xOsiXK&i 
is to be furnished willi five thousand pack mules to 
carry our baggage while wo devote our attentiou to 
routing him from bis mountain haunts. The motto 
is “ uo quarter to him not- any of his accursed min¬ 
ions.” 
The weather is very mild and pleasant—much 
like early Sept, in New York. As I have before in¬ 
timated, tho season has been remarkably dry. Hun¬ 
dreds of the springs which have heretofore furnished 
plenty of water are now dry. The Cumberland is 
lower than ever known before. Crops of all kinds 
are just about a failure, and bow the people of 
Southern Kentucky and Tennessee are to live until 
another crop can be grown is more than i can tell. 
Uncle Sam's teams must live, and as long as an ear 
of corn remains in tho country our foraging trains 
will get it. Should this prove acceptable to you, you 
may hear from me again. If. F. Court, 
Co. E., 71th Keg't. JU. Vol’s. 
[Written for Moore's Rural New-Yorker.] 
LEAF FROM A TEACHER’S DIARY. 
ECONOMY VERSUS MEANNESS 
The rapid and extended use of petroleum has no 
parallel in the history of manufactures or com¬ 
merce, It is but three years (Aug., 1859,) since 
petroleum was first obtained in any notable quanti¬ 
ties in the valley of Oil Creek, Fa ; and yet in that 
short period its employment for artificial illumina¬ 
tion has spread over all parts of tho civilized world 
nnd the distant islands of the sea. The obtaining of 
it from the oil wells, the refining of it, the carrying of 
it to market and the export of it abroad, combine to 
form a new manufacturing and commercial business 
for America, of great extent, which is the source of 
no small amount of wealth. Its rapid growth is 
proven by the fact that in the first nine months of 1861 
the exports of it amounted to only 308,940 gallons, 
while in the same time in the current year they 
amounted to 0,204.819 gallons,— an increase of 
no less than 5,925,879 gallons. From the first of 
Jauuary last up to the 7th of this month, there was 
exported from the three ports of Boston. New York and 
Philadelphia. 7,887,708 gallons, valued at $2,040,750. 
Australia, China, New Zealand, and the West In¬ 
dies, have received cargoes, but tbe greatest quan¬ 
tity went to Europe, and no less than 4,101,437 
gallons to Great Britain. 
In a circular recently issued by A. Macrae, the 
great oil broker in Liverpool, it, is stated that from 
the first of January up to the 18th of October last 
there were received at Liverpool, of crude and 
refined petroleum, 200,000 casks, valued at $3,000,- 
000; this includes Pennsylvania and Canada petro¬ 
leum. Crude American is now selling at Liverpool 
for $100 per tun; it was selling in May last for only 
$40 per tun. Benzine (the lightest refined oil) is in 
large demand. There is also a great demand tor the 
heavy lubricating American petroleum. This cir¬ 
cular says:— “Tbe oil exported from America and 
Canada in 1SG2 (the. first of its European introduc¬ 
tion) exceeded in value £1.000.000. Yet, cue tithe 
of its dissemination is not effected; Britain bus 
manipulated pretty freely, so have France and the 
German States, but so clamorous are they for more 
that tbe export, extension cannot be made sufficiently 
general. Spain, Portugal, Italy and Russia have 
Sci. Amer. 
I looked into the eyes of one of my scholars 
to-day. and saw plainly there the stamp of consump¬ 
tion. She is one of the best students in the whole 
school. I looked at her; then 1 turned away, for 1 
felt so sad I could not see her without feeling a 
dimness come over my eyea The tears would 
gather there. I feel them now. She looked up to 
me so sweetly, she was so kind, that her soul seemed 
full of goodness; yet she must soon die. flow hard 
it seems to me, but she appears as cbeevf'ul as ever. 
I notice she listens very attentively when I am talk¬ 
ing to inv Physiology class about consumption. She 
must know how frail she is; yet no thought of death 
ever appears to shade her brow. Blessed girl! I 
wish all could thus live, all enjoy the gift so kindly 
bestowed by the Great Father. 
