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"Pctcr's Musical tlen.lly' for May.
has been received. and is as usual. replcte
with new and elegant music in addition to
is literary contents. Price So. i. D.
Peters. 10S Broadway New York.
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GENERAL PowEk, contractor for the
Little Kanawha Improvement, has reach
ed Elizabeth with twenty-five employee.
and gone to work. .-.-..5
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A Mar'iusburg citizen has been res.
,ored to sight after twelve years Of total
blindness. A Baltimore oculst perform.
ell the operation.
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TnE Morgantown editors have seen 81
chicken liver which weighed six ounre'
and abalf. The fowl to which it belong
cd was yearlins pnllet.
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CHARLES QuEES, Of Peel Tree. Bar
bour county, makes thirty pounds ofma'
pie sugar annually from one t'ce,
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Jony P. WgRslSGER, Of Clurksburg,
was on Saturday las, appointed . Notary
Public for Harrison county.
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THE house of William Mcclellan. Of
Coal township, Harrison county, was
blown down few days ago.
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QuERy,-Will the Wheeling Register
tell US if "podogogue" is mixed with ice
or taken straight" -i'WkersLny Times.
Wasl, your feet some time and you will
find out all about it, and not be obliged to
expose your ignorance thusly. - Wedding
Register.
Gentle friend of the Reyis'r, we ARE
surprised somewbatly at thy ignorance.
We had supposed every one knew tina the
Times editor had been ''out of soap" for
10. these many years. Wejudgs that by
this time spade would DO necessary to
enable vim to work his toes.
AppRorRiArE. Eve are informed BY q
gentleman "who knows" that on Saint
Valentines nay last, our redouhtabls
al interim, pro tenn, rr o8ic'o and late
lamcutcd "Governor"-nir'y Dog 7.
Farnsworth, of the State of Buckhannon,
received valentine from Wheeling,
which was gotten up expressly for that
day and person only. The outside, or
envelope, was elegant; but the contents
were too truthful to be welcome. The
carica.ure-- "a true picture of D. D. T.
represented that woithy holding on with
all his might to the narrative Of u huge
porkcr of the female persuasion; while
from the orifce in his countenance came
the words" Where my heart is, there
miU ILe also r.
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Journal snys:-On the Wednesday down
trip Of the kauawha Belle, when few
nii!es below Buffalo, she was hailed by q
bcardlcss youth, apparently about Ii,
and a buxom lass Of % or more, who, i'm
mcdiaely upon coming aboard, proceeded
to the ladies' cabin, aud without leave or
license, took. jointly state room, where
they we're shortly afterwards discovered
in each others "fond elnbracs" -the
youth vigorously biting the ears and
cheeks Of his fir companion. and to
Which performance shc did not object, but
or tile con trary seemed to relish II high
". This state Of things becoming known
to the captain, the young gentleman was
summNrily taken by an ear and led fronl
the State room to the clerks Office to rem.
der uli account Of himself. 1t was the
snnle old tale of lore--boy Under age
couldn't get the license 10 West Virginia
--lnothers consent not asked lound for
Gallipolis 70 have the nuptial knot tied
and, finally, ''usither him nor his gul
had any money to pay for pas
sage, license or preacher. This was
enough; they we're set ashore at the
mouth of 'rhirte II Mile Creek, to theft
chng'it and disappointment and to the
amuseineut of the passengers, AS the
young lady stepped Of the stage plank,
she very politely requested Captain
Christy to go to I'LL with his boat q
aud that she aud her lover would wait tor
another to take them to their destination
But they didn't wait, for on Thursday
evening. lovingly locked arm in arm, anU
looking sweet" mt one another, the,
came trudging into Point Pleasant OF
foot, still bOun' for Iltat haven Of love,
sick 'waibs -Gs.lip,E..
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aLADIEs!! - l'a ". W,
L o k Out! Look, Out +!
L o o k Gu t.! Lo o,knlOspt!
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An Old Farmers Slate.

