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J St VOLUME 3. CAMDEN, SOUTH-CAROLINA, FEBRUARY 10,1852. NUMBER 12. ? T^rrmTTTT? ? i?pmbb?? n inn ? ? n ?n m 11?mw? ????i??himmmmmm THE. CAMDEN JOURNAL. published semi-weekly and weekly by TH0MS J. V&BS1B. ! TERHS. j The Semi-Weekly Journal is published at Three < Dollars and Fifty Cents, if paid in advance, or Four , Dollars if payment is delayed three months. TnE Weekly Journal is published at Two Dollars If paid in advance; Two Dollars and Fifty Cents if pay- II mcnt be delayed six months, and Three Dollars if not i paid till the expiration of the year. | < ADVERTISEMENTS will "be inserted at the follow- j ing terms: For one Square (fourteen lines or icss; m uasemi-weekly, one dollar for the first, and twenty-live ,' cents for each subsequent insertion. In the weekly, j 1 seventy-five cents per square for the first, and thirty-se- i ' ven and a half ceuts for each subsequent insertion. Sin- < gle insertions one dollar. Semi-monthly, monthly and ^ quarterly advertisements charged the same as for a single insertion. or* The number of insertions desired, and the edi-j 1 tion to be published in must be noted on the margin of j all advertisements, or they will be published semi-week- i j ly until ordered discontiued and chargea accordingh\ , THE SISTERS. J, br cnaitLEs swain. < "Sisters!?is there name?relation? 1 Nearer, dearer, upon earth? 1 Is there, through this broad creation, < Tie more sweet in human birth? j ' Yet how oft that link :s broken As life's selfish path we roam: j 1 Y'ears have pass'd since we have spoken? i j XV*?who'd once one heart, one home! . "If I wronged him 'twas in terror 1 * * * ? '-A~ aLa..!J kn nV,rn,cl* Lrf51 ll-T ujc SUUUIU uv. unvo., If I wronged him, 'twas an error She might pardon nOw?at last! j Three long years, nor yet oticc near me? She who with me nightly slept; < j j LOh, ye blessed Angels hear me. j Hear me, ye who've loved?and wept! {1 "Angels that on earth, when living, ,j 1 Had dear sisters by your side; k Teach mine own how sweet's forgiving! And how hard a thing is pride!" As she wept?'mid feelings holy? Wond'ring if they e'er should meet; ' t Some one entered, slowly, slowly, i And sank humbly at her feet. t Saying?"for her sake who bore us, j Fed us at the same fond breast, Let God's spirit now come o'er us? 5 And this angry spirit rest: t [Pardon?pardon?sister?sister!'1 j I Upward sprang she with a start, j s Fell upon her neck and kissed her? v I Lip to lip?and heart to heart! 1 m c ?* Thus forgiven and forgiving j ? In parh other's arms thev went; ] Oil, in holier regions living, c I One had watch around them kept! And they talked of times departed; I a Of their mother, what she'd said, t k When together, brjken-hearted, ' s g They had knelt heside her bed! 1 I "Ah, could she have thought this, ever, j I Thought tiiat we for three long years, :i I We that loved so much, could sever, She had died in tears?in tears! Not in smiles like those she gave us, , k. Like a seraph called to bliss; r s I Let us pray tiiat God will save us ^ From all future sin like this!"' t And the sister mused in wonder !l How a word, a little word, ' Had the power two hearts to sever, Leaving truth for years unheard. Long she pondered?but she knew not oirt timt Ipnt its storp: | . ? u.v. 15' 1 That an Angf.L she could view not, Led her to her sister's door? ROHAXCE IX REAL LIFE. THE BEGGAR'S DAUGHTER. The intelligent correspondent of the St. Louis Republican, gives us tlie following' sprightly s sketch ofa new actress, who is about to make 1 her debut in Paris, and who is creating an im- t mcnse sensation before hand, on account ot her \ k beauty and accomplisinents. L r The lady is about thirty years of age, but her 1 life has already been varied enough to suit the s most greedy romancer. First, abandoned bv s ' lier mother in the streets of Paris, she begged her bread from d<>or to door, and slept wherever \ she could find a shelter, until by force of begging and economising, she purchased an old ! i second-handed guitar, and with that she went 1 s about singing half-a-dozen of the most popular j? v.ngs, in every court-yard of the great city.? f i Her youth, for she was only thirteen years of