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EWe will cling to the pillars of the temple of our liberties, - F. U Publisher. and if it must fall we will perish amidst the ruins." VOLUJIYE IV- VUcgefitl& COwrt 110use, s. .August cm. isaiD,3~ TERMS. The EDGEFIEhD ADVERTISER jq pull lished every Thursday morning at Three Dollars per annum, if paid in advance Three Dollars and Fitly Cents if not paid before the expiration of Sir Months from the date of Subscription--and Four Dol lars if not paid within Twelve Months. Subscribers out of the State are required to pay in advance. No subscription received for less that) one year, and no paper discontinued until all arrearages are paid. except at the op- c tion of the Publisher. c All subscription4 will he'continued un- t less otherwise ordered before the expira tion of t be year. Any person procuring five Subscribers -and becoming responsible for the same, shall receive the sixth copy gratis. t Advertisements conspicuously inserted at 624 cents per square, (12 lines, or less,) c foi the first insertion, and 431 et-. for each F continuance. Those published monthly, or quarterly will be charged $1 per square for each insertion. Advertisements not having the number of insertions marked on them, will be continued until ordtred out, and charged accordingly. All communications addressed to the c Editor, post paid, will be promptly and strictly attended to. W. F. DURISOE. Publisher. Prospectus of the Second Volume. Embellished with splendid Engravings, and A Enveloped in Printed Covers. TRE AUGUSTA MIRROR A Semi-Monthly Journal, Devoted to Polite Literature, lusic, &c. BY WILLIAM T. THOMPSON. The success which has attended the above publication. and the very liberal patronnge whicn tans been extended to the First Volume, has induced the publisher to make every effurt in his power to render the work still more worthy the patronage of a Southern Public. Witia this view, arrangements have been made, c by which lie has secured tie assistance of a nu merous list of corresp..ndents, with whose co- t operation he ho1.es to be able to render the Second Volume almost entirely onginal in its contents, as well as suut,ern in character. t4 While he would avoid makingpremises, which % he might lack the ability to perform, yet his t confidence in his present resources, enabes v hion to assure those who have eicouraged him ti by their patronage- in the infancy of his under- c taking, that if they have been satisfied with the d tasIIhey will notfail to be pileased with the P second Volume 6f the Mirror. The Second Volume which will be published on the 11th May, will be considemably improved in arrangementand t) pogtaphical apipearance, and wi;l lie printedon paper of at excellentand P unitorin quality, though no inaerial hiaupe P Will be made iu the pian of the work, The ensuing Volume will be enveloped in neatly printed covets. Terms.-The Mirror is printed in royal t quarto form, on good paper, and on fair type. and is issued every other Saturday evening, at $3 in advance, or $4 at the end of the year. Each Volume contains Twenty-Six ndmbers. or two hundred and eight royal quarto pages, in- If eluding twenty-six &vorite pieces of Mtusic. a. r ranged either.for the Piaioforte or Uuitr : comprising, in all, more reading matter than is contained an two- thousand common duodecimo pae-s. AGENTS. C The following gentlemen are authorised to " act as agents for the Au.austa Mirror. All " receipts for subscriptions given by them, will C be credited upon the'books of the offle: Georgia.-iss H. Bothwell. Louisville; A. Chase, Athens; D. G. Cotting, Washing ton; N. L. Sturges. Waynesborough; L. L. I Wittich, Iladison, Vorran Co. Sowtk Carolina.-P. A. Chazal, Charles ton; Colonel A. H Pemberton, Columbia; J. D. O'Connell. Advertiser Office, Edgefield; of whoin may be had The British Partisan ; or a Tale ofthea Times of Old. By Miss rioragne, of Abbeville lDis DISsOLUTION. T H'' Copartnerahip of H L.JH Fia:s& Co.. Sof'Hamburg, SouthI Caroliina, was dis- " solved oin the 1st of August, 1838. by mnutuail h4 consent. All tunsettled business of the concern will be attended to by H. L. Jeffers. HI L. JFFERS. R. BARBER. Uamburg, Mtay 2 1839 . ac 16 n I beg leave most respectfully to inform my friends, and the public generally,. that Mr. a HUitPIREYs BOOLwARE has associated himself I wvith me, and that the business will hereafter be I done under the name