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All communications, post paid, will be prompt ly and strictly attended to. [ORIGINAL] EXTaACT FROM AN VNPUBLIsHED POEMI. Maria sings! ye woods around, List to the soothing, dulcet sound! List as ye did, in by-gone days, When Orpheus sang his magic lays, And savage monsters of the wood, Forgot their wonted wrathful mood, And came from far in friendly bands. And knelt and licked the poet's hands. A rusttc on the maiden gaz'd, And seem'd delighted and amanz'd; And as she swept the light guitar. Deem-d she was from another sphere! Tnz LOvrt TO UIs FLF.ENO MItsTREss-A. * SONG. lifairest and best, thou art softly sleeping, To ake alas to Pi I Thjlg-angg ey will ith Weeping; - . 'hen' aN'haltopen gin - Over thee lovei nvate~h amleepting, I'll gaze whileI-remnain, Josephine! Josephine! Josephine! Oh srilo as thou art wont uni mce swee'tly Our moments they are dear, they are-fe*, Thei fly, alas, how fleetly. - Adieu 'Adi eu' Wake from thy sleep, for soon we sifall sever, Perhaps foreeer, bright maid! But from my heart, thy dear image never While life'endures, shall fade! As I have lov'd, thus love me ever" Till in the grave thou'stlaid, Josephine ! Josephine! Josephine! Oh speak as thou art wnt, to me sweetly, Onr moments they are dear, they are tew, They are flown, alas, hov fleetly! - Adieu! Adieu1 The editor of the Galveston Nersa. whWi has recently travelled through that portion of Texas bordering on the coast betveen Galveston and Matagorda, exteidiug from .50.to 'IU0. miles interior, and in-cluding Austin's Bayou, Oyster Creek, the Brazos. Bernard, Old Caney. Peach Creek, and the Colorado, says that the Cotton crop in the greater part of that region is much stiperior to anj be ever saw in the United States; and he believes will yield fromt 150)0 to S4000 pounds to the acre. "The-sugar crop," he says, "is, now generally made, I have seen but- two' yr three sugar plantations, and upoo'these tht' yield is-very little short of 1000: pounds-to the acre, besides the usual piopornoon of molasses. Mr. Sweeney on the Bernard has about 70 acres itn cane, and has already made nearly that number of hogsheads-ot sugar decidedly superior to die- ordinary New Orleans qualities ; some of" n will probably be exhibited-' in the Gulveston market, and will speak foi itself-" -- Saistics of Hog.-We -meet in the Baltimore Sun with quite an-interesunfg table of statistics in relation to thesesnimals By this it appears that there are thirty itl lions of hogs in the United States, and-forty Lsix millions in Europe. T1he.' European hogs have divided their favors among the various states of the continents in. the -fol lowing ratio.:-Russia has -16,000,000, Austria and Great Britai 6 eacrn',-rance 5,1Italy 3. Bavaria, the Netherlands~ Swe den and Spain, about 7 bet~ween themi, and the remaining (bree millions are scattered among the- other ytgtes. Ve hope some of these days to be l'urmsioed with the statistics of the phppty; .but in this case, the censtsltakers mnusiLbe Careful to make a distinction between tha7 biped' atand the quadruped-varieties.1,. The Hon. W'. -L. Yancey -'rhe Wa sh ington. .Correspondent of th'N. , Eve ning.Paothassthe following complimentary noticeoffthe'sbove named getttddiSn: "Mr. Yaineey, of Alabam~WOa'is4ada dressed the, house-on the reference or he presolutions, .is not .surpasse$ia gpubhi 'speaker, in any deliberative iIyof whih 1 have any knowledge. %f:"s every; logical, and witi--clesp 1eTeU~1g and if he continues rnnblt. . Atll@'b one of the mnost 6~mnefl'neUId contrr." ADDRESS OF MR. EDWIN D.L1EON We are indebted to a Student of the South Carolina College, for a copy of 'An Address delivered before the two Literary Societies of the South Carolina College, in December, 1845 by Edwin DeLeon, of Savannah, a member of the Euphradian Society." The subject is, "The position and duties of' Young America." Mr. DeLeon wi a citizen of South Caro lina, quite recently, and removed to Savannah, Ga. He