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I ~ ? I \ BY W. A. LEE AND HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 8, I8G9. VOLUME XVII-NO.24 ! [From the ltt?mo Journal.J Aii Anniversary. ?, Love, it. is our wedding day! This morn?how swift ihc Hoc? A virgin morn of cloudless May, You nave your loyal !n;n<l to mo. Your dainty hand, elaspt eweet and sure As Love's sweet self, forevcrraorj I O, Love, it- ia our wddh'g day. And memory flics from now to then ; I mark the soft heatdighlr.ing play Ol blushes oVtyour diet k a^ain, And shy hut fond foreshadowlag rise Of t: .unjuil joy in tender eyes. O, Love, it is our wedding day; The very rustling of your dress, The trembling of your arm that lr.y On mine with fiinoroiio happiness, Your flu Me red breath and faint footfall? Ah, sweel I hear, I see them all! O, I.ove, it is our w? dding day, And backward Time's siYnnge current roll: t;h )if..v m..?t Onco More is blooming i'i our s*?uls, And, lurkdiko, swell tho songs of hope Your b'.issful bridal horoscope. O, Love, it is our wedding day? Yet say, did those fair Iiojks but sing, Lapped in the tuneful morn of May, To die or droop on falterinj wing, When noontide heats and evening chills Made pale Ih'j flowers and veiled the hills? O, Love il is our wedding day, And none t*f those glad f:op.>? ?>f youth, Thrilled to its height, outpoured a Jay To match our future's simple truth ; Though deep the joy of vow nndshiinc, Our w-dd-.d calm is more divine! (), Love, it is our wedding day! Life's summer wit.li slow waning beam, Tints the near nu'umu's cloud land gray To softness of n fairy In am, Whence peace by musing paUios hissed. Smiles through a. veil of g-ideu nil-t. O, Love, it is our wedding day ; The conscious wind- are whispering low Those pasbionatw secrets of the May Fraught with your Ui-scs long ago ; Warm memories of our yars rein ?to Are trembling in the mock-bird's throat. O, Lwve, it i.- our wedding ?lav? And i! >t a thru.Oi in woodland bowers, And not a jivii'.c'.V-silvcrv lay. Nor tiny boesonir 'mid th>- (lowers, Nov any voice ol" land or sea, liu1. deepens love to eesiaey! Our we.Ming day! The soul'* r.oontidil In these raro words a', watchful rest What, sweet inclodidus monnirgs hide Like bird* wi liin one bn'iny not., Each quivering with nn impure rliong To flood all heaven and eanh willi i'oi.g! <?>? [From the Temple Bar."] GIRLS' BROTHERS. Tlieir Use anil Abuse. The man who thinks about niar\ ing necessarily becomes a sludentc character, and spciuls a good propoi lion of his time in that amiable jmi suit. It may happen that he is qui I unaccustomed to guess at a woman' disposition from her manner, an spcfccli, and conduct ; and the thai ccs arc that he guts considerably he wildered. If the ^irl or woman i whom lu; is interested is at all con plex in character or variable in la mor?and she is a miracle of:i worn a if she is not?lie will form a do;:e dilfercnt estimates of her nature in r many weeks ; and at last confess tlu if he does many her, he must manlier on trust. Just atthisparticularpcriod a broil cr comes in handy. lilitided by tli power of feminine eyes, or fascinate Iiv idofil nrmonriince which over woman "ou her trial" knows how 1 assume, the doubling lover turns 1 his sweetheart's male relatives, an there studies the family character i the rough. Here, in quiet gray ligl he may perceive all those trails < inind and habit which arc either o scurcd or made attractive by the Ian bent witchery of his mistress' pre cncc. Not only have men less ])ow< of self-concealment than women, hi they have, further, no object in a suming an ideal character in order 1 please their sister's suitors. Of eours jt cannot be held absolutely ccrlai that the disposition of brother an sister will be in any degree alik The contemplative love must elioo: out the brother that is physical! most like this particular sifter?mtt cultivate his acquaintance* and entr.i him into self-revelation. Ifjlhiskrot er be young, especially, the manm in which ho will illustrate several < his sister's peculiarities which ha\ hitherto uuzzlcd the lover is vcrv sii gular. With the artlcssncss ofyout he will betray the weak points of tl bringing-up, notions and temper the whole family. lie has neither tl age, caution, wit nor wisdom of h sister ; and oboys the caprico or whi of tho momont without any regard 1 (the attentive scrutiny which is bcir directed upon him. "With ingcnioi garrulity he will let you into famil r accrots ; and may give very difforei versions of stories which lookc . charming, or only comical, when the fell from tho lips of his more astu sister. It may bo said that a man acting unworthily in taking adva: tago of the youth's innocfljico to pi into family sccrots; but everything fair in marrigo, and if nothing hi boon concealed nothing can bo clicitt by this indirect method of cross-oxar ination. If tho girl is as amiable, ar honest, and good-tempered as she pr fosses to bo; if she roally holds tho artless and beautiful boliofs i^lium/ nature ; if*her manner towards h parents and brothers and sisters 1 tho^arae when visitors ai% absent: when they are prosont; if her into oat !n )itoraturo and the arts bo n assumed ; and if sho is, in brief, i 'fij#' angel in disposition, and a ho cultivated woman in attainmc study ol'tho brother's eliarae.tc destroy or niter one's regard 1' vmi ino contrary, when he so these good qualitiesdisplayed in raw insilerial?when (lie youth genuous pardor be I rays the saw attributes, atrillo loss harmonic polished, which liis sister exhibi lover feels assured of (ho wi I his choice. lie goes forward inevitable goal wi I h courage ami The period of hesitation is over rivals arc bidden to beware. On the oilier hand, the brothel unwittingly tell tales of the m-> aslrouskind. One of the ehicJ s, of character is its regard for t and veracity is so much a mati habit?so much dependent on ti ueation?that all the members family are likely to have not'c the subject more or less similai course, we do not mean that tional lying is likely to accrue f certain kind of bringing-up, 1k?