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How lard it is to convince a child that his father or mother can do any wrong. Our lit tle people are always our sturdiest defenders; they are loyal to the maxim that "the king can (1o no wrong," and all the monarchs they know aro their parents. I heard, the other day, from the lips of a distinguished physician, formerly of New York, but now living in elegant retirement in a beautiful country town of Long Island, a touching illustration of the truth of this sentiment. "I have had," said the doctor, " a good deal of experience in the long prac tice of my profession in this city, that it is more remarkable than any thing re corded in the 'Diary of a London Physi teresting and exciting things which I saw and heard. -That which affected me most, of late years, was the case of a boy, not, I think, over twelve years of age. I first saw hini at the hospital, whither, being poor and without parents, he had been brough+ to die. lie was the most beautiful boy I ever beheld. He had that peculiar cast of countenance and complexion which we notice in those who are afflicted with frequent hemor rhage of the lungs. He was rcrry beau tiful ! His brow was broad, fair and intellectual; his eyes had the deep interior blue of the sky itself; his complexion was like the lily, tinted just below the cheek bone, with a hectic flush As on consumption's waning check, 'Mid ruin blooms the rose.' And his hair, which was as soft as floss silk, hung in luxuriant curls about his face. But, oh! what an expression of deep melancholy his countenance wore! so re inarkable,, that I felt certain that the fear of death had nothing to do with it. And I was right. Young as he wvas, he di not wvish to live. He repeatedly said that death wvas wvhat ho most desired and it was truly dreadful to hear one sc young and so beautiful talk like this '0Oh,' he wiould say, 'let me die ! let m< die i Don't try to save tme; I want t< die ! Nevertheless, he was most an'ec tionate, and was extrenmely grateful foi every thing that I could (10 for his relief I soon won his heart, but perceived will pain that his disease of body was nothing to his 'sickness of the soul,' which I couk not heal. H-e leaned upon my bosom ant wvept, while at the same time he prayet for death. I have nuever seen one of hit years who courted it so sincerely. I tried in every way to elicit from him what il was that rendered him so unhappy-bu his lips were sealed, and he was like on< who tried to turn hisi face from something wvhich oppressed his spirit. " It subsequently appeared that thi father of this child was hanged for mur der, in B- county, about two year before. It was the most cold-bloodet hotmicide that had ever bee: known ii that country. T1he excitement raged high and I recollect that the stake atnd gallow vied with each other for the victim. Thii mob labored hard to get the mtat out o the jail, that they mightt wvreak summar; vengeatnce upon him by hanging him ti tihe nearest tree. But law triumphed am he was hanged. Justice held up he egnal scales with satisfaction, and ther was muche trtumpeting forth of this eor stummation, ill which even thae wvomen merciful, tender-htearted women-seemne to trake delight. "Perceiving the boy's life to be wam ing, I endeavored one day to turn in mitid to religious subijects apprehmetidm no dtlifculty in one so youtng ; but lie a ways evaded the topic, I asked him lhe imd saidl his prayers. Ie replied: " 'Once always--now never.' "This answer~ surprisedl me very mutch andi I end~eavored gently to impress him with the fact thatt a more dlevout frame C mind would be beonmingr in him, and wit the great necesity of his being prepared to die ; but he remained silent. " A few days afterwards I asked him if he would not permit me to send for the Rev. Dr. B., a mosthlind man in sickness, who would be of the utmost service to him in his present situation. HIe declined firmly and positively.-Then I determin ed to solve this mystery, and to under. stand this strange phrase of character in a mere child.