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All Mankind are Barbers.
•I'll j»rovo t>> yon. my liiomi. I lu<po,
That notion tloiiLtcan haiKov,
Ti.ataH thf world’s a Barbers shop,
And every one's a briber.
Ami some because’lis funny;
And brokers shave you in the street.
Ami only shave Tor money.
Some sl'.ave their f ireheads sliek ami eloun.
If with low heads they're bothered,
3t.it then, Tis phmdy to i.>c seen.
That they're the ones who lathered.
To court a girl with eloquence,
Tii t da". 1; never frets her,
lint lathers lier \\ itls eomplituoiits.
And shaves he; when he gets her.
■Hie nvaid.'ns also, now and then,
tVho are so fetid of *i>oH;tt£,
Soft-soap the shallow-nunded,
And shave 'em ..iiile they're courtii.g.
But nnui and girls who thus \d!i L>;id
t if soaping while they tarried,
Will find, at hist, vith bitter cost,
That both y<>t shaved w'en married.
Miscellaneous.
>OX TllK IN I>KPKN’DKNT ?!&*<?.
SSaehclorS) &r.
Header, and mean the milk and peach
portion of you.) did you ever .slipup
to the key-hole of an old or young
bachelor's bedlam, and take a peep ?
< )faii disordered, top y-turvey places
on the toj > side of this "green terrene.”
vou will lind it he re. But thinking
that vou never did, I will try to give
vou a sketch thereof. Yet lam afraid
the mind of man can’t reach far enough
for language sufficient to paint the re*
alines a- they are.
WY-11, vou know that he is unhap
py, of course. Ilis life is one contin* '
uul round of trouble, hair-brushing,
whisker-blacking, cravat-tying, ct cet
ra. He loafs all day. Nothing intcr
••sts him. save little amtisenu-nts, (as
In- is wont to call them) but still they
bad to crimes as dark as h—l itself.—
IH drives fust horses and .says “get up
here, 2.40. on a shell road, what I feed
vou for?” lie tiourishes lies little cane,
for a head a — horse's foot and ankle —
smokes fine regalias —sips magnificent
brandy—in short, lie “cuts a swell.”—
But night comes, he returns homo, (that
is, when lie ain’t on a spree, or some
thing else.) Ah ! I am “sorter kind.
• •r” digressing. I promised to take you
into that /dace. Well, walk in ; first
take a view of his lordship, about 12
o’clock at night. There lie sits in all
the pomp and grandeur of his own
individuality, on what was once call
ed a split bottomed chair, (but it ain’t
now. for he has eel it out) with a plank
so hard it would make your headache
to look at it. coat off, hat and slippers
on, heels slightly elevated above his
head, slap up against the mantle-piece;
corncob pipe, something under a foot
Jong, with a stein about, two inches,
lb; is, leaning on his desk, or rather
that is what he intondeel it for. But J
guess you would say, to use an old
u.xpr* *ssion concerning some preachers, |
**it answered when something else was j
called for on it is something that;
looks like paper, his shaving utensils.
and a!!.) some books, towel?
looking-.;’**, anrl frequently, if not
. --a dirty collar, and a pair of
, J,* to the middle of the
■AoeVs. worn o». , •
Tie’s got a Arv P'W*
voi'soft pine that he gTh i ivehon, oil
«>fsome merchant's goods box, and one
-stick of wood. Now, ntay be, you
think that he hasn't got a wa.*U-staud.
Yes he has, (and a two-story one at
that.) On the top story he keep* his
pun, for since In; has arrived at the
a ,, c of getting ‘‘‘tight” and coming home
up against his stand, bowl,
pitcher and all coining ker-smnsh, he
finds it rather too expensive to keep
them. On the second story, what
■do you. reckon he keeps there
Wliy, “ Black Bab” of course— i.
,e., a bottle of gin or rum to keep
the swell head oil next morning;
and lie's got a wardrobe too, but
-there ain’t any thing in that, for.ail his
-clothes he pitches on top, or a chair,
-or the bed, tor convenience’ sake.
Ilis library consists of a bible given
to hint by a fond and doting mother,
when ho first left her guardian
protection for the classic halls, to be
come ft Wiser i)i)d beite/ mam But ah J
% Mlefltlji Miriuil:—Drtolhi toifitrtyturc, flolitics, an) General Itlhccllanii.
