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DaS- A Paris correspondent writes:-
You remember my allusion to the most
recent tremendous discussion, in the In
stitute of France, on the egg question.
That has not yet decided; but, in the
meantime, anew apple of discord has been
thrown among the savants, by one of their
number, who says he can turn negro
white 10y a peculiar diet. OF course there
are not wanting absurd persons who say
the thing is impossible, whilst the philos-
opher has plenty Of partisans, who pin an
absolute faith to his assertions. What
the diet is, has not been permitted to
transpire. Perhaps it is whi.ewash. Mark,
l only say perhaps-for it may be pitch.
At any rate, if successful, who can venture
to assert that we will not owe the settle
ment of the slavery question to French
.5olomon, who will clear the darkies' conf
plexions, take the kinks out of their wool,
and thus cut the Gordian Knot which SO
chafes the Great Republic9 a-.t
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The FATE OF WALKER.-The New Or
leans Bulletin of the Goth ult., says:
Major Dolan and others who belonged
to Walkers expedition to Honduras, who
arrived here yesterday, bring positive in
formation that the great tillibuster was
shot on the 18th inst. After Walker was
shot his body was left on the ground by
the Hondurean soldiers, whence it was
taken by two American soldiers and de-
Gently buried, with the aid of two Catholic
priests. Col. Rudler, the second in COM
mand, was sentenced to four years i'm
prisonment, and was seen by the prisoners
riding on mule into the country, under
guard of soldiers. The remainder of the
expedition were permitted to return to
the United States.
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SIGNS OF THE TrMEs.-A Breckenridge
man just returned from Kentucky, says
there is no doubt of that State going for
Bell. An Independent Democrat just re-
turned from Virginia, says: Virginia and
North Carolina are sure for Bell. Another
prominent breckenridge man just return
State says, that Conecuh and Butler coun-
Gospel Cos eli informs ms T US that for % several W weeks es
past he has been travelling constantly in
various parts of this State, and that in
every instance on the cars, steamboats,
and coaches, where the vote has been ta-
ken in his presence, Bell was universally
ahead; and such are the indications from
all parts of the country, "our enemies
themselves being judges. ."-Mona. Post.
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neas Mr.. Bebson, in his history of
Gloucester, Mass, has quite remarkable
fact, that few gentlemen of the legal pro-
fession have lived in that town, and that
no one has ever died in it. This fact is
almost incredible, when the residents of
the place is considered. During the last
70 years the population of Cape Ann has
ranged from 5,3l7 to $4,000 souls.
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Public Speaking.

THIRD CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT.
The undersigned will address the people of the
Third Congressional District at the following
times and places, beginning exactly ut eleven
o'clock, A. NJ, each day, viz:
Eusebia, Blount, Tuesday, 0,t. 0
Maryvillc, Wednesday, d" 10
Morganton, Thursday, IL
Mouse Creek, McMinn, Wednesday, II
Philadelphia, Monroe, Thursday, " Is
Loudon, Roanc, Friday, 10
Kingston, Saturday, 90
- ..... .... ID. NJ. KEY,
G. W. BRIDGES,
A. CALDWELL.
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AN NANoMALY.-Says the Louisville Jour-

