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THE CAMDEN WEEKLY JOURNAL. -s ? ' * . ' VOLUME XVI. CAMDEN, SOUTH-CAROLINA, TUESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 13,1855. NUMBER 46. S>rlertfli Jjloetrt). NOTHINO IS LOST. Nothing is lost: the drop of dew Which trembles on the leaf or flower I*but exhaled to fall"anew * In summer's thunder shower; Perchance to shine within the bow * That fronts the sun at fall of day; Perchance to sparklo in the flow Of fountains far away. VAttiinm ia lnaf. tVlA tiniest seed. By wild birds borne or breezes blown, Finds something suited to its need, Wherein 'tis sown and grown, ? The language of some household song, The perfume of some cherished flower, Though gone from outward sense, bolong To memory's after hour. So with our words; or harsh or kind, Uttered they are not all forgot; They leave the influence on the mind, * Pass on, but perish not J . So with our deeds; for good or ill They have their power, scarce understood; Then let us use our better will To make them rife with good I JUiertllonfons. From the Columbia Carolinian. Revolutionary Incidents. Pleasant Mount, (Mass.,) Aug. 26.?Dear Sir: Seeing from your excellent paper that you are collecting Revolutionary Incidents, I have a few that have never been recorded that I know of, and if they are acceptable, they are at your service. The 6rst is one of the bloodiest tragedies that I have ever heard. It took place in Newberry distrigt, S. C., on Indian creek, on the road leading from Columbia by Mount Bethel about six miles above that place. The land belongs to William J. Taylor now, I believe. Immediately after the battle ofCowpens, three brothers, William, Jas. and Robert Dugan with their neighbor, Ford, returned home to the place above mentioned. After dark, William Dugan said be would not sleep in the house* as the Tories might be after them. He took his wife, and told James and Robert to come on, and went to the woods; but they would not go but stayed in the house, with the child of William, a daughter six years old?afterwards Mrs. Murray,of Green river, Buncombe county N. C., from whom this narrative is obtained. About midnight they were aroused by a knocking at the door. James and Robeit Dugan got up and seized their guns. They were told to surrender, and they should nave goon quarters. James was willing, but Hubert wanted to fight as there were but five Tories. lie (Robert) said they could kill two at the first shot and then load before they could get in, and shoot again. But James said no. They had a scuffle about opening the door. James threw up the bar, and the door flew open. The Tories presented their pistols," and told them to surrender, which they did. They tied . their hands behind their backs; then searched the house. They found a sword, and asked where they got it. James told them he got it at the battle of Cowpens, from a British officer that he had killed. That was enough. They took them out to a tree in the yard, and hung them until they were nearly dead then chopped off their heads on a root of the tree, quartered them up" and piled the pieces against the tree, and left. They went to Ford's and shot him as he attempted to escape. The report of the gun alarmed Win. Dugan. He ran to the house. His little daughter saw him coming and ran to meet him. He asked for his brothers. She took him to the tree. His only exclamation was "great God!" "He caught his horse and fled to Cupt. Casey's, afterwards * ^ 'CL* nml woe arniiQoit* '* Vren. i_a.se y. nic ncijj??v.?...?? .........? they met at the Dugan's and buried them. Casey preached their funeral: they then knelt down around the grave and swore to revenge their deaths. Ten started in pursuit. They killed two and caught two One had the same sword, all bloody with the butchery of the Dugans. They brought them back to the same tree, hung them, quartered them in the same manner, and piled them up at the root of the tree as food fot the birds of the air. The other tory escaped. I know his Dame, but as his descendants are now living, and as a veil has been thrown over this deed, let it rest. William Dugan was ihe father of Colonel Thomas Dugan of Sumter District, and represented them as Senator for several years. The I sword is in the possessin of the Murrays of Buncombe county, North Carolina. Mrs. Murray was an eye-witness to the whole affair, and gave the names of all; but I have forgotten them. She is dead now; but as a duty, I thought perhaps, you might perpetuate this to show what a desperate struggle it took to obtain our liberty and how little we apprer ciate it. If