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..... . .--- --- OLUME XI. - -We-to-l cl-ng=-oI-e P-ll..s ofe.h.Tc7n.l..of.... L b ....,"ai'.w.-l--imli .-nuL.l.=-eR=.i ts," e.-.. - 4 .. - I ; PBULISIIED EVERY WEDNESDAY B Y WM11. F. DURTSOE, P t O P R I E T 0 R. NEII TERMS. 'o DoLr.AIs and FIFTI CEN'TS, perannui 'irpaid in advancc--$: ifnot pid witlisi 'montis from the date of subsctiption, am '$4 if not paid before the expiration of th< -year. All subscriptions will be contimned unlcss otherwise ordered bcfore the expira tion of the vear ; hut no paper wil be dis continued aintil all arrearages are paid, ur less at the option of the Publisher. Any person prociring five responsible Sub scribers, shall receive the paper for 'eo year, gratis. AVEXT1SENETS conspicuoustyinscrtcdatV: tents per square, (12 lines, or less,) for thE tfirstinsertion. and 371 for each continuance Those publish monithly or quarterly, wil be chargel $1 per soaae. Adverisement! not having the number of insertions tmarket 'on them, will bn continue d uutiloideredou and clar;cd accordingly. Colnuumcatiots, post paid, will be p~rompt Ty and strictly attended to.. G. ID.- TILLMAN, ATTORNEY AT LAW SOLICITOR IN EQUITY. (YFiCt next door to Mr. CoA'npty's Ho ftel, Edgelield C. H. January 24 18-19, 3m I My -C. 011ORSIG.F. W ItL practise in the Courts of Law and Equity in the Districts of Edgelield and Abbeville. 'Office, Edgefield C. H. Sept 20m 35 JOSEPRI ABNEY, ATcrfLNEY AT LAW. ILL be found in his ollice at Edgefle!d Court louse, ad.joining Bryin's Brick Siro.s oa Saturdays, Saledays, and Court, wvees ie will aItZO promptly arid strictly to bub ness 1 his profesNn. Jifiuary 10. ti 51 - R.ELBERT BLAND tolly offers his Professional Services -c s of Edifleld village and vicimity. Office at Uart & Dohy's floter. Ang 16 30 CANDIDAT9 S. tr'he friends ofW ELtEY BODE,-Esr. aniio'ine him as a candidate for the Olice u . Sherill orTh Ditrict at the ensuing clecdtin We are authoi-ized to announce Capt 4 ] UUMPIIREY BOULVARE,as a Can -didaise for Sherifl, at the ensung election 17Tie fricds of Col. TlUs. W. LAN BA11y annotnce him as a candidate for,thi iice 'df Sher iti nt tIre next election. -1T1he friends of CoM..011N IIILL an. nounce himt as a canildate r"i Sh.-riY of Edg field District at the next electioi. LY We nrt autnorized to niinounce T. J WH1TARElR. az a candidate for the Offic of Sheriif, at the ei i .!g Llecuon. 1T'he Friends of ALFRED,MAY announce him as a Candi'date fui Sheriff at the ensaiu election. FOR ORDINARY. We are anthori-,ed to announce ED\VAl1D PRESLEY, as a Caniddate for the Otlice oi Ordiniry at the ensuing election. We are authorized to .announco Col WILLIAM U1. MOSS, as a Candidat< for the ofice of Ordinary at the ensuin. election. OT The friends of IlENRY T. WRIGI'1 Esqr., announce him as a.candidate for the of flee of Ordiuary of this Distriet, at the ensuia' electiomn. We are authorized to annucea WV. L. COLE MAN, as a candidate fo: Ordinary at the ensuing election. The friends of IIUGII A. NiNON, Esq. respectfully annotnce hin as a Candlidat' for the office of Ordinary, .at the nex Election. FOR CLERK. .g5 W,e are authonrised to anuounc WM. M. JOlN SON, Esf1., a candidat for Clerk of the D)istrict Court of E dgefiel at the ensuing election. Dy7The frienads of~ PF.TER QUJATTLE BUM; E'sqt.. announce himt as a emuilidate fl the Otlice of Clerk of mIte Court of Commoit Pleas, of this District, at the ensimg electit We are authorized to announce T110.': G. BA CON, a candidate for re-election Clerk of the Court, fur Eldeleld Districi The friends of E- PENN, anntounc him as a Candidate for the Office of C1cr at the ensuing elecrion. * FOR TA~X C:OLLECTOR. *We are authorized to announce Cap - B. F. GOUIEDY, as a