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'' ' * * ' ' . ' ' N t " % * VOLUME 14 CAMDEN, SOUTH-CAROLINA TUESDAY MORNING JUNE 21,18,73. NUMBER 2$ PUBLISHED WEEKLY EY * THOMAS J. WARREN. 'termst Tsvo Dollars if paid in advance; Two Dollars and Fifty Conts-if paymtfntbo delayed three months, and Three Dollara rfnot-paid tillthc-expiration oftheyear. ADVERTISEMENTS will be inserted at the following rates: For one Square, (fourteen lines or less,), seventy-five cents for the first, and thirty-sevep and a half cents for each subsequent insertion. Single in-, sertions. one dollar per square; semi-monthly,month'* 1 -J * ' /-.Konrrnrl t Jin cnrrtP ns ly ana quarterly.auvunasi.-iucu.v3 ?.n.ub^ for a single insertion. jy The nuraberof insertions desired mhst be noted ? on the margin of all advertisements, or they will bo . published until ordered discontinued and charged acW cordingly. - . % iflfrteit Calf. | , The Poor Lawyer. The Knickerbocker Magazine some years ! ago contained Washington Irving's "Early Experience of Ralph Ringtvood.r This exciting , story was well teamed by the editor " a .~pe..e itf^1,.,vwvc nf tbe West." for the lovers CICS Ul luyuuvjvj , of Ralph Ringwcfod are scarcely less poetical than those of M.ountjoy himself. Here is the first introduction to- the Jovely- maiden who was to "have so great an influence on his after life; r..*. "I had taken tiSy breakfast and vvas waiting for my horse, when, in passing up ar?d? down the piazza, Tsaw a young girl seated near the window, evidently a visiter. She was very! pretty, with auburn hair atid blue eyes, and dressed in whi e. I had seen nothing of the kind since I had left Richmond; at that time I was two much, of a hoy to be struck by female beauty. She*was so delicate and dainty lookiug,so difTerer;tfrorn the liale.buxum brown giils of the woods?and then ?her white dress ! it was so dazzling ! Never was a poor youth so taken by surprise, and suddenly bewitched. My heart yearned to knohr her, hut how was I to accost her ? I had grown wilJ in the woods, and had none, pf the habitudes of polite life. Had she been like Peggy Pngh, or Sally Pigman, or any otfrer of tny leathern dressed belles of the pigeon roost, 1 should have approached her withoncdread ; nay. hjul she been as fair as Shuifc's daughters with their lookingglass lockets I should not have hesitated; but that white drfess and those auburnTiuglets, and blue eyes and.delicate looks quite daunted while they fascinated me. 1-don't know what put it into myiiead, hut I, thought all. at .-once I would kiss-her ! It woyld Cake a long acquaintance to arrive at that boon, but I might seize upon it by sheer robherv. Nobody knew me here. I woultjust step in apd snatch a kiss, mount my horse and ride off". She would be none the worse of it; and that kiss?oh, I should die if I did not get it! ? I gave no time for thought to cool," but entered the house and stepped lightly into the rooni. She was seated with ber back to the doof, looking out of the window, and did not hear my approach. 1 tapped her chair, ahj as she turned and looked tip, I snatched as sweet a kiss as ever was stolen, and I vanished in t twinkling.. The nextmoment I was on hoist*, back, gallopping homeward, my very heart tingling at what I bud done*' After a variety of amusing adventures, Ring. Wood "attempts the stud) of lav, in an opscurc settlement jit Kentucky, where he delved night and day. R.tlph pursues his s:u-Jies, occasionally argues at a debating smieiy, aud at length becomes iju if en genius, and a favorite jii the eyes of the married ladies ol' the village. >1 called-to Hike tea one evening, with one of these ladiees, when to uiy surprise am! smilewhat Confusion,-L found with her the'identical blue exed beauty5.whom 1 tnp.r audaciously kissed. I wys formally introduced to her, but neither of us betrayed any sign of previous ac/ quaintance'exeept by blu>hing to the eyes.? While tga w as getting ready, the laxly of the bouse ^weat mit of tTie room "to give some directions and. Ieft,us alone. Ilea hens and earth what a sitifAtion ! I would have given all the pittance I was worth, to have been in the deepest de|l of the forest. I felt the necessity of saying something in excuse for inv former rude ness; I could n<>t conjure up an idea, nor utter a word. Kvery moment matters were growing worse. I felt at one time tempted to do as 1 done when I had rohbed her of the kiss?holt from the.room, and take to flight; hut I was J ,L* l'? ' lnnfTi'it ({? i'ain cnainea 10 we spot, iw x iconj - ? D - her good will. At lengthed I plucked.up courage on seeing her equally confused with rn\ self, and walking desperately up to her I exclaimed : " I have been trying to muster up something to say, but Lcarmot. I feel that I am in a horrible scrape. Do have pity on me and help me outofit!"