The Athens Post from Athens, Tennessee • Page 1

I. BY SAM. P. KINS. ATHENS, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1854.

YOL YIIHYO. 313. ME POST li publih4 every Friday sttl per rear, If payment I. deUyeU ontU be charged 1 per r. of line I or lew, for the rlr.t Inaertlim, and 46 cenu.

for IhnnUnutM A liberal deduction made to thow ih by ihe year. pff-Ferna tlienSuTber of title. they tain or they will be continued until forbid and candidate, for office, S3, ob Work, auch ai Ac, will be executed In good Proprietor, po.t paid, wl.l Ve.Va'Sutnee-.endlng the name, four To communication In.erted by "isTSfflcion Ma'itreel, next door to th. old Jack-on Hotel. THE POST.

ATIIRS. If 1PAY. SKl'T. 88, 1854. Office of City Register, Wednesday, Sept ISUh.

10 P. M. There hnve been 41 deaths from Yellow Fever for the past 48 hours. J. L.

DAWSON, M. rn in Washington Va. The crops around Abingdon have been improved by re- i I T-V cent rains. The corn crops, says ine uemo. iu nnt.

an hoDeless as was expected. viuv, I Wherever the land wus ploughed deep, the prospects are good, noiwiuisinnaing me drought. One or tub Great'' Causes of Hard Times. We ship too much of our gold coin to Europe, and why? Because we import ten millions more than we ought. We import too many silks, Batins, and laces.

If the ladies of the United Stales would wear cotton fabrics, and encourage our own staplo production for four years, every merchant, mechanic, farmer, nnd laborer would feel the good effect, and there would be an end of long faces and hard times. tSThe Purls Universe states that a grand council of Roman Catholic Bishops from all parts of the world is to assemble at Rome at tho end of next Octobor, to deliberate on the question of the immaculate conception of the most Holy Virgin, and finnlly to settle what is the true dogma of the Roman Church on that point. Tho Universe says that "it is probalile that tho 8th of December of this year will witness tho accomplishment of the universal wish." Sad Pjcture. We find in letter from the Rev. Mr.

Crumley, the esteemed pastor of tho Methodist Church of Savonnah.to the editor of the Southern Christian Advocate, the following mournful picture of the effects of tht epidemic in that devoted city "Yesterday, I followed the last blood kin of Goo. Whitfield from a garret to the grave. I will give more of his history at another time, if Providence permit. How changed is our bonntiful, growing, healthy city, lately full of enterprise, noiso and business. Now it is nearly depopulated.

The long streets are empty, save a few sad processions which are soon silently hastening on there a long train of mournerR here, a lono hearse bearing the dead to the city of silence. And at even-tide in the publis squares, the pride and beauty of the city, in place of the gay groups that promennded tho snow white walks, und the merry children that romped upon the green grass, there is a tar-fire flaming in the centre, throwing a lurid glare on the surrounding trees, and spreading abroad a long tiain of pitchy smoke that covers the city like a mourning vail." Editorial Personalities. -The New York Times thus winds up in an article upon the dignity of journalism: "Whenever Editors raise the standard of mutual respect; whenever they become in fact what thoy are in theory a Profession; wheuever they have a common nnd current creed of gentlemanly behavior as editors, no less than as men then will tho evils complained of be cured, and society spared tho merciless infliction of private wrongs upon its notice. Editors ought to know, that tho bare fact of their commanding the uso of tho pen daily, does not entitle them to persecute tho public witli editorial quarrels. These are incidents of their privule business and ought to bo so treated." Abundance of Wheat.

The Richmond (Va.) Penny Post speaks of the immense amount of wheat now in the various railroad depots of that city. One of them is literally groaning under tho weight of its contents, and tho writer thinks ho "saw enough to feed the Russians and allied troops for a twelve month." Thers are eight largo millsAiow in operation in that city, and two of them grind at least nino hundred barrels each per day. It is mostly hhippod, however, for tho South American markets, where it Is a favorito over all othurs. Tho climate does not sour it, and tho secret Is said to consist in packing it while It hut. "Tremendous ass eetino." The Ken-nebec (Me.) Journal gives nn enthusiastic account of a "tremendous" Democratic muss meeting ill that city Inst week.

