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m I VOLUME 3. CAMDEN, SOUTH-CAROLINA, JULY 27, 1852. NUMBER 60. f ? - - J - THE CAMDEN JOURNAL THOMAS J. WARREN. L TERMS. ; IB The Semi-Weekly Jocrxai. is published at Tliroc , Dollars and Fifty Cents, if paid in advance, or Four IF Dollars if payment is delayed three months. a The Weekly Jocrxal is published at Two Dollar* ? if paid in advance; Two Dollars and Fifty Cents if pay- 1 mcnt be delayed three mouths, and Three Dollars if not j ouid till the expiration of the year, g ADVERTISEMENTS will be inserted at the follow- . I ing terms: For one Square (fourteen lines or less) in the I seini-weekly, one dollar for the first, and twenty-five cents for eadi subsequent insertion. In the weekly, ' 1 |V seventy-five cents per square for the first, and thirty-se-} W ven and a half cents for eacli subsequent insertion. Sin- j < gle insertions one dollar. Serai-monthly, monthly and ' . | quarterly advertisements charged the same as for a sin-. j gle insertion. I CTTho number of insertions desired, and the edi-1 ' I tion to be published in must be noted on the margin of ' \ oil o/fvortisnmontj r>r thev will ho nublisbed serui-week- I i ]y until ordered discontinued and charged accordingly i BLESSED ARE THEY THAT MOURN. T Oh! deem not that they are blessed alone Whose lives a peaceful tenor keep; S The power who pities man has shown M A blessing for the eyes that weep. , L The light of smiles shall fill again Tfte lids that overflow with tears; 3 And weary hours of woe and pain Are promises of happy years. . . There is a day of sunny feast ft For every dark and troubled night; J I And grief may hide an evening guest, But joy shall come with early light. , L And thou who o'er thy son's low bier j M Sheddest the bitter drops like rain, Hope that a brighter, happier shore, Wf Will give him to thy arms again. 2 S Nor let the gooil man's trust depart, ^ Wt Though life its common gift deny, ( W Though pierced and broken be his heart, K And spurned of men, he goes to die. \ i For God has marked each sorrowing day, r ? And numbered every secret tear; c And Heaven's tang age of bliss shall pay 1 For all its chi'dren suffer here. ? j BF-We fi d the following touching poetry in . ^ reply to the well-known song, " Ben Bolt," in the j" LouisvUe Journal: I BEN BOLT'S REPLY. J R. OR, AH! YES, I RFMEMBER. Ah! yes, I remember that name with delight, I ? '. Sweet Alice, so cherished and dear; c t J seek her grave in the pale hour of night, I And moisten the turf with a tear; * ! And there when the heart is o'er burdened with ( iwoes, I wander and muse all alone, And long for the time when my head shall repose Where" sweet Alice lies under the stone." I roam through the woods where so joyous we 1 stray'd, And recline on the green sunny hi!!; All things are as bright in that beautiful glade, | But my heart is lonely and chiil; 1 The hand that so fondly I pressed then in mine, < And the lips that were melting with love? 1 Are cold in the grave, and l'tn left to repine, 1 Till I meet with sweet Alice above. Ah! well I remember the school-house and brook 1 "And the master so kind and so true," The wild blooming flowers in the cool shady nook j j So fragrant with incense and dew. But I weep not for these, though so dear to my c ? heart, ( Nor the friends that have left us alone? i The bosom will heave, and the tear drops will j start, i For " sweet Alice Res under the stone." The New-York Journal of Commerce of Sutur-! ' day afternoon says: It will be seen from the statement which we ; ? pnbli-h that the banks of this city have one dol- f lar in specie for every six and three-fourths Jul- j lars in loans and discounts, notwithstanding that 1 tbe latter have been largely increased by the tern- f porary loan of large amounts subject to a call, t This is a better position than they have occupied ] for a Ion# time, and a much greater relative i amount ol specie thau at any previous time, with- < in our rccoilection. I Instructive Eivmoixiuvof tiie Word Tri- i bclation.? We all know, in a general way, that m this word, which occurs iiot s? ld uii in Scripture * Bi and in the Liturgy, means affliction, sorrow, au- I guish; but it is quite worth our while to know M8 i-..u it irirmnq rliis. and to nliestion the word a ] JIU" ?. ?