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The din light of the lamp illumittated the apartment for a while, but at last went out, leaving the room in darkness, save when an occasiottal flash of light from the half-extintguished fire gleamed for a moment upon the obscurity. In one corner, seated upon a sofa,' where the forms of a gentle maiden and her adoring lover. The youth was plea. ding his passion with all the burning CIo quence of impetuous love, and imploring his charner to name the happy day that was to unite them forever. But what was his griof to find that she did not meet his fond wishes with corresponding ardor.. 'Abh, Susan,' he sighed, 'have I then de. ceived myself itt fondly believing that your gentle heart reciprocated my pas sion ? She fixed herliquid eyes upon him, but her words were few and coldly uttered: 'I rather think volt bup. 'WhaIt! vou cannot mean that you do not love mne! You will not tear from the sky of the future the bright sun of hope, n1t1d leave me to grope forever in darkness! Oh, Susan ! by the happy hours we have passed together-by tile vows you have sworn t0 love me-I conjure yvon to re voke what you have just uttered and pro mise to be mei4ie But all unmoved by his appeal, she eurls her ruby lip and senrufully answers 'I shani't do no such thing !' 'M1erciful heavens! do I hear aright? must I then live on in loneliness, with all mtty hopes withered and dead like a soli tarv snii.flower stalk in the chilling wiln ter! Natv, hv the whole universe, I swear it shall tot lie ! M:rk tie, cruel one ; thou hast been the bright polar star by wihich I giided my whole existence. Thou wast the rock on which I founded mty hope of happiness; and if thou will ttot consent to be mie, I swear by the blazing sun, that when lie rises as usual to.morrow morning, before breakfast, his ravs shall shine on me a cold corpse be neathi the angry waves of the raging Mer rimnack-or perchiattce my bloody remains wvill lbe found upon its bantks ; and if these means of death fail me, I wvill swallow. poison ! do you hear ? and expire for love of thee. Then vou wvill have naught to reminid you of him who loved you better titan a thantksgivinig diinner, save the con solinig reflection that you are his murder er ! .But his agony, his threats, affected her not.-Shte was cold as the iceiele that in mtidwinter hangs from the nose of the town pump. Crually-deliberately did site crush his last hope, atnd with a mock itig itncredulous snihle site said 'You dare'stn't do it!' He sprang to his feet; despair was painted on his features ; desperation glared in his eye.-With his hanids clasped in agony he tutrned an imploring look to. wvards the mistress of his hleart, anid ex claimed - 'Once tmore I implore you to reflect; recall those cruel words ~or I go to fulfil rmy threat; and with his hand upon the latch he awaited her decision. It came like a thunderbolt to the unhappy youth. 'You may go-if you wish-to grass!' With one bound he gained the street furiously he dashed along, and turnting the first corner, ran against a gust ol wind that wvas rushing the other way. The breeze knocked off his tile; it had cost him a V but the wveek before, yet he heeded not its loss. Like .a uhiriwind he swept'along the sidewalk, and espying a blue bottle in a druggist's wvindow, he made tracks like a longitudinal stripe of crude and solidified city milk, towards it. Openning the (leer with an impetuosity that made the clerk spring over the coun ter and seek safety behind a glass case, he fixed his eyes with the ferocity of a bereaved maternal tigress upon the slim :mnd tremblhing attendant, and hoarsely growled 'Poison ! give me poisota!' 'Elh-ah-wvhat!' gasped the horror striken clerk from his place of refuge. 'Poison I do you hear?' thundered the youth furiously. With a shaking hand, Plumb's clerk filled a phial and overrun the liquid on his new inexpressibles, but not heeding this mishap he placed the significant 'poi son' on the bottle, and standing on tip-toe reached it over the top of the showcase to his dangerous customer. Clutching it fiercely the doomed young man hurled a quarter at the clerk, and then hurried to his lodgings. When he reached his own room the excitement had passed away, but it was succeeded by a cold deliberation and de termination that was as absolutely blood. chilling as a cold night in December. Undressing he prepared for bed, and then seizing the phial of poison he drank its contents unfalteringly. Getting into bed lie aroused his chum, who had slept through the whole of this terrible scene, and bade him arise and call his parents and also send for his false lady-love to come and see him die. His request was complied with, and soon his weeping pa rents arrived to bless their dying son. While they were lamenting over him the door opened, and Susan-the cruel, but now repentant object of his love-entered the room. As she approached the bed. side of the expiring youth, lie raised him self feebly up an said 'Susan, for thee I die!' and sunk back helpless on his pillow. Who shall paint the anguish, the agony of the lovely maiden ? With the shrieks that rent the air into shreds and drove the ancient tabby from the room, she rushed to her doomed