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MEL-~ Mi VV F. ODlbtIhC P ropr etor E D E IE D SOet )C.fl J A N U A R 1 2 ihx c 18,t From the Family Friend. THE COTTAGE. 'unr busy hum of day was o'er Twilight had hushdied the sighing breeze ; The riplitig wave just kissed the shre, And zepltyrs sung amid the trees A far I heard the church-hel's cthime; And near. a nurmuring zivvr floweil, While hitigh in the pure azure elime, Thle full-orbed mnoon respleident rode. A lovely cottage. crowned wit:i vines, Stol(l by the streatm antid1 the grove i hoses and huncy-sucklvs twine Around its lattice wreaths of love: Oh ' 'twas a bright and similin. scene Of :ll the seenes of earth most Ktir No other spot vw; half so) green, No other beaaty half so rare. I p-insed at the hattice. and heard The soft notes (of miusic anld song A lute string was tretiblingly stit- ed, And melody floated along ; An angel veice joimel in the lav, And harmony swelledl on tile air; Andi when the- last notes dil awa.y, Up rose the soft accents of prayer. A sweet female voice, pure and clear, Plore forth her lesires on the a~r : hO, Father: o'er t hose to nie dear, Extend Thy kind, provident care; May the husband and father again Ieturn to the fond arms of love And, we, free from folly anl pain, Lay up all our treasures above .' I CANNOT FORGET THEE! Ui C. C. RAWLINGs. I cannot forget thee! thy spirit is here Uwnent an,l unh'ar.l, thou art still ever near, Tito' days may have asseil sin-e together we met, Thy image stiil haunts lie-] eannot forget I When the soft sighing lreeze wafts its ielly near, Thy voice sweetly warbling in fancy I hear, WV hen brigLht hving visions at eveni-timte geali, I sce thee before tie in ainev's bright dream. On my he-irt thy sweet hinige its impress is male, That impress, no absence. nor distance shall lade But here in my soul wiI I cherish thee yet, I have sen thee, and loved thee-I e-mnot forget. BY R.Qer.5T. From.thc Anu.runn Gizette. INCIDENTS OF THE REVOLUTION,. IN E DO EFIELD. Br AUs'rmt:s. Trm. heroes and heroines of our American Revolution are dropping off, one by one, like 1nt1mnal leaves before the wintry blast," and very sooni the portals of the tomin will have closed upon the lastI surriror of that illustrious generation, which poured out thlir lood like water in the cause of lreedmll. Our memorable struggle for Independene gave rise to many noIble decds, the memory of which will inevitaluly he htiied along with the pure patriot;, who lived in " the times that tried men's souls," and wrung wm ' ?tnWider" heart with1 untold agonies. We have, therefore, thiought it not an tun protable work to secure from oliivion, sonme of those traditions, which have no y-et a p-2 peared in any pu!.ic print ; to) the truth of which, however, there are still living witnes ses in the country to testify. We propose to write dlown among other things, a few items respectinig the hatrdships and sufferings of prirate individuals whose history is too often ov-emlooked in the records of the past. Johnson, in his traiditions, hats given a bariof skcetcht of the life and services of Captain Alichocl Watson, butt several incidents have beeni omitted, wvhich ought to have had " a place in the picture." Wihen quite a youth, lie came from Virginia with his lfather, who settled ron thme Ridge, in ladgerieid Distriet, about the vear 1745. lost of Capt. Wat-. son's poterity are still living ini this neighi b,>rhood ; lie had hut one son, Elijah Wat soin, Senior, whlo was at member of the Leg islature, whien the Nullification excitement ivas att its zenith, and who waus himslf a Nullifier. Jolhnson sayvs that .\liehol WVat son served in two expeditions aigainst the Cherokee Indians; onice before the com-. mencement of the Amnericanu Revolution, un dher Col. Grant and the next time under Gen. Williamson, dluring that summer when the British made their fruitless attack on Sulli van's Island. lki residence being directly on the great thoroughfare, leading from Charleston to Cambridge, was exposedl to the hostile visits of the British, as wvell as the Tories; and his well known energy and courage, together with the great nnmber of fictive Whigs who were attached to lisk command, made him an object of peculiar haatred with his enemies. (We will ju~st tnention, in this connection, that, in the eomipany tinder the command of Captain Watsmi, was the father of Col. B. HIngood, the proplrietor of Ca-sar's Head.) The Th* fies had a place of gathering in a large swamp, near Orangeburg. This spot was a dry, firm spot of landi~, surrounded onaf sides by a mairsht-a sort of hiog-islaind. One night, whmilst the Royalists were revel ling, in fancied seenirityv on their lcrra firma Tn the swamp, Caiptain Watson, wvith a party of his brave followers, mamde anm attack on them, amnd coipletehy broke up this nest of