\ much it may help towards it that a habit ol' uttering inacc .statements?whether through a sient wish of making matters pleasant to one's companion, or w er through a certain intellectiial cination for dramatic j?oints, a misplaces what is for what mi.u ?is one of the commonest of h failings. The brother will sliov whether that tendency has been I ly developed in the family. I It not the ski 11 to be consistent in 1 nocentmisrepresentations. To j you, perhaps, he Avill profess j dent admiration for some mum (juaintancti, and say how much acquaintance is admired and lik< his (the brother's) family ; and next day. having forgotten all : the matter, he will call the acq tance n tiresome old fool, wlioi sisstcs detest. Another rcdated on which he will yield much ii lant information to the anxious is the extent to which the iainilj I con lirought tij) 'dor show"?\v w that exceeding courtesy and feci amiability of I he sister is a rat 01 acquired product. Jle, t. may he presumed. has been tan;.: his lister has ln.cn taught, th; 11 chief dniy in life is to look well i estimation of friends, and he wi play in the most ingenious fa 0 the means which the family trail have thought requisite for thai pose. He will profess a love i tclleetual and artistic pursuits \ you see he does not feel mere! 11 cause it is right and proper th i- .1.1 .1,* T?* i. ~ i . - i oiiwu iu uu ?:KJ. J. l 11U Ul'l'Il Li l" to assume sincerity us :i vil la ;1 will betray the conflict belwee n own nature and I lie ns.su m 155 Play with him at billiards, and i and starts he will exhibit an : ^ i|h!ngeandor i/ confessing to "J! ?obviously priding himself oi honesty, and hop'ng that you a< lC it; and the next minute you wi! ^ him relapsing into his real scl ^ making statements about i:it< ? <;c:tnnons" which arc calculutc strikeyou with awe and wcndei ! many similar directions, the br 1,1 may be led to give evidence upon ilj* qualities, irrespective of ! cliauce lights which you may c from liia direct assertions. Jiut the grand point, in which an almost infallible "uide, is to We know of few more inter* amusements? even for those wl " long past the age at which eoi results could hang upon the pun , ' than the noting of tho strange r ^ blances and differences betwcc family disposition as it is cxhibi a son, and tho same as it is cxh in a daughter. These minute s |y ? of discrepancy, tempered by s varying eondilions of sex, age a ip j n # l! portunity, form a sort of physic: cidoscope perpetually offering 0|. combinations. ;\na wncn n is ? brother-in-law whom you arc r< n ing, the interest is indefinitely in j ed. -There is not a fit of qucr tQ waywardness in the brothct tha 0I< not beget a qualm in tho heart < l0 sister's suitor, and tlicrc'is no j which rejoices tho latter so ran to observe a courageously consit l^0 attitude in tho temper aad di [fr tion of the boy or man. In th ? of tho brother there are no pettj I inino disguises to conceal tho state of affairs, and the lover rj forms an intimacy which in ,y snrprlso tohim. Anxiously doi k0 iuquire whether this his possible! jB cr-in-law is always governed I Q_ absolute indccision of judgment y wayward temper which lie sonu j8 exhibits. He looks with disma ^3 on tho brother's poevisn irrita and is so shockcd by his intra n_ and obstinato folly as Bcarccly l(l able to remonstrate. Perhaps 0_ are two or threo brothors, all 80 with tho irascible and cliildisb ln peramect; and, porhaps, both cr and mother aro dangerous snbje lj0 deal with, whon the soap is co jyj tho drossmakcr dilatory, ir- With all those indications, it i ot siblo that his faith in his own in friend, should not bo troubled. mully lie asks himself, could such a per fee ill, no flower have sprung up, in tliirf liol >r will houso of angry passions ? Angels d >r her. not consort willi devils; and in sue! es all a pandemonium tlio appearanco of ai tlieir incongruous visitor provokes suspi of in- cion. This young brothor, for exam ic fine pie, is the incarnation of bad temper . d and and even seems conscious of it. IF Is, 1 lie confesses to having got into a rag !mn nl' .... 1 ' ; ' 1 (VIIU iKlYliljL^ ht'pt 111111 to 111c self and his family on tenterhook hope, during dinner, simply through a lit o , and sulkiness. Ji'lio gels a bad hand a whist, ho flings down the cards in : r may passion, and goes oil'to his own room st dis- if he misses a favorite stroko at hil ['tests liards, he dashes his cue on the table ruth ; cuts the cloth, and sits down, mors* ,er of and red-faced. Ite makes no effort t< [ic cd- control himself; and in these childhJ i of a inoods beware that you do not spealns on to him of that f??sler in whom you arc } i interested, lie will toll the trull inien- about her, or. rather, he will tell wha rom a his ungovernable passion, venting it vever self upon every object of his conlcni ; but plat ion, would have you to eonsidei urate tho truth. 