J g T Miscellaneous. ALMOST AN ELOPEMENT. We met an old friend the other day whom we had not seen for several months. 'John,' ' said we, in the course of a conversation with him, ''-why do'nt you gat married and aetile down somewhere?' Get married and settle down, you said,' John repeated with emphasis. Yes.' ITcamevery near settling down wilbout getting married, a while ago.' 'How's that?' 'IS o matter I dont like to tell secrets to an editor.' But in confidence, you kuow, John. Come out wiih it.' Vonl you tell?' No.' 'Now 1 know you will; but pledge mo that my name shall not go with it, aud you shall have the story, and may tell it as much as you please.' We pledged onr sacred honor,' and Johu threw away his cigar and commenced. .'.,'Here some two or three months ago, I happened into oue of the prettiest little villages you ever set your eyes upon ' ""What was its name?' 4 That my concern, and I'll menage it without your assistance. It was indeed a beautiful village, with pretty streets, pretty house, pretty gardens, pretty ieuces, pretty every thing and among other thing, pretty women. The latter, you know, I naturally ifino u iiKing io; ana oi course l was u nleaantl who n r lrinl nf t;fi- , .... wi irw rniuill. whom I called on diixe!?72. .i ' -invited tne to make his house my home for a fortnight or so, white I went over the sporting grounds in tho neigh borhood, and killed all the beasts, bird:, and witches that ran wild there. Hang me if I didu't thank the fellow with a full heart ; and '.'I moved mv little bundle of clothes and other rubbish to his houso iu double quick time. Well, I had been there three or four days, and bad been guuuiug every day, without so much as killing a woodpecker or tree toad, whou one day, iu crossing apiece ofopeu ground surrounded entiiely with woods, I dis covered, not a little to my burprise, the pret tiest girl I had ever seen in my whole lii'e. Fiom her appearance, I judged at once she had tost her way, prepared myself immediately to perform a piece of true gallantry. So walk ing straight up to her, I communicated my suspicious, very politely, and inquired if 1 . could render her any assistance. She replied that she had lost her way in at tempting to get through the wood by an ob scure path, and would be very much obliged if fled her into the main road, or point out to her the directiou iu which it lay. Away we started together. On the way we chatted about every thing we could think of, (except her pretty self, which I was tbiukiug of con tinually,) for she was sociable as an old school mate, aud even told mo her name, the ' name of her father, and the names of half a ; ' dozen brothers aud sisters whom I had never seen, and did not care to see. When wo got into the road, she pointed out her father's . - house, which was iu sight, and was going to r thank mo fur my services : but I stopped her by saying that it would be very little out of . .. my way to see her home, and I preferred to do ' so.V -All the way there we chatted and laughed, and told stories, and even jokes ; and by the time we parted at the gate of old Deacon B's farm house, f could have sworn that we were old acquaintances. I left her, bopiug to see her again, sometime,' and she left me, 'hoping s v to learn of my safe arrival at home.' " The next Sabbath I met her at church the next Monday evening at a village party, and v escorted her home the next Friday I called on her 'accidentally' the next Sunday eveu ing bjr permission ; in two weeks I was in love in three I had told my love and in - four I was the next move to the biggest fool that ever grew out of natural philosophy. Three times T popped the question, but she would'ot say jes or, no or even hint that she would or would not seal my happiness. The . fourth time she looked very grave, hung down her bead, sighed, and I even mistrusted, shed tears. ShaHI ask the consent of your father?' saip' t, after waitiug half an hour for au an swer to the question ou which hung my hopes' uiu uuBf uu, sue aiiswereu . wim a f i i . ; ne wouia not consent to my marriage . wuuyou, i ruow he would not.' 1 mistrusted from this that she herself bad broached the subject to the Deacon, and bad ' 7 'e'"ol of his consent to the match. walkd borne that evening io much distress, passed a restless night at my cousin's house, and rose the next morning