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*4* - p -I --. ,e - -r ~ ~ -~ i DUSOE, Proprietor- E'GER EDGEF _ - -.-.- -- ---* I.. -q IWENn IS T T TO E r, 1 asked a glad and happy child, NlWhose hands were filled with flowers, Whoso silvry laugh rang free and wild, Among the vino wreathed bowers; K rossed her sunny path and cried, "_-When is the tine to die ?" Not yet, not yet !" the child replied, And swiftly bounded by. askod a Maiden'-bak she threw Tihe tresses of her hair; Grief's tiaes der her cheeks I knew Like pearls they glistened there; A ffuih passed o'er ]ter lilly brow, I lieard hii spirit sigh, Not now," she cried, "Oh ! no, not now, Youth is no time to die." I asked a mother as she pressed Her first born in her arms As gently on her tender- breast, She hushed her babe's alarms; In tremblingftoneis her answer came Her eyes-werodim with tears My boy, his mother'. lif tcln For many, many years I iestioned one .iini niood's prime, Of proud andfearless aim; is brow wai1urrowed not by time, Or dimnped by woe or care; In incryaceqnts lie replied, While flashed with scorn his eye, -Talknot to me of death," he cried, "For only age should die." T turned to one, for whom the tomb Had then long been prepared But.death, who withers youth and bloom, This man of years had spared. .ne more his nature's fire 1shed high, as lie thus cried, ife , only life, is nmy desire!" Then gisped, and groaned, and died. S Wen is the hour of death ?1" A'hely calm, was on his brow, Aiid'peaceful was his breath : And-gently o'erhis features stole A smile, a light divine; He spcaks the language of his. soul "A"y igisra's time is mine. Ellen Crosbi' u6wly retrating from her father,. withshor hands behind her, and her lips quivering-as she spoke. " Whatl-do yo ift peU" he exclaimed, springingafter her ndiraiving her resist ing form. towards him; " that is a very strange thing,. for a little girl to say; what mut-it into your head that father don't love mother4" he continued, smoothing back her soft hair from her white forehead, and look ing earnestly into her downcast eyes. Because :when mamma went awny from the table you spoke cross, and said she was always sick and-she has got a headache," aided the child' earnestly, while the tears trickled down- her cheeks. "I have been sitting beside her all the afternoon, and rub. bing her forehead ; and she is sick and tired very often, and you never tell her you are sorry, nor kiss her as you do me." .Charles Crosby drewv his little girl closer to his bosom- Her artless words had fallen like fire upon, his heart. Hie felt instantly that he had spokeni har-shly more tihan once to the gentle being wvho liad never given him an'unkind word. Seven years of his wed ded life land passed cahiy and fleetly. Be ig young and a most impulsive crea-ure when lie married, lie could hardly appreciate the deep, holy lomve wvhich his swveet bide treasured for him and him only. After the romance of thme affair, as it seemed to him, had settled into, a 'quiet, perhaps, mnonoto nous reality, his restless spirit yearned for some fresh novelty. -lTo work through the day, to come home at night and spend the evening horb isad-ths k pd .ijfant child, whose beautiful face gleamed like a rosebud upon the white. pillow in her little wicker basket cradle, became tiresome to him. He wished his Ellen had mere vi vacity, mere brilliancy, forgetting that these might accompany ~a variableniess of temper amoent that would truly have mgde his home unhappy. Ellen wvas a most excellent wife; her's was that, inwvard purity wvhich stamps upon the features a loveliness far beyond mero beauty; nobody hesitated to call her handsome ; her ways were winning, her formi slightly and fmgile; withia! site had so much prudence and was so good a manager, that from the timeeor his. marriage, Charles Crosby had bedu necnmulating riches. But she needed affection and much cnre; she was delicate, and so sensitivethata wvord of reproach from one she