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he was in the minutest danger of life OF
limb?"
From anything which had been done to him
perhaps not, but -
"Oh, d-n it, sir, sufficient unto the day is
the evil &c. If you undertake to right all the
wrongs that may be hereafter you'll have your
hands fuller than | would wish to have mine.
" But St. Dominique distinctly told me he
had spite against the man."
" Did he? No? opine you wouldn't like to
swear to that"
Il should
Durham looked at him again, and set il
down. "That comes nearer than anything
we've had yet to prove malice. OF ITSELF how
ever, 1T don't amount to much. A man may
have spite deservedly against servant, with
out the slightest intent to MAIN or kill ANYTHING
more to that effect?" -
He keeps his negroes from running away
by pulling out their toe-nails for every unsuc-
cessful attempt to escape. He keeps Sam les,
to work than to serve for what he calls scape-
goat, and fortunes him as warning to the
rest"
TO BE CONTINUED.
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9The SUMS rim dips; the stars are veil'd
Al one str.Ge CONES the dark

Is it life, or is 4 aeathS Close packed
pressed GOWN, crushed under the weight o
worlds, as if he had stolen into the centre crypt
and the mass had closed in upon him, and al
the Titans, giants, gnomes, Heracles, Cyclopes
Anakim, Cog and Magog, Og, Russian, Autar
the whole mighty race gotten of the sons o.
God upon the daughters Of men, had been
draughted into one building band, to heap the
mountains on him in millions Of a:gqs,' till the
pile, "singeing its pate against the burning
zone, made 0ssa like a wart" More airl More
air Built up within hopeless dungeon, like the
toad, about whose sleeping form the LIVING
rock has grown, till twice three th..cusand years
have eat down to his p.ison where, squatted
pagoda; or, like Ariel, by Sycoran's ";mmi,i
and left to fret away his dainty spirit
Is it life, or is h DEATH this smothering prison
vault, whose heavy, murky vapors come dowr
upon him, like the fell miasma that the evening
breeze brings aboard hapess ships becalmef
on Africas CLASSY seas !; vapors which weigt
upon the spirit like the hsayy&aad Of the night
bag, agd aaenea out the Joy oflife, as we quenci
fiiokering taper in its own Grass oil Is i
life, or is it death? This darkness "heavy as
pail " that hangs about him, this black, silent
darkness, that he can feel, that makes him
shrek out with curdling blood, so awful ia it
Where the icy earth swings blIna and black
ening in tha meQniess air;" silent, stirless
LlacEness, not for an hour nor day, but fol
months and years dark, silent, black, and hor
rible. Where thought lives rushingly, and
lacking other food, feeds cannibally on itself
aeous Of moody thought, ranging from the IN
finity of worlds to the minpteEass Of the tiny
sand-spar and Al torn gut Sf his own bosom
numbering parricidal brood.
Is it life, or is it death? Better to swim
amid the lakes of hell, whose waters are hot
lavas, eating to the bone, and not consuming
better to bleach on the cold cliff, fettered in ada
mantine, spiked through the vitals, ever feed
ing insatiate vultures on an EhshA:s gift q
liver better 70 tkisst aud last for the fair thing:
around you, with q Tantalus-sense and longing
than thus to be devoured BY yourself, locked in
your loathed self, and but yourself for Yourself
company, hateful consort! Better to wander
demon-lashed through space, than thus e i,
Persian poetry full Of tie lov.s of the Nshtnigsl'
and the Rose.
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From the New York Evening Post
A VISIT TO THE ALLEGHANIES OF
MARYLAND.

re Alpine Ptateau-D Description of Scenery
Bear Hunting an the Mountains-T Es.
cape an the Laurel Thickets - Meshqck
Bropntng, the Chief Of Bear Htnters-.Mdy-
nafds Gan-Sha,p Shooting.
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Governor Banks on Farmers.

