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ED SI "We will cling to the Pillars of the Temple of our Liberties, and if it aust fall, we will PerIsla amidst the Ruins. W. F. DURISOE,.Proprietor. EDGEFIELD, S. C., JANUARY 5, 1853. OL --NO.. ADDRESS TO A BRANDY BOTTLE. You old brandy bottle, I've loved you too long, You have been a bad niess-Inate to ie; Wlimn I net you first I wias healdhy and btrong, A nd l:andsome as handsoie eoul be. I had plenty of eash in my pocket and purse, And ny clheeks were ret& is a rose, And the day when I took you for better or worse, I'd a beautiful aquiline nose! But now only look, I'm a fright to behold, That beauty I basted has fled You'd thnk I was nearly a hundrod years old, When I'm raising my hand to my hetail For i: trembles and shakes like the earti when it qiakes, And I'n onstantly spill'ng my tea, A nd whenever I oprak I iake awful nistakes, Till every one's laughing at mie. The Idies do ni't love me, and this I can trace Tv the loss of ny aquel.ne nose, Lke an overgrown strawberry stuck on niy face, Still larger and larger it grows. A nd I have n't a cent in lily pocket or purse, Andl my clothesare all tattered anid torn; Oh, you old brandy bottle yu've been a sad curset, And I wish I had never been born ! You old brandy bottle, I'll love you no more, You have ruined ily body and soul; I'll dash yuu to pieces, aid swear from this hour To g've up both you and the bowl. And I'll now go and sign-1 could scarcely do worse, On that pledge all my hope I repose, And I'll get back niy money in pocket and purse, And. perlaps, too, iy beatitiful nose. THE PRODIGAL SON. Amietioiis though they Seem ,evere, In ierey oft are sent : They stopped the Proiligal's career, And eause-l him to repent. A..lthough he no relentingst felt, Till he had spent h.fs %tore Ilk stubborn heart began to ielt When famine pinch'd him sore. " What have f gain'd by sin," he said. But hunger, shame, and fear: .\iv father's house abounds with bread, Whi!c I ai starving here. I'll go and tell him all I've done, And fall before his face: Uiworthy to be call'd his son, I'll seek a servant's place." Ifis Cathor saw him cominig hack, lie saw, and ran, anl sinil'd ; Anti threw his arms around theneck Of his rebellious child. " Father, I've siin'l-but Oh. forgive - I've heard enough," he said ; " lejoice, my house, ny son's alive, For whita I mourn'% asl.-::1" THE BRILLIANT LOCKET. A STORY FROM REAL LIFE. elIAPTER I. IT w:s the Autumn of the year 1800 when the Reptublicant army und~er' Ney, Morcean, L~amb, Cyr, and other of its bravest genter:ds, w~as pursuing its victoriouis career, and laying waste some of the most impiortant towns in Germnany, thatt the circumstanuce we are .about to relate took place. The freqnent wianat of stores, amtmunitton anid money, in the Republican armies, andi the hope of plunder, then so fregnently held ou; to the Frenuch soldiers aus the reward ofI victory, catused no inconsiderable alarm in the breasts of the more peaceful inhabitanits of tliose places which were considered likely to become the theatre of hostilities. Amoung these, the inhabitanuts of a Ger ma~n town oh' considerablie importance-anid which, for distinuction, we will call Ehristeinm -had amle reason f'or their mnisgiv'ings; the daily, abtnost honrly approach of thel Frenich being expected,. Thie family ohf Patul Kinmayer, a merchant ! citizen oh' great wvealth, wtas amotug those mtost agitated by the afflicting intelligence. 11lis honsehold consisted of' his wif'e and onl y dl.mughter, and a few domuestics in whom he could place contfidence. His datughte.r wa tie sprinig which regulated every action of; the merchant's life. Shue waus the apple of his eye, the sunshine of his shady places, for her he accumulated his wealth, that her ratre beauty might witn with it a station of' ranrk atnd inlloence ; and the huopie of a whole lif'etimte tmight be wrecked ini a few bief hours. His wife was the first to suggest a plani for the concealment of' their treasures, TIheir inansioni was sitte~td necar the extremity of the town, :tnd from it at secret ptasag comn nmuicated wtithu a bower in the gairden ad. jiini~g, from thence, in the evenaing a man might easily steal unperceived to the adjacett wvoods, ;and there sihe proposed that the maer ch~at should at night time bury his treasure, or, at anyv rate, that he should proceed througha the forest and deposit it with a reh~ition who was to be truisted, who would not lie suspect ed of possessing so much wealth, atnd who resided about two days journey from the plaice. For a time, Paul Kinmayer resisted every imuportunity of his wife. Whow would protect tI.emn shotuld the atnticipated attack tatke place 1 in his absence ? lThe (domestics were old and ini, and thsey would be tmuch for !)thers not akin to them. But when