Ojjc dollar PER annum, invariably in advance. TOWANDA : Ci.tt:ir&rtn fllorninn, (Dctobcr U, 1853. [ I'iimi the Albany Atlas, September 21.] Political Charlatanry-Its Causes and Consequences. u \\- 0 have a.vain and again maintained that the prinei vof the Kansas bill furnishes the only sure and peaceful .ohit nii of the-lavery queslion. * * * To make this . ■ ,nt limit and conclusive, the pcple must pass . jit on the (.ucstion it the IVe-'-bntial c.-ote.-t of j , Initial outestwherewillN\ w ■ Yrk stand? We '.to':v told by our contemporaries of that state, that 1 ,\ew-York democracy is a unit on the doctrine of 1 ...jnilar self-government in the territories, as declared in ;> c Kansas law : iu;d we really believe that tln-re is no -iih-uulial dillereiice in principle >n this subject in the ,Y:UO ratio party of New-V those who arc believers in the infallibili ty ei' the government organ at Washington, as well as 10 those who are in a state of anxious solicitud - for the perpetuity of the I itiun, the nidiouv.i eiociit of :t " sure and peaceful solution of the *'a very question" must afford nnbonnd nl .itisfact'ou. As we do not lielonr to either ( . these classes, we are free to confess ourselves no wise jubilant over the reiterated procla -1 aiioi - of the discovery of this alleged specific for a disease which, in our view, is daily be coming more wide-spread, aud which now t r ateiis to ovcrsw eejv ail barriers of party or ganization. We are the more incredulous be cause wc have seen the same hopeful empirics equally positive in regard to other measures front which the same happy results were to th>w. as those now predicted on the Kansas }, ; JI We renioiti'er li.-tinctly the exultant tones in wiii.-h the " Compromise measures" were inhered to the world as a " finality" of the slavery question—as the true and only specific v it was to render forever innocuous the vi r-.iN 01 •'aiioiitionisnt"—as a complete and per f ; ad uiicatioiiof the vexed subject, by which the South was to stand with 'unfaltering fideli ty. and to which the North was to submit with untiiucliing patriotism. And we confess that v.iic'.i we saw tin- national conventions of lioth parties solemnly resolve in favor oi" tlte iuviola id'.ty of IIMSO laws, and as solemnly eschew all vgitation, " .*■.• Congress and aul of it." of the slaven issue, we were not without hope that a > had been readied in which the two sec iiotrs of the eouutry were again to shake bauds in iVatv rual amity—the cue to cease aggression m i the other agitation. When, in addition to these awwals. we saw a President elected w hose youth ami manhood had ivo.'it nurtured amid the free institutions aud bracing air of democratic New Hampshire —when we heard him announce, in emphatic tones, his determination to re.-ist sectional strife, and to prevent the renewal of a agi?;i lion fraught with danger to the ]K?r]etuitv of the A uioit—we were almost forced into tU? couelusion that the bitter waves of faction were to (>e hushed into silence, and the relent less scourge of slavery to be staveil iu its fur ther progress. T<> the attainment of a consnnmiation so de >'rable, tltis y-nrnal lent its cordial eo-opera t!' >ll. M e etulcavored, as far as j tract ieable. t 1 allay tit? ill-feeling attendant tqiou the en foreeuivut of iite Fugitive Slave law , and tho' we .'tuotl several of its j>rov ido;i< as unucces - ir:'v liars:., and others of quostionsible consti tutionality. we dn-uuraged resistance to itsexe tuthe.t, and advocated acquiescence iu the pro p sevl scttlemeMt of this vexed aud perplexing tjuesiiou. In the same spirit, the Democratic State Convention adojtetl as its own the j lat form laid down by the National Convention,of which the following resolutions constituted a .>t prominent part : RrtdrtJ. That Coagress bus n-< power un.lvr the foe ; n'.i 1 to interfere with or control tlw doice>tiv t sot the several and tiiat such ~re tlio j - e nd lU 'iwr every tiling .qipert-tiniag to the.r r: t prohibited by tV .•ou-t'tutioa : that all ' * li:. M or others, nuuie to iu.biee Congress rf r oaesttw of dnnt, or to t.Av iiu i|.iciit - I..:" .a thrrvM. are calculated to lead to the : danger.