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ED EFI DA r,'D ESR 2 Dcmocrat(c 3ournal, ZOtM(i to Soutijertt ifits, Nt jjif9t(fi t etiral Kut (fchttt, fittratite, joraItt, Enmwance, %grIttre, $ "WO Will cling to the Pillars of the Temple of our Libda'ties, and if it tuIst fall, we will Perish amidst the Ruin." W. F. DURISOE, Proprctor- EDGEFIELD, S. C., FEBRUARY .,1851. VOL.xvJ.-'O-a From the New Orleans Delta. GOING ROME. Speed on! speed on my gallant bark, Swift through the water's foam; Thy course is to a spot I love My childhood's happy home. Speed on I speed on! Long years have passed Since I have been this way, And anxious hearts are waiting me; Speed onI without delay. Speed on I speed on! I love the land , Now fading o'er the main ; But those who love me there, all know I'm coming back again. But those I now am going to, Are waiting on the shore, With hearts all full of other days, To welcome e once more. Speed on i speed on I My heart is full, With mem'ries of the past, My childhood's dreams, my boyhood's hopes, And all that make love last. I know there're some I cannot meet, And some whose love is cold, But there are some who love me yet, And love me as of old. Speed on I speed on I For even now My mother's at the door, With looks of love and tenderness, To greet her boy once more, IHer woman's heart-it thinks not of Mly manhood's sturdy prime; It lives upon the innocence Of childhood's happy time. Then speed thee on, my gallant bark, And bear me to that shore: A mother's prayer will guide thee safo Fear not the breaker's roar I And love gleams, from other eyes, Will light the path fur thee ; Thy course is watched and blessed by those Now waiting there fur me. PALADOUR. The Jealous Wife. A WALLACHIAN LEGEND. - Nearly three centuries ago, an exten sive portion of that part of the country whkh lies on the Wallachian banks of the Datiube, belonged to Demetri C -, a-powerful Boyard, descendew-fronrene of the Greekpficees who had been dri ven from Constarttinople at the fall of the Lower Empire. Hd was wealthy, gene rous and magnificent, the father of a pro mnising son, (who at the period to which this history relates was eighteen years old,) and the husband of the most beau tiful women in the country. Helen C - was looked upon as the happiest and most envious of her sex; and she might have justified the general belief, for nature had endowed her with mental powers no less remarkable than her per sonal perfections, had it not unfortunately happened that, amidst the countless roses with which her path in life had been Btrown, one sharp thorn had lurked and pierced her to the heart, rendering her, in the intolerable anguish it occasioned, re gardless of the many other blessings that bad been ehowered upon her. In a word, she was of a suspicious and jealous dis. position; passionately attached to her husband, and to all appearance adored by him. She, nevertheless, lived in constant distrdst of him, which his character and manners were too well calculated to jus. tify, for his gerneral admiration of beauty was a matter of notoriety. And although from a knowledge of his wifc's disposi tion, ho had taken such precaution in his infidelities towards her, that she had never yet been able to detect him in a love in trigue, she nevertheless felt so persuaded that he was constantly involved in such pursuits that she become a prey to vague jealousy, which embittered every hour of her existence. At last her suspicions appeared to have found an object on wvhich to settle. Among her female attendants was a young and pretty Tiransylvanian, named Anasta tia, whose superior education had render ed her a favorite with her lady. All at once the damsel became neglectful of her duties, absent in mind, and inattentive to the wishes of her mistress; when repri mnanded by her, she betrayed insolence and hauteur. Helen threatened to dismiss her from her service. The prince opposed such a measure ; and in proportion as the displeasure of his wife was evinced to wards the delinquent, the voice and man ncr of her husband softened in her favor. This was more than sufficient to fire the suspicions of the princess. Enger to as certain the reality of that which she dread ed, and resolved to rush upon knowledge that would break her heart, she forgot her dignity so as to play the eaves-dropper and spy over her attendant-for sonme time without any result. One day, how ever, when the young girl had beeni sent for by her, and had neglected to attend the summons, Helen treacherously crept up a baek way to her menial's chamber or room door, and noiselessly stationing herself outside of it, listened to what wias passing within. A murmur of voices in the room convinced her that Anastatia was not alone, and almost immediately that of the suspected damsel broke upon haer ear in accents the purport of wvhich co.nld not be mistaken. "'Ieae me," she said, " for heaven's salcg, leave me! If ng mistress were to lgno.w of your being here, I sh~uld be lost es me; and I live in daily terror of her discovering a love which would draw 1p. on me her eternal enmity ! Go, prince, go, Denietri! This