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TWO DOLLARS PER ANNUM. J *' t xx b phiob of Xj xi tu i i t y is btuhhaii v i cv i Xj a m oe." i PAYABLE IN ADVANCE BY DAVIS & CREWS. ABBEVILLE, S. C? THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 6, 1858. ? - From Emerson a Magazine. POVERTY A PRODUCER. Wealth too often resembles the apples of Sodom?a gorgeous beaulv hiding a mass of smothering dust. A fitting type of Poverty aro those miners who, shut out from the light of day, spend their lives in darkness and gloom, but bring up to the surface gold and gems, that glitter on the brow of beauty, or lill the overflowing coders of luxWealth is a cheat; and all the more a "chcilt. ill.i SHttaiwa r?in-it m-ilnhiin their hypocrisy. Poverty is a reality ; it follows man like a shadow, growing darker ami heller defined, hy contrast, as he emerges into a stronger light, but I ccumiug fainter and fainter as he descends into the glooiu, until at last the shadow grasps the reality. The aim of Wealth is to display ilstrlf. The aim of "Poverty is to elevate itself. This is the secret why Wealth enervates, and Poverty elevates man. We mean not by poverty abject destitution, but a state wherein all man's powers are called into exercise bv the stern necessities of nature, in opposition to that n ibobioal wealth which sailers its possessor to lloat a ciianee? directed. Miii.irilil,>il 1,1.1.. blc on the stream of Time. A fine sight is the resUtless rush of a long train of cars, its glittering windows affording gliinp-cs of licauly and fashion, its seals crowded with wealth ainl slat ion ; but what imparls the momentum ? Ah away in there, is I'oveitv, with sinews of slcel and lungs of iron, sooty, begrimed, and discordant-voiced, but the soul of the train of wealth and fa.-hion, and without which all tlu-ir glitter and gaud would be powerless. The philosophy of the < reek* was woven into their religion; and we find the same idea expressed in their fabl of; the marriage <?f Venus, the celestial beauty- i with Vulcan, the Olympian smith, llea -ty \ ? that is a type of the nun producing j classes?weds not the high in station, not j the renowned in war, not tin- perfect in pernoti, hut the. strong arm of Poverty the producer. It is curious to notice how Prov- i Mcnce has linked together the different classes and conditions of men, lo show that i lionn are imli-nemliMif. of tin* oilim-e < n" what use is that fragle hcanty, that delicacy j of form and slightiicss of figure, in woman, ; were it nol for tlie uncouth strength of man, j his rough joints and his knotted inns- ; clOs J ]'overty is the groat- producer. Its labors, j like the pulsation of the heart, cannot intermit, without death at once ensuing. Ail ! o\*er the earth, from sunrise until twilight, and through the long, still hours of the : night, while the shadows crouch in I lie colliers of tlie room, unceasingly plying the j needle, or busily at his handicraft, to diive i the woll from the door, is l'overtv, the jjreat producer, at work. Poverty, the Producer! It works like the giant forces of nature, invisible until ils cllecU compel our attention. 1'overty is the great producer of thoughtNearly all the greatest literary production* that now adorn our shelves as classics, in whostf pages lie the great, thoughts of their generattons, are tho life-blood of Poverty. They were written with bailiffs at the desk and constables at tho door. The cradles of the great are rocked in cottages, and Genius tends her fosterlings amidst the routine of daily toil. And it is hi'Cause of this?because our literature nestles iu no i gorgeous palaces, but comes from the hearts of those who live real lives, and who know life's trials, that it, more than any other, includes the wide range of human emotions and sentiments, and speaks to the heart with a foreo that no other language and no other literature ever possessed. Poor, blind, but glorious old Homer, the world's poet, begged his bread from door to door, but left the legacy of the world in the memoiies of his hearers. Milton, loo, wore no crown of earth's honors and wealth. Foor, blind, alive only because his poverty and afflictions shielded him from ryoal malevolence, ho made his lifo, to use his own words, " a true poem?a composition of the best and noblest thingsand he now stands nlmost by tho side of those inspired prophets of old whoso lips liad been touched by a live coal from tho altar of Jehovah, "Tho world knows nothing of its greatest men." fihakspenre, the Prince of Poets, w.is cradled in a butcher's shop, but his fame lives, when those