t p. age. and the extreme loveliness of her eliild-like ! countenance favored her great ly, an<l sous and 1 often silver pieces fell 111 showers a her teet : e wherever she sang. She had a small room in \ the sixth story of a house in one of the most 1 popular quarters of the city; and there she lived quietly alone, coming home ;is soon as it was | ' dark, and going out early in the morning to fol- 1 low her business. < hie evening, alxiut six : months after she had commenced the street sing- j ing. she was sitting in her little room, studying t over the words of a new song, when she thought t she heard a groan in the next room to her.? She did not know her neighbors at all. indeed ] had never seen either, but she got up and went I I out, and knocks! at trie uoor otuie room iroin ) whence she now distinctly hoard tho groans ro- | f poatod. There was no answor. Tho little ffirl j ran to tho stairs and called for help, l>ut few p?-o- 11 plo pay any attention to cries that came from | the sixth story, and the child waited in vain for 1 > some one to come. When she found sho was t pot heard, she returned to the door, and turn-1 itig the knob found that it yielded, aiid a 1110nu'iit after she was in the room, but in com- < plete darkness. She ran back to her own room, 1 rot a lirrht, and returned, when a sight met her i ?yes, such as ever, she, who was accustomed to ; misery, had never seen. The odor of the room < in the first place was almost insupportable; piles Df rotten vegetables and old bones lay promiscu- s ously strewn about the floor, and in one corner i on a bank of damp straw, lay an old woman t jroaning in pain. The child went to her and 1 spoke to her, whereupon the old hag started as if 1 die had been bitten, but immediately turned her 1 f ii Ti.. 1. [arc to xue van again. me mm: gm iiniitviudie was very ill. lefi the room and wont herself for a doctor; lie came, and disgusted with the appearance of the room and odor, declared he 1 :ou!d do nothing until the patient was removed J to a better jdace; hut the old woman swore she ' would die where she was, and all remonstrances ! ivere in vain. The doctor, therefore, prescribed , is well as he could, but the next day the old wo- j'' man died; but before her death she ques- ' tioned the little girl ahout her former life, j 1 md, finally revealed to her, that she was 1' watching over the death-l?ed of her own mother: 1 md that slie had amassed a small sum of money, ? which her daughter would find in the straw. After J the old woman's body was taken from the house, j4 accordingly, the young girl searched, and found 1 m old petticoat; in which was found no less a 1 mm than 8,000 francs, in gold and silver. All J this the old woman had got by begging and by picking and searching in the streets. Her daugh- Jl tor, upon finding herself possessor of such a for- ; ? une. placed the greater portion of it in the sa- '1 l ings'hank, and then placed herself in a good 1 warding school, where her intelligence soon do- 1 i-eloped itself, and at seventeen years of age she ! 1 was the most accomplished, and by far the most !' joautil'ul girl in the school. It had always been her intention, when she >ut had finished her education, to go on the stage, 1 it a.soiree given by the mistress of the school, a ' ;ouin' erentlemaii the son of a General of the em- 1 >iro, who had left him the titlo of lwiron and a j 1 arge fortune, saw our heroine, fell in love with j ^ ler, and soon after married her. For the fiist | . wo or three years nothing occurred to disturb heir union: but suddenly the young wife, who [ iad hitherto shown herself amiable, tender, and levoted. change,! entirely, ller sjiirits 1* came j mequal and >-):? no longer seemed satisfied with lie quiet happiness of her home. Arrived at hat stage of her youth, at the age when all the . brces developed themselves, her unsettled and irdent nature struggled greatly against her good nstinet. She showed an inelimation for eoqacting, and the passion for gambling seized upon ler with uncomf ?rtable violence. Her hu-baud ufibred and trembled in silence. With that j weakness very common to tender hearts, he had teeome a secondary personage in his house, and ' ould not now reigain the jtower he had so quiet- i y given up. Madame had already lost urge sums at cards, and had secretly sold her | liamoiidsand replaced tlieni by fa be stones. 