That one look of this morning has followed me all 
day. I cannot rid myself of if. This is only one 
of my daily observations, llow honestly scholars 
look up to a teacher for advice and instruction. 
Teachers, we have a holy office. Do wo pray 
enough? I fear not. I have thus mused on the 
day, led io it no doubt by that one look, which, I 
hope, may lead me to think more of what I might 
do with these gems of immortality. .See their 
soul-thought in every word, every action; manly 
strength in tbe embryo yet nobility there, although 
it may often be encased within the brawny,mus¬ 
cles and rough exterior of the honest farmer 
boy. He enjoys the life-power. He lives, and 
it does me good to see him full of life. J 
wish I could give him more time to play. Here, 
too, is womanly grace growing into purity of charac¬ 
ter, marking out holy aims in life. They do not 
even know these things themselves. There they 
are, and time shall reveal them, making them bloom 
into beauteous forms hereafter. 
Thus i think of my pupils to-day; thus I am 
glad that I can look into their faces, feeling thankful 
in granting unto them, from my scanty storq, that 
which 1 hope may make them better. Not nil my 
thoughts are so pleasant. There are the careless, 
listless, lazy boys, always trying to show out (heir 
nature iu some funny action; still I like them. I 
attribute this fun to an extra amount of vitality 
which they must work off, somehow, or be misera¬ 
ble. They do not mean to be bad; they can hardly 
help having these good limes of fun and mischief 
From among these boys will grow up men to take 
the various stations in life. How we shall he dis¬ 
appointed iu them. Some ot these wild fellows will 
fill the chairs of state, some will herald the ever¬ 
lasting Gospel to other nations. 
But I cannot tell all my thoughts to-day. I only 
wish all of them could be as hopeful, that I might 
always thus feel tho grandeur ol my toiling, weari¬ 
some, yet truly great vocation. The twilight has 
faded away amid the crimson leaves in the west, and 
all is hushed. May I see many days like this when 
I may rejoice in feeling better and purer from the 
soul-power gained in the blessed intercourse with 
my scholars. I am almost wearied, yet I feel it not, 
all is so pleasant and cheerful. Darkness has come. 
My eyes cannot follow the pen. It is night. 
Seville Acaflcniy, Medina Co., Ohio, 1862. Iopas. 
“Old stingy bools. - ’—“Meaner than dirt”—“Greedy 
Jaw?,”—“ Swallow your berries whole,” shouted 
half a dozen sharp voices oil the street, one day last 
week. My window was open, but my blinds were 
closed: and I will assure you that I took good care 
not to open them, tor when there is any quarreling 
going on I had much rather be behind than before 
the scene. I am not a coward, however; and, 
though I am rather given to peeping through the 
blinds, yet, when justice requires it. I am not afraid 
to fling them wide open, and thrust myself betwixt 
a set ol fighting boys or teasing girls. In this pres¬ 
ent case I pulled the wire ot my Venetian blind, 
and took sight of the seat of war. 
The sharp voices and sharper words seemed to be 
fired off by half a dozen stout, brown faced boys, of 
ten years or more, who were bristling agaiuet a tall, 
pale-faced lad, of about ihe same age. who held a 
covered basket tighily in his arms. The six urchins 
were evidently try iug to get the cover of the bucket 
off. “ Take away your hands,” the tall lad kept 
saying. But the more he said “ hands off,” the more 
the hands were on. And most villanous looking 
hands they were too, brown, streaked, scratched, 
with black finger nails, and looked altogether as 
though they had not been washed for a twelve- 
month. 
“Old stingy boots,"— 1 “Meaner than dirt,” “Greedy 
Jaws - ’ came through the blinds again. The boy 
held on to the bucket, but never were six wolves 
more determined. You would have knocked them 
all down, would you? No—you wouldn't have 
done any such thing. Yon would have risked the 
tearing of your jacket, and a good pounding beside. 
Most, likely you would have called out lustily tor 
help, and so have saved your berries. But very 
few of you, l am sure, would have done what my 
little hero did. When he found that words were of 
no avail, he set his bucket down in the middle of the 
street, took oft' his cover, and then stood back with 
folded arms to see the berries go. 