with my head full Qfpams and dark forebodmg. My cousin ralhad me on my dull appearance, and I de termined at oriee 'to rl v.4. . .. .,..m.... .77":." ..,,secrei oi my troubles and ask. Jim -'.'advice.' arcordinly accompanied him to bis little grocery, ana when there, unravelled the whole matter as to a brother That Ellen B. said be. v.henl had concluded, 'is the greatest lh country, or the world, and I d.!w.yuv ' you weren't SuSK'l Ibould have told you of mil before, but as it turns out, 1 advise you renly, but really thought my cousin the biggest fool in Christendom. Had she not krpt my company, and said soft things to rmv and blushed, and grieved, and sighed, when I popped the question for the foui tb time 1 The next evening I called on Ellen again she was alone and seemed twice as beauti- r.,1 vr For the tilth time 1 onerea ner - . . . W V 1 I mv 'hand. She came very near fainting away, but would not answer me yes or no. What mold the matter be? Of course I .H.ik.,! ika uihntts to tho obstinacy of the Hron. her father and being more than half craxv between love for her and hate for bim, it will scarcely be wondered at, that be r i....,;.i.r I cucraested to her that if we lum icbiiu) - -co couldn't be happy with his cousenl, we had a perfect right to proceed without it. 'We could take a ride, some evening,' said I ; go f th mil train uf cars and in two hours be man and wile. When would you call fo"" me ?' she asked. 'To-morrow night,' I replied, almost wild with delight 'eight o'clock.' Well,' said the after a pause, 'I will be them ' nt half oast seven, the M- SI V - village stable keeper drove a carriage to my door. Just as 1 was stepping into the car riage a little boy handed me a note. I turned into the house a moment to read it. The contents ran after this sort. My dear Mr S : I have consulted with my father about running away w!th you to- niuhl, and he thinks the air is so damp that 1 should certainly take cold. He suggests that it would answer all reasonable purposes ftir you to run away alone. But I hope you will uot do this till you have accomplished the in tention you expressed on your arrival iu our village, which was, 1 believe, before you left it, to make a conquest of the heait of the pret tiest giil within ten miles. Youis as truly as ever, ELLEN B I immediately recollected having foolishly expressed this foolish intention a day or two before my arrival in the village, to an old friend who accompauied me thereon business with other merchants. I recollected too, that the bon.t wa made while we were on a walk through the village, that a ladv was close be hind us alt the time, and my Irieud who saw her face, thought she must be au angel. She turned out to be the oue. My horse was sent back to the stable, and the next morui'ii I was leaving tho beautiful village and the beautiful Ellen, mid my fif teenth cuuain-fiflcf his haniv family, as fast as t r ' ould cany me. French Gossip. The New York Mirroi translates occasionally from the Paris papers the staples of tho recherche police occurences of that giddy "congregation of human vapots.'' Most of this concerns the heart, or rather the blood, of Paris that is matters of love. The wives of Frenchmen, and Frenchmen them selves, arc proverbially the most inconstant creatures in thewoild. 1 hey have no senti ment in the matter, unless it be beaottou of vanity. They rarely reveience where they love, and make matrimony a thing of car oner ousness and expediency. No wonder, then, their courts are so full of strange revelation of inconstancy. From the last Mirror we take the following extracts : Nice Point ok Law. Appeared lately before tho Correctional Police ol Paris, Mr Zoo Levengeur, charged wilh disobedience to the law which compels every citizen to do duty ou military guard when duly, summoned. Judge. Why did you fail to appear ou duty on the 31st of January? Prisoner. (Firmly.) There was a legal im pediment! Judge. There is no impediment to justify disobedience to law. Prisoner. Pardon me. Iu this case there was ! Judge. Explain yourself. .Prisoner. Marriage is legal, 1 presume you will allow. Well, Mr Judge, I was sum moned to mount guard on the night of the 3 1st of January. But on the 31st of January I was married, your eyes!) I Virginie ! my bride ! lift up repeat, there was on imped i ment a legal impediment to my passing the nignt oi tne olst ol January on guard : Judge (With difficult solemnity.) But you should have represented your situation to the serge.mt major, and procured au ex emption, such as is piovidcd for cases of em ergency. Prisoner. Impossible ! Judge. Why, sir? why? Prisoner. 