canididate for thi Office of TIax Collector, at the enisuin election. Jan. 2I The Friends of i'laj. F. WV. BUR T, ar nounce him as a candidate for T1ax Collec tor, at the ensuir,g election. -The friends of Col. J. QUTATT LE BUl annunce.him as a catndidhate for'Tax Col letor, at the ensuing election. We are authorized to announce WM. I PA RKS, as a Candidate for Tax Collec - tor, at the next election. Last Notice. -ALL persons itndebted to ther Subscriber I 1the year 12 ei'her by Note or Accottn are rcgnested to manke paymnta befote Rettur Day, if they wish to save cost. I amt co&ipelle to pay my debts, and therefore mnust hiavemtonc to do so.. All who fail to comply maust abid the consequences. C. MI. GIY. *-e Ja '. 1 .t s4i 4 AMERICAN GENIUS. The great peculiarity of the American character is, that its genius is inventive and alays adequate to emeigencies. Where others hdlt in the beaten path way of pursuit or profession; the Ameri can suddenly strikes out a new goal, and drives on to fame and fortun-. Who would have~lhought of carrying clocks ind.redyn-made shirts to China for a market, or bringing Connccticnt, with its shar p-faced soil, into conipetion with the age fortified inanufact6res of Great Br itain. No other man on the globe, with the same amount of means a nd chanzes, will or can pet form as much for himself and the world, as an American. Not to in di,.idualize, but take him in the national aggregate. Quick,- fertile, aad ever tcady, he needs but a sugestion; the details which others must investigate be fore they dare to make tie experiment, ie lets'follow and illustrate the experi ment, as the -sparks of .fire flow in the traii of the locomotive at night. Who ever heltrd 61 an American being confum.ded by tIre iitricacy or magni tude Uf the enterprize I In tl:c arts.of peace and'war alike the same proligal dow of invention, the same sagacity, prudence and daring, blended in a sort. of huiintc-hleroic fresco, 'mark the 4~cts. and aptitudes of the American. 1is in stincts arc fresh where othcrs weary; and tracing his developments industrial, in ventive, and philosophic, as displayed in the shor'1 life of the repiblic, it iust be admitted he transends al ot4jer speci men of the genus hoini). It is the result of many causes.-flis position, physical, iental, tnoral and social, is favorable to activity and decision of character; and his political eq;uality .f self-satisfying conviction thrat he i's equal to the bcst of men on earth, as a map, gives him inde pendence in action that is everywhe 're a dividing-fine between him and other men-. Talk of codifounding an American vith a difficulty or dhiner in enterprize, Qa or land-in art, science, mathe matc nroblem, or ev,en 'a buidle of the fist crok.r.,3roglyphics-the idea a geography, but he will fnd, -Vvith a Nantucket schodncr, any port on the globe, by a slort-!r cut titan ii laid down in the charts; and if he finds hinself in ithe West Indies with.a.cargo of bed v6wrming pans, he will have the wit to strip off the covers, and sell them for sugar ladles, at an 'advance of expected proflt. IThe tactics of the American are not laid down in books. In peace or war, Ihis ingenuity frames the plan of opera tion on the instant, from the nature of tire circumstances, and if he is defeated it must be by sheer force. To him tire pillar of [Iercules would have betrn less tthan to the Macceonian; he would havo auessed instanter the riddle of Sphynx, and untied betweeri his teeth aud finger a double Gordian knot. A writer in Blackwood has well said, that if a sufli, cient prize were Wffered fur the best treatise upon any subject in any hin .rage, the A merican would get i:, even if hie had to learn the languag~e, study th'e subject, and write tire work wrnin three mtnnths. This universal energy, endtuance iniventiorn, and power to adapjt himself to any and every end, give the Americarn Iris wide-world prestige of super iority as a man.