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AN INCIDENT IN THE BURNING
OF THE NIAGARA.

One of the many affecting scenes attend,
ing the frightful disaster to the passengers
of the ill-fated Niagara was that Of the loss
of the entire family of Mr.. Ainsworth, Of
Vermont With the care and painful ankle.
ty of the father and husband, he had gath
cred his wife, his aged father of seventy
years, and three children about him, and
with all the precaution that the terrible con-
fusion would permit lowered them from the
deck, and away from the advancing flames,
to the more welcome but not less fatal Wa
ters. The palsy of age, the terror of woman
and the fright of children did not unman
this hardy son of the Green Mountains, but
with alacrity he swan from one to another
--now helping his wife to retain her hold
upon the treacherous hawser, now assisting
his daughter in her struggles to catch at some
buoying object.
With what intense exertion he redoubled
his endeavors when he saw his youngest
child of three years sink to its cold grave
Then came the death-struggle of his aged
parent, and he saw amid his divided exer-
tions the gray hairs of his father disappear
forever. His exertions were now between
his wife and two children; but the relentless
waves had drawn them apart by their merci-
less lashings, and his task grew heavier as
his sorrows and dangers were doubled upon
him. He had no time to look for distant
boats, but only sufficient to grasp some seeth-
ing brand and broken panel, and shove it as
best we might, with exhausted arm, to his
wife and children. But he had not been
tried enough, and the waves cameand rolled
angry surges over the chilly wife and daugh-
ter, burying them from his agonized sight.
All were now gone save his little boy of
eight years, who was struggling with the sea
to maintain foothold upon floating sofa.
As the heroic little fellow would mount up.
on its secure seat, the sea would strike it
and roll it from under his feet. Time after
time did the brave boy Chamber up, and as
often would the heavy seas break over him.
The father had secured boat that was bot.
tom up, but seeing his boy in such fearful
peril at once soug ght him to render assistance
with what little Of energy yet remained in
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before, it amounts to an insinuation that it
was needless for you to speak; which does
not strike you very pleasantly.
But this habit is not only impolite; there
is more or less insincerity in it. If you
bring out a clear idea, we'll digested and
practical, the elements of the same idea may
be another persons mind in crude, unor-
ganized state, and he may imagine that what
you say is the reproduction of his own
thoughts. But it is not so. TIE is just as
much indebted to you for the 1irth of that
idea, as though he had never had a shadow
of itin his mind. Hisegotism deceives him.
This represents the truth in thousands Of in
stances, where persons say without any con-
scious hypocrisy, that what they hear agrees
exactly with their own reflections and expe-
rience.
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CONFIDENCE IN ONES SELP.-Wheu

CONFIDENCE IN ONES SELP.-Wheu
crisis befalls you, and the emergency re-
quires moral courage and noble manhood to
meet it, be equa! to the requirements ofthe
moment and rise superior to the obstacles in
your path. The universal testimony of men
whose experience exactly comedies with
yours furnishes the consoling reflection that
difficulties may be ended by opposition
There is no blessing equal to the possession
of a stout heart. The magnitude of,the dan
ger nothing more than greater effort than,
ever at your hands. If you prove recreant
in the hour of trial you are the worst of re-
creants, and deserve no compassion. Be
not dismayed nor unnamed when you should
be bold and daring, unAinching and resolute.
The cloud whose threatening murmurs You
hear with fear and dread, is pregnant with
blessings, and the frown whose sternness
now makes you shudder and tremble will ere
long be succeeded by asmile Of bewitching
sweetness and benignity. Then be strong
and manly, oppose equal forces to open diff
cultics, keep stiff upper-lip, and trust in
Providence. Greatness can only be achie-
we'd by those who are tried. The condition
of that achievement is confidence in ones
self.
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SLAVERY THE STRONGEST BOND OF UN.
