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- sWe will cling to the Pillars of the Temple of or Liberties, and if it must fall, we will .Perish amidst the Rumns.i geheldl tourvt nouse. . C.. August 5, 1845,. 2 EDGEFJELD ADl ERTISE~I. BY W. F. DURISOE, PROPRIETOR. NEIW TERMS. Two DOLLARS and FIFTU C ENTs. per annum, if paid in advance -S3 if not paid within six montts fro n the date of subscription. and S4 if not paid before the expiroation of the year. -111 sbscriptions will be continued, .unless otherwise ordered ',efo're the expira. tion of the year; but no paper .will be discon tinned until all artatmrages are paid.unlessat the option of the Publisher. Any person piocurins live responsible Sub scribers. shall receive t he paper for one year, gratis. ADvERTSEIENTS conspicinonly inserted at 7 ceati a -r mys1are. (t lines. or less,) for the first inst"rtion. and 37.} for each contimuance. Those published monthly. or quarterly. will be charged $1 per square. idvertisements not having the number of insert ons marked on them, will he contined until ordered out and charged accordingly. All communications, post paid will be prompts ly and strictly attended to. M[lISTERIAL APPOINT.11ENTS. Z. WA-rKINS an't A- -. .NORRS. Missionaries fur Division, No. 1, im the Edgefield Baptist Association, will, by di vine permission fill the follo wing appoint ments: Saturday before the 1st Lord's day ii August, at Calliham's Mill. Saturday befqre the 2ud Lord's day, at Beulah. Saturday before the 3rd Lord's day, at Gilgal. Saturday before the 4th Lord's day, at Bethany. Saturlay before the 5th Lord's day, at Mount Moriah. Saturday before the 1st . Lord's day in September, at Horeb. (- J. TRAPP AND A. DoztEa. Mis. sionaries in 2nd Division, expect io fulfil the following t Saturda., before the 1st Lord's day in August, at Damascus. Saturday before the 2nd Dord'sday, at Litate Stepneus' Creek. Saturday before the 3rd Lord's day, at Siloan. Saturday before the 4th Lord's day,at Mountain Creek. Saturday before the 5th Lord's day, at Good Hope. Saturday before the 1st Lord's day in September, at Providence. Should the prospects be sufficiently en couraging, the meetings will continue one week at each Church. June 4 tf 0yW. P. HILt. and J. MORRIas, Mlissiona aries for the 4th division of the Edgefield As sociation, will by divine perunissiut. till the tul lowing appointments, viz Saturday betore the 1st Lord's Day in Au gust at, Pleasant Grove. Saturday before the 2nd Lord's Day in Au gust, at Red Oak Grove. Saturday before the 3rd Lord's Day in Au gust, at Big Stephens' (Creek Saturday before the 4th Lord's Day in Au gast, at Edgelield Court House. Saturday baefore the 5th Lord's Day in Au gust, at l1oru's Creek. Saturday before the 1st Lord's Day in Sep tetiber, at Reptiblican. May 25 U' J. W. 60LEA AD J. F. PETERSON, Missionaries in the 3rd Division will tit the following appunteutnts: Saturday before the Ist Lor-d's day iw August at Sardis. Saturday before the '2ud Lord's day. at Pine Pleasant. Satuaday before the 3rd Lord's day, at Red Bank. Saturday befojre the -4th Lord's day, at Dry Creek. Saturday before the 5tha Lord's day, at Bethel. -Saturday before the 1st Lord's ary, at Rocky Creek. N. B. Each of tihe above appottments will continue one week, if circuastatnces are fa worable June 4 18 ft5 We are authorized to annoutnce P4. GRAHAM, Esq., as a candidate laor Ordinary of Eagefieldi District, at 'hae next election.2 Feb. 72 SThme friends of Lieu'. JAMas B Haaats, annaounce himt as a candidate aot the oflice of tax Collector at the next elec ion r We are authoarized toanon Lava R. WILSoN, as a canldate for aia Oflic.