'Hie poor husband regretted not having au- j luuity enough t<? bring about a reform, and stop , he desperate course of his wife, lie would have ; ri\ n a great deal to le.nl a peaceful existei.e- in he country, but he ktiewtlint at the lirst words my stndi proposition would have been tiriulv "beoted to. I lis perplexity was very great when i good idea came into his head. Among the saloons of the elegant world whore 'ambling was allowed, tie re was one mole daii;erous than the others, because the worse sort j M 11^ J I IIIILI' t <11111 ?l ?ri> 1111 Av" I ociety received. .Mr. X. consented to allow himelf and his wile presented to the gentleman of . v his house, ami ho march' <1 resolutely into th?- thyss. Madame soon placed herself at a card ' able, ami immediately a middle-aged gentleman ame and placed himself opposite her. They r day- d, and at the first round the gentleman won 1 i hundred luuis. and soon the losses of the U'au- j!' ,iful fpinn stress amounted to twenty thousand j 11 nines. . .N "Shall we double asked her partner. "Yes," she answered, trving to preserve Iter j !l aliimess. 1 She lost attain, and her adversary asked : ''Shall we double 1" ; I. This continued question, and the unlucky is- j ue of the game was repeated several times.? ;l 'lightened at first, Madame X. thought at last h hat her partner was a very gallant man, who wanted to lead heron to acquit her debt at a sin- a rle blow by playing until the luck should change. 1 Jut when the debt amounted to a hundred thou- ;l and crowns the gentleman arose, excused him- 1 elf, and said : ^ "We will stop now, Madame, it" you please; *ou owe nie three hundred thousand francs." v This announcement caused a great excitement s n the saloon, and Madame X. retired with depair in her heart. For the first time she was v ifraid of her husband. However, the terrible con- 1 ession must be made to liim : she made it, pale, 1 remitting, and on her knees. "Kise, my love," said her husband, in a sad ' >iit affectionate tone. "It is a'misfortune which I annot now be helped. Wc must pnv the debt. v A'e sliall be ncarlv ruined, but vour honor will a >e saved." ' ' t The creditor arrived soon afterwards, and Mr. i?' went with htm to his notary. < >n his return " ic said to his wife : * "All that remains to us now is iny little do- 11 nain in Avergne. 1 am well content myself ~ here, but it will be a gloomy abode for you,and J hat is what aflliets me." 11 Touched by such exquisite kindness, Madame u set out for the country without regretting j r 'aris and her disastrous pleasures. After so | u ouch excitement, a country life seemed delight- v ul to her. J 1 Ten years passed awnv, and Madame X. said ] o le-r hu-batid one day, that they had been the v lanniest wars of her life; and that nothing u von Id disturb her pence, if it. was n> ?t for th" 1 hought of the large sum of money she had made t him pay. ? ''Consult1 yourself," replied, the husband; "our 'conoinios would have more than repaid your oss; hut you lost nothing, and our fortune is low doit bled. The gentleman who played with rou is one of my friends, who played on my ae:ount." The joy of the wife was extreme, and they loon afterwards returned to l'aris. lint Mr. X. aus induced to endorse for several friends, and in wo short years he lost all he was worth. His .rife is now going on the stage to try and repair he losses of her husband. 1 leave it to you if ler life lias not been varied enough. Life's Inequalities. Yonder goes a man rolling in wealth and luxiry; lie was born to it, he will doubtless dicsur ounded by it. When he departs, they will put lim in a sumptuous coffin, shining like a mirror; ind richly lined as over lady's bourdoir; they vill give liini a stately funeral, and .solemn funeril rites; and so they will send him to his long tome, with a long flourishing of drums and trumpets; fulsome obituaries will be served up in his lonor, and in due time a gaudy monument will ise over his remains in some fashionable rural semetary. The poor fellow that ran against him usf now, and whom he cursed so, what a