is well known as a graceful and pleasing writer in the literary jonrnals, and is now a contributor to :he Southern Quarterly Review. In the pamphlet before us, he de scants upon the duties of the generation who are coming, or have just come upos the stage of action. lie gives a rapid sketch of our pro gress in literature, science and the arts. He also gives some notice of the literature of other countries, especially of the cheap publicatious. which he condemns unsparingly. We will not tilt a lance with him, about the matter, but however objectionable many of the cheap books and pamphlets may be, they are perhaps equally as valuable.as divers heavy tomes which are published daily. and quietly laid on the shelf, without being read by any person but the authors. We are in favor of cheap publi cation;ouilves, bat we desire t see the stan dard of all such books publbshed, considerably elevated. The reading public generally. will not buy costly works, and it is to the interest of publishers, to issue cheap -ones. Standard works can be pultislied in a cheap form, and wewould be much pleased"to see a larger number of them in circulation. Will not some of our publishing houses give more par ticular heed to this matter I A tarte for such reading, we think, could be created, and the comninnity would derive thereby, considerable benefit. u e would he pleased to nmke seve ral extracts from the Address before u. but can only afford room for the following bio graphic sketch of some illustrious scholars of our State. Thick and many are tht names which crowd upon me, as % orthy of all praise; but the fleeting moments warn me to be biief,.and I can but, pause long enotigh to- pay .a passing tribute- to tne mtinories of. three,. selected from - the C40ber;fdii-yjiunfus N66tsarid -14fgh 5' LCege nie whidely differine il many ;espects, but .similar -in a broad philanthropy, and an" intiring zeal fot the honor,-the interest,and the intellec tual elevation of South Catolina ! The first was an eminently. practical man; a thorough utilitarian; valuing what he considered the useful, far above the beautiful ; a man who would have a reason for every thing ; an earnest and sincere disciple of the school of Ben tham and of Malthus ; a school which las had its day ; based, -s we now be lieve, upon narrow views of human life, yet numbering among its adherents many 01 the most powerful and cuitvatevd in tellects of that period ; but aniong them all, it would have been hard to fin: more varied,-etensive and ready knowledge, than that contained in the capaci.aus bitin of Thomas Cooper. - Of f1i r-ligious heresies I do not speak ;save to remark, tha. whatever val ying opinions may be formed upon that subject, th'e're can be bit oil" as to thi- parity ef his life, the extent of hi-; cquirements, and the unbounded phi lanthropy of his heart, whose kindly pulsatioinsever bbau in tinisomn with be nevolence and charity, until stilled in death ! Peace be with his as'aes. WVil fully, lhe wronged no main; if he did evil, (as etme be'lieve,) ii was because he conscientiously believed it to be ad vancing ,h:- cause ot truth ;-and those in wvhose hearts the bitternese of former controversies may still ling. -, shaoulge-. member, that though it is human to-enr, it is divine to fo give ; and ::oncede to nis menmory the praise of having been one of the earliest and most zealous pi oneers of science and literature in his adopted State. (if Henry Juniius Not:, wvhat caW' F say that you have not already anticipa ed me in ? for mnry of you are familiar wit h his- worth ande his usefulness. As a Belle Let ters scholar, he had fe w eqtals and no' superior ; possessing, too, the rarer liculty of imparting to his class te samet love of literature Whlich ani mated his own mind ;-and'thi' most plea satnt memrories I- retain of my collegiate' career, are connated with the honrs spent in his lecture roomn, listening with rapt attention to ilhe gushing flon -of hu inor,.wit and knowledg , which pouared ith melodious flue-ncy from lips otn which, in- itfancy, :he Attic b.