esteemled,.would cause almost a sesious illness. -.The language of lhen full blue eyes, as they were someotimes fixed up en the'tnoble face of hmbrlmsband was, love me; oh ! how I yearn for your full, unre strained love! then' they would fall to the floor whuile the consciousnesis that. ho was not towards lhen in mannei-s as he had one L been, and oh, she feared, not -in heart-would send an icy thrill through every .fibiro of her frame, Of late, Charles Grosb'y had 6faeri become an alien to his home, until the mid nights hour; he had found, as he thought, choice and congerial spirits, amid with them,a "the spirit~ of wvo," that is "the spirit of wine." Bat alas!m his fine mtanners wore :disappearing ; his homie was not 'an earthly Sparadise to him now-ho haid grown v~ry cold -and worldly, lindeend he knew not the extentt ofsthe.changelin hiimself. Hie storshipped his rovely ehild; and call : si~ weer'nnies of "fairy anud sug t ireaisini tjriith such' ~ row parent are.hiessed' naibatyo cariand teaching, her powerful mind migh have too swiftly expanded, and. ripenet quicker than the growth of this world wil allow, unless the rare exotic is to be trans. planted into heaven. Charles Crosby sat with his cheek resting upon little Ellen's head.; the dear child once or twice unconsciously sighed, and these sigls were arrows to the wounded spirit o the father. Darling, you speak strangely ;" he said after a long pause, during whbich conscience had been busy; " father haua great deal of hard work to do, and comes home tired and perhaps a little fretful sometimes but then - lie-he does-love your mother," he said slowly and wondering what become of the glowing delight lie had once ft ,it 11 mt;h e mentigpr e r (, nme. " e vou, do you rcnly' love her. n ?i' aske< dlhv child. siting upright on hil - andfi.dng her full. bet:tiful - im" "how strange; I t 'y ,wh. unvnm - --woma sid! !" xcisimee' hcr lather hastily, while a feeling of anger sniot through his heart the sudden surmise that his wife had been striving to alienate.the child's affections from him " what did main mia say, Elen I" he demanded sternly. "Don't look so hard at me, father," she replied, pressing tier snowy hands over his eyes, "mamma didn't-tell me, but she told God." More and more astonished, Charles gazed upon the child without speaking, and after a moment's pause, she continued, " I went in to mamma's room this afternoon, before I knew she was sick, but I heasd her.talking, so I went on tiptoe. She was- kneeling down by the bed and prayinIfto our Father in Heaven; and she cried and sobbed as I (to sometimes when I am naughty, but I knew she was never naughty, good, dear mamma, was she never naughty, papa I" she asked artlessly, and waiting for a reply. "She never was-to you or me:" answer ed the lather, choking down his emotion. "Well, then I heard iser pray; I knew she wouldni't care if I did, because she takes me with tier sometimes; and she asked the dear God if he would make her husband love her; and said that he went away from his home and liked other people better: and she said her heart- was breaking, too; and >h! she cried sndbad,"-continued the child, giving such a mournful emphasis to the last mwo words that the father's lip.trembled and he tears caine into his .eyes.-. "And then ihe turned rogud and saw me ;and she called he wild lit in her eyes ' Anost frightened ne. I kept tellitg.her-she was my blessed nother, and I loved her better than any body n the whole world except my father; and hen she told me that I must love you dear y'for you were a kind father to me and rhiaps she wouldn't live long; and if they id put her into the cold ground, I must make on forget it by my goodness and affection; ut I never could forget it, could you father, f they put my own sweet mother into the :old ground t" This was too much; Charles Crosby tarted from his chair, and placing Ellen on low seat strode rapidly through the room. 