his wife spioke upon the fuoture ;wheni sihe imtpressedl on him~ ihat it was wealth onily that would js requirod of themt, and that, deprived of that ad for which ho had struggled, which wonuld be sentteredi in a tmomnent, his resolu-t tioni gave way,. " I go," said he, " and leave you itn the trust of one whose all powerful hand wvillr protect you; unless, indeed, in his infin itet wisdom, he deems it fittitng that the intnocent shall fiall as an example and terror to the gnilty." Collecting all that was most valuable into a small packet, as the evening approached, the merchant was prepared to depart One jewel only remained behind-it was his own miniature, set in a locket, with diamonds of great value. It was his wedding gift to Amelia, and with it he hesitated to part, and he phaced it again around her neck with the Pane lervor Mid atllection that he felt when he first piesented it. To her and his daugh. ter, the natnesake of her nother, lie gave some inecessarv direction for their Wvlfiare during his -.isence, and taking an afrection. ate tarewell, lie departed, unknown to any but themselves. It was in the evening of the fourth day after tile merchant had departed. that the roll of the drum, tie shrill voice of the trumpet amning t he i nhabita tints without, proclaimed to the inmates of the mansion that the ene my was fast approaching. The town was indeed filled with Austrianitroops; but these had been so cfIten and lately deeated by the victorious arms of the French, that it was not without roason the citizens felt strong misgiving., in their prowess. On the return of the merchant, the French irmy was evacuating the place, and carried with them the trophies they had wrested rom the conquered Austrians, aid a large anppoly of stores and plinder from the devo red towl. Paul's heart dried within him as lie st,-althilv entered the suburbs, and pro. eeeded towards the place of hisresidence. Within the town was confusion and dis. nay; here were open storehouses rifled of their contents, the very doors torn from their binges; there, were the !.rim gardens of the richer classes broken down and tramnpled iver, in tie market places were groups of :he middle and lower classes, loudly con. lainiiig of the excesses of Austria and France. Still Paul stopped not to join tie aterv hi, own :mxietv was his own hoim1e. A: length he reacied his dwallinig. W ith Iat a palng of intelnse anxiety lie rushed in through the open portal. The servants ad evidentiv fled ; the stairs bore the marks )f heavy footsteps. Paul stopped not to -xaiine them, or lie would have seen that laey were traced with gore. With the speed of thouAght ho rushed into be accustomed sitting room, and there a orrid spectahle awaited him. Onl the ground ay his wife, stablied through Ithe heart, one L. I if the town, until it was wi. hat he was mad ; and so, for a tiimie, lie was; put anxiety brought weariness, and repose ed to recollection. How deeply Paul Kinniayer reproached imnself for not taking the miiiiatnre with the aher valuables, need not at this time e related, since he little doubted that his vife's resistance to part with it led to the atal catastrophe. One redeeming thought inly flashed across his mind, that by its igeny-if, indeed, she had not shared the te of her mother-he might be enabled to iscover the missing daughter. To this end, ie rescdved to deviote the whole of his fu. re existence; and~ after the funecral of his vife, he disposed of his house, the wraeck of is household goods, and prepared to travel, w'hither, lie knaew niot; hut aanywhere to fly rom the scenes where all his hopes of earth. y' happiess had been blighted by the ruth e'ss hanids of the destrover. '" And these,"hle said, as lie turned from is native town anid home, " are dleeds5 per itrated undier the sacred hion of liberty! tlas! haow~ is the divine attribute desecrated! low little but the naiae exists in the blood hirsty dynasty of Franice !" CH APTER III. Shall we follow the steps of Paul Kinmay r for twelve years ?, Shall we relate how e0 travelled in stra~ lands, even in the rake of the French army-soetimes in isguise. H ow minute, but vet how cautious vere his inquiries, and alas ! lhow fruitless! ;lall we say haowu the hale mana grew gray mid1 feeble as thougrh ha~lf a ceintury had pass ' over his head, ini scarcely omore than a ythae of one? No ; for wve could relate othing that would interest the reader-no hing bait the patient suffe~riing of a haereaved nan, hoping, but hopeles-seeking, but fid nag it nt; until it almost seemed that the ~aculties of the wanderer had ceased to em-. race the original object of his mission ; but hey (lid not-they onily slumbered. It was something beyond twelve years fter the scene related in our secotnd chap. er too~k place, that a Fronch officer was re iting, ini one of