of JE F FE RS $r BOUL- a WARE. and hope that a continuation of the liberal patronage hitherto bestowed, will be t anerited and received. HI. L JEFFERS. r Hamburgt, May .13, 1839 ac 16 N9E W F IRTI IN H1A MB URG, S. C. T H E Subscribers beg leave to inform their friends, and the public generally. that I they have associated themselves together in the Town of Hamburg, for the pturpose of tranis- n~ acting a generalv G3rocery and Commission BusinessI in which capacity they offer themselves to' the ti public, and hope, by a strict and close attentio~n i to business, to receive a liberal share of patron age. Their Stock shatll ever be composed of the I nesft choice and weoll selected artictes usually I kept in a Grcry anid Staple Dry Goods line,. All Orders, or letters addressed to them, for y uany article,' or heisiness on Coimmission, shall uznect with careful attnttion anid lespiatch.i IllENRY L JEF'ERS. IILU.\PHREYS BOtULAREX.C I~amburg, Mlay 13,13 un-t() Fu' FSale. Ci MY.~iOUSE upnd LOT. itn the Village of . Ide iel, nponterms to suit a p)urchas-r. In tmy ab~si tce, applly to Col. ianiskett. 'qJAM ES t JOESm c The Cause of Bilious Comp laints and a Mode of Cure. W Alell regulated and proportionate quanti lty of tile upon the stomach, is alwAys re iuisite for the promotion of sound hicalth--it timulares digestion, and keeps the intestinal anal free from all obtruct-ons. Un the inferi r surace-of the liver is a peculiar bladder. in rhich the bile is first preserved, being formed y the liver fronp the blood. Thence it passes uto the stomach and intestines, mnd regulates he indigestion. Thus we see when there is a eficieacy of bile, the body is constantlycostive. )n the other hand, an overabndance of bile ausesfrequent nausea in the stomaich; and of 3n promotes. very severe attacks of disease, vluch somnetimes end in death. F evers are always preceded by symptoms I'a di-ordered stomach; as are also scrofulous isorders, and all sympatihtic functional. or anic orfebrile diseases. From the same cause, lie natural and healthy action of the heart, and ie whole vascular system is impaired and redu ed below its natural standar<L as exhibited in alpitations, languid pulse. torpor of the limbs, yacope, and even death itself, in consequence f an overabundance ofa peculiar offensive sub tance to the di:estive organs. The approachof bilious diseases is at all times tlended by decided symptonus of an existing liseased state of the stomach and bowels; i. e. rith those which are known to point out their ontents to be of a inorbid irritating nature; but rhenever the alimentary canal happens to be maded with irritating matter, some derange uent of healthy oper ation either of thegeberal ystem, or ofeome papticular organ of the body the certain resuit. and when this state hap ens to be united with any other symptoms of isease, its effects are always thereby much ag mvateds The progress of organiC obstruction often so rapid as scarcely to admit of time for ie application of such aid as is to be offered by rt, yet, in general. the preionitory symptoths f gastric load are perceptible for a day far two revious to the feverish paroxisma peioid, when ie most elicacious assistance may be given, by nloading the stomach and alimentary canal fits irritating contents..and thus reducing the ascepiibility of disease. .MFFA'I'S LIFE MEDICINES. thlttid lways be taken in the earlp stages of bilious' Dmplaints; and if persevered in strictly accord * to the directions, will positively effect a are. The mineral medicines often prescribed in iese diseases, although they may effect a tem orary cure, at the same time ckeate an un ealthy state of the blood, and consequently nd to promote a return of the very disease ihieb they are employed to cute. It is then by e use of purgatives, exclusively formed of egetabl compounds, which. possessing within emselves no deleterious agencies, which de inposition, combination, or alteration can velope or bring into action; and therefore ca able of producing no effect, save that which is msred-that a safe remedy is found. The LIFE PILLS and PHENIX BITa 'ERS have proved to be the most happy in seir effects in cases of Biliousdiseases, of any rely vegetable preparation ever offered to the ublic. lIf the stomach i foul. they clanse it y exciting it to throw off its coitents: if niot ey pass to the duodenum without exciting mitmg or inausea it; the stomach; stimulating te neighboring vicera, as the liver and pan reas, so as to produce a more copious flow of eir secretions into the intestines; stimulating e exhalent capillaries, s.