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a memotvatte j2euIn setet to Souteen migots, Nstas, la *Ueue, afteatue, Juetaitt, tmprane, avictuSttur, se. "We will cling to the :Pillars of the Temple ef en and if it must all, we will Perish amidst the Ruins ip. F. DU RO p *rietor EDGEFIELD ., JUNE 19,1851. V X.-N 22 THE. WIFE TO HER DYING HUSBAND. -I have loved thee in thy beauty, Thy glory and thy power And-shall I now desert thee In thy sorrow-stricken hour? There is no hand, save mine, to wipe The death damps from tfiy brow; - OhI-!fe as thou'hast been to me, IwilI not leave thee now. Thy friends and boon companions * The gallant and the gay Thylovely and beloved ones, . Look round thee-where are they ? No trusted friend is near thee now; .. No. gentle love appears, ..They hang o'er thy death swimming eyes, And bathe them with their tears. And I alone return at last, My right in thee to claim 1, with my sad a-d broken heart; *4.:My blighted hopes and name; -, iith-my love, which strong -s death Alike-in good and ill, ive clung to the in scorn and shame, Unchanged, unchanging still. But I come not to reproach thee (Ah! would I come to save!) I can but smooth the rugged path That leads thee to thy grave; But sit forever at thy feet, Weeping in hopeless wo, Ah, best beloved, would for thee Mine own heart's blood might flow. I have loved thee in ty glory, Thy beauty and thy power, Ana I will not now desert thee in thy sorrow-strieken hour. There is no hand, save mine, to wipe The death-damps from thy brow; Oh! dearest to iny heart and- soul, I will not leave the now. A Rescued Criminal. Agreat nninber of persons who know the celebrated Dr. B -, a 'professor of the College-of Surgeous;-have often heard him tell-the foi te: One-day -F bodiesof two hungfor the - positedyip.an-ay bed-room. . Duding the and-read as usu; .-us to reuring to rest. PThe cloclctiad-just struck one, and all the family slept soundly, when all at once a dull sound proceeded from the room containing the bodies. Thinking that perhaps the cat had been shut up there by nistake, he went to see what could be the cause of the unex pected noise. What was his astonishment or rather his horror, on discovering that that the bodies was torn asunder; and, on g nng nearer, he found that one of the bodies was missing. The doors and windows had been fastined with greatest care, and it appear ed impossible that the body could hnve been stolen. The good' doctor appeared very nervous on remarking this, and it was not without an uneasy sensation that he began to look about him, when, to his horror and amazement, he perceived the missing body sitting upright in a corner. Poor Dr. B--, at this unoxpected apparation, became transfixed with terror, which was -increased by observing th~e dead and sunked eyes of the corpse fixed upon him; whichever way he moved, those di-eadful eyes still followed him. The worthy doctor, more dead than alive, now began to beat a quick retreat, without, however, losing sight of the ob ject of his terror; he retreated step by step, one hand holding the candle, the other extended in search of the door, which he at length gained ; hut there is no escape, the spectre has risen and fol lowving him, whose livid features added to the lateness of the hour and the stillness of the night, seem to conspire to deprive the poor doctor of the little courage he he has left; his strength fails, the candle fall from his hand, and the terrible scene is now in complete darkness. - The good doctor has, howvever, gained his apartment and thrown himself on his bed; but the fearful spectre has still. fol Iowved him-.it has caught him, and seizes hold of his feet with both hands. At this climax of terror, the doctor loudly ex claimed, " Whoever you are, leave me1 At this the spectre let go its hold and moaned feebly these words: " Pity, good hangman, have pity on me!l" The goo doctor nowv discovered the mystery, and regained by little and little his composure He explained to the criminal who had sc narrowly escaped death who he was, and prepared to call up some of his family. "Do you, then wish to destroy me?' exclahned the criminal. "If I am dis covered, my adventure wvil! become pub lic, andjI hall he brought to the senflok( a see'onatise. Inthe name of humanity sate mne freinideatli!" 