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Music OF THE WIND.

The wind is musician at birth. We extend a
siken thread in the creyice of window, and the
wind finds it and signs it, and goes up and down
the scale upon it, and poor Paginini must go some-
where else for his honor, for 10 the wind is per-
forming with single string!
1t tries almost everything upon earth, to see if
there is music in it; it persuades tone out of the
great bell in the tower, when the sexton is at home
and asleep; 1t makes mournful harp of the giant
pines and it does not disdain to try what sort OF
whistle can be made of the humblest chimney in the
world How it will play upon great tree, till every
leaf thrills with the note in it, and wind up the river
that runs at its base for sort of murmuring accom-
paniment
And what a melody it sings, when it gives con-
cert with full choir of the waves Of the sea, and
performs an anthem between the two worlds, that
goes up perhaps, to the stars that love music the
most and sang it the first
Then how fOndly it haunts old houses; moaning
under the caves, signing in the halls. opening old
doors without fingers, and singing a measure of
sad, old sOng around the treless and deserted
boortb
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DON'T SURRENDER THE HOOPS.

Some of our exchanges seem to think that hoops
must soon go out of fashion, because they are be-
coming SO common, in their use, to the whole sex
We beg to put in a doubt that subject. The same
would drive stays out of the feminine market
altogether. Women wear them, instead, universal
ly, and console themselves by limiting the dstinc-
ton to form and costness And thus it will be with
the hoop 1t is of the most graceful, it must
be, in summer, one of the most comfortable, of all
inventions recently applied to female costume. 1t
is too useful too valuable article therefore, to be
slightly abandoned. 1t is seldom the fav-
ored with discovery in garmenting that is really
sensible and judicious, that they cannot afford to
relinquish one when possessed of it. Fashion may
baaish as she should banish the infnitesimal bon
net the fragile boot the thin covering for the breast
and arms for all these are unwholesome-all bene-
fit the physician and apOthecary more than they do
those who indulge in them and desire to transmit a
healthy physique posterity. But the modern hoop
has nothing in common with such eccentricllies.-
When not exaggerated in its dimensions by bad taste
it is beautiful innovation upon the old habit of
wearing an entire wardrobe perdE, in order to give
q sufficiently voluminous flow to the drapery outside
Such an auxiliary to nature should never be per-
mitted to die out The round and the plump, to be
sure, might do without with immunity, but the mea
gre and feshless, those whose fullness is confined
entirely to the face, what spectres they would now
become if deprived of the friendly assistance Of the
steel or whalebone, rattan or gutta percha 1t Will
not do to think of it-TImss.
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4 GENTLEMAN.-Show me man who can quit the
brilliant society of the young to listen the kindly
voice Of age-who can hold cheerful conversation
with one whom years have deprived of all charms
show me the man who is willing TO help the deform-
ed, who stand in need of help, if the blush of
Helen mantled on his cheek show me the man who
would no sooner look rudey at the poor girl in the
village than at the well dressed lady in the saloon;
show the man who treats unprotected maiden
hood as he would tie heiress surrounded by the
powerful protection of rank riches and family who
scorns as he would the coward, the ridiculer of
woman's reputation; show me man who never for
gets for instant the delcacy and respect that is
due to a woman, in any condition or class, and you
show me true gentleman,
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FALL OF 1857!
GALLATIN RACES
Will Commence Monday, Sep. 81,
AND M
CONTINUE THROUGH the WEEK.

