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- - - 116 ~~t .C.id Aliu itM tIind 1) $iitlcx B.3i 1)jt5, 11 vls, '01ci cs,~ 6t~ ddt~vcc, ittUC R1d i mvvn ,icue & "We will cling- to the Pillars of tie Temple of our L beW[l and if it must fall, we will Pdrish amidst he Ruins." W. F. DURISOE, Proprietor. EL S. C M BER 7 1 1852.. - - -4. --~~DG FED 17 1859____________ THE GREAT ARE FALLIG uROM US. The great are falling from us,-to the dust Our flag droops midway. full of many siglhs; A nation'-w glory ant a peop!e's trust Lie in the ample pall where Webster tics. The great are fall:ng from us.-one by one As fail the patriarels of the farest trves; The winds shall seek then vainily, anl the sun Gaze on each vacant spiace for vetiries. Lo, Carolina mourns h-:r steadfast pine, Which, like a anaa:maat, towered above her realn t, And Asl!anal hears no more the voiec' avine From out the braniches of her stately chn. . And i 5ar,hi's gianit oak, whose storiy brow - Oft turned the oceana teriest from the West, Lies on the shore he guarded long-anl now Our ,tar tcil Eagle knows not where to rest REXEMBER ME WHILE FAR AWAY. Remember me vhile ffar awav I wander frm thy side; ItA-member me at early day Or when st.arry evenings glide When the pa'entid lambent non oLoks forth upon the sea, Whenit a:1 are bright h appy home, Wilt than remember me ! Rmenacinber mae when e'er you rove In de!ls anl valleys fair, Remember me :ny best beloved, - Anl wih that I was there. Or wi. the evening bells do chime Anil all lhook- gay but tlt, You will n >t th's re-luest decline lut still ritie:lher me. Ite:niber me wlien.'er you sigih Beieatli the :noaan's soft light, Remeaaber ine mal thik that I Retu:- that s'gh -n. I feel its imght. Aiatl when yau thingon those afar Who little tare for tlinitk of thee, Or when sad thina g your peasre mar Ai then, my lov,. renmember me. FILL UP TE CUP. Fill aup the cump anal It t it flow Xith the purest tlh ink that ear tih can yield, To beauty's elivk it g:ves a c!ow. Anti decks the li:ies of the fidl. In its pure wave no poisas shep, Tm steal the reason, fire the brain It never umakes the orphan weep, Nor soils the hero's wreath of ftame. Front bubbl'n: brook and mountain free, It brightly floaws, 'tis freely g:vvn F.11 l'gha the eap. I'll lrink to thee, A iree:ous git't to man from heaven. The riby tvine maV richly fliw From lueiois graple to tenpt the ee; It has. a t'als.-, d -ee:tful glow, Then t-ehl it wt-froni danger lIV. Then onee again that nectar bring Which heaven's good ness gives to an:a; The bright droaps ot' the sparkling spring, That I may drink to thee a-'ain. - MARRIAGE WITHOUT LOVE. BV' 3M.UY RuTculim o 'tis have 'tio have :'tis ive F'raam womt'saadi briht eve glaninag; O: 'ti.<a le've ! tis laove. 'tis love' Every' hemu t enitr.meILing.'' Tus breathed our " village pet"-Elsie Wlhaitney, as Iliaagnidly s he Ianat againsut time trunik of a mjestic tree, whose waving laoughs refreshied thetir verdant sprlays by' conastatly imbaibinag a plar.ioan of' the ever varying current benaeath thmem,. She wvas talone, or thotqylhi she was, andt therefoare contitned ebiani nag the remiaiing sttazats of' the fav'o: ite ballad shec haaI commenlced~'t. Ett as she was ablout finishinig the f'olow ing lines: Wielmt melts the hat-ghaty h"r-auty, .A.natel conquae:s h. r <lal.in ~i (: 'tis lon.: A *she heamrd low to >tstepas directly behlinda hera, andi, in a second, tihe clear, rinaging. voaice of at lematle thus burast uapon the tranmiuaii air: " Ila, hia, ha~ ! .al iss Sentiamentaiit, sao you thaink that hove will melat the haughty beauty anid con tper ti her disain, eh ?" "Yes, Clara, for thoumgh yotu scorna my tssertioni, I wril i epeat as hieretofore, that thesem is such am thing as putre, undaving-" "Lovet' yo a bout to addu,"~ inaterrupt ed the impatient Clara, " but comie," she adided, " let's haste, to the spot ass-igneid us for sketchinag, else tu morrow will finad us with tasks unciompijleted, andim a lesson umpona " Indolenme"a wrill coanseqluently enisue. By the wasiy, don't you' almaost detest our' G~v erness ! I da, :anda am goamig to prevail uponl mamto haproenre a better onae ; she is so ill natured if we doan't do) everythinig juast as she says. 0, 1 shaill bae sao glad to get the oldl " vixen"a ou-l of' my sighlt. "But pierhiaps yountr mamana will niot thitnk best to-" "Yes, shie wvill, she adwauys lets mei have everything as I wish. But we must go. And thaus saying, the ha~lf' spaailed Cliram Thmurson, dhrew the arm ol' the gentle con-int -Elsie Wh~litne-writhina hemr own, and then they hastily sonaghat, through mthe shaidy' avehnue, the romantic spot for the pursuance of their taste.. As the eveninag advtanceed, thme mnaidens haiving finished their irksomae iabor-slowtly they. bent their footsteps towards their home. Thaey land baeen luntghaing and clhattering - gnily upaona their first leave of the spot where -thety had been 1 .borinag so diligently ; but as thaey drewt near a little thieket, tharongh wvhich the sheen waters of' the Merrinme shaone like a half coancealed maess of silver, their thoughats took a dit~ierenit tttu and~ they con versed in a morie seriouts teneII. Etchi hand, int turn, pointfed