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j Mother you little thought lie would
rot urn in about six months, ait adept
; in making “gin cock-tails,” ‘“seven up”
: and turkey stealing. That bible is al
most gone, not from use though, but
; because lie hasn't used it enough to
1 make it healthv.
Aml (Imre is a copy of Moore. Wi 11,
the way he reads that ain't slow. He
k;.s committed the whole of it to mem
ory, so that wlimi lie calls on you and
you say rich and spicy things, h can
come down upon you with that thing
peg try. which always brings salt from
woman’s eye. and then vou may be cer
tain he has got you ii»r one “epc
st’wcep’sf-e'e” or at least a squeeze of
the hand at parting. A few novels
and a pack of cards complete his libra
ry. And there is his ‘'Piiieter” dog
over there laying on his cloak. He
awakes occasionally and pitifully looks
at his master, and seems to think, “poor,
miserable, love-stricken biped, you arc,
I know, now thinking of her who
holds you • heart, or over some word
said or deed done in v;air last midnight
carousal, or perchance about that dun
the tailor gave you to-day.” He has
a trunk with no top to it, always has/
to borrow some married man's valise)
when he goes any where, and if you
are curious to know what is in that,
trunk, just slipup slyly some day and
take a peep and then I think you’ll cry)
out, “(i rent dehosephat!”
We are through now. But what do
you reckon he is thinking about ; it iD
of you. Hid you see that sigh? th it
last, long, puff? His heart is faraway.
As each curl of smoke leaves his pipe
and rises upwards, it wafts his .Jo ill
higher and higher on wings of lovJ.jto
fields of imaginative bliss, there] ltd
dwell for a while and hold communion
with the angels above. For, fair one/ in
his estimation you are nothing sty or t
of an angel (and got wings too) foil oft
when he thought he had your hea't it
took wings and flew away.
OH ! voir little rosy-cheeked, “cd
lipped, black or blue-eyed, raven or
sandy-haired, pretty-footed, nice,-, oft,
round, tapering, velvet-armed, !d ;bo
naired specimen of bright humanity,
did you but knoiv bow many sweet
hours of sleep you have causkU us
poor—l don’t know what to calfl us —
to lose, e’er another cold and ipan
winter should unfold from arou 1 us®
it’s withering and chilly arm.- you 1
would consent ‘‘to mend our c>thes j’
and do our washing." Olf the rack |
again. That fellow is buildim air- |
castles and you are the fountain iere- |
of, but just about the time he tin- •
isliing it. that treacherous pipe d:,ps a !
coal upon that glossy mostaehe, lown I
it goes, he damns it, and —you to.
There, reader, this descriptioi does
not apply to al 1 kinds of bachelos, for
there are two kinds. There is i mo
ping, dronish, do nothing sort f fel
’ows, who sit at the street corners
and while their time away. They
have hearts it’s true (about the size of
a ten cent piece) and how cold ! it
would make an icicle blush to think of
its own insignificancy. Titov think
of you but their reveries are whether
you arc “sound on the slavery question
or not." These are the “moral young
men”-—“tlie models of the town.”
Now, with a piece of advice 111
close, for 1 liavn’t but one more sheet
left and am going to save"that to write
to some of you. It is this, marry
soon and don’t give to too many of the
boys the “coup do pied,” for if you do
you may have to lead a life of single
blessedness yourself
If you don’t want a husband say so,
but if you do “just squeeze my hand"
and ill guarantee you bIuiJJ have one,
for, if you can’t get any body else, just
consider me in the ring. But I’m one
of the first class; but you know that
don’t make any difference ; you can
have the fuu of reforming me, and
when you get old you can tell the
neighbors how dissipated the people
said! was, and how YOU, all alone,
just BY yourself, brought, me to.
But don’t let me fool you; there is
“many a slip between the cup and the
lip,” But still 1 want you to hearken
unto the scriptures, “It is not meet for
man” (or woman either) “to live alone.”
“osjjj of the ii’jioyy.”
*** _
Bidwer, the novelist, in a letter to
a gentleman in Boston, said “I have
closed my career as a writer of fic
tion, I am gloomy and unhappy.-
I have exhausted the' powers of life,
chasing pleasure whore it is hot t 0 be
found.”
EATONTON, (ifA., SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1854.
ii. mu Tin; jxhki'ksjikxx uukss.
