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MdURDER OF A MOTHER ANDI TWO CHILDREN IN WILMING MINGTON MASS. An awful tragedy was perpetrated in Wilmington, on Tuesday night. the follow ing iarticulars of which ware furnished by a correspondent to the Mail:-On Wed nisday morning he-tween 9 and 10 o'clock, the bodies of Mrs. H. D. Pearson and her twin daughters, four years of ago, were found murdered in the house occupied by them in Wilmington abou t half a mile from obe Andover line. The neighbors were there the evening previous, and nothing unusual was discovered. The curiains be ing down at a late hour in the morning, ex cited attention, and led to the discovery of the murders. The children were found in thei bed with their throats cut, ind their moth.er ont tl:o floor beside it, all having on ly their night clothes on. There;were ma ny stabs and cuts on different parts of the neck and body of the woman, which leaves no doubt iut she was murdered by the hands of another, and in' confirmation of it, the back door and one of the windows were unfastened. The Mail adds that the scene of the mur der is represented as having presented a terrible death struggle on the part of the mother, and an attempt on the part of the muiderer to fasten suspicion on one ofl the victims as the author of (leeds. In one hand of the woman was a quartity of hair torn from the assaasin's head, and in the other 'was placed the bloody knife with which the tragedy was .perpetrated. On unclasping the fingers from the knife, the palm of the hand grasping it was found cut and mangled in a shocking manner. In her struggles she had evidently seized the blade to ward it from her throat and tike throats of her children.. Daniel .1-1. Pearson, the husband of the deceased, has been arrested, in Reading. on suspicion of having committed the mur ders, and was to be examined at noon yes terdav. H-e has not'been seen in this city since'ionday. ' A difficulty has existed fur some time between Mr. Pearson and his wife, and ne gotiations were going on for -a divorce. He has not lived with her of late,.but has been employed as a servant in a gentle man's family in. Bostont. The mother is said to have been of an irreproachable character, and to have been exceedingly fond of her children. A coroner's inquest was--held, and a verdict was rendered that the three deceased were wilfully murdered by some person or persons unknown. Boston Atlas. Thc Wkilmington, Mass., Tragedy. This tragedy at once created a greast ex citement among the inhabitats of the to*n, and a coroner's inquest was assem bled. It appears that the deceased had for the last eight months lived separately from her husband. Thomas 11. Pierson, who pretended to be jealous of her, though it is the unanimous opinion of the towns people, without a shadow or cause. Lat terly he had been employed in this city, and is not known to have visited the town .here she lived. the bodies, e a ted her, when site appeared to be in unu sual-good spirits, This is the'ltst that was seen of her alive. Under the circumstan ces, the jury returned a verdict of wilful murder by some person or persons to them unknown. Yesterday, the husbanid, who - could not be found in this city, whlen they - came to tell him of what had occurred, made hisappearatnee at the Western dlepot and wvas forthwith taken into custody as the murderer.-lJpon his face were several -' scratches, which would seem to have been inflicted in the death struggle of the wif.e and mother. Tjhere was also) a mark upon his wrist, and another upon hisi arm. These mnarks he accounted for by saying that he got into a squabble it'hl an Irish man in Providence; but when asked if he could point out thte place where it happen ed, said that he could not. Trhe chief evience against him is, that he was seen near the house of the deceasedi on the night'previous to the murder, atnd again the next morning was nmet ott his wvay to tlte junction at WVilmingmon.