who, clad in purple, sat near the . throne, are forgotten. Newton, tho great philosopher, begged his college to remit him the small charge of apaltry shilling. And our groat men have always arisen from the middle ranks of life. Webster was rocked in a cradle mado from a pine log by Ins energetic father/ aided tenly by an augur and an axo. Clay waa born in a hovel, and his l'f> ""no (i /t/tritiriiiriim nt merry In Cnr PJIIIJT 1IIO fTIW n **eo*w ?Y? bread. Franklin, tbe philosopher and statesman, began life aa a journeyman printerIrving, our beat-known author, was driven into publishing by poverty. Morse pursued his profession to gain .money to experiment on tbo eleotrio tolegraph. The lives of our artist* and soulptors all began in humble plao.au, and,. Nature tangot th?m in their poverty what tboy are now 'teaohing the world. Turn <pver thp pages of all the world calls good and great, from the Word of Inspiration, whoso authors had~not where ?o lay their heads, to the great iigbts of inodom literature, end the imprint on the title is and "Poverty,"is water-marked in every page, and a pauper's forgotten, nameless grave is not infrequently the linis. Ver- v ily, povorty isa great producer! I would rath- s er have the thoughts of poverty, as it works 8 in the laboratory of Nature, in close commtinion with the thoughts of Deity as stamped on his works, than all the sinful imagining* of pampered wealth, with its a inlinate leisure for iniquity. ? | The great soil roc of thought is Nature o I but tho man who is raised by wealth above J ! the necessity of any direct intercourse with I Nature, is not apt to be taken by her into b | any very intimate relationship. Trace the g J history of our presidents, statesmen, philosophers, and great men, and we find pov- tl 1 crlv tending their cradles, and clothing y their boyhood in rags. Their early lives ! v | were spent amidst the teachings of Nature, , o ' acquiring ideas and language, not from 1 a ' but from (*od's ho';k. with the Au- r< ; lln>r himself f??r a teacher. There is a deep h ; philosophy in this?a truth that the world t' is slow to learn?that poverty is better ii ; than riches. 1 tut the race must learn to 1 : ivih'w their strength, Anhcusdike, by fre" : si ; <|Ueiit restings on their mother Karth, or tl I our ' best society" will'soon become extinct ( l> and children born in hovels and in the mud 1 lints on th" prairies, but living in daily at- | o 1 tendance in the. council-chamber of Jehovah, \ 1< i wiii hereafter make our history, and write ' tl i the thoughts of the age. si j lint what lies at the basis of all this? : ... I f i There arc men of wealth, cullurc, ami in- S1 | lluoiice, whoso ?x<?iiius is as bright, and : j? whose abi'.ty as unquestioned, as that of; any who arc driven by the lash of waul. ' c.] I'll so exceptions point out the reason why j they are exceptions, rather than tin? general ! hi ! rule. Wealth tends t<> form exclusive socie- s ! tics; 1<> work in corporations; to do by as- ;M sociatiou what humbler means must aecom? i ,], I plish single handed ; and hence merges the j individuality of the man into the generality I ,n of the mass. Wealth i.s too apt to think |,j for a class?to wiite for a class. Poverty, |,] f.dlirg hack on the basis of human hopes ,], and tears, joys, sorrows, and aspirations, K; c.. <i i. i i ? 1 niura uiiiii iiiv iic.iix auu sjieaws irom Hie heart a c< >ii)iiii in language, that tin ills a 0| chord in tlii; vast soul of humanity. Wealth t], writes well and speaks woll; its sentences C1 are well rounded, and the tones of its voice w are always symphonious; hut it writes lor c, wealth, and .-peaks to wealth, and it must ho read on lirussols carpeting, by the soft light of chandeliers, or listened to in the faahionahlu assembly, vibrating an almos- iij jilific faint with perfumery. The strong, undiluted thoughts of Poverty may be read with cipia! prolit and pleasure in the cabin, or in the palace, because they speak to 1 lulu. mainly. What is it that is so enervating our liter ature, and cau.