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iR31 21 getuottatit jottrnal, Vebotflu to Sotttfrn EigfIjts, Wbtus, voliftt general *uteligsenct, Et~terattrjoaiy meacEvetttt r "We will cling to the Pillars of the TempleorrZd.E EFiesI andE if it must fall, we will Perish amids WV. F. DURJSOE, Proprietor* EDGEAFIELD, S. C., MARCH 13,11851.VO.v.-o . WRIiTTE% FORl THlE ADVERTISER. MY PENT-UP MUSE. "There's no Poetry in Matrimony." And would you wish me wake again, My long neglected-slumbering muse? To cant in measured verse a strain That may not e'en a child amuse ? Aly friend must cease, Nor dare intrude, Upon my peace My selitude; For love's domestic pleasures sweet, With potent wand (I know not why) Have magnetized my muse complete, And tied her wings-she can not fly. Her harp is " on the willows hung" No more she " strikes the enchanted shell," She sings no more a's once she sung, No more her notes harmonious dwell, Upon the ear; For lo ! a change, (As changes here Are nothing strange) Has shaddow'd o'er her spirits dream, With clouds of life's reality Has cheek'd wild fancy's bounding stream, The fountain-head of Poetry. Then ask me net, nay 1 let me rest Unheard, unread and seldom seen; No vain ambition fires my breast, My honest heart-my humble mien, Much better suit An humbler sphere; Where no dispute Or words severe. Can blast my name-my peace devour, Or rudely wound my " moral sense." Where hatred's tongue can never pour, Its slanders vile, on innocence. N EMO. TIM TOUNG DRAGOON. A STORY OF THE COWPENS. BY CHARLES J. PETERSON. CHAPTER 1. There is a thing-there is a thing, I fain would have from thee, I fain would have that gay, gold ring. TutE SrECTRE LADY. The period of our revolutionary history immediately succeeding the defeat at Camden, is still remembered in the Caro linas with horror. The British, elated with their success, and regarding the Suth as- now conquerepr,-roces ed in the work of confiscation and massacre with pitiless severity. In that terrible crisis many a family was deprived of its head, either by exile or by execution. Yet larger numbers were shorn of their pro perty and reduced to comparative indi gence. In a word, terror reigned para mount. But the common events of life still went on. The transactions of business, the struggle for wealth; the toils of the husbandman, births, deaths, marriages, cares, hopes, fears-all followed each other dowu the deep current of existence. il most wholly unaffected by the st'-1. of war which agitated the surface. It is an error to suppose that great ;onvulsioins disturb the whole order of .ciety. Men wiHl still hate, though thfenltic nation be turned into a camp .)vil still strive for the dross of earth;.iAl still, if young and generous, risk twir heart's happiness in love. It was tvards the close of a winter vei aat a youth of noble meini and hand ve face stood at the foot of one of thod' ong avanues, of trees, which in .couth Carolina, lead up from the road to the mansions of the wealthy proprietors. For nearly half an hour lie had been there as if awaiting the approach of sorme one from the house : now looking anxionsly up the long av-enne,nowv restlessly walking to and fro. During that interval but one person had passed along the highway, and the notice of this one the youth had skdlfully avoided by concealing himself behind some dwarf trees within the plan tation-fence. This act, as well as his whole demeanor, proved that he was awaiting some secret interview. At last, just when the dusk began to deepen into night, the flutter of a white dress was seen comning dowvn the avenue. A minute more, and a beautiful girl of eighteen summers appeared on the scene. " Albert," said the newv comer, as the youth, seizing her hand, passionately kiss. ed it. " I have not a second to stay. It was with difficulty I could leave the house unseen, and my absence has dloubtless been noticed before this; what we have to say, therefore, must be said at onice; why have you sought this interview 1' " I have sought it, Ellen," he rneplied, still holding her hand, " because, despair. ing of gaining your consent, I have volb tmnteered in Captain Washington's cavalry corps, and to-morrow we set forth. Per haps you will never see me more. I could not leave the neighborhood without see ing you onee more, and bidding you an eternal farewell; and as your father's orders had banished me fromi the house, there was nio method of giving you my adieu, except by soliciting an interview." 