lover and implored his for giveness. She had called him every en dearing epithet, but alas, it was too late -too late! Fondly sie embraced him tenderly she parted the hair from his brow and kissed his pale forehead. They were reconcikd while he was on the brink of eternity. But the poison was at work within; he felt it coursing its burning way through every vein. He was conscious that lie had but a few short moments to live, when his chum, who had entered to lid him a last farewell, inquired what he had aken. Perhaps their was an antidote. tin o to late t o Me I am almost gone. The botde of poison is on the mantle; I do not know its name. The chum seized the phial ; he looked it what remained of the fatal draught ubiously lie sighed, and extracting the ork applied it to his, olfactory proboscis. T'1hree long sniffs took her and the phial fell with a crash from his almost palsied hands, while in tones of wonder he ejacu lated 'Cahnip! by thunder! 'lT7tat! exclaimed the expiring lover, springing bolt upright in bed. 'Extract of catnip as sure as rain; you are not poisoned at all." With one bound the dying man gained the middle of the room. His lady-love fled in dismay at beholding him in his scanty costume, and he, picking up the fragments of the phial, soon satisfied him self that it was indeed catnip that lie had swallowed. The young lady was carried home on a wheel barrow. and the adoring lover left in the last steamer for California. MIaxims to Guide a Young Man. Keep good company or nione. Never he idle. If your hands cannot be usefully employed, attend to the culti vation of your mind. Always sp~eak the truth. Make few promises. Liv'e up to all your engagements. Have no very intimate friends. Keep your own secrets, if you have any. When you speak to a person, look haim in the face. Good company and good conversation are the very sinews of virtue. Good chai-acter is above all things else. Never listen to any loose or infidel con versation. Your character cannot be essentially injured except by your own acts. If any one speaks evil of .tou, let your life be such that none wvill believe him. Drink no kind of intoxicating liquors. Ever live, misfortune excepted, within your income. -When you retire to bed, think over what you have been doing'during the day. Never speak lightly of religion. Make no haste to be rich, if~ you wvould prosper. Small and steady gains give competen cy wvith tranquility of mind. Never play at any kind of game of chance. Avoid temptation, through fear that you may not withstand it. Earna money before you spend it. Never run in debt, unless you see a way to get out a gain. Never borrowv if you can possibly avoid it. Do not marry until you are able to support a wife. Never speak evil of any one. Be just before you are generous. Keep yourself innocent, if you would be happy. Save wvhen you are young, to spend when yun are old. Never think that which you do for re ligion is time or money mispent. Always go to meeting when you can. Often think of death and your accoun tability to God. Read over the above maxims at least once a week (Sunday night.) "'M a Little Bound Boy Now." BY MRs. M. A. DENISON. We do not know when we have read anything so touching as the subjoined in cident: "The Philadelphia Sun relates that as one of the police officers of that city was proceeding along the sidewalk on Sunday afternoon, whilst the snow was .falling thick and the wind blowing in eddying gusts and piercing cold, the sobs of a child attracted his attention. lie soon found a poor little boy in an alley stand. ing up to his middle in the snow, and benumbed with the cold. The little fel low told the officer that he had been sent out to clear away the snow from the alley. "Go in the house," said the officer, " and tell your mother that she might be ashamed of herself." "My mother," re plied the boy, "is dead. I'm a little bound boy not'." Poor little orphan! No kind mother would have sent her own child to expose life and health, even to earn a penny with which to buy bread; and no human heart bade the wretched boy go forth in such weather and such a storm. The condi. tion of a friendless, motherless little one, is to our mind, the most deplorable on earth, and the being who could ill-use or neglect an orphan must assuredly suffer -either in this world or in the future. "I'm a little bound boy now," alas! how mournful eloquent those few words: " I'm a little bound boy now." Did he remember the time when the light of a mother's love was continually sunshine to him! when he was the star of her exis tence, when his little lips wreath in smiles, were pressed again and again by her lips, and his eyes were mirrors for her love beaming face? Did he remember the time when a place on her bosom on which to pillow his head was recompense for all his troubles, when her sweet voice soothed him to slum] i d pn. metudes I Then doubly heartrending the thought and the feeling that he is " a little bound boy now;'' he cannot leap over the door steps as of yore, and fear lessly cling to the hand of his mother; no i he moves with a cringing tread with in the stranger's domicile; he starts at the smallest request, for the tones of the stranger are cold and icy; there is no music