And O, boyp, how they did go! However, I have 
seen just such greedy sights before; for, though 
there may be an end to your capacities, it does seem 
as if there was no end tu your appetites. 
Down to the bottom they came in 
Glorious flag ! thy folds shall shelter 
Alt that tread this hallowed shore, 
Till '‘suns shall rise and set” no longer, 
And “till time shall be no more.” 
Shout, ye people-let the echoes 
Ring far over laud and sea— 
For thr.Jlog that ne'er was conquered. 
For the banner of tho free I 
APPEAL OF WOMEN TO THE PRESIDENT. 
Eight thousand signatures have been appended 
to the following appeal from the women ot the loyal 
States to the President, praying for the removal of 
incompetent army officers: 
“ To the President of the United Stales: —We, the 
undersigned, women of ihe United States, who 
have freely given our brothers, sons, and husbands 
to fight for the country in this deadly struggle, and 
who will seek every opportunity to aid, cheer, and 
uphold them to the end—seeing our army, the linwer 
and hope of the land, exposed to needless danger 
and sufferings—do hereby ask of you, Abraham Lin¬ 
coln, that you, us chief ruler of this nation, see to it 
that the strength which is needed against the enemy 
be not wasted by a foe within—and that 
ROCHESTER, N. Y., DECEMBER G, 1SG2. 
LETTER FROM TENNESSEE. 
lie nor wasieu oy a io« wiuuu—and that you cause 
all negligent Jucompetent, drunken, or knavish men 
who in the first hurry of election obiained for them¬ 
selves weighty charges and posts of responsibility, 
to be at once sought out and dismissed — and that 
you give our precious soldiers in keepiug to the 
most honest, tho most capable, tbe most faithful, 
trusty, and zealous officers, both civil and military, 
that can Vie found within our land. 
“So that we. waiting at home that issue which 
Ihe God of battles alone ran give, need feel fbr our 
soldiers uo evils, but those inseparable from war— 
need fear no inefficient or unlrnsfy quartermasters, 
no careless, ignorant, or drunken officers, no unskil¬ 
ful. unfeeling, or drunken surgeons. 
“ We believe that a just severity to such offenders 
would greatly increase the efficiency of our army, 
and would strengthen the hands of Government by 
securing the confidence of (he people. 
“It would bo welcome to all those officers and 
officials who are now working faithfully. It would 
lie welcome to every one; for though men are prone 
to float on the frail platform of * W hatever is. is right,’ 
they rejoice when some bold hand breaks It in frag¬ 
ments under them. 
“ We have intrusted to you all that we most value 
—we believe that you will care for it tenderly and 
conscientiously — remembering that; of this host, 
when one man suffers many hearts bleed. We suf¬ 
fer willingly, but we look to you. our chosen ruler, 
Mint flii nnl ailO’.ir in min " 
yet to receive it in the crude form. 
WELLINGTON’S STRATEGY, 
a twinkling. 
Only one more handful; and, like the guzzlers that 
they were, a regular scramble they were having for 
that. “Now you may eat the bucket,” called out 
the pale lad. And here comes the cream of the 
story. Tim, the saddler over Ihe way, had been 
watching them as well as 1; and whilst they were 
all struggling for the last berry, with their heads all 
in a lmoch, out he ran with a stout cane. Whiz, 
whack, bang—over their heads, over their cars, over 
their backs. Never a swarm uf iiies started quicker 
than those six little miscreants, who ran howling 
down the street. 
“ But why didn’t you interfere before? some boy 
or girl asks. “I wouldn’t iiave looked on so calmly.” 
“So calmly! Was 1 calm? Why boys, my blood 
fairly boiled. I called, l screamed, I hallooed. 
And what do you think they said? “Pooh, don’t, 
mind her. she’s only a womati.” “ Only a woman.” 
Won’t they make tender, dear, little men when they 
grow up? Don’t, respect me the less for this, I pray 
you, for I assure you that, for these six young boors, 
twenty well bred, handsome lads will lift their caps 
to rno. on the street, aud as many bright-eyed, little 
girls delight to make me bouquets. 