V. M'ever! Wiiat hi it?
Id here is no subject within the whole
j ra f)ge ol medical science that has been
; Sl) Jl'erplexing; or that has given rise
1° M* many differences of opinion, as
1' vmu 1 . The best thoughts of some of
tlty-'Mmost talented men in the prbfes
sioiOmve been BosLowed on Fever, but
wiJflout resultin '' in anything very
sal sfactory either as regards its essen
tial nature, or most appropriate treat
mf it.
ilypocrat.es, who has been styled
■' 1.1 in Father of Medicine,” taught that
h \jei“ is not. a disease, but the result, of
aiijcifort of nature to throw off or over
co|ie disease. This doctrine hits been
aid Located by a few others since his
d;rv, but the generality of Physicians
lulve all along regarded fever as being
oife ol the most fatal enemies with
hutch the human family have to coli
ft« nd. \\ e are firmly of the opinion,
l owever, that this is altogether a mis
(t.ikcn notion ; for every one knows
vv “ 11 that in a]) eases 0 f sickness
i/>i whatever nature it may be, there is
pore or less fever. If a man receive
h severe wound, it is sure to be suc
■ceeded by fever, (provided his life be
not destroyed) yet who supposes that
the lever is the disease ? Or, who
supposes the man would be well, if the
fever were instantly removed ? It is
evident that the fever is only the con
sequence of the injury—only a symp
tom which denotes that injury has
been done the system. Yet the Phy
sician who.regards fever as a disease
would say “guard well the fever lest
it destroy the patient.” Thus lie in a
great degree overlooks the injury, and
directs all 1 1 is energies against one of
the symptoms which it has produced.
This plan of reasoning applies not to
injuries only, but also to every disease
which affects the human frame. For
instance, if the liver, stomach, kidneys
or any other organ of the body becomes
seriously diseased, lever is sure to fol
low ; yet who would regard the fever
as being the disease ? It merely shows
that the system is diseased, arid that
nature is making an effort to restore it
to its natural condition. This is evi
dent from the fact that when an attack
of sickness is not attended by fever, the
patient soon dies, and that without
remedy ; but when the attack is suc-
A-eeded by fever, there is a chance for
IrVcovery ; and in proportion to the
\tyength of constitution of the patient
'.\Vi\ll the fever be. If the patient is ro
’ an( l athletic, the reaction will be
poVyerful, and will be accompanied by
a hVgh fever; showing conclusively that
thclmore life and strength there is, the
niorV' .fever there will be. Common
kcdsck here involuntarily asks, “Where
thenii.i the philosophy of using the
laneetVA ealomel and antimony, to re
duce Vliy fever, if it is only evidence
of the \ presence of powerful reactive
energies in the system ?” vV hy not
removed the disease, and let the symp
tonissulVsido of themselves? It. seems to
us that \this would boa little more
philosophic',4, and would certainly be
preferable to using the poisonous and
depletive 1 agents that are generally
brought in Vo requisition.
That 11 Reader may. comprehend
the great 'lffCrenees of opinion that
exist on ihi* f-Suhjcct, I submit the fol
lowing, whieliV { glean from the stan
dard authonliiL () f the old school, or
allopathic parti of the profession :
1 !*. ,J dtsoasy L owing to a viscid or-
Q'lutU!'. ,, '-> Date \)f tin' blood-■ |foocr
iiave, l
Fever is causey |,y an impure state
of theaii - ; putyiclyg. of which become
incorporated with Itbc blood —Syden-
Fever is caused V,y a primary inila
matiou of the brain-1-01 utterbturn.
If is a morbid biAdueLion of lipat-
Ur. Currie. \ \
It is caused by vui excess of Elec
trici ty —l)r. I’erk iil .
No complaint is\sol common or so
difficult to be de filled! as- fever —Dr.
G ood. \ \
MTior.c is scarcely (|ik\ j joint in this
disease on which phyaßMus arc agreed.
l)r. S, Smith. fV \
Physicians all alonglM 1 lie present,
have been unable to 14A what f.-ver
is—Prof. Letbig. 11 \
Fever consists in a Wp;\sm of the
solid um vivu m, (livinglibiv).-- Stahl,
Hoffman and Cullen. I
i Foyer is a sort of RtrnVgip’; between
|l)e protective power o fit he system;
“UVTJBfOirT MWJBR, JF.f 9 OMI MU JgFFj&CTMOJT”
and poisonous or mirhific matters—
Hr. Williams.