'The tears had started to the eyes of his listener, but she turned aw'ay her head to conceal them; and for some Ine neither spoke. " Ellen, dear Ellen," said the young soldier, earnestly, " will you not now, in this solemn moment, say you love me I-. ther has forbidden me to enter his house, you have been less kind, and I fear that I have lost your heart-that you, too, have ceased to care for me, now that I am beg gared-" His hearer suddenly her face fell upon hin, with a look of tearful reproach that cut short his words. " Bless you, Ellen, for that look," he s:id. " Though my ither's estate is con fiscated, and he and I both indigent, it is not on that account that you have seemced so cold to me lately. Say then, dearest, only say that I have been mistaken in thinking you at all changed." Another look, equally eloquent, answer ed him: but still his hearer did not speak. " Oh! Ellen," he continued, " when I am far away fighting my country's battles, what bliss it would be to know that you sometimes think of me ; and that if I should fall you would shed a tear for me." His listener, at these words wept freely, and when her agitation had somewhat passed, spoke. " Albert," she said, you have conquered. Know (hen that I do love you." At these words the impetuous young man clasped her in his arms, but she disengaged her self, saying, " but while my father opposes your suit, I can never be yours. The consciousness, of his disapproval has made me affect a coldness to you which my heart belied, in the hope that you would think of some one more worthy of you but-but," she hesitated, then quickly added, in a word, if it will comfort you, when away, to know that I think of you, and pray for you, go forth happy-the misery is for us who stray behind, and who are hourly anxious for the fate of the absent." The tears fell fast as she spoke, and, concluding, she suffered her head to be drawn to her lover's shoulder, while a deep and holy silence succeeded, as these two young and already unhappy beings held each other in a first embrace. It was only for a moment, however, that Ellen yielded to weakness. Raising her head, and brushing the tears from her eyes, she said, while crimson blushes over spread her face. " And now farewell-perhaps all this is wrong-but I could not see you leave me in anger." "God bless 'f~-thnq ind ~ " smnaiiner BU llen, before you go, one more request. That miniature that hangs around your neck-is it too much to ask for it?" She hesitated; then, as steps were heard in the road, she suddenly gave it to him. lie drew a heavy gold ring from his fin ger, and said, tendering it in exchange. " Take this, and let us be true to each other-se help us God! And with this parting adjuration, he spraug over the fence to conceal himself LAind the hushwood, while Ellen hasten ed up the avenue, who was soon lost in the obscurity of the hour. The wind sighed mournfully through the pine woods as this betrothal was con sumnmated, and the dark, starless sky over head looked down with his wearied and melancholy face. CIIAPTER if. Heard ye the din (if battle bray, Lance to lance, and horse to liorse. GRAY. It is well known that after the defeat of Gates, Coiigress hastened to supercede that general, andi appointed Greene to succeed him. At the period of the inci dents narrated in the last chapter, the Cornmmder-inChief had arrived in the South, and wyas organizing his forces. His very first proceedinigs showved the resources of an intellect, which, in mili tary afiairs, was second only to that of the " father of his country."~ Aware that the initiatory steps towards redeeminig the South, was to areuse the confidence of its people, he determiined to divide his forces. While, therefore, lie moved with one portion dowvn the Pedee, he despatched Morgan, wvith the remain der, wvest of the Catawba, in order to encourage the inhab~itants in that quarter. Morgan's corps w~as accompanied by Capt. Washington's light dragoons, of which our hero had already become a conspicu ous member. This division of his army, in the face of an active foe, would have been a capi tal error, but for the p)oliticaul advanmtages it ofiered, and which overbalanced the military ones. Cornwallis, then in coin mand of the royal army, determined to frustrate the success of Greene's plhm, by cutting off Morgan's detachment, aiid ac cordingly ordered Colonel Tarleton, with his renowned dragoons, accompanied by a competent force of infantry, to give pursuit. It was on the 14th of January, 1781, a day ever to be remembered in the annals of our country, that the heroic Morgan learned the danger in which he stoo. Hie determined immnediately to give battle For this purpose