Gov. Banks delivered the address before the
Agricultural Society at Amherst Mass. After
speaking Of the great general progress of
America and the part which farmers have ia
ken therein, especially during the past year,
when their products amounted in value to six
teen hundred millions Of dollars he said
@This is what agricultural industry contri-
butes to the wealth Of the country! A yearly
contribution; contribution in dollars and
dimes merely, and not embracing an estimate
Of its physical strength, capacity for endur-
ance, the love of labor and the power, with
which agricultural industry invests communi-
ties wherever it prevails. In. this view we
confiAs our consideration strickly to those who
make field culture the business of life. Be-
yond this, how wide the influence which it
exerts upon other pursuits Whence do we
derive the vigorous intellect of professional
life that alorns society with its varied accom-
plishments, and protects individuals in the'enss
joyment Of life, health and their moral and
personal rights Whence comes that vigor-
Gus and exhaustless intellect that reyels in
new channels of thought and by new concep-
tons of power, creates the marvels-miracles
.almost-that fill the world of invention from
day to day Who supplies the successive
rasesof men that, occupying for brief hour
an obscure spot upon the merchants exchan-
ges Of Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Paris
and London, give to the world of finance and
politics its law Does professional society
reproduce itself? Can inventive spirits call
up their own successors Have the mercan-
tile center of the world ever reproduce thei"
own financial giants Never The farm
supplied all. 1t is the salt of the earth, and
If this earth's salt lose its SAVIOR, wherewith
shall the earth be salted.
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~ v. .. nEssEr.

Z
Yoar wsddinering wears thin, dear wife; al, sum
siass put i on jour sngsr r.sshavs passed Ger
me- and vous :
Ana, love, what changes We hare sesn-what cares
and pleasures too
ss
blessings on that happy day, the hsppisst Of my
When, thanks to God, your low sweet Yes" made
Your heart win say The same, know; that days
that day thss made ne your, dear wife, when this
old ring was new
How usll do / rsnsnbsr nov, soar young sweet
Hos e faif yoa Ssls-hou den you usre-ny tongue
Nor how I dostsd On Jon; ah, how proud was of
Bat id Ii0vs JON more than now, when this old
ring was newt
Ne-noi no fairsr we're you then than At Ems hour
And ds.. 5. life to me this. day. how could you
As srssl Jour face nigh. be that day as now it is
But id | know your heart as wen when this old
ring was new
partner Of my glsdnsss, wife what care, what
grief b there,
For me you would not brsvely faee,-with me you
Wonld not sharef
o What weary want had svery day, If wanting
Wanting the love that God made smine when this
I'D ring was nsN.
Years bring fresh links to bind rs. wife-snah
vnfnnn that here.
small faces round oar ire that make their motners
small, loving heart. ysaE care each day makes yet
Mere lie the loving hssrt madsmins when this old
ring was new.
And, blessed b God, all BE has given are with US
Our able, sTssy tss lifslsnt tous still Is fOund.
Though cares we've. known with hopeful hearts
the worst we've struggled through
Blessed be His name for ill His love since this old
ring vas neN.s
rbeps.t i dear; ~ swsstnsss 'sill our memories
The elis[ we've borne, togs.hsr borne, We would
whstsssr. Siis, he future bring. heart unto heart
Wen share As We have lshared al else since this
old ring was new.
And u God spare us 'nongs. our sons and daugh-
tiers to grow Old,
We know His goodness win not led your heart or
your SEED eyes win see in mine al thsy'v. stiil
shown 70 yoa,
ring was new.
And o. when death shall come u last 70 bid me to
Nay IdisiooEing in those syes,aas restingon that
0 may ny parting gaze be blessed with the dear
OF those fond syss-fond as ehsy we're when this
old ring wss new.
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81 wAlrEa As u

BIZ WAll.I g : As g va. /
$500 80,
We're / but Jove, for one short day. :
Win regal, uneisputed sway
fonod approval, frown dismey- -.
With mortal mien-
I'd stalk within the halls Of STATE,
Where noodles most do eongfegste,
And teach then how % legislate
g
IA stana behfni the Sueaker's chair.
Al ~ Auser.hiv III rkauld stars
r. - saIs- noisei s.rsn ne Air.
,Sacfors h.n,,nerT
Al - - orefor sSanh r;se.
TS;,f;5y = n,fer sornsttinr wise
IA AXE he audience b. surprise
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statistics Of the Mormon population.