- ' A smile dimpled about her mouth and play ed among the blushes of her cheek. She looked with a sly but arch' glance of the eye, tii.1t expressed a volume of comic recollections; ? we broke into a laugh, and from that moment all went on well." Passing the delightful description which succeeded, we proceed to the denoument of Kingwood's love affair?the marriage and the settlement. " That very autumn I was admitted to the bar, and a month afterwards was married,? We.were a young couple, she not much more than sixteen and I not quite twenty, and both almost without a dollar in the world. The establishment was well suited to our circumstances ; a low house with two srnail rooms, a bed, a table, a half dozen chairs, a half dozen knives - ? J o tintr rirtron ennmit cverv tllitJI? l>V ttllU lUi no, U MUM uv?w.. ^ ^ n half dozeus; a little delph ware, every thing in" a small way; we were so poor but then so happy. / VVe had not been married many days when a eourt was held in a county town, about twenty-five miles distant. > It was necessary for me to go there and put myself in the way of business?hut how was I to go ? I had expended all my means in our establishment, and then it was hard parting with my wife so soon alter marriage. However, go I must. iVloney must be made, or we would soon have the wolf at our door. I accordingly borrowed a horse, and borrowed a little cash, and rode off from my door leaving my wife standing at it, and waving her hand after inc. Ilcr last look, so W/* ' ; n ^ sweet and becoming'', went to my heart. I felt ( as if I could go through fire and water for her. I arrived and the county town on a cool October evening. The md was crowded, for the ( court was to commence 011 the following day. I knew ro one, and wondered how I, a stran < ger, a mere youngster, was to make way in ; such a crowd, and to'get business. The pub- 1 1 c room was thronged with all the idlers in the ( country who gather 011 such occasions. There < was some drinking going forward, with a great < noise and a little altercation. Just as I enter- ( ed the room, I saw a rough bully of a fellow, 1 who was partly intoxicated, strike an old mail. He came swaggering by nie, and elbowed me as he passed. I immediately knocked him ; down and kicked him into the street. I needed no belter introduction. In a moment I had a half dozen rough shakes of the hand and invi. ( tations to drink, and found myself quite a per- ( sonage jn this rough assemblage. I The next morning tho Court opened?I took I my seat anions the lawyers, but felt as a mere | spectator, not having any idea where business i was to come from. In the course of the morn- ; ing a man was put to the bar, charged with passing counterfeit money, and was asked if he was ready for tiial. lie answered in the negative. He had been confined in a placewhere there were no lawyers, and had not had an opportunity of consulting any. He was told to choose from the lawyers present, and be ready for trial on the following day. He looked around the Conn and selected me: I could not tell why he should make such a choice. I, a beardless Youngster, unpractised at the bar; perfectly unknown. I felt diffident, yet deligh-. ' I 1 1 - 1 J nnu COUIU .Have llUj:gi-u mo m-V.... Before leaving the Court he gave me one { hundred dollars in a bag, as a retaining fee.? , I could scarcely believe my senses, it seemed ( I like a dream. The heaviness of the'fee spoke j | lightly in favor of his innocence?but that was t J no affair of mine. T was to be advocate, not ( I judge or jury. I followed him to the jail, and , j o O O * ' ' 1 I learned from him all the particulars bf the case; j . fr<im thence I went to the clerk's office and j 1 took minutes of the indictment. 1 then exam- | iied the l.iw on tiie subject. and prepared iny ' ; brief in my room All this occupied mc until | i midnight, when I went to bed and tried to j 'sleep. It was all in yain. Never in my life 1 was I more wide awake. A host of thoughts ( ! and fancies kept rushing, through my mind ; the ( shower of gold that had so unexpecteldy fallen ( into1 my lap, the idea'of my poor little wife at home, that I was to astonish her with my good , fortune! But the awful responsibility 1 had | undertaken, to speak for the first time in a , ! strange court, the expectations the culprit had ITunned of my talents, all these, and a crowd of j similar notions, kept whirling through my mind. , I tossed about all night, fearing ;the morning J would find me exhausted aiftl incompetent?in a word, the day dawned on arc a miserable lei' low. 1 got up feveiish and nervous. I walked out before breakfast, stiiving to collect ir.y thoughts, n,,r . If was a briuht ! , ai:\i bi a?i<jii>iu<u ivvih*^ -- ? 0 : morning?