-rminating in the sner coat, which an increased flow of the use s. partich a of the body, foreign matters, or tained secretions, are comp'etelh discharged. For sale wholesale and etail by the proprie r.WILLIAM B. M('FFAT,37: ltroadway. ew York, t4, whom all letters telative to the ledicines or or ders nttis be directed. For further particulars of the above Medi ne see MOFFAT's GooD SAMARITAR. a copy of bich accompanies the Medicine. A copy ay also be had an a pplications at the store of .'A. DOWD. at Edgefleld Court House, ho has the Medicinse for sale. August I tf 26 Valuable Lands for Sales HE subscriber will dispose of all his . Lands, consisting of about 1400 acres, viz: The tract sin wlmhi lie now rsisdes, contain ig about 900 acres, lyinag on the Stag- , Road nding from EdgehieldCouirt House to Augusta, rithini 4 siles of the Court Ilouse, aund 19 -om Augusta. On the premises tire good Build. gs, anid alit Orchard of two thotusaind and i ht hutndred fine r-ruit Trees. Also, the plaice firmtersy owned by E:.,1. 'oungbilood containsing absout 350 acres, with ecessarv buibsliists. all new. Uso, the place known as Bellevue, within 2 n :M4 miles of the Village. It has a two story nilding, and is as fine a situation as any in the istrict. It contains 100 acres, 10) of which i cleared. All the tracts contain about 700 acres of fine mbere~d woo~d-laind. and all have fine springs. Persons desirous of purchasing may exarnine > themselves. Thme terms will he accommodating. W. B. MlAYS. Mlay 4, 1839 tf 14 Abbeville Lands for sale. W IL L be sold for division at Abei!le C. H. on the first Monday in September' ext, 1:>7t) acres of valuable lands, ini 2 tracts, iz: 1000 aeres, known as the Wallerville tract, mig 8 miles south of Greenwood, on the Mla s road-this tract is well improved, and in a igh state of cultivatios, with 500) acres cleared -there are on. it, an excelleit twvo story dwvel nr honse, good G i-house. Barn and Carriage suse, wvith all other necessary out butildings, ad an excellent wvell of good water its the ard. The other tract contains 576 arres, adjoining fewarket, withmin -two imiles of the Green rood Academmies. tt has 100 acres cleared, 40 f which are fresh-a good Dwelling house and itcen, wvith other out butildings, and an ex 'llent Spring of good water wvithini 200 yards the house. Trermns made known on the day f sale.JJOIIN PARLTLOW. Jutne 1st, 1839 . ab 19) The Col mbhia Telescope will publish the a wve ill the day of sale, atnd forward the tic mnt to the subscriber, at Newmnarket, for ray. ... .3 n. STANZAS TO AN OLD FRIEND. Come, here's a health to thee and thine! Trust me, whate'er we may be told, Few things are better than old wine, When tasted with a friend that's old. We're happy yet: and in our track New pleasures if we nay not find; There is a charm in looking back On sunny prospects left behind. Like that famed hill in western clime Thre-ugh gaudy- noontide dark and bare, That tinges still, at vesper time, With purple gleam the evening air; So there's a joy in former days, In times, and scenes, and thoughts gone by, As beautiful their heads they 'e, - Bright in Imagination's sky. Tinfe's glass is fill'd with varied sand, With fleeting joy and transient grief; We'll turn, and with no sparing hand, O'er many a strange fantastic leaf; And fear not-but,'mid many a blot, There are some pages writen fair, And flowers that time can wither not, Preserved-, still faintly fragrant, there. As the hush'd night glides gentlier on. Our music shall break forth its strain, And tell of pleasures that are gone, And heighten those that yet remain; And that creative breath divine Shall waken many a slumbering thrill, And call forth many a mystic ie Jf faded joys remembered still. Again, the moments shall she bring, When youth was ii his freshest prime; We'll pluck the roses that shall sprimg Upon the grve of buried Time. There's magic in the olden song; Yea, e'en ecstatic are the tears Which steal adown, our smiles amolt, Routed by the sounds of other years. And, as the nariner can find Wild plvasure in the voiced roar Even of the tnen-dreaded wind, That wreck'd his every hbpe hefore; [f there's a pang that lurks beneath-" For youth had pangs-bh, let it rise! Tis sweet to feel the poet breathe