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Terrible Hurricane.

The steamer Georgia Capt Budd, from New
York bound for Navy Bay, with 300 passen
gers, arrived here in distress on Sunday eve
ming, having encountered terrible hurricane
off Cape Battras, on Wednesday last, which
none on board thought the steamer could sur
vive. We are indebted to one of her passen-
gers for the following thrilling account Of the
storm:
The Georgia left New York on the 5th inst,
and had pleasant weather until "Wednesday,
7th, about 10 a. m., OH which day severe
storm suddenly arose, aud continued until | p.
M, when it abated somewhat. During this
time the steamer behaved tolerably well. The
storm, which was from Sc. having continued to
abate for perhaps iii hour, suddenly changed
into perfect hurricane of wind and rain from
NE. attended by as boisterous sea as per-
haps was ever witnessed.
The ship then ceased to be under the con-
troll of her machinery, and the water rushed
into her engine rooms, in the course Of few
hours entirely extnsushed her fires and sub.
merged large portion Of her machinery. Of
the 40t souls on board not one seemed to have
the faintest hope Of escaping = watery grave.
The pumps having failedto perform their office,
windasses and casks were put in reqnSition,
and all hands Iabored necessarily to free the
ship up to p. M, Thursday night, when the
violence of the sea had sufficiently abated to
allow the fires to he rekindled. For some
hours after this, they were unable to make the
engines work, and they again commenced the
work of bailing with renewed vigor, and never
did men labor harder-a more heroic set can
not be found. The last prayer was fervcntly
offered to Him who controuIs the desiinies o.
men; friends and the loved ones at home were
remembered and tear silently dropped to their
mcmory-and then the horrors of their situa-
ton were faced with the calm courage of des-
pair Not wall went up from that large as.
semblAge Of souls on the verge Of eternity {;
with no hope of escape from the raging pillows,
not cheek was bIeached with fer, but. all
struggled on with arms nerved for the occasion,
determined to yield to death alone. And sue
cess at last crowned their efforts. In the course
of Thursday night the machinery was got to
work, and having. continued their work of bail
ing up to Saturday morning, their safety was
assured by cessation Of the storm. During
all this time not soul on board had slept,
and not meal had been cooked: As we said
before, they arrived here in the afternoon of
Saturday and we trust that they will find in
our city all those comforts aud luxuries which
can serve to make them amends for their sc;
we're privationS- -NoJ1k Beacon, Sept. -.
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A FREE F1cHr.-The following is a descrip-
tion of free fight in Western Virginia, as re.
lated by one of the eye witnesses thereof
Promising that there was but one m:n struck,
in answer TO all interrogatory as to who he
was, the narrator replies:
al reckon he was from low down ON Guy
an, somewhar. Jes as they war jawin, chap
rode up on clay.bank hoss--I reckon he W
Messenger stock, scrowgin anemit, leetls
mite blind O both eyes-a peert looking chap
enough, an when he got fernent the place, ses
he, Is this free ight?' and they tole bin it
wor. Well says he, Citing off an hitchiag
his ole clay bank to a swinging limb, count
me in He hadn't mote'n got it out, afore
some one fetched him lick, an he drapt.
lie riz drecktyswith some defchulty, an ses
he, is this free efght9' an tRey tole it arr.
'Well' ses he, unhitchin his 5hoss, and putin
his left leg over the back leather, count
me out an then he maryeHed"~
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NEGRO KILLED BY ANoruE.-A rencounter
took place between two negroes on last Sunday
at Providence Church, in this county, in which
one was killed by blows inflicted by the other.
The negro killed belonged to James D. Craig,
ESQ., of this place, the other to a Mr.. Day, iv-
ing near Bouge Chitto Creek. The fight was
caused by liquor sold on the ground by negroes,
who of course obtained it from some Of the low
white men in the community, who make their
living by tralicking with slaves, contrary to law
This case should, and we hope will, arouse our
citizens to greater degree of diligence in FER
reling out and bringing to punishment those
whose only business among us appears to he
to corrupt and destroy our servile poPulatiOn.-
Cohaba (Ala) Gazette.