IoN.-Our Union would not have lasted
twenty years but for Southern slavery. The
North has ever been dependent on the South,
aud other slaveholding countries, for cotton,
rice, sugar, wheat, corn, coffee, tobacco, and
a hundred other necessary agricultural pro-
ducts. The South, from the character of
her soil, her climate and her labor, has found
it (and will ever find it) to her advantage,
if the North will be just to her, to buy man.
ufactured articles, and foreign merchandise
from the North, and to employ Northern
shipping.
England avoids war with us, avowedly,
because she cannot dispense with the pro-
ducts of our slave labor The North is de-
pendant on us as England is, and in hun
dred ways in which England is not. Unless
she should come under the rule of the mad,
senseless, and desperate mob, there is no
danger of disunion. She and England are
as much shareholders, so far as profit or con-
venience is concerned, as we. They live
chiefly from the products of slave laber, with
out having the trouble and responsibility of
managing and taking care of the negros. All
sensible men at the North understand this.
But we write for the especial benefit of
the croaking old fogies of the South, who
sec in slavery only an apple of discord.
Without slavery there would be no mutu-
ality of interest no dependence between
North and South.
Slavery, and nothing but slavery, has pre-.
served our Union so far, OR can preserve ii
hereafter. Without this institution, there
would be no good reason for keeping togeth.
er confederation SO inconveniently large
Richmond Enquirer.
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ABOUT EATING.

The following advice is from DR.. Halls
Medical Journal. Who has not had suffi
ccnt experience to say amen to every word
below ?
Never sit down to the table with an anx.
ious or disturbed mind; better hundred
fold, intermit that meal, for there will then
be that much more food in the world for hun.
grier stomachs than yours; and besides, eat
ing under such circumstances can only, and
will always prolong and aggrayate the condi-
tion of things.
Never sit down to meal after an intense
mcntabeffort, for physical and mental injury
is inevitable, and no man has a right delib-
eratcly to injure body, mind and estate.
Never go to full table during bodily ex-
haustion-dcsignated by some as being worn
out, and tired to death, used up and done
over, and the like The wisest thing you can
do under such circumstances, is to take a
cracker and cup of warm tea, either black
or green and no more. In ten minutes you
feel a degree of rcfreshment and liveliness,
which will be pleasantly surprising to you
not of the transient kind which glass of
liquor affords, but permanent; for the tea
gives pleasant stimulus and little strength,
and before it subsidies, nutriment begins to be
drawn from the sugar, and bread, thus allow
ing the body, gradually and by safe degrees,
to retain its usual vigor. Then, in couple
of hours, you may take full meal, provided
that it does not bring it later than two hours
before sundown if later, then take nothing
for that day in addition to the cracker and
tea, and the next day you will feel fresh
ness and vigor not recently known.
No reader will be required to be advised a
second time who will make trial as above,
while it is fact of usual observation among
intelligent physicians, that eating heartily
and under bodily exhaustion, is not an unfre-
quent cause of alarming and painful illness,
and sometimes sudden death. These things
being SO, let every family make it point to
assemble around the family board with kind
ly feelings, with a cheerful humor and a
courteous spirit; and let that member of it
be sent from the table who presumes to mar
the ought-to-be blest reunion by sullcn sill
ence, or impatient look or angry tone, or COM
planning tongue. Eat in thankful gladness,
or away with you to the kitchen, you grace
less churl, you ungrateful, pestilcnt lout that
are. There was grand and good philosophy
in the old time custom of having buiioon
Or music at the dinner table.
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A FAULT IN CoNvERsATIoN.-lt is ex-
tremely common in free conversation for one
person to make remark, and another to say
he had thought Of the very same thing HIM
SELF One will ofera suggestion of improve
mcnt, and another second it by saying that
the same idea had been in his mind for some
time. Often when persons are criticised, it
is a chance if you can tell them anything
that they were not aware of full we'll brfore.
