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II _ _ _ UMO ED1 EFIELDa D ERTVR a 3mflottatic 3iottrnl, Vebott to Southern WUgtu, NAtuS, 3Uiffie 'aI *utlige, (ttrattr, jtorali, E tmre, ggrittutt, sc, "We will cling to the Pillars of the Temple of Ow. an if it a 1 we wil Porih amidst the Rain.." W. F. DURISOE, Propricter. EDGEFIELD, S MARCH 6,1851. .voL XV-YO. -. THE DEPARTED. "'Tis sweet to believe, of the absence we love; If we miss them below, we shall meet them above." The departed! the departed! They visit us in dreams, And they glide above our memories, Like shadows over streams: But where the cheerful lights of homo In constant leisure burn, The departed-the departed Can never more return! The good, the brave, the beautiful How dreanless is their sleep, Where rolls the dirge-like niusie Of the ever-tossing deep ; Or when the mournful night winds Pale winter's robes have spread Above their narrow places In the cities of the dead! I look around, and feel the awe Of one who walks alone Among the wrecks of former days, In dismal ruin strown; I start to hear the stirring sounds From the leaves of withered trees, For the voice of the departed Seems born upon the breeze. That solemn voice! it mingles with Each gay and careless strain; I scarce think Earth's nminstrelsy " r my heart again: --,,r waves, With their angel plumage ..... But my heart is very desolate To think that they are gone. From t!- Golden Rule. THN CONVZN3D. BY MRS. M. L. GARDNER. "Inasmuch asve have done it ut of these ye have done it unto me. "I would not have my husband Fellow., for the world," saideMrs. as se left'the Lodge room with of ladies, among whom were w, gentlemen members of the society. " Why not ?" inquired Mrs. Belmont. " For very many reasons." " Please iame them." " In the first place, I could not bear the idea of having a secret withheld from ic by my husband ; to feel when folded to his bosom, as if there were something within I must not know, perhaps dearer than myself. I am naturally jealous; a rival I could not bear, and I know how his heart is 'wholly and entirely mine." " Very well; this is your first objection, pray, what is your second ?" "All those mysterious characters around the room; the chairs, benches, thrones, or desks, the platforns in the centre of the room with trap doors, for ought I know, to let the disorderly members down thro' into some subterranean cavern, then the closed doors-locked and barred I pre sume, I shuddered as I viewed them, hl eying they were full of spectres, and hobgoblins, and ghosts, and the mercy knows what. Tihis is miy second objec tion." "Very well-what next ?" "Well, Mr. H..himself-he who is al ways so cheerful, so full of repartee, so quick with a remark on every occasion was so demure, so solemn, while wve were in the room ; and wvhen I told him I want ed to peep into those three little rooms, he looked as sober and nervous as a priest ; I cotuld niot make him laugh-no, not even smile. He seemed as if lie really believed the "al-seeinig eye" painted on tho canvass abov-e him, took cognizance of his actions. I am confident there is something dreadful about the whole of it, and I would not have Fred become an Odd Fellow for the world : I should never wvant him near me after being in those mysterious rooms." " And these are your objections to the Order, Mrs. Ashton, are they ? inquired Mrs. Belmont, seriously." " Yes." " Thon the good originating from them has nto influence whamtever upon your mind. If von will go home with mie, I will show you some p)eriodicals contain ing excellent addresses on dliflerent occa sions. I have " The Symbol," " TIhe In. dependent Odd Fellow," " The Golden Rule," and two beautiful anniuals called the " Odd Fellow's Offerinig." You will find much ini them to admire : one oration in particular, on the " Suprenmacy of Prin-. eiple," by the Rev. E. HI. Chapin, who is a fatvorite of mine, anid in whose words you can see his soul, andl feel your own thrill as yon read his addlresses. I will showv you a statistical account of the imi mnense sums distrib~utedl by the vatrious societies in our country; showing how many widows and orphanis they hav.e re lievedl ; how many children have been raised from want and dhegradation, how many strangers have found an asylmn from a cold unpitying world ; how zmany sick have beeni comforted ; how mnany parchted lips have been moistened byv the kind hand of charity ; how manyi eye's .ose1 - i how many decently butried. honored and mourned by the members of these societies." " How long since yourhusband became united with them ?" "Six years." "Is he as kind and attentive to you as he was before he became connected with thi. band ?" More so; he loves me better-I love him more ; he is so consistant, so correct, so prompt to do his duty when called up. on to administer to the necessities of a brother: and how he loves the little boy we have adopted ?" "Ay, I recollect hearing something of that foundling. Where did your husband pick up that friendless thing?" " In Havana, when he was consul there." "Pray tell me the particulars." "As ve are near my home, and fa tigued, you shall go with me: we will have a cup of tea, and in the evening I will tell you a simple story. Mr. Belmont has gone to Washington. I am lone. some, and shall be glad of your company for a few days. It is a long time since you have been in the city, and I have much to say." Mrs. Ashton concluded to accompany her, partly promising to spend the night. As they entered the parlor, a sweet, rosy faced boy came jumping in, and ran di rectly to Mrs. Belmont, who stooping down kissed him again and again ere she - ---- veil and parting the rich -.