--N. Y. Sun. OLD TIM~ E WINT EllS. . in 16G4 the cold was so intense thrat tire Thames was covered with ice 6I inchcies thrick. Ainmost all the birds perished. In 1691 the~ cold was so excessive tat tIre famrishred wolves entered VJinnIa and attacked beasts and even men. Many peo[ple in Geimany were frozen to death in 1695, and tIre winters of 1697 and 1699 were nearly as bad. kIn 1709 occrrrred that fatmous winter, callcd, by distinction, tire cold winter. All tire rivers and lakes were irozen, and evern tire sea for several miles fronm tie shore. Tire groundJ was frozen nine Cfeet deep. Birds arid breasts were struckl dealod in tire fields, and mren perisited by tousands in thecir houses, In 1729, in Scotland, multitudes of cattle aind shreep were buried in tire snow. In 1740 tIre winter wars scarcely inife' ror to thrat of 1709. T.'he snow lay teni feet deed in Spain and Portugal. rThe Zuyder Zece was frozen over, and thou. sands of people went over it. Arrd tire lakes of Englanrd froze. Int 174 1 thre winter wa;s vety - cold! Snow fell in' Portugal to tire depth e. 23 feet on a level. Sn '1754 and t755 tire winters were Yvery severe anrd cold. Irn Engiland tIhe Cstrongest ale, expnosed to the air in -a glass, was covered in 15 tinurites wili ;n o.n...:..t or an inch tiik. In 1771 the Elbe was frozen to,the bottom. [I 177G the Dan.be hore ice five feet deep below Vienia. Vast nainers 6f the .feather and finny trib2s perid 'The winter of 1784 and.i-a5were uncommonly severc. The. Littie Belt was frozen over. From 1800 to 1812 also, the winters were remarkably cold,. particularly tIe latter, in Russia, which proved so disas trous to the French army, WHAT IS A BABY? Tie following is a postscript of a let ter to the editor of the Knickerbocker: P. S.-Whoop ! huirrah ! light upon the world again! ~Whcre are you my fizie editorl Did I ever talk to dust and ashes? Oh ! sir, I died multitudi nously. Every -)erve, that didn't try to struggle mi'e in that utteraince, lied. No, sir, let me tell you that it's a great world that can't be brat. . Talk of the stars and q better world; but don't invite me there yet. O', no, this iorning is quite too beautiful to leave, and besides, I had rather stay, if only to thank God a littla longer for this glorious light, pure air, that can echo back my loudest iq4rah. And then, my boy-but hav'nt -to!d you? Why, sir, I've got a boy !-a boy !-.ha, Ira, i siboit it to you-a boy, fourteen p-tinds, and the mother agFeat deal bette- than ca be expdected. And, I say. 'Mr. Editor, it's mine !-hurrah and hallelujah, forever !. Oh, sir,such: legs, such arms and such a fiead, and oil, he has his iutfier's lips. I could kiss then forever, and then, sir, look at his feet, his hands, his chin, his eyes, his everything; in fact-so "perfectly 0. K." give joy, sir, you need'nt either, I'm full now-I run over, and they all say that-I run over several, half killing the mother, pulling the doctor by the nose,- and upsct a 'pothecary's shop. in the corner; and then didn't I ring the tea bell? Didn't I blow the horr.7 Didn't [dance, shout, laugh and cry itltogetherl The '6nen said thiy 1i4o tic ame up. I can't lielieve that; bu.it wiho .is-not go ing to. shit up when lie has i live biby? You should have heard his lungs, sir, at, utfLA"IitlJtune M ilc not pain-eicess. of joy, ~sir, frot too great'sensation-thii ~-ir--bathlitai ..too. sudden, you know'.':, Think of all this badiitiful machinery, staing off at full motion, all his thousand outiide feelers answering to the touch of the Cool ai-, the fl:xtter and crash