( batfied my forehead and my hands ; In a beautiful running stream, but I could not i allay the fever heat winch raged within. I re; turned to breakfast, but could not eat. A sin- ( : gle eup of coffee formed tny repast. It was j time to go to court. I went there with a tbroh' bing heart. I believe if it had not hecn for inv 1 little wife in lief lonely house, I should have j.given hack to the man his hundred dollars, and ! relinquished the cause. I took my scat, lookj iugj 1 am convinced, more like a culprit than I the rogue I was to defend. When the time j came fbr rue to speak -my heart died within I me. I rose, embarrassed and dismayed, and } stammered in opening my cause. I went on | from bad to worse, and felt as if I w is going : down hill. Just then, t'uo public prosecutor, I a man of talents, hut somewhat rough in his ! | ractice, made a sarcastic re mailt on something , I had said. 'It was like an electric spark and : run tingling through every Vein hi my body.? | In an instant my dillidencc was gone. My I whole sfirit was in arms. I answered w I promptness and bitterness, fori felt the cruej7 | of such an attack, upon a novice in my situn. ! tion. The public prosecutor made a kind nf I apology. This, for a man of his redoubt,,!,^. I flowers, was a vast concession. I renewed my'argument with ;i fearful glow, carried t|l(! cause triumphantly,and" the'mati was acquitted. Tills was tiie majtinj* of me. Every body was curious to know wfio this new lawyer was, that had suddenly arisen among them, ami beaided the Attorney General at. the very onset. The story of my debut at the Inn on the preceding evening, when 1 had knocked down a bully and kiekod-him out of doors, for striking an old man, was circulated with favorable ! exaggeration. Even my beardless chin and ju! venile countenance was in mv favor, for the people gave far more credit than I deserved.? The chance business) which occurs in our Courts came thronging upon me. 1 was reneatodly ! employed in other causes, and by Saturday night, when the Court closed, and I had paid 'my bill at the Inn, I found myself with an hundred and fifty dollars in silver, three hundred dollars in notes, and a horse that I afterwards sold for two hundred more. Never did a miser gloat more on his pelf and with more delight. I locked the door of my room, piled the.money in a heap upon the table, and walked around it, sat with my elbows on the table, and my chin upon my hands, and gazed upon it. Was I thinking of the money? 1 No?I was thinking of my little wife and home. Another sli-onli'SS ni'dlt ensiled' mwl wlmf :i [ night of golden fanciys ami splendid air castles. : As hO'jn as morning dawned, I was up, mourctj cd the borrowed horse with which 1 had come to court on, and led the other which I had rei reived as a fee. All the way 1 Was delighting ! myself with the thoughts of surprise I had in store for my litt le wife ; for. both of us had expected nothing hut that I should spend all the money I had borrowed, and should return in debt. P* Our meeting was joyous, as you may suppose; hut I played the part of an Indiab hunter, who, when lie returns from the chase, never for a time speaks of his succccss. She had prepared a snug little rustic meal for mo, and while it was. getting ready, 1 seated myscH at I an old fashioned desk in one corner, and began to count over my money and put it away. She tame to me before I had finished, and asked c 5 e who I had collected money for. ( For myself, to be sure, replied I, with affect- \ ?d coolness; I made it at Court. s She looked me for a moment in the face, in- j i . redulously. I tried to keep my countenance e ind play the Indian, but it would not do. My a nuscles began to twitch ; my feelings all at f nice gave way, I caught her in my arms, laugh- I ?d, cried, and danced about the room like a .J irazy man. From that time we never wanted I t or money." v c ittiscfllancoiis. j! Costoms of Friends. Marriage.?'Ihe members of this Society h differ from others in many of their regulations ? ;onceriiing this custom. They differ also in i '' co iliov ovnpripiii'p crnciallv a ' ^ ,..C5C- v..., . ? ? Jiffereiit result. As a married, they may be Cl said to be, a happy people. Hence tiie detail- : 11 ii s of scandal have rarely had it in their pow-' a ?r to promulgate a case of adultery. Nor have c .he lawyers had an opportunity, in our pubic courts, to proclaim a Friend's divorce. a George Fox suggested many regulations on h his subject. lie advised, among other things n .vhen persons had in contemplation to marry, hat they should lay their intention before the monthly meetings both of the men and the wo- h nen. lie advised also, that the consent of s< .heir parents should he previously obtained and t< jertffied to these. Thus he laid the foundation ; 1 or greater harmony iu the approaching union, j si He advised, again, that inquiry should be made A'hether ihe parlies were'clear of engagements ; jt >r promises of marriage to others; and if they v ivere not< they should be hindered from pro- o reeding. Thus he cut off the causes cf the in- v :erruption of connubial happinecs, by proven- o ,ing unease reflections, or suits at law, nficr i 0 he union had taken place. He ad vis d also in 1 ti die case of second marriages, that any oflkpring ' resulting from the furmer should have their due ' e ights and a proper provision secured to them h >elbre they were allowed to tic soicmmzeu.? j ? rims lie gave a greater chance for happiness, i t by preventing mercenary motives for boeom- j t; ng the causes of husband and wife. I n Rut. George Fox, as he introduced these and f nthcr salutary, regulations on the subject of v marriage, so he introduced a new manner of ? the world ; that is, against the formal prayers itid exhortations as they were repealed, and h igainst the formal ceremonies as they were * practiced, by the parish priest. lie considered < that it was God who joined man and woman r before the fall, and that in Christian times, or t where the man was truly renovated in hemt, t lhere could be no other right or honorable I way of union. Consistently with this view of c the subject, he observed, that in ancient scrip- i tnal times, persons took each other in mar- t riage in the assemblies of the elders, and that 1 theic was no record, front the book of Genesis to f that of Revelations, of any marriage by a priest, t Hence it became his new Society, as a religions or renovated people, to abandon apostate j 1 usages- and to adopt a manner that wSa more j ' agreeable to their new st ate. i I George Fox gave in his own marriage, an j t example, of ail he had thus recommended to j I the .Society. Having agreed with Margaret! Fell, the widow Judge Fell, upon the propriety 1 of their union as husband and wife, he desired ' her to send for her children. As soon as they ' came he asked them and represenlive husbands ! if they hud anything against it or for it desiring 1 them to speak. And they all severally ex- ' - *.l ?r-i i. . pressed tueir satisfaction iiiemu. nu-u u<.-1 asked Margaret if she had fulfilled ami per- \ formed her husband's will. She replied, the j 1 children knew that. Whereupon lie asked I them whether, if their mother married, they ! I should not lose by it. And he asked Margar- < et whether she had done anything in lieu of it, which might answer it to the children. The children said, she had answered it to them, and desired liitn to speak no more about | that, lie told them (hat lie was plain, and that j lie would have all things about him plain, and that he would have all things plainly, for ho sought not any outward advantage to himself, i t>??, after he had acquainted the children with it. their intention of marriage was laid before Friends, both privately and publicly."(If - Fux\s j Journal, vol. ii. p. 135;) and afterwards, a meeting appointed for the accomplishment of < the marriage, in the public meeting-house at j Broad .Mead in Bristol, they took each other in marriage, in this plain and simple manner as ; then practised and which he himself had oiigi- | nally recommended to his followers. I The regulations concerning marriage, and < the manner ofthe solemnization of it which ob- | taineiJ in the time of George Fox, nearly obtain i among Friends at present day. 1 When marriage is agreed upon between two i persons, the man and the woman, at one ofthe | monthly meetings publicly declare their in- < million concerning it. At this time their parents must either appear ro send certificates, to 1 signify their consent. This being done two < men arc appointed by the men's meeting, and j I two women by that ofthe women to wait upon j 1 the man and woman respectively, and to learn j t from themselves, as well as by other inquiry, if j I they staud perfectly clear from any .marriage i promises and engagements to others. At the t next monthly meeting, the deputation make t their report. ' ] If either of the parties is reported to have i given expec tation of marriage to any other in- I dividual, the proceeding are stopped till the matter lie satisfactorily explained. But if they < are both of them reported to be clear in this < respect, they are at liberty to proceed, and one ( or more persons of respectability, of each sex, ( are deputed to sec that the marriage bo orderly t conducted. In the case of second Marriages, additional r ? * . O ' instructions are sometimes given; for if any of c the parties, thus inimating their intention of c nmrrvinrr should h.-ivn children nlivo. the per- 1 son who were deputed to inquire into their clear- I uess from all other engagements, are to see ( that the rights of such children be legally se- z cured. 