The people began to pour into tho II at the rnto of one a minute, for the spnee of at least three hundred and sixty seconds. The audience, leuv. Ing out the President, Secretary and throe or-ators, consisted of the Postmaster of Angus-tit, Msiuel Of course harmony and unanimity prevailed to a remarkable degree. t-4 The price of getting drunk In Boston has lieun raised by the Police of tho City to $3, (it formerly being only $t'J,) in consequence of so many more persons getting drunk now Hum I id ore the Mait.o law was was passed. This is tho only instance, snys the New Orleans Crescent, known to tho com-mercial world, in which the price of a thing is greater by wholesale than retail.

The Indians of Texas are, according to tho opinion of Major J. II. who has just been In their region, determined on gnornl war, as they have fought with desperation, bravery and warlike skill in the Into contests. Asia. Defeat of the Turks.

From Odessa, August 15th, it is stated that a band of Caucnssian mountaineers, commanded by a son of Schamyl, made a razzia into the province of Titflis. They sacked several places, put some persons to death, and carried off a Russian General's wife, and her sister, the Princess Orbclian. The news had caused a panic ut Tifllis. There is reason to believe that the Turkish army in Asia has met with a decisive de-font. A Vienna despatch states but without date that General Bebiitoffhad attack-ed and signally routed the main body of the Turks under the walls of Knrs.

The Russians sny they killed 3000 Turks, took 2000 prisoners, including 33 staff and other officers, and captured 15 guns, with an immense nmount of military stores. The shattered remains of the Turkish force had dispersed. This Is, however, from a Russsian source. JSrA sale of a free white woman was recently made at Freemnnsburg, Lehigh Pa. The parties have been residents of that place for sonio time, are natives of Germany, and the transaction consisted in a man dis posing of his wife to another man for the sum of one dollar.

Writings are said to have been signed by the trio the wife, the new husband, and the old husband. $jCi. J. Wjatson Webb, who is now in England, writes to the New York Courier Enquirer, that in three months or before Christmas, wheat will have fallen from 65 to less than 45 shillings per quarter. How Rectified Whiskey is Made.

At St. Louis raw whiskey is now commanding un unusually high price, 34 a 35 eta. per gallon; and since rectifiers have to pay 35 cts for raw, it is wonderful how they can afford rectified at 34 cents. Nothing is easier of explanation. Rectified whiskey is whiskey liberally mixed with water three to five, and sometimes as many as eight gallons of water to the barrel, at the manufacturer's discretion.

This af fords a handsume profit, at the present cur rent rates for raw, mixture of three gallons $105; five gallons $1 75, and when it comes to eight gallons there is $2 80 per barrel, clean clear profit. Besides rectifying may be considered a tntion," the charcoal taking out a very con. siderable portion of the alchoholio fire, und reducing the baneful effects of a too free use of "red eye." It also saves trouble to the toper, as his dram needs no mixing with un wholesome water ifterwards. cgT" A correspondent of tho Cleveland Herald writing from Arkansas, tells a very large story. He says that he discovered a cave near Graham in that State into which he walked several miles, the floor of which is several feet thick with saltpetre.

He has also shot several wild turkeys, which weighed, when dressed, twentv-eight pounds. The corn, also, grows down there from twenty. five to thirty feet high, and appears like a forest. Cutting Copper. It will be seen by the foliowing that Col.

R. B. Brabson, of Chat- tanoogn, is in a harvest field of mineral wealth. in the mountains of Virginia. We extract from the Mountain Torrent, of the 24th printed at Hillsville, Carroll county, "We have been shown a fine specimen of copper oro, by Col.

K. U. Brabson or Chattanooga, which had been taken out on the iron ore land near tho upper end of this county. This ore, which he termed the gray sulphuret, was obtained within three inches of the surface, and is exceedingly rich will 30 per cent at least. The Colonel ana is company own a large amount of property in that section, which is thought to be the most valunble property in the county." Fly to his Rescue.

The following is supposed to be the last production of a prin ter exceedingly hard up. Let all sympathizing humans, fly to his rescue and aid. In seasons when our funds are low Subscribers are provoking slow. And no supplies keep up the flow Of dimes receding rapidly, The prospect dorkenB I Oh, ye brave Who would our very bacon save I Waive patrons all your pretexts waive, And pay tho printer cheerfully I Daring Rorbery. A Mr.

Hinkston, citizen of Brooke county, visited Wheeling on Tuesday Inst, where ho received $500 of Mr. John W. Gill. Ho started for homo with it in a buggy alone. Near Wellsburg, while riding through tho woods in open day, he was seized through the opening of the buggy from behind, by some one who drew him back, and covered his face, another man seized his horse, nnd another rifled his pockets.

