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t - ? "TP ** v * "U THE CAROL IN A SPARTAN BY CAVIS ft TRIMMER. Dfwtfd to jlouthmt golitks, Agriculture, untl gpfetftfanig. t2 TBR AHHU H 1 VOL. XYII. SPARTANBURG, S. C., THURSDAY, JULY 5, I860. NO. 18. 1 IS??S-MB? 1 ^9SR?aaaP??-I She Carolina spartan. BY~ OA VI8&THI MMTER. Prloo, Two Dollars per annum, in advance, or $2.G0 at the end of the year. If not paid until after tho year expires S3.00. Ho subscription taken for less than six months. Money may be remitted through postmasters at our risk. Advertisements inserted at the usual rates, and contracts made on reasonable terms. Tux Siwutan circulates largely over this and .ailjoiuing districts, and offers an admirable mefliuui to our friends to reach cust oners. Job work of all kinds promptly executed. Blanks, Law and Equity, cotitiuually on hand, 3, or printed to order. OUU STORY. God'll Show Mo the Way. "Yes, sir," said tho tuan, running his hand through his shaggy locks, his harsh face showing marks of unusual intelligence, "mining in this region is a hard life, but I think we've all been better since little Pinky went away." "And who was little Pinky?" asked the ?.1 ?l.. .1. 1. ... ,i._ ^qiibiriutiiij iviiiiu iiir um iv ua ui mu iuuv at his side sparkled in anticipation of a stjry. ' Well, you see?it bo something of a tell ?and ifye'd move further on in the shade of the old oak yonder, it'll mayhap bo plcasantcr for the young miss, for tit. sun be hot." The lady and gentleman followed the brown and weather-beaten man to the cool shadow of the oak, and iiiidiug a seat for the young lady on a convenient root that catno squarely up from the ground, the miner began, with his u-ual preface: "You see?l'inky wore the son of Jesse Pink, ham, a young man. and a regular good one, as the saying goes. I reckon Pinkhuni was the only man of us as ever said the Lord's praycer, or any other prayer. lie were a nice young fellow, that's the fact Hut, we're a rude set, sir, we of the mines, and 'specially in this place; we uidn't like anything that was what we call 'pious.' Sunday, sir, used to be regular?wel>, I might say, devil s-day, with us. It was nothing but drinking and dancing, pitching, and cards, and swearing. "Well, sir, you see?Jesse he got married to a regular lady-like girl, sir, and it turned out a pious one. They didn't none of'em?that is, PiukhiMn, his wife, nndold mother?jine us in our merry-makings on a Sabbath, but sometimes the young man and ItiSHV?tllut >i Ilid wilo uip 1, .mM til... J ...... - ' W, nv?.?4 Ma.IVu?l. 1 miles to lu-'ar a parson preach. \\ ^ was all down upon .Jesse, sir?you sec tlie real thing was, ho made us ashamed of ourselves by his goodness, and I was worse than the rest, trying my best all the time to pick up a quarrel with him. Well, sir, one Satur duy night what did we see but a notice stuck up on this very tree, that thore'd be a parson from Frunkstown on the morrow, to preach to us. We didu't like the news, uud we could tell pretty well where the move come Iroiu ; 'cause you sec, we knew Jesse was pious. So v. e determined, the greater part of us, that we wouldn't have any psalm-singing?110 canting prayer?no leading o n ot the liihlc. "Well, the minister catue, and he found a 1 label. We ali got together, and we r.i cd, und laughed, uud pitched quoits, and made such a noise that the parson h.i I to give it up. lie tried agin and agin, and cjujo right among us?he was plucky, I tell yc?but we hooted in his ears, and threw mud 011 his bettermost clothes, and so he was fairly driven off?cause . >u see we had liquor enough in us to set us ail crazy. ' Poor Jexsc' how \vc jeered hiiu after that, but he bore it meek, sir, and 1 was often ashamed of myself, though I'd died afore I'd confcsse. it. Hut I aiu sorry enough Ibr my part of it; for one day there came a rumbling, heavy noise, shaking the earth, nod then a crash like rattling thunder beneath our feet, and we knew that somebody was buried alive. It was in the working shaft where Jesse was, and iherc didn't happen to be a soul in the place except him, poor fallow! They'd all gone into another ghalt, where he didn't like to follow 'euiyjfeausc they were such a wicked set; and as they was eating their dinners, and he his, the accident happened. "We dug him out, sir ! lie was awful j <eru.shed?all but his face?that lookedsini- j Jing and ]>caccful-like, and we eouldn t hear : till' Kill*lit. * it UIO.IA no i. 1 j ! , ? W IUUUV uo (II IIIV IIUW WC <1 ; a-treated him. iSo wc carried him home to Bessy. She didn't cry and take on, as : most the men's wives do when an accident | happens, r ut it were awful to see how still _?nd white she were! Awful, sir, and I 1 never want to sec a sight like it again. 4'\Ve all felt bad?for poor Jesse hadn't ' never said a harsh word to one of us, and j he'd borne many an insult. MVu couldn't see through it when he' were living, hut used to call him 'weak ' headed,' and a 'tame covey;' and as ho lay : there in his coffin, there eatnc u different ;/eoliii? over me, sir, you inuy depend u[>on ! it. Oh! if I'd a heard then to the lesson ' that was telling of me, it I'd only listened then to tiir? voice of God, speaking as it were from, the lips of that crushed dead .body, IM a saved myself many n day ofsuf* term'?many an hour of tunuent. Hut I /I id n't. "Wc all walked to the grave, and 1 tell ye it touched even hard fciloWH like us, to hco that young widdcr with. her little ?,!dM in her arms, fuller close to the coffin?never crying, only holding her head down as if it were heavy bowed with hor-soriaw to keep it up. "Well, wo had a talk at the grave by tho same parson as we'd treated so badly. I don't know what his good .?ords would adone in atler days, if I hadn't been a leader wickedness, a hater of pious people, and evcrything.tljat had to do with religion, a wicked, swearing, worthless sinner! 