1 shall open my breast to you The sergeant major is a disappointed lover of my bride! (Virginie! will you look this way !) Yes, Mr. Judge, and there was small doubt that the selection of me fur that night's guaid was a (Here the prisoner's emotions overcame him.) J udge. Have you no other excuse to offer. Priso ner. Yes, one a sufficient oue! Mr Judge, when a man marries, he, in my opin ion, does as good service to the community as he could do by mounting guard ! (Virginie here turned uncomfortably red.) Yes, Mr Judge, and the anxieties are far greater than those of mounting guard! (Virginie buries ner lace in ner nanuKercniei.) Judge. Enough, sir, enough. You are con demned to three days' imprisonment. ., Honesty. -A boy, whose honesty is more to be commended than nw ingenuity, once carried some butter to A merchant in a. coun try village to exchange for goods. The but ter having a very ; beautiful appearance, and tho merchant - being desirous of procuring such for Jiis own use invited'tbe boy tb bring hiiii all the butter bis mother had fo spare. I think,' said the boy. sbe can't spare any more. for she said she would not have spared Ibis. ATltv a vr" ft!l th frnrn an4 aK tM ike f0 use it herself. V - - - - - From the Charleston Courier. THE ROMANCE OF LIFE an History seal Lecture, delivered before the Georgia Historical Society. v , BY ROBERT M. CHARLTON. Among the many admirable papers, pf both domestic and borrowed origin, wnufe nave proceeded fiom this spirited, enterprising and unwearied Society, we have porusecj none with a keener relish than Wis Deauuiuidnd in structive essaj, iu proof of what may t term ed the natural romance of life, the dee trage dy of history, not woven by art and imagina tion, but literally wrought out in the ictual course of human events. Trite is the smug that truth is stranger than nciiou ; buj the proverb loses its triteness and dwells o the mind with little short of awful impressive)es, amidst the accumulated and striking jjoofs of its litcal accuracy, gathered and piltf up by our author from the historic field. Judge Charltou certainly holds an elgant and graceful pen. aud has winged his light overa wide and varied range ol literatur, At limes we hear of him consuming the mic ight oil amid the black-letter leai uiug of the aw; at other, pouring out the fruits of elabora toil iu the forum, or figuring amoog the glaUjtors of tho hustiugs; aud anon he wooes thenuse of hi-tory and wius her to instruc t ivepuiose; or, borrowing fancy's brightest plumagand own native melody, charms the ear, i his discursive (light, with sweetest poesy.j In the lecture, or lather succession of gallic pictures before us, he has soared somjkhat adventurously, but has sustaiued himselwith a strength of pinion aud grace of motuuhat prove him akin to Jove'sowu bird- Injder to justify our emcomium., which have, iuome measure, cauht the Inspiration ofhis?wn nectar, we p-oceed to give a few extract.-vom the performance uuder review : We take an example from history's host ensanguiued page. "The scene is the palace at Veriaille A of crazv mob. comnoseu ol tne vilest ure the vile, has marched from Paris all vh op tho rne posed them have been massacred, an bloody heads are stuck on pikes aud ' alofi as lianners the rim features oithe r dead, distorted and hideous as they aretyet being lovely and beautiful m comparison ith the terrific living visages of hale andeu geance that crowd I beneath them. OoAud ou, they come they have entered, liktbe toads of Egypt, the Legislative Assemblfcnd the Halls of the Palace their cry is "lead and Blood Death t Kings Jl bas les i locrals "' They have ascertained tha fs- the Queen is in a certain pait of the Palacelud they have commenced firing ut the wiudvs In :he midst of the firing, the Queen stedin to the opeu balcony, and laces the mulude eager for her blood. Iu each hand she i i ids ws oue of her childien. A faithful subject it himself before her to shield her with hi life, but he goutly puts him aside, and tanduu sheltered from the leaden hail. " Away Mth your children," bursts from the hps ot lwity thousand persous. Well does Marie An toinette uudeistand that order they wis! to spare the children it is her life ibey ckre. But with a heroism and a coolness that We never hecu surpassed, aud though she knoA that they iuteud her iustaut death, she obej the mandate, and sending in her onpnn amiin she steps into the balcony alone. I stautly, twice ten thousand voices raised th shouts of applause. Vengeance has bei stilled bv the admiration which such undaui ed heroism has inspired iu the hosoms oftl chaotic mass. Does liomance iiive voti brighter picture than this? Another picture! 