differ iit time he has of it in this world, and is likely o have. That moving mass of rags began to Iraw breath in some dark den of shame and iniuny: a penniless, friendless vagabond from the jeginning, thus far he has been kicked and cuffed[long the highway of life, and lie looks as if he 'xpected to be kicked and cuffed up to the closng scene; the terminus of his sad pilgrimage, nost probably, a prison or the gallows; no fulerel ceremonies will be thrown away upon his >oor carcass; no tear be shed over it, no grave eceive it; no, 'twill be chopped up in some proline dissecting room, mot likely, for the edifieaion of a set of noisy students who will crack heir vile jokes, and puff their filthy tubaceosmoke ivor it iu mockery?oh, can it be that these two nen are the children of the same Heavenly Paf-ttt r.lil'A lnc f*nvt\ ?i 1 iL-#* 11?r. <?ln 1.1 iv.n if immortality, alike responsible at his bar?? \hy. why then permit such terrible, such cruel Imparities of condition in the outset of their caeer? \)'Uy then continue them thus pertinaiously to tlie close? Why, again, these frightnl inequalities as to endowments ? There goes , man across the street with a bundle on his icad?it is his calling?he is equal to no other? lis head is only tit to balance bundles on?eduation can do nothing for him?lie has been tried ,nd fo uid wanting?there is nothing there to ducat2?you could no more educate that man rito a respectable merchant or competent lawer, than you could by culture convert a squash ito a cluster of delicious grapes?yes, and the cry next person that you see there, following at is heels, but who knows him not? Who knows iot the capricious brow, those eyes that flash lorioiis fire, that tongue that sends forth its ringed words, whose burning eloquence that sets he hearts of a whole nation a blaze? Why, oil ihy is our Father in Heaven so prodigal of his rood gifts to the one, and so cruelly sparing of item to the other? Why, again, put one imnoital soul in u j,u,,r paltry, contemptible body, nth scarce a sound organ in it, a perpetual source if disquiet to its owner, yes, a continual stumiling-block i:i his path, while another is endowed sith a glorious set of nerves and muscles, a magliticcnt pair of lungs, and all otiierappertinances hat can adminbter to its wants ami delights? it. w ;* c..;.. > wi... .1....... .,n 'ii, i.-j it i?iii ?? it > win. i i * 111 j -* X 1111111 lis undertakings, every tiling In* touches turning i> trold, liis blunders even have n happy is>u<-, dnlc lii> neighbor. equally amiable,, more intellivnt perhaps, is forever in hot. water, cheated by rally \ illains. worried out of his life by hardlearied creditors, and dyiniT a poor desolate bankiij-t ? Why one lair island is blessed with all hat a land can lie blessed with; made the s-at f wealth, j.ower, art, science, civilization, while is neighboring sifter, equally lovely by nature, is et cursed with every evil under tlie sun, is bcoine the I wad <|iinrters of wretehedness, famine n<l i leatl it AVliv oerinit these ? Wliv, oo. permit so much innocent sull'ering in the rorldWhy should all these poor wives and >oor children undergo sorrow, poverty, krnominy, jr the misdeeds of husbands ami fathers Why illow one man's drunkennes or incompetence, to end hundreds of souls to their neeoimt without . moment's warn in;.' ? Why allow the insane inhition of another to briinr thousands to an tinimely end upon the battle lield ? Why, too, !l these dire accidents,these famines, tloods. pesileiice, shipwrecks, earthquakes, conflagrations A"hat do thev mean? AA hat lesson do tliov each Who can decipher them* Oh dear, that child camiot. ask tlicsc questions ! What age can answer them satisfactorily. There is, there is a 11 leaning, a deep hidden t'isduiu in these arrangements of Providence, hough our juior feeble wits cannot master it? hero is a key to these dreadful puzzles?an anwer to these soul vexing riddles?not here, the tlessed life to come will answer all these <|tiesions?oh, without that faith, that hope, existence fere a miserable dreary farce indeed?meanwhile re we, because thus ignorant and in the dark, o break out into rebellion i To throw reason ud conscience overboard, and let the. vile crew f appetites