11 is a small matter whal tran- the boy says ; but it is a grave mattci look that such ungovernable temper! belli- should bo in a family. Insanity fas- scrofula, d'psomauia arc not the only vhich hereditary ailments which the mar hi be who would marry has to guard against uman Uesides the disease of an inllammablc v you temper, there is thai of inconstancy large- of the affections, which is as often a: ) has not a purely physical defect. Then us 111- are persons whoso airoctions are in dcase hercntly devoid ol' performance ; U in ar- expect tliem to remain const.ml al ac- through any period of absence or tri that al is to expect a blind man to see. _ <! by They arc gifted or cursed with a faciii then, and transitory nature, which natural ibout 13" clings to tlio object nearest it, an< (uiin- yet does not cling pertinaciously in his Half a (lo?cn words, a single look.: point railway journey, an introduction? npor- any one of the ordinary incidents o lover I'f'l?may transfer the unsubstantia * has ar^trcncherous regard of such per belli- sr.^s to other objects. Xor can wi i .. I f?? i j,or-1 'name uu'iu. j ney arc not neces.sa natu- I'il.V voluntary agents. Their radica jo. it weakness causes them lo shift thcii lit, il'i uncertain love ; and it would only In l'. tho useless hypocrisy, possibly attend ii liit! with direful results, for them lo pro ii dis- tend that it hud not shifted. To as dsion HU!,io tho virtue of constancy is ;i ijons Ci':int') wiiilc to ho honestly inconsis: pur- tni,t's to accept, one's misfortune, yj. j,j. Here, also, the brother is invulua vhich 'J'c- The lover watches him closely ly !JC. to perceive wheliier he shows symp it lie tomsofthat perpetual indecision ol the affections which have producci UIo"-1 so many tragedies in domestic life c, he IE13 regards this j-oung man's flirtsv u his tiuns with his si.:l.or's friends with i plion, peculiar interest. The lover almost in fits 1',:i' '1's ?wn fate is dependent o; ( I lie amount of honesty and constancy wincn tins youlti cvinccB ; suul read: ukes" iii the actions ami sentiments of I'm i his hoy the horoscope of his own future In.ire lakes place when the lover if ' . as yet undecided, and tlie study is the ' ' most engaging and fascinating thai ') Mid he can lind. Whether it ever ]>os ?nded ses^es any practical results is quite : ,j another matter, because, as a rule y men who lind their sweetheart'; J /? WV11VIO 1UIV.1 U.JIJIX- Will other pan ions, have gone too far lo draw i fain- baelc, whatever warning they ma) those rcecivo. htain Ivev. Dn. IIicx.s.?A corresponden he is ^'1C Greenville Enterprise, write; mpr.r from Charleston an follows : On Sunday morning, we attendee '-L y the services held at the Luthcrai 10 are oiiurcli, on Archdale-st. The mi I pi yngai was supplied by Dr. W. \V. Hicks suit? whom the citizens of Greenville wcl cscm- remember. J lis address?for it was the not a sermon proper?was in the in Lercst of the Avondale coal mine suf led in fcl.orSj and ho took his text from tin ihited 13th chapter of 2d Corinthians? hades '"Charity sall'ercth long and is kind ill the Charity never fuileth." His effort, fai t , surpassed in elorjuence and pathos.anj " of his fffil'infilia #n? nfliliT.aa ?r. il ksil- villc. His whole framo seemed to hi new thrilled willi the causo lio wag s< ; your earnestly pleading. Thoso who lmv< >?rir<l- ')ccn accustomcd to hear him, thinl that ho excelled himself on this occas cieas- jon> "VVe tried to follow him in overy cllous thing he said, and in his thoughts an< t docs figures, could detect nothing but wha of tho was beautiful and grand. The Luth thin re cran Church was crowded to its ful . lest extent, many not being able t< cill as -n aj| After his discourse wa loratc iinished, a collection was taken, an< isposi- there seemed to bo a very general rc o ease sponso. j fem- ~ " ! 7. _ [broni Ihe Constitutional Bt j .V!C KdoefielDjC. IL, ) Soptembcr 25th, 18GD. { full of 1 ' ' ? ? DORN MINING COMPANY. is he broth Editor : While on a visit t ., the Baptist Association, on tho lit! ^ 1 of this month, I spent ono night witl ' my old friend, Capt. Wrn. B. Dorn, c Hlmnu ^ 1 ' -v.??vu uivj jsuiii ouiuiug isoinpauy, anu OL y up- tainod tlio following informatioi bllity about tlio Dorn Gold Simo, situated ,'f' short distance from the rosidonco c ft Capt. Dorn. Sinco the 1st of las Lo bo February, tlio mills havo boon etoj thoro pcd, tho old machinory having booi gifted removed and now machinery, fror tcm- N?w York (of tho latest pattorn,) bee: ? , put in its place. Four now engine ta or aro now in oporation, a largo quanti icts to {y Qf ore having been dug sinco Fet Id or ruary, and a largo quantity is no\ visible, which tho Superintcnden thinks will tako eighteen months t is pos- grind Up. Thoro aro now forty-fiv sweet hands employed at tho mine.. 1 wa How, informed that tho mino is now paj I ing bettor than :it any previous lime. Capt. Thomas 8. Morgan, lato of Ken0 tucky, is tho Superintendent at the mine. The company has the mine 1 leased for twenty-one years, paying 11 Capt. Dorn such a per cent. of the i- gro.