'he tears were raining dtown his face, but ie kept them hidden from the little one, who at .imidly still on her cricket, almost afraid o move for fear she had angered her father. >ot so. A flood of the old tenderness had ushed back upon his hseart; instead of the lemure and gentle Alice, his memory pic ured an angel of w~hom he had been all un orthy; a pure, radiant spirit, who had sat y her household hearth in loneliness and adness; with a slowly, surely breaking hart-a heart yearning and dying for love; mfappreciated, lightly esteemed, seldom ad. ressed in the language of affection, and et returning smiles for cold looks; never :omplaining. Oh ! had such an one blessed is dwelling and lie had not dreamed how riceless a treasure he possessed I- Bitter as his self-accusation, hot and copious his ears. Suddenly lie paused before hier por rait, the young wife in the robes of the bri ald seemed so joyous, yet subdued ; just as erfectly haprpy as she had appfared on the l1y-heEinlflivralflher hs owntr -Now, nity one thought echoed and re-echo~fd hrough his brain. " Should she die-oh ! should she die." For sometime lhe stood transfixed, striving to .check the bursting sob that wvas almost stifling him, wvhen lie felt a slight pull at his coat by Ellen, wvith her pretty lips half part ed. " Papa" she half whispered, "mayn't I go up stairs and tell mamma you do love her dearly I" lie caught her to his breast andl clasped ter with the wvarmth of his new love close in hits arm; ho kissed her again and again, blessing his Maker that " out of the mouths of babes and sucklings lie hans ordained praise:'' then releasing the delighted child he said, "yes, darling, you may if you wish to." - The child flew up stairs, while her father followed more slowly, "mamma," she screamed, bounuding into the room, "you won't cry any more, nor have a headache now, father says lhe loves you dearly, my own- dear mamma." The poor-womnan sprang to her feet; she could not comprehend the scene; she wvas bewildered ; her palo cheeks flushed and grew pallid. by. turns: She looked first at her husband, and then at little Ellen, who hid expected her mother to'laugh out-right, and appeared as gleeful as she ; little inno cetbeing. e lb in - -" Alice,'' said her. hsandi faltering tones "'our child is our peacomaker; she has made me a better man; I' do Jove you, Alice, will you- forgive me for my coldness and neglect 1" With a low, thrilling- cry of delight 'the wife fell within her husband's arms." " Hi was forgiven'.shte was happy ; in that m ment old barriers were broken down, old as sociations forgotten, and he solmnly re soLved, with the help of God, to be tie more a z Wnai fromre;- to remember the vowe he had Laken, and become worthy of th confidence reposed in him.. I Lile Ellen danced around the room, foss ing her yellow curls and clapping her hand as she shouted, "oh I am so happy, I'm ii happy, mother' won't cry any more,"-the: under a childish yet holy impulse, she knel revereitly down and lisped thi little, prayel she had repeated every:night.since ihe wa about two years old: God bless my darling mother, My darling father too, And may we love each other, - As Christ's dear flock should do. Think you there -were no"blissful tears shed 'in the little chamber, 'thev listened to the pet;. ,n of the artn. bhe' & h t.Ien s.p laterthan'usunI, n she was. tooi hatppy to steep; Lt .a'ral611 shed a inood of red light over tibe nel vell.orlered r*otn ; the :Ale was filled with ,Tooks; the piano fo'rte p and vivitig fohili sweet scInds as of old, mnder Lim tuugh. of the tio"v l'ght-hearted wire; and a note was sent to- the old rendezvous, in which Charles Crosby declined the honor of being made President of the L - Club.' He never thet with his old companions again, nor did lie, from that time, quatr the soul destroyer, "sparkling wine." Little Ellen, is now large Ellen but as happy and bright and beautiful as. ever. She will soon give her hand -to one worthy of her; arid she remembers, as' if it were but yesterity, the