this is worthy of your notice, I have others as to ''Who uvre Sumter's scouts before the battle of Blackstocks and how they brought Tarleton into trouble"?names unknown and unsung, yet true Whigs; who shall record their deeds? I will give von their names, and you can record them. Yours, trulv, S. I.. R W. Girrks, M. D. Iu l)r. Franklin's time, when the King of Eugiand sent some of his convicts over to this country, Dr F. sent a box of rattlesnakes to his Majesty's Prime Minister, advising that thev should be introduced into his Majesty's gardens at Kew, and expressing th? hope that thev would propagate and increase until they should become as beneficial to Great Britain as the British convicts were to this country. . I t Adversity exasperates l?>ols, iiejects oownms, I draws out the faculties oft lie wise and ingeni. ^ ous, puts tlie modest to the necessity of trying I their skill, awes the opulent, and makes tho idle I industrious. Much may be said in favurof adI vcrsiiy ; but tho wont of it is it Lis no fri'.-ivh. What are we to do? The first great desideratum in shaping tl future action of South Carolina with respei to her Federal Relations, is the preservatic of her unity as an independent commonwealti All will agree, upon reflection, that thispropos tiou is undeniably correct. Our State is sma and numerically weak; and it we are to exe cise any influence in the affairs of the natic it must be by# presenting a solid front in wha ever line of march we may adopt. But there is cause to apprehend that ii? tl hands of our present political leader, this unit may soon be seriously impaired. The llo Mr. Orr, on one side of the States, is usir the power of his position to lead us into th ranks of the National Democracy, and to enli: the State in the approaching sweepstakes fi Presidency of the Union; while the Hon. M Keitt, from a similar pedestal of official elevj tion, is declaiming vehemently and eloquent! against the suggested policy of his older c?j lo?wrua Tlio tundonrr nf this schism liptu'pf two of our most prominent and influential me is to distract the people of South Carolina, an deprive them of all manner of strength befoi the country. May there not be a compromise betwee these gentlemen and their respective adherenl which shall set aside this danger? It is nc at all probable that Mr. Orr will come to tl i views of Mr. Keitt; neither is there any groun for supposing that Mr. Keitt will come to t!i views of Mr. Orr. Between them the Stal will stand hampered and ineffectual for an good. What are we to do? Suppose Mr. Keitt, and those who thin with him agiee to go into the National D mocratic Convention as an experiment, wit the stipulation (on the part of Mr. Orr and h friends) that if our principles are compromittc in the least for the purpose of securing the elei tion of nnv piven candidate, our deleoatio " <J O ' o shall instantly leave the body! Suppose w unitedly offer to Virginia, and the other Soutl ern States, or any one of them, our faithful c< operation in this business, upoif a like stipul; tion to. be observed by them with like proi?| tilude: could or could notour State, thus guan ed and thus forearmed, go into the (,'iticitina meeting without infringing her consistency, c in realtty lowering her tone? The suggestion is respectfully thrown 01 for the consideration of our public men. \V are far from being an advocate of Nationa Conventions in the general; nor is it our pn ference that South Carolina should even now fc carried into one. But it may be that our n fusal to do anything in that direction will s the present juncture give offence to our Soutl ern confederates; and this should be avoided, possible. Our suggestion, under the circun stances, is, whether or not (if the State ca act unanimously) It would he advisable to sen a delegation to the Cincinnati Coiiventiot nl.Anl j OIlH tritK tlio pltl'irok IlllUd UA|/IC^9 nuvi ???v? v..v v. ? w. , understanding as to tho course tliey and til other delegations are to pursue conjointly. If the idea be worth anything, our actio should he as the case will admit. We slioul elect delegates for the State at large durin the approaching session of our Legislature; an preparations should then be made for bavin district delegates elected at an early day. the thing is worth doing at all, it is worth d< ing thoroughly and handsomely. Edgefield Advertiser. Hon Joseph A. Woodward. A speech of this distinguished Carolinian c the American question appears today in 01 columns. It is by one who for years respesente this State in Congress, and stood among t) foremost as a State Rights man and Democra Mr Woodward acquired high reputation f< calm anlytical logic, broad views, and purity an independence of course. This speech should 1 read by every South Carolinian. It is dispassioi ate, unprejudiced searching and suggestiv More than any other production on the subjei it meets our views. In fact it gives the vci reasons which lead usjnto the American part HIIU ? 