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we and Rif iit UtL fli et " e-air to tihe Pillars of the Temple of our LL es, and If it must fall, we wlU.Peris amidst t - - W. F. DURISOE, Proprietor- EDGEFIELD S. SEPTE BER 8, 1852. $elcet gettgi~. DON'T RUN IN DEiT. run in debt'-iever mind, never mind, if the old clothes are ftdeel and torn; F'it them up, make them dto. it is better by far, Than to have the litrt weary and worn. Who'll love ou inore for the set of the Or vour rutf o ' e ' r rlho< Th ' e of vour vest, or your boe#ior <-ravat, If they know you're in dtbt for ihe new. Don't runte in debt- canlarv's the go, Wear blue it you have iot tile eash, Or-nio matter what-so youall let the. world know You won't run in debht for a da.sh. There's no comfort, I tell you, in walking the stret iI fine clothes. if you kr.'w you're in debt, Ad feel that perhaps yon ousit trade snin umy meet W ho will sner-" Tley're nut paid for yet.' Good friends, let me beg you do r:t run in <lebtl It' the chairs and the softas :ire old They will fit your back bettir than any new set Llt'les they are paid for in guld If the hou. i to) small dlraw it clover togetier. Keepi it warmi with a he'arty good will A big one unpaid for, in :ll kitls of weather, will tenl to your warm heart u chill. Don't run in debt-now. dear girls. take a hint : t (if tile faiont, v cimge since ]Lit season, ) Old untire is out in the v<ery sane tint, And Old natire We think, tans some reason. Just siy to your t'riends you e:mnmtot atl' rd To speo med timu- to keep up wiit the fashion ; That your purse is too light and your honor too bright, To be trLiished with such silly passion. Cents, don't run in debt-let your friends if tilcv t Have fit houses, feathers atd flowers, [ean ut unless they are paid for, be tore of a man, t Than envy their sutnhiny liwurs. If you have 1inoniey to spars'. I hmve nothing to say: U Speal your dimes and your dollarrz as you plev. 1, But mind you the nian that has Lis note to pay I, the niztn that is never at ease. Khin1 husbands, u'iti't run in debt any moro; SI'will tilt your 'fe's eul full of sorrow, To know that a nei:ihhor may call at your door, With a bill you can't settle to-:nerrow. Oh ! take my advicu-it is good, it in trite, (But least you tny sone of you doubt it,) I'll whisper a secret now seeing 'tis you I have tried it an.1 know all about it. The chain of a debtor is heavy and cold, Its links all corrosion and rust, 'The miati who's in debt is too often a slve, Tough his heart tumy be honest anl trito z Can he hold up his head aillf look sauey and brave When a note hie eni't iy hecomies due ? t i( -i . ..tL EVELYN, Or, WI nc Occasionally. " Wine is a nocker-stronn drink is raging and 'whioso is duecived thereb'y is not wie."-]mL:. " Evelynl," sajid M1r. -Zargent to his orphan11 i d nijece, onl thle mlorning of her marriagre-d ay "Evelyn, I trust youl will have suifficient InI- i, fluetmce with Fratk Uivers, to induce hin to I.lav thioe gav, wine-t thining assoite If' . hsis. 1 hopje his at tendtanice oni convlivatl psar-. ties will nowt he les~s fregnett; for, Evy," j, added the fonid but c:m itiouts uncle, "' had habtits are somtimestL' forimed in this agreen-' You'og Evelyn Sargen'tt thought of her love'ts detedti(( attachmitent, smtile'd incredu louis!vI, anid sid:t " ti ton tak ile's wvine Ice'a-i siona'lly, dear uncle: het'side.s, it wouttld he harid to fantcy Frank Rivers an inebriate,v " e tnt fooi conifidenit ; I would not grievev vour gentle titure, E-velyn, ye.t it is well1 to be warined of' danger. I trutst, inadeetd, that 1 Rivers wtill always possess the same selftI command ais eow. it wouldI be a fearftdl thing for you, my child, should he, after all, tturn a charmend ear to the' voice of' thta Svren, the end of whose song is destruction." A slight quive'r camne over the curved lips of the y'oung girl-there wa;s a tremulous I llutte'r of the' white lids over the tender eves. $ave this, she stood silent before her un~cle, ats pmle certaitnly, antd as beautiful as the anost exquiisite statue. 