evening, so so-on as it is dark, I will contrive to steal out to the fountain in the sycamore grove-meet me there at eight-your pretext of ab senting yourself from home will prevent the princess from suspecting thra we-" Here the voice became hainter; ns the norson speaking moved towards an oppo site door; the footsteps of a man were plainly to be distinguished moving in the same direction. Helen could hear no. thing more-she strained her eyes to the crevice of the door at which she was stationed, -but saw nothing. Her heart overflowing with tumultuous passiois; shd was for a moment tempted to burst dpen the door, and confound the guilty one who had presumed to rival her in her husband's love, but listening again she felt assured that the room *as empty, and a moment's reflection showed her that by a few hours' delay, she might render her vengeance more signal and complete. She therefore returned in the same stealthy manner to her apartment, shut herself up; and took measures ac cordingly. Her determination was to prevent the possibility of Anastatia qutting the house, and then to disguise herself in the dress of a serving damsel and to personate the perfidious attendant at the rendezvous in the sycamore grove, which she had heard arranged by hers These meditations wdre interrupted by a message from the prince, apprising her that lie should be absent from home the remainder of the diy, and should probably not return till late at night; and this message, all addi. tional proof of the calculating treachery which her faithless husband scrupled not to exercise towards her, was the last drop that overflowed the cup. The exaspera tion of her outraged feelings knew no bounds; and she remained in solitude in her apartment, that no family might notice her af An hour before sunset, summoned to her lady's p ceived an order to rema finish some embroidery hersetl had been-oecupai Not daring to disobe3 finish her task before the pointment with her lover young girl sat down to unwonted alacrity. Th. they were was an uppe formed the last of a capacious suite, hav ing no entrance but through the apart me'its that preceded it. Not long after Anastatia was seated at her embroidery frame, the princess arose and quitted the room, locked the door of it, and leaving her attendant a close prisoner there, with no possibility of egress until she herself should release her, she proceeded to An tastatia's chamber, where she selected a suit of her clothes,. hastened to disguise herself in theni, and throi-ing a veil over her head, quitted the house, and directed ber steps towards the trysting place. It was late in the autumn ; the days were shortening visibly, the evenings were cold and gloomy, night closed in immedi ately after sunset, and there was no moon to illumine the chill, dark sky. Helen was the first to arrive at the place of ren dezvous; and, under the influence of ne ver slumbering suspicion, she fancied, when she found hierself there alone, that her scheming had been discovered, and that her husband would defeat her plan of vengeance, by not appezi:ing, but a fe~w monments sufficed to undeceive her. A quick, light step approached. What ea gerness wais in that treadi, and how indig nantly did her heart throb, as she listened to it. TIhie obscurity was so comphete, that she conld niot disce'rn even the out line of the pers-m who drewv near, but thme perfume of ambergris, with wvhich her husband's hair and garments w~ere alway-s impregnatt'd, floated upon the air; and a low, counterfeited vouice breathed for the words-" Hist, Anastatia! Are you here, love I" directed her towards him. She stretched forth her hand ivithi a whisper, " Yes," and grasped something which she recognized as the embroidered katten worn by the heaids of the princely house of C-. In the next moment, the arms of the impatient lover were thrown around her, and she was drawvn towards him in a piassiomnate (-mbrace. Tlransported to fury by the tender endear mnent, which she knew was not intended for herself, but for an unworthy rival, and breathing only the deadliest vengeance for her wronigs, the outraged wife~ thrust her hands into her bosom, drew thence a p~oignlard, and, raisinig it on high, plunged it into the faithless heart that beat against her own. T'he blow was dealt with such unerring aim, that thme victim could only utter an indistinct cry, and, relaxing thme grasp with which hie held her so closely embraced, fell heavily to the ground. [Helen drewv her breath, and listened for a moment; a gurgling noise in the throat of the murdered man wsas all that she could distinguish. Th'len followed a death like silence. Terror and remorse sudden ly overcame her for the deed ; whbich, in a moment of frenzied excitement, she had perpetrated, and, turning hastily from the fatal spot she rushed toward her home. The first hient that met her eyes as. she entered the house was her IUsBDAN D There lie sto6d unharmed, surrounded by his attendants, and ij his riding dressjust as he had alighted from the horse, and a tranquil smile upon his lips, as he inquired whether the princess was in