the principal cafes of Parie, o an eager crowd of listeners, the partacu ars of ani inglorious retreat from Russia, of vhich lie was one of the few survivors. llis ige coul riot have exceeded thirty, but the readfuhl hardships of the Russian campaign mnd told- fearfully upon01 his hardened features. Aar, however, bnad iaot tamied, but had evi lently added to, a naturally ferocious dispo ition, for lie was detailinmg with savage sat. sactiont, the torments of the enemy, already orgetful of the sevirity bie hand just escaped; miu to which so many of his comrades had allen a sacrifice. Anmong' those wh'lo listened most attentive y was a stran ger, who sat almost uannoticed mokinig in ana obscure corner of the room; n involuntary expression at length betrayed ii, and :all eyes wuere imimediately turned o wvhere lie sat. " Ill wager a Napoleon," said the officer, 'that the old Germain inever smelt powder tat on a review, and never sawu more smoke han that which nowv proceeds from his mecer inm." "Better if others were like me, whio, re membeinag only that they are soldiers, forget ht they are men." " He !" exclaiund thn officr, starting on his feet ; " such sentiments here are dat gerous, bt you Germans are ever mystica However, I'll tell you a German adventur so, garcon, another bottle of coti roti, an then- Do you happen to know the Get man town of Ebriestein I" enquired the ol ficer. The dull eye of the stranger seemed lit u suddenly with a liquid fire, as he answere in the allirmative. It was my first campaign," continue the officer. ". Aly fatther was one of the hr vest (lhe meant, one of the most blood-thiri tv) leaders of the revolution. H is influene obtained for me a commissioin ; and crowne with suecess I found no difficulty in earnin for myself promotion. In the action All ded to we were allowed but two hours 1 itimake what pillage we could in the town c Ebriesteinm, before we proceeded onward t I greater and more glorious victories. Wel thete was a jeweller of great wealth whos honse was poinited out to me by an Austrix prisoner; we entered, but in which neithe jewels nor portable valuables could we flind The servants fled on our first entrance; th wife and the daughter alone reinnied. Th1 latter had locked themselves in a room. whicl we soon burst open ; we demanded of then their valuables ; the trumpet had alread; sounded ' to horse,' and I was preparing t< leave the house, when a gold chain aroum the neck of the elder female attracted nu attention. There was attached to it-" " A portrait !' asked the stranger, in a ton, of ill-concealed anxiety. - Don't interrupt me," said the narrator " the story is droller thai any one wouh imagine." The blood of the stranger came and weni rapidly, and, putting down his pipe, he wai obsetvod, for the moment, feeling about hi pocket, as if in search of some missing ar ticle. " You're right, it was a portrait, and in : most valuable setting. Provoked at obtain iig no booty, I demianded it of hwr; sit should have had the worthless miniature, bt site was obstinate. I tried to force it front her, but she resisted-nav, more, she tried tr seize a pistol from my belt, and in the he.a of mny passion, I stabbed her." "Have you that portait still!" asked the German. I have, though it has been taken from the setting in which one of my own glitters. You said you know Ehriestein !" I did, years ago." And probably the original of this pic. CHAPTER IV. Mortally wounded, but not dead, he who had braved the heat of a hundred battles, and whom death had spared that he might make more suitable atonimetit for his guilt, was carefully removed to a private apart. mient. Paul, w'ho might have escaped in the con fusion, (lid not attempt to do so, and lie was of course taken into cuitody, and incarcer. ated in one of the dutgenIs of the polic. The following morning Ile was led forth for examination ; the wife of the fallen otli. cor, Le was told, would he his accuser. But he walked with a firmier step antd a lighter heart thtan usuaul. One piortiont of his mis sion had beetn accomplished ; he had aveng. ed his wife's death, but lie foutnd no traces of his daughter. Otn reacbing tho place of examiniation, he was commanded to statid ; a shriek-a long, agonizing shriek-was heard, and the pros. eeutrix fell setnseless on thme floor. Restoration was applied, and on her re. covery, thie cause of her agitation was sooni apparent: " It is my father !" she said, and breaking~ through the crowd, site again li sernseless in his arms. The imiettus of her fall caused a locket to drop from hor bosom, wvhere it was still suts pended by a chain. Pautl Kinmayer snatch. ed it up. Yes, it wvay the name-the circl of brilliants ; butt nlow it contained the por trait of--whtomt of his daughter's husband, the murderer of~ his wife. Passing her to onte of the