at the air-and that curious contrivanco of ths6 eye; looking out wonderedly and bewil deredly upon the great %vord, so glori,pus and dazling to his unknown perceptions -his net work of nerves, his whecls and pulleys, his iir pumps and valves, his engines and reservoir, and all within that beautiful fountaiin, with its jets and running streams, dashing aind coursing through the leungth and breadth, without a stint or pause, making altogether sir, fourteen pounds. I ani this day niultiplied Witi two. .1 am a duplicato. I an one of an indefi nite series, and there is my continuation. Aid you observe, it is not a block or a blockhead, ndr a painting; nor a bust, nor a fragment of anvthing however ber.utrful but a comnbindtion of all the arts and scicences in one-painting, me chianics, (see hinm kick) geograjiby, arnd thre use of the globes, (see h,im nuise') and withal tie is a perpetuial motion, a timie-p)iece that ineverruns down. And who wvound it up1 Btut words, sir, words. A arntcAN F.u3E rs-M\any th,u. sanp farmers in New England rear larg famuilies pay all thteir debts aind taxes promiptly, live independently, very wel. clothied -arid comfortably housed and~ provided for on farms of fifty acres. The idea is that these people larbor se verely. This is a great mnistake. Thiey .hrave nmuch because thdy waste no tiume With themi there is "a place for ci'ery thing, and every tIhing in its plaee.' Their horses, cattle, tools and inmple. ments, are attended to- with clock-like regularity. Nothring is ~piut off till to' morrow that can be done to-day. Econ onmy is wealth and system affords ease. These men are seldom in a hurry, ex cept in htarvest tinme. And in long win ter evenings or severe wveather, whlicl forbid emiploymnent out door; one make: corn brooms,- another shoeS, a third ist carpenter, cooper, or tailor, .and omt woman spins, another weaves, ard third plaits "Leghorn bonnets." Ant tIhe fam,ilies thus occupied are among th< mrost healthy itn thre world. It is easj with them,.to reduce their means, if con venient. or prudent, and to extend thiei means to their wishes.--UescC Far Major Charlcs Stevens, Appraiser C Customs for Savannah, (G'a.) died at.thar p)lace on 'Tucsdary last. Maj. S. was na olicer of thg U. S. Army durin;; tIhe hat Swar with Great Uritaint. . SOLO. E P~ the Ne%,K: .le -has gota. e r a. or,a wherein sh 5t4 eground s o its, sertion that- a#J Ore'tcdictio in "regard.-e4hr.' le" fi pzosiTot id not be left - ,sole -Uponanot i& which should. , I thrown dIown 'i not been lier .l.lec. Tb'editor remarki-'Ado -thewounderful uIi deigrot,nd si qr iich exist at Jo' rusalenias '.iri Mijoi Noah, on the' authority raesj*ectaalo ravellers and illstrateth e$gkia'ings a'6 thos of the ancient e still it does not follow tiat the V.prediction has not been Oxactly Waccoriing -to its true intent an ; "though not pre haps in the {liM ! .rt,of the words. It is to be.n h' the structure in questidon is. q! ifineath the-por tent surface o tb&nd, aid'ptoba bly may: have oath.thesurfice, or chiefly so, aiii f the Savi, our's predictidid not say that there should an ond stone upon another that s not be. thrown Pp, but down so if eIery tliig above thesurtace 4-46molished the predidi tion dose not t- much of having been literally fuli i appears at- any rate, accordi fiajor'N1ali. own showing, that iffiectully-was the Tem. pie destroyed, o 5 e i iti*as st o )re ' eye, 1ng covered with earth an hMis frich It the close nf that1po' "id Mulated over its ruins to t h evo yovfffiii feet'. Moreoir No0i matei there A ' of -irRreti such ixpresslo ierally, not regard ingffficienti I ebreOw-idions antI so cre*iig di As4ierinole in fct' exist. , Whe eiefore:,-th'6 deit'iu'c liot was-1 letetihat Iheground was.flouj, ;verl