- The neighbor remarked the scratches upon his face, but as Pdirson sented to lbe in a hur my to catch the cars, did not lave .mutcht conversation with' him. After his arrest, -he was taken to Readiig, where severa of his townsmen went in to see hrm. One or thomn.remerked to him that tie had bieen to see his wife and children, and a tmore gha'stly sight his eye never looked upon. Peirson astemnpied to appear untconcerned, but was only partially successful. Heb remarked that cases of suicide were al way's hortible, or something to that effect, it being his design, no doubt, to give the idea that she took her own life and that of her children, Indeetd, a rter petrformitng the dreadful act, the murderer placed the knife in the htanids of the deceased), in a way to give coloring to such a supposition, had not the mangled state of the remains at .one repu-diated it. . We learn further that the 'accused ha:s been emplo'yed as a domestic in a family at the WVest End, in-this city foir some years. That a week ago, he settled with his employer, saying that lie was going to live in the couttiry. When arrested, he said that he had beeni on a visit to New-York,. and had been absent for five days, which was untrue, as he was seen by differ.ent person in the vi cinity of his 'wife's residence on Tnesday night and WVednesday moroing,-Boston Traveller, April 13. DAMtAGE TO TUE CROPs.-The late 50 vere frosts have done much injur-y to the growing crops in this and neighboriug dis tricts. The wheat crops, which was the m-oss promising ever known in our distriet have suffered great damage and in the opinion of many intelligent farmers will not yield more thani half the usual quanti ty per acre. All the Cotton up was of course killed. The corn also bit down, and greatly injured it not altogether des troyed. By- one of t-hose strange, unaccountable frak of nature. our village and a helt a few miles in 'ireatht arou-nd it, suffered little in comparison with those below and above. We havo tnot iced within, ten or twelve miles of the village, the foliage entirely killed, and the forest presenting the ap pearance of having been parched by a terri Isle fire.-Anderson Gazelle. EDGEFIELD C. H. WEDNESDAY MAY 2, 1849. Notice. The Committee or safety and vigilance ap pointed for Edgefield District. at a public ment mg a short itme ago. are requested to me-t a this place on the first Monday in May next, at 12 o'clock, M. N. L. GRIFFIN, Chairman. April 18, 1849. 17 We must beg those preparing Obituary notices for our paper to consult brevity. (r*- CATO, the murderer of MICHAEL Lotro, is now confined in Edgefeld Jail. He was tried on Monday jast, and was fownd guilty, and will be hung on Friday the 11th inst. On Friday night last an effort was made to bore into the Ordinary's Office, and Mr. G. L Penn's Store. We have as yet no clew, to as certain who is the scoundrel. We wonder if they will undertake our Office? Ha! ha!! we guess they are too smart for this. Onr sub. scribers hold out no such temptations to these vile rogues. They keep our money in their own pockets, and we are confident, they thus insure us against all trespasses of the kind. But mind, we will make them pay interest nev ertheless. We have been informed of the apprehension of the negro Cato who killed his Master Mich. cal Long on the 16th ultimo. This horrid mur der is only one of several similar instances in our District within the last two years. At present a most lamentable spirit of insub ordination prevails among our slaves. The owners of slaves yielding to the tender and hu, mane emotions of their hearts, have omitted to exercise that rigid discipline over thetm which a wise policy and real justice require. A race of heings-naturally ungrateful and treacherots and in spite of all sense of shame and all les. sons of morality and religion, almost universal ly unchaste and thievish, must be governed by motives of fear. "Spare the rod and you spoi4." your negroes. There may be and there is tle extreme of cruelty on the part or masters towards their slaves. But such instances are very rare. Certsinly this is not the state or tendency of things at present. Our danger is on the other extrenic of two much indulgence. The most fruitful sounce of their corruption, and disobedience, is the outr.geous habit of leaving their hornes at vnght. At the hour of midnight, in place of resting. they are ever via G eanmore inclement the season, the more they gad about like the prow ling wolf in search of his prey. And for what parpse ? It is to carry on a system of traffick ing, which from the nature of the case is de pendent upon stealing. rTey have no capital or property, ror