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))r LABORDE, Editor. " We will cling to the pillars of the tem e or our liberties, and if it must fall we will perish aibidst the ruins." VOLUME 3. EDGIns .D C. . (N. C.> Nvember N, 1N3$. The Edgefield Advertiser, Is PUBLISHIED EVERY THURSDAY MORNING. TERMS.-Three Dollars per annum if paid tn advance.-Three Dollars and Fifty Cents if paid before the expiration of Six Months from the date of Subscription.-and Four Dollars if not paid within Six Months. Subscribers out of the State are required to pay in advance. No subscription received for less than one year, and no paper discontinued u.atil all arrearuges are paid, except at the option of the Editor. All subscriptions will be continued unless oth erwise ordered, at the end of the year. Any person procuring five Subscribers and becoming- responsible for the same, shall receive the sixth copy gratis. ADVvRTISEMEyTS conspicuously inserted at 02J cents per square, for the first insertion, and 43jcentsforeachcontinuance. Advertisements not havingthe number of insertions marked on them, will be continued until ordered out. and charged accordingly. All Advertisements intended for publication in this paper, must be deposited in the Office by Tuesday evening. All communications addressed to the Editor. (PosT PAtI) will be promptly and strictly attend ed to. Miscellaneoius. From the European Correspondent of the N. York Daily Erpress, PARIS. Sept.8, 1838. THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT AND THE Pa:N c M: Louts NAPoLEoN.-There is some - thine magical in the name of Napoleon ! There was a time when he was hell up to execration in Great Britain as an assassin. a tyrant, a despot, an enemy to peace, order, morals and religion, and the curse of the world. These days have gone by. Such trash as this now, would not he he lieved. Your Major Lee, who died iat Paris whilst engaged in writing the life of this great man, once said to me, "I know of no man either of ancient or modern history worthy of being compared with Na poleon." This was the opinion of an enthusiast, I ad mit, but yet no man had studied the whole length and breadth of Napoleon's character. conduct, and principles of action, as had the Major. The whole life of Napoleon was a vast drama: a most exciting. won drous, astounding drama-and we follow hirp as we read in the Moniteur the records tience, wondering what is to come next. There are some deep, black, mortal stains in his character, which we must acknowl edge and deplore-hut his genius was trans cendant and his successes unbounded. Two of his great crimes were the assassination of the Duke d'Enghein, and his conduct to those Republics which surrounded France, and which he afterwards converted into kingdomns, or annexed to his Empire, in order to gratify his personal ambition, and satiate his lust for power. But yet, in spite of these crimes, he was the mightiest necro mancer of any times-and he who does not feel the deepest interest in his history, must be wholly indifferont to the charms of po etry. to the inspirations of genius, to con summate skill and knowledge, to the inde pendence of France, to the history and progress of the French Revolution, and to the progress and enlightening of the human mind. Yet, I am very far indeed, from lie ing a Napoleonist! I have aeen some ofyour American breth ren stand amazed, overpowered, enbtar rassed to know what to say, and what to feel, as they have traversed the mighty gal leries of Versailles. Bnt when they have arrived at the Gallery of Napoleomn-when they have looked at his mighity exp~loits as picturead forth on the fairy walls of that in comparable palace-they have forgotten all the marble halls of the old dynasties-all the thrilling events of the Revolution of 1830-all the historienl p-uitings of paist ages-andl have contaemplated with a n on der and a rapture only to be felt, the rep resentations of the nehievment% of ihait mighty amagiciana. I hnave visited Versailles some fifty times-but each time with newv delight, and with increased astonishment. Well may Louis Philipo exclaim to the youth of France, "If you study in this pal ace the history of Francie you will see how great, how rich she hats been in Legists. Judges, Conquerors, Painters, Philosophers Seal ptors. Si atesmien, Moralists, anad Pa - triots." It is quite iraue that all thai- may bo leat at the Nati mnia Galleries of Versailles; but one thing dominates over all, and that is, how great was Napoleon, From the Mobile Examiner. W~e