Monday, First Dey, Sweepstakes, for troo gear old,
MiIe Heats--s 100 ntIance, $50 FO felt.
l. Jonas Eleizer SOrTsl COLI by Albion,
g. 10 c. Guild names black colt, by Albion, dam Wagner
B. A. Barnes names Sorrel Fl W. by Albion, ,m Richards
Tuesday, Second Day, Sweepstakes, untred three year
Odds, Mile Heats, $500 entrance, $50 forfeit.
1. BIZ doom, names elbow Bay FHly BY Albion dam
GEORGE nlliOtt, namss Dark Grey Coli by Albion dam
,. h aham names eh Colt DesOto, by Epsilon dam
Cottage Girl b. Imp; Ainderoy.
Fowler, B. Ply Glencoe, dam Sonora Love, by
Leviathan.
John Kenne4y names Grey Fny, by Emu dam Ainderby
Wednesday, Third Day, Sweepstakes for gear Old
Nile Heats, 500 entrance, $50 forfeit.
!. James Alexander Black Plly, by Albion dam
Js g. Guild Bay FHly, by, Albion dam GIOranna
J. Eli odem names Sorrei e idng,Oy Albion dam SOVEREIGN
Same Day, Sweepstakes for four gear oLEs, tpO Nile
Heats, $3.50 entrance $50 Forfeit.
L B. F. Cheatham names Lizzie Bagg, by Epsilon,
dam Cottage Girl, BY mp Ainderby
K.Ruedy names Black Horse, banie, by Hamlet, dam
g. Ben Malone names s. dare, Ella Temple, by Albion, dam
LeyiaIhan
Thursday Fourth Day, Sweepstakes for tuo year dds
Nile Heats, 5000 entrance, $50 forfeit.
Williams and Blythe, sOrre Fy by Glencoe, dam
Jane Walton.
.. l. B. Edaards Bay FIny, by Albion, dam imp
,. Thomas c. Thmbe Bay FiIy, by Albion, dam
4. III mos c. Trlmbls, by Glencoe, dam
Stakeholder
George Elliott names sorrel Fily, by Albion dam Ann
Ihase
Friday, Fifth Day. JoeEy Club, best in 5, Nile Heats,
Purse 5000
Saturday, Sixth Day, Jockey Club, TrO Nile Heats,
Purse $500.
Same Day, Sweepstakes for tcO year ODDS, Hls out,
500 Entrance, $50 forfeit.
l. Barnes sOrrel Fly BY Albion dam Richards.
Ben Malone, names SOrrel Geidng BY Albion dam
Eclipse
J. rhomPsoa and Calgy, names ch Flly Martha William
son BY niFd Boston IAN Ambassador
III -yeIy aFrang ment made for the accommodation Of
the public laus g N3tl G. K. & Z. P WYLLIE PTo'r.
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Auction Sale of Groceries

