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rORTKY. WHAT 19 WOMAN. TTO? U WOTIUUI t AUDI IWMt angel f Gentle, tender, calm, and landEver loving, ever faithful. Is her soft and soothing mind; A beauteous flower, bom to blossom. Giving gladness to the eve ; Ualf-doigncd for man's fond bosom, Half a creature of the sky 1 What is woroan! Ask her sorrow. Know how deeply she can feel, But when hope her heart would borrow, Mark what joy she can reveal; O'er her cheek each pure emotion Of her soul is soen to fly, As fair clouds with chaste devotion Fleet o'er Luna'a face on higli. "What is woman ? All forbearing, Patient, prudent, ?ecming gay? Though ?ad imrard, thoughts arc wearing, All unspoken, life away. Thus she is * flower's nwoct blossom, Giving Olitdncss to the eye ; Half-designed for man's fond bosom, Half a creature of the sky! LOVE 18 NOT A GARDEN FLOWER. BY OEORQK P. MORRIS. Ah! Love is not a garden flower, Tliat shoots from out the cultur'd earth, That needs the sunbeam and the shower Before it wakens into birth: It owns a richer soil ami aenrt And woman'# heart supplies them boin? "Where It will spring, without a weed, Consummate in its growth. 'I liesc leaves will perish when away From cither genial min or shower, Not bo will wither and decay Celestial Love's perennial (lower. 'Tin our companion# countless smiles, Through weal or wo, in after years. And though it flourishes in smiles, It blooms as fresh in tears. Iff fer<W T A M?A*ro Wamiv for thk Keowke Courier. A Sketch of a Ride. The following description and briefmention of 8* enery and localities is no fancy sketch, but the realizations of one, who has visited the site of that ancient station of the British, called Fort George, or otherwise Fort Prince George. It may not b generally known, that, this place w only some six or seven miles abovc Pickens Court H -use, and that this stronghold of the mother country was made the basis of operations ngainst the French nnd their red allies, when our own Marion under Colonel Grant penetrated the vast wilderness, with which inis region then abounded, and assisted in punishing the murderous Cherokee#. The indulgent reader is referred to the life of Marion by Simms, or that by Wcems. To proceed, I shall perhaps, never forget the day and the particular time of our departure. (I say our, because I went with a friend.) The dazzling luminaly of day had passed his meiidian glory, and was fast sinkiner tn bi? wn(?nr ^ ...w ?? m?vi j wiitii in the great, western ocenn, ere we fiet out on our excursion. The evening was ns clear ns tlie untroubled brow of childhood, " calm as the 'fields of Heaven," and b ight ns the dny-dronms of the youthful poet! Ri<?ht. musicnlly and Joyously did the lucid tide of Kcoxoce lipple o'er sanded ledge and round? d pebble, as we drove across the romantic b idge, which spans that most benutiful and lovely of streams near the village of Pickens. The gnarled oaks and shelvy rocks seemed bending in charmed admiration over the fair face of the haunted rivulet, whilst along its meandering ho*der?, the "rflll vale" nnd the graceful hill reposed in the elvsium of its presence! Having passed this entrancing locate of Nature, the way presented nought but trees, hills, and mossed rocks, Until we had reached the eleemosynary institution of the District. The 8ituation of this establishment is a beautiful and undulating plain. It is here the children of misfortune may find an asylum from the beating storms of penury and want. The next point, of attraction is a narrow defile called "gap-hill," where even anterior to the American Revolution, the roar of battle broke the deep solitude of the primeval wilderness. One sees the ominous rocks and trees upon the frowning heights and shudders to think of that " storm of death," which was once poured from them into the se cluded pass;?and in the distance, the eve lookH nn _ ( .luonjr upiCIIUUr Ol the Mountains, seeming to ri from the lowly v^ile to kiss the blushing clouds, whilst around, ft solemn death-like filenw prev lis reminding him, 'that, hore died the brove, the noble and the generous, a# well as the gay Frenchman and the wily savage. Tn-n thinking of the gallant Englishman battling side by side with the provincials ttpffist the common foe, perhaps you, kind reader, would be forced to reiterate, as I did in my heart, those words of relenting affection: "Engio.wi wuv. -11 *1- -t? - -p Wiu nii/u w.1 tuy lttuiut I LOVE theft still.' Alighting from the vehicle to walk thro' the defile end down the long dope oi gap-hill, I JtU that we were treading classic ground. From tbyfljfoiot to th hospitable mansion of wiuth , .?