1 be scene is c nan go It is the massacre of prisoners of which I spot a few minutes ago. The legions ofsatau : ou the outside of the mison walls, aud oi by oue their victims nre thiowu out to thet like morsels of meat to hungry lions. And man in his turn is thrust into the crowd. I hundred weapons are upraised, to find in aj other moment, their scabbards in his bodj But even then, when death seemed iuevitub both to him aud to any oue who should intc pose in his behalf, a lovely female her go!d ringlets floating to the miduight wind h beautiful eyes gleaming with heroic devotui aud .filial love clasps the old man by tj neck, and defies the vengeance of the pop! lace. " It is my father," says she; "stiij if you have tho hearts to do it ; but ori through my bosom shall you reach my sire's! Down fall the points of the weapons. Tfj mob stand irresolute, amazed aud admiring I the courage of the sweet girl, aud yet inceusi at being baulked of their victim. How tn I moment of irresolution would have terminal no humau mind can tell ; but at that moniei. oue of the number of the assailants preseni her with a cup, filled to the brim with blot; the warm blood that they had caught as i streamed from the veins of the murdered ul bles. " Driuk," says he, drink to the dreg It is the blood of the aristocrats drink, an' your lathers lite shall be saved drink!" Shj iaKes ine cup tne boon is too great to he tale with an averted eye and throbbing heal that beautitul girl, at the midnight hour, ami' the yells of savages, aud wilh the blaze of thousand torches flashing in her eyes, lifts lh goblet to her lips and quaffs it to the very la drop. The pledge i kept the old man i saved ; but who shall tell the horror which lh memory of that hour shall bring to the las moment of the maiden's existence. Ha Poetry a wilder sketch than this? 4fj And lastly, we hold op to the tender-eye maiden a view of romance from the mirror c domestic or private life, aud as she gazes, th dew-drop of sympathy, rising from the fien- r&tlt fountain nrihaha.rl .u:tl r "I J rous fountain of the heart, will not fail In mm! ten the lilies that lie mingled with roses i her cheek T If I could remind the mother of the haily hour when she pressed her first born bahejto her bosom, and forgot all her sorrow, fr joy that a man had come iuto the world. !l"I could bring into her memory the gush of affec tion and the smile of happiness that roarkkd that eventful period of her existence. Or if I could bid the father remember th ,:i Lr bis hapless babe, writhing under the toitureW unease, ana casting a look of mingled reproach and agony towards its parents, as if to beseech them to remove its affliction : utterly ui..m: aciou9, poor infant, tht the accustomed kind- uesa was nere an poweiIcss? and that an earth- y parent's hand could not turn aside the dart. jsent from the unerring quiver of an Almighty Father ; altogether' ignorant; poor infant, that every pang it suffered, every cry it uttered, every look of agony it gave, was stereotyped in the memory of the sorrow-stricken parent, and that after years aud years bad floated by, that paug, that cry, and look, would spring up even iu the midst of joy, like the thunder cloud darkening suddenly the noou day sum mer ky! :- --. If I could preseut to you the image of life's earliest love; the bright young girl, who had wrapped her lover iu her heart's inmost core and lived for him alone ; and bring you back once more to the marriage altar, surrounded by the accompaniments of youth and affection, and unmingled happiness, and then tearing you from that altar, bring you gradually on to the scenes that had followed with slow and sure steps upon all this brightness the pang of sorrow, the dart of disease, the