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We will cling to the Pillars of the Tenple of- rtles, and if it must fall, we will Perish amidst the Ruins." W. F. DURISOE, Proprietor. EDGEFIELD, S OCTOBER 20, 1852. * * TEF MIuIY. Tell me, ye winged winds, That round my pathway roar, Do yo not know some spot Where mortals weep no more ? Sonic lone and pleasant dellI, Some valley in the west, Where free front toil and pain, The weary soul may rest? The loud wind dwindled to a whisper low. And sigh'd for pity as it answer'd " No!" Teil me, thou mighty leep, Where the billows round me play, Know'st thou some favur'd spot. Sonic is'and'far away, Where weary man may find The bliss for which he sighs, Where sorrow never lives, A nd friendship never dies? Theloud waves. rolling in perpetual flow, Stopp'd for a while. and sigh'd, to answer" -No!" And thou, serenest moon, That with such holy face Dost look upon the earth Asleep in night's embrace, Tell me, in till thy round Hiast thou not seen somc spot Where miserab!e muan light find a happ'er lot ? Behind a cloud the moon withdrew in wo, And a voice sweet, but sad, responded "No " Tell :ne, my secret soul, Oh: tell mae I lope and Faith, Is there no restitng-place From sorrow, sin, and death Is there no happy spot Where mortals may be lilsss'd, Where grief may find a bahn, Aaud wearinaess a rest ? [en Faith, Ilope, -iad Love-best boons to mortals giv Waved their bright wings, and whisper'd - Yes, in Ieaven !" THE BACHELOR'S MISFORTUNES. As the bachelor rises up in the mora Ile feeleth weary atad sad, A tad at breakfast he finds the bread is stale, And the butter shockingly bad, Hlis'eotece is cold, iaid his bran new boots I ave not been dnbted or brushed, And he raises up while his pallid cheeks With anger and pains are flushed. e.ntegoeth out, an4 cotiforts himself *By takiaara soedt huseah, And he thinks of his coming dinner, when IMe shall have his iteak and punch; But as lie enters he knows by the siuke That cometh out the window, That the steak. by the hands of the verdant cook, Is burnt, alas! to a cinder. He alts him down, but he cannot cat, For lie with ragc is inspired, And lao tugs at the bell until at last lis arms are weary and tired. But no one conies, for the landlady takes Great care to be out of the way, Especially whenever sie thinks Her lodger has sumething to say. S1mging with passion, he taketh his leave, To spend out the rest of the day, But supper tim--. conies, and home he goes, Grumbling the whmole of the way. Ile sits down to tea, biut fate has ordained That nao tea, atas will ponr oaat, For a host of leaves, to his utter disa ' Have fixid themaselves iaa thaes '' 4s anid ills Poor fellow:I no lotiger li shllw i eris~4 >~w to draw Buat we tell old )' A mralfw as simaplc and plain A maoraJ'E Op htad shown it Vsnug little house, my bachaelor friends, Aaad a snug ile wife of your own in't. The Lotery of Life. Sharp's Magazine for May contains a translation, from the " Revue des Deux Mondes," of several " Incidents ini the War of Mexican Indepenidenace," from whicha we select the following thrillinig scene. A cap tain in time insurgent army is givinag an ae coutnt of a meditated night attack upon a htacienda, situated in the Cordillera, andl occupied by a large force of Spanish sol diers. After a variety of details, he con tinucs: Having arrived at' the huacienuda unper eeived, thanks to the obscurity of a moon less night, we came to a htalt under sonic large trees, at sonic distance from thec build. ing, and I rode forward from my tree int order to reconnoitre the place, The hta cienda, so far as I could see in glidinag across the trees, formed a huge massive parallelo gram, strengthened by enormous buttresses of hewtn stone. Along this chasm, the walls of the hacienda almaost formed thae continuation of another perpendicular one, chiselled by nature herself ini thec rocks, to the bottom of which the eye could not pene tra'e, for the mists wvhicha incessantly boiled up from below did not allowv it to measure their awful depths. This place was knaown in the couantry by the name of thN Votadero.' 