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j - " We will cling to the Pillars of the Temple of our Liberties, n L alt must fal, we will Perish amidst the Ruins.- - VOIJ1YIEX : dei~ Court Dous,~.' , Ma's 218t45 EDGEFIELD' ADV'ETISE1 b Dy W.F DURISOE,:P ROPRIETOR. NEW T ERMS. Two DOLLARS and FIFTY CENTS, per aunum, Ifpaid-iuadvauce -3 if not paid within six months from the .date of subscription, and ?4 if not paidbefore the expiration, of the yvear. A.sbscriptions will be continued; unless otherwise ordered- before the expira -tion'of tlie-yeai, but no paper will-be discon tinued nittil all artearages are paid, nless at the option of the Publisher.. Any person procuring:five -responsible Sub .scribers, shallIreceive-the paper for one year, gratis. DVEftTsEMETSConSpkCuOUsly inserted at 75 ceni per square, (12 lines,.or less,) for the first insertion; and 37j for ehch contdiuance. Those:published:monthly, or quarterly, will be charged $1 per square. - Advertisements noi having the number of insertions marked - on thm, will be continued until ordered out and charged. accordingly. All communications, post paid, will be prompt ly qnd strictly- attended to. EJDA Q U.JRTERS. - Charleston, 12th April, 1845. *(RDER *o. 3 HE following Regiments will parade fia - Review-ad Drill, at the-tine-s and places as follows, viz: The 44th Reginent of Infantry at Sumter vilre,on Wednesday the2lst of May next. The.20th Regiment attire Swimming Pens, oe Friday the-23d of May. The29th Regiment at-Darlington c. house, on Monday the 46th-of May. The 30th Regiment at Bennettsville, on Wed nesdaty the 28th of May. The 28th Regiment at Chesterfield c. houfe, on-Friday the 29thof May. The 21st Regiment at Laucasterville, on Tuesday The 3d of Juie. The 22d Regiment at Camden, on Friday the 6th of Jpne.. - The 25th Rgi.nent at Winnsboro', on Thurs dal the 12th of June.. - rhe 24th Regimen!tnear Winis' bridge, on Saturday the 14th u'J Jne.. w Ph6'fitlrRegidieln Cavalry atiYoungs-. ville, on'Tuesday-the 17th of Jnue. The 20th Regiment of Infantry at Chester ville, on Thursday the 19th of June. The 27th Regiment at Rich Hill, on Satur day the 21st of June. The 46th.Reginient,at Ebenezer, on Tues day the 24th of June The 34th Regiment at Yorkville, on Tuesday the 26th of June. The 37th tteginmnt at or near Wilkins's old field, on Saturday the 28th of June. The 35th Reeimtent at Union Court House, on Tuesday the 1st day of July. The 9th Regiment ".f Cavairy, near the Cleen's Spinrmgs, on Thursday the 3d of July. The 1oth Regitenit of Infattry. at Richard son's on Tuesday the eth of July. The 7th Reimrnt at the Old Wells, on Th irsday the 10th of I uiy. The 9th Regiment at Low's, on Saturday the 12th of July. The Commissioned Otiicers of the 2d Bri. gade of lufantry and the 2d tegiment of Cav alry, will assemble at Longnuire's, on Monday the 14tht of July, and Encamp five days. The 2d Regiment of Cavalry, wi l parade for Review and Drill, on Saturday the 19th of July. The 8th Regiment of Infantry, at Morrow's old field, on Tuesday the 22d of July. The 6th Regiment at Lomax's, on Thursday the 24th of July Te 4th tregiment at Verrennes, on Saturday the 26th of July. The 4JRegiment att Minton's, on Tuesday te2tofJuly. The 24d Reimenzt at Hall's, on Thursday the 31st of July. .The 5th Regiment at Hunter's, on Saturday -the 2d of August. The Coimtuussioned Officers of the 1st Bri gade of Infantry, a:~id the 1st Regiment of Cay. aIry, willasseumble at Pickensville, on Monday the 4th of August, and Encaimp live days. 1st Regiment of Cavalry, will parade for Review and Drill, on Saturday the 9th of *Au ut% '1 he 1st Regiment at Bruton's, on Thursday the 14th of August. The 36th RtegimnentatvTimmon's, ou Tuesday the l9th of August.. The Vomimissmoned and Nun-Coinmissioned officers wiall assemble on the day previous, ex cept those of the 19th Regiment, and they will assemnble on the Saturday previoue for drill and instruction. *T~e 5th Regiment of Cavalry will parade by Companies or Squadrons, (except that part in Richland District) with the infantry Regiments most convenient. The Major Generals and Brigadier Generals, avill, with their staff, attend the Reviews and Encampments within tbeir respective coin miands. The Brigadier Generals are charged with the extension of this order, i o their respective Bri gades. il order of the Commiander-in-Chief. a J. W, CANT EY, Adjutant and Insp'r. Gen. April 23 14 f4 AND JEW1ELRT. ~1OLD and SILVER WATCH ES, Man tle Clocks, *Gold Bracelets, Rinigs, Breast Pins, Chains, &c,, of the latest-fashion and finest quality. Fine.Castors&Candle'streks, &c. -Old Silver.