in them as there used to be in the voice of his mother, the sweet request is changed to the perefnptory command, and he flies over the pavenient.to execute the tyrannical order, as if every brick were a live coal beneath his feet. Perhaps he remembers the time when lie hurried from school happy but hungry, and sure of the welcome slice of good, sweet bread, but now when lie is almost starving, he dares not ask with the trust ing familiarity of one who knows his every reasonable wish will be supplied. ",My mother is dead," oh! the utter desolation of spirit which a child must experience on beholding the death cold brow. of a-n oily, a darling parent. He stood perhaps by her bedside, and felt the heavy pressure of her hand ; heard her wild prayer, clung to her cold, lifeless clay. Then, it may lie said, he was con signed to thme house of charity, from thence he was bound out, wvhere the milk of hu man kindness flowed not through human channels for him: bound out; to toil where thme children of his owvn age in thme same family, wero sheltered f roma the rough winds of heaven, and cared for so tenderly." The vision of that desolate child, stand ing in the drifted snow heaps, the tears freezing on his cheeks, his poor hands red and numb, his limbs all trembling, has often since obtruded itself on our vision; and that plaintive wail, "I'm a little bound boy nowv," oh! how does its searching pathos~ penetrate our inmost soul. We look sometimes upon the rosy cheeks and sparkling eyes of those near and dear to us, and picture such a fate for them; and the blood shrinks back to our heart. What! they sleep in the broken garret where the snow sifts throughi they feel the hard hand of anger upon their quiver ing fleshi they pass long, terrible days, and dark, lonely nights, and no sweet kiss dimple their cheeks, no soft, loving arms enfold them, no heart beat close to theirsi And yet, wec shudder while we wvrite, such is thie fate of thousands, once carefully reared as they ; no older in years, but in bitter experience aged, their soul scared, blackened by unkindness; the elements of hatred burnt into their very hearts by the cruel taunt, and the unfeeling sneer. Be careful ye who have charge of such unfortunates; be kind to them for the sake of your own dependant offsprings, for in God's mysterious providence, they may in future years be laid in the grave, leaving their little ones to heartless chari ties. "in a little bound boy ;" the simiple words need not gesture, nor tear, nor groans, to give them pathos; no none of these. They look sorrowful, and speak volmes by their brevity. Bound-to bear uncomplainingly; iound to agonies moment by moment;, und, perfiaps, to hunger and vice; boo kto a master who knows not the meing of the word mercy. Still art thou boun humanity, poor little bound boy, and e who sees the end from the beginni , has bound thee to Himself by ties t t'the world may tarnish but not breal- forthe suffering have a father and a onsoler in Jesus Christ. TiHE UNGRATEFUL oN.-" The eye that mocketh at his f er, the ravens of the valley shall pick. out." Prov. 30, 17. This is a terrible' unciation against ingratitude to paren. and even in the present day is some es virtually ful filed. "Some years ago,? -rish gentleman, who was an extensiv. ontractor on our public works, was re4 ed to poverty by the profligacy and d nesty of an un grateful son. The of an lost his wife, and to add to his cal ity, his health fail ed; and, to fill tie f his sorrow, he lost his sight. Th..h poor, friendless, blind and forsaken,. found an asylum in the Franklin Coun. 'Ims-house, Penn. sylvania. "While an inmat f this refuge for the afflicted his wie and ungrateful son travelled that wa 6 was informed of his father's situation,; d that his parent wished to see him; a. although he pass. ed within two hundre ards of the alms house, he refused toi p and see the kind father lie haid ruin Now mark the result. The ver*- he passed the ahns.house on his wa to Gettysburg, in an open carriage, hei s overtaken by a storm and took a seve cold which result. ed in the destructio of his eyes. He lay in Gettysburg iq critical situation until his funds were austed, and those who had him in ch took him to the Franklin County Alm ouse. "The very day he as brought in, his father, having died day before, was - -the same h. how isa nation to grow ,,v... full Every one.,will answer-by culti vating and making productive what nature has given them. So long as their lands remain uncultivated, no matter how rich by nature, they are still no source of wealth; but when they bestow labor upon them, and begin to plow and sow the fer tile earth, they then become a source of profit. Now is it not precisely the same case with the natural powers of mind? So long as they remain uncultivated, are they not valueless t Natur' gives, it is true, to the mind talent, but she does not give learning or skill: just as she gives to the soil fertility, but not 'wheat or corn. In both cases, the labor of man must make them productive. Now, this labor applied to the mind is what we call edu cation: a word derived from the Latin, which means the educing or bringing forth the hidden powers of that to which it is applied. In the same