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CUrfoUs MENTAL PuENoMENA.-Dr. Car.

CUrfoUs MENTAL PuENoMENA.-Dr Car.
penter is delivering a course OF lectures, at Man
chester, on tue Physiology Of the nervous sys,
tenn. In his fifth lecture the doctor related
some curious Instances of mind. lie spoke OF
very learned professor, some years ago, at
Aberdeen, Dr.. Robert Hamilton, whose essay
on the national debt. largely contributed to the
abolition Of the sinking fund.-ln public this
man was shadow. He pulled off Ills hat to
his own wife in the streets, and apologlzed tor
not having the pleasure of her acquaintance
lie went to one of his classes early IN the NOR
ming, with one of his wife's white stockings on
one leg, and black one on the other.-Ele
often sDent the whole time of the class in NOV
inr from the table the hats, which his students
as constantly returned. He sometimes invited
the students to call upon him, and then he fined
them for insulting him: if they called tie ran
against a COW, and begged her pardon, called
her madam, hoped she had not been hurt'-He
would run against posts, and chIde them for
not getting out of the way. Yet if any one
was with him at the time, his conversation
would be perfectly logical. Another instance OF
absence Of mind was quoted in the case OF
Scotch clergyman, who was invited to party
in Edinburgh, at a time when it was usual to
mix devotion with social intercourse. He was
requested to conduct the services before the
company broke up; and he, therefore knelt
down and began to pray in an appropriate
manner. But soon he apparently entirely for
got where he was, and he continued his prayer
as if in the quetude of his own cham Der. He
made reflections, in the prayer, on the mode
in which he had spent the evening, and on the
individuals present with him at the party
when he had concluded his prayer, he rose up,
took off his coat and wastcoat and was about
to proceed to further extremes, when his friends
stopped him.-More familiar instances of ab-
sence of mind were mentioned as occurring to
more than one gentleman, who have been
known to 60 up stairs to dress for an evening
party, and actually undressed, and got into bed,
while their wives, perhaps, were waiting forthem
below.-F2ag.
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Dear dcccit.p

We honor the chivarous Difference which is
paid in our land to woman. 1t proves that our
men know how to respect virtue and pure attec-
ton, and that our women are worthy of such
respect. Yet women should be something more
than mere women to win lis to their society. To
lie our companions, they should be fitted to be
our friends; to rule our hearts, they should be
deserving the appreciation of our minds. There
are many such, and that there are not more is
rather the fault Of our own sex than their own ;
and despite all the unwomanly scandals that have
been thrown upon them, in prose and verse: they
would rather share in the rational conversation
OF men of sense, than listen to the silly compi-
mcnts Of fools; and man di>honors them, as
well rs disgraces himself, when he seeks their cir
Gle for idle pasttime, and not the improvement
Of his mind and the elevation of his heart.
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ToucHrNG INcIpENT.-We learn says the
Memphis Wing, from q reliable source, that as
Il married couple were travelling on steam
boat bound to New Orleans to al up stream
port, the man sckened and died. When the
the boat touched at Memphis, the bcreaved
and distressed widow landed there with the
corpse, an undertaken was sent for, who came
and took the measure fora coffin. The coffin
was prepared, the body deposited therein, and
all was in readiness to take the mortal remains
oflhat dear husband to its last, final resting
place. The lady, with all The fond affection aud
deep love of Il wife, begged the privilege of ia.
king one more look, a last parting kiss on him
who was more dear to her than aIl others upon
earth. The lid was taken of, and she laid upon
that cold, icy brow, bathing it in tears, and
smotherns those cold lips with warm kisses,
a sort of consciousness aud symptoms OF lft
became apparent The body was taken from
the coflin and physician sent for. Our tale
is soon told. The man soon became conva'
lcsccnt, and but few days since the happy
couple took passage from Memphis on an up
stream boa; and are now ell route for their
place of destination. But for that fond loving
wife, the husband might now be lying in cold
damp grave.