-H earnings at tho end of each _ month. [From the Charleston News J Tlie Homestead Act Unconstitutional. e Our judges have rendered decisions s upou this act greatly at variance with f each other. Some of those have t been published. As nisipriu.i deeis;l ions they have no general authority. and had better not been published, as ' they are calculated to mislead and ~ disappoint. !, Tho writer of lids has little doubt 0 but that our Supreme Court will de- j clare this act unconstitutional, so far I as it is rclrovpeclivc. as impairing the j 1 obligation of contracts. r .No :inthoril:ii i V"<?. not* l?n I 5 found to sustain the The decis, ions of other Stales have no authors, L ty. If the acts construed arc similar to ours, then they arc entitled to consideration?nothing more. Often the - grounds of such decisions aro entirely ! r different. Georgia, for instance, has i [, a different constitutional provision, j . and t lie action of Congress upon that ! 1 constitution was different from that ' upon the constitution of any other > State. It is argued tlnit at the adoption of , our constitution, South Carolina was not, in the purview of the United .States Constitution ' a Slate." This 5 question has pawed the .stage of argn" ment, for the United States Suj>renic i Court has decided the precise point } in Texas vs. White, 7 Howard, p. 7-G. I would call especial attention to those words in that decision: "The obli' gat ions of the State as a member of j t the Union remained perfect and un. impaired. Jt certainly follows that i the State did not cease to be a Slate." J This decision must have escaped the notice of some of our judges, for they are bound by it. 1 Jl is argued that the homestead . provisions of our constitution are made t of force by becoming, by adoption, an act of Congress. Now, Congress could not give any State the power ' to do what the constitution has for1 bidden. This proposition cannot be . seriously controverted, and is conelu, siveofthe point raised. ]>ut Congress did not assume (as is asserted) io miiKC uio constitution of this Stale an actor Congress. Krai the act. XV., IT:iite?l States Statutes, p. 7!?, : and nothing can lie found therein in I tlic slightest .<o justify the as>:umption. The preamble recites that "whereas (ho people of South Caro" li.ia have framed a constitution of i i State government, that is republican, * * * * Therefore, 1 bu it enacted thai South Carolina shall bo enti.led to representation in Congress." After all the stress that ; has hern laid upon the action of Con? gress, those who read the act will he l" surprised to find that thero is nothing I else in it hearing at all upon thisqucs. tion, What, now, did Congress enact ? Nothing, beyond allowing this State i representation. And suppose wc call L the preamble an enactment, then what i follows ? Why, that the constitution is republican! Xolhing more. Will any .judge pretend that any legal > enactment is covered by the word . ' republican ?" Or to come more i closely down, that this sanctions the s homestead clauses. L Suppose, however, that Congress - had enacted, (as is assumed without i any foundation, in rat i.) that IhcCon. stitulion of South Carolina should i nave the lorce of an act of Congress. | - This would not sustain a homostcad | ' provision antagonistic to the Consti* tutionofthc \T11 iteel States, for the constitution of 38<?8 itself provides that nothing in it "in contravention L or subversion of tho Constitution of i the United States can have anjr binding force." (Article J, section 4, and the ' 'oath,*' article II, section 30.) 1 Let us hear no more about. Congress 1 having given its authority to a mcasL urc which is so directly in contravcn> tion of the Constitution of the United 1 States. 15 But, mirahile ilicfir, the Constitution - of South Carolina docs mr.kc a retro-. spcctive homestead provision ! 1 chal-: 2 lenge any one to point out the clause, j Article I, section 20, and article II, j > section 32, make no provision that the j l' exemption is to apply to antcccdent i:i- ! 7 dehtedness. Authorities can be cited, i * ad nauseam, that in the construction j 3 of constitutional or statute law. nil . > provisions arc presumed to be prospec3 live, unless tho contrary bo expressc ly cnactcd. Neither secession, then, Congress or - the constitution of 1868, authorized a 1 retrospective homestead law. isoth^ ing is now left but the naked act of - 9L?i September, 18G8, XIV Stat., p. - 10. Tho provisions of that act are x*c-> 3 trospcctivo. 5 Tho act of 18G8 aC once fulls as imJ pairing tho obligation of contracts, by ' virtue of tho prohibition oftho United States Constitution, and by tho prohibition of our own constitution of 18G8! (Art. I/sec. 21.) Do wo hoar any ono bold enough to say that a rotrospectivo homestead A '1 ^ ' * " v?vu<|/uv>u uwvo uui impair ine ODligation of contracts, and in not violativo o of tho Constitution of tho United l? States ? If no, wo merely reply by I* citing tlio decision of tho United States >f Supremo Court, (which is binding up> on our judges,) in tho caso of the n Planter's Bank vs. Sharp, wherein, a after dociding (as quotod by ono of >f our judges) that States can pass laws t exempting a homostcad and tools, &c., >- tho court makos this qualification, n which, wo think, ought not to bo overn looked, having a