-Plate. repaired and made as new. Silver Spoons made to order. Watches and Clocks repaireil and warritn ted.. * ewelry made and inpaired* At -iedor Geo C GORDON'.3 five oors elow theUited States' Hotel. State of South C'arolina. DGEFIELD'DISTRICT. IN THE COMMWP PLSAS. Archibald Boggs, .i vs. Dcc'n; in Attachment -Harmon Hust Robert .Little. vs.--. - Declaration-in Enoch Byne - Attachment. and Harmana Hust. A. Boggs, . vs. Dedaration in ~Attachment. Enoch Dyne. - Charles -Hall, - vs. Decla'n. in Attachment. Harinon Hust. Gideon Dowse. v64. Dec'n, in -Attachment. Harmon Hust. War. Haines, vs.. . Dec'tion in Attachment. Enoch'Byne. Benjamin E. .Gillstrap ys. . Declaration in Enoch Byne and Auaduinent. Elijah Byne. - . Andrew..Kerr and John Kerr, . Declaration survivors... ..in vs. ' Attachment. Enoch Dyne. J [James S. Brown, ) Declaration vs. t n - Enoch .Byne and .- Attachmnet. Harmon Hust. J - B. B. Miller, ) -r- vs. - " Dec.in Attachmcn . -Harmon.Hus: Keers &- Hope, vs. Dec. in Attachment. Enoch Byne. - John Rogers, vs. . Declarationi Enoch Byne and Attachment.' Elijah Byne. . - Alexander Walker, . vs. Dccla'tion in Attackrmt. Enoch Byne. - John W. Rheney, v .- Declaration ia Enoch Byne and Attachnent. Harmon Hnst. ThomasG. Jordan,), - vs. l' eIclaration. in Enoch Dyne and ( - Attachment. Harmon Hust. J Vi . D. Stone, . T a. vs. Declaration in Enich Byne and - ' Attachment Harmon Hust. j Henry S. Iloadley, ): Declaration vs. y in Enoch Byne. .. J Attachment. HE Flaintifs inthe above cases. lniving J this da 'fled their Declairations in my dfice,and h efedantWliaving'neith'e Wisve nor Attorney's known to reside within the limits of. the State on whom a copy of said Declarations with a rule to plead can be ser ved: It is therefore ordered, that the said De: fendautsdo appear and plead to the said dec larations within a year and a day from the date hereof,or final and absolute jndgment will be awarded against them by defauIt. THOS. G. BACON, c. c. r. Clerk's Office, May 6th. 1645. May 14 ly 16 State of Motil (arolina. . EDGEPIELD DISTRICT. Andrew Carson, Guardian of Declaration in Francis W. Ferth, vs. Foreign Eimoch Byne. Elijah Attachment Byne. Harmon ,.e lust. - Sndrew Carson, s. Declaration in For the same. cign Attachment. T H E Plaintiffs in the above stated cases. Thaving this day iled their Declarations in my Office, and the Defendants having neither nowife or Attorneys knownto reside within-ie limits of the State on whom a copy of the- sme with a rule to plead can be- served,..' It is therefore. Ordered" that the Defendant appear and plead to the same within a year and a day from theday hereofor final and absolute jud: -ment will be awarded against them TIJO i 1S G. B ICON. c. c. c. Clerk's O0fice March 17th, 18345 ly 8 PRiN CE'S. Linaean Botanic Gardena & M urseries, FLUSH ING. L I., NEAR N EW YORK. T . 1 lIE GnEAT ORRISA!. EsTAn - U.LIsHMENT-W.Rf PIIINCE& CO., have just published their new and Unrivalled Descriplive Cata logue-' of Fruit, and Ornamental Trees anal Plants, comprising thme largest assortment of the yarious classes, and the greatest collection oh ntet and rarea varietids, evei' ofifered to the pub lie, and at greatly redruced prices. Every v'a riety of Trees and -Plants, is individually de. scribmed with a precision, never before evinced in ainy-European or A merican Catalogue ; and the _gross bltunders of other Catalogues, are also set aright. The collection of Roses com-. prises above 1000 splendid varieties. This superior Catalogue wvill be sent gratis to every post paid applicant. WM. R. PRINCE & CO. FI'shing, Feb. 20,1845. tf 16 State of South Carolina, EDGEFIELD DISTRICT. John B. Rountree, Declaiation in Foreign Georg K ar. Attachment. TH E Plaintiff having this day filed Me De claration in my office and the Defendani having no wife or Attorney knowt ri to be with. in the State. on whom a copyof thesaime, witl1 a rule to plead can-beserved: itis Ordered, that the Defendant plead to thme said-Declara, tiomn within a.year sud.a day.or final and abso lnte judgment will ho given againsut him. T HOM AS C. BA(CON, c. c. P. Clerk's Office, Nov. 11th, 1844. Nov. 13 ly 42 (Gi'The friends of Maj. S. C. SCOTT, announco him as-a candidate