ont the beaiuly by whlich they etBe surrounoded; foar baoth were passionate admirers-of theo works of' nature. And no0w, Etsehmad comumenaced con versinag upon love, $fr'daarling topic) which I shall here pro. the replies of her friend-or cousin-Clara. "1I wish, Clara, that you believed as I do about love; then we should think alike in everthiiig-tlien-" Pshaw ! nonsense, there's no such thing as love. When I get married (if ever I do) it will be merely to better my coidition in life. Let's see what I'll have when ['m Mrs. (somebody)-pheatons, steeds, pos tilions, footmen, servants and-" 1 Wiv, coz, you but jest!! " Never was more earnest in my choice so you perceive that I shall stand a good chance to have everythiiigas I desire. Age and appearance are nothing to me, so long as wealth is in the cofer." If that is your real opinion, Clara, I sincerely commiserate the person destined for your future husband. lie will be most shockingly duped," continued the speaker, at the s:ne time raising her eyes to the face of her lovely companion, " for one to gaze oin that lovely face of yours, would niever once dream that the heart of its possessor wis utterly devoid of alTetioni! 0, what deception lurks beneath the human breast! PBut I Cannot bring my mind to believe that vou think as You assert. You will at some future day love! " Never! no, never!" for My heart is a free anl a fetter:ess thing! A wave tn the ocean !a bir Z on the V.ng ! A riderless steed o'er the desert plait boundng! A pal of th,- storm o'er the valley resounding! It spurns at at bouids, and it mocks the decree Of the wotl. and its proud one, and scorns to be f. eo, and it alvays shadl remain free! continued the enthusiastic Clara. Elsie Whitney and Clara Thurson were cousins. Elsie was an orphan and had re. cently taken lip her abode at her uncle Thurson's, who possessed a "goodly por. tion of this world's goods." Both girls were beautiful ; but their minds as the reader has perceived, were not the least alike. At the time of' my sketch their ages were thirteen and fourteen, Clara being the senior of the two. Deemin'g that it would be but a source of ennui to the reader to follow these femiales through a series of school day scenes, the writer will glance over a space of ten years; at the expiration of which time, she will Iing the subjects of her sketch-to gether with ai incident or so, which occur ed in the intervening time-before the reader. In a pailor of a superb mansion are two females, which the reader will, as I proceed, recognize as Clara aid Elsie. They are, at preseit. in deep conversation, and as the ,one clad in deep (mourning) is weeping, the writer will at otice inform the reader of the cause. After five years of the most unhappy wedioek that ever existed, the unfortunate Clara had again met u ith her gentle consin, from whom she had during that space beeii estranged. She was rehearsing to Elsie now lhie happy Mrs. Giftin-the manifold sorrows that she had experienced since their separation. The death of her tyranical husband she said, was to her a source of jOy. She concluded by saying that there was in0 happiness to be had in marriage u-ithout lore. "LUCK." Rev. 11. W. Beecher, in one of his lee tures to young men, uses the folloving an. g , which should be read and remem be.red. "I may here as wvell as elsewhere, i part the secret of good and bad liuck. There are men, who, snpposing P'rovidence to have an implae.ible spite against them, hemoanii povrt of a wretched old age the umisfortunes of their lives. Luck forever ran aigainast them. Onme, with a good pro. f'essinm,, lost his luck ini the river, where lie idled his timte a fishing, wvhen he should have beeni in his oflice. A nother, with a goodI traide, per fectly burnit upl his luck by his hot templ~er, which provoked his employ ers to leave him. Aniother with a lucrative husinmess lost his luck by amnazig diigence at everything but his business. Another who steadhily followved his trade, as steadily followed his bottle. Another, who was honest and conistanit at his work, erred by perpetuaul imisjud~gimnts ; lie lacked discre tion. llundreds lose their lneks by endors ing ; by satnguiiie speculations ; by trusting fraudulent meni ; and by dishonmst gains.1 A man never has good luck that has a bad w ife. I inever knewv an early rising, hard working, prudent man, careful of his earn iings, and strictly hoiiest, who complained of bad luck. A grood chairacer good habts and iron iindustry are imlpregnable to the aissaults of all the ill-luck that fools ever dreamed of. But when I see a tatter do. umalion, creeping out of a grocery late in the a fternoon with his hands ini his pockets, the rim of his liat turned up, and the cirown knocked ini, I know ho has b~ad lucked for the worst of :all luck is to be a sluggard, a kiiave, or a tipher." "'Tiss.a;1h that :absen'ce conuquer.4 love, lhut, oh ! be!ieve it not,'' As thme loafer said when he looked in the emt ply rum jug. A yraN liamied Lace has been shot dead in the streets of Milwaukie by Annm WVheeler, aigirl lie had sedneed.t Laee ha~s boasted of his villaiiy in tihe saloons aiid taverns ini that eitv. Ir'ou wvisih to know htow quick a man can run a mile, tell a red headed wvoman lier biaby squints. A (iENTLE3AN .lesecIiinig the absurdity of a man daiiciing the Polka, said " that it ap. pea~redt as if the individual had a hole in his pocket, and was furtively endeamvoring to sha~ke a shilling out of the leg of his trowv sers." I-r is not always a mark of frankness to possess ain open counteiiance. A n alligator is a deceit fuil creature, aind yet lie presents an open1 countenance, when he is in the very act of " taking you in." S-rOr, Turiixn!