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The constitutional union., 1860-11-23

There is loud complaint raised against the British for capturing and surendering up General Walker to the authorities of Hon duras, whenitwas known in advance he would be shot. Many are calling upon our govern ment to interfere and revenge his death. This Cur. government cannot do. Gen. Wal ker became a citizen of Nicaragua five years ago, and in thus expatriating himself, he tied the hands Of the government of the United States so far as anything our country can do Nicaragua is the only power on earth which could legally proceed in the matter, and as that government long since rejected Walker it is useless to hope that hand will be raised to ayenge his death.
The constitutional union., 1860-11-23

A BAD HABIr.-The practice of wearing tight finger rings is excessively dangerous But short time since we read an account of a man having died of lockjaw, produced by wearing a tight finger ring. An exchange notices woman in Newark who wore a large flint ring so tight, it became impossible to re- move 1t. An examination showed the finger to be quite dead below the ring, and that de- composition had commenced The ring was a quarter of an inch wide by an eigth in thickness. She went to physician to have it removed but without avail, and the phys- sian was compelled to resort to amputation as the only means of preventing fatal result The finger was accordingly taken off at the base. 1t is believed the woman wore the ring through superstitious motives, as she manifested more uneasiness at parting with the ring than with the finger
The constitutional union., 1860-11-23

SAM AND THE BEAUTY.-'' We'll sais l. and rested aein on my elbow and looked up into her beautiful tace-for there's no way gal looks 50 pretty as when in that position, If they have to look un to you, 1t kinder causes them to throw tie head back, open the eyes too wide, and covers the whole face with strong light. Half the beauty, and more than halfthc expression is lost. Besides, the neck is apt to look cordy. When they look down, the eye.ashes fall, and the eye is better shaped, more oval, less round. and Is more liquid The beautiful bow shape of the mouth shows better, the rnglets hang graceful, and there shades here and there Ill the face that sets it of grand. Northin' ever looks pretty in glare. That's the advantage in paintin. It makes one know what he couldn' larn without. My clocks have been the makin' of me, that s a fact. Daubn' figures on 'em seems to stu dy drawin' and paintin', and that made me stu dy natur An artist has more than two eyes, that's a fact. 'Sophy,' sais l, 'atore %. 1 must try and take you, just as you now sit Sam Shck
The constitutional union., 1860-11-23

TIE ToNGUE.-Other things have been subdued. but who has ever subdued thIs un- rulv evil! Laws have been made, penalties inflicted God has spoken, and man has back ed with the enactments the statutes ot Jeho- yah ; but what letters have ever bound, or can ever bind, the lawless tongue! The deadly poison of its inhictions, regardless ot all law and all restraint, has spread through the lite-hood of society: and character, intlu- ence, everything lovely and of good report, have fallen before 1t.
 The duty is a personal one-eyery man must bridle his own tongue, or all other re- strants are vain. You may multiply enact ments, but these cannot tame the tongue. Man will talk unless he puts d restraints upon himself The duty, therefore, comes home to every mans heart; 1t Is personal duty; and 1t Is difficult, and cannot be done without effort. It Is 50 easy to speak what we think, that 1t is hard to refrain from it,
 The prevalence of the evil too, renders it difficult to cure How common Is evil speaking How great d part of the conyersa- ton of social visits is made up of small talk, evil talk and nonsense, and islander about our friends and neighbors. Hence. the one who begins to put d bridle on his tongue must be content to De thought singular and unsociable; and this will require courage We must remember too, that we are not to hear islander any more than to speak it; We must govern our ears as well as our tongues And our thoughtcssncss increases tue ditfl- culty. Though we have two ears, and but one tongue, we should therefore hear and think tWlce before we sneal
The constitutional union., 1860-11-23