and passions take command of the hip : < >h. no, no, poor children that we are,we mist, obey, not rjuestion the order of our Parent ?scholars, we are are, to learn the lessons which lie tireat Teacher sets us, not set up a course tor urselves?n pretty idea, truly that we babies, ti this infant school of our existence, should arav our little sillv notions in opposition to the / .V ti... 1'im-AN.i?lii'iter submit. k it lionl useless noise or sen til in if. to tin* diseiplinc uvseribed?!u?w absurd, too, to he kicking and oiindiiitf, in this ]ictul:int. way against the door rliirh iho Master hath closedand barred against is ?we eannot enter, we are wasting breath and emper, neglecting our tasks, and earning a hearv whipping tbr our pains.?Musings of an Jn aJirf. Agriculture and Agriculturists. Agriculture is the body, while the other professions are the members; and although the body and members are mutually dependent, and reciprocally useful to each other, the body -can exist without the members. The farmer can supply his necessities, and most of his reasonable warns within the circle of his family, he can feed and clothe himself: but his wants are enlarged, and his ability to" gratify them increased, in proportion to the profits of his labor If, through ignorance or sloth, he produces only what is necI cessary for the sustenance of his household, he * 1 1 A ^ A. . I can ouy rieitner ot tne morcnaiu, me maiiuiac- < i turcr, nor the mechanic?nor contribute to the j Support of the learned professions; or, if lie buys,, ; lie cannot pay. hut, if his produce is double i what is required for the consumption of the fami- j ly, the surplus half may be employed for the ben-j etit of the other classes?in purchasing from them the comforts and elegancies of life. The ! other classes, on contrariwise, cannot thrive,''as ! i such, without the aid of tlie farmer: he furnish- 1 j es the raw materials for the manufacturer; he feeds the mechanic, and freights the hark of commerce: and is, 'he.?idcs, the ] rincipal custo! nier to them all. ! The head can do more than the hands. The < i animal strength of the ox and the horse would j | effect tio useful purpose, without the contrivance ' | and direction ot' man. In many countries on '< ' the old continent, where the cultivator is debased ' J by ignorance and despotism, the awkward, ill- 1 j contrived implements of the primitive ages are still in use. There is not a manufacturing em- j t j ployinent, nor mechanical art, but has been ! abridged in its manipulations, and had its fab- j ' rics improved in quality, and reduced in price,: 1 by the aid of modern science. We say modern j ' science, because some branches are but beginning | 1 to drvelope their practical advantages to useful j 1 labor. We vcrilv believe that science can do I 1 more, and will do more, in the coming thirty vears to improve the condition of agriculture, I I l.?? ?l.,im'/u 1 I lllilli !!.!> IJVI'll CiHX'in t III IXIU liU*l lilies 111 Ui IV | | | An intelligent head i> (loomed of more impor- i , j tniiee, and commands:! higher compensation in j r ! many of our large establishments, than half a ' c j dozen mere sinewy arms. Mind is the great lo- j c j ver that moves the material world?the master ? spirit that civilizes man, and multiplies his com- a forts and enjoyments. We acquire* knowledge j in our badness mechanically, hut slowly, 'ilie ( acquisition may be accelerated and augmented to ] t an amazing extent, by the experience and teach-! e ings of 111011 who have made natural and chemical i scineo their st udy and employment for life. There ' is another consideration which renders the im-1 < proveinetit of the mind, of public benefit; igno- j ranee indolence, and indolence bigots dee. , If we would, tlierefore, inculcate virtue, we must \ foster industry: anil if we would make industry j respectable and desirable, we iiiusWthrow light! . upon its paths, and secure for it a merited-reward. It results as a consequence, that the improvement of our agriculture is of the first importance , to every class of our population; and that this improvement can in no wise receive such efficient aid, as by instructing the youth who are hereafter to manage its concerns, as well in the science, as in the practice of their business. flints to Farmers and Planters. AY e cut out for publication, some weeks since, | , an article recommending to all farmers ai id pi an- j ' Iters the making of cotton comfortables for no-j j ' gi'X's, instead of purchasing for thein blankets.? j ] j \\*c do not remember whether the article ha* i ( l.lll.licliA/l . .?? I?.,t , .? icll.it ll.ll* It iOlll lllllV ll* I found by our j?rinr?