TIT) A T 175 LI vim Hi PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY CII. C. RABOTEAtf, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. VOL II. TERNS. The Raleigh Times will be sent to Subscribers lit Two Dollars and a half per annum, if paid in ad vance. Three Dollars will be charged, if payment j is dulaycd six months. Those Tcrmawillbe iiivaria- i bly adhered to. ADVERTISFJIEXTS. For every Sixteen lines, or less, One Dollar for the first, and Twenty-five Cents for each subsequent in iertion. Court Ordtua, &e. will be charged 25 per cent, higher; but a reasonable deduction will be made U those Who advertise by the year. IT Letters on business, and all Communications intended for publication, must be addressed to the Editor, and pout paid. FROM THC ItEGISTKlt. Mr. Editor: A calculation of the benefits which North Carolina has derived from the Book Establishment of Mr. Turner, in your eify.ie 1 feel assured, a matter not to be rashly attempted. Set up a quarter of a century since, when there existed no similar concern south of Mason and Dixon's line, it has scattered books, nd with them spread intelligence from the Eastern to the Wes tern limits of the State. An undertaking of extra ordinary enterprize in its inception, and maintain ed until this day with a liberal expenditure, it lias had the rare fortune of avoiding the ruin which has fallen upon most of its contemporaries and very many of its juniors, and still holds on its career of prosperity with tlie vigor and confidence of a per ennial youth. At a time when the University stood alone as the Atlas of Education in North Carolina, before the birth of the Colleges of Wake Forest, and Da- vidson ; long before our legislature hud thought fft to provide means of instruction for the mass of our citizens, the North Carolina Bookstore was diffusing that information and promoting the cause of Jitters through all our borders. It has lived down the dark ages in our State. Where once it aaw some eighty young men attending the instruc tion of a single Faculty of a half dozen gentlemen, throe hundred, at three several institutions,derive collegiate education from the labors and learnings of twenty instructors; Academics of the highest rank are thickly set from the mountains to tl.e sea board ; Institutions for the accomplishment of young ladies adorn every region of the State; and in a thousand primary schools, as many vigorous arms sway tough sceptres, wherewith upon fit oc casion, to "work their simple vasscls mickle woe," and cause it, may be volumes of the music sweet to the ear of evrv true peduagogne, to swell each '-evening tin-. ne that sweeps frem Cherokee to Cur- .:. ritu-it. All this marvellous transformation the NorthCar- olina Bookstore has lived to see ! and it would bo among the strangest of phenomena could it be pro ved that it has not contributed very largely to a re sultsoentirely in,keeping with tlte most perfect suc cess it could have anticipated. No one at all ac customed to revolve such matters can doubt of the magnitude of its influence towards this consum mation. We do not sufficiently appreciate the la bors of those instructors who lead us on to self ed ucation. The voluntary system is at least the only true one for men and women ; and it is susceptible of demonstration that the man who has te mpted us to the perusal of an improving volume, is our teach er in the same sense that he is, who has rulicd us through Calculus, or caused heavy drops of perspiration to roll from our brows as we-stumbled over the heavy track of the Medea. This being so, who shall rccken up the scholars of Mr. Turner, who shall weigh the influence which he has ever ted upon North Carolina, by means-of his my lurge Establishment at Raleigh, and the extensive system of book itinerancy which he has maintain ed for so many years past !. Honor to whom honor is due. The North Car olina Bookstore, put into operation nearly a gener ation since, at a time when the means of commu nication between Raleigh and the North were far inferior to what they are at present ; put into op eration too, without the encouragement or exam ple of any like undertaking in the South ; succeed ed in defiance of all omens, in making our Capi tal the Literary emporium of the State. It has advanced with a general prosperity, until it sees the face of affairs in its own department, assume an appearance altogether differing from that pre sented in its early life, and, I trust, has ia it the seeds of a