1 land explored all sides of the building except thais, when I knewv not wvhat scruple of military honor incited me to continne my ride along the ravenue which protected the rear of the hacienda. Betwteen thae walls and the precipice there was a narrow pathway ab-out six feet wide; by day, the passage would not htave been dlangorous, but-by naighat' it was a perilous enterprise. The walls of the farm took an extensive sweep, the path crept around thelr entire basemenit, and to follow it to the end in the darkness, onaly two paoes fronm the edge of a perpendicular charm, wvas no very easy task eveun for a practised horseman as moy self. Nevertheless, K did not hesitate, but boldly urged my horse between the wvalls of the -farm-house and the abyss of the Vo ladero. I had got over half the distance without accin, when all of a sudden my horse neighed aloud. This neigh made me shudder. I had reached a pass where the ground was but just wide enough for the fore legs of a horse, and it was impossible to retrace my steps. " Halloo!" I exclaimed aloud, at the risk of betraying myself-which was even less dangerouss than encountering a horseman in frdut of me on such a road. " There is a christian passing along the ravine! Keep back." It was too late. At that moment, a man on horseback passed round one of the but. tresses, which here and there obstracted this accursed pathway. He advanced to words me. I trembled in my saddle; my forehead was bathed in a cold sweat. " For the love of God! can you not re turn ?" I exclhimed. terrified at the fearful situation in which we both were placed. "1 Imfossible !" replied the horseman, in a hollow voice. I recommended my soul to God. To turn our horses round for the want of room, to back them along the path which we had traversed, or even to dismount from them, these were three impossibilities which placed us both in presence of a fearful doom. Be. tween two horsemen so placed upon this fearful path, had they been father and son, one of them must inevitably become the prey of the abyss. But a few seconds had passed, and we were already face to face the unknown and myself. Our horses were head to head, and their nostrils, dilated with terror, mingled together their fiery breath. ing. Both of us halted in a dead silence. Above us was the smooth and lofty wall of the hacienda ; on the other side, but three feet distance from the wall, opened the hor. I rible gulf, Was it an enemy I had belore mY eyes? The love of my country, which boiled at that period in ny young bosom, led me to hope it was. "A re you for Mexico and the Insurgents ?" I exclaimed, in a moment of excitement, ready to spring upon the unknown horse. man if he answered me in negative. " Mexico e Insurgecte-that is my pass. word," replied the cavalier. "I am the Colonel Guarduno." " And I am the Captain Castonos." Our acquaintance was of long standing, and but forour mutual 4gitation, we should The colonel ha - the head of a posed to be eit had not been -- "Wl,- e4. sorry you ar eive that cr - to the oth . "1 see it so plainly," replied the colonel, with alarming coolness, " that I should al ready have blown out the brains of your horse, but for fear lest mine, in a moment of terror, should precipitate me with yourself. to the bottom of the abyss. Our horses had the bridle on their v and I put my hand in the holst--' of '"y saddle to draw out my pi-tols I remarked, in fact, th" ithe colonel al. ready held his pistt' L in his hand. We bothmairtaitned t'-' most profound silence. Our horses fe'.te danger like ourselves, d hres,4 . as immovable as if their feet were aid to the ground. My excitement wrtitirely subsided. " What are we go. to do 1" I demanded of the colonel. " Draw lots which of the two shall leap into the ravine." It was in fact the sole means of resolving the difficulty. "'['here are nevertheless some precautions to take," said the colonel. "He wvho shall be condemned by lot shall retire backwards. It will be but a feeble chance of escape for him I admit; but, ini short. it is a chtance, arnd especially ono in favor of the winner." "You cling rnot to life, then 1" cried I, terrifed at thne sang-floid with which this proposition was put to me. " I cling to life more thtan yourself," sharply replied the colonel, " for I have a mortal outrage to avenge. But the time is sliping a way. A re you ready to proceed to drawv the last lottery at which one of us wyill ever assist I" How wve wiere to proceed to this draw iig by lot? by means of the wet fingers, like infants, or by head arnd tail, like tho schoolboys. Both ways were imnpractical. Our htands imprudently stretched out over the heads of our frightened horses, - might cause them to give a fatal start. Should we toss up a piece of coin, the night was too dark to enable us to distinguish which side fell upwvards. The colonel bethought him of art expedient, of which I never should have dreamed.. " Listen to me, captain," said the colonel, to whom I had commurticated my perplexi ties; " I have another way. The terror which our horses feel nmakes them drawv every moment a burning breath. The first of us two whose horse shall neigh " Winsi" I hastily exclaimied. "Not so-shall be the I qser. I krowv that you are a courtrymarn,'and such as you can do wvhatever you please wvith your horse. As to myself, whto but last year wore the gown of a theological student, I fear your equestrian prowess. You mtay he able to make your horse neigh-to hin der him from doiing so is a very difficult matter." We