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, 1857-09-04

Gas MADE FROM WArER.-All attempts
to manufacture gas from water alone, had
heretofore been complete failure; Payne's
gas turpentinc and water gas, water and
platina gas, and many such ike, have all
proved impracticablc or inferior to the
coal and wood gas now in use.
A French chemist, Mr.. Gillard, has al
last discovered and put into actual use The
gas made from water, not in the Iabora
tory or at an exhibition, but in illumina
ting whole town; the ancient city o
Narboune, France, glories in light, the
clements Of which are drawn from its an
tiquc and beautiful canal, the fame looking
like the electrical light, dazzling but moi
tiresome, as white as can be, without vacil
lation or smell-all burners being similal
to so many planets,--COHrier des Etat'
Ums.
, 1857-09-04

The EFFECT OF TEMPERANCE COERCION
INCREASE OF DRUNKENNESS The temper
ance Maine law coercion has proved {
sorry substitute for the moral suasion prin
ciple, which, few years ago, almost re
deemed our land from the horrid vice o
drunkenness. Since the temperance reform
began to lean upon the law, rather thar
upon persuasion, drunkenness has increased
at fearful rate.
Mr.. Cough. the orator, has recently
borne testimony to the decline of the tenn
peranee cause at the north. The Sons oi
Temperance have dwindled down from two
hundred thousand to fifty thousand, and
the life has gone out of this once powerful
organization. The temperance papers have
sunk into mere whippers-in Of faction
The amount raised for lectures and for tenn
perauce tracts is one-fth Of what it was
five years ago. The Providence Post
speaking of this state of things, says:
Mr.. Cough went further. He sale
that more liquor was sold in Massachusetts
than he had ever before known, and tha
it was the same in all the other States
Here again he spoke the truth and it is
folly for Neil Dow to say that his state,
ment is at variance with the facts. We
can testify for Rhode Island. Mr. Cough
has known the State about fifteen years.
We have known it as long and we are
sure that more liquor is now sold in the
State than has been sold at any former
period during that time. We know that
before Neal Dow's machine went into ope.
ration-say six years ago-there was not
one-Iifth as many grog shops or one-ffth as
many drunkards in the State as there are
to-day. There were then seven towns
where liquor was not sold, openly or slyly,
There were twelve or fifteen in which it
was not sold openly aud there were five
only in which licences were granted. Now,
it is sold openly in every one Of the. thirty.
two towns and in Providence there arc
at least three times as many grog shops as
there were then. In the town of Burrill
vile, six years ago, there was not single
grog shop. We have had the Maine law
five years, and now there are twenty-five
grog shops in the town Of Burrllvllle.
Wat is true Of Rhode Island is true o.
Connecticut, nearly true Of Vermont, nearly
true of Maine and New Hampshire, true
TO the very letter Of the whole Of Massa
chusetts, and true, to great extent, O.
| New York.
, 1857-09-04

ELEcrRIcrrY PoR DIsoovERlNe rHE SEAT
or DrsEAsE-Dr Holland, Of 'theoNew
Graefenburg Water Cure Establishment.
Oneida county, N. r., informs US that he
has made use Of electricity as. remedial
agent during the last ten years, and has
reduced it to such seieuti6e principles that
he readily describes every form Of disease,
without internOgating the patient He
makes the patient take hold cfOne pole of
the battery, aud himself the other; then
be passes his hand over his body, forming
the circle, and thus BY the peculiar sensar
ton produced, discoveries the seat Of dis
ease.-N. Y Miyror. 20 l.-og ~ "
, 1857-09-04

ARKANSAS 0ENlrnoLoGIsT AT FAuIT.LA
DR.. Thurston, Of Arkansas, recently killed
bird whose pathological classification
has given rise to warm discussions in that
region. Its height was five feet three in
ches; breadth of wings, six feet eight in,
ches Its plumage was strangely fantas-
tical; black as raven elsewhere, but
gaudily bedecked on its head, neck and
wings. What particularly attracted at
tention was clusters of feathers, of every
form and hue, that hung in graceful
wreaths about his birdship, beautiful be-
yond conception. 1t was the general
opinion that it was species of the Eu,
ropean bittern, and that his home was be,
yond the seas
, 1857-09-04