I opened the blind, and called the lad to me. It 
was none of my business, but 1 could not help ask¬ 
ing him what he had picked the berries for. He 
blushed, stammered, and then said, quickly, “To 
carry to Jim Laugly, ma’am." I knew Jim Langly 
— 1 have carried berries and oranges to him 
myself. Ue is very lond of them. He is no relation 
want of water. We were now approaching one of 
the finest springs in the State, where good water 
was abundant, and if we could be kept from that, 
our only course would be to fallback! Hence the 
battle of Perryville, of which I suppose you have 
been fully informed. Since this battle it has been 
one continuous march through heat, and dust almost 
unendurable, keeping just near enough to the ene¬ 
my t.n avoid hurting him, and thus allowing him to 
escape. I have conversed with many of the prison¬ 
ers, and they all scout the idea of soldiers expecting 
to fight Bhaog under Buell. They told me that at 
three different times our forces were on three sides 
of Ibem, and the only way they got out was by 
marching night and day. Buell wasremoved from 
this command in good time. It is generally thought 
that a longer delay would have proved disastrous. 
Much Is expected ot Rokecrans. The army will 
follow him into the field full of confidence. He is a 
lighting man, and his command is composed of men 
who enlisted lor no olher purpose than to put down 1 
this rebellion in the shortest and safest manuer. 
In traveling through Kentucky and Tennessee, 
one cannot fail to notice how generally it is the case 
that the “ upper-ten-dom ” favor secession, while Ihe 
poorer class universally hail tho approach of the 
Union Army with unfeigned joy. 
entirely changed. But the difficulty was tn delay 
the attack of the French until the change could be 
effected. This the “Iron Duke” accomplished in 
person, in thefollowiug manner:—Dotting his cocked 
hat and waving it in the air. he rode furiously to the 
head of a regiment, as if about to order a charge. 
Thereupon arose a tremendous cheer from the men, 
which was taken up by corps after corps, until it 
reverberated along the whole extent of Ficton’s 
line. As the roar died away, Wellington was beard 
to remark, mu singly, as if addressing himself— 
“Soult is a skillful but cautious commander, and 
will not attack in force until be has ascertained the 
meaning of t hese cheers. This will give time for the 
sixth dim ion to come up, and we shall beat him.” 
It turned out is he anticipated. Soult. naturally 
enough. : opposed these tremendous shouts an¬ 
nounced the arrival of large re-enforcements, and 
did not attack until too late. Ilad he struck at the 
light, moment, he would have won an easy victory; 
as it was, he met with a bloody repulse. This was 
strategy. Not the strategy of books, but the strat¬ 
egy of genius, engendered and executed in the 
same moment. 
THE WAR’S PROGRESS 
Department of tho South. 
It will be remembered that we made brief men¬ 
tion concerning an inland movement of the Federal 
troops under command of Maj.-Gen. Foster, with 
the double intention of performing a reconnoissance 
Id force, and capturing three rebel regiments which 
were stationed in Washington county. The latter 
portion of tho programme failed owing to the con¬ 
dition of the roads which wore much broken up by 
long continued and heavy rains. The following 
official report bus been received at the War Depart¬ 
ment: 
IIeauqcap.thrs Dhpart.me.nt, North Carolina, > 
Newbhr.v, November 11th, 1862. 5 
General — 1 have (he honor lr> report that agree¬ 
ably to my letter of the 30th ult.. informing you of 
mv intention to make an expedition through the 
eastern counties of ibis State, I left ibis post on the 
21st, ami have just arrived here on my return. 
Though hu original plan tor the capture of the 
three regiments foraging in tboi section, was in¬ 
tended, the condition of Ihe roads, frustrated 
us. The expedition, however, will be of great ser¬ 
vice to our cause in this department. 
The First Brigade, under Ool. Armory, with artil¬ 
lery and cavalry, and wagon trains, were marched 
from this point across the country to Washington. 