1 say J jt to my shame, I doq't boost, sir, (Jod forbid. 1 wish 1 could shut out iqy thoughts all the years of my life that I uin't spent i piously. But God, I hope, '!) be mereiful i to m?. I' "Well, air?his wife-.r-t.he poor young thing! took the death sadly to heart. Thoy in t said the shook had been too hudden, dried lam up all her tears, like. She never cried 'em ouc't only languished and pined, grew thin- goo ner and whiter, and died just three months 1 after poor Jesse. That was how the little rec< boy?.lease's little boy?came to be an or- rou phnn, sir. grei "Well, we were all determining to take sior care of the little one, bo we cast lots every 41 month to see which should have the main- soft tainiu' of him. It used to eouie to me pret- wer ty often, but I done it willingly, sir, because " 1 considered I'd been hard to the man? tliei hard to poor dead Jesse. the "Tho boy was pretty, 9ir, hut he didn 't gctl grow much You see he hadn't no nutthrr- nnd love to thrive on. The women, they thought han they did well by him, hut they sort o' bus- inin tied him, and he wanted something differ don ent, coming of a delicate stock. I don't afrs spose nothing, sir, can gi""e a child that " feel, that having somebody to love und call you mother does?no, not all the cossetin' in the thr< world by strangers. u "Well, the years passed, and the little " fellow begar to he handy in t' c mine. It see seemed a pity to see him beginning that lie hard sort o* life, but then we're not able to love take ear" of one more helpless hand, and a si there was plenty young as he down there, ligf Hut he was so different from ail the rest of nil < the children, lie looked for all the world, 1 before he got the grim in his face, like a like gentleman's child, sir. His skin was like Tin the shells you sometimes see with a Icctlc bell red tinge oil 'cm, und lu> had his mother's stoc large Drown eyes, and his father's curly er r liuir, and then he was so slim-like and girl- Yen ish. But lie had spirit beyond his strength, ovci and gloried in work. " "Things was going on about as usual, ex- ?i cept that 1 was harder down ou religion than ever. The suit feeling wore off my heart, and 1 think 1 hated what was pious worse nor before. Our Sundays was train- J?J ing days?no hing good?evetythiug evil, iust as evil could he "Well, sir?one day that little fellow was ( on my beat; and he had done up his work reai quick and airly?so he stood sonic time he < Jei side tnc talking, lie was queer at talking hie ? I never heard such strange things as he'd his say. So says he, as 1 was fixing my tools Aui ?says he, 'Keene'?that's my name, sir? natt 'whr'd all this coal come from?' in t " 'Gome from the earth,' I said. the " 'Yes, but what made it?' con "I prided myself on my little lcarniu'.so to d says 1, ' Wy, tiatcr made it, Pinky;' we used as a to call him l'itik, and Pinky. wifi ' 'Well, what made nutcr, Keene?'he of i still kept askin'. ou "'Why?why! n&Lor made jUelf!" I the said. * j con " 'Oh, no,' he cried: and with a solemn . h:s look as ever L see on any face?a: d his ! aud voice of wornin'?I don't know why, but I crt\ never hccred anything like it; says he, of I 'liotl made everything; (.Jod is down here i in the dark!' eno "i declare it was as nigh as if a man had est) struck me as could be. Says I, 'Pinky; cstc where did you get that from?' coil "Says h?i, 'The good man told tne.' laU " What good man?' 1 asked, and an ugly . was feeling came over inc. moi "' What preached at mammy's funeral,' otln said he. tcr "'And where'd you get him?' I sort ol thai growled, like. the "'Out in the road yesterday. I seed him thai on a horse, and he took tne up and rided del! me ever so far a back, and lie told me all Die the good things.' so t "1 was silent?I tell ye. I didn't know pan what to say; hut 1 was mad. Just then, in gre; moving up quick, my lamp went out. Now 1 ihuts a thing that don't happen hut a few ecu times in a good tinny y nrs; I knew I'd u ' have to wait and holier 11 souietHidy cuuic sucl ?for the pit was lull of li dos?and so I c<?n said, 'Don t he afraid, Poiky. they II be here den >pon;' but 1 was shaky, for he was in a dan- r?u< gcrous part ot the pit. j lust "Says lie. ' I don't feel afraid. Kiimuv ae't dun't you s'pofce (jed's close to usT ""d ' 1 declare I felt my Mood ?rickle cold, love and every wind that come down the shaf- cuu way I thought was his breath?the breath Woof (iod ! | beai "Well, the hours passed away, ami no- self boby come. Presently says little Pinky, i ol i *1*11 go for you?(iod will show me the way,' ! eon and 1 heard his little feet putting along !