dark hour when she found courage to tell her father that "lie di'l not lover her 'mother." Still vividly does she recollect the. wild and joyrul feeling with -which she ran"'up stairs, " father says he loves you dearly, mamma, you won't ealy any inore T TEPEE AND TEMPTED. BY J. T. HEADLEY. It was morning-a bright cool, glorious morning in autumn.:-after the terrible battle of Brandywine. and the. greatful beams of the sun were gliding the tops of the tre% which formed the great forest lying within sight Of .the American- encampment below Princeton. The 'disastrous risult of the memorable condiei had well nigh crushed the hopes of tli bravest. colonists,''and the commander:in4chief himself was dispirited and heart-stricken. Hundreds of his brave companions in arms had-bitten 'the 'dust' in that- illfated fray; many of the best 'offiers had ben' -cut dowfil;heimi - gi, a s pta band iei-eei es? scarcely 'a. decent tent was. leff With the. array ; ilie ground was froze-and 'rugged, and as the men were forced over' it, their bare feet were exposed, and many a rueful gash had caused a bloody foot print to be left behind them. But on that lovely -and btight morning, within the edge of that broad. forest, there sat an aged royalist, whose sympathies had latterly inclined towards the American in terests, but whose personal weal- had until now induced him to 'pursue- an inactivity, a neutrality between the two parties. Aid yet this man had a son in Washingtonm's camp a mere boy in years, who had taken his musket and joined the American forces some months previously. The father had learned of the defeat of the coloiial army, lie knew they had been foreed to retreat, and lie came to the neighborhood of the army, which had halted an hour or two, to learn if possibile the fate of'hmis boy.' He dare not approach too -abruptly, nnd havinig reached the deep wood at last which lay between him and the distant camp, lie mounted a knoll, from the summit of which he had a viewv of the vanquished, lbut still determined band, who hiad comported them selves so valiamntly, but a little time pro. viously, but who were now hastening to wards Princeton. TVhe father's heart throb bed audibly, as he gazed beyond him at the remains of the gallant army,.and questioned if his child wtas there, or whether fate might have numbered his body among the three hundred noble spirits who had been sacri ficed but a fewv hours before on the field of battle. And as he strained his 'aged sight far down towvard thme camp, a white horse 1mddeny.eame in view, and apiiroached at length toward- the forest. The figure suich bestro4 his noble ani mal was comm' din" -md anitd the old man quickly : e tha 'ih~ coat and chapeau indicated him an Ameri can ofilcer. He wvas at the verge of the forest; and turning his steed aside, he se cured the animal to a tree, and disappeared within the confines of the wvood. Who could it be, and what was his pur. pose' at this hour alone in that dark forest? The man turned slowly about, and' 'le re joiced that the intruder did not observe him for he could not satisfy his curiosity. 'The stalwart form, the proud step, the manly face, the solemn movement of the stranger greatly interested the watcher, who saw that a deep burthen weighed upon his heart, and as lie looked again he saw that noble form besid low, and on his hnee the old man heard George Washington send up a fervent, earnest prayer to' the-' God of Battles, for the' deliverance of his country~ from wvar, opposition and peril-and ardent suppliention in behalf ofihis suffering coon. trymien. - - * A tear- of sympathy gushed from the grey eye of the royalist,. but as he dashed aside the fallen drop,'tlie bravo warrnor rose from his knees, and ifas slowly. w'ending lii way towards the r dt' wvhere his steed waE secured when another figur,e frm an' oppo site direction suddeil~y hove in sight, anc halting, stood'in the path of. the Americm commnander-in-chief. ..In.an instant the hanhl'of Wuihingtor elasped his sword. hilt, and 'he would have drawn the .blade from' the scabbard, but the man who coinfronted himnuniotionied - him-lh kindness, and' the waii 'stood sin .