for Tas Collector, at the ensuitng election. Nov 6. If - 41 0i" The friends of.Lieut. JAMEs B HAntats, antiounce him as. a candidate lot the offce of ta~x Collector at the next elec tion MISCELLANEOUS. THE SOUTHERN' BAPTIST CONVEN - -.TION To their Brethren in the United States ;to the congregations connected with the respective churchds;. and to all candid meth A-painful division has taken place in th M ssionary. operations of the ,American Baptists We would explain the origin, the princples am4the objects of that di. vision, or the peculiar. crcumstances in which- the.oarganization.of the: -Southern Baptist Conventiodi became necessary. Lei not the extent of this'disunion be exaggerated. " At the. present ume it in volve .only the Foreign: and Domestie lissions of the denomination.. Northern and Southein-Baptists .are still brethren. They differ in no a'rticle of tite faith. They are guided by the same.principles ot gos pel order. Fauaticaf!temps.have iddeed been matide, ip some, quarters, Ito .exclude us.of Iie South: from christian fellowship. We do ntit retort These attempts;.andihe lieve their extent to be comparatively Jim ited.,. Qur chri tian fellowship is .not, as we-feel, a matter to he obtruded on any one. We abide by that of our God, his dear Son; and all his baptised follutwers The few ultra Northern brethren to whom we allude.. must take what. course they please. Their conduct has not influenced its in- th movement. We do not regard ;the.srbtotre "r. extendipg .to fo'aidatidu principles, nor can wethink that the great body-of-our Northern. Brethren will so re gard.it. Disunion has proceeded,. how ever,.deplorably far., - The first: part of our dutyis to show that its origin is with others.' This.is its history.., f. The General Convention of the Bali tist denomination of the United States was composed of lirethren from every part of the Aterican Republic. Its constitution knows no difference between slaveholders and non-slaveholders. Nor during the pe rind of its existence for the last thirty years has it, in practice, known any thing of this distinction. Both parties have contribrted steadilj and largely (if never adequately) to those funds which are the basis of its constituency ; both have yielded .its.office hearers of ail grades; its missionaries and translators of God's word, its men of toils many, and of prayers not unavailing. abroad and at home. ,Tbe honoreip! of bothiese clag'bas e iWrlk d in clo sest sympathy with each other; anticipa ring in the Board room and in the month ly Concert, that higher, but not holier un ion now in their case consummated. Throughout the entire management of its early af'airs, the whole struggle with its early ditlieulties, there was no breath of discord between them. Its Richard Fur tan and its William Steughton, its Jesse Mercer. and. its Thotmas Baldwin led on the sacrimeital host ihoulder to shoulder. and heart to heart. Their rivalry being only in earnest eltlris fora common cause, their entire aversions anti enmtities were directed with all the strength of their souls. agrinst the common foe And to the last, did they not cherish the long he. lief that they left ni other enmities or aversions ; no other rivalry. to their sue cessor, ? In particular, a special rule of the con. stitutiou defines who may he missionaries. viz: "Such persons only as are in full corn munion with some church in our denoi-i lion, and K ho furnish atisfactory evidence of genuine piety. Good talents, and ferve.I zeal for the Retdeeme-r's cause." Now, w hile under this rate the slaveholder has been,.in his turn, ettimployed as a mission ary, it is not alleged tiat any other' per soits that those above described,. have been aptpointed. Motreover1hle -iinportanti posi of a souperintentdeti of the educan~tiotn of1 native missionairies htas beeti asigtied, with universal approbation, to the pastor of one of our largest slaveholding churches. But an evil hour arrived. Even oumr humble efforts in the cotnquest of the w.orld to God excited the accuser of our breth ren to cast dliscord amoing us; attd in the last two Triennial Cunventionis, slavery and anlti slave~ry men began to draw ofi oin difierent sides. How did the noblem spirits on eachi side endeavor to meet this! They proposed and carried aitmost utnani mously, the following explicit resolution: "Resotved, That in co operating to gether, as me.mbers of this Conventiotn irl thd