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political From the Richmond Enquirer. The Effect of Douglas' Coercion Doctrine at the South. Tho excitement at the South has been greatly increased by the bloody coercion doctrine enunciated by Douglas in his re? cent speeches : A Protest.?Tho undesigned, citizens of the Southern States, accidentally as? sembled at the White Sulphur Springs, have read with much surprise the speech of Judge Douglas, recently delivered at Norfolk, and being many of them too re? mote from ther homes, to take part in any public expression of opinion there, deem it due to themselves to make known in this manner their dissent from its doc? trines. In his address, Mr. Douglas declares that if the Southern States (not a part but all) shall secede from tho Union, upon tho inauguration of Abraham Lincoln, it will bo the duty of the President of tho Uni? ted Statos, who, in tho caso supposed, will be Lincoln, by arms to punish or subdue them, and that ho will counsel him to do, and aid him to do so by all the means in his power. Now as thoro is a largo party at tho North avowing the most implacable hos? tility to tho institutions of the South, whoso candidate for the Prosidoncy is Mr. Lincoln, this declaration of Mr. Douglas is in effect, that the election of a man to the Presidency of tho United States, by the votes alone of one section, who is pledged to use all tho powers of the Government for tho destruction of the rights and property of the other sec? tion, would not justify the weaker in re? sistance, but that if in such an event tho fifteen Southern States should assume to determine on the extent of their danger, and to quietly withdraw from it, he should regard their action as revolt, and as such to be puuished with all the force of tho Government. Than this wc con? ceive of no doctrino more dangerous to the South. It confounds resistance to estab? lished law by individuals, which it would be tho duty of the Chief Magistrate to punish, with the peaceable secession of States from a compact no longer consis? tent with tho interest or existence of its constituents; but it troats tho Union as a porpotual bond, exacting unconditional submission forever from a weaker to a stronger section. It strips the States of the chief attribute of sovereiirntv. to wit: the right to dctcrmino when their exis-. tenco is put to hazard, as to tho means necessary to their preservation, and af? firms that, while it is legitimate in the .^-Bgoplo of the North havinjf>cre>**v"a General Government, through it, to in? flict upon the States of the South what? ever wrongs it may bo consistent with their interest or feeling to impose, it would be treason in the people of the South to obey the order of their States in opposition to Federal authorit}-. Fraught with error as this doctrine is, subversive ofthat constitutional theory in which alone the rights of the States are to bo found, it has at this moment, and un? der, the circumstances, a bloody signifi? cance. The enemies of the South in the Northern States have selected Abraham Lincoln to lead them in the "irrepressible Conflict'' which he has proclaimed. Mr. Seward, the most distinguished counsel? lor of Mr. Lincoln, declares at Boston ? that the election of Lincoln is sure, that with it the power of slavery will end, and that the "irrepressible conflict" will be pressed to its infamous and blood}' close. At such a moment, the proclamation of such sentiments by Judge Douglas, (com? ing immediately after Seward's Boston speech,) uttered here at the South, and addressed to tho citizens of a Stato whose Executive declared to General Jackson that Federal troops should only cross her border over the bodies of her sons, by a man from the North, from tho neighbor? hood of Lincoln himself, the candidate for tho Presidency, volunteering his counsel to Lincoln, and in the event of his election, his aid to wage war upon our people, and to slay them iu battle as rebels, or hang them in cold blood as traitors, if they shall render obodience to State rather than Federal authority, is repugnant to every sense of right, and merits from the people of the South tho severest rebuke. Such a rebuke we sin? cerely hope will be given the doctrine and its author at the November election. James Lyons, Richmond City; John Perkins, Louisiana j Allen S. Izard, South1 Carolina ; H. K. Burgwyn, North Caro? lina; H. E. Runnels, Texas; Edward Haile, Florida; L. W. Spratt and John Cunningham, South Carolina; E. Y. Barksdale, George R. Drummond, John Miars and E. C. Thomas, Virginia; J. G. Keitt, South Carolina; A. E. Blakely and John G. Griffin, Virginia; A. B. Hencgan, Charles Irby, F. M. E. Fant, J. Dantzler, and W. Ederington, South Carolina; Philip Howerton, Virginia; Wm. H. Ten-ill, Bath County, Va.; N. F. Bbwe, Robert M. Taylor, Georgo M. Bates, John W. Street, W. A. Street, and H. R Tomlin, Virginia; Wm. Polk, Louisiana; W. E. Johnson, South Carolina; John Prossor Tabb and Miers W. Fisher, Virginia; Le