-hil tracks. '2Drawing himislf 'up 'fo his .hdight he. gazed-for' imomeht oil the face. of thi other,-and evidently~ recognised him, lhe- ex claimed with evident surrilse: - sir. ty, c~ s coloiniis Twe-4the r been the throunhot ington'- y "Atrnce~osd~ Generalq put an endt .unfortun 1 " You , Oln my himni-J lals contlic-pe repeat-hisj ,o to W.iints,.t4 te. the /faa The Amerie's wvard-Sir Wi his eyes-he ., thousandemotio cion momentan the mind of th What means ment I Was $, H owcame hete',op portune a momtsh General, these asange. mneeting-whba 1bg:e s~ But in his.handi .o parchment, andigain. American Gener' agPo ngn. tions of his noble .. When a nervous.'d trusted the foulI C"d" lowe i-aised t$i #ird.1. gazing'iiltentiydfotbr ng ton, he moved th parchment slo wly, a: "You may end may confer a Jrman d R portion of hik !e may crush the itself in these lastiig name f overtures whit from the - Kin added the Gen tents of tije Washington Majesty, King irt-ehief oUI~h For a in over h; j1 socttine and instantIY rpcoept~oQ~-t~dc ument ill' Its. own S' A if n read the woqrds.: va"je . Serrani, Dake - GeogeWuhpt fe'oin Ver non! Hfe stairted back,-..?groan4).drst from his! lips, adnd the'n-ext mn'ojkdt.-;t- parchient was torn finto ahui id hi'es,. and lay beneath the Amfericant,,oru To "Thus-thus I anse ~Your vile propo sal, Sir .aime t lint aslingtpn, coq*Mptfoslv, -a lie stumpted the fraghi mens in.o n t iidubineath his het and t119 B General quickly gave way bfre Wth, oigg i,insulted man, whom lie ae ,- hjAttr odlorward toward the outer ve.m o wthepce "ws rn into~a inshtoed~iandy benatr thelie1ofia tiro'sr's maetyr " Thus-use oiasreeo-~hoe of le pbp were mre Williamj.oth~u lal thegde -allpted th frag4eng the dhsenth Bunke feet, and h~ Brigh~~m r enesh qickn ogrvewaysfo a hni efyvi cinuelte r'an wo his fard,.asI ~ ntherlttne frward hu towa thei ou t ere eouoie ofd. er "Tis my .am~tnswhe ftobl usekedr master."Te do-nhuddiatr "On thcueofu' red-e th onunce Go' werei mor J'o rsh thga nrlysh en-e eral betpon theeig to~ tene-he ndad!y Wthnie moi.utes o W das eington , ~mu Be hild and Bandywuic1 ot-orf .rshLh annureartead but de~y eres'mte'sc tpor of this trsin ee. o'teroewdt histquiet om fin atere ones f er forIg yav umet uGei pobl caue o fredin.v ~ t~Brts in The-On sou-en e brseue df'kesdontume ot hEgish G~ien erat beta eeli a treawy oldihfie miwa Wheingto himn" nt-e Aed icseed aynder quiel ommat-of gt.~ nobe abetn. la-seldbyn ae n usthed bout dielcteste Spte Gi enyt home uinitdnad pvio "sI ae "met Gne shi~t ngton," her t samid is family I acre sincpra aeng hv seein hgr B(a elbii ln rhe-man wobaitlg prir~popla gdukedimnderaou isebloife,=can And athi twpenutye~ouderar'ads,~ vent as he - was, .Ihedi Wi so inthe Americanlarng ?drer oth odiatd f mie not-le asn ggtodbt uhet atdbte x chL1NE ~ o rnam r-The iin-ca ariineo thei roi sietsvei'16ter tedy Ne Yo r psyflatedi'ej~ra gue*y 3, sas .. ofre- Atauce tA.6egrsnaoad veaf rysachuettat o-o~ hsa;eapm1 g aidri commo th~onep'bliVd anyqarin'gne ita e great'feine; Snt-i thm leat'ex t.e antni-cu e abelity the adiiIofit~.~ tAefd Truly, the ruraehdo d bte '~il posma t t bn sdla te itor Maahu'es,- lite:-e ' .14V' r -t 16e hl6 h RtiA id4i~fal ho ors Qefore more Nsidcbl ;xessed' .ri r is due to th'emein&ry ..y to sxay 'iir many dis. 1aguisima menAIlh ha ei nded ir-,ives t t i seat if 'vm nt. and whose aos ( 'taid vi uas.. claind r.ei.4heir. ashes ery nrifirepecttbeefasikt--be iely .erte&. Tha. reeling of ati 4g,' as thon gie djlost pirai& fri-idrinIid firdiney an ahe.b k .pari iv'as the senfimerapf IfectiJL e er'su universaily blen'dtefla I hat rof ik.ndidas admirai.tee ..shre ihout (histieroverd helfd. efI red thou'~.inir-of theWId h ~uaryr.lay,' "%i ilrwit as-. em1lyi was iieier uttered ~hat tel ers %-not sponinsbly.i .nstatly maker e-welt.n rng?' "Statesii1i- t"frIn &truai of soul sincere, Of netion1ith Tindin honor elea"r - Whobrigke no pro ser'd ie 4iint end, Who gaied no tile,a ost no frieffd Enn4 by hiisel,.1 :. roed aiedgwpi, and honred by ,andhe loved." otiOdf the ipost ancient4 nht a .dvotes f civil liberty whikour r 'hs ~piducedhis death will be veptbt V6etari of ftreedont alloer the World - rougiouthisowi county it ill be felt * iait a(f void nbotng its,. Veanelf. hiethe presenit generation carnot e ' - TWddbsequies were, corducedvesteday grelyto th o.