The balance of my forces were embarked on trans¬ 
ports, aud lauded at Washington, were they were 
joined by Col. Armory’s command. On Sunday, 3d, 
all the forces, including artillery, left Washington, 
under my command, tor Williamson. The. same 
evening we encountered the enemy, posted in a 
strong position, at. Little- Creek. 1 immediately or¬ 
dered Col Stevenson, commanding second brigade, 
who was iu advance, to haste in driving (hem Irom 
the opposite side of the creek and push on at once. 
The engagement lasted an hour, when the enemy 
were driven from their rifle pits by the effective fire 
ot BelzerV Rhode Island Battery, and retired to 
Paul’s Mills, where they made another stand in a 
field work Belzer’s battery and (wo batteries of 
the third New York artillery were immediately or¬ 
dered into position, and al'ler a spirited engagement 
succeeded In driving the enemy across the bridge, 
which they burnt. 
That night, while the pioneers built a bridge the 
forces bivouaeed on the field, and proceeded next 
morning to Williamson, where we arrived about 
noon. We started t hence after a short, rest, in pur¬ 
suit of (he enemy, bivouacing about five miles from 
that place. On the following day we reached and 
occupied Rainbow fortifications three miles below 
Hamilton, aud then pushed forward to the latter 
place. There we expected to find some iron boats, 
said to bo making, but discovered nothing of the 
kind. 
On the 6t.h. we left Hamilton in pursuit of the 
enemy towards Tarboro’ and encamped the same 
night within ten miles of that, place. It. was my in¬ 
structions to pursue the enemy to Tarboro’, but the 
exhausted condition of iny men, nu-st of whom had 
been sfeb during the last two months and had not 
•yet recovered iheir strength, and the provisions be¬ 
ing entirely exhausted so that I bail to subsist men 
by foraging, as well as the fact (hut the enemy were 
being largely reinforced by rail, changed my plans, 
and on the following morning..7th, I countermarched 
the column, reaching Hamilton (Jie same night, 
where we remained till the next morning, when 
we marched for Williamson, in the midst of a se¬ 
vere storm, where we remained a day to rest. At 
daylight, on tbo mb, we glutted for Plymouth, 
where we arrived at night.. The following day the 
troops were all re-embarked at Newberu. 
During (he engagement at Rawi’s Mills aud Ham¬ 
ilton, we captured live prisoners, who were paroled 
at Williamson. Our loss is six killed and eight 
wounded. 
Tne expedition was instrumental in saving 
Plymouth Irom destruction and capture, as I found 
upon my arrival there that the enemy was lying 
near, besides being engaged in foraging and re¬ 
constructing the bridge over the creek three miles 
outside ot (be town, for the transportation of artil¬ 
lery to the opposite bank. 1 also learn from in¬ 
formation gathered on ihe spot, that an immediate 
attack was to have been made upon the place, but 
for my advance, and the danger of capturing, when 
they teat a hasty reireat. 
1 recommend (hat Col. Stevenson for efficient, ser¬ 
vice in this march and at Little Creek >nd K iwi’s 
mill, as well as previously at the bailie ot Roan¬ 
oke and Newbern, be promoted to Brigadier Gene¬ 
ral, to dale from November 3d, 1862. 
I have the honor, Ac,, J. G. Foster, 
Major-General Commanding. 
tageously combined with bodily labor. Even iu the 
case of grown-up persons, some intervals of leisure 
are necessary to keep the mind in a healthful and 
vigorous stale. It is when thus relieved Irom the 
state of tension belonging to actual study that boys 
and girls, as well as men and women, acquire tbe 
habit of thought aud reflection, and of forming their 
own conclusions, independently of what they are 
taught and the authority of others. In younger per¬ 
sons, it Is not the mind only that suffers from too 
large a demand being made on it, for the purposes 
of study. Relaxation and cheerful occupation are 
essential to the proper development of the corporeal 
structure and faculties; and the want of them ope¬ 
rates like au uuvvholesome atmosphere, or defective 
nourishment, iu producing the lasting evils of defec¬ 
tive health and a stunted growth, with all the sec¬ 
ondary evils Io which they lead.” 