*? ' thein dangerous places. It was awful! The b-s< sweat started out on nic thick, and it. scent **-*' ed like I ouldn't breathe. Hut when 1 of" enlied liiin back he shouted with his little t'011 voice, Miod II show me the way.' fam "It ul.nost makes mo tremble when I think on': sir?tho boy went over the worst tio'i road in tiic pit, tull of sunk shafts and dan- i"d< gerous places without no lamp! Oh, sir, a bo when they oame for me with plenty light ! brij ? I ? I couldn t believe it, sir, 1 couldn't; ban and though they kept telling me that Pinky ?th< was t ife, I tell you, ?ir, 1 thought it was a und lie till I see him and heard him cry out, "I fli?< am safe, Keene.?tiod showed mo the her way !' j Kon' "Well, sir, you mayn't think this looks ' "O, true; but'tis. Oh! 'tis as true as wonder-1 ol ' ful, sir; and I tell you, I was a different I o man after that. Not that I grew good at boil' once?no, 1 didn't know t/ir irny then, sir. pica I didn't feel like little Pinky; I didn't feel arm sure that (rod'd *h"tp me, but he did. read "One day, after I'inky hud been working tlo t hard, he said he was dry and his hoad-aoh- j p cd. Well, we always expected soinething'd read be ailing him?so that night I carried him and home in my urins and laid him on his bed, ami an ', lie never, sir," the miner choked for a prof moment, drew one rough hand across* his the eyes, turned away for a brief second, hen dent said hurriedly?"he never got up from it to < of hiinaolf agin, PJvery night 1 came home rclij he was worse and worse, and I toll ye I stun felt as if ull the light 1 ever sec was gi/ing fond out! ' its h "One morning ho asfced iqe in his weak him voice?'Wouldn't I send for the good man sooii that preaohed for his mammy?' I didn't clim say no?twan't in my heart to do that men Lhiug, and before long the { arson was there, won talking and praying. That Boomed to do to ut tho child good: and as the minors dropped ity. irith tbeir black faces, and the litt ps in their hands, he'd smile round c sweet, sir; it would a done your hea d to p seen it." I'he man paused n-jnin, overcome by tl Election of the scene. '1 he muscl< nd his firm lips quivered, and over h at bron ed iaco there swept an cxprc i of an almcst womanly tenderness. 'Did he die thr.nf" The question wi ly asked, and the dark eyes of the lati e full of tears. Oh, my dear miss?yes, yes, he die rj. He grew very liright nnd livid ugh, and we'd nil set our hearts on h Ling well, when tlioro was another chang the color left his face?and his litt ds hadn't no strength in 'em. Tl lister came again, and as he stoopc rn, says he?'My dear child, are yc kid to go?' And what do you think, sir?what i think, miss, he said? Oh, how it wet >ugh me! GtuTft thoic nw the wot/!" / And lie showed the way, sir. I nevi anything 1 ke that dying, ir?neve held my bund?he said, 'Kecne, i/c ! God, too.' lie gave a gasp, and the nilc, and then there came a bright glot it over his white Inec that made it shit jver?Oh, sir. 1?1?can't tell it." 'he man held h s head down andsobhc i a child, nnd his were not the only tear s next morning was the Sabbath. A ne; was heard; a plain white mccting-hom d in sight. The stranger and his daugh net the miner, who, pointing to the he ward spire, exclaimed us a smile bruk r his face? You see, sir, God shows us all the way 'umi'/y Treasury. nnrrofl'N Volume?11??? VIII Ye take from tikis volume just issue n the press, he fo'lowing portraits < in Adauis and Thomas Jefferson: JOHN ADAMS. )n thcOth day of February John Adan imed his seat in Congress, with Klbridj. ry for a colleague, in place of the fe Cushing, and with instructions froi constituents to establish liberty i icrica unon a nprinnuent I.II I ? f ' * *' arc was robust ami manly; now he w; he happiest ruood of mind for assert in independence of his country. lie ha tidencc in the ability of New Knglan Irive away their enemy; in Washingioi i brave and prudent commander. in h I, who cheered him with the ferritin; ivomanly heroism; in the cause of h ntry, which seemed so hound up wit welfare of mankind, that Provident Id not suffer its defeat; in himself, f? convictions were clear, his will fixi his mind prepared to let his little pro] and his life go, soouer than the righ lis country. .ookmg into himself he saw weakness' ugh; but neither men tin ess, nor dislnn nor timidity. 11 is overweening f?l ciu was his chief blemish; and if I ipared himself with his great, fcllm tiers, there was some point in whiels li super.or to any one of them; lie ha e learning than Washington, or an ur American statesman of Ine age ; he knowledge ot liberty us founded in la ii Samuel Adams; clearer in-'ght in eonstru.-tive elements of (tovermnci ii Franklin , more power in debate tha lemon ; more xmrugeous muuline>< tha kmson ; more force in motion than J:n hat by va ying and contining his eon ions, he could easily luncy himself tl; itest of them all. le was capable of thinking himself tl ter of any circle, of which he hud hee more than a tangent; his vanity was i Ii excess that in manhood it aoiuctiiiu fused his judgment and in age bewi u nis memory; but the Main .li<l lit h beyond the surface; it impaired tl re, nut the hardy integrity u! Ins elta r. lie humane and trunk, ^encrui element; yet he wanted that spirit ? : which reconciles to heui^i.utdi lie. II Id not look with complacency on tier i excelled him, and regarded auothcr ring away the palm as 11 htuii.