>:••• rmK |iivuaj. an.l that all v v? i-l . ce a: inevitable tendencv to diminish the the pe-ure, antl eudjngcr Uic i;.!y a:; i ■ u y of th, I ni nt, and oopn not to be e nmto ~ a.y uy frkml of aur pol.tw-al institutions. K sro!. . li.t ;),e proposition covers, a-:d : * -- luMnhd to em? race t.'n t-Ao.. suhjec! cf sfaroy ngi/.i --'• ' ( - i.t", a :i-J therefore the democratic party ot j ■ -te .-Ik '? on this national pl itform. win abide | ;1 : t.: i" a faithful execution of the nets know u ;us j -s. m< wires, settled bj the last Couna— J • tor n- iuttttins fojrilives from" service or labor iu : w . ha. t being d -signed t> carry out an express j ' r " the r 'i-titutioo, cannot with fidelity thereto j or so ihz .get as to destroy ot impair tu etS- ' T'.at the dcrt sjatic party will r'sjst all at ' a t'o'torc-s. or out >*:' it. the agitation of n Hdfea, utiner wliau-t cr sh.e T v . r oil r the I ;'.v>e resolutions the demo.racy of Nc\v -v v : faithful and true ; and had the fi;k;::y l>ecn maintained by Congress aud * •; . -tration at Washington, the " Coin * iue.t.sYs" might have effeetcd the IK>- giiaut rtsuits,which our Washington cotem . ay pi xl; 'cd, and thus have saved itself * the necessity of discovering a new ' .r the "peaceful solution of the slave *? question." But either fortunately or nnfor i'viy. as events may determine, slavery - ■oO truce aud kocps uo faith w here its •"•rfvsb may be advanced by the breach of ? "**",■ Eitu ut tois we sliOuhl not coitipluiu, *• : r Ute complicity of an administration "• -'d by the free states, and pledged in the sclemn manner to maintain a strict neu n reft: nee to this exciting tonic. 1' i t . , • . . • * • : nssirj that we sioahi advert at :. " * • the circumstances unher which the •" " ii w as introduced, or to the reittarka is which attended its progress and pas- F. 'l'-'li that it Itccaiue a law. Enough ;. r ' "e ! the sanction of a democratic " ::: aud that the fruits of this renewal J.U agitation are becoming daily *k:' '< -t and deplorable. For t!iL agi atnl it - ..ttcuduiit cottscqticucv-s, ('migri-ss tin; admiidstratiou ure responsible. It THE BRADFORD REPORTER. arose from no exigency, it was founded in uo imperative necessity, it was uo offspring of popular demand. Its paternity was ambition, not statesmanship ; its sanction was weakness, not wisdom ; its results violence and discord, instead of peace and quietness. The democracy of New-York arc anxious and Milling to " stand by all the compromises of the constitution." But they believe that in strument to have been adopted for the protec tion and diffusion of freedom, quite as much as for that of slavery ; and when they see its pro visions wrested to the advancement of the lat ter—when they see the faith and practice of the democratic fathers repudiated, and new principles engrafted upon their creed—when they find a determination evinced to turn the democratic party into mere "hewers of wood aud drawers of water" for the propagandists of slavery—when they see that institution extend ing itself into the free states, and under color of federal jurisdiction, claiming to hold its vic tims wherever it shall please the master to car ry them—we may well pause and inquire to what consequences, both to ourselves and children, as well as io the character and insti tutions of onr country, these proceedings are teuding. The democrats of New-York ur>' loyal totlic constitution and to the just rights of their southern brethren : but when they see wrong and out rage perpetrated without rebuke—when they witness the whole power of the govern l ment eailed into requisition to deliver over one poor fugitive iuto bondage ; ami to this cud, what should be the teuiplc of justice, surround ed by an armed soldiery ready to stay any gush ing of ]Kipulnr sympathy with "lead in the morning and steel at night"—when they be hold a citizen of a tree state, without indict ment, without trial, without conviction, con signed to prison upon the mere ipse dixit of a federal judge—when they mark the administra tion of their choice as wholly devoted to slave ry as ever Athens was to idolatry—when they j see that the arm of federal power is only pal- j sied in the defence of freedom—it is not to bo j wondered at if they should hesitate longer to give countenance to such eventualities, or sup- j port to