HUNG FOR THE NINETEENTH TIME-A western Missouri cotemporary tells the follow ing: " On Tuesday last, news came to this town that man was seen hanging between Independence and MaXweIl's Landing. The coroner was promptly notified of the fact, and he, Tn the discharge of his duty, as promptly repaired to the scene; but to his surprise found the man alive, kicking and walking about as other people do, with no rope around his neck-where the rope ought to be. He (the coroner) made some inquiries about the victim and the old woman-that is Mrs. Eli colt, the wife of the hung man-replied he was cut down, but not dead; and further re- marked that it was about the nineteenth time he had attempted to hang himself and hadn' | yet succeeded, but she'd be teetotally damed if he mightnt hang the next time until he was dead that she never would cut the cord again to let him breath easy We understand that Ellcott is in the habit of hanging him. self every time he has family jar, and al- though he has made so many attempts has never yet got without sight of the house where his wife would never fail to let him down before his wind shortened
The constitutional union., 1860-11-23

MEcHANICs-The fashion of tue aristoc- racy so-called, putting on airs and turning up their noses at the idea of associating with mechanics, is fast passing out of date. Me chanics are beginning to be valued at what they are worth, as all men should be, and if they do not get a position in other respects, the fact that they are mechanics cannot with hold 1t from them. If they do not conduct themselves in manner to be worthy of it, they have no right to expect 1t. The learned professions are So crowded that it takes man of more than ordinary talent to acquire any thing more than a competency. Men are beginning to train their sons, and very prop erly, for other things besides law and medi- cine. And we find young men who have received the advantages of liberal education turning their attention to mech unism. as more likely to secure their independence That man shall work, is a decree from heaven, and that a man who works for a living is not enti- tied to as much respect as the man who gets a living without working for it, is an idea which, if it ever existed, is fast vanishing from the minds of men.
The constitutional union., 1860-11-23
A PERFECT WIrE-Elmund Burk's beau

A PERFECT WIFE-EJmuud Burk beau ideal of a perfect wife is worthy of con,ide- ration by our far friends Here it is:
 4 perfect wifi is handsome. but it is not a beauty arising from the features. from com pleXion, or from shape She has al lthroe in high degree. but it is not by these that she touches the heart; ii is all that sweetness of temper beueyoleuce innocence and ,eusibiii- ty which face express. that forms her beauty She has face that just rouses your attention at first sight it crows upon yaU every laa- mcnt, and you wonder that 1t did uot more than raise your attention at frst. Her eyes have mild light, but they awe when she pieases; they command. like good man out of office, not by authority. but by virtue Her statue k not tall she is hot made to be the admiration of every one. She has the firm ness that does hot exclude deIicacy, all the softness that does not imply weakness. Her voice Is soft. low music, not formed to rule in public assemblies, but to charm those who can distinguish a company from a crowd; it has is advantage; you must come close to hear 1t. To describe her body. describe her mInd-ore is the trMlsaript of the other Her understanding i5 rot shown in the variety of matter 1t eXerts itself upon, but the goodness of the choice she makes Her polteness flows rather from naturaIdisposition tooblige than any rules on that subject, and therefore never fails to strike those who understand good breeding, and thosewho do not"
The constitutional union., 1860-11-23
LIVE FOR SOMETHING.

Thousands of men" says Chalmers, "breathe, move and live, pass off the stage of life, and are heard of no more. Why. They do not a particle of good in the world, and none were blessed by them as the means of their redemption; not line they wrote, not a word they spoke, could be recalled; and so they perished Their light went out in dark ness, and they were not remembered more than the insects of yesterday. Will you thus live and die? Do good, and leave behind you monument of virtue.
 Live for something. Ye noble Southern youth. sons of the men who fought for ana freed the western world from the yoke ye who have time, leisure, opportunity ana means, Resolve to live for something.
 What if you have property to keep you from Gods vineyard? Does he require noun ing at your hands? Are you not responsible to him for that property, for that tune, TOT that opportunity, for that mind? Live Tor something. Strive to live so that your name will be engraven on the tablets of time, as with the graver of an angel, with the names of the good and great who have lived and who will live for God and their country.
 The opportunity for good is round and about us on all sides even in workshops there is influence of example, such as faithtulness, sobriety, virtuous acts; the poor od-carrer can "i live for somethng," while the boasted millionaire passes away soon to be forgot ten.
 Death has taken hence within year men and women, whose names will be long remem- bered; whose lives are worthy of the imlta- tion of the youth of our land. Who can thlnk of man gone hence who did : live for some thing?" and not desire to live like hlm-not stain on his name, and nothing said ot him but in the fond language of friends and kinds men. Young man, young woman, live for s0mathinr
The constitutional union., 1860-11-23