-We have taken a war. rant f'or the arrest of the man who " took a co/d," wirthout pango for it. COMMUNICATIONS.. FOI. THE .DVERTISEt. LICENSE IN EDGEFIELD VILLAGE. MESSSs. EDITORS: One more communication on temperance but license and I dismiss the sub ject. Your correspondent, signing "lTEM;PER ANCE NO LICFNSE" has in his obscure and ill tempered sophistry, totally nistaken and misre presented the gronds and argutent that I hold with regird to .icense. lie devotes lilf a column of metaphysical reasoning to prove thati there is somnething unnatural and inconsistent in the " incongruons" signat ure of " TE3EPANCE BUT LICENSE." Well, this signature embodies P ma1zixii, which has for its sanction no less au thority than that (if Lord BACoN, and maxins are said by Sir JAMES 3iCINTOShF, to be the con densed good sense of nations. The phrase 1 " TE3II'EnANCE fl'T ICiENSE" simply imeans the tenierate use and not the intemperate abuse of 1 liquor, and so I think your readers have under. stood it. IIence your correspondent ilut sstudV the Special l'leadinig of Chitty a little better, and thefallacies of Logic a little longer, to con viet my signature of " inconsistency." Ile next propounds. certain interrogatories, w'.ich I shall proceed briefly to answer. lie first erquires if - Wu shall call it one of the istitltiois of the South, for wet councils to rule in the village, having grog-shops open, drunkards reeling, blasphemies echoing, sober 4 people interrupted, good men and women bowed I down ?" I answer certainly not. We will call< grog-shops, or something like then, an institu- I tion of every nation. Still I am ready to call them a Soulhernism, even when attended with the evils of which your correspondent complIins, rather than adopt the Mainism. I have never I claimed the privilege of using stimuli, as an in stitution, (or characteristic peculiar to the South, my whole argument on the contrary, Ias Ien i to prove that man, wherever you find him, will r use stimuli whether necessity, perverity, degra. dation or habit be the cause. That this prin- t ciple of his nature, like all other principles, is - eternal, so much so, that any law contravening I it, is unnatural, unconstitutional, and never has, nor ever can be eolurced. In support of this, t I appealed to the History of social opposition, i or forcible legislation against spirits, tea, coffee, tobacco, &c., and established. as I conceive, that I such opposition was in vain-that England and I ut her enlightened governments, beconing aware e f this, now tolerate the use of stimuli, however t unpleasant or injurious in many respects. To ( make the application, I then said that Maine or t Massachusetts might retry the Mainism or ex- f periment at which England failed. but that the [ South would be content to accept these frequent failures of the strongest Government in the worlol, as conclusive agaiist the ability of leoris. lation to stop the use of stimnuli, and would c- I ordingly re.4st any attempt of the " Sons r rf Temperance" or others to force the liquor f law upon a Stale or District. Your readers then, 3essrs. Editors will quickly perceive, the unfair. ness, inisconcelption, or want of perception in our corresponident's first question. But I will tell him what is another 3Mainiisi, or Northern. im. The South hilos little or no shipping, while Maine has nearly twice as inieh :is any State inl the Union. Well, these sane ship.inasters of I Maine, who will not usc wine at the sacrament, because rs they allege Christ never used it, and C who are so uncompromising in their hostility to t liquor. are now engaged in suppljoyintg China witha Turkish Opium, in a sort of smuggling speecnla-. ion, to the amount of millions of' dollatrs worth, and that too against the wishes of' the Chinese government and in thec face of' taws, that would mai~ke the bloody Solotn blush. Trhis wvarrants m to suspect, that ouir~antkee friends wvould also brae the Federal ando international law which makes the Slave tradhe piracey, to supply the South with Africans, prsovided our people wvould buy them. It was in piroot bef'ore a Comimit tee of' the British Ihouse of' CommtionM, th'it vessels fromi Maine and othecr Northern States, furnish edZ Blrazil with A fricans as lonig as that growingo kingdom allowed her subjects to buy thema. So much for Yankee sincerity in Abolition as well as Jemiperance. Your correspondent's second interrogatory is "Shall Edgelield village govern hierselfP" To this I reply', assuredly shte shatll. Bunt I deny that itn refusing license, she is governinig herself, or it' shte is, she is also governiing or attempoitig to governi the District. Christianity and humant ity, as well as civilization