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Price Two Dollars per annum in advowee, or $5.50 at the and of the year. If not paid until after tho y*r expire* $3.00. i?j P.iymont will be oonaidered in advnnce if mado a- . within three months. No subscription taken for ic*s than six months. Money may be remitted through postmasters at oar risk. .Ydrertisoments inserted nt the atual rates, and oaatraots made on reaaonuble terms. The Spartan circulates largely oyer this nnd adjoining dislriots, and offers an admirable medium to our friends to resoh customers. - * Job work of all kinds promptly oxecntcd. Blanks, Law and Equity, continually on hand or printed to order. CAROLiM"SRARTTN. * mrro rvn ?Txr*nn nut JLI1J& VIVa.iri/VUr?i JHixL. The following act to promote the im- ^ provetnent of swamp lands was passed at 0 the late session of our Legislature, and is c now in full force: F An Act to promote tbo draining and improvement of Inland Swainps. I. Be it enacted bj the Senate and House of Representatives, now met and silling in General Assembly, and by the authority of the same, That whenever two-thirds or more of the proprietors of tho lands lying in any inland swamp, owning not less than two-thirds of such swamp, shall associate themselves together by written articles of agreement, for tbe purpose of draiuing and improving the same, (to be filed and recorded in tho Clerk a office of the district in whioh the said land or the larger portion thereof may lie,) they shall thereupon become and be a body corporate for the purpose aforesaid, by tbo name of the proprietors of said swamp, designated by tbo name by which it is commoniy called aud known, and shall have power and authority to make and ordain by-laws for the regulation and government of such corporation, not inconsistent with any Iaw or statute of force within this State, and to make such assessments of money and labor on tho members of the corporation as may be requisite for carrying into effect the objects thereof. II. That it shall be lawful for every such corporation, by its agents, surveyors, engineers and assistants, to onler upon nny lands and premises lying in or near the swamp, for the drainiug and improvement whereof such corporation shall have been formed, and owned by persons not being members of such coloration, for tho purpose of inspecting, examining, and sun-eying the same; and if it shall appear, by the report of a competent ongiuecr, to be nocossary for tho draining and improvement of such swamp, that any canal, water way, ditch, drain, dam, embankment, sluice, flood-gate or other work, should bo mudoor constructed iu, through or upon any lauds of any person not a member of the corporation, and no agreement can be made for obtaining tho consent of the owner of said laud thereto, then such corporation may apply, ' by petition to the Court of General Sessions and Common Pleas of the district in which sueh land is situated, (and if it liea in seve- ral districts, to the court of either of said districts,) setting forth the facta of the case, and praying that Commissioners may be appointed by the Court, to ascertain and assess the value of the land which would be occupied by such works, and also the amount of loss or damage which the making orcoustructiou thereof would cause to tho owner of the land; a copy of which petiiiou, together with a copy of the engineer's report upon which it is founded, and notice in writing of the time and nlac? at same will be brought lo a bearing, shall j bo served upon the owner of the land at j least ten days before such heating. And upon the hearing of such petition, unloss it be denied by afliJavit that it is necessary ^ for the draining and improvement of sucu swamps to make or construct any such works as aforesaid, through or upon the land owned by any person not a member of the corporation, and affirmed in the same ' manner that such swamp can be as well 1 and effectually drained and improved without eucroacbiug upon any sucb land, tbe 1 Court sball appoint tbree competent and dis- ' interested persons to bo Commissioners for the purposes aforesaid. And the persons so appointed, having first been duly sworn to [ execute and perform the duties assigned tbem as such Commissioners, truly and im- v partially, and to the best of their judgment ' and ability, sball proceed to inspect and y oiamiue tbe premises, giving at least tbree ! days' previous notice of .such inspection * and examination to the partios interested, ana after such inspection and examination to make the valuation aforesaid, and return . tbe same in writing under their hands to J the Court. Hut in case of such denial and 8 affirmation as aforesaid, the issue so made shall be submitted in a summary manner ? to a jury, and upon the findinc of tbe 1 jury, if tbe same shall be for the peti- s liouers, Commissioners shall be appointed c and proreed as before directed; but if the ( jury find for the respondent* or defendants, . no appointment of Commissioners shall bo made; Provided, That either party may ^ more for a now trial; but not more tban one new trial shall be allowed in any caso on tbe 6aine issue. Either party may appeal from the valuation and assessment I made by the Commissioners to the Court A at its next session after such valuation and r