children.
pNo man has a right -to do what he
pleases, except when ho pleases to do right.
WHAT A WOMAN CAN DO.
As a wife and mother, woman can make
the fortune and happiness of her husband
and children ; and even if she did nothing
else, surely this would be sufficient destiny.
By her thrift, prudence and tact, she can
secure to her partner and herself a compe
tence in old age, no matter how small their
beginning, or how adverse a fate occasion
ally he theirs. By her cheerfulness she
can restore her husband's spirit, shaken by
the anxieties of business. By her tender
care she can often restore him to health, if
disease has seized upon his overtasked pow
ers. By her council and her love, she can
win him from bud company, if temptation
in an evil hour has led him astray. By her
example, her precepts, und her sex's in
sight into character, she can mould her chil
dren, however diverse their dispositions,
into good und noble men and women. And
by leading in all things, a true and beauti
ful life, she can refine, elevate and spiritu
alize all who come within reach, so that with
others of her sex emulating und assisting
her, she can do more to regenerate the
world than all the statesmen or reformers
that ever legislated. She can do as much,
alas ! perhaps even more, to degrade man,
if she chooses it.
Who can estimate the evil that woman
has the power to do ? As a wife she can
ruin her husband by extravagance, folly or
affection. She can make a devil and an
outcast of a man, who might otherwise have
become a good member of society. She
can bring bickering, strife and perpetual
discord into what has been a happy home.
She can change the innocent babes whom
God has intrusted to her charge, into vile
men and even viler women. She can lower
the moral tone of society itself, and thus
pollute legislation at the spring head. She
can, in fine, become an instrument of evil
instead of an angel of good. Instead of
making flowers of truth, purity, beauty, and
spirituality spring up in her footsteps, till
the whole earth smiles with loveliness that
is almost celestial, she can transform it to
a black and blasted desert, covered with
the scorn of all evil passions, and swept by
the bitter blasts of everlasting death. This
is what a woman can do for the wrong as
well as for the right. Is her mission a little
one ? Has she no "worthy work," as has
hnr.ome tho cry of lute? Man may have a
harder task to perform, a rougher path to
travel, but he has none loftier, or more in
fluential, than woman's. Woman's Advo
cate. THE REAL MAN.
What a man really is, will appear in the
truest light under his. own roof, and by his
own fireside. I can believe that he is a
Christian, when I know that he faithfully
takes up the daily duties and bears tho
crosses that cluster within his own door
I shall think that the world rightly calls
him a philanthropist when, notwithstanding
common faults and infirmities, he receives
the spontaneous award of the good husband
and father, and the kindness of nature is
reflected in the very air and light of tho
dwelling. And talk td noble deeds! where
will you behold manifestations of a more
beautiful self-sacrifice, a more generous
heroism, than in the labors and in the en
durances of thousands of men and women
shut out from the world's observation in
silent nooks and corners of this very city,
amidst the relationship, and cares, and
struggles of home ? Hut whether it be in
forms of good or evil, we know that the real
elements of character, the genuine moral
qualities of people, must be' expressed here.
Rev. H. Chajtin.
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THE RULE OF THREE.
There are exceptions to every rule but
tho rule of three; that is never changed.
As your incomo is to your expenditures, so
will the amount of your debts be to your
cash on hand and consequent ability to meet
them. If you allow your vanity to lead
you iuto extravagance, you must rely on
something else to take you out of it; cither
a rich relation or the sheriff's writ. Your
furniture may be less showy than that of
your neighbor, but never mind. Better are
cane bottom chairs and mahogany tables
that are paid for, than spring cushions and
marble mantels on a note of six months.
Your coat may bo less fashionable than
your neighbor's, and while he is driven by
a liveried coachman, you may be riding
shank's horse; but, remember thero is a
time for balancing the books, and every
purse has got a bottom. So economise, and
always remember the rule of three.
SWEET WORDS, THE PEARLS OP
LIFE.
Would it not please you to pick up strings
of pearls, drops of gold, diamonds, and pre
cious stones, as you pass along the street
It would make you feel happy for a month
to come. Such huppiuess you can give to
others. How, do you ask ? By dropping
sweet words, fine remarks, and pleasant
smiles as you pass along. These ure truo
pearls aud precious stones, which can nevor
be lost: of which none can deprive you.
Speak to that orphan child ; see the diamond
drops from her cheeks. Take the hand of
the friendless boy : bright pearls flash in
bis eyes. Smile on the sad and dejected ;
a joy suffuses his cheek more brilliant than
the precious stones. By the way-side, amid
the city's din, and at the fire-side of tho
poor, drop words and smiles to cheer and
bless. You will feel happier when resti
upon your pillow at the close of the d
then if you had picked a score of perishin
jewels. The latter fade and crumble in
time ; tho former grow brighter with age.
and promise happier reflections forever.