lKing.hirrs. Th'fe Whigs wecre tinder the weeessity of stealing along on their hands and knees, for mrore than a hundred yatrds, through nd and wvafer; when they had approachedl fltr enough', upon the Iiritig ol a signal gumn, by~ their Captain; thmey, poure( in upon their incautions foes, a well dire-ete fire, killing sonme-seven or eighbt men, ant either wounding or puttinig the rest to fligrlat Captaini Watson and Seargent 'Varidel, or hearing~ the surviving Tfories aking theh wany throughm the swamfp,(h-opped their gnitm ...d runnineg after the fleitt enema', took each a prisoner, bringing them both back in triumph to their encampment, which they had just gnitted in such hot haste. It is to be regretted, that, the recollection of mainy a skirish like this, will soon pass away into the deep shades of forgetfulness, because the men who did the fighting lacked " the pomp and circumstance" of great numbers, and (he patriots, who commanded, were without the prestige of a high-sounding title.-There is a man inamed John Saunders, still liviog within five miles of the Ridge, who wit nessed the burning of Michxl Watson's mill, by the Tories. on a branch of the Edis to. On that morning, Mrs. Watson, in the absence of her husband, had sent two negro linys with corn to the mill ; but, When they rode up, the mill was on fire, and the Tories who were standing around, took immediate possession of the horses, emptying out the corn on the ground, lint keeping the sacks for their own use. Determined to add insult to injury, they rode these very horses along by the house of the rightful owners, and tauntingly told Mrs. Watson that her mill zras onfre-that they had just seen the roof fall in. Seeing the Tories on her hus band's horses, and knowing that it was they who had burned the mill, she was exaspera ted leyond all measure, and replied to them in the following scathing speech: "Yes! and I hope that I shall have bread for my children to eat, while you are swinging in l-l!'' (it may not he improper here to add that, Mrs. Watson afterwards united herself to the Baptist Church, of which she co tinned a consistent member up to tihe time of her death.) During that snmmer, she and her familY were often destitute of- the safr of life, and had recourse to a prepara. tion of milk, called " curd," as a substitute. Jon:ithan Gregory, a Dunlier, and a man of peace by profession, used often to bring them cakes of bread, which for fear of To rivs on the way, lie kept concealed in his .Ahirt bosom. And thus we may see to what straits tie people were reduced in those trolilesomie times. Even in 1780 when South Carilina was considered a conquered province, Captain Watson refused to ask for parole and take British protection, as it was called ; for this adherence to the cause of Liberty, he was arrested, and thrown into prison at Ninety-Six. Here he was in carcerated two or three mouths. During his confinemeit, Mrs. Watson was frequent in her visists to him, ministering to his wants and necessimies. We were told by her daw- '-lam.w, that she often rode alone t . ... ..., n1ight at Captain Watson's house, had they I not got alarmed in the night. The British, whot guarded tle prisoners, apprehending an onslaught fron tihe neiglboring Whigs, went off into tihe wood, ab. huilt a temporary jail of poles, in which they kept Watson and Clarke till mnorn ing. -The Whigs, htow, ever, fiiled to attempt a resene of the pri soners,. who were carried on to Charleston and confined in the Provost. There, in the damp, ill ventillated cells, their sufferings were intense-the small-pox and measels adding new terrors to their horrible condi. tion. But Capt. Watson's release was at length effiected by the entreaties and man. agement of his wife.-After considerable hapse of time; she went to Chaarleston, ac comp-mied biy a fearless white woman, hired for the purpose. A Tory Captain, named Lawrence, who had been neighbor to Mrs. W~atsont, after atcceptinig a ginien, allowed tu o femnales to pass the lines. The Coim mandant of the city refused to let Watson return with his wvife. But, influenced by her entreaties, thme officer permitted the hus bamnd to depart a short time after she left, and lie reached home the next day after her ouwn arrival. For an account of Captain Watson's death, the intelligent reader is re ferred to JIohnson's Tradit ions. We see it stated in Johnson's work, that Michol Watson and Williaim Butler had command of two distinct companies ; lint the old pecople in the neighborhmood of thme Rtidg.e alml concur, with remarkablle nanimi tv, ini say inig that Butler wvas Watson's first Lieutenaiit, and became Captain accordinig to the usage of those days, when thme latter fell ait Dean's swamp. It is recorded in history, that, on one oc casion, a band of Tlories camne to the rest deuce of Captain Watson, and~ burned