vitality, which shall carry it much fur ther towards that millenium of education, of refine ment and common welfare, whose early advent makes up so large a portion of the prayers of eve ry true son of the good old North State. When that stain of ignorance which North Carolina un happily contracted during her early Colonial exis tence, and which still rests upon her fume, shall be clean erased ; when her reputation for intelligence shall be put upon a par with her character for in tegrity; it will devolvo as an indispensable duty up on the historian of our bettered fortunes, to trace with care and gratitude, the influence which the North Carolina Bookstore has exerted in coniinnni eating an improved tendency to our career, - . K. BANK OP FAY ETTE VI LLfJ. " Wc learn that fifty-four thousand dollars, in the capital stock of this B.ink,havo been subscribed In this Town and vicinity. ;V. S. Whig. From the National Intelligencer. VISITERS TO THE WEST POINT ACAD EMY. The following named gentleman, as we under stand, have been invitod by the Secretary of War to attend the Examination of the Cadets of the Military Academy at West Point on the first Mon day in Juno next : 1. John S. Abbot, Esq., of Maine. 2. Hon. Horace Mann, of Massachusetts. 3. Capt. Daniel Tyler, of Connecticut. 4. Jerome Fuller, Esq., of New York. 0. John L. Govv, Esq., of Pennsylvania. 6. Capt. John II. B. Latrobe, of Maryland, 7. Capt. Patrick M. Henry, of North Carolina. 8. Gen. Duncan L. Clinch, of Georgia, 9. Col. R. W. Burnet, of Ohio. 10. Gen. J. McCaleb Wiley, of Alabama. 11. Henry J. Ballard, Esq., of Louisiana. : 13. Hon. Jefferson Davis, of Mississippi, 13. Col. Wra.T, Stockton, of Florida. 14. Dr. II. Houghton, ef Iowa. 15. Gen. Rufus King, of Wisconsin. In connexion with this subject, some misappre hension being understood to exist as to the mode of appointing Cadets of the Military Academy at West Point, we take occasion to state that, since the passage of the act of 1843, which in a great measure restricts the number of Cadets to the number of Representatives and Delegates in Con gress, these appointments have been made on the recommendation of the Representatives and Dele gates from their respective Congressional districts. In addition to these.the Executive has the appoint ment of ten cadets at large, irrespective of resi dence in any Congressional district. Gen. Taylor's Administration. We cannot join in the hue and cry of proscription now raised against Gen. Taylor on account of removal from office. So far, we hare not seen the manifestation of any prescriptive spirit. But if it wero so if the members of Gou. Taylor's cabinet have erected the pol.tlcal guillotine and commenced the work of decapitation, what of it ? Do the office holders under the late Administration possess any heredi tary claim upon the stations they have so long filled ? Have they any right to expect different treatment than Dismissal? Is not the boasted Democratic principle of "rotation in office" appli cable to the whole "posse comitatus" of Treasury pap-suckers at Washington am elsewhere? Most certainly I Why then whina and whimpsr liko a whipped school-boy, about a matter which is inevi table on every change of Administration, and which would have been just rightven had a Dem ocratic Administration succeeded that of Mr. Polk! Go to, ye blubbering spalpeens, and let Gen. Tay lor sweep out the whole batch, from garret to col lar, of Uncle Sam's premises. He has a right to call around him his friends, and should not be ana thematized for exercising his high prerogative. Were there no other advantage, a general change of office holders, every four years would break up that anti-republican notion which some entertain, that they have a sort of pre-emption right to office, and its transmission to their posterity unimpaired. That accomplished, we should not have to many lazy and pampered officials strutting about Penn sylvania Avenue and elsewhere, to the detriment, of the public business. We repeat, then, let tho walking papers be made out for the whole groce ry," grumble though they may at the wholesemo application to themselves of what they once con sidered a very good role, when applied to their il lustrious predecessors ! Muscngee Democrat. THE VERY LAREST FROM CALIFORNIA. Dates dowb to the 1st of March. The New ark Daily Advertiser, of yesterday ,has a lettor from Mr. T Dwight Hunt, Dated Sun Francisco,March 1st. The letter by the overland Mexican route, and was postmarked at