* to Inn ; he never sat placidly under the sluel 1 greater reputation than lii.s own. an Id try to jostle aside the preauiiiptun sessors ot' recognized superiority ; In unvy, though it laid open, how deeply h love was wounded, hud hardly a tine indignity, and never led him to de.reht s tor the sake el re engo. 11 ?v did h e in jus ice when, later in life, he rc| mted himself us suffering from perseci i on account of his early zeal f< ispeudeiice; he was not weaklingto whin ut injured feelings; he went to his t<nd ;ht, and cheery, and brave; he was tli 1 mcr and not the anvil; and it was ft its to fear his prowess and to slniu er his blows. 11 is courage was in :hing in debate and everywhere el? lever knew what fear is, and had li c into the army as he once belonged t he wouhl have taken there the virtin leniperance, decision, and intrepidity his latest, old age his spirit was robus yant,nnd joy ous; he saw ten times us muc sure as pain in the world; ami after li quivered and his eye grew tliin, he wt ly to begin life anew ami fight its hat >ver airain. n liia youth ho foil among skeptic I IhJin^brokes's works five tini<\s throng accustomed himself to reason tree! think boldly; he esteemed himself bund metaphysician, hut only ski mine speculations of others; though at fin ined to be a minister, he became a rein oalvanism, and never had any fixe ;ious creed; hut fur all that lie was noli uian of New Kngland, and hi I partiality to its people, its institution? qcial condition, ami its laws, followe into (IqngroHN and i'.s ('omn)<Ltueg, an il lifp, tinctured his judgment, an :h d his propoaaoasions; hut the eh ts in Now Knglund that hu loved most 3 theme which were eminently frioudl niversal culture and Republican ctjua; A poor farmer's son, bent on niakinj 1c his wa) in the world, at twenty years olc in beginning to earn Ins own broad, piuchcc rt and starved as master o a stii _ry country school. ho formed early habits of order ail* te frugality, uid steadily advanced to fortune es t>ui tlioigh exact >n his accounts, then is was notli ng niggardly in his thrH't, anc s- his moiiat hospitality was prompt am. hearty, lie loved homage, and it math is hi in blind; ti? tle?se who Haltered him hi ly gave his confidence freely, and often un wisely; ami wlnie he watched the genera >d nioveiu m t of uflaijs with comprehensive y, aagieity, he was never a calm observer ol is { individual men. lie was of the cholerit e,! tenipeianient; though his frame was com le 1 pact uiul large, yet from phvsicial organi ie zation he was singularly sensitive; euiilc ;d break ou". into uncontrollable rage, anc ?u with a ! his acquisitions, never learned t< rule h s own spirit; but his anger did mil lo so mm li drive hiiu to do wrong, as to dc it right i-ngiiciously. No man was less fit ti gain ) is end by arts of imlin ctiou; Ik t uew lot how to intrigue, was indiscreetly -T talkat ve, s nd almost thought aloud ; when r. : ever l.o si light to win an uncertain person ?n to his supi'jrt. Iiis ways of courtship won si uncou h, f- > that he made few friends ex y ' eept iy I s weight of character, ability ie public spi it, and integrity, was unapt a: 1 ihe It ider of a party, and never appearec id so we I as when lie acted from himself, s. I la ing i itolcranee in all its forms, an ?r iiiipus sinned lover of civil liberty, as the ie glory ol u in the best evidence and tin t- best icsult ol civilization, lie, of all met a- in (.'eagles , was incomparable as a dogma ;c tist; issem ally right-minded; loving ti teach with authority ; pressing onward un " spari igly with his argument; iiiipatieut ol eonti idicta n ; unequaled as a positivi eliauipion of the right, lie was the Mar tin Jjiuncr ol the American revolution . borne <>n t> utter his convictions fearlessly by mi iniph so which forbade his acting otheiwise. lie wa9 now too much in earn est, stnd teo much elevated by the great lies: is ol h*s woik, to think of hi . self; too anx re iously desiring to aid, to disparage thus c- who gave it. In the fervor ol his activity in his faults disappeared. His intellect auc ii public spirit?all the noblest paitsof hi? is nature, wore called into the fullest cxcrcist is and at mined to the uttermost of then >' licithful p wer. Combining more thai d i any other. farness ol sight and fixedness ol d belii f wit i courage and power of utterance n, he was looked up to as the ablest debatci is in C'oiigre-n. Preserving some of tin le habits of the lawyer, he was redundant it is words and eumulati e in argument; bui h w.in :li and -i ie :ity l.ept him from tht :e I affectations of a pedant or a rhetorician >r Forbearance was no longer in seas n; thi d | irrepressible talent ol persevering, percnip a- tory assertion wa< wanted; the more ho wut.s ' borne along by his ow n vcliein tit impulse the better; now his country, humanity, tin s age, the hour, demanded that the riehi i- should la spoken out, his high excitemciii j. had not the air of passion, but a p pea re i i?. as it was, the clear perception of the sub v 11iniry <d his tusk. W hen, in the life of i 11 | si.,'i >i.i:m w re six m ait lis i.t tun: itnpor I tanee t?? the race, than thc-*o six mouth: i\ in the can a olbluho Aduuis? i- ! tihi.mas j KKKt.lt son. w I The resol iiinu of Congress change ! th* to j old thirteen itritish Comities into lit tun t j iudi [?emJaa Stutes. It remained .a so ti 1 forth th?- re imiii tor this act, and the prin n ciplcs winch the no v people w aid own r'; as their gui Ins. Of Jie ooiuiuitl, uppoiii I- ted fur tIi it duty, 1 human .1 ellersou, ol o Virginia Ii 11 received the largi st numhei ol vote- an I Wa- in tha liiuul.c'. amn >e out to <l..itt the collfcs.sf .. ot la.ill of th ii ' . . '' i.i nam;. < mp.lU. 1IC IJttl'H IlllS UiSHIICtlUl ii to respect fir the Colony which lie repre t* seated to tin; consuiiiatc ability >1 tin I- Stale | !