They wero so disguised that ho knew none of them. New York Hotels. The Herald gives a list of fitly hotuls in New York, the total as-sensed valuo of which is put down nt 000. Tho total nmount of capital, including furniture, invested in these hotels is estimated at $13,000,000. Mr.

Monnot, it is said, designs to erect a gigantie structure on the site of the Hippodrome. This building is to be constructed of marble, and will cost, when completed, upwards of a million of dollars. Tho Troy Times sums up the losses by the late disastrous fire in Unit city as follows: Iluildings and machinery, lumber, furniture and other personal prop-orty, $100,000. Total, $780,000, on which there was only $1250 000 insurance. Rev.

Mr. Pilchcr, of Adrian, has a Shanghai hen that has lain nn egg reg-ular for one hundred nnd twenty-ono successive days. On the one hundred nnd twenty, socond she laid two eggs. Harvey M. Wn'nnion, of Tennessee, is spoken of to succeed Mr.

Davis, as Governor of Oregon. A despatch from York, dated the 1 1th inst, says "The telegraph is cot working between here and Columbia. There is a rumor that the Operator at Columbia, amongst others, has fallen a victim to the terrible scourge. We have had no communication with that town since last night The train is expected about half past two o'clock, when further particulars may be obtained. Various rumors are in circulation.

From all I can gather there has been about eighty deaths of cholera, in. eluding yesterday, since the disease appeared on Friday last. It hn been unusually fatal, very few escaping who were attacked. Some amongst our best and most prudent citizens have fallen victims. The panic is almost beyond conception.

Every store, except Drug and Doctor otlices, are closed ana business entire suspended. "A very large number of persons have' at ready left town for various localities in the country, und hundreds are leaving every hour on foot, in carriages and other vehicles nnd on horseback, also by the cars. The whole populace is completely panic-stricken, nnd it is feared there will not be enough left to at-tend to the sick or bury the dead. At last accounts the epidemic was raging with great virulence and on the increase, notwithstanding the great decrease in copulation. Many who were taken, died in a few hours.

Ex presses hnve been sent to Philadelphia and elsewhere for physicians who have had famil iar practice with the disease. The calamity is truly appalling. Killed by a Name. "Young, the Douglas organ at Chicago, died on the 30th after a brief and sickly existence of forty-nino days. Its editor, in his valedictory, seems to think that, like a mad-dog, his pa per had a bnd name.

Here is what he says "This morning's issue terminates the exis tence of "Young America." In the course of human events all things must sooner or Inter die. Thus, in the present instance we are reminded of the old adage, of the uncertainty of all things here below. Young America dies, aud the death is voluntary. And like an infant on the parent's breast, itcalmly sinks to rest, without any throes of agony or con scious pain, he nomine de plume, by which our sheet has been recognized, has never held a very affectionate place in our bosom and although the name disappears, still the em. bodiment remains, and still will be seen at your firesides and places of business, we doubt not, much improved in merit and call.

be quite as welcome as ever has been Young America. The new paper assumes the more modest, quiet and respectable name of Chicago Times, An Honor Declined. It is not, perhaps, generally known by tho present generation, and may have been forgotten by some of the past, that John Quincy Adams was appointed Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, 22d February, 1811, in place of Levy Lincoln, deceased, and declined the appoint ment. The high trust was then conferred by Mr. Madison upon Joseph Story, of Massachusetts, whose rank as a profound jurist was only second to that of Chief Justice Marshall.

"No One Loves Me." "No one loves me!" Speak it not, believe it not, if thou hopest for peace, for comfort, for sympathy in this world Tho phrase is of dreary midnight's birth, when there were no stars seen, and the mother turned from her crying babe. It is false, too, and poison lurks in its ill-omened syllables. If it rise in thy mind crush it out, and give proof of its falseness by seeking for what thou canst love, and be sure thou wilt then be loved in return. Lovo inhabits every human soul its very immortality springs from love alone howev er oft hatred of Self nnd of Humanity and Nature, may fright this God descended inhab itant away. And lovo will and does spring from love, as the seed springs from the soil because it is the immutable law; because the great Original is lovo, and love includes our aims, our destiny and our deathlcssness.

EST One thousand of the people of tho city of St. John, New Brunswick, hnve died of cholera in a short period of tiino. Seven hundred nnd fifty orphan children left desti tute, nnd without friends or kindred, have been taken charge of by the Roman Catholic Bishop, aided by some benevolent citizens. A lawyer who fell a victim to the disease, be queathed several thousand dollars in aid of theso orphans. 07" The Washington Star of Saturday, says: "Wo h.fve never beforo known such dearth of news around us.