AN ANoMALY.-Says the Louisville Jour-
nal:
Look at Lincoln and Hamlin papers
everywhere, and you will see them pro-
tecting and nourishing the Breckinridge
men as busily and ofiiciously as ever re-
spectacle old hen guarded and fed brood
Of helpless young chickens. 1t is really a
curiosity, an anomaly, to see one political
party fostering another political party
that swears it will dissolve the Union in
the event of the formers success. And
yet the whole philosophy of the thing is
palpable to all mems minds.
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ANEcDoTE OF STEPHEN GIRARD.-U1d Gil
rard had a favorite CLERK, and he always
said "he intended to do well by Ben Lip
pincott." So when Ben got tc be twenty
one, he expected TO hear the Governor say
something of his future prospects, and
perhaps lend a helping hand in starting
him in the world. But the old fox care
fully avoided the subject. Ben mustered
courage. Il suppose am free, sir, said
he, "and thought would say something
to you as to my course; what do you think
had better do" "Yes, yes, know you
are," said the old millionaire, .'and my
advice is that you 60 and learn the coop
er's trade" This application of ice nearly
froze Ben out, but recovering his equilib-
rum, he said if Mr.. Girard was in earnest
he would do so. 81 am in earnest;" and
Ben sought the best cooper in Spring Gar
den, became an apprentice, and in due
time could make us good q barrel rs tho
best. He announced to old Stephen that
he had graduated and was ready to set
up business. The old man seemed graft
fed, and Immediately ordered three of
the best barrels he could turn out. Ben
did his prettiest, and wheeled them up to
the old mans counting-room. Old Girard
pronounced them first rate, ard demand
ed the price. "One dollar" said Ben, sis
now as low rs ! can live by" 'Cheap
enough-makc out your bill"
The bill was made out, and old Steve
settled it with check for 900, which
he accompanied with this little moral to
the story; .f.- H.
There, take that, and invest il in the
best possil lie manner, and if you are un-
fortunate and lose it, you have good
trade to fall back upon, which will afford
you good living" tnsE
We should like 10 see all the old solid
fellows trying that experiment 1t might
spoil barrel or two, but it wouldn't spoil
the boys. r
AN "IRREPREssIBLE" LocAL.--The local
editor of the Nashville (Tenn.) Patriot,
will have his fun whenever there's the
least chance for it. Vide the following, as
his latest: .I ..-eI
The editor Of the Lewisburg Messenger,
who hasn't any wife to take care of him,
went the other night TO Ladies' Fair
He says he saw there can article" which
he fain would own, but il was not for SALE"
lie declares that since that night he IL
"yrapturously wretched," Asthe article"
was bound in hoops, the reader is left to
infer that it was either girl or keg of
whiskey. They are both calculated to
make wretch "wrapturous." r8
| A FAST Boy. oY.--"Stanley," said widower
Brown to his hopeful of fifteen summers,
u want you to stay home this evening""
What for, Pap! where are you going"
"That's very pertinent question for q
son to PROFOUND to his father, will have
to answer it. am going to pny my re-
spects to Miss Sallie Patterson this eve
ming" ,..-...-.. =. s.u
mo you don't Pap, am going to see
the same gal at the same time" So saying
, young Stanley took up his hat and walked,
leaving his worthy father confounded.
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A Patriotic Appeal. /

Amid the madness and rage of party and
the growing prevalence of sectionalism,
it is gratifying to observe that some of the
most influential democratic papers at the
North, are urging the abandonment of
party for the safety of the country. Al
most every number of the New York Jour
nalof Commerce, contains an earnest appeal
to the conservative men to rally to the
rescue of the country. We extract the
following sentence from a forcible article
which recently appeared in that excellent
democratic paper. The writer says:
"The time has come, then, when North
ern men, when Southern men, when
every citizen who desires peaceful con-
tinuance of the federal government,
should lay aside excitement and personal
preferences. 1t is the solemn duty of
every voter to inform himself of the true
state of the issue now pending, so that he
may be able to vote intelligently and in
depcndently, and with full realization of
tho consequences which may result. Thus
voting no self condemnation can follow in
any emergency: but to vote under an ex-
element, brought about by the selfish
aims OF reckless partisans and office seek
ers, or to rely on the statements or repre-
sentations of such men in regard to the
questions and interests involved--in re-
gard to the future which is now at stake
would be to trifle with the most sacred
rights of freemcn; and should evil conse-
quenccs result through n vote thus given
or associated, self unbraiding would never
cease, especially under the reflection that
greater effort to acquire truthful informa-
ton would have resulted in true vote for
the Constitution and Union-for the con-
tinuance of civil and religious liberty"
Mr.. BELL-MR. TooMDs.-The honora-
BILE Senator fom Georgia is quite bitter in
his denunciations of John Bell. Perhaps
the record, to which he appeals, may ac-
count for his conduct. In the Appendix
to the Congressional Globe, vol. 90, lst
Session, 33d Congress, page 044, May 25,
1854, Mr.. Bell in reply to Mr.. Toombs
said: .... ... U.
"The honorable Senator from Georgia,
in the course of his remarks yesterday,
thought proper to delare that had be-
come the ally of the abolitionists of the
North. have this to say to the Senator
in reply-if the honorable Senator means
to say that in voting against the Nebraska
bill, in company with the abolitionists,
was their ally-and to that extent only
was their ally; it was his object, in max
ing that statement, to let it 60 forth to
the country for effect among the people,
that he had boldly said to my face in the
Senate, that had become the ally of the
Il. L. - H.
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VOL. X1f1---NO. e29.
Mr.. Yancey ana the Missouri Com
promise and Wilmot Proviso,
From tho Richmond whig. j