they themselves are property.. Bunt they hrave affections, whtims, and passionis. Uttder these circumstance.., they are approacht ed by wicked whitemeon, anud inveigled intto cimne a fter crimc, ntil thtey are tautght to des' pise their Master's authority, andl for thme small est ofrenrce, will inhmnanely wrurder htim who was their friendi arid protector. Nothing" short of a motre unriform, vigilant and rigid control of our negroes, wvill. guraratty to uts peace, and to them satisfaction atnd contetntment. Depend tnponi it, thmey must be kept tunder a more hutm bke, subordinate, and obedient spirit. I know r~o place where reform in thtis respect is more needed, than in our Village and its vicinity. A few privileged negroes will instil corruption and.disobedience in all thte slaves within their reach. As ir hired negroes, yonr must wait on, and gently coax them to their work, orthmey will walk off to their owners who stand-ready to protect them. These are great evils in the dispiositions anad habits of our negroes thtat nr gently call for reformation. ED. PRo-TEMt Owing to te absence of the Editor, we are engaged to superintenid itn sonic mncsre the issue of the present number of ouar paper, anid to wi-ite something in theo waty of an editorial. This task wvould be to us not a little buirdensome, were itant for the new matter which the cele biation of the anniversaries of the 1. 0. 0. F. ott the 25th iti. furnishes to our hands. In this celebration our Village witnessed an. interesting and brilliant galaxy. 'About 10 o'clock A. M.I the Angusta band as a signal for atssemblintg, began the play of excellent music, at tbe door of the Odd-Fellow's Ifull. From this place tihe procession marched through the public-square and dowvn Jeflerson s'reet, dressed itt splendid regalia, and bearing aloft a rich flag inscribed with their excellent motto Friendship, Losc and Trude. An exhibition of a noble minded philanthropic brotherhood, pledged to develope anad practically illustrate in all threir relations thme groat principles that emblazon their batnner, is associated with the most exalted consideratione. True '- the rows of knighthood-the cere mronials of inrstallations-the pomp and cere maony of knightly feats have gonte, but the de.. votion of the patriot. the ftdelity of the friend, and the loyalty and truth of the man of htonor, do not sleep in the graves of Charlemagne, Roland anid Bayard." Their age is passed, but its spirit still remains, and still invites to hrgh and honorable deeds. Fields are still opened for benevolent enterprize and actiotn, ia which feats of moral sublimity, may be achieved for the amelioration of men, and svithm whuich the greatest exploits that have immortalized the sons of chixalry, are not 10 be compared. W~e do not put in requisition simply great physical skill and power, to avenge the-wrongs -it may be immtagicary wrongs of others-but we requnire chiefly that intellectual and high moral developement, which restrain and allevi.. ] ate the recal ills of mankind. St'ach is thle puarpose of the institurtion of Odd hat aHict our race, I he very feelest, the poot !t widow and her dependent chill'rn, are in't ivithout hope of relief. To them .a. nessehyer aroclaims- - " Cheer up my poor childrena and smile once again, For the Odd-Fellow's hand is not stretched out in vain." The procession by Lient. Join Siuasrs, Marsal for-the occasion, was conducted to the Baptist Church, where WM. C. ATORAGNZ, Esq. enchained for an hour the attention of a large audience, upon the subject of their cele ration. He showed with much force and :learness the advantages of modern over an :ient civilization. Physreal devel6pment, up on which their heroic achievements depended, was among the ancients, the greatest desidera mum; and in these achievements they placed miuch excellence and All real gteaness. With us the physical is made subservient to mental and moral culture, and our chief'jood to consist in menial and moral borth. Therefore all polit ical municipal and social iostituti'ns, are un worthy of admiration which do not look to the improvement of these great endoirments of man. The wonderful and dazzling achieve.. ments of Cauear and Bonapart, originating in in ambition for personal glory and power, and :ontinued for this unhallowed