* ' *' 4 if '' * . ' " Jm w % ?r we were journeying, the way presents scenery the moet wild, beautiful, and picturesque. Along this stretch of highway, bo rife with the thrilling memories of a by-gone age. Nature reveals hei mysterious and magical beauty for the rapt contemplation of her votailes. '"The eve hid front wmIimkI ?nfl ? The sun-set pourc-'l its rcwj flood. Slanting o'er wood and viue.n When, at length, we reached our destination and received the cordial greeting of our friend. Nothing in life could excel the unaffected kindnc&s of the inmates at his house. The farm of our friend is an extensive and beautiful vale, thro* the midst of which flow the limpid waters of Keowee. But it is the historical associations connected with this localitv which enchains the attention and incites to meditation. Here arc tumuli, in all pi-obability, the sopulcher of nations.? Here the embrasures of Fort Prince George once frowned with ordnance to the terror of the neighboring tribes of Indians. Here were once enacted scenes of stratagem, perfidy and cruelty. And here, "long, long ago," might be seen "the smokes' blue wreaths ascending with the breeze" from tho winrwnina n( ti\.? ? w v* VMV old Keowee Town; where the fearless Cherokee wooed the chieftain's daughter," or invoked the aid of the battle-god, when dire war had broken down the altars of peace. VIATOR. Picken3villg, S. C. NOBILITY OF MFmiAVina Toil on, sun burnt Mechanic. God has placed thee in thy lot perchance to guide the flying car that whirls us on from scene to scene, from friend to friend; bind down the warring wave of ocean, tempest tost; or chain the red artillery of heaven. Toil on! Without thy power, earth, though her sands were one vastPactolus of gold, would be a waste of tinselled tears and glittering grief; and want, and wo, and splended misery, would glenm out from all her treasured mines. Rich soils would perish in the r richness, nnd and the fruits ot the seasoas changing, die ungathered from the harvest. Toil on! Jehovah was a workman too. " In the beginning God created heaven and earth." nnd from thn cnnfnso/1 nlm^a sprang this perfect world?the perfect workmanship of the eternal, uncreated power. Up rose the mighty firmament; and back the sullen surges swept, submissive, tamed, each to their several bounds. And then he set great lights? the glorious sun to bless the day ; and the timid moon to wear at night the mildest lustre of the radiant orb. He painted heaven with mingled blue and white; nnd in the vaulted arch a modest star peeps out, seeming by the majesty of sun and moon, like a stray lilly breathing in its lore of meek and blushing loveliness on the gay tints of opening bud nnd rich voluptuous blossom. Wondering there dnwned another, and u third, clustering, clinging to the spacious canopy, they read in the colm waters of the pea the story of their radiant loveliness. From thence assured they fear not sun nor moon, but faithfully distil their pen.-ive light. Old ocenn tossed her cresent spray, and from their hidden depths creatures of life came up and flew - - - " " uoove me eartli?winged fowls nnd flying firth ; and the great whale, dark emperor of the sea. And God created man! Six days he labored and the seventh he reposed; while from the sea, the earth, the air, nnd all that is, went up a chorus of ecstatic praise to God, the fust, the eternal architect. Toil on! Drink from the dews that rtiaiila I ' (iu^in.iw livnci^ llic uuntt" ing buds, the blessed air, is untold wealth to the hard browned and bronzed mechanic. Rich coffera bring a snare, canker and corrosion. God's wealth is yours, a wealth to which decaying gold is vanity and dross.?Miss Wcntioorth. THE SOUTH PASS. The Liberty (Mo.) Tribune says:? Many ot the way streams are ?o strongly impregnated with alkali that they dare not let their cattle diink. On the shores of many, the crust is formed an inch thick. They break up this i*rust, scrape off the dirt on the bottom and top, and find it pure saleratus. Strange as this may scern, it is nevertheless true, and the writer collected ir? a short time 75 lbs. A mountain of pure rock salt has Deen oiscovered near the Mormon settler ment. The Mormons have discovered a t gold raine lf>0 miles southwest from the Salt Lake. Tho last end of'thc journey i to the Salt Lake, any 200 mile# i*attended with little fatigue. Nearly all the i way the rendu are as good as on any prairie in the West." LADIES' FASHIONS. , Hero is an ungall&nt paragraph from , the Philadelphia City Item : "At the imminent lisk of being con* nidered extremely ungallant, we will ven1 ture the bare faced assertion that we 1 <have never seen a greener set of ladies ' In our lives than are those of Pbiladel J A- * * ? - ; t uuui, uuaer we rnnuence 01 the Bpritjg Fnehions, Green?dark, medium, arid 1 light green?