Vera Cruz, April 2d, hav ing been received by the arrival at New Orleans, very briefly referred to in the despatch under our southern head, Thursday morning In the short period of 50 days. We copy the most important statements. The long expected steamer 'California" arrived yesterday morning, bringing among other passen gers several ministers. Probably a thousand passengers have arrived within a fortnight. We hear the excitement in the Slates is very great, and that both across the Con tinent, by the Isthmus, and around the Cape great numbers are flocking hither. Lumber is only $500 per thousand feet. The "California" will not be able to return soon for the want.of coal. She does not. go on to Oregon. - " A. Y. Express, April 20. Delays are Dangerous. The Democratic Boston Pott delivers this Dictum on the subject of gold dollars; i "The reason that gold dollar pieces are not in circulation is, because the officers of the mint at Phil adelphia do not approre- of tin act of Congress au thorizing their issueJ Turn 'em oui.Goneral Tay. jnr. We don't care whether they be Whigs or Democrats. We must have the laws executed, General." '. A hoiiI couvorsant with virtne, resemble , foun tain; fur it is cloar, and gentle, and sweet, and commniiicitive, and rich and harmless and inno cent. I .u,,,,.r,1li.,..--r.(irMlllli--ff.jil, RALEIGH, FRIDAY, MAY 4, 1849, LOCUSTS. The New Orleans Bee sajs, that in some parts ef Texas the locusts have appeared in vast num bers, and arc devouring everything green and veg etable that comes in their way, The whole coun try iB full of them, Austin to the Gulf of Mexico. If this is related without exaggeration, this insect visitation may h worse than the choU'ra or yellow fever; for though no life is actually taken, the means of living are destroyed! and much suffering and disease may ensue. The Groahs of the Dviw;. It really makes one feel melancholy to read the doleful comments of the Lecofoco press on tho few removals from office that have been made by the present adminis tration. One unacquainted with the history of Locofocoism would suppose that party to bo the most liberal and magnanimous that ever blessed a free people ; that it had nover proscribed men for opinion's sake; that it had never acted on the prin ciple that, "to the victors belong tlx spoils;" that it had retained men in office of opposite political sentiments, and that no man had ever been remov ed except for want of honesty and capability I MISCELLANEOUS. Old Horse-cars Fight with MR. ABEL ANTHONY. A SCENE IN TnE ARKANSAS LEGISLATURE.. The session of its Legislature, which sat in 1836 was the most important in the annals of Arkansas. It was shortly after theorgaaization of the govern ment, and things were still in a state of half-chaotic transition. " The loaves and fishes" of office had not been divided, and clamorous monopoly was knocking at the door of " the public crib," but had not yet been admitted. Intense was the fury of parties within the House, and as boundless the excitement in the community without. The mem bers, with few exceptions, went to their places armed to the teeth ; and besides the weapons worn in their bosoms or protruding from their pocket?, each kept a good supply of revolving pistols in the desk before him. There were munitions of war enough in the hall to have answered the purposes of a small army. Every evening after an adjournment, there was a general firing off and re-loading, in order to have "their tools" in prime condition for tho morrow. I was frequently startled from sleep myself at the hour of midnight by the roar of incessant explo sions, heard at different points in the City. Many legislators also during the day would be out prac tising the noble art of learning to cut a tape string at ten paces, or to drive the centre of a sil ver quarter at twelve. They chose for their pistol gallery a little grove of pino trees, immediately on the south bank nf the Arkansas river, and not more than fifty steps from tho state-house, where every report was fearful audible, and admonished certain independent members as to the doom they miglit expect, provided their votes should chance to offend tho " honorable" duellists. The writer can never recall to i ind, without shuddering horror, the proceedings of that infa mous session, whenever its terrible sc enes rise up, like gloomy ghosts before the eye of averted memory. I feel as if I had been the involuntary familiar of some demon convention. Marat said, during the