The Valley Tan copies the following stats
ties of Mormon population
The population Of Mormons in United
States and British dominiens in 1856 was not
less than SO, 700-of which SO 900 were resi-
dent in Utah, 5000 in. New York State, 1000
in California, 5000 in Nova Scotia and the
Canadas, and 5000 in South America. In
Europe there were 49, OoO-of which $1,000
were in Great Britain and Ireland, 5000 in
Scandinavia 1,000in Germany and Switzer-
LOCO; in Australia and Polynesia, 2,400; in
Africa, 100; and on travels, 2,3o0. To these,
if we add the different schismatic branches,
including Strangeites Rigdonites and Whiteites
the whole sect was not less than 10000 In
1857 there appears to have been decrease in
the population Of Utah-the number being
only 8, 022 Of which 5000 were children
above L, 900 women, and II 600 men capable
Of bearing arms. There are 388 men with 8
or more wives; of these, Ii have more than
10 wives, $50 men with 5 wives, 1000 with
4, and 2, 400 with more than l wife. Reca-
pitulatioR-4, 617 men, with 16, 500 wives |.
An ELOQUENT -Generation after
generation have felt as we do now, and their
lives were as active as your own. The heav-
ems shall be as bright over our graves as they
are around our paths. Yet little while and
all this will have happened. The throbbing
heart will be stilled, and we shall be at rest
Our funeral will wend its way, and the prayer
viii be said, and we shall Be left in the dark
ness and silence of the, tomb. And it may
be that for short time we shall be spoken of
but the things'of life shall creep On and oui
names shall be forgotten. Bays willcontinue
to move on, and laughter and songs viii be
heard in the room where we died and thu
eyes that incurred for us be dried and anima,
tedswith joy, and even our children viii ceast
to think Of us, and will remember to lisp ouI
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A CASE OF SoMNABULIsM.-A little girl,
aged about seven years, daughter of B. A.
GaTlinger, Esq, Of Hagerstown, Nd, one
night last week arose from her bed while
asleep, and walked out of window which
had been left open in her bedroom in the Sc
cond story of Mr.. CTS dwelling. The Herald
says:
She was precipitated distance of twenty
feet upon very hard ground below, and when
found by her parents, who were awakened BY
the noise of her face, she was in reeumbent
posture, resting upon her hands and feet, in
state of utter Inconsistencies. She was ia
ken up, and DR.. John O. Dorsey sent for
After several hours of medical treatment she
revived, and, strange torelate, she had escaped
without breaking bone or sustaining any
other injury, save few bruises and a severe
shock of her nervous system.
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OF A young French soldier writes to his
mother from Castigiione HDear mother, I
am yet living, and lively but am not quite
complete. The surgeon of the regiment has
cut off one of my legs. I have been used to
having the leg by me, and the parting was
cruel Do not weep dear mother, but rejoice,
rather, ! will Tejoin you nov, not to leave you
again. I will always be now, part OF your
little card party, thanks to the wooden Leg
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RELIEF OF NEURALGIA.-As this dreadful
disease is becoming more prevalent than for
merly, and as doctors have not discovered any
method or medicine that will permanently
cure it, we simply state that for some time
past member of our family has suffered most
intensely from it, and could find no sure relief
from any remedy applied, until we saw an ar
ticle, which recommended the application of
horse radish to the face, for toothache. As
neuralgia and the toehache, are both nervous
diseases, we thought the remedy for the one
would be likely to give relief to the other, SO
we made the application of horse radish bruised
and applied to the side of the body where the
disease was seated, it gave almost instant re-
lief to the severe attack of neuralgia. Since
then we have appliedit several times, and with
the gratifying results. The remedy is simply
cheap, and may be within the reach of every
one.-LdureasuH Herald
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OCEAN SPRINGS HOTEL
e. w. GEER& co PROPRIETORS.

VNNHIS Hotel is now being thoroughly renovated
Il and newly furnished, and win be opened for
Tie reception Of visitors on the LIST day of June
next. Every effort viii be made to render visitors
comfortable and TO make their stay pleasant.
Then the beautiful bay at Ocean Springs, there
is no better place for catching or fishing or bath
ing.
For the amusement of visitors there Is Ten-Pin
Alley, Pistol Gallery, Billiard Tables etc. Bar
is attached. to the Hotel, which will be supplied
with the choicest wines, liquors and cigars
A band of Music win be kept at the Hotel during
the entire season. ball and supper will be given
twice week-Tuesday and Thursday nights.
The mineral springs 50 celebrated for their
tive powers, are in excellent condition. An 0mni-
bus viii run regularly several times day to and
from the Hotel to the springs. For testimony res
pectng the medicinal virtues Of these springs ref
erence may be made to DR.. Austin or DIR Thop,
New 0rleaas; or, to Rev. DIR. McTyeire, Nashville
Tenn.
Ocean Springs never having been visited by cpl
denies, is decidedly the healthiest well as the
most beautiful location on the Gulf shore.
Nay 9th '59--H ]. WILKINSON Agent.
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DELINQUENT TAx-LANDs.