her apart "tYou here l' she shrieked; running up to him, " I have not killed you, then! Oh ! thank Heaven, I have not killed you!" and she fell gasping at his feet. " The princess!" ejaculated her hus band, bewildered at the sight of her dis guise; and her violent emotion, and rais ing her from the ground, " What means this frenzy, and why are you so strangely disguised i" But sh0 answered him not. With her distended efes widely fixed upon him, she passed her haids repeatedly over his bosom, and muttered to herself-" No poiguard, nd wound ! and yet I struck him there, and felt his hot blood gush forth upon my hand. "And see," she dofthiued; shuddering, " there it is;" and holding up her hand as she spoke, the crimson drops that stained it, attested the truth of some fearful deed being connect ed with her mysterious self-accusation. " Helen, dearest love," said the Boyard, in soothing accents. "Something has terrified you, bqt fun are safe now-I am here to protect you. Tell me what is the meaning of this agitation I what is the meaning of this blood?" " You, Anastatia !--the sycamore grove !" she uttered, in broken cries." " Were you not there? now-just now, to meet her I" The prince shock his bead in silent con sternation. " Whom have I murdered; then?" burst from the lips of the unhappy woman, with a thrilling shriek; and starting from her husband's support, she fled, with the speed of a maniac, toward the fatal spot from which she had recently returned. The prince and his attendants followed ' - fle of them bearing lighted torch face was turned upwards, and as the glare of the torches fell upon it, an exclamation of horror fell from the lips of all present, and Ielen leaned forward, recognized her victim, with a thrill of agony which caused all the blood to chill in her veins, and her pulses to stand still. At that one glance, the whole truth flashed upon her with terrible clearness. until she comprehended, when too late, the fatal error into which her blind and mistaken suspicions had plunged her. There lay her son !-her only child-her beloved Demetri! -bath ed in the blood that welled forth from the death wound which her murderous hand had inflicted! He it was, then, whoso byish p~issIon had been reciprdcated by her young at. tendant; he it was for whom Anastatia had devised the love meeting, which had that morning changed her own jealous fears into dreadful certainties. He it was, oh, God! upon whom her imnaginary wrongs had( just been so barbarously avenged ! Th'le similarity of name and of dress had deceived her. Why had she not tho'ught of this beforei Whyi Does suspicioni ever pause to rasOn or reflecti Is not jealotftsv blind as love (whose dark shiadowv it is said to bei) All this passed through hier mind, with the rapidity of lightning, as that one aw~ful glance reveal ed to her the extent of her crime. No words escaped her lips; but, as if struck by a thunderbolt, she fell heavily forwvard, and lay prostrate, and to all appearaices lifeless, by the side of thie beloved son, w~hose life had fallen a sacrifice to the rash and tingovernable suspicion of the jealous wife. The first ue that Hceen made of her returninig faculties wvas to cast herself at the feect of her husband, and make a full confessiun of the feelings which had dri en lier to commit so desperate a deep, imploi ing (death at his hands, ini expatia tion of her crime. But death, which would have terminated her earthly tor mncts, was a boon which the exasperated husband was resolvedh not to grant her. " Woimn," said he, "you shall live to die a thousand deaths every day ! You shall live to curse the (day on which you were born. You shall live to expiate, in lingering torments of mind, the misery you have inflicted on me !" And, inflexible in his detcrnmination, ho caused his unfortunate wife to be convey ed to the Rock of Babake, where, in a rudely constructed stone chamber, she was condemned to drag out her miserable existence, w~ithout being suffered to ex change a word w~ith anuy human being, and with no companionship, save her ownu wretched thoughts. Her senses failed under her severe punishment ; but maid ness, instead of briging oblivion to her wvoes, seemed to have imparted new acti vity to her faculties of suffering. Every evening, as darkness camne over the earth, the poor maniac fancied herself ngnin an actress in the dreadful scene which had stained her soul wvith the foul guilt of mprder; and the.frenzied shrieks she utter. ed during the nigh( were heard from afar, waking the echoes of that dreary solitude; until daylight btorght with it a tempora ry cessation of her agonies, in the calm of exhaustion. A eIoroi "There is an eidearing tenderness," says Washington Irving, "in the love of a mother for her in, that transcends all other affections of the heart." We have just heard a touching illustration of the fact that the love of i son for his mother may also transcend' and swallow up all other affections, at a moment, too, when he might well be paydoned for remember ing only his own great trials. Some two years ago, a young man, be longing to Philadelphia, was returning by railroad to that Peity, from the town of Reading, Pennsylvania. By an accident which happened to the train as it was ap. proaching town, an$ while lie was stand ing upon the platfomi, he was thrown off, and fell partly under the wheel of the succeeding car, and'his right arm, "mar row, bones and all," was crushed to a jelly; arid dropped iselessly at his side. This however was fortunately his only in jury. He was a young man of deter mined nerve, and of the noblest spirit. He uttered no complaint-not even a groan. When the train arrived at the depot, a carriage was immediately called, when, attended by his friend, he said to the coachman, " Drive at once to Dr. M-'s, in Walnut street.' 