- of Tax Collectuor, at the next electaut Feb. 26 0 g The friends a Col. JiuaN QUAT TLE BUM atnuoutnceu hima as a catadmo.,ta for thae office of Tax Collector, at the next elec tioni. July 1 Q7The friends of SAMesoN B. MAYS annouunce him as a candtdate for 'he Offica of Tax Collector at the tiext election. Oct. 30. tf 40 WVe are aut horized to announce GEotbGl J.SaPeRDa as a candidate for the office ofTxCollector, at the next election, Dec. 25 :1 48 SThe friends oaf EDNUND MoRRIS Esq.. atnnounce hima as d canadtdate for alt office of Tax Coillector at thme next elec-tiona Nov 6. .tf 41 fl-Thue friend-s.ui lMaj. S. '. mu r ananunce him as a cata.-idate for . hau .Collector at the ensuiug election. No ...n' f 41 RISCELLAlEOUS. DOES THE MOON INFLENCE THE WEATHER? From the Fourth Number of Dr. Laidner's P. pular Lectures on Science, which has just been publshed. a e nake the lollowitng extract. The ,nlluetet which the changes of the Moon are ge n erally supposed to exert upon the % eash er, we thu k, are very clearly -show n by the Doctor to be fallacious. "Amone the many tnfluences w hich the Moon is supposed. by the wrld in general. to exerci-ie upon oi.r globe. one ul those which have h. en to ore than umr I versally believed, in--all ages ...d i all countries, is that wi ich is presumed to exert upon the changes of the weather. Although the particular detais of this'in fluence are sometimes pretendedl to he described, the only general principle, or rule, which prevails o ith the world in general is, that a change of weather may he looked f.r at the epochs of new and full meoon: that i.s to ,ay. if the weatier be previousl) lair it % ill become foul, and if foul % til herowe fair. Similar change are also, sonetime,. though not so conti deutly hmoked for, at the epochs of the quarters. A question of this kind may he regard ed either as a question of science, or a question of fact. If it he regarded as e question of sci ence, we are called upon to explain how and b'y what property of mtatter, or what law of Nature or attraction the Moon, at a distance of a quarter of a million of miles combining its effects with the Sut, at four hundred tittes that distance, can produce those alleged changes? To this it may he readily answered that no known law or principle nas hitherto explained any such phenomena: The Moon and Sun must, dokubtless, ;iJ ct the ocean of air which surre.unds the globe, as they el'ecrt the ocean of wattr-producing effect. ao aliogous to tides ; but when the quantity of such effect is estimated, it is proved to be utterly inappreciable, and such as could by no means account for the meteo rological changes here adverved to. But in conducting inve3tigations of this kind we proceed altogether in the wrong direction, and begin at the wrong end when te commence with the. investign tion of the physical cause of the supijased phenontera. That me thod of conducting physical inquiries, which was bequeathed no us by the illustrious Badon, and which has led to such an itinieose extension of our knowledge of the universe, imperi ously requires that befare we begin to seek for the causes of any phenomena, w"" must prove beyond the possibility of doubt, :he reality of the phenotiena. and ascertain with the utnt osi precision, all the circumstances attrending thetm. In other words, we are required to consider all the inquiries of the kind now adverted to, as mere questions of fact, before we take them as questions of science. What, titn, let us see, is the preseni question ? l. is ascertained itfat the Mloon produlces sucI an influeice on the weather as to, cause it to change at the new and full Moon and at the quarters. But in this mode of stating the proposition there are implicitly included t wo very disimc points. one of which is a simple matter of fact, an:1 the other a point of physical science. First.-; i. asserted that at the epochs of a new and full Moon, and at the quarter-. there is generally a chatnge of weather. This i- a mere stat emnu l allb ged lar'. Second.-It is asserted that the phases ..' the Moon or in other words. the rela 'ive positin eof the Moon antd Suti in tre gard to the Earth is tbe cause of these chiatges Now it is evidently necessary to settle tie first question biefore we trouble our .lves with tihe seconil, for if it shouldt soi hjtppen that the tirst statemient sheould prove to be destitute of foundation the seondl falls to th, gwcund. 