and the good of' socie t, require that all persons who live upon1 the highway, shall entertain travellers. It is at con dition and imlplied obligat ioti, annexed to resi dence oti the road, that we shamll not ref'tse our fellow-men lfood attd shtelter from hunimger, rain and cold, as I have seen dlone, in the wealtiei.r portions of' South Carolina and elsewhere. Th'le very existence, f'oundation and constitution I' f of' society f'urbid it. Yet if a traveller has the right to demanid htospitality at the hands of' anty resident up~on the wayside, lhow' much greater is his right to hatve bed, board, beverage and other accommodations for htimself' and horse, at the capitol of his District. TIhis village is tnot, as I have before said, a matnufaceturintg, commtercial, or educational ton of private propjerty. It is~ a piolitical county seat, established for the pur pose5 of admtinisterinig just ice to every citizen in the District and for furnishiing accommiodations to thiose who comae bere on business. The in habitants who live in this v'illage are but thte voluntary agents anid depenidants of the District, and wvhentever they get tired of their residence, !et them change it, by allowing those to comie here who will behave themselves an'd respect the rights of' the counitry people. But as long its they remain in thtis village, our laiwyers should settle the disputes of the farmers, our merchants conduct their exchaniges, and above all our Ho tel or Bar-Room keepers should f'urniish liquor by the drink, us well as other refreshutents, to suit the variety of tastes and palates that de mand entert'aitnent at their ha~nds. Who dare tell a farmer of Edgetield that hte shall not drink upo his ow,.m l'ubie, Sojite n1li iae ;i| in many respects, otner wuns regarus license, is much the Capitol and a'iuch under the con trol of Edgefield District, aasWashington is the e:pital and under the conftrqof the whole Uni ted States. Tt is simply ridiculous and absurd hen, to say that Edgerieldfty controls herself in refusing license. She eoptrohs the District )r attempts to control it, a by so doing does iothing to conciliate the jutily offended feelings if the country which has, Awiece marked this orporation. to show the vil ge bell cows, that he Court House belongst tie District and not he District to it. Even if 15 -of the 3000 men, vho assemble here, were to Ado With the village n refusing license at this plae, Mr. CAiwou.<s seloved concurrent majority -wvould not then be >btained, and it would still l unCeonstitutional t morals to refuse license. j just law governs he rchole and not a part of te people. Of all rho assemble here, perhnps.4ly 500 may drink iquor, but sound ethicsw ild say, let then Irink it, and drink it indepeqdcntly of the re naining 2500 who haveil iPrent tastes. This illoage could with as mawh;propriety tell the !ountry people that theyshould not buy a dozen igars here, but must get a boas to say to them hat they shall not haviea dr, but must get a tuttle and carry it in tbeir.p9 *ets. Because I expressed a susplon, which is well 'unded, that "most entiusia -for total abstin nem are slaves to gambling,tobacco, tea, coffee, ipium, &e.," your correspon ent thinks that aid suspicion "smacks a little f the chagrined ensor," or in other words,Ia4 intimates that I ave suffered somewhat in Iterest or honor, vhich prompts me to write tiee articles. This ttack upon my motives exQ'Y a smile. I can ssure " TEMPERANCE Mb LICEie" thatI am not, ave never been, and never,, oct to be inter 'sted either directly or indir ly, in any Grog 'hop here or elsewhere, and - to honor if I Ave any ambition at all, i not content to eign pietty king, as Intendant- r Magistrate of Corporation, whosearea i closed within a ircle of one mile radins, froie Court house s a centre. I beseech him to .e more charity han again to suspect, that '1U se lie must al rays be little in great 'thingt rgreat in little hings, that others have no her and nobler nbiion than his -own lenI motto. 'hat he has stung me I udm .'the iijustice ot the truth of his suspido 'vound. .My oul can travel beyond this oration if his annot, and I hive endeavor o discuss the he world-wide prinicipleinvjo n tis license nestion, not 'motives, or. lies., But Iiis-is enough of the'eto tigeelfM )r alluding to which, I hope yourreaders will. 'ardon me. Your correspondent next doubts the sincerity ith which I declared myself "the unalterable dvocate of temperance and sobriety." I again rotest that I ain not the champion of intempe nice or immorality, but I am a supporter of the reedunm aid right to drink, because necessity r something else forces man to do it, and all lforts to prevent it are unavailable-because lhether necessity or' the decree eternal' of which 'our correspondent speaks -he the cause, we ave the stubborn and insurmountable fact, hat man will drink or brave death to do it. As claim to be a man of honor, I abhor drunken essand if the monster vice could be killed at nie blow, I would say God speed the arm that (buld deal that low. But this is all poetry,and ence I say let mien drink in peace, as they will o it in war-will do it anyhow. Our race have ibibed wine since the days o f Lot and Noah nd there must be some constitutional cause or eeessity for it. I renmember once to have heard one of the blest divines ha the United States, say thait wine las :a Mahlommiedan invention of the .ixthm een entury to makc war upon Christianiity. I have 1so seen the same assertion i Temperance Prcts, but how ridiculons and devoid of truth this unfounded slander. 