How many farm matters are forgotten,
that should be attended to in the proper time.
The memory is called upon to retain every
little item of labor, and with the multiplicity
of odds and ends" about the farm it is
not singular that some should be forgotten,
and the work left undone. How much time
would be economical, and how great, too,
would be the saving of money, were farmers,
to initiate the example of the old farmer.
who kept slate for jotting down every thing
which required attention. From the Rural
New Yorker we have an account of the good
use to which systematic old gentleman put
his slate. Let every farmer be assured it
will be well for him to do the same:
writing about improvements reminds
me that farmer does not always think of
what is needful and may be done when lei
sure times occur, and it recalls to my mind
the practice of large and successful farm.
er, who at his death left his affairs in a pros
porous condition, and premises in complete
order His neighbors often wondered at the
ease with which he conducted his operations !;
he never hurried, but the right thing was
always done at the right time, and his work
never Jagged. Much of the Improvement
he made was in odd spells when the routine
of regular farm work was broken by rainy
weather, or after finishing the work on a
crop, and while waiting for another to get
to the proper stage. He kept large slate
hanging in the kitchen where all his work.
men could see it, and whenever a job oc-
Cured to him it was noted on the slate. For
instance, some of his entries ran thus :
Make gate for the brook lot;' Clean out
the open ditch in the wheat feld;' Lay a
new floor on the scaffold over the barn floor
Bury the large stone in. the middle lot;
Get some white-wood trees to mill for max
ing garden fence pickets;' plant shade trees
along the roadside Dig the alders out of
the fence corners, and look after the wild
mustard that came up where the threshing
machine stood in the field last year. In this
way his slate was filled, and if leisure half
day occurred, his men had plenty of work; ;
and if the master happened to be absent, the
slate told the workmen what to do. After
time it was his custom to lay out the days
work on the slate each evening previous, and
when the job was finished the record was
erased. To get the slate clean was the
ambition of the Workmen."
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How to Set Cabbage Plants.

Most farmers wait for rain before setting
This | consider useless, as sometimes, it
makes the setting out so late they will not
head before winter sets in. Again, it is much
more pleasant working when the ground is
dry; the soil does not pack or become lum-
py. My plan is as follows, and l have al
ways had excellent success:
AS soon as your plants are large enough,
take up dozen or so at time, and take to
the place you wish to set. Have dish of
water with you,-I prefer rain water,-make
hole and put in your plant, fill in the dirt
and press it firmly around the roots until the
hole is nearly full. Then turn in half a gill
or so of water, and haul fresh dirt upon that,
but do not press it. This will prevent the
ground from baking, and the plant is almost
sure to grow.
Last summer raised good crop in this
way, although | set during the hot, dry
weather, while those who waited for rain had
none.
If the above directions are followed, the
plants will need no more watering. Hoe as
often as twice a week until they are large
enough to pretty well cover the ground, and
you will not fail to have plenty of cabbage
Rural Neap Yorker.
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Labor.

No great man can be an idler. The world
is teeming with work for us all, and no one
can do that which God has given another to
do. We seek amusements to pass the time
away, when every hour is crowded with hui
man deStinies, and we have not one moment
to waste. The seconds of time are the woofs
of eternity:-a moment mis-spent and there
is flaw in the web.
We must work. Not all be reapers, not
all CLEANERS; but all may do something
Day after day humanity is stretching out
her hands for help, poor erring souls going
down to ruin, because men and women love
self more than God. You who lounge on
luxurious couches, who boast of your lily
hands, tell me what those hands ever did for
others? The poorest day laborer who walks
the streets is greater than you. Not all
kings wear royal robes or sit on thrones;
and he is far more kingly and noble, who
earns his bread by the sweat of his brow
than he wlo wraps about him his purple and
fine linen, and boast of his millions.
We heal so much of gentlemen now-a-
days. What constitutes gentleman Is it
fine broadcloth, glossy beaver, immaculate
kids and d.inty cane?-or is it pure, I'M
selfish hear and a soul rich with blessed deeds ?
Better royal soul than royal robes better
hands that labor made brown, than those
that idlenes had made white. The crown
that earnes toll brings, is better than treas
ures of silver and gold.
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material prosperity is increasing apace with
the innovation upon that policy. The CHI,
nese are found now in wooden, paper and
powder mills; in the borax works; in the
hop plantations, fruit orchards and vine
yards; following the reaping machines on
farms, and working the salt-pits on the
coast; doing almost universally the cooking,
and engaged in hundreds of branches OF
industry, that would be impossible without
their cheap labor
The sure result of this will be that, in a
few years, the small savings of these work
men will, by accumulation, transform the
coolie of to-day into the capitalist, contract
ing to build railroads, owning large farms
or factories and lines of ships, and making
great commercial combinations. This is
certain, for no people on the face of the
earth advance SO unSwervingly in the acCu-
mutation of capital; and in its investment
from childhood. upward they combine the
shrewdness of the Jews with the many,sided-
ness of the Yankee, What the Jews have
been in banking, the Chinese may easily be-
come in general commerce and industry on
the Pacific coast
Tro l
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Rapidly of Sensation.