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1t seems to me that all times Of life are alike
adapted for happiness, and that if we grow old,
as one should grow old, the last days Of lif5 must
be the hppicst Of all. Every stage of life is
but the preparation for the next one. 1t is
the trca<l,re-boll<e in which are collected all
the pleasures that are to make the future time
happy. The child has, indeed, but few troubles,
bat they arc as great to him as larger ones prove
to his parents asked friend once, speaking
of the happy cloudless days of his childhood, il
he would like to be always child? lie stop
ped for moment. AID then said, No. tiI1hK
he was right. There is progress in everythng-
in our means of happiness, and in our capacity
for enjovnent. Then let us not look buck upon
the timc.wrinlicd face Of the past, only with
regret. Give he the present, glowing and full
of life, and the future glorious with bright visions
l would rather ok forward than to look back {;
rather spend the golden hours in working out
present happiness than in vain regrets for the
past. 1t is but the helm with which TO steer
our onward course. The future lies before us.
1t is the steep and rugged mountain up which
lies our way. 1t is not genius nor fortune that
proves the way to cmincncc, but earne>tneSs-
Sclfcontrol wisdom. These are in our hands
let Us use them, and when, at the sulSet Of life
we turn to look back on our path and see it
stretching far down before us, peacefully, happi-
ly we may lay ourselves down to rest.
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FEMALE SocIErY.-No society is more pro-
ftaLle, because none more refining and provoea-
tive of virtue, than that of refined and sensible
woman. God enshrined peculiar goodness in
the form of woman, that her beauty might win,
her gentle voice invite, and the desire OF her
favor persuade mems souls to leave the path OF
sinful strife for the ways of pleasantness and
peace But when woman falls from her blessed
emincnce, and sinks the guardian and the cher
isher Of pure and rational cnjoyments into the
vain coquette and tlattered idolator of fashion,
she is unworthy of an honorable mans admra-
tor. Beauty is then but pest:
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When I gaze into the stars they look down
upon me with pity from their serene and silent
spaces, like eyes glistening with over the little
1T of man. Thousands Of generations, all as
noisy as our own, have been swallowed up by
Time, and there remains no record Of them any
more. Yet Arcturus and Orion, Sirius and
Pleides, are still shining in their courses-clear
and yonrg, as when the shepherd first noted
them in The plain of Shinar Carlyle.
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STATISTICS OF MUSCULAR PowER-Man has

STATISTICS OF MUSCULAR PowER.-Man has
the power of Initiating every motion but that
of flight TO effect these, he has, in maturity
and health, sixty bones in the head, sixty in
his thighs and legs, sixty two in his arms and
hands, and sixty-scven in his trunk. He has
also four hundred and thirty -four muscles
His heart makes sixty four pulsations in a
minute, and therefore three thousand eight hun
dred aud forty in an hour. ninety.two thou
sand one hund. ed and sixty in day. There
are also three complete circuIalions of his
blood in the short space of an hour. In re-
spcct to the comparative speed of animated
beings aud Of impelIed bodies, it may be re-
marked that size and construction seem to have
little influence, nor has comparative strength,
though one body giving any quantity OF mo-
lion to another, is said to lose so mitch of its
own. The sloth is by no means Il small ami
NAL. and yet it can travel only fifty PAGES in
lIay "a worm crawls only fye inches in fifty
seconds bat lady bird can fly twenty mil.
lions times its own length in an hour. An elk
can run mile and half in seven minutes
an antelope mile in minute; the wild mule
of Tartary has speed even greater than that
an eagle can fly eighteen leagues in an hour,
and canary flIccn can even reach two hun
dred and fifty leagues in the short space OF
sixteen hours A violent wind tra' els sixty
miles in an hour; sound, eleven hundred and
forty-two English feet in sccond.-Bucke.