-' My dear boy,' said 1, ' I implore You not to act in this manner. What can so have disturbed young mindi You certainly believe there is a God, to whom You owe a debt of gratitude ?' His eye kiiukled, and to my surprise -I might almost say horror-I heard firom his vonag lips. "'No, I don't believe -that there is a God !' " Yes that little boy, young as lie was, was an atheist, and he even reasoned in a logical manner for a mere child like him. "'I cannot believe that there is a God,' said lie; ' for if there were a God, lie must be mercifid and just ; and lie never, nercr, N:v r, could have permtted my father, who was innocent, to be hanged ! Oh, my father! my father!' he exclaimed passionately, burying his face in the pil low, and sobbing as if his heart would break. "I was overcome by my emotion; but all that I could say would not change his determination -he would have no minister of God beside him-no prayers by his bedside. I was unable, with all niy endeavors, to apply any balm to his wounded heart. " A few days after this I called as usu al, in the morning, and at once saw very clearly that the little boy must soon depart. "'Willie,' said 1, 'I have got good news for you to day. Do you think that You can hear to hear it?' for I really was at a loss how to break to him what I had to communicate. " He assented, and listened with the deepest attention. I then informed him, as best I could, that from circumstances that had recently come to light, it had been rendered certain that his father was innocent of the crime for which he suf tion which he exhibited at this announce ment. He uttered one scream-the blood rushed from his mouth-he leaned for ward upon my bosom-and died." The Truo Socret of Christian Power. When we think how hard it is to con vert to Christ drunken savages, and what repellencies heathens of the lowest grade of debasement present to evangelical ef fort, and much more, what they did pre sent a hundred years ago, when the en couragement to missionary effort was so small, it strikes us as a wonder approach. ing to a miracle, that Brainard could have done what he did among the In dians. Ire went among them a stranger to their language ; spoke to them through a heathen interpreter. Ile found them fully answering to Paul's description of the heamhen character in his first chapter to the Romans-" full of all unrighteous ness"-steeped and tanned in sin. And yet by a l:ibor of but a few months, he 'wrought a wonderful revolution of char acter., and gathered numerous converts, as distinguished for Christian graces and pamtmity, as they had been for all unclean liness. Now, what gave to that servant of Christ a power so strange over a people so hardened ? It was no supenority of mental endowment-no peculiar skill ac quired in the schools. It could have been nothig but the power of Christ res ting upon him. But what was it that gave him access to so largo a measure of that power~ ! Any reader of his biogra phiy woul say, that it was his simple and strong faith exercised in prayer. The way in which he excelled others in this matter was, that lie could believe, while others coul not, that the grace of God1 would exert itself on those hardened wvretcher. And the way in which he broke in uiponi the intrenehments which satan had thrown around his victims, while others conl not, w~as this-believing with a child. like faith in the promiises of God. Be lieviing that Chiris~t was ale to do this, and wvoul do it in answer to the prayer of a feeble marn, lhe asked God to do if. HeI believed that he wvould do it, or somne thing better, and he went to wvork in ac cordance with that belief. This it wvas that gave him power with God and man. IAnd this is the true secret of the Christian's powver, to doi any difficult and seemingly impossible work. Every Chris tian sees aronnd him a work to he done, which to the eyes of sense, seems impos sible. Th'lose who need to be coniverted) are ""far olY," hardened and resisting. .jAnd he is powerless for good with them, till he can begin to believe that God is able and willing to exert his power upon thmin answer to his prayer. But as soon as this conviction takes firm hold o1 his mind, and lie takes God at his word, and finds him willing to give the Holy Spirit to them that ask, he begiins to make -an impression. Thein a little one be. conies a thousand, aind a small one strong" nation. fFine sense aimd exalted sense are nol hmlf so uneful na common sense.: New and Portable Air-Gun. We were yesterday afternoon admitted to a private inspection and demonstration of the powers of a newly invented air gun, the production of Mr. F. D. Arstall, who discharged in very rapid and contiu nous succession, many scores of bullets, from a fragile tube conneeted with a gutta perch reservoir. The whole of the bul lets perforated most completely a thick plank target, and indented a plate of quarter-inch sheet iron placed at the back. The e::hibition took place in the large lec ture reom, No. 11, Lime street, and was attended by many scientific gentlemen, who freely inquired as to the various properties and advantages of the inven tion, all of which were satisfictorily ex plained by Mr. Arstall and his intelligent assistant. By means of this gun, a charge of atmospheric air can he effected in two or three minutes, suflicient to pro pel at least a hundred balls in instantane ous succession; and as there is neither flash nor