work of foreign missions, we disclaim. all sanction, either expressed or implied, whether of slavery or anti-slavery ; but as individuals, we are free to express atnd tc proimote, elsenherd,our views on these subjects, itn a christian manner and spirit.' Our successors will find it dimfiuh tc believe that so irniportant and plain a dec. 1a~ation had hecomne, before the close al the first year of tho trietnnial period, a per fect tnullity. in December last the acting Board of the Convention, at Boston, adop teed a tiew qualificatioii for missionaries, a new special rule, viz-that "If aniy oat who shall off'er himsaelf for a missionar) having slaves, sho'dd insist on retaining them as his property, they could nor ap point him.!' "One thing is certain,"they continue, "~We could never be a party tc any arrange..,ent which implies approba tion of slavery" We pray our Brethren and all candid men to mark the date of this novel rule the close of the first six months of theim three years' power, a ~late at which the Coni promise resolution could scarcelj have reached our remioter Missio" sta tions. If ustirliation had bteen intended could it hav~e beeni more fitly timiedi AC usurpatin of ecclesiastical power quite suined at a period when the aggrieved "thousands of Israel," has, as it, now an pearsd. npractical remedy. Its 'obvious tendenc was, either our final subjugation to that :wer, or a serious interruption of the fliw'of Southern. benevolence. The latter'wasthe far more probable evil; and the Boslan Board knew this well. They were from various quarters apprised of it. _-We, -n-the other hand, did not move in the matt of a new organization until three liberal ies had refused to send North ward de, more contribitpious. Our lead ers had' ch'sen new rules. Thus came war within our gates ; while the means of war on -the common enemy were daily di iniisihtg.. By this.decision the Board -had placed itself in direct oppositiob to the Codstitu tion'of-the Convention., The only reason given forthis extraordinary and unconsti tutiontaI etum being-that A The ap pointing'iwer for wise and good purposes, is confidad to the' acting Board." On such a.slight show of authority, this Board undertook to declare that to be a disqual ificatioi'ih one who should offer himself for a Missionary, whichthe Convention had saidshall.not a be disq'ualification.. It had also expr4psly given its sanction to Anti slavery.opidions, and impliedly fixed its coudemnaiion on slavery, although the conv'e'tiion =had said that "neiither;".should he done. And further it forbade those who .shall app.lf for a. Missionary appointment to -.express and promnte elsewhere" their views onlhe subject of slavery in a right "manner pand spirit." when the constitu tion.decla'd they "were free" to do so. These brfihren, thus acted upon a senti ment th 'fave failed to prove-Thatsla very, ' an -all. circumstances sinful. Whereas their :own solemn Resolution in the last4Oonvebtion (their's as much as ours) left Cwee'to promote slavery. Was not this ' 'us free, and "in a Chris tian spin manner" to promote that which in thir hearts, and according to the present shtwing.of their conduct, they re garats asin 1. Thoujh; perhaps, has been said of the origin oftahis.movement. Were we asked to chiara erize the conduct of our northern brethren in. one short phrase we should adopt tihat sf the -Apostle. It was "FOR DIDDING Us'to speak UNTO THE GEsTILEs.' Did it not opstruct ut, lay adkind of fR' ansliio et u on us in the dischag cf 'rimp~ uye uy' a'duty-to which the church has been, after the lapse of ages, awakened universally and successfully; a duty the very object, and only object, of our long cherished connection and confed eration ? And this would seem the place to state, that our Northern brethren wore dealt With as brethren to the last moment. Several of our churches cherished the hope that by means of remonstrance and ex posiulation, through the last Annual Meet ing of the Board of Managers at Provi dlence, the Acting Board might be brought to feel the grievous wrong-they had in flirted. - The Managing Board was there fore affectionately and respectfully ad lressed on thesuhheft, and was entreated to revise aiid reverse the obnoxious interdict. Alas! the resulis were--conutemptuous si lence as to the application made; and a dlelib'rate resolve. expressing sympatlhy with the Actina Board, and a deterrmina tion to