*v. T - - J little closer. It is derived from the Latin "trib- j ulutn,"?that woid signifying the threshing in- ? Hi* strnment, or roller, by which the liornans sapera ( ted the corn from the hu.?ks; and "tribulation," I WT~ in its jtp'mary significance, was the act of this V separation. Hut sonn Latin writ' r of tin < hristiati church appropriated the word and image < for the setting forth of a higher truth; and sor- < row, and distress, and adversity, being the appro W> printed means for the separating in men of their | Y chaff from their wheat, of whatever in them was L ho'11* an^ t^yial and poor, from the solid aud th* true, therefore l.e called these sorrows and V gi'efe "tribulations,'' threshings, that is, of the m ii.ier spiritual man, without which there could < l?e no fitting him fo? the b^v'eHly^^r^^ f""-' j JLkUKVhi i i iwmdll?3fl???? From Graham's Magazine. THE WOUNDED Ol'ERILLl, OR A TALE OF THE LATE CAMPAIGN. The city ot' Tuebla lies in the centre of an immense plateau, seven thousand feet above the ! ?ea level, and bordered bv mountains of more ; than twice this altitude. Maliuchi, rendered classic in the history of tne first conquest, rises on the north: the l'inal bars up the eastern passes, while the great Cordillera of the llio Frio forms its westeln boundary, thus separating the two [jreat valleys of Puebla and Mexico by an almost impassible barrier. In this ridge lie the great snow mountain of Popocatopec and the 11 White Woman, {la mutter blaucu,) known po- j etieally as the "Twin Sisters." These mountains soar far above the regions of eternal snow. Popocatopec is a cone, and the gray fringe that marks the blending of the white glacier and the dark Pines of the mountain lur;st, forms the circumference of a horizontal circle.; ?On the White Woman the snow line is more ' irregular. On both mountains its altitude is variable, according to the season and the heat of the sun. Thus the inciting of the snows in the sultry months of summer, throws the gray fringe higher up the sides of Popocatepec and Ixticihuatli and irrigates the broad tdains of Puebla and Tlascalla. rBu't for the snow-crowned mountains the plateau of l'uebla would be a barren desert. As it is, the western segment of this ]>lain may be termed the garden spot of Mexico. As the traveller emerges from the western gale i rf Fuebla, he beholds one of the loveliest pictures in the world. The delighted eye roams jver broad fields of corn and wheat, and " fri-] joles," bordered by fence rows of the pituresque maguey?here and there the cupolas of rich ha ienda-s?the tufrets of a flourishing village, and ,hc spires of a rural church varigate the green andscape, while in the distance rises the dark Jordileras ol the Mexican Andes, over whose jjooiny forests and frowning chasms the snowy irests of the " Twin Sisters" glisten with daziling whitness. This is, perhaps the fairest picture in Mexico. its beauty, however, did not protect it from the lcsolating influence of war, and during the occupation of I'oubia by the. American army, rands of robbers under the name of " guer lleos," alike hostile to Mexican and American, oamed over the fairest portions of this di>triel, wmmitting every species of outrage upon its eaceful inhabitants. The American annv entered Puobla in tlie nuntli of May, 1847. The inhabitants, one tundred thousand in number, were struck with tstonishment at the boldness of the act. They tad been expecting an anny of at l.casi ten tbojfc. and men. Instead of tins.