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We will cling to the Pillars of the Temple of our L*-erties, and if it must fall, ire will Perish anidst the Ruins W. F. DURISOE, Proprietor. EDGEFOCTOBER 6, 2.. ..... THE KIND OLD FRIENDMLY FEEIUNGS. Tu kind old friendly feelings! We have their spirit yet, Tho' yars and years have paus'd old fricnds, Sinec thou and I last mtaet! Anil something of gray Time's advance, Scens in thy fading eye, Yet 'tin the same good honest g!lance I loved in ti.ies gone by Tr the kind olJ friendly fe. lings liad ever brought one sih i! The warm old friendly feelings Oh, who need rot le tU!d No other links cal bind the heart Like those loved links of ol Thy hand I jtoy'd in youth to) clasp The touch of age m11av sh.-: Yet 'tis the same true hearty grasp I loved so long ag6: Ere tl.e last old 'rien'y fee'inlgs ila tanght one tear to flow I The kind o'd frienlly feelings! Oh, seem they e'er less Jear, I ecause sonie recollet tit'ns May meet us mnith a tear? Though hopes we smaredl-the early beants Auhition bhwel our way Ilave fled, ray frieda-, like n:orning dreanms Before Truth's seareling ray, S.il1 we've kepet the kind Aell .elings That blessed our %outhful lay! WOMAN'S SMILE. TimEm is a star that brightly shines, Calna in the jkv above, That throws o'er life its golden bean:s Of happiness anl leve. A beacon pur, wihose brilliant light. No ke-rieg eleuds confinle, But in aflietimn's storan r:i:zht litli sweete,,t :a;tr.- shiae. There is a star, whoe m-aie peower, So firilv binds the soul. Thast e'en in joy's most satmny hiour, Man feels its sweet contrl ; A giorious light, who4e m:-ie spell ife, hope and joy impart. Anl calms the wild tcminp -stuonsswel,. Of earth's despairing len: t<. The star that from is glit'ring sheen, nTi throwrs o'er youth's 'r:pl:-udent scene The roty tints of hope: The star that drives the clobuhs away, Though da:k they frown awhile, An.1 ever shine with peerless ray, Is wo:nan's lovely sneil. From the Bosteon ( Olive lir:nieb. TIHE LAST TIE. " Leaves hare their tine toe fall. A ud tlowcrs to wit':.-r at the Nurth w':iels breath. A nel stars to set-leut all. Theu h:st all seasons f.or thine own, O Deotb " How few think of death. Any subject m:v he disets.ed-thc mot puerile cougita tilons be entertainaed, yet It t otne talk ot dy. ang, anad (h, low soon the selemni subject is dismi-sed by the giddy and utigodly ; and why is this! must we tat al (lie Yes, jumst ias surely as the sun shines in, the firaent. ITen A we should love to think, to speak of death, ven, eveni to visit thme abJote of the dving, there to keairn thme sole~mn truth tha t we are mortaml, aimtintist soon heave then theattre (If existeceiC, to brethe the punre at nmosphere of Paradise, or writhe in exeructi nglu e tortures, ini tha::t abode " where the worm dieth nt, and the fire is not quaeehyed. Rteade'r, (lid you ever sit be~side the bed of somec deamr fr iend, and witness thte atpproacha of the king of terrors-see tihe eyes baeome glnssy, atad the lips quiver int that lnst sad' strutggle? If so, the followitng sketch mtay p:-rlasps interest you. "Spring, genitle2 Spring has conme agatin," sa'd Ellen S-- to her mother, who sat lby the bed, anid gazed upon haer dolinhag (onet wvith thast axiety which a stother's bosom only can fe'-.. - Oh, mat~, open the winadow," cotntinued Ellen, "(anid let me inalue the frarce from mty flower-gaIrden ; there arc beauitifulh flow.ers ini it-sme plainted by) nay ownt htand, others hv your hanstds, dear msa." Mrs. S--~raised thme wind~owv, iad Elicen smiled, as the perfume from, her lintle gatrdenm tilled the apartmentt int whiebl she reposed. Ellen S- was in her eleveinth year, anid her mtother had looked forward with delight ful antticipattionIs, to the dayv whgen the dear child would be ai solace to her; but haowt mysterious are the ways of Piovidencte! she was to he disappointed. Tw~o lovely ebtildreii, onie a son, the other a daughter, had been sntchtded fr-om the dear p renlt whot hand ever striven to tmake them~t isappy, by thtat grinm monster, death ; anid n:owl she sat beswide the couchI of her dear Ellen, the last linak, the ontly pr'ecious tie that botund her to earth. Tlhe dliseaise which preyed upon tiais sweet chmildh had caused the death of her brother and sihter, atnd she, too, wats rapmidly sinking inito the armis of death. Ah, how must that pa~renit's heart have hecaved with ansgnish, ais she sat watchting thte receding sutn-lighmt of her Ellen's existentce! Is there a heart so enasitive as a imothier's -one that can love more dearly ? Is thtere oneo who will watcha in the still niightt, or when the stortm kitng is ca:reering withouet, more carefully, or stmooth the pillow, andI, wipe the moisture tmore gently from the suiferer's bron' ? We thinak