sense we use the word cultivation; we say: "cultivate the mind," just as we say cultivate the soil. From all this wve conclude that a nation has twvo natural sources of wealth: one the soil and the other the mind of the nation. So long as these remain unculti vated, they add little or nothing to wealth or powecr. Agriculture makes the one productive, education the other. Brought under cultivation, the soil brings forth wheat and corn and good grass, wvhile the weeds and briars and poisonous plants are all rooted out: so mind, brought under cultivation, brings forth skill and learning, and sound knowledge, and good princi pes; while ignorance and prejudice, and bad passions, and evil habits, which are the wveeds and briars and poisonous plants of the mind, are rooted out and destroyed. THE CHANCEs OF LIFE.-Among the interestings facts developed by the recent census, are some in relation to the law that governs life and death. They are based upon returns from the State of Maryland, and a comparison with pre vious ones. The calculation it is un necessary to explain, but the result is a table from which we gather the follow ing illustration : 10,568 infants are horn on the same day and enter upon life simultaneously. Of these, 1,243 neyer reach the anniver sary of their birth. 9,025 commence the second year, but the proportion of deaths still continues so great, that at the end of the third only 8,138, or about four-fifths of the original-number survive. But during the fourth year, the system seems to acquire more strength, and the number of deaths rapidly decreases. It goes on decreasing until twenty-one, the commencement of maturity and the period of highest health. 7,134 enter upon the activities and responsibilities of life-more than two-thirds of the origi nal number. Thirty'-five comes, the meridian of manhood ; 6,302 have reach ed it. Twenty yars more,ind the ranks are thinnued. Oly4,727, or less than half of those who entered life Aifty-five em.s ao, nya left And4 unw denth comes more frequently. Every year the ratio of mortality steadily increases, and at seventy, there are not a thousand sur. vivors. A scattered fevP live on to the close of the century, and at the age of one hundred and six the drama is ended. The last man is dead. Interesting Correspondence. The following is the correspondence which was held between Mr. Rhett and our Executive, on the occasion of the resignation of the former as United States Senator: COLUXarA, April 30, 1852. To his Excellency Join H. Means, Gov ernor of the State of South Carolina: SIR: In consequence of the proceed ings of the Convention which has just adjourned, I deem myself no longer a proper representative of the position and policy of the people of South Carolina with respect to the aggressionis of the General Government. I therefore resign into the hands of your Excellency the office I now hold as a Senator in the Con. gress of the United States from the State of South Carolina. Believe me, dear sir, your most obedi ent servant, R. B. RH ETT. ExECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, May 2, 1852. Mr DEAR SIR: Tour letter of April 30th, containing your resignation " as a Senator in the Congress of the United States," was handed to tne by your son, Col. R. B. Rhett, just as the Convention ad adjourned. A press of business pre ented me from communicating with you that evening, and the next morning I re gretted to learn that you. left Columbia before I could see you on the subject. I do not feel disposed, -my dear sir, to iccept your resignation until I have had in opportunity of requesting you to re :onsider the matter. I do not consider hat the course of the Convention has seen such as to render you an "unfit rep -esentative of the State." I am very far orth with greats ........ )ect to recent party divisions,) in the soi fmn form of an " Ordinance," an embodi nent of the very principles which you, in ommon with the State .rights party of lhe State, for years have advocated. I hope that you, upon a reconsidera ion of the subject, will withdraw your resignation, and continue to occupy a po sition which you have filled with ability and fidelity. I will take no action in the premises until I hear from you. An answer, how ever, is requested at earliest convenience. I am, dear sir, your obedient servant, J. H. MEANS. [loN. R. BARyWELL RiiETT. CHARLESTON, May 5, 1852. To His Excellency John H. Means, Gov ernor of the State of South Carolina: DEAR SIR: Yours of the 2d instant was kindly delivered to me by my son, whom you kindly deputed to bring me your communication requesting me to re consider the resignation I tendered to your Excellency of my seat as a Senator from South Carolina in the Congress of the United States. I assure your Excel lency that I had maturely considered the course I should pursue when I tendered you the resignation of my seat, and the subsequent reflection wvhich is due to your Excellency's communication, has not satisfied me (wvith profound deference to your Excellency) that I could have pursued any other course. I agree with your Excellency that the people, by the vote in October last, did decide against immediate separate secession ; but I did not suppose, until convinced by the