11IV.11 UUllMllillU uin winiv iivii umi 11 necessity and principle will make it permanei until the necessity is removed and the princip consummated. Let every man looking for truth and right rer it It comes from an experienced, observing at disinterested retired statesman of our ownSouth Carolinian who has honored his nam Every paper in the State should give current to this impartial argument. We repeat, let 01 people have light, lie hiushos away the mini points of objection?molehills which our smsi and interested pol ticians here have sought i make mountains?and advances over an through them to the great questions and the merit, ana debates Americanism as it deserve to be discussed.? Charleston News. The Trade in Human' Flesh.?The folio* iug statement is calculated to produce a tliri of horror in every feeling heart. Where i Wilbcrforce. "Arrival of another Detachment c Scotch Factory Girls.?Among the passu gers by the ship Star of Empire, which arrivi at this port on Wednesday, from Liverpoc wore about sixty Scotch girls, engage J to wor in the factories here. They were most] i voung neatly dressed and some of them ar i ' ! l" i _ ??'l 1" .1 .1 . | quite goou loosing. i ney were lorwnrueu i j Ilolynke, their place nf destination, last evci J ing, via the Boston and Worcester railroad. lJj'ixton Traveller, Oct. 23." These poor children, torn from the patern: roof and from all the endearments of until ; land and home, and sold to New-England co i ton-spinners, without benefit of the habeas coi I ]>us or the lliss Committee, are "forwarded t j their destination" without die special womie of a single philanthropist in Boston. If they ha only been destined to raise cotton instead < spinning it what an uproar there would hav been in Famiicl Hall and the Fish Market? Charleston Mere tin/. ? ? ? - I 'I lie object of all true education is to vitaliz knowledge*. Some teachers instruct their scho . > . . . .? ars very thoroughly, who never educate mem r all. Tlit-y teach them to commit the rules of tliei arithmetic or grammar by heart, but newr lea | them to comprehend a single principle, mak ; thorn luarii thousands of name* of places, will 'out giving thorn an idea of geography. An Arkansas Legislator. T1 ie A member elect of the lower chamber of the ct Legislature of Arkansas was persuaded by some >n wags of his neighborhood that if he did not ^ h. reach the State House at ten o'clock on the dav ;i. of assembling he could not be sworn, and s" II would lose his scat. He immediately mo unted ag r- with hunting-frock, rifle and bowieknife, and fp >n spurred till he got to the door of the capital, y t where he hitched his nag. A crowd were in the chamber of the lower house, on the ground ta ic floor, walking about with their hats on and ^ ;y smoking cigars. Those he passed, ran upstairs tj( n. into the Senate Chamber, set his, rifle against ig the wall and bawled out.. ie "Strangers, whars the man that swars me in? ^ st at the same time taking out his credentials. ^ )r "Walk this way," said the Clerk, who was at c;) r. the moment igniting a real Principe' and he was ^ a- sworn without inquiry. |y When the teller came to count noses he found ^ >1- that there was one Senator too many present. f - __ 1 J 4l.. I >n IDC imstaKC was soon oisco\ercu, anu uio iiuuuv i j :n man was informed that he did not belong d there. n) e "Fool who\ with your corn bread!" he rented, "you can't flunk this child no how you can fix n it?I'm elected to this here Legislature and I'll j ' t8 go agin ail hanks and eternal improvements,- and j ?t if there's any of you oratory gentlemen wants il( ie to get skinned, jest say the word and I'll light id upon you like a nigger on a woodchuck. My ,e constituents sent me here, and if you want to S( ie floor this two legged animal, hop on jest as soon 1 * ) iy as you like, for though I'm from the back coun-1 try, I'm a little smarter than any other quadra-'; ca . ?i ? ? .? ?? , ce iK I {(<.'11 ^ lill tail mill uui ui iiiio U.u.c. j e. After this admirable harangue, lie put his | 111 h bowie-knife between his teeth and took up his r<l j* rifle with "Come hero, old Suke, stand by me!" . * .t| at the same time pointing it at the chairman, c. who however had seen such people before. After m some expostulation, the man w?js persuaded . . e that ho belonged to the lower chamber, upon Cl which he sheathed his knife, flung his gun on J 111 j. his shoulder, and with n profound congee, re- i cn a marked, "Gentlemen, I beg your pardon. But : y. if I didn't think that lower room whs a groggery j J. may I be shot." Li ? jl'1 ?r The Barefooted Printer Bov.