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nqf. "e will Cling; to tile Pillars of life Temple of ou. Libertie., a.d if t .mut fall, we wi. W. F. DURISOE, Proprietor. EDGEFIELD, S. C., JUNE 22; 1854. VO ....O . THE EDGEFIELD ADVERTISER IS PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY W. F. DU RI SO E, Proprietor. ARTHUR SIKXEINS, Editor. T E R M S. Two 'Dor.r.%ns per year, if paid inl advnce-lw )o.L.AnS ailnd FiFr r C-:s if not paid wihi six mnIiths--and Tiar.:J.: DoL.'s if not pid before the expiratirir, of' the year. All sibhscripotitonis not distinct Iv limited at th.. time if subscriliigir, will lie consid. eld nei made for an insdefinite pe riod, and will be con tiinined unt1fil all arrearamgs are paid, (or at ftie option of tile Pubis-her. Sup-ieriptiois frin other Sintes must invariably be necwmpied nith the cashs or f':re'nec to some one knowi-to ts. 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A hbb-ville, Laurns. Newherry and 1.ex Iitn, io the nNt Ctni::ress. wIch lctin will be hldAI in October next. and therehy rcaly oh iig MAN Y FiEliN DS. g-7 Toe Fri'ndis t Ctl. A. C. 0 A1clNGTON respettiilly aiu ncsti- hi:i ;s a (it; li-ate to, repire stit th lthi C.ng ssiolrll 1 st t the electioti in October next. Forlh .11o--ni.tc - tllos. .1. P. C.\! R(.I , is repc,-tfunlly annnssiuneed by its fri. iisds as :uili-h;te 1.r re-lee ti0ii to te Ste S Senat-. it MIth sis el-ectins. gr-Tin Frsi.-(s of aj. TIi.lMN.\N WAT ON. reSpectIiI nioms:Lte lim as a canhli'hte for wcat in the State Sensatse ait thie text eietiln. For the Home. -ThUse Fends fW3.1. I. I'IrN- EN-.. r,,s-esfuiy ann..n:-e Lti as :t mnsils.late lor a Seat -n the next I-iOse if Reprentativrs. 37 Tm: Frienidof \lij .1. C. .\1.1.EN announce 1im as : Candidt.i- sir re-cti ta a Seat in the Jxgisltu(re oS.u1th Car-,lin a1t the esnilsin.g ciin. NR. I.iuot.-- i l pW' a e atn t C G . . E. 1IENI)Y. -s.i., as a Candidatse fur a Scat in the Ibsuse of RI:priens itati ves at the ixt el1ctiion an1id blis MANY rT:tS. Yi Tusso Friend.s of C.\Ii IEY W. hll.t.. Esj., repectfully amnonne im as a Csididait for a Scat he next Les:ause. - ; Ti': Friends of G. 1). TiTt.Al-AN. Esq.. r, sp-ctif.u:ly ;nn-unce him as a i:mdidate for a Stmt in the Legisl : 1 Ill th ext chl ion {]7 Tm: Friss f (;i: ). w. L.\ N DTl..t l an noune him as a Cmiidte for a Scat inl %he next JLgislature. Z, Tmi: Fri. naz if Dr. 11. R. Com, rs-peisfull annouince him a Canididsate fur a Seat in the next Il-iss if Repr- 'i :t::ti ves. - Tss.: Frie-n- of W. C. 110!. AGN 1. _Es'.. . r.spectFully aiisnce Lim a- a i-andssidate 14r a SSat in till Ihouse ,I Ro-jpresenmtivei-s it the next e:eetin. '--T Frieds fit Ir. WA I > IIOLSTElN. nondnisate ims as a canidaiste fir a Seast ini the II ssosu oif Repreintti sl.c at thse iiext eceetsin. ATTORSY V A T L.A W. 't LL pracstie at *:hi~fa 11 ands thec Ciurts (Sr 11 thes-adjin itg Dis5tits. ()sinee, Brii.. k liiiding,~ Law Rlange. E-dge-tis-ld C. H., S. C. Mlav 18,. tf 1-C ATTORNEY AT LAW AND SOL!CITOR IN EQUITY. 1.7 (rtter: ait lEdgetiihl CTossrt ilbse. (oneidoo bets w G. L. Ps.:s's famiily s.Yocery.. Aipril 27. uf 1 S. S. T0O llP Kf11l , ATTORNEY AT LAW. zgg- OFFic-: uN tt~t-: of iis. counT lioUilE. E tie~ld, S. C . , e . t f 4 Practice of' Surgery! . (; a., is prepared tonsieoismnssdatei wih I.sdingi :md Nurssnsig, sileht pitients a- may b~e dliriected ti him for S U'RG l (Ll1P~ AT< )NS osr Tre-atmniit. [Li( lasterisil mayie issire it-Ihat their Servansis will live everyt ne-s'ary altsts. tin. A\i~. . n :uta. .s\ :2 i. 1Y li Dr, MI. W, A bn ey II.\V\' remosisved into the Villas. . for thes purpsi** se "isnI himif. moisre -xelnisivily ti his prsuls-sissn, andl sssening i this residlene ir't bieyondi thei Ilapti-t Chlurs-b in the' right, andis ads josiiing the hi't A e:lemsy, (sth re5sinc Sf.rmserly iesuiid.u sy S. S.* T'Fsssji. l.e'., mti leer. C. .. P1rofenua~ioan ScriCes 'l'o time pciiple oif tihe \ d ige ails tihe .surirundiig co untrv.t ins the sav, heo can he founsd ins his Oicei ain-lsls ing~ the blieir of W. W. A ilAsi. I q.:I ini frontli oft thu prsa sit risiit.