-e might havefound a fit resting place.. Nor 'is hi's absence more 'to bo de plred as a scholar titan as a man ; he was aItving example to-the youth tun 4cr iis ching, o'l all, the qualities'whiclt consttiie the perfect gentleman; for his eanner was always marked' by that tir.' taiftydtad1niesconsiderationy for the felkn~thr~ve is tfh'etruest teist, f'thae chneartr ndr U karnei'n whether we respected or loved him most. Nor was this confined only to the Col lege; in society he shone with equal brilliancy ; yet he excited no envious feelings, for he never had an enemy in the whole course of lis life, "None knew him but to love him, None named him but to praise,." and thugh he sleeps, like Lycidas, be. neith the waves, yet they have not pi oved the wateis of oblivion to his mem. Ory. But of Hugh S. Legare, the scholar, Critic, jurist, orator and statesman ; who in his single person so combined oil the varied excellencies of each, in such perfection that it was impossible to say in whtich lie most excelled; cut ofi in the midst o his usefulness, while fresh lau rels weie twining for his biow, how can 1, with my foeble utterance, speak in fitting terms of praise ? " Quis desiderio sit pudor, nut moddi, Tam tari capitis!" Yet happily is it not needed that I should notdo so; for "his praise is hymn ed by loftier harps than minn ; and his 'ulogy pronounced by on", companion of his youth, friend of his manhood, best fitted by association, attainments, and eloquence to do full justice to his lofty them.e; for what more fitting than that Cicero should recount the triumphs elf Honenosi1u, ? Yet may we not seek to confine the lustre of his fame to his native Staite for though his mortal remains may moul der in his ancestral vault at Charlest'.n, yet, in the noble words of the Grecian orator, "the whole earth is the sepulchre of iiustrio'us men." . From the Columbia Chronicle Ta COLLIOE-PRFEsIDENT PRFsToN's ADDRESS. A memorable era-for good, we trust in the history of the South Carolina College, commenced on Monday last, in the assumption of the duties of Pres ident.of that institution by the Hon.W. C.' Preston. The occasion-apart-fr'om the "eieal satisfaction w hich all classes tanre of e station-, of Mis e tlem'ta-n as made particularly gratify, tig by the delivery of an Inaugural Ad dress to the Students in the College Chapel. Although no public invitation had been giveu that an address would be made, a romor had gone abroad that one was expected, and the Chapel was crow ded with an au litory composed of the most respeciable ladies and gentlemen of Columbia, who hid embraced the op, pottunity of hearing :ho distinguished orator. The Address was delivered eith nuch pathos and fovling; and while it commanded thw d. epest atte!,tion of the enlighm-n-d audience', also elicited their unqu dbfied approbation. We have beeti polit-ly favored with a copy, whi-'i we annex: A D D R E S . Young Gentlemen of the College: Emering upon the office to which the Trustees have HtppUinteJ tme, I have thought it not inappropriate to present myself to you ina somewnat formal way, and to make a few remarks which the occasion seems to justify. The intimate relations whlich ate here after to subsist between us, invomlving very gtave tmcsponsibilities on my part, and the deepest inter ests of life ont yours, will be the more readily and efficiently established by an exposition of my un derstandiug of our most prominent res pectiv.