attendants, the old man snmote his breast, arnd called aloud in his trouble "Was it for this thou wert preserved, my beautiful, my pure I" In consequentce of the state of the witness, the examiiatiomn was post potned, atid the same evening the dyitng matn requested that the pirisonler, together with the chief of po0 lice, might attend him. On their arrival life was ebbitng fast. The confession of the officer was brief; he ad mitted the murder of PaulI's wife, anid the justice of (he retribution ; he further conifess ed that theC daughter, being almiost a child, was catrried away by the soldiers to the reai of the army; aind sihe was forced from the apartment previous to, and knew nothimng o f her tmothier's fate; and that, repenting of his act, lie had her conveyed to Paris, and edu. catedl; her loveliness increased; atid she, only kntown to him ias a benefactor, at last cotnsemnted to marry him. This confe~ssion was attested and forward ed1 to the Ertperor. Meanwhile the frientds of the officer camne forward as persecutors: his wife refitsed to do so. TIhte murder in: the latter case wasit fully proved, antd Paul was sentenceed to deatht. On the momiing appointed for his execu. tion,, he wvas reprieved, atid sutfTeredh to enter a monastery, where lhe soon sunk under a broken hecart. With his wealth which was considerable, he founided a convent for the "Sisters of Mercy ;" and in the still beautiful abbess, whose piety anid benevolence have, with jus. tice, been lauded atnd admired, may be dis. covered the utnfortunate datughter of Paul Kinmayer. Give a child his will, and a whelp his fill, and neither will thrie. ODD mororrs. 1. It is a good rule forthose who would " i deem the time," to have on their hands sor d pursuit or employmed4-or subject of inves gation, which can b easily taken up ai r. pursued in intervals of time, when no oth occupation presents )ltself. He only wI has tried this economy of moments can es d nate the advantages Iwhich iay be thus s cured by a systematic " gathering of fra d ments." It is relatedpf some anthor of di tinction, that one of the works by which I was best known was written at daily inte e vals: when he was bliged to wait by t] d want ofpunctnality'oythe part of those wi rwihom he was cinnected; and if we all we . thus prudent in our employment of " tI stntf life is made ofkas " Poor Richard f calls it, the lives of nion would leave bett, n records, and more enfuring memorials. 1 The Christian hawii better opportunil than any other man,,o husband the estal 1 which God has giveni him in the preciot r gift of years and momenits. Years are nia of daysand hours, andlie who systematicall improves the currency of moments as the pass him, will have a grood account to re: der in a life well and 4iligenitly spent. Dil gence in well doing ilone can answer tI requirements of ouriduty; thQgh mai seem to fancy that refkaining from overt ae of evil is all that a Christirn life. demand I And many wonder at their lethargy, au complain of their deainess -'and indifferenc when the true cause il their idleness, in th they do not " redeem the time." Keep son object or objects continually in hand, t which thoughts may reVert, and about whic the mind may be employed. There is abm dance to do; for " the-harvest is truly plet teous," and lie who has the cause of his Ma ter, and the good of his fellow-creatures : heart, bas, as we havealready remarked, n excuse or occasion fo.-a single listless t: ment.-Episcopal Recorder. HINTs TO YO-NG 1PNU.-Be economica No matter if your parents are worth mni lions, it is not Ile less'proper that you shoul understand the v.lue of money, and th honest honorable meas of acquiring ii What multitudes of young men, particularl in our large cities, make shipwreck of repu tation and health, and e'entually of propert by neglect of this maxim 1-they are awar that their fathers obtained their wealth b habits of industry, but they are ashamed the name. They forgot that wealth in thi country passes from one to another, and thai lie win ic r;A- f- 4In man h nnAr tn.mn .......... . -.....-i he sun shine of life is made up of very little beam that are bright all the time. In the nuroer3 on the playground and in the school, ther is room all' .ne time for little acts of kindnes that cost nothing, but are worth more thai gold or silver. To give up something, wher giving up all will prevent unhappiness,-t yield, when persisting will chafe and fre others,-to go a little around rather thai come against anotherg-to take an ill war or a cross look quietly, rather than resent a return it; these are the ways in which cloud and storms are kept off, and a pleasant an steady sunshine secured even in very humbl homes, amnd among very poor people, as we] as in families as in stations. [ Sabbadk School Treasury. hilsRInrs OF BACHEcLoRs.