DIV CARTER, M'KAY 81 CO. On Thursday, September
ID 1857, will offer for saie
p hid Sugar; so Boxes Melee Cigars;
$50 bags Rio Ofee $50 Boxes assorted Glassware,
so Dbls Crushsd and POw'd IS Paniad .ekets;
Sug r, 20 doz Toy Buckets;
so casks, Soda: so 4 ests Paired Tubs;
SO bozs Sperm Candles; 30 Flour Buckets;
rs boxes Imperial and Gun 20 doz Wash Boarus;
pOWd TIA; 2 grOs Matches;
300 KEGS assorted Nails, Mason Blaekug
40 boxes manufactured To- IS fue Bra dy
baecn; 100 bols Cider Vinegar;
rs doz Cotton and Hemp Bed on Dbs \. BTaHdy;
L ride; 20 bbls ; N Wine,
10000 ASST Cigars: IS bbls Rye and Bourbon
5000 percu ston Caps; WhlsEyi
so BASE Champagne; 100 bbs. Oral &c Valley Nhis-
{ Cases 'namPague cider; ";
% Casks Brown Stone, s D1z. Siters;
rs tasks Pale Ale; IS daz BrOOms.
with smaller articles TO make complete assoT
ment in the Grocery line.
aug 20 CARTER, MCKAY q co.
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SQUADRON AT Boston Quite q formidable ar
ray of battle ships are now lying at Boston There
are the Ohio and Vermont, ships of the hne-eaeh
rating eighty four guns; the Roanoke and Merri-
mac, steam, frigates-eseh rating fifty one guns;
the sloop of war Cyane, twenty guns, and the brig
Dolphin, twelve guns; making in all an armament IF
two hundred sndninety four guns. The crew Of the
new Roanoke have subscribed nearly $2OOin aid Of
the Home of the Fallen" new institution in
Boston, where inebristes are kept for reformation.
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h6r God has written on the flowers that sweeten
the air-upon the breeze that rocks the flowers
upon the stem-upon the rain drops that refreshes
the sprg of moss that lifts its head in the desert
upon its deep chambers-upon every penciled sheet
that sleeps in the of the deep, less than
upon the mighty sun that warns and cheers mil
lions of creatures which live in its ight-upon al
his works he has witten; None iveth 1or him
self f"
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HoRsEs-The age of horse is now more easily
told by his eyes than his teeth, in this way: After
the horse is nine years old, wrinkle comes on the
eyelid at the upper of the lower lid and eve
ny year thereafter he has one defined wrinkle for
each year over nine. If. for instance, horse has
three wrinkles he is twelve if four, he is thirteen;
add the number Of wrinkles TO nine and you will al
ways get it. So says a writer, and he is cOuhden
it VIII never fail. As q great many people have
horses over nine it is easily tried.
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CUCUMBER BUGS DIR. Heckerman writes " Most
gardeners are very much annoyed by these bugs,
which prey alike upon the cucumber, melon, pump
kin and squashthe latter being its favorite-and va
rious plans have been devised for their protection
such Is SCOT, sc. method which have practised
with nearly entire success is to form mixture of
equal parts of finely ground black pepper and
wheat flour, and dust the plants while the dew is
upon them with this mixture, using ordinary
-four pepper box 1t is fact generally known,
the black pepper is SO obnoxious to most insects
that few will approach stay in its presence.
The object of the -four is to combine with the pep
per, and with the water or dew to form a paste,
which will adhere to the leaves for many days,
less washed off by heavy rains; in which case the
application should be renewed.
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Rk the only substantial and sizplY managed Sewing
Machine made, ard the cheapest and most used by
families and Manu- aeturers for these and lhs following
:
LIST They make which will rip or aVsl, both
sides being alike, as IN band sewing on leather.
% HE same Machines with silk and common
Spool cotton VIII equal facility even OF goods
IRON the m est linen 10 the bFaYiest cloth leather
30 his Is rot two Needle spool Machne which
Machines make chain stitch which easily
mmOn knit stocking besides making an ugly cord outho
back Of the goods
an These Machines not at sliable ORDER
bein very simple and z N their cons ruetian
5th They faster do any other Machine
9th he stitch produced by this Machine strong
beautiful that 1t impossible % equal Il by any other
3h The proof Of the shove over 1900 Of
Machines n the United states Alone counting Europe
Where oTsr60 0, and there, practical opera
uon giving unbOunded satisfaction something that no other
Machines dor
Branch Office PubIic SQUIRE over Heksi Chin Hall
NashVill, Tennessee. WM. A SINGkR IL
arg ls-dIm AGENT
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HABITS OF THE FIsH.-Professor Agassiz, of Har-
vard is of the most useful and indefatigable of
our men of science, and we extract from late re-
port on fishes curious passage, descriptive of an
American fish:
81 have had ample opportunity to watch the Po-
mOtis, in the breadug season every spring for the
last eight years At thattme it approaches in pairs
the shores of the ponds in which it lives and selects
shallow, gravely places, overgrown with POtamoge-
ton, water lilies and other Aquatic plants in which
it begins by cleaning space of about foot in di-
amete, roofing out the plants removing with violent
JERKS Of its tale the larger pebbles and leaving a
cleo spot of I'm ssnl in which it depositsis eggs
surrounded and ,rshadoWed By grove Of verdure.
In this enclosure of the parents remains hover
ing over brood and keeping at a distance all in
truders The Office of watching over the progeny
does not deyolve exclusively upon either of the
es, but the males and females watch alternately
The ferceness with which they dart at their enc
miles, and the anxiety with which they look for every
approaching danger, show that they are endowed
with stronger instincts than have been known here
tofore in any of their class Their foresight goes so
far as to avoid the bait attached to any hook how
ever near II may be brought to them, and however
lively and tempting it may be- However near to
one another, the pair of one nest do not interfere
with those of another but like good neighbors they
live peaceably together, passing over each others
domains when going out for food, without making
any disturbance But whenever an minated single
fish makes its appearance among the nests he is
chased away like an inlruding libertine and vaga-
bond. The development of the egg is very rapid
Ia less than week the young are Matched, and the
parents cease take any further of them
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NTRAMRERRY PnANT,.

OFFER tbs folio wing Strawberry Plants for sale Iowa,
at 81 per hundred pens about the attn OF MY. Boston
Pine d liar per hundred rpen- the sth OF May
TsylOrs Seedd g, dollar per h1ndereI rpens he
iItb Of May Georgia Mammoth, n two dollars pr humid
red rpens the 10Th OF Nay Tn above list Oi plants all
large and self mpTegnatnrs and will produce Tui with
king pstills- and shmintte plants VITA them. All
for strawberry Plants iet DemOvie Bsl's No.
20 Cherry street, will be promptly attended 20 BY me
aug. s9-W9t' JAMES Z. WALKER
WANTED TO IsENT-A small family residence
w Ii you address - ~ K. - city post
Office. A good price will be paid. AugustH
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UtuUUH , HIHJUIIty' ... 1oo1
see you have the vote of jackson county lZzi
for Hattoa and 1912 for Harris You have the nS-
ures reversed. Harris got 1921 and HattOn lzlz'
Jesse Wood is the representative elect from the
Countries Of Fenrress, Morgan and Scott. >.
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b6T Senator Rusk, whose melancholy death was
recently recorded, was the son Of very poor IRISH
emigrant who, when he came to this country, settled
in South Carolina, land belonging to John C. CAL
houn. He was q stone cutter by trade
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hfeBR NAMt.h
81 I1ss xAke1E 9. atas7