/ o. HrlrIOm tne hicnmOnu Wnigl -
1t is well known that Mr.. Yancey voted
for the Wilmot Proviso attached TO the
Oregon Bill But here is another little
item of his short Congressional history,
which we would commend to the atten-
ton of his ultra southern-Rigbts friends.
On the 2Sth of January, ls45, S. A. Doug
las, Of Illinois, offered the following
amendment to the Texas Bill.
"AEdin such States as shall be formed
out Of said Territory north of the Missouri
Compromise line, slavery or involuntary
servitude, except for crime, shall be pro-
hibited." 9' h'
The entire clause reads thus. nA
"And such States as may be formed out
of that portion of said Territory lying
South of $500 North latitude, commonly
known as the Missouri Compromise line,
shall be admitted into the Union with or
without slavery, as the people of each
State asking permission may desire. And
in such States as shall be formed out of
such Territory North of said Missouri
Compromise line, slavery or involuntary
servitude, except for crime, shall be pro-
hibited."
Here was an instance of Congressional
legislation to prohibit slavery in Texas,
where, by law, it was recognized. For this
was new Territory to which the Missouri
restriction of 1920 did not apply. And the
Hon. William l.. Yancey sustained the
principle of abolition by Congressional
legislation by rotingJor tbs amendment" ..
Now, as the Selma Reporter pointedly
remarks, ''if the acknowledged leader of
the ultra Southern-Rights Breckinridge
men could. in one short short session, by
his votes, sanction the principle of the
Wilmot Proviso and the Missouri restric-
ton, and yet be u good and true Southern
man, how tenderly should our ultra-Dem-
ocratic friends handle the record of man
like John Bell, who, unlike their leader,
during twenty-iv years in Congress al
ways voted against the Wilmot Proviso,
who always denounced their squatter SOW
ereignty, and who made the most master
ly and statesman-like exposition of our
views Of the peculiar institution" that
has ever been made upon the floors Of
Congress, demonstrating the fact that thu
manity to the slave, not less than justice
to the master, recommended the policy
of the diffusion and extension of slaveryU
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Let him go, by all means.

neD" Everybody is rallying to the stand
ard of Bell and Everett. The Union is
strong in the affections of the people,
Come along, gentlemen, well take you
safely.
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Breckinridge and Douglas,
From the charlottesville Royicv.1

Two men, named Breckenridge and
Douglas, having circulated the notices
subjoined over their signatures, we are re-
quested by John Bell, Esq, of Nashville,
to give publicity to the advertisement
which follows them over his name.
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ArrRorRlArE MoTro FOR THE BREcKrN-
lDGERS: .#..rt .. t. ..... .
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-10-12