reign of terror in Fran? e, " The guil lotine governs," In 1836 the Deringcr-pistol and bowie-knife governed Arkansas. Power resided solely in gunpowder. Popularity hovered on the points of naked blades. Among the most agitating mcatares which call' ed into exercise the wisdom of " the conscript fa thers," was the institution of the Real Estate Bank. Its establishment was strongly and stead ily, but ineffectually opposed by a slender minori ty. All the wealthiest men in the State, ali the leading legislators, took shares in its capital stock; and John Wilson, the speaker of the lower house, was elected president. At this person was one of the chief heroes in the tragedy soon to be related, a short description of his appearance and charac ter becomes necessary, Every public public man in the backwoods has a soubriipiel, bestowed on account of some person al peculiarity by tho whimsical humor of his con stituents. Speaker Jno. Wilson was called 'Horse Ears', from his possessing an accidental property as singular as uni'vf in the natural history of the species. When excited by violent passions, either love or anger, his ears worked np and down flexi bly, like those of a horse. A man of ordinary looks, nothing in his countenance or features de noted tho desperado save a strange, wild twink ling expression of his diminutive grey eyes, al ways.in motion,with cold keen glances,as if watch ing for sune secret enemy. He had fought half a dozen duets with uniform success, and had been engaged in several off-hand affrays, in none of which he had received even the honor of a scar. Hence, as may well be supposed, his prowess in spired almost universal fear ; and few dead shots could be found in Arkansas who would choose to seek a quarrel 'with " Old Horse-Ears." As to the rest, he was the owner of a large cotton farm tich and influential, honest, liberal and courte ous in his manners, and exceedingly amiable in all his domestic relations. Hie family loved, his slaves adored him. Such are often the 'inconsis tencies of human nature. During the session of which we have previous ly spoken there was a member of tholower house by the name of Abel Anthony, in no wav remarka ble except for his opposition to the banks, and his sly, quiet wit, addicted to practical jokes In the parlance of frontier technics, he belonged to the class of ' peaceable men," having never, in all his life, had a difficulty with any mortal being. He was even viewed as a coward, having been known to pocket open insults without so much as show ing a sign of resentment. One day, the bill to provide for the more effec tual rewarding of wolf-killers, denominated, in short " the wolf scalp bill' Came up for discussion; This had been a standing " reform measure" from the earliest settlement of Arkansasand will prjb ably continue to be, so long as the Ozark moun tains shall rear their black, bristling crests in the western division of (lie Stale, of the swamps of the Mississippi shall occupy so large an arex in the east. Accordingly whenever the wolfacalp bill is taken up, a tremendous debate ensues. The contest is not then between the ins and outs of po litical power. Whips and Democrats alike over- leap their iron lines of party arrangement, and en tcr iitto a general melee of chance-medley. It is a battle of eyry member against each other, the object being to decide who of all shall move the most annihilating statutes against their common foes, the wolves, since that is the great pivot ques tion, on which hinges tho popularity of each and all. mi . . . i ue present occasion was llio more arousing.as there had happened a ludicrous instanco in fraud of the previous law. It seems that some cunning Yankee, fresh from the land that grows " wooden nutmegs," had conceived the notable plan of rais ing wolves of his own, so that by slaying a hairy whelp at any time, and taking its ears to a magis trate, he could obtain a certificate of ' wolf-scalp,' entitling him to twenty-five dollars out of the coun ty treasury. It was said that this enterprising genius had already in his pens a number of fine looking breeders, and expressed sanguine hopes of soon making his fortune ! Numerous were the provisions urged by mem bers to prevent such scandalous and evasive prac tices in future. Among others too tedious to mem tion, Brown C. Roberts, of Marion, (himself an ex cellent car ricature of tlie wolf, only fur more ugly) mfved, "That each certificate of a wolf-scalp should be based on no less than