During the President's absence nothing is doing in the 'cahoodling' ine. That is, those in Washington interest ed in securing places ut a distance for their respective friends are laying on their oars. His Excellency to expected some time to-day, when they will bo down on him, notwith standing the extreme hent of the weather, with Vehemence greatly increased by their breathing spell. The Governorship of Oregon, which, rumor says, tho Hon. Ex-Spcnkor Davis, of Indiana, is about to resign, will be the chief prize soiiL'ht after for some time to come, unless death cruelly takes off one or more prominent office, holders, as though spe cially to perplex President Pierce.

Theie will, doubtless, bo twenty or thirty applicants for that Governorship npon the strength of the rumor only patriots wanting otlice being well nigh as plentiful at this moment as on the 4tli of March, 1853." Tho Baltimore American says that the boaring of the sun southward is very appa rent, and we nre fast approaching the winter solstice, notwithstanding the overpowering heat. Tho days are now fully two hours ihorter than on the 22d Juno. An Old Proverb Falsifird. On the 13th Inst Mr. Tti'iti Liiiin Bird, a bachelor, aged about 70 years, was murricd at the Roman Catholic Church, on Fifth street.

Cincinnati. Ohio, to Miss Julia Chafl, a buxom widow of So the old Bird was cuught at lust by Chaff. L-T" "What makes tho bell ring Isaac, do you know! Nobody's dead or dying here, I ope." "If I might micas," drawled Isaac, rath- or slow, "somebody or other's pulliu' at tho rope!" "Marbied Yesterday." Everyday in the journal that with the first gleam of the sun is flung within our portals, we read this little sentenee I "Married yesterday, so and so.1 Every day there is wedding feast in some of the mansions of earth: a clasping of hands and union of hearts in the aisles of some holy temple; a pledging of eternal love and constancy during all the hours that nre yet to come down, like spring flowers, upon Life's pathway. Each day some new marriage crown is pnt on and shcrHhat wenrs it, leaning upon him whose love is the brightest jewol set midst its leaves, steals away from the "dear old home," and nestles tremblingly in the honeysuckles, aver the latticed porch, and placed iEolian-lyns in all the casements. "Married Yesterday." There are pearls and gold shining now amid the flowers that fringe Love's utitffay, nnd stars gleaming like great chandeliers in the firmament of hope.

There are harps tinkling now, whose melody is sweeter than the sound of evening bells, and joys fulling like a shower of nine tliysts upon the hearts that yesterday were wed. Life now is become beantiful; the soul soars upward from the dust, like a dove loosed from its cage; there is melody in every breeze and every place yea, there are angels in every path, with crownings for those who are pressing onward with song and prayer. "Married Yesterday." It seems now a long distance to the grave a long road to the final rest But soon the shadows will come, nnd life lose its summer bloom. Then, as the patter of tiuy feet is heard about grandfather's house, and little brains cluster about his knee, who were "married yesterday," may. hap will turn bock to the records of the Past, weeping silently the while, remembering that their summer is gone their harvest ended and that soon gathering up their sheaves, they must pass beyond the gates of pearl, where there will evermore be but one marriage, that of the Lamb with his chosen people.

Indians Starving. Tbe condition of the Missouri Indians is indeed deplorable at the present time. Government having neglected to comply with treaty stipulations, those tribes nre suffering from the gnawings oi nunger, and nave commenced ravaging the gardens, and plundering the whites sojourn ing in Nebraska, of everything they can put I 1- mL ii men imuua upon, i ne wniios over mere an complied with the demand first made by the Iudians, and have each paid over $10, which was to secure them from molestation. The Indians, when upbraided for their breach of fuith, state that their Great Father has broken his pledge to them, and that they nre com pelled by hunger to break their faith with the emigrants. sThe conduct of the authorities of the UniteuSfcitntca in this matter has bcon most reprehensible, and wn cannot see what excuse can be framed by them for their tergiversations to the Indians.

Freemont Co. (Iowa) Gazette. J5PBoys are re-adinoiiishcd, by a sensible writer to bownro of the following description of company, if they would avoid becoming like those who enter prisons for their crimes 1. Thoso who ridicule thoir parents or disobey their commands. 2.

Those who profano the Sabbath or scoff at religion. 3. Those who use profane or filthy Ian-guage. 4. Those who nre unfaithful, play truant.

and waste their time in idleness. 6. Those who are of quarrelsome temper and who are apt to get into difficulties with others. 6. Those who are addicted to lying nnd stealing.