1 When the parties arrt considered to bo free, 1 by the reports of the deputation, to proceed j upon their union, they appoint a suitable day t for the solemnization of it which is generally i me of (l/e week-day meetings for worship.? )niktliis day, they repair to their meeting house vitli thei* (Viends. The congregation, when eated, si; in silence. Perhaps some minister s induced to speak. After a suitable time has lapsed the man and woman rise up together, nd takitfg each other by the hand; declare ublicly that they thus take each other as hu3iand and wile. This constitutes their marriage. i writing is then generally produced and read hough this he not necessary, stating coniscly the proceedings of the parties in their espective meetings, and the declaration just lade by them as having taken tiach other as usband and wife. This is signed by the paries, their relatives, and frequently by many of heir friends and others present. By way, owevcr. of necessary evidence of their union, nother paper is signed in the course of the day y the isan and woman in the presence of three ntnosscj, who sign it also, in which it is sta-1 ?d that they have so taken eacl, other in j larriagf. All marriages of other Dissenters j re celebrated in the established churches, acording to the ceremonies of the same. But be mar-h-go of the members of this Society re valid by the law in their own meeting j ousos. when solemnized in this simple man- j er. ? Friends'. Review. The Dream of Happiness.?Often had I , card of happiness, hut was ignorant of it myelf. My heart inquired if it was all a phanani ?a thing ol fiction merely, and not a fact? determined to travel through the earth and ee if it *vas in the possession of any mortal. I beheld a king on his stately throne. Sublets obeyed his laws. A' multitude of serants came and wont at his bidding. Palaces f the most costly materials were at his serice, and his tables groaned with the richness r .Ha copmr>d furnished with I lllUli inn utiu". *?v/ sw.i.vv. II he could desire, but bis countenance berayed that he was unhappy. I saw a msn of wealth. Tie resided in an legant mansion, and was surrounded by every ixury ; but he lived in constant fear of losing is possessions. He was constantly imagining hat al^his property would be consumed or iken f&m him. Thus picturing to his own aind tffi) miserable condition cd' himself and umily ?hc was not satisfied with his present vealtli-T The more he" had, the more he deired. feurely, here was not happiness; I loipted upon a lovely valley surroundedby tills, in the midst of it stood a neat little illagei Gurgling streams came murmuring lown the hillside. The lambs frolicked mcrily about. .Cattle grazed in the verdant pas ures, and now and then went to quench their hirst at the nearest spring or the purpling irook. Everything seemed pleasant. 1 thought sertainly here is happiness. IJut I \ isited the nhabitants of this beautiful spot, and saw that hey were not happy. They lived not peaceably among themselves, and murmured because rrcat wealth was not their portion, or that hey were not'born to high station 1 btftujd a fair young creature, blessed with ieall!? and beauty. She was the^life of the i.ilf-room, Did received the most constant at-' enlions. But I perceived that she was not :ru!y happy. These things could not satisfy .he longings of her hem t. I saw a true and heartfelt Clitistian. He] was constantly exercising love to his fellow- j ncn, and doing all in his power to extend j JIG Knowledge til uuu 9 unu v? led. lie trusted not in the vanities <>t this ife for happiness. He sought not this world's riches, but iaid up for himself a treasure in IJeaven. II soul was at rest, and at peace with God, and with mankind. Although'he experienced many trials, both in public and private, still he was cheerful, and content with bis his lot. He only of all these was possessed of true happiiress.?PetterujiW s Reporter. TSic Comet of 1?56. The following interesting details respecting [ho comet which is expected to make its ap. pearance about the year 1850, are given by M. liahinet, an eminent French astronomer, and Member of the Academy of Sciences, in an irticle recently published. The Boston Traveller translates from the Courier des Ftnts Unis: " This comet is one of the grandest of which historians make mention. Its period of revolution is about three hundred years. It was ?een in the years 104, ?392, GS3, 975, 12G4, snd thelatesttimein 1550. Astronomers agreed in predicting its return in 1848, hut it failed to ippear?manque an rendez vans, according to the expression of M. Kabinet?and continues to shine, still, unseen by us Already the, ob scrvatories begin to be alarmed lor the fate of - ? - c:.. tneir Deautuiu wanueiiug sun. wu <unu tmschel had put crapo upon his telescope, when a learned calculator of Aliddleburg, M. Homme, re-assured tlie astronoinical world of the continued existence of the venerablc?nd mngiiili:ent comet. " Disquieted,'as all other astronomers were, jv the iioii arrival of the eoinet at the expected time, IW. Homme, aided by the preparatory abors of Mr. Hind, with a patience truly Dutch, ins revised all the calculations and estimated dl the actions of all the planets upon the comet or thrqc hundred years of revolution. The 