11er uncle looked on her pityingly. "For give me, darling," he said, takinig her hand. -If 1 probe the wounid, God knows I woul heal it. 0 Evelyn ! when your sainted muo:hmer placed yotu, a little infaunt, in my! trtms, and bade mo love you well-when, wvith her dyitig br'eath, she charged mue to watch over y'our tender youth, anid guard vou fromn all evil- in thait solemin hour, E-ve Avn, I folded you eloser to my naching bosom. st id vowedi to fultil the sacred trust retposed im mue. It wms ino hiard task to perform a p~arent's duty towvardsyou, Evelyn; you be. .came what your mthtler beforer you had been -the deare'st object of may heart (though she left tme for myi adopted brother,) and nmy .care for you has been truly at 'labor of love.' And wvell have the gifts atnd graces of your youith rewatrded may care. You have brought joys to may lonely heatrthi, unknown to it inemy--may first and last great sorrow. You have ever been as a most dutiful and atfleetionate daughter unto me: but you are a wvoman now-you have chosen for your :self another protector, aind, O F'velyn! God grant he tmay wear' the priceless pear! of thy afTections worthily, and be to thy futture all thou so fondly hopest. But should the time ever rarrive that thou needest other help or guidance, remenmber' my house, aind my heart aire alike open to thee-and thou wilt not stay me nay. Pr'omise me, Evelyn, that in such emergency, thou wilt come to mu-thy second father." And Evelyn promised unhesitatingly-her future seemead sco hright. For the last time she flung herself into the arms that opened to elasp her to a heart, which, on this event fultuo... ,- dared~ nt 'cmuine it~ef too elosely. lad Evelyn- wit all that was strugzgliing in the nol and generous soul of her beniefactor, 'ank Rivers had been less lin I tgly e- ived in Philip Sargent's pre i Mr. Sargent gave away the bride- I fyrEvelyn did become the wifie of Rivers. I1er uncle marked the bridegroom's smile of conscious triumph and exulting love deepen I to a solemn awe, as he uttered the troth plight that made him her liusband and pro teetor. How trusting and entire was the I confidence with which she gave her hand to him, with whom she had chosen to trend life's erow \1 p4 h s! And there was a deep er regrt thI t he mere occasion required, in the sorrowful and earnest tones of Philip Sargeit's voice, as lie consigned his darlin' Evelyn to anl untried guard ianship. There w:is :I quiver oin tIe lips that pronounced a lbudi14 and farewell blessinlg ( the )young b1ride, now leaving the shelter of his roof rorever. Turning a list time to Rivers, lie wrnLig his hand and said: " I have commit rd a precious ebarge to yur keeping 31r. Rivers. As ouil hope for God's blessiiggf ,bey oy solenm inijuntion-deal truly and enderly by Evelyn and," lie added in a )wer tone, "liv yonesell too, deal faithfully !' When the young, lovely, and confidini" 'velyn said that Fraik Rivers possessed I o mui1cl good sense ever to beconie intem- I >eriate, she spoke but what she thought. In t er heart she could not believe that he, I hose nture was .o uoble and generous, rho eviiced so mantv correct feelings and ,iinciples-Fraik R iver1s,gy, gallan, high- i pirited, possessin.-, in an eminent degie, dl 11:manly gn:dificaions...-.how could she be- I ieve that he, by any possible temptation, I voild ever yield to the baiseful influences of t lie arch destroyer? Ieantilil Evelyn ! how clearly now, rongh lithe dim mist of years, does the per. i-et loveliness of that sweet face dawn upon ie! I can see her, as she was wont when , Oeside her husband, shake the golden ring ets back from her white forelead, till t -ll ini br ight clisters uion her shouldersi t was ple-a-inig to look upIon Eve lyin in those ays oh herluo ai ihiapiies. iThe chords j f her heart responded ever to the touch of i )Ve, and sent forth tones of peculiar sweet- I ess. Left :n orphan in early childhood, a ith non)ie lint her uncle to love, her hitherto or. Anhout til:s tne tieur . trge and popuilitus city. Evelyn was mis ess of : iuble mansion, surrounded by all I ie splentidor and luxury that love could he :OW or weath coinianid. BIasking in the wishinie of prospeiity; caressed, admired id flattered, in the gay- and brilliamit circles ie freipuented, the beautiful :nid accomplish. J Mrs. Rivers (as she was called) swamnt long the stream of pleasure so geitly, that ne might well deem no thorns grew in her athwav of roses. 4 . 0 0 0 Will you not pass this evening withni me, car Frank V' asked Evelyn Rivers, as she tw her husband, after an absence of three i ciCve ing hits, again prepare to go out. % Come." she contiitnued, playfully pntti:ig r slender arm nithiin hi.