7. Those who take pleasure in torturing animals and insects. To-Morrow. Procrastinntion is said to be tho thief of time. Those who are continually putting off until to-morrow what ought to be done to-day, will not accomplish much for thomsilvcs nor benefit the world or mankind.

Promptness, energy, and action are required to secure all the good thoso who postpone will reap the evil. Don't toll rue of to-morrow; Give me the man who'll eay, That when good deed's to be done, Lets do tie deed to day I We may command the present, If we act and never wait; But repentance is the phantom Of the past, that comes too late I papers are everywhere urging the free use of copperas as a disinfectant agent. It is a cheap article, costing only a few cents per pound, nnd can be found at tho druggists and many of the large grocery stores. A couple of pounds may bo dissolved in ten quarts of hot water, and the solution poured into sinks, gutters, cesspools, and all other filty places with good effect. Suicide in the Penitentiary.

Couonhn- ver, one of the convicts in the Penitentiary, hung himself on cmturdny last, in his cell, by suspending himself from joist with a hand kerchief, tie was one of Dr. Roberts gang of robbers, sent from Monroe county, for robbing Mr. Jackioni near liarusville. He was about 80 years of oge and has respectable connections in Kentucky, Sou, S'ews. Domestic Discipline.

Mrs. Smith has company to dinner and there are not straw-berries enough. She looks nt Mr. S. with a awoct smile, nnd offors to help him, nt tho same time touching him gently 'with her slip per under the table.

Ho nlways replies, "No, I thank you, dear, they don'tagroo with me." Patience Is Very good, but porsovcr- nnce is much better; while the former stands as a stoic under difficulties, the latter whips them out of the ring. ISTTho Wheeling Times sttitos that a gentleman, in going from Washington was compelled to pay 25c. a bucket for water for his horse. circulation of the rotes of Banks of other States, of a less denomination than ten dollars, will be prohibited in Ohio, nftor the 1st of next month, Speaking of the New York Tribune having reduced its size, the Wilmington N. C.

Journal, says: "Even newspapers have reached a point of cheapness from which they are forced to recede. We can assure His Rcspectableness, the Public, that printing has got to be quite a costly "institution." We would beg leave to assure our readers in the country, and in the town, too, that our expenses have risen faster than the price of turpentine, while the rates of advertising and subscription remain without change. The margin is too narrow to admit of any reduction. Now, we don't like to make complaints of any sort, and we don't see that we nave any particular right to do so, but at the same time, we would suggest the necessity of asking as little gratuitous service from the press as possible. A r.ent many people, we know, never think of the amount of this sort of service which is one, nnd from not fully understanding the state of the case, re apt to think hnrd of publishers for charging for the insertion of Jnattors which, perhaps, may seein of great importance to the persons wishing such insertion, and yet, in the view of publishers, coming under the head of advertising matter.

With paper and materials of every Kind, as well as labor, at their present rates, it behooves publishers to make every department of their business pay. The profits from a subscription list are altogether too much cut down to admit of any looseness in other matters." The Corn Crop, We have predicted that corn will be as cheap in this section next spring as at the present time. The crop will be a short one, it is true, but the farmers have gathered large quantities of fodder, which, together with the fine crops of oats raised the present year, will enable them to winter their stock with comparatively little corn. There will not be, perhaps, more than one-half the number of pork hogs fattened this season; nnd, as one of our corres-dondents remarks, by housing and sheltering his stock from the cold winds and rains of winter, the farmer will save one-third in the way of provender. A general system of econemy will be practised throughout the county, and the result will be a plentiful supply of corn.

From present indications pork will bo worth from four to five cents. We have heard of several recent transactions at that rate. Col. James II. Webster, an intelligent and experienced farmer of this county, left us on Monday last several cars of corn gathered from field which he dsecribes as being so literally burnt up by the dry weather, that, apparently, single spark of fire would 6et the whole field in flumes.

This corn the ears left with us is well filled, and seems to have suffered but little from the drouth. Col. Webster thinks that the crops of corn generally in this county will bo much better than is expected. Porter, living some two or three miles south of town, says he never had better crops of corn than ho has this season, and that he will raise at least ten barrels to the acre. He prepared his ground well in the spring by subsoil plough' ing, which my account for the fact that he has suffered little from the drouth.

Maury 7th. TnE Graves or Heroes. Every man is a hero. There is not one human being that has yet lived and died in this world but has filled a hero's grave. In the heart of some one, tho most humble individual occupies the place of a hero.