< > which hu had ulrcad* v.illc.. >t an>l t.iliim general favor which iol.iw: i? merit. 1 i desty, and a sweet disposition r- hut tlie <| lality which speciai y titled Ilia i* lor the L.i-.x was the sy input h e charaetei I ul his ia '.re, hy vh.cli he was able, w:il e iiutu.e i\ ' p? rceptnui. to read the soul o ?e theii.il in, .tad having c illectod in Ii'nisei its host i.mucins and imbiesl feelings, ti ii* give tl? 'in out hi clear and hold Words le mixed with >.? little of himself that hi: d country, us it went along with him, tonne is nothing hut what it recognised as its own it No in-mi of Ins century hid more trust in is the co h etive r ason and conscience of hi; y fellow ine (i, or hotter knew how to tak< tin n i oui.sel, and in r turn he came to hi is a rule over the willing hi the world ol >- opinion Horn t an iiidepciiduut toriune i le ha 1 I oil* l;:.s youth been an iudef.itiga r bie >ti <le;it. Ot a e.dm tern eminent and io a pit11 i-ophic cast of mind, always temper t, ate hi Ins mode id' life and decorous in he le in.nun ; >, he was i perfect master of hi' ?r p issii i?. lie w.isol a delicate organl Za k tion,ind loud n| elegance; his tastes wen l- retitie I; I; tor ions in his application to bn l>; sines- or lie pursuit of kuowle l_ ; music 10 the uost spiritual of all pleasures of tin 0 sense- . w.i - iii* i !? i>ri?.> r....r....il i 1 ... ...x ami IK s took n<'\ t tailing delight hi the licutitj \\ of tin vnr ins scenery (if rural life, uildim. t, hints. it'a nine .11 tlie lovhest r?*?ri<>11 <>t hn li uitiv Sta'r. 11 o wan a slcilll ill horseman is and I c alsi delighted to main the inoun is tains m to a. 'l!i' ran e of It is knowledge was v.-r, wide; In1 w s nut unfamiliar with tin' lit s, cr.itu a of irecce and Kumc; had an aj?ti h tude or in .thematic* and mechanics; ant y loved espec illy the natural suit' ecs; dctii a ing tot hi g hut metaphysics.?British d govci inrs aid official* had iutroductd intc it Willi tinsh i gh the prevalent tKethiukiny d ot' Ki.glishiiicn ot that century, and Jefler d son iiad joo\vii up in its atmosphere; h< a was iuit on y a hater id priest-cr.ilt and is supcistition ami bigotry and intolerance i, he w is tin nuht to he indittVrent to religion >1 yet his iti.it nets all inclined him to trace d overy foot t > a general law, and to put faith il in i.l "ul tin h; the world ol'tho senses did j-, not nouno Ins aspirations, and he believed t, more than !c hi nisei I was aware of. lit y was i n idealist in his hahits oft bought and I- lite, as in bed is every io who has an ? abiding and thorough couGdenoe in th? l people; and he was kept so in spite of cir- j I cuiustaiicca by the iric-istable bent ot his . 1 : { character. He hud great power in uias- hav I! te'iiig details as well as in starching for bee ;1 general | inciples. His pro. ssion wy* ton 5i th-t of the law. mi which he was method- ' ten< I icui, pains-taking, and successful, at the { Inn I name time lie studied law as a aciei ce, and , w >ti ; > was well rea I in the law of nature hod of the s i nations. Whatever he had to do, it was ] Tin i his custom to prepare himself for it care- i wit] I i fully; and in public lite, when others were ( the J | at fuult, they often found that he had al- | Kroi I' ready hewed out the way; so that in ouncil J j i men willingly g ve him the lend, which lie - , never appcure.. tu claim, and was always - able to undertake, llut lie rarely spoke j con, I in public; and was less fit to engage in the i tj,e I war of debate, than calmly to sum up its | wur > conclusions. It was a beautiful trait in j?,r t : his character that he was tree from envy; j \y a i and had he kept silence, John Adam* i jen i would have wanted the best witness to his , jH,? i greatness as the ablest advocate and defend- I j st) r J er of imlepcndancc. A common object l)r , - now riveted the two statesmen together in 0p t i close bonds. I cannot find that at that |icr ; period, .lefterson had any enemy; by the hUr. - general consent of Virginia, he already all(j , stiHid first among her civilians. Just thir- Ioa) i ty-three years o d. niairied, and happy ii s|,a 1 his family. afUu"nt, with a biigiit career t|10 before bun. he was no rash innovator by j u i his character or bis position; if his convic- tj,c tions drove him to demand i dependence, j m:(, s it was only because he could no longer live i i with honor under the British Constitution, j ju|| - which lie still acknowledged to be the best ; ImJ( , ? -i i ? * ... i j Lii.il iiic wurm HUU llius mr 86CI1. tilH i ,i,r, - | 011 uncial inn of' general principles was four t' less but he was no visionary devotee ot ^jai i al struct theories, which, like disoiubodicd t.,m otiis, escape from every embr.ioe; the j,,,, , nuisling of his country, the oftspting of hi* lllU( time, he set about the work of a practical w? C statcMuan. and his measures grow so natu jt.cj rail out of previous law and the faoU ot t;lj? tlie past, tliat th?y struck deep root and | cru, - have endured. j 'j'0 , Reading in the United States.? 1 The editor oi the Kdinburg W/fsi-w, th . well known Mr liuytic, in an article on our |jW.