-ei ofMr. Geo A. A~lsn :mdt st it, hei can'hte founlld at his dwsllinig. hl i ll 55 i ve attsntsisn sit uI! time.i sist putsi u-l all-:*. toi all55 (i i upo itn, .ithe foi-S~r :nilsice anid ipre 31. W. ABNEY. dJan 11 ~ i~ f -- 2 -r ) El; LEAV\XE to info~rmi lte et;iznsof Edige j) lih JDissaiet that lie lias Sil handiu a simalli lot of Choice Buggies! A to. ome that hes~s i ennsell -ci t 1.1W as ON E ]ILT.\')it:R E l >t.I..\t.-, onl otherss sit inisderate pirices. PesnsS wtisin~g Siissh:art:eles old dto weill to li ve hims a ca'i hitire pussing:5. i list.r. s he can 5ives thu-u h,5t-r hargasinss thsni ennl thisy :.et tis sideO if New Yos k. Juns ~.If 21 Hampton's Shop I-Ss.;sssiopensd. ait thsie roost of! thei hill, om~ined~iitelv ast the entrancei~ oif thie 1 :i k 11hlsii ini.~ t Slalin Striet. andi nea~ry oppossie Mnr. WVitt's reshlec.. I Ie Shoeis' Iliss. makies Pliuws, Irsis Wa'tgon's,5i mend1 ~sstli. irisns. Layvs Ax.is,1nts m lidoes vairious oilier thiins'" after thie obll styl.. ie hass adsoptled unmyii of iste modernus improivemenii1t5, ill liti ati of thes n'i exept thsst if sltsi:bing hie wi's-i. An lihle humisii~S assX ;: edz. Jissi tt I CANNOT CALL HER MOTHER. Tu marriage rite is over, And though I turned a.ide, To keep the guests from seeing The tears I could not hide; I wrewthed mny f.ce in smiling, And led my little brother To greet my frther's chosen, But I could not call her mother. She is a fair voting creature. With a nieck and Centle ait, With blue eyes sort and loving, And silken sunny hir I know my father gives her, The love he bore another, But. if she were an angel, I cou4d never call her mother. Te-night I heard her sing'ng A sig I used to love, When its sweet motes were uttered By her who sing" above It pained my heart to hear it, A nd my tears I could not smother, For every word was hallowed By the dear voice of my mother. Nly fatlier, inl the sutshine Of happy days to conie, May half forget the lidow - That darhened our iolid hone. lli. heart no tore is loniely, But I and little brother, inst till be orphan children God van give us but one mother. They've borne my mother's pieturo From its accustomed place, And set beside my fitlier's A younger, fairer face! They've made h,-r dear o:d chamber The hidoir of itno.ther, But I wdl not forget thee. My own, my angil mher. GILDED MISERY. A TRUE STuttY. " Ellen, I conjure you pianse and reflect ! Do nol[ take this fattal step without further com ideration: Ah! poor, unthinkinig girl, yott know not ite miserv vou are about to brinig ipon vonil CIf.'' .'other, I have considered. I have heard all o'ur arguients and rellected uipon them-lis. enied to ill vour reasons and weighed them. -isd now, once fur all, let ie assure you that I tae decided upon my course and I must. pursue it, cone w hat will," Yit hear in this once, my daughter, arid en if you still per!ist, my lips are forever e tnied upn this sulbject. Just so surely as you take upon you the the unholy vows, which biid ou in a nirriage unhallowed iv love, your whole future lifeC must be one long unav.iling rert. The carse of anl ofTended God, in whose name von will bwear at the iltar to this hideous lie. will forever rest upon you. Ellen! Elicit there is ve-t tie to avoid this imisery." -, Mother, you torture me. Ilave I not told on it is vain! I am pledged to Mr. Morrison, and the pledge niost be redeemed at what ever nicrifiev. I entild not retract if I wonld, and I would not if I could. 'Ibink von I woutld now. VOluntarily renonnee the life of luxury and opu enee. which Mr. Morrison offers to mc, for the eggrarly destiny from which I see no way of seape. sav through this mnarritge ! No mother, poiverty and privation long since awoke tie from iy dreams of ronmance. I will riot live and die And the girt swept from the room with the air i an empress. The mother gazedi after her cant ifuil daughter with a look of pride, bunt shec trned away and siseh,-d. Thett she murmured. Alas my child howv thou art mistaking life and is lessonts!" Elilit Li-le had been born to an inheritance of ealth, anid renred in