-w and "I love iy horse best, and my mamma best ?" and jumping into Mrs. Belmont's lap, he wound his chubby arms around her neck, and kissed her forehead, cheeks and lips, as she pressed him to her bosom. Mrs. Ashton sat con founded; a strange sensation took possession of her breast. Was it possible that Mrs. Belmont could love a child so well. le was a dear little fellow, truly-quite an uncommon child. She had no childrien of her own, and often said she did not vish any ; they were troubiesomne comforts, pulling and hauling curls, ruffles; nothing could be kept in its place where they were. Still a more lovely picture she never beheld than the one before her. Mrs. Belmont was a handsome wvoman; the glow upon her countenance was heightened by exercise, her eyes beamed with delight, her cap was untied and her curls fell in beautiful dis order over the rosy ftee of her little pro tege, as he returned her endearing caress es. Tea was brought in, the statistics were read, the books looked over, and the little boy carried to bed, after saying his pray-ers, as he knelt, like a young chte rub, at the feet of M~lrs. Belmont--the true personage of love bending over its idol. " Now for a story of that lovely child," said Mrs. Ashton, as she drew her feet upon the sofa, and placed the pillows be hind her. Mrs. Belnont, quietly seating ber-self in her large easy rocking chair, began. "When my husband was consul at Havana, in 18-, Mr. H., a Physiciatt, coming in one morning remar-ked that he daily visited a very interesting familv, who had drawn dleeply upon01 his sympJa ties for many reasons, and first that like himself he was an Odd Fellow. He had been on the Island a y-ear prosperously engaged in a mnercantile business, anid for the last sixc weeks had been much indis posed, owing to a hemorrhage of the vug, n as gt-adually sintkitng. His wife, atn aimiable and accomplished wvo tmant, perfectly idolized her htusbattd and baoy of sonte six months old, whto was bright atnd beautiful as the morning, and itt whom hter wvarmtest affectionis were con teredl. In consequetnce of her dlevotiotn to her husband and child, shte had grown pale atnd hmngntid ; hmad a coild atnd at times hert cheek assutmed a lhue he treumbled to behold. "My husband's kitnd heart etnlisted itm mediately in thme feelings of tihe physician, atnd togeher thtey soughmt the suferers. Again and again thmey wvent, and like ttrue Odd Fellows, watehmed over hitm, attended to all his wvants, cloede~ his aiflhirs, sawv him die, and decetntly buried htim; and~ thten turtted their- attentiotn to his htemt btroken wiife, whto it was evident woumld sootn follow htim. I cannot, said Mrs. B., wiinmg thte teat-s ft-om her eyes, describe thte scene, althougzh mym husband hmas often timets dwelt upon): it, btut a muore touching~ otte cannottt be cotnceiv-ed. Like a sum tmer flowetr thte young umothter- faided away; gratitude- to her frietnds gleatned in every Ilok. im ganv her little boy to my hus band. Often when seated by her bed-side, he held the babe in his lap, and raising her head from the pillow and resting it upon her hand, she would gaze calmly and .silently upon them. As her dissolu tion approached, she yielded up all, in the sweet hope of glorious immortality; and the consoling thought of meeting her be loved husband, took from death its sting and robbed the grave of its victory. Bring my child!' she one day ex claimed, as the cold dew gathered upon her brow. Long and closely she held him to her boson, and although gasping for breath, still retained him, kissed his dimpled mouth, gazed wistfully into his deep blue eyes, until she fainted. My husband took the child, while the physi cian administered the restoratives. She opened her eyes, fixed them once more upon her darling boy, and looked to Mr. B., she said in trembling accents, ' He is yours,' and expired." Mrs. Belmont covered her face; a con vulsive sob swelled her affectionate breast. After a moment she continued: " the pro perty left after all the debts were paid, was five hundred dollars. The bills were enormous, but could not be disputed. I was sitting by the centro table, reading, on the evening Mr. Belmont came home. He entered the room with a child in his arms, followed by a colored woman who was his nurse." Mrs. Belmont stopped, while Mrs. Ash ton, who had not moved from the com mencement of