-plain, changeable and fig i ured green?pea, olhre, and brkibl I jjreen, apple, golden and grass green? indeed every hue of green has been drum \ med into the scrvice of the fair-?and sucl a green?such a thoroughly green set a > they are! The world has never seen tin like, since that silly old woman. Eve, de voured the green apple." A Strait Subject.,?"Well, Cap tain," savs a California adventurer to tin owner of a craft up for California, "whei do you sail ?" " On Tuesday, " said the Captain. " How do you go?" said the intern* gator. " Through the Straits," said the Cap tain; " shall I book you for the vovacre?' r J O ~ * " I reckon not," said the man in searcl of gold. " I left home to get out of f strait, and am not Voluntarily going ink another." Bbitisii East India.?The hnmera.itj of the British empire in India will recui to the mind with peculiar force at th< present moment, when the disastera ir the Punjaub teach is?not, indeed, tt l?* * - 1 vmj^vvv me |ii ui/iiuiuiY"-"Dui vo consmei the possibility of its decline and fall. At far hack as 1832, it was estimated in official documents, that the three Presiden cies of Bengal, Madras and Bombay forming British India proper (so far, al least oh the continent is concerned,} con tained a population of 00 millions of souls while in the subject or vassal?mor delicately entitl^H piling r?r Iil./iliin<nil ^ v w.ouu v* states, there were 40 million* more?and in the independent states (Scinde, Ne paid, and tho territories of Sindia and Runjeet Singh) 11 millions, making a grand total of 141'millions of slaves?foi such they were?a whole race of men, an ancient one, the people of the rich, fertile and famous India, reduced to submission by a company of British merchants who aspire to the rule of monarchs, as well as tho DrofUs nf tnule? who would be merchant-tyrants rathci than merchnnt-prinees, and extort the taxes of groaning subjects rather than in vite the profits of willing customers. Great Seizure of Counterfeiting Apparatus.?In the vicinity of Blazing Star, New Jersey, Officers Brown and Leonard of New York made a most extensive 8eizure on the 1st Inetnnt. or immense coining apparatus for coining counterfeit Mexican dollars and Americar quarter and half dollars. The apparatus was contained in 16 boxes. There is a monjf.it a powerful screw press; the lever ivjetl in operating with it is eight feel long, and has at each end a 32 pound cannon ball. The rest of the apparatus, seized consisted of a bed-plate, milling apparatus, crucibles, a large quantity o! tools, chemicals, <tc. and some boxes ol counterfeit coin in a finished nnd unfinished state. The dies were not found, hul the officers have impressions from them which exhibit the highest degree of per fection in their manufacture. The coir ennnot in) detected either by found 01 weight from the . genuine. The plnc( wheiethccou terfeitevs carried on theii operations was built by a mar namct] Sweet and his accomplices, nnd was sc constructed th t it afforded abundance ol light, ?nd at the same time, the onera to** could not be seen or henrd fronr without. One man started for Californif a month or two since, it is supposed with a large quantity of the counterfeit coir in his possession, intending, no doubt U speculate with it. The Government have dispatched an agent there to arrosi him, but. it is feared he will have dispos ed of a large amount of the coin bcfor< www VIMWI muvuo. Mammoth Mules.?The Cincinnnt papers spenk of an exhibition there o two mules from 8cott county, Kentucky which are the largest ever seen in tha city. One, a black mule, four years old eighteen hands high; the other, tin same age, a brown female, also eighteei hands i> jh. The two were put on th? scales together and found to weigh 3,00< pounus. ine pnce demanded for then i? $200 each. Both raised by Mr. Thorn as, in Scott county. "What I think ok California."*? The Journal of Commerce publishes ai extract f.om a returned Cnlitornian, win says, in reply to the inquiry, " what h< thinks of California,"?441 think, and an confident., tluit ihn nmtnhm C?~. , ?....? *?>V vxsu?av*J I?u\;ut Ulll Frisco will inorttoae in wealth and impor tance, and 'go ahead' more rapidly thai any other place of which we have an; knowledge. It is a good agriculture country, nnd possesses a dclightfull clim ate. From ito posit i< nnd facilities ii regard to commerce wi n ihe great Eas and West, it must, and that speedily, be come a most important place. I Wijiev a great ttostiny await* it, and were I tei years younger, I should remove and set tie there with my family. I apeak of i independently of its precious metals, an< rich minerals. They are inexhaustibly I was at the mines three different times and knew what most of the people wer doing, and 1 feel perfectly safe in saying that a man by six hoars washing am u'Kging oicn a?y, can average aixtoe dollar* a dnv ftom the 1st of March tthe tot of Jyly?thl? being the only par V m 5 of the year during which a person can - labor at the nines with safety. i norm a ran tpttp 3 Dr. Franklin remarks: "That a man as 3 often gets 2 dollars for the one he spends * in informing his mind, as he does for a dollar he lays out in any other way. A man eats up a pound of sugar (or some * other trifle) and it is gone, and the plea3 sure he enjoyed has ended; but the in1 formation he gets from a news paper is treasured to be enjoyed anew, and to be S used whenever occasion or inclination * calls for it. A newspaper is not the vrisdom of one man or two men, it is the oni0///vm 4 V* r* o/*n A?