We respect, love and cher ish most that which we know. Every man has his virtues has his friends has some one who admires. Heroes are measured by different standards. What would constitute one in somo minds would not in others. There nre every day heroes and periodical ones.

Home are great wan me masses others with the few, only, who know their worth. Some live and die, and their names ore not recorded upon the page of history. They are heroes, nevertheless. Their calling wns a different one from the warrior, the statesman, or the scholar. They havo won for themselves a hero's grove by acts of kind.

ness which only its recipients know or npprc. ciute. All graves are heroes' graves. If you doubt it, ask tho surviving friends of the de parted. Ask those that loved, and the answer will be equal to "he was a horo A New Sort of Know Nothing Inter- ference.

A few days since a young lady wns insulted in the cars between Louisville and Portlnnd by a large burly Irishman. Tho conductor interfered to protect her, but five or six of the insulter's comrades took his part, and the conductor was obliged to let him alone. Directly the cars reached Portland, and instantly, through the agency of some Know Nothing sign it is supposed, the con- ductor was ro-inforced, and the insultor nnd three or four of his party terribly beaten in very short order; and two othors of them, who escaped from the depot without beating, "caught it" immediately afterwards upon the wharf-boot fiT A good man's heaven commences horo. Tho snmo mny bo said of a wicked man's hell. To taste of Paradise, all that is necessary Is to taste of virtue.

There is more sunshine in one good act thnn in all the solar systems ever invented. 157" The Irish employed on tho rail road in the vicinity of Grafton, Ohio, on Monday evening triod to force their way to "Uncle Tom's Show Tent," owned by a man by the name of Mathias. They were repulsed, but again returned with reinforcement, when they wero all driven into tho woods, and their shanties entirely demolished. Contraction. The New York Tribune has reduced its dimensions.

Under date of Sept, 1st it says: "Owing to the present culnmitons depression in all kinds of business, which, wo fear, is to bo as protracted as it is universal, and the consequent dimnnitiun of tho 'space occupied by advertisements in the Tribune, wo find it convenient to slightly reduce the size of our sheet, nnd henceforth, until further notice, it will Appear in the form and style In which it is now presented." l-jy" The vencrablo Elisha Whittlesey, First Comptroller of tho Troosury, has tendered his resignation. Ho takes to heart the removal of his favorite clerk, and complains of interference with his duties by the Secre tary. THE LUNAR WORLD. Mr. Crampton, in a little book entitled "The Lunar World," draws the following interesting picture of the appearance which the surface of that satellite would present to a visitor from the terestrial globe: "Choose the period of the lost quarter, and direct our way to that dark shadowy spot marked in the map, and situated at the northeast portion of the lunar globe; it is the Mare Imbrium, or Sea of Showers, as it is called, though no water is to be found there and no shower ever cools or moistens its bar-Ten surface.

It is about seven hundred miles in extent every way. Let us cast our eyes around, and what do we see! a boundless plain or desert, stretching away as fur as the eye can reach on every side, save in one or two points, where a chain of lofty mountains can be perceived, whose brilliant, pointed summits, glittering in. the sunbeams, just ap pear upon the distant horizon. The light that glares upon the plain is intense, and the hou rntuaerceneM. for no cloud shel.

ters us. By that light we may perceive, scat tered over the plain, an infinite number of circular pits, of dillercnt sizes and depths. varying from a few vnrds to some hundreds in diameter, and sunk in the body or crust of the planet; some of Idem but a few feet, and others to an unknown immeasurable depth. Above the sky is black, out of which the sun gleams like a red-hot ball; and the stars sparkle like diamonds, for no atmosphere like ours exists to give by its refractive and reflective powers the delicious blue to its heavens, nnd the soltoned shade to its landscape. 1 he lights and Bhndes are indented upon its features deep and dark, or intensely bright; no softening away in the distance, no gentle and beautitul perspective; no lolly twilight, morn ing or evening, stealing over or away from the scene.

All the shadows are abrupt, sud den; all the outlines sharp, clear; appearing startingly near even when really distant. INo sound follows our footfall, or is ever heard in that silent place; for there is no atmosphere to conduct it; no fresh breeze blows on its mountain tops, sighs through its burning desorts, rustles through its brilliant green Of forests, or waves over meadows; the silence of death broods over its and wastes nnd rocky shores, against which no tides or billows break." A Hint for the Unsuccessful. The fol lowing from Claxton's "Hints for Mechanics," will apply with equal force to mercantile men As for luck, as I hnve said before, there is more in the sound of a word which people have got used to than in the thing they are thinking of. Some luck there is, no doubt, as we commonly understood tho term, but very much less thnn most persons supposed. There is a great deal which passes for luck which is not such.