as relatedby -some historians; or-,Y" sconiplete that~the ruins lay des aMi4, th1 ew urfed twelve or ar_h's surface, .an s sed as the 9; an WNWle, n 1 Hebrew forie e i accodng to i ten I t 'y. Nor . we nn r-iah to mtantain th"rt there is. All that he asserts is, tI t the lireiction was nol fulfild liitera4f. JAid tie sime is true of mdst other predictions of tie Bible. SAM,, FRANCISCO. Tlis town's not, as geierally suppo sed, favoraibl situated, either for com merce,oi for he comfortable tesidence of mail. It i sittated upon a narrow tongue of a uPily sloping mountain land, so expo ,d to the broadside of the ocean that thi wind swecps in a gale over It at allines; mtking and- ef'urt necessary toep your footing. The air is, on accTint, filled with fine sand. The situation is analagous to Fort lain ilton, at the e'krance of the nan ow open ing into the Ijrbor of New Yo k. Thie best position lor the commercial enipo rium of Cal'ornia, judging from the maps, would be at the confluencesof the Sacramento nd San Joachim, if there is w;ater enotr'h to float a sliip. BDat we rinderstand tI'o grouind to be swampy, and thie water insuflieint. A gentlemen has laid otit townl at thie northeasterO, most cetner)f the bay of Sin Frpncis co, at the en;eranace to the inrier bay ol Soulsonl, wvhi:h lies between it and tric mouths of the t ers just mentioned, that is sutpposed to be the best position; all thinjgs consered. All accouits agree as to the climaite. ft is mild, aid free from the vicissimude that mankeg.zrs so pregnant with disease The thermoineter holds a hig;hcr rangt in wintcr th n iii stimmier, In the rain.s season, (N cember to Matrch,) hieav r.ain falls abgut every fifth day on ti average; on the intermaediatc d;ays thet sky is brighitand theo air balmy. Along the shore hayy fogs render the morn ings damp ;ad unpleasant, but these dc riot reach thy inner shores of the hyay, innumerable valleys open into thb~ bay which cadinot be surpassed. The roat to Monteret lies through a nearly le.ve valloy of rid(~iand, little culti4ated,- ant covered, -shoulder high, with luxurian .wild oats, tIe distance being over' omt hiundied miles, Captain Stockton's pur chase (said to be over 10,000 acres) lie. in the valley of San Jose, where tha river empties into the bay. If. there'i a sp)ot on iis continent T.hat may b~ called a Pa-adise, this valley of San Jos' is'the place. The climate of Monteteyi superior to San Francisco, The mos delicato cistitutions will find here safe and genial atmiospliere,-and an eve temporatureP,. tat riust be felt to be ap aFanny ikembIe Butler, has gono I Stock bridgi, (N. Y.,) i0 reside in the fam ly.of Charkis Sedgwick, her relatie'c. OF "LUTIIERt M.4 RT6N." 4 eird an anecdote- of this distiih .gished jawyer'a few days ago-wiriclWe do not.remember- to have niet with in p6iritfridhic' is certainly t6g good to be oS1t,2 s tihe ieporter say. MB5ar. -in was on one occasion riding to An aoolin 'a stage. coach,. in which was a solo'ky companion, a young, gntletnan just,cominencing the practie of Law' Afte soie amiiar convrsitiori, the younggentleman said -$irgyou -have been remarkably suc cessful in your , profession; few men hav igdined so many cases; vill you.bo good enough to conimunicate to ipe, a. beginner, the 'e6ret ofyour W.ndroiis sUccess. - ;do it,. young man, on one condi, tion nd that is that you defray ny ex ens. dAtiring-my stay of a.few days at Afrnaeo p gy.plied the young man, h.pm _to profit greatlY by the com m9nication. . .Thd seqitff my succes4 said Mar tin', 'nay be discovered in this advice, viic:h I now jgIve you,-namely Be sare to hpve a good iitriess for every case'voi desire to secure,.. On- ro'dching Antiaols Luhr-Mar .tin. wvas n-,ot very -self-denying in the en