not. " Ma, can you pltck one of those white roses from thme bush that grows int the middle of the garden P' said Ellen, as her tender pmaret. kissed her brow, so beautifully wihite, anod smoothed back the dark tresses that adorned htar child's head. " I love to look upon tho white rose-it is an etmblem of in nocence and purity; and amt I tiot innocenit, * ~-Mrs. S-- retired from the room, but -soon' returned, bringing the flower for which h e. sick hi ha d ased. EIIn stretche(I out her white arm, atten- i aiated ly disease, and her fingers nervously grasped the favorite rose. H ow beautilid ! and its order is so nree. able," said the pale girl; but, ima, I am very weak, my limbs are chilled, and yet no pain raclks mily rail bodv. I know that soon my Voice shall te hushed, nid these lips that now are almost colorless, will lie cold, yes, icy cold, to the toneh. But I will not talk of dying. for it distresses you, dear ma; and oih ! i would rather see the sweet smile upon I your face, than witiness the outbursting of I of your sorrow. Take this rose and place it near me, that ily eyes may often rest upon t it; and when these orbs sh:ll have lost their t inightness, and are pnt out by death, then let this simple flower be placed in my hands, that they who may gae upon my pale flea- < tures may say, -She was lure, she was inno- t Cent, even pure as the rose in her icy fingers." I "131v child," whispered tie miuther, ' are i you villin to die ? Would you not rather i live to comflort me when the lirosts if' age L shall have whitened my hiir? Cam you ai willinglv lea've earth nid its pleasures, yo03r t owin quiet home, and the mother who has ;1 ever loved vou f Oh, Ellei, Eli," cried :I the Aleetiaie parent, as the sorrow of her o heart burst forth, " what shall I du ? My children, dear little ones. where :are they'.' f Gone, gone, and you, the last or :d, my only it hope, are to be torn also from me!--oh, how it shall I bear this sorrow ?" and the distressed mother hugged to her bosom the dear one of - her hieart, and soibed bitterly. I " Dear mi." said Ellen, as she endeavored ti to wipe away her mother's tears, " 1 camnt ti stay with you, for death has fastened his icy j finugers uipon tme. Earth's pleasures are 1: wvorth nothing to tme, rand yet I would thin g live to inake you happy, to watch over your e bedside in the time of sicknesv, andl receive ti Your dviig blesiing ; but thi.; cannot b. ; d Ore nightfhdl my spirit shall have Itken its departnre, shiall be at rest forever." Ii 'I lie afternoon was ehosing. The orbi of s( day had nearly finished his course, aned yet ms Ellen slumbered. Her mother still sat near ai he bed, watching :anxiouslv the ebanges as a they passed over the countenance of her y oved one. At length Ellen opened her yes, and while those lustrinus orbs were le ixed upon her mother's ftce, she whispered, w 'eebl v: i Ma, I am nost there ; the way is plea- hi ant and not dark to me. Give me your st mad, ma; oh, I shall soon be at home. See, -a is she pomnted towards heaven, " there are tM cantiful beings beckoning me to coie to benm, and they are singing sweet musie ; do ve .Oi not hear them ! Oh, happy spirits, I ac hall soon he with yon ! Farewell, ma, we fi. mist now part, but not forever." Her hand fell upon the ied, and the mo Ier saw tha:t the silver cord was aboit to be misen1ted, that her dear child was to be taken romj her. Ellei whispered agaiin CV " .1a, that wlite rose, reilembl-er to place t ii my hutid when I aml dead ; weep not, I m1 tin going home to see pa, and sister and dear p ittle W alter, too. Now, mlia, kiss me. Y ou h iave often kim.ed ile w hen I sat nplon your c ilee, talking to yon in prattling. child-like lo :mocecyI, and now ks mte ain-a11-it will n ,e the parting kisq until we meet above. )h, I tm about to -ill asleep ill the armts o ti 1e1ath, a waken ill that world where the di ,nnl never sets." gn 1Her voice altered, :nt(d the mother bent ier head closely to the lips of her child ; p iiu] these l:st vords echoed in her ear, "at : -homue -to live-ina-heavent." in Silentce reigneltd ini tha~t little root,- oh,i -es! foir that pure spirit htad takena its flight o the mi:~anins of glory, ta I1cr suin of life hiad disappeared behinld the nu emisphere oft molrta!lity, an th1le miot her t losed thle eves of her departed Ellen, :and, in while the higs tear cursed o'er her cheeks. di obbed aloud, "Farewell, may Ellen, my last my only hope! farewell, child o'f my boisomn, v iitil I 'meet thee ini ihat happp~y homeo where hou shalt he paurted from n c no motre T' n Reader, it was her h~ast tie. - *- ' Antvt rt-ro(:.