Generally speaking your "lucky fellows," when one searches closely into theiHiistory, turn out to bo your fellows that know what they nre doing, nnd how to do it in the right way. Their luck comes to them, because they work for it; it is luck woll earned. They put themselves in the way of luck Tney Keep u(mscives wide awoke. They make tho best of what opportunities they always stand ready for more; and when a mochanicdoes this much, depend upon it, it must be hard luck indeed, if he do not get at least, employors, customers, nnd friends. One need only, says nn American writer, "to turn to tho fives of men of mechanical genius, to see how by taking advantage of little things and facts, which no one hud observed or which every one had thought unworthy of regard they have established new and important principles in the arts, and built up for themselves manufactories for the practice of their newly discovered processes." And yet these aro the men who are called the lucky fellows, and some times envied as such.

Who can deny that their luck is well earned, or that it is just ns'much in my power to "go ahead as it was in theirs. James Maples, a respectable citl zen of HunUville, hung himselfn few days ago, in consequence of his fears that the drouth would prevent his raising corn enough for his family to eat during the winter. A Rebukb. The Warwick Baptist Asso. ciation, of Mow York, hnve protested against the action of the three thousand clorgvmen of New England who, in the "name of the Almighty, denounced the Nebraska Dill.

The Association think it presumption for any set of men, no matter what their Calling, to impiously assume that they speak by Divine authority, and in his name to fulmiuato ana themas ngamBt the representatives oi ine peo-pie in the discharge of their official duties. This assumption rocognized, would destroy every vestigo of civil and religious freedom, and prostrate nil the institutions ot our land at the foot of an irresponsible and arrogant priest-hood. The rebuke is timely and woll deserved. tjra tnifo ra immirfnl. Cnnitnl or shock.

fTW I ing they survive tho best speeches, the pro- lounaesi papers oi suiionuieu. i auws unw diluvinn editor treated his readers to one, we An ItnlinwA ll.nl nil flia ivnfara nf tliA dnnd tJ 1 1 Willi. could drown it A good joko now-n-dnys A- 1 1 at. j.t.A gOOS lO IICip Ulimn tut, ll.4.n I'Ct, DIIU WIIIIJ nf llinnsnnrl fnmilipa. It makes the circuit of the world, steams over the ocean, skates on telegraph wires, tunnels mountains, rides expresses, excites the risibles of armies, harms none.

Verily a good Joke is a great thincr. nnd a bad one is abominablo. Let jocose people beware. A V.t, iki fni C.cirvm or Sniu nnnr Wa uniu are Informed by a worthy gentleman, that number of our German citizens hnve actually organized an association to sustain the most hrinninlpa. InfAtiHincr to Ul x.nn-t nniv-Nolhinir nntninntlnnft.

thev r- i display a rare devotion to what they consider public weal oy Biirreouenog vneir own run- 1 1 i I I Wm An tint iiecis iur puu.i.... know whether disgust at the doings of the Carthngo Convention caused tho movement, Hemelin has anvthlnir to do with it, but it is certainly a vory significant sign of the times. Cincinnati Columbian. Kim ar and Rect Ttnmnv. patent has been granted by the French Government for making sugar from pump.

1 1. i i i kins; II IS sam mm ui ijuiuiiiijr jiroouccu win in.ul na rrrpnt nff entl IA lin nlitnlnnit fmm un lit. mi equal weight of beet root. This invention COItieS 111 goou wiiril it nun ih'uii iuiinu I i thnt beel root can no more proniuoiy employ, ed in making brandy thnn sugar, i10 Universal, a Mexican pnper, is out ogain strongly In favor of a great Spanish American alliance, Which It snys, Is rendored necessnry by the late occurrence at Greytown. It says this ollalr will not be ine insi or us Li ml nnil that only nn alliance enn save all.

South America from the greed of the Atucri- con Union. DELIRIUM TREMENS. Suddenly Amos roused himself from one of his lethargic fits "The demons are after me," cried he. "There they are griDning at me, and gnashing their teeth. I see their eyes of fire, and their horrible looking visages.

They seek to chastise me with their red hot iron scourges. Oh how they scowl and hiss! while a stream of livid Are is. sues from their mouths! And now they rush towards me. Away away I will not be thrown among the loathsome venomous reptiles in that deep, dark pit! Keep off! I will not go with you Saying this, and uttering screams of terror, this unhappy being, exerting a preturnatural strength, burst from tho hands which had confined him during the night, and in spile of Sampsons exertions, threw hlmsolf from his berth. lie sprang to the forescullle and push by tha cook, who sought to prevent his leaving the bulkhead.