AMERICAN WoMEN.-An exchange says in late issue, what every one must feel to be true '' \ omen have the love and admiration of men in every country, and in no country are they so worshipped and so indulged as they are in America. Wcshall not allow any one to surpass us in true and sincere respect for the sex; bnt candor compels us to say that our American women are becoming spoiled Oyer-indulgence Is making them presumptous The qualification of all their whims even when they consist in rude push ing into promiscuous assemblies, and IndecO- rous crowlingabout foreign visitors has made them forget that such conduct is improper, indelicate and unfeminine. The best society has done all this, and Is encouraged to go on. Of course, the several grades of society be- low the best, such as the second best, the third best. and so down to the worst, feel jus tifed in following so distinguished model and if the thing is suffered to go on, We have a fine prospect of having the most immodest and impolite female population of any coun- try in the world.
 The custom of showing extraordinary cour- tesy to women, in travelling and in public places is commendable; and our people have often taken pride in it as national trait. But it has been carried too far. Many women de mand as a right ciyilities whose chief merit consists in the gracious made of offering them and in the gracious mode of acknowledging them. When woman gets into a crowded city railway car, and a gentleman rises to offer her a seat she generally takes it as a matter of course, without a whisper or sign of thanks Sometimes indeed she rudcIy pushes her way to a seat, and demands that room be made for her by men who have paid theirfare, and have, by all ordinary rules of travelling, and by common sense, an exclusive right to their places while they choose to occupy them.
 The most unpleasant sight that can be pre- sentcd to the eyes of man who would like to yenerate the whole sex to which his mother, his wife and his daughters belong, is a mob of well-dressed women, all infamed beyond all sense of propricty, by an inordinate curiosity. Such sights were witnessed during the visits of the Japanese and the Prince of Wales; not to any extent in Philadelphia, but to great and shameful extent in other cities If such conduct goes unrebuked, 1t will be thought proper, and it is time that our women be told, that the discreet of their own sex and all of the other, regard it as disgraceful in the highest degree.
The constitutional union., 1860-11-23
DA WN OF DAY.

Daybreak never was described with greater beauty than by Miss Prescott in her new At lantic Monthly story. She describes three persons sailing on a lake, waiting for the dawn:
 Ever and anon they passed under the lee of some island, and the heavy air grew full of idle night sweetness the waning moon, with all its sad and alien power, hung low-dun malign and distant, a coppery blotch on the rich darkness of heaven. They foated slowly still now and then she dipped a hand into the cool current now and then he drew in his oars, and bending forward dipped his hand with hers. The stars retreated in palid veil that dimmed their beams, faint lights streamed up the sky-the dark yet clear and delicious They paused motionless in the shelter of a deep rock; over them a wild vine hung and swayed its long wreaths in the water, sweet brar starred with fragrant sleeping buds climbed and twisted, and tufts of rbbon-grass fell forward and streamed in the indolent rip pie beneath them the lake, lucid as some dark christal sheeted with olive transparence, button of yellow sand here a brean poised on slowly waving fins, as if dreaming of motion or perch flashed its red fin from one hollow to another
 The shadow lifted degree, the eye pene- trated to further regions; bird piped warily, then freely, a second and a third answered, a fourth took up the late bluejay and thrush catbird and bobolink; wings began to dart about them, the world to rustic overhead near and far the dark prime grew instinct with sound. the shores and heavens blew out gales of melody, the air broke up in music. He lifted his oars silently; she caught the sweet brier, and lightly shaking it, rain of dew drops dashed with deepest perfume sprinked them; they moved on. 4 thin mist breathed from the lake, streamed round the boat, and lay like white coverlet upon the water; a light wind sprangup and blew it in long rags and ribbons, lifted and torn, and streaming out of sight. All the air was pearly, the sky was opailne, the water now crisply emblazoned with a dark and splendid jewelry-the paved work ofa sapphire;a rosy fleece sailed across their heads some furnace glowed in the cast behind the trees; long beams fell resplend- ently through and lay beside vast shadows :; the giant first stood back and intense against a red and risen sun they trailed with one oar through pad of buds all unawares of change stole from the overlapping thicke;s through a high-waled pass. where, on the open lake, the broad silent, yellow light crcp from bloom to bloom and woke them witha touch.
The constitutional union., 1860-11-23