_ ?vipmv('? v/i vi 10 n^r? OliU U1 J/llflt lOO? A family without a newspaper is always 1 half an age behind the times in general 1 information; besides they can never think > much, nor find much to talk about. And then there are little ones growing up in ignorance without any taste for reading. r Who, then, would be without a newspar per?" 1 Drill Husbandry.?It is a fact not > i generally alluded to, says a distinguished r English cultivator, that a field with a 1 southern aspect, if rich, should be drilled north and south ; but if dry, and in want ' of shade, it should be drilled east and ? west. It is easy to sec thnt, in the latter t case, the crop would shade the land from the influence of the Bun, and counteract > the effect of drought. nru tt ? iu >ir.vr.ni 11UK?KM FKOM JMUBRINO i the Hair off their Tails.?Grease the return, or fundament, with hog's lard or I bacon ; repeat it until the hnir grows out 1 again. The hnbit is caused, it is thought, by an itching of the fundament, occasion ed perhaps by the discharge of a species i of worm. At any rate, we have been well assured that this is a certain cure. Marriage in Lapland.?It is death in Lapland to murry a maid without the ' consent of her parents or friends. When ! a young man has formed an attachment to a female, the fashion is to appoint their friends to behold the two young parties run a race together. The maid > is allowed in starting the advantage of a [ third part of the race, so that it is imposl sible, except willing of herself, that she should be overtaken. If the maid over1 run her suitor, the matter is ended: he I must never have her, it being penal for 1 the man to renew the motion of marriage, * But if the virgin has an affection for him, though at the first she runs hard to try the truth of his love4 she will (without Atn* 1 innta's golden balls to retard her speed) ' pretend some casualty, nnd make a vol> untary halt before she cometh to tho f mark or end of the race. Thus, none f are compelled to marry against their own f wills; and this is the cause that, in this poor countjy, the married people are ' richer in their own contentment than in 1 other lands, where so many forced matches make feigned lovo, and cuuse real unhappiness. 5 Blue Stockiko.?The celebrated Mrs. P M nntnmm woo J** 1 1 ...voif^uv niui in iifiuiia U1 II KMKlSllip 1 with the first wits nnd scholars of the * age, and was the reputed founder of the f society known by the name of the "Blue Stocking Club.' This association was 1 formed on the liberal and meritrious prin1 ciple of substituting the rational delight*; 1 of conversation, for the absurb and vapid 1 frivolities of the card-table. Noparticu) lnv J ' ? * * .?> uviviiwun mis pnu 10 ner, dui tne con^ versation wns general, cheerful, and unt restrained, far different from what is in sinunted respecting the company, by fl 5 satirist; who accuses them of going? "To barter praise for wmp -with Montague " i The name of this club is said to bede< f nvea from the following circumstances One of the most distinguished cVractert t in the early days of the society, wns Mr Siillingfleet, who always wore blue stock3 ings; his conversation was distinguished i | for brilliancy and vivacity, insomuch, thai o 1 wViPn in liia nknAn/iA 1 j ......? imobiac, bin? mum ui genera! ) amuaement appeared deficient, it was the y common exclamation, " wo can do noth. ;ng without the blue stockingB." And thus was the appellative acquired, whicli in now become frequently in use for all > learned and witty Indies. o Doctor's Fees in California.?A c letter from a young Jersey boy in Cali ,1 fornia, written January 0, says: "1 worked about eleven days, avera. ging about $104 per day: was then taker fi sick and h?d a very severe time of it. ] p received four visits from the nearest doc] tor, who v/as sixty miles off, and poic - hirn to the tune of $600?tl60 per visit n ?leaving me about sixty dollars in po'k t et, after paying for my provisions, vrhicV . are high in proportion. e " ' " ? "To Err is Human."