those by whom they are produced. It is a conviction of the truth of these lam cntable facts which unnerves the sterling de mocracy of lb rkitner and St. Lawrence, of Delaware and Steuben, and makes them look aomnd for means by which they may be dives ted oi* responsibility for this prostration of de mocratic principle. Nor is this feeling confin ed to the strong democratic counties we have named. It pervades the masses throughout the state, aud though interested partisans may affect to control it ; though there may IK? no upheaviugsof popular discontent ; though they may be reluctant to break old associations,and suspicious of forming new ones, the feeling of irritation and discontent is too apparent not to be visible to the invt casual observer Hence we say to tlte Washington f'nim, in all sincerity, that if it wishes New-York to stand tqou the right side in ISoti, it must cease to expect the democrats of tltis state to make a platform nimn the slavery question which shall IH' acceptable to Virginia. South tats ua and Mississippi; it must cease to tnv hold he doctrine that southern men may atiopt tho most ira resolutions in favor of slave;y, and be cminet *ly national and democratic, while it ostracises northern democrats for adapt ing resolutions in favor of freedom and against the spread of the "peculiar institution:" it must repudiate the outrages and violence by which the elective franchise has been rendered a mockery iu Kansas : and the administration which we have aided to elect must show a' stronger devotion to freedom, a ntore vigorous determination to enforce the right, and evince a conviction that northern tucu are not all slaves and parasites of power, before there eaa lx' any well-grounded kojie that the democrats of this state will be found acting harmoniously with their brethren in other states, under tlte present party organization, iu 1.850. The principles of the Kansas bill may do as a plat form in some localities ; bur unless ?ho*e prin ciples are develojied in a more pleasing nsject, than they hare yet furnished, it will require much of amplitude and beneficent OJK ration before it can be jnade into platform thut will answer for the democracy of New-York. Pmr osorHY or R \tv. —To understand the phi! >-ophy of thb beautiful and often sublime phenomenon, so often witnessed inee the crea tion of the world, and so essential to the very existence of plant? and animals, a few facts de rived from observation aud a long train of ex jK'rimeuts must I*' remembered : 1. Were the atmosphere enrywhere at all times of a uniform tonqieratnre. we should ne-i ver have rain, hail or snow. The water a'>- sorbed by it iu evaporation, from tlte sea and the earth's surface, would descend in an imper ceptible vapor, or cease to be absorlxtl by the air when it was once fully suturat> 1. '2. The absorbing power of the atmosphere, an I, con sequently, its capacity to retain humidity, is pn portioaatoly greater in warm than in cold air. The air near the surface of the earth is warm er than it is in the region of the clouds. Tiie higher we ascend from the earth the colder do wc find the atmosphere. llcitee the jierpctual snow on very high mountains in tlte hottest climate. Now. when front continued evapora tion the air is slightly saturated with vajior, though it lie invisible and the sky cloudless, if its tonijx'ratare is suddenly reduced, by cold currents descending from a higher to a lower latitude by the motion ot" saturated air to a lower latitude, its capacity to retain moisture is diminished, clouds are formed, ami the result is rain. 11 condenses, it cools, and like a sjxuige tilled with water and compressed. |x>ursout the water its diminished capacity cannot hold.