waited in deep and anxious silence until thre voice of oneo of our horses should break forth. Tis silence lasted for a miute-for an age ! It was my hrorse who neighed the first. Thre colonel gave no ex ternal manifestation of his joy, but no doubt he thanked God to the very bottom of his soul. "You will allow me a minute to make my peace with -Heaven I" I said to the colonel, with falling voice. " Will five minutes be sufficient ?" "It will," I replied. '[he colonel drew out his watch. I addressed towards the heavens, brilliant with stars, which I thought I was looking up to for the last time, an in tense and a burning prayer. " It is time," said-the colonel. I answered nothing, arnd with infirm hand athred nu thn bridle of my horse, arnd drew it within my fingers, which were agi tated by a nervous tremor. "Yet one moment more, I said to the colonel, " for I have need of all my cool ness to carry into execution the fearful, manoeuvre which I am about to commence. " Granted," replied Garduno. My education, as I have told- you, had been in the. country. My childhood, and part of my earliest youth, had almost been passed on horseback. I may say, without flattering myself, that if there was any one in the world capable of executing this eques trian feat, it was myself. I rallied myself with an almost supernatural effort, and suc ceeded in recovering my entire self-posses. sion in the very face of death. Take it at the worst, I had already braved it too often to be any longer alarmed at it. From that instant I dared to hope afresh. As soon as my horse felt, for the irst time since my recontre with the colonel, the bit compreksing his mouth, I perceived that he trembled beneath me. I strengthened myself firmly on my stirrups, to make the terrified animal undersland that his master no longer trembled. I held him up with the bridle and the hams, as every good horse. man does in a dangerous passage, and wi;h the bridle, the body, and the spur together, succeeded in backing him a few paces. His head was already at a greater distance from that of the horse of the colonel, who en couragea me all he could with his voice. This done, I let the poor trembling brute, who obeyed me in spite of his terror, repose himself for a few moments, and then re commenced the same mancuvre. All on a sudden I felt his hind legs give way under me. A horrible shudder ran through my whole frame. I closed my eyes as if about to roll to the bottom of the abyss, and I gave to my body a violent impulse on the side next the hacienda, the surface of which offered not a single projection, not a single tuft of weeds to check my descent. This sudden movement, joined to the desperate struggles of my horse, was the salvation of my life. He had sprung up again on his legs, which seemed ready to fall from under him, so desperately did [ feel them tremble. I had succeeded in reaching, between the brink of the precipice and the wall of the building, a spot some few inches broad. A fw more would have enabled m11n to are step in the rear. Nevertheless, I did not feel my coudrge yet exhausted, for I had no desire to die. One last and solitary chance of p5ty suddenly appeared to me like a S:iah of light, and I resolved to employ it. Through the fastening of my boot, and in reach of my hand, was passed a sharp and keen knife, which I drew forth from its sheath. With my left hand I hegan caress ing the name of my horse all the %%hile letting him hear my voice. The poor ani ial replied to mny caresses by plaintive neigling ; then, not to alarm him ab uptly, my hand followed by little and little the curve of his nervous neck, and finially rested upon the spot where the last of the verte. brx unites itself with tho cranium. The horse trembled, but I calmed him with my voice. When I felt his very life, so to speak, palpitate in his brain beneath my fingers, I leaned over towards the w"all, my' feet gently slid from the stirrups, and with one vigorous blowv I buried the pointed blade of my knife in the seat of the vital principle. The animal fell as if thunder struck, without a single motion; and for myself, with my knees almost as high as my chin, I found myself on horseback across a corpse. I was saved ! I uttered a triumphant cry, which was responded to by the colonel, and which the abyss re-echoed with a hollowv sound, as if it felt that its prey had escaped from it. I quitted the saddle, sat myself down between the wall and the body of my horse, and vigorously pushed with my feet against the carcass of the wretched animal, which rolled down into the abyss. I then arose; and cleared at a fewv bounds the distanace which separ ated the place where I was fromi the pl.ain ; and under the irresistible reaction of the terror which 1 had so long repressed. I sunk in a swoon up~on the ground. Whena I re-opened