flight bearing xipon n the question. '-Again, State insolvont s laws, if made liko this law, to apply i- to past contracts, and stop suits, on >- them, havo boon held not to be unconv stitutional, oxcept so far as thoy dist chargo tho porsou from imprisonment, o Whon so restricted, thoy do not imo pair tho obligation of the contract its self, bccauso tho obligation is loft in r- full forco and actionable, and fature * property, us well as present, subjected to its payment. Where lulu re acqai si lions are attempted to be exonerated, and tlio dif-ohargo extended (t (he debt or contract itself, if done by Slates, it must not, as here, apply t<; past eontraels, or it is held to impair their obligation." This case, then goes to ihe extent of not oniy not allowing an exemption to bo made ol property which a debtor owns, bat not even of what ho may hcrruj'lcr acquire as affecting "past contracts." Thi: extract from the ear-e will be found in (> Howard, page -J2S, where the court sustains itself by the authorities. Let us not lumper with the law ami .1 I .'STICK. Iii the Mountains. In the lull of 18->(J I was traveling eastward in a stage coaeli lVoni P'ttsburg, over tl?omountains. fePow travellers were two gentlemen and a lady. Tlic oldest gentl .man's appearance interested mc exceedingly. In years lie seemed about iil'ty, in air and manner lie was calm, dignified and polished, and the eoutonr of his features \va? singularly intellectual, lie eonversed lrecly on different, topics, until the road became more abrupt and precipitous; but upon my dirccting his attention to the great altitude of a precipice, on the verge of which our coach wheels were leisurely rolling, there came ? marked change in his countenance, His eyes, lately tilled with the light of intelligence, became wild restless and anxious; the mouth twisted spasmodically, and 1 he lore head was beaded with a cold perspiration. With a sharp convulsive shudder, lie turned his ga/.c from the giddy bight, and clutching my arms tightly with both hands lie clung to me like a drowning man. "Use this cologne," said the lady, lmmliiiff inn a Iwiffin willi ; * ,,,v- J" at?active goodness of licr sex. I sprinkled :i 1 i * tic on his face, and lie became more composed; but it was not until we had entirely traversed the mountain, and descended into the country beneath, that his line features relaxed from their perturbed look, ami assumed the placid, quiet dignity that I had at iirst noticed. "I owe an apology to the lady." said he, with a bland smile and gentle inclination of the head to onr fair companion, "and some explanation, and to my fellow traveller also; and perhaps I cannot better acquit myself of the double debt than by recounting the causc of my rcccnt agitation." "It may pain your fueling*," delicately urged the lady. "On the contrary, it will relieve them," was the respectful reply. Having signified our several desires to hear more, the traveler thus proceeded : "At the age of eighteen I was light of heart, and fear (he smiled] light of head. A line property on the banks of the Ohio acknowledged me sole owner. I was hastening home to enjoy it, and delighted to get free from college life. The month was Or.tnhor il>r? ;m bracing, and the mode of conveyance, a stage like this, only more cumbrous. The other passengers were few?only three in all?an old, grey-headed planter in Louisiana, his daughter, a joyous bewitching creature, about seventeen, and his son, about ten years oi age. "They had just returned from France, of which country the young lady discoursed in terns sc eloquent as to absorb my entire attention. "The father was taciturn, but the daughter was vivacious by na buiV) aim ?? (jui/ii IJUUilllli: ?W 111 tl L< I" ally pleased with each other that it was not until a sudden flash ol lightning and a heavy dash of rain ajjain3t the windows elicited an exclamation from my charming companion, thnt I knew how the night passed. Presently there came n low rambling sound, and then several tremendous peals of thunder, accompanied by successive Hashes of lightning. The rain descended in torrents, and an angry wind began to howl and moan through the forest trees. "I looked from tho window ol our vehicle. The night was dar'j ns obony, but tho lightuino- plowed the danger of our road. ^V'e wore on the edsre of a fearful I could see at intervals, huge jutting roclcs far down its side, and the sight made mo solicitous foi my fair companion. I thought ol the mere hair-breaths that wore between us and eternity ; a single little rock in tho track of our coachwheels, a tiny billet of wood, r stray root of a tempest-torn tree, restive horses, or a careless drivei any of theso might hurl us from our sublinary existence with the speed of thought. " ''Tis a perfect tempest,' observed the lady, as I withdrew m^ head from the window. 