BG5- Robert Burns, Oldest son Of the
Scottish bard, died May IA, at Dumfries
Scotland, at the nge of IL. Though the
world has no evidence of it, his local biog
rapher says, che was IN accomplished
scholar, endowed with prodigious memory
and great powers of application, and hat
amassed vast quantity of knowledge OIL
q great range of subjects"
, 1857-09-04
Our Country.

i If we. are to believe the enemies Of De-
mOcracy, never was there so unfortunate 4
country as that which we so endearingly
call our own never were there such illib-
eral institutions as those which we have
been accustomed to regard with feelings Of
patriotic pride. Notwithstanding the he
roic records of our past history, our present
enviable position among the nations, and
the still more glorious auticipatious of our
future, there is party, arrogating to it.
self all the virtues and intelligence, which
sees not, and il it sees, appreciates not the
glory Of its heritage. Instead Of exulting
in the honor aud power of our beloved
country, it deplores the little imperfections
common to all things human. 1t is ever
loud in its denunciations of errors, and ever
ready to point the finger Of scorn at faults,
When it should, as the son of the erring
patriarch, walk backward and cast the
mantle of concealment over them. The
Black Republican party, incapable, by its
revolutionary chaIacter, of offectihg any
thing good in our own country has vet
been prolific Of evil in that spirit Of discord
which it has stirred up between the differ
ent sections, that war of mutual recrimina-
slon Wu'ch nus alieua'eu the leelngS OF
oretnreh anu partners Oh common inner
N"nee' ~ nus iaoore" ass'uuouS.y' auu 70
preston in despotic Europe, that the great
experiment Of selfgovernmcnt is failure.
Kings, whose empty Golfers aud crumbliug
thrones, in contrast with our plethoric
treasury anu staoIe goyernneu', g. Oegah 70
see lerlhlhatIUh 1s. ol .uetr , tenure OF oes-
po'lc power INC war ol Hoer1l opinion
among tnelr SUBJECTS, ses On ioot oy tne IN
nuence OF our example mas carried terror
anu CONSERVATION hnlo uyuasues e1-e.is1-
e1' WIN Tue O'eSars Imaglne tne oeilgnt
ol those uesposs, wneh contemplating me
weaknesS, Ine ulshonor' anu lne enormltles
OF our government, as portrayed 70 tne1i
IN the narrangnes and literature Of Black
hepuohcSnlsm' ie', wneu We saAe ret
tospgcs Vi oui nisSory ~ lA.Vn slu Spn-'
template ue lnie9'y cuaiises pat nave
been wrought on tne iace Of '9ls continent,
the advancement we nave maae 70 eiViliza-
!lon anu lree governwent, tne ainoss mag
zeal transformation OI ssYege wilderness
TO populCus empire o. ireemen, ana the
sun onward marcn Oh mat popular tlue OF
human progress we must have Deen struck
with more tnan lualcial blindness II we can
not see IN an sn's nn Impulse 2. more taan
human origin. All history nllnerto, pas
Deen Dnt summary oi t9e transactions q! 9f
Kings ana EmPerors. ine PecPIe aiI no
page ID 'ae rscOru " .nelr sh nlgnsy aelneve-
, 1857-09-04

DEcErr.MPersons who practice deceit
and artiace always adecsite rthgmselVea
moro than they deceive, others. They mar
feel great cpmplacency in view of the sue;
cess Of their doings, but they are in reality
casting mist before their own eyes. Such
persons not only nakea false estimate 81
their own characters but they estimate
falsely the opiniops and conduct Of others.
No person is obliged to tell all be thinks,
but both duty and selEinterest forbid hiIn
to make false prcience.-B9E Et. ! ''p'l'
, 1857-09-04

n6S~ The Boston Traveller states that
the experiments in the spiritual phenomena
have been in progress at Professor Agas.
siz's house in Cambridge, within the last
day or two, under the recent offer of $500
for proof Of the actually of those phe
nomena, beyond the possibility of deception
or trickery.
, 1857-09-04

Says a Jamaica IL. I.) paper;
:, Aa dno. Watts, widow, living on the
=, a''flnac Plank Road, near Valley Stream,
.''' i've miles southeast of Jamaica, has
" @ten particle of solid food for more
~ 'sr'n weeks. She has taken nothing
~Aquids, and almost to the exclusion oi
SSaaytAlng else, drinks nothing but tea
around and in good health"
, 1857-09-04