sastain them. Il. The Principles of the Southern Baptisi Convenoton it remains ihen to be stated, are conservative; while they are also, as we trust, equitable and liberal. They propose to do the Lardi's work in the way our fathers did it. Its title designates at once its origin and the simple, firm abi ding of 'the South' on the ground from whicti it has been so uuconstitutionally and atnjusily attempted to ejeci us. WVe have but enqu~tireda for, "'the old paths'.' of .Mis signary operatiotas; 'asked' for,and attem p teal to restore the practically 'good way.' Thue Constitutiona we adopt is precisely that of the original union; that in coannec tion with whaicth, throughout his Missionary life, Andoniraml Juadson has lived, and under whtich Ann Judson anid Boardman ha died. .We recede from it..no single step). We have c'ons'ructed for our ,basis no new creed; acting in this matter upon a Baptist aversion from all creeds but the Bible. We use the very terms as wye uphold the true spirit and great object of the late 'General Convention of the Bap aist denomination of the United Stetes.' It is they who wronged us that have rece ded. We have receded neither from the Constitutioni nor from any part of the orig inal ground on-'which we mei them in this work. And, if we ask in parting, the otigintal sand broad Bible ground of Con' federation were not 'equitable, howv came it so nobly anid so long to be acted upon" If equitable, why depart from it ? WVe claim to have acted in the premi. ses with liberality towards our Naorthern brethren. Thraust fromt the commaron plat form of equal rights bet wveen the Northern and Sou'her'nLeherches, we have but re constructed that platform. Content ws ith it, we adhere to i1, and reproduce it. as broad enough for us anad for them. Have they thrust us off? WVe retain but one feeling in ia ecase ,Tha2 we will not prac. tically leave it on any account : much less in obedience to such 'usurped authority, ot in deference to such a manifest breach of trust as is here inv'olved. - A breach o1 covenant that looks various ways-beav enwaird and earthivarai. For we repeat. Lhey would forbid tus to speak unto the -Genfiles.. Thae Jerusalem church, then. mnust be rvgather'ed at thie suspeeted Sa Imaria, or at somea new ceantre oroperations: life A ntioch. -'One thine is cortain" We must go every where preaching 'the word , "We can never be a party to any arrangement" for monopolizing the Gos pel : any arrangement which like that of the Autocratical Interdict of the: North, would first drive us from our. beloved col ored people. of whom they prove that they know nothing comparatively, and from the much wronged Aboriginds-of the country:-and then cut us-off from the whitening fields of the Heathen harvest labor; to. which by cogent appeals and solemn prayers, they have so often protes ted that, with, us, they were inadequate. I.Il' Our OBJECTS, then, are the exten dion of the Messiah's kingdorn, and the glory'of our God. Not~disuiiian 'with any of his people; not 'the upholding of any form of human polity, or civil rights; but God's' glory, and Messiah's increasing reign ; in the promotion of which,' we find no necessity for relinquishing any of our civil rights. We will never interfere with what is Casars* We will not com promit what- is God's. These objects will appear in detail on the face of our Constitution, and in the proceedings, which accompany this' ad dress. They are distributed at present, be tween two acting Boards for Foreign and Domestic Missions, having their respect ive seats at Richmond, Va., and Marion, Ala. We sympathize with the Macedo uian cry from every part of the Heathen world,-with the low moan. for spiritual aid, of the four millions of' half stifled Red Men,' our neighbors; with the sons of Etiopia among us, stretching forth their' hands of supplication for the gospel, to God and 'all his people,-and we have shaken ourselves from the night mare of a sit years' "strife about words to' no profit," for the profit of these poor,' perish ing and precious souls. Our language to all America, a~td to all 'Chrisrendon, if they will hear us, is "come over," and for these objects, as ye have' souls. and the divine Saviour of. souls, "help us." We have had more talk than work about these objects too long. We have waited quite too long-for the more learned and gifted, and opulent and worthy, to lead our way towards these objects; and