'I he qoestion of tact here before us is one mosi e-asily settled, In mnatty mt-tea rological observatio-ns thu-iughcut Eumope, a reitet of. the s eathter in all respe-cts, has beena kept for a long period ol tome. Thus the height of the baronteter 'he condition'of the thermnom-s'er, the hydru' iteir and the rain guage, the .lnrmt atid character of the clouds, ilhe tim.-s ol the falling of i-aitn, hiatt and en'aw. and in short, every partie -tar respecting he w eater hi .s been dutly .register, d. froatm diy to day', atid esten fromnthour to hour. The period ot the lutiar phaises5, it is needless to say, itas also beeni registered. ial it is, therefore possibile io conipare one set of chaniges with thit- other. TIhis, in flne, has been done. We can imagine. placed tn two parallel columins, in joxtaposition,. the series of epochs ol' the new and foll Mions, arid the- quarters. and the cot-resoding copditions of the weather at these times,- for fitty or one hinred years back, so that we te ay he enabled to examine, as a mere matter ol fact. the conditionis oif the weather for one Ithousand or twelve hundred full and new Moons and quyarters. The result of such, an examinationU has bet-n, that no corres podeece nlhateve, lies been found to ex ist between the two phenomena. Thus le us suppose thast o:.e hundred and t wen ty fve full Msdoiis be taken at randomi ftrom the tabtle ; if te !onlditioin tif the -ahe-r at these several epochs he exam ted it will lbe lounid, probably, that ini .ixty thtre- cases there was .: change of we'ah. r, and in sixty tn o there w as nor, so tht ,.nder such circumstances the old Moon in tbis division of one hudred and rsetty five tacdd favor tile popular o pinietn; but if ano'h r raudomt colled ion of one hundred and twenty fve full Moon. be taken. and similarly examined. it will probably be found that sixty three are not attended by changes of weather, while sixty two are. With its character t.tic caprice the Moon on this occasiou opposes the popolar opinion; in short, a full extmitintion of the table shows th~et the condition of the weathes as to change or in any other r.-spgct. has, as a aaster of fact. tn cor.esIpontdence n tbtsoeve With the lunar pthases. Such, then. tieing the case. it would be idle tm attempt to seek for a physical c.ctase of an effect which is destitute of truicb." A Common inquiry --" What does thai youn roan do for a living ?" is the ct nton Itquiry. as soe oppish -ell dress ed individual passes by. ''Nthint. nothing at all." is' the fr quet reply. -'But f at supports bi: in I is ' xtrava uancc ?" None can tell but % e teing a Yankee. hate the privilege of guessi.g 'I hat y-eoutg matni nho dresses in fine broad cloth. carrie. a cane. and is s" extremely polite to all his arquatmtances-epspectally the ladies-is the son ef a tman in moder ate circutstances, w ho finds it diflleult in sustain himsell with a imoderat mncome. His soli wishes to be a gentlettn, and to live without labor. The l.ciher in - is lid ly. refuses to put him to a trade or send him to work on a farm, hoping that some thing may turn up. by atid by, when hu siness will be betters for his son to obtain a good living withott work.. He is now oliged to dispense with the luxrti' of life -perhaps with some of its cotnlort%-foir his son to keep tip appearances, and gro into good society, as that kind of ctnpa ny is termed. where young men hav'e nothing to dt hIut to dress according to the late, fashion He is quite independent, and uses laiuage to his setiors that might be uneourtecou from a king. He faces all lanses and condition without a blush,-anti dares to look with contet pt upon the honest apprentice, whose generous soul would outnieigh a thousand as high is his own. Tice companions he chooses are like ihimsell, puffed tip with vanity. sw ell ing