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v i. ED EFIE DL RTSR a DermorVatte 31outrnal, Vbote to Soutittiu mUIgJtU, NeTtCW, voitc Reut'a! ttefgn, ?ttatte, aofalit, a etettt, 3 "We will cling to the Pillars of the Temple of o1r ies, and if it must fall, we will Perish amidst the Ruins. W. F. DURISOE, Preprior. EDGEFIELD, S. X -03SEPTEMBER 11,41851. FOR THlE ADVZRKTISER. THE POPLAR AND OAK. By U. 3:. X'C. Some Lombardy Poplars, once arrayed Like soldiers when marshalled on parade, Stood right and left in double file In all the pomp of martial style; And waving their plumes, like grenadiers, And strutting like other volunteers, Were doing the honors always duo The Lord of a courtly avenue. Now one of these Poplars tall and slender, Rapid in growth and therefore tender, In years very young, thus proudly spoke To a moss-grown venerable Oak : " How old, father Gray-beard, may you be?" Exclaimed this malapert Poplar tree. " You look as old as the wandering.Jew How long ere thi devil will get his due 1" The Oak not a word to the Poplar said: But he shook at the fop his mossy head, And the aspen leaf trembled, the willow wept, And all the trees such a murmuring kept, Such a rustling of leaves as showed the chap They spurned him as if he were nothing but sap. The Poplar, a useless spindling blade, That furnishes neither fruit nor shade, Has since decayed and disappeared; While the Oak still lives with his mossy beard. And thus is it e'er with that mushroom race Of upstarts, who elaim too high a place, Though strutting and looking so proud and high, As useless as Poplars they live and die. The Oak is still waving to the breeze, As prince of the rorest, king of trees Oh! who has not heard of the royal Oak, Or who of its firmness has not spoke? From the Charleston Courier. RESISTANCE, Sons of the South! awake, arise, No longer sleep supine, Freedom's at stake, that glorious prize,. The birtright of your clime. persL The rights that Forbid it heaven,let no false aim Retard your alorious cause; Your ancient cherish'd rights maintain, Your liberty and laws. Remember Marathon and Grecce, Let not the tale be lost, If you would have the joys of peace, Stay not to count the cost. No real conquest e'er was made, No ancient right secur'd, For which the people have not paid, And sacrifice endur'd. Let not the blood your father's shed, On many a battle plain, The ashes of the illustrious dead Plead trumpet-tongued in vain. Remember Moultrie and Eutaw, sumter and Marion too, A ud in one loud, one brave hurrah, In theae say what you'll do. W. Death on the Ocean. BY D. C. BARTLETT. Upon a recent v-oyage from Liv-erpool to New York, I became intimately ac quainted with a young man, a fellow pas senger, who was going on a visit to America Whten I first saw him, I was struck wvith his appearance. He was of slender make, with a glorious forehead, and eyes of delicate blue. His hair wa light auburn in its color, and his counte nance expressed a nobility and frankness that is rarely round. We were introduced, and from some cause became quite inti mate. I soon found that we possessed mutual friends in England. He had come from one of the best families of the up per-stratum of what is called the middic class or English society. It is not strange that we became intimate, for I loved hit native land and he loved mine. Upor the pleasant moonlight nights, wve sal Upon the quarter-deck, conversing aboul the land, the homes, and the friends w< were leaving-of England's poets an< statesmen ; or, shifting the scenes, of out own New England, or the broad expansi West with its everlasting prairies. Ofter the unwelcome sounds of the midnigh bells broke upon us, ere wve had finishiet our conversation, so pleasantly had passet the evening awvay He wais not long ii gaining the friendship of all his fellot' cabin passengers. After we had been out a few days, missed him one morning from his accut tomed place at the breakfast table. I di not see him on the deck during the morn ing, nor at the dinner table. WVhen visited his state-room, to my surprise found him lying on his berth quite ill, wit the surgeon in attendance. He had e, perinced in the night a severe attac from a dangerous disease, and was alread very much prostrated. He was glad t see me, and seemed to be in good spiriti Tears came into his eyes when I took hi hand, and lie wished a fellow passenge who was a clergyman, to read a portio of the Scriptures to him. It was the firt time I had seen him low-spirited, and i was the last. The