'How I dc lovo a sudden storm! There it something grand about the windf when fairly loose among tue hills I never encountered a night like this, but Byron's -magnificent de scription of a thunder-storm in the Jura recurs to my mind. But wc are on the mountain yet?' " 'Yes wo have begun the as cent.' *' 'Is it not said to bo dangerous ? " 'By no mesne,' I replied, in ar oasy a tone as I.could assume. " 'I only wish that it was day I II pw i ?. H'MjKi ji?? Immm ui\ i* I light so that wo might enjoy the t< in on n tain scenery. I?ut what's ii that?' and she covered her eyes o 1 from a sheet of lightning that illuminated the rugged mountain with \\ \ brilliant intensify. " "1'eal after peal of thunder in- tl " stautly succeeded; there was a ve- a ry volume of rain coining down at p each thunder hurst, and with {the deeper moaning of an animal p ; j in agony breaking upon our ears, I j i>t i j found that the coach had come to ' b -' u dead halt. 0' I "Louise, my beautiful fellow ti ' traveler, beeanie as pale as ashes, i j She 'fixed her eyes on mine with a i \\ j look of anxious dread, and turning ; w | to her ialher, she hurriedly remark-1 li .' cd : _ 11 ' 'Wo arc on llie mountains.' rt " 'i reckon we arc,' was the itnI concerned reply. ai I "With instinctive activity I put ,! my head through tho window smd j called to the driver, hut tho only ,< answer was the moaning of an an! imal, horn past me by the swift . i winds of the tempest. J seized ^ i the handle of the door and strained '(' in vaiiw?it would not yield. At j ^ ' j that instant I felt a cold hand in ! ! mine, and heard Louise faintly ar- j, < ticnlate in my ear the following apJ palling words: [ j " kTiie coach is moving back- \i | i wan I.' al j "Never shall T forget the tierce f;-1 J agon3' with which I lugged at 111e i ' j! coach door, and called <>n ihe <11 i- 1 I vcr in tones that rivaled the fierce j 1' , j blast of the tempest, while the | V! ! conviction was burning in my |{ 'brain that the coach v. as being j5 , j slowh moved backward ! si "What followed was of such j swift occurrence that it seemed to ! w '; mo like a frightful dream. ! a "Jruvhed against the door with ' os all fore*, but it withstood my nt- j t? 1 j most e Hurts. One side of the vc- j ? ! hide was sensibly going down, <,; ; down, down. The moaning of (lie | agonized animal bcearne deeper, i j' j and I knew irom his desperate j,l ! plunges that it was one of our j horses. Crash upon crash of tlmn-j (l der rolled owr Ihe mountain, and ! c, Ihe vivid Hashes of lightning playj ed over our heads. I?y its light f !?. could see for a moment the old it i planter stand erect with his hands on his noil and daughter, his eyes 'A 1 raised to heaven, and his lips moving as if in prayer, I could see ? Louise turn her ashy cheek toward me if imploring assistance; and I ' cor.hl see the bold glanec of the j,. boy fiasi^g defiance at the war of w oicmeiiurniHi the aw Jul dango.rthat .r awaited liiin. There was u roll, a ? desperate a harsh, grating jar, a sharp piercing scream, of nior- !? tal terror, and I had but time to }' clasp Louise firmly with one hand round her waist, and seize (lie fas- }toning attaclied to tho roof with " , the other, when wo were precipita- {" | ted over the precipice. tJ "I can distinctly recolcct pre&crv- t, ing consciousness for a few seconds w of time, how rapidly my breath p, was being exhausted, hut ot that v, ^ 1 T ' ' uemenuous descent j soon lost all , further knowledge by :i concussion 3, so violent that 1 was instantly deprived of all sense and motion." The traveller paused, llis fea- '' tures worked for a minute or two as tbey did wben we wore on the , mountains; lie passed bis bands "J,, across bis lorebead, as if in pain, f,' [ and then resumed his thrilling nar- jr rativo. ll "On a low couch in an humble si | room of a small country bouse, I < : | next opened my eyes in this world of light.and shade, joy and sorrow, y mirth and sadness. Gentle hands " smoothed my pillow, gentle feet j"( glided across my chamber, and a j' gentle voice for a time hushed nil . my questioning. I was kindly J,| ' tended by a fair young girl of six- k tcca who refused for a while to hold ti any discourse with me. At length in one morning, finding myself sulti- ei cicntly recovered to sit up, I insis- tl | ted 0:1 knowing the result of the accident. " 'You were discovered,' said | she, '.sitting on the ledge of rocks amidst the branches of a shattered ^ tree, clinging to the roof of your , broken coach with 0110 hand, * and V the insensible lorm of a lady in tho J . other.' _ _ " j> I " 'And the lady I gasped scan- j? r.ing the girl's face with an earnest- m ^ ne.ss that made her draw back and a blush. si " 'She Was saved, sir, by the is j means that saved you?a friendly g, , tree.' fl ? " 'And her father and brother!' n! I impatiently demanded. '"We found both crushed to ? death at the bottom of the preci- jj. | pice, and we buried them in one ^ grave by tho clover patch, down in p 1 the meadow.' ir ( " 'Poor Louise ! poor orphan ! is ( God pity you,' I muttered in broken ei tones, utterly unconscious fhat I t< had a listener. . # t< r "'God pity her indeed, sir,' said > she with a gush of heartfelt sym- t, , pathy. 'Wouldyou liketoscoher ?' Q* 5 sho added. i ? l\o ? J* 1VU11U livi UMIUUU 111 IClll n U > lier kindred, and she-received me with a aorrowfnl sweetness of man- ^ > ner. I need not detain yon by ds- Al i scribing the efforts, I inado to & sooth her grief, bnt briefly acquaint i f1 - you that at last I suoeeeded, and twelve months after the drcnd^il {.