-r<. It was our intention t?? eall the notice oi'mir readers to the article then, ] l>ut omitted to do so. Wo were struck with the j ] j good seme and economy of the advice. The: : cold weather t<?r some days past, has brought it' | to our mind. j ( If, instead of purchasing blankets, our farmers J j it lid planters would make thick cotton comfortables for their negroes, it would riot only be much cheaper, but much more comf ?rtab!e for the n1gro. The consumption of cotton, in making this ; article t'<>r general use throughout tlie Southern ' States, would be cnormou-'. This would open ' a tie.w demand for cotton. Hut we would riot j : confine the use of the cotton comfortables to the j slaves, but extend it to the masters, too, and exelude altogether and entirely the use of blankets. A comfortable is much w armer and better than a blanket, and w ill last longer. Some years since 1 we purchased a parcel of them in Charleston, not for our servants, but for the use of the house.? | Thov were made however, at the Xorth, where ] our buckets, I'rooms, and axe helves are made, or j were made a few years since. Wo, therefore, speak from experience when wo say that they . are not only clioaj?er, but will wear longer and j much warmer. They can be made by any one, who can make a ljtd tjuilt, and even by those i who cannot stitch neat enough for a quilt. The . negro women, themsevles, can make them on everv farm and plantation, of nights and bad weather, and make them substantially. ( What saving this would be to the Southern 1 States. I low much annually, is carried out of 1 South Carolina for the purpose of purchasing 1 blankets ? It encorages, too home industry, and < more than that, home independence. We should I suppose, too that the burning secession patrio- j tism of South Carolina would be just as comfortablo under the stitching of their own wives and l daughters and servatis, as under that of the workmanship of Yankee girls.?Greenville Southern Patriot. i A Texan (\ii.oni:i.\s Stoky.?'*Xo, my friend," ] saio the colonel to his grave companion. "No, it is entirelv impossible for one nursed as von , i ,i.? i?.. i nave e\ itieiiiiy mni, in wi>- lit|> ?>i iu.\iii \?j>fi- , haps oven in a coiled and framed house?to know what we suffered here in '36. I'll just tell vou exaetlv how it was with me, and I have seen 1 nothing?< \ uothiiij* at all?to what some have! < Vou see 1 was there in Sabine county, had a lit ' tie cabin in the woods away from town some t dozen miles. I had a hundred cows, twenty > mare?, seventeen fillies, and a wife and three children, l?nt not a dollar in the world, However, I was a lawyer, and had engaged to defend af man for cow stealing at court in town next day, for which I was to get two bushels of meal. You see my clothes had well worn out, and so I swapped with a Red Indian for a suit of deer-skin.? Did you ever see a real suit of deer-skin, stranger? "Well, I have?felt it too. You see the Indian told rue to dye it in dogwood ooze. I did so you know; left them in all night. Next morning I was up early and off for court, for I needed that meal?didn't have anything in the house at all. My deer skin suit fitted well?had tassels round the calves and skirts. Well, I rode out of the mot of timber in which my * n was built on the prairie that stretched the rest of the way to town. As the sun got hotter, the wet skin?you see I had to put .it on wet, for I must be at court hud to have that meal?the wet skin began to get tight! Pshaw.I don't mind, says I; but in twenty minutes, I did mind. Got nff the mare out there in that broad prairie, with the roasting, broiling, burning sun, right over my head, and my clothes creeping up and coiling tight around me like a nest "of snakes. My arms were fassened so by the sleeves that I