— How siugular, yet how simple the philosophy of rain. What but Omniscience could have tie vised such an admirable arrangement for wa tering the earth ? jtjf In the long run those who work slow iv and gradually at one business succeed the best I : takes a man about seven years to gel acquainted in one channel of business PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY AT TOWANDA, BRADFORD COUNTY, PA., BY E. O'MEARA GOODRICH. " TLEFLARDI.ESB OF DENUNCIATION FROM ANY QUARTER." One of the Sermons. The Register, published at Brandon, Miss., gives a partial reiort of a sermon preached a few weeeks since at Wuterproofs, not far from Brandon. It is to be regretted that the whole sermon was not preserved. The follow ing paragraphs shows the spirit of the preach er. " I may say to you, my brccthering, that I am not an cdecatod inau, an' I am not o' them as blecves that edecation is uocossary, fur I bleevc the Lord educates his preachers jest as he wants 'em to be edecated, an,' although 1 say it that live, thar's no man as gits a bigger congregation nor what I gets. Thar may be some here to-day, my brethren, as don't know what jiersuasiou lam uv. Well, I may so to yon, my breetliring, that I'm a a Hardshell Baptist. Thar's some folks as don't like the Hardshell Baptists, but I'd rather hev a hard shell as no shell at all. You sec me here to-day, my brcetheriug, up in line | close ; you mout think I was proud, but 1 am not proud, my brcefhering, and although Iv'e been a preacher uv the Gospel for twenty years, an although I'm eapting of that flat boat that lies at yur lauding, I'm not proud, my brccthering. " I'm not a gwine ter tell you ethuc.il if whar i my tox may Vie found : suffice it tu say, it's in the lei Is of the Bible, and you'll find find it, somewhar 'tween the first chapter of the hook of Generations aud the last chapter of the Revolutions, and i f you'll go and search the Seripturers, as I have sarched the Seripturers, you'll not only find mij tex thar, but a great may uther teres as wiil do yon good to read, an' my tex, when you shall liud it, youshill find it to read thus : • • And lio played on a harp uv a thousand strings—speriU of just men made perftvk.' My tex breethering, leads me to speak uv sperit. Now thar's a great many kinds of spcrits in the world—in the fust place, thar's the sporits as sum folks call ghosts, theu thar's the spcrits uv terjKn time and then thar's the spents as sum folks call liquor, and I've got as good an artikleof them kind uv spcrits 011 my . tlat-bo.it as ever was fetched down the Missis- 1 sippi River, but thar's a great many other kind ot spcrits lor the tex sez : " lie played on a " harp uv a t/cn-saud strings—spcrits of just " men made perfcck.'' Bnt I'll toll you jhe kind uv spcrits as is incut in the tex. it's fire. That is the kinds of spirits as is nieutiu the tex, my brethering— Now thar's a great many kinds of lire iu the world. In the fust place thar's the common i sort of fire you lite a segar or pijie with, aud , then thar's cam fire, fire before your ready, and ! fall back, and many other kinds uv fire, for the } tex sez : "He played 0:1 a harp nva fAou-sand " strings—" spcrits uv just men made perfeck." But I'll tell you the kiml uv fire as is ment in the tex, my breethering—it's hell fire ! au' that's the kind nv fire as a groat many of you'll oonie to, ef you don't do hotter nor what you have bin doin'—for " He played on the harp " uv a /Ac/u-sand strings—sjierits uv just men " made jicrfeck." Now, the different sorts uv fire iu the world may be likened unto the different pcrsuations of Christians in the world. In the fust place we have the I'iscapalions ; aui they area high sailiu' and a high-falutin -et, a id they may be likened unto a turkey buzzard that flics up into the air. and he goes up and up until he looks no bigger than your finger nail, and the fust thing you know, he corns down and down, and i down and dowu, aud is a fillin,' himself on the karkiss of a dead boss by the side of uv the road—and " He played on a harp of a thrm " sand strings—sj>erits of just nieu made per " feck." And then thar's the Metiiedis, and they may bo likened unto the squirrel, ranniu' up into a tree, for the Methedist believes in gwine on from one degree uv grace to another, and finally 011 to perfeckshun, and the squirrel goes np and up, and up and up, and he jumps from liuT to lim,' aud branch to branch, and the fust thing you know he falls and downs he cuius kcr tinmmux. and that's like the Methedis, for they is allcrs fallin' from crace, ah ! And—" He " played 011 a harp of a Obm-saud strings— " sjierits of just meu made perfeck." And then, my breetliring, thar's the Baptist, ah ! and they hev bin linkencd unto a possum on a 'simion tree, and the thunders may roll, and then the earth may quake, but that possum clings there still, ah ! And you may shake cue foot loose, and the other's tluir, and you may shake all feet loose, aud he laps his tail around the limb, aud he clings furewff, for—" He " played on a harp uv a M//-sand strings— sjierits of just men made jierfeek." Here the reporter could no longer contain himself, and bis notes became untircly unintelli gible. A CAREFCI. Sneinr.