There is evidently propensity in human
nature to be too wise to be taught. Let any
one watch his own tongue and see how it
slips out before he knows it, that he finds
himself none the wiser for what he hears
from others mouths. The ways are many
and subtle in which this claim contrives to
assert itself But it is a great discord in
conversation. Any one who loves the elow
of the soul as well as the feast of reason,
in conversational interchange, will study to
avoid it. The simple rule, do unto others
as you would they should do unto you, would
correct this fault. If you mark an observa-
ton, and another says be had thought Of that
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THE FRENCH NATIONWIDE TocoUE-
VILE, in his recently published work on
France before the revolution of 1889, draws
this exquisitively wrought picture of the
French nation:
when I consider this nation in itself, it
strikes me as far more extraordinary than
any in our own annals. Was there ever any
nation on the face of the earth so full of
contrasts and so extreme in all its actions,
more swayed by sensations, less by principles
led therefore always to do either worse or
better than was expected of it-sometimes
below the common level of humanity, some-
times greatly above it-a people so unaltera-
Bile in its leading instincts, that its likeness
may still be recognised in descriptions writ
ten 1000 Or 5000 years ago, but at the same
time so mutable in its daily thoughts and in
its tastes as to become spectacle and an a.
mazement to itself, and to be as much sur
prised as the rest of the world at the sight of
what it has done-a people beyond all others
the child of home and the slave of habit,
when left to itself, but when once torn a.
gainst its will from the native hearth, and
from its daily pursuits, ready to go the end
of the world and to dare all things; indocile
by temperament, yet accepting the arbitrary
and even the violent rule of sovereign
more readily than the free and regular Gov
ernment of the chief citizen to-day the de-
clared enemy of all obedience, tomorrow
serving with sort of passion which the ma
tions best adapted for servitude cannot at
tain; guided by thread as long as no one
resists, ungovernable when the example of
resistance has once been given; always de-
ceiving its masters, who fear it either too
little, or, too much; never so free that it is
hopeless to enslave it, or so enslaved that it
may not break the yoke again; apt for all
things, but excelling only in war; adoring
chance, force, success, splendor and noise
more than true glory; more capable of he
roism than of virtue, of genius than of good
sense; ready to conceive immense designs
rather than to consummate great underta-
kings the most brilliant and the most dan
gerous of the nations of Europe, and the
best fitted to become by turns an object of
admiration, Of hatred, of pity, Of terror, but
never of Indifference
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THE LITTLE MONSTER IN YOUR
SUGAR

The sugar acarus approaches somewhat, in
organization and habits, to the louise and
the itch-insect itself, which are also included
in the genus Acarus. The sugar mite is in
size so considerable, that it is plainly visible
to the unaided sight. Wncn present in 81.
gar it may be detected by the following pro,
ceeding: Two or three spoonful of sugar
should be dissolved in Urge winc-glass Of
tepid water, and the solution allowed to re-
main at rest for an hour or so; at the end of
that time the animalcules will be found,
some on the surface of the liquid, some ad-
herring to the sides Of the glass, and others
at the bottom, mixed up with the dark and
copious sediment. The body is oval, or rath-
or somewhat ovate, being broader behind
than before. From its posterior part pro,
cced four long and stiff bristes, two together
on each side, and some eight or ten smaller
ones are arranged nearly at equal distances
around the circumference of the body; from
its interior part proboscus of complex Or
ganization proceeds, and from its inferior
surface eight legs, joined and furnished with
spines or hairs ateach articulation the spine,
which issues from the last joint but one of
each leg, is very long, and extends much be-
yond the terminatioe of the leg itself. Last
ly, each leg is armed at the extremity with
a formidable hook. The acarus sacchari
clings to life with great tenacity, for warm
water does not always kill it. Hence, those
who sweeten their drinks with brown sugar
must swallow several of these disgusting in-
sects in living state, for the heat of the
beverage is not sufficient to destroy them
For the consolation of onr readers, we are
happy to announce that this insect is never
found in puriied,a. e. lump sugar 1t owes
its existence and nutriment to the albumen,
which, as We said before, is always present
in inferior sugars. 1t is we'll known that
grocers are subject to an affection Of the
skin, dcnominated 'sgrocer's itch" of which
one of the symptoms is extreme irritation
and itching To this disease all grocers are
not equally liable, but those particularly who
are engaged in the "haudIing' of sugars, as
the warehousemen. Now the acarus sac
chari belongs to the same genus as the aca-
rus scaJici, or itch-insect, than which it is
larger, and possessed of an organization still
more formidable and forbidding.-Engzish
Piper.