< own-" coeI , 'raiik ; vou did( not always thinki the evening | >st which you gatve to mue." A nid she gazed hon) him withi the eatrnestniess of a womfati's leading. But there was sorrow, as well as t nxie-ty in her look. " ou are a swseet beggar, Evelynu," said I livers, after looking ait her a imomient ; " bumt :wont do. I've pledged my word to Tomiu I riiadehl-a L'entleimiam's party you kniow-1 eil he back befo)re teeen;" anda if anx- r ais to be gone, lie hastilyv kissed her, and ~ ent his way.I Heavily did his departing footsteps rever r..te on "the heart of his disappointed wife; nil she thought tie nuever mioved so tardily.I seort of muisgiving, fur the first time, cross d her mind; nt that it shaped itself into ny thing tangibile, hbut a vaugue, undefined pp rehienion of somie impin idintg caelaminy. ilently Evelyen Rivers knmelt dowyn, amid im loriingiy shte repeated the intercession: Lead him not into temptation ; deliver him It wsere too sad a thing to traice Frank livers along his erriing path of folly and lissipatioin; too sad a tale to tell, how he ;radually andi almost imnperce-ptibuly, es raiiged himself from his gentle aiid trusting lvelyni; hiow, the more lie neglected her, hec f:irthier lie strayed from virtue and hioiior; md how the haibit of driinkiing " wine occa ionally" led him, at laust, to how down hisI igh spirit at the unholy shrine of intemipe ance ! It is a thn ie-told tale; too familiar, da~s ! to many of our readers. For a long dtie, Evelyn parried thme ceni mires and~ harsh judgments of thme world, thie secret regrets of ftriendIs, an mien a0tacks of foes. Clothed in its manitle of devotion, heor heart clung with increaused tenacity' to its object; and the image was only shrined the deeper. In the trusting earnestness of her heart, Evelyn had thrown all on the venture of his v.ow ; and thus it was that she yet sustained hierself. But the truth came at last ! That which Evelyn Rivers had deemed it even a siti to thinmk oti, now' stood before her a lamentable aiid sure reality-her husband was an irre elaimabille drunkard ! Paiinful rumors reached the ears of Philip Sargent, andh lie haistened to learn the truth. Ile came alone and unannounced, to fid his worst fears realized. One glanice at Mr. iiivers' pale, dejected countenance, tohul the story of " ns inie occasionially," and its effeets, imure eloquently than wtords! lideed, fews words wvere spoken. Mr. Sargent aninouniced his deternminauion to take Evelyn home with him; the phiysician had prescribed hern tive air, anid she consented to go. Onie whlo kniew her husband's accustomed hianits sought him ont, with a message that Mrs. R ivers wished to rsen him~-.him. round whocm her affections still lingered, though changed indoed from the high-placed love and confi. ding trust of the wife, to the pitying care of a ilnd for a misguidod and lost companion. lie came at length, with a flushed face, a restless eye, and unsteady step. Oh, might these but grow out of hi intense anxiety for her dying condition ! No ! she turns away from the bloated visage, and the thick tongue, attempting to mutter words of inebriate and lisgusting fondness ! ias that man ever been her blessing and delight ? * * Every trace of emotion ad vanished from ier face ; and, when she ag~ain lifted her l:ognid head, site had schooled her heart to such perfect self-control, that, to the careless eye now fixed upon her, she seemed not to suffer. You will readily believe, dear read. 'r, that no word of censure, no tones save hose of pity, Air the author of all this nisery, passed her lips. No !. but in this heir last interview on this side of eternity, ie enitreated him f'>r his owen sake, to pause ia his downward career. She said it was the last kindness she blould ever require of him ; that she could Ad nothinl to what she had already and requently before said; and now site entreat d him agaiii, because she could not forget lie time when lie was her good and honored aiAniud. She could but pray, as sie had o01g done, that a merciful God would have hat pity on him which lie would not have ponl hiiself. A momentary remorse struggled with the lim perceptionis of the inebriate; and reel g, he f1ung himself beside her conch, and rept alond ! What fattier passed at their arting hour, we know not, save that the Ist words of couisel had been spoken by be fithfll wife',-her last admonition fallen 1n tie husbland's dull ear, and sIe was gon2 ! s the last sound of the carriage-wheels, -hicb conveyed Mrs. Rivers from the home f her wedded life, died away, Frank Rivers ent forth to his wonted resort, and spent le night, as usual, in degrading tihle dignity f m1anihood below the brutes that perish. VoC! that one so formned to excelso gifted I every thing, possesing :n intellect so oble, so elevated-woe! that through the isidiou-s advances of " wine occasionally, e should yield t) the fascinations of vice nd its deceit ful allurements ! .