every house on his place. [We have been in foriied, howvever, by the descendants of this hrave man, that one negro cabin wassae. We were lately in conversation with an aged lady, whose place of abode commands a prospective view of the scene of this con flagration. In speaking of this house burn ing affair, she remarked incidentally that sheC sau- the smoke. This unvarnished expression und~er thme circumstances, made a dee2p im reso nour minds ; it seemied as though try hadn found a tongue and w~as speake ing~ audibly uto nts,-the dimi Past consort ing for a moment with thme all-absorbing Present. This same good lady, Mrs. Rey. nolds, told us that the British and Tfories acted more like savages than a civilized sol diery, towards her father and his faumily. One day, she stated, a party of Loyalists caine to her father's house and carried off tour horses,-all that they laud. Her moth er remonstratedl, and begg~ed of them to leave one horse with w'hich to carry grain to mill. Their reply wuas wvith an oath, that, if she hand forty horses they would take everv 0one of them. Before going away, they called for her father--James Harris, Sr.,-wlao camne out immediately into thme piazza , and sai, " here I am." One of the Toieis, raising his rifle to his face, sw~ore lie hiad ai strong notioni a to btlow the old man's brainns obt." Biut htumanity having asserted its prerogative in the breast of the Loyalist, the whole party went awtaf, fo? thre nonce, without inmrrig their hands in innocent bdbodf. The twosoum of her faither ,sere sigmmblo reaon whv lie anid his family were thus mal-treated. While the British, under Rawdon, were encamping for a few days on the Ridge, parties of the red-coals would come to her father's house, take baskets full of corn and scatter it along the road for their horses. One day, her mother was baking a fit pig, together with a quantity of nice bread, in a dirt oven ; some of. the British coming up about the time it was all thoroughly cooked. uncovered the oven, and cried out: " Come up, boys, we shall have fine eating to day." Whereupon, they all fell to like a pack of hungry wolves, nod left those, by whose lbor the good dinner had been procured, without a morsel. No one dared to oppose these trespasses-robberies ; nor did the minions of tyranny even offer to pay a single farthting for what they had taken. Late one afternoon, Mrs. Reynolds said, a half famished Tory, whose thieving pro pensities had been greatly developed by the laIless times in which he lived, went to the ho-ue of a good Whig, to get a " wee bit" of supper. lie was forthwith supplied with some milk and bread, that he might be in (Inced to set down his rifle. Whilst dis patching his frugal meal, lie boasted that Watson and his men were not smart enongh to take him. But alas! for the boasted Loyalist, Captain Watson with one of his brothers, James Harris and some others hap. pening to be enve-dropping, rushed into the house, and made him a prisoner. When the night had pretty well passed by, it lecane the duty of James larris to take his turn at guarding the captive. But sleep over coming the guardsman, Monsicur Tory, who was not very securely bound managed to get hold of a hatchet that lay in the roam, 111d dealt him so hard a blow on the nose, that lie was not even alie to wake his com rades with a cry of pain. Of course, the prisoner made his ese:pe, and James Harris was disfigured for life,-not having after wards either shape or semblance of the nasal Edward Larramore, an aged man, was the reputed possessor of a considerable sum of money. Thi. excited the cupidity of the neighboring Tories; and a conspiracy was directly set on foot, to take the old man's life, and then take his cash. But Larramore was apprised of this comhination against him by a woman, who acted the part of a Delilah towards one of the Tories. On the appointed day, three daring fellows skulked about the premises, from morning till sunset, to see that the way was clear for the un obstructed 'omna.- e ''. - the Tories came up; just as the two in froi.t stepped into the house, "they, fell"-as Mrs. Reynolds said-pierced by the bullets of the whig reflemen. Larramore, who happened to lie out in the yard at that in stant, eanght the surviving Tory, and held him until the men in the house came out and secured bin. To use our informant's words again, this man disappearcd! [low sum mar' must have been his trial and execution, and how dreadful is that civil strife which induces the necessity for such a course of procedure ! Josiah Nobles, for a time, was a Loyalist of the first water. At length, he concluded to join the forces of the liberty palrty. In order to test his fidelity to the cause lie had espoused, t wo or three prisoners, well bounid, were put itn his charge to be0 conveyed to Oratgeburg jail. Ott his way, lhe encoun tered