ni itlh importance, and who make a pretense of doing something, by occa sionally visiting a lawyer's office, to read a page or two of Jilackstnie.. .Thse owL W such a youth it needs no prophetic vision to see. "It is as plain as the way to market," as Doctor Franklin would say, that he will turn out a low, despised and miserable tool. Perhaps the penitentuary ill bring him tip-perhaps he gailn s. But if he escapes these, it will be to hang like an incubus on those of his frieuds who for pity's sake have ncot the heart to so rid hit where he deserves. The above is a true picture of many of the young men who may be seen daily in our btreets. You ueeee-t them at every ecm ter. in all public resorts, at all parties of pleasure-riding, sailitg. talkitig,, laugh itg. joking eternally ; apparently with mone) enough, more itopunence, and less brains. But how they all contrive ic keep holy and soul together. w ithouti work, al ways speethng and never earning, we confess is swogetimes a mystery to us. When a project of pleasure is talked of, the expenses are last thought of and tihe least cunsiditred. Of one thing we are certain. that we are fast verging tmc a sta tion of paeupers. It is impossible for a p ople to live long in idleness. enjoytg thu luxuries and the blessingsof litle, iltii out gradually diminishing the resources cl otfort and wealth. To be prosperous as a peotcle. eacch must do his part -at least do sufficient labor to gain his own ,ntpporut. Parcents are very guilty ina ibcis tmtuter. Tlaey schcubcl tntipermtia their greact lub tj, rig boys to ba ut ccn t hem f'or seuppor~t. tien they ace wiell able to lihr, arid i hent tio work woulc d proctote their healtht antd miake ticeum ct-erfult and happy. - Yccu dcc themta muighcte wreetg. witle yoeu dlatidle thtemu in holly and nttrcure Ichem icc extracvsianceat, atnd tell cttic tcO micianly hey appear,- when't yccc knoaw---yce musi kncow - the idelei'ieios ~onseqluteces 1t yocur gre-at hoy'. will nit wocrk, you snouldl tnot suppjort them. AGRAIL R.\NISI. -We bhold' these truths to be self-evi cdentc, chat all tien are creaitedl.-qcal ; that they are endoned by their Createor a otb eertaitn inalienable rights; that *ti.i ug tese are ble, lcerty, anid tie pursicts ccl Sappciiness." T'i us, it is nut a licile in.r pirisinig. thact sicmie atmtong thocte wiho set temiselves'up is pelitical teachters, ti ocur (counttry, otetn quote the abtcve fromii our tnever to be f'orgocten l)eilarationt oc indle penidence. andt yet adv..cate doestinues tmcst diamcetrecally oppoed~ toc its spirit. Wec refer to thicse politicians~ whot ihcccgh cotetnding, in one breath, that all tnnest empcloyntents are honcorahle, when uonor ably ctoducted. in the tnex1 denounce all professitinal nieni, mtilitary and nuav-al of ticers. &c,, &c., wit hout measure atr mer cy. T'hey tell us oh the ~aominablce heresy ocf excluding trom oflice, farmers. -me.ch,tnie, anid cten oif ot-meas, uti Sc count icf- their empgloyett *nd b-cgase "all men are created equtaa." ' thit last dortrine we most co.rdtadly subsctribe. Bcut -these consistent encgheetners ad ibs pulk'mtitcd, net cotni-tit toc .tot., withI the declaratin of this glcericcus .aocratle tt'titl.and' tie advocatitng ocl .ts adoptin in praetie, urge with the catmost zeal tit. dd'-atryer, or icti-r protessinaa m ian. is fli' for any statioti oct tru't ccr emolcumni: that satlitnry nort emII'S saffi.e. are n so Of tr ais fn gold lace and eagle butous Ns Ii 'Lis be not the nwus arraui nuln buggery eastan, even in utaw, our age u hucuougs,. then we art. ue jutdee. Sel us, at one Womenot, that tie ucupulIlOu 1: of no SOrt of consetuence, thatl the man and be alone, is to be regarded, and It she nest, tiat-because dil riner emaploy mneet, w bole classes of our lellu citizens, ol lte tree suos of Auserica. are to be prearrbed. and all the prcj.ejuces of ig uulance anu pre-ltectious Of .arly, are to or put iu r. q.lsinc., to reuuce tilts oeid courauuituu