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 point. The agent of commercial kn Bordeaux, on visit to this city for tha al orders, as usual, for Brandy, not n with any success, paid visit to the Ph phia customers of the house which he sents. Returning in few days. he cOml ed bitterly to friend of ours, that neith New York nor Philadelphia could he O an order for single pipe! This single speaks volumes in praise of those public efactOrs who have successfully labOred r pen the eyes Ot the people to the ravage that fell destroyer of man---that enemy 0f man happiness here and hereafter-thaf platter of families and breaker of hearts TEMPERANcE-N. r. Spec.

 OGice Hlmting.-The Washington C Chronicle publishes an article on this snh which is characterized by sound sense. extract the following, which is well worthy attention:

 The following is picture which has sol truth of cOlOring, but which will apply n only to this but to past administrations. Tn number of applicants, however, is, we al sorry to see augmenting rapidly. and thei importunities proportiOnally increased. Is would seem to indicate that the nation wal not in condition to afford employment to itS population. or that many would prefer the shackles and miserable dependence of office to useful and independent trades and profess siOns. This is to he lamented but we fear it | arises in some degree, out of the nature ofOur institutions. Every man, however humble his fortune, is desirous to make his son pro- fessiOnal man, and for this purpose gives him an education propOrtiOnate to his limited means. He becomes a lawyer, doctor. or clergyman, and contributes tO swell the num- Der in these professions, which have now be- come so filled in every part Of the country. that but few can obtain more than bare suh- sistence. Trades are despised, and all that can rush into the learned profession, as more gentee and more likely to lead to h0nors and distinctions. In few years hitter disappoint- ments takes the place of visionary anticipa- ton. and many Ofth0se who might have been useful and prosperous as mechanics, farmers. or manufacturers. become mere prescribers of pills. or " fomenters of village vexation." and are ready to seize upon any thing which will yield them support. Many again. are $ brought up without trades or professions, lead life of dissipation and extrayagance, are re- duced to want, and rush to Washington for office.

 La,c Case.-The Louisiana Advertiser con- tains decision of some importance. involvins property to the amount ofmore than S4OO, ,0Oc made on the 9th of April by the Supren Court of that State. Judge Martin delivere7 the opinion of the Court which was unaniul ous. The house of Morgan. Dorsey, & Cs in 1895 drew several hills of exchange in f vOr of William Kenner & Co. unon the hOu of Duncan and Sons in Liverpool, payabls London at sixty days after sight. The u were indorsed by the party in whose faxf they were drawn. They were afterwarsl presented to the drawees ana aCcepted, HS#* 1 able at a certain banking house in Lond6N the drawees at the same time fixed a day f1z the payment. which however was mt rs,s,s. toned in the acceptance, nor did the dN# when the acceptance was made appear n the face of the bills. The bills not being pa; at the time agreed upon by the acceptorN which was sixty-three days-The questidE before the Court was, whether upon such ai1 imperfect acceptance the drawers and indorS CTS were holden to pay the bills. The Su+ preme Court of Louisiana having had tis6 case before them for ten months, and making it the subjects ofcareful and mature delibera- ton, decided that the acceptance and protest were good and sufficient to entitle the holders to their remedy agaihst any of the other par ties.

 Sagucity ofa Dog.E The following weH authenticated aneedote,l is from the Rochess ter Daily Advertiser: r On the evening of the 9th inst. as we were coming from Le Roy to this place in the Pioneer, the night being nncomonly dark we discos,red from distance before we reached Aliens Creek. in Wheat !. land. that dog not known t0sny of the pas sengers, was frequently runnlng about the sides of the carriage and evidently very un-. easy. and seeming to look " ith deep interes for some notice within. When v had cos to within ten or l2 rods of the cred !. the got before the stage and in the middIe q road, set up most earnest barking and ing. which attracted the notice of the passe1l gers and driver. who apprehended all this con cern Of the strange dog might mean soane- ting. stopped his horses, ,and looking under hts E coach and within inches of his wheel, saw man lying across the path in such position. that had he drove two fGgt further. tise vvsseet must have passed directly over the neck of the poor creature and terminated hls exis- tence. The man was old and gray headed. and the secret of his exposure was. he was drunk. SO drunk that wheD aroused he could not sneak As soon ss he was drawn froual under fine coach. the faithful dog was in an ecstacy of iOy-his first motion was to stretch 1 himseif at iui length upon his beastly master. fawning with more interest than language can describe, then jumping across his body hack, ward and forward, as # to shield him ffoH