It exists in eight-ninths of all dis
eases — Dr. Gregory. 1
It exists in all discajes—Dr. Thom
son. (Botanic.) I
This, reader, is the sum and
'substance of all that is the
allopathic pfift of tlie medical profes
sion, concerning fever. While there is
so much difference of opinion among
the profession concerning the essential
nature and tendency of lever, how can
there be anything like a philosophic
plan of treatment instituted ?i II there
are no fixed principles or wdl known
facts upon which to base the treatment
of fever, how can quackery and Em
pyricism be avoided?
So much for Allopathy and Her no
tions. We now proceed tf> lay before
the reader the opinion entertained on
this subject by that class ol physicians
known as “Botanies;" butjwho chose
rather to be known as Physopathists,
(Physopafhy. irpm Fliusus, pa/are, and
Pathos, affection.) It is probably ne
cessary for us-to remark that wo re
gard their theory of disease as being
altogether more philosophic, and more
in accordance with nature’s laws, and
with common sense, than that enter
tained by Ailopatliisfcs.
“What is commonly called fever, is
the effect, and not the cause of disease.
It is the struggle of nature to throw off
disease. The cold causes an obstruc
tion, and fever arises to remove it,—
This is universally the case. Remove
the cause and the effect zcill cco.se —Hr.
S. Thomson.
When fever prevails, it furnishes
evidence of the existence of an offend
ing cause in the system, and the treat
ment instituted should have for its ob
ject the removal of that cause—Dr.
Comfort.
Fever is an increased action of the
heart and arteries to expel from the sys
tem irritating and morbific matter. —
Prof. Beach.
Dr. Wilkinson speaking of a person
who had taken the fever from having
been exposed to noxious effluvia re
marks : “Now we believe the malaria
received into the system is the cause of
the disease.; The diminution of the
living principle the disease, the resist
ing action the vis vitae, and the fever,
t he heat generated, and owing to a con
traction of the pores, is not, passed off
sufficiently- rapid, and consequently is
retained upon the surface, looks red,
feels hot, and produces that peculiar
something called fever, which puzzled
the brains of the medical faculty for
four thousand years.’
The only fact which it is now ne
cessary to mention in substantiation of
this view of fever, is the unparalleled
success in treatment, of those who
adopt if. In 1839 Dr. Griffith of Au
gusta treated 32 cases of yellow fever,
upon this principle, without the loss of
a single patient. A Reform practition
er of Covington treated, during the
Fall and Winter of 1851, seventy-six
cas sos Typhus and Typhoid fever
with the loss of but two patients. Dur
ing the month of September last, (1854)
Dr. P. Stotesbury, a Botanic Physi
cian, treated in Savannah, 135 cases of
yellow fever, with the loss of but seven
patients.
Dr. Hill, a Botanic, recently treated
33 eases of the same disease, (so called)
in Augusta, with the loss of but one
patient. The Allopathic per cent loss
in the yellow fever at Savannah has
been variously estimated at from 30
to 80 per cent. We arc not advised
as to tlieir success in Augusta.
What we have stated concerning the
success of reformers in the treatment,
of fever, we derive from tlieir pub
lished statistics, which we know arc
correct. rump medico.
Fatouton, Nov. 6th, 1854.
The Grave of Poe. —A correspon
dent of the St. Louis .Republican tints
relates a narativc which he received
from a friend and enthusiastic admirer
of Poe—
J had read and heard that Poe many
times had been in the hospital, on ac
count of illness brought on by dissipa
tion, and I resolved to go there the.
first, and learn exactly where his grave
was. 1. found the superintending pliysig
eian, a most cordial and pleasant man,
ami 1 immediately asked him il he re
membered -Edgar A. Poo. “ 0 yes,’
said lie, and his.eye, brightened though
his, face grew sad; ami then he told
nicy the sad story. After the death of
Poe’s lovely- wife; the “Lost Lenore,”,
lip character, was changed for the
worse, lie became melancholy, al
most moon-struck, and then, goaded
on by poverty, and sensitiveness, and
false pride, lie had recourse to stimu
lants lor relief. He became a drunk
ard. “Often said the doctor, have 1
followed him late at night, when the
streets were desolate, and heard him
tulkmopfo the moon and stars, and the
Lost Ben ore, in such a strain' of high
pathos as made me weep?” A t other
times, when the demon of evil had en
trapped him, the good doctor word i
pick him, all ragged from the gutter,
and carry him to the hospital to be
cured. There I saw the very bed
where Poe lay, his gre,at eyes sunken
and lack-lustre, his noble brow pale
with woe and pain, his raven hair all
matted. There re would toss about
for long days, till Nature again tri
umphed, and he could rise up, and be
ing clothed in his right mind, could
take his pen in hand to write for bread.