ot a buasted anid correc thury, eU.pactice. o 1ne:55. p1e.ty, splenetic scribblers sup' p.oor e.e) cau bul Ile lire du ateisIget eC~eZ" 116 sI IOUs 1UUiilj 1110 lie- 1)0lt111:111 11th panaias.aaaia uaun is ii, atie cuial souir ga. ml to be sately eustiustcea V.1i 1e uuttea o IegasinLitu, a" ule tUe Ilemil III) a1 .Jeil fault. I1 .MidaUssao, and ,1, Ia sue la Isirs'. i 11 sneo utiida, aUti slt lat-t laat itese illaungUls.ed c-auilpiu..a ot melt? coutry's rtgma anuo tie g. 1 itimefrsi of taulta. t. an .er..I ell distiun usalt-d Ia aytls, is St.elitg I..cl inI the Net : 'A I li Le) dare so velhiy anid abuse tIle wuote hotdy it .'ur ilii. r.r, e aicommissviuied flr the ex preas purpU , ald .a niae swtoru and sul eum duly 1t is to uatintaio mSe glory ad l15)j10i of iu)t 1iail10 t tin.s 'I greatest *.erai, whale Iste nawtus U it a'-iicUo, ates, Punam.. Ureen, Lee, .alariou, soilutrf, adul Ku--x, anu lie spientld a 111e: eaa tt ii 1 ti ltu 1a tc , J e.lea. e catur, Bdl fiduge, LhuuiC0 11.11'e). - dae reUce, ai''McDonoLiulugi, are ,iuIaau.1eU tin the :auals at our louiry ! " GUn sisuncy, tHou art a jewel." We are te hold and uclaruased ulvo Cate of ahe equa. rights is a Ile V people. We Iaistndly worship U0 oaa. or set U niec. We would freely and tufly uccurl .l onae audiall the entire sneasur. al .p prubuaiontnd of boegcr, mo w1inc their leerlas. their v.rtues, and lirer paIriultim rntltie item.r Aid wie utterly reiudiitite the . narrowk-- and anti repaulal polacy cnt woul cither yield. so, or. natiunhld Iroa any iTdavidual oar ula of creditor aotfitence, ou accout Culber eel his avn C.ituu or origmn. We regard, as ault Demnocratic and anti Amiericano. the rx astiaian or proscription tll te rhas, because Ihe- are rich. or the poor. because they are p, r. f, the arimer, urcauar of his be ing a farijier. a merchant because a iler lawyer, a physician, or diitne, because of his profesion, of an officer, a common soldier or a seamlan, oi account of his slattln. But we say, give to every one aecrding to his descris; honor 10 whimi honor d'e, not as belonging to any par titular class in coal.munily, but as a rnan, - thtte Image of his creator," who is cult sled to ce regarded precisely as he makes a good or had, a benevolent and patralic. or a amalevalent and Iralturous use of the -* .lent" entrusted to his keeping. Let the ability and inclination to beoeit the colmmontitealbc, the nation, amid the great aisy of ilan, be the crnerion by which all are to be adjugid. anrd eiter approved or disapproved. advacel to power or not. This is true Democracy, to secure to all the results of their honest exertions, the rewara of aheir toil, either tit mind or body.-Old Dominion. From the Charlesten Observer. TuIE CONFLAGiLA'roN OF CITEs. This yeas has been unprecedented i the snm.aer and extenit of hr F1 es. by which ite cities and villages of the coutry have been visited. l'he unasuui of proper. con sumed has been imamense ; and iousands have bieen thus r. duceit na ie frim aflu eice Its 1avrrty. No oae can have any ltng like at aeqtccuate canaaceptione of the atep excitemeneit occasionerd hby a city li flanes, iunleCs he himusell fat wiiuissedt ic, anid beccn a particlipaltrin 1130 sceine. .Fe-tes 0, daring aind i. crepaclity are thein per trcmedt, *'hich tnould have been-decemed Utace ly siaipoissible. iiu catlmr momenIt s; arin ile energy, and puw er tat eneduranect aun iaincsy. are caxed] o thee utmoest-ci resuing~ ide, co cthe remoivelot goods, ti aemcpting an scay stir priogress oi ale de Vyoureiig eiemenct, aaeei au .,c ler lud calha upsan itela inaterest, c lir frienidsiep, all ietr teuntannl ; w' tule .saeiteudies rash cm tilt scente of sufitecng n ith cno desagnl as lli a inagertier reiet, aid anhtot serve at it, I purpoiet aeut 10 uisltrice ley selr pres euce oms who non uclo oetheri'.Le peroav Wschtt aijre chlic cent helpers. Aled ye miar', cherce are suamel, perhaps a maucl area iumictel chrn manyli sujpose,na.hi secei) aijoace