he halted at a placo cal[ ed the Cowpens, and having drawn tip his troops, awaited, though not without anxiety, thme appearanice of the foe. Thle attack of Tarleton, as usual, wvas impetuous, and for a wvhile the American maitia we're driven helplessly before it ; but soon they rallied, under cover of a few continentals'belonging to Morgan's com mand, and in turn forced the British to ..i.. ground., Thes bave soldiers cf the line, led by their Colonel, now charged with the bayonet, when the route of the inflantry became complete. Washington, with his cavalry, had been waiting impatiently for a chance to parti cipate in the fight ; but having been sta tioned as a partial reserve, the order for him to engage (lid not for some time ar rive. His troops shared his enthusiasm. Composed chiefly of young men of faini ly, and mounted on thorough-bred ani mals, they presented a formidable appear ance, as they stood awaiting the order to engage, the horses champing at the bit, and the riders nervously fingering their swords ; they saw the onsetof the British, the flight of the first line, and the partial panic that extended through the foot sol diers with horror ; but still their leader re mained unmoved. Many had never been in battle before, and such believed the day lost; among these was Albert. At last the confusion became so great around them, that troops so undisciplined, if less brave, would have taken to igno minious flight; for the defeated militia were pouring down upon them from all sides, almost compelling them to break their ranks, or see the fugitives perish under the hoofs of their horses. But now Washington seemed to rouse from his inaction. Ordering his men first to allow the flying militia to gain their rear, lie then directed them, his sharp, quick tones showing that the moment for ac tion had come, to close up and prepare to charge. As lie spoke, he pointed with his sword ahead, and our hero beheld the renowned regiment of Tarleton coming down upon them at full gallop, and amid a cloud of dust driving before a mass of dismayed fugitives. The keen eye of Washington measured, for an instant, the distance be tween them, and then said. " I want no fire-arms used to-day, my lads. Stick to the cold steel. And now for God and your-charge !" Away weit the troops; like a thunder bolt suddenly loosed from a clovd, with very scabbard jingling, e--- - - ing with excitement, an' shaking under them. Ir burst upon the ranks of disordered by his pursuit a feeble resistance. - .. .... m is awAre Tine I: of the Americans, who rode down their foes. soon proved too weak patriotism and courage Davalry; and the troops, turning their bridles, took to ignominious flight. "On, on," cried Washington, waving his sword for his men to follow, " remem ber the cruelties of these myrmidons. Revenge for your slaughtered country mien !" At the word, his men, thus reminded of the butchery of the Waxhaws and of the other atrocities perpetrated under the ye of Tarleton, spured their horses afresh, and dashed on in pursuit. A coin plete panic had now taken possession of the royal cavalry, who hurried on at full g:llop, each man thinking only of himself. Close on their heels followed the indig nant Americans, cutting down mercilessly every red-coat they overtook, until the road was strewed with the dead. Fore most in this pursuit rode Washington, a precedence he owed not only to his su perior steed, but to his eagerness to over take an officer just ahead, whom he took to he Tarleton himself from his eflorts to rally the fugitives. The tremendous pace at which Wash ington rode, at last carried him so far ahead of his men, that, at a bend in the highway lie found himself totally alone. A t this moment, the British, looking back perceived his situation, and immediately turned on him, his principal assailants be ing Tarleton and twvo powerful dragoons. Knowing, however, that assistance must be close at hand, Washington reso lutely advanced to meet the enemy, de termineod to seize Tarleton for his prison. er. But, before he could reach the Colo nel, the twvo dragoons dashed at him, the one on the right, the other on tihe left. He saw only tihe first of them, however, and accordingly turned on him, clove him down with a single blow of his sa bre, theni rushed at Tarleton himself. But, meantime, the other dragoon was advanc ing, to tally disregarded, upon him, and with upraised blade'~w'ould have cut him down, had not our hero, who had pressed close after hais leader, at this in stant wiheeled round the corner of the wood.