3Mahomet was in re lity and in good faith the father and foumnder of emaperanice Societies. IIe was the first siitu I or temporal ruler that essayed to stop the use f liquor, and the Koran bears internal, ams well areconrd evidence of his sincerity. Moreover, esidles Sacred History, I can cite passages from lhiny, Tacit us and Hlerodotus or Juvenad, Ovid nd Ihorace, to, show that men got beastly drunk tot only before the birth of Mahoimet, but scv ral centuries before the birth of~ Christ. It untters not whether distilled orfcrmented lignor vas used, either will produce the same et1'ct, le same intoxication, lethargy .and relaxation. 'he antiqui/y then, to ay nothing of the unirer 'a/ify of the use of liquor, is one argument which should make us pause before we prohibit ts use by law. I own, that it is desirable to get~ -i of all drunkenness. Buitit is equally desira ale that no lies should be told, or slanders ut cred, yet who wvouldl be deprived of the'freedom ~f speech because of its abuses!? No libels bhould be printed, or studied fahschioods publish. ~d, yet who would be deprived of the freedomi of he Press because of its abuses ? It is also de irable thait there should be no sin, aiid that ~veryvbody should be in the Church, bat who is or using force, or interfering ini any wise, vit hfreedomn of Religious beliif or worship.' We nust hegislate fair human nature then as it is. vith all of its faults and defects, and not as it gqht to be. Persuade and argue with men not o use sthnnili, biut never attempt to drive them, est wye be driven ourselves. Promote temper inee hy precept and example, but never by au I aould like to wvrite an article upon the adul teralton and smuggling of stimuli generally, ano ither upon Opitum,a third upon gambling, a fourth uiponi other stimuli, wihich~ I have omitted to name, but which are ini nationai use in South America and elsewhere, a fifth upon the license laws of South Carolina, a pixth upon the n Itiral law that requires thme tse of stimulus and ii sevenith upon the unconstitutionality of thu eivil law that prohibits the use of liquor, but in mercy to your readers, Messpa. Editors, I restrain the wish to indulgo this furor scribendifor the presenit, and will for all timne to come, unless nne .Liiflsitorm soon 0egins tO rafge i ule oi;*[e and Legislature, of which the " Temperance Ad. rocate," in Charleston, gives frequent signs. TEMPERANCE BUT LICENSE. Corresponudece of the Smnter Banner. OUR TAXES. MR. EDITOR: As experience has proven that all governments whatever may by their peculiar features or under what names so ever they may be called, require mooney to keep their political machinery in motion, or inl other words that pecuniary resources are indispensable to their very existence, the question naturally arises, who should con tribute to the support of govermnemt? The following proposilion, which I think Iew will deny, appears to me, to be the prop. er answer, viz.: That all who enjoy tie bles sings and advantages of good goverament, should contribute to its support. The revenue for the General Government is raised upon this principle, but it is not so in the States ; and as it is now evident that we must renmain part aid parcel of tihe Uniomn, in spite of all our clamor and bragado. cia, it certainly becomes the good citizen. aud prudent legislator to turn his attention' to the reflrmotion of many of our old laws and customs, not blinidly followinmg in the tracks of our ancestors, but wisely profiting by their experieice and endLeavor to render Own State laws,a muodel of perfectiom, not losing sight, however, at the same time, of our rights under tile Federal Constitution; nor be blind to abuses from what quarter soever they may come. Our State taxes are levied almost exclu sively upon property, and if the proposition I have laid down be true, certainly those who havo nto taxable property, or prolession should likewise contribute a portion towards the support of that Government that throws around them its protecting power, guardilg life and health, and punishing injuries done them. My own opinion, which I have formed, after mature consideration, is, that a poll tax slould be paid by "every free white man" who is entitled to that inestimna ble privilege of freemen, mhe right of su/fragie. There is injustice in the principle wlhich is at present acted upon in this State, that a mali, because he owns no property, or " lear ned prolessien," should be exempted from contributing onc cent to the support of that Government under which he lives, and which Government would "avenge him upon his adversary" who shotild dare to molest him in any way; though said adversary should east- his thousands into 'the treasury : r the State,:andld 'Inne; anid -ytt I , ice-thit such is the case, that the poorest citizen is umider the especial care and