-The Pitts-1,n burg Morning Ariel, under this caption, gives J ni it a short story of a distinguished citizen of Penn- ; ul e sylvania, as follows: ' a' 1 Some thirty years ago a barefooted boy j s- floated down the Susquehannah river on an ' ,?0 ?? Uorrtul.nrrr I>? l|u I af 'V UUIUI/|^ IOIV ailU mill vu UW aiMHOwu>gy ? rn.rn.-s . b came from the North and belonged to a large j o'< it family, with all his worldly goods tied up in a ; il' i little pocket handkerchief. lie sought and 'I' if obtained employment in a printing office as an if i apprentice. Fiom an apprentice to a journeyn man, from a journeyman to a reporter, then to tli d an editor* the linrur>x.U<J |?r!nt?r Ik.jt worked ^ 1, his way against obstacles which the struggling t'1 =t poor only know. e The persevering follower in Franklin's steps i j began to realize the fruits of his patient toil j Jf njand privation.?The young aspirant became ! Id j Printer to the Stale and by frugal management | ^ ig J was soon enabled to accomplish the object i id : dearest to bis heart?the establishment id his j H .j | mother in a home above want ? in the posses* i j ( If ' sion of every other comfort she could desire. i >-I llis brothers were next his care, mid like i ^ I Napoleon, he. had a strong arm with which to ! aid them?an indomitable jicrsevernnec that I j nothing could long successfully obstruct. In a I ^ j few yearstliev too, with liislisters, were indc j\ lM j pendent of the world, the once barefooted prin* J |r; ter-boy was in the possession of affluence, j j j surrounded by a young and affleotionate family j(i ,e lie did not stop here. He was the friend of i f.j| ( I the friendless, the patron of merit, and the | ,r j encouragcr of industry. _ He rose in honor and |(j ; office, until the poor barefooted boy, who enter j t M. i ed a printing office in ilarrishurg hungry and jj ^ j weary, laid down his little bundle on a pile of I 0 j wet paper and asked to become a printer's ap ! |() | prentice, was elected Senator in Congress! j * ' "" / i* n _ t ; . ! ^ .v i i ii.it man is oiiiion Cameron 01 renns} ivuma. | j. J ' I Ail amusing seeno occurred in one of the [ public schools of Detroit Inst week, which result fl I (\ ed rather seriously for the teacher in charge. ? , Some little rogue hail ninnnged most ingeniously i to insert a quantity of tar between nnother boy's -V , | j'nnts and his bench. Soon after he attempted ? to rise, when, greatly to his mortification hedisa J covered that he had become a fixture to the ! _ j i freeiio'u. The whole school discovered his dilem w - ! ma, and all the four of teacher and flagellations a.' II ! could not restrain a general guffaw, One boy, s.u J|1 ' whose ser.seof the ridiculous overcame his judge ' . ' inent entirely, found laughing remaikablv i |A | * n p .., i easy, and the more lie tried to restrain his mirth the louder grew his merriment. The j teacher, doubtless thinking this a horrid breach of the rules gave him a severe castigation with a rod. altogether too heavy for tho purpose. The m v. result was that he had some heavy marks. The f? |j ^ father made complaint before the Police Court I nr s | and the teacher was fined ten dollars. rj( ^ J Tiik Kotiiciiilds.?An article is going the | rounds of the press stating that the whole n ! , . n . ... re . i concern ol tnc Kotliscimas is worth i37Ut>U,U00,- Qj| j 000 in money capital, besides $300,000,000 tQ more in real estate, mines, Arc. So far from this being the fact, we understand that the ^ ; general estimate in Europo as to the aggregate ' 0 ! wealth of the whole concern is 200,000,000 i;) 0 j francs, or about 940,000,000. The idea is '* j jti.rely absurd that their wealth should amount j)e to such an enormous sum as 91,000,000,000, sc( equal at six per cent, to an anual income of ' 1 $G0,000,(H)U?a sum which in comparatively a ^.j few years, nccumuhiting in a compound ratio, ofJ and doubling it every twelve years,?would concentrate in tbeir hands a large portion of the ? wealth and property of nil Europe: ^ National Intelligencer. rci ? sn ,fc A Nkw Statu.?A new State is likely soon to be added to the American constellation. I"' The. Legislature of Michigan has passed an act L' providing for the formation of the new State or s(" Torritorv of Runerior. Michigan oives part . 