1 " Hadd't you better go immediately home ?" asked his friend. "No," said he, "I don't want them to know anything alcnt me until it is all over.' "Our herd," for Ihe was A hero, was deaf to al the counter-remonstrances of his friend, and they dirove rapidly to the he continued, holaming ... limb over the back of the sofa. "Do it here, Doctor; I shall not flinch; I shall not interfere with your operations." The limb was bared; two attendants, medical students in the house, were sum. moned; the arm was taken off above the elbow, while the patient sat as lie had re quested, uttering no groan, nor speaking, a single word, while the operation was I being perforned. The dressings were applied; and, attended by his friend, the patient had reached the door; d his way to his own house, which was very near by, when he turned round to the surgeon, and said, " Doctor, I should like to look at my arm once more; pray let me see it." The surgeon raised the mangled limb; the patient glanced at the bloodless hand and said, "Dotor, there is a ring upon the middle-finger of that hand ; wont you take it off for me. My mother gave me that ring w~hen she was on her death bed. I can part with niy arm, but while I live, I can't part with that ring.r" The iung was slipped ffm the cold, white fin. ger. " Put it on that' finger," said lie, holding' out the sittlie fhnger on his left htnd. As ho was leaving the door, with his attendant, to enter the carriage, lie said, " Howv shall I break this thing to my poor sister !" Is not this a true hero, reader.--Knickerbo'eker. Ovn JUDICIARY SYS'rat.-The Even ing News, edited by Judge Porter, in speaking of the Appeal Courts of Law and Euity, dw sitting in Charleston, mnakes the following just remarks: "'ro one~ accustomed for years to the judicial innovations of the new States, it is pleasant to observe the dignity and or der of Courts, which, like' those, preserve in their forms amrd ceremonies the manner of the more ancient systems of jnrispru prudence. Especially, when the lights of that reason and justice, so long the ad miration of the world, are seen reflected from the opinions of our judges andl chan cellors. Perhaps there is nioting which more degrades the very place of justice, and tihe high character of its oflicers, than the modern system of making newv laws, as if the infancy of these times could have any just pretence to estamblish sys tems which ought to supersede wuhat only long ages and the wisest experience have contributed to fernm." We hope to see South Carolina long cling to the spirit of conservatism, which, in this particular branch of her State poli cy, has proved so wvholesome and bene ficial in its results. We have no confi dence in that progressive democracy, which would seil the purity of the ermine, or open the door to bribery and corrup tion, by subjecling its irreproachable in tegrityi to the blighting inftuences of peri. odical popular elections.--Southi Car. Lznm not to eat but cat to iv. The Past and the Presont. If five years ago, says an anonymous writer, a prophet had risen up and lifted the veil of the future, and drawn from its arcana the scroll upon .vwhich- the history of these five eventful years was writen ; if he had foretold to the South, you shall go into a bloody and expensive war; vic tory shal perch on your banner on every field ; vast territorial conquest ; an Ophir of gold, boundaries stretching to the Pa cific shore, and a country of every varied soil and climate shall be the fruits of that war. In it your best blood shall be spilled the valor of your sons shalt be every where signalized, the cypress shall be freely woven in your chaplets of victory. Your lrethren of the North shall be the partners of your toils-they too shall send their regiments, but not so many as yours by one-half, they too shall meet with you the shock of the battle, but the graves of your slain shall twice out-num ber theirs. By and by shall come peace -the enemy is chastised, and within his conquered capital the terms are dictated by you, the victors. The survivors of the gallant host that achieved these wonder ul triumphs are marched back to their native land-tho Southern regiments, to throw off the harness of war and reap in the soft pleasures of home and country the rewards of toil and valor in the field ; the Northern troops to their cheerful fire. side and bright winter skies. But lo! out of this war will rise a portentous question of domestic concernment. The North ind the South will be at variance about the government of their common con juests, and as the manner of use and dis. position of the soil. The North will say to the South, " brother! thou art not as ,ood as 1-your customs and institutions ire offensive to the prejudices of my edu :ation and the habits of my life; we can iot live in common on our common do main !" The South shall reply in an ap peal to the reason of the North, and argue tat our rights should not be sacrificed to nroiudices-but, inasmiich as you o- lt there be no LeIyS, LuL4 ~~u .m4.