heavy blow of misfortune, the cheek paling, the eye dim ming, aud the heart quivering, as death came to blight the hopes of the wedding-day Alas ! alas ! you would no longer dare to tell me that the common and daily events thai are passing around us, lack power to excite and thrill the heart ; not the heart of the great mass, it is true, but your individual heart. No, you would admit that life, daily life, has its scenes and events of such exciting power, that the weary bosom lungs sometimes to wrap itsolf iu earth's oblivion, and to lie down in the si lence and quiet of the grave. But, thanks to a merciful Piovidence, these are uot the only scenes we witness; tbeio is joy( u it mingled joy ; theie is happiness, un alloyed happiness ; thee is hope, beautiful hope; thero is affection, darling affect ion ; broad cast over ear h are sown the seeds of true pleasure, which grow up, outlined by the hand of an omnipotent and all-wise Father; and these clouds thutdaiken our sky, and these tears that are vruur from our eyes, are but the early and latter rain, that fall to sulteu the heart's hardened soil, to bring up the beauti ful plant-: of virtue, audio bid them bud and bloom until tho heavenly husbandman shall transplant them to a moie congenial soil. Let us weep with those that weep, and joy with those that smile, aud joy also for those that mourn, as the wise husbandman, who gladdens to see the dark storm, knowing that from its bosom will flow the blessings, which will give joy for heaviness, aud will throw back, when it has passed, thj vaiitd hues of the beautiful rainbow." BOTANY. Botanv, (formed from the Greek word 6o tane, u plant,) is that division of Natural History which treats of vegetables. Tho science of Botany is divided into three branches : naiuelv, the Anatomy of Plants, Vegetable Physiology, and Descrip tive Botany, which lat comprises the classifi cation of plants aud their especial history. Botanv, therefore, docs not consist, . ay i coinmouly i (nan i net i by the iguorau', iu merely " getting ty heait" a great number of names ol plants, and of being ablo to apply their names to tho objects which they belong ; but in si knowledge of the plants .jhemselves. of their organization, their growth, their man ner of living, their properties, and the illations they bear to each other, as well as the chai ac tors by which they nre distinguished from each other. Plants are beings organized for living ; b.it they are uot endowed, like animals, wilh the faculties ofseusatiun and of ei forming volun tary motion. Like auimals, these beings are readily dis tinguished from inorgauic bodies by their mode of structure, by their nutritive function through the means of which their substance is renewed and augmented, by their origin, and by the limited duration of their existence. They differ from animals uot only in being destitute of the fuuetions of relation, but also in many other respects. Almost all vegeta bles live fixed in the soil ; they absoib, from without, nutritive matters which they assimi late, without previously digesting them, and they have nothing which resembles a stomach: by the act of respiration, they possess them selves of the carbonic acid of the air. and exhale the oxygen. We have said that vegetables are destitute of the faculty of sensation, aud the faculty of performing voluntary motion : this is very evident in an immense majority of instances; but there me some plants which, at firt sight, seem to form an exception to this rule. For example, the blanches and leaves of all plants are directed to that fide from which come the light and air. Ceitaiu plants on the approach of night or the morning dawn, close their leaves or flowers ; and there are some, that contract themselves in this maimer u ben they are touched by any foreign body. The small shrub called the sensitive plant, exhibits this phenomenon , in a very remarkable manner ; and a plant of certain Carolina marshes, Venus' fly-trap, performs these motions most singularly; the leaven, which are formed of two lobes, are so irritable that they close on the slightest touch; wheu an insect alights upon the internal face of one of them, the two lobes immediately aporoximate each other, and the animal caught upon the thorns with which these lobes are armed, dies in ihcir species of natural snare. The Rossolis, the