AUDITORS OFFICE, a
jackson, Miss, June "a, 1859.
FHNHE following described land in ths county of
Il Yazoo delinquent for non-payment of Taxes
of 1885, viii be subject to entry Or purchase at
this Office sitter sixty days from the date hereof by
any citizen of this State, upon payment Of amount
for which said lands are delinquent aad all costs to
the State, with damages and subsequent taxes, ac-
erued. See Revised Code of Mississippi, Chap l,
Sec. 9, Arts. 45 and 46, p. 80.
Is feet of Lot 9 in Benton.
Lot Is in Benton.
Part of Lot $50 and 46I in Benton.
Lot 202 in Yazoe City.
MADISON McAFEE
June "a '59-60d. Auditor of Public Account.
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FEMALE SEMINARY FOR LEASE,
N ACCORDANCE with resolution of the Board
Il Of Directors of the Female Seminary at Sum
NIT Miss, application solicited for the lease of
the Seminary Buildings.
The extent of the Buildings and the central pos
ition ond healthfulness of the location should claim
the attention Of those wishing to establish first
class Female School
y Applications will be received until the I4th of
August next, and they win be examined and de-
termined by the Board Of Directors the next day.
An applications should be addressed to c. Hoover
President or w H. Garland Secretary, at Summit,
Pike county} Miss, either of whom will furnish full
information in relation to the buildings terms 90 ;
July 26 ,59-s aag Il C. HOOXER Presl,t
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From tie Nashville DAILY Nescs.
TRY SMILES LINGERING HOUND
NE STILL.
BY RANDALL.

How eft in hours % ere,
Az through the Hsulty.sky above, -
fhe tRinklfng starshsFe gently bsama
Upon thy smiles the lie Of love.
Yes, many TINA when wandering thoughts
Of hope, or fear, my heart would al,
The hrightness Of thy smiles have bid
Ny troubled heart be calm and still
Twas e'en thy smiles that bid me hope,
s Is AGAINST stern fate for happy years;
5 Twas NY sweet smiles that FIRST awoke
e Ny love now fading heath my tears.
Ethereal visions, let megaze,
In raptures On thy dnz7ling grseef
Let not he stsr-gemed rapors hide
The s6iles that bloom around thy face.
Bat let ne drink, Is Oft have,
Tbs strssus Of light that softly dow,
From cut fhose ofbs half hid from sight,
By curtain hoped Eiih golden bows.
o, hids diem not, BAT let their N.Y.
NJ Rsnry life NTH vigor III
Add sWaetnes - them IS they blocn,
They seEtly lingsr 'rosnd me stili,.
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Pine Grove water Cure and Hygieni,

Pine Grove Water Cure and Hvgienic
Institute. 81
AssLARGE and commodous Water Cure Infrnary
"A has been opened at Raymond, for the recep-
ton and treatment q acute and every variety Of
chronic diseases. The location Il delightful one
mile from he Court House, where u 10 at eli times
quiet and free from dust. Especial attention given
70 Abe managemsnt of everyvarfsty offemale af-
ections. For particulars apply for our circular
or address J.S, WISE, NJ D.
August 4, 'S1-h. Raymond, Miss.
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PROPS. BARTON & REINACH.

PKOFB. BARIUN q REINACHs
INDIAN DOCTORS have permanently settled in
Il Jackson-We operate on cancers BY treatment
on the system constitutionally, without caustic,
without pain, without the use Of the knife. We
extract the by the roots, without possibli
ty Of its returning; and it is now admitted by all
that we are the most successful operators in
the world, We will enumerate a few Of the SO
called incurable diseases that we are prepared to
cure and treat: Consumption, anchylOsis or stiff
joints, every variety of tumors ulcers, rheuma-
tism, govt, neuralgia, scrofula, syphilis chronic
dysentery, piles, stula, in ano, without the use of
the knife or caustic white swelling, diseases of
the eye, ear, and all female complaints.
We challenge the world to perform the cures we
are now making. Office . few doors above the Post
Office, May I9 '59-tf.
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10 THE FARslERs.-Ike Marvel gives the
following advice to farmers
Move on towards better life. Make YOU
farm place your sons and daughters cannot
help loveing Cultivate, the trees-they are
Gods messengers. Don't say you care both
ing for good looks. You do care, else why dc
you build that two-story white house, with
blinds and cupola, into which you never go
Or why did you, years ago, brush your coat
and pull up your shirt collar, when you were
starting on . Sunday evenings visit to the
good woman who now shares your home
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TN the City of jackson, on the 18th of ~
I July. q deep bay, about I51x hands Ii
high, small star in the forehead, with scar Just
below It, and diamond on the end Of The. nose ;
both hind feet are white with wind-gall On the
outside Of each leg, Just below the knee and D
small white spot on his right shoulder about the
size Of half dime. The thief has been traced
from Rankin Ceuntyso within mile or Two Of
Clipton, Miss, on his way to the westward. *
The thief will weigh about q or $50 ponnds,
is Of light Complexion, and has light hair with 3
red or sandy goatee an bis chin.
g&sw. A. 4. J.. MANGHAM,
Battle Springs Miss
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DELINQUENT TAX LANDS.
f21,Irnp