-B:arimii, wvho bougi!l t his~ lSinseu ini New Yoi k tent or tuelvee years Ih ago, whten lie was not wortha a dolar, atnd who1 is now a " amillioniaire," thus sets forth the wtav to miake mooney: h "Advertise your biiiness. Do n)ot hlide vour light under a bushel. What ever your o>eeup:lttonl or calling imay lbe if it needs support from1 the publie, ad~vertise it thor. oughly atnd efieietntly, int some shap~e or b other ; that will ~arrest public tattentioni. I t freely contfess tat whlat success I have htad I in life may faimrly be attributed moreo to the pitblic press than nearly aill other causesc combined. There may. possibly be occupa. tion)s thant do not require :advertising, but I cannot well conecive whlat they are. Meni I in business will somnehimes ttIll you that they I have tried asdvertising, and thtat it did nout I pay. This is onily whlen advertisinig is doneti spaingly and grudgingly. Homtopathi" doses of ;advertisinmg will not pay, perhaps; I it is like a half portiont of p~htyyic, makinig the patkit sick but effectinig ntothing. Ad-. minister liberally, atnd the cure will he sure and permanetnt."' Tuini LAW or TruE FIyarER RIE.-hf a tenttemtant wanots a wvife, lie wtears a ring on1i he first finger (If the Ieft hiand, if he is en aged, he wears it on the second fiiger, if Ite is married, on thme third ; on the foturih if he njever intends to get m~arried. Wheon a ladv is niot engaged, she wtears aIhoop or diamond on thte first fingver ; if engaged, on thte second ; if married, tin the third; anld on the fouth, if she initends to lie a maid. When a gentleman presentts a fan, a flowt er, or trinkets to a lady with the left hand, this on htis part, is an overture of regard; shoutld she receive it with the left hand, it is considered as an acceptance of his esteem; but if with the right band, it is a refusal of the ofTer. Thus, hby a fewv simple tokens, ex plained by rule, the passion of love is cx pressedl. It is a debautable qutestion of etiquette whether tho lady or gentleman itn mecting should speak first. We say the former, be. -,aus tov 0no hmaviia the slightest preten- I iion to being a gentleman, will not rail to -ergiize her salutations; while ladies often -onsider themselves privileged to play off all heir whims and caprices upon the sterner ;ex, merely for amusement. The Whit.e Satin Domino. The period of Napoleon's career, when it its zenith, is fidl of romantic adventures, is connected with the history of the olficers vho served under t6e great captain. Ile vas quick to observe merit, and prompt to ewaIrd it; and this it was that made his 'llowers so devoted to him, and so anxious o distinguish themselves by prowess in bat It, and strict soldierly conduct in the Em. ieror's service. Colonel Eugene Merville was an aWlache x Napoleon's stafi. lie was a soldier in he true sense of the word-devoted to his rolession, as brave as a lion. Ilougli very und-onw, aid of ine lheiming, hC was of umlile birth-a mere child of the camp, and Id followed the drum and the bugle from yhool. Every step inl the way of promo on had been won by the stroke of his sa re ; and his promotini from Major of car Iry was for a gallant deed which transpired n the battlt..fielI, beneath the Emperor's wi eye. Murat, that prince of cavaliy flicers, loved him like a brother, and tanght im all that his own good taste and natural Istii ct had not led him to acquire IeIore. It was the Carinival season at Pii is, and [erville foutnid himself at tile French Opera louse. Better adapted in his taste to the old than the boudoir, he flirts but little with ie gay figures that cover the floor, and pils but seldom in the giddy waltz. But it ist, when staniding thoughtfully, and re irding the assembled throng with a vacant ye, his attenmion was suddenly aronsed by te appearance of a per.son in a white satin amino, the uiniversal be:,ri:ig of whose fi ire, manner and beariig, convinced all that ir face and mind 1imist lie equal to her per In in grace and lovelines<. Thou:gh1 in so ixed :n1 asseibly, still there was a dignity id reserve in the mantiner of the fmniliar Idress, and it was some time before th-e >mg soldier found courage to speak to her. Some alarm being given, there was a vio. nt rush of the throng towards the door, here, unless assisted, the lady would have ateuially suffered. Eugene Merville oflfers s arm, and with his broad shoulders and >ut frame, wards off the danger. It was deligtful moment; the ldy spoke ha 'atiIng. " Al, lady, pray, raise that mask. and re at to me the charms of feature that must company so sweet a voice and so grace L a form as you pnssess." I " You would, perhaps, he disappointed." " No, I'm sure not!" " Are you very confident 7" Yes, I feel that you are beautiful. It nuot he otherwise." " Don't be too sure of that," said the do ino. IIve vou never hiard of the Irish et Moore's story of the veiled prophet of horassan-how, when lie disclosed his ounteniance, its hideous aspect killed his be ved one ? 