He rushed up tho ladder, and in a moment wns on deck fully impressed with the idea thnt a logion of devils were in close pursuit, bent upon torturing him to death. His nppearanoo at that momont was singularly wild and terrific Ho was clad in no garment excepting his shirt his long black hair hung in elf locks on his shoulders his eyes were lighted with tho fires of insanity his teeth were firmly set, and his lips apart, exhibiting a ghastly grin his visage was haggard bearing the stamp of unutterable woe and his voice was door, shrill nnd unearthly; as he cried out, "Oh help me! for God's sake help me Away away away Ah they have got me now. I feel their burning breath Oh, mother mother help your son! I feel their talons in my throat, nnd thus I dash them to the earth Here the hapless sailor escaped the hands of Mr. Culpepcr and Ned Hopkins, who had seized him ns he wns running aft, after having with almost incredible agility leaped over the windlass and fife rail. lib sprung upon the beak of tho quarter deck, and was instantly within the powerful grasp of captain Branch bill; but, notwithstanding his groat strength, he was unable to arrest the career of the madman to destruction.

Amos caught the Captain by the windpipe, and compressing It with oil the fury of madness, he threw him as if he hud been a dwarf, with tromondoos force, against the binnacle, and in a moment after the maniac was standing alone on the toffrail unencumbered nnd free. With one hand he pointed to the fathomless deep, which seemed to yawn beneath his feet, and ha fiercely shook the other at his fancied pursuers, exclaiming In a hollow but exulting toney "Accursed fiends! I am now beyond your reach, nnd I defy you! Hn! ha! and his manioc langh swept over tho waters, and sent a chill to the bosom of his shipmates. A rush was made by the crow to the stern of the ship, to save the unhappy man from a fute he involuntarily seemed to covet But ere a hand could bo laid upon his person, he sprung high in the air, nnd alighted in the waters over which tho Bhip had just passed. He disappeared for a moment beneath the surface, and then his head rose high above the waves. The poor follow uttered a shrill shriek a shriek which seemed to be the very embodiment of horror nnd which rang in the ears of his shipmates for days, and month, and years afterwards.

He then sank beneath the waters, and was never seen again. The renin topsail was laid aback the boat was lowered and manned Ringbolt himself sprang into the stern scat, seized the tiller, and the boat was shoved off and pulled in the direction of the ship's wake, where Amos was last seen but no trace of this miserable victim of intemperance could be found. The Waters which had parted to receive him were now closed over him, and not a ripple remained to m.irk the spot. Such was the fate of Amos Chauncey I Cnors in New Frcdcris ton, N. Reporter says, tho gross crop id heavy, and thus fur well secured, and potatoes oats, corn and all the minor root crops, pro-sent a most luxuriant appearance.

A Disastrous Time. The New York Journal of Commerce remarks upon tho many disasters which have fallen upon the country during the month of August. It estimates the loss by fires ot $2,677,000. Clocks. Connecticut has twonty-oight clock factories, employs 1,279 hands in the manufacture, has 81,000,000 capital invested and makes annually 700,000 clocks.

One- fourth of these time keepers find a market in England. Quite Approfriate. The editor of a Cadiz, Ohio, paper publishes the names nf his subscribers who pay up their subscriptions, undor tho head of "Legion of Honor." Temperance in Virginia. The people of Jackson county, have given a majority of 2G2 against the Issuing of licenses to sell In. toxicating drinks.

"Close by Everywhere." Speaking of railroad facilities, a writer in a western paper1 soys "It mnkes little matter now where a mun lives. Ho is close by everywhere." mi mi Mtruptita Charleston Tote, tho energetie President t. on.l PlmrliiHton Railroad Company, has Just closed a contratt for twen I. 4 rA trt ft I Irnn. for tllfl ConatrUC tion of the road east of La Grange.

The Iron to bo delivered ot New vnonna uii me nn. Dcccmbor next The terms of the contract nru Terr i nnvmnntR In hn mnnA nnrlltf very favorable 1 ns iron is purcnosca at 949 per ion, rvj in cash ana puru mu. pnny KcnTlimr Thn Mid urn la aatt to present on unusually fine nppcarnnce in the Li'ii" mountain fountms of Wager is a fool's argument; brag is the game of cowards; and denunciation and datamation tho Inst resort of a hopeless and waning cnose..