1 o O I y.? |. and Wisconsin another part to form tlio now I' ii Coinmonweallli, which is the great mineral If' ir wealth of the nation. Its mines of copper and he <| iron are unsurpassed hv any in the world, and ?"if o it is destined to he one of the mo?t interest- "" i- ing, wealthy, and important portions of the sla fTnioti. SC( . ii n^?m>i ii rii i le Balloon Ascension at Cincinnati?A Live Horse Carried through the Air. Mons. (iodard made his third ascension from is city yesterday afternoon. The announceent that lie would taken li\e horse with him rvetl to increase the anxiety to witness the ceitsion. At 4 o'clock the immense enclosure cently used by the Horticultural Society, on ino street, above Fourth and the adjoining tects and surrounding houses for a great disnee, were crowded with people. Full twenty ousand people must have been assembled in e vinity presenting of itself, a magnificent ectaele. At i> o'clock the monster balloon is fully inflated when the car was attached and e horse suspended, by means of belts, below e car. The weather was delightfully clear and hn and Mons. (Jodard and his daring lady >ing seated in the car the bolloon was cut loose id glided beautifully upwards amid the cheers the thousands. T he horse kept his legs per ctly still but kept constantly throwing his jad first to the one and then to the other side if considerably astonished at his predicaent. It had been previously arranged that Mons . should be followed by the gentlemen whe id engaged pa?ago in a carriage, and would iscend as soon as possible cut loose the horse id take them aboard. He commenced descen rig while over the 10th ward and finally very wtly and without the least trouble, lauded on ic hill ^ide north of Hamilton Road and neai ine street. As noon is the horse touched th( irth he commenced eating grass, as uncoil rnedlvns if he iiad been wandering in a pasire. Within two minutes the balloon was stir undid by several thousand people, anions horn were the Rover Dragoons who had gal pd to the spot. The horse was unhixfitled and Messrs. Rock) liompson. mail agent, John Sharp, .City Coun Iman, and of the Enquirer office and Mr. Hell an, of the Gazette, seated themselves in the ir, with Mor.s. and Mad. G., and t^e ballooi ;ain glided beautifully upward, and sailcc rectly North. The horse was returned to the city, surroun d bv a-large crowd of men and t?oys. He i: small animal, rather on the mulish order, as j imber of persons who crowded too closely >011 him and received his heels into their stoni ;hs, can testify. He was quite a "lion" duriiq e evening. We learn this morung that the aeronauts ter proceeding on their voyage until about t clock arrived in tho vicinity of Westchester out sixteen miles from the city. There, a T n nra Iw-.vnrinnr in tllifl nir tllAV U'Crf! flskpi IV J " V. v - j they would not stop and and take tea? king the l?dy who had the kindness to extern e invitation at her word, they descended t< rrijt>i)ia: nrrrf enjoyed a pleasant repast afte eir aerial voyage.? Cincinati', Timet, Oct. 1C * ? Common Sknsk.?We find I lie following corn on sen-e paragraph under the caption of "IIov >treat a wife," going the rounds: 4* First (t a wife, secondly, be patient. Vou may liavi eat trials and perplexities in your business witl e world ; Imt do not therefore carry to you nne a clouded or contracted brow. Your wif< ay have many trials, which, though of lesi agnitude, may havo been as hard to bear. / nd, conciliating word, a tender look, will d* sliders in chasing from her hroxv all clouds o oom. You encounter your difficulties in tin mmi air. fanned by heaven's cool breezes ; bu nir wife is often shut in from these heaithfu fluencos, and her health fails, and her spirit: se their elasticity. Hut oh ! hear villi her ie has trials and sorrows to which you are i ranger, but which your tenderness can deprivr ' all their anguish. Notice kindly her litth tentions ami efforts to promoto your comfort o not take them all as a matter of course am iss them l?y, at the same time being very sun iobserve any omission of what you innv con Jer duty to you. I)o not treat her with indif tence, if you would not sear and palsy lie sirt, which watered by kindness, would, to tin lest day of your existence, thmb with silicon id constant affection. Some times yield you blies to hers. She has preferences as strong ai -- i ? - i... ?... ...m i i _ in, Juki u may uejus.na ir.)i" * win lie nice as to you. Do you think it hard to yiclc mcSimes ? Think you it is difficult for her t< re up always ? If you