report, and the wen pnn is much lighter than the ordinary musket, we have no doubt that, among many other uses to which it may be applied, in new colo nies, where the settlers are thinly scatter ed, it will prove a great desideratum in affording protection against predatory in cursions. For our own part, we were more particularly struck with (lie advan tages offered by the ady+otability of the weapon to a charge of carbtic acid gas; a power so easily generated, tne materi als being so plentifully found in all coun tries and situations, and the utter impos sibility of explosion, being so securely guarded against, simply by keeping the acid and alkaline solutions in separate tubes, and allowing a small drop of each tomeet in the gas tubo at each opening of the trigger.-The inventor states that lie has only partially perfected his ideas at present: when completed, we have no doubt it will prove the " head pacificator" of the world, by the very intensity of its destructive power, and its portable and cheap ammunition.-Liverpool Times. Ea-Rn-as.-"The custom of wearing ear-rings is said to have originated in this wise: Originally, among the Hebrews, Arab .n - ' .tl e ayes were >ores. to sigmify t le oh iga. tions of the servant to harken to the com mand of his master -Rings were after wards invented to denote the perpetuity of his bonds, as the slave who had his ears bored was a ser vant Ibrever. Thus, ear rings were the badge of slavery." The reason of their adoption by women of rank and fashion in the first place, and their gradu al appropriation by every class, is too evident to need explanaiion. The desire to captive and make slaves of the stronger sex is symbolised clearly in the adoption of the car-ring. The idea of one's being led by the nose is clearly an exceedingly barbarous one, as none but savages wear rings in the cartilage of that prominent feature. Civilization and analo gy should correct the saying and supply its place with "led by the ears." The propriety of the change will be evident to any lady who has had, as who has not, soft nonsense whispered in her ears, and also to any gentleman who has ever in dulged in the manufacture of that kind of colloquial confectionary. ExnEs.- Tave von enemies? Go strait on, atnd mind them not. TIf they block up your path, walk round, and don y-our duty regardless of their spite. A man who has no enemies is seldom fit for anything-he is made of that kind of ma terial which is so easily worked that every body has his hanid in it. A sterling character, one who thinks for himself, and speaks w~hant lie thinks, is always sure to have cnemies.-Trhey are as necessary to him as air, they keep him alive and active. A celebrated- character who wias sur rounded with very bitter enemies, used to remark: "They are sparks wvhich if they do not blowv will in a short time go out them selves." Let this then lie your feeling while en deavoritng to live down the scandal of those who are hitter against you. If you stop to dispnte, you do but as they de sire, a~nd open thme wvay for abuse. Let the poor fellowis talk-there will lie reac tionm, if you perform your duty; and hun drteds who were alienated from you, w~ill flockc to you and acknowledge their error. Tus I~rry OLD Mvi-.-Onme stormy winter day, the Rev. Mr. Young, of Jed burgh, w'as visiting one of his people, an old man, who had lived in great poverty in a lonely cottage. Hie found him sit ting with a Bible openi on his knees, but in outwaird circumstances of great dis comfort-thme snow driftg through the root, amnd undelr the door, and searcely atny fire on the hmearthm. " Whamt are you abont to.dayv, John1 ?" was his question on entering. " Alh, sir," said the happy saint, " I'mz siiting under His shadowe ZeiLh great delight !"'-Tranmsc ript. " Is vorn note good ?" asked a wood man, thme other day, of a persoti w~ho offered a note for a load of maple. " Well," replied the purchaser, "I should think it ought to be-everybhody's gont nen! Speech of Mr. John P. RBhardson Jr, WE have received a pamhlet copy of this address, which was 'delivered in Clarendon, on the 4th of July last. It is, in a high degree, creditable -to its youth. fil author, and gives token of future use fulness and distinction. Its tone is glow. ingly patriotic-and w~o regard it as a true index to the spirit of "Young Caro lina." We would be glad to publish it in full, for the advantage not only of young, but of old Edgeficlk.