the story, lay gazing in "- to Mrs. Belmont's face, as if ' --,amntof thelittle Mrs. Belmont tenderly inquired into the cause of her agitation, and sweetly sooth ed her. After Ars. A. became calm, she informed Mrs. B. " My elder and only sister married contrary to her father's wishes, and thereby incurred his displeas ure. She loved her husband with all the strength of her young heart, nor was he in any respect unworthy of her affections. My faither is a proud high spirited man, aristocratic in his views, and fixed as the north pole in his politics, has an idea he is right, and every one opposed to him wrong. Mr. Benton was a firm demo crat, and as fixed in his principles as my father, and as unvielding. During the contested election of 18-, in conversa tion, one evening, they became very warmin; many words passed between them, and my hither, being high ily excited, in an ungnarded moment grossly insulted him. Mr. Benton could not brook the o~flnce; he had borne much for my sister's sake, but this was a point ' beyond which for bearance could iiot be called a virtue' He thought a separation of all parties, for a fewv years, wvould allay the bitterness of my hather's hateful, vindictive temper, when lie wvould again return with my be loved sister, and all wvould be wiell. They embarked on b)oard a packet ship for Europe, and arrived. He had a hand somel cap1itail, which he inivested in goods, and entered the meircantile business in Liverpool ; where they w~ere wh-len I last heard fromi them. I wrote her often, and oh ! how have I longed to see her ! Al though my father niever has mentioned Mr. Benton's name, I know lie is sorry, and wvould givo all the wiorld, (lid he pos sess it, to see Julia. When I entered your house and beheld your child, his expres sion wvas like a flash of lightning across my soul. I see him still, my sister-'s own ilmage." " Mr-s. Ashton covercd her face with her hands and wept. She begged Mrs. B. to lead her to the child. Kneeling by his bedside, she gazed upon his sweef face, as ho lay unconscious of all evil, kissed his forehecad, cheeks and lips, wiith all of a mother's tenderness, raised his little hands to her lips, pressed them to her lips, pressed them to her heart, nor could Mrs. B. prevail upon her to leave him. She slept with himii; and when Mrs. Belmont arose, she wvalked softly to the bed, and found the little boy sleeping upon the bosonm of his aunt, her armis closely encircling him. Hler face w~as pale with weeping, and her long, loose curls w~ere wet with tear-s of sisterly love. Mrs. B. becnt over them until they awoke ; her first words wecre: " What think you now of Odd Fel lows ?" "Oh ! I will go directly home, an~d tell my husband to become one immediately; for where would this sweet child have, been, but for the bilessed institution I You will surely permit mec to share with y-ou in the pleasure of bringing him up; we, will together instil into his opening mind the principles of " Friendship, Love and Truth ?" and we wvill makon his regalia when old enough ntiated into the Society of Odd Some forty managers of a race cours A wrsilie, on the Monongahela, pof a race, one mile beats, lr day, for a purse of 100,thing with legs and hair o.J e neigh borhood, named a b that hb was in the habit 0 tomilwithhis bag of corn, and ied to enter him for the race. nothing about it to any one; but Ifmaroundt" track a number of 0 sveral moon light nights, until ad the hang of the ground prettyw the right course. e with spurs, which the bull co dis. agreeable; so 6 e always bel lowed when they . ied to h sides. On the mornin ee, Hays came upon the ghorseback -on his bull. In I a saddle, he had a dried ox. ' which, with the ho on, he had pla ceed on the bull's He carried a short tin horn in .d He rode to the judges' stand, red to enter his bull for the r-ace; owners of the horses that were en hjctd Hays appealed to the to tice; insisting that his bull had 1 a anb thair on," and that therefore h a right to enter him. After a g of "cusin' and dissin,"' the jud red themselves compelled to d hd bull had the right to run: and daccordingly. Whe with spire pt"g arrived, the Tea hay e could be brought back in timeto save their distance. The purs w vas given -to Hays, under a great deal of hard swear. ing on the part of the owners of the horses. A general row ensued; but the fun of the thing put the crowd all on the side of the bull. 