have hitherto frequently adverted to the line of duty which is obvious to the South, in her estimation of public men. She has interests at stake, superior to any other in the country. She stands' on the defensive in all elections, and if her public men seem to study her interests alone, - without yielding generously to di-taint see tioas, it is because self-preservation, the first imnulae of naturc- nromats her, to he wary and suspicious. The South, mrotifying as tlae confession seems,ie at pre sent dependaut on the North. Not an ar tiele of her consumption-hardly a bale of her valuable prodnce can he disposed of, without first parsing through the hands of those who do not understand or respect the institutions of the South. %% e are, by the timidity of our citizens, forced to depaend tenaciously on that part of the couatry % hich contains within it the naaterials-the slumbering embers-of our destruction. Our members in Cougres must be constant ly on the alert to study every petitiou every public document that emanates from it. We have no independence of charac ter, nor or action, and every breeze, and maurmour of misguided fanaticism wakes its from a vision of happiness and pct'e to dreadful anticipations and apprehensions. It was not so when we were less ponerlul - it was not thus when, a few years ag', we could admit those whom our institutions were obnoxious to, into the heart of our country, and permit theta to weigh and to censure our peculi raties. Then, we were a happier people, and the sentimmtent of devotion to our cotnmon country pervaded every hosom, from Maine to Louisina. low stand matters now? Is there the samte principle of action alive in the honons of our best citizens? Are there no tl'ughts of discontent indulged by our most virtu ous statesmen? Can we look uneeacerned ly on every rumor that is hitherw ard borne by the northern breeze? In short are "e not a changed people? and do we not feel that our safety conpels us to abate tIe warmth of our patriotism? It is so: :na11: the fact that duty induces us to this course of action, is melancholy ;proof that w e have not spirit to make ourselves formnidable or to evince our importance to the great fed eral compact. The Union-who is there that does not love the glorious associates that its tentoty coujlres up? who is there that would Itnt sacrifice himself to its preservation?-and yet is their one who does not feel tnaignant and mortified at the station which the agri cultural South--the great producing territory -holds in the ,estimation of a distant sec tion of the country? But 'here is none to blame except ourselves-for the measures which nould make us a great people, and ttinately heal all internal divisions, are before us, and yet many iudely thrust them aside and grasp those whose tendency is to perpetuate broils, and widen a gap already formidable. We have hopes, how'ver, that before it he too late, all will see and appreciate our true political position, and will return to those opinions which alone can give us commercial independence: which will prove our true station in the States' confederacy, and proapt respect from abroad. and produce confidence and composure at home, importation of Ready Made Iouses.- t The Yankees -heat all natur.' They are t now exporting ready-made houses to the I fat-west. We shall have a new item on I our custom house tariff' Memorandum; per steam ship Down East arrived at Ksaskas kin, twenty-four houses wih frame works. t marbles, mantilels, chitnies &c complete, per invoice $2*-l.OtO. The following, in practical illistration of 1 the anticipated t otmuerce, is frotn the Pe- i kin (illinois) Tlelegraaph, Jttly 21st. Its taoo good to be los:-N. V. Stair. NoVEI. Ist ArloN.-Thae being fair nibhedl with a comfortable anda convenienaa d wellinig, is among the first and promaintac wants of the Emigrant. iBut this cahyct is not easily attained. A resident inu tie cotuntry, waitha :al thet . I vanage of ncquaintance, encounters great diilienity ni: dl delaiy n buaildaaag. fromn tht scarcity of matuermias and labor; a straniger, of couarse. is subajectedl to far greater incon veniences. It wonal seem,. however, that somue of our eastern ftiends (whom we wel comne most heartily to this latnd of piromhise) a are determined not te, submit to this slow, I vexatious process anal htave hit uapaon atn ex a paedient, of the pact icability of which, we will nott vetare to preadiet. We sail iat wveek ian ahe Ware hottce of J. W. Casey, the variotas panrts of a haone, I packed in distinct parcels. anal shuipped a from the E atvia New Orleans tao this place, owned by one of the members of the en terprisigolony of Delevan itn this couty~a. All the mtaterials were prepared for beinu put together, which would finish anal comn plete the house. The floors, &c. wvere al ready painted; and nothing was wvatutitle but the shingling of the roof, and the lath ing and plastoirintg. To whtat extent the importang of houses may be found advantageous we know not, but the experiment is well enoug. 