ei tie paiegrets st fhe ruam a at wca.efies me paas-ion wthicb they mnaj tave audulged-destroeys tbe prpspeca ii some rival to hinealiss. opetns co tlahm ne seures a1 emtpttayiiment, or otherwise cumn secs. as they fancy, ia their recmpjoral ad vatag.to variL.l8s0 ar th pascons aas mouvc aes uf ruet. Bluc these territe vstation~s of our ciI les, are not1 Ia be regardted merely as s much proeperty destroyed.and so mauch em1 barrassmene tind auf'rnug arid waisery el aiti-I. anid sI u'iany prspcslC blig lited ani lves 1,ui They .have -a voice whici speaks to the coOi ienece and the heart the wholte cmm'unity ; thoeugh fean, it is I e reared, lend to it a sugticieneIly uttencnv ear. od churl sharges suen near to iru: tc uncerca'.l riches-fear, cm a momntIfl, ar1 cesrat wtealch, .agd thle at'cum.,.lacon ane energetic acnd :prosperiaus life,.a bec swept away as cllatf before chic wiciriwint H]e also thus denmaicrrctes the. in-.t cuial of all w-.ril.y, preudence, shot' inA that stingest .mai'e'guards have- neo pecaver I protee' ,.iaher -their persons or their prol ,', oiceni .bi' jutism'ents are abroad, Ibis manner he also rebukes the pride of wan- removes with ,a -aroke the delight of I their eyes. and joy of their hearts, and teaches item, in the midst of their affic. Iiou, -their constant dependence upon him for their daily bread, instead of houses made wih hands, and goods laid up for malry year". ther, will be needed a man. sion that cannot be consumed, and a trea. sure thst cannot peris-.; and that they are unwise who fail to make for themselves this provision so essentially necessary to their future hlessednceess. Our cieres are me great centres of influ. etice. 'I heir compactness, their wealth, their intellectual accumetulaiions. and the advantagos w hici they.enjoy ot dilfusing in ever- direction the spirit by which their i ittbietuis are, actuated give thetti ranis immense power--anl a powe-. wtich, we are 'orry to say, is often for evil rather than for good. Tteir fashions, their man. tiers. their habits, their mdes of thinkitg I and of acting, andf weir vice.. flow from thew .is blood from the heart. to (hi; te io. ie-i extremity of the body poei, .ilfeem' tg I en a greater eor less degree. every - part of the'entire community. And though thei moral influence uay he ;rear-though they may contain multiudes who really lear God, and ,sirive to keep his laweyet' ihey are tew, compared witn the aggregate population. Our large cities contain ai undue proportion of the refuse of all lands. Thiiher re-sor bankruns in character, and relige.s from juiste-. and imposters of ever% description ; wihere teey find greater security, and kinurel spirits, ante more ample scope for (heir works of darkness Acid as greater opportuitities are there af. forded to all for acting out the feeling, of the natural heart; tand as the power of a corrupt example upon -the unstable and inexperienced is great, it is not to be won. dlered at that our great cities shouldbe no. ted for their immorality. And- it may be that as among the einisters of God are --flaie of fire,'' h-- may have visited many of or cities wiiin oni..graton.to teach tiem, and tne n':ele community that he still reins. He may thus design to show ;hat he itas a controversy, not only with cities, but with our land, and to impress upon all thi' importance of learning righi. cousness by the prevalence of his judge. ments. We cannot doubt for a moment that le has some wise purpose to accom. plish -by these visitatints,. And viewed as a.autnof Od.4hePsshould eff of numotto; us- ettre hr . GRANT TIIORNBUItN'S OPINION OF BAt HELORS. Those consumate blockheads, bachelors, they too must join in the hue and cry to deface and defite the most beautiful part of creation. Conscious that they are run ning conrary to all laws, human and di vine, they cteo forth with-hud words in place of argument. they are not able to support a wife ; why it costs you more in six moutts for the liquor