we have shortened debate upon them to get to bu siness. Our eyes and .hearts are turned with feelings of patental fondness to the B.urmah and the Karens; with a zeal in, which we are willing to 6~ counselled by, God and all considerate men (but by none else)-to the continent of. Africa, and her pernicious fountains of idolatry. oppres sion and blood; but yet more, with uuut terable hope and' thankfulness, to .China and her providentially opened ports and teeming thirty millions. i Among us, in the South, we have property, which we. will offer to the Lord' and his cause, in these'channels-some prudence with which we would have our best wisdomf to dwell; a. d professions of a piety which we seek' to have increased and purified. like that of the first Baptist churches, when they had "rest ; and walking in the fear of the Lord,and in the comfort of the Holy Ghost, were multiplied." In parting with' belofed brethren' and old coadjutors in this caue,nw e could weep, and have wept, for ourselves and for them ; but the season, as well of weeping as of vain jangling, is we are constrained to be lieve, just now past. For years the pres sure of men's hands, has been upion us far too heavily:. Our brethren' have pressed upon ever' inch of our privileges and our' sarred rights---but this shall only urge our' gushing souls to yield proportionately of their renewed efforts to the Lord, to the church universal. and to a dying world; even as water pressed from without rises bu the more within. Above all the noun tain pre-sure, of our obligations to God' even our own 'God; 'to Christ and to Him crucified;i and to the personal and eocial blessings of the Holy .Spirit and 'his influences, shall urge our little. streams of the 'vater of life to flow forth';. until every wvilderness atnd desolate place withilaour reach (atnd wvhat extent of .the world's wvil derness, wisely :considered 'is' not within oor reach ?) 'shall he -glad'-.even at thiu passing calamity of division ; 'andt the'des erts of the unconverted human nature 're joice and blossorr as the rose." By order of-the Convention. WM. IB. JOHNSON. D. D. TH OMA S CURTIS, RICilARD FULJLER. A ugusta, (Ga., 12t h'May, 1845. "It was not dwelt upon in the Ange1sta Con vention-we do not recollect its .being named, btutit is too stringenat a fact in the case to he here oiited.-that one of the missionaries, with whtomn the. Acting Board, and Board of Maimie gers can sympathise, we presume, and whom they sus atn (we hope. however, not in this particular act, but they have in no way openly protested tagain~st it)-Brothier Mason has ac tually remitted money to the TUnited States to aid in assisting slaves to "run away fronm their masteirs," a felony by the Statute Lawvs of seve ral States.. t'Prov. viii. 12. - The Twenty-ninth Congress.-T he ee tion in Virginia brinigs tup the number-ef membhers chosen for the ntext .Congress to 163, of whom 58 are Whigs,.99 Democrais and 6 Natives. There are 58 more mem tiers to be elected, in Maryland, N.-Caro lina, Indiana, Kentucky,. Tennessee, Alay bamna, Mississippi and Florida, and' a va cancy to be filled in each of the S'ates ef Maine-. Massnehusetts, and Newv Hamp ~.hire -Chas. Patriot. - Every man cait time a shrew but lhe that hath her. - From At Savannah Republican:. THE PROFESSIONS.. . - What is said- in the.subjoited aricle'of the profession of the Law, is equallf true in reference to that .of 'Medicine-and'ii is lamentbly bbt too true in regard to both. '.Every State almost in the Ugion, has: from one to three 'Medicatl foleges. where": oung .metn are. tak a 'iti"' and " turned' oui" annually as it:by'machie ry'-:oe0, two, tree, and even four lin dred at. a time. These men, armed Wvitr their Iaicets :and p'ill boxes, crowd every -city, town and'hamlet in'the-land Mariy of them of fine intellects and attainments,. are doomed to drag out a miserable exi tencesfur years before they can realize even a, reasonable compeience from their professional pursnits. Others less firm and: persevering, "yield 'tc the etimptations which surround them,' and become.profes-: sional loafers or :vagabonds;' A few -on y are eminentlysuccessful.' $uch a state of things- is' well' calculated to awaket the - attention of pareits-and guardians to the, causes of the evil. Why is it that young men will close -their eyes to facts, and desert ot her respectable pursuits to choose a life of such almost certain poverty' and dependence? It' is because they =are averse to' honest labor, or because-they court the kind of quasi respectability which a professional position entitles thetm to in society-? If either, they are not to-fie V envied in their lean and beggarly copdi lion-their fancied aristocacy-their pre fessional. torpidity. We have at this moment in our eye two men -who' com-. titeoced their career in life dootemporane ously. 