— A farmer of Western New-York, married for a second wife, a lady whose jHrsoaal charms and domestic virtues, were in quite an unequal proportion. Among other freaks she had, whenever crossed iu any of her little conceits, a decided penchant for suicide : at least, she often hinted at thi, as a loag contemplated remedy for the oft-recur ring ills of married life. Taking offence, on a time, at some supposed domestic indignity, she donned her very best rig, and seeking a con venient place for the experiment, slipped her ueck into a noose arranged conveniently for the pur]ose, and thus Ftisjicnded awaited fur ther developments. As expected, her hus band soon made his apjiearance near the terri ble scene, aud was neither long nor ceremonious in relieving his beloved from her great peril. She was not so far gone, however, as to IK? speechless, and exclaimed, rather spitefully— " Stephen, Stephen, don't MMSS MY ntjfirs so. for there will he a great uuiry m to see air ter mor row r TAUE EWUSH.— " No use of my trying to col fee t that bill, ir, r said a collector to his employer, handing the dishonored document to the latter. " Why :' "The man is ut m-est." " Then take it ;tud collect it, sir. A u-es* utau will not fail to meet his obligation* " SLAVERY. George Washington, the father of his coun try. in a letter to La Fayette, written in 1798 the year before his death, sjtoke of the insti tution of Slavery as follows : " 1 agree with you cordially in your views in regard lo Negro Slavery. I have long con sidered it a most serious evil, both socially and politically, and I should rejoice in any feasible scheme to rid onr States of such a burden.— The Congress of 1 liSl adopted an ordinauee which forever prohibits the existence of invol untary servitude iu our north-western territory. I consider it a wise measure ; and_ though it was introduced by a gentleman from New England, it t#et with the approval auelual as lite generation of meu. For my port 1 think that "doughface" is an epithet uot suffi ciently reproachful ; I think such persons arc doughfaces, and dough heads and dough-souls and that they are dl dough : that the coarsest potter may mould them at pleasure to vessels of houor or di>houor, but mu*t readily to ves sels of dishonor.*' Henry Clay, in his last great speech iu the United States Senate said : " I repeat it sir, 1 never can, and never will and 110 earthly power can make me, vote di rectly or indirectly, to spread slavery over ter ritory where it does not exist. Never while reason holds her my brain—never while my heart sends the vital fluid through my veins— Merer /*' Thomas II Benton said, in the United States ?■ mate, that the "enactment of the Missouri ('out] • rtntise" was " The highest, the most solemn, the most momentous, the most emphatic assertion of Congressional | tower over slavery iu a territo ry which has ever been made or could be cou eieved. It not only prohibited it where it could legally i>e carried, but forever prohibit ing it where it had long existed." The majority of the Judges of the Su preme Court, in their recent decision on the application of l'ussmore Williamson for a writ of habeas corpus, intimate that if Mr. Wil liamson desires to be released front prison, he should make an amended return to the writ is sued by the authority of the Distrit Court of the United States, while the apologists uf Judge Kane, who arc beginning to find them selves forced to find some excuse for what is nowlgcuerally conceded to IN? a piece of wan ton persecution, demand why the prisoner docs uot amend his return to the writ aud thus se cure his release from prison. These gentlemen seem to lose sight of tlte somewhat important fact that ait application was made to Jndge Kane by the counsel of Williamson for pT mission to amend lite return, ami that the ap plication was