'rHoMiAs BUTLER KiN.--This gentie mant wa% elected on the first Monday in thi month, i Representative to the next Con tress, and at the salne time a member of th Senate in the Georgia Legislature. This i a practical commtentary tionm the ojie boasted reluctanc e our ourpponent. In at L'ept office, atd shot that when they hav the pot er, they are not slow in appropria ling to thenmselves the "spoils of victory. 1% lit a modest matt must our nen Repire tentative elect he ! It is a great pity tha there wete not a few more offices withi the reach of the houorable gentleman, tha ais vaulting anahison mtight stand some Abanuce of pratificaion. To live in Cam let, be elected Senator from Glynn. an' lRepresentative to Congress, all at once, i something to be sure; but we have nodout to would have been willing to have sh'iwi iis popularity by accepting other othie. -ould they have been fouae For linls % if sot the good people of C.studen saffir bitt a zi %e.;,r, to be their Senator also !--A4th. us, taro. Banner, Oct. Dr. Irving's lectures oli'r to our citizen mn euteriainmnent altogether novel. The; ire not, like the exlihii..ns of the celebre eel Ogilvie, amerely decelaations--ar rhect irac applied to passages oh poelry and lrns noted fromt our literature. Sich lecture (to judge from the first) i i story skilfully drawn from real life. I bus g.sins the imerest of an original narra ien, and resembles the entertainment of th iEastern story-tellers, which travellers have leseribed as the most living part of Easteri ite"ature In giving the story, quotation if prose and poetry,classiscal allusion, tmr cl refl#'ctinas, are freely used, v ith grea ptineses and b'seaumy; these are all enflirced sy intenation, gesture and expression, will heierical skill anddraiatic efect, and th -e-,ult is a deep iniaressin eal omre valwa tle moral I ree'pt. The leecrur "on gambling," w hieh is an iounced for Saturday evening huas bee xtolled as highly fe-ctive, and '.aely noth ag can be more beneficial to a eiaang mind hant a deep impression of coustejue'nees i This vice. . ... .. Dr. Irving's audience on Tuesday even ng last, could not have been more fiqhion able. had our dran ing. rooms been culler or the purpose.-Bo.ston Atlas. Broom Corn.-If the. Yankees have tick ed us confiding backaoodsmnen with th asteful inventions of the wooden ham, -no he cure-all pill made of peas sleeped its solution of liquorice, they have on the uie mud, laid us under actual oblhgations t'n nany really valuable discovewries in Me :hanlics and Agresulture. The uses t vhich they have put the bracla corn coesi ate a case in poini: This plant, so inci. w'usaale to the cleanli house wife. is to i wen in small quantities, in albost ever orno field in our State; but few of our far ners have regarded its cul'ure in any othe iglet than as a far higher rank in the ,'aia ogue of cultivated crops. Not only a heir nanufae tories annually epor larg IIu amit ie of broea and brushes maele , his valuable plant but they also fild it red highly importamt as frod for all kiaa if stock. J. M. Garner, Esq. Pr"-sieleat o he Agricultural Society of Fredericksbusrg n his ania ocal alddre tea tht busdy s1ron'- gl iamendeaas the ensllr casf ba'lroen s carna tea ih an aters ofd Vairiis, ands c.ommuaaanicaetes th balliawing extract eof a hester dfrome a genrtle nasa isa (Connec'tient, w'hic'h comtlprises, is aut shaell, te whosule pro'ecess of' cultivactiit tis us'es ande produsctiveness. "Osar 'ar'tnersc plant 'hleir bareom-cor'ni sill"'ea tw'cfet sart, Pa ' se ws fresmt 31 m tl aslf weed :. Thel' aiverage yie'ld is froat ;00 to 1000 las. ofclentn brushl to rho acre icet stra mlh ha 10) baushecls of seed. Thci' lsean well cleaaned ande arouand, iq estee-ne amcl as geasd as corna, andI is used itt feedita teack of all kinds. Ir issaidl to be beter thss eats for horses, ande bsetter titan lad -k whea bar feeding hoags. Ina slanttinag, f'roma do( to e eced are put isa a iill, bunt easly tent are paer stilted to greasw." V~aue of the. li'd/no' -rThe