clergyman came ani read a solemn psalm to him, and his sad ness left him-even he was joyful-hearted The next morning I was shocked .ti hear the surgeon say that he could no live forty-eight hours. I went to him Alas! the surgeon wvas right. The chang< that had come over him in a single night was miraculous. His fair brow wa: covered with a damp as chill as death and his auburn hair was clotted with mois ture. But his pure blue eyes had not al tered-they had the same affectionate half-sad, half-joyous expression that the) had always wore. The flush had disap, peared from his cheeks, for his anguisl had been great during the night. I tool his hand in mine, but dared not speak, foi fear of betraying the emotion of my heart He said with a singularly calm and c'ear voice, " I am going to die, my friend, but-I am not afraid." A pressure was gone from my spirits at once. He went on-" I have a few things which I wish to give to my fiiends, a few trifles-and, if you will call the captain, I will tell you to which I wish them given." I called him, and he continued calmly: "My gold watch I wish my sister Emma to have, and my silver one-ive that to Georgy, my little brother Georgy; and my rifle let it be kepti im until lie is old enough to use it. Give to Meggy the ring on my little finger. To my mother" His voice faltered when he came to her, and tears crept.down his pallid cheeks. " A, she was a good mother! Give back the Bible that shergave me, and tell her that her boy did not fear to die!" All else he bequeathed to his father, to dispose of as he pleased. The captain left the -room, and the young man co1ntiUUA --nar-e-urli sio . - i her forehead. Poor Meggy! And-and-there is one of whom I have not'spoken; Mary -; I was engaged to her-give my best ring to her, and tell her that I hope to meet her, iu heaven." Becoming exhausted, I left him for a short time. When I came back, he said, " I wish once more to see the ocean, in whose depths my grave will soon be made; let me gaze at it once more!" Alas, he was too weak to be raised upon deck-poor fellow! And then he wished a bucket of sea-water brought to him. His eyes were suffused with a smile when he saw it. He put his hand in it, and bathed his forehead, saying, I could hardly tell whether sadly or joyously, " Soon shall my body be in the dark blue sea." There was something magnificeni in that self-baptism of his-his fearless, ness was so triumphant over death. All the day the wind had been increas ing in strength, and at night it blew a hurricane. Towards midnight the ser became frightful-the waves dancing ove1 us amid ships, or striking our side, sound ing like heavy thunder. Many of the passengers wvere frightened, nearly all They were up, and, wheni the captaim caime down into the cabin, they gathere< about him with anxious eyes and earnes questions. I was up all night with thn dyimng one-some of the time holdiug bin in his berth ; a part of the time he lay ii my arms. He was perfectly calmi, an his fearlessness wias a rebuke to those wvh were pale with fright from the storm. A daybreak it had reached its height;-s daylight the poor young man said," thank you all for your kindness to me farewell, forever !" and died. The storm went suddenly down, an< the next morning there was a perfect calni and the canvass was idly flapping in th air. The sun shone calmly upon thm beautiful sea, the air wvas balmly, likec tha~ of the South ; but wve wvere all sad, for w were to see what fewv of us had ever see before-a sea burial. I will not describe the ceremony, fc abler pens than mine have done so. will say nothing of the little band the sadly stood at the lee gang-way, and sai the corpse stretehed upon the death-plank of the horrid plunge of the body into tb mysterious ocean-nothing. All tha gentle day little parties were clustere together, talking about the poor yowl man. All of us wvere sad. When the evening came on and the fu moon shone upon us, with a lustrous pi rity, I wvent out upon the quarter-deel and mused long upon the young man, h English ho me, and those who dwell ther His mother, perhnps, was praying at ilh moment, a safe voyage for him- a hapi sojourn in the New World, and a happ oh! howv happy return; but the sea w. his mother now, poor woman ! His de Meggy, " with her hair curling beautifi nl aout, henrw." lay at that momem y perhaps, kissing him in her dreams. a Dream on, Meggy! too soon will you i. wake to the stern agonies of lire. s Then I thought of the time when every r post would be eagerly