-ing il to resemble this sinewy l'' folios of former days, less than a collection of wax figures resembles limnan beings ? It ca is not that we as a nation are too rich, but 1,1 it is that we as a nation are wholly given to 1,1 materiality, and scorn to consider Gou's c*' footstool only as a place to try machinery cr on, and to secure the right of way for a railroad! We are given to corporations 111 and companies, to partnerships and societies. *? until we can hardly "give five cents to a heggvr, without first calling a meeting and voting upon the question. No man seems J? to have a sense of liis individuality, atul it requires a respectable company, with an adequate cash capital (all paid in.) to dare nl assume the responsibility of a single idea! 111 And so our literature, which is always the al out growth of popular sentiment, instead of claiming immortality by virtue of revealing the responses of the human soul to nature, claims only a short-lived notoriety among tc the class for whom it was produced. Poverty is the gioat producer, and wc *?' have seen why. Poverty stands as the rep- se resentalive of the whole human race, whose tl: . destiny is to " earn their bread by the w sweat of their brows." Wealth stands as e( the representative of a class who, l>y being al as it were above the reach of this orimal vi law of Nature, aro annihilating themselves. The one thinks the though of Humanity ; 01 the other those of a caste. 01 Is Religion Beautiful ??Always! In 6 tho child, the maiden, tho wife, the mother, c' religion shines with a holy benignant beauty 0 of its own, which nothing on earth can mar. Never yet was the female character perfect without the steady faith of piety. ? Beauty, intelloct, wealth ! they aro like pitfalls. dark in tho hrirrlifosf ?ln? iihIhco mI!_ I ' o-? '-* i, gion throws her soft beams around them to purify and exalt, making twicc glori cms that which seeuied all loveliness bofore. w Koligion is very beautiful, in health, or sickness, in wealth or poverty. Wo enn ^ never enter the sick chamber of tho good a but soft music seems to float on tho air ; a and the burden of their song is, "Lo ! peace <1 19 here." P Could wc look into thousands of families b to-day when discontent fights sullenly with life, wo should find tho chief cause of unhappiness-want of religion in woman. 0? religion J benignant majesty, high on thy' a throne thou sitteet, glorious and exalted. 11 Not above tho cloud, for earth clouds como never botweon thee and truly pious souls; j, not beneath, tho clouds, for above these is . Heaven, opening through a broad vista of 1 exceeding beauty. '' Is religion beautiful 1 We answer, all is 11 desolation and deformity where Religion i# 8 pot, <] FIGHTING A SQUATTER. About thirteen years ago, says the Nashille Parlor Visitor?of July?on the Missis ippi river was but a few huts belonging to ome hardy " Squatter," and such a tiling s a steamboat was considered quite a sight lie following incident occurred : A tall brawny woodman stood leaning gainst a tree which stood upon the bank f the liver, looking at some approaching bject, which our readers would have easily iscovered to have been a steamboat. About half an hour elapsed ; and the oat was moored, and tho bands were en aged in taking on wood. Now, among tlio many passengers 011 liis boat both male and female, was a spruce oung dandy, with a killing moustache, etc., ho seemed bent 011 making ati impression 11 the hearts of the young ladies on board, nd to that end he must perform some he>ic deed. Observing our squatter friomb e imagined this to be a tine opportunity > bring himself into notice?so stepping ito the cabin, he said : Ladies if you want to enjoy a good laugh 1 [! }> out 011 the guards. 1 intend to frighten lat gentleman into lits who stands 011 the ank. Thy ladies complied with the request, and ur dandy drew from his bosom a fortuidale bowieknife, and thrust it into his belt, oil taking a horse pistol in each hand, lie jeiued satisfied that ail was right. Thus (iiipped lie strode 011 with an air which rtued to sav : t; The hopes of a nation deund on me." Marching to the woodsman he exaimed : , "Kound von at last, -havcrl ' vou are the lan I've been looking for Llie.su three weeks, iy your j>r:ivers !" lie continued, present, g his pistol, you'll make a capital ham jor, ami I'll drill the key hole myself!"' The squatter calmly surveyed him a mulent, then drawing back a step lie planted is huge fist directly between the eyes of is antagonist, who in a moment was llo'uujring in the turbid waters of tho Missisl'l'5 Every passenger by this time collected i the guards and the shout that now went p from tho crowd spoedily restored the est fallen hero to his senses, and hs he as sneaking oft* towards the boat was ac?sted by his conqueror: " I say you, next time you come around illing u key holes don't forget yer old aelaintance?'' The ladies unanimously voted le knife and pUtuls to the victor. X U* .KNU.UtSii iJKtSS. English character ami habits have an in reiit dignity and solidity, which might ; Copied to advantage in tliis country, icy seem to have a rooted aversion to allying like