-, oU oLIUrL ad contrived to appropriate to itself the xvhole of this princely conqiost, not leav ng one foot to compensate fdr thd 75 nillions of treastire and ten thousand corp ;es contributed by the South to the ae luisition, and should then pause and ask, 'men of the South, shall I go on with his eventul story; er will yotir own iearts finish out the pago and tell ie ,vhat the South did on the consummation )f this mighty wrong? Did you submit o it, or (lid vou resist ?' We ask what would have been the an wver of the South? Would it not have been the arswer he Hungarian Diet gave Maria Theresa, vhen, ,with her infaut child in her arms, ;he presented herself a refugne from her ustrian throne, and lainIed the protec ion of her noble Maygar snbjects ? Eve -y swordl leaqned from its scabbard, and hase swords were never sheathed until he sovereign of their local affetion wvas )mee again seated on her imperial throne. such would have been the answer of the south then-:-such is not the answer that ~ravan voice of submissin proposes to ;ivco now.-Nashvihlle American. ENGtAND DEPENDENT UroN THlE SOUT. .n English paper makes the following obser ations. " The United States sends us four ifths of the raw mate:a, which this immense >opulation work on, and without which this nmmenmse popubution seems doomed to be brown out of empjloy. Our yearly supply >f cotton from other quarters has been stca lily decreasing, and in fact America is suib ittially the source by whieb, and by which lone, our cotton manuifactories can be kept a healthy netivity." Where, then, would Great Britain be in the sventt of a separation between the Northern mnd Southern States ? Would not self-inte 'est-ave, self-preservation-compel her to oist her banner on the side of those to whom, n a great mecasure, she owes her own pros icrity ? Talk of blockades-with friendly dlies on shore, the fleets of Biritain woul'd irovide a safe transport for our great staple -her very existence depending upon our :ommercial welfare.-State-Rights Rep. Gov. QUITMAN.--The Picayune of T~ucsday ast says-" We learn from good authorIty hat Judge Gholson has issued the warrant 'or Gov. Quitmnan's arrest and renmoval. It vill be executed as soon as the Marshal, Feld ing Davis, esq., reaches Ja~ckson. Applica ion will be made to one of the judges of the [igh Court of Errors and A ppeals for a writ if habeas corpus. It is not anticipated that discharge from the arrest will be ordered." ARGEa IHoG.-A correspondent writing is from Dutch Fork gives us the follow ng particulars of a hog which lhe has daughtered during this winter. The ani mnl was about two years old. Our cor espondlent says that having no scales to weigh him, he had the curiosity to meca inre him. H~e wvas 7 feet 5 inches long, 3 feet 2 inches high, 6 feet round his body, mud 4 feet 3 inches round thme neck. South Carolinian. From the Sumnter Banner. How much aro Vreedom and Honor Worth.? Are they worth three hundred thousand dol lars1 are they equal in value to double the amount of our usual taxes? Will the pos session of them compensate for the sufferings endured, the losses and sacrifices incurred, in obtaining them? Theie questions are practically before the people of South Carolina, for solution, and they are made the direct issues in one of our Districts. Gentlemen, opposed to the ex penditure of $300,000, to put the State in a condition to defend herself, are nominated as Delegates to the Convention of the People, to " take care that the Commonwealth of South Carolina receive no detriment." If Honor be no part of that common-wealth, then dollars and cents may be a fit measure by which to estimate its worth; and, by the comparative demands upon the Treasury, we could ascer tain, to the thousandth part of a cent, the propriety of one or another course of action. Rational, actual and business-like would the conduct of public affairs then become, when every State problem would be resolved with mathematical certainty, and the advantages or disadvantages of any measure would fall within the sphere of the four first rules of Arithmetic. The question then would be, has this expenditure been prudent or spend thrift? The following considerations of course would address themselves to the mind. The slaves of the South are estimated as worth $1,500,000,000 Suppose the share of this State as equal to $100,000,000. Is this large interest in danger? Have assaults been maife upon it? Is it evident, from every ex hibition of the will and fidlings of the