1 ny do you know that I shall :t turn out a veiled prophet of Khorassan ?" Al, lady, your every word convinces ie the contrary,' replied the eiraptured sio er, whose heart began to feel as it had ver done before ; lie was aready in love. She einded his efforts at discovery, but -rmits himi to hand her to the carriage, hieh drives off' in the darkiess, and tlioughlt throwvs himself upon01 his fleetest horse, he unable to overtake her. The young Fren.-h coloniel becomes o idy ; he has lost his his heairt, and knows it what to do. lie wanders hither and ither, shutis his former coumpanion=, and, short, is miserable as a lover caIn be, thus sapointed. One night, just after lie had ft his h.5t I, ont foot, a fIgure, muflied te the ~ry eyes, stopped him. "Well, mionsieur, what would thou wvith - ?" asked the soldier. "You woutld kinow the name of the white omino !' was thle reply. "I would inideed," replied the oflieer, atstily. " Hlow cant it lbe done ?" "Follow' me." "To the end of the earth, if it will bring er to nie." " iut you must be blinidiolded." " ery well." "Step into this vehicle.' AndI away rattled the youthful soldier anid is strange coempantion. ' Thi~s mn ty be a rick," reasoned Eugene Merville, " but I ave no fear of pecrsomnal violence. I am rited witht this trusty sabre, and [ can take are of myself." But there was no cause or fear, eince ho soon fotiid the vehicle topped, and lie was led blind.'olded into the ouse. When theo bandage was remnovedl omi his eyes hItonnd himself in a richly u-nidshed boudoir, anid before hint stood the lominio, just as lie niet her at the miasked all. To full upon his knees, and tell her .owv mueb hte had thought of her since their eparation, that his thoughts had never left er, and that lie loved tier devotedly, w"as as iatural as to breathe, and ite did so most ;alhandy and sincerely. "Shall I believe all you say ?" " Lady, let mue prove it by aniy test you nay put uipon me~." "Know, theni, that the feelings you avow ire mutual. Nay, unilooso your arm from ny waist, I have somethiing more to say." " Talk on forever, laidy! 'Your voice is mYusic to my13 heart and ears." "Would you marry tme, knowing nio more tf e thaii you ntow do 1" " Yes, if you were to go to the very altar miasked !" lie replied. "Then I will test you." " H owv, lady i" " Far one year he faithful to the love you have professed, and [ will bo yours-as truly as [Heaven shall spare my life. "if, aut tho expirationf of a year you do not hear from mae, thetn the contract shall be null and void. Take the half ring," she continued, "and when I supply the brokent portion, I will be yours." He kissd the little emblem, swore again Ant again to bd 'i ihful, and pressing hei hand to his lips,i e her adieu. fie wa! conducted away 4mysteriously as he had been bronght t l -,-nor could he, by any po)ssible means;_s 'ver where lie had been; his companion re ting all bribes, and even r.fung to answ e simplest questiois. Months rolled . Colonel Melville is true to his vow, happy in the alicipa tion of love. Sdd uly he was ordered on -in eibassy to a, the gayest of all the European capi bout the time that Na poleon is planni . marry the Arch Duch c-s, Maria Lo1i The young Colonel is haindsoie, manily id already distinguished in ainis, and beed at once a great favor. ite at court, every ort being made by the women to captik him, but in vain; he is constant and true his vow. But his heart . 'not made of stone ; the very fact that ho entertained such ton. der feliigs for ito domino had, doubt less, made lin, a) pusceptible thahi 6efre. At last lie net jouig Baroiws., Caro hlie Von Woldo d in spite of hi vows, she captivates ' lie secrel curses the eingagement d so lii'dl made at Paris. She seem wonder at what ap pears to be his 4i on: and yet the dis tance lie iaintsi The truth was, that his sense of bono s so great, that hough lie felt lie really the young Baroiess, nad ven that she- rd hi u h0 had given hi6 and it was sacred. The satin s longer the ideal of hi.< heart, blut ass es the most repulsive forim in his iiii' tion, and becomes in ll:IC of his god. el-his cii geniu. Well, time roll ; lie is to retrn in a few days; it i30 ore the carnival sea sons, and in Vieni o, that gay city, Ihe joins in the esti o te masked ball, and what wonde .his brain when, about the middle of thb. ino, the white doio steals before him' .he same satin dress lie hand seen her u year befor', at the French Opera 11 -in Paris. Was it not a fancry? "I come, Colo" T ene Mellville, to [old you to your-; she said, Lying! ier hand lightly it is anti. "Is this a realt - dream?" asked the imazed soldier. "Conme, follow ad you shall see that young P BaoesCro t i a eaity c~~ud ste ofahi, plea. ndae ecritlense dt so blSdyOmdea wode t ht.p isMobt t ruly. in act, but alas!l I fear not in heart." It is too true, Ind3, that T have seen anti oyed another, though ioy vow to you has me ii from saying so to -her." Ants who is that you thus love " I will ba frank with you, and you. will cccl) imy secret F" "Most religiously." ,It is the Baroness Von g aldof" lie ;andid with a sie. Aed you really ov her " Ahas! only too dearly," said the soldier ;adl v. "Nevertheless, I fust hold you to your roinise. Here i6 the oiier the of the rise ,-in you produce its mate I 66iere it is," saiid Eugene Merville. 