-Surround hachielor, say3s a contemp~orary with ever possible comfort, give him the roomiest o Ibed chambers, the most refreshing ofcouchea tearetof sponging baths; cover hi brakas-tbl wvith the whitest of cloths make his tea with the hottest of boiling wa ter ; envelop his body in the most comforta Ile of dressing gowns and his feet ini th easiest of slippers ; feed him amid the luxu ries and comforts of the snuggest of clubi Do all these things and more for him, an Ihe will, nevertheless, he unha ppy. He muse and ponders, and dreams &shout love an Imarriage. EnterrION OF BoYs.--We know not wh, is the author of the followving paragrapi but it cotaints sound senliments wvhic ought to be treasured up by every pareti and guardian in thme land: " Every boy should hare his head, hi heart and his hand educated. Let this truti tnever b~e forgotten. By the proper educa tiotn of the head, he wvill be taught whati good aind what is evil, what is wise and wvha is foolish, what is right anid what is wrong By the proper education of the heart, he wvil he taught to love what is good, wise ani right, anid to hate all evil foolish and wvrong And by the proper education of the hand, Ii wvill be enabled to supply his wvants, to adi ,to his comforts, and to assirt those arout him. The highest objects of a good edu cation are to reverence and obey God, atta to love and serve mankind. Everythii that helps us in attaining these objects is c great value, and everything that hinders ut is comparatively wvorthless. When wisdon Ireigns in the head, amnd love in the heart, th. man is ever ready to do good ; order an' peace smile arounad and sin and sorrow ar< almtost unknown-v" " How far do you want to drive this hors this evening," said a livery stable keeper, ti three young bucks for whom he was har nessing a horse to a rockawvay. "Only seventy-five miles," was the re ply. " You can't drive this horse that far," sal " Vyno, said the exquisites, "ain't wv 'all got vips I" " H Av you said your prayers, Johni said a doting mother to her obedient Jitti boy. " No ma'am. It aint my work ; Bill say the prayers, and I the amens I We agree in o d it 'ase i coesshorter." NEGROES IN CANADA. e- "How to dispose of the negroes," is a ie question not confined to the southern side of Li. the great lakes. It is pressing itself upon d I the attention ot the Canadians with contin er uallv increasing force, and suggests conclu. 19 sions widely different from those propounded Li- by the noisy sympathizers with the Garri. sons and Douglamsas of our country. The ridiculous resolves of busy-bodies at Toronto s- and one or two other places in the Canadian te I peninsula have been too often mistaken for r- the judgment of the people generally; and ie frequent references to the " underground rail. :i roads," which conveys runaway scamps from re Detroit to her majesty's dominions, have ie served to give plausibility to the mistake. " The fact nevertheless remains. that the in r structive dislike to the idea of the equality and analgamation of the two races pervades y the mass of the settlers in Canada to an ex tent as great as in New York or Ohio; and is that the settlers view the influx of negroes lo into their n.idst as a present injury to their y property, a drawback to their social pro. y gress, and a source of much future trouble. - TJ10 Colonist, perhaps the best conservative i. journal in the province, has consistently oc. e cupied this ground ; and now we find the y Leaderkone of the recognised ministerials :s organs, following suit with a plainness and s. vigor which ipust grate harshly on the ears d of cant. The Leader" takes the bull by the I, horns " manfully, and disposes of it with a Lt candor which from such a.quarter deserves e acknowledgment. We copy some points' o from its article: h "Whatever'wrongs American slavery may - have inflicted on the African race, it may be - doubted whether it has degraded them below, their original condition; or whether, after all t they have suffered, they be not more intelli r> gent, more industrious, and equally as virtu otis as when our forefathers stole them from their native shores. The African is in fact enslaved in his own country and by his own I. race ; and nothing but superior intelligence can rescue him from his original barbarism. ] There is now in operation an eiiterprise that e promises to achieve the social elevationef the African race on their native soil. The y establishment of a negro Republic in Liberia, which affords n' congenial asylum to tie free r negroes of this continent, deserves' to be ) ranked among the most importatit enterprises ' of the age. A sound and healthy necleus of f a vast emigraiion from North America has s been formed; and the A merican Colonization t Society is destined to direct from these shores as* upon his degradation ; n ...... repulse him; no social etiquette perpetually s to gall him with a sense of his inferiority. " Far from unimportant as this question is a to the whole of North America, it has for s Canada an interest perhaps more weighty than for any other portion of the continent. 