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FATTENINa TURKEYs.-The alimentary
properties of charcoal arc very great; in
deed, it. has been asserted that domestic
fowls may be fattened on it without any 9TH
er food, and that, too, in shorter time than
on the most nutritious grains. In an expert
ment, to test the value of the article, four
turkeys were taken and confined in pen,
and fed on meal, boiled potatoes and oats.
Four others of the same brood, we're also con-
fined at the same time, in another pen, and
fed daily on the articles, but with onespint
ofvery finely pulverized charcoal mixed with
their meal and potatoes; they had also a pien-
tiful supply Of broken charcoal in their pen,
The eight were killed on the same day, and
there wasa difference Of one anda half pounds
each in favor of the fowls which had been
supplied with the charcoal, they being much
the fatter and the meat greatly superior in
point of tenderness and favor. This would
appear to establish, beyond doubt, the
benefit of charcoal for fatteniDg purposes.
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THE PRESIDENTS ELECTION.

The following is a summary of the laws
and constitutional requirements in the elec-
ton of President and Vice President:
1. Electors elected on the first Tuesday
after the first Monday in November.
2. Electors meet on the first Wednesday
in December and cast their votes. They
then sign three certifcates-send mcssen-
ger with one copy to the President of the
Senate at Washington before the first We'd
nesday in January-another by mail to the
same person, and the third deliver to the
United States District Judge where electors
meet.
3. Each State provides by law for filling
any vacancy in the Board of Electors occa-
stoned by absence, death, or resignation
Such of the electors as are present are gen.
orally authorized to fill any vacancy.
4. The Governor gives notice to electors
of their Election before the first Wednesday
in December.
5. On the second Wednesday in February,
Congress shall be in session and open the re-
turns. The President of the Senate shall,
in the presence of the House of Representa-
tivcs, open the certificate of returns, and
count the votes. The person having the
greatest number of votes for President, if
such number be a majority of the whole
number of electors, shall be the President
G. If no person has majority as above,
the choice is to be made from the three high
est returned. The members of the House,
by States, form themselves into Electoral
Committees, and the majority determine
which is to be the choice of the State-each
State having only one vote.
7. If neither of the candidates get ma
jority of the States before the 18th of March,
then the Vice President shall act as Presi-
dent
s. If the people do not elect through their
Electors Vice President, then the Senate
of the United States shall make the election
from the two highest candidates returned to
them by the electors.
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is mostly composed of lands lying in the
Shawnee reserve. The ha]f-breed Shaw
nees, whites who have married in the nation,
and in fact all of the Shawnees who polled
a vote, went for the pro-slavery ticket. I
will mention this fact: Their old chief,
Captain Joe Parks, is considerable slave
holder; so are the Choteaus, so Capt. Bow
els, and also W. T. Donaldson, who married
a Shawnee, gentleman ofmuch intelligence
and very well off. These arc the leading
men of the nation, and it is not strange that
the mass should be led by them. Many Of
them are Intelligent; some of them wealthy.
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SHOCKING A LADY's MoDEsTY.-A SIN
gular occurrence happened during the past
summer in one of the provinces of France.