promptly refused by the Judge, A correspondent of the Philadelphia Bulletin who was present at the time of Williamson's sentence, &iy : " As soon as Judge Kane had finished read ing the celebrated decision iu which William son, was committed to the custody of the Marshal, "without bail or utaniprize," A nitcd States District Attorney Yaukyke sprang to his feet and moved that a commitment under the seal of the Court issue, and that William son be handed over to the custody of the Marshal. " Before Jndtre Kane made any reply what ever to the motion of Mr. Van Dyke, Mr. G'.ipia rose and asked that the prisenur hare • fcraiisfien to iim-rid the return. " Mr. Van Dyke objected. "Judge Kane then said that Mr. Gilpin was too late with his application, as the motion of Mr. Van Dyke had already been granted.— Mr. Gilpin rejoined that he was not aware that his honor had made auy reply to the mo tion of Mr. Van Dyke. "The Judge replied that he had directed the clerk to make on.t tiie commitment, and that it was now to*) late." If we were ot.ly half as lenient to the living as we are to the dead, how much hap pier might we render them, and from how much vain and bitter remorse might we IK? spared, when the grave; tlte " all atoning grave," has closed over them. fciU There was an insurance 00 the life of t'ue late Abbott Lawrence to the amount of $49,000 By his will tide is left to his widow- Life as it Is Let us make an excursion down the street and see what we can learn. Yonder is the wreck of a rich man's son. He is ]>erniitted to grow up without employment, went ami came as he pleased, and spent his time in the gratification of spontaneous passions, desires and inclinations, with 110 one to check him when his course was evil, or encourage Lint in the way of wisdom. Ilis father was rich, and for that reason the son thonght he had noth ing to do, 110 part in honest labor. Well, the father died, and the son inherited a portion of his abundant wealth, and having never earned money by honest toil, he knew not the value of it, and having no knowledge of business, he knew not how to use it, so he gave loose reins to his appetites and passious, and ran at a rapid pace down the broad road to dissipation. Now behold hint -a broken down man, bowed with infiruffty, a mcrewreek of what he was. both physically and mentally. His money is gone, and lie lives on the charity of those whose hearts are open with pity. Such is the fate of hundreds and thousands that are born to fortune. And tiiere, on the opposite side, iu that com fortable mansion, lives the son of a poor cob bler. Fifteen years ago he left the humble roof of his parents, and went forth iuto the broad world alone to seek his fortune. All his trea sures consisted of his chest of f<►ols, a e'.od knowledge of his trade, honest principles, and industrious habits. Now he is the owner of that elegant mansion, he is doing a thriving business, possesses an unbroken constitution, and bills fair P> live to a great old age. Such is the lot of hundreds and thousands wito never boasted of wealthy parentage. Go info the city, aud you will almost iava riably find that the most enterprising men are of poor parentage —men who have had to row against wind and tide; while on the other hand a majority of the descendants of medioc rity in talents, live a short time like drones, on the labor of others, and then go down to uu tiiuely graves. What a lesson should this be to those who are by all menus, either fair or fonl, accumula ting treasures for their children. If the-rich would irafa up their children to reglar habits of industry, very many of them would l>e saved from inteili|erance, misery,and au untimely end. BACCAGE. — Among the curiosities which the visitor may see for the asking in England, is the Lost Baggage Department of the Great "Western Railroad, iu Eustoa Square. In this depot may be fonud always every variety of articles, embracing the range of the throe kingdoms, animal, mineral and vegetable, poodle dogs, bedding, umbrellas, monkeys, French sole leather, trunks, cnues, market baskets, metalic cases, smuggled goods, green vegetables, despatches, Ac., to the end of the catalogue. At stated times, whatever has laid unclaimed a certain number of months is soil! at