Lot others hail the rising sun.
bow to that whose course is run,
Which sets in endless night.
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.g- 1t seems from the correspond
cnco of the Breckenridge papers, that
every Union elector in the State has been
"literally demolished" on every stump he
has mounted since the opening of the
canvass. And the worst of it is, some of
our most gifted and brilliant speakers
have been "literally demolished" at least
six times week by some four-penny
sesond-assistant sUIb-elector who kEows
about as much the political issues of the
day as he does Of the personal history OF
the Khan of Tartary. Curious isn't it?
Bay" "A FELLow-CIrIzEN," Of Maine, is
embalmed in the following pathetic quar-
train, by a local poet in the birmingham
Chronicle: 4-a .....
"Can one be found TO fill tho place
Ofthis lamentcd man?
Then let him come, and he shall 10
f1 Our fellow citizen" H.'.....
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PoLlTIcAL CnANGEs.-Our Union pco.
pie are ignorant Of the actual condition
of our party in Georgia, says the Nation
al American. But the news that we de-
rive from private correspondents, and
from conversations with gentlemen in
and out of public life, we feel confident
there is such work going on-and such
changes being wrought, as will not only
confound the divided Democracy, bnt
give us glorious victory in November
next.
We were told day or two ago, that in
neighboring town Democrat proposed
to bet Union man that he could not
find dozen o.d-line Democrats in the
town, who would vote for the Union
ticket. He took the bet, and went out
on the street, and after an absence of only
about fifteen minutes, returned with the
names of fourteen, written by themselves.
An IMrEDIMENT.-Mr Toombs in his re-
markable speech in Savannah is thus no,
ticed by the News.
''The speaker was whitening in his de.
nunciations of Douglas and johnson,
whose treachery to the Democratic party
and whose bad faith to the South lie char
acterised with bitterness and scorn. Al
luding to Douglas threat of coercion, his
eyes flashed and his frame dilated, as with
upliited arm he hurled back his defiance,
declaring that if he (Douglas) ever at.
tempted to put his threat into execution,
his march into Georgia would be over the
dead body of her Senator"
The South may consider herself safe.--
Nobody can scale such barrier.
STop THAT LIE.-The breckenridge pa
pers continue to publish tho report that
the National Executive Committee of the
Union party at Washington have issued
a campaign document for Northern cir
culation attempting to show Mr.. Bell to
be an anti-slavery man. This report has
been denied and denounced by the chair
man of the Committee and others, and
this denial and denunciation published
all over the land. Those democratic pa
pers who reproduce the slander are there
fore knowingly disseminating lie. We
warn the people against their uncrupul
Gus tactics. ..t Pr"
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AN "IRREPREssIBLE" LocAL.-The local
editor of the Nashville (Tenn.) Patriot,
will have his fun whenever there's the
least chance for it. Vide the following, as
his lntest: ...." 4.-a.r
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{ orrr1pondrnte.

SEVILLE, SrAiS. Aug. 7th 1850.
Who ha- not heard Of the famous tower
of Girolla, built hy the Moors more than
six hundred YEAR ago? It has a lase fifty
feet equarc made from Roman and Christian
ruins and in ascending this old pile, We
walk one eighth oi mile, passing by pro-
pie who live in this wild place, as it Is early
in the morning, women are just dress
ins their little urchins. After going 80
f,,t W. notcr difference in the archltcr-
tur,. and learn that in lj6S tho Spanish adj
l,-l loo t,rt. At the top is "A statue OF Faith
weighing 3bo0 pounds, yet 80 dcllcateiy
poised a. to Indicate the slightest variation
in the wind hence called Girolda, which
means. Wcathcrcock. This statue holds in
her hand the tlae of Constantine. On the
broad platform where We stand are sixteen
boll-. varying in their .ize and all runs by a
small bay Four wears ago, the boy whose
duty wa. to ring thc-e, having climbed up
the rope. resting himself nn the bell, which
accidentally turned over, he was dashed up
on the pavement below, and it is said every
bone in hi- body was broken. There is an
old clock in this tower which has tEcn here
since l76i il replaced the first ever put up
in Slain. which was in lio0. Bayard Iay-
lor who was here in l,j2 says, to his eye
this tower is more perfect than the -
at Florence or the celebrated tower IN Ven
ice Herr it i. that a morning scene from
It's dizzy height leaves its picture ON the tab
let of memory-thc like Of which We seldom
..e the gr,rn fields, with here and there
stras,ling hills, rendered cheerful by the
white-washed cottages, where We exIret love
dwclls; the Gualalquiyer on whose river at
yalladolid. hrcathcd his last, the blseoycrtr
If a New World, whose name Is dear to eH-
ery American, and ought 10 he to every loY-
er of Ilumanitv On this same river Ma
rellan was. when he started T. make has sue
c,..-ful voyage round the world, the panor-
anna also, Of the city with its spires, palaces
shady walks and Spanish gardens, all COM
bine to charm the eye and give pleasure to
the mind. The peaceful air which every
,b;u., wears makes it hard to believe that
on,v % sy,y ,.lrs AZ, the army of the French
,ya. dsya,ta,tns those fair fields and plum
dcring rich spill. from the city, and that IN
lslo John Bull, assisted BY the spanish =
took Seville FROM thoir hands. In 1913 tho
E.poleto bombarlci Seville. The AH''q"ar',
an can feast his mind by examining an Ola
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VOL. VI. NO. IL.
2att + Y.
Work and Think.