purpose, should not be judged as competent testimony of their individual greatness. The great man must have a higher, a holier aim! To our own immor ial Washington, who " exhibited in one glow of ssociated beauty the pride of every model and lia perfection of every master," and whose ye was ever fixed upon the welfare of his :ountry, he was forced to award the mced of 1rue greatness. After showing that the harmo niuts cultivation of our physical,'and especially ) our intellectual and motal eniowments, di rected and characterized by thegracious influen :es of christianity, constituted the great duty of man, he noticed briefly the adaptation of the Institution of O d-Fellowship, fur promoting these g eat objects. and especially these duties of charity and brotherly kindness enjoined by the revealed law of God. Thishintellectual and mtoral improvement cn not fail to produce an enlarged philanthropy, pure patriotism, and an intelligent adoration of our Qreator, whose works. teach his infinite wisdom,'goodness and majesty. Well may we exclaim "0. Lord how manfold are thy works. In wisdom hast thou made them all. The earth is full of thy riches; and thou renewest tie face of the earth. The glory of the Lord shall endure forever. The Lord shall rejoice in his works. He look eth on the earth and it trembleth. He toucheth the hills and they smoke." " In the vast and in the minute we see The unambiguous footsteps of the God, Who gives its lustre to tha insect's wing, And wheels his throne upopn the rolling worlds." Stach are some of the thoughts, which the ef fort to remembner his speech, hop. suggested to our mind. At the time of its delivery we had no idea of being called on to notice it in a pab lication. We are happy to. eta tat a com it for publication, and we hope it wit appear in our next paper. At jhme close oftthe speech we were delighted to admiration with the " Odd. Fellow's Song," composed for this occasion by Col. ARTHUR Saiss; to which we call the perusal of oaar readers, na containing in a meas tre the principles of the institution, whaich it was intended to cehabrate.. Froa thae Chmurch thae meeting adjourned in regular procession to the Planter's hiotel, whaere thay sat down to a table. furhisahad witha all the viands, pastries, fruits, aid crean's, that the aost fastidious Could desire. Anad now the song, toast. anad anecdote each iaa turn afforded new pleasur'e to a celebration begman, conduce ted and enaded with the utmost haarmony and good feeling. Such sceanes are fresh and green spots in th dreary journey of life. En. Pfno-TEM. Odd-Fellows Song. ( AIt-Star Spangled Banner.) Atteatiomn, Odd-fellows, an effort wve'il make To sing of the b1.esings that follow ouar wake Tis a sonarce of just pride to reflect on the. good Thant results from the honads of our dear broth erhood, Let thae enviouas sneer, let our entemies rail And declare that our char'ties go by entail Yet with thae bright motto "'Trutha, fhr s riendshiip and Love," Chru'Onr works will be here, whaile our hopes are above. To the house of ilh-fortune, where Anguish is foun d, And bitter Adversity hovers around, They come, the Odd..feltows, with kindness to smooth The brow of affliction-it's sorrows to soothe Te day-star of Hope, which las lollow'd them there, With it's lovely rbfulgence bath banish'd despair Thtus with the bright motto " Truth, Chru, Friendship and Love." Chu'Our works should be hesre, while oua hopes are above. o thes humble abode of some desolate heart, Where the poor wvidoiv'd anmate writhes under thte smart f the stroke which deprived her of solace and tove, 3dd-fellowshaip comes, like the heaven-sent dove With thes Olivc-branch, emblem of peace and of rest, rindthe hearth of the widow with comfort is blest. Thus witha thebrighatmotto "Truth, Yrou Friendship and Love," ThuOur works shall be here, wile our hopes are above. 5ee the lonely, sad orphlans; bereft of all aid, as they weep o'er the graves where their parents are laid WVhe they linger and muse on their helpless condition, ofa messenger comes and thu.s apeaks his Commission Cher-op, may poor children, and smile on'eo For the Od-lRow's uand Is bot stretched -u. 