protectiomi of State sovereignty, and I hope the time may never come, when it will be otherwise. The proceedings of Our Courts prove to the most careless observer that our colie of juslice is nto respecter of persolls, blt that the rich and the poor alike resort hither 1or protec. tion or redress, and that the rich cannot Oppress tile poor with imopulnity, that the m11anii of property and the pennyless are eqals under our well.organized instittions; and vet the man1i of property or "prifessioti" smlulports the ponderous burden of govern mntit, while lie whimo hlis heail til ani strenglr h and perhaps learning and capacity to real ize handsomely from his undivided exertioll is exempt from any taxatioi at all. A few familiar examples may serve to il lustrate my views and position more clea lV. II ere is my neighbor, a man with a small tract of land and one or more nlegroes, s''me auged or decrepit perhaps, and hie Conltributes al nally so) mu ch ad valorem for his laind and so) maneh per hiead for his niegroes, whe thier they bellft himi oir not. Of cours~e that is all right. On the oilher ha~nd there is an overseer, asehioolmiaster, a clerk in a store, putblic ollicers and employers in genieral, wvhose icomei miay be hnm iilreds or thousanmds as the ease may be and live in comflort, per hlaps afllnence, and enjoy all thle blessings~ of a well-regulated govermniont, and yet they never pay one per cent into the state treasa ry,-never called upon to offer one dime of their incomes upfoni tile altars of their State, which seeures proc:ion /o, all amnd the rihts ofJ sifjrage to all ; but the main who owns all acre or acres of land or a negro or no groes, nlo) matter whether thip~ properly supi ports itselt or not1, or whether lie is ini debt four the same property, lie Imust pay his taixes, or his property is sold for hiimi, and vet lie enjoys no0 higher privilege~s thanu those wvho pa not hingwt erhapts the s imple one of beinig eligible to a seat in tile legislature. 31y piropositionl is that the legislature should, in passing the bill "to raise stipplies," iinsert a clause of the following puirport viz: thatL " every free wh ite man, between the ages of twemnty-onie andl fifty, who is entitled to vote for represenltatives ini the legislaturec, and every free whlite mian nt a citizeni uf this State who shall have resided in the State six mionlths previous to) the time of collecting taxes, shall pay a poll-max of -.." (not le.s I woulld sayv thian thle tax levied upoin a slave) -with this proviso, that aLny man wh~lo shall refuse to paiy his poll-taix and whlo shahl he returned "nutlla bona1:," inito the Shei iff's O f fiee upon01 an execution to colleet samid tax, sha~ll be inelligible to vote for any District ollicer, or for miemb ers of either bsranch of the Legislature or- of Conlgres.<, or for Pres ideiitiail Flectors, (provided tile election of Electors he given ton ihie pleople,) and provi ded further, that the poor miani who shiall upIon oathi before a mnagistrate or the TIax Collector, say) thmat he fe'els hiimlself too p)oor to pay his tax, lhe shall be exempt from pay ling the same, hut he shalh also be imeligible to vote as ablt)oemntionmed, no the samie principjle that pauper's are denied the right of suff'rage. Aiid I close this conilmuicationi by1 repeait ing the proploitioni Iset out with, viz: that all who enjoy the blessings anld adtvantiages of good governmmemnt shiould contribute to its support. BEAvEn Dar DANIEL, MERRIL, a Revolutionary soldijer, 91 years of aige, died at H- ollis, N.H[ampshiire, onl the 2tih ult. lie was one of thie life Iguard of Benedict Arnold, just before the S..r ...o . of tat a r......1 r... ~ It u ill be soen that our latest despatches give the infornation that General Winfield Scott, as the Whig candidate for the Presi deney, has receivod only the votes of two States for that office. A friend asked ius a day or two ago to wlhat we attributed this overwhelninig defeat. We answered to thn good sense of the Americai people. Be. neath the frivolous party excitement there is, we are fully convinced, an under current of soul(d sense, which, on extraorliiary occa sions like the present, makes itself felt throughiout the land. Betweeni the qualifications of the two in dividuals for the office sought there was no comparison. Winfield Scott had not the first gualification that we know of-and the people have rejectod him. The Anierican people are beginning to distrust the policy of electing military chieftains to the highest eivil oflice, and they have emphatically pro nouneed against it. The political alliances which General Scott had formed were repug. taut to sound political conservatism, and the people of the United States have given the most overwhelming demonflstration ever made by hem against the higher law doe trines of Sewardisn and Greeleyism. The South could not trust the renowned chieftain, who, ill poli;ics, was byonid all doubt the standard beare-r of the abolition wiig of the iorthern whigs. For these reasons, rather .h:m11 the comparative strength of the two political parties of the Uniiona, the great Gen. !ral, never before defeated, has met with tha nost complete discomfiture ever suifered