Hammer. tongs and anvils ringing,
Waking echoes all day long;
In n decp-toncd voice are singing
Thrifty Iabors IRON song.
From thousand fly wheels bounding,
Prom thousand humming looms,
Night and day the notes are sounding
Through the misty fact'ry rooms.
Listen workncn, to their playing
There's advice to every clink;
Still theyrc singing-still they're saying
whilst you labor, learn to THINK 80
Think what power lies within YOU.
For what triumphs you are formed,
If in aid of bone and sinew,
Hearts by emulstiou warmed,
Mighty though We WOO and cherish,
What shall hold your spirit down;
What shall make your high hopes perish.
Why shall ye mind Fortunes frown.
Do ye wish for profit, pleasure:
Thirst at Learnlng's fount to drink:
Crave ye honor. fame or treasurer
le the germ haye-work and think
Think but not alone Of living,
Like the horse from das to day:
Think bu, not alone of giving
Health for pclf. or soul for paw.
Engines made Of flesh and blood
Think twill make YOU frcshcr. stronger:
Link YOU 10 the great and good
Thought cNalt, and ghtcns labor.
Thought forb'ds the soul To sink,
SCH.rcSpcCt aud love for uci. hbor,
Mark the men who work-and think
Think : and let the thought new -ncrvc.y yo
link of men who've gone before;
Leaving lustriou. names to serve YOU;
i"urs the path they've ploddcd Ger!
Freedom H. ishts aud wins her charter
With the sword of th0ught-the pen
Tyranny can find no quarter
In the rdnAs of thinking men.
Think for thoughts wand Of power
Power t. make oppression shtink;
Grasp Ne then, the precious DOVER
felse lt-"lcld It-work al Il think.
Hold your heads up toiling brothers;
Munsst Us be ii ncer forgot,
Labor. Tor ourselves and others,
l. iot man 4 noble lot.
Nuhlc' far, and Eolicr, higher.
Than vain luxury can clam.
II but zeal and worth inspire,
And true greatness Ec our ann.
Power 10 compass tins Is gwen
Power that forms the strongest link
IwiXt an upright man and Heaven,
lis noblest po~rr-the power 10 TnIsx!
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Oct. $50.

Ma. EnlroR / wish YOU 10 give the fol
loving address place in your paper, as
,ur readers arc numerous.
The way in which many ruin themselves
i, by huil,ling their hopes upon false ioun-
dation: they - to church, hear the word,
and like Hcrod do many things that are
d, ,ol in Themselves, and build their hopes OF
lI,avcn on these, and here rest till the
storms OF Death come and their sandy foun-
dation gives way, and their house falls, and
the ruin of that house Is great Others ru-
in their souls by pr1crastination, resolving
to become pious at some future time when
il shall bc more convenient and that more
convenient season never comes and they are
cnt off in their sins. - Wisdom cries, she
nttercth her voice in the strccts-how long
We simple ones will We love simplicity, and
scorners delight in scorning, and fools hate
knowlc,lnr.n let them consider, let them
read the Book of Proverbs, and Christ 5 ser
mon on the mount, contained in fifth, sixth
and seventh chapters of Matthew, and see
that tbev refuse not him that spcaketh let
them SEEK for mercy before it be too hate and
know the time Of their gracious visitation,
for they know not when their day OF proba-
tion will close. let none now despair of
mercy nor presume TO @ on IN sin and re-
beui6n any longer; it is dangerous to delay.
christ saws. except man be born of wa
ter and the spirit, he cannot enter INTO the
Kingdom OF God. y o' bStklDLN'