'The horsemen contended they were swindled out of their purse, and that if it had not been for Hays's horn and ox-hide, which he ought not to hare been permited to bring upon the ground the thing would not haveitred out as it did. Upon this Hays told thegm that his bull could beat any of their horses any hos and if they would put up a hundred dollars against the purse be had won, he would take off the ox-bide, and leave his tin horn, and run a fair racerrith thee His offer was accepted and the money staked. clheb again took their places at the starting post and the signal was given. Hays gave the bull anothnetonch with his spur, sndedtf thebl av rmnduseln low. Thei horse ombeengforhe' hrend ful sounhd, hieought noet atomhane ashehing wlnhay e ty e w ont ai in buit cou ll tet exiny of their rersn hile adiys galoed his bup aoundrte dolars againt and prse the hadn wny h froml tae ery ntue and-hidesindeseavethis wi or, born gaior liveihd the sa ofer asaccept and theaon hey agi toookum thtior clre arte strton dosn the s!aI thwbas vn. ad gae one buill beanoedc with ex tpradnar pwers ofv mi teeu er lordiar pwerss rmminga thae ad harm sntogt rgat te rus was omingm Nor deoe it a hen ey wet agam decn dants of aborter eerions o ter labor ers.ie ath uarlpd his steep aond long lenck, agin hant, la the fodtoney. astany andine the ineenns ofae fr he ~eryn laorer bn ecessigetlemehe Tisweth faour progesut Iht iesony hatemtwe to reame thepat a chidrngare lapd that oeuc wieryi endouedithex theaord.r Soety ofy id thes makin theinabrers tous mnd hay byv ng iogppirtuny oveoingthmseadessn ith caeve an wthatkopportunity, the harm todis manvey uet thins as oshem Nores aitul them folo that they deer sats of liaboer are falwayt te or torle Them palhwads seep ood lngo oedn surom laorIndstyae thskito rexce fencoi theprn a the temptation togeft h good preen lother beomentfalent mehis; an thkepua frogrteI mis nil iademts to rahp oy a deci.l leap, Uhatd mue sery disvprded in l, athe forlow Saideto the saplingmaking belug to o thmalte bes manerdt Renarks of Eon. A. P. Dutler, f THE SENATE, FEs. 21, 1851. The Message of the President in refer. ence to the rescue of the Fugitive Slave at Boston, being under consideration, Mr. BirTLER, of South Carolina, said: I came into the Senate this session with a strong resolution not to speak on this subject at all. But there are some topics involved in this discussion which imperi ously call upon me to notice them. Now, what a commentary upon the Constitu tion of the United States does this debate present I It is gravely proposed that the laws of the United States, shall be so amended as to enable the President, with. out proclamation, to call into exertion the army and navy and the military force of the United States. To do whatI To enforce an article of the Constitution of the United States, because I choose to speak rather of the Constitution than of the law enacted at the last session for the purpose of carrying the Constitution into effect. Why, sir, our simple ancestors, governed by good faith and a just regard to the constitutional compact, required no legislation for many years to carry into effect the article of the Constitution for the reclamation of fugitive slaves. I as sert it, in my place, that for several years it was a self-sufficing article of the Consti tution; and in Boston, Philadelphia, or New York, or in any other city, a fugi tive from labor would have been delivered up on demand and upon proof of identity without any litigation whatever. How is it now I A single runaway negro has it in his power to call into exertion the very insnm committed to the Presi now attempting by an auxiliary legisla tion to do, what? To breathe life into an extinct article of the Constitution or the United States. You are to supply from time to time, from session to session, acts of legislation to compel people who are opposed to the Constitution to observe it; to resort to the army and navy, to military force, to compel citizens to do the duty which honor, honesty, justice and good faith had previously imposed upon them. It is perfectly in vain, as has been said, in consequence of the sen timent which obtains in some of the Northern States, and especially in Massa chusetts, with the limited number of offi cers, and the limited power which they exert over the community, to enforce this article of the Constitution. Sir, they are reconciled by a mere casuistry to see it violated; they are reconciled to it by the pulpit; they are reconciled to it by de signing politicians; and so long as the [question of slavery forms an element of political agitation, you might as wvell ut tempt to hush the winds by saying to them " cease." As I said the other day, you might as well expect to keep a mani ac quiet by singing lullabies, as to under take, in this w~ay to compecl a reluctant people to do their duty. It has been said that this law has beeni executed in good faith. Allow tme to make one remark in this connection, and I repeat it from what was said by a mem ber of the ether house. Fifteen thousand slaves have escaped, and are in the free States. How many of them are reclaim ed them are reclaimed under this or any other law!i I would just as soon have the lawv of 1793 as the present law, for any purpose, so far as regards the recla mation of fugitive slaves. I said so wvhen this lawv w~as under discussion. T1he Sen ator from Kentucky has alluded to Indi ana and some other States. What is the fact in relation to Indiana! Why, Indi ana, Illinois, and Iowa, and some of the other States, have come to the conclu sion, while professing philanthropy at oneC