assessment, giving reasonable notice of 6ucb appeal to the other parly; whereupon the " Court shall cause a new valuation and as 8 sesement to be made by a jury, and their n verdict shall be final and conclusive, unless ^ a new trial be granted: Provided, That not more tban one new trial shall be allowed in any such case of valuation and assessment, a Upon the final determination of such valuH- &l tion and assessment, either by tbe return of f tbe Commissioners not appealed from, or tl in case of appeal by tbe finding of a jury u not appealed trom,or upon a second finding | p iftor r new trial is granted, and upon payment of the amount of such valuation and issesament to the party entitled to receive the same, OY Mj?f$ ieudci Mud refusal inure>f And payment of the same into Court, it ra ihall be lawful for the corporation, at all CJ lines thereafter, by its officers and agents, ,o enter upon the land to which such valuaion and assessment bad reference, for the M >urpo*o of making and constructing, main- je aining and keeping in repair, any such ^ vork aa aforesaid. In all cases of appeal y nil costs shall be awarded, and the colloc- q ion thereof enforced as in oases of trespass >n the case. ^ III. That if any person owning land in or ;r tear any inland swamp, for the draining j,( ind improvement whereof any such corpo- ]a ation shall have been formed, not being a Bj nember of the same, or any tenant or agent 0| if such person, shall, for the purpose of Dj [raining, flowing, or in any manner using, g, icnefiting or drawing profit from such land, b, nake use of any canal, water-way, ditch, g, Irain, dam, embankment, siuico, flood gate, Cf T other work made or constructed by such fr orporation, without the oonsent of the cor- c< loration, such owner or tenant shall bo liable o pay to the corporation suolt reasonable rent borofor as they mav demand, not exceeding oe-third of tho clear annual value of the i) ind, including any addition thereto derived sc roiu the use of any such work as aforesaid. ;n 'hat if the ownor of the land, in or near j] ,ny inland swamp, for the draining and mprovemeut whereof any such corporation p; hull have been formed, desires to become jj, member of such corporation, instead of ,w niying rout as above provided, he shall bo jsi it liberty to do so by paying bis proportion j0 >f the expenses incurred by the company, y rilh interest on tho same. r( IV. Ttinl all the lands drained and im- rv? rruved by any corporation formed as afore- ai aid, aud owned by members of Buch corpo- di ation, sbnli be iinble for debts of s| he corporation; and if tho land of any A nember of auy such corporation shall be h< aken in execution and sold to satisfy any ni udgment or deoiee against the corporation, e< lie person whose iand shall have been so w aken in OXAPIltinn inrl ?nl/l almll K? anli. led to receive, as componsatiou therefor, by e: iontribution from the otlior members of tlio cl :orporation, the value thereof, and shall tv iave the benefit of the lien of such judg- ai nent or decree for enforcing the pa} tuenl h hereof; for avbich purpose such judgment c< >r decree shall remain in full force and ci rirtue. ft V. That any person baring a legal or Njuitnblo estate, in fee or for life, in land ^ ying in any inland swamp, or in land hrongb or upou which it may be necessary o make or construct any work for draining l' >r improving any such swamp, (except <>' nor? trustees without beneficial interest,) hall be deemed a proprietor or owner of V( uch laud for tiie purposes of this act; and h U every caso in whicli any such person ~ hall be an infant, married woman, idiot or n unatic, tho guardfctn of such infant, the ' lusband of such married woman, and the "I lommitleo of such idiot or lunatic, shall bo d' leeiucd a proprietor or owner of such laud h or the purposes of this act: J>rovidtd, That such guardian, husband or committee, tl hall apply in a summary way, by petition, h o the Court of Chancery, in behalf of their ct espcctivo infants, wives, idiots or lunatics, r< i\* UuVA Ia lvflOAm rt mAmknM cl WI IVIKV %vr wwwuiu UlCillUCia VI UIIJ CUT* "' >oration formed under this act fur draining al ind improving tho swamp in which Iho 'J' and of such infanta, wives, idiots and luun- l' ics, are aituatod, in respect of auch lands, a ind tho said Court shall have powor to in- ' juire iuto the propriety of granting such n: oavo, and to make auch order therein as "< nay seem meet; and if the Court shall grant eave, it shall bo lawful for tho person who ir hall have presented tho petition to become NV i party to tiro articles of association fur orming such corporation in respect of such n! and, and the same shall bo as binding and stToctual to all intents and purposes as if a uch person had been the actual proprietor ^ >f auch laud. I VI. That every Bwamp, except such as 1:1 ire commonly called river swamps, or river s? rottoins, or river margins, shall be deemed M in inland swauip for the purposes of this f ict. ? VII. That every corporation formed unlor tho provisions of this act shall have r< i chairman and a secretary, and shall 11 ieep regular minutes of its proceedings. ' VIII. That whenever two-thirds or moro st >f the proprietors of the swamp or bottom fl auda lying on any river, creek, or other ?! valor course, owning