?A clcrgymnr . having indulged too frqelv in filling up his t glass, went one Sabbath into the pulpit I and having given out a hymn to his cows. gr?gation, set down; the melody of th< ,'t sacred song soon lulled him to s'ieap, and a he continued for Borne time to play atre ble bass symphony with his nose. Al \ | length one of the deacons ascended to thi a we desk, wd told hitxs the hymn vxu 0 out. t "Well/'aaid he," fill it up apt in." Frosr.the Richmond Enquirer. DEATH OF BOTTS. After Jo.Sn M. Botts had sworn to "bead Gen. Taylor or die." and wt r? fused to givti up the ghost?after this failure of his, we suspected that hi* constituents would soon do the work which he refused himself to execute. His political demise was accordingly accomElished in the Richmond Congressional listrict (after the protracted agonies of three days' election) on Saturday last. Hir< last will and testament was read for ()lfl Knilpfit nf ? *L_ vi uh iiciiddviiiubvvcii niuuidg ago in the City of New York, in a "gonhead" lightning communication. A Codicil, subsequently in the form of a scries of resolutions, upon the war with Mexico, was 3er.t to his constituents about a year after peace with that nation had been ratitiea, with a recommendation of the impeachment of James K. Polk in the House of Representatives. Poor Botts! he died of a most malignant distemper. Seddon qroes a train from the ?i*th ni? trict in Virginia to Washington to speak his eulogy.?Alas! for the immortal Botts and his unhappy followers, disconsolate and ruined souls they arc. HENRICO. ?&T Editors throughout the nation are requested to publish this melancholy but important intelligence. Whv is a ehielrfln ni? lilr<* a shop ? Because it contains fowl-in-pieces. " It i? very curious," said an old gentleman a few days since to his friend, " that a watch should be perfectly dry, when it has a running spring inside." Isn't it rather an odd fact in natural history that the softest water is caught when it rains the hardest. "You can't do that again," as the pig i?...... ? wuu iu me ltuy muicut install oil. Recipe /ot Preventing the Frost injuring Peach Trees during the time of Blossoming.?Take a hooppole and set it alongside of the peach tree, five or six inches above the highest branch, make a straw rope nn inch and a half thick, tie it to the top of the pole, then let it descend to thft crrnunrl nnltWo nf !?*? *-?'?1? . 0?vu%vmv VJ viiu uiuiiunv?, | nnd immerse the lower end into a large tub of water at the foot of the tree. It is Bnid an editor in the South has purchased a race hor?e, at an expense of $2,000, for the purpose of catching his runaway subscribers. Democratic Review. GREATLY REDUCED PRICE. From $5 to $3 ter annum. Enlargement of the Number by one-fifth the reading matter. SINGLE COPY TWENTY-FIVE CENTS. rroflpxcrdh or the twkntt-fourth volvms. The Twenty-fourth Volume of tho Democratic Review proceeds to it* readers under different auspices from those which have smiled upon its progress hithi crto. New arrancrempnt.? l>nva ??? v WVWUIO necessar^, internally, as well as renewed exertions to promote its welfare externally. The unfortunate divisions of the par% i ty have resulted in a reverse more severe than any that has been experienced for many terms. The outgoing administration knaves the country in every position ?politically, territorially* commercially and financially, more renowned, more ex[ tended, more prosperous, and in higher credit than it hnH nv?r **?#>?? ? - ?W, w Wtvi V The prosperity which pervadoa th? country, and the glory that ourrounds its flag, ' are mainly, if not entirely, due to those sound principles clearly recognised by an 1 American public, and carried to their ful filment through the steady loyalty of the ' Democratic Party. ' That schisms have been created by de^ signing men, as dangerous to party as*. ' cendency as to national welfare ! additional reasons for moro rigorous exertions, the cultivation of a spirit of for' bearance, and that self sacrificing patriot[ ism which has for so long a period been ' a distinguishing feature of democracy.-? For whatever of evil ma** spring from federal ascendancy, those who defeated the democratic party by heartless desertion ' u\ its hour of trial must be held accountable ; and we doubt not that November, " 1862, will witness a retribution thiftt will > be more terrible to false friends ' than to t onen ffwur * The accustomed features Hi * (he Re' view will be continued, including For trait* and Biographies of diititeuished ' Democrats?men whose patrfc^oV^inci1 pies and steadiness of purpose Jw? won the confidence of the people, tsf W? have to remind our roarers that 1 the low terms on which we furnish tho 1 Review malres it indispensable % that the 1 payment of the subscriptions should be ' in advahob ; and that the expenditure ' incurred to improve the work can be met 1 only by tbe prompt remittent* of sub' so notions. * N. B.?All communications will hero1 after be addreeeed to the Kditor, office of 1 the Democratic Review, 170 Broadway, New Yc-k. THOS. PRZKTICE KUTBLL.