-At a single glance he took in the whole scene. Albert saw that before be could corme up Washington would be slain unless the fire arms wvere employed. In this emergency lie did not hesitate to disobey the orders of his leader. Jerk ing a pistol from his holster, ho aimed full at the dragoon, just as the sabre of the atter was sweeping down on Washing on's head. The man tumbled headlong from his saddle, his sword burying itself in the dust. " Ha! who is that ?" said Washinrton, sternly, so astonished to find his orders disobieyed, that lie turned ; a movement which Tarleton took advantage of to make good his escape. "You, Albert, you!" " There was no other wvay,'' answered the young hero, and lie pointed to the da dragoon. " to save your life. His satire was wImn six inches of you when I fired." "It could Aot be helped, then, I sup pose," answebed Washington, who now comprehended the event, and saw that lie owed his lire to the quickness of thought of his young friend; " but stay you are yourself hurtY As he spok4 he saw blood issuing from the sleeves of Pbert, and immediately af terward the ygung soldier reeled and fell senseless to tkb ground. Two pistol ishots had been discharged from the enenm', immediately after Albert had fired. - Oniexamination, one-half was found in the ann of Albert. The other had perforated !he coat, immediately over the heart. - " He iE dead' cried the leader, " that second shot touched a vital part." He tore away the garments as he spoke but uttered a cry of joy when he exposed the chat, for there, right over the heart, lay aU miniature which had stopped the ball% Washington lpoked at the picture, and muttered, "Ha! I have heard of this and now I will see if I cannot serve my young friend a good turn." C~APTER 111. Marry never for houses, nor marry for lands, Nor marry for nothing but only love. When our hero, after a long interval of unconsciousness, opened his eyes, he round himself to his surprise, in a large and elegantly furnished apartment, entire ly strange to him. He pulled aside the urtains of his bed with his uninjured arm, and looked !out. An aged female servant sat watching him. "What massa want ?" she said. "How did I get herei" he asked. "Captain Washington left you here, nassa, after de great battle. De surgeon staid to dress your arm, and den follow arter de troops, who had lick de red-coats, ey say, all to pieges." "Yes!-then tl army has pursued its march to the Catakvba." - - ' -- I --A '-nn he to stav .uur, zuacceiy uenvnig ma senes, ant crutinizing her features, " can it be I You ire indeed she. And this is Mr. Thord. ike's house." He had started up in bed, and was ow confronted by the figure of the ow er of the mansion himself, who entered it an opposite door; but who instead of earing the angry air which Albert had last seen upon him, smiled kindly upon he noble youth. "I was passing along the corridor," he said, seating himself on the bed-side fa niliarily, and taking the hand of his ounded guest, " and hearing your voice, earned for thb first time that you were wIVke. Accordingly I made bold to nter, in order to assure you or a we ome. When we last parted, Mr. Scott," e said noticing our hero's look of as onishiment, " it was with ill-feeling on >oth sides. Let all that be forgotten. Whatever I may have said then I now ~enll. Ini saving the life of Capt. Wash. ngton, who is my dearest friend, you tave laid me under infinite obligations, md at his request, I have consented to verlook the past, and to give yod my laughter. I only make a single stipula :ion, which is that you will not ask her and until this war is over, which," ho idded, lowering his voice, "cannot be long, nlow that things have began to go mn so auspiciously." Onr hero well understood the charac ter of' Mis Thordlike, who was noted for his prudent adherence to which ever side as uppermost, and he attributed this udden change not only to Capt. Wash ngton's intercession, but also in part to ihe prospect there wvas of the triumph of Lhe colonial cause, im which case the con seted estates of the elder Mr. Scott ould be restored. He kept this to him self, however, and expressed his thanks or- Mr. Thordlike's hospitality. "But, I shall owe you eveni more,"hle ~dded, " for thme A pjpiness with which your lpromi, nas filled me, and I cheer rully e.pt your terms. Meantime, let no rise, and pay my respects to the Ia lies in person-I am sure I am weclh ~noug." Our hero, however, was compelled to eep his bed for two entire days, in con sequence of the fever, a period which ap ~eared to him an age. We shall not attempt to describe his nleeting