never yield to hei ishes,.there is danger that she will think vol e selfish and care only for yourself; and will ich feelings she cannot love as she might ? gain, show yourself manly so that your v if. ii look up to you and feel thai you will ac )bly, mid that she can confide in your judg ent. ? ? How to Dicivb a Nail.?In driving a on iil into hard wood, its entrance will be inuel cilitatod by dipping it into oil, or what wil iswor nearly as well, wet it with water. Expo need carpenters are in the habit of putting t iil into the mouth to wet it, before nttemptinj, drive it into hard wood. When a nail is u main permanently, salt water is preferable to I, as the former will rust the nail and cause ii take a firmer hold. In all cases it is bettei insert a nail so that its widest diameter alia! md parallel with the grain of the wood. This generally done in thin boards where there i.> /.r c.i.,,t ;? ni........ i. vm ? ni??;a uv mc, even if nailing into a solid piece of ti.:i r; for where n rupture does not take place In Lting |lio wide part of the nail across the grain t a slight opening is produced near the nail lich admits air a:.d moisture and hastens doy around it.?If on ton 1'ost. Si.avks in Kansas.?The Srjuatter Sovc ign (Stringfellow's paper) of the 2nd inst. ys: Within a month past thoro have been a rgc nceossion to the slave population ol insas.?In this immediate neighborhood 1 1 ill i . . . . . k'orai new comers nave somen ana in inosi itanccs brought several slaves with Iliein. lis is what we like to see. Tliey cannot be might into the Territories in too large num. rs, for our rich licmji lands will give siillimt employment to the slave and amply reincrati! the owner. Cnmo on with vonr tves. Our rich lands invite settlers from all ;-tions of the South. -ft % bank *--"^Mhn --- Ji HM. ' I King's mountain Letter from Hon. D. R. Atchison. The Yorkville Enquirer is publishing letters received from eminent gentlemen in answer to invitntious to attend the recent celebration of n< ! the Battle of King's Mountain! From among fh them we select the following:? P1 Platte City, Missouri, Sept. 12, 1855. to Gentlemen:?Your letter of invitation requesting myattendanec at the celebration of fa the Battle of King's Mountain, has been receiv- it ed. It will be altogether inconvenient for me 1 to be present on that occasiou. I have certain g' duties, both private and public, to discharge C( 1 at home. The Battle of King's Mountain was n' 1 fought by the Williams' against the Torys & under the gallant Ferguson. We have a similar h foe to encounter in Kansas, the first Monday in b October next. The border ruffians, such as t( fought with McDowell, Shelby, <kc., on the one hand, and the abolitionists?such men as b fought with Ferguson, on the other. We, (the e: border ruffians,") have the whole power of ir the Northern States to contend with, single- c< handed and alor.e, without assistance and b; almost without sympathy from any quarter, p ? yet we aro undismayed. Thus far we have nr > been victorious and with the help of God, we ti I will still continue to conquer. ; Gentlemen, I thank you for the kind expres- al sion in the concluding paragraph of your letter 0 r ?"three cheers for Atchison and Kansas!" p i I have read this paragraph to sundry of the w "border ruffians," and their eyes sparkle; their a ! arms are nerved. We have been acting on b the defensive altogether; the contest with us is h one of life and death, and it will be so with p you and your institutions if we fail. Atchison, : Striugfellow and the "border ruffians," of Mis- n sonri, fills a column of each abolition paper a published in the North; abuse most foul and jj falsehood unblushing is poured out upon us and yet we have no advocation in the South- ^ em press; and yet we have received no assist? anco from the Southern States. But the time i will shortly come when that assistance must ^ 1 and will he rendered; the stake the "border ruffians" are playing tor is a migmy one. n . Kansas isabolitionized Missouri ceases to be a 5 slave State and New Mexico becomes a free r j State, California remains a free State; but if a , we secure Kansas as a slave State Missouri is c . secure; New Mexico and Southern California a t if not all of it becomes a slave State; in a 1 5 word, the prosperity or the ruin of the whole ?outh depends on the Kansas Smuggle. I j' Your obedient servant, I D. R. Atchison'. 