'The gooddaetor. then rose and pro cured a light hie uffled his unexpecte( visitor in an old diesng gown; and hav ing made him take sonie restoring cordial festifled a ddsire to'kno what crime ha brought hiin 'to the scaffold. Hfe was a deserted. Th.e good Anocto did not well kan what means to employ to save the poor creature. He could not keep him in his house, and to turn him out would be to expose him to certain death. The only way, then, was to get him into the coun try: so having made himself in some old clothes which the kind doctor selected from his wardrobe, he left town early, accompanied by his protege, whom he represented as an assistant in a difficult case upon which he had been called. When they bad got into the open country the wretched creature threw himself at the feet of his benefactor and liberator to whom he swore eternal grat itude, and the generous doctor havi.ig relieved his wants by a small sum of mon ey, the grateful creature left him with many blessings and prayers for his hapi ness. About twelve years after this occur rence Dr. B- had occasion to visit Amsterdam. Having gone one day to the bank, he was accosted by a well dressed man-one who had been point ed out to him as one of the most opu lent merchants of the city. The merchant asked him politely if he were not Dr. B-of London, and on his answeriug him in the affirmative, pres sed him to dine at his house: which invi tation the whorthy doctor accepted. On arriving at the merchan's house, he was shown into and elegant apartment, where a most charming woman and two lovely children welcomed him in the most friend ly manner; which reception surprised him the more, coming from persons he had never before met. After dinner the merchant, having taken him into his counting-house, seized his hand, having pressed it with friendly warmth, said to him. "Do you not recollect me "No,".said the doctor. " Well, then, 1 remember you well, and your features will never be oblitera ted from my memory-for to you I osiie my life. Do you not remember the poor deserter I On leaving you I. went to Holland. Wrt erous man ! consider henceforth my house, I my fortune, and mys6lf as wholly yours." 4 The kind doctor was affected even to tears; and both these happy beings parti- i cipated in the most delightful expression of their feelings, which were soon shared by the merchant's interesting family, who came to join them.-Blackwood's Mara zinc. Home and Women. If ever there has been a more touch ing and eloquent enlogium upon the charms of home and its dearest treasure, woman, than is contained in the follow ing extract from the Christian Inquirer, it has not been our good fortune to meet it; "Our homes-what is their conner. stone but virtue of women? And on what does social well-being rest but on our homes? Must we not trace all other blessings of civilzed life to the door of our private dwellingsi Are not our hearth stones guarded by the holy forms of con Ijugl,fial, and pareintal love, the corner stones of Church and State-more sacred than either-more necessary than both I Let our temples crumble and our acade mies decay-let every public edifice, our halls of justice, and our capitols of State, ie levelled with the dust-but spare our homes. Man did not invent and lie can not improve or abrogate them. A pri vate shelter to cover in two hearts dearer to each other than all the world; high walls -to seclude the profanue eyes of every human being-seclusion enough for children to feel that mother is a pecu liar name-this is home; and hore is the birthplace of every virtuous impulse-of every sacred thought. Here the Church and the State must come for their origin and support. Oh, spare our homes ! The love we experience there gives us our faith in an intimate goodness; thme purity and disinterestedness of home is our fore taste and earnest of a better wvorld. In the relations tnere established and foster ed do we find through life the chief so lace and joy of existence. What friends deserve the name compared with those whom a birthright gave us! One mother is wvorth a thousand friends-one sister dearer and truer than twventy inatimate companions. We who have played on the same hearth under the light of smiles, who date back to the same of innocence and hope, ini whose veins runs the same blood-do we not find that years eonly make more sacred and importanit thme tie that binds usi Coldness may spring up, distance may separate, differen spheres may divide; but those who can love any thing whio continue to love at all, must find that the friends whom God himself ave are wholly unlike any wve can choose for ourselves, and that the yerigfor these is the strongest spark in our expir Iing affection." Of A covetous man is a dog in a wheel, that rnnstth meet for others. the conse of Me urt and other who are keeping tte. Franz &ete.. Pecipita~ncoy. yad These are thestiny used b] thippnns 9nto. character the opponents n, ize the course df to Federal relation. a ben aid thn~ an untruth may t he who re peats it actually-lie to'be thd truth Such, it seems to" b' the case wiif those who are con n in out can their slanderoujs^ Ae woul ask, -has South C' pcipitately in what has. -she - I in what con sists her folly 1-in adness? Loot at her action nd erprecipitancy her rashness, her- madness, WE know itit n 1. stmon to be r quired to give.a or. thefalth they profess; but, tbo asentwethnk ir this instance it wo e unprofitable foi those who thus de 1h c State -to ba mine the founda. tion of th dene cally.examindee ,when she adopt the Virginia resoi we are persuad. ed #,at no -one ce that action as pr, :pitate, rash, or