-The pre arrangements of our paper, llowever, for bid. We find room below, for the con eluding portion. Happily then, I repent, th( example of our ancestors before us to imitate. They stopped not to calculate theiost of liber ty-they yidlded to no threats-they sub. m'tted to no coercion-they *ere seduced by no blandishments-they listened to no compromises-they thought not of their weakness-they asked not t the enemy was strong. The right of representation -(and not the pretext of it) full, ample, and adequate representation, and nothing less, would they have. And now, fellow-citizens, could they burst the cerements of the, grave, and their venerated dust be again re-:animated in the same patriotic embodiment-could they now join in solemn coiclave to de liberate on the sad omens; which over shadow Southern Rights and institutions, which vould be their counsel? Behold ing in amazement, as they would, the Constitution violated, the South plundered of its rights, deprived of its ggaranties and despoiled of its territory ,tle federal equality of the States destroyd, represen tation reduced to a mere preext for sec tional oppression, taxation--endless, ex haustless and unequal taxati i-ten times more onerous than the th pence per pound upon tea, our domes institutions crumbling, and the very es they had purchased liberated by tho- ore iv ed the compensation an would they ask if Virginia, like Achilles, was arming in her tent ? Would they snpplicate reluctant allies? Would they abandon their rights and instftutions be cause others would not defend theirs? Would they wait, servilely wait, for a vain and hopeless co-operation ? Would they ask if Fort Moultrie and Fort Sumter were well garrisoned with troops and munitions of war ? Would they not rather proudly tell you that, with ten times the means to capture with which they once defended it, it i:ispires their counsels with neither fear nor hope, nor interposes a feather's consideration to the great behest of duty? Would they refer you to a float ing Custom house, a Federal blockade, or the fortunes of Charleston paling un der the blushing prosperity of Savannah ? Why, they would tell you that these things were tried in their day, and were the most impotent of all the measures of British retaliation; that, in the very in itiativo of the revolution, Boston was ilockaded, and Salem made a "port of entry" for the very purpose of destroying her comnmer-ce. 1How do theV stanld ow i One, the most elegant and magnificent of Amneicain cities ; and the other still ani iniconisider-ale and unexpanding village seapor-t. WVould they listen with patience while you recounted the cost, or suggest ed the inquiry whether a State could maintain the expense of a separate inde penfdeceC? Would they not interrupt you with the reply, that South Carolina was once frece, separate and independent, and far moe prosperous, and perhmaps more patriotic than now? That even after the adoption of the Constitution, two of the rovereigns of this Union refus ed to concur in it, and continued in thein state of voluntary exclusion to enjoy the same peace, rights and tranquility as now. That even Texas, young arnd infantile as she was, lied for more thani tenm years without tlh Union, frece, happy and inde pendent, (and per-haps less corrupted that she has been-m;) associating on terms ol eguality with foreign na tions: negotiating treaties with England ; dietating terms tc Mexico, and, inisteatd of beintg coer-ced b1 blockades and the collection of duties it the port of Galvestomn, this Federal Unior waos supplicating her with a bribe of fif teen) millions ini one hand, and (a sintmc violated) pledge to gnarantee her ter-rito. ry to the full ex:tcnt of her alleged limit: in the other-. They- would tell you, fellow-citizens that there wvas no blockade that could h<4 instituted that would not in a ever-y as peet of it be an act of belligerency, ttn which the "constitutionai sanction" o Congress had to lie obtained, wvhether as applied to a port of thtis Union or of anm other counitr-y; that no such measure tn crush tihe institutiomis of a Southern Stat< could be introduced in the Senate of the United States, without awakening the vet-y instincts of sovereignty, in evera Souther-n State at least, to repel and re buke it; that if a blockade is incident t< separ-ate secession, it is no less so to co operation-with this difference only, tha the whole Souther-n coast would then b< friendly port like that of Savannah for the escape of our produce or the introduction of our supplies; and that if State inde pendence would indeed circumscribe slavery and the slave trade for a single State-that a Southern Confederacy would do no less for those united under its government and its institutions. Would you tell them of your weakness, of the limited extent of your territorial limits, of your trade to be blighted, your produced depressed, and your citizens overburdened with taxation to support a separate State government? They would answer you, that South Carolina occu pied a wider space upon