M A Massachusetts, paper, the editor of
SmSI Sa aas tried it, recommends the following
"-ps cure for dysentery:
sn.S ~ Oa friend handed US the following
S,l. ~ receipt or publication. 1t has been
Si;o.O i.Ceo IN his family for many years, with
ss.. U.a success, even in the most alarming
n,s u the complaint: Take Indian
M. 'Oasted or ground in the manner Of
koS ! !or coarse meal Drowned and
vOSna u q sufficient quantity OF water to
A.. .e .e strong liquid like coffee, and drink
dT ~ lall, warm, two or three times a
kct One days practice it is said will ef-
, 1857-09-04
NV The Chinese Tea Shrub IS bslnt

IE9- The Chinese Tea Shrub Is being
cultivated in Brazil with marked success,
and the confluence or disturbance y
China is likely to bring the fact more
prominently into notice. The FIRST plAnlA
were introduced in 1910, and to insure its
proper treatmenty several hundred Chinese
hborers were procured. a lVg ~ aoliHg
, 1857-09-04

p6S- The ancient Greeks buried theiI
dead in jars. Hence the origin of the
expression gone to pot"
, 1857-09-04
p
The Reformer.
by JOHN q. WHITTIER.

Al grim and soied and grown with tan,
saw Strong one in his wrath,
Shifting the goddess shrines Of men
Along his path. @
The Church, beneath her trembling dome,
o Essayed in vain her costly charm;
Wealth shook within his gilded home
With pale alarm.
Fraud from his secret chamber flod
Before the sunlight bursting in;
slotA drew her pillow DER her head
To drown the din.
Spare Art implored, yon holy pile
That grand, old, time-worn turret spare y
Neck Reverence, kneelng in the aisle,
Cried out, " Forbear"
Ony.bearled Use, who, deaf and blind,
GrOped for his old accustomed stone,
leaned on his stati, and wept, to find
His seat O'erthrOwn.
Young Romance raised his dreamy eyes,
oerhung with paly locks of gold
"wby smite," he asked, in sad surprise,
The fair, the Old?'
Ye. louder rang the Strong Ones stroke,
Yet nearer flashed his axes CLEAN;
shuddering and sick Of heart woke,
As from a dream.
IlOOked-aside the dust-clOud rolled;
The Waster seemed the Builder too
Up spnngng from the ruined Old
1 saw the New.
Twas but tho ruined Of the bad
The wasting Of the wrong and Ill ;
Whate'er Of good the old time had
Was living still.
Calm grew the brows of him feared
The frown which awed me passed away,
And left behind smile which cheered
Like breaking day.
Grown wiser from the lessons given,
fear no longer, for ! know
That where the share is deepest driven
The best fruits grow.
The outworn right, the old abuse,
he plous fraud transparent grown,
IN good held captive in the use,
OF wrong alone.
These wait their doom from that great law,
which makes the past time serve to-day;
And itesher life the world shall draw
From their decay.
Oh, Acknowledging son Of Time
The new Is old, the old is new,
The cycle Of change sublime
Still sweeping through
ssvsely taught the Indian seer
Destroying Seva, forming Brahm,
WAo wake by turns Earths love and fear,
Ore one, the same.
Aside rs In that old day
Thou mOunsst, dld'st thy sires repine
"' n time, thy child grown gray,
Shall sigh for thine.
let, not the less from them or thou,
The eternal step of Progress beats
10 that great anthem, calm and slow,
Which God repeats
uEe heart-the Wasler builds again
A Achamed life old goodness hath;
me sAres may perlsh-but the grain
D. Is not for death.
Sod works in all things-all obey
M hrt propulsion from the night;
a'iWake and watch-the world is gray
With morning light
, 1857-09-04

In one of the curious Chinese books re.
Gently translated and published in Paris,
this proYerb occurs in substantially the
same words. 1t is also an injunction of
the Chinese priesthood, and carefully
observed household custom, to kill immedi-
ately every hen that crows, as preventa-
tive against the misfortune which the cir
cumstance is supposed to indicate The
same practice prevails throughout many
portions of the United States
, 1857-09-04
" He that fights aud runs away,
Nav live N hnht annIler laN-