my eyes the colonel wvas by my THE FWND. Of' all the fields that God hath cursed,. The fiend here described is the worst. And although he has for ages been in our midst, it is uncertain from whence he came. He is said, however, to have emanated from the Dark Ages. It is not improbable that h originated in Arabia, the land of the false prophet; but at what period it is not definite ly known. Cursed must be the nourishers of his youth, and thrice cursed the vessel in whose hold he found a passage to our coast; but let the day of his birth be forgotton. Happy wvouldl it be for mankind had he ravaged no other shores than our owvn. But not so, for like thme Prince of D~arkness, he roams from one end of creation to the other, every where marking his course with tears, blood, death and desolation. In England and W~ales, is said, that every nine minutes a victinm falls a sacrifice to his delusive powver, and in the world at large he is thought to have caused more human suf fering thani war and pestilence combined. But so artful is he, that with the assistance of his friends, he can appear in a variety of pleasing forms, and at times, even pass him self off as a "good creature" sent for thme renovation of manm. Hence do men, from tme highest to thme lowest circle, greet lhim as a welcome guest and useful member of their household. But the consequences are dreadful; for experience and observation have plainly shown that it is the object of the monster, not to elevate anid support, but to derange, brutalize and destroy, without distinction of age, sex or condition. citizens, wnom rendered mere apolo gies for men, a found in our alms houses, prisons a natie asylums. Their fri.nds have dese them, their reason has flown, and " with t stare, they gaze un coni.sciously on al und, or with hideous yell and horrid bl my, clank their chains and vent their fury on the demons with whoin their - fills their solitary cells." Higher! it is id of noble meaning, tha inspiration of roat deeds-the svn pathetic chain that;j? A, link, by link the impassioned soul t zenith of glory, and still holds its mn s u. object standing and glittering among t rs. Higher! lisps t jufant that clasps its feeble essay to rise q the floor-it is the first inspiration of 1 hood-to burst.the narrow confines of eCradle, in which its sweetest moments avpassed forever. Higher! laughs thai proud school boy at his swing; or as h limbs the tallest tree of the forest, that heimay look down upon the less adventuro94 companions with a flush of exultatiojitn'd abroad over the fields, the meadowi his native village. He never saw so ded a prospect be fore. Higher! earnestif brathes the student of philosophy and -nati; he has a host of rivals, but lie musts eipse themi all. The midnight oil burns difp, but he finds light and knowledge in .i mps of heaven, and his soul is never when the last of them is hid behind thie urtains of morning. And higher! his oi*thunders forth when the dignity of mahi d has invested his foran, and the multitud ais listening % ith de. light to his oracles bU ing with eloquence and ringing like true eel in the cause of freedom and right.. d when time has chaiged his colored ks to silver and world-wide is his reno'n; when the maiden gatherin flowers by , road side, and the boy in the field; bowmin reverence as he passes; and the peas*4: looks to him with honor-can he breafthdorth from his heart the fond wish of te ligher yet! he- hs ached the apex of earthly honor yet is pirit burns as warm as in youth, thoug .ith a steadier and paler light, and it won ever borrow wings him as I do a star ifHeaven; clouds may be before him, but reknow that his light is behind them and will: Wim forth again ; the blaze of others'popularity may outshine but we know that tho'.nnseen, he illuminates his own true sphere. He :resists temptation, not without a struggle, for.that is not virtue, but he resists and conquers, he bears the sarcasm of the profligate, and it stings him, for that is a trait of virtue, but heals with its own pure touch. He 'heeds inot the watchword of fashiptn, if it leads to sin ; the Atheist who says, not only in his heart, but with his lips, " there is no God !"-controls him not; he sees the hand of a creating God and rejoices in it. Woman is sheltered by fond arms and loviig council; old age is protected by ex perience, and manhood by its strength; hut the young man stands amid thme temptations of the wtoild like a self-balanced tower. hlappy he who seeks and gains thme prop of mortality. Onward, then conscientious youth-raise thy stanidard amid nerve'thyself for goodness. It God has given thee intellectual powver, awake in that cause ; never let it lie said of tiee, " lie helped to swell the river of sin by pouring his influence into its channels. I' thou art feeble in mental strength, throwv not that drop into a polluted current. A wake, arise, youiig mani lassume that beau tiful garb of virtuel IIt is difhieult to be pure and holy. Put on thy strength then. Let truth be the lady of thy love-defend her.