An honest country gentleman, possessed Of
very handsome park, had found the wealth
er very oppressive, and was in the habit of
taking morning walk in his park, with
cigar in his mouth and no clothes upon his
back. A lady of the neighborhood, from
whose windows the park might be seen, con-
sidered the gentleman's proceedings as en-
tirely too primitive and cited him before
magistrate. The defendant contended that,
upon his own property, he had the right to
do what he pleased, and moreover, that the
laa5's house was mile from the spot where
he was in the habit of walking, in naturazis
naturalibus. 'She must have good eyes to
distinguish at that distance whether I am
dressed or not said the gentleman.
Interrogated by the magistrate upon this
point, the lady, whose modesty had been so
rudely shocked, naively replied--'Oh, but I
looked at him with the aid Of an excellent
telescope
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A CHURCH FOR LADIES ALoNE.-There
is Presbyterian Church in Northampton
County, Virginia, composed entirely of Ia
dies. They are twenty-five in number
There is not a single male member among
them and, of course, as they can have no
eldership, they are not properly an organized
church; but the ladies, hoping almost against
hope, have persevered in their sisterhood,
and they have actually increased in numbers,
more than many Churches with settled pas
tor and the regular administrations Of the
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KANSAS ELEcTIoN-WEsTpoRT, Oct. 6,
1S56:-The election to-day, so far as heard
from, passed of quietly. We have partial
returns from only two precincts-Gum
Spring, in johnson county, and Wyandotte,
in Leavenworth county. I attended the
polls at Gum Spring. never saw more
peaceable election; there were but few free
State men present, and they voted the law
and order ticket. At this place about two
hundred votes were cast. johnson county
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BE SYsTEMATIc.-Itw will add much more
to your convenience than you can imagine.
1t saves time, saves temper, saves patience,
and saves money. For time it may be
little troublesome, but you will soon find it
easier to do right than wrong, that it is cas-
ier to act By rule than without one.
Be systematic in everything; let it extend
to most minute trifes, it is not beneath you.
Whitfield could not 60 to sleep at night if,
after retiring, he remembered that his gloves
and riding whip were not in their usual
place, where he could lay his hand on them
in the dark in any emergency; and such
men are the men who leave their mark on
the worlds history.
Systematic men are the only reliable men;
they are those who comply with their en-
gagcmcnts. They are minute men. The
man who has nothing to do is the man who
does nothing. The man of system is soon
known to do what he engages to do; to do it
well, and to do at the same time promised;
consequently he has his hands full. z
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advising immediate preparations for war with
Great Britain in the Congress of November
1911. The passage is so noble and chival
rous in matter and manner, that we cannot
refrain from submitting it to our readers
Mr.. Calhoun spoke in reply to Mr.. Randolph
of Virginia, and the effort was worthy of his
mature and palmiest days. In style, ratio
cination, and good sense, it was worthy Of
the man and of the occasion. incidentally
alluding to Mr.. Randolph's prcdilection fol
a peaceful but minatory policy, he said:
a bullying, menacing system has every
thing to condemn and nothing to recommend
it; in expense it almost rivals war; 1t ex-
cites contempt abroad, and destroys conf
deuce at home. Menaccs' are serious things,
which ought to be resorted to with as much
caution and seriousness as war itself, and
should, if not successful, be invariably fol-
lowed by war;
We commend the spirit of the foregoing
extract to our Southern journalists and
Southern politicians; it is the spirit of cour-
age and truth and genuine nobility; the
spirit which is the breath of the nostrils of
all genuine greatness. As long as we speak
and act in such spirit we have nothing to
fear from the Vaccinations of our enemies /;
We are safe. Once we depart from it and re-
turn to the system of meaningless boasts
and threats which prevailed amongst our par
ty politicians too long, VIC will deserve defeat
and most assuredly receive it. Let us hold
urvantage ground by preserviugour earnest
ness. Let us consider every temporary ad-
vantage mere triAc as long as hostile fac
ton remains arrayed against the South let
us follow the advice given by Calhoun in
1911, and, while we avoid the policy of men
aces, act upon the principle that in time of
peace we should prepare for war!