These lines, usually ascribed to Hudibras
are really much Older They are to bt
found in a book published in 1856. The
same idea is however expressed in a coup
let published in 1912, while one of the few
fragments of Menander, the Greek writer
that have been preserved, embodies the
same idea in single line. The couplet ii
Hudibras is,
" For those that fly may fight again,
Which he can never do that's slain"
There's a good time coming" is an ex
preston used by Sir Walter Scott in Rol
Roy, and has doubtless, for long time
been a familiar saying in Scotland.
Vor popuG, IOr Del. The origin Of thi;
familiar phrase is not known but it is quo
ted as provcrb by William of Malmsbury
who lived in the early part of the l2tl
century
, 1857-09-04
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, 1857-09-04
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wmow me as yowr Enemy.

Vcsr 10 q man, woman-bo honest
and frank--and if you really hate us, be
above deception. Away with your Judas
kisses! Don't hold the confding hand in
voprs half an hour, telling how cordially
YOU wish us success, and then speak our
name disrespectlulIy to the next friend
YOU meet, magnifying our faults, laughing
At our weakness, and telling our secrets
which we had confded to your care,
thinking your bosom a perfect "Salam
anJer SAFE" which even the fire Of perse.
cu,ion would fail to extract from thence
Don't speak in those soft, tender, lutte
like tone. 10 US, and with that serpent:
hiss behind our backs. Don't Gatter ou
vanity, until we undertake some ioolls!
scheme for the furtherance of fame o.
fortune, which you know, (being more
worldly wise,) will result, ultimately, il
our modification, if not our ruin.
Don't cry about poverty and cheat u
in bargain before your handkerchief i
dry. Don't manifest your affection b.
obtruding upon our working hours, unit
VIC have given you the great share Of gu
previous time without any earthly recon-
pense.
Words cost nothing; if you are frien
prove it by deeds-give US availabl
sympathy, not empty pity. Pity is
Geshless bone, only fit for dogs; it WOUND
oftener than it heals. 1t has fine VI
tabulary,--"poOr thing" poor fellow!
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Good Crops and Evil Cr0aiIcrs.

Our crops bid fair TO be full this year,
the farmers say, and our eyes bear wit
ness TO il, as wo drive or steam it through
the country; and so it is proved that the
variable weather ubout which so much
constant and inconsidcratc complaint has
been made, has been in accordance with
the requirements Of Na,ura, bcnefting US
while we srumbIod But there is worse
class Of croak ers--those who every year
croak hypocriticaly and for mcrccnary
ends. We mean the spectators III
breadstulTs and produce generally. This
kind Of screoch owls will soon be in full
boot, indus,riousIy trying TO alarm the
people about an imaginary scarcity Of
crops, ruInous weather, vcgetatve blights,
and all that sort Of systemalizcd lamGn-
tation, gathered up as a plea for their
monstrous demands, after the harvesls are
all in and placed in their cormorant
hands.
Nature has a sore trial, combating
with that ofsuch character. No matter
how bounteous her gifts, these harpors
intercept them, by the aid Of abundant
capital, and the masses are tho sufferers,
The specializing capitalist cares not how
he pnches the stomachs ~ empt!cs the
lean purses Of the poor, 50 that he can
add a few more superNuous thousands a
year to his i'll gotten store Of wealth; ond
annually he ISLANDERS the industry Of the
farmer and the fertility Of the land, by
getting newspapers to announce 4 search
IT, Sometimes, thank Heaven! these
heaftess grubs of Mammon, get their
deserts, by a sudden, unavoidable and
unforeseen fall in prices, which scatters
their schemes to the wind and makes
them dishonored oankrupts; and we be-
licye if II is ever pardoned OF God Io'
men 10 cyult in the ruin Of his enemies
it is when the people rejoice in the down
fall Of spectators in food. May they
wither, bones and blood, they aud the
eeneration! that the earth may be lrc'
from the affection they bring upon it, an'
the poor man be able to get the brea'
which he earns "by the sweat Of biz
brow"
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'sTsc Princess Of England and her
Lover.