'Then I too, keep my proise," said the loio, rising o her thask, a skd showill to tis astoiiislied view the face of se Baroiness Von Paris Woalr! l,, it wassthe symah ofaid, lyin tha atraced eae drea?" caiked the youngd soldier. asb.. esd-e ohi e "pri ande horcter and yo ha seen bya ha angdtis ady"elicae itriems, landh Duhessrt." ai.Naoen o rw happineatbutass of!md hI, fa once, "tht is too irle, took this Ieoe ien and ineanokthe therg dmy the frt ot lie had wmeno sin hs torri." "Hn ois lyrtctd i thu-ve clth" v' h"les withi lfan wiih yofuate, and uwl told hm lecret pa ieo asil" o "nds religiouy" rtre a,"itb that yesu the finonss VoI" dof"h mi wthe sigh.rofhls obsr. " And ao reaig hle er a?"l nei h samel ric.~ Yeseaestillengfo ever hole, big tor lit "romien ivere ah t hol of the ie, re "lere itais," ad gente Mervhinto.i haomids, riein trther twma, anhosintoe hisd astoihed, viBw the Hill of tho Band thtsves meol onesiligf!yhw! "You, are fwas the ympaty, ofare yont sirat aiad aftcerki al! bexcstoe tohe homeny sodie hressed er o hive hirt soiniry toublewswrh f e oe h tilelnd eeything essy eerenarigd wri~ rat"si prmndabomanie he redh Dles to Pai.Nlo, "h1btor crwn the Gener5 al Division. ilsrto ft Fpro.-An trish eave soft impo-trted from ati,"e isl3, that to is bempter sakipl Hgoisa ofmploerso dttdan the alotho tim,'o coes nithin hat anench ofpeakh oherdan told him hemust pay a YfinTof shaln for stin rnd oazs ye,", rend ayi t biy trin unmberneah.ls o cay then izt of them thtov uets hea if yui.ion s s cures, in hillingfr everly hooranygdoriret lthie" ie. "I'll give you .a hlda, af the doge, re-' tods the ore plthe.tosahlenooe From the Richmond Examiner. Jane Williams was executed on Friday last, according to her sentence, in the pro sence or the largest, and, it is said, the vilest multitude that ever collected round such a scene in Virginia. She died with the same brutal insnsibility which charac. torised the commission of her crime, suf fered no pain and evinced no emotion. The reader will find the particulars under the local head of this day's paper. We do not believe that the Legislature of Virginia could have witnessed thei without coming at onice to the conclusion, that such a spee tacle ought never to have )ceen permitted to the eyes of the mob. Seeinig the small pain suffered by this wom-n, the perfect stoicism with which she met her fate, and the quiet, t easy manner in which it all paLssed ofl, | necessarily must diminish the tern r of the s law in the hearts of that niserable class I for which its penalties are intendel. The s i tendency of that scene was to convince them that hanging was not such a dreadfnl thing aifter all; and that one had as well die that way as in any other. There was another and a worse feature I in this business. Jane Wilias, as do a!! the worst murderers and mnurderesses, died 13 in the odor of saneti'v, a religiou.s heroine- l with a firm conviction thit she was swing ing from the gallows into glory-and the l brutal mob shared that conviction with her. "The Lord Jesus holds her up"-this was V the way they accounted for her composure. i 9 "She's with the Lord now"-such was I z< their comment as they walked away. For n, the last three woels, the paste:r of the li Afi ican Church here has been praying ard j preaching over her; all the consolaitions of C religion were hers ; at the gallows their full Lenefit were afforded to her in the presence a of the negro. We do riot say that Mr. Rylau.! should have p:mid no attention to this lamb of his flock, and that the profflrs hi of Christianity should not have been made w even to this wretched beast-but it was certainly a pity that the Brother could not aI have contented himself with fixing up her I soul at the cell, without making ill that u parade of the new saint before an undis. a cerning public. Such a manifestation could Of not fail in an evil effect. In the crowd's of belief, Jane Williams is much better off a, now, than if she had not butchered a sleep. g9 ing child and an innocent woman. Through th the agency of Brother Ryland, she has m turued her punishment into a reward-the pr - 1- , - I-- . . P tion without arriving sit the conclusion that the law should consummate its action in Of private. Mystery renders everything more