1 1 Messrs. W. B. Wilson, Jno. L. Miller and C i Sani'l W. Melton, Committee of Invitation. C * 1- - c Mike Walsh' > 1 The Hon. A. II. Stephens, in a late speech i 3 at Griffin, Ga., called for three cheers fpr Mike j (r Walsh; and they were given from four thousand j throats. Mike has certainly been true to the South, j . and with all his errors, wo believe him to be j v an honest man and a patriot. We first saw him neai ly twenty years ago, when he wasn't a more than twenty-one years old. lie came in* , to our office in an old suit of clothes, muddy ( r from head to foot, took n dollar from his pocket; * . which he said was all the money he had in s the world, and offered it to us to pay for adL vertisihg a scoundrel, who, on his way up the j river, had stolen everything belonging to him. f We couldn't take the poor fellow's dollar, ' ? hut we published his advertisement. We had ^ t forgotten the circumstance untill he recalled I it to cur mind, in the presence of some of . his Congressional colleagues last Winter. % 5 | - - o ' ------- - -0 It seems .Mike was coining up the* river with I a few linnt earned dollars in his* fob, when a u fellow who claimed to he the son of a minister ' . got into the young man's good graces by rep- v resenting himself sick and utterly destitute. v j ! Mike put him into his own stateroom and gave 1 , j him part of his money and took care of hiin. . j When the boat slopped at a landing, the ' . ; invalid professed a terrible desire for some r | milk, and begged Mike to go to a house half a mile oil' to obtain some. Mike demurred, v ? saying that the boat would leave him. But d r' the fellow made such piteous appeals to him ti 5 j that he actually went, and the boat left him h r! suro enough, whereupon the invalid, recover a ] J ing suddenly, took possession of Mike's trunk } j and all his worldly possessions except what he J r carried upon his hack in his excursion after , the milk. Mike went to chopping wood till , he got enough to take him to Louisville, and . on" arriving here found, as he expected, that F . his customer was unknown in these parts. a I Without a farthing about iym, lie went to >1 . shovelling in the canal, and the tirst dollar lie | made there was the one he brought to us. He j toiled in the mud until he made enough to go J to Cleveland on his way home, and there met ? I in the street the man who had swindled him. , i The swindler ran like a deer, but Mike pursued I him like a greyhound, caught him, and thrash- s - ed him nearly to death in the street before any i one could interfere. Milke was sent to jail . j j for assault and battery, and his victim was ." ) | sent to the penitentiary. Mike is true hearted . J* ? possesses very considerable talent, and is an t | utter stranger to either personal or political r | fear. We say with Mr. Stephen*, "three cheers (.j I for.Mike Walsh."?Louixiullv Journal, lid inaf. > o (iieiiernl IIuser. t! 5 At the bittle at Guilford C. 11., a remarkable 2 ' instance of the personal intrepidity of'General linger is related. It is said that an officer call ed out to hiin, "General linger, 1 plainly sec one of the enemy's riflemen taking deliberate ' aim to destroy you." "That is no concern of | mine," said the general. "If yon think proper nnler one of your men to take the ft llow off." | "1 lodge, or change your position," r--joined ilu> j I officer, "or you are a dead man.'' "I will neith j er dodge, nor ipiit my post," replied the dene- !' , ral, "l?e tlic consequences wliat they may." He ol had scarcely finished speaking, when the cnemys \v soldier fired and (ieiietal linger received a severe and dangerous though not a mortal i I wound. At llohkirk's Ir'l the command of the j ,|; right wing of the army was given to (u-ueral p| linger, and we read that the exertions that he | made in endeavoring to inspire courage hv ex- ! ample and to restore the order that had hecn lost j brought him so frequently to the muzzles of the c< enemy's musket-- that it was considered hv all ! tr i miraculous that he escaped without itijurv." I hi The Wife's Influence. A woman, in many instances, has her has ind's fortune in her power, because she may 3t conform to his circumstances. This is her rst duty, and it ought to be her pride. No jssion for luxury or display ought Io tempt her r a moment to deviate in the least degree from lis line of conduct. She will find her respectbility in it. Any other course is wretchedness self, and inevitably leads to ruin. Nothing can be more miserable than to strug. le to keep up appearances. If it could suc?ed, it would cost more than it is worth; 8? it ever can, its failure involves the deepest raortication. Some of the sublimeat exhibitions of uman virtue have been made by women, who ave been precipitated suddenly from wealth > want. nM t . - men a man 8 ioriunes are in a manner in the ands of bis wife, inasmuch as bis own power of lertion depends on her. His moral strength is iconceivably increased by her sympathy, her Dunsel, her aid. She can aid him immensely y relieving him of every care which she is enable of taking upon herself. Ilis own employlents are usually such as to require his whole me and his whole mind. A good wife will never Buffer her husband's ttention to be distracted by details to which her wn time and talents are adequate. If.she be rompted by true affection and good sense, she ill perceive when his spirits are borne down nd overwhelmed, she, of all human beings, can est minister to his needs. For the sick soul er nursing is quite as sovereign as it is for cor* oreal ills. If it be weary, in her assiduity it finds repose nd refreshment. If it be harassed and worti to morbid irritability, her gentle tones steal over , with a soothing more potent than the most xquisite music. If every enterprise be dead, er patience and fortitude have the power to e-kindle them in the heart, and he again goes >rth to renew the encounter with the toils and roubles of life. - ? * Put this in tour Pocket Books.?Young nen, who, to dress well, eat well, drink well, nd ride well, run in debt for these enjoyments, an apply4 this to themselves. Richelieu waa great Cardinal, and Bulwer occasionally speaks he truth: " You have outrun your fortune; blame you not, that you would be a beggar lach to his taste 1 But I do charge you, sir, 'lint, being beggar'd, you would coin false moneys lut of that crucible called debt. To live In means not yours?be brave in silks and laces? fsllant in steeds?splendid in banquets?all fot yours?ungiven?uninherited?unpaid (or. Has is to be a trickster, and.to filch kfon^o art onrl 1oKai? nrbinb r% tham I a nraaUk uvu a ui k uuu iumuI) nutui iv tuyiu to nvwuif liifo, daily bread?quitting all scores with ' Friend ITou're troublosomel' Why this?forgive me? s what?when done with a less dainty grace? ^lain folks call?theft!" No Imitation.?A frenchman went into an iating house to warm his hands. The proprieor asked him what he would like to take. "Any thing you please," was the reply. " Would you like to take roast goose ?" ' If yon please." The Frenchman made a good dinner, and was ibout to go, when the eating-house keeper asked or payment. " What for ?" exclaimed the Frenchman; ' I have called for nothing. You ask me if I vill take this and if I will take that, and I say, if you please.'" The landlord, pissed with his address, let liin off. He told a friend of his good fortune, vho tried to " come the same game," but with err different success, for he was kicked out of loors. " j lie first man was an original, * saia me a lid lord, M hut you are an imitator." ? ? Katiier Severe.?An eminent Jurist, who ias said to have had rather long shanks, wasone lay practicing at the bar, and having occasion o cross-examine a sailor who had spoken of a and spike in the course of his evidence, he sked with some asperity? 44 Well, sir,how large was this handspike which on tell of?" 44 About as large as usual," said Jack. 44 Hut how large ? As large as a man's leg ?" 44 Well," replied Jack, looking at the thin suportcrs cf the Jurist; 44 well, it wasn't as large s a mail's leg; but it might bens big as yourn, laybe." Tim Back Track.?Four wagons loaded with otton left Anderson for Hamburg during the ist week. This resort to primitive usages, we 4 t 1 J A - 1 I ?nrn !?v tlto Anuerson Auvocaie nas oeen occaioned by the extortionate charges of tlie Groenille ami Columbia 1 Jail road. A public meting as also boon called at Anderson, with a view of ivoking Legislative interference with the sub ct. t ^ ? I'ouk. ? A letter from Pittsburg to tlie Cininnati (lazette savs: ' Arrangements are making for poik packing n a larger scale than usual. There will Iki ireo or four packers this year, and I hear that 0,000 hogs are already engaged by them." War and F^ovo. War ami Love are sirnnge compeers? W.n slieds blood, and Love sheds tears; War lias spears, and Lovo lias darts; War Wreaks lieffds, and Love breaks hearts The population of ituflalo is 71,000. against 2,201, ten years ago, showing n greater ratio f increase, than any other rify tn the Union, ith the single exception of Xetv York. The young lady who "jumped at. an offer" si oca ted her ankle and threw her heart outof ace. At Inst accounts, she was receiving-. - - - -OThe corn crop is superabundant in Sentt unity Kentucky, the present year, and cornets, it is said are making at lift mi rents p< p ishels ill I Mi mi | Z_U__