watched by this i home, for they expected a letter from him. t And a letter does come with a foreign t jioit-mark, but in a strange hand. The I father grows pale as he looks at it; the - mother watching his countenance, anx . iously asks why he is pale. He hands > the letter to her, and she covers up her t face and shudders. They dare not open it. The brother does, and reads-the let ter that I wrote to them. Shivered, in a moment, are all their beautiful hopes, and they weep in anguish-and Meggy! she is out among the flowers, playing; they have not told her! the brother goes to her, and says, "come to me, Meggy;" the girl runs to him, and he bursts into tears-he cannot tell what he wishes. He grows stronger, and tells her that her brother is dead, and is buried in the blue ocean, and will never come back. She asks, sadly, " Will he never, never come back ? "Never, Meggy,"-and the beautiful child cries as if its heart would break; but the dark ocean will not heed its cries, nor its mother's, but hugs him as a trophy in its embrace. Bpunk and Peril. There is a story, and which I believe is a fact, of two boys going to ajackdaw's nest from a hold under the belfry window in the tower of All-Saints' Church Derby England. As it was impossible to reach it standing, and equally impossible to reach that height from without, they re solved to put a plank through the window ; and while the heavier boy secured its balance by sitting on the end within, the lighter boy was to fix himself on the opposite end, and from that perilous situ ation to reach the object of their desire. So far the scheme anwered. The little fellow took the nest, and finding .in it five fledged yound b1 -uvrop mi, if jou please," replied the little hero, " but I'll promise no more than two,"-upon which his companion slipped off the plank. Up tilted the end, and: down went the boy, upwards of a hundred feet from the ground. The little fellow, at the moment of his fall, was holding his prize by their legs-three in one hand, and two in the other-and they, finding themselves des cending, fluttered out their pinions in stinctively. The boy, too, had on a car ter's frock secured around the neck, which, filling with air from beneath, buoyed him him up like a b:dloon, and he descended smoothly to the ground-when, looking up. he exclaimed to his.companion " Now you shall have none !" and ran away, sound in every limb, to the aston ishment of the inhabitants, who, with inconceivab!e horror, had witnessed his decent.-Exchange paper. " FATIIER! father!i have you got an extra quarter about yout The great zoological avery and circus is coming here to-day. They are got some newv things, father ; a great boy constructor ; and an African lion just from Asia, with forty stripes on his back, and nary one alike ; all the monkeys on a keen jump. Children under ten years of age, half price. Mayn't I go, father I" " Why, sartain !" EDrronts x LUCK.-An editor out west has been presented wvith a wvatermel I Ion wveighing forty-five pounds and anoth >er one in his neighborhood has been pre t sented by his wife with three boys at a ttime, whose joint weight is thirty pounds. I Meat vs vegetables-meat "a little a - head." " Mv sos," said all affectionate moth. I er to her only heir, who was in a short 'time to be married "you are getting 3 thin." S" Yes mothler," lhe replied, " I am and t expect shortly that you wvill see my rib." 2A roon scamp left his wire in great rage, declaring that she should never sen r his face again until he was rich enough I to conme home in a carriage. He kept his .t word, for in two hours he was brought V home richlly drunk on a wheelbarrow. e DIsaProiNTR.-An editor " west," et says he had hoped to be able to present a d a marriage and a death as original matter g for his colums; but a thawv broke up the wedding and the doctor fell sick, so the lI patient recovered. '- NO-r PosTED.