peo ple of the North, that they, having in their hands the power of the government to which we are subjected, are hostile to this interest, that they are scheming and acting with re ference to the final abolition of slavery ; that if this movement progresses as it has hitherto advanced, the South will lose all this property and this Slate her $100,000,000, besides all her other interests and property which are dependent on slavery ? (and we are ignorant of one that is independent of it.) We will not stop to argue these questions. We will assume that every man conversant with the history of our country will answer them af firinatively. If this be then the condition of this valuable property, which is the most ,uonomieul and prudent course-to abandon :1iuU,000,000 are to $300,000, so are the rea sons in support of to those against the ap propriations made at the last session. Now these are mathematical calculations, having in them no soul or generous feeling or regard to Honor. They are as if Honor was not a part of the common-wealth of South Carolina. But is it not her chief riches-her priceless-her inestimable wealth? Why, wherever they be, in whatever distant land or diifering climes, do they proudly call themselves by Carolina's name ? Why are het memories ever fresh, ever holv, as are tihe sacred remembrances of a motier? Why through all her coasts do the warm ulowing souls of her sons seem as if fused into one, and that 6nd great heart to burn with one desire-to demonstrate how much they will do and suffer and hazard to uphold her cause, to defend and preserve her rights? Bluer heavens encircle mightier and wealthiei and more beautiful lands. Feeble she may be, except in the might of justiee-poor, except in Truth, in Generosity and Refinement, and unlovely, except in the attractiveness of her virtues; but in these, and who have been her sup~eriors, who indeed her equauls? WVhat Caroliianm would excharige her history for a mightier empire than the Queen. City ever extended her dominion over ? What of his energies would htt withhold frofn her that the groat deeds of the past maty be reprodueed in the future, and that as time rolls on mnore rays of Glory may gather :.round hter name? Shame be then on his degenerate soul who would seat himself to reckon up how much it may be well for him to sacrifice to main tain it. The only question, wvhieb South Caro lina has to seek a reply to, is what is the paith of Honor ? and to that question, in her pre scant piosition, what reply can be made but that she ninust dissolve a connection as dishonor ing to her as it is fatal to her interests. Even had she not made solemn resoluttions which truth and consistency require that she should carry into execution, now that their conditions are performed-had she not committed her self by a single expression of opinion as to her relations to the Uniotn, ret that tmust be a voluntaury blindness that 'does not see the injutstice that has beeni done her, the degrada tion which is before her by the deprivation of her equality wvithm her ister States, and wvhat is theteforc the only course she camn with honor pursue. To rem-in leagrued with those who have rabbed and degraded us? WVhat is It but to invite further robbery and degradation, if further degradation thmere ecan he than the state of him who cravenly sub nits to wrung ? We, the actors in the scenes, are now about, ourselves, to write in indelible charac ters thme history of our own times. As is the beginning so will be thme end. Let P'atrio tism. Truth and Courage emblatzon the first pages of the Chroniele, and each leaf, as it shall be added, shall be more gloriously illim intated; but let timidity, inconsistency, va cillation, seize upon the ac-tors, and disaster anid defeat will deface thme narrative, and it will commence, progress amnd conclude, a melancholy tale of shamie. Shame to fall on our State? Never. Virginius devoted his daughter to death to save her froam dishonor. Rather than she should be dishonored what true-heairted Carolinian but would see her sunk beneath the umighty waves, if only, as the Palmetto crest was sinking from his sight, the suin should gild it ith his radiance and The Now Postage 3ilL This bill creates a new fate of postage,and a new denomination of coin. A coin of thren cents is to be manufactured in accordance with the reduced rate of three cents pre-paid post age. The principle of our decimal coinage is thus violated to conform to an arbitrary rate of postage. A coin of three cents is nob in conformity with that system. It does not form a multiple of the number which is the basis of that system. The number ten is not divisible into proportionate parts of which three fortas one of these parts. A two and a half cent piece admits of a multiplier by 2, and by 4 which give us 5 and 10. The parts are proportional to each other; but 3 multi. plied by either of these multipliers, or by it self, results in 6, 12, and 9, which are num bers forming no portion of the decimal system. A currency which is adapted to the sehenie of post office rates should also bear a conve nient relation to