not leas than two-thirds >f all such swamp or bottom, shall enter into al vritton articles of ngreemeat that such c* iwainp or bottom shall be deemed and tarrttl In Kn ?n inlunil ontnmn ? *.! I- I! - - . ..I...UX4 "IIU l>c nilDJQCl 1 o tho provisions of this act, such swamp f.1 )r bottom shaii thereupon be deemed and " aken to bo an inland swamp, and be sub- ? ect to all the provisions of this act, in the . ame manner as other inland swamps, and jV he owners thereof shall be invosted with , dl the rights, powers, and privileges herenbefore given to the owners of inland i e' wamps, and shnll be subject to the same ? ouditions and obligations. IX. That where . said inland swamp is ' wnod to the amount of two-thirds by one ndividual, he or she shall possess all the ights and powers conferred by this acton al he corporation aforesaid. i<t^ sc SoiTIIKTlJf quarterly ikeview.?This ^ rublicalion, from its commencement in w 'few Orleans, by Mr. Wliitaker, until its cr omoral from Charleston, a period of thir* j, con years, or twonty-six volumes complete, fr irmly and neatly half bound, is offered for ale at the original subscription price. To tj, , publio or private library the work would ft. e valuable. (U The "Whoso Noose.?Ichabod Origgs, q, sober, industrious man, in easy circura- v< iances, hung himself near L>an/illo, Va. n? fo cause is Known for the rash act, except in bat ho was to have been married on the M oxt day. The license was found in his ' L ocket.' I of DEATH OF HUGH MILLER, ' or BDINBL'ROK, SCOTLAND. in common with thouaands in *hL? pwy, wo are shocked at the sudden announcetent of the death, under distressing cirxmttances, of this eminent man. It seotns ut yesterday that lie received us in his wn house, conducted us through the malum which cost him so much labor to cob ct, and in the imaginary defence of which 0 seems to have perished by his own hand, ir'o respond to the remarks of the Scottish uardian : "The announcement of tho death of Ilugh tiller will he heard with a thrill of genuio sorrow throughout the Church in which a was a stand aidNearer? throughout Scotnd, of which he was one of the most conlicuous ornaments?throughout tho world f science, which associates his honored stuo with those of the men most distintiished in our day, ns fellow-workers in uilding up the stately fabric of the modern eology." The intelligence win communiited to the public in the following terms om the oiBce of tlio paper of which he was litor: T'V^v. ! ',* . ' Witness Office, Dko. 24. "sudden death of mu. nuun miller, "It is our melancholy duty to announce lis sad evout. Mr. Miller had hecn ill for >mo time?working hard and late at night, 1 completing his new work on Geology, [e bad become, in consequence, subject to jgravated attacks of night mare, which irtook of the nature of' somnatnbusui. Some time ago attempts had been indc to break into his museum; and he, i consequence, had always slept with a ailed revolver on tho table by his Bide, esterday, on account of headache and un ifreshing sleep, he had seen his medical J visors, who had warned him of overwork, id prescribed suitably. Last night, accoritig to their request, he had taken a warm mnge bath, and retired early to rest. Bfter having slept some considerable time, e had apparently awaked in a fit of nighttare, and, taking up the pistol, had reach* 1 the bed-room door, as far as the bath, bich had been left, aftor use, in the ad* lining apartment. There the pistol had rploded, the bullet passing through the test, nnd death must have been instantaeous. The sound not having been heard t this hour of the night by any of the ouschold, Mr. Miller's body was not disjvered till this morning. Under existing rcumstances, we cannot at present dwell irthcr on this sad calamity." To the above distressing particulars the Icolanian ndds the following remarks: "However sadly this narrative may touch fr. Millet's immediate friends, it will be to rem less startling than to Others unware t his peculiar temperament, nnd of his re>ut state of health as a sufferer from ner[>u? depression and irritation. Mr. Miller as fallen a victim to overwork of ibo brain -iho peculiar malady of those days, and of icn of hisHilass. Such, wo know, was utid ad long been his owu conviction. Years jo, nnd again within these two or three ays, he was pleasad, in the goodness of his eart, to warn the writer of those few hasr and halting words against what ho lought dangers of that class, pointing to is own case as an example detuning from >ntinuous efforts nnd anxieties. In this sspect, however, Mr. Miller suffered, we is peel, from a somewhat peculiar temperincut?he did not work easy, but with iborioua special preparation, and then with irocs that tortured hiin during the process, tid left him exhausted afterward, in sayig this, however, we speak only of the lore recent years; and it is at least six or iten years since we heard him complain mt hard work had left him only 'half a ian,' and that he could do only half work ith double toil. "Although apparently a man of physical 5 well us moral courage, he hnd a curious indeney to keep firo arms about his house t\T 1 . _ 1 - \' * " 1 uu jicij-uu. >>11011 ne uvea at toyivuu lace, to tlio south of the Meadows, ho was ecustomcd, when going home after nightill, to