-A fewv days sinCe, a ' servant up towvn was sent to inquire alfter 1s a lady who had been recently confined ; e- and fbeing asked at his return, what the t child was, said: " I don't know. All I yknow is, it is not a boy!" is S~roKEs, we observe, take a livel.) ir interest in Cuban affairs, being fearfu 1- that a revolution may lessen the produc t, tom, and raise the price of the wveed. FOR TE ADVERTISER, OUR CAUSE OF QUARRE FErow-CiTIZE:-The admilion of Ca ifornia as a State, ander its prese con titu tion was even morejectionabile, 'an Npild have been the dir passage of the Wilmot Proviso. It was. e indirect enforcement of the same principa, under cieumstances, which "added ins to injury." The great quest[i of the Proviso was be fore the country, w no.forp decision. The opponents of sla* dreadipg to nieet the issue, but determin* to accomplishtheir aim at every hazard, e -rgled a floatinw popu lation, composed' - " all kindreZs and tongues, and nation an'didentified with no spot of earth, to.o ize a government, and knock at our doo -a fraternal reception I to our hospitable An~it was urged, that we muit shake bloody hand of the c Bandit, the highway obber, of the Spaniard. m the Negro, and the tan, with the same cor- t diality that welcom ne of our ownjfamily t and kindred! It was grossest outrage ever 8 attempted to be pe tra.ed under color of e law, and it can be s portedneither by law nor precedent. If there is any r' power most clearly e belonging tothe Co onfedera- t cy, as theipg nt of es,i is the s power.to ' aze t vernments to contror, ieptslate t form theter- I ritories into co and ;sdiit them into the UIm Why, we enn ofthisa even into the proeee of the old Confederati ndonly o fully indicated, but I ted. In the address of. Mary land referrid to, w ost jtablo I cifet il" part of Vhich has beenrgyeon, after stating. tl that the teyritory relinqdihed by the different i Staes,,sliall be settled, nd formed into dis tinct ReprNican States, which shall become 0 members ,f the Federal Union, it Resolves, 0 that, "The said lands shall be granted or C settled, at such times, and under such regu- a lations, as shall hereafter be agreed on by the c United Staies, in Congress Assembled." The 0 rdinance of 1787, for the government of t, the territory of the United States, northwest t of the river Ohio, is the fullest exercise of this authority by Congress; and the prinei ples of that Ordinance were specially affirmed by the Coustitution. The Constitution itself, further enlarges and establishes the samd right, by declaring t that, " The Congress shall have power to dispose of, and make all needful rules and regulations respecting the territory or other t property belonging to the United States." If there should yet be any dissent from the position I am stating, and any question of its correctness, I assert, that it is in accord aece wvith the understanding of alt the fra mers of the Constitution, and has been prae tically illustrated and san'etioned, ever since the establishment of the government, not only by its early legislatio'n, but by the whole legislation on the subject of territories and new States-. It is only since the late discussions on slavery have taken place, that a serious effort has been made to distingtiish between the territory gained by the war of the revolution, and that obtained by purchase, and by other war.'. Mr. Cass has expended incalculable labor, to justify the lawless proceedings in1 California, and to reconcile its admission into the Union, to the Constitution, and to the duty of the Legislature. If Congress had not the exclusive right to legislate for that territory, it never had the right to legislate for any ; ad it has commit ted a continued series of usurpations, from thb adoption of the Ordinance of 1787, down to the enacting of the Bills-for the Govern ient of Oregon, Utah and New Mexico. For one of the principal reasons urged, in favor of the cession of the territdry covered by the ordinance allnded to, ad- of the territory ceded by all the States, was, that the title of any particular State or States, exclusively, to it, was imperfect; that the only adequate title was that, which wvas won by the sword of the wvhole United States; -and that, there fore, it should inure to the common benefit of all the people of the wvhole Confederacy. It matters not how the Government cones into possession of new acquisitions of land, they become, eo-instanti, publie proper ty, and under the lawful control of Congress. Otherwise, the Gypsies. or any other wvander lg tribes of barbarous men--mere " birds of passage," like the present migratory popu lation of California, might alight upon the choice territories of the country, in which they owned not an acre of land, and in defi the law of nature, to the organization of a Government, and to the settlement of a Con stitution. Such an act north of 36 deg. 30 min., if tlid trespassers carried slaves with them, would be deemed invasion; and they would-be called upon to make profert of their deeds, or to defend their possessions, with force and arms. But, when a government, under like circustauees, is" formed, and