3 Since the Northern States of the Union, un der the operation of the Fugitive slave law, t have ceased to afford a safe asylum for f.igi tives from slavery, Canada has become the sole immediate subterfuge for a class that at r one time distributed themselves over the q whole extent of the free States. Sonic ten I thousand fugitives are stated to have taken 3 refuge on this soil since that lawv wvent into Ioperation. Whether we regard the move ment in a social, political, or economical sense, it is impossible not to look upon this irruption as an evil ; and although philanthro py may wvelcome and benevolence may as Ssist the successful fugitive wvho has eluded 'his pursuers, reason tells us that thme element thsaddto our puatoisby no means s of the most desirable kind. To refuse them an asylum would he an act of proscription at once arbitrary, cruel, and indefensible. -But it is quite another thing to go out of our way to en courage negro immigration to this province ; to atteimpt to make it a focus of Snegro colonization, not merely- for those whio are in danger of being recaptured and con s veyedl back to slavery, but also for the ne groes of the North who were born free. If this mistaken benevolence meet with general indulgcnce, future generations may have cause to regret the social effects it must in evitable produce. * * A Hamilton contem porary adduces evidences of the deplorable additions to the criminal calenldar of Upper Caiiada, induced by the influx of unusual numbers of those persons into this province. The western journals not unfrequently con -tain similar stautemeiit, and of the occupants tof the Toronto jail, a short time ago, a large proportion was of that class. T1he victims of slavery are entitled to every commiseration Iand those benevolent persons wvho feel it their duty to direct the destiny of these unfortunate beings should at least direct them to a coun try for which the most intelligent of that Irace have expressed a preference over every other as a place ofsettlemient. If they must help the African-and they will finid plenty of scope for the broadest phianthopy in do. 'ing so-let them do the best thing for him and for all conicerned; direct him to the country wvhich ol all others is best adapted to his constitution and his necessities, and where alonc lie can, in every sense of the Iword, be thoroughly a freeman." A s irregular apprentice freqnently keep ing late hours, his master, at length, took occasion to apply sonme rceightiy arguments, Ito convince him of the " error of his ways." DurIng the chastisement, lie contiinually -exclaimed: " liow long will you serve the Devii ?" The boy replied, whimpering: " You know best, sir-I believe my iniden tures will be out in three months." A learned Doctor of Divinity was accused of rambling in his discourses, by one of his hearers, to wvhich lie replied, "If you will 3 ramble to the devil, I must ramble after you." s " IF you can't statnd before the trntlh you I, must fall," as the man said whetn lie knocked is wife down with the Bible. THE HOMESTEAD LAW. At the recent session or our Legislature, numerous bills were introduced to repeal the Homestead Law, whichewere severally re ferred to the Committee on the Judiciary. The committee made the following report: "Your Committee think the. act of the last session quite too recent to admit of its repeal without a fair trial, and recommend that no legislation is now called for on the subject. Those who live upon the improvi. dence of the roor by seducing them into credit beyond their means, such as shop. keepers, and especially dealers in the tempt. ing article of spirituous liquor, may clamor at a law that protects the shelter of a thrift less father. But credit is itself always dan. gerous to the very poor. They forget that pay day will one' time overtake them, and then the spider who has deliberately woven his web, darts upon his hampered victim. Credit is useful to the merchant to antici pate the sale of his goods. To the me chanic who undertakes large contracts to enable him to lay in his materials; but to go in debt for daily bread, and especially for mere luxuries, ends in the ruin of those who live on their daily earnings. Credit is temptation. Storekeepers and liquor deal. ers use small credits to poor men, to absorb their whole substance. If a man has health, lie can at least earn his daily bread. If he is sick the public will take care he does not want the necessaries of life. . " The debter is the slave of the creditor." This applies most strangely