display 011 ordinan* occasions, and id in simplicity a peculiar cliarin. Aineriin ladies are sadly deficient in good taste dress. Many of thorn are never satisfied iless burdened with costly silks and jew* ry, for an out door costumo ; and foreign* s are uniformly amazed at tlio promenade ess of our great cities. A recent visitor l'.ngiauil alludes to itie nanus, in respect d/ess and furniture, which obtain in the st families there; and we know many isbands and parents here who would reice if such habits might provoke our imita>n. In tho families of main' of the nobility ul gentry of England, possessing an anial income which of itself would be an nple fortune, there is greater economy of ess, and more simplicity in the furnishing dwellings, than there is 111 many of the 5Uses of our citizens who are hardly able i supply the daily wants to their family by ie closest attention to their business. A iend of ours who sojourned, not long since, iveral months in the vicinity of some of ie wealthy landed aristocracy of England, hose ample rent rolls would have warrant* 1 a high style of fashion, was surprised , the simplicity of manner practised. Serxnts were much more numerous than with a, but the ladies made more account of ne silk dress tlmn would bo thought here f u dozen. -They were generally clothed in ood, substantial stuffs, and a display of fine lothing and jewelry was reserved for good ccasions, ^ ! > III-Breeding.?Ill-breeding is not a sinle defect?it is the result of many. It is >motimes gross ignorance of decorum, or stupid indolence, which prevents us givig to others whnt is due to them. It is peevish malignity which inclines us to pposo the inclination of .those with whom 'o converse. It is the consequence of a >olish vanity which has no complaisance >r any other person ; tho effect of a proud nd-whimsical humor which soars above 11 the rules of civility ; or, lastly, it is pro* uced by a melancholy turn of mind which ampere itself with a rudo and disobliging ehavior. A merchant lately aqverming lor a clerk who could bear confinomint," received an nswer from oqe wl^o bad been seven years 1 goal 1 /; . ^ An old Dutchman undertook to wallop is son, but Jake tamed upon and walloped iim. The old man consoled himself for lis defeat by rejoicing at his son's superioi oanhood. lie said: "Veil, Jake iah a bmart fellow. He ean vip his own tad 17r TO UNMARRIED LADIES. Tho following items ot' advice to ladies . remaining in a state of single blessedness i arc extracted from the manuscript of an old ; dowager: , If you have blue eyes, languish. If black eyes, affect spirit. If you have pretty feet, wear short petticoats. If you arc the least doubtful as to that point, wear thorn long. If you have a bad voice, always speak in a low tune. If it is acknowledged that you have a fine voice, never speak in a high tone. If you dance well, dance seldom. If you dance ill, never dance at all. If von siik' wi>ll in-.I-.. ?>? ^ 0 ..v-.., in; IMUJI IIU UACinv:?, If you sing indifferently, hesitate not a moment when von arc asked, for few persons are competent judges of singing, but every one i? sensible of a desi-e to please. If in conversation, you think a person wrong, rather hint a difference of opinion, than offer a contradiction. It is always in your power to make a frici;.! hv Htiile->; what folly to make enemies by frowning. When you have an opportunity to praise, do it with all your heart. When you are forced to blame, do it with reluctance. If you aro envious of another woman, never show it but by allowing her every good quality and perfection, except those i which she really possesses. If von wish to Ii-1 i! > wf.il.t t-n-iiu wn arc in love with a paiiietilei man treat him with formality, ami every one else willi case and freedom. If vou are disposed to 1 e pettish nnd insolcnt, it is hotter to exercise your ill humor on your dog, or eal, or your servant, than on your friend. If y??u would preserve beauty, rise early. If you would preserve esteem, be gentle. If you would obtain power, he condescending. If you would bu happy, endeavor to promote llio happiness of others. ANGKY WORDS. i'i. .1 -? 4 m:ru is nounng itint sounds so hard, so grating, so discordant to the ear, as angry words. The}' thrill the nerves, pain the liearl, awaken hitter emotions in the breast lliey cause tlio eye to llasli, the ehoelc to glow, and they bring a slinging recriminating reply to the tongue. Truly hath the wise man said, "firievous words stir up tin ger." Could we only control our tempers, when irritated by the hasty languago of others, and give tin: soft answer that turnAt 11 aiV'UV IVI-ill. ]> > ?' '?? 