that, too, partly, in Southei territory, with a Con stitution hostile to Southern rights, the act is perfectly defensible, by the law of nature, and by the Constitution of the country. The conduct of California has been illegal, md, in some of its aspects, rebellious, and its idmission into the Union. by the last Con yress, was such an infringement of thoCon titutional rights of.the South, as no free eople should passively acquiesce in. But, as a reason for justifying the irregular >recedent, which will thus be furnished to all he.world, that will condescend to seek our :ompany, and.shall think proper to apply for Jdmission into our Union, and for vindicating he unjust policy of the Abolitionists towards he South, it is triumphantly asserted, that lavery is inhibited in the country of the Pa ific, by an ordinance of nature, and .by the eeree of God. Mu.uWebster, in a speech, in the Senate, qual, in Argumentative and Oratorical skill, any speech, of any statesman, on an occa ion so great, whilst lie denominates slavery a morjl, political, and social evil," and bold proclaims to the South, that she can expect othing at his hands, does have the generous V beralityrto declare, that he " would not take ains to re-affirm an ordinance of nature, nor re-enact the will of God," for the exclusion f slavery; and would, therefore, not vote or a Wilmot Proviso, to apply to New d riel.i, Others urge, that if California had been : or ine government, wny -uu--ucy-no e oroughly test the conduct of California - Vhy did they not try this "law of nature" ndathis "decree of God," by the touchstone' time? If Northeid men, have no fears, n the subject, why was the territorial bill for alifrnia, without the Proviso, voted down, nd defeated by their votes? Why has the ountry been kept in a fever heat by Abolition rators, ever since the Mexican war, in order prevent Southern men from emigrating to lie new and golden region of the Pacific, if heir rights, as citizens of this great com nonwealth, had already been denied them by n ordinance of nature ? Has all this noise d een made, by our brerbren, purely for the ove of a little harmless, vexatious torture o see us, the innocent and simple-minded ictims of their wit, writhe under their ele rant practical jokes? Has Mr. Clay too, a urn for low jests?-so keen a relish for them, I hat lie must indulge the vein, at the imminent e eril of his country, and to the burning shame I >f the South, his poor prostrate mother, that ourished him, in his childhood, from the I ounty of her generous bosom, and, in his 1 nanhood, encouraged and sustained him, with 1mother's devoted love, and upheld and nagnitied his growing fame ? No-Fllow Jitizens !-There is malice in the sport here is treason in the play. The farce is a ragedy, whose concluding scenes ate all Aack with treachery, and stained with human I rore! STAR REDOUBT. From the Charleston Mercury. seep it before the VeePle MESSRs. EDIToS:-The Forts in our har bor are unnecessarily crowded with troops, md very much, we are told, to their own di. .om fort. And why should this be? There are other stations on the sea-board now un occupied, and others but poorly garrisoned, yet some six or seven companies must needs be stationed in Charleston harbor. About one sixth of the whole United States Artille ry is crowded in Fort Moultrie, which cannot conveniently accommodate more than two fulj companies; into Castle Pinckney which can illy accommodate one, and into Fort Sumter, which is but an incomplete pile of Masonry, and totally unfit for the purposes of a garri son. For this unreasonably and uncomfor table as well as unnecessary and premature rovding of troops in our harbor, there arc two leading reasons. The first is a deter mination to coerce South Carolina by milita ry force, as soon as she attempts to secede The second is a hope of preventing the ne essity of coercion, by preventing secession' that is to ay, by co-operating with the so called co-operation party in confusing and bullying those classes of people, which are to be found in all communities, whose political pole star is fear, or Government pap. In this connection there is a mortifying fact hich people should constantly keep be fore themselves. There is a party in Charles ton which co-operates with the Fillmore ad ...:....r..t:.,. i., this scheme of int imidationn. Not only approving in silence all that has been done, but actually seeking out, and play. ing messenger, for the lame apologies of of. ficers who have no further