'Thuswith the bright motto "Truth, Friendship ind Love," .C/orous, Our works must be here, ivhile our hopes are above. Then iietheirough our country, fiom border to border, Be difiused the rich blessings that glow from our Order To an humble hand-maiden, whose objects are pure, Each form of Religion will open it's door Then onward, good brothers, to duty be true, Let us strive, for the 3 ears that remain, are but few. Thus with the bright motto " Truth, Friendship and Love," Chorous, Our works will be here, while our hopes are above. Prom the Columbia eegrapc, 2&h id. SEVEN DAYS LATER NEWS. ARRIVAL OF THE cAMIBRIA AT HALIFAX. .The Foreign News below should have been received Thursday night, as the arui val of the stenmer was telegraphed at half-past ten, 'at which hour the offices bade each other "good night," and blasted our hopes of spending another "night with the telegraph." We regret that the News is not favora ble, as the Liverpool Market was duU for a week precceding the Steamer's sailing -but hope and believe that the depression is but temporary. The news of the late destruction of the Southern 'Crop must stiffen up prices again. as soon as carried across the water. LivERPooL COTTON MARXET. Cotton has been lull during the week with a further decline of One-eighth to One-quarter pence. The Week's transactions amount- only to Twenty-two thousand -hales of which Five hundred were taken by Speculators, and Four thousand three hundred for Ex portation. Latest quotations of, beat Ohio Flour have advanced to 24s. a 25s. per barrel. Wheat, white and mixed, Gs. 4d. to Gs. Id. Corn, yellow, 30s. to 32s.; white, 28s. 6d. to 30s. POLtTICAL NEws. FaArccE.-France is tranquil, but all parties are preparing for a great electoral struggle. There are now 30 vacant seats in the National Assembly, inconsequence of deaths and resignations.-More than 60 members are confined by irdisposition. The Cholera is making sad ravages among the troops quartered temporarily in bar racks at Paris. It is believed that the dartpness of the weather has contributed to a development of this disease. Measures have been adopted for the removal of the troops into more healthy quarters. The English papers bring detailed ac counts of the destruction of the town of Brescia, and the general slaughter of its inhabitants. After a siege of eight days Brescia, or rather the remains of what was once Brescia. was in the hands of the Austrian. tge place was bombarded for the point of the bayonet; while the inhabi tants were, many of them, driven into their houses and burned alive. IRELAND.-From Ireland the necounts still continue to be of a most painful char acIer. The reports for the past year, made by the District Poor Law luspector , to the Commissioners at Dublin. contain a long catalogue of miseries, sickenintg to contemplate, atd most dispiritintg as to the future condition and prospects of that un happy people. ENGLArn.-England in the midst of this general ferment over Europe, is appa rently uniaflected by it atd. is still quiet though the prospect of a revival of tt ade is less brighter than i:jwas'a short time since. Such was the state of -Europe, April 14 th 1849. From the Daily Tdlegraph. TERRIBLE RIOT IN CANADA. PARLIAbtEN' BUILDING9 BURN'T !-A Telegraphic Despatch received last even ing from Montreal, states that a terrible riot had taken place in that city, inconse quence of the Govcrttnr's hiavingsignted the Indemnity Bill, on Wednesday last. The dangerous character of the riot may be inferred from the fact, that the Tories had burned down the Parliament Build ings, and with them all the public docu ments, and the valuable Library of the loues, 'vhtieh they cont ained. Mr. Molfitt, a distinguished member-of the House, has been arrested on a charge of high treason. . . THE Pea AT rS Noat.