1 : < I nun iii.mj inner ifi'iin^s would we save ourselves and our friends, liut wo do not make one effort to Biibduc our angry passions, but yield to them at once, and cruel, reproachful words and abusive epithets pass our lips, of which, soon after, we bitterly repent. Wc are told that the heart ix desperately wicked, prone to sin as the sparks to lly upwards ; and how true it is! we feel it every day and every hourThe most trilling circumstances, even a word, or look, or tone, are sufliciuiit to fill the heart with anger, and tho tongue, that unruly member, is over ready to execute its promptings, and word follows word in quick on liuninn sight, objects in toto to tlie prac. tico of wearing veils, especially lace veils, ad tho continuous ondcavors of the eye to adjust itself to the ceaseless vibration of that too common article of ladies' dress, results in its sorioii8 injury. The hurtful tendency of the custom, if not felt immediately, will sooner Qr later bo made apparent* Some physicians go so far as to ascribe some of tbo near sightedness. of children and adults to the fact that their mothers were in tho oonatant habit of woating laoe veils, , .. . Xt is said that ivy will not oliog to a ' poisonous tree or other substance. What a i pity that the tendrils of a woman's heart have not the same wholesome and salutary ' inttiuct, aucLL-ssion, mi wo scarcely Know what we are saying. The sound of our own sharp tones excites us still moro, and fans the Hume, which already burns fiercely within our breasts. At length we are exhausted by our own violence, the fires of anger gradually expires, and we become cool and collected. Jn our hours of solitude, we reflect upon what has passed, and our brows flush with shame, as we recall our passionate words; we reproach ourselves bitterly, and wish that we could oblitrate them ; but wo cannot; they have sunk deep into the hearts of our friends, and the memory of them raukles painfully in our own. Angry words?they pollute the lips ; they estrange friends; they bring self reproach to those who utter them, and sorrow to those to whom they are addressed. Then let us mmrfl nur lmnrtc orvninof on?vt? noecti\no t> - - - ""o'J and our lips against angry words. Let us keep constant and vigilant watch over our tonguos, tlio wounds of which aro sharper than those of a two-edged sword. Let us try never to speak amiss, and a victory more glorious than that of a conquering hero will he ours.?Evangelist, Veils Injurious to the Eyes.?Ladies bofore you expend the sum?bo it seventy five cents or seventy five dollars?for a bit ol gossamer with which to enhanco your beauty l.y partially concealing it, pause and think. Curtis, a colobrated scientific writer TIME. Few men, at this age of the world, have better thoughts, or express them bettor, than Rev. li. F. Taylor. Listen: Time is the meekest and mildest, and yet the most slandered and abused of all created things. They charge him with forgelfulness, while he is always reminding them of the past in his twilights, and his sweet Springs and Autumns. Tliey make him out a Vandal, though he wakens the young treo that lay asleep at the roots of ihe old, and gives the world a young moon in an old moon's arms. They say lie is a foe to the pencil and the graver, though with artist-hand he azures the hills we have comu over, and gilds tlio yesterdays we have expanded, until those look like clirtains lot down from Heaven in a roll, and tlnsc like the days wo dream of in l'aradisc. They declare him "grim," though he opened a bine eye in a Violet, "that went ir.lo society" only a morning ago, and smile* in a pair of them, in a willow cradle over | the way. He ripens the clusters of the old vintage; he endears us to old bowks; he blesses us with old friends. They are not content with the libels, ami so they paint him as a bald and scythe-bearing old Harvester. 'PI.... 1 - .1 . l l r -- ? -? 