-.-... ~" ! huit not hoforo the last .lC1I...... rophetic spirit, when Le offered the fair ride his protection through all her future re! 'Tliree short years! Theun he had >reseen tile consequences of taking " wine lca.sionally." Poor Evelynfelf them later! nd oh! how uiminv burning tears and blast. i hopes would have been spa:1d her I Bitt e blow had come from the hmid of one for hom she was sacrificing lifae itself; and she arc her terrible calamity n ith uncomplain g- sorrow to the end. "I kniow," said she to Mr. Sargent, the eening before her death, " r know, dear hihii (she seldom called him uncle, as she as :an adopted niece,) that I have been bur. L'nsoie to you ; lbut GoCd inl his infinite ierev, will soon relieve you, and release me om1 this~ pisoni.huse of chiy. Youi were er* timst kind to your poor orphan girl, hIilip, lbut tr ly' so in this haeavy time of, ial. My* yeairs though few, have been evil, yv friend ; and imy datvs of dark ness, have iey not beetnmany ? Oh, Phailipt ! could I ream that a glass of ' wine occasionally,' *ould work sneh woe to me ? Dear uncle-" D~on't ever call mue uncle again," inter apted Mr. Sargent, with an indescribable spressiotn ofi his large lalck eyes. "Oh :velyn !" heo murmurcal, " I have dearly oughtt the hiappiness of wvatching over yon hi the end ! Call me Philip, dearest Eve. rn," lhe said, turning againt towvards iher; during the shtort remnant of youar days, my oor Evelyn, let me he nothing but Philip to ont !" Anid Philip's heart was wrung as lie honghtt ofi the young girl's past and ptresent. D~ear Philipi, you teeh for me) too dleeplv," altered Evelyn, remarking thte great grief fat sat ont his manly fe'atuires ; and shte ressed his trembling fingers in her own a tie htand ; antd Phlip1 Sargenit shook in very linmb of his wvell-knit franme, as if lie ad been a child ! " IHe caim, my friend, tty only friend, antd listen to me. When I mo no more," she conatinued, in a lowv voice, 'there is one ohlice of kintdness I could wvisht ~ou to performt." " Name it," returned hilihp: " whatever is in my powver to comn >ass shall be done." " iloss you for these words. Philip, when [a dead, and gone, you must finid out Frantk's htautt, anid try to recltaima him. .od did not will that, that great bleswitag uhiould lhe mine. Tihe wyork of reformation nust be dlone by one who never even dii:iks Lyvine (occasionally. I did sometimtes joini Vranuk in a glass, in the early dlays -of our union ; and the remtemb~eranece is now like mdoteni lea:d in my thtroat ! Oh, Philip could I live my life over againi, ito one that I loved, should toneh, taste, or- htamnde the accursed thing!I But seek him, dear Phtilip); tell him thtat if lie buit leads a sober life, I shall ntot havo dhiedI in vain! T lell htim that, wvith my latest breath, I forgave arid blessed him; that I loved and prayed for hinm till my life's end ! Will you do thtis Philip ?" "I will, indeed," lhe replied, in a broken voice-" Oht, Evelyn !" With a faltering footstep Philip Sargent followed Evelyn Rivers' remaains to their last homte. Bait lhe shed no tear as he performed his last nmourtiful (luty over her grave; for lae knew that tho sorrowing spirit of that lovely broken-heatted one had reached the haveni of its everlasting rest. And Mr. Sargent religionsly fulfilledl Eve lyn's last wishes. lie did try, long and faithtfully, to save Frank Rivers ; but all his ,.frorts. were vain-mainer titan wvater spilled upon the ground. a' man was an ie clainable drunkar Yes, Ieaven -%a kind-! for Evelyn did not live through loi ears of 'watching and weeping, of tremblt hope and unutterable dispair. God gaviej e brolken lily a kinder doom. Let woman, 164y, devoted, confiding woman, avoid . therppearance of evil. Let her beware Ileglass of "wine occa. sionally," at the r,,el andhe feast! Let her remember thatiin uniting her destiny with an "occasioj.' drinker" even she is drawing upon hers a fearful doom, and is ieurring one of tl eaviest of curses; It is like linkina ' -ith perfidy,--the dove with the vultu s the wedlock of purity and pollution-:. and the beast. Let woman beware of lme tenperac as well as the confirmed drunfiard. DECOEDY TAEN IN. A man in Phila. hia recently married a woman under thej pression ttha she had the dimes, but ih he found that it was not so, lie compla*t.