action of the Convention, that they had decided in favor of absolute submission. Still less did I suppose that it was inconsistent with their will that the Convention should vindicate in some way the outraged sov ereignty of the State, by some measure retaliatory on our common 6nemies, or preparing her in the future for thme better protection of her people. The ordinance affirming the right of secession, to which your Excellency alludes, is a declaration of an existing right, which from 1828 to this day all parties in South Carolina have recognized. The ordinance neither facili tates its exercise, nor in any way gives potency to thme right. In the condition in which the State was placed by the fall election, doing nothing by the Conven tion, and assigning no reason for non action, is not only submission to the wrongs of the General Government, but to my apprehension is a tacit affirmance of the policy of co-operation, which alone prevented us from acting. I need not say to your Excellency that I have all my life been a supporter of State-rights and State sovereignty. Co-operation re pdiates both as practical entities, and instead of enforoing them, for the protec tioni of the citizen of South Carolina, easts him on the aid and strength of the 4tko Rtioia Any nratkcal vindioation by the Convention of States-rigbts, any measure asserting the sovereignty of the State, would have satisfied me that the State did not intend to rest on this policy. But she has done nothing in the Conven tion, and I am compelled to infer that her position is submission, and her policy co operation. I repeat what I said in my letter of resignation to your Excellency, that I do not " deem myself a proper representative" of such a position and policy. I therefore regret that I cannot comply with the wishes of your Excel lency, and withdraw my resignation. Sensible of the profound respect I owe more convinced, can better sustain her in the course she has determined to pursde. Believe me, dear sir, your most obedi ent servant. R. B. RHETT. EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, May 7, 1852. DEAR SIR: Your letter of May 5th, has just reached me. Although I must regret the views you entertain of the action of the Convention, (and with all due deference think them erroneous,) yet I feel assured they are honest, and cannot but respect the course you have.thought it your duty to pursue. Justice, however, to my own honest convictions, and also to the Convention, requires that I should express in decided terms my dissent to the construction you have put upon its action. Submission was never intended by it. It met under cir cumstances peculiarly embarrassing. It was composed of a large majority of those who believed, and still believe, that "secession" was the only effectual reme dy flor our wrongs, and that any step short of that would not only be unman ly, but impracticable. Against the exer cise of this remedy, at this time, the peo. ple had pronounced their solemn verdict, and it would have been criminal to have disregarded it. The condition of the State was a most deplorable one. It was completely prostrated and paralyzed by the party dissensions to which it had fal len a victim. Under these circumstan * M-the art of wis to pursuc, the fearful breaches an angry controversy had made in its heretofore solid phalanx. In that spirit of courtesy and kindness, which is the proud characteristic of our people, the Convention acted. The past was forgotten and forgiven, and theState was united. Nor did this union involve the slightest sacrifice of those principles which have ever been cherished as dear amongst us. The sovereignty of the State was as fLlly vindicated, as the sol emn ordinance of the Convention of the people could vindicate it. The wrongs we had received from the Federal Gov ernment were acknowledged, and the right of the State to use the remedy of secession, without " let" or " hindrance," was fully declared. rhe exercise of the right was pre vented by expediency alone, and of that expediency the State, as a sovereign, has a right to judge. I must confess that the members of the Convention meeting together, just as we had emerged from the most bitter and angry controversy we have ever known, and sacrificing all party feeling upon the alter of their common country, exhibits a spectacle of the moral sublime, which, as a Carolinian, I cannot contemplate but with the proudest emotions. I am sorry to inflict so long a letter upon you. I should not have said one word on the subject of your viewvs as to the action of the Convention, were it not that silence on my part would have been constructed into an acquiescence in them. My only object is to express my dissent on this point, and to endorse the action of the Convention. Your resignation is accepted, to take date from to-day. Suffer me, in con clusion, to express to you my high ap preciation of the distinguished services you have rendered the State, and of the bold and manly stand you have ever maintained in defence of the down-trod den rights of the South. Be assured, my dear sir, that you carry into your retirement my ardeint wishes for your happiness and prosperity. With high regard, I am, dear sir, your obedient