terrible-and death above all other things. The mind regards with indiflerence whatever is public and coimnon. We hope another in session of the Legislature will not pass, i without the adoption of some different rule t of capital puniishment. PI Tu London Times reads the people of thj the Unlited States a lecture in relatioi to the th Island of Cu'sa, and the imputed desire for Si its annexation, which would be well enough gj if it did not appear is rather near juxtaposi- B tion with another article on the subject of N the Burmese war in India. Here would be dr annexation indeed :s the result of that war . which the Times indicates as a nasure of political necessity. Now what is this I, cessitv ? It is not aflirmed that the British forces in this part of India were assailed, or that the Burmese territory is so interposed between the British territorial posseSStonS, as so endanger their security. lint it was a war of invasion on the misersble plea that the But mese Govermnent .,wed the British Government in India ?000, which the former resisted as unjust. In miaking this invasion the exp~ense hsas been hadf a t million sterling, sand failing to obtain a coim piensationi for this large outlsay as w~ell as f future expenditure, the appropriation of thmeI territory of an entire Staite is recommended. Was there ever muiore unblushitng preten sions putL forth for anm e a ion I t does notv presenit even the poor excuse of stronugV powers in roundhing their dominions, by stealing f(som their wesaker neighbors. This species of necessity is not alleged in the Burmese war. It is virtuslly fot increase of territory, although osteinsibly to recoe a claim of less than one thiousaiid pounds. IEven if the sincerity of the pilesi were adlmitted, what could result fromn the inva sion of a weak State hut coniquest and an Inexation ? It is in this waiy that the British empire has been invarisibly extended in tho East. Now no lover of niationazl law cana object to the rebukes which the Londcon 'Times has so often aidministered to thsat lust of conquest, in a portion of our people, i wih~o would, in pursuit of their mianitsst des-. tiny visions, or for more mercenary purpos es, invade the territory of nations with which ware at peace. But the reproof comes with an ill grace from those who have built up an iminetnse Eastern empire on the ruins of other and weaker Staites. And wvhile this process of absorpti-n is yet going on, to receive almost daily lectures against the national sinfulness of territorial appropria tion, is more than human patience can tolersate. Now if the people of the United States were to anniex all Mexico and Cuba,I wvith some half dozen South American SStates besides, it wvould not equal by many dlegrees the sabsorbing capaicities of British *rule in India. It is fromi this source too that our propensities of annexamtion aire most inveighied against. If the balance of power is to be preserved in the WVest, as is alleged by Europeanm statesmen, by the non annexation of its weaker- States into one0 great Republic, surely there is .roomi for redress of that balaince in the East, wvhen an empire on wvhich the sun niever sets hss been formed, in great. part, from the disinte ~grated fragments of othor States-Charles-I ton News. AIAusa CorEL.ND, om last survivor of the corps of soldiers who attended Major -Andrewv to the gallowvs during the Revoln tionary war, lately died at Abingdon, Ct., aged 94 years sand 4 months. lie was the I oldest person in that town. His father had lived 95 and one-half years. RELIGIOUS ITEMS FROM FRANCE. Meanwhile, we are going back very fai to the times which we thought past forevet -of systematic persecution against Pro estants. The following recent ofact, whieli have on good authority, may show you what we have to fear. Connected with the xhole system of the French University is a wrnal school in Paris, where all those who visli to becorne professors in any college, hroughout France, must study. The can. lidates, from all provinces, are first exam. ned by the sectional university in which hey live, and, if admitted, are allowed to ome and study in the normal school at 'aris. A few days ago, the Minister of 'ublic Instruction, Fortoul, issued instruc. ions to whom it concerns, forbidding them o accept any candidate for the normal chool, who is either a Jew or a Protestant, lid in that way, excluding 'iom the profes orships, in all the French colleres, those h) do not profess the Roman Catholic eigion. I have just heard, also, that Rev. Mr. "ook, an English Methodist preacher in 'aris, has been forbi.ldeu to preach, because. e is a foreigner. Of course, it is not his eing a foreigner, but his preaching, which olnoxiouis to our masters. We are having just sa w a touching exam le of the unity of the Romish church. A 1. Bouilh-t published, a few years ago, a Aluminons Dictionary of Ilistory and Geo. raphy. -As soon as the book appeared, a nious paper denounced it as containing any things contrary to the Itoman Catho. 