mad. Virginia and Georgia the e by-side with her and neither of th have been thoqgbt obnoxious to.the recipitancy, ah ness, folly or m Well,.what was her next action? W 1850 she sent-dele gates to Nashvill y to meetdeegates from these States; in Tennessee, Mis sissippi, Alabain sas nd Florida. sVsp thr re" Ahness, folly, or Was there precip madness in this, ng? If so, Why have not all thos on denounced as well as South CO They all acted in concert; and are re precipitate, rash, foolish and mad, y-are not. Well, what next? -In ' yer-three years after her adopf i and after th- co pon which those based the conhi those-States in the Union, had-been-v by the-action -of the Federal Gov e er., Legislature pas sed an act, in= acc wth uproisions of the Constituk e. State, calling a Convention of le, Was there pre cipitancy, rashne *orm-adness in this Suppose, as its lssiO;hn secessionists of Mississippi should succeed in returninq a majority of the, delegate to the Convention of that State, she will then occu py the precise position of South Carolina in regard to the Federal Government. She will have committed every act that South Caro lina has committed, withthe addition that th time of the meeting of her convention is fixed, which is before the Convention of this State can possibly meet; and yet calisissippi is not denounced as recipitate, rash, foolish o. mad. Is there, then, a shade of justice in the cont inued denunciation of South Carolina, for doing that which 1Mississippi is justifiable in doing? We think not, and hope those guilty of injusticeywill reflect upon the mat ter, and discontinue it. *0.. Cucutn, r~s For PicKLTG -it has general ly been practiced to plant cucumbers late for Pickling. colder climates it is best, but here tebest pickts are those that arc pick ld early. Late cucumbers are invariably wormyandsrink orehi picin the ly one. Cucmbers may ne piced aond. a swet askor jr, ove thebtthem ovri andnov noterlaer f alwhenh anoter weihtson he op f teccumer re eepnd and i kep alwas un e thain wi kes orora..eVigini When wnted tpicke theen shoudht take fro th cas andsoaeciineh,-rate. oftn.Putthm i abrasWel,whatr wh goodvinear, dd apiec o sau he se del a hicory ut t evey gtlon ofe pdeleat may ictae; ltth wh enesaled, ans will begreenbrittl and id Fn loa foun to akecapil i-ne folyumbr Hav th liuidincak,'nd pic theIfesh theacton f teccumeupn enouicd turn salt houl be dded They viar atei may beeaten rom t e asegoipiclersh, Soilaof the.South. TheRicmon (V.Equier-thrment ya lenthon hesujec o.urt' whchtheri cited bthe onte mo hsen tatesHa nuthe C.nit hak~eenccsio to difrtheto of. the seda to nae Mt the posto fVriiadasrtsions ohe haConetitet inutc tihtte, i Conentio The tnuie diffes itheMr. pr epursuedy, hne ote Sotenaes in this retin Carmoliy ofds tdelegate t the Conventieonden thatae imeiaten seccu-o pthprcspoiinof South Carolinableigta "hrnxa plcgwud not beeraollovednoent he coilu havecoified vey anyot th South Staeo tiahais comified, th the airtioun thatd the Feer Govtenmenti f trunveo it Soxdhh aoina weoulie the whvetole oti otate a sibly the ter t;and itstsp thant -dtenaortieds atecipitatenrash, foo thel othed imprnunceation.hana indoinge think acqitancoe wthosei goo and irotiuue int. n thr From the Charleston Murcury. Judge Butler and Wr Burt endorsed by the enemies of South Carolina. MEssRs. EDIons :-Among the most singular and extraordinary signs of the times, to which we desiie to call the attention of your readers, is the tone of kindness and pa tronage assumed by the National Intelligen cer towards our admired Senator, Mr. Butler. This ineffible political buzzard, ever feasting upon and serving up for its readers nothing but the most uniitigated Federalism, pub lishes, with smiles of approbation, the speech of our Senator before the Southern Rights Convention. The long exordium of the speech, setting forth the wrongs and the hu miliating position of the South, is pronounced not much, and abologised for, as follows: "It must be obvious, indeed, to any intelli gent reader that the worthy Senator himself would have forborne no small portion of the whole of this part of his discourse, had it not been necessary, before he could expect his grave and wise counsel to be received with decent respect-which, according to the news paper accounts, it hadly was, notwithstand ing-to deprecate the displeasure of his henr ers by flattering their foibles and soothing their prejudices." It is evident then, that this great Organ o' the Whig Government in particular, and the Government of consolidation and corruption in general, ventures, with the liberty of a familiar friend, to regard the professions of our distinguished Senator as mere gilt to .over a bolus, otherwise unpalatable to the C"onvention. And every disposition is mani fesied to embrace the returning prodigal, al Ways a favorite, though somewhat wild and wayward child, whilst covero-d with imperfee. tions, and before he has thoroughly