a squad of his old cotmrades, wh'lo knewv nothing of his new borned zeal in the cause of liberty, fearing that the men, whomi he was conducting to the prison, might in form Ihis former associates that he had turn. ed Whig, lie bawled out to them at the top of his voice to nrnfor their lhfe,-ihat.1%d son and i-s men u-erec coming. This strata gem succeeded admirably, for the Tories immediately plutnged inito the forest, and scampered ofl' like a herd of timid deer. No ble carried the prisoners to theitr destinationl without further mtishap, and ever afterwards proved himself a fatithtful Whig. This mnn lived to see the Republic exp~and~ into a mighty nation ; itt the eventing of his days, lie was so far rejuventized as to cut the sec ond set of teeth. Not far below the Ridge, in the " satnd hills," the Tories had a rentiezvons, where, among other things, they had provided a full supply of horse trotughs. One day, the WVhigs made a charge upton this encamp menit, andl put the Loyalists to a precipitate flight. The Thories being mtountedl otn fleet horses, made good their escape, except one mian, who happened to reini his horse into a marsh, where he was overtaken arid killed. This w~as a slighrt skirmish, and we have given'an accounit of it only that we might have an opportunity of tellitng howv a Tory, named John Pines, contrived to save lisa life, when Ite was left without a horse. At the first signal of alartm, this fellowv's horse broke loose, atnd ran off, leavinmg him comi pletely in the lurch; stretching hinmself be side one of thte large troughs, twvo or three of his associates turned it over so as to concenl him enitirely. Som~e of the Whigs spurredl their horses right over the troughr, without ever dreaming that it concealed an inveterate foe. Pines was afterwards killed by the Whigs, notwithstanding his cunnitng and presence of mind. Daniiel Hlartley, during a greater part of the wvar, w~as a daring atnd troublesonie To ry'; he was a mn of Herculean strenigth, anid withr theo agilitv of acogrToh, stealing horses was a past'ime, and partizan wvar, a necessary excitement. Traversing a lonely part of the satnd-hill country, one day, he came rather abrtuptly on a Whtig offreer -name forgotten by the neighbors-at a little strea~mlet. Ho was withiou't any, wea poni whatever, but tihe oflicer was wvell arm Ied: Presenting a pistol, thme officer ordered I leartly to surrendr;- iansteaid of yielding, he darted b'ehinid a tres. Th'eni' commienced a'rde'e of life a'nd (heath around this tree; I Ihartlev soon overtook the ofllicer. antd thtrow. ing him to the grpond, knocked his brains out with the pistol, hich he had wrenched from his hands iihe struggle. Towards the close of the iar Heartly joined the ranks of the Whiga-;he never forgot to boast of his exploits, and. lived to a very great age. Indeed so !o6 'did he einde the darts of death, thait his' eigibors in Alabama, whither he had rem ed,"'threatenedtolhave him taken up and hgried alive !" From the djirlestnn 'Mercury. RUIES J4NYOUNG ME.t The following r4s for young men com mencing businessit:x;.:-re written by John Grigg,Esq. of Ibiadelphia. This gentlemn'i a living example of the successful applicah n of these rules, which l recommends, injch an admirable man ner, to tie busin community. The wri ter of this article h known Mr. Grigg for thirty years and -"- bear the most unqual ified testimony 4 ,6 eo unwavering fidelity, with which this m' prosperous gentleman has adhered to h' own aphorisms. To uniiring industrysa~ close application, he added a1 mild and- itlemanly deportment, an unselfish devoio0 to the wants of his customers, and an sidependence of thought, and an energy of purpose, beyond all praise. These qualities weicrowned by an active benevolence, whicV. has carried joy and gladness to a thonshnd grateful hearts, and given to himselfA*his retirement, the con solatory reflection, that his life has been useful to others, aspvell pleased and profit able to himsqlf. M " 1. Be industr"us and economical. Waste neither time .or money in small and useless pleasures .d indulgences. If the young can be ind' d to begin to save, the moment they enter .n the paths of life, the I way will ever beco to easier before them and I they will not fail . attain a competency, and that ivithout d' ying themselves any of i the real necessarie.4and comforts of life. Our : people are certainmdiaong the most impro- I videit and extravagnnt on the face of the earth. It is enoug to make the merchant< of the old school iolooks back and thinks I what economy, p enee and discretion he i had to bring to beI on his own business, (and prize,) start Eick in astonishment to look at the ruthles w~aste and extravagance of the age and p e!. The highest test of respectability, wv i me, is honest industry. Well directed indtry makes men happy. The really noble css, the class that was o ..,,pn'AA"i dolv'd and Eve spun, must keep at the , mad steer his own ship. In early life, every one should be taught to think for himself. A man's talents are never brought out until lie is thrown to some extent upon his own resources. If in every difficulty lie has only to run to his principal, and then implicitly obey the directions lie may receive, lie will never acquire that aptitude of perception, mnd that promptness of.decision, and that firmness of purpose, which are absolutely necessary to those who hold important st:a tions. A certain degree of independent feeling is essential to the full development of the intellectual character. 