[' ' occurrence which I related we t stood at the altar as man and wife, y 8he still lives to bless me with her tl smiles, but the anniversary of that ti 3iril)lc night she secludes herself \ licr room and devotes the hour f darkness to solitary prayer. "As lor me said the traveller, bile a faint blush tinged his brow, tho accident reduced me to the 10 condition of a physical coward t the sight of a mountain preciice." I But the driver," asked Ihe lady assenger, who had listened-to tho ory with much attention, "what ecamo of the driver, and did you j vcv learn the reason of his deser- : ng his post ?" i "IHsbody was found on the road, itiiin a few stops of the plaec here the coach went over. JIe! ad been .-truck dead by the name j ash lightning 1hat blinded the , jstivo horses." I And tlinn oiidod tlio thrilling] iid rciiini'Rublo s???iy id life. ? -.**(>* Planters aiiu Merchants Association, j J Tlic combinations whieh large mon- I ? rings can bring to hear upon the ?lto:* market, t lie effects of whieji j o witness iii tin' Smith f'roin year to car, have bestirred oar people to j leasures of fiell-prolcction. There j :ive heen many plans proposed for , to amelioration of the farmer, but ' Diie of them seem to he available. *o hear of another sehome hruited 1 bout which has risen from the cincr- ! fneies of the hour and is the coneoe- i on of a practical an<l thoroughly! Kperienced business mind- It is pro- j used t<? form an Association of plant- ' rs jind merchants with a capital <*>f; iOO.O'lO or $.">00,000. This capital is j > he invested as the President and j oard of Directors (to ho elected) | mil deem hest for the welfare of the j mipany. The funds thus obtained ! ill he Hie basis for the negotiation o?'j loan in Liverpool at the opening "f| tell cotton season. Tim I'mtri-i btaiucd will bo advanced (o p'antc.rs r shippers of cotton, through woii-1 dablished niort'iuiti!" linns, to the ' Iom;e selected in Jjivci nee!, a' ono or cunt. per month, without addiiionI Hiarges lor advancing. i The benefits to derived arc : J''irst, The advantage of direct 1 ansaclions with the groat cotton J . ntrc. <Srcontf, The obtaining of funds at a i nvcr rate ol' interest than can he had j i lliis country to move 1 ho. crop. ll i calculated lhal $500 !. ?}?>. invested in ood bonds, used i,.; a bonus, would J 'unmand a sum in Jie neighborhood I' ?1,500,000. With the quick transortation of the present age, this sum m be turned over every thirty days, ud, during llio cotton season of live lonths duration, five times $1,500,000 ould amount *to ?7.500,000, being a reater amount than the Banks of A'tusta afforded prior lo 1SG0. In addition to the great incidental oncfits such an Association, as cutnod above, would confer on the plantlg and business men of a commit nir, there would be a handsome direct iconic from investments judiciously Mlflo W'ii 1? CioPn In! .1 : ...v.. .:uiv, inn it.n-urawiii}j onds. it is reasonable lo suppose that ic Association would secure from 5 ) 7 per cent, profit on tho rate at liich it could borrow, sr.ul" tho one er cent, per month charged lor adtincfng. Tho capital stock might consist of 000 or 5.000 shares at ?100 each, the ill amount to he paid in when acharsr shall have been obtained and offers elected. Wo have only time to-day lo sketch ut tho meagre outlines ol' this prort. Wo shall recur to the subject L^ain. Meanwhile, it would ho well >r the wise heads among our plantig and mercantile communities to link over these matters and, if posItln ; ? ' /iv) vivmw uiijnu>u uj'um mis pijiii or xeogtato some other which will rcmey the evils of traffic now so seriously isturbing the great majority of those I our midst who believe in King Cot>n and desire that all conspiracies gainst, his royalty shall bo sumniari' suppresed. This scheme, detailed !>ove, is no idle project. Double the mount required to forward it is now ing idle in the hands of those who ado in and with Augusta. They avo it in their power to be independII of the money rings abroad. Will icy exert this power??Auynsla Coniluliomlist. A travelling correspondent of the cw York Tribune thus hits off in a iiragraph the peculiarities of Jjonr>n and her people: ' I take leavo of ondon for the ])rescnt with tho arecablo reeolleetions of her pri\ato uspuaniy, una :i deep impression of cr physical greatness and power. In 0 city that I have seen is (.hero such display ol' commercial enterprise and ibstantial opulenco. Her prosperity ; the result of tho accumulated cnery of ages, and rests on a deep foundation. Tho public building:?, ll.oug'u r>t remarkable for elegance, havo an ir of massive grandeur. The shops nd warehouses havo little external litter, but seemed organized for use ud durability. Tho Englishman in loudon is a model of self-satisfaction, ersoniil dignity, and caro and finish 1 all his appointments. -As arnlo,ho i clressod with more fastidious propriLy than tho Parisian, though ho of>n affects brighter colors and a bolder >no. His tailor is a moro aocomlished artist than that of tho French?an, he wears cloth of a bottor nuali V, and rejoices in boots and gloves of f moro. unimpeachable accuraoy. 'ho man of business in London selom shows the negligenco in.oostumo iiich prevails on wcok-days in New orlc. lie usually rtlake^; his appearnee in the street with nioely fitted loves, broadcloath of an eminently i-istocratic cast., a stiff and shining la^k (lreHj j at, anfV& cravaf, or,..>Ti of! i vnr.ny u ttio fcoal of ?)