cleansed hinsclf from the iniquity of Carolina doe rines. May we not well imagine the Judge, exelaiming fron beneath the close, healing,. ind oderous wing of the Jntelliaencer-"Godi save me from my friends!" and I will tal. :are of my enemies? It must offend his g ant and honorable spirit to be held up be fore the world in the light of one practicing the deepest duplicity; by high-flown, but "mpty, rhetoric upon the grievances of the South to engage the eye of his country, in rder the more safely and surely to stab her ander the fifth rib, by counselling submis on;- nnd that, too, such submission as meets the approval of the National Intelli Iencer - - - * -.aseu a 1~Ul. ii. )ublishes his letter, and (in the same article noted above) says "Having always looked upon Mr. Burt as lie impersonation of the chivalry of the State if South Carolina-a gentleman highly ac omplished, without fear and without re roach, though deeply imbued with the philo ophy of the Calhoun School-we confess ur surprise at this rude assault upon him by ersons of his own party." So Mr. Burt, it seems, is another of Care na's wayward son.;, whom the Intelligencer pon this occasion condescends to pat upon he head. And why ? Because he counsels nbniission-the only vise thing in the eyes if the Intelligencer. And, to show what is neant by submission. we quote again from lie same article. Speaking of Southern grie rances, the Intelligencer says: "The speech before us contains enough of Lssertion and affirmation on that point to af 'rd a wide field for comment and reply. Enough has, however, been already said in his journal on that head, to arnticipate such irgumients of his as would seem to justify the secession of any State front the Union, or the 'rmation qf a "Southern Confedcration of se :eding States, because of alleged incurable lisaflection to the Union, or unappeasaible re entment of the legislation, positive, of the General Government." Thus wve see, that the leading organ of the Censolidationists and Unionists, looks upon the course of Messrs. Btutler, Burt and others as tending to submission. Hence, this re joicing, and bence the tender anxiety dis played to swallow the Judge, just us lie is, withon:, for a moment stop)ping to consider that he mightt prove a Tartatr. For our part, we solemnly believe that the enemies of-South Carolina have lost all hope of quelling her, save through the instrumen talIty of her own sons. Tney will never dare to coerce her. Mr. WVebster distinctly sets forth in his Buffalo speeed, that in no event, with his advice, shall an issue of blood be made qetw~een a State and the General Go vertnment. And if the North, if a Northern Administration, w~ill not coerce ns, surely the South will not. In facet, the only mienwh will cry for blood tire the abolitionists. And why ?"They know that the lion innst be kept in the pit, in order to be destroyed; and therefore, advotate toercion at every hazard, and to the last extremity. But Mr.~WVebster amnd the Cabinet do not, thinik so. Besides, appeals coming from this quarter will fall cold upon the ears of the godlike Daniel-not that lhe hates South Carolina less, bitt that lie hates the abolitionists more. They have unthironed him, and cnst him out in his age, with the sad effets of a life-time of pulic dinners upon him, to swvinm against a tide of unpopularity, and forced him int~o the uniwel. comae position of a martyr. Is it to be ex pected that lhe will consent to be made a tool to destroy us, by the very men, who have caused his ruin? No. The blockade did well enough to frighten our public men at Wash ington, and to appeal to the fears of the moneyed men in Charleston. But it is gone. The action of the Southern Rights Conven tion at Chatrleston, believed in Washington, and everywhere out of the State, to express the fixed sentiment of the State., has dissipa. ted this vast humbug. And the chief, the only reliance, upon which the enemies ol Sotith Carolina now base their hopes of tivert ing the justice which awaits a wicked and That Platfbrm. Many oppose any further action by the State of South Carolina, because, they say, she does hot occupy the 'true Southern plat form;. that the other slave States are not prepared at this moment to take a position upon her platform, and hence urge her to de lay further action till they are prepared. Now, we should like to know who was the architect that planned, and who the artizans that erected her platform. It is too much to say that these may be found in Virginia and Georgia ? Did not the Legislature of these States, in 1847, plan and erect the platform on which she now stands? If so, ought not those States to be ready to occupy it with her! or rather, .are they not altogether to blame for having erected the platform, and after inviting Soutfi Carolina to take a posi tion by them on it, to the back'of it, and abuse her for not following their example ? Can States which have thus proven faithless to their plighted