-Mrs. Caroline Gilmanm. THEr YOUNG MENi OF TiHE AGE.-Not long since, we saw a tear gathering ini the eye of an old man, as he spoke of the past und the present-of the time wheni he burn ed pine knots upon the rude home hearth for light to obtain a scanty education and coin pared the ten thousand privileges wvhich are now scattered broadcast around every door. Oh, said ho, in tremulous tones, the youing men of this day, do not appreciate the light of the age they live in. 'The words of the old man made us sad, while at the same time we felt mortified that so many of our young men fail to improve the advantages withini their reach. They are even continually muttering about their lot, and pushing for positions where they can inii the reward without the sweetening, purifying, emnbolding sacrifice of toil. Thie miscalled enjoyments of a day, are eagerly sought after to the exclusion or neglect of the more honorable intellectual and useful. In truth, few of our young men know anything of the value of thme privileges around them. THEs PURITAN.-We love the character of our Puritan fathers. They may have erred in many things, but their errors "lean. ed on virtue's side." They wvero just in their dealings, honorable in their conduct, warm in their attachments, punctual in their engagements, kind in their relations, fear less in their courage, inflexible in their de. termination, zealous in their faith, and do. vt ad to God and the goed of man. T1hey were strict in the observance of the Sabbath, constant and punctual in their attendance at church, and brought up their children in the fear. and -admonition of the Lord. Honored and devoted men ! If there is anythingon earth we feel thankful for, it is our descent from a puritanical stock. May jay be- -far distant when te right derotion to Bible.Christianito and morality, wvhich characterized our forefath ers, shjall be thrown aside and ridiculed. Ti.. ..ho labor. tO rdestrny the ahhnth, who denounce our churches and our minis. ters, cannot have the blood of the Puritans coursing through their veins. It is impos sibie that the descendants of such a noble race should have so little regard for the doctrines and the institutions which they cherished with so much prayer and self sacrifices. SCHOOLS NORTH AND SOUTE. The Charleston Temperance Advocate has the subjoined remarks on Northern and Southern colleges. This matter is worthy of attention, and we trust the day is not distant when our children can be taught in Southern schools and from Southern text book: " Most of the Geographies used in our schools are chiefly dedicated to the benevo lent object of glorifying whatever is pro duced in the Northern States, and especial ly in New England, at the expense of the younger sisterhood. Any one, by examin ing "Mitchell's Geography," which, for years past, has superseded almost every other treatise on this subject, and comparing it carefully with others, -may satisfy himself on this point. This invidious distinction is especially worthy of notice in the descrip. tions of literary institutions, colleges, uni versities and public libraries throughout the Union. In chronicling the resources of the Southern States, reference to their provision for popular education is either studiously omitted, or else bestowed in so superficial a manner, without comment of any kind, as to leave the impression that the few which are considered worthy of being named in passing, have never attained the smallest celebritv. The New England universities, on the contrary, ieceive the credit (which far he it from our inclination or intention to withhold from them) of having contributed to the Union many of its most distinguished men. We would not detract from the clas sic shades of old Harvard or Yale any por tion of that well-earned and richly-merited reputation which is not only a monument of glory to New England, but to our whole country; but we must, at the same time, be allowed to claim for the South the distinc. tion of having given birth to a very large proportion of die great minds, which have reflected so much honor upon the Alma Maer n(~ elaborate statistics to prove the fact, which no one who has read a single published cata logue of a Northern college will undertake to deny. One illustration, which happens to be within our reach at this moment, will be sufficient for the satisfaction of any who have never looked into the calculation. "-A catalogue of the University of Penn sylvania, dated in 1845.6, contains the names of 432 students in the vatious do partments. Of these, 205 were from the Southern States; Virginia