If aneedle be stuck into one of the fingers,
the sensory ibres take the impression through
the nerve and the posterior root to the
spinal cord and thence to the brain. The
command goes out to "draw the finger away"
The mandate travels down the spinal cord
to the anterior root and thence through the
motor fibres of the nerve to the muscles,
which Immediately act. and the finger is at
once removed. All this takes place with
great rapidity, but yet with nothing like the
celebrity once imagined. The researches of
Helmholtz, a distinguished German physiolo-
gist, have shown with great exactitude the
rate of speed with which the nervous fluid
travels; and other observers, among WHOM
Schelske deserves mention, have given a
great deal of time and patience to this and
kindred questions. AS the result of the
many deliberations, it was ascertained that
the nervous fluid moves at the rate of 971
feet in second Now, electricity travels
speed exceeding 1,200,00O,000 feet in a
second, and light over 900,O00,000. A
shooting star moves with velocity of 2O0,-
900 feet in a second, and the earth in It's
orbit round the sun. 100000. A cannon
ball has mean velocity of 1900 feet in a
second; an eagle, 1870; locomotive, 95;
and race horse, So We thus preceive
that the nervous fluid has no very remarka-
bic rate of speed. A fact which, among
many others, deserves to indicate it's non
identity with electricity.
Professor Donders of Utrecht, has recent
ly been making some interesting experiments
in regard to the rapidity of thought, which
is likewise interesting. By means of two
instruments, which he calls the noematacho-
graph and the noematachometer,h he promises
some important details. For the present,
he announces that simple idea requires the
brain to act for OCT of second for its
elaboration. Doubtless the time required
is not the same for all brains, and that by
means of these instruments we may obtain
definite indications relative to the mental
calbre of our friends. What invaluable in
struments they would be for nominating
caucuses, for vestries, for trustees of colleges,
for merchants in want of book keepers; in
short, for all having appointments of any
kind to make
eJe Nv rsesiYe Oh impression re-
quires OF of a second, and for the ear to
appreciate a sound, .149 of second are
necessary. The eye, therefore, acts with
nearly twice the rapidity of the ear VIM.
a. Hammond, ". d., IN tie GALAXY.
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SYNOD of Memphis.