servant. J. H. MEANs. To Hox. RI. B. Rnrrr TnE Washington co.reg.ondent, "In dependent," of the Philadelphia North American wvrites: It may now be asserted, with entire confidence that Gen. Scott, under no con dition of circumstances, w"ill change the ground wvhich he has occupied since his name has been brought forward con spicuously in connection wvith the Presi dency, and will write no letter concern ing public questions unless the Whig Convention should offer him a nomina tion. This is understood tp be the finali ty of his position, as declared by his most intimate and accredited friends, and upon the authority of undoubted assur ances. The Case ot the Colored Seamen. A great deal of noise, and some indig nation, on a small scale, seems to be generated by a, number of the anti-sla. very Journal of the North, in relation to the cases of imprisonment of foreign colored sailors which now and then, take place in Charleston, S. C., under the op eration of a law of that State. The re cent case of the imprisonment of a Por tuguese sailor-a colored man, who had been articled to a British ship-has pro voked a fresh outbreak of this small spe cies of indignation. It seems that Mr. Mathews, the British counsel at Charleston, has been engaged for some time back in a long series of letters and correspondence with the au thorities of South Carolina, relative to the operation of this law. Mr. Mathews, in pursuing that plan of operations, has been entering on diplomatic functions, and so far went beyond the strict rights and pri vileges of a commercial international agent. He was led into this error, we believe, by the imbecility or timidity of Mr. Clayton, the Secretary of State, and Sir Henry Lyton Bulwer, the British Minister at Washington, both of whom wanted the courage to meet this question positively and distinctly, and turned it over contrary to all law and precedent, to the local British Consul in South Car olina. Mr. Mathews had no authority, under any sort of diplomatic usage, for openning a correspondence with the au thorities of South Carolina on the subjecL His recent appeal to the United States Courts, however, in relation to the Portu guese sailor, is the proper course for him to pursue, and it is very well that he has adopted it in the long run. If there is anything contrary to the trea ties between the United States and Great Britain in the law of South Carolina, the United States Supreme Court is the pro per forum in which its illegality or jus tice can be ascertained. In our opinion, the State of South Carolina has a perfect right to pass such a law, and to exclude such seamen from landing on her shores, come from what part of the world they slay s and captains,' that certain ciasses of people, ot entering the ports of South. Carolina, should be prevAnted from going ashore there. But that State and every other State, and the whole country, have a per fect right to exclude-as a police regu lation-every !ndividual from whom trou ble or agitation or sedition might be ex pected, and to prohibit them from enter ing on their borders.-New York Herald. RE~v. JUrLIUS 3. DUBosE.-The Dar lington Flag announces that this highly esteemed citizen died on the 16th April last, at the residence of his brother, in Darlington village. Mr. Dubose was a Presbyterian minister, and bid fair to be useful and eminent; but from a disease of the throat, was soon compelled to abandon his labors in the pulpit. He was best known in the State as the able editor of the Temperance Advocate, which, under his administration, attained a reputation unequalled by any other temperance journal of that time. Since his retire ment fr'om editorial life, he labored, though afflicted with disease, in teaching and preaching. " His death wvas calm and happy." A SAFE ExPE.RIMENT.-Dr. Aslibel Green of Philadelphia, published in the American some years since, the follow ing account of his recovery from skepti cism, when a young man;. To the Bible itself I determined to make a final appeal. My Christian edu cation had already rendered mue in a degree familiar with a large portion of its contents; but on this I resolved to place no dependence. I took up the New Testament as if I had never open ed it before ; and with the single object of looking out for the signatures of Divinely inspired truth; and I prayed as well as half an infidel could -pray, that God, in whose existence and attributes I believed, would help me to form a just opinion of the truth or fallacy of that book. Proceeding in this way, I had not gone through the four Evangelists, till all my skepticism left me, and to this hour it his never returned. My mind, in deed, has some times been harassed with almost every species of infidel, and even atheistic suggestion ; but I have, at the very time of their occurrence, been thoroughly convinced that they were false and groundless. * * *And this, let me say, is in my opinion the best way of bringing to satisfactory issue this question of unavoidable and infinite im portance. THEY have got a new plan for the de molition of bed bugs in operation in North Carolina. It is done by steam one wheel catches them by the nose, an other draws their teeth, while a near piston rod punches arsenic down thei( windpipe.