*d before the Mayor and praved for relief. h following are the fact elicited befo e Police.Court: A man with u P of whiskers, or rather a pair of whiskersWith'something faintly resembling a man Tttached to them, ap peared before the Didl#pal Bench with'an acusa ion again lementine Derby, oth. erwise Millet, w -hocrding to the afirma tion of the comp nant,. Abrahii , illet; had swindled him t of 1is perisnal';;-e dom by inducing t1inarry her,itie said Clenentine, who roed afterwards, on close inspection, amere.,bundle of false pretence. he1 the this kers, had beco Ms Derby at a reput the lady had fix esid ne. She had a fine su ow a chirrn. ng teeth, and a ton of roses'an ilies in her coi ,A an innocent, mai .lnv countenan od figure and for. unie of forty t d dollars, including a -ice plantation Vith ninety-three legroes, soie out Suth Some of hese attractions r.Milef6j )t the rice gro d lever been seen er abjects of faith . I emntine 4 Wauuma1g, au as lor her maidenly in. locence," observed Mr. Millet, very rueful y, " I found she had two children boarded At in Jwrsey, one of which children is a !ingy curly he -ded little fellow that looks >rodigiously .ke he had A frican blood in n him. "Still," said Air. Mlillet, pursuing he subject, " the thought of the rice plan ation out South, and the ninety negroes, iorded me some comfort; but it was't long eforo I discovered that this plantation was o confounedly far " out South," that there vas no coming at it; as for her niggers, I ,uess she has none, except that little frizzly icaded chap that calls her " mammy." " I )itty your case Mr. Millet," said the mayor, - but we can do nothing for you. Your own| mprudence brought you into this predica. nient. You were in such a hurry to secure our fortune that you have got lilt." " Yes," mnswered A braham, " hit indeed, and that ay a woman that hasn't a tooth in her head hat she can call her own ; for the dcntist she >ought them from never was paid for them." -Settling that bill is a privilege that will ielong to you," said his honor, as A braham, evith muaniy a convulsive sob, left the H all of Inistice. A xxxN without money is a body without isoul-a walking death -a spectre that ~rightenis every one. His countenance is torrowful, and his conversation languishing and tedious. If he calls upon an aCqlnain tance he never finds hims at home, and if ho rpens his mouth to speak, lhe is interrupted every moment, so that he may not have a l:uhane to finish his discourse, which it is Fearcd may end with his asking for money. lie is avoided like a person infected with disease, and is regarded as an incumbrance to the earth. Want wakes him up in th e morrning, and misery accompanlies him to bed at night, the ladies discover that lhe is an akward booby-landlords believe that lie lives upon air, arid if heo wants anythingr from a tradesman, he is ,asked for cash be fore dlelivery. NATRnAL RELIGIO.-1. Look out - for number one. 2. Use others all you can, and let thems use you as little as possible. 4, Get money; honestly if you can get money. 3. Every one for himself and the d-1 tamke the hindmost. Here you have the thimng in a nutshell. There is no nieed of inking whole reams of paper with an explanation of the subject, for here you have the exact doctrines in which the wvorld believes and which are practiced by a vast majority of the people in every nation of the goe PLxarLS pedestrians are allowed to pas the Augusta toll bridge free of charge, by a recent vote of the proprietors of the bridge. 'Tho down casters don't believe in toling the belles. THE slaves of the South, when the wish to he severe on each other, say, " Go 'long, half-price nigger; you wouldn't fetch fifty dollars, and i'se wof a thousand." "Do unto others as you would that others should do unto you," said a young buck, soliciting a young lady to kiss him. A DacuarWon lately deceased tias left the large sum of $3000 for the invention of 11 shirt withant butns! We are cut off from all communication south and cast, and the effects of the recent disaster reach us- slowly. -We have no doubt but we will have a gloomy record for some days to come. The Charleston mail did not reach here last eveningas we learn that-from the Junction to- the trestle work the track'is under water. The bridge at Columbia is veny little in. jured, and will be passable for alF kinds of transportation probably to-morrow. Light wagons, foot and horse passengers, can now cross in safety. The greatest damage is a deep gully washed on the west bank, which is being filled up