* nlneiy"Mragoons~r ode into the plaza alone, where they halted to iwa:t the ad.since of the army, in sill, n>>t miniwring four thousand men. Uundn ds of Mexicans eounted our soldiers as they crossed the >iidge of " Xochebuona," and the feeling that rxisted in the breasts of the Pobianos, after our j ?ntry into their city, was no of shame, thsit they tad permitted such a handful of men to tsike he old and warlike town of J'uebla. without a >!o\y having been struck in its defence. They might apparently have stoned u* to death. Santa Anna repaired at Anioz-se, had retreat d upon San Martin, and now Jjeld thai fair dis- , trici with his rssbhle soldiery. On finding that it was not in the power of the American commander to advance beyond Puobla. : br a time, the bright idea struck Santa Annsi uf ' ousiug the natiotisil pride un?e more in defence ; jf their capital. He consequently* crossed the nountains of Kio Frio, and commenced fortifyng the ancient city of the Aztecs, leaving, liow;ver a large guerrilla force, who roamed at will >ver tins "western plain of Puebla and occupied S:m Martin. Tlaxcalla and Atlixco. Those at i irst commenced hostilities by stopping tlie sup- j lies of the Pcubla market, which depends al og'-ther upon the fertile districts of the west. ! Finding, however, that the American gold re wived in exchange for the fruits and vegetables | ?f San Martin, served their purposes hotter than : evcnire. the irucrillas at length permitted the I >rodueo to pass, levying a heavy contribution j tpou each article. The hated " alcabala," was abolished at the :ity gates, and the Indians and lancherosof Ohouila, San Pablo,'and San Martin, docked to the 'rand Plaza ut' Puebla. It was a rare sight in the bright mornings of futie, this plaza of Puebla. Hundreds of Indian girls seated in groups under their awnings of" pe;ates," gay lev chatting with one another, or; aughing with a clear ringing laugh at the bad Spanish of tbe American soldier. ho says bat the Indians of Mexico are a d?*j?*cted raw ? I So such thing. We have soon more bright hap- j >y faces in the inarkc-ts of l'uebla than any where , *fse.?The slightest witticism?a mispronuncia- j : ion of the name of any of their wares by a' foreign tongue, will elicit p<*als of laughter from those merry market girls, while the almost on- j sLarit disp lay of their small pearlv teeth and | iparkiing eyes evinces the lightness of their hearts. The remnants of several nations exist in tbe j plains of Puebla. These may be easily distin-! guishud in the streets of the. city l>v a singular ' custom. A few straiis of worsted thread, blue, j sriinson or purple, arc twisted into the plaits of Llieir hair. The dificrcncc of color in this wors-1 Led marks the tribe ur village to which the wearer belong, so that at a glance you may tell an In- i jinn girl from Tluxculla or San 1'ablo, from one of the Cholultccas. j The Indians ot the last mentioned tribe are perhaps the most interestioiigto he met with in Mexico. Living at the foot of the great pyra- j mid, on " haunted holy ground,'' they are eon j Mainly reminded of the religion of their fathers, many of whose jieeuliar customs and habits they , -till ore-serve in all their pristine simplicity. I The young frirls of this tribe are strikingly handwine, and but lor their malformation?the el-j fret of early toil and careless rearing?the CInV 1 lultccas, with their dark Indian eyes and pearlv teeth, would far eclipse with their beauty the i daughters of the famed Castilian conquerors. 1 Of all tlie Indian maidens who visited the Plaza of Puebla, none attracted more admira- i tion from the officer or soldier who thronged through the market than two sisters from Cholu- j la. These girls were named Remedies and Do- i lorese, after the appellations of two of tne most popular saint."? in Mexico. ; The elder, Remedios, was strikingly beautiful. ' and though admired by all, her dark Indian eye I had made a deeper impression upon the heart of a young Ranger. The occupation of these young girls w;s that < of weaving baskets from the tine fibres of the palma redunda, which wares,, along wjtb the flowers that grew in their little garden at Cholu- < la. they brought once or t\\ ice a week to the i! city. The young Ranger spoken of, was frequently i placed upon picket guard at a point on theChoiula road, and had thus became acquainted with j the sisters, with whom he seemed on terms of j friendly intercourse. lie was frequently seen to , accompany them beyond the confines of the ci- !1 ty on their return homeward, and at parting the j beautiful Reinedios would linger behind her sis- j1 ter, and concealed bv the friendly shelter of a [ maguey plantation, bid him farewell with a ki-s. !: It was evident that the passion between the j ' Ranger and the fair Cholultocawasrnutual. I < Such was the state of affairs in the citv. Let 11 us follow the young girls to their native village ; I at the foot of the far-famed pyramid. Under the shade of a huge pepper-tree, stood |' a small but neat cottage of adobes. In front of ! this cottage was a little garden filled with bright j i flowers, and-fenced in by a close wall of the oe- \ ' tagonal columns of nopal. Outside of the little ! 1 garden grew the giant maguey planted closely 11 in rows, and running alongside pathways which i I led to other cottages similar to the one above ' mentioned. Such pathways form the lanes and streets of a Mexican village. 1 Over the cottage door is a little awning or ; < shade forne d by two or three poles and the broad ; leaves of the royal palm, and under this awning j1 are seated the sisters Remedies and Dolores. , < They have been silent for some time, each bu- 1 sily engaged with her work, which consists in , 1 weaving the beautiful palm baskets, that meet j; with such ready sale in the plaza. Dolhnsc is ;: no doubt thinking upon the profits which her work will yield, and she will rejoice the heart of ! her old and helpless father, who lias no other I support. Dolores is the old man's favorite, and ; * returns his parental fondness with a. heart full of filial love. The tlTOTTgms or nrmnaTOs are dwelling UpOft""H a far different object, and two or three times she 1 has become, so absent us to make strange mis- 1 ' takes ia 1i<t worlt. Urgently the fibres of the j ] palm .-he has been weaving becomes entangled, j and suddenly breaks. " What art* yon <1 'ing, Tbiinedios ?" aske< lior j 1 s'stfr. TIhmi add* with somewhat ?>f a malicious j 1 laugh. "Thinking ot' l)on Santiago? Hut I conic, si>t?->r. >i-c better to your work, or we will 1 not have our baskets ready lor to-morrow's mar- 11 hot, and then how you would be disappointed !M 1 Ucmedios blushed, but made no other reply j' to the pleasantry of her sister. Dolores looked in her face, and noticing the ! j blush, said in a more serious tone. " Ah, lioniedio.-.! if lVpe only knew." j "Knew what?" " Of Don Santiago." " And if he did i exclaimed the elder sister, i J while her d irk eye flashed with indignation. ! : "what is Pep.- t?> me. I never loved him, and I ; never told l.iui I dd?he has no right to me | more than another!" ! At thi> motii'-ut a footstep reached the cars of i < l?--? f\ uj! > . i? fL?m tr* Ct i*l ? 111 1 I. Mil.' lilt I A young man of rather a forbidding nj?[?c*:ir- j j unco \va- coining up be; ween the rows of tun j gtuys. lie was dressed in the costume of an j ( ordinary peasant, but thoshort carbine which he 1 carried over his shoulder, and the ln*lt an ! pouch j slung across his breast, betokened that he was , one of the enrolled gin rillas whose head ?pur- j ters were for the time in the village of Cholula. J The young man entered through the opening of the nopal fence, and striking the butt of his piece to the ground, stopped in front of the cot tage, saluting the sisters with the usual exclama- , tion for that hour "bucnos turtles!" (Vood everung.) The salutation was returned by botli the sis- ] ters; but iti such a manner by the elder, as show- , ed that she felt a coldness, or ratln-r a ivpug- j name toward the obj. ct of it. Pope, (the name of the intruder.) noticed this, and glared upon In-r with a scowl whieli bespoke |, ;t strange blending of fierce love with jealous an- J gcr. It was evident that he was ie?w before j them with some sinister design, and the sisters | sat without speaking, but both trembling under , < i... mm...../ e t.to ;i I, "So, li<-iindio?, I have found out. tlic reason why you rejected me so scornfully, but I will be , revenged." "What moan you, Pope!