The doctor showed me some of his
writings, as neat and smooth as the
prettiest Italian hand, each letter form
ed exactly, each i dotted, and each t
crossed.
. AftOr I had seen ai l the relics of the
poet, I asked where lie was buried, and
1 was told that his grave was in the
Cemetry. So I went- there and asked
the keeper where I could find the
grave of Edgar A. Poe. He said he
did not recollect the name (such is fame.)
but he would examine the books. 1
was sure that lie died in December,
1849, but to make sure we looked over
the list of interment of 1848, and 1849,
and 1850, but Poe’s name was not
among them. He was not buried
there, 1 then recollected that Poe
had once been insane, and confined
for a time in the Asylum ; so the next
step of my sad pilgrimage was to that
establishment. The Superintendent
received me most- politely and showed
me through the great building. I was
told that Poe was one of the most ter
rible, uncontrollable patients they had
ever laid in the Insane Asylum, and
well he might have been. When a
mind like his fell, it was like the fall
of a Lucifer.
1 told the Superintendent that I was
searching for the grave of Poe, but
could not find it. lie said I lmd been
misinformed. “Come here,’' said be
leading me to a window; “Poe, was
buried in the corner of that Potter's
field!” I could not believe it, and
hurried away in painful doubt. But I
in the afternoon met an old resident of
Baltimore, who assured me that ray in
formant was correct.' It is sad to think
of it,” said he, and a reproach to my
native city, but it is nevertheless true
that our poet is buried in an obscure
corner of the Potter’s Field.
The coffin containing his remains
was brought out of the alms house, and
placed in the public hearse, and a soli
tary carriage completed the funeral ar
ray. In silence and sadness the little
parly performed the sad offices and the
tenement of clay which once enshrined
a noble soul was left to moulder with
out a mark to point out its resting
place.
The writer adds:
I have read Poe’s life: I knew lie
was unfortunate and dissipated, but I
little thought that his being buried in
Baltimore meant —that he was thrust
under the earth in a Potter’s Field. It
seems as if, in the “Monumental City,"
a little slab at least might be raised,
inscribed with the poet’s name. It
would speak to many hearts.
Serious work i.v Kansas—Col
lision Between the New Eng land
ers and Missourians.— Troubles in
Kansas arc taking place in consequence
of the New England settlers having
unwittingly encroached upon the claims
of the Missouri settlers. The latter
have gathered-in armed parties, burn
ed down t ic log cabins of the New
Englanders, demolished tents, and
threatened the settlers themselves. —
These statements we gather from a let
ter in the Miiwaukie Sentinel, dated
JjAwreneo, Kansas Territory, Oct. 4. —
The same correspondent, writing on
the bth, says:
“ To day circumstances wear a more
serious aspect than heretofore, and I
fear the end is not yet. A man named
Baldwin has contested, and still con
tests, a claim occupied by a port ion of
our.citjA notwithstanding the lav ot
the U nited States that a claim for farm
purposes cannot be held where icquii
ed for city purposes. Baldwin has oc
cupied a tent upon it, as has also a
member of our party, in order to keep
possession. Baldwin has arranged
iii somemanner with a speculator by
the name of Starr, a southerner, claim
ing to be from the Indiana, who has
laid it out into a city. YY e also, some
weeks since, sent'the boundaries of
our city, including that portion, to
Washington, to secure a pre-emption
for city -purposes, and included it in
the drawn plan of our city, and are now
surveying it.
“ This forenoon the workers in camp
and vicinity were startled by the re
port that the other party were pulling
dowii our tent on the premises. There,
was an immediate: rgsh to .tlie place,
our marshal! in thoAau una'rmcd, fol
lowed by another named Bond, with
Ia revolver. They met the enemy with
!a wagon, in which were, loaded tlm'
tent and baggage which it contained,
about two rods from the starting point
They had two or three rifles, which
they presented and thrcaterfM to fire,
but Bond caught the horses by the bits,
presented his revolver and told them
to ‘lire.’ The marshal unloaded the
tent, and in the mean time, others
coming up, it was restored to its form
er place in a hurry. The enemy did
not fire, but despatched a boy on
horseback in one direction, and a man,
on horseback, in another, lor reinforce
ments. Whether- from prudential or
other reasons, but few of the reinforce
ments sent for came. Our party, to
the number of twenty or thirty-—all
that were in the vicinity of the camp
—assembled on the ground, armed to
the teeth with rifles, revolvers, and
fowling peices; and had the enemy re
turned and made an attack there
would have been bloody work. They
are in Consultation this afternoon, and
what the result will he I am unable to
say. We shall set a strong guard to
night on the disputed claim, also around
our camp, as they will lire it. I doubt
not, in a moment if they can.