The spirit of our fortner sighs. W'll hear the straihs we heard so oft In life's first, warm, impassion'd hours, That fell on our young hearts as soft As summer dews on summer flowers! And as the streatn, where'et it hies Steals something in its purest flow, Those strains shald taste of ecstacies O'er which they floated long ago. Even in our morn, when Fancy's eye Glanced spirkling o'er a world of bliss, W hen ,oy was young. and hope was high, We could not feel much more than this; [Iowe'er. then, time our day devours. Why should our smiles he overeust? Why should we grieve for fleeting hours? We'llI find a future in the past. TO DISAPP1OINTMENT. Ia ! Disappointment, has thou conid, With serpeit eye, and raven wing; With haggard brow. and iron tongue, With poisonous breath, and fiery sting? Welcome! thou child of dark despair, Thou reacbest me a mournful truth, That those I call my friends may wear A mask to mock me, e'en in youth. False as the light the meteor flings, And colder that the iceberg's gleam Are they, the hollow-hearted things, Who cheered me in my sp lenidid dream. Like Sodom's apples, thou hast shown. The ones. my young heanrt loved, to bse, And now with bitter ashes strewn, 1 stand beside life's dreary sea. Fixed as the oak that rears its head To brave the lightning of the storm, O'er buried hope my armw I spread.. Ana mork the mocker's tairy form. earless if those whose love is brighlt, And careless of their deepest scorrt, I soar above a wvorld of night, And revel in eternal miorn. They who would cheat the trusting heart, And crush the hopes of manhood's hoitr, Whose hands would tip the poisono'us dart, And hurl it with demoniac power; For theta no rest of pare delight In yonder heavenly realm awaits, But shame, and wvo. anbd litrid night, Where terror shuts tier awful gates. ' MisceIaneous. TRAts5sATIOt~S FRObi TH E FRENlCHU .Bys the Editor. FROSt BUFFo~s THE MAGNIFICE~NCE OF NATURE. A pure light, exiending from the east to the west, gilds the hemispheres of the globe. A light and transparent element surrounds it. A grateful and fertilizing heat gives it animation-causitt all the germs of life to spring forth. Living and salutry waters serve for their support, and their increase. Mountains, distributed i the middle of cotuntries, arrest the va pours of the atmosphere, rendering these sources of water inexhaustible, and a? ways fresh; immnenso countries made to receive them, separate contineuts. The extent of the oceain is as great as tat of ,te arth;. it is not merely a cold nnd hnr. ren eledent-it is a new empire. as ric and as populous as the former. Nature the odtward 1 hrone oidivine magnificenc, lan as he contemplates her, and studio her, ii elevated by degrees, to the interit thronp of Almighty Power. Formed I adorei his Creator, he rules over ever creature. The vassal of heaven, the kin ofearth,he ennobles it-he peoples it-an he e cbes it. He establishes among ii ing b ings, order, subordination, and hai monyl He embellishes even Nature hei self--he cultivates her-he gives her e) tent, ind polish-be prunes the thistle an the brier, and multiplies the vine and th rose. ARABIA DESERTA. Figure to yourself a country withot verdure. and without water-a sky for everidry-a burning sun-sandy plains motiidins even yet more arid, over whicl t'he e extends, and the vision is lost with t the pover of fixing on any living objec a soil dead, and parched by thi wiudi; presenting nothig but pebble strews around-rocks standing or over throwti-a desert entirely open, where thi traveler has never breathed in the shade wheri nothing solaces him-nothing re calls tt him, animated nature. The pro found olitude is a thousand times mon terriblh than that of the forest; for ever the treis are companions for him who i alone., Completely isolated-destitute lost in tkeir void and boundless regions, or all Aids he beholds space, as his tomb the light of day more glonmy than ti shade df night, bnly dawns to reveal t: him, h'b desitution-his helplessness and ibehorrors of his situation. It only shows 6 him, the depth of that immensitv which erparates him from the dwellings a men-n immensity beyond which he ii vain atmmpts to pass ; for hutter, thirst, and he t fill up the moments which re main adhim, between despair and death. From the N. 0. Picayune. SHAdPEARE AND THE BIBLE. We ipver remarked till late'y hom many bthe playsof Shakspeare hear evi deuce, that his mind was deeply imbued with the anguage, history. and philosophy contained in the Bible; but we are now aware thts some of the most eloquent and affecting f. his conceptions may be traced to that goat fouttain-head of nearly all that is fouid to be truly wise and elevated in the irstitutions of men. For the amusemer of our readers, we will cite numerouslustatces of his familiar use of the very vords of Holy Writ. they uno quivocally: prove his estimationu of the force of itt languago, and how intimate the acquautance which could thus inter weave itsphrasoology with the ordi.tary current ifhought: Bible-"he apostle says, But though I be rude in speech. 