you drink and the tonaceo vt use at i give away, (two articles th;at you can well dispense with, and articles that your fthers never saw,) than it would take to support a sensible noman ihr a twelve month. He that hangs creaieon on his arm, and feed her at his board, he that hears the young ra vets cry, will never suffer the young yan kees to starve. % hen you have got mo tey. eno. gth to buy furnituie, you will thetn go in housekeeping and marry. Here the fowl ,f the air nill teach you in the Spring he looks out for his mate tie has not non a stick or a straw t.'ards housekeepine; together they gather the sticky and straws; and in a few days t dwelling is prepared for the young But the bacheliers it every thing put the cart before the horse, always n rung end fore motst with them. They say as they get a eeesc they lotok for at bird, thus running quite cross grainced in the face of nature. Whene I wa-s naot worth oine hundred and filty doellars, I *carried. Mly wile earned thirty onte anid ac quarter eents with her needle, and I easrnede seventy five cents with my hammtzer ; yet Iicnever to thbis day wa-s withot a loaf ofC bread and a shil lang ; you lhave heeardl haen Laewrie Ttdd beaani housekeeptna? lice incventory was Itrue-we had leut ihree chasirs, one mnore tetan-our need-iien may heave ci hunedred. Iyet you cane oncly set an on. ae a time H-ad i m ey lafe to bcegin ancew and itc the samie circumstanciies, I wotuld doa just as I did ihenc-ae the age tof tweny two, I woutldf rather lodge by thce hush with the nomitanc of my choice. thane strut tover a T Iuikey carpet, gape ten the sofa, yawn by thu pianto. and tire-am over the side hiiald iee all lhe dhark, gloomeuy antI horri ble' foretbodengs oef the bcachelor of forty, 1for they kncow the time is past-twenty ive years can never tbe recalled. The idolatry of Walth.-T his insane Iaid intsatiable' passion for accumulation, ever ready, whenc circumstances favor, to seize upton the~ public mcius,, is that '' love of' moeney wvhich is th'e root .of alt' evil," -that "covetoisess which is idolary." - I spcrings frotm an undud,-an idolatrous Iestimiation of cte value of property. Ma ogn are feealing that nothing, nothing will Ido for them aced their children, but wealth; 0 not a gooed charactler. nor well trained and U welt execteted faculties, unot virtue, .eli the t hope of he-aven-notheing lent wealth lI - i, their geed. and the god ef their families. f Their stuns ae growing up to the same aweirship of it, acid to an equally batne l.ftul reliance upone it for the future; they y r uhng intoc e-xpcese. which the di r, ied rpety of their fatheer's house will ujnt enable them i.suglain; and they are >-c repcarineg to bee.inur dfomesi talty sl..Ives to the ane. tdont fow truly cn it written, that " they that will be- rich, fall into many temptations and a snare, and fall into many foolish and hurtful lusts,. which drown .mea in destruction and perdition!" There is no need that they should be rich, but they will be rich. All the noblest functions of life may be discharged without wealth, all its highest honors obtained, all its purest pleasures enjoyed; yet I repeat it; nothing-nothing will -do but wealth. Disappoint a man of this, and he mourns as if the highest end of life were defeated. Strip him of this, and this gone. .all is gone. Strip him of this, and I shall point to no unheard of experience, when I says he had rather die than live. From the Charleston Obseror. , PaoTENTANT (.'HURCBES.AMONG TOE Ro MAN CATHOLICS OF FRANCE.. Never stave the R.nan Catholic peo ple neen inure disgusted aith the super ,,titt.ns ot their Church. and the avarice or their priests, than at present; and never has there been a more favorable opportu, nity of preaching the gospel to them. This. is what the Pasteur Napolean Roussell proposed to do. by establishing churches in many part of France. What he did in La Haute Vienne last year will give an idea of what he proposes still to