“ As I close this letter for the person
who will take it to Kansas, Missouri,
to mail it, it is reported the enemy are
in our vicinity, and our men are hur
rying out to protect our right. Two
i sets of guards for differnt localities are
detailed for the night. A lawyer
is draughting an instrument for the
formation of a military company of
minute men, which will he organized
to-night. Everything bc-token war.
God grant it may not come! But the
passions of desperate men are the most
unreasonable tilings in the world.
“P. S.—The military company has
been formed, and called the Regulating
Band, to be armed with a rifle, revolv
er, and bowie-knife. About 80 joined
of those present.
“By a gentleman here yesterday
from Fort Leavenworth we learn that
it was currently reported there that a
grand attack was to be made upon us
yesterday by the Missourians, with the
intension of exterminating us! and
they were very anxious to hear the re
sult.”
Tjik Devil —lDs Elements. —
Where is the devil and what constitu
tes the elements of Satan, the great
arch fiend/ All opposing influences
are but temptations, all whose attentions
are diverted by such influence from
the rule of right, are constituent in m. -
king up the elements of this arch fiend
—or the entity of a great principle, to
which, if such will adhere, they must
feel the penalty of wrong-doing. Man
is a creating ot habit, lie must and
will have experience, and as there is
no other way provided, except to try
all things , he works at that.
This would be all very well, if lie
would remember the remainder of the
text, hold fast to that which is good.
But as goodly church memuers, we try
apart, see a part, we hold a part, and
desire a part. Thus we make very
good devils , angels and men] filling up
the career of our usefulness and abuse-
fulness, going to heaven in our own
way, denouncing all who do not agree
with us as infidels; thus assuming su
preme mediurnship, wresting the Scrip
tures to our destruction; proclaiming
the Bible to be the infallible word,
yet only so in the light of our divinity.
Selecting a passage here and another
there, and thus giving birth to a Meth
odist, Baptist, or some other sectarian
god, to the overthrow of all others. —
Thus it is, that the elements of the ad
versary are to be found in every man,
woman, and child, and manifested in
procrastinating the day of God’s grace,
by a selfish and superstitious antagon
ism of everyone who docs not agree
with them.
Let us do away with the formal ;
routine of going to heaven in our am
biguous, superstitious way as sects, I
parties, &c., then wc shall rid our- j
selves of this arch fiend, who is every- 1
whore and nowhere, everything and |
nothing, for such is the Devil, and such
constitutes the elements of Satan. —
Aside from this there is no Devil.
Kind reader, do you not sec that
each and all have .something to do in
driving this monster from the land?—
"Will you do your part? Deform is
indispensable. Heaven is harmony.
The world can never be redeemed, un
til jargons cease. Then, strife will end,
and love fulfil the law of Christ, for
such will constitute the redemption.
The same is required on the part of
Spirits who are suffering the second
death. They, too, can never be restor
ed without reform; for with such, it
constitutes their rCsurfcetion.—L: Bust I.—
Chr is la in Spiritualist.
The Mails. —The eastern mails
again failed to come to hand yesterday.
As the South Carolina Railroad Com
pany has utterly refused to transport
the mails, until the matters at issue be
tween them and the Postmaster Gen
eral have been satisfactorily, adjusted,
we may expect the present disarrange
ment to'continue for some time. The
mail thus obstructed is onb ot the most
important.'in the country, and great
business and commercial interests will
s be nui.de to sutler seriously l>y this dii
iicult.y. The points oi - dilferenco be
j TERMS, $2,00 A YEAR.