joyment presentedi by a fine Hotel.; the substantials and- general refreshnents wete despatched i.i, a manner. quitegira tiV to 'mine host.' :'the time,forre ir,nat. length- came. ..I'he youug. man and -AMartin - stood. together 6t.the .bar; and demanded their respective bills. atn's rrromus, sut- on 'laic IngIt,- Ie uietly hiinded it to.ttie yotng lawyer who runiing.his eYo-v&er it"lcishily 4eturhd it with the utmdst gravity .Don'ou intIend to pa it ? said Mar Pay wht.?' s-id ie you W6y2 -Why pay thiis bill. Di ou not asj on the oudowia d, tht- C, ou M1 Iydqq r jrj'.said,tb oung.gegq,A ,ant;go 's m - sai easeAt.-~y man you. don't need any -ounselfron nie.-M c Prot. TE BE.FiT op'APPRENTICEsIIP. There is an inportant feature in the reg ulations of a niaster-mechanic, which is frightful to some kind parents' heart.; and that is the five to seven years' ap pienticeship the boy who learns a trade must sunmit to. Bmt it is an c:cellent discipline. It takes the lad at a critical period of life-when he perhaps has a disposition averse to steady eiploymept S-when h is inclined to roam at large, amid.the contaminating influences about -him--and puts him to a-steady rounI of duties-seven at first, bitt soon becom ing. from habits, agrecaible; and, whent his minority expires, his steady iqbits, and industry are established, and he comes fordh a man, trie masterof a trade, of fixed principles and good habits, and blessing to himself and the community; If parents would but look at it aright, they would decatre that, had they ny sons, thr-y should learn trades. Cnn trast.the youth just alluded to with him whlo, having a horror ofuan apprentice ship, in alloa~ed to run,-at large. At the most critical period of life for f-orming habits, lie is forming those that are the rverse of industry. . He is not fitting himuseff to be ,nan, but wearing away his boyhood ,., idleness. The pairtial parent sees this, yet has not fortitude to avert it. A t t wenty-one years of age, when the first-nanmed lad comes omt a goo' nmachianic, it is vonderful if ite other htad not faisti ned habits u;pon htiu that will be his ruin, if he is not ruined alreaidy. More than oine excellent main in our comimunity can say with thank fless, that it turned out so that, io his half dov.t years' apprenticeship, hie is indebted for thc habits of industry and sobriety lie has obtained, that, wvhen le wvas put to a trade, lhe was on a pivot, as it were. Had it not been for the firmness ofhis parents, Ite likely would have been a ruined lad eie his n.inoti ty expired. This was the 'turning point. Cu'RE FOR CHoL ERA.-The Philideh phia Ledger concludes a long article ou tesubject of the choera with thme remmatk. "Our p)ractice would begin with the first sympton,-whether chill, diorrhoca or nausea;- and our inside doses would be camphor, red pepper~ andI alcohol. and warm drinks of brandy and watter and jelly, and our outside doscs wvarm -co vering -and friction, in a warnm room. We commenid ft iction ',vith flannel; and flour and mustard. If mtustard be not1 accessible, red pepper, or even'bliack, > can be -substituted. But so opiumit, tno -sugar of hlead, ino calomel or anty othec lormu of Melrcury." InNr. UGOLMD D'rs E Gat cu eess. -The Washington Uionin. ticing the irrival of one of-Fulto'ns tt pin psT't Richrnond,f4roni .' Dirim,id on. its way t1 the gold ins -- of;M 1-jor -eis's and Com. Stokto Says. - "We met 1riend a-daY or two since who told us lie -haa seen-acertilica from thb-nt, of' nine thousand iollar wortfi of gold deposited as ifie i6sut -of ive or' sik days' work,.with about as - many hands at.the Whitehall. mine'ir Vir'ginia, of -Messrs. lliii; Stockton~~ &c. Sik ngroes, we learn from another - entirely ~reliable- source, had obtained tlhirtyic pounds of jold hop thea st .. to the 6th or tihot this ionths '"Th. - list days's working 0f hiie :negroes Wa& - iorth $1,661.