3. Remember that punctuality is the mo ther of confidence. It is not enough that tme merchant fulfils lhs engagemenits: lie must do what lie undertakes precisely at the time, as~well as in the way lie agreed to. The mutual depenideince of merchants is so great, that their engagements, like a chain, which, according to the law of physics, is ieer str-onger than its weakest liink, are ftener broken through the weakness of others than their own. But a prompt fulfil mnt of engagements is not only of the ut most importance, because it enables others to meet their own engagemenits promptly It is also the beat evidence that the mier hant has his affauirs well ordered-his means at command, his forces marshalled, and everything ready for action'-in short that ie knows his own strength. This it is which inspires confidence, as miuchi perhaps as thei meeting of the engagement. 4. Attend to the nminutim of thme business, small things as well as great. See tha't the store is opened early, goods brushed ill, twine and nails picked up. and all ready for action. A young man should consider cap ital, if lie have it, or as he may acquire it, merely as tools with wichl lie is to work; not as a substitute for the necessity of labor. It is often the case that diligence in emp~loy ments of less consequence is the most suc cessful introduction to great enterprises. Those make the best officers who havew serv ed in the ranks. We rrfay say of labor, as Coridge said of poetry, it is its owvn sweet est reward. It is the best of physic. 5. Let the young merchant renmember that selfishness is thme meanest of vices, and it is te parent of a thousand more. It not only interferes both with the means and with the end of acquisition-not only makes money more difficult to got, and not worth having when it is get, but it is narrowing to .the heart. Selfishness " keeps a shilling so close to the eye, that it cannot see a dollar be yond." Never be narrowv and contracted in your views. Life abounds in instan-ees of the brilliant results of a generous policy. Be frank. Say what vou mean. Do what you say. So shall your friends know and take it for granted that you mean to do what is just :nd right. 6. Accusto'm- yourself to think vigorously. Mental capita,)ike pecuniary, to be worth anything must be well invested-must be rightly adjusted amnd applied, and to this end, careful, deep and intense thiought is niecessa ry if great resuils looked for. 7.~ Marry eadly. The man of business shaukd m'arry zs 'sooi as possible, after wenty-two or twenty-three years of age; A wvoman of mind will coniform' to the nie cessities of the day of small beginning; mid, ih dhoosing a wile, i rean sho'uld look at, st. TVhe ha'rt ; 2d' The mind ; 3d. Th6' nm-ersn. 8. Everything, however, remote, that has any bearing upon success, must be taken advantage of. The business man should be continually on the watch for information, and ideas that will throw light.on his path, and he should be an attentive reader Qf all practical books, especiall those relating to to bisiness, trade, &c. as well a patron of useful and ennobling literature. 9. Never forget a favor, for ingratitude is the basest trait of man's heart. Always honor your country, and remember that our country is the very best poor man's country in the world." Were rules like the above carefully ob served by every man who commences busi. ness, there would he fewer fiailures, while periodical commercial disasters, sweeping Dver the cou ntry like an epidemic would cease to be a mercantile experience. Let young men ponder them well. To KEEP Y ouN.-No surer destroyer )r Youth's privileges, and power and de ights than yielding the spirit to the empire >f ill temper and selfishness. We shonid ill be cautious, as we advance in life, of illowing occasional sorrowful experience to >vershadow our perception of the prPpon lerance of good. Faith in good is at once ts own rectitude and reward. To believe rood, and to do good, truly and trustfully, s the healthiest of humanity's conditions. I'o take events cheerfully and promote to lie happiness of others is the wvay to en iure the enduring spring of existence. Con. ent and kindness are the soft vernal show rs and fostering sunny warmth that keeps t man's nature and being fresh and green. 