splendor. Thte only child f pirents whose entire love was lavished upon erself, beanitifutl arid highly~ enidowed with intel eet. a'moet adored by tier pairents, petted and ca rssed by her ftii nis and servants, breathing an .i tosphere of hnttury, and sutrroutnded from her ifanev with every thing~ most beautiful iin natutre nd in'asrt, she senmed'born to realize thme fabu ons destiny of a life wvithout sorrow or care. Bitt even in ithe snmny horizon of this bright aud joyous existee arose, at lentgth, a small, ark cloutd, which waxed larger and larger, and athered strength anid burst at last, in a hurricane ihich swept. away, atL onie lell bhist., fort une atid ls! saddest strotke of all, the tnoble, beloved fthter. Ellent was just fourteen when the stormt of srrow fell. The griuceful delicate child ws mdinsg inito a womat~nhiood whliebl gave proise f a gloriotns beauty-a beauty whlicht shrined in old would be reverenttly sitrroiunded by odatrintg vorshippier', hut sur rouinded oilly by ithe adj unets f poverty might become a mark for the vile aims o>f the designintg. This child of forttune was wolily oiverwhielmied for a lttle and coultd otily eep atid tuiont, antd Sht h ersel f from the light f day, ntow suiddetnly become hateful to hier. Bitt whten the lier'e paroxysmns of her stormty rief had past, anid the fou n taint of her tears had :iused itself, shte began to look umpon tier tie with an itmpaitint antstd deliatnt atir. 11er spirit m.,n~hdnted liy sorrow, showed now ant incereasid wuhl~iness ;and it soon became certain titat the hat~racter which hand seemed so Itonely amid stir. roudinsgs of luxury had at darker 'side which -eveloptd itself itt thte cold, grey light of pover y. Lii inig otily fo'r herself, site endured, with a >rndt sw ern, the pirivatioins which tier changed sate ittposed upoti her. Mrs. Lisle subittted with a far difl'erent pirit to her ebanitgedl fortuttnes. Shie ha~d heen eared ini ciopartive pov~erty and untderstood sell all the evils which follow in its traini. She ni hueit happy ini her poverty, however, far mippier thtani whetn sutrroundted by wealth ; :trd o~w she diid not shirinik front a second encounter. She had bett almnost forced by argttient and de cit. ott the pairt of tier parents, to sseerifice love poni the aitar of Maiutmoin. Mr. Lisle was no le anid generouts, bitt lie Itad not beetn the man ft her choice. Site hiad bectn restrained by the c'mmand~iits of tier parents t'rim cotiinrg to hint he secret of tier attachiment to another befitre t::rriage, andit afterwards she had deemed it litter to atllow him to att ribiute tier alnost pin fil aversioni to a cotnstit utional coldness oif temn eri ment than to) the real cause bty unifolding~ he long traini of deceptiogs which had beenti rtcticed uipon him. The happtiness of both ives lid, however been saicrificed, and neither sere to lie enivied the wealthm whicb concealed a :otnt itnual sorrow. Gildeud misery is quite as reatl s that, which, stripped of alt adornments, aip p>eals to the hanid ot'charity, or the soothings of b.votc,a som,. tim.e. fr harder., endret because it is so far beyoid the reach of comfort. Arthur Lisle was not one to accept patient pubmissioi to cluty as nn cgivalent for the ardent love he had bestowed, and he liecane a s.d and glooniv man till the birth of his dauihter bestowed upon him an object (if love. On this child lie lavished a devotion tuch as fathers sel dom bestow. Ile matched her infamy with the solicitude which, it is supposed, only mothers bestow upon their chiliren. As sie grew older she became his compaion coistantly and seem ed insensiliv to minigle itn every thiouglit 11inl action of his life. lie taught her fron his own stores of knowledge things which few girls learn. She had acquired Jewer of* the lighter accomplish. mients than most girls of her sittion, at her father's deaith, but thongli tier reading had been soile what desultory Ohe had advanced forther itn knowledge. Under the unbounded live bes towed upon her, her intelleet, strange to s:iy, had expanded more than her heart, which lay etiertsted