Where slaves are 
tho most plentiful, rebels are the most, common. In 
all cases where I have had an opportunity to talk 
with Ihe slaves of rebel masters, they have been in¬ 
structed that it is our intention lo take their master’s 
houses and lands from them, and work the negroes 
for our own benefit. They pretend to believe this, 
and talk secesh “right smart” when uuy of tho mas¬ 
ter’s family are in hearing; but when with us alone 
they assure us that they are only abiding their lime. 
They are fully aware of the significance of the 
President’s proclamation. Hundreds of them are 
now leaving their families behind and following our 
army in the capacity of servants, cooks, ifco. Many 
of them are making and saving money, which is so 
different from their former experience that some of 
them hardly know how to contain themselves. 
When opportunity oilers they speculate on a small 
scale iu bread, potatoes, meal, apples, pies, &o. 
They are generally strictly honest, but quite pe¬ 
nurious. 
The general aspect of this country is desolute 
enough. Much valuable propurly has been burned 
—houses, bridges, fences, and anything which could 
bo made available, has been appropriated by either 
army. Prices are ruinously high/- A pair of line 
boots are worth sixteen to twenty dollars; calico 
one dollar per yard, and finer goods in proportion; 
potatoes, $3,50 to $4 per bushel; apples, $3 per 
bush.; butter $1 per pound, and coffee ditto; sugar, 
50 cents; molasses, $4 per gallon, ami many other 
things proportionately high. 
Nashville, in good times, numbers about 45,000 
people. It is finely located and surrounded by a 
desirable farming country. Tbe State House stands 
on the highest grounds in the city, and commands 
one of the finest prospects I ever saw. The fine sus¬ 
pension bridge which spanned the Cumberland was 
destroyed by the rebels last spring—the river now 
being crossed by a pontoon bridge. The railroad 
bridge, which was burned at the same time, has 
been rebuilt. The. cars on the Nashville ,t. Louis¬ 
ville Railroad now come to Mitcbelsvillo—distant 3G 
miles. A bridge and tunnel which were destroyed 
have yet to be rebuilt before we are in direct rail 
communication wiLh Louisville. It is expected this 
will be doue In ten days. Until within a week, not 
a Northern paper has been received in this town for 
five mouths. This morning the news boys are sell¬ 
ing Chicago papers of the 14th insf. 
The railroad is strongly guarded on account ol 
John Morgan’s guerrilla band which still infests 
the country. This man is a perfect terror to this 
whole country. Ue Is one of the most cunning and 
desperate men iu tho rebel service. 1 could relate 
instances of almost unheard of barbarity as commit¬ 
ted by him. Of late his transactions are mostly con¬ 
fined to cutting off our trains and destroying rail¬ 
roads and telegraphs. The mountainous character 
of this region affords him facilities for refuge and 
security. I am told this morning that this Division 
PiiOTOGRArns by Steam.— The application of 
steam to photographs is a new American invention. 
Mr. Charles Fontayne, of Cincinnati, has perfected 
a machine for printing photographs from the 
negative, at the rate ol from two Ihmisand live hun¬ 
dred to twelve thousand impressions an hour, ac¬ 
cording to their size. This opens a field to photogra¬ 
phy hitherto impracticable, in consequence of the 
time and expense of printing as ordinarily prac¬ 
tised. The illustrations for a hook, having all the 
perfection of a photograph, may be turned out, by the 
use of this machine, with a rapidity wholly un¬ 
dreamed of, either in plate printing or lithography. 
The expense of engraving may bo dispensed with, 
and the negative come direct, from artists’ hands, 
drawn upou a prepared glass, from which, in the 
course of a few hours, the plates for a large edition 
may be printed, each one a perfect duplicate of the 
original drawing. 
Unconscious Influence.— The very handling of 
the nursery is significant, and the potuiauce, the 
passion, tho gentleness, the tranquillity iudicaled by 
it, are. all re-produced in the child. His soul is a 
purely receptive nature, and that for a considerable 
period, without choice or selection. A little farther 
on, he begins voluntarily to copy even thing he 
sees. Voice, manner, gait, everything which the 
eye sees, the mimic instinct delights to act over. 
And thus we have a whole generation of future men 
receiving from us their very beginnings, aud the 
deepest impulses of their life and immortality. 