duties to perform than to obey orders. Let the people keep this faet constantly before their eyes, and they will never be duped into submission. There is a Federal Co-Operation party in Charleston, small but active and vigilant. EYE-OPEN. From the State Rights Republican. The Editors of South Carolina. Under this imposing title, the editor of the Southern Patriot has poured out his vials of ndignation against two or three of the news ?apors of the State, because they have gen Jemen connected with their management who ire not natives of South Carolina. Strange o say, he includes the Charleston Courier in his category, which, he says, " came out for lisunion, last fall." The Charleston Courier, a is well known to the editor of the Southern Patriot, is not a party newspaper. It is un lerstood by every body, who knows any hing of its character or its history, that it is commercial print, and occupies neutral round in politics.. Without taking sides, its olumns are open to free discussion. Col. [ing, one of its editors, a Pennsylvanian, as re think, -by birth, but who, from his boy ood, has been living in S. Carolina, avowed is determination, last fall, to sustain the tate, whatever course she might pursue. Jr. Willington, one of the proprietors of the oneern, a gentleman of great respectability, realth and position, is, by birth, a Bostonian, ut has longiteen a citizen of Charleston, and eretofore, one of its most highly esteemed [embers of the Legislature. He does not rite at all for the Courier, or but very sel. om. Mr. Yeadon, another of the partners, i a South Carolinian by birth-for a long ine the able and - . '. * " ate of Sbuth Carolina secession, although re shall be very happy to learn that he is. We do not think the polities of the Charles n Courier troubles the editor of the South rn Patriot mnch. His denunciations are hiefly levelled at the Charleston Mercury, he South Carolinian and the State Rights tepublican. These are avowedly secession ewspapers, and it is because they are so, nd because the editor of the Southern Pa itriot finds them rather troublesome and ard to manage, that he cast about him to see rhat he can discover that will be likely to eprecato them in public estimation. He has arned that Mr. Clapp is a Northern man by irth, and he immediately parades the fact be ire the world, as if he had obtained a signal riumph over him. We have been informed, rhether correctly or not we cannot say, that fr. Clapp is a native of Kentucky, but where ver born-and think this not a matter of the eatest consequence in the world-he is one f those rare men-rare for his genius, schol rship and principles,--who confer honor pon their birth-place, but receive none from SWe cannot say where Mr. Heart hails rom, but he has long been a member of the ditorial fraternity, and is respected as such or his talents and ability as a public journal it. Mr. Carew is a Charlestonian and a se essionit, as all the editors of the Mhlercury It is a great crime, in the estimation of the youthern Patriot, that the editors of the South 2arolinian are, the one an Irishman by birth, nd the other a native of one of the Northern tates. We do not think the circumstance >f their birth in a particular country or clime, essens the estimation in which they are held n his community. It is their firm and manly ivocacy of the rights and honor of the State of their adoption, wvhich renders, and vill always render, their paper respectable m influential. If Mr. Johnson is a native of :he Emerald Isle, he comes from the land of reat men-who are the champions of liberty, the sons of song. It can be no diseredit to any citizen of the State to claim for his birth place the soil that has nourished a Burke, a Curran, a Grattan, a Wilberforce, a Moore and a Goldsmith, any more than it would dis honor him if he were born in Massachusetts -the land, of Franklin, Hancock, Adams and Warren. It is not the soil that makes the men, but it is the men who make the soil of their nativity glorious. It is not the place where a man is born, but who ho is, and what he is, that are asked, as the most appropriate questions at this stage of our history. Thc natives of all States and all nations are brought together by the force of circumstan' cs or their own preferences, in a country like ours. .It is no matter where a man is born, if he is true to the State of his adoption, anc performs faithfully his duties as a citizen. We now come to ourselves. " There ii another paper in Columbia," says the South ern