wvith Ellen. Let us pass over the first fewv minutes of the interview. " I have but on thing to regr-et," he sid at last in a low whisper, for Mr. and Mrs. TVhordlike, v'ere at the other end of the apartment, 'and that is the loss of your miniature. I had it ar-ound my neck, when I weit into battle, but have not seen it since.' Ellen smiled achly and drew it from her bosom. " How did it aach your possession t" he aid in surnris And, taking ;i :.. his hand, he added, " what means this dent, so like the mark of a ball?" Tears gushed to Ellen's eyes, as she said " Captain Washington, who gave it to me said that it lay your over heart, and that but for it, Tarleton's pistol shot would have killed you. Oh! Albert, I some times thought after I gave it to you that I had done wrong, knowing that my par ents would not approve of the act; but when I heard that it had saved your lib, I saw in it the hand of Providence." "Yes! for it not only preserved me from death, but was the means of interest ing Washington in our favor, and thus bringing about this happy reunion," said Albert after a pause. We have no more to tell. On recover ing from his wound, our hero, rejoined his corps, with which he continued until the expulsion of the British from the Caro linas. After that happy event he was married to Ellen, and with her spent a long life of felicity. Their (escendants still preserve the battered miniature as an heir-loom. Zxtract from the $peech of Mr. Rhett, DELIVERED IN THE SENATE, 24th Feb. " When you show the people of the North that this Constitution is nothing but what a majority of Congress thinks proper to make it, what is the natural in ference from such teachings ? Why, that whenever a majority of Congress think pro per to abolish slavery it ought to be abol ished, and that if they are responsible for the institution they ought to abolish it. Consolidation is abolitionism; and those that have given abolitionism its success in this country, are the statesmen who have been driving the car of c6nsolidation over the limitations of the Constitution and the rights of the South. Sir, you cannot consolidate this Union in one particular, and in others leave it unconsolidated. "If you break down the limitations of the taxing power; if you declare that that power shall exist not merely as the lion a nothing ; its uinutatnons werre breath. And now, when abolition rears its head, and stares consolidation in the face, you wish to from it down. It will laugh you to scorn. It is only carrying out the principles you taught it-the life you gave it. It is oily ridding themselves of that responsibility you imposed upon them, and carrying out your principles to their legitimate results. If, in past days, all statesmen had stood upon .the liniita; tions of the Constitution ; if they had said the Constitution gave us no power beyond its plain and simple grants, these people would have respected these limita tions; their minds would never have turned to the great question of Southern slavery, and they would have enforced these obligations of the Constitution, be cause it was their bond, their faith, their duty. The greatest friends of abolition in this country are the consolidationists. They are the fathers of it-they have nade it. From thicir corrupt construc tion of the Constitution this hideous mon ster has arisen, now sliaking this Union to its centre, and, in my opinion, destined to overthrow it. Sir, what did this Congress do at its last session i Consolidation carried its tri imphiant career unchecked over the rights nnd honor of the South, and the rights ~dso of the North. By the Compromise; as it was called, you stripped the South, having an eqlual right in thie whole of our vast Territories, conquered by us ill com non with you, of any participation in them. You ignominiously ejected us, but admitted freely not only all the people of the North, but the people of every other land and tongue, even to the convicts of Botany Bay. They are fit to be your comipoers in holding that magnificent :ountry, but we-we, your equals in this confederacy, are spu rned and thruust aside. T'hat was one branch of your mighty meca mures of consolidation. And what else id von doi You passeCd the Fugitive Slave bill, another measure of consolida ion, as I humbly conceive, although not injurious to the North. And after youi ad done this, you then cried out, "All lilt! here is peace; there is to be no li're contention; the lamb and the wiolf are to lie downi togcther. Satisfaction, and peace, aLnd quietude prevail all over the Union ; the South is satisfied, the