81 KISS xAeo1z q. z1aB1
The honey bees ere hurmingit
Among the clover sweet,
It trembles in the Southern wind
That ripples DER the wheat;
It steals 10 me through peasant songs;
1t comes with bridal bells,
And is as full of music as
The ocesh is of shells.
In silver letters on the sky,
Away above the sea,
The clouds SO busy all the day,
Are braiding it for me,
/ see it in each drop Of dew
That like diamond shines;
The iris writes it through the rain,
In many cOlored lines.
1t is the spell that makes the hours
Run golden in the spring;
It's in the notes love so well
To hear the wild bird sing.
In starlight and in summer flowers,
It's all the same, the same;
The music that my heart beasts to,
Is that enchanted name.
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POPULATION AND TRADE OF Misunderstanding to
the of l845-'46 the population of Delhi, in
India one hundred and thirty-seven thousand
nine hundred and seventy inhabitants OF
which seventy one thousand five hundred and thirty
HindOos sixty-six thousand one hundred and
twenty Mussumans, and three hundred and twenty
seven Christians. To these figures must be added
twenty-five thousand inhabitants of the surburbs,
which would give an aggregate population of about
one hundred and sixty thousand souls The COM
mprce of Delhi is quite active. During the year
1851 there entered the city more than hundred
and eighty thousand horses, or beasts of burden,
carrying merchandise, and sixty five thousand We
hieles. The trade consists in the exchange of
horses, fruits, Cashmere, precious stones and jewel
ry, which to be added the costly productions
OF local industry, such asshawls, tissues of cotton,
indigo, sc. Delhi has always been considered one
of the most remarkable cities il India. Besides the
Gazette of Delhi, published in English; there are
eight journals published in the native tongue Hin
dostanese. Schools also numerous.
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THE CUNNING THBUsH.-There ismuch more intel
lec in birds than people suppose. An s of this
occurred the other day at slate quarry belonging
to a friend from whom we have the narrative. A
thrush, not aware of the expansive properties of
gunpowder, thought proper to build her nest a
ridge of the quarry, in the very centre OF which
they constantly blasting the rock. At first
she was very much discOmpOsed by the fragments
flying all diIcctisns, but still she would quit
her chosen locality. She observed that bell rang
whenever a train about to be fired, and that at
the notice the wOrkmen retired TO safe positions.
In few days, when she heard the bell she quilted
her exposed situation and few down to where the
workmen sheltered themselves, dropping close to
their feet There she would remain until the ex-
plosiOn had taken place, and then return to her
nest. The workmen observed this and narrated it
to their employers, and also tJld to visitors
who came to view the quarry. The visitors natu-
rally expressed wish to witness curious spec-
men of intellect, but as the rock could not always
be blasted when visitors came, the bell was rung
instead and for a few times would answer the same
purpose The thrush few down close to where
they stood, but she perceived the change and it in
terfered in the process of incubation; the cOnse-
ouence vas, that afterwards when the bell was
rung she would peep the ledge to ascertain if
the workmen did retreat, and if they did not she
would remain where she was-LondoH Literary
Journal.
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Nor OF THAT FANnT.-A man whose appearance
indicated that he staggering from the excessive
weight of a brick in his hat being asked ii he was
Son of Temperance, replied 81 Hic-no-no re-
lstion-not even an hic-scquaintance."
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AUCTION SALE OF GROCERIES
Fl. 6. French and Son,

4 IN TUESDAY, SEPT. l. will offer sale in front
warehouse, CLARK street, o'clock the fol-
lowing articles OF which desire to close Uh
out reserve, viz:
30 hnds Sugar, from fair to50 dOz Painted Buckets;
prime; 5 ans Wrapping Paper,
100 bags n. o. and Baltimore 25 bb,, Dom site Brandy;
Coffee, % bbls Holland Gin;
1000 kegs Nails choice brands; 50 bis julius Smiths Old
$40 boxes Star Candles, full eseT-e Whisky;
weight; 20 cases Matches;
2OIi brls. Whisky, varOusI0J box Corn starch;
brands 100 Whea ten tarch;
100 boxes Tobacco; 10 . CherOOt Cigars.
UO0sie cousre and fine salt; $50 " TaIOw tanIles-
$50 900 Cigars d brands 80 " Backing, large and
10 dOz BrIOms small.
$50 b.X Fine Brandy
With other arlirirs the geOccry lin
mention hus26 n ) ERENlH q SON.
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3O-Itd&'
FOR SALE.