auction aud the proceeds credited to lost baggage account, with full details. On the railroads in this country a similar depart ment is becoming quite a distinguished feature. Some of the larger companies arc applying to their Legislatures for the right to di-pnse of tbe?e accumulations of stray baggage after the sj tent pursued iu Europe'. The New York A Eri Rail Road have a ilejMjt for lost baggage at the fuo". of Dimtto street, New York city, to which all stray ar ticles from their line are sent. The New York Central Railroad have their stray baggage depot at Rochester. To those who ure not familiar with the incidents of travel, the amount of baggage and articles lost by pas senger trains by the occupants will seem al most incrvdible. The articles in it arc so ar ranged that the marks upon them cart be read ily seen, and each style of article is placed together ; the trunks in rows, each of similar color aud size, six or eight tier* in height, arc arranged art at Rochester, the local stations al! along the line have more or less baggage in them awaiting claimants, which, after a certain num ber of uays, if an owner is nut found, are for warded to tlte general depot. Before stray bacr'-ratre is put into position it is examined, and a full description of its contents carefully recorded iu books kept for the purpose, a copy of which is ftttni*lted to the company's travel ing agent. Tltis i- a jiersou who is constantly traveling on the railroad and steamboat routes everywhere in search of and to restore lost basrsratrc. A convention of !ot baggage agents from ail iia.'ta of the United States is to meet at Rochester on the iuth for Etc purpose of ocmpairiug their books and facilitating the business of their departments.—Best- ?! C -. SCT' A dry old fellow called oao day on a member of Congress elect : the family w re at breakfast : there was a vacant seat, but tbeoM man was hardly in a jxighi to I*? invited t ithe table, l'ite fbHoanjigeotmrsnUua took i ince : " How do you do Mr. ? What's the news ?" The oh! man stiitl—" Nothing much, 1 tit one < f my neighbors gave hiscltild a queer n:\rne."— " Witat was it I'"' " Come and eat." Tiie name sounded so peculiar that it was rejxnitctl— " What, f'me and w/f " Yes, tliank you," said the old "rtan, " I don't care if I do," and he drew up to the table. prxT In Virginia lately, a pious o!d lady as she was preparing to go to church, was seen to take a considerable quantity of gold from iter trunk, w rap it up carefully in her handker chief, aud put it in her pocket, remarked that "it was her habit, that it kept her mind steady and her devotions, lor where tuo trea sure is, there will the heart be alAt VOL. XVI. IS r O. 17. Fall Fevers, and how to Avoid Them. Tlic season lias come when fevers prevail. - - A fever taken in the fall, moreover, is more apt to he stubborn than one canght in the spring. I nder these circumstances, a few hint.-, with regard to autumnal fevers may do good Most fevers sire the result of carelessness.-*— Of course we sjieak of fever iu its ordinary form, anil not of it when epidemic. The pre vailing fever of the fall season is the intermit tent, commonly known as the ague, in which the fever goes off for a time, or intermits, mak ing way for an access of cold, which, in severe cases, rises to a chill that shake* the whole persou. This fever, once taken, is rrcqnefitly not got rid of till the following spring, ami often hangs altout the victim for a lone time, continually recurring. A drink of iced lemon ado, or northeasterly wind, has t>ee.ri known to i bring back this fever, long after the individual had supposed himself cured of it. Nut uji fre quently if is present when least suspected A nervous irritability, a slight disposition to chilliness, and a feeling of indescribable wretch edness, often attend persons, who are yet un able to toil what is the matter with them.