Pepper is an almost universal condiment. Black pepper irritates and inflames the coating of the stomach; red pepper does not; it excites, but does not irritate, consequently it should be used instead of black pepper. It was known to the Romans, and has been in use in the East Indies from time immemorial, as it corrects that flatulence which attends the large use of vegetable food. Persons in health do not need any pepper in their food. But to those of weak and languid stomachs, it is manifold more healthful to use cayenne pepper at meals than any form of wine, brandy or beer that can be named, because it stimulates without the reaction of sleepiness or debility.

A traveling Yankee lately put up at a country Inn where a number of loungers were assembled telling stories. After sitting some time and attentively listening to their folly, he suddenly turned and asked them how much they supposed he had been offered for his dog, which he had with him. They all stared, and curiosity was on tiptoe to know; one guessed five dollars, another ten dollars, another fifteen until they had exhausted their patience, when one of them seriously asked him how much he had been offered.

"Not a darn'd cent," he replied.

Brigham Young gives the following recipe for keeping people young and handsome:

"Mormonism" keeps men and women young and handsome, and then they are full of the spirit of God, there are none of them but what will have a glow upon their countenance, and that is what makes me and you young, for the spirit of God is with us and within us."

We are happy to be able to announce to our readers, says the Atlanta Intelligencer of Wednesday, that the casualty which took place at Maj. Cooper's Iron Works on Friday last, was not so serious as the first account received here, seemed to indicate. We have a letter from Maj. Cooper on yesterday which communicates the following statement of the accident:

"The moulder, Joseph Costner, was casting a large rod for the rolling mill. A large ladle with 5,000 pounds of melted iron, suspended by a crane, was passing by the hands round to the mould. Before pouring, it became top heavy, turned and was emptied into a puddle of water. This produced an explosion that threw the metal through the roof of the shed, and in every direction, burning five or six more or less. Only three were seriously burned, to wit: Cosner, white man, Bill, a negro, the founder, and John, a moulder, (a negro). These are doing well and are not in danger. And the others are at work again."

We find the following new definitions of several words in our language not to be found in Webster's Dictionary:

HARD TIMES - Sitting on a cold grindstone and reading the President's message.

LOVE - A little world within itself intimately connected with shovel and tongs.

PROGRESS OF TIME - A peddler going through the land with wooden clocks.

POETRY - A bottle of ink sprinkled over a sheet of foolscap.

PATRIOT - A man who has neither property nor reputation to lose.

In India lately, while the army were returning from Alumbagh to camp, one of the Lancers was tempted to poke his spear into a bees' nest, when the swarm at once turned out and attacked the soldiers with such ferocity, that they all turned and fled, both officers and men, abandoning their guns, and they did not stop until they had reached the camp, where they were enabled to partially protect themselves from their active prosecutors.

The following is the manner in which this useless, injurious and filthy habit, spoken of by Rev. J.W. Hunnicutt in a letter to his paper. Is it possible that this habit is indulged in eastern North Carolina only?

"There is one habit into which the ladies very generally seem to have fallen, which is not common among the ladies of Virginia, and that is, the 'dipping' of 'snuff.' The 'modus operandi' is somewhat after this fashion. The ladies have little sticks with mops at the end, or tooth brushes. These they dip into little boxes of snuff and put them into their mouths and suck them like little babies do their mothers. - this they call 'dipping.' We notice that some of them dip very often and seem to get into their little tin boxes quite deep; then they 'suck' and spit and 'suck' and spit and keep 'sucking' and spitting until a stranger who knew nothing of what they were doing would actually think they were chewing tobacco. - But 'tis nothing but snuff dipping, or dipping of snuff, after all. So pardon us, ye fair and lovely daughters of the Old North State, for this digression, and liberty we have taken with your own fair selves and your innocent amusement of snuff dipping."

Mr. H. can well be pardoned for the closing remark of his that it is "innocent amusement," on the ground that he has seen so little of it, and its deleterious effects, that he can know but little of it except the information he receives from those who indulge. These, in most cases, refuse or fail to inform strangers of the bad effects which are liable to result, and not infrequently do result from its use. The health of many females in the eastern section of our State is injured, and in some cases seriously - fatally - by the practice of snuff dipping.

It has all the bad effects of chewing tobacco with the additional and the worse one that the snuff is inhaled into the lungs where its invasion of the natural and healthful functions of the system is more serious than the former. Many are its victims who dislike, and some refuse to confess it.

We think that if the ladies will use tobacco in some form, chewing, while it is equally decent, is much less injurious to the health. As to its beauty, we believe that the dipping is usually hid from the men, and as habit makes fashion, by a general substitution of a chew of tobacco by the ladies, for a dip of snuff, would be all that would be required to ensure the desired perfection.

Of course it were better to leave off all, but if you will use tobacco, don't you think our suggestion is a good one? Think of it ladies, and give us the result of your reflections. If our plan is the better one of course you'll say so; if not, give us good reasons, and we fess up.

A dispatch to the London Times, dated the evening of the 14th says:

"The Emperor was fired at this evening, at half past nine o'clock, while entering the Italian Opera House, in Rue Lepellier. Some persons in the street were wounded. The Emperor showed himself to the people at the door of the Opera House, and was received with enthusiastic cheers of the immense multitude who were waiting in the street to greet him."

The Moniteur of the 16th says:

"On their Majesties arriving at the Opera, three explosions, coming from hollow projectiles were heard. A considerable number of persons who were stationed before the Theatre, including some soldiers of the escort, were wounded, two of them mortally. The hat of the Emperor was pierced by a projectile, and Gen. Rognest aid-de-camp of the Emperor, was slightly wounded in the neck. Two footmen were also wounded. One of the horses attached to the Emperor's carriage was killed, and the carriage was broken by the projectiles."

The latest advices [ibid] say that sixty persons were wounded and three killed by the shells which were thrown at the carriage.

The conspirators are Italians, and many arrests have been made. The Emperor and Empress suffered nothing from the event."

In Kinston, on Thursday, Dec. 24th, 1857, by Jas. W. Morris, Esq., Mr. John Simpkins, of Carteret Co., to Miss Elizabeth J. Coward, of Lenoir County

Beaufort Journal and Goldsboro Tribune, please copy.

At an antislavery meeting held in Philadelphia recently, Chas. L. Redmond gave some account of his travels in the West, and expressed his mortification that he had learned from his own personal experience that a white man was treated with more respect and attention than a colored person. More deference was paid to a Kentucky hog drover by the people of Cincinnati than to himself - all of which was "painful to him." However, it was a satisfaction to know that there was a "good time coming," when it would be impossible to tell where the Anglo-Saxon race begins and the African ends. The mixing up and intermingling of the blood was fast tending to that thing. - Baltimore Clipper.

This school will commence on Monday the 30th Instant, at the residence of Justus Kinsey, and continue five months.
No deduction is made for absence, except in cases of protracted sickness.
Terms of Tuition:
Elementary branches, per session $6.00
Higher English branches $8.00
French, Algebra, Geometry $15.00
Music on Piano $15.00
Use of Instrument per session $2.00
Music on Guitar $15.00
Raised Embroidery $5.00
Kinston, N.C., Nov. 19. 20