2 Cor. ii. 6. Othrllo-Rude am I in speech. Bible-Stew his eyes and grieve thy heart. I him. ii. 33 Vacbet-Shew his eyes and grieve his heart. Bible-'hou host brought me ino the dust of leah. Ps. Macbeth-JLighted fools the way to dusty death. Bible-Look not upon me because I am black-hecatse the sun hath looked upon me. Songtol. i. 6. Me'rchatf Venice-Mislike me not for my comnple od-the shadowy livery of the burnishd sun.. Bible---l innte him; I caug~ht him by his heard, ad~ smnote htim. and slew him. I Sam. xvii.35. Othello-Itook by the throat, the cir cumtcisedl don atnd smoteo him. Bible-Opned Job his mouth and cursed his dry ; let it not ne joined untto the days of tii- year; let it dat come into the numtber olmombits. Job. .Macbeth-Ray this accursed hatir stand nye accursed ii the calendar. Bible-Wha is man that thou art mind ful of him ? %ou hast made him a little lower than th. angels. Thou ernwvnest him with gloryand honor, and didst set him over the woks of thy hand. Ps. viii. 4; Heb. ii.6O Harlet-Whata piece of wvork is man ! How noble in redon-how infinite itn fa culties; in form ibd moving how expres sive and admirabij iiu action how like an angol; in apprehesion how like a god ! Tne beauty of tho vorld-the parago~n of animals. Bible-Nicanor ly dead in his harness. Macca. xviii. 12. Macbeth--We'l e with harness on our backs. Dir. Branch TI.. Aiher, anid Messrs C. R. Jon~tes and Hamian Bee, are apptinat ed Commissioniersoff'exas, to run the line between that county and Arkansas. Charlestors Courier. The North Easter Boundar.-T he Bangor Courier says,lhau Mr Feath er sonhaugh and. ColodI Mudge, British Commiuniners, have inssed through that city, on their way to the disputed terri tory, with a large qumattity of surveying. astronomienl and othie, instrumetts, for lie purpose of ast ertaiing ropographical and other information reitecting the boun dary ine. h THE RliZSTrING PL.\CE. is ' So man liethe down. and riseth i.ot til th heave-s be no more ; they shah not wake; nu be raised out of their swiep." s Jowever dark and disconsolute thi or path of life may seem to any man, there i o an hour of deep and quiet repose at hand V when the body may bink into dreamles slumber. Let not the imtagination b startled. if this resting place, instead of th d bed of down, shall be the bed of gravel, o the rocky pavement of the tomtb. N( matter where the remains of wearied ma: may lie, the repose is deep and undis turbed-the sorrowful bosom heaves nw more; the tears are dried up in their foun la 1ms; the acroig teau is at rest, and thc e tormy waves of earthly tribulation roll un heeded over the very bosoms of the palt nations ofthe dead---not one ofthe sleepen heed the spuit-stirring trump, or respontd t to the rending shouts of victory. How quiet these countless million - slumber in .le arm of their mother earth ! - The voice of thunder shall nut awakien i them: the loud cry of the elements---the wtuds---the waves--nor even the giant tread of the earthquake, shall be able to cause an inquietUde in the chamber of death. They shall rest and pass away! the last great hattle shall be fought; and then a silver voice, at first just heard, shall ribe to the tempest tone, and penetrate the voiceless grave. For the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall bear His voice. J. N. M1AFFIT. TRUST TO YOURa'ELF. "Trust to yourself" is a glirious prin ciple for the industrious and trading clas ses of the comnunity-and yet the philos ophy of it is not perhaps underst,.od so well as it ougo t to lie. There is hardly anything more common in the country than to hear mieuspoken of who originally; or at some period of their lives, were rich, lit were rnined by -secu rity, that is, by becoiniog bound to too great an extent for the