- dutiesr and of thme feelings and purposes withi which I now assume mmir. I. has been rthe pl-asure of the Trus tees to call rme from walks of life very remote from those I now enter upot. For many past years I have been busy amnidst the active pursuits ofien, taking sotme parts in affairs, where the conrflici of interest, the collissionmof intellect. and~ the tumult of streniuous and stormy pats sionms, left but little leisure for .those calnm and meditative emuploymenits whiCE are the occupation within these waltls. After thirty year's absence from themn I re'turu, but in n new and trying condi tion; with sympathies in all your par suits, t be sure, andi tastes not entir ely alieniated from science and literaiure, but with a deep and fearful anxiety thal I may, inde--d must be unqualified t discharge the trust as it ought to be: Under a conscious deficiency, I wo~uld have shrunk from this aflic", hut that .1 yielded my opinion td that of those for whuose judgment and experience, rinc krnowledge of the Inst itutiotn, I have ar entire deference. 01 that Boatd o Trust--es, whose coe'maod I'obey, I car safely affilmt,.that having~ in the chance: of lifer beir otcasionally throwh wil men distinguished by t;he consent of the wvhole country,-F havd indt foun~d gn where, even in- those' exilted !stations te which aanation's interests calls' its-mos Todspebds-citiz'ens/atWister, giaver,Oi ~6innVA1aMdowedA bade M To its dis a tslligen5y q the destfiuies iherisiri- instit M tion are welli1ld tyv self to confo ishes witi be sane impli.i dFacewhen'vet may think it uitslOf tvate life, as now, nuish th pair suits in com tthim., I have the in aguisg in their judg _j has ieedfj I-6ri of one who IblitStat, on some. idh iii es tions. To be d asiis t4ui u--n'-, der such cir:cu ce to. out solicitati a &-:s ace-o* 0 dece and ho i tein the hopes, b e lffietion efbI State are so di with gratitude Kpp painful sense 0 IPA swell of stron ntiopsrvl* heart, all vani sciousness of c vible return.. What I bb tion, and wh sort make am' other respe re tial love fa .E a solemn sen R -aniy he peimitted 7.Q ers, not altogethac witb the wvold . U b, in adopting "' pleasing sais of seeing my b of ingenious d CiaI gO laudable .aeaa A fifivc tion. Therfe important or o to instruct th duties towhi called*--an imputation of adopt another ous Roman "'A efuit q initumacqqi utridsque nos ndi, fore jui concessum . umrerim 14 t.g de In-tlie-pleasiig taskriosirich I now address myself, it- wdIl be my- constant effit to- promote youi studies, and to prepare you fo- the duties of life, (more important than life itself,). with such stores of learning as may be acquired here, but more especially. with ardent and virtuous aspirations, to acquit your selves with honor hereafter. The immediate ind ostensible object of our association is the pursuit oflearn ing, and this might sren to he out sole purpose; but. iu truth, learning is only a means to. the great end we have in view. It is an-instrument whieh is pre pared and fashioned here, with some in struction as to the mode of using it. It is but the armour, but 1 part of the ar moor to be worn in the battle fie.ld of life for the achievement of honorable and glorious victories, for the triumph of truth over error, of virtue over vir, of right over wrong. And althou,;. cherish the conviction that there is a nat ural and intimate connection b -t ween knowledge and virtue, yet I know that they are not inseperable There have been melancholy, instances of great in tellectual powers, united to acquisitions from the whole circle of learning, with, out a corresponding motal elevation. These, however, I regard as anomilies ; } rejoice t~o believe that in the general ord.-r of Providence, whatever enlarges and exalts the intellect, promotes, puri, fit-s and invigorates the virtues of the heart. If I dlid not believe in such a connexiaon, F would abandon myself to indolence and' despair. But the noble sad distinctive faculties of man, whose combination constitutes his dignity and glory, are harmonized by his Creator intb a concerted action for a tommon piirpose. . Whatever enlightens the mind improves the heart ; as the sun, which illminates the atmosphere, wvarms tihe earth,.and although it may happen that his beams are reflected from fields of ice, yet his general mission is to call forth whatever is useful and beautiful, and impregnate with vitality the whole body of nalur?. True knriwledge is .the knowledge of trut h;.as:it .is