carry a loaded pistol, arul, from >mo allusions in his work, 'First Impresonaof England,' it appears that ho follow3 the same practice when travelling, or at last when on his pedestrian excursions, hie of his very oldest friends, ordinarily isidingin a distant part of the country, joclarly surprised hitn ono night two or three ears ago in a well-frequented Edinburgh root," and was amazed by his suddenly irning round and presenting a pistol. Wo alicva that tho habit was acquired by Mr. [iller when he was accountant in a bank l Cromarty, and employed occasionally to irry specie to tho oilier branches. To 1st habit wo hava apparently in great art to ascribe the event wo to-day deplore, ud which a largo proportion of tho Scotch povplo wib hear with startling and riof." The principal incidents of Mr. Miller's life tve been made familar to tho public in is delightful autobiographical voluino, "My diools and School-masters." Ilis first litary productions appeared in tho columns the Inoerness Courier, when Mr. Miller as woiking as n journeyman mason in rotnarty; and the accomplished editor of lat journal, Mr. Carrutliers, hns told us, as lustraling his homely habits a*, thai time, id which never altogethef forsook him hen he wa9 placed in a more elovated icial position, that he was accustomed to alk up to Inverness witu his ooinmunicnens on the Saturday afternoons, always caring his mason's leathern apron, lite dlected papers, written bolwecn the yean 320 and 1832, "in loisuro hours snatched om a laborious employment, or during ie storms of w inter, when the worker in 16 open air has to seek shelter at home," rpoAied hi 1834, under the title of "Scenes id Legends of the North of Scotland, or io Traditional History of Cromarty," and rincod powers of descriptive writing of a try high order. At an oarly period in the xidntrusion controversy, which resulted i the disruption of the Church of Scotland, r. Miller published a letter addrosscd to ord Brougham, defending thb proceedings ' the reforming party in the Church, in a style of earnest and dignified reraonalranc and with a cogency of reasoning and a fori and facility of expression which al on< pointed liiin out to the leading men in tl Church as eminently qualified to promol the popular cause. The result was the e tablishment of the }Vitnrn newspaper, an the appointment of Mr. Miller as its edito Oar readers will remember the seal an energy with which Mr. Miller devoted hin self to the defence of the church's spirKui liberties. Gveu beyond tho iramedini sphere of tho contest, his vigorous, livel. and trenchant articles wero universally ren and admired, ns specimens of powerful coi troversial writing. Doyond all comparisoi out of tho Church Courts, Hugh Miller wi tho most popular champion the church po sessod. At the time of her triumphant en du9, when her ministers and members a; seiubled in Canonmills Hall in the full flu* of victory nnd freedom, the appearance < none of her defeudors, amidst that vast an animated throng?where Chalmers an Welsh, Gordon nnd Cunningham, an Candlish stood conspicuous?elicited plai dits louder and longer than when Hug Millor was Reeii lifting his stalwart fori nnd noble head amongst the people. To Mr. Miller's versatile talents, and tl varied contributions of his pen to criticise nri, philosophy, and science, is applicnbl nlso, moro than to any other writer of tl day. t>e panegyric pronounced upon Gol smith, that there was no branch of know edge which he did not touch, nnd whi( touching he did not adorn. His most pr? found work, the "Footprints of tho Create I or tho Aslerolopis of Slromness," is a co tribulion to natural theology of inestimab importance. It has been adopted aaa tej book by uomo of the imst eminent teaclie nf /vonlonut in tl>J> TTn ivnaaifi^e* "* ~ WM.TV..IUKI-, H1IVI l? II dono more to expose the atheistical fallaci and sophistries of the "Vestige* of tho Nat ral History of Creation" that even the el borato essays of Sodgwick and Brewster. [ New Vorlc Observer. Christ no Writer. One of the most remarkable facts in tl history of Christ is, that he left no writirij behind him, and the only record thero is his writing anything is in tho caso whe "lie stooped down and with his finger wro upon the grouud." What bo wrote the and there no one. knows; though porha| -the most plausible conjecture is that 1 wrote the answer to tho question, wheth tho woman taken in the act of adultc should be stoned? "He that is without si among you, let him ca.-it a stone at her Hearer, did litis strange fact ever occur you, that the greatest reformer that ev lived?professedly the divine teacher se of God to reveal his truth to the worldwhose touching* have survived the \vr? of ages, and now c unraaod tho credent the respect and the most profound ndtuir ti ouof tho enlightened world, and who claimed as tho "author and finisher" of great system of faith and practice, has U behind him no sentence of his writing, hi: those unknown characters written with I finger in the sand constitute the sum tot of all Ins u rilinrr. nf ivlnoli ilio.n !a n count? Is there, or lias there over been, since ll invention of letters, oreven rudu hicroglyp iea, Hiiy such thing as n system of religio whose founder did not lake special pains reduce his teachings to writing, and