'esult of this patient labor, gives the arrival of lie comet in August, 1858; with an uncertainty of two years, more or less, so that from I83G to 18(50, wo may expect the groat comet .vhicli was the cause of the abdication of the Ivrnperor diaries V., in 1550. It is known that, partaking of the general superstition, which interpreted the appearance )f.:i comet as the forerunner of some fatal .went, Charles V., believed that this comet adIressed itself particularly to him as holding lie first rank among sovereigns. The great ind onec wise but now wearied and shattered nonarch, had. been for some time the victim of iruel reverses. There were threatening iiuliations in the political, if not in the physical lorizon, as a still greater tempest to come. I#, u-.ic lr>ft. to orv in desnair. " Fortune aban Ions old men." The appearance of the bla;ing star seemed to him an admonition from leaven that he must cease to be sovereign, if ic would avoid fatality from which one without mthority might be spared. It is known that he Emperor survived his abdication but a little uorc than two yenrr,. Another comet, whiyh passejd near us, in 18 33, an J which has ap pea reel twenty-five timer since the Christian era, has been associated b) the superstitions with many important event which have occurred near the period of its vi>i lation. , ' In 10GG, William the Conqueror lauded ii England at the head of a numerous army, aboo the time the coruet appeared which now bear: the name of Hal ley's cornet. The circqrn stance was regarded by the English as a.prog nosiic of the victory of the Normans. It in fused universal -terror into the minds of the people, and contributed not a little toward th( submission of the country after the battle o] Hastings, as i,t had served to discourage th( soldie/s of Harold before the combat. Th( comet is represented upon jlic famous tapestry of Bayeux, executed by Queen Nlatilila, the wifc of the Conqueror.* The same, in 1456 threw terror among the Turks under the.command of ..Mahomet II, and into the tanks ol the Christians during tho terrible battle of Belgrade, in which forty thousand Mosselmen perished. The comet is described by historians of the .time as " immense, terrible, ol enormous length, carrying in ifs train, a tail which covered two celestial signs, (6Q degrees,' and producing universal terror." s Judging from this portrait, comets have singularly degonerated in our day. It will he remembered, however, that in 1811 there appeared a comet ol L-!ii: Li-t. j * A: yrc.u unnitJiiuy, wmcu mspireu sume sn|>ei~&ir ti jus fears. Since .that epoch science has no ted nearly eighty, Qomets, which with few cx ceptior.s, were visible only by the aid of the telescope. -Jvcpler, when asked how man) comets ho thought there were; in the heavens replied: \'as many as there are fish in tlx sea/!* -f ... "Thanks'to the progress of astronomies science, these singular star's are no longer ob jects of terror. The theories of Newton, Hal ley, and their successors* have completely de stroyed the imaginary fempire of comets. Ai respects their physical nature, it was for alonj time believed thai they' were composed of-1 compact centre, surrounded by a luminous at mospbere. On this subject the opinion of M Uabinet, whtf must be regarded as good' au thority on such questions, fs as follows : "Com ets cannot exercise any materia! innuence upui our globe, and the earth, should it traverse i comet in its entire breadth would perceive i no more than if it should cross a cloud a,hun dred thousand millions of times lighter thai our atmosphere; and which could no* nior make its way through our air than the slightes puff of an ordinary bellows could makfe it way through an anvil."' It would be difficul to find a comp.nison mftrc re assuring." * This celebrated tapestry is in the ancient 10pisc< pal palace at Bayeux. It represents the principal ii cidents, including tho appearance of the comet; in fli history of ihc conquest of England, by "William Duk of Normandy. It is supposed to have been .execute by Matilda, tlio Conqueror's, wife, or by the Emprc; Matilda, daughter of Henry L-. It consists of a line web, 214 feet in length and 20 inches broad, andis d vided into 72 compartmonts, each having a descriptic .indicating its subject. The figures are all executed fc the needle. A LoaP6r's Soliloqcv.?" I wish I kne1 where to get a cent, I do. Blast if don't em grate to Kamschatka, to dig gold.- Money scarcer nor wit ; can't live by neither?atlea! I can't. Sold the last old shirl, pawned m boots for three cents, and went home rfch i a lord, Told my landlady I had a hundre thousand dollars and wanted the best room i the house. Insulted me by saying the att was too gopd for me. ?I'm an injured individual. Society pcrsi cutes ni<?? I don't do society no barm, as knows on. I donVrbb wid'der's housed. I i ??. L-now no vvirliini-e T don't nnt the holt uui1 l u,,v" 1UMV.1CI 4 v ? to my neighbor's lips., I ain't got. no heigi hors; nod fact is I don't-own no bott!