four affidavits and be signed by twelve justices of tlie peaoe, tho juges of the comity and districts courts, and final ly countersigned by the Governor of the State." Abel Anthony moved toamend.by adding, "And by the President of the Real Estate Bank." This was intended by the mover as merely a jest, and accordingly it provoked a considerable laugh, extending nearly ovor the whole house. But very different was the effect on Mr. Sjicaker Wilson, President of the Real Estate Bank. He saw fit to interpret it as the deadliest insult. I glanced my eye towards the honorable elrair, expecting to catch a playful smile; but the mo ment I beheld his countenance, I was horrified at its savage expression. His face was of ashy pale' ness : and there, on his thin white lips,' as if in demoniac mockery, sat that grim, writhing smile, which merely moveing the curled lips, spread no further nor affecting any other feature ; and which is so peculiar to most desperadoes when about to undertake some terrible deed of death. There was, however, brief space for speculation on the metaphysics of pliysitjgnomy for hardly had the offensive words lett AilUiony s mouth before Wil son sprang to his feet, and in a rude, imperious tone, ordered the other to sit down. I Anthony manifesting no sign of either surprise or fear, meekly replied that he was entitled to the floor. "Sit down!" Wilson repealed, and this time in a shout like thunder. " I am entitled to the floor, and will not resign it," said Anthony, apparently without anger, but glancing back a look of calm, immovable resolu tion. Speaker Wilson then left the chair, never more to resume it, drew his bowie-knife descended the steps of tho platform, and slowly and deliberately advanced through the haft sorrm forty feet In the direction of his foe all the while that ghastly smile coiling up his palid lip,like two twin snakes, and his ears moving np and down, and backwards and forwards, with the appalling vibrations which had won for him the appellation of ' Horse-Ears.' Aa. Anthony was commonly considered a coward, when the spectators beheld the celebrated duelist i advancing upon him, with uplifted knife glancing nigii in lite air, as ready for the dreadful blow all present supposed that the reputed craven would floe in terror from his place. No one believed that he was armed, or that he would fight under any cir cuinstances, or with any advantage of position or wcaions. But in this opinion every body was mis taken, and no one more than his infuratcd adver sary. While that ferocious man was coming to wards him, he stood calm and motionless as a stone statute. His color did not change his limbs did not tremble. The attitude nf the man was that of passionless repose. His only evidence of unusual emotion was a copious efflux of tears. At the sight of this we all shuddered, for we knew the wee per would conquer or perish. In the backwoods TERMS: $2 50 PER $3 00 IF FITMENT there are two unmistakable tokens of thorough des peration IrvZcn smiles and hotgusjiing tears; and tears may always be regarded as far as the moat dangerous. Such a conclusion was verified fully in the present instance ; for as soon as the Spea ker approached within ten feet of his weeping ene my, the latter suddenly drew a bowie knife from behind his vest, and stepped boldly forward to the fell recounter. And then commenced a deadly struggle the most obstinate, bloody and. frightful ever witnessed in tlie southwest. Wilson's knife was long, keen, and so highly polished that yon miglit see yourself in the reflec tion of its smooth, bright surface in the most per fect lookingglass, the image being an extremely small miniature, so symmetrical was tlie rounding of its fine glittering steel. On eaeh sitk- of the flashing blade was a picture, the fatfaimile ef the other, wrought in exquisite gold enamel, of two Indians, in their wild native costume, engaged in mortal combat with bowie knives. The weapon of Anthony was the largest size of the class called In that country 'Arkansas tooth picks'the most murderous implement of destruc tion before which a human eye ever quailed. On one side of its broad gleaming blade was the pic ture of a fight between a hunter and a brown bear. Phe bear appeared to be sqeezing the man to death in his Iron hug, while ho was ticerely dinging out the shaggy monster's heart with the;poiut of his knife. On tlie other side of the blade might be seen the picture of a rattle-snake ia coil, its head erect, its jaws open, and its red fiery tongue brand' ished as if about to strike, Such devices are commen on the arms of tlie most notorious desparadocs on the frontier, and are the objects of as intense a pride and vanity to their owners as were the insignia of the most exalted chivalry to the knights of the heroic ages. And thus do we always discover the idea seeking to render itself incarnate in the material form. Dee tructiveness must have its images as well as devo tion. . .'