ih give them the most exact and permane tonn? The Hruhmins have their Vedas, the Pen ran as, th.ir Kainaynu and their lat and institutes of Menu, and these aro a written and preserved with theutmostcai The Chinese have their books ofFohi, the founder, as opened and expounded by llu great Confucius. Tho Persians have the Zendevcsla, attributed to their leader, Zor aster, containing liic doctrine and laws their religion. Tho Jews had their sacr< books; and Motes and the prophets, ami 1) vid, and Solomon, put their teachings writing, that thev might be preserved. Plato and Pythagoras, and Cieccro at Demosthenes, wrote much. Mahom wrote the Koran, and gave it to the faithf as their guide. The w ritings of Swede borg aro voluminous; and in our day. ov< the Mormon impostor wrote his hook Mormon. Put here comes one who clain precedence even to Moses and Abrahai and especially claims that a greater tin Solomon is in his own person, and a nouncing himself as a herald of a now di pensation from God, which is to cast M scs and the prophets in tho shade, and pr vail over all other systems, and subduo 01 entire race, and yet this great teacher wro never a word, save only the characters the sand, which the next breath of wii mig'.rt obliterate. Who can account f this Strang*; procodinef Will itcomport all with the idea that ho was an iiuposto 1?;,i .... : ? - - ,;i , ?'.M vvi ?% 11 iiilj'USl M |)Ul.tUU 1% LVUI9U lit ; this? Vever. And it seems to us that in tl single fact to which wo have alluded, there the impress of truth, and proof that his ini j sioti is all divine, lie stands.oul before ' i nsonewlio knows that his mission is fro Ood, an<l that it can stand upon its own mt its. So confident is ho of its power, that he content to breathe it out upon God's ai and leave it to live by its own inherent at self perpetuating immortality, or live not all. And ho ho goes about doing goo now teaching in the synagogue and tempi now talking to his disciples as he sits c Olivet ?>r by the sea of Galileo, and no dropping a word as he walks l>y the wa And there is not manifested the slighte apprehension that what be says will bo lot lie writes it nut on stono or pnrebmet Nay, ho writes it not at all. Ho soeks o ly to give it a lodgment in the hearts the few disciples that followed him? make them comprehend it, snd feel its poi er, and love it; and is willing to leave there to produce its fruits, and to be wri ten by the hand of affection, if it should I written at all. And on those hearts hod impress himself; and they, lor the love tin bore him, wrote the meagre sketch wo ha . of his life and teachings. ' [ /iei'. J. D, Williamson. Charlotte ami her Recollections. I Besides tlio honor of being the sent o 0 j 'lis CcjVCrilicit iii 1775, thai issued tin 16 | first Declaration of Independence, Charlotte in Mecklenburg, North Carolina, bos claim upon posterity, both singular and meritori ous. The centre of a fertile and populou rj country, she was doomed to see the bloo< of her rons shed and the Declaration o lj Independence of all foreign dominion main tained at the point of the British bayonet le Coruwnliis called Charlotte the "hornet' Fj nest," and unwilling to pay for supplie with so much Knglisu blood, after the fata 1 battle At King's Mountain became knowi Q| to him, his lordship determined to leav iH this vexatious post. To prevent annoyance *' ho chose to depart suddenly, and in th< ">" night. Mr. McCalfery, a man of wealtl s. and standing, a Scotchman, and resident it ' Charlotte, was chosen as their guide to leai "'J thorn by the upper and noarest route ti 1(* South Carolina. After so bewildering th j army in the swamps, that much of thei baggage was lost, be contrived to escApc and leave the army to find their way b; '1 the returning light of day. n Colonel '1 nomas I'olk, so favorably men tioned iu the hittory of the Declaration 10 owned property to and around CharlotU D? liis mill was between two and three mile south of the village, and is now called Bit '? sell's. His body lies interred in the gra\ 1 " yard of the village. Over his grave am 1* !.-? -ru:. ?:r- O - . . , k..?fc ui ijis mio ousnunaii, uts son Willmii 1 Polk, Into of Raleigh, erected a mnrbl slab, a memorial of bis resting place. 'r' Tho Folk family canio early to Mecklen *?" burg, and in tho timo of the Kevolutio e were numerous, and some of them ver wealthy. They resided, part of them, i tho boutids of Sugar Crock congregatior as and part of them in Providence. "Atuon, M thorn was Kzekicl Polk, tho grandfather c u" James K. Polk, President of the Unite a" States. Tho descendants have all etnigral ed from the country, mostly to Teuncssci or Slates further South. Garden, in his anecdotes of the Atueri can Revolution, says: "Nor were the ladie 10 in Mecklenburg in any degree inferior i gs enthusiasm to tho male poputlion. I tin of in the South Carolina and American Gei re era! Gazette, from the 2d to tho 9lh of l'\ le bruary, the following paragraph: m "The young ladies of the best families ( ps Mecklenburg county, North Carolina, hav ie entered into a voluntary association, tlir er they will not receive the addresses of an ry youug gentleman at that place, except th in bravo volunteers who served in the cxped tion to South Carolina, and nssistod in sul to doing the Scovalite insurgents. The ladie er being of opinion thnt such persons as sta nt loitering at home, when tho important cal ? of the country demand their services abroa< :k must certainly bo destitute of that nobh :e, neas of sentiment, that brave, tuatity spiii a which would qualify them to be the defei is ders and guard inns of the fair sex/' a "Tho ladies of tho adjoining county < :i\ uowan nave desired the plan of a siinilr id association to Lo drawn up and prepared fc lis signatures."