by my political aspirant. Let others profit by ;:io lesson taught with so much emphasis. In Franklin Pierce, we si:nply recognize he holiest, straighit-forward citizen, gifted Aith fair talents and abilities, mid in every xay competent to administer the govern neit. lie sought not the oflice, and his ist history shows that lie never was ambi ious for office. Comparatively retired from >olitical turmoil and sti ire, and free from the . rainils of party chiicaiery, having been elected by oie of the great parties of the nLion as a proper man to be chosen Presi 01t, lie has received the largest electoral tote ever given to an aspirant for that office ince the foundation of the government. A nan assuming the reinis of government over hirty-one confederated, though independent, overeigit lies, by the emphatically expressed vill of twenty-nine of these sovereignties, md thus placed at the head of the afliirs of t nation of 25,000,000 of people, is a spec ;acl3 which the civilized world has rarely cen. Stich an election brings tp the. os t sortf th oflibe a-mostat-emindoii6 mnsibility, and while it may gratify' e mdividual, must impofe upon a conscientious :hief magistrate an unusual weight of care, t!ixietV, and toil. Franklin Pierce is not nerely the successful party aspiraint-he is lie abiost iiunaim iiously closeti President of he American people. Every right-iinded I 1ian, whatever may have been his political reed, inl the faithful discharge of his dity as citizen, iimiist give sueh a President, imn the egi:imiate admiiistratioi of the goverment, Liiost cordial support. Another fact, we think, is est;blished by lie result of this clection, and that is the vrsificatioi of Daiiel Webster's prophecy, !i:it the Whig party is defunct as a national ).irty. The cardinal and leading doctrines >f that party have been repudiated by tle eople ; whilst on the other hand, those of' he Democratic party have becoime engraft i l tie iational ptolitv. New issues, there 'e umust be spru ng whereon to rally the mattere'd forces of the old W~hig party. Anth~t~er deduc tionm to be drawn fiom thie -iimarkaLble result of this election, is the ail nost universal raitifientioni of the so-cailled :ompromnise out slavery issues. South Camro inn, in casting her vote for Pierce, did niot hereby endorse the measures alluded to; unt it is an unideiab:le fact that Frank lini Pierce, with great consistency, fromi the be ~ininig, tiot ontly exp)ressed his acquiescence ii these measures, bitt gave them his hearty tpproival. lt canimot be far errone~ous, theme Fre, to conclude that thme compilromise imieas .res are most emph~atically ratified, in the iup~recedented vote whlchlie has received rom all sections of thme Union. It is a dliff-eent question. howev-er, and one which [lie future alone can solve, whether the atninistratin of the Presideiit elect will be able t-> execute thme oiily measumre of the sea ies woithi anything to [lie South-the Fugitive Slave Law. We doubt it. And, mollreover, we believe, that a widespread anid ;dmost universal cohesion of the aiitislavery hosts of the North will now~ be~ :ittempted. Foiled and defeated now, they will unques tionably rally all their strenigthm at thie next f.vorable opportuiiiny. I( 31r. Pierce's ad miniistration be coniservative> and the South ernm people true to themselves, a bulow may may b~e given to Sotutherti fiiatirism fromi whmjhI it may never recover, It will be well for ts of the Soiuth, while givingr out- conii - (ence aiid support to a conservative and repu liciant mdmniiiistration, to wvatchm with srutiny thme progress of eventsi. In this course rests our only security and safety. [South Carolin'an. Tranisciipt states 'that at a mieeting of lie citizenms of' 3anc-hester, N. hI., on Sunday evenming! last, the Rev. 3Mr. Davis> wvho ha~s jund returrued frmn Marsh i-hI, remarked: "'A wmord a bout his debuts. I have heard agaiin and again that lie did not pauy. I in quired of 3Mr. A bhott. Said lie, " 3ir. Davis, from my personal knowleidge, dlerivedl from keeping the private accoutnts of Mr. Webster, [have some opportuinity of knowiiig. Not a bill wvhich hams beenm presented for two or more1. years, dumring which I have been with him, hut it has beeni promptly paid, and a few days befoire lie died, lie called thme overseer of his farm, and gatve himi five hundred dol lars to pay every mian, seiit for the miniister amid paid all that was doe him, so it shall tnot be saidl that Daniel Webster died in dIebt to any mnan." These were the wvords of' his private secretary, anid I began to think that those whio knew Webster best loved him most ; and, sir, I was conviticed of it more In the ot ation delivered by Webster in Fancuil Ha!!, In 1826, on the death of Ad amus and Jefferson, he thus tells us, and his words have now full application to himself, that great and good men never die: Adams and Jefferson I have said, are no more. As human beings indeed they are no more. They are no more as in 1776, bold and fearless advocates of independence; no more, as on subsequent periods, the heads of the government; no more, as we have al ready seen them, aged and venerable ob. jects of admiration and regard. They are no