-A North ern man, writing upon the social position of the laboring classes of the North, and the aristocratic castes into which wealth has divided-the people says: "No one who has resided at the-North will be willing to deny the alledged ine qaliiy in the rank of our citizens. It must be acknowledged that there has sprung up amongst us that most odlious of al.l species of aristocracy--the aristocracy of gold. Wealth has -already attained a power which it most be admitted elevates it t'o a rank unapproachable to the poor. Already have we the upper, middle And lower ranks of society;'and no one will presume to assert that any personaL meriat will etnti te the unfortunate member of the lower caste to mingle with the higher. Ir is the inevitable consequence of the revoluition which divides society into ranks that while one rises th'e other sinks. This l'es been the case at the North; and while the weal thy have attained rank and power, the poor have Jest both. True, they still pos ses the elective fraachise;.but eveni in the exercise of this, they are driven in heady and anreflecting masses by demagogues, or swayed by rich patrons and employers Any one conversant with the influence at ained by those whose capital places them at the head of large numbers, -will admit that whatever may be the cant of the poli ticians of the day, the irresistable force of ciremsances has .destroyed - forever The bosted equalityt of the people. The cli-. mae of our Nor hera latitude, and the prsits of our people, have prevented the introdoction of .slaves into 'the North; and we rejoice that it is so; but had the lower nIces of labor been perfor med by serelle hands, we w ould not find the poor of our section of the Union occupying their -pres ~ From the New York Tritre. - TIlE ~YEAR. OF -BLOOD.. Ai848 wais'preeminently the Year of Revdutions, he 1849 gloonily threatens to inscribe itself redly on.the world't innals as the Year of tilood. Already bas its first quarter been signalirzed by tvodespe rate conflicts in India, two diastreusly do cisive struggles in Italy, and no man cnn 'ay how iany murderous encounters in Hungary. If such is the beginning, ere the Spriug has fairly apened, .*at. may we fairly ekpect of the Summer and Au lumn? We hear already of the immient renewal of the hostilities betiveed Din tiifk and Prussia, between Sicily and Naples, and we know that Rome and Venice are soon to be attacked and dvivra. borne-who can say that th-ey will- suc cormb -iihout a struggle,? Meantime the dark legions of the Autocrat ov'ershadow his more civilized'frontier, and thoasands of them have been pushed forward into Transjlvania and Hungary to aid in crush ing the free spirit now awake in those long trawupled natiois. The gold and the steel of Russia-and no other empire can afford to be so lavish of. either-are al ready at the service of the Austrian Aris tocracyi they are doing its work royally in the East anl -virtually on the plains of Italy. Unless the new Emperor et Get many-and who can have confidenecither in his capacity or his heartiness?-shaill place himself at tha'head of the Liberal movement of the age, we may sadly. ex pect to see the work of 1818. completely undone. and scarcely a vestige left next December to tell us of the grand Uprising of Nations, before which the haughtiest Kings quailed on their thrones, while Met ternich, Guizot,.Louis Philippe and their compeers fled in .stealthy ignominy from that fairer half or Europe which they had so long trodden down. We cannot hope much-who could ? from the good otlices of the King of Prus sia; he may seem to favor the Liberal cause, but lie cannot be cordial in his ad hesion to the cause of the People against the Kings. Prussia is to--day Democratic -her thirty years of Common Schools have settled that-but her Ministry, her Army, her Magistracy. are still, with her Aristocracy, lwstile to the cause of Popu lar Freedom. And suppose the newly chosen Emaperor should endeavor to inter pose the arm of Germany to stay the ad vance of Russian battallions into the heart of Europe, how is he to be'supported ? Can H anover, Bavaria, Baden, be relied on for men and money wherewith to resist the plots of Absolutism? The more closely this new Empire ofGermany is considered, the more misty and unreal it must appear. No-the proper reliance of the European Democracy is not Germany. distracted as Germany unhappily is, but France, and where to day is France ? With a weak and profligate adventurer in her Execu ive Chair, surrounded by a Monarchical inistry, and looking for his support to the classes and interests most hostile to Universal Freedom, what is to be hoped from her? Wherein does her presen'. po join iflr rom that she held during, the Louis Phillippe? With a constitution hardly yet sworn to, the first representa tives not yet elected under it, we have seen it already t wice flagrantly violated in the suppression of the Clubs and the in crease of the