?Sketches of Xorth Curoliiu at ^ x- The Etymology or \ Lady.?Tho stat< lrient of Col. Iienton, that the word "lady ie is nowhere used in the Scriptures, is, so fn h- as the original is concerned, literally tru< nf The word itself is of comparatively moder to invention, and there is no word in the or us ginal of the Scriptures that has any signif nt cation corresponding with that of the wor "lady," as at present received. In view c iir the subject, the following 'clip' is from a *h old Scotch publication called4,'l'ho Uhristia ill Teacher:" e. "A Lady.?The word lady is an nbbrr sir viation of the Saxon Lajfday, which sign sir ties lireadyivcr. Tho mistress of a tnano jr nt a time when atllueut families reside 0. constantly nt their country mansions, wi 0f accustomed once a week, or oftcncr, to dii tribute among the poor a certain quantit j. of bread. She bestowed the boon with In jn own hand, and made the hearts of tho need glad l>y the soft words and tho gentle an ,j enitics which accompanied her benevolenc el The widow and tho orphan 'rose up, an u| called hor blessed'?the destitute aird th n. ntllictod recounted hor praises?nil cla?M ;n of tho poor ombr.lmcd her in their affe< 0f lions as tho Laffday?tho giver of brea 11;1 and dispenser of comfort?a sort of mini n tering angel in a world of sorrow. Who (|j a lady now! Is it she who spends In n. days in self indulgence, and her nights i js. the dissipation of folly? Is it she who r 0. I vals the gayety of the butterfly, but hati 0. | tho industrious hum of the 'busy bee?' J jr j it she who wastes, on gaudy finery, whi ) would make many a widow's heart sing fc in j?.v? Mn^ wbo, when the rags of the orplin ,,j tlutter before her in tho wind, sighs for 5r place of refuge, as if the pe?tiicnco were i | the breeze? This may bo 'a woman < tfi ; fashion'?she may be an admired and a a 1 admiring follower of the gay world." *.* i The Press in Lonuun and in Ne1 18 York.?Three actions for libel have recen ls" ly been tried in London, and in each cas the defendants have been acquitted. Ila 111 the cases been tried in Now York, each < the defendants would havo been convictcr We ha?c noticed repeatedly that Kngiis _ j juries are tho staunch and unHinchin ' friends of the Press, and that it is very di j ficult in any part of Great Pritain to get ' verdict against an oditor, while here a ' j editor can scarcely escape, and juries iuvr >n ; riably hold "that everything which is n< complimentary ton man is lil?ellous." Th proceeds somewhat froin tho careless mat ner in which many ofoor editors make the ^ statements and assail personal character, an also from the manner in which they liahiti "j. ally abuse each other. So long as editoi accuse each other of motives and condtu ? that would disgrace tho inmates if lb State prison, they should not complain < I ; the community esteem them according t . their own report.?Porter's Spirit <y t) .j Times. A bill has parsed the Wisconsin Legi vc laluro excluding negroes, inulattoes, Ind nns and black persons from being witnossr in that Stato, J . Cuba and Annexation. f We perceive that tho subject of the en* a nexation of Cuba is reviving with renewed , force in tbo mind* of tire people. Filibus? tering. or ralber stealing, tbe "gcrn of tbe * Antilles" la given up, we are happy to say, s nnd tbo "sober fecund thought" of tbe 1 "solid people" i\ that if we have Cuba at f all, it inust be by fair and honest means; in t other words, having a national treasury full to repletion, aud Spain being bankrupt, wo must take advantage of her necessities, a plank down tbe cash and own Cuba. We 1 see no objection to ibis course; it will satisi fy honest people at home and abroad; and o as it is now admitted that Kansas will come , in as a free Slate, it is quite likely that the 0 Southern politicians will favor a peaceable > acquisition of Cuba, as an offset, and Mr. t Buchanan's wishes, expressed before he was J President elect, of securing both these ad0 vantages to the Union, will probably be re e itlized under his administration. The unir versal desire in the North to have the su, gar tariff repealed will probably be gratified y by the absorption of Cuba, so dial we shall have cheaper sugars, without nny violent m- change, nnd the Louisiana planters will i, most likely transfer their interests to Cuba. and thus will be quietly and peaceably np a propriated by the United Slates the great '* monopolies of sugar, cotton and tobacco, all e relying upon slave labor for their support, d and rendering the institution permauent, n beyond control?for so long as these greatI e est staples of human wants are in demand, so long will the slave bo profitable, and so I i- long will those interested his fortunes n have intluence in our national councils to V protect and maintain the relation of slave n and master. The annexation of Cuba seems I it to 1 e demanded mutually by tbo people o( g tho North and South. To the first named, ?f because it will give u? a necessary of life p cheaper; to the second, because it will ( - strengthen its political infiuencc, aud act for H, a time at least as an offset to the rapidly growing free States that are springing up 1 in tho great West. According to onr view H* of tho matter, Providence is working out flu the great question which agitates the courtd try, and by the peaceable rules of necessi >- ty, reconciling tho extremes of the country, - I and unitinir thom firmflf ?n.l a?