to the indigent. We want no slavery among our white citizens. To see his home sold by the Sheriff, his little means of feeding. his wife and children taken away, breaks his spirit and cows that manliness of character which makes a free. man a soldier of the State, ready to defend it. - The law now exempts his musket. It s'iould protect his home for the sake of his family' and he will the better do his duty in the field. No complaints from any quarter, not tainted with the suspicion of interested motives, have reached the committee. - But one year has elapsed since a law, similar to ones in force all over the Republic, was passed-we are disposed to let time test a policy which at least has humanity to re commend it. B. F. HUNT, Chairman. THE FRENC1I ANNEx.TIo.-The move ments of the French in Sonora are attract ing much attention. Though apparently only a private adventureityet the movements there so accord with the tone of the French iournals, when speaking of Mexico and the -olonization as a from the State of Sonora to found there an agricultural colony. Two companies, one headed hy M. de Pindray, and another by M. Lepine de Legondes passed into Sonora. The expedition failed, broke up into frag mentary bands, and dispersed about the country. A fterwards, under better auspices, another company was formed, under the lead of M. de Raousett Boulbon, who ob. tained for himself and his party, a grant of the mine of Arizona, and proceeded to take possession of it and work it. Meanwhile other claimants for the mine of Arizona ap peared, and were backed by the local au thorities, which began to be jealous of the French, and suspicious that their ultimate object might be diflerent from what it appear ed on the surface. The Mexican govern muent had stipulated that M. de Raoussett Boulbon should carry with him a force of only 150 men. But he soon augmented it to 250 meon; and, upon the controversy be tween him and the local authorities begin. ning to look serious, lie called to him tbe scattored members of the parties of M M. do Pindray and Lepine Legondes. Thus he had the command of nearly 500 French, well equipped. The Mexican party, under Gen. Glance, wvho camme to dispossess Bloulbon, numbered, it is said, 2,000, and in an en gagement with the latter were completely routed. It is generally believed that Boul bon w~ill be able to maintain himself in So r-o-a, which he has declared independent of the Central Government of Mexico. Whether the design is to carry out the policy indicated in the French journals, and to estalish a French. colony on the Pacific, or that annexation to the United States isI ultimately Intended, as Is suggested by the California journals, the operations in that quarter are likely to be invested wvith con siderahle interest, and will, doubtless, com mand the attention of our Government as well as that of Mexico.-Phil. Ledger. VELL, SAuol--Some person the other day discontinued his subscription to the New Albany Tribune, because it w~as not abolition enough to suit his particular fancy. The editor administers a very proper rebuke to the illiberal gentleman, and concludes by saying: As to the question of slavery, in the ab stract we presume our views are well known, and wve shall not now enter upon the dis' cussion of that topic. W~e m-ay here re mark, how~ever, that while we regard slavery as a very great evil, morally, socially and politically, our experince has fully confirmed us in the opinion, that three-fourths of the slaves of the South, and especially of Ken - tucky, are this day in a more happy condi tioni than are alike proportion of the free negroes of the North-and wvell convinced are we that he is noe friend to the slave who would seek to change his present relation, by counselling and encouraging him to be come a fugitive from labor. Out upon that mawvkish sentimnentality, that exhausts itself Ihi sighs and tears for thme hapless lot of the poor slave-yet lifts not a finger to amelior ate the condition of the more debased and dowvn-trodden free negro. AfILToN wvas asked by a friend whether he would instruct his daughter in the dIffer ent languages. To which lie replied, "No, PORTER's SELF LOADINo Gu".-The edi tor of the Boston Transcript has been favor ed with a sight of tie celebrated gun, paten ted in 1851 by Col. Perry W. Porter, of Memphis, Tennessee, which, it is said, is des tined to surpass all other weapons in the deadly aim and rapid repetition of its dis charges. It is thus described; " It is a light and beautiful gun, and may be discharged as a revolver twenty-seven times in a minute, while it is susceptible of being - loaded and fired forty times in a minute. In conformity with a resolution of the Gen eral Assembly of Tennessee, the Governor of that State has ordered'h thousand of these guns. We learn that ten thousand are now being manufactured by George P. Foster & Co., Taunton, Massachusetts. They will undoubtedly be introduced into the army of the United States, as forty men armed with this gun would be a match for four hundred with the old fashioned musket. This 're markable invention cannot fail to excite pub lie admiration and curiosity." LoVE, REVENGE AND ATTExPTED MUx DER.