land Noel, Mississippi; Langdou Cheves and Wm. C. Bee, South Carolina; Whar ton J. Green, North Carolina; Edward G. Satchel! and Geo. F. Wilkins, .Virginia; A. Saltmnrsh, Alabama; Joseph A. Graves, Virginia; Thos. B. Lynch. South Carolina; *Wm. R. Peck, Louisiana: J. A. Eiddick, W. A. Seiden, and John A. Seiden, Vir? ginia; G. B. Singletary, North Carolina. -? Texas News. We select the following items of Texas news from our New Orleans exchanges : The Henderson Times announces that the Vigilance Committee found Green Hcrndon and his servant girl guilty of burning that town, and . t hey were hung on the night of the 2;")th ult. The Tyler (Smith county) Reporter, of the 28th ult., says : '; Fine rains have fal? len at this place during the past week. New feelings seem to animate the people. The rains, though too lute to affect tho much injured cotton crop, will do much good by reviving vegetation, which wdl improve the condition of our stock before the winter sets in." The Marshall Republican, of the 1st inst., says an infantry and cavalry com? pany have been organized in that place. The same paper says : '; The rain seems to have set in in earnest. Day after day it continues to pour down in torrents. If it continuos thus, we will soon have navi? gation. With a heavy crop of turnips, and rieh fall and winter pastures, our planters may be able to got along until another crop is made; although with the realization of the best prospects, the times arc bound to be hard ; such times ?.s have never before been felt in Texas since an? nexation." The report that a man was taken out of jail at Gilmor, in Upshur county, and hung in the vicinity of that town, by a mob, turns out to be true. The hanging took place on the 14th ultimo. The man's name was Morrison. Ho had been lodged in the Upsher county jail, charged with stealing a negro woman from a Mr. Farris, near Pittsburg, Upshur county. After he was placed in jail, seventy-five citizens of the counties of Wood, Hopkins and Titus made their appearance, called a meeting of the citizens of Gilmer. and demanded that Morrison should be delivered up to thorn. A public meeting was convened to consider its propriety. A. U. Wright was called to the chair, and E. W. Ford ap? pointed Secretary. Hon. Jonathan Rus soll, in behalf of tho seventy-five, ex? plained tho object of the meeting. It is alleged that Morrison had been engaged in inciting the negroes to insurrection in tho abovo counties. We presume the people were satisfied of his guilt, for he was given up and hung. We expect he was a depraved, bad man. The Quitman Herald says of him: - Morrison, from whi^^wji^a?.lL-U*i^?:^ tt.IA about twenty-eight years of age., rather small in form and of fair complexi on. He was married to his wife in Indiana, but removed to this State from Kansas, (where he was a participant in the troubles with the Freesoil party,) and first settled in Montague county. He had beoa living in Winnsborough in this county for sev? eral months, and was a well-digger by trade. Lately he hud abandoned his wife and had been working in the neighbor? hood of Pittsburg in Upshur county. He confessed decoying oft'the negro, and also to stealing a watch and other articles of value, which were found as he directed." The CJalveston Civilian has received a letter from Capt. W. S. Taylor, who has command of a patrol company, in Mont? gomery county, giving somo .of tho cir? cumstances which led to the suspicion that property was in danger in that coun? ty about the 1st ult. The negroes on the plantation of Judge Goldthwaite and many others have con? fessed, without compulsion, and aparttrom each other, that four white men were en? camped in tho San Jacinto bottom pre? vious to that time, and had frequent in? terviews with the slaves. The white men did not give their names, and the negroes all say that they never before saw them in the country. These men promised a large number of white men to assist the negroes, and told them to burn the town of Montgomery, at night, steal the money they could; and promised to aid them in escaping to a free territory, or Mexico. There seems to bo doubt that such white men wcro concoaled in tho thicket; and Capt. Taylor thinks thoir object was to steal negroes, burn, and plunder, and leave tho impression that abolitionists were at the bottom of the work. This, the Civilian thinks, has been tho caso in most other counties whore those troubles havo boon experienced. Kidnappers and robbers havo been the main instigators of the outrages. -* Wealth-Creators.?Whereforo is it then that the creators of all wealth arc tho poor ? The poor man and laborer, which is wealth-creator, are synonymous terms? That those whose labor first causes the earth to yield its produce, and then converts that produce inte? every ne? cessary, evory comfort, every convenience, evety luxury, and every means of enjo}r ment, and yet, though thus consuming next to nothing of all the riches they cre? ate, and still continuing to create riches, still