. . ...!, Wilson made the first pass a determined thurst aimed at the pit of his antagonist's stomach, which tlie other dexterously parried. For a time both parties fought with admirable coolnssR, and with such consummate skill that only alight wounds were infllicted, and those only on the head and face, whence blood began to rick'e freely. And still ominous and awful vision while the con. test raged, the opposite and characteristic signs of utter desperation remained fixed in either counten ance, The cold smile, now converted into a Ben dish grin of immeasurable malice, still lingered on Wilson's lived lips 1 and the tears still flowed, mingling now with warm blood fit tn Anthony's black, blazing eyes ! The clafler of the knives, thrusting fending off, and sharply ringing against each other, was hideous to hear, and alone broke the appalling silence that reigned throughout the hall. At length both foes, enraged at the prolonged obstinacy of the struggle, and blinded by the blood from the red gashes about their brows, lost all of caution and equanimity; and fought madly, wildly, more like devils than men. Each one more intent n taking the life of his enemy than regarding his own, exerted every nerve and muscle wtih a per fect fury that struck tlie beholders with fear. Both were soon severely wounded en different parts of the body ; but still their came no pause J i the combat, till Anthony, striking a heavy over handed blow, cut his adversary's arm half off at the wrist. Wilson changed his bowie-knife into his left hand, and for an instant ran several steps backwards, as if to decline any further contest. He then paused, and smiling more frightful than ever, again rnshed forwards. Precisely at this crisis, Anthony committed tlie folly of throwing the knife at the other's bosom, which missing its aim, fell with loud ringing nose on the floor, some thirty feet distant. This error decided the tremendous combat. Anthony was now wholly disarmed at the mercy of the tiger-man, who never knew the meaning of tlie word. Wilson darted upon him with a cry of anger and hellish joy there, where lie stood motionless as a rock, impotent to fight, and yet too brave te fly. One fierce thurst ripped open his victim's bowels, who caught them as they were falling with his hands. Another stroke directed at tlie neck severed it main artery, and tlie blood spouted out in a crimson fountain, with a gurgling noise, staining the robes and the faces of tome members that sat nearest the horrible Scene. The last act of the tragedy then closed, as tlie dark curtain of death dropped on die dreadful stage. Anthony, without a single groan or sigh, fell in his place a corpse ,and Wilson, fainting from loss of blood, sank down beside him. Up to this moment, although sixty legislators were in their seats, and more than one hundred lookers on in the lobby, and bevies of bright eyed ladies in the galleries, still no one, save those rag ing madmen, had moved ; no sound had disturbed the whisperless silence, save the clangor of their crossing and concussive steel. But then, is Abel Anthony tumbled on the floor heavily, like lifeless lead, a wild, wailing, heart-rendering ehriek broke from the gallery on the right, where sat the belov ed maiden of his bosom, who had hoped shortly to be bis bride. And then- s Wilson alsi fell, an other burrowing scream, accompanied by the words, Oh 1 father!' issued from the gallery on the left, where a beautiful little daughter had been spectator of the murderous affray, ANNUM, IN ADVANCE, OR IS DELATED 311 H0XTII. NO 22- Wilson recovered, and is yet alivef and his mu tilated hand, and the numerous and deep scars on his head and face, attest to all who meet him the desperation of his character. He was expelled the house, bailed by a merciful judge, brought tn trial and acquitted, There was never yet a jury in the south'west that would convict a person for slaying another in fair combat ! He then chan ged his political venue lo Texas, flourishes well beneath the immortal