i mporat ae'- e Ite wvillow vle manl hsi baeee r'eonmz',ede freas Ite eas'liest ages; arad baaskjets adse fraa villoaw tawigs were probaly asmonig the ver irst oft hauan mnanuafacetories, int countrie 'here thtese tree~s tabacunde. Thela Romnan aaede thte twsigs for laindeing thesir vinecs aan yinag their rees ina haandll.e, ande m-'aee sa earls oaf bsaskets of'thaemc. A crop~of willowy vas cfobideredl so valuale in the time r iatto. thact heo ranrks the salictumn, or willo jeld, next in value to thae vitneyardl anti gar len. In Fransce, the leaves, whether in ~roen or dried slate, are cotnsideredl the yea test food for ows or goats and horses. I - some placea, are fed entirely on them from m the end of August till November. Horses - o fed,it it Stated. will travel twenty leagues B a day without beine faitigued. In the s north of Sweden and Norway. and in Lap 1 land, the inner bark is kiln dried, and - ground for the purpose of mixing withoat meal in years of scarcity. ''he bark of the willow and also the loaves are astringent and the igrk of most sorts tmay he employed mn tanning.-A rimr, um Blritunicum. t PAINS of INIOLt.NCE. I No greater mistake is ever made than when we are told by unreflecting people, that astate of repose and indolence is natural and desirable to all men. Ifthis be ever the case, it can be predi cated of those alone in the lowest grade of hu tunanity. A New Iloll-inder or a Hottentot, may possibly- be contented to crawl on in the m. e of t sloth and brutality, until compelled bey irresis:i ble ne-e-sity to bestir himsell, there is nottaing so I I alluring in he con.litione of these poser 'reaures als to mke them ob ects of itnmitation But wimth a retined and cultivated mind, and a station. however modest, provided it be without the bieach of the calls of co-spulso.y duty, sne has enasiled upon him a most res:less and trouhtesorme com panion, in the shape of a constant goeading sc sire to be occupied. This harpy pursues the in emptoye-s, and vitiates tie baiue of tranquil life, at w sich they would fhin recline themselves. Knowug that they are liable to its attacks. if eaught jn ademucs, it is amusing to see by nhuat pitiful i. .trivances people attempt to deceive thenseives imlo a belefthat they are busy. l'asI times and amusements are eneumbered with reg ulations-and pleasures nade foreal and heavy. Importance is attached to the most trifling occu - renceq of - life's dull round;" and tie rutes ofeti quettgaed puetillim are enforced by the sever est P6maa ties. Although occupied in nothing real. fill or i ational-yet -'that nothing" must t alwa be iransacted at the leo-t criticai period of'theiday and with all due observances of place and ecirumistlance, or the ehara will not work. The' 4nun -ef I- isure becomes. Iin coms, qsuece. cuter' meamorphosted into the most hu-Mling, ana a epositoror little paltry cares. Ch. at ed ofh tas own quiet, he keeps the mus watehf'ul .,eal lookout upon the repose of his neigiibmirs wo be unto the untortunate m unberer up on. 1m 'e itlicts his presence. the state of istlessness and irresolution, inm Ss' aftendant upon habits ol' indol- nee, the ed of'evils owe their origen. Up rise pectres, haunting the distempered imagination. Refuge From these in sought ine strong exctemeat ewhih is eueeded by moping. nervotme in Ian choly. Indigestioin, with its train of woes, is in. duced by too gs eat attentio. to the omly re gulur business af the day-eating aned drinking. it - ome hasty malady des not prevent, suicide is too ilete looked to aes the only refiage fron enn i. I uet wisere thi- sufferer is do 'tied to lin-er t his e loingdisease.he can know no p:easure nor repose . The tull coloring and emtrast, which labor antid r tseful occtpatin give to e' pieture, are wanting amid tuore remains an cunmeaning-an iesipped blank. Sleep flies his pillow-and en.oymm from the most alluring of his peastimes. A mrere paseenger im the ship of life, his sickly existence is past in disgust anl nothingness. Females, both by constitutiou and education. are particularly liable to stfier from the passive - state ind'uced by over refinement. So much is r present to captivate their native delicacy and timidity, that they overlook the danger arising fromm these being emorlldly increased. lCver busted with unnumbered details, they have freequently no one engroem-.: occupation Leaning for support on some loved relative, anod delded by the hope, that they may so conimue secure s and blameless, they too oflen neither pre f pare for the disappointuent nor the duties of real life. The willing homage of the protecting sex raises thtem abhove time thoughts tand caires emf Stime butsy wesrld. They mre seldoime if ever, t,,'Id ofsickly beaus'y'se "frmil andtc feverishe b.