The Princess Royal of England is only
sixteen. Her future husband, Prince
Frederic William, Of Prussia, is twenty.
Both are said to be well. bred and amia.
bic persons. The marriage between them
will come off some time next fall. Now
that the British Parliament has settled
5000, 900 on the bride, and given her be-
sides an allowance of $40, 600,
It is, indeed whispered in arjstocratic
circles in England that even were politi.
cal or financial objections presented to
the marriage, it would still be persevered
in. The youthful lovers have seen a
great deal more Of each other than princes
and princesses used TO do before mar.
riage, in oIlen time; an attachment has
sprung up between them of decidedly
obstinate character.
On the side Of the Princess especially
we are given to understand the feeling i:
impetuous and resolute. She is reported
to have declared that she cared nothing
what Parliament might vote, she would
marry Frederic without penny, and sht
knew that he loved her well enough to
reciprocate the intention. This is very
refreshing after glance at the record Of
former roy al marriages in Enc and.
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St,itc Of Tennessee.
Ch1ncsry Court at Winchester, .Jo'
Franklin COunfy.

Chancery Court M V'AcheSIcr' Jo'
FrunAlm County.
Clerh's Office, July 80, 1857.
SIas T. Roberts ct. ais. VS.. VIM. Rob
erts and J. G. Roberts.
On motion of complainant and it appearing
to the satisfaction Of the Clerk & Master that
defendants W. Roberts and J. G. Roberts arc
non-residents of the State Of Tennessee SO
that the ordinary process of law cannot be
served on them. it is therefore ordered that
publication be made in the Home Journal, n
newspaper published in the town OF WInches-
ter, Tenn, for three successive weeks, re-
curing said nonresident defendants to make
their personal appearance herein on or before
Wedna lay after the third Monday Of Au-
gust, A. D., 1857, and plead answer or demur
10 com plainams' bill, or the sqme will be taken
for confessed and set for hearing exParte as to
them. A copy attest.
HUI. FRANCIS, C. g. NJ.
augl 3w prs fee So
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Why DO NOT NEGROES MAKE THEIR
HOMES AMONG ABoLITIoNIsTs?-Ihe lol'
lowing extract, which we take from the
Cincinnati Enquirer, contains an idea
worth looking alters
"There is a remarkable and very Sug'
gestve fact in regard 10 the negro emf
grafton into this State. 1t is this: Oh
the twenty-five thousand free negroes in
the State, the vast majority reside in
counties where there are very few abOli.
tionists, and which have been chiefly set.
tied by emigrants from Southern States
Thtse negroes appear to have a great
dread of the abolition counties-they
give them a wide berth. Thus, for ex
ample, Ashtabula has a negro poPula
ton of forty three, Geauga seven, Trum.
bull sixty.fvc. The other counties or
the lake have a pIoPortionate number o
negroes. These counties are settled al
most exclusively by New England emf
grants. On the other hand, Ross coun
ty,a Virginian settlement, has one thous
and one hundred and ninety.elght, an
J Hamilton county over foul thousand. /
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WINCHESTER:
SATURDAY MORNING, AUGUST 90.
COurmtcrfcits,

Elves on the Northern, Union ant
Southern Banks of Tennessee, and ones
on the Bank of Kentucky, are freely Of
fered in Louisville. So says "Whi!e':
Counterfeit Detector"
Counterfeit dollars, made of brass, and
moulded from the ordinary one dollar
gold piece, are in circulation in Peters
burg, Va.
Counterfeit skies on the Farmers Bank
of North Carolina are in circulation in
Virginia.
The Shreveport Gazette learns from :
dealer in exchange in that city that he
has lately seen in circulation counterfeit
2O's, sos and zoos on the State Bank
OF Louisiana.
Counterfeit SOS on the State Bank
Of Ohio, raised from 20's, are in circula
ton"
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re The Southern Commercial Con.
venton, held at Knoxville, adjourned to
meet in Montg Ala, on the first
Monday in May next. The result of its
labors, as far as any practical good is
concerned, is just no result at all, The
time of the Convention was consumed in
discussing, passing and rejecting re-
solutons-some expressing laudablo and
some very Objectionable sentimentS-bu'
all as we'll rejected as passed--as vel
passed as rejected. So says cotem?o
rary, and SO say We.
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Re7g- We learn from the Washington
Star that the President has received a
letter from Brigham Young, expressing
qualification at the prospect Of being re-
lieved from his Gubernatorial cares, and
saying that the Mormons will treat all
federal officers who are honest, and Will
mind their own business, with respect,
Brigham also abuses the returned terrific
rial officers.