President's enormous salary --atnd its spirit and objects incessantly warred .nipon. Can w e rationally hope that the career of this new Napoleon will be better than its ontset? or that they who daily plot and strive to crush Liberty -at home will make sacrifices to uphold it abroadi No! it were madness to expect it. The weight of France is thrown into the scale of Despotism, there to remain. whatever may be the outward semblance until the not distant day when another election or another revolt shall give her a Ministry sprung from and sympathizing with her People. When that day shall have arrived, whether the Russians are a Constantinople or at Turin, a-new era will have opened, and the struggle for Freedom will recommence under auspices far more benignant than the present. We do noit will not believe that France is not at heart Republicatt1 for when n'e say France we mean thinking, intelligent Frenchmen. That the money-changing, shp-keeping classes sigh for a return to the flesh-pots of Egypt, we quite under stand; that a great portion of the rural peaantry and their untaught hirelings scarcely thiink at all, we also understand. We see that a factitious combination of those have made Louuis Napoleon Presi dent; we do sloL see that .the. coincidence coo be perpetually repeated, 0:n the contrary, wre trust the present year will see the People electrified by some greet event which will dissolve the factitIous coalition of Cunniug and Ignorance, and place France once in the vanguard of European Democracy. Then may helpless, pitiable Ieland ottce more liftlher head ; then mnay Britih Chartism once more be a terror to evil-doers. Until then Night bi-oods sadly over Europe; Ileaven grant that it be not long to Days Faoas Eio JANEttto.--By the bark St. Joseph, thme following intelligence, dated Rio Janeirm, February 1!, has-beed receiv ed at New York : "On the aight of the 9th inst., a report from a reliable source, reached this city, stating that the Buenos Ayreans had en tered the city of the Rio G.rando, the pro: vious night, and coinmitted excesses of ihe most revolting character. Several robbe ris took place a'mong the wealthiest clas'. sea, houses and stores were plundered and set on fire, and the mumber of inhabitants murdered had not been asces-trined but re ported to exceed thbree hundred men, wo men atnd children, most of whom moved in the highest sphere.--N. .0. Crescern*. When our flag was- unfurled from its staff in Tampico, an aged Spaniard was heard inveighting, with lugubrious earnest. ness, against the pertinacity, with- which that flag bad pursued his fortunes. In broken English he execlaimed, '1 was do Spansh council ion do .Louisi'ane, when dat lag he was raise,-and I go to Peusaco-. Ia, but 'soon dat flag. he was over me de.-e. I live then in do Texas, but dat flag follow me der'e-. Says I, I. go- where dat flag never come. l-came to Tam pico, harl here is tdat flag aga'n. I believe if l'go to de detvil ,dnr nna wil foallow me ,derc.' -actu #1tb MitC(bnu. flpoftant Discovery.-.Mr. Herryman, i(Springield, Ill., says The St. Lonis 'Or. gan,1aa nvented a process by which But ler may be packed and kept for any ne eessary length of time, in any climate and under any circumstances,. in a statel per. rectly sweet, without salt or any other r~hemital agent. Iluitter prepared in this way has been kept for two years, appa renitly as fresh and street as when takei rrom-the churn. leans have bison -taken' to secure a patent for the machine. it is simple in its constructidn ind opetation. and is the application of a Prid'icpal hith erto unknowdtoButter-thakeis. Spunkey.-Last Sunday mortilog Mi. chael Storin. in purbudule of a threat made to his wife, between whom and himself thefe seems to. have.been some :dlsagree meat. left his house in this town, and go ing directly to the Mirrl'ihap rive;, whither he was fPill'eli by fi% wife,.as sii' said, to see if "hei old man had th'e coursigi to do it," thteiv hiiself into the witei- n'd was drown.ed. Seereh waii made for.- him immediately, but he was not found till io. wards night. Runi *as tie emuke. The deseaged iedvet sethral children, an in. heritance to the repiubli.