this continent than the conjoined territories of three of the most fanatical of her eastern oppres sors-that these were the arguments ex clusively of fear and not of reason, of ex pediency and not of principle-that they would be as conclusive against resistance, if abolition were knocking at our doors, or arming our households for our destrue tion-that they were reasons, not again.t secession, but,.for submission ; and would be just as true and as potent when the slave trade was abolished between the States, as now, when it has been abolish ed in the District of Columbia. No, fellow-citizens, from the virtuous and uncalculating enthusiasm of that age, from the tar higher-toned patriotism of the men of that generation, you would hear to suggestions of fear, of danger, of difficulties, of expense, or of submission. They would point you to Lexington, and bid you go and fight its battle, if needs be ; nor ask you have any trembling or federal-bought allies by your side. They would point you to Fort Moultrie, and tell you that, against odds innumerable, a fleet invincible, with an exhausted mag azine, a few crippled guns and a handful of brave Carolinians, they were enabled to repulse England's choicest veterans. They will bid you (as they did) to do your duty, and trust your cause to Him who rules the destinies of nations, as well as the hearts of men. Anil if this should fail, they will tell you to learn, then, wis dom and experience from your adversa ries. That while you are tamely and promise, abrogate ~th afgitive slave law, and hurled back defiance and denuncia tion on the government, and spurned the flatteries and sycophancy of those who have invoked them to sacrifice great and sacred principles to expediency. But should all these shame-recurring considerations not avail, the invoking shades of our ancestors have one resource, at least, that has never failed to respond to the appeals of oppressed and persecu ted humanity. They will commit Caro lina's destiny into the hands and to the courage of her daughters. What man fears to do, women shall achieve. Even her meek and gentle spirit cannot and will not bear our accumulated wrongs. It shall wail them in the cottage, it shall bemoan them in the palace, it shall echo them in the saloons, until all that there is in Carolina manhood shall be roused to shame, indignation and resistance. Nay, so easy the triumph, and so bloodless the victory, that we fear not that even a bod kin in her soul-determined grasp might achieve it against a world in arms, in a cause so panoplied in truth and justice. MR. C.GtioU4.-As several nmisState muents have appeared, as relates to thme alleged donation of money to Mr. Cal h oun, we copy tihe following from the Southern Press, as containig, we pre sume, a true version of that transaction : I" The facts are, that a number of the friends of Mr. Calhoun did propose to raise the sumi of -ixty or eighty thousitnd dollars for- a pr-esent to him, for the pur pose of enabling him to visit Eur-ope, and particularly thle countries of the Medi teranitan, for hisliealth. And Mid Cal houn refused to accept the gift. After his death, it appeared that some thirty thousand dollars of the money had al r-eady been subscribed and paid-and it was oliered successively to the four soins of Mr. Calhoun for the benefit of his es tate, and was by each of them refuised. It is a mistake that Mr-. Calhoun or his es tate was embarrassed. His pr-oper-ty, on his dlenthl, was worth about one huindred and fifty thtousand dollairs, and his (debt due to some banik in South Carolina w~as only about twenty-five thousand. So thait there wias no cmharrassmenlt. lBnt as the money, to the amnouint of sonme thirty thousand dollars had beeni paid up by his friends, they, on the refusal of his sonls to accept it, forwarded back a check for the amount to his widow,-stating that it could not, without great inconvenience, be r-estored to the contributors, some of -whom, perhaps, w~ere unknown. So she accepted it. But her sons had before ta ken care that she should he entirely inde pendent ; for- they released to 1her, in fee simple, the mansion pr-operty, the F'ort Hill estate, which wvas amply suffieient to snppor-t her inl tihe luxuries of life. INFAN-r EDUcATrioN.