3 manner of understabding history. Fear. g that such attacks might injure his costly iterprise, M. Bouillet went to the Arch shop of Paris, and begged him to institute I committee to examine, correct, and change his book, every thing contrary to the mrel, and give to the expurgated work s approbation. A committee of priests ;Is accordingly instituted, the book exam ed and purged, anl the approbation of the 'bishoi, atiixed to a new edition of it. ut th Uinivers again attacked the hook, itil the archbishop was obliged to publish charge against that 'paper, and remind it tha submission it owes to the decisions spiritual authority. Years have passed vay; M. Bouillet's book was doing very od business, even among the priests, when e other day comes fron Rome a piece of aws. The book examined, corrected, ap oved, and defended by the Archbishop of N. Y. Independent. JnROxS BONAPARTE has changed his ne. The Pays speaks of him this morn f as Jero:ne Napoleon. A similar step is succeeded so well in his nephew's case, at the Lnce stinat needs follow the exam . But the President has a right to the tine of Napoleon, ivli e the President of c Senate has none. Up to the coup d'etut e President tigned L. N. Bonaparte. nce that event he signs Louis Napoleon. is unele's nime, however, is simply Jerome 3iaparte, just as the Emperor's name was apoleon llnapurte. This anxiety to op the name of the first consul, and take stead that of the Emperor. may be signi m:tive and ominous of coming events. Txouni .<x xMIN PEN ILETO.-We learn 1 ou the Keowee Courier that an attempt as made on latst Thursday inight to set on e the vilhare of Pendleton. The ineen ar'v had made all necessary preparadon, sing collected a large quantity of com stible matter, among which was a large antity of paper. The house selected was ec cartriage shop of Mr. Sloan, from which ie tire would have beeni communientedi to I parts of the village. The hour selected r this most atrocious design shows that it d been: prenmeditated, the fire being com uniented when all the village wvas absent tchurch. TIhe only thing that saved the !!age was owing to the circumstance that few servant~s wvere present, and succeeded stopping the fire before it had done much ~jury. Namono Ci.ornzx.--The Natchez Free rader pnblishes the followving receipt for aking negro clothing water proof, furnish d by a planter in Concordia parish: F ior a plhantaitioni of fit'ty to one hundred egroes, take twenty gallons of linseed oil, sto vhich mix three pounds of litharge, fter the oil shall have been boiled a fewv ~omnts. The litharge should be pulver ed before being incorporated with the oil ud well stirred in. Previously an overcoat r sac should have been neatly made from ommon cotton cloth, called domestice, long nough to reach below the knees, to be losely buttoned up in front. When: the ixture of oil and lithargo is boiling hot nmerse the garment, wring it as dry as ossible, and let it hang in the sun for three ays, wvhen it will be completely waterproof, n overcoat for the negro secure against torm or tempest, impervous to the wintry v'inds, or the chills of the nights. It will ost less thanm sixty cents per sac, and last mn or two years." Coxmanrss Lin.ur.-The library room nthe Capitol, which was destroyed by fire nring the last session of Congress, together -vith a large portion of its valuable contents, s now' being reconstructed in New York, oth floor and roof, galleries and book. helves, all of cast and wvrought iron. Forty mormous brackets of iron, weighing nearly :hrequarters of a ton each, will support thae roof of the apartment about forty feel 'above the floor. The design is of great beauty and richness, and presents muel ariety of form, scrolls, mouldings, rich ani free foliage, flowvers and fruits. A sTORY is in circulation that, in Middle bore' N. Y., some twenty or more of th< itizens, in broad day light, saw what ap peared to be an immense (some thousand number of soldiers, marching through th air ! This strange sight, it is said, was wil nesed for the aae of two hours or mori SLAVERY AMONG THE MRIICANB. A letter from Albuquerque, New Mexico, to the St. Louis Republican speaking of [treaties concluded between the United States and the Indians, says: " There is one difficulty which has given, and will give more trouble in the stability of our treaties with the Indians here, than any thing else, and that is, that we require them to give up all stock and captives taken after a certain period of our possession of the country; and when they ask to have their women and children, we reply that we can