-" asked the girl in a conciliatory tone. "You know what I mean. 1 have heard and j i know well, too, of \otir partings on ?li" road by . the garita. 1 have been told all?but tru>t tile I you will take no more of these all'ectioiiatc/arcwells, for this night I will have my revenge.? Wc have laid our plans, and this night your \an- < koe lover will die?and if by to morrow at noon you have not promised to be mine, you may dread j the vetigenceof my comrades, lor tliey shall know all. "Remember, to-morrow I return." ! So saving, the gin-rilla thing hi- c:?il?inc over his shoulder and with an angry loo!; strode from tin1 cottage. The young girls watched for a inonvmt in silence his retreating form. When ho laid passed from their sight Rcmedios beut towards her sis tor n:;cl ::i a halt* whisper asked. "What does he mean when he says lie must lie to night; I)o you think lie has some plot laid to assassinate Don Santiagol" "No to-night they arc to attack the jacket at j the j^arita. Yen know that this is the day of j Don Santiago's guard. I overheard one <a the : guerillas talk of their plan as 1 wane from the church." All that night Ticmedios was unhappy. .She slept hill little, thinking of the threat which had been inten d by thu jealous I'ejre, and with |>ainlul suspense she awaited the apjiroach of day. j Ar mm nam' hour the suites. with 1 lie>c liasknt. filb-d with the work of yesterday, and a profusion of beautiful I lowers, stalled for i'uebia. Shortly after leaving the village they met an Indian woman coming fiom the direction of the city, driving an ass. This woman informM the ?ister.> that there, had been nsevere skirmish near thogarita, between llie guerillas and the guard, ia winch the former had been defeated and seat j tered.- The guard had got information by some 1 means of the intended attack, and had sent to I'ut-hla for a reinforcement of mounted men, \ which had arrived just in tiino and by a circuit- ! ous route, and had attacked the guerillas in the rear, so that only a few had of them escaped from ; cither death or capture. The sisters had scarcely bid adieu to the Itidi- ' 'in woman, when on reaching a turn in the road j lliev came upon one of the guerillas, seated up- j >n a stone. A handkerchief was bound round i Ills head?his fac<\ pale and hagganl, was spot- j Led with blood, and there was a look of wild re- j rerigo in his eye as be recognized the appioach of the two girls. They at tirst alarmed on perceiving whom . li m- li.i.l .nm.iivul f. ?% \f tv??i %n U'lm IVilS before thorn, hut when they saw that the gueril- , la was wound"d, and apparently feulVering, in the j true spirit of womanly companion both the foung tT'ils ran up to him and inquired what j they could do to assist him. This appeared for a moment to soften the bit- j :cr spirit of the wounded man, and in a manner )f more tenderness than hi u-uallv exhibited, he vquoscod one of tiiein to bring him a draught >f water, while the oilier rebound the handkerchief upon lib wound. The eider >ider immediately ran to fulfill his equest, while Dolores remained alone with the I guerilla. ?lie unbound the handkerchief with tender care, ind had commenced readjusting it, when the udd n trampling of horses' hoofs was heard,and X'fore the wounded man had time to escape, half i dozen Hangers came galloping up the road. The gueriila had seized his carbine, and was a- !.i:i' f ribo chapu.tral, wltan one of his :? !: OUTS cahcu ai llllll lu tiauil UIIU litqr tttttutt-'jrmr him. Seeing tin*, impossibility of escape, the man turned suddenly round and doggediy ap- j i? Touched the jcirlv of Hangers, who had halted i upon road. At thU moment Remodios returned, and r.> cogui/ii.g one of the Hangers, with an exclamation of delight, called out? "Don Santiago!" "Ila!" cried the guerilla, ''it is h<\" And: throwing up l?is carbine he fired at the young ! Danger, who had leaped from his horse, and was J ipproaching t lie girl. The hall took etleet, passing through the fleshy j part of ih. ItangoiT arm. The shock, brought { liim to th?