( ? country, among some things not very pala- st table .says: |J , 1 he Americana are an educated, a reli- j ^ t gious, a temperate people, if this article i clnj , has t.nt extended to too great a length ai- | : ready, we should have liked to have said i j. something about one or two other of their i i national characteristics, l or example, tlicy I I arc eiliinoiiily a reading people. Hooks ' ? ro in t. as here, the luxuries of the few. i tori hut the necessary f>od of the many. "Al- j < > ready," srys Mr. W in. (Jhaiiilc >, in h s | lately published work, "Things us th?)- aro-| s . in America'?one of the ni >st interesting and valun'de which has recently i>sui d irolu i stri the press?"already certain hngli.-li pu ?- j ' t lishing houses are turning attention t?? t ie 1 t -great and ever extending field of enterprise j J . ! in the United States, where books, as ill . ,, .. i I "lc,i : the ease ot newspaper* are not a luxury ot j i the rich, but a liecessarv part ot the hou - . . ... . , ' ,. . tort. Ie 'id turmluie ni those depending Do ?u - -j j si-tenee on daiiy labor.'' I Ictainly, in eve- ^ ry way, a rcinarkalile fact. Rut we may t atlerwards have an opportunity ot reti ing _ to this and other matters. Meantime, we (J j may say that in ail that has been advanced . ( , 1 above, we have never been ilniuiitdfol jura . i-i i.nerit of the fact that there ?- inotln r ' ' ?i.? .. ... ?? ...v.. . ...v | viuit. i#ui uur e i 'kitilik ?b ,^1 that it is only "the other side the pi- , n till th?t i" '_vi> ally looked and it jji ; seen. ? us o! y considerable import n e I . in l! <lnys t tlie real greatness ni he , A met n nu ou sh L? noro fully aj , preciulcd. 1 t ,, *111 r- ' A 1'oRTRAlT OF MtlRALM ?I mm a J I . . , . . . j pill! li'-tn? - . ! i.iu cam pa i of (' */ ? /. ' >rl of, Jju> ^ the i.j'-, in preparat- i |?y Pram's Car- j .j . j ram?, Colonel oftha >i?l corps of tuMier*. .. j ISKco <T Jhifiii, cxtiacU the follow.tig pur | trait of the hero of Sieilv: i . r tori t ' i iuso;>.u I f.irttiaiiii is u! nu utn stature. j- w h ia e -ij'i.re shoulders, bareulesn ' j- I ibs, aii'i a?n^ reddish hair and i ? ard, in ' w .f } el uiitu to ^riy. ll<s steps is s|o\* m I ?n i- j j.-stic. Ins 'juit something like that nfa sea ' i > ii j i :,!,o in.in ami Ins countenance ami emiYer.-atinn 9 . , . win i are also mi '^. slive ot the marine; no t% ir-? 1 ' l , , | | Kll a waistcoat nuttomnl up to the th - at. a ' j wide brimmed hut and wide trowset.-. The t 1%, noise ot the city annoys and disturbs him | ( , lie like* tl e In 1 tops, covered with hijth I j jr , troi-s. and enjoying the view of the distant ' C horizon and wide e.i He has u straight nose, and the ? \oression of his face i* both . i i ?*? l""' lively ami anna to. His eoovernation is j I u pretending;, but it rises to ehsjucuce I in ( when he talks ot Italy and liberty, 11 F.AT.T1I OF AMRRK'ANS?1>C Th-w's 'wlt . mortality statistics, compiled from tho last wit coli-us, show that the people of the I nited ' a ,;l . States are the iiculthit ut nil thee'obc. The , t deaths are three hiin.lrml ..t.o 1 - ?>? ? ncmt iiniil- I |lt?, sand |> - u ar. or oin1 ami a h;t!f per cent. '] ? of the population. In England the ratio i frul ; is mar two per cent.. and in France nearly J ,,,,| ^ three pur cent. \.' ginia and North Can - 1 jj,.,' s liti.i are the health tost of the States, and >ul, , have nix hundred and tliiriy-eight inhabi- J m,,, - t.nits over one hundred year*of'aire. These u.u, figures, however, may all he reversed fv 1 p* th" in xt consu*. for the mod leal schools ?4.jv were never more flourishing, twenty six ^u|j . college* having gruduitod last year about I thirteen hundred doctors. aiM] i TuF.Aciirnv of Kvii. Passions.?Evil 'l'rn > passim s exert a powerful influence vur ot t ; the understanding: they derange its act.on, rem and having the ait of self-nonuealmcnt, are t tat j likely to oporate with greater fatality when i root I least exposed to the notice ot their viotini huv ; ill the drunkard, it is often said that he is '1 ; a poor judge of himself, often i ougiuing was > h'oiself to be sober when he is not. it is hlov i very much so with all the evil |?assioiis sett 1 that prey upon fallen humanity; they be- The I guile and deceive, ruin and destroy, without hi t ? any advertisement of their preaonoe, ex- tutu I oepf in their results. They shrink from l'ar i the blare, of cousoienco, to burrow io the and i heart yet The Ureal Toruado. C 'he tornado at the West, ?t which we -V e given some acc >unt, Jtj?j-ear*- to hav? ti n the most extensive and deUiucliv g mdo ever known to this country. I tea * lid over a range of aoiuc foir or five r nlreJ uiilea, exhibiting a power which " lid seem to be hardly credible were no* h fact* testified to by so many aitneww. r i paper* of Iowa and Illinois are ?ill?fc (J ti details of the strange ih.ngs done by ** stor . We quote a few extracts: m dm < e<lar Valley (Iowa) 1 iinca, June 8 b \t about 5 1-2 o'clock, last. Sun 'ay eve- 11 g, occurred the most terrible storm which * i region ever experienced. The tornado mated of two wings?one sweeping to j' northward and the other to the southd ol this city?in which the awful work- "* of the rosed elements c >u!d he distinct- . ecu by us as they swept on their mad .ng oourse. The noise wa- like a *tu " duu* calumet, and all turned pale as they r siihI. The formation o! the wafer spout " yhirlwind which was in the south wi-g 1 he sloriu was witnessed hy a arge nutu " of citizens, being first seen bellying ate a ling down from the clouds, and twisting n writhing like a huge worm till it finally :hed the earth and bccaincau hour-gl.m- u ped column rushing wil ly onwarJ with 4 gale. The ooluiun looked to bo uboU' f a mile high, and 4 or 5 rods through smallest part?an awfully sublime and rnifiecnl spectacle. The cloud which -ed over Cedar Rapids appeared to he as 8 of force as those at the sid s. but fortu- ? sly rose too high* to do much damage Mil ly overhead , the clouds were of o pur ~ Inn', bordered on the van hy pitchy k. and the rear by gray and iuriil whi c ? -tantly illuminated by flu-lies of lighten u The north wing of the storm wa- 11 uh more extensive than the other, an ! 