vows, ever expect to be trusted again? Suppose South Carolina, for the eake of a Union of the slave States, should desert her present position, and adopt the "do-if-you-dare" platform of Georgia, Vir ginia and Tennessee, what secuity has she that they would not in twelve months back out again, and take up a new position in her rear ? None whatever! South Carolina honestly and firmly believes that, in entering into the Federal compact, she never surrendered her right to withdraw from that compact, whenever the interests of her citizens would be best promoted by such withdrawal. She also honestly and firmly believes that the rights and interests of her citizens are in such jeopardy from the uneon stitutional and aggressive action of the Fed eral Government at this time as to require her to withdraw from the violated compact as the only means of vindicating those rights and pretecting those interests. With those convictions on her mind, is it reasonable to ask her to abandon her posi tion, and wait for further aggressions before she acts? Honor and the very instiict'of self preservation say it is not. Now, if those who are berating South Carolina for her precipi tancy, rashness, folly and madness, would only suggest a better plan to redress her wrongs than. the one she has adopted at the suggestion of* Georgia and Virginia, there cirtainly would be reason in listening to the suggest on. But do they do this3 not at all. Let them calla Southern Congress, with power and instructions to form a Southern Confederacy, and her delegates, who are shortly to be elected, will be there with full powers to obligate her as one of the parties to such a compact. Can they ask her to do more than this? We think not. We would say, then, to those who believe that nothing can be done without co-opera tion, and who are really desirous of vindicat ing our rights, to erect a platform, and give us security that they will not back off it, and we pledge them that South Carolina will be found in their midst, ready to defend it against all assailants.-Cheraw Gazette. VER9 TRUE.-"W," the Washington cor respondent of the Southern Patriot, in a late letter remarks: "Unless by revolution, this Union can only be destroyed in the way in which it was cre ated." We have never read any sentence in the Patriot, which contains more truth and philo sophy than this, and we concur most heartily in it. Tis Union was formed not by gun boats, or custom houses, or federal procla mations, but by the accession, one after an ther, of separate sovereign and independent States, (each one for herself, and on her own sovereignty,) to a provisional league drawvn up, by certain deputies, accredited for this purpose. In this way, we say, the Union was formed. and In this way, alone, can it be constitutionally destroyed, and in this way alone, we propose to destroy it; and as South Carol ina, by acceding to the league did not compel or coerce any other State into it in violation of her own sovereign responsibility so South Carolina can only secede for and by herself, and leave it to her ister States to decide for themselves, singly and severally. The correspondent of the Patriot (who may be a distinguished gentlemar, once a representative of this Union, at Mexico, and now a representative of one of our districts at the Coust of St. Potomac,) is entitled to the thanks of all secessionists for his epi tome of our doctrines, for he gives in a nut shell the wvhole philosophy of secession, and show its necessity, as the correlative and~ converse of accession.-Columbia Telegraph. Co-oPERATION AND CoNSOILWATIO.-The cardinal defect of our Union as a system, is the preponderance of the centripetal over the centrifugal forces. We formed a union of States, but the unnatural grrowth of the the Central Government, aided by many causes, has merged those constituent States into one State. Consolidation is the dagner, and the source of all our evils and complaints. Does not the policy which makes co-opera tion a condition precedent of any State netion, recognize and sanction consolidation in one form? The consolidationists, strictly speak ing, would merge the State into the Union the co-operationiists would merge the State into the Southern section of the Union. Both, however, modify and attenuate the idea of~ the State, so as to leave the word merely a geoigraphical meaning, allowing the State as such, no distinct and separate sphere of rights or duties.-Columnbia Telegraph. 