bv a cold selfishness. Always the object ot lhve and care,she had never been taught that anty return was neces,:ary. Mrs.'Lisle :ti1 her duliter, al most dsserted b-y the friends who had surrounded then in their prosperity, retired to a small cottagze on tie lindson, ie:r the plend id villa where for many ye-ars their mntimers had been mostly past. Mrs. Lisle collected the wreck of their fortine and iivested it wili rare jndgement, but eeil this was atinid intsuflicien t io nel all their wanis. She resiived, the:e1fore, to take in;o her faimilv a Few yontig ladies, of her daiugthiter's age, as pupils ;hopiig thus In give her bitih pleasure and occupation; but Ellen hanghtiy refused all ptiipiattionl it: the phmll anid ti.r the time eveni declined all association withi it. From this latter resolve Ahe. after a time re laxed, and even with an air if coditeuscension, :ccepeled tle invitations of the wealtier to visit their hotuses inl cotnpai with her mother. Thus passed three years. In, the solicitude of her own room sie pored over tlie books which site had been allowed to retain frotit tier ,at tier's library,and (ived deeper and deeper int o ithe mys teriest ofsciice. :mid tie abst ruse theories of' met aphysical specilatiois. At seventeeii si was a fearless thinker, :d a brilliant conversatioit. Bit with her unutoucled heart sIe stood, in her beauty, glitterii.g and as an icebevrg. At this period she ttiet 31r. 1irrison at tii, house oftoe oit' tile fainilies where she iccasiot ally visited. lie was a man of near forty. who having all his life matle ciuetiece his r;-istress hia d never married, prbulably never loved. lie was struck by EllHei's brilliait coiversation. and cbarmed by her thorough acquaintance with he subjects of' his abstruse inivestigationus. lie talked, with iher otien atnd long, still eliciting new stores of knowledge varicily expres:sed. At length lie asked himselfit the coiustt cmpiani innhip of such a womt:ni woilil not brii ihttn hi, solitary life : and in seeking an anawer to this question tie dicovered that somewhere beneath tie ruins ofa frame. we:ike and weary researehes inl 're a he:irt t hat beat faister at he the blood bouiditig inl y1ut1 his veins. Itn short the plto dilapidated ba.-helor of forty love with thte brilliant beaut v From the moieit Elu-n h: her conversation attracted Mlr. :iiolly aid deliberately laid i Ihe lissessor of imiit.ise riches which shte re. solved to sAre. The inore clisely her cb::iis were wound about her % ic im, tIe griater wo'ull le tile intlctice le meiatmt to wield when lie was oice secured. She wentit strailt forward. itunfalteringlv, to her purpose. Wheu Nlr. 31irrisnii priuposed she accepted him at otuce, alliough she disliked him. 11er part was easier becatie lie was ti;mid, as men wlo live solitary, interior lives, are wont to be in the society oI' wimien; therefore she was not troubled with detmonist rations of atyce tion which she could scarcely have done other wise thatn scorinfitlly rihre.s. " tShe was so Iril. liant atid beautiftil and gay that lie never deemed her cold. We have seen how Mrs. Li.,le strove to diz. suade her d:mighter from this rash slep. lit her entreaties andk argtimentts wvere in vatn. 31lrs. Lisle had never exerted mntehi intfltience over tier (liughter and now it seemied less thtan ever. She had evidetly resolv~edl upon tier ciiitrse and woiuld excute it. The oinly conisoling thought was, tha::t it shte (lid niot love 3Mr. 310 rrisotn she certainlty hived nii other, mi:d ini titme his kiind ness atid real wvorth mtig'ht wvin tier regatrd. 