continue to be, proverbially, the poor ? * * * * The distress of the laboring classes is a phrase so commonly in use, that we hear it without surprise; yea, when translated into tho language of literal truth, what a strange anomaly does it convey?the poverty of the creators of riches ? * - t A Dual Executive. We find in the Winnsboro Register, the following communication. It is from the pen of Mr. E. G-. Palmer, Jr.: A Dual Executive.?Lincoln and Ilam lin, the sectional candidates of a sectional party, will have evidently to be chosen, if chosen at all, by a sectional majority, Pre? sident and Vice-Prcsidcnt of the United States. Such a result would go to prove con? clusively the necessity of an organic change in the Executive Department of the Federal Constitution, namely : that of a Dual Executive, a Northern and a Southern. Each would bo elected by a distinct constituenc}', and each would represent the opinions of his respective constituency whenever he might be called upon to approve the acts of Congress, which would, of course, have to bo done by both concurringly before such acts be? come Federal laws. An organic change of this kind would have the effect of restoring the equilibri? um that will have been lost betwoen the two sections, by simply giving to each section a negative upon the action of the other, a mutual negative that would cause necessarily all Federal legislrtion to take the form of an intcrsectional compromise, would be in perfect consonance with the equitable spirit of tho Federal Constitu? tion. The framcrs of that instrument, to prevent the smaller States from being op? pressed by the larger, so judiciously or? ganized ths legislative departments as to preserve the perfect equality of the States. In ordor to prevent the stronger sec? tion from oppressing the weaker, experi? ence has shown, that, to this generation, belongs the work of so re-organizing the Executive Department as to preserve the equality of the sections. The equalization of the States was the task of our ancestors, the equalization of the sections is our task. First of all, however, tho amending power of the Federal Constitution has to be invoked, and should it be so invoked to no purpose, then it would be obvious that South Carolina could no longer con? sistently with safety continue in a Con? federacy that would he governed by a sectional majority already committed to consolidation as its primary policy and to abolition as its ultimate. Such a Government, it is superfluous to add would be nothing more than an arbi? trary despotism with Republican sym? bols, p. L::t Us Organize for tiik Protection of tiik So'uth.?Tho following \rc copy with pleasure from the Wilmington Jour "We understand that during the past week a Philadelphia 'Wide-Awake Club," numbering eight or nine hundred, learn? ing that a number of Southern gentlemen were stopping at the Continental Hotel, called a halt in front of that establish? ment, making infernal and diabolical noises, intermingled with cheers for John Brown and groans for the Southerners. -These Wide-Awakes are the drilled police of tlic Lincoln array?they arc ac? tually drilled?taught to march?to go through the manual?to rally at the word, and they make their boasts that they can immediately substitute muskets for their lantern poles. It is about time we had a good deal more organization in North Carolina. There never was such need for it. The conflict i:, coming. Even subr mission cannot avert it long. "New York, too, dopendent as she has been and is upon Southern trade, hardly makes an effort to prevent the collision. They are assured that in no case will the South resist. That's what makes them rampant. The denunciation of disunion ism hurled against tho trno Democrats at the South, imparts confidence to the ag? gressive abolition feeling at the North, un? til it can no longer bo restrained, and, in? deed, few seem anxious to restrain it. "In every case North, and indeed South, Mr. Douglas and his peculiar friends have opposed any fusion or co-operation for the defeat of Lincoln. We have little to hope for in that way. AVc must be ready for any and every emergency. We have no confidence in the Dean Rich? mond, Now York and Albany Regency, and indeed we are beginning to have less confidence in more politicians generally than we used to have." Hunii Miller.?When employed as ma? son, it was usual for his fellow-workmen to have an occasional treat of drink, and one day two glasses of whiskey fell to his share, which he swallowed. "When he reached home, ho found on opening his favorite book?Bacon's Essays?that the letters danced before his eyes, and that he could no longer master the sense. " The condition," he says, " into which I had brought myself was, I felt, one of de? gradation. I had sunk by my own act, for the time, to a lower level of intelli? gence than that on which it was my priv? ilege to be placed; and though the state could have been no very favorable one for forming a resolution, I in that hour