more. They are dead. But how .little is there of tle great and good, which can die ? To their country they yet live, and live, and live forever. They live in all thit perpetuates the remembrance of men on earth; and in the recorded proofs of their own great actions; in the offspring of their intellect ; in tihe deep engraved lines of pub. lie gratitude, and in the respect and homage of mankind. ''hey live in their example, atd they live, emphatically, and will live, in in the inflience which their lives and ef forts, their principles and opinions, now ex ercise on the affairs of men, not only in their own country, but throughout tle civilized world. A superior and commanding human intellect, a truly great nian, when heaven vouclisafes so rare a gift, is not a temioraiy flame, burning bright fur a while and then expiring, giving place to returning darkness. It is rather a spark of fervant heat, as well as radient light, with power to enkindle the common mass of human mind ; so that when it glimmers in its own decay, and finally goes out in death, ie night follows, but it leaves the world all light, all on fire, from the potent contract of its own spiriL lacon died ; but the human understanding roused by the touch of his miraculous wand, to a perception of the true philosophy, and the just mode of inqiring after truth, has kept on its course, successfully and glorious ly. Newton died; yet the courses of the spheres are still known, and they yet move on, in the orbits which he saw, and describ ed for them, in the infinity of space. INS-TANT OUS PonTnAITS.-The Scien tifle American says that instantaneous por traits can now be taken ont collodion by a very ingenious French invention, The per son whose portrait is to be taken is placed at - some distance off, in front of the.lens, and the operator while bonverbg ith him p Is a trigger. By So doing a newly inve Cal) turns.on its own axis, and ini its rota movement allo the light.aud-thegimago diameter o tale lens7 The o 9 ii tained in tite fraction of a ;second, and for quicikness can only be compared to electrity. ExfrurlTfroN OF WORKS OF INDUSTRY AT 1.Vstrwro.-The first Exhibition of the Metropolitan and Mechanics' Institute, will be opened ait Washiigton on the 24th of Februnry next. It is to be held in the new and splendid ball of the cast wing of tho Patent Oflice, which is 275 feet long and 70 feet wide. 'Tle necltaiies from all parts of the Union are invited to exhibit their indus. trial products. All articles deposited for competition must he of American produc tion. A stetan engine will be in operation for driving the machinery. Every falcility will be afforded to exhibitors. The Cores ponding Secretary is Charles F. Stansbury, so well known for his acquaintance with en. gineerintg and works of ncelaanical industry. A noon story is tohld of an eeeentric old gentleman, whto, althtough occasiottally ad. dieted to the habit of sweamrinig, was still most punctilious int regard to saying gratce at his table, and this duty he ntever omitted on any oceatsion. Thte story runas thtat ont a certain occasion thte old genttlemant intvited a sea captant-a jolly old weather.beaten tar of hisaLcquain tatnce, to dine with hin. They sat down to dintner, and thte old gentlemen according to custom coitmeanced saying grace; but the captain, whose attetntion had been diverted~ for a moment, hearing the old gentlenman speak, thtought heo was addressiing him, and turnred to him wIt "What did you soy 'squtire ?" "Why, dl-n it, man, I'm sayiing gracc !" A traveller, who htas heena over thte ground, says thtat thte people who cross the Isthtmus car-ry aloag too great a variety, viz: Bed bilankets, pork, stew-pans antd valises. Inm his opintion amll a ani wants for the whole voyage is a bottle of br-andy and a revolver -ote to kill time, and the other "greasers." MISsION.uRnES DaA.u.-Accounts htave been received of the death of two mission ales of the A merican Board, viz: Mrs. Mor gait, wife of Rev. Homer B . Morgan, (lied at Thessalomica, Sept. 10th, and the wife of Rev. Geo. Acarsota, who did at Little Rock, Ark., Sept. 14th, aged 21. - . A uADY vhio wishted sonme stuffingfronsa roast (luck, which a gentleman w~as carving at a p~ublic table, requested himt to transfer front the dleceased fow'l to hter plate some of its "atrtificial in/cs/ines." "Mv lad," said a school-master, "what is a memnber of Congress ?" "A metmber of Congress is a common substantive, agreeintg with self- intecrest, anad is governied by eighat dlollars a day, under stood." A NEwv remedny for ltydroplto!ia has beens fonud. .The wvounid mutst be w'ashed with wvarm vinegar, or tepid wvate-r, and well dried. Then a few drops of muriatie acid must be poured on the bittent p~art. '1Tua Gr-Ao MINEs.-A correspondent of the London Timtes, itt a late conmmunicationk to that papetr relative to the Guano Islands,. estimtates the guanto found on them to amount at least to two hundred and fifty milliona of of tonts. To reamove this deposit, attherate of a amillion of totns per annum, would re quere twvo hunidred and fifty years, and en ploy, for that time, a thousand aliips of a thmousanad tons capnecity each.- e -., (I Trust ntot an ing'qsiutvdperidu