<is.Couldri't fill 'em if I did. " I'm an innocent man. Nobody can loc me in the face and say-Tever hurt 'em?nobi dy. And yet I heven't got a roof to lay m head into. My old landlady rated me.; whj I couldn't pay, and I left. 'Cause why? ain it better to dwell i.n the corner of a house-tc than with a brawling woman in a wide house But T ain't got a house-top ; and I if I had, corner would'nt be safe, would it? " I'm a desp'rit .man. I'd go to woik if wasn't for my excessive benevolence. I'mafea of taking the bread out of somebody's mnnt Besides, wisdom's the principal thing ; dor the good book say so ? What's money to wi doin? Ain't I studying character ? If .a'mi kicks me 'cause I can't pay for my licker, aii I getting understanding ? ain't it a lesson human nature ? I'm told the world owes n a living. When is it going to pay, I woudei I'm tired of waiting."?Washington Star. ' Washington's Charmed Life.?Of eight ty-six officers, twenty-six were killed, (in Bra dock's action,) among them, Sir Peter Ha)k< and thirty-seven were wounded, including Gaj and other field officers. Braddock braved ev ry danger. Ilis secretary was shot dead. Both his E ... . A ????? I glisn aids were ui^iucu uaiij 111 wuu moxt leaving the American alone to distribu his orders. "1 expected every moment," sn one whose eye was on Washington, " to si 1 him fall."' Nothing but the superintendit care of Providence could have saved him. Indian Chief?I suppose a Shawnee?single him out with his rifle, bndo others of his \vn riors to do tho same. Two horses were kilb under him ; four balls penetrated his coat." Some potent Manitou guards him !" exclair ed the savage. "Death," wrote Washingto " was levelling my companions on every sic of me; hut by the all powerful dispensatior of Providence, I have been protected." " 1 the public,'1 said Davis, a learned Divine, in tl following month, "I point out that heroi youth, whom I can but hope Providence hs preserved in so signal a manner for some in portant service to his country. " Who is M Wneliinirton ?" asked Lord Halifax, a fe months later. " I know nothing of him," } added, " but they say he behaved in Braddock notion ns bravely as if he really loved the whis ilng of bullets "?Brav-crnfC? American Rev< hition. ?fitewi Hems. vf| i Fi oia the South Carolinian. . r JiS Russia aiid Turkey. Fruni present indications there will' jirobaX"|y j be stirring times throughout,the world erejlong^^ijsi t -Wars and rumors of wars come thickly upoa^V W' , and the repose of Europe, which for so manv.*S^M ; years past has given life and acceleration to the'-! : ^ progressand prosperity of the nations of the earth^^^ is now threatened to be grievously and seriously | disturbed.; It is true lhat. all may bo peaceably^-' [ adjusted yet between Russia and-Turkey, but Y3t$ the concentration jof the Emperor's troops on the 2 ; frontiers of the latter country, and the great st-' f'^1 [ crcsy maintained in the movements of Great Rr-'- -*^ ' tain, forebode trouble. That onr readera may: , have some idea QfEhe~ uatureof the quarrel and; ' i hr? fnelinrr'of the Deoijle'of Great Britain on the 0 .1 J M ? : subject, we subjoirf-some extracts from the E;)g- It p lisli papers received by: the gjevions steamer. Tbe first extract is ffoin^-thjs. London Daily . - - f\ News, May 24 : On thr- .'Jil instant the Rnswtkn^EnVo^ ptesentP ed to the Divan' a draft of a convention which jm I must either be accepted or declined *within ten r days. The purport of this oltiipatun* wa?riri ? ' point of.Tact, what we stated circumstantially in \ this jonrnal many weeks ago to the'' M ject of Prince Mensehikoff s mission. - The'Su'P tan was virtually called upon to abdicate his. functions in. favor ..of the Czar, in. all that most^ijj vitally concerucd the government nud the con-v,--^3 trol of the Creek-Chinch, in Jiis dominions, The' Emperor wnsfto be solemnly declared the fawfub ' and legitimate protectors, iju a" matters affecting the religion ofuine or ten millions of Chri$ti<tt^^? ' ?an authority. which ft isiSelf-evideht would deV^'Jg ' fy all semblance of definition, and;Ppeh the dooj^ td ceaseless and unlimited interference by a for' t\ ? b eign power in .the dome,;tic condition*^-'ewm/j* ' city and province of the Ottoman Empire;-'-Nor.'3^M * were the mcaps whereby -this ^aacia^^cia int-^vl* ' was to be exercised left 'in uncertahity.^T^"?<Aj* ; 5 Greek Primate at Constantinople,, as well as th$< *Jp* J provincial patriarchs, were li^ncefo'rthto'be'fenvi^AH 1 tiered -hremovablc by ' thef Porte,'rib raaUer bo^yC* '^23 they might abuse their office to pi^nt^te'diSa^ fectiori or treason. 'IfcitTtse of eOtnpIdfnt 7\ their conduct should arise,' the hearing* iSr ad- _ *JL judication was to-lie with the sctvereigp'oT 1 sia, not with that-of Turkey, an!5^irouglrt)tf!