engagements of tneir neighbors. This must arise in a great neasuire from an imperfect under standing of the matter ; and it therefore seems necessary that something should be said in explanation of it. I would be far from desiring to see men shut up their heans against each other, and each sanud, in the panoply of his own resolutions,determined against every friend ly appeal whatsoever. It is possible. how ever, to be Uot altogether a chtld, abd yet to take care lest we be tempted into an - exertion of benevolence dangerous to our selves, while it isof little advantage to dtr friends. Notwithstanding the many ties which connect a man with society, he neverthe les. bears largely imprinted on his fore held the original doom, that he mnust chief ly he dependent on his own labor for sub sistence. It is found by all nen of ekpe rience, that, in so far as one trusts to his own exertions solely, ho will be npt to flourish; and in so far is he leans, and de pends on others, he will lie the reverse, Nothing can give as gobd a general assu rance of well doing as the personal activity of the individual, day by day, exerted for his own interest. Ifa man, on the contra ry, suddenly finds, in the midst of such a career, a prospect of some patronage which seems likely to enrich him at once, or if lie falls into the heritage ofsome antiqua ted clains to property or title, that lie thinks it necessary to pro.;ectte, it Is len to one that he declines from that moment, and is finally rluned. The only true way to make a happy p-ogress throtth this world is to go on in a dogged, pereveriig pursuit of one good object, neither turning to the right or to toe left, making our busi ness as much as possible our pleasure, and not peirmaitting onr~elves to awake fr-onm ouir dream oef activity--not pei-mitta nlur selves to think,. that ice have been active till we suddeinly find ourselves at the goal of our wishes, with fortune almost uneda ciously within nut- crasp-Chambers. Newos Making-Can aiiy thing, dead or alive, miore pitiaible be edneelved, than a jaded scribbler for the pubilic press-sitting down to his task at the last moment, with ant aching head aind an empty stomach or vaice versa, whichm is exaictly the same in effeci ; imagine the forlorn drudge's sen sation, as he doggedly lifis the quill sitump and moves it instinctively towards that fountain of good and evil, the ink pont, surcharged with boith the gall of bitterness and the honey of adulation lie is desti tote of a topic; his over-*ronghtt brain has exhausted its stock of images. and he can fancy nothinig but the ghostof an idea al ready hackneyed througih all the changes of the alphabet-ado sttbject that has not been hackneyed to death byv the hungry scissors of borrowers and imitators. Yet must he contidad~ to feed the ilotn jaws of the press; there is tio releane from the undertaking. He is in for it, and sterile or fertile, feasting or st arvinig, his imagina tion must lhe wrung daily, yea hourly, for wherewithal to omeet the merciless de manids of the demon at his elbow. Otherjmeu may eat, drink, and sleep; may live, tmove, and have a being like de cetnt creatures; the merchant may relax in time of siekness, or retire at sasons ofen joytnent ; the mechanic may forego a job when lhe breaks a aib, or chooses to go a fishing ; thie farmer may work, or let it alone ;and the mariner hias frequent in termission atmdst the toils and thme stor-ms -of his c.ireer, and the world wvaigs oan with out confusiotn, nevertheless, they only comnparat ively feel the cotnsequnces. Not so wtha the slaves of tyhpes. Foir him there is no huiliday. No repiose, no r-etreat await his tired poners. When heskntiks: the world comes to and end, and chaos frlotb. r Nor is it merely indispensablo that he shall labor at brief and stated intervals. - The most irksome sort of employment, j fromn its very cons'tancy and regularity, ,ai unceasing reclrreace, lie must also put forth his etlorts at somethiug new. The reading public has beeome a spoiled ehdild. *ith a depraved appetite, perpetu - ally hankeritg after novelties,monstrosities and impossibilities. In the fabrication of the.;e crudities lor quidnunes. a renewal of intellect, once a year at least, should be provided for. There is an end even to -the spider's most attenuated thread;" and what makeroflong yarns can bo re quired, in reason, tiot only tip spin out like a spider, the substances of his body, but that of hiR brain also ! Truly this is a cruel world ; and the man that meddles with paragraphs,a tinserable piece of car ueous machinery.