jackson. Miss., June 81, 1881
snNiE follo,siag described lands in the county Of
i Yalebuslla, delinquent for non-payment Of
Taxes Of 1855 will be subject to entry or purchase
Il Ills Office after sixty days from the date hereof
by any citizen If this State, upon payment Of
smount for which said lands delinquent and all
costs \. the Stare, with damages and subsequent
"a res accrued. See Revised Code of Mississippi,
Char, i, Sec. q, Arts. As and "a. y. 81.
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DELINQUENT TAX LANDS.
AIrDIFnR,s EEPIcE

Jackson, Miss, June 81, 1885,
fNSHE following described lands in the county Of
Il Calhoun, delinquent for non-paymsnt Of Tax
IS Of 1855, will be subject to entry or purchase at
this office after sixty days FROM the date hereof by
any citizen of this State, upon payment Of amount
for which said lands delinquent and all costs to
the State, with damages aud subsequent taxes
crsed. See Revised Code Of Mississippi, Chap. l,
Sec. ., Arts. 40, 49, p. 81.
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UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI.

u
FACULTY OF ARTS.
Frederick A. p. Barnard, LII. D., President and
~ sg<ssS-.1- - DSs'ssAs fsFASss'. = F,ssss 49,
William F. Stearns, LII. D., Professor of Govern
mental Science and Law.
George W. Carter, NJ A., Professor of IntelIec-
tual and Moral Philosophy, and. International
Law.
Edward C. Boynton, NJ A., Professor of Chem
istry, Mineralogy, and Geology.
Jordan NJ. Phipps, NJ. A., Professor of Mathemat
les.
Wilson G. Richardson, M. A., Professor of Latin
and Modern Languages.
Henry Whitehorne, NJ. A., Professor of Greek and
Ancient Literature.
William D. Moore, M. A., Professor of English
Language and Literature. =
-, Assistant in Natural Philos-
ephy.
The twelfth Annual session of this Institution
will commence on Monday the Srd of October next.
1t offers advantages to young men seeking thor
Ough education, unsurpassed anywhere in the Uni
ted States, and unequaled in the South.
Its apparatus and arrangement for the illustration
of Physical science, and Chemistry entirely un-
rivalled. In mineralogy it possesses q cabinet Of
select specimens, choice and valuable.
Its collection Of shells surpasses in variety and
beauty any other public collection on this Con-
tinenf.
> The President and Professors iced no commenda.
ton from the Board of Trustees, most Of them
being we'll and favorably known to the public as
experienced and able instructors. {.
The location of the University is in the highest
degree healthful- no epidemic sickness has ever
occurred there or in Oxford.
The government of the University is mild but
efficient. Every effort is made to cultivate manly
tone of feeling among the students and an elevated
tone Of morality; it is moreover surrounded by a
population whose practical regard for religion and
morality is we'll known and is not surpassed any
where.
It is also easily accessible being on the line of
the Mississippi Central Railroad, which win be
completed in few months.
The accommodations for the comfort of students
are ample. Two spacious boarding houses will be
open by October.
spacious Gymnasium, with all the most approved
aparatus for encouraging bodily exercise and promo
ting physical development, will be ready for use in
the fall.
TRRAs-Tuition $40 per annum.
Fuel and attendance $25. To those who LODGE
out of the college buildings sic.
Tuition in the Law Department. $50.
Board in the College boaring houses and in pri.
vate families abont So per month. q
JAMES N. HOWRY.
Oxford, July n, 1859. #