Patriot, "now edited, wve think, by Northem man, with Southern principles!' We thank the Patriot for the information that " there is another paper in Columbia." We occupy so humble a position, that we should, perhaps, have forgotten it otherwise. That paper is the State Rights Republican, and the editor referred to as a "Northern man, with Southern principles," is the very editor that is inditing this paragraph. He was born in Massachusetts, educated at Har vard University, became a citizen of South Carolina in 1824, and has been twice married here. His children are natives of South Carolina His grandsire, a slaveholder, was a native of a slaveholding State. He was the founder of Dartmouth College, and spent the best part of a large fortune, during th4 Revolutionary war, in furnishing munitions and clothing to our suffering soldiers. His father, at the head of a hundred of his parish oners, marched twenty miles, to erect the do fences of Dorchester Heights, during our second war of independence. From these ancestors, he has inherited a love of liberty and indepeindence. His first entrance into politicallife was in South Carolina, asa mem ber of the State Rights school, whose prin ciples he adopted from a thorough conviction of their truth and their conservative charac ter. His first step on the public arena was us chairman of the Committee of St. Paul's Parish, in 1832, io draft a series of resolu tions advocating the nullification of the tariff law of 1828. While editor, for several years, of the Southern Quarterly Review-a period ical which he established by his own efforts he maintained, whenever occasion called for it, the principles and doctrines of the State Rights School, and if there is any reason why he should not now edit, in conformity with his own pleasure, and consistently with the principles of his whole life, a Southern Rights newspaper, advocating the secession of South Carolina from the Union, he would like to - -nen creditablajie humbly setts, or of any Northern State, or anyiwrmn ern man. His war is not with the North, but with a corrupt Federal Government, and a corrupt administration of it. Pleasures of Contentment. I have a rich neighbor that is always so busy, that lie has no leisure to laugh; the whole business of his life is to get money, and more money, that he may still get more and more money. He is still drudging on, saying that Solomon says-" The diligent hand maketh rich." And it is true, indeed, but he considers not that it is not in the power of riches to maike a man happy, for it was wisely said by a man of great observation, " that there are as many miseries beyond riches, as on this side of them." And yet God deliver us from pinching' poverty, and grant that, having a competency, we may be content and thankful. Let us not repine, or so much as think the gifts of God unequally dealt, if we see another abound with riches, when as God knows, the cares, that are the keys. that keep these riches, hang often so heavily at the' rich man's girdle, that they clog him wvithz weary days and restless nighmts, even when others sleep quietly. Wie see but the outside of the rich man's happiness: few consider him to be like the silk-worm, that, when she seems-to play, is, at the very same time, spinning her owvn bowvels, and consuming herself. And this, many rich men do--loading themselves with corroding cares, to keep wvhat they have already got. Let us, therefore be thank ful for health and competence, and above all, for a quiet conscience.-Isaak Walton. WhAT Tost DoN'T BELIEvE.-He don't believe a lawyer is any keener because he wears a pair of spectacles. He don't believe that all lawyers are rogues, any more than he believes an eel is a snake. He don't believe the most industrious man in the world loves to work when he can help himself. He don't believe that a young lady ought to get married before she is twventy one, at least. He don't believe that two young lovers like to be caught with their ai ms round one another. lHe don't believe in getting up early in the morning without going to bed early at night. He don't believe a man's a fool because he can't make a speech. He don't believe that a lady is much the worse for wearing a bustle, though lhe dicidedly prefers Coff'ee bags. In fact, he don't believe in a great many things that others believe in. Magistrate.What has bro't you her sir? Prisoner.-Two police men, please your honor. Magistrate.-Then I suppose liquor had nothing to do wvith it? Prisoner.-Yes, sir ; they are both drunk.