as 'rapidly as possi ble. Our country friends will have this ..mode of reaching us. The plantations below have suffered se verely. Col. Hampton, Col. Singleton, and, Mrs. Taylor are amon;''the'-heaviesfosuf ferers. In fact; all -the crops on the planta tions on the river are utterly ruined.: 'It is also rumored that a number of ngroes have been l6st. By a letter* from Camden, we also learn that the crops on the Wateree are utterly destroyed. At the last accounts, the long . trestle work and raih-oad bridge over-the Wateree were still standing. On Monday evening the river at Camden was higher than it had been in. twenty years. We have nothing further from' Hamburg or Augusta. The mosi painful. apprehension is felt for: the safety.p$ Co e;,W-hrotn, Chief En- 1 gineer' tl Greenville, Railroad. He' irrted, from Alston on.. Monday in a 0anoo with Mr. McCollun'-and,;?Mr. Jeffiers-who 1 are er ployed on- tieoad. _w Coiling'do 1 the stromiitbe 6oa uti, i i ciuruii i com anyith .hitif, a -lad of soiel wW4e years of g ; swam off. Thalloy soi got wearied, lid his .fathir' took imn on his back,-but h1id notproceded far when a floating limb of ,tree. threw him off, he was seen no mores Mr. MeColluni racbed the bank, and returned to Columbia late on'. Monday ight. - Mr' Jeffernlung oTie canoeaidtei some hours can i n ethila of a lIali ,f Stree, and sueeded n#sting on the tre e, phere he ':- eJ..al onday night Soon fter,:real'iog.4ti tree hiesaiv Col. Brown'r: catn piast. him, perfectly self-possesseo. e.s heyiard calling forhelp in the or and all the gooas ungeu. MeRory's store entirely gone, with all the I goods; loss about $4000. The bridge is gone, and the road, as far as we can hear oU the east side of the river, is greatly damn. Rged-all the trestle work gone. Mr. Brown, the chief engi-eer, left Alston yes terday, in a canoe, for Columbia, il com- C pany with Mr. McCollumn."-Carolinian. t D s-rurCTTVn FtESHET I. MonrET'- I SeEiAL Lives Losr.-Columbus, A ugust z 31.-We have accounts from Mobile to-day 1 which represent the storm at that place as 1 the severest that had ever been experienced I there. The river rose to such a height as to overflow Front, Commerce, Daniphin and G overn ment-streets tip to Water-st reet, and St. Francis-street above St. Louis-street was a complete lake, reaching from the whar-f I westward nearly to Royal street, and ex tendling beyondl the railroad depot. The dlamage (lone to property in the city I is estimated at a million of dollars. < One house was blowni down, and the family occnpying it, conisting of five per. I sons, were killed. All thc boats in port w~ere more or less dlamagved, except the Jenny Bell. Some boats were blown into the woods. T1'wo schooners and onie steamboat were lost. A boat was washed on the wharf, and nowv lies on dry land. Thea telegraph posts are scattered in every direction. The~j Mobile Light House was carried away with several men, women amid children. Tlhe wharves in the city are nearly all; destroyed, and the surrounding conntry is nearly entirely inunidated.-Savannaah Newis 1st inst. Tua Riebiland, Ky., Messenger of August 14th says: " Some 3,000 hogs wvere sold in this county during the past and present week to Tennesseeans, at $1.50 gross. They drive thetm to Tennessee to fatten, and thence take them to the Southern market. The prospect for corn in this region is rather gloomy. We have had no rain for several weeks, until Moniday- last, when we had ai gentle shower. Unless we get more, crops will be cut short, probably niot more than half the ordinary yield."~ RwurARKAnu.E CAsE OF LoscrevrT. Died ini this District, on the 17th inst., Mrs. Rebecca Gent, aged one hundred and ten years, a native of Lancaster District. She enjoyed good health until ab)out two years past, and supported herself by her industry up to that time. Four months after her marriage, her husband enlisted and joined the Inidian war, and served five years; he then returned to his wife and lived with her tihe remainder of his days, and reared a large family, of whom three of their children are alive at this time, the oldest persons known ini this District perhaps-Lancaster Ledger, 25th ult. QUFWR IIIARRIAG;E IEL.AT oNshmxP.-We have been informed, says the Washington News, by an intelligent resident of Westerni Virginia, that there resides necar him a muan about thirty years of age, whose matrimonial history is as followvs: When he was a child his father died. His mother soon married a very young man, and died. Ills stepfather, but thirteen years older than himself, mar ried a young wife, and died, wrhen our hero TEE ORDE OF TEE INE E The aii spring. of the present'.