-Buckigham. Some Boston wag has happily caries tured the spirit of exaggeration which - som etimses gives disprojportionate import ane'e to its schemes for good, in an imagi nary speech : Dr. Slipstop begged the indulgence of the meeting white he attempted a scienti fic ekposition of the great subject. The matter migiht be treated in various ways; B But," said the Doctor, " I shall go into alcohol; I can say nothing but alcohol.; I wish to say nothing but alcohol. I need say nothing but alcohol. My mind is full ofalcohol, my thoughts are full of alcohol, my head is full of alcohol; and I was going to says iny stomach is full of alcohol. The only way to do any kind of good at the present day, is to cry " Alcohol!" It is the imperative duty of every man, to leave his busibess and his home-his wife, children, and friends. and run up anti down,. rying " Alcohol ! alcohol!" I think it iould be a capital device, and contribute to bring a tremendous moral re volution. if we could have parrots, jack daws-, atid boht-liks taught to cry " Alcohol! alcohol alcohol !" Surely there is no doub' that every thing trouble some in society, government, hydrostatics,. metebtology; and the Copernican system, arises rom alcohol ? What makes volca noes, earthquakes, buffoons, ecolding wives, abd mad dogs, but alcohol? Whal keeps up the price of green peas ? Alco hol! What makes muschitoes bite? Al cohol! Who upset the house. that Jack built ? Alcohol! Who killed cock mbin? Alcohol! Who cut off the tails of tbe'Kl kenny cats? Alcohol! Alcohol is here, alcohol is thefe, alcohol is every where. It is utterly astonishing how much alcohol there is diound usaud howlittle some folks apper to be aware of their danger: it is quite hazardous now-a-days to eat a pota toe ; for ten o one, there is alcohol in it. I don't dare go out of an evening, because I am eonvinced there is alcohol in moon-. shine.- I repeat it, therefore, we ought to talk of nothing, think of nothing, and dream of nothing but alcohol-alcohol alcohol !" [Inimmen.e cheering.] A PLEA OF' "NOLO CONTEN DERE " A native of the Emerald Isle, beina broLight before a police court in Massa chusetts for assault ahd battery, was asked if lie was guilty or not guilty ? -Gt iltv.'--be the powers!" exclaimed he, making demonstration of more tham fixht, " haint a man a right in a free country, to knock down any body he plases, wi!hout being guilty of salts and hatthers, I'd ax ye?" The Court answering this in the nega iive, Pat was a little at a loss what to say. He did not like the word guilty, and gloried too tiiuelin his character of a boxer, towishi to debiy the charge. Whilo he was besitating' what to say, a gentld man or the bar wvhispered to him to put in a pleti of "Nolo contendere." " Nollengen tender ye !" said the Irish inam, who was better acquainted withthe shillalah thain vith Latin, " what's tho manin' iv tht ?" " The meaning is, that you will not con tend with the country," said the lawyer. "Nollengen tender ye !" said the ac cuised. turning to the bench; " that is' to say, Ill ntot contend with the whole coun try; but be the powers!" spitting on his hands, " I can whip any three iv ye at tho same time ! "'M a," said a little girl the other day, who had scarcely entered her teens; "Ma, tmaint 1 gct married ?" "~ Why, child !" said the anxious mo ther, " wvhat upon earth put that notion into your head ?" "''Cause all the other girls are getting married as fast as they can, and I wvant to do so. too." " Well, you must not think of such a thitng. Don't you ever ask me such a fooli'sh question again. Married ! indeed ! I tiever heard the like !" " Well, rm, if I can't have a husband, maini I have a piece of bread and butter ?'" Colotnel Charles W. D'Oyley, of Greeni ville, S. C., is lecturing um Lexington. Ky. The Obser-ver, of the 7th inst., advertises his lecture.in' r'efutation of Hume's argu menut against tiiracles.-Chsaleston Cour. 'Texas, Aug. 7.-Mexico has not at this time a vessel of war afloat-she has nO money in the treasi'ry, and no means of supporting an army Upon what grounds then do the alarm'ists predict an invasiorn this fall ? There is no danger of another invasion froum Mexico; butt if Mtexied wishes it, God speed them a safo conveya nm- tn onr shnres..Register.