11.11 IlllilYlllg II1U CIICCUS Ol VOUill Willi tho leaves of red roses, as Time does?that building a temple with a handful of acorns, if you will only havo pationco to wait for liiin?that softening of tho pulso of ago down to the dying point, as ho can?that ripening into diamonds of to-day, the rude and smutty coal of yesterday?these arc no work for a poor, palsied, old husband* man. Who has not heard in his limo, a pair of lips, that "cherry ripe themselves did cry,", talk in the coolest manner imaginable, of killing Time ? Ju*t as if he had not been their owner's "next best friend" ever since she was born?clothing her with boauly as with a garment, and strewing her path with blessings. Ju>tas if the hour had not utiik iv i I I * J.,u- ..o r..;,. .... ?i.? ...i I they woul?l liuvc surrendered the roses of York and Lancaster, only for a little while with Time?when they would have pleaded in earnest tones for the rudest of his moods? if he would only linger. Killing Time ! When he has filled the heart, and crowned tho brow with jewelry ?great, noble diamonds of days, and glorious circles set around with hours. He lavishes upon us from childhood to maturity, all his treasures of boautv, and strength, and opportunity, and lo?t wo tdiould love hilll too illlii-li mill rliiifr to liim Irt.-i nlncnlf. ? a ? , lie gently takes away from us, almost without our knowing it, gift aftor gift, that we may not he encumbered with tho "Impedimenta," as (Jiesar called it?the baggage of life, on tho journeys we must, by and by, be taking. He thins our resses, and turns them grey, and silver, and white, and we come to think it is about as well as the dark locks we wore once. Ho takes away the springing stpp of j'outh, tho firm tread of manhood, and makes us love the sweet ropose of home. We begin to think as much of the twilights as we did of the moons. Then he loosens a little the silver cords, and the broken pitcher returns no more to the fountain, and the wheel is out of repair at the cistern, and we are ready to go. JJut time, against whom we have plotted, lives on, and the golden hands upon the dial of Heaven mu-jtstand still, ere his great missions of beaulr Ami mprco will l?. ? ... w. Mm wg ended. Sermons.?"It amazes me ministers don't write bettor sermons?I am sick of the dull, prosy aflairs," said a lady in the presence of a parson. But it is no easy matter, my good woman, to writo goopd sermons, suggested the minister. Yes, replied tho lady, "but you are bo long about it; I could writoono in half the time if It>nly had the text. Oh, if a texUis all you want, said the parson, jl win lurmsU that. Tako tliif one from Solomon : It is bettor to dwell in n corner of a housetop, than in a house with a brawling woman. Do you mean me, sir ? inquired tho lady quickly. Oh, my good woman, was the grave response, "you will never make asermonizer; you are too soon in your apphcatien. A Woman's Advantage.?A woman may say what sho likes to you without the risk of getting knocked down for it. Sho can tako a snooze after dinner, while her husband has to go to work. Sho can dreus her*elf in neat and tidy calicoes for a dollar, which her husband has to earn and fork over. She can go forth into the streota without being invited to treAt at every coflee house. cu ?t-._ *--- ' ' - uuo v/ctu I'miiw uur lace 11 8110 18 tOO and flour it if too red. She can stay at borne In time of war and wed again if her husband is killed. She oan wear corsets if too thick, other fixings if too thin.' ?? | .u I cannot bear children," said Miss Prim disdainfully. Mrs. Partington looked at her over her spectacles mildly before she replied,M Perhaps if yon ooold yjwi would lik? them better,* THE AMERICAN FLAG. Tlie Boston Herald compiles some inter, csting facts as regards the history of the j stars and stripes. A resolution was intro- | duced in the American Congress, Juno . 13th, 1777, "That the flag of the thirteen ( United States be thirteen stripes, alternately | red and white; that the Union be thirteen < stars, white in a blue field, representing a | new constellation." There is a striking j coincidence between the design of our flag ( and the arms of Gen. Washington, which , consisted of three stars in the upper por- r tion, and three bars running across llie es- v cutcheon. It is thought by some that the | flag was derived from the heraldic design. . History informs us that several Hags were ( used by the Yankees before the present na- t tioual one was adopted. In March, l77j, j a minor flag, with a red field, was hoisted , in New York, bearing the inscription on . one side of "George Ilex and the liberties ( of America," and upon the reverse, "Xo ( i uju'iy. iiencral Israel 1'utnam r;nsc?l, s on l'rospect llill, July 18th, 1 *775, a llag t bearing on one side tlie motto of our Coin- ^ motiwealth, " Qui truant alii susHnvt on ( the oilier, "An Appeal lo Jlwiven"'?an . t appeal well taken anil amply sustained.? j ^ In October, 177a, the floating batteries of x Boston bore a flag with the latter motto, , am' a pine troo upon a white lieM, bearing 1 , the Massachusetts emblem. Some ef tin: tcolonies used in 1775 a (lag witlj a rattle- ' | snalco coiled as if about to strike, and the motto, " J >on't troail on me." <.