North is satisfied, we aire all satisfied." Sir-, thme South has succunmbed far be yond what she expected, or any body else expected, after- the solemn comnit tals she has made. She hiad resolv-ed that she would resist at ever-y hazard, and to the last extremity, if you perpetrated over her thlis eniormlous spoliation of her ejec ion from Califor-nia. She has, neverthe ess, apparently succumbed-all at least but two States. But the North, for whom you plundered us-the North who had triumphied by your consolidation, instead of being satisfied with what she had boon the South acquired for tho recap. ture of fugitive slaves. If the Constitu. tion was violated by this law, they should not have complained, for they had more than ;p equivalent in the unconstitutional appropriation of California, and the sub. jection of the South. Swollen with the arrogance of predominating power, how ever, they have risen up and said, you shall not enforce this law. We see now this singular state of things: While the South -the wronged, the insulted party-is sinking lower and lower, the spirit of the North is rising every day, and saying, with its accustomed potency, you shall not enforce this law, until at length we are now deliberately debating whether we shall stretch the Union to the utmost tension of its powers to put down that dissatisfaction and resistance. There is not a mathematical problem in Euclid more clear than this: Just in proportion as you limit the sphere of the operations of the General Government according to the simple purport of the Constitution, in that proportion you will strengthen the Union ; and just in pro portion as you enlarge the sphere of the operations of the General Government hy construction, in that proportion you endanger the stability of the Union. Those who adopt the policy of enlarging the powers of the General Government by construction have only to go on, and they will consummate that prediction made by a distinguished statesman on this floor, that we would soon become, not one people, but a divided people, a people frowning at and hating each other. You have, by this course of consolidation, destroyed the bond of peace and brotherly love that has so long united us together, I do not know what other gentlemen may say, but I, for one, can speak for my con stituency as to the etfect of your legisla. tion upon them. They look upon this Union, in the manner in which the North carry out its operations, as a curse, rather than a blessing. They deem the course of policy which you have pursued, in your measures of compromise and spoliation, .. &U uiC way ot administering its pow ers consistent with truth and honesty, and that was to confine the action of this Government to the plain, simple specified limitation in tlc Constitution. Sir, Ihave been an humble follower of that party for more than twenty years. For thirteen years I have been standing up here in Congress, endeavoring to bringit back to the orignal principles upon which it was placed there by mighty men. The genius of Jeffierson and Madison founded it. It was based, not only on principles of poli cy, but on the fixed and immutable princi ples of truth and justice. But at the last session of Congress they surrendered to their enemies; they went over in the free States to the consolidationists, in order that together they might spoil the South. They took the Honorable Senator from Kentucky as their leader-lie who for twenty years has been the leader of the great Federal or Whig party, and an abler leader they never had or ever will possess. Every step they took under such a leader towards conisumumating these measures of conmpromnise, they strengthened the Fed eral or consolidation party, and wveakened themselves. Nowv, where are they ? Where are the principles of the Demo cratic partyi They are gone-they are destroved. The Whig or Federal party is the only party that posseses power in this Union, an1d those of our Democratic friends who thought proper to co-operate with the~m in the measures of consolidation of tbe last Congress must sink into their embra ces or sink beneath their feet. TAhere mnay be yet recuperative power in the :ountry if it could be brought forth; but [ have waited here a wvatcher of the night, md have looked long and long for streaks af day. Shall that brirht day ever again, :ome, when the Demoucratic party chasti ad by its errors, ?.nd disciplined by de reat, shall algain be clothed in its ancient armor anud figh'.ing for their principles, and the noble faith of the Constitution once mount to victory ! I fear not. I feamr they are gone, gone forever! and that this Unmioni will soon come to an end under the mighty sweep of the free States, with thew comsolidation principles which they have ever advocated and enforced. The wheel is destined to roll on, crushing beneath its weight, interest after interest, all faith, brotherhood, and yeace until the whole fabric falls a vast liile of ruin and desolation. AxoTHmER CUmNr ExrEDITO.