-.? i 0 ?. ?..m iiiiiiqi uy luir tual interests.?Leslie's Illustrated jTctes' >f pajyr. I' ' Election of Unitku States Senator. ^ -?On Wednesday last tho legislature ol ,c Delaware re elected lion. James A. Bayard l* as United Slates Senator fur six years froiB ^ the 4 th of March next, and elected lion !s Martin \V. Bates for the unexpired term ol lion. John M. Clayton, deceased. We have '.s already announced, in our telegraphic col umn, the election of Hon. J. S. Gieen, bj L" the legislature of Missouri, to fill the vacan l' cy in the Senato of the United States which 1 has existed sinco the expiration of Genera! Atchison's term ou the 4 th of March, 1655 At a timo when the democratic party " has siutiiiued so many losses from the ,r treachery of professing friends as well a? the assaults of open foes, the above annouueo Q. inent will be roeoived with more than ordi' ,? narv satisfaction. Wc may well congratulate the legislature of Delaware upon the a wisdom an J patriotism of their choice. This u' renewed evidence of confidence on the pari j of the democracy of that State towards Mr j. Bayard is but a fitting tribute to bis expex\ lience as a legislator, bis abilities as s ,f statesman, bis devotion to tho principles 01 ? the democratic party, and to that uuboud n i iii? iiiwrjjmy 01 purpose which has secured for liim an influence which is foil far beyond j. ihe boundaries of his own Slate. His new j. colleague, Mr. Hates, is highly spoken of by r his personal nnd political friends, j Tho new senator from Missouri, lion. J ,8 S. Green, has already served with great dis , sinction in tho House of Representatives v and for one or two years most efficiently ,"r represented this country at New Grenada y lie is an uncompromising democrat, and possesses legislative talents of a high order 0 ?Washington Union, Jan. 10. e A New State.?The Western Reserve is projrosoj as a now Slate, outside o| : "Ohio Proper," which "goes democratic" by ,d a small majority. The Cleveland Plains dealer thus speaks: "Ohio Proper" need is have nothing to say about affairs in *"1*111 ;r Reserve.' Wo are a peculiar people, run n ning altogether to priests, puritanism, and 1 pumpkin vines. Oherlin is to he tho cap;s ital of our new Slate, and Giddinga is tola Is the l'righam Voting of the concern. Wo it men are going to vote; nnd men are going >r to part their hair in the middle. Par.la n loons will give place to pantalets, and a white men will not he allowed to ran al n , large without their papers. Our railroad* >f I will run under ground, and will make con< n neclions only with Canada and Kentucky. fhe Constitution will bo construed strictly, and all men will he considered equal, and soino a little more so, depending ot? thcii 1 color. The State of 'The Reserve' hv the ie i . i i j ? 1 K'i?ca ?>i josnua li. untiling*, is hereby do ^ clared h fiec and independent State. Hdiio Proper' and all the other State* of this | I'nion ?v 111 please conduct themselves aei cordinglv." 8 ' 1 Mr. Kuchaman and Kansas,?Soma o n the know-nothing papers (?ays the N**h k. ville Union) profess to believe that Mr. l>u )t rhannn will not bo true to the South or j9 j Kansas matters. We tell theso pa|>or* thai j. | to be tine to the South, it is only ueccunrj jr he should bo true to the constitution. Tin I democratic party doe* not expect nor desirt , that the incoming administration shall d< rrt anything to make Kansas a sinve or a fret >t State; that is exactly the policy we oppose ie Nor do thev caTu what Mr. Ihichanan'i jf private views may be on tho abstract ques 0 lion of slavery, so lie recognise* and en ^ force* its constitutional rights. The demo oracy stand upon national, not sectiona ptinciples; and all they a*k for is that nc * outside influence shall be brought to beai i- upon this question, but that it shall be lift '* solelv to ihoso whom it concerns, viz: Tki, ' jvople of I he Territory lKcmt>fli*s. h_ *'* I Tire Disi'hion Convention.?Afwdfc.' Jlie Massachusetts fanatics rec?nllf j, Convention at Worcester, (o devise raoa* for the effectual Reparation of the I from the slave States. Senator Wilson, now nppears to be in rather bad order with i < that class, lie wrote a letter to the Con?