-A mother once asked a clergyman when she should be - ill tile education of her child, and she told him that it was thmen four y-ears old. -"Madam,"' wias his reply, "you hlave loss t three years already. From the very first smile that gleams over an infant's face ' omr onnortunlity begins." Why Divide Before Our Time. An old and distinguished citizen, wh< stands on the co-operation platform, an< who desires to see a Southern Confed eracy, in a conversation recently threw out the suggestion contained in the abov caption. And it is one worthy of thos< who advocate united action with somuel zeal, and who are using their most stren nous effort3 to create a party, composed of all who resist separate State-action They cannot, if they would, exclude from their ranks the few Union men whc may be in our State, and they will havc to be vigilant to keep them out of the leadership. They have been warned of this danger frequently ; if they court it, on them mu :t rest the responsibility o its consequence. But to the idea above. Insane and reckless as they may deem those who advocate State secession, co-operationists cannot deny to the mea they opposa an earnest desire to secuur the same end they consider indispen sable. And here, we judge, is the sol difference between kones eo-operationist and State action men-the former regard ing a united movement of the South in ditpn&:b"c ; the htter, on the most ra tionai and common sense ground<, be lievinig that co-operation must follon State secession, as certainly as effect fol. lows cause. And hre let us ask whici position is most in accordance with all the truths of history or the teachiugs of experience ? Which course of the two, in view of the present situation of afinirs, is most likely to produce the desired re sult. So long as a direct issue, made in defence of Southern institutions, is held in abeyance, so long will other issues be most energetically pressed on the peo ple of the Southern States, and to the same extent they will lose sight of that which is far above all others in magni tude and in its results. Federal ollice seekers, candidates for Congress, and the host of party camp followers, who ex poet and look for nothing higher than the petty offices in the gift of the govern ment, will all diligently work for the Union and for the nationality of theli respective parties. Hear .lies the dan g oe f r aitin o ted .ation. . n t to out t c ig;s to An e era ists eny practically tested, the Southern States mus.! dec sies, either for or against it South Carolina will exercise it for the salvation of her domestic institutions; ! and when resisted and attempted to bc put down by force, the single choice left to the other slave-holding States will b to declare either as allies for the centra power, which seeks to crnsh an effor made in defence of slavery, or to stan by tint institution at :ll hazzards Does any matn believe they will abaudor that institution, or the doctrine which i. now its only protection. We beli-we that there arc many sincere resistance men who now oppose seces siol, and to them we would put the above question. Why divide betore it i.; neces sary ? 'I'hose called tadeaps, hotspurs, and fire-eatrs by sunbmislionists else. where, and who are t:unted pretty much in the same st rain by some Sct ilbler at home, :l dcsiro co-operation, and zeal. onsly work for it. Have we already be come n eetratnged from each other as not to iv atle to work together in unity and( h~amiony ntil we fmnd our labor is invinSrely not. Itcnd oharm, and patrotisml of each other, and to be lieve thait resistance men01 of all shades o3 in~ ion havethinlg ill View hilt the ab1ol ishing ot the governmen t that oppresse: them andu the cstabhihment of an~othei andu a better. Snehl a course would strii thle real nL~Im5i.<ini-t5, who wear th< livery of co-operaution to aid the accom~ liishmuent of our degradation, of thei borrowed garmenlts, and reveal them a they at-e to all of us. Such a course, too wil do more to strengrthuen the hands o our friends in our co--States of the Souti than an:y other mwe could pursue. Ever2 conisideraution of State pride and patriot iSmi apllls to Carolinians to wvork at this crisis in union na d harmony. Thun. workinig, we verily believe that when th<t timel' for final1 actionl come., we willh< f01nn1d a unitedl people. WVe trast tha'. these atdmm:itions man hiolier inadneements to olier th-mi th'o< wh~jih should be regarded by cvery', mar who lov-es his State-whiich~ are the pire servationi of his own rights and1 .AN T-rm Inolu or Sorruc CAInouxNA. If thies< considerations fail to arouse them to isTv it is holpinig against hope thait further am future aggre3ssions w.uill.