de? termined that I should never again sacri? fice my capacity of intellectual enjoyment to a drinking usage; and, with God's help, I was enabled to hold by the determina? tion." -o When Aristotle was asked what were the advantages of learning, ho replied: "It is an ornament to a man in prosperity, and a refuge in adversity." Sdcetcb Jjnttrjj. Despair. BY KKBEUS. Oh, 'jtod! that my strong heart should feel Such internes? of woe, That I thus wrecked in life, should kneel Before so weak a blow. Thai every higher aim in life, Or wish, or thought, or care, Should by this agony and strife, B; changed to such despair. Now all is blank, and dark, atid drear? No hope, no fear, no love? No guiding star my path to cheer, No thought of an above. The day breaks to me, and I hear That brightly shines the sun ; The night, too, comes; they but appear To me as only one. They say that summer flowers arc fair, That birds arc on the wing, Thnt balmy is the evening air, That it is beauteous spring; Bin. unto me there is no glow Which summer can impart? I o ily feel, with bitter woe, Tis winter in my heart. The sunny day and starry night May change to clouds and rain, But still tiic bright and softened light To each comes back again. Al is! I may no more be gay ; Bliss harbingers but care; A night lias darkened on my day, And left me but despair. My friends, my proven friends of yore, Speak kindly to mc now? Aye, kinder than they did before, And gaze upon my brow As though they thought some hidden weight Was pressing on my brain. Some far too stern decree <>i fate, Some deeply written pain. Oil, God .' to think my pride of soul, My vaunted strength of will, Can now no more my hopes control, No more my pulses thrill? ? nd yet, I cannot help but own That 'tis a just, decree, Since I did give to her alone The worship due to thee. Death-bed Scenes.?Tho rich Cardinal Bcauforl said: "And must I die! Will not all my riches save me! I could pur? chase the kingdom, if that would prolong my life. Alas! there is no bribing death." A i English nobleman said: "I have a splendid passage to the grave; I die in state, and languish under a guildcd cano? py; T um expiring on sofl und downypil Iow.-;. and am respectably attended by my servants and physicians; my dependents sigh; my sisters weep; my father heads beneath a loud of grief and years; mylovo ly wife, pale and silent, ^amenlr, her in? most anguish; my friend, who was as my Ouii soul, suppresses his sighs, and leaves me, to hide his secret grief. Rut. 0! which of them* will bail mc from the arrest of death? Who can descend into the dark prison of the grave with me? Here they all leave me, after having paid a few idle ciivinoni *s to the breathless clay which may lie reposed in state, while my soul, my only conscious part, may stand trembling before my Judge." The celebrated Talleyrand on Iiis death? bed was visited by Louis Phillippe, King of tlie French. "How do you feel?" said the King; the answer was : -Sire, 1 am suffering the pangs of the damned." Sir Thomas Scott said : "Until this mo? ment I believed that there was neither a God nor a hell. Now I know and feel that there are both, and I am doomed to perdition by the just judgment of the Al? mighty." A rich man. when dying, was informed by his physician that he should prepare for the worst. "Cannot I live for a week ?" "No," said the doctor, "you will probably continue but a little while." '?Say not so," said the dying man. ?? I will give you a hundred thousand dollars if you will prolong my life three days;" hui: in less than an hour he was dead. Educate your Daughters.?A writer says: When I lived among the Choctaw In ditins, I held a consultation with one of their chiefs respecting the successive sta? ges of their progress in the arts of civilized life ; and among other things he informed me at their first start they fell into a great mistake ?they only sent their boys to school. They became intelligent men, but they married uneducated and uncivilized wives, and the uniform result was, that the chil? dren were all like the mother; and soon the father lost his interest in both wife and children. ' And now,' says he, 1 if wo could educate one class of our children, we would choose tho girls?for when they become mothers, they would educate their sons.' This is to the point and it is true. No nation can become fully and perma? nently civilized and enlightened, when the mothers are not, to a good degree, quali? fied to discharge the duties of home edu? cation. -4? Long Sermons ?Rev. Wm Taylor, in his late work, "The Model Preacher,'' says: "Often when a preacher has driv? en a nail in a sure place, instead of clinck ir g it, and securing well the advantage, he hammers away till he breaks the head oif, or splits the board."