>n January s 12th, l77li, the grand Union ila^ of the stars and stripes was raised oil the heights t near Boston, ami it is said that some <>f the |, regulars made the grand mistake of sup- t posing it was a token of submission to the ^ lving, whoso speech had just been sent to t the Americans. The British Register of c 1770 says: I "They (the rebels) burnt the King's ( speech, and changed their colors from a plain red ground to a ling of thirteen stripes, ; as a symbol of the number and union of ^ tin! colonies." A letter froin llostuu, pub- , lislied in llic I'etmsj lvaniau (j!az?. tt?, in 5 1770, says The Ijiion tljig was raised s on the 2<j, in compliment to the United Colonies." These various flags, the l'ine Tree, liattlesnnlte, and the Stripes, were t used, accordingly to the tastes of the patriots until July, 177V, when the stars and stripes were established by law. At Hist a stripe was added for each new State, but the Hag becoming loo huge, Congress reduced the stripes to the original thirteen, and now the stars are made to correspond in number with the States. There is no one, who lives under the protection of the Stars and Stripes, but will ajgroo with the Herald, that " the American ilag is one of the most beautiful that floats upon any land or sea. Its proportions are pcrfoct when its properly made ?one half as broad as it is long. The first stripe at the top is redr the next white, and these colors alternate, making the last stripe red. The blue field for the stars is the width and cpiaru of the first seven stripes, viz : four red and throe white. The colors of the American flacr are in beauti0 fill r?<lii'f mill it ?< > SC..I naliounl e.nblom. Long' may it wave mitarnished, lie wlio would erase one stripe. |, or dim one star upon it, " acU a traitor's part, and deserves a traitor's doom!" n ~~ WIT AND* SATIRE. j , These are dangerous gift*, and carefully 0 should they be used. They contain a power c which may be made potent fur good, nl- t though prone to evil. They are sharp-ed^ed j, tools, which not unfrequently wound the j user. It is better to withhold a witticism 0 than wound a fiiend. Let the wit and the j satirist, then, bo careful of the sword they y wield. If it is to subserve good ends?if iL ^ is to guard the weak and smite the proud? then keep i bright; but better let is rust p than make wounds in sensitive hearts, and ^ gratify petty malico aud mean inulcvo- ^ lence. j The London Critic says with much truth: n " Sterne warns us at wha^ price the -j satirist may pursue his art. Eugenio shall t c:ack his jest and lose his friend. He shall jeer at knaves and fools, and find iIia mnl? riso and atone him. A wit is admiral, but (] shunned. Most people, not palsied by cowardice, love to see lightning, volcanoes} ^ tempests. On the summer nights, when o the air is hot, and the lightnings play in -j the tree-tops, or break through the ocean wrack, they are dazaling and seductive. ^ Who ha^not lounged in the park or leaned over the bulwark?with a soft arm clinging round him, or a wet curl dropping on his a cheek?until deop into the midnight, held v by the fiery openings and long golden inlets 1 into space ? 1 M Yet the boldest lover of the picturesque will watch, the beautiful white fire with a 0 secret awe, lest it leap too near. So with wit. Wo admire in fear. Your wit cannot e always shoot folly without bringing down * the fool. And the fools have sunh a ma- t jority at the club and diDner table !. Eu V crenin will dalicrTit. lit a four mtin fl:nr? i.!v? ? -- e? ?7 "'"K u"" j their applause, and mortally offend the many who pursue him to death. Ilia is a f perilous vocation ; only for the isolated and 1 strong. A satirist drags truth from her well-?divests her of cnnolipe, and seU her ' in the market-place?as ahe waa horn. In ' spite of the adage, he calls a Wot, a blot \ ; a freckle, a freckle. You may say a stain 1 on the face Is a beauty-spot, a freckle a sun?, kiss. He laughs at your wani of varacity * ?your diseased imagination," j 96 i v/ju. v i.iMJ. . THE BEAUTIFUL. Come in tlie calmness of tlio twilight loin when (lie zephyrs play among the tranches of moving trees?when the birds ire caroling their evening songs?and rause )ir earth's beautiful object. . All nature is ovely, from the blue sky above us to the springing grass at our feet; from themighy ocean to the rippling streamlet passing gently by among the shrubbery. And sharmiug indeed is the fnigrant air of tha warm ami the gentle breezes of evening.? Hie sparkling ray of the sun, and tlie pale >ilvery beams of the moon and stars, that end their influence to illuminate our earth ire beautiful. Even the birds, as they tune ,heir sweet voices, teach us :\ lesson of :hecrfulnes, inspire within our breasts a ove o f the beautiful. The rosy dimpled:heeked child enjoying its innocent plays ?the ruby, noble spirted youth, and oven lie aged with heads already blossomed for he grave, each feel that life has some sunny puts?some h.dcyon days. Some may ell of the disappointments, the partings, be bitter tears ; they may tell of death and he grave, but you who are pood say, is not his a happy woild of ours after all ? l)o on not remember some 1 ni<fl t ?t..