-inmg;"-andie they hmeair nout the "sl simaill voice" el'nattre, whichm wmarcis thmemi teo lbe n eum. Unitriemd, mandc close conscealed, time chareactcer fails im staemjscia mecd 'sponmtane'ous feower-; wee im' I rotm defici'cet xere'se, thme constt.tte ionbcomiese incapabenele sot resimtop, i ti.- dightest hucee. .cmdc lee lbod', umniequal ande pre emoc~urely expe:imded mn the sultry dr'awinmg roomt, ais destitute of' the symmetrical prompomrtionis oei~o bemauty WVhen the. 'sir sunes are called upjoim to be wives amid .nuersm, is') are often f'ouimd to he doubly waninmg -./aurnsag of Ikcalth. 4 HoPe'.-Tliere is 10no hppinessq whmie'I hope i canncot promtise-no diff'icuilty whlichi it cnnmot i surmolume-nos griefl wvhichi it cmanmt meitigate. SIt is thme wealth of thme inmdigenet, mhe hmeatih of' lice sick, the fr'seeom of' time capgtive. As soon~e a, we haive learnmed waltm is agreeable, it delightsm mis wvitht the pirospect eof aittateining it; as son. ais we have lost it. it deh hits mus with lhe piocsecee omlits reteurn. It is sem flamttemer ind comfol~rtem cln ('ars whmichi need still emoere so he flaitteredl andm ceaemfor ltad. What it pro~mise's. inideed, is dlilhi-rent in fthee different y'ears; buet the kineics aind im re Ssistible peruasieon withm ,vbic'h it nmakes the pro mise arci still time sae: andie wiie we auighi in advanced age, met the esasy c'nlfienclme ofumryouth in wishmes ni hichm seem iincapable of' dleceivinmg us now. we are still, aes to othe'r objects of desire, thme emne creduliloims, confidinmg beings, whtom it wams then so easy to muake happy. Nor is it omsly over terre-stial thinigs thaet it difimuses its elightfuel - radiance: time power whtichs attendes uis with con s solatio, thromgh time anexietiesandl labors of oeur ylife, does net dleseert its at thee close of thmat life whicit jis blessend or consled.h It is ri n with is in our last moment. We look to scenes which atire opening on us above, and we look oi those around us, with an expectation stronger than the strongest hope, that, in the world which we are about to enter, we shall not have only remembrance of what we loved and revered on earth, but that the friendship frm which it is so painful to part, even in parting to Heaven, will be restored to us there.-boes. - DEATH.-People fmnn the most fearful con ception. f "the last struggle," the "separation of the soml frotn the boly." and the like; but this is all void of founation: no tman certainly ever felt "what death is," for it is nothing; and as insensi ble as we enter into life. equally insensible is its cessation. The beginning and the end are here united. We are taught by experience, that all those who ever passed through the first stage of death [death itself,) and were again brought to life. unanimously asserted that they felt nothing of d1% ing, but sank at once into a state of insen sibility. IA'm is not he led into a mistake by the convil sive thobs, the rattling in the throat. and mite up parent pangs of'death which are exhibited by 'i"uny persons when in it dying state. 'These symjptomms are painful only to time spectators, and not to the dyitig. who ire not sensible of them. The case here is. as if one, from the drendful con tortions of a person in am) epileptic fit, should fiarm a conclusion respecting his internal fi-el ings: from what affects us so much, he suffers nothing. 'Tie result of the observation of ninny a clos ing scene iii various climes lends to the conclu -ionm that death is envisaged by those with the least horror, whose lice- have been least influ enced by superstition or hitmaticism, as tell as by those who have cultivated literature and sci ence with the most ardor. FT ERNZT v.-Dark! duep: bounless! uniathom able! issysterions eternity!!-Soreless! bot tomt less! awful! incoimprehensible eternity!! Where is the 'tumid, the Hierculean mind that cai grasp und measures eternity! In the efiort, the mind is lost, it reels, staggers, becmimmes confounded. 