Is THERE TO BE A NEIGHBoRHooD WAR "-In his famous Princess Anne pro nunciamento, Gov Wise tells us that " when the hour of battle comes into which he and his Breckinridge supporters would pre- cipitate the people of the Old Dominion we at the South will have active work to do. in urging war .s..- t Southern traitors in our midst and at our uoors It will be a neigh borho)d war, at both ends and in the center of the continent" And who asks an indig- nant writer are We at the South ?-who :? why, |" we the supporters of Breckinridge, ' will have active work to do, waging war against Southern traitors. in our midst and at our doors." What traitors! Who are they? You. gentleman, who have had the impudence to think for yourself. and conscicntously be- heye that Bell Is safer man. a more conser- yatye man. than Breckinridge-and under whose administration the Union will be pre- served. the Constitution upheld and the laws enforced; and you, too, gentlemen who have dared to express the opinion that Douglas is the regular Democratic nominee and the ex- ponent of the regular Democratic principles. You are the " traitors" and against you this war be wa8ed, according to the logic of Gov. Wise TFredericksburg Herald.
The constitutional union., 1860-11-23

TIE French peasantry are proverbially smaller than the English and late statistics have shown that they are also shorter lived But the climate of France is as salubrious as that of England the associations of the two people are substantially the same, and the French, if anything, are happier, and ought, therefore, to have a greater longevity than there neghbors. We must took to the diet of the French for an explanation, and when we so look the solution presents itself at once The staple of Frenchmans food is bread It is, indeed, the best bread in the world but bread alone is not a thoroughly nutritious healthy diet
The constitutional union., 1860-11-23

INDIAN SuNMER.-Says the Ncwburyport Herald in its pretty way, when speaking of the weather: The Indian Summer, that un- classified asteriod struck of from the corner of the regular seasons, and revolving in its own independent orbit between autumn and winter, is upon us in all its gorgcousness and glory. It dwelIs in the warm smoky atmos- pherc, it whispers in the cddying currents that rustic the red and yellow leaves along garden walks she sits behind the purple curtains that drape- the distant hill-tops. Out in the country the orchards are fragrant with the smell of apples and cider, and forests blush beneath the rays of the October sun, like garments dyed in blood There is no season so sweet and delicious as the Indian Summer. It robes nature in the beauty of ripeness before entombment, and whispers the hope of resurrection in the very hour of death.
The constitutional union., 1860-11-23
TO ONE WHO MIL CyDERs7AyD.

l love tbee. dearly lowe thee.
 As the dowere. loves the dew. As che mooHboaM- loves the pillow, Swelling beautiful and blue; As tLC rainbow loves thc cI5udlet That lies slumaerinE in the air c, 5Cs, ! love tay sunny brow,
 Forever bright and lair. In sunshine and in darkness Tn sorrow and in care h festive hall OF silent grove- ] love thee everywhere. Mid thrones of fragrant flowers, In sadness or iu glee, Thy pure uusu.ied couutenauce Is ever bright t9 me. love thee, wildly love thee,
 And l would this sentence brief, Were written with the crystal dew Upon each tender leaf would that it were murmured
 By the laughing meadow streams, That it might dwell in all thy thoughts, And all thy glowing dreams. would that every happy bird
 On every bush and ue, Would sing il to thee softly.
 Yet with warble wild anu free. would that every zephyr
 That comes from OCT the lea, Would bear upon its bosom
 Those burning words to thee.
The constitutional union., 1860-11-23