- if this result be 'the ioduct ifl a rego6lir vein, as- we learn - iVisfii0li-canJores'e %Ahat-a few.wweks Eay not briniforth." FjRnan s s.:- Man should be firm worni should' be' lrni--h11 our decis iois ana doing should.iow firmiei? ana -easn'.- .Whatca we. efect by,a ti ifling Vibrating course t *Does, a ny ne'kno(v of. a -man who become rich Di hipiW 6n account'of -there being.nd. tedede-ne to .be lpit driin 1 presume no--Firmness 'of character taries a, am- iroigli tie -ok:ri'easi l nd mlinkhim., respeed by allgain rb-him'n a -'gaa itamci nd hdsartin Innumnerabi'blecsi.n Wi6ur iel5despiid by hisfriends le'd ntar a thousanid ,sntares by-lps ene m!6esnV,,;4. ced from. virtue by i ose: weiast ex .ect,n finally n'aycom crimesn orit4 wdnt of 1rmliess to resist a ltiremnents Of-] vIce. - Firneissof character stmps theiim 11,1111 M r n ens. Lmtn mV t tit -tl' Ar vb apr Mr h a atom the eads otie are A ret itso tetsq 1.I l ti necessae Rtihe e ad tie iron%o'o11r its contents Itcnandt e1ev ' Orleans letters and iack.ages of that date, in hich it is.spposed ihiere were talua ble drafts, though notiuch ash. As soon as the mail was missed infoirnati.oi of the fact was telegraphed to New or leans that payment on, papers of that date might be stopped. A mistery hangs over the manner in which the robbery - was efTected. It is stipposod that the - 1" mail was taken when thrown out of tei stage . at Opelika, by sonic one who adroily concealed it under his cloak. The indeiatigable McGibbonv is one tho trail and ilhe mnatter will be ferreted out$. if % ithin thc compass of possibility. 11ntgomcrfi Journal 25th instant. Tn;i CliZt:.:-The Rev. Mr. Turnbull in a recentdiscourso on the law or revolu tions, says; .'Ihe Bible for more than a tlhoLsan( ynrs has gone hand in- hand witi V civiliz.tion, science and law. It has never becn lchind the age- iray, it has always gone before it, like the pillar of fire Lefure Israf in the wikjcrness. .Its great principles of order, submission and free dom, have been stability or States. It - very ptreseni c:nong them has been a say ing ark, a rbfuge, and a rest. Ilow far, evein bieyond the presenlt time gleams the light ofih at wondrous poor wvhich dcscribes and pi-omises true fredom and fra eriy,'that divine and universal brothiek hood, of which tic naitions onty drcamn. Ini . .~ a word, the Christian Revelation is the true salt of the carth, the vital lorce of communiiies and States. It alone regecn- :1 rates white it prescrv.cs, preseryes whilo i regeneraites. TIhere neveur, says Lord Bacoin, was found ini arny ago ot ti world,. ci ther religion , or. lawi, Lthat dit so ibiy erlt the public good as tho IUible." Dirn Dstu.--A Young a'nd pret' ty girl stopped iinto a shop, wheicre a. spuc young tman, who had lung ileen enamored but dared tnt spceak, stood. behind the conntter selling dry goods. In order tio remain as long as puossibles she~ cheapecned everythiine; at h;ist shtu. said, 'I believi: you think I anm cheatiug: 'Oh, 'no,' said thec 'ungster, to mo yuate alwasfair.' 'Wll' whli<ipereud the lady', blushing as 'she laid an emiphtiasis on tho word.. 'I would not stay so long bargainintg, it' you wecre not so dear,' To Comc I,c.: -Soak the ricc ith coki: salt waiter for-sevent hours, thent have rcady;.- - a stew pan it h boilin watevuir, i hroiw it the~ rico and lit it boil biristM y for tent 'tnutes,. then poiutr it in a cutlenider, cover it up hotn Iby the tire tor a few miiutes, and then, serve. The gratins are doubilo the usualh sz, and quito distinct front cachi other, Allt that in said in the ptarlour, shjuldt nu be he:ml iu the' hll. -