-i~ nprescibeid bythe om; Tte" of trangng ts o the $61 te. ...w ro lef~ie Nt- n~ ao 'o i~c~wau Pee onl nN eh with th i MunicipalPOffies and ,Corporate -b6diei of Washington and Georgetown,- and of the' eity-of Baltimore. A large.attendance of private citizens also ~testified their profound respeet and reveronce for the noble dead by uniting in the procession. The President of the United States, Members of-the Cabinet, and the Diplomatic Corps had already pro ceeded to the Capitol, in order to occupy their respective places in the Senate Chain. ber. When the procession arrived on the area before the east front of the Capitol, and du ring the performance of a solemn requiem, the coffin was removed from the funeral oar, and borne up the steps of the Portico, car ried through the Rotundo, and rested in the Senate Chamber. As much of the iroces sion as could be admitted within the cham ber entered, but a considerable portion * was necessarily excluded. Intelligence having been given to the House of Representatives of the arrival of the corpse in the Capitol, the Members proceedled in a bodly, with the Speaker at their head, to the Senate Cham ber, where they remained during the funeral service. This was conducted according to the forms of the Protestant Episcopal Church, to which Mr. Clay was attached, by the Rev. C. M. Butler, Chaplain to the Sen ate, who concluded with an imipressive ser mon, in the course of which interesting and consolatory allusions wvere made to circum stanes that had occurred during the inter course of Dr. Butler witti Mr. Clay, in the atter period of his sickness. Dr. Butler seized the occasion thus presented to enforce with power how important a place ekit morals and maxims must now anslever bear in all true and griat statesmnanshi On the conclusion ofth members of the House reti and adtata .1~hu ns; moved from the Sen. tre of the Rotunido carge of. the Mar' Columbia and his a this time thousands lected in the Rot- we sentatives, and els .t the Capitol, to be in readiness to behold for the last time the wvell-known visage of the deceased )iatri ot,so that when the coffin was brought to its position in the Rotundo the rush wvas im m'en'se; and none but the most . p.ersevermn. could bring themselves to enlcouniter the jostling and pressure that enzsued. It is to be regretted that arrangements had not be- ; made whlich would have~aff'orded -greater fa -iities than those adopted, f-'o.an orderly nd'iuist, though of courseraid.glance' 4t the features of the admnired and4og d dead. About half-past three o'clock the corpje,. dscorted. by the military and- followed by i multitude of people, was removed from the. Cjitol to the Riil-Road Depot,innd there placed in a- car, in charge of the Senate Committee appointed to accompany the re mains to their final -resting place in Kdn tucky. Solemn. silence prevailed" amongst the. spe'tators a~sthe train departed. for' Balti inore, vhere it arrived af-six o'clock, having n the ay passed-througha -heavy rain, ac omhauiied by thunderl and lightning. -Its rdval at thbe outer depot of thlat bity was ainnonlncedgby the firing of m~inaite guns, I which continued.wvhilst-the mnilitary and civic a rcessionNi wbihias thero fornied 'sloly, .proceeded with its sacred freight to the lMer ceasiehange in the Rotunido of.ibhich F the bohy'vas 'laced for the night inder ard of' a military'comnpany. T.he crowdsantending the procession were 'uii culyr eede.u M &dsdtheii~pl W Tln nd m jNurni in~-' ro~felved ~c'i~' ' W'ere ness were closed. e a Coimig e the rema arertbetakent rai1 echin dst;: a accompniitp e Cotmttee to0t. t chara-uto aimi&ii sort of Nin. Th -fib exped-to arrive n a delph'unit inghen t. ceived bystorAhligh pocession and p m Iqeedeiee Ball he- 4soe in rsidtncez n '001iy, -1. ourpripe l Menesiitiets ngst edrnn ad *ee gneif lyalse J.