'Lord keep my existence fresh and," green vould be no less a wise prayer than the one >eautifully recorded respecting man's memo y. If we would leave a gracious memory ichind us, there is no way better to secure t, than by living graciously. A cheerful md benign temper, that buds forth pleasant Ilossoms, and hears sweet fruit, for those rhio live within its influence, is sure to pro luce an undying growth of green remnem irances that shall flourish immortally alter he present stock is decayed and gone. [Mrs. Cowden Clarke. THE WAY IT CAME ABOUT. A- amateur reporter gives a sketch of an fair at a late Clinton Hall Ball, which hows that " where there is a will there is a ray," and a fight may in emergency, e got in on an excessive show of good nature. T.irry and Patrick nrP --,rn brothers and isy St. 1'atrick, it was my fault !"ins,.3Ld is friend. By the holy poker !" shouted Larry get. ing rather warm, " but it was all mine iviry ,it of it." "And do you doubt my bonor as a gen. leman ?" retorted Patrick. " Sure, and it vaS myself that thought you had more >rliteness." " And is it you, ye spalpeen, that would 2ec after reflecting upon my manners ?" shout d Larry, now boiling over. " Sure if ye von't take a dacent apology ye may take hat [with a blank blow on the side of the cad] to mind ver manners." Patrick on receiving this persuader, took flying leap towards the b~eniches carryrng vith him in dire confsion-Capt. -- and >artner, unfortunately just then executing m emphatic break down in the exact line 'of he projectile. In the confusion of the grand catastrophe md crash, the " chief," who took notes, beat retreat.-Randout Examiner. PaETTy Goon.-A friend of ours being ately on a tramp to Canada, informs us that it a certain farm house in the back woods, vbe:-e lie had occasion- to stop, the follow ng rich scene took place: The family were about to partake of their breakfast, and sat down for that purpose. The ol man being a lover of squirrels, and th:t being the p,-incipal dish of the' mecrning repast had his particular piece laid on the ide of the dish next to him. Everything went right, and thme old man commenced saying his grace as follows: " Oh Lord, we thank thee for thme blessings thou hiast set before us, do thou direct us through life."--I lere raising his eyes, lie perceived his son Gideon, laying foul hands on his choice piece of squirrel, and then in a hurried man ner ended the grace-"ddivver us from evil, for the Lord's sake, A m~n.B G-d, Gid, ha's m,' .icc-handi it here !" TH!ERE is one rule without ain eXceptton, and that is, the more salary a man gets the less lie attends to his business. Go to any of our public oflices, and thme only person you will find always at his desk, will bo soine poor devil who gets barely su~cient to; pay his bread bill. Srncu up, brush your whiskers, dIress fashionable, and lay in a plentiful supply of soft nonsense, and the girls will call you a nice young nman. TF you wvould not be forgotton as' son as you are dead, cither write something worth reading, or do sonmething worth wri ting. TarE Newv York Herald says that more persons ha~ve died wvith small pox among the free blacks of .Jamaiea, wvithin the past year or eighteen months, than. have died among the thnree millions of slaves at thme South in ten years. A Western editor requests those of his suscribers who owie him more than six years subscription, to send him a' rock or their hair, that he may know that theyi are still living. To which the Lawrence (Indiana) Register says: "If all- our sub)scribers of that bind would (do that, iio would inake noney by rryingr on tlin wigr business." SOUTH CAROLINA. It has been the habit of somo snarlers, who, from political animosity or prejudice in. dulged their propensity to sneer at 6very thing concerning South Carolina. Her peop ple were behind the age, lazy brawlers of politics, or discontented demagogues seeking to feed their political ambition by exciting the people to continual quarrelling with the Federal Government. South Carolinians were a people of no energy-leaving the the resources of their State undeveloped and untouched-their agricuture and commerce decaying-and, indeed, in all respects un worthy of imitation, or even respect, in this go-ahead age. 01 this sort have been the frequent comments of our neighbors for years past. Are they true? South Carolina has more miles of railrods finished, and in course of construction, if we are not mistaken, in proportion to her tfrri tory and population, than any State in the Union. With regard to her wealth in pro portion to her population, the last census re turns show that she averages over two hun dred dollars more to each citizen than any other State. In herlast appiopriation