saidinteGeasha nothing' is. beautiful bnthe tie ts, tha the wide sig'nifcation of the word, it may be .said that nothing is good but the true. To confer upon learning its just digntity and importance, it must be considered as subsidiary and auxiliary to the paramount ends of our being. .Ii must always have in view our responsibilities-in3 this life, and the awful responsibilities of a. far more exceeding weight hereafter. You are to be made tntellectual men, that you may be fit for moral agedts; so that as you ad vane. in leacning, you may-tidvance in the knowledge and appreciationl of virtue, remembering always that the lamp' whlich .you light ups is not a gandy sho, to please by its varzteat radiance, butr~ is W46r.for a. mo're usefulind noble h 'ow- you amidst the doubli ng rrot~and of passion shieb obl ucure juraey tirongh.life, itheoiiily anays "auuadspatfisof a..pece. U h arfiibg.a ofdsael"is , gracef and ornamentaf and knodleim:s*wer. bit I.oning "and.knhiedje -ttamt-heir true beauty a nited to viriti :senitui bled and, -s ePia i CS -,by" , making the 4ighe4 i eure. ie ig heera jad. eh r alli ira: sssirable.>T il whieb'nak e.eleman rn nets which b ititizen -tlise deep eo I a. -which bel ~to 43Tbiis my d P pd p rp o (or ca if we anpr, dain a corres ing iins 0 uen eas oin borersin the.same c49 lt. yare pros' Pcr'6f-a u W t bae This. our see m'" a a s 0 f hoje an LOY e rwar witia r:and c tq ai~ 1ounato rlgj- es or a ric oe g and stil arte nr aer trio her r -as L anN~be ti-rong l e-ulinor anilqorafto value o a notment i.ch have al 'ed, h of im nt cd:Iqse io e.g did igd .s i unitrdtion. oi sili ege * en ly uponthel lo -ii assedfthe pidd ci add a ready er-zal. c m nute d r~h amail litnTI a' the governwentivhose deficiency depends. solely upon it, must fail in its-nip ogjactaj. You cannot, young. gentlen edLjob ought not to be governed by mere dint of law.-you must feel that there are other and higher rules than it imposes,-indeed other anJ higher laws than are to be found in our statutes-laws in your own bosoms, written on your hearts-hejlpenalty for disobedience to which, is the consciousness of wrong.-and-the reward of obedience, the consciousness of rigit. r .., It may, and perhapsmtrust be necessary wherever human nature isto be governed. to invoke the interposition of the law but our habitbal, and by far most pleas ant, and as we hope, most efficient appeal will be to your honor and sense of right. . We do not indulge the chimerical ex pectation that a moral discipline cad be so far enforced as to supercude an occasion al application of penal laws. Our obser vation of life permits no such hope. for in no association whatever-ino senetsesor councils. can be regulated by thg..jnere discretion of the memb'crs-rnfi less can it be expected froiri the thoughtless ness and passions of the young. - Acts of discipline must occur, and when the oc. casion requires them, they will be firmly and promptly applied-but what we do calculate on is the prevalence ot'a perva ding sentiment, that will render such a necessity inifrequent-a sentiment which willispire niore fear of offence than of punishment. The impulsiveness and impatience be. longing to your time of life, naturally make the degree of exertion and industry requisite to your proper advancement, irksome andspainful to you. Indolence presents hersolf to the young-aye ! and. to the old-in a thousand sed aeing forms, Industry is of a hard and crabbledaspect.* The one seems to point to a smootihe and flowery path-the other to :arugged and painful ascent-but around t.hat..seducing path lurk all the ills of life-and that toilsome ascent, at every step opens.wi der and wider a broad and, beautiful pros-. pect, and leads evemrually eventually to. those elevations to which the noble spirit asptres. . .