green of her live oak and the stainless azure of her lustrous skies. I saw the desperado about one year ago, and heard him speak of tlie tragic affair. He said that against Anthony, as an individual, he had never, previous to the moment of fight,harbored the slight" est feeling of ill-will or malice j that when tlie provocation passedhe was suddenly seized with aa unaconnfable fit of passion that so far bereft him of reason as to render him unconscions of his ac tions, until the knives began to clash against each other, when of course it was too late to think of retreating. Such is the eflect of a long indulgence in deedi of violence. The soul becomes inflammable as same detonating chemical mixtnre, always readv to bnrst forth to ruin on the feeblest touch of fric tien. Xoah's Times and Messenger. KING SOLOMON'S BLACKSMITH. And it came to pass when Solomon, the son of David, had finished the Temple of Jerusalem, that he called onto him the chief architects, the bead artificers, and cunning workers in silver and gold, and in wood and In ivory, ard in stoneyea, all ." who had aided in rearing the Temple of the Lord, and he said unto them i " Sit ye down at my table j I have prepared a fcast for all my chief workers and cunning artifi cers. Stretch forth your hands therefore, and eat and drink and be meffy. Is not the laborer wor thy of his hire 7 Is not the skilfol artificer deser ting of honor 7 Muzzle not tlie tw that treadeth out the corn.'' And when Solomon afid the chief workmen erg seated, and (he fatness of the land and the oil thereof were sat upon the table, there came one who knocked loudly at the door, and forced him' self even into the festival chambof, Then Solo mon the King Was wroth and said, " What manner ef man art then 1" And the man answered and said, " When men wish to honor me, tliey call me Son of the Forge but whew they desire to mock mr, they call me blacksmith and seeinff (hat the toil of workimr and fire covers me with sweat and smut, the lattef name, O King, is not inapt, and, in trulh, thy ser vant desires no better." But said Solomon, why came yott thus rudely and unbidden to the feast, where none save the chief workmen of the Temple are invited ?" "Please ye, my Lord, I came rudely, replied the man,becaaBe thy servant obliged me to force my way but I came not unbidden. Wag it not pToclaimod that the ehiel workmen of the Temple ' were invited to dine with the King of Israel 7" I hen he who carved the chernbim said, Thi fellow is no sculptor," and he who inlaid the roof with pure gold said, " Neither is he a workman in fine tiietaU." And he who raised the wall said, he is not a cutter f stone." And he who made the roof, cried out, " He it not cunning in cedar-wood j neither knowe'h he the mystery of uniting pieces of strange timber to gether." Then said Solomon, . What hast thoo to- av. Son of the Forge, why I should not order thee to be plucked by the beard, ecoafged with a acourge, and stoned to death with stones f And when the Son of the Forge heard this lie was in no sort dismayed, but advancing to the ta ble, snatched up and swallowsd a cop of winend said, " O King, live forever ! The chief men of the workers in wood and gold and stone have said that I am not of them, and they have said truly. I am (heir superior ; before they lived was I crea ted. 1 am their master, and they are all my ser vants." And he turned him round, and said to the chief of the carvers in stone, " Who made the tools with which you carve f And ho said "The Blacksmith." .' And he said to the chief of the masons, Who made the chisels with which tlie atones of the Temple were squared 1 , And he said, " The Blacksmith." . And he said to the chief of the. workers in wood, " Who made tlie tool with which you hewed the trees on Lebanon, and formed them into the pillar and roof of the Temple ?" . . , And he said, "The Blacksmith." . ' Then he said la the artificer in and ivory, " Who makes yew ii.atruments, by which you work bfantifal things for my lord the King?" , And ho said " The Blarksmith," ; 'f Ermngh, enongh, gnod fellow, said Solomon, thou hast proved ttrnt j invited thee, and that thoa art alt men's Aitlicr in art- Go wash the shikj nf tlie forge from thy face, and come and ,sit at my right aiid. The chiefs of my workmen fete but men tlion art more." So it happened at the st of Solomon, and blacksmiths have lxcn kotmred 'er since. London Magaiine. Penl in your Advcrtlszments. Ti'witij wilt he none the worse, By so doing Hie