not do it-that it woid cause a revolution. There is in this country a state of things existing which is much more worthy the ef forts of your philanthropists. your abolition ists and your nigger-loving whites, than the question of slavery; and that is the fact that there are thousands, I might say, of Indian women and children who have been stolen from their families and sold into slavery, worse than Southern slavery. I have seen frequently little children, from eighteen months to six years old, led around the coun try like beasts, by a Mexican who had pro. bably stolen them from their mother not more than A week, and ofl'bred for sale from forty t. one hundred and twenty dollars. They will go out, on the pretence of trading with the Indians, and watch the time when the men are absent, pouno upon the women and children, and take such as they think will sell profitably. All this is known, and has been brought to the attention of the au thorities; yet it is still encouraged and per. witted to be carried on openly. I say en couraged, for it could easily be stopped. Hence the continued war with the Mexicans, the difficulty of treaties being kept, and the bitter feelings engendered." Tan Burx OF TIE IRENRY CLAY. At the opening of the court at Poughkeep. sic, New York, on Monday, Judge Barculo charged the jury that they were at liberty, should they see fit to do so, and the facts warranted it, to find a bill of indictment against the officers, &c., of the Henry Clay. growing out of the late calamity, there be. ing a clause in the statute of that State which authorizes the grand jury of any county bordering on a river to take cogni. sance of any offences committed on said' river. WE learn with much pleasure that odr fellow-citizen, Wilmot G. DeSaussure, ei4 has- been - eectd . .Gii their gift. We cot)r M ar. Veans sure on his appointment, and are confideht that the cause of F. L. T. will not suffer in having him as its presiding officer in this country. ANoTIER CUHAN ExPDrTrzo.-A re cruiting station has been opened in New York for filibusters for the invasion of Cuba. The proprietors states that in soeic twelve or thirteen days the expedidton will sail, and that one Dutch company, one Irish, and one American has been raised. He says that the conspirators have had despatches from Havana, and are to be there before Novem. ber. A x!AY named Moses Knight, was found gnilty, on the 14th inst., in Marlboro' dis. trict in this State, of eutting the telegraph wires of the line between Columbia and Raleigh, North Carolina, and sentenced to receive thirty.nine lashes on the bare back, publicly-to leave the district in the days, andl each and every time he is caught in the district to receive thirty-nine more lashes, without further trial. Ass.tLT ON TIIE MAYOR OF B.tLr-. 310RE.-On Saturday evening, about eight o'clock, as the worthy and efficient Mayer Jerome was passing along Lexington near. Eutaw street, he was assaulted by a fellow who had stationed himself in an alley near by. He rushed out, and~ made a desperate stroke at Mr. Jerome, whmo dodged the blow, which wvas received by Mr. George Kemp. T1he Mayor arrested and conveyed him to thme wvestern station house, wvhere Justice Ringgold fined, and committed him to jail in default of $300 security to answer the charge before Court. Fon RATEsNAKE BirES.-The fol lowing, says the New York Sun, is an in dian recipe for rattlesnake bites, and said to be the same infallible remedy used a few years ago by a certain tamer and exhibitor of these reptiles in this and other cities, who, it may lie remembered, allowed them to bite him frequently during exhibition. Pulverized lndigo, 4 drachms. do. Camphor, 8 do. Alcohol, 8 ounces, Mix and keep it in closely corked bottles. Thme directions for use are simply as follows: After shaking the bottle, soak the bitten part in the mixture for five minutes, and the cure is complete. "Mi," said a little girl the other day, who had scarcely entered her teens, "ma, maint I gut married ?" " Why, child !" said the anxious mother, " what upon earth put that notion in you! head I" " Cause all the other girls are getting mar. ried, and I want to be too." " Well, you must not think of such a thing-don't you never ask me such a fool ish question again. Married, indeed! I never heard of the like !" " Well, ma, if I can't have a husband, maint I have a piece of bread and butter 1" AN eccentric man in Bath Me., was aske4 to contribute to foreign missions.- He gave a quarter of a dollar, but stopped the a-n as he was departing, and said, " Here a i dollar to pay the expense ol getting te quarter to the heathen." " SAXBo, wvhat am your 'pinion Sbout do married life t Don't you. tiuk it de mis s happiestl" ."Well, I'll tell 'bout 4eg are 'pbnd.i ge ther how dey enjo ing hameesk;4 2