'A lad, on delivering his milk a few mornings ago, was asked why the milk was so warm. "I don't know," lhe re. plied with much simplicity, "unless they put n warm water instead of cold." The Objection Answered. We have shown the operation of free trai in South Carolina upon her own commerc and upon the interests of Augusta and plac similarly situated. It has beer said, on ti other hand, by a distinguished opponent < separate State action, that the Federal Gi vernment will regard South Carolina as a enemy, and will not allow places on her bo ders, like Augusta, in Georgia, ann Charlott in North Carolina, to become ports of ent and, in short, will put an embargo on ot whole commerce. Those who suppose Congress will pursu this course, are doubtless fresh from the stt dy of our revolutionary history. It is pre cisely the course the British Parliament adopi ed, when they passed laws abrogating th commercial privilegis of Boston, and "restrict ing the trade of the New England Provinces. Congress, it is supposed, will imitate th British Parliament; but is there any grouni to suppose that the Southern people will no also imitate the conduct of their ancestors h that great struggle? Did such measures giv< a peaceful triump to the Government tha adopted them;-or did they rather exasperat and unite all the Colonies, and precipitate thj decisive struggle i All regulations of commerce are in thi hands of Congress. As the laws now are the people of the United States have a righl to trade with every nation of the earth. The] presume that all people with whom they ar not at war, are friends. To make Soutt Carolina an exception in any way, must bi done by a new act of Congress. Can suli an act be passed? The people of the United States have un, re!,tricted commercial relations with Hayt and Liberia, and have commercial agents tc superintend and promote their interests it those regions. The Abolitionists of the Nortl not content with such relations, insist that we shall acknowledge them as equals, and have negro ambassadors at Washington tc represent their dignity. A very few years if matters are left to their course, will see this policy realized. Now in this state ol things, South Carolina, a slaveholding State, in the heart of the South, secedes from the Union, and it is proposed by an act of Con. gress to force the Southern States to give u all commercial intercourse with her, Throug General Government they not only have un. restricted trade with the free black States of T-Tdit and Liberia', but to encourage inter. Carolina shall at least be put on a fboting with Liberia and Hayti? Will they fail tc perceive that, as the extraordinary efforts t< encourage intercourse with the free negr< States are a device of Abolitionists to under mine slavery, so their exclusion from trado with a slaveholding State, must have th4 same object and end; especially when tha State had been one of themselves, and ha only assumed a position of separation to sav this institution from a meditated overthrow If the Southern States are prepared to leni themselves to the schemes of the Abolition ists for their destruction, then they will tole rate such legislation as this. But we ari satisfied that they are prepared to submit t< no such outrageous tyranny. If proposed ii Congress, it will only hasten on that consum mation which every South Carolinian desires a Southern Confederacy, Embargoes, and thi abolition of ports of entry, failed in 1774 t< isolate Boston and the provinces of Nev England from the sympathy and support o: their sister Colonies, and they wvill fail noi less signally, if attempted in 1852, to separ: ate South Carolina from the sympathy anc support of the Southern States.-Charlestoi Mercury. EATEN UP BY CANBALs.-The boat' crew of the French corvette Alemene wvere sent on the 29th November last, to find passage for her on the Western side of New Caledonia, in the Pacific. As they did no return, the barge was dispatched, found tha they had been killed and eaten by the Menema and Bellep tribes, except three who wecr' made prisoners, and forced to witness th< feats. These men were given up when thi barge arrived. The huts, plantations an< canoes of the cannibals were destroyed ; son persons taken, and twenty others shot. AnxANsAs.=-At a Convention of the Demc rats of Arkansas county, Arkansas April 26 1851, the following resolution was adopted Resolved, As an expedient measure, w believe it to be right for the Southern State to secede-peaceable if possible-forcibly necessary, and to form a Southern Confedei a:y "to institute a new Government, layin its foundations on such principles, and o1 ganizing its powers in such a form as to thel shall seem most likely to effect their safel and happiness," and to that end we recos mend that the Convention take into conside ation the means that we should use to pri tect our honor and property. CO-OPERATION WHEN WE WANTED IT. a meeting of the people of Scriven couni Georgia, held at Station No. 6, Central Rai road, on the fourth Monday of May, aft selecting candidates for the State Legisl tare, the following resolution offered by B. Hayne, was unanimously adopted: Resolved, That in the event South Car hia secedes from the Union of the Nort and that the Government of the majori should try to intimidate her from her ju right to do so, we the members composil this meeting do pledge ourselves in the fal of the world to support her cause if necess ry with our i'ifies to the death. A YOUNo lady at an examinationi grammer, was asked why the noun" bae elor" was singular. She replied immlec ately, with mush naivette, " Because it ve singnlar they don't get married." A HUNDRED YEARs AGo.