-TheC Eco. d'kaliu, the Italian paper published at New York, sia It has received information from New Odeans that a second expedition is be ing prepared against the Island of Cuba, and that it regrets to learn that some'soft-headed Italians are among those who are enlisting under the banner of Lopez, the hero of Car denas, who gained the victory of fifty thou sand dollars! In a future number the Eco 07 WHI JAXNFIV., (that captiva, ting kind of Scotland, whose portrait Sir WALTER SCoTT drew in such vivid col ors,) entered Edinburgh with his affianced bride, MARGARET of Tudor, she rode bc hind her destined husband, upon the same horse. Miss STRnCTLAYD thus describes the royal progress and the grand onc horse entree.-(ED.) "Half way to Edinburgh, James IV. was seen advancing with his company. He was this time attired in grand co'* tume. ' His steed was trapped with gold, and round its neck was a deep gold fringe; the saddle and harness were of gold, but the bridle and hear-gear of k., nished silver. The King wore a .. of cloth of gold, lined and bordered. violet velvet and fine black bouge or h fur; his waistcoat was of violet se' hoses of scarlet, his shirt confineu, bands of pearl and rich stones; h-. were long and gilt. He rode towari Queen in full course, at the pace a: the hare is hunted. On seeing made very humble obeisance, ant ing down from his horse, he ca ;, kissed her in her litter. Then t.. in his usual gallant fashion, withor ing stirrup, a gentleman-usher un,!, the sword of state, and bore it h King in regal fashion. The sword was enclosed in a scabbar pie velvet, whereon was written. ters of pearl, God my defende. words are on the pommel, the c. the chap also. The Earl of bore this sword when the roy., reached Edinburgh town." "'The King placed himself Queen's litter, and passed all conversing with her and enterta... as he rode by her side. "Before they entered Edinbu, of the King's gentlemen broug - fair courser trapped in cloth of C - crimson velvet, interlaced with i red: the King went to the horse, him without touching the stirrr .ble ur not. ?.,.. -- concluded riments, lie dee. ed that it w to trust the safety of his bri, vourite charger; so King Jam, ed from him, and condescend the Queen's gentle palfrey. I and the Queen was placed o behind him." MACON MANUFACTURED - We examined on Monday last chine shop of Mr. Chas. P. 1 city, a steam engine, which completed for Messrs. Demmi ers, who are erecting a set of nills between Gordon and I It is of twenty-five horse pow - nil the modern improvement -onstructed entire, with the the boilers, in Mr. Levy's es ''or beauty of proportions an. io far as the eye can judge, tial utility, this engine is not a -r to the best we have ever ~ed in the N~rrhern works. >y to find that the Southerr iot only using a great deal n ry than formerly, but that t ~rally determined to give p iome-mande artieler. Mr. L s that he !as nowv in hand ~igh'. steam engines, and tha. 1ll told about forty hands. ishments and their propriet bcherishnd and sustained b~ acious, and prudent people. tribute essentially to the prc - nly of the city, but of the : country.-Macon Mcssenger-. SZEAvERY IN CALIFoRN~I. ernia correspondent of a lea-~ lavery paper, writes as followm " Our Legislaturre is oni the ev: ing a United States Senator, ar he re'nt as thonsinds of our from the Southern States, mans in the highest otices, and are < rging the 'introduction of slai n State. All. our journals, and many, are either silent upon tiF ,r speak openly in favor of the A. wr~ong impression obtained a: n regard to the adaptation of to slave labor. In point of fat. n tihe Union is more favora where slave labor could be i.n' bly employed. No State in has so fine and extensive mar: "Tolures," the finest lands ii for ric fields, while our valley - the best tobacco, and our extem afford an additionally strong m :limate, too, is highly favora colored race. We whlo are north in free principles feel c r. and will soon issue a paper o to astonish the natives.'" THERE is a mian in Bulistoi'1 so much snuff that every time hK lie jerks himself out of his boot-. Why is an attorney like a. lccause lie studies the law aiicnetp