-lGd~c6 yiid1nd0i to business dnin th ol'a rliolV ih6 Pen .ic ayer r rom Wenesida evemng. Nr has our neighboring city of Ge-orgt.,fh'eei aik ward in her testiofndial Oe .s i hears'of the worth- andiervie iia'n, patriot;.and TiMend Who'ii dliig the comery an&he'wordii"0'' r stores 1anids residences vied iife is~ eityin . ,solemn mournfulness pecL- - -, *.Somerba dVeusive frauds whiihavs beenfradi theUnited StatesGd yernioen f um Tears-.ast,sde Newv .o~rE $past dipoeead Land ~ tosfrback jiiyd fori servic'lleged e performe. -inflhe Mn j#rtficate haveent, ad wsmasovow seenyemne.e 0 m? bin one - he W.the pafisfedlte uppe of.Tiaving it ransmnitted to WalW iigton, the accused at. the same -time lbe lieving it to be a. genuine,.documeht. "One of the. accused was arrested about' tlire6 months ago'in this city, charged with'pre senting a forged check at the Bankof the State of New.- York, for $5,000, and he'is now under indictment and awlaiting a trial on the charge. .When apprehended for pre senting the check, and taken beforo .instice Stewart, (who was then Police .Justice, a number of land warrants weore found in his pockets, and the police supposing them to ie genuine, returned them to the prisoner. It was sooni after this circumstance that Justice Stewart learned of his operations, and this prompted him to make iigniries which have led to this exposure. The police are in search of other parties charged with similar frauds, and will probably suc eed in bringing thien all to justice.' Some of the parties live out of the city and a few in other States. Justice Stewart intends investigating'the mter fIrther to-day. Mr. Heath, the Commissioner, who s on from Washington, has with him an immense number of the spurious papers." ThE CoMiNG EcItEc s.-The Presiden tial electioni s to occur on the second dy tof November next ;. and elections in advance f the Presidential will occur in the following' States, at the times mentioned beloiv, at most of which members of Congress are to be elected. The result of these elections' will of course be looked for as indices of hoetedenies of public sentiment; bearing l une, ' tial prospects: - It w Aslioioa t 2d Kentucky August' * . a.stn2d;. Missouri, August 2d; a, August 5th; Tennessee; -ermont, Sept. 7th ; Maine, .h ; Georgia, October4th Ar tier 4th ; Florida, October 4th;' October 0th;' South Carolina; .ith; Pennsylvani&, October 12th; ~, ctober 12th. In. Souti 'Carolina, the Congressional elections cannot take place until after the meeting of the Legislature, when the' Sta will be redistricted in conformity with thir new apportionment. [Soiith Carolinian~" P'RERBuv1NG [RISK! PoT?ress.-A reondenlt or the Soil of the .Sonth Mury, of Catoosa S3prings)g gives Ilowing' phlan' for- prm~rvinig I richl "MAit twchusihels-of 'chael~ buhel. of air-lacked limie for bushels- of potatoes, and. sprini~ ture through-the potatoes imcne -.; - reoving them fromn the field In this way ..you may keep them perfectly sound until the spring." AMXERIC~A SLI. B RAD In spito 'd the lawvs making~ this -trade piracy, the' num. ber of'enegroes itaken from 'Africa,. during the' last ten~yearsMujha,Js Lsixtyesix ~thousand, and to'Braiil liree hmistredind twety~six th6iiinni2The " trafie .'is.'still regularly enried' oibdotaithstanding the utost vigilane that isexecijid by ,the varonis British and other cruisers on..thi coast. - ..'aEN SEAdint TO N~tw~ men,- who belonged to, the .Americansbij Herald have bee tried' for the umurder-es Capt. Lawson and other-s, in 'the streets c Anjen, China. 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