'The one, of brilliant powers, of estimable character; of rich and respecta ble connexions. The. other, of'moderato endowments and pretensious, the son-ofa poor widow.' The former *as attracted by tlie. show 'add promise-.of prpfes'sional. life, the litter was content to'be'boundn " apprentice to an industrious tradesman: The one is now a loafidg, vagabond gaini bIer; while the' po'or apprentice boy is the. holder 'of about iwo hundred .thousand dollars' worth of real estate in the-city of Philadelphia-a respectable, influential member of the: community -in which he' lives.' The diff'ereice in theircircumstan ces so far as' ht maniy"cen discern, is attributable'solely to the difference in their :chice of pursuits. - I'be one was iranmed' to industry and frugality while-the other,. compelled to keep up appearances in gen reel circles, was forced t6 the hazards of the game, and .finally ruined The-case here menti'ohed' is but one ofthe rmany which every. reflecting' man'e experience will attest as being only too common an the land. :We'allude to it'not for the pur-. pose of reflecting upot either.of the learn ed professions, whose members generally are entitled to great respect o account of both their. intellectual and moral attain ments ; it is .referrcd' :o only''for thd'pu. pose of co'rrecting that perverted ipublic' taste which is at present driving hundreds' of our young men to destruction, through the high way of the professions - - .In ur.own city, how few yduth, com-' paratively, 'direact their' auention to the nehlanic and oiher similar pursuits? How 'few' have selected the vild and ad-' venttirous life of the sailor to seek by in dustry;.the respectable anti responsible po sitions of masters and' males in. out mer chant vessels ? In all our efterisive ac quaintance, we know of but two or three instances 'in the last few years, of young men who have had firmn'ess.'euoughto brave ' the dangers of the sea rather than remain in.idlenessat home.' Such exam ples deserve: to be made liiu'rable men: tion of. The great commercial 'and'mari time, of the country demand tba our ships shtnuld'be both lofficered and ' mamled by the right sort of men. E very'Sate-'ever ry seaport' at -least, should furnisiwitipre portion' of thosti.who' are's to conduct an'd defend the 'commerce -"or the -country.' Congress should make provisloon bislair foi- th'e nire intiinate blending of'our commercial and naval'interests. As'in England, all our'tmail steamers thightbe officered by persons holding coamissibus in the riavy.. .Provisin might also be mrade for the easy trdnsfeiof tmen of tried - ch'aracter and approsed'acquirements front our commercial vessels to the uavy tnrtime of war. ' 'Such a provision IVoIld add 'respecta bliity to the character'of the sea'-farer; it would oisen 'a wide 'field of' eroplojynent to the youth of the land i-i tise of'peade. it' would add to our security in times of. confliit ith other'powors-and above all, it would draw'offthundreds of-artibitions young men, whio' 'are otherwise -de'sttned to drag out a miserable existerich in tire learned 'professions. Whio will rlo'vd 'in the matter? " Poor, but Honest."-The hewspip'jers and other egnally great auaitoities, make use of'this'phrase in biographical notices, -'he was horn of:'poorbut honeus'parents!" Poor, but honest ; that is' to. infer that- thc' parents ought to havee been "dishonest' beca-use they were. poor, buts that dn -the particular case, thiey-were honest, spite of' their, poverty. This comnmbn phurase is an insult' to the condition of ninety nine men out a hundred, and an indig'oty to huinan naturet There mitght be, considering-the mnanner io which many rot-tunes are. ac quired, some little shade of meaning ini saying' of the-..heir of fortuue, "he. was born-gf rich-but'honest pireats;". but. the -poor hte honest" phrase is atrocious. Let it be4reformed altogether-Philitdel - phid-'Ledge. ".Ata'.overed with gold is mor'erespected( I han a. horse with a nacksaddle.'