Chickasac-J H. GaiIlard, Coonewa, Miss.
Memphis-Geo. A. Russell, Somerville, Tenn.
North Mississippi-E NJ Richardson, Grenada,
Miss
Tuscumbia-W. II. MITCHELL Florence, Ala
Western District.-J. o. Sullivan, Humboldt, Tenn.
Synod of Mississippi.
Central Mississippi-J. Hunter, Jackson, Miss
Loafisiana-A. R. Graves, Baton Rouge La.
Mississippi-R Price, Port Gibson, Miss.
NeD Orleans-H. NJ. Smith, New Orleans, La.
Red RiUer-J F. Ford, Shreveport, La.
H. Barley, Crawfordsville Miss.
Synod of Nashville
Holston-S. B. Campbell, Leesburg, Tenn.
KnoruiUe-J. K Hitner, Cleveland, Tenn.
NashriHe-J. W. Neil, Murfreesboro, Tenn.
North AlaJama-W II. Vernon, Cornersville, Tenn.
Synod of North Carolina.
Copcord-J D. Parks, Charlotte, n. c:
F&yettecille-D Farley, Manchester, c.
Orange-J. II. Smith, Greensboro N. {.
WilmingtOn-H. A. Monroe, Brown Marsh, N. G.
Synod of South Carolina
S. Carolina-A. A. Porter, Spartanburg, S. g.
Charleston-W. Il. Adams, Charleston, S. c.
Bethel-James Il. Sage, Lewisville, S. G.
Harmony-D. f. Frierson, Mars Bluff, S. c.
Synod of Texas.
Brazos-R. f. Bunting, D. D., Galveston, Texas.
Central Teras-S A. King, Waco, Texas.
Eastern Tears.
Western TerdS.
Synod of Virginia.
Abingdon-J. N. Naf, Dublin Depot, Va.
Chesapeake.
East Hanocer-W. A. Campbell, Powhatan G. H.,
Va.
Green6rier.--J. H. Leps, Frankfort, West Va.
Lexington.
AontgOmGy-Dr. j. ID. Mitchell, Lynchbnrg, Va.
Roanoke-J B. Shearer, Black Walnut, Va.
Vest Hanorer-E Woods, Charlottesville, Va.
Winchester-M. W. Woodwork, Burlington, W. Va.
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Three Dollars year, payable in adrance Pay.
ments made within the first tco months from date
of subscription, will be considered in advance.
-Four Dollars year, if payment is not made with.
in two months.
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No paper will be discontinued until arrearages
are paid except in special cases at the discretion of
the Editor.
The best modes Of making payments are here put
down according to the order in which they are pre-.
ferred:
l. To local agents wherever practicable; all min.
listers of our Church are authorised to act as SUCH
2. A bank check, or post Office money order
may be sent by mail without risk of loss
3. Where neither of these can be procured, send
in registered letter. Under the new regulations
this mode is ordinarily safe.
The cost of the money order or registered letter
may be deducted from the amount transmitted.
Money sent according to the directions above is
at our risk. If transmitted simply by mail, it must
be at the risk of the party sending it,
MARRIAGES AND DEATHS. Notices inserted with
out charge.
OBITUARIES. Charged at ten cents line The
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COMMUNICATIONS AND LETTERS on BUSINESS should
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANS In INDIA. II is
estimated that there are two hundred thous-
and native Protestant Christians in India.
These are living witnesses of the utility of
missionary operations. To be Christian
in heather lands, means great deal. Only
the sincere will make profession of the
faith, when by so doing they lose caste with
their people, and no power but the grace of
God can sustain them. The results of their
pious, devoted lives are visible in the infu-
ence they exert. Each convert is preach
er, a living epistle, setting forth the power
of God They will accomplish much for the
spread Of the Gospel among their race. Yet
when we remember the millions who throng
the Eastern continent, we are constrained to
say, "What are these among so many
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INSTITUTIONS AND OFFICERS
OF THE
Presbyterian Church in the United States

CLERKS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY.
Rev. Joseph R. Wilson, d. D., Stated Clerk, Au-
gusta, Ga.
Rev. William Brown, D. D., Permanent Clerk,
Richmond, Va.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF sUsTENTATIoN
Rev. J. Leighton Wilson, D. D., Secretary, Col.
umbia, S. G.
Rev. Prof. James Woodrow, Treasurer Colum.
bia, S. G..
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF FOREIGN MISSIONS.
Rev. j. Leighton Wilson, D. D., Secretary, Col
umbia, S. G..
Rev. Prof. James Woodrow, Treasurer, Column
bia, s. c.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF PUBLICATION.
Rev. E. Thompson Baird, d. D., Secretary, Rich
mond Va.
c. Gennet Esq, Treasurer, Richmond, Va.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF EDUCATION.
Rev. E. Thompson Baird, D. D., Secretary, Rich
mond, Va
C. Gennet, Esq, Treasurer, Richmond, Va.
TRUSTEES OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY.
Thomas c. Perrin, President.
Joseph 81. Wilson, Vice President
Jesse Lindsay, Secretary and Treasurer.
FOR ONE YEAR.
Hon. Thomas C. Perrin, Abbeville, S. C.
Joseph H. Wilson, Charlotte, N. G..
Jesse 81. Lindsay, Greensboro N. c.
James Hemphill, Chester, S. C.
Rev. George Howe D. D., Columbia S. c.
FOR TWO YEARS.
Robert Adger, Charleston, S. c.
Hon. j. A. Inglis, Cheraw, S. c.
J. A. Ansey, Augusta, Ga.
John Whiting, Montgomery, Ala.
Rev. B. NJ. Palmer, D. D., New Orleans, La.
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LITERARY AND CRITICAL find it an
nouucel in the English journals that want
of thoroughly impartial literary and crit
ical paper is felt, and that arrangements
are in progress for new journal which shall
deal with new works strictly according to
their merits" If the almost innumerable
literary and critical papers already estab-
lished do not supply this want, is it likely
any new one can? Impartiality in criticism
is always the great desideratum, but we i'm
agine that as long as human nature remains
as it is, criticism will be more or less preju-
diced, and always suspected of partiality,
let it be as impartial as it may. Another
new journal is announced in England, which
shall lie anti-Romanist, antiRitualistic,
and ant Nationalist.
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CENTRAL PRESB YTERIAN