&iban ed. nspirady is "a well- -org anizsed aid-lwide spread secre'political association kiowiias the "'Order. of.the'Lone'Star,' Numerdus divisions of this Order'are established all over the ountry. In New York eity and neigliborbuod there are some seven or eight. divisiois, embracing several thousands of members, whohave all bound themselves to march at ainofi ont's warning to Cuba. Eminent soldiers, morchants, physicians, law.yerseditors, and even divines are active and influential :members f tihis order, and its coffers are rapidly:flling with gold. ' A principal man in the NewYork branch es of the ordir furnishes the Courier and Enquirer with a very alionrishing description or its.nature. We extract from his cqmmu nication the followling: - * A constitution 'wasa iptediihaving for its general -bais. 'the- eitbnsion of the area of Liberty;' arid the- firsit' divisioi of the. 'Order of the Lone Star was instituted in New Orleans. - Soon others il' thers vere instit*ad, untifnov there o r -fifty diviionsin eight or ten States 'ifon, among them the Cuban divisidd-a union,' in the .city of New York. Tiemembers number more than fifteen jthouand, eveiy Dne of them s worn to he-p oidstU'tu to wte "AI4der'. Pak, bi their own pergons, tifill fheir place uitk s'nother,vhen the npment of action' dries.. Until ,ave only sgught-to~neiry tefs thosemen nosttaifoj.al aeountf teir knwledge td viritues and aby n i8tinwuished men tlong't thii Order, some militaryiand some nhu Cus~ Lby ~t'rTe Nashvill xaiette r 6eeld teriroi rankin, enwN ting that"Areu .fr i 01onve beenaise i nua Yinthat State "Agentleman, just r-etnd ro n sh sgton, says thatihe biad alougienersao vith Mt.Webster on tk6sdi ntbb course if ihhilthSretr ox ssijipro" " aonof the cduit s e f. f'n rho are'movig 1here((9 i iioes'desre tbat the ectoriite,' ' nssachetts should l not e' i on4ogi n7 ist wee-ik in the woods back of Columbia, few miles above this city. She was first bserved climbing trees with a rapidity only t qualled by a monkey. Capt. McCullough vi a large party, went out to capture this ingular being, and after great trouble sue. eeded in doing so, when they learned from lie incoherent expressions, that she had cen a lunatic in the Asylum, at Columbus, Vlence sho escaped some months since, nd had lived in the woods subsisting upon uts and roots. This is a singular story, ut Aif. vouches for its truth as one of his 2dy clerks was present at the tinie of the aptuae.-Cincinnati Coin. Tun Minden (La.) Herald is published on half sheet. The editor says if he thought n apology was needed lie wvould give it, but e does not, and therefore maikes iione. He ays tho paper accords with the patronage esitowed on it. It is poor pay and poor anper, and he is not going to break himself lown soul and mind for mere appearance ake, regardless of the pap. That's true ndependence. BrLOODY RETR[BUTION.-Mfark Sullivan, who murdered Mr. Jordan in Washington :ounty, Alabama, a few years ago, for which ie w~as sentenced to the penitenitiary', re. *lnrned home a short time sinice, and w"as uhot, oine day last week, by a son of Jordan, lad twelve or fifteen years of age. Sulli ian died the unext day ; before ho w~as buried >ne of his sons was thrown from his horse md instantly killed. We understand that Sullivan attempted to shoot young Jordan irst, but his gun missed fire, aind before lie ould make the second attempt, Jordan sliot lulu. INDIuN MICRDER AND RETRIBrTION. Trhe Clinton (La.) Floridian of the 14th ult. says that in the neighborhood of Mr. Wm.' Jourdan's residence, near that place, the wveek previous, an Indian deliberately shot another, his half brother, through the heart. The chief of the tribe came, examined the matter, seized the murderer, placed his back againist a tree, made his wife:hold ono hand and his son the other, and in that situation shot him through the heart. Cor.. MAXcy GREoG.-ThiS distinguished citizen and Patriotic statesman, has declined being bronght forward as a candidate for United States .Senator. lie says that lie could not accept "if so improbable an event should occur as his election to that 011ice." The position would lie wvell and wvorthily filled by such a man as Maxcy; Gregg. Lie is possessed of a sound head and clear judgment, wvhile every pulsation of his manly heart, beats in unison with the best interests of his beloved State. Hie is one of the men whom Carolina should de light to honor.