?Witness. We somewhere read of a brother who was about to preach to another's church, asking the pastor how long his people would listen with interest.' The pastor ?eplied, he had never tried them and would advise him not to. Depauted Blessings.?It is often said, and with great truth, that we rarely per? ceive the value of our blessings till they are taken from us. The preciousness of health is seldom realized till disease and languor invade our frame. The common comforts of life are scarcely thought of with grateful feelings till we are denied them. Then we sigh for their return, and enjoy their recovery with a relish un? known before. Above all, never do we appreciate friends and relatives as when they have taken leave of us and gone to the land of spirits. "Wo have seen the family bereav? ed of a mother, or sister, or wife. The funeral rites are performed and the body is in its resting place beneath the sod. Day after day passes but the gloom is not dispersed. The grief lingers there and hangs around the vacant chair. We miss her at the morning meal?wo miss her at the evening fireside. Every object re? minds us of her. Here is the book she cherished; there the flower she watched and watered. The tones of her voice? the beam of her eye, the sunshine of her countenance, are ever before us. We sigh, but she answers not. We long for one little word of love from her lips, but it is unbroken. We think of her ways, her virtues, of everything but her failings, and we wonder that we loved her no more while living, we lament that we ev? er grieved or wounded one so gentle and so good. These thoughts should lead us to prize those who love us. while they are yet with us, for. he assured, we shall mourn bitterly over our neglect, our harshness, our wrong doing, when the grave has closed over them. -o Mind Against Mind.?There is a strong disposition in men of opposite minds to despise each other. A grave man cannot conceive what is the use of wit in society; a person who takes a strong common sense view of the subject, is for pushing out by the head and she uld ers, an ingenious theorist who catches at the slightest and faintest anologies ; and another man who scents the ridiculous from afar, will hold no commerce with him who tests exquisitely the line feeling of the heart, and is alive to nothing else; whereas, talent is talent, and mind is mind, in all its branches! Wit gives to life one of its best flavors; common sense leads to immediate action, and gives so? ciety its daily motion; large and compre? hensive views its annual rotation ; ridi? cule chastises fi>JJy and imprudence, and keeps men in their proper sphcro j subtle? ty seizes hold of the fine threads of truth; analogy darts away to the most sublime discoveries ; feeling paints all the exquis? ite passions of man's soul, and reward him by a thousand inward visitations for the sorrow that comes from without. God made it all! It is all good ! We must not despise no sort of talent; they all have their separate duties and uses; all the happiness of man for their object; they all improve, exalt, and gladden life. ?Sydney Smith. -? Death in Childhood.?Few things ap? pear so very beautiful as a very young child in its shroud. The little innocent face looks so sublimely simple and confi? ding among the cold terrors of death? crimeless. and fearless, that little mortal has passed alone under the shadow, and oxplorertthc mystery of dissolution. There is death in its sublimest and purest image ?no hatred, no hypocrisy, no suspicion, no care for the morrow ever darkened that little face ; death has come lovingly upon it; there is nothing cruel in its vic? tory. The yearnings of love, indeed, can? not be stifled, for the prattle, and smiles, and little world of thoughts that arc so delightful, arc gone forever. Awe, too, will overcast us in its presence, lor we are looking on death ; but we do not fear the lonely voyager?for the child has gone, simple and trusting, into the presence of its all-wise Father, and of such we know. is the Kingdom of Heaven. -* The Night Shadows.?A wonderful i fact to reflect upon, that every human crea? ture is constituted to be a profound secret mystery to every other. A solemn con? sideration, when I enter a great city by night, that every one of those darkly clus? tered houses incloses its own secret; that every room in every one of them incloses its own secret; that every beating heart in the hundreds of thousands of breasts there is, in some of its imaginings, a secret to the heart nearest to it! Something of the awfulness, even of death itself, is refer? able to this. My friend is dead, my neigh? bor is dead, my love, the darling of my soul, is dead; it is the inexorable consol? idation and perpetuation of tho secret that was always in that individuality, and which I shall carry in mine to my life's end. In any of the burial places of this city through which I pass, is there a sleep? er more inscrutable than its busy inhabi? tants are, innermost personality, to me, or than I am to them ? -* Somo young ladies, feeling aggravated by the severity with which their friends speculated on their gay plumes, necklaces, rings, etc., went to their pastor to learn his opinion. " Do you think," said they, " there is any