^ll^-1i' j realm nomiiiallvgoverned by. Abdull MedjnijThe. I consuls and envopofthe Empfcror Nicholas werO.. t to be recognised as specially cliargetf'by thejr^V. $ II master with the functions, of protecting Tn'mi?^ e 'name tfH persSn'sof (It? Greek faith, fn whatever,, 'J t appertained to the exercise of their 'religion'!' In. -. s . a word, the b'ukad was required to surrendeFofco 1 of the;, most "essential portions" of his authority jay-lilJ an incfe'^enci<5nt monarch", 6hd to vestit1>y treaty irrevocably "in the hands of his most dariger? ous neighbor and rival.;,'x. 4 l0 It waS impossible that* the .representa^rtfsyyf ' ' Y :e. England and France should do otherwise than* d advise the Porte peremptorily.to iej'pct'propwals 53 so insulting and "so utterly, at variance with "the 'j j ? formal assurances given in London and ParisTmi J. v in a few weeks ago, by the express command-oft he i! >y Emperor Nicholas; ?So direct and explicit Werd^ J the assurances in question, that they were cub-* -j licly-spoken of by LortT Clarendon, as afibrCjDg- ? .*J iv the guarantee'of the personal honorjftl tbe'Cxar' " J i- that notbihg was meditated by him incobsisfent 's with the integrity or independent dignity of the- % 3t Turkish'em pi re- -What becomes pf that iraperi- * J y al pledge and protestation flow? -Wi commend i ts the. subject to the candid.' criticism .of our con- t H tiimnnrnrv \vlin hiw /IflvrftmT ert innnK-inOAnhitv . t! ~ .m -??grirvr-j i 11 of Into,' with so Utile success, trf-the fask pfcje* ? ' ic fending the cause of-Muscovite aggressiqn<V?i > ' < Meanwhile, it woulJ appear that r}he^ultari j: P. is flilly aroused to asense of his trtle.poljtSyahd I *duty., U. was'bnt the other day tliatr in t|j?s vain. I hope of propitiating his insidious anddmpladable |e enemy, lie^onsented to sacrifice one of-h is mfo- % \y. istcrs, whom Prince Menschikoffhad Ihpugbtfjt _ publicly to"slight. The. futility of suchiR-advis* ed concessions has no> beconfe obvious,, and ft*' ; , worthier course has been resojved upon.^.Reds- - , - chid r^cha, the ablest and. most' popular of the " k i men who have hitherto filled, the office of- ehief ^ minister to a reforming Sultan, has been recalled i , to power- Ilis charafctor and antecedents i(idi-' ? cate the resolution which has been'jt^keri^and the qonvietion, that concession to Russia fas at' ' length reached its utmost limits. The insolent ft envoy may linger a little-longer at ConsUntmo> pie, and opcupy himself and his aides-de-camps' * II in dlssehiinating the see'ds of discouteht among ^ certain sectaries and dorses of- I he Greek ^optr- ?> lation. But the majority even of this portion of II the community-are far from desiring to exchange 5' the easy rule of the Ottomans for the iron yoke ' III of Muscovy. Prince Menscbikoff will have as \1 many partizans, of coui-se, as he can afford to >n buy; but what dependence can be placed on such * lie treacherous allies in the hour of need ? If France r I n ?> a 1? nnrliitiil A n (liAir rtn.l 1-/1/MS t A nliMk. auu uu^iaitu uv buui uucjr, c**iv4 ivcrj/ iv ed faith of treaties, the perfidy of northern despotism will be compelled to abandon its intended y prev. f]. The London Times seems to be more prudent ;t, and conservative, and from its article we should tre judge-that Great Britain will only interfere when o. all hopes. oCadjustment or reconciliation have f failed. Th^pilowing is the concluding paran> graph of an article in that paper of 24th May : ^ e> "The course to be pursued under t/ircumstante ces of such extreme gravity must be determined U by the British Cabinet. The truth is that Franco Je and Russia, by their successive attempts to bully % the Turks, have brought themselves within sight jj of hostilities with dfte another, in which neither ... ;t| side is probably very ready to engage. The threa? r. tened action of the one and the counteraction of . * >cj the other are alike opposed to British "hotiocs of _ policy ?ud justice. In the present embarrassing. *?IV and complicated relations of all the European* V; n States, tho safe and dignified course for this court- < ? ' tiny M BIIMtlA W AMfl AP AWtino . - J 10 h> J %v " v/4?^ VI vtibut? I UUC|7VIIUCUVC"F 13 lending herself to tio petty combination for tli6 advancement of this or that separate interest, but ie reserving her influence and her strength for pub- S3? ic lie interests and for fixed principles. Nothing Jg has let Occurred to conijKl the British govern- ' v v ment to descend with precipitation into the lists, r or to induce the ministers of the crown to en \v gage this country in a course of policy to which ie no definite result can yet be assigned. We can \ g. observe, without alarm or agitation, the course t of events by which other nations are more nearly " affected than we can be; and it would be the (Tirat.esi of errors to commit ourselves hastily to i A I A