'iverwhelmed. asmd shri.ks roa the task, appal led and *imuddering as rom t tililing nmountain. Eternity is passed. Eternity is future. Time s1"ins in the ocean of ete nity. Of eternity we "an give no de-cription. Language is too mea gre. No picture cnn portray it. It can neither hm n eghed nor measmred. It is beyond the ken of the human intellect. If we attenpt to launch intothe amysterious ocean, we are lost in the nw fll ani profound abyss. If'we attempt to ga-.e upon its illimitable fields, the imind becomes diz zy, the heart grows sick and telers. We have no line to mfeasure. no scale to weich it, no chro mmet.r to commpute it, chronologist to explain it, nothini with which we may compare it. A min. ute bears some comparison to a myriad ofyears. But time' admnits of no comparison with eternity it had mm beginning-will have in end. Eter nity had no beginning-will hever have an end When ms rinds and millions of years have inter vened, and titice en thousaid mil!ions mors have pats-ed. the sun of eternity n ill blut hate appezared glefntning in the hot izon. Eternity has its mtrn. noon mind night. 'Tis e'verastiig. I'orever and ever! and ever!-l'itabtrger. "Occupy till I rome "-Divine Providence has placed every itman in his peculiar situation, and assigned every man his work. The situation and work of mankind are various, but the mp pointmment is of God. Some ar appointed to guide the plumgmh; others to direct the looms. Somie to toil: others to miink and direct. Some to study and teach; others to recei e direction and instrac tion. Some are to smihnit; others are to goeri. l.very tman has his proidemmi al uppointtmment given mit ; and he may discover it, if tie wishes to doss. Whatever oursituation beiGod himself, in the councils of his wise 'rovidence, his pmmaeed is ins it, andmm comn i-ted witit c 'ertainm duttie's TIo e'very imanm hem ihas samid. "le diligent m business, fervenit imn spirit, Sern inig time Loird." piety, adobmtrusive of' it; bmmt this is an error. 'i'hemv matiy lie tmamde sm, limt they' inre no si m-'i's. sar-ily 'They' are' paurts mif dmm .i wha L. m per formed m wtih a n ew to time glory oif God fromm re ligiouis moi~tives, amid with re'mirdl to re'lig'i,,ns ends, as Iio.n- ii: he, ,1: .imme ihi iin e ble'ssimng ,t.id p Oimote, iot hmmdier our eternl wefitre. No tian hins mm charter tom be idle, muen of' time im. amphle fortunmesmare time servttimof' God. A thmou sandm domors of usmefishiess lay open to suchi personsm us are e'xempit from time necessity oft diily toil, amid to whom God has been bountiftl ini time gif'ts ofihis Pmrovidien~e. Thle mantt who buries his tal emit itt thme earth, is deeply gniilty, mind imnemnr time dispmleasmire mu' his Lmrmd. Idlenmess as iihfmilibly de'sroys time soui, as openf sift commnitted mmgninst Giod. We atre alii stewi'ds mof his manimifoldi gif'ts. Godi himseif' wvill ant lenigthm inaiy.'-Gmvm :im ac-coit oif thy~ -mfewatrdship: fhr thmoui mayimst lie no longi r stewatrd."-Chrastian Ailumoaae A4 Miot'r to larr D}aughter ont Marriage.-ou anre now. myi blovedch child, mihoiut to lenve the arms which have hitherto chierishmed you. and di rected youtr every step, and at length comnducted you to a samfe, happy, mind hmionrable protection ini thme very bomsom of' love amid htonor Youm must now be no longer the flighty, inconsiderate, hauighty, passionate girl, but ever, with rever ence and delight hamvin time merit oi'youmr husband ini view, Reflect hmow Vast time sum of v'omur ob ligationis tom time man whmo conmfersmtupon you indle, penmde'nce, distinct'ion, mind, above all, felicity. Modertet, then, my be~ovtit child. vonr n/ivam expenses, and proportion your general expendi tre to the standard of his fortune, or ratter his wishes. I fear not that with your education. and principle- you can ever forget the more stacred duties, so soon to be your sphere ofaction. Re member the solemnity of your vows, the dignity of your character, the sanctity of your condition. You are anesable to society for your example, to your husband for his honor and happiness, and to lheaven itself for those rich talents entrusted toyour care and your improvemnent, and though in the maze of pleasure, or the whirl of passion, the duties of the heart may be forgotten, remem,. her, my darling child, thee is a record which will one day appear in terrible evidence against us for ourleast omission. The American Mechanic.