conti ibuting 80, North Carolina 51, South Carolina 19, Georgia 14, Alabama 23, Mississippi 15, and Kentucky, Tennessee, Maryland and Louisiana the remainder. The first named State alone paid as her proportion nearly one fifth, the second exactly one-eighth, and the whole South within a frnetion of two. thirds. "As an offset to this, wve finti in a cata logue of one of the literary societies attach ed to the South Carolina College, comt mencing from the foundation of the society in 1800 up to 1842, a list of members nuni ering some thousands, in which we have searched in vain for the name of a single student (rem a Northern State, during a periodl of thirty-six years ! "'rTe invidious and widely- marked dis tinction thtus created, has been recognised and endorsed by our people to such anm ex tent, that the Northern colleges and schools have acquired all their celebrity at the ex pense of our own ; and a youth's education is not considered a " liberal" one, unlers lhe can produce a diploma from one of thme fashionble seats of classical learning in New England. Now, let us inquire, what have been the conseqnences to ourselves of having lavished our money and our flatteries uponi these institutions, to the neglect of those at home. " Thus we see that wvhile wve have so ex tensively aided in times past to build up an educated community outside of our borders, by aff'ording to Northern academies and colleges the means of diffusing the blessings of knowledge almost universally, we are compelled, with shame aiid remorse, to look back at a widely differenit condition of things at home-and to lament over the vast disproportion which it exhibits to that of our neighbors; and this sad result has been caused by our having withheld from the former the very means by which we have materially contributed to the latter object." . ________ An enthusiastic young gentleman resolved to gain a reputation as a poet, and immor talized himself by his first production. He chosed for his subject the " Thunder Storm," a.md commenced in the following beautiful style: " The thunder rolled from pole to pole, The lightning spread fronm sky to sky. Atd-atnd the cattle stuck up their tails and run Here our aspiring poet became so ex hausted that ho fainted. Two noys, one of them blind in one eye, were discoursing on the merits of their re speCive masters. " How miany hours do you get for sleep?" said one. ." Eight," replied the other. " Eight, wvhy I only get four." " Ah !" said the first, " but recollect, you have only one eye to close, and I have twvo." Wzr are " cullerd pussons" first rate to whisper a secret to ? Because they always keepn dark. UU.A AL 1.kdIL". We learn from the New York Herald of Sunday, that a rumor was prevalent in that city on the previous evening, that orders had been received from Washington for the steamer Mississippi to proceed to Havana. The Herald also states that preparations are making to hold a tremendous mass meet ing to give expression to public opinion on the subject of recent outrages. The imme diate cause of this excitenent appears to be the arrival of the bark Cornelia at New York from Havana. It seems that this ves sel was boarded by government officials after she had cleared out of port-her mails seized, taken ashore, and rifled, her captain placed under arrest, and his private papers searched. The captain remonstrated against this unwarrantable action, but only exposed himself thereby to still grosser indignities; and finally lie was, after some difficulty, per mitted to take his departure from Havann, leaving behind him in prison, two of his passengers. A Creole, named Guzman, was one of the passengers, and was arrested on the charge of taking letters to New York, which were found in his trunk. The other was an en gineer, named Samuel Hearkness, who had come on board without the knowledge of the captain. He was seized for not having a passport. Both were sent to prison, and the mail bag taken to the Captain General. The result of this extraordinary and high handed measure was the arrest, the same night, of Francis Frias, Count of Pozas Dulces, and his brother Joseph, Domingo Arrozarena and the Marquis of Campos Llanos, who hold very high positions in so ciety in Cuba, and are gentlemen of great wealth. The Count of Pozas Dulees, aged about forty.five, is one of the most talented gen tlemen in the island. Among the letters taken from the Cornelia, was one from the Count to a friend in New York, requesting him to express the thanks of the Count's family for the ceremony which the Cubans in New York had performed, commemora ting the anniversary of the death of their relative, the late Gen. Lopez. General L. married a sister of the Count; and for this simple letter of thanks one brother is im mured in the More, while the other is con "She was bound into the river, with a valuable cargo from Rio Janeiro, and, on rounding Shark Point, unfortunately got aground near the shore. The natives seeing her helpless condition, flocked to the shore to plunder the vessel, and in the course of the day, their numbers amounted to some th:ee thousand. They made a furious and savage assault on the vessel, which was most bravely and gallantly defended by Captain Oaksmith and his crew for some hours, till the British armed brigantine Dolphin, which was fortunately in the river, came to his rescue, and saved the vessel and cargo, and the lives of all on board, though not without the loss of life on the part of the savages. On the following day the British steamship Firefly came into the river, and prorr ptly rendered every possible aid, together with the Dolphin, to relieve the Mary Adeline, which wvas at length got afloat, and wvas en abled to pursue his voyage without much loss or damage. POSTAoE STAMP E~vELOPEs-The Wash. ington National I ntelligencer understands that the Post-Mastor General has accepted the proposal of Mr. George F. Nesbitt, of New York, to furnish the Department withm the Postage Stamp Encelopes authorized by the act of the last session of Congress. Thiese donveniient little wvrappers will con sist of three sizes-Note, Letter, and Official. The denominations will be three, si:, and twnty-four cents; the latter intended for foreign correspondence. T1hey wvill be self sealing, and bear a stamp similar in style to the English stamped envelope, and are ex pacted to be in all respects equal thereto. As the dies are yet to be prepared, and the paper to be manufactured exclusively for this important purpose, it is probable that the envelopes wvill not be put in circulation before the first of January next; hut every exertion will be made to have them earlier. FLowERS OF TUTu.-Vanity nmakes men ridiculous; pride makes thenm odious. Clemency is the brightest, and the fairest jewecl in a crown. Favor is ever deceitful, and beauty pass th quickly away. Powver is sure to discover the real dispo sition of a man. Trhough poverty craveth many things, yet avarice craveth more. Many uneasy people go out for wool, and come home shorn. With one half of the wvorld fine feathers make fine birds. Voluptuous pleasures will ever bring tor mentinig pains. Speech. is the gift of all, but thought is the gift of few. A FEMALE MAN.-Mike.-Do you know Pat Hynes, Tedi Ted.-Do I? To be sure I do; an' a quite (quiet) decent man ho is, and so is his WHILsT a regim~ent of volunteers wvere marching through Camargo, a captain (strict disciplinarian) observing that one of the drums did not beat, ordered a lieutenant to inquire the reason. The fellow, on being interrogated, wvhispered to the lieutenant: "I have twvo ducks and a turkey in my drum, and the turkey is for the captain I" This being whispered to the captain he exclaimed: " Why did'nt the drummer say he w-as lame? I do not want any of my men to do their duty when they are lame ?" A nod roam a lord is a breakfast for a fool X. GIDDINOB IN A FIX. It seems that Mr. Giddings in stumping it. through Ohio was charged by some of his con stituents with having received illegal mileage, and also with receiving his per diem of eight dollars for about three weeks that he was absent from Congress, on an electioneering tdur.. He admitted thi truth of both charges, but pretend-. ed that it was the fault of Mr. Whittlesoy, Comptroller of the Treasury, whom he charged with having made the allowance. That gentle man was written to on the subject; and,3n. reply, shows that he had nothing to do with the business. He says: " In answer to your inquiries, I reply, I have no power to add to or deduct from the'amount paid to Mr. Giddings for mileage,. nor was the' amount received by him subject to iny control or decision. I never tendered Mr. Giddings his pay for mileage, and he never took it from my hands. That I had no such power was known to him when he made the statements you men tion; and it is deeply mortifying that a gentle--. man who has so long and so largely enjoyed the confidence of a constituency so respectable and intelligent should deliberately attempt to deceive them. Mr. Giddings might as well blame me for his absence from the House and taking pay therefor when important matters have been decided such as the bill at the late session making ap propriations for our harbors, as to throw upon me the odium, that should alone abide with him,-for receiving public money for mileage and for per diem compensation to-which he was not entitled by law. One might hope, thal, having satisfied his cupidity by taking piblic money for a series of years to which he had no legal or moral claims, he would restrain :his propensity to violate the ninth commandment." FREE SCE00LS The hint