--Cone,-d (N. Hf.).Freeman. The iriceptidr of Mr. Polk; at his huthe. stead in.Cotumbia, (Terin.) is said to have been of the mddt enthusiastic character, there being Ad iimense adsetiblage or the people from various counties 16 thevicinity. Gen. Pillow delivered the welcoming 'ad dress, briefly but eloquently, and' -he res ptnse touching nud apprdprite. Mr.'Polk afterwards received the cdngrptulatiotts of numberg of his feliow tiIsena at the resi,. deace of hi- mother,. -whom he had not seen for four .Mr1. He had almost re covered from his iedhbt illaess: A Diference.-Napoleod, President 6f France; who has never been in the -army, always appears in the unifurm f -the Na tional Guard. Gin. Tayloir, the Anilrican President, who has always been in the army, never appears in a militaryuniforan Napoleon, it is-said, lias one hundred sol diers, besides one hundred servaatsfln his house, The American President has about him no soldiery or guards. Republicas-, ism in France is in the bud. hn America it is in fall bloom. The Turkish Government is .inieresting itself in having men thoroughly edncated in every bra-ueh of agriculture for the pur pose i-roducing among the subjects of that government the- hest practical information in farming. In aell ihe Turkish houses you* will see one side on which the blinds are trways closed. These are the apart of the women; who live entirely a from the male portions of the ' the age of twelve, the boys a from the society of their mothe ters. A Srange Case.--A William Thomas, resi Chester county, Pa. att suicide on. the 30th u eptire y o two-ihirds: 1ff,- he i6astiliai pulse beati as regular as that of vidusl in health. What food he tak t4i he introduced through his tsiils liquid state. Iron Road.-A writer in the ats Intelligencer recommends thtat P anylva nia avenue in Washington, shodeau with iron cinder. This artacle, -he u sturpasses all other materials for ther con. structioua of roatds, the psrticles betodg g(then heavy to be moved by the wvid; and after a rItn they rust and cement together, and by use beeote, perfectly smooth and solid,~ and will endure for a length or time. An krpenhive Spree.-Druken reen shottld have good memories. A gentleman in Alabama finding the fi; coming on, and apprehetnsive of the consequences, gave his wallet, cbtanining $300 to some gen. tlemnan to keep for him; but whten sober rte hard-drinker forgot to whom he gave the wallet,..and the recipient has forgotten to return It. had nmemories alf around.. Shading 11ailroads.-'-T he superinten.. dent of thre Nashua and Lowell Rlailroad has advertised for 1,000 youang and thrifty . elm trees, for the purposes it is underood, of planting them along the road. Theidean is a good one, andi we- hope eventually to see it extensively imitated. K~naucky has sent, tihis year, to the sin gle market of Cincitnatti, d$'er 120,000 htogs, which realised to ahe owners, over $800,000. Cowvles says in his exeellent History, of Plants, on-the virtues of hemp, shus la conically-: "By this cordtsge ships are gui.. dedi, bells are rung..,beds are corded, and r-ogues kept in awe." - A lrdfer, by the amo 'of -Cato, being asked b, the magistr'ate, the other'-day- if he was the man -that slew his 'brother, made answer, "No yen oenr; I is the chap Dot got altwd! . Morals in Texa.--A Galveston paper, deprecating thte a umber of divor-cen grant id at the receni session of the Legiuiature af'Texas. says,-in that State rte marriage -.tntract is not as binding as a 'horse trade. liyot will secure a cotended spirit, you must measure yo~or condition, not your for unes, by your desires-that is, be governed by your needs, not your fancies. All apprebension's of a flood at New D)rleans, have subsided-the waters to-the Jif'erenot tribut aries of she Mississippiswe,. ialling sapidly. We were looking for the ratewt report sporn uetlemitas fashions farslyi aDNew York house snays "there is noit much cange n gentlemen's pants this mionth." Very ikely. - A Heroine.-Mr. Johns wis- knocked averboard at- Cinctnnatti, and saved by his laughter, aged 18 years, who plunged ita sfter ham. - - - .A Kentuckyj Ra.-A young lady resi. img in Louisville, while asleep a few dights since, wai awakened by'a' ferocious - 'at biting a piece-ots her-cheek.. ' The Ameriean, Bihsle -Society. as. reived a legacy of SG000,4y-the -death of Rufus Powers,-of-Enfield, tis. - He that waite for dead men's slhoes may ;o a run- itma barrfi-t - -. '