NUMBER 30.
tween the department and the compa
ny may he br'efly stated. The Post
master General requires an aecclera-,
tiou of the groat mail. It arrives at
Augusta in t!ie evening ami remains
until the morning train. llq. claims
that under the contract: he hn%a right
to direct a change in thf schedule. and
to require the.mail to proceed imme
diately by a nigl.it train. They deny
his right to require them to-run a night
train and show that it will create the.
necessity of running two trains, and
they demand an increased compensa
tion, for the increased cost. We quote
from recollection, but we believe we
are correct in stating that they ask
SBOO per mile for the service as requir
ed, instead of $287~50, what they
now receive. The Postmaster General
denies their right, under the contract
to additional compensation ; he offers
them, ex gratia ,$250 per mile which
they have peremptorily declined, and
lie peremptorily* refuses to yield any
further. The wiiclc question is com
plicated by various constructions lof
amended contracts, and altered sched
ules. and constructions of law, until it
is verv difficult to understand what is
the right and which is the wrong in
the matter. But it is certain v, e think
that the railroad company have the
right to throve up their contract, al
though wc are not quite so sure that
they"have the right to refuse to trans
port the mails as freight. —Atl IntellL
gencer.
Oriciix of Newspapers. —l)'lsraeli,
in the first volume of “ Curiosities of
Literature,” gives a very interesting
and minute account of the origin of
newspapers with historical facts con
cerning their introduction in the vari
ous European nations, lie states that
we are indebted to the Italians for the
idea of newspapers. The first paperJ
was a Venetian one, and only a month
ly ; but it was merely the newspaper
ofthe government. The title of the
Gazcdas , was perhaps derived from
gazzeva, a magpie, or chatterer, or more
probably from a farthing com peculiar
to the coin of Venice called gazetta,
which was the common price of the
newspapers, These early newspapers
were not allowed by a jealous govern
ment to be circulated in printed form,
but the Venice Gazette oontiued long
after the invention of printing, to be
distributed in manuscript. In a libra
ry at Florence are thirty volumes of
tiie Venetian gazettas, ‘ all m manu
script. Mr. George Ohalmer states
that mankind are indebted to the wis
dom of Queen Elizabeth? and the pru
dence of Burleigh, for the first genu
ine newspaper. In the British Muse
um arc several rfewspaperfe which were
in the English Channel, during the
year 1588. Popular zeal against the
Spanish Armada was inflamed in
these early newspapers. Burleigh, in
order to rouse the national feeling,
! published extracts of a letter from Mad
| rid which speaks of <i putting the *’ Eng*
; lish Queen to death;? and the instru
ment of torture on theSpanisli fleet!—
These early copies' of newspapers are
in Homan, not black letter. They are
entitled .luiglkh MeGcnrfcG Periodi
cal papers wore first generally used in
! England during the civil wars at the
, period of the Commonwealth. Be
Saint Foix, in Ids curious historical es*
j says, gives the origin of newspapers in
France. 1 fen and ot a physician of Par
is, to amuse his patients, was a great
collector of news ; and he found by
tnese means that lie was more sought
after than his more learned brethren.
| But as lie had much leisure and was
j quite tend of collecting news, he ob
{tained a privilege from the>- Govern*
j me lit in 1682, to'publish a luminary
| ofthe news ofthe various tries, to
j distribute among Ids patients.’' It is al*
I most needless to add that -I:is patrons
| were scon iound in all ranks, and his
1 written sheets were in greater demand
! ti an Ids written prescriptions.
Truth. —ls theix i.- oho thing mote
than another which ty would teach,
it would be a love for truth. All
things \yottld bo worthless without that
crowning exeeljencedn human charac
ter. Without It the noblest stuclure
is but a whited sepulchre. With all
other qualifications, ,1 a man is to be
shunned wlion- deficient in this. .1 he
beholder may a fabric of gen
eral beauty and svmetry, but when the
scum of falsehood ; is found running
from cap-stone to b.TBe, he will shun
the dangerous presjnee. There are
tew things more painful, experienced
in our intercourse"' with men, than to
feel that they are . unworthy of our
confidence—that they ; are not what
they seem; .that they will betray
while they smile ; that we,.tread up
on a crater’s mouth, wherol&lyslun
low beneath, feach the clnid re tell
the truth;,to venerate and love it-fp
Teach him so, that whatever . wroufc
lie may commit, lie will frankly and
pimply ad.uH i1.a11.. Horn'd li*
Udnesl speech. l.u ter
was never prouder oi his bdy than
when he said he. could not ten a false
hood. • - ■ . v
Ktlltxu Tine. — -Tii the oldgn time
we find that in a battle between tho
Turk's and Templars,' a Doj and two
Knhjlds were killed. > }