-Whatever may be the "pomp, glory, ci:cums'anco" of the great men of the world-w .ever nay be the daa zling pageantry of high life-the glitter of fash ionable society, and splendid misery of those w' ho believe that "Those who think must govern those who toil;" there is no situation in this world more enviable than that of the plain American mechanic-free for every thing for whir& Neavetn designed him; uotramnmelled in his opinions, and, left to the guidance of his own genius. he walks erect in the full stature ofazman. I sing, with his own hands, the means by whiche supportshimselft protected by a goverunnmens. which, like the sun, sheds its light-its fostering care upon all-who shall gainsay his right to enjoy the fruits of his labor, in the way which best may please him? Under our Gov -rnment, prudence, industry amid economy,are sure to meet with theirreward, and it should be remembered by every imechanic, that the road to preferment and official di: nity is open to every one, All that the people want in those that serve theta is fidelity and patriotism -truth to the constitution, and intelligence enough to perform their duty. flow much, then it behooves the American Mechanic to make himself worthy the highest honor the people can co fer. It is the duty of every A lmeriena. to render himself comptem to act on all occasions as becomes an Anericat. citi ze'n. Intelligence, education and study. are witnr in the reach of every human. Political Strife -It has always seemed strange to us that so much acrimony should be exhibited by political men towards each other What is the necessity for the endless contentions and petty and disgraceful wrangles that are occurring every day among men of commnnon sense in other respects and on other subjectai And what is the pomit of difl'erencef What is the cause for all the excitement-all the heated zeal displayed by these ofboth parties? Why, the truth is, o o person has a dif erent opinion from another re. specting the qualifications of a certain' man for office. It is a mere matter of opinien. The one or the other may be right, and the question should be settled in the only legitimate way. by vote. If mote think with the one than with the other, it cannot be helped. They have a perfect right so to think. and the one in the minority oughi to sit down contentedly, comfort himself with the reflection that he may, notwithstaning, be in the right, and the oter in the wrong. Let C'ristian politicians at least cease to wrangle, and peaceably sustain their candidate for popar lar iavor, and there will be less wrangling. iEAnis ALOL0 -To haw many otherwise tedious or useless, hours of life, ntay a female inapa.t bot delight and improvement by tihe charm of' reading well. If a wife, site can solace many a season of a husband's weariness or sick,. lass. If a mother, what an advantage to her ofispring, to have before them, asthey are grow. itg up. a living model, in the person ofone whom they are led to reverence and Love, of an ao cotmpeslhmteit which our schools, and academies, amnid colleges find it so difficilt to impart. This huter comnsmdea titoen, in amy view, has imtneniso w.eig..t; for our hmabits of psonuniiciationm, speak. inig amnd readiang are irst formted in childhood, aid in the deitmestic' circle,~ andi beingonice formed it is a task of extreme dilliculty to alter them," N'wsma,:.-l, "i.je are givenm to talk of i indufmencLe of time press; of its I eing the p ialladium of ottr liberties, with a great deal Iumrr of itch iape panmegyric. Yet whilst they ptroise thme orgamn. they forget the condition of editors anid prmtters. T1hie very individtials who sing thne lotidest sonigs in praise of' the Press, are imost regamrdlemes of' our professionmal rights. They resort to the mmeanesm tmodes ordefrauding uts of time jumst recompilence of ouzr iatelectuail and mtechnanical labours, of our legal responsibiuitis anid our pecuntiary htazards.-Xouha. SountcE or PsltnP:.Exmry.-Tlat which make.. our view of thme presemnt state of time worid a source of perplexity amndhorror, is the considera. tion that every hiumtan heart bears in itselfa type mtore or les's distii.ct, of these powers timd that hati p ess wh voer b htave bmeen time pmortioni of the most exalted~ utnndis There is, perhaps, no spot on earth, however dreamry, ini which thme germs of iaimny plats, amid thme liarva om shiing amnd lighntwinged( insecta aire not hidldenm, thoutgh fo, thmottsands ofl years uindevelmiped, and still ex. poretlmng thme warm breeze which alml call them out into life and beauitv. Ercelent Adrice.-Youmng amen of tihe present day tire too fond of' getting rid of work; they for~ easy and lazy emnploymteat, and frequently turn out to lbe poor miserable vagabonds. You nmust avoid all wvishes to live withobt labor; labor is a blessing, rathmer than a curse; it makes amen hmealthmi , procures themn food, clothinig, amid every other niecessary, fiees thenm rom tentptations to bedsaika ale hl~ iipnst