or suggestion contained in the'fol1 lowing remarks from the Cheraw Gazette are worthy of consideration. Our Legislature, we trust, will give the free school -system of the State a thorough overhauling. On such a sub ject reform should be cautious!Y etered;upon; but some of the most glarn defects of the present eystalpi might be rem ed: " Much nas been said and written upon this t, wiihioet in any great degree, enlighten. . public mind in regard to it. With many, it is a constant -snbjeect of denunciation, and there are few'who are its advocates. Why. this-is so is not easily determined. It is true, there are n-ot many scholars made by the chari -ty,and perhaps this is the reason why it has so few friends. But m'ay notthis be2owing tom other causes than to inherent deftiil!n tSi: system ? Does not every one know that charity is often tendered n terms which 'preludp e".0 the ! Av pmnehingso f li 'O * ry(ihtfaeril with the knowledgetit iiis diers. the commissionerseitlir tougrantor ejeet* application, no doubt deters many from-jart&i paling in the benefits of a fund they had-in some degree contributed to create." . THE Treatise negotiated in the Territory Minnesota in the summer of 1951 with the Sioux or Dakotah Indians, by which the Indian - title to a fertile region of country as extensive. as the State of Pennsylvania was extinguished, were ratified by the Senate at its late Session, with amendments. These amendments were recently submitted by Governor Ramsey to the Indians for their assent, which was given ; and this country is now open to settlement from the United States. This information the editors of the Washington National Intelligeneer derive from the Governor himself, who is at present in Washington on business oonnected with the. Treaties. Go& PICKLNG MEAT.-Professor Refinesque de nounces the use of saltpetre in brine intended for the preservation of flesh to be kept for food. That part of the saltpetre which is ab iorbed by the meat, lhe says, is nitric acid or aquafortis, a 'deadly poison, Animnar flesh, previous to the addition of pickle, consist of gelatinous and fibrous substances, the former only possessing a nutritious virtue ; the gelatine is destroyed by the chemical action of salt and saltpetre, and as the professor remarks, the meat becornes as different a substance from wvhat it should be, as leather is from the raw hide before it is subjected to the process of tanning. He ascribed to the pernieious effects. of the chemiciil change all the diseases which are common to mariners and others who subsist principally upon salted meat-such as scurvy, sore gums, decayed teeth, uleers, &c., and advise a total abandonment of the use of salt. petre in the making of pickle for beef, pork, &c., the best substitute for which is, he says,. sugar, a small quantity rendering the meat~ sweeter, more wholesome, and equally as du rable. _________ NAVY YARD AT NEW~ ORILEAN.-Commo dore Josiah Tattnall and Capt. E. Farrand,.U. S. N., arrived at New Orleans, on the 21st ult., to examine and report on the locality proposed for the Navy Yard to be established on the' Miississippi river. The place designated is op posite the Pontchartrain rauilroad depot on the Algiers side. GR AVE YARD EXCITEMENT.-Yesterday after noon we accidently overheard a conversation, between a politician of our city and one of our. adopted citizens. After the former had shaken the latter heartily by the hand, with all thecor diality lie would be supposed to extend to a long absent brother, he at once launched into politics, and remarked, "You must be at the polls early, and bring all your German friends with you." The other eyed him a moment askance, and then slowly gave utterance to these words of wisdom: " We're Germans be fore the election, after the election .we're Dutch men."-B~altimore Clipper. Ho SLAUGHTERING AT PnT'sURG.--Mr. James Gardner, of the firm of Win. -B.-Holmes & Co., of Pittsburg, has contracted for -2000 head of hogs in Ohio, to be delivered at the Alleghany depot during the present season. It is estimated that about 50,000 head' will be slaughtered by the packers of Alleghany and Pittsburg du ring the coming winter.' Some'of the Pittsburg packers are giving as high aa 85.25, delivered ot the railroad depot in Alli ghany. POR TRADE AT Louxsvur...-One ofthe pork packers at Louisville has informed: tpe' Courier that the orders they have reeelved for the past few days for hog are limitedito 38.50 gross and $4.75 net. I'his is a-dedline ot-filly 50 cents per 100 pounds upon 'the priceeof-lioge two and three wees no SALE OF CICKEaws iN AUGUsTA.-The Alf gusta Chronicle & Seintinel notices .a sal oA Chinese fowls which took pae in that -c1I oa the 6th, in which oiver fysi rkoldsat. ago of ten dollars eir'ut~sis finest pairs brought few eggs were sold at sixty ~~~j*'