<" = >{--i? \ ivl made with if mo-st bupiriiut-.r;! aato of silk. Altogether, ho gives ou tho impression of a well-fed, boroughly tended, and high oonoioned animal, full of licakUy blood, f" ^ V 1 ? - 1 1 . ' _ 1U . wgg^gg"11 i i li. *1 rejoicing in the possession of all hi.; labilities, never troubled with weak nerves or erraUc funcicfl, slow in por<*; ocption though quick of passions,_pften perhaps a little surly, sometimes allowing his white teeth in preference of anger, but whose bark is worse than his bite." Mixed Schools, and the Peabody Fimd Mi*. I'eabody and his agent J?r. Sears, seem to be determined not t'? be controlled in their administration of thai noble charity, " the Peabody Fund"' by the clamors of Radical ex Iremists. Ti.o JS'cw Constitution Louisiana requires tbc public schoolto be conducted on the "mixed bash-/' and J)r. Sears has been much, abused for disapproving of this Bchcmc, ile has addressed a letter, bearing u..?,u c.-i-.i ? ? - ?? niwv; 0114411111- opi-JUgs, vmgllSt ZbllJ, i! It.j to Hon. J J. M. Lusher, forinorb .Slate Superintendent of education is. Louisiana, iu which lie settles the quest ion lli jis: * "If the Act requires mixed .. stud tlio children, whether white > Mack, generally al'.ended them, shall have no dilllcully in otir wo. lint if the Slate support.-: only inixc 1 .schools, and the wlme children do . attend them, we slu>uld natural!" not the colored children, who en><,, exclusively, the benefit of the pi; I school money, but the white ' 't'ltho1 . who are hit to grow up iu h, .oi.?j. J1' it he oaid that the whfcn < ': ought to attend the :ui.;ed \> . and that i! is then* own i'nuil, or liuu of their parents, it" they do not, we reply that we arc not called on to pronounce judgment 011 thai subject. I jet the people themselves settle that question."' llo says further that Mr. Petibody '.-.lively approves of the course adopted. Por tlicy have been roundly almscd. "lor en eon raging the despicable prejudices to which alavorgave 1 ?irti., to (jnote the language <>f t lie C harleston ]icpvhUcun. Yet the same paper with admirable eonsisle:: oy approved (he action ol' the white, and colored .in establishing separato i.cols in ibis State, and asserted that the attempt to establish mixed schools here, "would prove a total fa la re, and postpone, the day of common schools ? for years." What arc vour senti mi-nls Mr. jlepubliean? Should v.c appeal to ' Philip drunk, or Philip sober ? Count Bismarck, the retired minis" jt (?m* ? ! Prussia, it is reported, is a fleeted with the same diseases as those from which tue Emperor Napoleon III i.; suffering.. The principal disease i said to he inflammation of the kid neys, \viin wmcli JJismarck has been aHlictcd for several years, and on account of which he has been obliged to intermit his official duties. Jt has been suggested that l-.hc Prussian miristerhas (bo advantage over Napoleon III of si rugged constitution which is not called upon to answer for the excesses of liis misspent early life. Bismarck, however, passed through a "stormy youth," and although his escapades may not have been so notorious as those of Napoleon, his chances of long life arc not much better than those oi' his rival. "Mr. James Maco, the English pugilist, i3 giving statuesque exhibitions at tho Tammany in New York, which the critic ofthe Times considers a "re-idly interesting, and, properly appreciated, an elevating spectacle." Tho performance may bo thus briefly described : When the curtain rises a series of screens covered with maroon cloth and hemming in a small ] form, upon which are thrown the j of a double lime-light, aro disclc T>~~ I ^ 1 * iicuiunuuiiL on mis piaitorm lies a figure of superb lines, us white : hewn from Carrcra marble. The sic begins, and Hercules slowly i to struggle with the lion; then t\ man stoops to fasten his sandal, ai quick succession, the lines of tho : tncs mellowed by a soft violet 1: tho spectator sees Ajax defying lightning, Samson bearing away gates ol Gaza, the Fighting and ing Gladiator. A German paper tolls an exlnu navy story of' a natural phcuonn that liar, occurred in Upper Au.v On the IDtli of August tlio soil c\. ing several yokes of land in the nc borhood of Moll, a few lengues 1 tlio Town of Stcycr, (suddenly fc with a crash liko thunder, and w the oats were waving a few Beebefore, there suddenly appoareu a lake. Tho water of this newest ad- "'aB dition io Upper Austrian scenery is clear, its toinporaturo is very low, and it is said to have much resemblance to that of tho glacier X/ftkcs. Through the Ilivor Stover posses tho place at no groat distance, it doos not appear that auy communication exists between thorn ; at all ovents, thero is reason to boliovo, that the lako receives no contribution to iis waters from the river, and tho waters of tho ?two aro chemically different. The attempts to explain this phenomenon aro not very sucocssfftl. Something unusual-i-indeed something unknown in tho annals of Pe- . terabai'g, Va. occurred on Saturday. A negro man and a whito woman ap,plied to tho Clerk of tho Hustings i Court for a license to become man and wifo. It was urged as a reason why | they should be married that thoy had i -j lived togothor fbr some time, am1 pro- - D?Diy~-n such a tfung coiji'I no ; - ,-i- ? blc??i?*t loavntv.l fco""U?vo" ? / ! . yiie . 1 7iv " r. .- - w -aj ryin;^ of. - ".viii^cG -st.u ? .>v. #5 eucU other, aiid tU? clbrk, of course, ' ... v coold not iwne a Kconee. The matte*.. '; will probably be referred to General 2' ' '?%& Jiiyii