~ I V """ ? vln ii tho world seemed as one pleasant Irania, ami no cloud dimmed the clear sky il" hope and prosperity ? l>oos not memory eeall the innocent spots of childhood, llio njipy hour* spent with young companions, .nd the kind friend who hovered around, trowing our path with llowers of tenderness Hid aiVeelion 1 Think of the pleasant smiles, lie hours of sweet communion with tho avinjr ones of earth, ami then join the song if all nature that beauty dwell in cvory path i o who say it is bitter, cruel, think O! hink again?gazo on all life's attractive dijects, taste tho pleasure of a well spent ife, ami joyous will be your meditations, L mIiiii anu serene y<uir spirits. Life will pass is :i pleasant dream, and dealli will only be i passport to a more genial clime?angels vill waft your spirits on their glittering vings to the Klysinn fluids above, and their .oft .strains of music shall forever fall in iwoot accent 011 yonr ear.?Ex. WAS THE MOON EVEft A COMET 1 According to M. Arngo, the Arcadians bought themselves of older date than the noon. They maintained that their ancesors bail inhabited this planet before it had my satellite. Struck with this singular pinion, some philosophers have imagined hat the moon was formerly a comet, which, n performing its elliptical course round he sun, came into the nighborhood of the sarlh, and was drawn into revolution around t. Such a change of orbit is possible; nit evidently it could not have taken place f the comet's perihelion distance had been jreat. The comet must, therefore, have >assed very near the sun. Ami lmr# ' ??!'???need an intense heal, capable of dissippaing every trace of humidity. The almost nt:r absence of an atmosphere round the noon, the scorched appearance of its vast iiountains and deep valleys, and the few ilants that arc seen, have been cited bb iroofs that tho luminary was once a comet, 'his reasoning is pronoutttsed by M. Arago s founded upon the strangest confusion of ungnago. The moon has indeed a scorched appears nee, if by that is meant that all parts of Ls surface shows traces of former volcanic ruplions; but nothing in its aspect india;.e.?, at the present day, what temperature lie moon has heretofore been subjected to iy tlid action of the solar rays. These two ihenoinena have no oonnection with each ther. The volcanos of Ireland, of Mayen'a sland, and of lvamschatka, bIiow every car that the frost at the surface of the lolar regions hnve no effect upon gubterraicous matter, the chemical action of which inulllc.PO pnmlinn T.? -II mi tnu muiuiuao Of iodies, of various forms and degrees of Tightness, which the spacious firmanent isplnys, comets are life only ones which., ro evidently and sensibly surrounded with . gasseous Envelope, of a real atmosphere ?his atmosphere may have been formed by he evaporation of matter which originally xisted in the nucleus, but it is always found o accompany a comet, and there would bp io reason for its boing separated from it, whatever derangement the comet might ^xlevieuce in the form aud original position f its orbi^ from an accidcntal attraction ?hua the almost entire absence of all atmi & here round the moon is rather agalnstthan or the opinion that it was once jvoomet, A Southern gentleman' owiied a sjave . very intelligent fellow, who vyus a ,UfMersalist. On one occasion he' iltaaltated* he intellectual character of ljjjf 'rejigip/i ijv ho following manner: ;* A oertaih slavo'had olHairiotf >f the Babtists to preach. He was hoMiofV orth in the presendo of irtany d brethern at one time, when heund?n? ook to dcscribo tboproceaa'pf Adam^i))^' ion. Said be,<( When God 'made i/Adaatyt t a little, warmed it a. little ift.\ hul <hwdt md stjueezed it id dfi right, ean it up against tbe tow \o dryJ l<0 " Top dm*,'x said ouir Uni vettaiuf 'you say dat are de fartestnian ?iy^"nidde"f Satan ? sfttd the " Dan," said tha c*fcar." Wui* what dat af fence oomq frOro]^-w x?ti> nwfw u Hash 1" said. tbfcpreiwfcter, rtt#o?nBoi^ 10 <fo world,"