white flowers of wbhh often deck the pools in France, are somewhat analogous, for the hairs which fringe their broad round leaves, tie down the moment they are irritated by the contact of a foreign body. But these phenomena differ essentially from the voluntary movements of animals ; there is no proof that the plants we have just mention ed experience sensations, nor that the mo tions performed by them are directed by will ; sometimes these movements result from the action of beat or humidity upon certain parts of their tissues, and at other times they can only be compared to the automatic monrmnt. which are readily brought, about by means of einciriciiy or galvanism, in animals that have been recently killed and deprived of the func tions of relation. . ,.--- , Pam it round. Those who indulge in plendor of dress and equipage, beyond the mount of their .incomes, are.: truly compared to bouses on fire, which shine by that which destroys them. - - f:,--;' - . ' CLASS OF RRPTILES. ;, Tbat part of Natural History which greats of Reptiles, is called ' Herpetology from the Greek Terpet on, a creeping thing, a reptile, and logos, a ' discourse US-x -; The . Class of Reptiles comprises those oviparous vertebrate auimals ' that have cold blood, ad aerial respiration, and au incom plete circulation. They have lungs like mam mals and birds; bat a part of their circulatory apparatus is always so arranged tbat a part of the venous blood mingles with the arterial, without having passed through the respiratory organ, and in general this mixture takes place in the heart, which has a single ventricle, iu to which both auricles open. Iu their geueral form, reptiles bear a closer resemblance to mammals than to birds ; but in this respect they vary very much. The bead is always small, and the body much elongated ; sometimes they are eutirely with out extremities, or only possess vestiges of them; but most of these animals have four paws, formed for walking or swimming. Or dinarily their extremities are too short to pre vent the body from dragging on the ground, and, instead of being parallel to the axis of the body, and moving in this directiou, they generally stand out from the side aud move from without inwards, perpendicularly to the axis of the body, and anaugernent very un favorable to locomotion ; most reptiles seem to creep rather than walk, from which circum stance they derive their name. The skeleton in reptiles is composed of al most the same bones as those in nrtmmals and bird; but it often happens that some among them arc entirely wanting: serpents, lor example, have no extremities, nor have they a:y sternum, aud frogs have no ribs. . The bead, iu the arraugemeut of its bone', resembles that of birds more than tbat of mam mals ; lhu cranium is small ; the face is gen erally much etuugated, and the lower jaw is .u.peudud from u tympanic bone, which is placed between it and the cranium. Iu gen eral, the head is articulated with the vertebral column by a single tubercle (or condyle,) which has mauy facettcss, aud possesses only very slight mobility. The structure of tho vertebral columu dif fers extremely iu the different reptiles : in serpents it is very long and very flexible ; iu frogs it is very hort and slightly moveable; and in toitoises its middle pail is united so as lo form a single bony piece. Generally, tho libs are very numerous ; iu serpents they exist tbiongh almost the entiie length of the body ; the same is the case iu certain reptiles resembling lizards, while in others, these bones ie merely rudimentary, or entirely wanting. In toitoises, they are soldered, as it were, to each other; and with the dorsal portion of the veilebral column, form the great shield or buckler which covers the backs of these animal.-:, and which is called varapax. W ithout being as much developed, the bones of the shoulder are very analogous to those of birds. The anterior extremity consists of a u arm composed of a single bone, the humerus; a fore-arm consisting f a radius and ulna, generally distinct from each other, and a baud which i KiMiinhiiieii iu the form of a fin, aud sometimes resembling a fool. The movements ol leptiles are, in general, less active, aud le-s sustained ihan those of animals with warm blood, as might bo antici pated from the more limited charai tcr oi their respiration; for there always exists an inti mate relation between these two functions. Their muscles receive less blood, aud are ol a nhilUh titit ; and it is also remarked that these organs preserve their irritability for a. longer time after they have been removed from the influence of tho nervous system. In warm blooded animals, the destruction of the brain and spinal marrow, or the section of a nerve is ut once followed by a complete paralysis, either general or local, and very soon after this phenomenon occurs, it become.