THE following Real Estate SITUATED in the city Of sh
vilIe VIZ: small house containing four good
and BEN No. 90 North summer street adjoining
my the adjoining Lot trO ting forty feet on
Summer street. Lot fronting ATTY feet South side Of
CraN lord street, between and High streets Lot
fronting twenty-eghI Fr nearly opposite
TO the Railroad Bridge Three Lots in ge6cid with fly
fe front Ana will sell ANAL ia contain
ing twenty acres, mines North Of the city.
The above property wi sold low and reasonable
aug ~ JOHN W. MARTIN.
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oPINIoNs oF ThR PRRss.


This will bring attention present gen.
GRAFTON multitude Of things connected with the govern
which have long lain in fOrgetfulness TSrk IA
dsPsadszL
This work will prove Of Immense value TO public men,
Every American citizen aims civil
history Of his COuntry.-sr Yort c0urisr and RaqEru.
Col BsutOn's quaaestiOus for this task no die.
Puts. His uPOn the ts page inspires eona
deEee in its and 'sih lis imPArsay and
tire fsithfuness.-BOaOE Trapsllsr.
Its surprising ses how many Of the Subjects which
still before discussed By the fathers In the very
infancy oftns confederation We shall welcome each
csssive voIums Of this work a ven valuable addition
the history Of the country-BOst0s Daay -f4rsrssr.
The AbridgsnenI Dsoaes Congress- By Mr.. Ben
ton, made with much and sEcelsnl Iudgmen.-
THIS work will form smos complete history Of the United
adoption Of the federal constitution, and
will be invaluable work OF rssrsncs-Sss YSrk csz-
E4sTei4L
The theory Of institutions, the and working
the various parts correctly understood BY those VIVA
will beat the trouble sudyi and the Of this inO
nation will be- in these Debates within the reach 81 ever
citizen. The indexes end Of volume entsr
easy any particular subjset--EsaO AaUsrass
An enterprise Ike Tits 50 interesting and
tional, deserve. ample sneoHragsmsUt The
GhO says in preface that WORK will De TO him labor
pride, rssuscatng the patri tic dead-no
skipped and each In his place, with the best Of his works in
hand.-Bssf0H Post.
This abhdgemeRt considering the nestmable value Of the
Debates complete political history Of the country ms
treasury which should possessed ~ every
citizen who afford and there eWEno are 10, able
coming out, will seriay Bsllsiis, Ma
Orleans
This abrdgementis bsresteed to the speeches 81
celebrated orst0rs but will extend the business and
TO the pIsnes speakers who spoke N give informa
zion subjects of surviving interest DAILY Pisayuns Ma
Orleans.
By Debates End the first business introduced into
the House Of Representatives. After the nauaurstiOa
bill collect Duties Imports aud curious and inter
esng debate that every speaker seemed
regard the protection of home industry one Of the OBJ
ecis matter Of in any project for
raising We shall probably receive The Of
every reader in saying, that living person combines
OF the qualities necessary for he proper execution Of
than the Senator who has undertaken
it-Nahgnsl InteLligeNeer. HashiaEtsa.
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40 Mules, Large Iron Works,
PER-OSAL
T. q H - "A IL "a.
DIV virtue a decree rendered in the ChIncery Court
ID shye, ID the tO Ledbetter and B,stick JnO.
S Bri-n and Rs, will AZ public auction on
the Pubic Square in GAINESVILLE.
Monday, the 18th ay of sept.
Hext-40 FINE MULkS, and some agOns and Harness ;
and on the
First Day of October Sext,
will sell at lrJn MOuntsn county,
said Furnace AM LAnt-abO 1900 acres with about
O0U fine bottom land, about 90 in Cuiv
In place could b. Uade the nues SOes Farms
Tennessee has Abundance Of fne mountain
bark The lend lies between the Tennessee and Cumbss-
land river aud extends esch has fine woodward
prvilt gs ard all the wood read ~ sold
boats In addition 20 these advantages il has fine Fur
with all the necessary fixtures ABOUT
will also the time, Blacksmith Tools, Carts,
Wagons. Axes &c, &c.
The real etste 20 be sold credit Of 1, and years
(afier small cash pay and the personal property
a credit Of or6 month, win notes bank FOR all
over SlGO-fJT smaller b will be required. Two
good securities required the notes, and lien retained
the land III the purchase money is paid.
aug 26-tds TH0S W. WISROM.
have tao likely young negro men and valuable
man to sell pri a,ely. Call soon. T. w. W.