-A hundred le years ago, a stupid German. monarch e, reigned over these United States--then 3s colonies of Great Britain-and on the, *1 whole earth, with the exception of Swit. . zerland, there was not a single republie n or any pretensions. A hundred years r- ago, the French lilies floated over 'Que e, bec, Pittsburg and New Orleans. A r, hundred years ago, the!old French mon. ir archy existed-the Balle reared its ac e coursed towers-Louis XV dallied with infamous wantonssquandered hisaubjects" money, and blasphemed in his own per son the name of man. Fifty years ago, e the name of Napoleon was still compar atively unknown. Fifty years ago, cot ton mills had, as it were, just been inven ted; and railroads, locomotives, and mag t netic telegraphs were practically unknown Fifty years ago, there were scarcely five a millions of people in the United States, t and Ohio was almost as much of a wil. derness as Oregon is now. Fifty years ago Washington had just died, Jefferson was still living, and Clay, Webster and Calhoun were .names as yet unkown to fame. TuE WORLD NOT TO BE TUsTm-If, in the season of health, we strive to shake the world off, it. will most tenanciously to us; but when, in the hour of death, we would cling to the world, it will unfeel ingly shake us off. Hence, as the sepa ration must some time take place, un less we shake it off now, it will shake us off hereafter. Most men, to their cost wait for the latter alternative; but those I who adopt the former, find, to their sur prise and joy, that they have removed out of their way one of the chief difficulties of dying. No one ever yet travelled with alacrity to the. kingdom of heaven with the world lying heavily on his back or his heart; this incumbrance once laid aside, thejourney is more thai performed with comparative ease. Thisis a thought worth pondering by the pilgrims of eart., They need little baggage for their jonr. nev-tha e kin - d they hare' the ago, on the colst oAfrica, a cspjtainias going to throw one of the crew, thAt was. dying, overboard, before he was dead. So the man says, " You aint a-goiig to, bury me alive, are you I" " Oh," 'says. the captain," you needn't be so jolly particular as to a few minutes. The Homestead.-The homestead of every man is a holy thing which no law ormonopo I lyshould be able to wrest from the family.. give the father his home, in fact, and secure,. and he has position, station, character and rights worthy to defend. He is a permanent inhabitant of the State, and he is in heart and soul devoted to the interest of the State, for her interests are his interests. But let the wealthy capitalists be able to monopolize the soil, and seize, almost at will, upon the poor man's homestead, and we shall have a money ed aristocracy to lord it over the people as r cruelty as over the English aristocracy made laborers and dependents by the law of entailt -The only ultimate resource, the masses pos sess against the sure encroachments of capi tal upon labor is to be found in the exemp tion of the homestead, and the guarantec of the right to labor by laws founded on the natural right of man to live. ADvERTSNG.-The door to wealth, re spectability, influence, and honor, is thrown wide open to all. He whoeneglects advertis iniv his business in the newspaper. not only LroTis himself of his fair advantages, but be stows the spoils on his rivals. It is idle to speak of the cost of advertising as an impedi Smont-as well might one object to the cost of sheltering his goods, protesting them from Sthieves, or dealing them out to customers. AT a late trial somewhere in Vermont, the defendant, who was not familliar with the multitude of wvords which the law e employs to make a very trifling charge, s after listening awhile to the reading of f the indictment, jumped up and said: -' Them 'ere allegations is false, and that S'er-e alligator knows it!"' THrE PEMsIAN poet, Sadi, has related ~the following candid and sensible obser .- vetion of an old man: -. When some of his friends advised him to marry, he replied, " I do not like old women." " Why, then," observed the adviser, marry a young one."-" No; young& ones," replied the sage, "do not Slike old men._________ ~. SoxE old bachelor thus describes mat rimonial travelling: If you see a gentle. C)- man and a lady in the same coach, in h, profound silence, the one looking out at ty one side and the other, never imagine st they mean any harm to one another ! Sthey are already honestly married. a- WizEN I see a boy who never attends to services of religion, and wvho is in the n habit of Sabbath breaking, I think it a i. sig that he will be a profane man. i.. HEN I see a boy fond of the Bile Is iand well acquainted with it, I think it a sign that he will be a pious man.