-Carolinian. I-r 5s a wvell knowvn facet that swee things spoil the teeth ; hece the ealrl) d~carV of ladies' teeth is accounted for ile sweetniess of their lips. A friend ait our elbowv says that tii is nlot the case, for it is notorious tha those ladies who scold most are sure t lose their teeth first. TIF woman khlew their powmer and wvish ed to exert it they would always shov IsweetneCss of temper-, for theni thley are almost irresistabile. You often hear of a man being inl ad va'ce of his age, but you never heard c 3 woman in tan same nredicament. Co-Operation. > Extracts from a letter of Gen. Felix Hus. I ton, to a gentleman in South Carolina, dated - 31st May, 1851: "I earnestly hope that South Carolina will strenuously adhere to her resolution to secede without waiting for the tardy co-oper ation of any other State. If you fail, I for one will be compelled to believe that there is some inherent evil in slavery which pro duces the monstrous anomaly of a people aspiring to be masters without the courage to avert being slaves. " The North have besieged the South for years-they have taken position around us, bought off our allies and made breach in our defence, and a lodgement within our lines, and now the only difference amongst them is between those who would storm our works, and those who would proceed by the more certain and less dangerous means of blockade. " In Miss'ssippi the feeling is gradually verging to the South Carolina position. I am satislied, as I am one who do not ex pect an agricultural people to form a great public sentiment with that promptitude which characterizes commercial communities, day by day we are gaining strength. Yet we have much to apprehend, not in the success of Gen. Quitman but in the charaecrer of the co;vention to be elected. " Mississippi is now the battle ground, and I am well assured that the whole funds of the Administration and consolidationists will be lavishly expended to defeat the Southern rights party. On the main grounds we are invincible-but the submissionists are trying to divide us about the mode and manner of redress. If the Southern States get tangled up in the meshes of the thotisand and one projects of redress we will be lost. South Carolina must cut the gordian knot. Rely upon it, you will be sustained in a de., cided manly secession. If force is attemp ted you will have thoeaid of thousands, who will conic not as burdens to the State, but with the means of support. War may not for their property until they, practically de. monstrate that they can defend their rights by :rmz. If the South cannot look this great truth boldly in the face, they will more cer. tainly fall before the machinations of the North than Greece did before the deep laid policy of Philip of Macedon. - South Carolina acts right when she estab blishes arsenals and prepares arms. Let it. not be said of her that her resolutions are strrng, but her resolution weak." A Case for Northern Abolitionists. A recent trial in Mobile discloses some facts which ought to make a strong impres. sion upon the minds of such of the Northern people as are led by motives of sincere phil a:nthropy, however mistakenly, to aid indis. criminately in the escape or liberation of Southern negroes. A free negro, named Coleman was indieted under the State law which provides that every free negro, wh'o shall have come in to Alabama since the 1st of February, 1833, and shallihave been admonished by'any sheril, &c., that he cannot remain in the State, and shall not within thirty days thereafter de part fromi thme same, shall, on conviction, be punished by imiprisonment in the penitentiary for two year3. The negro had lived in Mobile, as a free man, from 1839 to 1850, wvhen lie went to Ohmio, withm his wife and subsequently return ed to' Mobile, and though repeatedly warned Suder thme statute, remained to abide the conserinenees. Hie stated that lie found himself unable to get along in Ohmio. He was treated no bet ter than at home; he could -' obtrain no wvork to do; and lie accordingly volunteered to a slave State, and risk the pe nalty of the penitentiary rather than attempt to live among the Abolitionists, lie was warned to leave the State. Hie would not do it. A frer he was indicted, the Solicitor of thme State offered to withdraw the prosecu tion if lie would go away. Hlis own counsef advised him to accept the ofler, and thus escape the penalty. Hie was inflexible. He had tried a free State, and would rather stand a peniteniary in Alabama than trust to the tender mercies of Ohio abolitionism.--N. O, Pie. A D.srruxrr. REsoLVE.-Thie Lock. port Daily Courier says:--"There is a legend tha t a merchant once determined to ruin himself by squandering his money in adlvertising ; but he found the more lho ad~vertisedl the richer lie grew, until at last - he was obliged to give up in despair of ever effecting his purposo in that way." A x exchange paper says that thme word > " Philopena" signifies in its common use, 'lriendlship's forfeit.' It is a Greek and -Latin compound, and literally inmerpreted, ,siguilies ' I love the penalty.' MAuMeA," said a little hoy to his ma, " may I go 'a fishing I" " Yes, sonney, but don't go near the wvater. And recol C loet, if you're drowned, I shall skin you na sure as you're nlive !"