do. Only a year ago La H aute Vienne had not a single Protestant Church. M. Roussell went to a vi!lage which had shown a de sire to embrace the gospei , after straggling for sone months against ;he Apposition of the clergy and the civil authorities, but with the concurrence and sympathy of the people, evangelical worship was es tablished and adopted by the entire of the inhabitants of the place-the Church itself was delivered to the Protestant pastor and the Roman priest was converted. Now, Villefavard has a pastor, a school master, two or three hundrud hearers fre quent'the church every Sunday, and one hundred and thirty-six pupils attend the school during the week. A similar work has been successively done bhy-M. Roussell, at Balledent, at Limoges, at Rancon, at Thint, at Claviers ; and now tbese six churches, served six pastors, present a pop ulation of six thousand persons, who hear, wit h more or less regularity, the preaching of the gospel. lt.is a work of this kind that -M. Rous sel esires to pursue in other arts-o . done, to act independently of all societies, neither asking further direction, nor ac cepting a salary from any. If he is left without other resources than his own, he will not the less continue to work on a small scale. But if some brethren, en. couraged '.y the past, wish to help the work in future, M. Roussell will give it an extension proportioned to the help that will be riven. Thus, whether he may be alone. or have one or many assistants, he. will build places of worship as he has done - in the Haute Vienne, or preach in barns, extend or contract his journey and his work. As soon as the church is establish ed, .11. Roussell places it under the direc tion of a Socrate E vangelique, or of a Na tional Church, according to circumstances. Appearances.-How many judge of a person's character by the cut of his coat, his manners and conversation, or from the condition in which lie is placed ! A per son n ell dressed is supposed to possess a good mind and a virtuous heart, while a nian with a thread bare jacket and a patch on his kuee, passes for a simpleton or vil lain. Politeness and a flow of words be token wisdom, Wiile bashlulness and a taciturn disposition betray folly. Dress and appearance are every thig with the world. No matter how depraved and rotten his heart may e, if a person ha.ve money. dress in the extreme of fashion, is agreeabie in his conversation, and presents a fair exterior, he is received into the best e etrcles, and is extolled and caressed, while virtuous poverty is slighted and shunned, and cast out from the society of the prottd atnd fashionable. This is wrong. A man should be judged by his heart-his gene ral depirttmena and character- and not by his~outward appearance. If he is a vil liin in broadcloth, he should be detested as if he -were dressed in homespun, and receivedl his support by deception and ro query. Pronuse' Pdufdled.-As the herbs and flowers which sleep all winter in the roots under ground-when the time of spring approacheth, presenrly they start forth of their beds, where -they had lain so long unperceived. Thus will the promise in its season do. He deldys who passeth the time appointed: but he only staysa that gaits for the appointed time, and then comes. Every promire is dated, but with a mysterious character ; and for want of skill in God's chronology, we are prone to think that God forgets us, when indeed we forget sourselves tn being so bold to set God a time of our own, and in being an. gry that he comes not just ihen to us. *1 say, Mister,- how dande yottr eyes so. alfired crookedt' 'My eyes ?' -Yea.' 'By sitting between two girls and trying to look love at both at the spmne time.' Breity.-That writer does the most, who gives his readers' the most knowledge and 6ttes frota him the least titne in. literature as in finance, much paper and' tmitch poverty m ay co-exist.-Eacons. Power should not be empiloyed to do wrong, but to punish the doers-of wrong.