breath, to exclude these people fronm their borders. I cast no censure on their poli cy. Their policy is to keep out all col ored people, bond or free. It is a matter of policy that they have consulted more than any thing else. They have avowed it to be their policy that they will al!ow no black man to enter their borders here after; and the time will come when every black man whlo has escaped from his mas ter into the State of Ohio will be expelled, not for any thing like a regard for the| black man, but from a policy, and a poli cy wvhich I see is likely to be introduced into California. These persons would have been far better to have beeni left as slaves than to have been seduced under this philanthropic advertisement that they will be free. They have been in the nominal position of freemnen only to be crushed, degraded, and excluded from em ploymient. Gentlemen speak of the case in lBos. may speak of it as they please, but it Is a symptom thus far, that they will take the part of the fugitive slaves as long as they can, not with a view to protect them ulti mately when they are free, but to exclude them from employment. This very act in Boston will have been communicated (through speeches delivered here, through speeches such as have been delivered by the honorable Senator from New Hamp shire, which have excused the act) to every Southern State in this Union. Why, gentlemen are absolutely holding a spark over a powder magazine. I do not know that they can succeb'd in exciting the slaves of the South to insurrection, but it will dissatisfy them, and the creatures are becoming every day more dissatisfied with their condition ; although it is absolutely certain that their condition will be worse under the system of policy and miserable philanthropy which has been preached and practised in some of the free States -infinitely worse. I am the friend of the black man compared with them, and he is a hypocrite who undertakes to preach in favor of a degraded race when in fact 1 he takes less care of them than I would. I I do not know how far this law is to ope- i rate, but I will say that if a slave of mine escaped I would not go through any course of litigation to reclaim him; and if he had escaped at a former time and acquired a status, I would let him stay sooner than disturb him. So far as re gards the free people of color who have gone to the North, the most of them I would be glad to come back. I know it, because I have had some experience on the subject. I was the means myself of sending some fifteen to Ohio, and I think they would be glad to come back. themselves to surn. ader fugitives from labor, L.. --r it. expected that we shoild have to resort to the army, to the navy, or to the militia, and to proclama. tions, to supply this piece of legislation 0 t and that piece of legislation, and preach to the country that the law will be execu ted. I say it is but preaching. I say there will be but very few eases in which you can reciaim a slave, for the reason 'hat you cannot detect where lie is, be -ause persons in the free States will con weal him, will throw all impediments in the way of his apprehension; and after is apprehension, you have to go through e i course of litigation to reclaim the pro- t lerty which the Constitution required the States themselves to deliver up. The re .overy of the property, it seems, is to lepend on the physical arm of this Gov. e rnment. The army and the navy are to s ye invoked to enforce an article of the d 1onstitution, because a runaway slave v ms gone to Boston. Now, what is the situation of this Government when a runa ra-y negro can produce such a state of t1 hings, such discussions as this, and can nake such issuesi It is a symptom of he times; and just as certain as I am I upeaking, the notion which the Abolition-.i sts are inculcating is increasing, and the 1 yower is coming down upon the Southern e States with the certainty of a descending r rcrewv. We may for a while be still, as '] ong as the persons interested may make ;he arrest. We may sleep for a while in a he apprehension and the hope, but it is a e lelusive hope. He who looks nq further han the present into this question chooses e ~o disguise from himself that wve are walk- e .ng upon a precipice. These dangerous I people have acquired a powerful control lI aver the public inad in the non-slavehold ing States. In some respects they have icquired the balance of p~ower, and many of them aspire to the highest honors of the country and attain them. Am I to he told in the face of all this that our institu tions are safei I do not believe a word of it. And I shtoild not have been true I to my position here if [ had ntot proclai ni ad my convictions on this subject. r As regards this matter of recovering rugitives, I would say, in justice to Penn- 1: sylvania, that I believe she is the sound est I of all the non-slaveholding States on this subject except the Northwestern States.i [ believe so. This lawv has never been t tested in the interior of New York, and~ I other non-slaveholding States. It has< been enforced in the city of New York, and there was reason for that. The city had more intimate intercourse with th~e South, and it was their interest to preserv-e friendly and commercial relations with it. As I have said, it is not thtis mere case, but you are sowving the seeds of dissatis faction and of danger among.the blacks. I do not say that it will become very for midable, or that the dangers are likely to acquire any great influence, but it is pro verbial among our overseers that every day and every year the management of thrse n3Or crentures i becoming m3on and more difficult. It is notorious In aby own State. We say the Federal Government Is bound to protect us, and we say incendia ry pamphlets ought not to be dissemina, ted. Why, the speech of the Senator rrom New Hampshire is an incendkay pamphlet and we publish it at our own axpense and it goes all over the country, ind it will be read by your authority. You may go through the Northern States and yo.u will find thousands who applauAl is sentiments, while there will be searoe ly one in a hundred who will sustain the ionorable Senator from Kentucky in de iouncing him. I do not say that this is ;he case in all communities. I wish tobe jualified in my remarks. But I over ward a remark the other day by a Sena or that the universal sentiment at the iorth was in opposition to this law. I do iot undertake to arraign any man's ma ives for being opposed to slavery in the ibstract; but I say lie is the very worst nan, if he had the courage to look at the sonsequences, who could make it one of -he elements of his ambition. While he nay sport with it, while he may play with t as part of the political game, it is one )f those things that have brought this Confederacy, once devised by,. wisdom mud preserved by good faith, to the peril 'rom which the patriots of the country iavo in vain attempted to rescue it. The lebates go on at the North all on one ide, with no one to combat them. The ate law, I think, in some measure has riven rise to a freer scope of discussion, md to some extent it may produce a >ause but as I have before said, it is only he pause of a day. It is only the sus iension -of the machine that is coming Z_;,6L.. zi large laa... welve months' credit, it issomewhat dii ult, we know, for the money-loving and nterprising to keep subdued a specula lve disposition, and pursue his usual quiet ourse. He is very apt to become impa ient in growing rich by sure and sdow trides, under such inducements to specu ation, but must now make a greatly iu reased effort, at the expense of his own eace and the happiness of those subject a his commands. To make this effut, a buys negroes, lands, et cetera, at an xtravagant price. He commences work vith energy and determination, and per aps succeeds in making a good crop ; nd thousands will, doubtless, undergo oil and fatigue extraordinary to accom lish the same result, and the consequen es will perhaps be a reduction in the rice of the great staple, by reason of an xcess of supply, bringing with it a revul ion in the business world. Property will ecline in value, and the load of debt rhich lie has so needlessly incurred, will e the means of misery and suffering, not nly to himself ini many cases, but also to 1c unoffending and helpless. The revul ion which effects, nt first, the farming ommunity, will extend itself to every ranch of business, and involve the whole 1n one common injury, except the Court louse officers, who will thrive and fatten pon other men's follies. Does the histo y of the past justify us in this prediction? he revulsion may be stayed by the hap ening of short crops, or other causes useen, b it it may be looked f~r with as 1n ich certainty sooner or later as that the ale holds good, " We know the future uly by the past." This state of things mn be and ought to be averted by all. ~et him who buys, whether negroes, lands, orses or mules, pay the "mint drops." void debt as you would a deadly evil, mnd our word for it, that neither depres ion in prices nor revulsion in the busi, ess world will ever touch the "hem of 'our garnment."-Chambers (Ala) Tribune Nxw rvPE S'ETT[NG MACHINIE.-A parisian inventor thinks lie has at last dis overed the long-sought desideratum a iachine for setting type. He has beeni t work upon it for filleen years, and, aving comnpleted it, has entered it for ex ibition at the World's Fair. It compri es both a distributor and setting stick; is aflorded at a lowv price, and will set enI thousand emus anm hour. It is said not o interfere with the regular appointment. >fa ~rinting office, .and requires no new hlaracters.-Charleston Sun. ME.GNEss.-A thief, a few days ago, icked the pocket of a Preach: r in Newv 'ork, of his license to preach. The scamp vili probably avail himself of it to preach norals to the communitv. A wV.TN5Ss in a Coulnt of justice, being isked wh::t kind of ear marks the hog in inestion h::d, replicd that "lhe had no ) rticular ear marks, ozcebt a very short