impropriety in wearing these things?" " By no means," was the prompt reply, " when the heart is full of ridiculous no? tions, it is well enough to hang out a sign." Old Fashion.?It is a curious fhct worth mentioning, that among the relics of art disinterred by Layard from the ruins of Nincvah, may be seen various ornamental devices exactly like some of the fashions of our own day. Among the rings and bracelets, for instance, of which Layard made accurate drawings, may bo seen patterns -which look as if mxtnufao tu red from tho designs of London and Paris jewellers of tho present day. la . one of the engravings of Layard's re^ searches, we have a drawing of a horse? man with his riding-whip, the handle of winch is a gazelle's foot, exactly like the i present fashion, as it is frequently seen, in the finish of hunting whips. Verily, there is nothing new under the sun, tele" graphs and steam engines excepted. -<s> Mental Agriculture.?What stubbing, plowing, digging, and harrowing is to land, that thinking, reflecting, and examining is to the mind. Each has its proper cul? ture ; and as the land that is suffered to lie waste and wild for a long time will be overspread with brushwood, brambles,^ thorns, and such vegetables, which have neither use nor beaut}*, so there will not fail to sprou* up in a neglected, uncultiva ted mind a great number of prejudices and: absurd opinions, which owe their origin partly to the soil itself, the passions, and imperfections of the mind of man, and partly to those seeds which chance to be scattered in it by every wind of doctrine which the cunning of states, the singular? ity of pedants, and the superstition of fools shall raise. ?-?s> Srcret of Greatness.?It was a noble and beautiful answer of Queen Victoria that she gave to an African prince, who sent an cmbassage with costly presents, and asked her in return to tell bhn tbe secret of England's greatness and England's glory. The beloved Queen sent him, not*' the number of her fleet, not the number of her armies, not the account of her bound loss merchandise, not the details of her in? exhaustible wealth. She did not, like Uezckiah, in an evil hour, show the cm bassador her diamonds and her rich orna-; ments. but, handing him a beautifully hound copy of the Bible, she said, "Tell the Prince that this is the secret of En? gland's greatness." '-o Hat;: Not.?Hate not. It is not worth while. Your life is not long enough to make it pay to cherish ill-will or bard thoughts towards any one._What if this Livuii huo iUw*fcrn~y?u in your time of need, or that one having won your utmost confidence, your warntest love, has Con? cluded that he prefers to consider and treat you as a stranger? Let it all pass. What difference will it make to you in a few years, when you go hence to the "un? discovered country?" All who ill-treat you now will be more sorry for it then, than you even in your deepest disappoint ment and grief, can be. -o-? ? A man who marries now-a-daysmarries a great deal, lie not only weds himself to a woman, but a laboratory .of prepared chalk, a quintal of whalebone, eight coffee bags, four baskets of novels, one poodle dog, and a lot of weak nerves that will keep four servant girls and three doctors around the house the whole.ble&sed time. Whether the fun pays for tho powder is a matter for debate. -o Equity.?An eternal rule of right, im? planted in the heart. What it asks for ourselves, it is willing to grant to others. It not only forbids us to do.wrcng to the meanest of God's creatures, but it teach? es us to observe the golden rule, "AH things whatsoever ye would .that men should do unto you, do ye even so unto them." Three millions of cubic feet of masonry are in the Victoria Bridge! That is to say. if turned into lineal measure it would reach 510 miles, or as a solid, would form a pyramid 215 feet high, having a base of 215 feet square. -*-: ? A lecturer on chemistry mentioned that a certain quantity of caloric (heat) was found in snow, an Irishman among the au? dience gravely asked how many snow? balls it would take to boil a tea-kettle ! -* Of all earthly music, that which reaches the farthest into Heaven is tho beating of a loving heart, Fashion is tho race of the rich to get away from the poor, who follow as fastas they can. It is stated that the Great Eastern, on her outward passage, averaged nearly fourteen knots an hour. -o Quiet conscience gives quiet sleep. Richest is he that wants least. Boasters are cousins to liars. Confession makes half amends. Always speak the truth. Make few jwomises. Live tvp to your engagements. Have no very intimate friends. Virtue is mother of happiness. Modesty is a guard to virtue. Boughs that bear most hang lowest. Keep your own secrets, ifyouhav&any. Keep good company, or none. Prize character more than reputation. Look in the face the man you speak to. Drink no intoxicating liquor. Never speak lightly of Religion. Never play at any game of hazard. Never got in debt. . i Never spend monoy until you make it.