- ground, and the wild laugh of the I jfinailli told that he In. lie v.. d hi* vengauce had been complete. The .pivk sue,vssi\e report* of half a dozen hies for a moment drowned this laugh, and when hey c ased it was heard no more. He that jad uttered it lay by the road a bleeding corpse. S.mrivnr Dissipation.?One of our recently deeted jadg- s has honoivd himself- b\ a resolute i ittcmpt to check fli-tij * of S ibhath dissipation. ! In ige Thompson r ad, a w- k ago. a severe lec- ! tuiv to the Corps of i*oii>tah!es, for in-gh-ctipg to : report the keepers of drinking saloons, confee- j LJfUl *l>. U *., *>U'? II IJJfil n'UUliU mi tin' Sabbath. Hi- informed the constables j that a!! -uoh traffic was in direct violation oftliP i laws or' t!u> commonwealth, amiif tin v tngl.ct- I tal t'? report tlm otlimdors, tlmy worn liable to j removal for minlem- a nor. The constables were | nut a hill.- d;-may<d at this n-jw line of <lutv i marked out lot th.-m, and will probably V.o some- j what lax in conforming to it. but it' the Judge | follows up the mr.a-uiv with vigor. th? public | morals will he ii?e gainer. Idi am s and dis-ipa- I patioti <>n the SabbathJiuve been increasing in | the city with fearful rapid it/, and but a small portion of the young iinm of the oity tire found in place* of worship.?Christian Chronicle. * ? Tin: Siueam of Livi:. ?Life bears on like the dream of ;i n.'ijiily ri\vr. (>ur beat at. lirst, ; glides. swifih down lla- narrow channel. through tli?"? play fill uiiiriiitiriii^s ?>f tiir littk* biook, and I winding alone; iU Jji'rii?y borders, (In- lives >hed j their blossoms over our voiin.tf lo-nds, an I tlio flowers on (he briakseem tooif-r, than -elves to our yoiuitr hands; we are in hope, ami we orasp t-a^'i iy at the bi-anii' S around u-. but the stream I hurries its on, ami dill our hands are empty. i < Mir course in voulli and manhood i> aloii^ a wider and deeper tlood, ami amid objects more , striking ami lna^iiitieeiif. We ire aniinai.-d by , the movin;* picture of enjoyment and industry ' that is passing before u-: v.eare-xei cd by short iiv< d success, or d pressed and render. d miserable by some shoit-liv->1 disappohitm'iit. Lhit tear energy -onl d- pend in<- are lioth in vain.? ; The stream b-ars us on, and our joys and oriels I arc l- ft b hind us; we may be shipwrecked but we cannot anchor: our voyage may be hastened, but we cannot be delayed; whether romdi or smooth, the river hastens tow i.d - its home; the j roarim* of the waves n b-ncath our keel,and the j land I> > >( Ms from our ryes, ti?<- l!o,>c.js ;nv litt< ! | uj> around us, and we take our last I- av.> of earth auii its inhabitants, and of our future voyage there is no witness but the iuiiuitc uud the eternal.?Bishop Hiber. The Fisheries.'?The New York Herald gives the following account of the origin of the difficulty between the American and Nova Scotia fishermen. Washington*, July G, 1852. 'r The British and Colonial governments are, at the present moment, adopting tlio most stringent measures for driving the American fishing vessels away from the ri-hing grounds in the Bay of Fundy, on the coast of Nova Scotia, and in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, to which points hundreds of those vessels resort every summer. By treaty, American fishermen are not allowed to fish within a maratime league of the coast, .'T> ? - - where is tiie best tisjmig around, nor in the Bay of FunJv; but they have been in the habit of disregarding the ).?rohibitiors, and not only have they done this, but they have gone on shore, and, it would J'p!tar, hav- carried on a considerable .. traffic with the itdiabitants, and it is said, in some instances, created disturbance. The Canadian government has fitted out a vessel to cruise in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, on b'-ard of which is a magistrate and police force; ' A'~ 'v four armed vessels have been fitted out by that tr' of Nova Scotia, which are commanded by very determined men, who are resolved to bring at- aj| fairs to a crisis; one has been fitted out at Newfoundland, and one will be sent into the Bay of FunJy l>y the government of New Brunswick. In