- impossi ble, to excite muscular contraction, by prick ing or otherwise stimulating the affected parts. In reptile, on "ho contrary, the faculty of moving under the influence of stimulation, is preserved under similar circumstances, f"r a very long time ; for example, the tail of a lizard detached from the body, continues io move lor several hours, and we uny often see a tor-' toi.se that has been apparently dead for several days, move its limbs when the muscles are stimulated by pricking them. We may .con clude that, in these auimals, the division of physiological labor and localization of the dif ferent fuuetions of the nervou system, are not carried so far as iu mammals aud birds, aud hence there is a less intimate dependence of the different parts of the economy upon each other. A Yankee. Iu a new play, termed The Green Mouutaiti Boys, iu a dialogue, the Yankee is asked, tauntingly, who hi father as? He replies: Who was my father? My father was the first inventor of thrashing machines. I am the first of his make, and cau bo set in operation at a very little expense, and at the shortest notice! so look out.': He thus describes the New Englaud sausage and Scrubbing Brush Machine' Into the cen tre of this machine,' ho says 'you drive a hog; set the screws a going, aud it will produce ready made sausages t'rom one end, and pa lent scrubbing brushes from the other - ; - Division of a Sermon. A priest of yore took the following text, viz: Tb world, the flesh, and - the devil.' After having entered upon his discourse, hie remarked, 'I shall take but little notice of tho world, pass lightly over the flesh, and hasten as fast as I can to the devil. . . ' ': : - v Hard at the Bottom. A traveller rid ing dowu a steep hill, aud fearing the foot of it was unsound, called out to a man who was ditching, and asked bim if it was hard at the bottom.' . "'Ayr,', answered the countryraau, it is hard enough at the bottom,, I 'warrant jou.,ThtraTeHeri however, had not rode balf-a-dozo . rods before the horse had sunk up. to the saddla-skirU. f :?VVhy ! you villiao, aid ba, calling out to the ditcher, 'did not you tell me it was hard Qt the' bottom?' Aye,' re plied the fallow, but you are not half way to SOLDIERLY Marks '-Let those who decry the utility r ' exercise, and ask . To what purpo K this?'? place side by side the erect and crac ful forrr. of the well drilled soldier fAemfK tary gentleman and the stooping, "slouabW figure t of he whose absorbing anxiety fit dimes and dollars forbids - his engagement . u i-u-aucuj puerne military exercise : and let them assert upon their honor who best maintain the prerogative of mon;': A;;; Why so distinguishing U the "mark'' of a1 military man a true soldier that you ca pick him from a crowd. The sheriff 's officer, or the dun, or the special messenger will find him there iu an instant. 'I know yo,u"says one of these latter, "by your eyes rihV when you glance at the crowd, by the open space you keep about you, by your righi about as you retrace your steps ; there may be a deal of John Smiths, but few of these are sofc diers." ' Yes i the true soldier is a study for an aria tomist, or a tailor. The one looks with ad miration upon every muscle brought so freefy into play, upon the vigor imparted to each tendon aud sinew ; the other beholds with euthusiasm, for his bad, coat on a military back approaches excellence, and his best cout passes perfection. Every bone is a sprio" kept in perfect order by the oil of drilL Talk of your dauciug, your posturing, your gymnastics ; but compare them not with the exercise of the drill and parade. Hath dauc iug the ability to impart a maximum strength t the chest and vigor to the arm? Exists there always a safe medium to the strain and abandon of the gymnasium? The musket iu the hands of a military enthusiast is but a baby in' the