You may land on the rocks.
Your pay is certain on the farm,
Though grain may not be sold;
In panics you feel no alarm
Wheat is as good as gold.
Pick up your whip, and bid your team
Drag on the noble pillow,
And do not let an idle dream
Becloud your youthful brow.
In years to come, when children roam,
You'll take them by the arm,
And say, "You'd better stay at home,
Upon the good old farm"
Central N. j. Times.
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Annual Collections.

Our General Assembly has appointed the fol-
lowing as the times for the annual collections for
its benevolent schemes:
For Sustentation: On the first Sabbath in Jan
uary.
For Publication: On the first Sabbath in March.
For Foreign Missions: On the first Sabbath in
May.
For Education: On the first Sabbath in No.
vember.
For the Relief of Disabled Ministers, and the
Widows and Orphans of Deceased Minister'S
On the first Sabbath in July.
In cases where it is highly announcement to take
up collections on these days the Assembly enjons
that they shall be taken up as soon as possible
thereafter.
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Amsbandrp.
To Farmer Boys.


4" I'm sick of hoeing in the corn,
And following the pillow;
OF working hard from dewy morn
Till eve, with heated brow.
No longer will stay to NOW
Or pitch the scented hay
To the great city will go,
Where wealth is gained by play"
Tut, tut, my man, hush up that song;
Let wisdom be your guide:
That dream of wealth may lead you wrong,
And wreck you on the tide.
Sit down with me upon this stone
Your team will take no harm;
If we are not kings upon the throne,
We are kings upon farm.
Gods healthy breezes round you blow,
His birds your music make;
And sweeter rest is yours, you know,
When night doth overtake.
The harvest will your toll repay;
Those fields of waving grain
Are growing through the sunny day,
And in the summer rain.
Men work as hard as you, in shade,
Der books and papers bent;
The work of life is easy made
Only by sweet content.
It may be news, my friend, to you,
But it's the truth tell:
All work is very hard to do,
To those who do it well.
In speculation you must stand
The rough commercial shocks;
You may in safety reach the land,
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INCREASING REGARD FOR THE SABBATH.
Many will read with pleasure the following
clipping from an exchange:
In some portions of the continent of Eu-
rope, where the Sabbath day has been gen
orally prohned, ProtestantS are beginning
to break away from the example SO long set
them by the Roman Catholics. In some of
the Swiss Cantons steps have already been
taken for the better observance of the day,
particularly in regard to postal Matters
The government of Prussia, recognizing the
influence Of Protestant principles in the
prosperity of its kingdom, and acknowledge
ing that the observance of the Sabbath is
essential to the development of vital Chris
tianity, has issued DEGREES forbidding its
dissertation. Mechanics and laboring men
are demanding rest from Sabbath labor as
their natural right A similar state of things
is beginning in Holland.
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CooKERY.-The Methodist thinks thatou
cookery has much to do with our theology,
inasmuch as the state of the stomach has
much to do with the state of the brain and
the heart. Furthermore, the editor thinks
that the cookery of France is on the whole
the best cookery in the world. OF course
he will not accept the inference that the
theology of France is the best theology in
the world. But at all events, upon this
theory, good cook should be reckoned a
most desirable adjunct to theological semi
nary, in which, we doubt not, the students
generally will agree with US. The. bearing
of this upon the question of "help meet"
for minister is obvious.
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CARBoLIc ACID is very destructive to the
lower orders of vegetable and animal life,
and is therefore valuable agent for the
prevention of mould The Journal Of Chem
istry says that two or three drops of it to a
bottle of ink will prevent mouldiness; and
about thirty drops added to pint of water,
used for making paste, will prevent its mould.
ing. Carbohc acid, however, is poison,
and should be used with care.