the meantime, the British government have been equally on the alert, and the Admiral on the North American station lias despatched the Devastation steam frigate, which has been placed under the orders of the Governor of Prince Edward Island for the protecti n of the fisheries in that vicinity; an armed cutter has also been sent into the Bay of Fnndy, and has already * captured an American fisherman found in its waters. Two sloops of war have also been despatched to the Gulf of St. Lawrence?the Bermuda and Sappho?for the purpose of enforcing the treaty' and a small fleet'of armed vessels and steamers, I am credibly informed, are on their way from England, with a similar object. it is much to bo feared that this sudden and unexpected action may produce bloodshed; and WW? ^ its ultimate reference to the relations between the two countries, it is impossible to foretell.? The fishing vessels frequent the grounds in large bodies, several of them cruising in company; and it will not he matter of surprise if they, offer resistance to any small armed vessel which may interfere with their occupation, and thus produce a collision that may lead to consequences, of a serious nature, as an opposition w ill undoubtedly lead to a concentration of the British naval, forcer- on the station. fags"nTtl^American papers, and therefore hasten to send a statement of what has come to my knowledge, and will forward any further information that I may obtain from a reliable source. ' m0m Lovers.?People that are in love with each otln-r wonder that third persons should discover their sentiments. They fancy themselves in a kind of Calyso's Hand, and are astonished when a strange sail is seen approaching the coast.? The re i>. in point of fact, no paradise that has -uch a low a!i?J thin k-uceas this; every passerby can see through it. The growth of grace is liko the polishing of metals. There is first an opaque surface; by and by. you sec-a spark darting out: then a strong light; till at length it sends back a perfect image of the sun that shines upon it. Payson. ? -* ? - The liquor merchants of Newport are selling off tluir -1 -ok a< last as they can. During tho last two w?-i l:s one firm has put up five hundred gallons of liquor per day, in demijohns?this is ? beside what tiny have sold in large quantities.? The business of liquor se lling will be a bad investment in Rhode Island shortly, owing to tho Maine law. fr 1 i . __ It ' . L . J IICORY AND i'lltFAC l;,? \> e can never US built to?> steadfastly and permanently upon truthful principles; which, of course, must be developid and cultivated in us by every proper means; amount which thoughtful reading and meditation occupy a prominent place. lint the events and circumstances oflilo which exercise our principles, and which call upon in to make a partical application of the truths we know, these are our b. st instructors; and if wc fail in obedience here, and look for our lessons in a sofa-reclining perusal of philosophy, thinking to glide :? easily into goodness and solf-disciplino as we can sink into an after-din tier's nap, I am afraid wo shall make no way at ail in learning the. art of being happy; for that is the sum and substance of what we are seeking. An Irishman called on'a lady and gentleman in wh ?se employ he was, for the purpjse of getting some tea and tobacco. ' 1 had a dnune last night vour honor." "What was it, I'at "Why, 1 dramcd that ver honor made ine ft p-e<cnt of a phi;: of tobacco, and her ladyship there?heaven bless h a !?gave me some tav for the good wife." " Ah, Pat, dreams go ly contraries, you know." "Faith, and they tu.-u lx* that," said Pat, with out ti e he--itati.?n, "so her ladyship is to give tho tobacco and his honor the tav!" J ' "Have you not mistaken the pew, sir ?n bland* Iv said a Sunday Chesterfield to a stranger, as lie. ni.-r d i'. "I b-g pardon," replied tho intrudi.r "1 (bar L have took it for a ChristuinV' Mr. Meagher has declined, for the present, au invitation to vlsiLphiiadelphia. a Rubbing warts with solid potash wiik effectually rsinova them. ' r. .V'U1 ClrW " r \