grasp of Mars n playihiog an available, pleasant, healthful means of exer cise withal. , So with" the sword or sabre, which illumine the air with lightning strokes. Anecdote. We heard a story some lime since of Joe , which will bear repeating-; Joe was one evening seated iu the bar-room of a country tavern in Canada, where assem bled several old countrymen discussing vari ous matters connected with the "pomp and circumstance ol war." r u the course of some remarks, oue of them stated the English go tern men (possessed the largest cannon iu the world, and gave the dimensions of one which he had seen. Joe's Yankee pride would cot allow him to let such an asset lion pass wjiu, out contradiction. ; ; - "Poh ! gentlemen,' a id he, M wont deny but tbat is a fair sized cannon; but you are a leetle mistaken iu sopnosinii it to be the lars- et in the world, y. Ws uot to be mimed in the same miuule with one of our Yankee gnu, which I saw in Charlr stow u lust year. Jupiter! that was a caunou. . Why, sirs, it's so infer nally large, that the soldiwis were obliged lo employ a yoke . of oxen to draxr in the ball !" The devil they ere ! ' exclaimed one of his heareis, .with a nile of fi iu'uph; -. . prny, can you tell me how they got them out againf "Why, you foul," returned Joe, " they un yoked 1 em and drove 'em through the rent I" IMPORTANT TO MESgaAUgSi, Great Sale of. ; DRY GOODS, &c.: rilC Subscriber having taken Special Letters of Administration, acbrdin to Law, on the Eatr.tr ef Jo!m McAm, d c-ns d, yi I expose to Public fc'alr, on Tuesday tlto S7th May 1845, a iar'e portion of the Personal Property belonging ( "said Estate, consisting of a vry unusually lur'jn ' " STOCK OF DRY GOODS, Including this Sprins ptircbare,' wliii h will bo 'old from the cases. This Stock I worthy .the at tention of Dealers from a riistancr. ;' Also, Horses, Mules, Wagons, Carriages, Buggies, Sulkiets &c. Sale to take place it the Store latoly occupied br rln5 deceased, in the Town of Fayette ville, N. C, and continue from day to day unlit the Mock is disposed ofv A liberal credit will be givciCTernia made known on the day ofaale. j . , O.U. McAttN, Adm'r. May 10, Id 15. 32i.ti. C. F. NAVIGATION COMPANY. THE : annual mrerjit of the Stockholders will be held on-ridav, 3'ith May. 1845, in the Town o FayctiKville. '., E. L. WINSLOW, Prcir't. ; '. r v 324-t. - .- - EEWAKD. tl AN A WAY Trom iMr James McDuffie, on the 7tb of Dec m her last, my negro man ARCIIY I-itc ' the jrop rty of A. B bee oVc'd. iFT is about 5 A-et 8 or 10 inches high,, has a Ion; smooth black fa ctv with full prominent cyv&, and is Jairie in one of bis less- Hei upposeW to be lurk- in" about F vettevilb1, IV. C. A reward of j20 will be paid fjr bim if taken and lorljrpj in any Jail in tbis Stau, or $50 if taken and loo'gcd in Jail in any other of the Stat , a, no tbat I cau set hitn ssain. r - . J. M STRONG, Fayetrev Ife, N. C, May. 10, 1845. 5gU-tf NEW SUMMER GOODS. WOULD call ' the .attention of the citizens of tho town and the public SCO- rally, to bis new and general assortment of wasoaabt STJlPLli AJSTD l'A.YCY TV TTtN r4 Tl in Among which are, for ladies wear, SilkV, whit", black, and fanvy ; Galzorines; TarJetan, diflorent colors : Printed and Lace Lawns ; Crape Lease ;. Silk, filler, OrapeLeseand Mtrs I rn d'Laf Scarf-;-Muslin d'Lain, Silk, and Crape Lesse Shawls; fine Kid Gloved, assorted color; very fine Silk do.; Riblon richest stylef; Bonnets do.; Hemstitched Lawn tlaiidkcrcbiefs, (or ladies and gentlemen j silk Under Shirts, do. do ; f tair Cloth "and etttded Skirts, auprior quality ; Linen Cambric; Edia and Footing; Laces and Inserting; Fr nch-worked Collars.; Bishop Lawns; Book, Jaconrt, andSwi iMualin; plain plaid and. striped Cambric ; Bomba zine ; Gimp and Gimp Cord ; Victoria Grrdlss ; printed Muslin; Calico of all sorts; Ginffaarns, &X. FOR J&&JmLEAlEJrS fVPAR, Snuff. colored, creen, invisible graen, black and bine Broad Cloths, wool-dyed, wide and fine; black and fancy Cassiiner", with a great variety ot Lin en Goods tor coats and pants; Damask, silk, pld silk and satin ;Vestins ; Suspenders ; Gloves, , sorted ;'; a great variety f Hats for summer j - fl"S calf and Morocco Boots and Shoes; ladies Slippers and Ties; Umbrellas,' Parasols and Sun Shades VlT92) 8 SA assortment of GKOr .April 19, I84i. X 'v- 311 y. me ootiom yeu : r