— They really suffer from intermittent fever. In fact, it prevails, mulct this low tyje, to a Cur greater degree th.iu is generally imagined. {exposure to the night air, at this season, ritt'ng in damp rooms, or remaining with wet clothes on. are the most ordinary examples of the carelessness through which this fever is caught. Citizens who ate visiting in tic country, or who live in suburban cottages, arc particularly liable to intermittent, for they sit ont in the moonlight, without then heads being covered, just as they would in town, and the consequence is a lit of the chills. Otliers, for getting that country hon-vs arc damjier than city ones, neglect to make fires, morning and evening, a thing almost indispensable for health, foi*thongh farmers do not do this, it is became* they sit in their kitchens, where there are such fires, and therefore do not feli the need of it. Physicians attribute these fevers to the miasm iu the atmosphere, rnn-ed by the decay of of vegetable matter iu damp localities. Jnter mitteiits always prevail most, where, after heavy rains in Jnnc and July, the sun comes out hot in Atign-t and Scpteml>er. To live near a tract of land actually buried under water, is not, therefore, as unhealthy as to re side near a half drained meadow or swamp.— Highlands generally, though not invariably, arc exempt. A wood or bill sheltering a house from the winds that blow from a noxious locality, frequently protects the inmates from taking the disease. Care, in avoiding an intermittent, is the more nccesssnry. because the fever sometimes, though not often, runs into severe tvpes. Next in danger to intermittent is the remittent, iu which the fever subsides for a while, but after ward- returns with its old violence. The ordinary billions fever is of this character.— The continued fevers are the most dangerous of all. When yellow fever prevails epidemi cally, fevers of less virulence, nud of all type, rage in the same region, attacking those, who escape the ]estilenre : and some physicians say that hey also exists, to a greater degree than usual, for a year or two preceding the epidemic, thus n ivh*g warning of its approach. But this opinion is not universally held. A careful collection and an analysis of facts, derived from the Icte evjterrncc of Now Orleans, Savannah and Norfolk, might, however, definitively de termine this question. Kxhaustation of the physical powers, either by excess, fatigue, or protracted grief, renders the individual jieeuliarly liable to fall fever.— The snre-d way to avoid them is to live moder ately, eating nourishing food, taking dajjy exercise, and cultivating cheerfulness of mind. An "an ounce of preventive" remember, is worth " always a pound of cure.'' A SrEcrLATOu Cubed. —Once on a time a country Dnchman early one morning went to town, where by chance "he overheard some traders telling each other how much money they had made that morning by speculation ; one of them had made SIOO, S2OO, SOOO, Ac. Han's bump of acquisitiveness was so excited that he, without any reflection, forthwith concluded to leave his former business, which was labor, and try his hand at speculation, and on his return made his intentions known to his faithful frow. Early next morning he gatliered his wallet containing his funds, amounting to five dollars, and off he goes j)st haste and. half bent, to look np a speculation, llad not proceeded far when he met a wagoner, and accosted him thus : " G<>od morning, .Mr. Wagouer, I wants to speculate a he tie dish morning wid yon."— " Well, say," said the wagoner, " how do you want to speculate." '* Veil," says the Dnteh man, " i will jct you fife dollar too ean't guess what my tog's name ish." "Call him up tiil I look at hira," rejoined the wagoner. Hutch man : '• 11-er-e Va-tch, licrc Va-tch, he-re Va-tch," the dog trots rp, th? wagoner eyes him for a mome* t said. " 1 guess his name w Watch." Dutchman: "O bcsureMr. Wagoo cr. you has won him, de month is yours," and Ilans returned to his old occupation, perfectly sr.fi-fkd. Perfect! y Authentic. —The following come? to us from a perfcH-tlv original source : While tine 1 hie It ail road wa-> being built through the Alleghany lies* rvation, an huh i# child, wag says. veral of them) was born, bearing in dubitable marks of a mixed extraction. The >insky paternal grand parent receive*! fiffy dollars byway of settlement, with which he was of course highly elated. E'wr f* A wonran may more safely marry a inan whom she resj>ects and esteems than one he loves. A woinnn ma v love a mnnlerer, a rake, a spendthrift. a gambler ; but she can not respect and esteem him