^ j vehtion, in which he said "that fye had ^ with sincere and profound regret a ment which can hare no other issue than to put a burden on the cause of f<eedpat, It will, in his judgment, array against the anti-slavery sentiment that intense feeling of patriotism which glows for union in the JC. -vl nation. He regarded all such movements as disunion conventions ax crimes against freedom." Upon this, a certain Mr. MeYay , arose nnd objected to "calling Mr. Wilson either Honorable or General. He protest* cd that Wilson was not worthy of eitfcfefe title. An honorablo man ascends to God. Wihou does not. All the generals he had ever heard or read of would fight; wlwa challenged, Wilson did not tight; therefore he would strip the titles he falsely wears from him." As to Senator Sumner, another speaker stated that he had had a "talk" with him in Uoslon, a few days previous, and when he asked him if, when ho gdt back to Washington, ho would reiterate his word* again t blavery, Mr. Sumner Tcplicd; "Reiterate, reiterate. If, when 1 iget back ta Washington, I uiake the speech 1 expect to t make, it will be like fourth proof brandy.. ?: to molasses and water." When asked w hat result lie expected from it, ho replied, ?Fv "I expect to be shot; there is nothing else left for them to do." - S> Tm: Gou> Regions or Calico;w?*ia Oittuonk.?The Santa Ke Gazette announces the nrrivnl of Mr. Idler, the agent and general director of the Mining Coropaay,r **' organized some time since in Washington f cily, to work the Placer mines near Santa ie. air. Kurtz, a machinist from Norm' engine shop, in Philadelphia, and Mr. Chnppin, a millwright, all engaged in the same business. This, says the Gazette,% a new era in the history of New Mexico, Two steam engines, with crushing apparatus, are soon to be put in operation at the > Placer mines, and the question will be settled as to whether gold abounds in suflh ' cient quantities to justify the cost of extract- >* , ing it by this description of machinery. If the experiment proves successful, it most . produce a change in the business of ,tk? f Territory, for the quantity of gold bearing I earth and rock is admitted to be inexhatttfe i bio, and there is room for any number of gt" . machines. f It has been staled that the gold minec of s New Mexico bid fair to eqoal those of C*l? forma. A letter from Santa Fe to a Call? fornia paper gives a romantic account of their discovery. The story goes that a i Mexican woman returned from a captivity 1 of eight years among the Covotery Apaches . of the Gila country, bringing extraordinary accounts of gold treasures in the region iq! habited by that tribe. The woman says i that in the region from whence she escape!, : gold exists in every quarter on tho surface, and in great quantities, and that there was - one large lump imbedded in the side of % i bill, and jealously guarded by the tribe. [ A Fearfcl Passage.?We have been informed by Mr. P. F. Frazoe, Sr., who was a passenger on board the steamer k Marion, which left New York on Saturday p afternoon, at 3 o'clock, for Charleston, . where sho arrived vesterdav mornin<r iW / e*? I the trip waa in the greatest degree fearful. | During Saturday niglit a storm came up, [ and the steamer was compelled to laj to at [. Cape Hatteras for 26 hours in consequence of its violence. The cold, too, was so intense that horses were frozen to death, and . tho deck nnd combing*, masts, sails, rigging, and every portion of the vessel exposed, wero covered with ice to the thickness of G or 1 inches. The steamer Black W'arri| or, front Havana, bound to New York, passed the Marion while wlte was lying to, and Mr. Frazee informs us that she was lit* erally covered with ice. Wo take this occasion to state that Mi\ j. Frnz.c speaks in the most complimentary . manner of the skill and superior managei inent of tho Marion by the olliccrs during I the prevalence of the gale, when every passenger on board had concluded it almost im[?ost>iblc for tho vessel to outlive ike I storm. Captain Foster and Mr. Thomas, the pilot, proved themselves wurthy the re( sponsible positions they occupy, and tbeis vessel one of the tdn mchest crafts now ply-. , ing between New York nnd Charleston. - ;?: [Cofuttibia Times, 22tf vlt. Df.ath PatnCKSS.?7l is nearly certain ?indeed fts certain as nnythrng chiefly ' speculative oau bo?thai ir\ aii deaths the physical suffering is small. Even where in vn?u?* oxpeirence the most excruciating age-. ; ny (.luting the progress of the disease, nv> tu e Comes to their relief ut the last hour, and life goes out gently* like * candle it\ 1 its socket. Those who ha*e witnessed doath bed* most frequently?especially if tkt-y I are hcen intelligent person*, and therefore capable of jpidginfr-?agree goner! ally in considering the physical pain of ' death as inconsiderable. They say thai the convulsive motion*, which frequently ! attend the parting breath, are not evideuIf ,/ _rr ' -* ? * ? - I ces Di untrinj), (or mm the invalid is insensible. They My nlso, that when the sonsea are retained, there is usually no such -pjisni. A lending medical authority sUUea that scarcely one person in fifty is sensible ' | at the point of death; and some physicians > assert that they luee never seen a death> bod in which the patient was sensible. As > lifo fails, nature, it "rould seem, beneficently interposes, dendenuig tho sensibility of the > nerves, and otherwise preparing tho individual for the great and inevitable change, [ Phil. ledger, | Tub Su-dv ov Ghammsr.?Jos. T. puch-. > ingham, mw of the beat of living writers r and prarhtnnri ins, once said that "Not one [ child in a thonRand ever received the least : benefit frora studying the rules of grammar before h? was fifteen years old."