bill we find she approates about $150,000 for the purposes of education-College, Cit adel and Arsenal Academies and Free Schools. At the last session of the Legisla. ture, she pledged her faith and credit to the extent of one million and a quarter, for the purpose of opening up a railway communi- I cation with the great West. She gave liber. I l aid, by loaning her surplus fund to all the railroads now constructing and projected within the State. She gave $10,000 to the I Mechanics' Institute of Charleston, to aid < them in erecting a building. She gave 30,- r )00 to add to and extend her Lunatic Asy-- r yim. She made an additional appropriation >f 850,000 for the erection of her new. apitol-to be a magnificent building. She ;ave $5,000 to educate her Dear and Dumb -besides many other things of minor im. portance which we will not stop to enumer ite, all of which we bring up as evidence, ot in boasifuliness, but as rebutting testimo iy to the cavelling slanders so wrongfully brought against our State and her people. She to-day shows as fair a record as any of ier sisters, who have been in tle habit of L -famning her.-South Carolinian. T] CHOLA. For ten or twelve days ive -have had ru ors, but not in tangible shapef Cliolera in our .city. We heard of severid' persons %n worn mnnosed to hnvo died of Choler4ai to some indulgence in oysters, or Ub.. L - wholesome di et. We do not ordinarily speak of oysters as unwholesome, but many of the largest and finest which are brought to our arket, are gathered from brackish, not salt, ater. This year the body of fresh water t as extended almost to our hairbor, and even here the fresh water predominates nouch more than it usually does. As a consequence of thi., oysters, which rerpires saft water, are diseased ; many o them are lead, weeks ago ; and yet froim the midst of . those dead piles are gathered, a portion of that which is sold in our market as fcod for man. If the hungry could distinguish be ~ween the sound and the unsound oysters. here might lie some excuse form their obsti acy in continuing to eat them, but when one oes not know, whether- lhe is swallowing Food, or poison, his dletermination, to eat at all hazards, is little else than courting suicide. We assu re them, u pon the bcMi authority, that the 22 deaths already reported, and several others yet to appear, have arisen from impru dence of this sort. Th'e existence of some such cause in all the cases, leave no room for doubt on this subject. Oomr atmosphere, t is true, has been dlamp, and temperature very changeable, but there is no evidence of its having caused C'iolera or other epidemic. Let the lovers of Gysters, &c., only abstain for a shiort time, until our waters resume their accustomed saltness, and the reports of Chiol era will soon cease ; then they may indulge, u iihout danger, in their favorite dish.-bouth erni Standard. MONUENTx- -ro Mn. CrA.;-Thme Nation al Intelligenc er, of Friday hast, contains a let ter from the lion. Pressly King and John C. Precken ridge, Representatives from Kentuc ky, calling attention to the subject of erect ing a monument to the lion: H- emry Clay, at the spot wvhere he is nowv buried. The letter encloses a papersigned by one hundred Senators an~d members of the hlouse, recomn mending the erection of monument, ini which they say: "In order that the proposed monument should be worthy of the object it is designed to commemorate, and of the sentiment whichk orighiates it, there imust be-a union of efl'orti and a concentration of resources. " We therefore most earnestly recomnmend a general and efficient organization by States and Territories, in accordance with the plan porposed by the Centr-al Association and the exaimple already established by a majority of the States, and we promise our cordial Co. operation by every proper means, in this laudable, p)atatriotie, anid national enterprise." WVon-rn RE31EMI;ERING.-Cees sMedi cal Gazette says: " In case of any burn or scald, however extensiv~e, all the acute sufferinig of the patient may be at once and permanently relieved, and that in a rmoment, by sprinikling ovet- the surface a thick layer of wheat hour." FREE 'TRADE~ IN PosT OFFrCe BUsiNrss. -Tlhe new letter envelopes, with the single double stamps, will soon he ready-. Then every steamer, every rail road traini, every stage, every express line, and every man is made a mail carrier by act of Congress. Letters, in the governmnent envelopes, can be sent ini any way, by any route and by any onveyance. TuE MAYOR AND THE IRISYr CATHOLICS. -We understand that one of the Catho . priests of tjis city announced to his congl6 gation yesterday that a depu;ti'i o1 h04 Catholic priesthood are to waitron the rMay or this week, and to inform him that- inas. imuch as th'e Irish have put hinifi*Ib ffito; they expect of him privileges iiich.'ave hereto'ore been denied thenm. They ideud to insist that the Catholic priests'shall vi'sit the city institutions at South. Boston and Deer Island. Also, that ihey be allowedithe priv'lges of opening schools on the island'.for the exclusive instructions of the Irish. :,The are also to demand the right of takingIri h orphans away from the city institutions aniS-I disposing of them in sneh placesnd's'h ools as they see fit.