*.,a . - Indus:is the prolific mother of many virtues: She produces as well as austaitns them; they all cluster around and nestle about her, growing and strengthening by care. Genius itself, that divine quality which seems to be instinct with innate power, and to rise by its own upward ten dency-genius itself is piumed for its highest flights an:l trained to'them by in dustry. .it it an utter mistake to imagiue that any endowment can dispense with labor. It is a fatal error into which young men fall; no great1 achievement ever has or ever can be effected without it; the mode of its application may be ob scure, but its presence is not the less cer lain. We have heard of the -forest-horn Demosthends -" of natnre'sdarling - .."Fancy's.child. Warbling his native-wood notes wild'?.. "of the blind old man of' Scio'a rocky isle." -These :wore .men of, genins.. nu questionably--lut- .Hgnry,. and ~laku pear. and HomneW!,ret also ueo'of (s' bor ; theyhad- the bein butiilaiessi bameing buC-thefi ntoh-a bd wredstled igfht~ ' Onvi zntercoutiss, I trust, gf inesde by the- courzes~~ .losten 'My governsteuzl J~~ ainiimated'bythe-iglanoc ad by The affecti6i-of. :dre preparingi.gohoie delf, beli atwhenibe. faslon'the - - -.1 trust - also entlemen; oilcial and's-oeial relatns -m~ that hen yor goidtnitjn woIr certain byW upeien'ee I collegeg with- ic h.11a-j no indifereot feelings,e he chaces of- life thr4 withoat ;motion. Yoyng 'en,f h! aa zealo protec ther.-. T m cent pr commedA -.Ihave,-sla ipe tigt iherewo i add p . States. e lowedthat hori0 etest; pe ao Irah - e . ri W i .._p eigners ih th beud volaime-f 'myEdc. No one hasi evdie spoken so' .arerss d on the subject sal-have, sod lis?Iiisaj as, I then stated, if (foreignbriarrives har let him make' up his-mind .weihe.i will acuept of-theizonshjip offered by the laws or the land, orP.0fer to j-ive as an alien. But if he takes she-oatl or'-a legiance,4teraziust he 'abioluteily goed ~ .1o hts acting in any shape or-manner a's ~' - foreigner; and.. to congregate-in times of electido.undr the banners' uh' .rms sons or Eri,.":.or the."Notle Sanse Germany," as. I have see n anysel or.ai. any wa to bring a feMing argising"ou.. a common antd foreign extreetibd''r'oar upon'elisetios or other pbliial sub3dt's, rails litale shoi of treason againutL-ho sovereign of the land, and'is p asivel, rank treason agaiost the-civic. hof tiality. which lhis country .ofer.1 us a ally es natura offere- bniuntifully, e ei6jj pii land to the people. sand if th-iioreigner is too huable inintellect to see sptreasoO n., he commits, those ngive cititis perpeto ate ror him thebaime agaiishtbe vital of. their own dotry- who aN er, feast, fuddle. bribe and- sedue the needy (or. eigner or stolid pauper. . . "If, however, any one were to imply from this passage that Ireeau to conocen snce those parsons.. ef the .Ndtive party. socalled, wh'es-i. Wholk #loetrine may ba expressed in this grat 49gma: Vast. V merica lay before us; we, a few, hassene thither, and having arrived, wsnt to lok the door behind u, sgpas tfhe whole ox tending white race, ag in the teeth of he very law of expanding~ civilization, which- . ~ has ever beenthat o? r.olingpopulation.. if any oite were tb suppose that I feel the , .*.. least sympathysih these egotist, ._ must hae st-raligly mistaken my mean ing. I know but. one atuve party inthi wholePountry,-which, without solecism. might adopt the name of nives...h..l. '. diat. When I address an assembly la' -. . this country, whom do I see around ma e but foreigners, or sons or grandsma o foreigneri.? I think the limes of t holg' ., Daniel .De Poe, in his satire, The Agg born Englishman, in which he bhshed-ih English' "nativism" rutnniug, highagaist great William the Third, apply etill 6ote to us: 'But grant-the boat.Hocm's to pass; - k A true-born Englishma of Nrora e '~ A.Turkisha horse eaa show b' s . P Tro prove his wea-dseenrda . .'*A. i4 In what cohnsists she tisstivM4 cpt to this'soil, thia lanibis~c'tin what uhsuierioritj hea tie red main declayiag hima oT~o ly, but. hims~hf the rekil owners ~ !.. thye Indian will sot or chagti-i v ground,. if it rest' not in h ship or Europeaiioood V ( t. everg ti.d Ci 5 # in tho fetpfate