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BY THEMSELVES.
In some of the Northern States, almost
any form or mode of marriage ceremony is
recognised as valid, where tho intention of
both parties is understood and expressed.
The Rochester (New York) Union makes
the following hy menial announcement:
"Married, by themselves, at the family
residence of the bride, ou the 31st ult., Mr.
Nelson Collins, of this city, and Miss
Isabella Braithwaite." The Boston Atlas
says it would like to know whut charms,
incantations, declarations, and protestations
were employed, in this mode of union, aud
adds: "By themselves" it has a terrible
lonesome sound. We do not understand
how a woman can feol like a bride under
such isolated circumstances. It must havo
been painfully dreary. One thing may bo
said of theso self acting marriuges. They
are cheap. Yes, they arc cheap. You can
save four-and-sixpence by them, and that is
something to go to housekeeping upon In
these hard times. But should tho "by
themselves" idea generally prevail, "parents
and guardians" hud better keep a bright
lookout. Sighing lovers will need no Gretna
Green elopements will bo scarce; but thou
the extemporaneous marriages, fixed in no
time at. all, and nowhere in particular will
they not become uupleusantly frequent?
STATISTICS OF MUSCULAR
POWER
Man has the power of imitating every
motion, but that of flight. To effect theso
he has in maturity and health, sixty bones
in his head, sixty in his thighs and logs,
sixiy-two in his arms and hands, sixty-seven
in his trunk. Ho has, ulso, 434 muscles.
His heart makes sixty-four pulsations in a
minute, and, therefore, 3,810 in an hour
29,100 in a day. There are also three com
plete circulations of his blood in tho short
space of an hour. In respect to the com
parative speed of animated beings, and of
impelled bodies, it may bo remarked that
size and construction seem to havo little in
fluence, nor has comparative strength,
although one body giving any quantity of
motion to another is said to lose so much of
his own. The sloth is by no means a small
animal, and yet it can only travel fifty
paces in a day ; a worm crawls only five
inches in fifty seconds; but a lady bird can
fly twenty million times its own length in
less than an hour. An elk can run a mile
in seven minutes. An antelope can run a
mile in a minute; the wild mule of Tartary
has a speed even greater than that ; and an
eagle can fly eighteen leagues in an hour ;
and a canary falcon can even reach two
hundred and fifty leagues in the short space
of sixteen hours.
"Seoshin About." In Piko county,
Ala., therewas a trial for a general row, and a
witness testified that one Saltonstall jest
kept sloshin' about. As this remark re
garding tho chivalrous Saltonstall was fre
quently repeated, a lawyer wished to know
what it was that Mr. Saltonstall liad to do
with the affair.
"Why I've told you several times: tho
rest on 'em clinched and paired oft', but
Saltonstall he jest kept sloshin' about."
"My good fellow," exclaimed the lawyer,
"we want to know what this is. Tell us
what you mean by sloshin' about."
"Well," answered the witness very de
liberately, "I'll try. You see, John Brewer
and Sykes, they clinched and fout. That's
in leglo form, aint it?"
'0, yes!" said the lawyer, "Go on."
"Abney and Bluckman then pitched into
one another, aud Bluckman bit off a piece
of Abney's lip that's leglo too, aint it?"
"Yes, proceed."
"Simpson, aud Bill Stone, and Murray
was all-together ou the ground, a bitin' and
kickin' one another that's leglo too, aint
it?"
"Very ! but go on."
"And Saltonstall made it his business to
walk forward through the crowd, with a big
stick in his hand, and knock down every
looso man in the crowd, as fast us h i com
to 'em. That's what I call sloshin' about!"
Valuable Recipes. To please the
old folks while you court the daughter, agree
with the father in politics, and keep the
mother in snuff. To please t've brother,
lend him your rifle and buy him a dog.
To please your dulcina, keep her in jewelry
and call her an "angel." To please your
self, be a fool. 'To bo unpopular, do what
is right, regardless of consequences. To
please overy body and tho "rest of mankind,"
tell people what you think of them wheu
occasion culls for it, and be candid in tho
expression of yoar opinion. If these re
cipes are strictly adhered to, they will
succeed to a charm.
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I J There is a Yankee down rust who has
invented a jack-plane to shave the beard
off. He is the brother of the individual
who uses a llat-irou to smooth the ruflied
temper of his wife.
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