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Cure OF FOUNDER IN lIonsEs.-lIaving had
a little experience in curing the founder in horses,
take this method to give YOU Il fact, that you
may give. it TO Others through the columns of
your valuable "Journal." 1t may he of great
service to some, and safe many fine horse from
prcma urc death and much suffering.
The fact shall give you, is Of a horse worth
three hundred dollars, because Of his flcc,ncss.
lie came to my hand in August, about eight
o'clock in the evening, after being driven only
twcn,y.nnc miles, with only two persons in 4
very light and easy buggy. The horse for some
time had been fed all the grain he would eat
For two or three days he had not liked his grain,
but the night before he came 10 my hand he had
eaten to the full of all he had liked; and when
he came he was so stiff he could not step over
six inch pole, and when he attempted to turn
round would nearly fall. | put him into water
nearly knee deep and kept wet blanket on
him all the time for four hours then put hIm
into stable, and put another blanket over him
and left him for the night. The next morning
found him sweating; took him from the stable
and rode him Il mile, led him back, and put him
in the brook again for an hour. During the day
set let him stand an hour in the water, and again
in the next morning
About nine o'clock he WAS started on his Jour
ney of iorty-two miles, and performed it with ease
before sunset: he laid over one day, and went
home the next, forty-five miles, and WAS return
ell to his owner, and he being larricr sold him
in a few days, perfectly unable to describe any
difficulty or damarc done To- his horse hriuu r-
norant Of what had happened. The horse WIS
allowed all the food and water he wanted us uSu-
al. lie was not brd i'll amy part. neither was
there anything given to linn except his usual
food. The second day he WAS as Timber As he
ever was, and has shown no injury fir IN his foun
der since.
If you think this worthy of your notice, and
wish it, will give you my opinion of the founder
and its cure Water Carc Joarnui
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A yonng lady once hinted to a gentleman.
that her thimble was worn out, and asked what
size should receive for her industry. He sent
her new thin,be, with the following lines:-
I send you a thinble for fingers so nimble,
Which hope will fit you when you tryit
1t will last you long, if it's half as strong
As the hint which you gave me to buy it.
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The Men over the Niagara Falls.

The Press has teemed with variousfy con-
cocted paragraphs respecting the melancholy
and fearful catastrophe, which lately happened
at the Niagara Falls, and from the evidence
subsequently addsced, appears to have been
occasioned by intemperanee.
Numerous schemes have been Suggested To
prevent any similar fatal occurrence, although
such events do not take place twice in ce,ltu..
ry. -
Hundreds, aye and thousands, are annually
hurled over the cataracts Of the. traffic in 1n-
toxicalng liquors, and yet their fate eliclts hut
little remark and less commiseratien:
Millions are at this moment gliding down
The current of intemperance, having started
from the treacherous stream of moderate in
diligence, until day after day numbers are sud.
denly engulphed in the vortex Of drunkard's
grave.
Who offers thousand dollars to save any
of these victims, or to stretch wire across the
trallics torrent, as was proposed at the niagara
Falls? Who will put in execution some Ger.
tain preventive against their almost inevitable,
doom?
I Men are rarely so rash as tosrisk their lives
in the currents above the Falls Of Niagara, al
though they constantly rush into the rapids q
indulgence in the social glass, with a full know
ledge that their doom is as certain, but per-
haps not as sudden in the one case as in the
other. -
In death by drowning man only sacrifices
life, but in death by intoxication, reputafien,
family, and friends, are irretrievably injured ny
tn, conduct of the inebiate, dur,g his exist
ence, as well as by the ignoble termination Of
it. s.cs
The individuals who were lost over tile Falls
only destroyed themselves, but drinking men
not merely kill themselves, but injure their off
spring, who inherit their parents ruinous hab.
it's, as every writer from Putarch to the pre-:
sent time has asserted that EJrii 9ignnnt e6rt-
os, and DR.. Darwin thus expresses himself-s
:" 1t is remarkable that all the diseases arising
from drinking spirituous or fermented liquors,
are liable to become hereditary, even to- the
third generation, gradually increasing, if the
cause b. continued, until the family becomes
extinct" -
In evidence brought before the British Par
Lament, in 1894, the report aludes in strong
terms to this fact: 1.-The diminution. of the
physical power and longevity of a large por-
ton of the British population, the loss of per-
soual beauty, the decline of health and pro-
gressive decay of the bodily and mental pow.
ers" are enumerated as among the effects of
ntemperance,, which evils" it goes on to
says" are accumulative in the amount of inju.
ry they inAict."