1 i al ?- ? - - - ijinsvu wie real tornado ho fur as the ef- ! ' s prove, and the uvpe ranee. of a tuoun- ' v. i mass of heavy, inky-colored clouds 1 *hiug j I most the surface of the ground 1 the northeast, between Marion and his- " , tile two wings combined. and the awforce thus concentrated swooped around. 1 sing again near our city, then ru*heu ? iy to the eastward to deal death and deletion to the uitscspeo.'iug families win> a ppencd in the sto- m Beml s path. The * rse of the storui. niter leaving this vi ity, was due east till it rached the Mis e ippi. though verging out of line iu some .is from five to leu miles The Cliuton (Iowa) ll< void is almost t >1 with a description of the works of thi ? uido in that region. It says; I; A strip of laud varying in width froiug nty rods to a mile, and extending f.om 1 lar Kjpi Is in Iowa io ?.ake .bio i.gun c been swept a? wt?h the tie??ui o. do iu.ion. Not n fence, nut a nx-e, not a is . and scarcely a living thing in the iiway of the scourge, nun able to e?ca| 1 withstand its lury. id ly but resistleasly. it dcvitr^^urwo ig an 1 spared lio'hiug. M^-igHfenr i almost annihilation. marCo^P^rac^ * 111 re were iu the hcgi.diiug fir? d.ffer t o n.ideen. slatting weat if ujat It vcr ! u twelve mihs u,Nirt. 'i hey ptneeedcu iwardiy in s^'pa'ate and wed defined r-os, until they mil the %.V .; ? pinnicaii j r twenty-three mil aw t ot the M ?.*sisl>. when hey united uiri advanced in a ,X culuuiii Willi tuuren -J force and ra * ity. The first mail; its ???pe ir..,ce I at seven mil s hurt lie m in?m ' .?r ih# - and ; out three miles- /est of the river. . first seen, it louki u merely like a cat cuing cloud; bat it a oh assume I the llilTalll-l1 Ot J? t.. " - I I _ - . ? - OV. u Hi, VAIVII'illl^ ii the e <>uds t> (lie earth an?i twisting i writhing in ui. dilating -ti, ace Mule ' ?y u roar iu.'.o terrible tuju that of I ^hticHt cataract. I hi! //'/ ?/./ traces the Course of whit | ' s .h lira: t"~nudoto Lisbon S acton j d in (irove, and says thatvt li <loii l?oit< . t.oio.-s were visitdi.*, one about three | r- ii.nth, an i the other lour nines .vju a the village. At Wheatland, auto, bath e visiule. J tic union of the torti.id'ics to >k pl.i jc ur three miles southwesterly lroiii Dct. 'i he Spectacle here presented as re tc?l hy eye-witnesses, wa.i in is; subitum 1 .orriote. fn<9Mittieriit irnliooi) Bed its a < ? , enlarged its dimensions until it ended lroiu the earth to ?l w'heavt us, a ,c Id ok column. It r? ui.ii jM^ratioiin Apparently lor u minute. TMhwerin^ ids rushed to swell its ttiilk in cnor- ^ us >ize. When the nnrtherrf*4*nado. ich approached Ipmii the uorthejijL had Ins way la-conic fully ubsorlied, tne|fo$c j s. now outlying out and .?waym-?.-1ik(J a ( tially inflated balk-on,ruse from WfWkat Ii * terrific roar, passed over a ?i*vq 1 io.it damaging it. and then deseoiialiij? ; ' in, swept ooward, 'rojoicini; as a Mfrit un his course,' with unparalleled ^ s and power. I'he fury of the tornado tuny e known , a the fa t that it lasted at Caiuuncho ; * v about two or three minutes Dining, t briel period the viilapc, 'Maiuiug i 1 ic twelvo hundred inhabitants. was at t totally destroyed. We <v uid till a vol- 1 s w illi stranire lieaks of ibf tnrn i.1/. ?n/l u icaiitleas power, but shall online our- ^ cs to .1 low only. One ut its fn -st sin,?r feature* ? found in the entire ah- r re ot furniture uuit?n<; the wrecks. More there the round or le<j; of a chair, or vo? * may he found, hut that is about all. hmk>, clothing, bods.carpetjAndall kinds ' . urmture aoetn entire.) iiiUb'ii<?, all that ' uitljs of the contents of tlje many hoii-cs t wer > destroyed could be placed in a, j n twelve feet square. Tho rest iuu?t t 0 pmu nto the river. a he Intror story ot a store on tirst street t cut away as smoothly a* if saw d, and J vn into tho riter when the upp r si ry I led ..own in its place, almost uninjured. 1 trout of a frame house was blown away * tie. upper part of the town, and the tur- ! 1 ire in it left uninjured; while in Mr. " k's house the windows were blown in t all the furniture crushed to piece*, and c thn house stool, only slightly Injured j pmmmmmm hi.