the systemn of coinage estab lished by our laws. The three cent piece, which it is the design of the bill to coin, ought to pass into general circulation, and should not, and cannot, be limited as a post offleo currency. It will be paid in to that establish ment and paid out to the public. How wvill prices properly adapt themselves to a ctArren cy that follows the decimal notation, in all but a single instanee. The coinage of a quar ter dime would be in conformity With that no; tation. The two systems of the post officei rates and that of decimals in our coinage, should not diverge from each other but har monise. It is said tliat our coinage of fie and ten cent pieces, does not adapt itself to prices, the small Spanish coins being found in retail transactions more convenient. This may be, because we have no coin bearing a due pro portional part between the half dime and the one cent copper coin. If we had the quarter dime, and called in the worn out small Span ish coins, prices would soon adapt themselves to the decimal denominations. The sole rea son why these Spanish silver coins remain in circulation, ivhilst the silvereoins of the Vni& ted States are exported, is that they obey a law ofieurrency, which sends abroad for prof it the more valuable and retains for circula tion the least valuable coins. Let the gov ernment call in the Spanish silver coin, if we are to have a national system, and preserve the decimal scheme in its integrity, by coming quarter dimes instead of three cent pieces. We hope, therefore, that the Senate will so modify the Postage Bill as to make the rate ~ " half an ounce, and lesa.two r: .um ntu"uS Wilia soon int,,. almost every direction, and travellers by this mode of conveyance, be provided with in creased facilities for visiting the mountains and watering places of their own section of country, and this, too, with the gratifying reflection that they are spending their money at home, instead of lavishing it abroad. To those who make frequent use of our own Roads, it will be an additional subjoet of congratulation, that the greater portion at least, even of the cars in which ther ride, and all the materials of which they are constructed, are made at our own Charleston work-shops, by our own mechanies. A large number of the new and elegant cars which have been lately placed on the South Carolina Rail Road. are from the extensive manufnctory of mtir felow citizen, Mr. Geo. S. Hacker, in King-st., nearly opposite the Upper Gdard House. The promptness and energy Vvith which the site of this now lively and thriving scene of busy life has been, wiithin a yeari pas: metamorphosed from its former rugged dilapidated aspect, speak volumes for the p~rospects of an enterprize begun under sueh unpromising auspices, and already carried otut beyvonci the expectations even of its well wishers. Mr. Hacker is a pratctical mann, familiar with the dctails of machinery, accus tomned, by long experience, not only to dili gent and watchful superintendance over others, but to working with his own hands, and to use his own language, "more willing to work than play for nothing." That such is, the spirit which unimamtes the great body of' our mechanics, we are rejoiced to believe, and it is this which tvill thlimately bring them into successful compeltit ion with their brethren elsewhere, aiid enable thenm to furnish equally faithiful ivor-k, at equa!ly moderate rate. . This desirable state of things is beginning to dawn upon us. The Factory under notice is a striking evidence of it. It is in all res pects, a complete and comprehensive estaib lishmuent. Every thinig is done by the aid of~ mnehmtery, and priincipamlly by nattive work men; all sober men, and tunder good influ ences. tThe lumber is c'btaned from the vicinity of the Edisto, brolight to the yard in its rough state, and there passed through every stage of preparation for use. Mr. Hane keaiving sepamrate apartments for his en gines, and mnehines for sawing, planing, tongning and grooving, besides a foundry for making bolts, cutting threads, &-e. Thmese several processes are necessarily carried on. a extensive scale to keep paee with their demands on each other, consequent upon the in:creasing demandfor ears fronm this establish meat. Three to live freight cars are some times turned out in a daiy, making an averng'i ot about one per day. Constant employmenit is given to forty hands. Mr. Hacker is agena for thme new Intdint Rubber Car Springs, atnd is bringing them into gradual use upon our Roads. Similar Factories are in progress in Georgia, anid it will not be long before we~ shtall bo independent of the lNorth, in this important item of expenditure. Mr. Hacker is deter mined to manufamcture cars cheaper- than thecy can be obtained from abroad. T his fnet a peaska for itself. One such establishment, with suchi prospects, and already fulfilled promises, is worth otne dozen speeches in Congress-and a fewv more public spirited industrious m. nu. faeturers on the same seale, will do its moro practientl good in the long run, than all the longwinded politiciaus mn the country put tno-tic,