wouldn't get at my knife to rip anything. My hair stood on the end like the thorns of a bois d'arc. O, the misery?the suffering?the igony! My whole body w;is bound up and brewed together and strangled. Blood rushed to my head?couldn't get on my horse. Well, 1 lay there in the blistering sun till somebody zoing to court happened to pass and rip me up. He cut me in two or three places, he was shaking so with laughter while he did it. Well, you see [ rode back home?took the last sheet in the louse?cut it out?wife sewed on one leg while [ sewed on the other?got to court just in time (vith my white suit?cleard the man, and got tho ileal!"'?Red Land San Augustine. Earhj Rising.?Happy the man who is a cary riser. E\ cry morning day comes to him with i virgin love, full of bloom, and purity, and freshless. The copy of nature is contagious, like the jladnoss of a happy child. 1 doubt if any man an be called 'old,' so long as he is an early riser md an early walker. And a youth!?take my vord for it?a youth in dressing gown and slip rers, dawdling over breakfast at noon, is a very locrepid, ghastly image of that youth which sees he sun blush over the mountain, and the dews sparkle upon blossoming hedge-rows.?Bulwr. What if you are homely as a log hut. Don't ;ry about it. Let goodness of heart make up for outward looks. A lady with eves that resembled peeled onions, and as crooked as a politician's creed, a nose like a hoe, and a mouth that is stretched from ear to ear, and opens like a jack-knife, will be more respected and beloved, by those whose good opinion is worth one's pains to secure, if she possess a good heart and a kind disposition?than if she was beautiful as Milton's Eve, with a corkscrew disposition and a heart of lead. The wise never judge from tjie complexion of the skin or the symmetry of the form, but by the virtues of the heart. A man and his wife purchased a gallon of w hiskey in a village in Yates County a few days mice. They started home in a sleigh, and next morning the woman was found on the sleigh frozen to death. The husband had left her sitting on the sleigh, and she was too much intoxicated to follow him. A Hungarian officer named May lately killed himself at Constantinople by tying a sheet around his body and setting it on tire. There were eighteen natives of S. Carolina in tlie late convention of Mississippi, and of these, jlevcn were Union men. "Want to Kill IIim.?A "Washington letter dates that Mr. Clay is constantly receiving boxV* and bottles, and packages of quack medicines from all parts of the country, recommended for ill sorts and description of diseases. Happy is he who can't get trusted. He shall liave no bills to settle. Wise are they who can't write. They will tovcr be taken up for forgery. Uri'dent llisitAxn.?A woman was lately buried in a grave yard near London, who had been dead upwards of rive years, a near relation Slaving left her an annuity of ?30. to be paid ... *i ' ,i e. .... l..?~ .... ol.o. mi mi; ui>i nay ??i r>i;rv jvai wii?; ^5,410 diould remain 011 earth. In consequence of this logaey, her surviving husband hired a little room >vcr a stable in the neighborhood of his dueling, where she was kept in a lead coffin until titer his death. Pcnvsylrania Common Schools.?Tn the seventeen years that the common school system has been in operation, the people of Pennsylvania nave expended over $15,000,000,exclusive of the arge sums annually paid to sustain the numerous private academies, seminaries, and schools in :ho State. The nuinl>er of schools has increased Vom 702 to 9,200, and the teachers from SOS t?? 11,500. The pupils number half a million, and :he annual cost of the same is $1,TOO,000. A quaint old gentleman, of an active stirring 1?I losition, had a man at work in his garden who was quite the reverse. "Mr. Jones," said he to liim one morning, "did you oversee a snail.' ? '(Vrtainlv." replied Jones. "Then," said the dd 1k>v, "you must have mot, as you could never ivertake liim." The San Francisco Courier says that the valley of the Cilia is as well adapted to the culture >f cotton as any portion of the Southern States. Kven with the limited agricultural knowledge of ho Indians, t.hev manage to raise cotton of a cry line quality,