- it- n told us hut dixi real- auou 01 tfa* t rui cvxtKifc.txi in s eing a horde routs lin.ugh a.r^aboui twcuty feet tnun tbe round, followed l?v u covr at about the one height. i he c ?w i?tht have been cur* ;i*J k(hi.u twenty rods from where she wsa. hen the storm began. Mr. Butter suw is fttnbic taken over the tops of suute eher* tnrs, leaving his itorses o the ground the e *#< no floor to tbe stablej attached > tin: rack. A* Albany, a large warehouse about 80 y 100 feet vra< moved from its found*ions and is now Mtantling at the distance of square from them; the building must imvc beeu moved some 800 feet. 1 he nrritie momentum of the tornado is porta ps best illustrated by a shingle now ticking through the sides of Mr. Wat!orf h store, in Canutrche. The shingle s of cedar, and of oidinury size and tlncktess. It sfuo'c on the butt qptf. in a diection directly opposite the general course f the tornado? and tarccd itself through he clapboards, lathe, and plastering with* ut bctii^ broken at all. The incident lso shews the rotary motion of the tor* i ado. The chimney of Mr. Anthony's juac. weighing near a ton, W4* taken off ml do pom i ed in the garden uAi teet irout he bu lling, in an upright position, with<Jt a single cr.tok to show that it had been isturbed. * - ; Mr. Button, living three miles west of ?amancUe. saw the black column ol do* traction directly advancing upon hishou *\ nd sent his family to a small grove of joust-, with diiections to lie upon the rounu hud cling to the trees. While ying there they saw the house taken and a rued about twenty rods to the west, and rturtied to within a few feet of its orignal position. It was then afl Mr. R e*? ireascs it, " rubbed out." Not a fragment eiUiiins. At DoWHt, where the courao ras due east, a building, with the whola aiuily in it, w;i9 carried Itaru the east to lie West aide of the hiuhwav. and den*. ted without even breaking trie crixtKery.* A singular instance ot the |?ower of tint ornudo has bet u furniaiied by Mr. iteed, d'tbe Arm of Heed A Harper of Bert rain, k lar^e rock, weiphtnp over ttfcntv ton?, oout twelve feet lonp, ei>&ht feet wide, and ,x feet thick, was embedded in the cast ?ank of the Cedar river. Only al*#ut iphtoen inches of this rock projected tr??u? he bank of the river, the rest was finnljr "" ilantcd in the clay. The tornado *trikwip he rock, wrenched it from its bed, and urnin^ it over, o^id for end until it auruounted the bank; carried .t aloat uoe iundr- d yards. In several instances wagons were t?*rn it* pieces, an<l the * res ot the win eld straighttied i.ut porleetly flat. A jortion of the ruiehou-pe of itabiiiau & 1 iautz at idftbon r.-is tound sixteen mi led away, north of Ininti Orovc. It was teeu/u nod by t e eeu.iar enlop of thn paint. There is the est; in. my ot four eye-witnew?e?, living at tcrtnm. who any that they di?tinc: y saw i man in the very vnr-e. of tlie tp>tn do aa t a ?til Bertram, hiph above the to^ of fee ia lest trees. 'I hey followed ?hc trick iwfromn d'soinoe hoping To find the body, /lit'dpii 11 t We have Mice hcar.i th t a inuiiii b?>;y. t>o uiu \ ntat:IIdt**d to peril i < f rec pit'iitioti, w..-< found three and a > ill miles trtnn Bertram. The Ceiir it- ds 7 'n t al?> pives a treat variety oi inc. *OttU, eiuaitig its uari n;ve :i? folia**: " We have merely mentioned the buiMnps ?hem accidents occrtrrc !. Barns* beds and outli ,u cb were deiuoli.-h si. wupuis ca r.cd a <j darter oi u mile and broke 11 t'i splinters, fences were sticw.i in very co eeivable manner, trees uanoo.t.d >.r. 1 earrieo from ten feet and as many oi- orcnardi are ru ned, an 1 in h rt _ :?? yil .ny thi: c ...p .a M '?y, w*3 Core pr .?.?* UOdttipyed. 1 'i he e. ?u 1 t?? the son:hward pass^l over " he tow<i o. Shu y\.:le, nine in:l?>acuth of aid City, dvtioying two duellings, a?d hen j>.i-s *1 u.i through banner V*lk*j, mruol'tng the Lutheran church. No Uvea vert lo.-> ?t en her ol tho above places. It hen t> o!v a sou henslerly direction t<>v..rds (.'e.iur r.ver, |?K-jj?ing through linger s kc.tlcuieiit. seven miles, from Cedir K'>?ds, on the west side of the river, destroyng the dwellings of Mr, Thompson, and i| r. t'urns' son was instantly kiheJ. A. ( :hild seven yours ??ld was earned by thn turin a distance ol two miles over i'ctisr iver. 'i he destroying fiend then took a ntnp, and the next wo noticed of its worle van at St. Mary s, a snia l hamlet two miles 4 ioutli of Mount \ ernon. Between l>e Witt and Camanehe them s rot a.single building left stall hnr along he track of tin tornado. Seventy-six head if cattle and horses w?*re buried on Tuenlay, and as many more were left dead on ho prairies. Trees arc completely strip* ?il, and Jo'-k li' e peeled poles, the tops icing cutir ly gone. Wo ^.w d . tlx aid de elation on every iide ail I he way dow 1. ami behoved that *e n.id seen tilings as )>ad as they could ) ?o;..y l/C, but a!?cu we urrivod at Caniinche we Weirt completely (lqiub1ut nik)<l, H,e }*M? utterly It tin tojfivc anything llko t dcscriotioti u!* the awful scene there |>r? - " noted '1 he Erects look as if a heavy It<txl had -vra t over them j timbers, ahin? ;les, beards, cord wood and trees are strewn round and all over the entire town, hour lory buildings, hriek chun he*, school loos. s. dwfllinirs, and in short, everything i.id het n entailed b> the earth or oarric<| J ii the river. I ? um^? - I The Republican ticket is exceedingly ap- I >ro;iriutc?true t.? its dedpn. Devoted to 1 he interest*?d'Ilaui > dt*< idants.it o.'iiM * nd eiphi with its index ttntfor jiointi i? 't liby^nv'l rare; thus: Abru/?.??i an<i tfnn%in&SkrA /V,H S. .< SuxLL.?lluo. NdHc Pcy. , on, <^MRine??ee, who spoke at a Bel! and tivcrd&Witkuiion mwatiny a teWtUy* ago, aid tlwHhe corruption of th Anniini*- 1 rxnotjjfij^ a-huip'on > v -'rest that - the J nan iicwj moon >?** to h??Wi his m>re is h? ' thit citv." yg , 2