-Black River Watchman. LovEns.-People that are in love with each other wonder that third persona should discover their sentiments. They fancy themselves in a kind of Cahyso's Island, and are astonished when a strange sail is seen approaching the coast. Thiero is, in point of fact, iio paradise that has such a lowv and thin fence as this; every passerby can see through it. A STaN down south advertises a few choice rattlesnakes for sale, and appends a hint to auch as do not wish to purchase, that they way of Soiii cient dive'sityo pzrsUiniaMsh'fBer ed"V. It is- true'thAt 8-8ih ei her int - cy, that her reao4res aifs id ed and her6sapsiiie*inkn en we consider the. iA she possesses over, any otbesecti.on h country, it is certainly astoishigtliut h doesuot'nowholi the asoedde'nya this I4 portant respect. In otton - malnfaltir esjpeciallj--s important-item of' wealth andi-poweih-she& ought to be-withdut aiedmpetform'delflls# a rival. Here, we have the rasmnisterit upon the spot;-the manuitfactori placed at the side of the cotton fe costof-transportation being reduced solutelY.fothing. Labor to be emyloyed th. mills, can-lbe obtiii41 atthe Southnii more faoable termsjthn inothekrsectioduy, and equally as efficie. Fuel is not soer-, pensiveand all needUl s'Canfodea produced and fur~shed'to theoerntive for less. Weer~a ifrbs 0adait. set pnglow:ereslinfeR, power, can. spp&1.isp .; Motn~ expense. y A w of suei&sful i pW-. and p easure, eour yeop -There iainoieason wh the th shoulf not be the'-facturingportion of the coon Pror ftbonbu1 e haf4 b" oPii ebliihofo-e s vfS6m - ----- liac ip anulP '-~ -en people rom attaining the highest prosperity in very department of enterprise and indus ry.-Georgia Home Gazette. ARRIVAL EXTRAORDINAn.-We have ioticed some time ago, in several of our ex. hanges, the very remarkable cireumstance if the arrival at some place, of the man who ever took a newspaper-consequently lie vas much surprised to hear that Millard illmore was President of the United States; to was firmly under the impression that An. Irew Jackson was-several other matters c learned which were really news to him. We had an arrival a few days ago into mr little town of Lancaster, almost as ex raordinary as this was. We allude to Mrs. ,owers, a lady, who lives some four or five niles from town, w~ho brought with her, her ~even children, thme tery proliflc yield offour ears. This is fact. Mrs. Powers has given >irtlh to seven liv'ing children in four years, inving had twins three successive times, and he fourth year the odd one. The State shoul :ertainly inake some provision for this fain ly, as we believe all seven are girls, there Fore not capable of working their wna through life like boys.-Lancaster Ledger 25th inst. A correspondent of the Macon Telegrapi writing from Drayton, Gee., says: A few days ago while the hands on th plauntation of J. B. Lanmar, Esq., in Sumtc county, were clearing a piece of land, the samue across a large rattlesnake, wvhich o being pursued, made its way into a hellos log, near by. This log was immediatel opened, out of wvhich came twenty-on rattlesnakes, all of which wvere kille These snakes were from three to six fet long, having from five to fourteen rattles,: I have been assured by Mr. Brantly, C Lamar's Overseer, who was present a counted them. WnunRE is KossUrn.-At last accou Kossuth was in London, living in great p vacy, and without attracting observati The Journal of Commerce mentions a port, that Kossuth regards the Derby ministration wvith distrust, and fancies thma would, if possible, betray him to the A trian government. Kossuth probably about as much cause for his alarm on occasion as he had at the Irving Hous New York, when he employed two or th stout fellows, armedl to the teeth, to k guard at the door of his apartment night day. TnE SACRIFICE OF LIFE-There 1 been during the present year twenty steamboat accidents, involving loss of The number of persons killed and dror is seven hundred and twenty-eight, an jured one hunidred,. FROST IN AUGUsT.-A gehtlemanm passed through Ashiliehl, M assachu few days ago, informs the Joumfal of merce that frost was visible for snm~ tance along the valley in the vicini Spruce Cornets. Fences, bridge pl &c., were white,ecovered with it, OBEDIANI thinks the atree of knowvl was the birch tree, the twvigs of which done more to make' men acquainted arithmetic than all the other members vegetable kingdom combined. These two lines we have wo.doubt,