-Boston Travelleir-, 20th FIVE CHILDREN IN ELEVEN MOXTUW-r A subscriber info'rms us that a lady piiden d her husbsnd with three children at o >irth. a year ago ; and as her landloid i whole-souled gentleman, he gave thIl W_ ifty dollars as an acknowledgment.f er mnerior skill in household- aflrst, te icr at the same time that if she -woludper. 'orm that feat again he would give her a farm With an eye probably on the farm injust , 4leven months from the'day the. tleldir-d orn she produced a pair of twi'ns:. - The landlord said she had failed.tf he farm; but the intention no doubt being 'air, the attempt was wo-rth' pi'ing'forand to therefore presented 'her with' 6e hi6 red dollars; - :That's w'hat wve call aivaluable' ffe ringing her hus band- in fivliihdrenli .A nd4 ne. hundred and fifty dl6i-i's iTn' eveir nonths. Who can beat tb aiove.-Lite ary Museum. NEGRo STEA LING.-We find the - ig paragraph in the Milledevi a. tecorder of the 4th instaj4 "Messrs. Searcy and Jenkins or -thi ity rrested one Geo. iM. Jon'es '.oh~Thursday a ast, near Monticello, who had some tieve egroes in his possession, one of ai'hes-.. aped after lie was apprebib"e'dd Si.id j..' ,roes belong to Ar.P Bil'y DobVe Yells;.Watren County, Gir. Tiormaq 9f0bAd non, of Harris. County, and Dr W att, of Baldwil ounty ir for, wned-by the said Jones "yones hadl camped near thuioeir everal--days -prior to the hbsence arratt's boy/and it v'as suspected lit he had stolen him- hafinlid n his tent several tiies, and 'having56n Ptown tiihave -Id i consiltstion- itfi a ExPERDENTs ON MARRIAGE.-A p. as been started in Syracuse,N. Y.,asking the' jegislature to repeal so much of a recent law .s denounces penalties for die criind ofrsednd ion, and in lieu thereof enact that the inmar ied f-ither of any child, (both parents beiig vhite) shall, from the naked fact orsuch pa: emity, be deemed and taken in law to be he husband of the mother, and thenceforth ound to regard and support her as his wife, 1st as though they had becn married with enelit of clergy. It is further prayed that ev ry child, whether born in or out of wedlock; ball inherit, in common with all other clii laen, the property of both parents; being eemed their legal heir: A GOOD Re'L.-A man hjo is very -ich now was very poor when lie -as a boy. When asked how lie got his riches, lie 'eplied, " My father taught me never to spnd my money unuil I bad earned it. It' ihad but an hour's work in a day, I must 10o that the first thing, and in an hour. And ifter this I reaalesed to play;: and I then sould phly with mueh more pleasui'e than if [had the thought of an unfinished task be. ~ore my mind. I early formed the habit of loing everything in time, and it soon became erfectly easy to do so. It is to this I ow6' ny prosperity." Let every boy who reads this go and do likewvise. A XaN and his wife, Maeini l;y name,' have been sentenced by the TIusdan Gov erimient to foni' year's imprisonment at hard lbori f'or teaching a young girl how to read the fBible. A singular faict for the nine: teenth century, and' contrastinig strongly with the r'eligions tolerati'on of our own country. I-r has been said that the Duke of Wel lington never wrote a despatchi in which the woi'd Duty did not occur, and that Napole on never wrote a dlespatch in which the word Glory was wanting. This is the diff'e rence between tho two men, and the two countries to which they belong. To JorN Guss.-ielt A' little isinglass in spirits of wine, and add a small quantity oft water. Warm the mnixture~ gently over a moderate fire. When mixed it will form glue perfectly transparenit, and which wiil re-unite broken glass so nicely and firmly that the joining will scare'rly be perceptible' to the most critical eye. Lime mix~ed with the white of eggs forms a very strong c& ment for glass, porcelain, &c., hut it must be done neatly, as, when hard the super fluous pairt cannot easily be smoothed down or removed. ProTncTrou.-There is no Fafer protec tion against bnrglars, thain to feed your baby before going to bed with green ap ples. It will begin to bellow before muida night and it is a inure thing it can't be stop ped before morning. EE man cherishes in his heart some object-sonie shrine at which his adoration is paiid unknown to his fellow mortals unknown to any save hi's God. I how melancholy the .moon must feel wh'en it hia-s enjoyed the fullness of prose Ip'erity,:and got reduiced lo'its last giuartear