-A young man named Christian Beck er, was shot, at the residence of his parents in Philadelphia, on Monday, by a girl naied Marilena Messer, to whom he had been paying his attentions for four or five years.> It appears he was committed to jail last Ju ly; that to get him out she paid 858.out of her own hard earnings, and that, in Septem ber, he borrowed $42 from her-subsequent-' ly seduced her, -and then refused to marry her, and that he took up his abode in some place unknown to her. On Sunday night, she went to the residence of his parents in search of him, and remained all night, sup posing that lie might come there. In this she was not mistaken. He made his ap; pearance there about daylight, and -she ac costed him. He refused steadily to tell her where lie lived, and told her to go away, as he wanted nothing more to do with her. He bade her good-by, and as he turned to leave her she levelled a pistol at him, pulled trig ger and he fell. The ball struck him on the hard bone behind the ear, glanced upvirds between the scalp and skull for several inches. Had it gone one-half inch lower. down he would have been instantly killed.. The woman was at once arrested and taken' before Alierman Buckman, who committed her to prison. On Monday afternoon the wounded man, being able to walk, proieid. ed to the alderman's office, wbereuponhe magistrate sent him to prison. IMPORTANT VERDICT IN AN AvB'I'Isnl 1p, Was cIeuy ntUL 111r. Zuu.. A.. in respect to the advertisement were not car. ried out. However, he took the Courier ind Engnirer daily, and, as was presumed )y the court, saw the advertisement in ques. ion, and should have notified the editor to iter or discontinue it. The court ruled that te should have given this notice, and not arnve expected to enjoy the benefit of the ad. vertisement without paying for it. CURE oF THE EYEs.-Looking in the fire s very injurious to the eye, particularly a :oal fire. The stimulus of light and heat united soon destroy the sight. Reading in the twilight is injurious to the eyes, as they are obliged to make great exertion. Read ing or sewing with a side light injures the eyes, as both should be exposed to an equal deg.ree of light. The reason is, the sympa thy between the eyes is so great that if the pupil of one is dilated by being kept parti ally in the shade, the one that is most expos ed cannot contract itself sufficiently for pro tection, and wyill ultimately be injured. Those wtho wish to preserve their sight should pre serve their general health by correct habits, and give their eyes just work enough with a due degree of light. LUcKY WIND FAI,.-Our young friend, the Rev. L. M. Cohen, of the Baptist church, who, the reader will recollect, was. graduated at the Furman University at this place last summer, has had the good fortune to receive a legacy of $30,000 from a re mote female relative in England. It is known, by the friends of Mr. Cohen that ho is by birth a Jew, and that for reasons sat isfactory to himself, he has seen fit to em brace the christian faith, and became a preacher of the gospel, after the persuasion of the Baptist. We learn that the grand mnaiden aunt, from whom Mr. Cohen re eeiv-es his legacy, a few days previous to her death also embraced the christian religion. [Greenville Mountaineer. CtJRIOUs CONUNDRUM OR REBUs.--A entlemnan from Conecuhi county desires us o " exert our ingenuity" in solving a puzzle, viith which he says, a school-master in that ieighborhood has recently been quizzing the eople. It Is stated as follows: " A wagoner, passing a store, was asked athat he had in his wtagon. Three-fuurths of a eroes, ad a cirele emplete : A n upright where two semi-circles do meet ; A reet-angle triangle standing on feet; Two semi-circles, andl a circle complete."~ Que What was in the wagoni This Is a very Ingenious " puzzle"--but diter some little study, we can cry cureka. Thus-three-fourths of a cross is T. A cirele complete is an 0. An upright where twvo semi-circles meet is B. A triangle standing on feet is A. Two semi-circles a C C, and a circle complete is an 0. TO BACCO is what was in the wagon. That w~agoner may woag on.-Mobile Reg. Two MEN AND A WOXAN GiARoT3D. At 7 o'clock, a. m. of the 6th insant, two men and a wvomen were publicly executed by the garrote at Havana, for poisonhtg a Mrs. Fowvlo. LIKE all other highways, the r-oad to for tune ha~s a half way house ; and those who stop to "take something," seldon.e a'ny farther.