LIVE WITHIN YOUR INcoME-if a man wishes to live happily and contentedly, he should make a determination, under every circumstance, to live within his income. 1t Is not a difficult matter to do when once a strong will is exercised. Half the wretchcd- ness and misery we meet with in this world is occasloned by neglecting this golden rule of life. How many anxious days ald weary nights have been passed; how many house holds have been broken up; how many kind hearts have been changed; how many aflec- tionate dispositions have been soured by men living beyond their means. It is an old adage that |" when want comes in at the door. love flies out at hewindOw. and we are sorry to say that 1t Is only. in vast majority of cases. too true. TEuman nature is not proof against the sharp stiugs of ill-fortme. Too often changes the afectionate wife into the household yiraeo, and the husband into the drunken sot Economy can always be prac- ticed without meanness, and a man who lives within his income is making for himself q bed of down for his declining years, and set ting an example for his children which will secure their happiness and prosperity when he is dead and gone
The constitutional union., 1860-11-23

THE NUMBER OF LANGUAGEs.-Ihel least learned are aware that there are many lan- guages in the world, but the actual number IS probably beyond the dreams of ordinary Peo- pie. The geographer Babi, enumerated eight hundred and sixty, which are entitled to be considered as distinct languages, and five thousand which may regarded as dialects. Adelung. another modern writer on this sub iect. reckons mp three thousand and sixty-four languages and dialects existing, and which have existed. Even after we have allowed either of these as the number of languages, we must acknowledge the existence of a most infinite minor diversities; for almost every province has q tongue more or less peculiar, and this we may well believe to be the case throughout the world at large. It Is said that there are little islands, lying close together in the South Sea tie inhabitants of which do not understand each other. Of the eight hundred and sixty distinct languages enumer- ated by Babi, fity-three belong to Europe, one hundred and fourteen to Africa, one hun dred and twenty-three to Asia, four hundred and seventeen to America, one hundred and seventeen to Oceanica, by which term he dis tinguishes the vast number of islands stretch ing between IIindoostan and South America.
The constitutional union., 1860-11-23

HEADED OFF BY HIS WIFE-A distin- guished candidate for an office of high trust in a certain Sta!c, who is up to thing or two, v and has keen appreciation of live beauty. when about to set off on an clectioneering tour recently said to his wife, who was to ac- company him for prudential reasons:
 My dear, inasmuch as this election is complicated, and the canvass will be close am anxious to leave nothing undone that would promote my popularity, and so l have thought it would be good plan for me to kiss number of the handsomest girls in every place where l may De honored with a public reception. Don't you think that would be good idea"
 "Capital,' exclaimed the devoted wife :; and to make your election sure thing, while you are kissing the handsomest girls 1 will kiss an equal number of the handsomest young men?'
 The distinguished candidate, we believe, has not since referred to this pleasing means of popularity.
The constitutional union., 1860-11-23

A series of investigations extending through the last twenty years, and conduct ed in the most careful manner by the ablest physiologists of France, Germany, England and America, have demonstrated that the liver of man, as we'll as that of most other animals, secretes sugar from substances brought to it by the blood, and it is found that the liver continues to produce sugar some twenty-four hours after death-even when the organ is removed from the system.
 The Syrian relief fund, in New York, amounts to SIS 54f S9.
The constitutional union., 1860-11-23

TOUCHING INSTANCE OF MATRIMONIAL DEyoTIoN.-Frederick Leech, convicted in Anderson District $. C., of the murder of Hampton Cobb, was sentenced last week to be hung on the llth of January next. His wife visited him in prison, and at the close of the interview very quietly remarked to her unfortunate husband that she supposed she would not see him again. as there would be such a large crowd at the hanging, there would be no chance for her to see, and be- sides that, the children would all want to come. The good lady then called at grocery store, complained of having the 'cholic," turned oil couple of glasses of medicine" and then set out for her 'desolate home"