They watch us every moment, in tho family, before 
the hearth, and at the (aide: and when we are mean¬ 
ing them no good or evil, when we are conscious of 
exerting no influence over them, they are drawing 
from us impressions and moulds of habit, which, if 
wreng, no heavenly discipline can wholly remove; 
or, if light, no bad associations utterly dissipate, 
Now. it may be doubted, 1 think, whether, in all 
the active influence of our lives, we do as much to 
shape the destiny of our lellow-men, as we do in 
this single article ot unconscious influence over 
children,— Bnshnell. 
Discoveries in Ancient Africa. — The Afri- 
cain, of Constantin (Algeria,) states that the exca¬ 
vations now being made on the site of the ancient 
Numidian town of Tiddis. on the banks of the Rum- 
mel, have brought to light several inscriptions which 
prove that place to have been still inhabited under 
the Byzantine Empire. A great number of silos or 
corn-pits, lined with masonry, have also been dis¬ 
covered, showing that this modo of preserving corn 
was then employed in cities, though it has long been 
supposed that it was introduced by the Arabs. On 
the plain of El-IIeri, not far from this ancient city, 
stands the mausoleum of the Senator Lollius, the 
friend of Marcus Aurelius, from which it is inferred 
that even the highest functionaries of Rome per¬ 
sonally superintended the cultivation of their ostates 
in Africa. 
Literary Exhaustion. —Frequently we meet 
with a writer who achieves one remarkable book, 
and whatever other books be writes are compara¬ 
tive failures—echoes of tho same thought, repeti¬ 
tions of the same creations. The reason of that 
stint, of invention is obvious: the author has em¬ 
bodied certain ideas long meditated; and if his 
book be really great, all the best of those ideas are 
poured into it. In the interval between that book 
and the next, he has not paused to ponder new 
studies and gather from them new ideas, and tho 
succeeding books comprise but the leavings of the 
old ideas. A man of genius is inexhaustible ouly in 
proportion as be is always ronouri.shiug his genius. 
Both in mind and body, where nourishment ceases 
vitality fails.— Bulwer. 
Great Advance in tub Price of Coal Oil.— 
Three months ago coal oil was selling in New York 
for 32 cents per gallon; it is now selling at one dol- 
lur per gallon by Lhu cargo. Benzine, which was a 
drug in the market at 84 cents per gallon about the 
time when coal oil was selling at 32 cents, is now 
worth about the same as coal oil. Auy person who 
will invent a coal oil lamp which will give a greater 
light with less consumption of material than the 
kind now in use will be sure to realize a fortune 
from his invenlion, if it is brought out immediately. 
Who will be the lucky man l—Bel. Am. 
The way to be accounted learned is, not to know 
everything, but to be able to marshal up what you 
do know, be it much or little, and tell it. 
Let us live patiently. We should have aspira- 
tiou8, but, till the time for flying comes, let us 
brood contently upon our nests. 
Men of genius s? r inert in so¬ 
ciety; as the blazi ,:u- or, ■ descendsto 
earth, is only a stone. 
Little differences keep ir ;;.e commerce of 
friendship betwee i l destroy it 
between fools. 
Most men are angr er at lum ' bo reprehends 
their faults than im wl; has the occasion 
of them. 
An ungrateful .uuu is ji; stly .v r ad as the com¬ 
mon injurer of a ;ose who neo istance. 
Rice in Hawaii.— One and half pounds of South 
Carolina rice seed, sent to Hawaii in 1860, were 
planted there Aug. 11th; their produce, harvested 
December 29th, was forty pounds. Before the end 
of November, 1SG1,3 800 pounds had been gathered, 
of the second crop; and it was estimated that by the 
end of August, 18G2, more than a million pounds 
would have been harvested, all from that one and a 
half pounds. 
A Good Hint. — Send your little child to bed 
happy. Whatever cares press, give it a warm good¬ 
night kiss 03 it goes lo its pillow- The memory of 
this, in ihe stormy years which fate may have in 
store tor the little one, will be like Bethlehem’s star 
to the bewildered shepherds. 