With all these undeniable physiological facts
before the people, is it not their duty to pro-
tect themselves and their offspring by return
ing members to represent them, who will pass
a Prohibitory Law, which will prevent the
community not from going over the Falls Of
Niagara by threes in century, but to finally
obstruct them from rushing in crowds over-the
Cataract of certain death by Drunkenness.
Canada West Spirit Of the Age.
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Mother, you mustn't whip me for running
away from school any morep
why"
because my school book says that ants are
the most industrious beings in the world, amt
| a hueantP'
'PoIly Box his ears!
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by the Dutch, in: 1915, and the first Iubl,cj
wharf was built as late as 1858.
But little more than 200 years have passed
since the first permanent occupancy OF the, spot
on which now stands New York, and IN less
than two centuries her population has increased
from 5000 to more than half a million.
'..- [Poughkeepsie Tslegrop1s
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AMMO DoM1Sr.-"Father did you ever have
another wife besides mother9" No my boy;
what possessed you to ask such a question =
Because saw in the old family BIBLE where
Won married Ammo Domini, in 1885, and that
isn't mother, for her name was Sally Smith"
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BORN JANUARY IS, 1882,
DIED OCTOBER "a, 1852.
Lord, believe, help thou my unbclief.

Philosophical argument, especially that drawn
from the va>tncss of the Universe in comparison
with the apparent insignfcance Of this globe,
has sometimes shaken my reason for the faith
which is in me; but my heart has always as
surcd anIe reassured that the gospel Of Jesus
Christ must be Il divine reality. The sermon on
the mount cannot be a merely human 7roduc
ton. This belief enters into the very depth Of
my con>cicncc. The whole history of man proves
it. DANIEL WEnsrER.
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right. A good commencement is half the bat
tie. A false first step is almost certain defeat
BEGIN RIGHT"
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TIE TOMB OF Mr. WEDsTER-A marble block
has been placed in front of Mr.. Webstcr's tomb
at Mars!feld->imilar to those which he erected
in memory of his wife, son and daughters
which bears the following inscriptions
DANIEL WEBSTER,
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Ly1SG-One lie must be matched with
another, or it will soon rain through.-Osoen.
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"TS them fellers alive now 2" said an urchin
to his teacher. "What ttIlcrs do you meam
my dear!' Why, Paul and Luke, and
Deuteronomy, and them"
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The Duchess, as mother to our Queen, is
provided for by the public. She has an annual
allowance of f32. 900, besides suudry resi-
denccs rent free. The curious part Of the
matter is that, while her daughter was heiress.
presumptive to the crown, (Which was posi-:
ton involving some expense, } the Duchess had
100000 Il year but when Victoria became
Queen, lessening her mammals outlay, the OBJ
sequiouS Melbourne mini:try got parliament to
raise it to 32,000-thus showing that the less
she had to spend, the more she must receive !!
1t was whispered, at the time, that Lord
Melbourne wished to become third husband TO
the Duchess, who was then aged 81. Nothing
came of it, and the lad y, now in her 6Sth year,
is not likely to change her condition. She has
been a fine woman, with dark eyes and hair,
but is now very stout and tlaJby-known,
wherever she drives, by the immense quantity
Of rouge with which she bedaubs her cheeks.
London Cor. Of ". Y. Sunday Times.
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THE MOTHER OF V1croRIA.-The Duchess
of Kent is at Frogmore, which is all extensive
cottage o,nee in Windsor Park, once inhabited
by Queen Charlotte, of snuay memory, who
has been immortalzed by Byron, as =