31rs. Lisle, inding all ex post:ulat ions in: vatin, aided her daughter in the necessary preparations for tier marriage. Shte watched ther priiid de ight whlet tbe tmagnitlicent presents wvhiich Mr. Norrison lavished upon tier were displayed she decked her in tier bridal robues. hearid ther pronounce the words which bound~ hier toi " love, hon:o atid obey" the mi m, whose wvealth alonte she regarded-thten saw tier, attended by a bril lianit party, depart upon ther wedinitg totir. Atfter a time Mirs. Lisle heard that tier daughl ter had returnied to New York ant was settled iti the elegatit house, which Mir. 31errisoni had pu rchased anid furniishied fur her home. Ellten der:oribed tier homme, her dresses, and equtipage, the places she had visited in tier tour, bitt there was not onie word of the man wvhouse wealth had placed aill these ti ngs at tier disposalI. Sihe urged tier mithier to visit tier, anid Ithe samte post bronght a letther fromn 3tr. 3teirrison kindly and uirgetty inviting the " miothier of his Ellen" to come aiid live withI them:. " Shte mnust be line. ly," lie wvrote, "iin her cottage hoime, atid it would always be his delight to do all ini his polwer to make her hiuppty who had bestowed upon himt such an inest imabile t reasure :is his lovely wife." Mrs. Lisle knew liv the contents of this letter that tiis dream oh' hapipy, tmuttual hove was vet unbroken. Shie accepted the in-. vitationl foir a visit, butt dleclied bieoiitng an inmhate of their hiiime, puref'errinug, as site said tier ownl ruirail solitude. Tfhe visit was nmade, andl Mrs. Lisle wvas very soon convinced that Etleti's hiaptpiess was bt a hollo1w seetning. She hiad at once pllunitgid intoi all the gayelties oft the cityv, and was evi dettly the star of a brillanit circle. .ller hu is. band lived mnucth in a circle of .aras, aunotni which his own scienutitic researches antd labors had placed him. These, Ellen sonietimtes eon descenided to delight, by her fresh and vigorous remarks. but oltiener she escaped to tier owni clique, and the husband imud ifet became widely separated by their pturstiits. Thius passed oni severalt years. Mrs. Lisle, at her infrequent visits, saw mtiany thtings to con tim her in the belief thait Elleni was miserable atid thiat Mir. Mlorrison was at length awvaking froum his delusion, to a keen: sense% oft the wvrotig which had beetn donie hitm. Shie had onice luild some coniversat ion with Ellent, iti regaird totte-r cotiduet towards tier hiu'diaid, but. was met with such a liercie, dehiat spiri as ellectuallhy to those hier moauth for thle fiutu(re. Shte also became thle inivohittary wit ness to sonie scene's oh expos ltlationi and recritiminatiotn between t he husband atnd wif'e, which shiowedl thiat Mir. Alorrisoni bad becomic.eicquaintled withI sotme levity of coindne t on the part. of Ellent whieb lie deem~ed utibe coming and desired to see abated. Ihencefor ward tier visits bieene less frequenit, at hength ahnuost ensed, arid she remiainied full of an ail. most irrepre~ssible atnx'iety. At length the bilow, so long though vagne.ly dreaded, fell. A letter cam te, one mortnng fromt Me. Anrrisnn writthm almost imicnhirenth-_ to Talleyrand and Arnold. There was a day when Talleyrand arrived at Havre, on foot from Paris. It was in the dark est hour of the French Revolution. Pursued by the blood-hounds of the Reign of Terror, stripped of every wreck of property or power, Talleyrand secured a passage to America in a ship about to sail. lie was a beggar andk wandeirer to a strange land to earn his daily bread by dully labor. " Js there an Amerienn staying at yourhntiso ?" he-asked of the landlord of the iotel. " I am bobnd to cross the water and won!d Hke a let ter to a person of influence in the New World." The landord hesitated a moment, and then replied : " There is an American up sltirs, eil her from America or Britain, but whether -n American or an Englishman, I cannot lell." lie puinted the way, and Talleyrand-who in his life was Pihop, prince and Prime linister, ascended. A misernble suppliant, he stopped before the stranger's dour, he knocked and en tered. In the far corner of A dimly lighted room, aat a man of sonie fifly years, his arms fohled and head bowed upon his breast. From a window directly oppon.ile, a flood of light poured over his forehead. His eyes looked from beneath his downcast brow-s, gazed on Talleyrand't face with a peenliar and searching expression. Ilis face was striking in outlines ; the month and chin indietaive of an iron will. Ilis foirm was vigorous. eveln with the snows of lift iy winters lie was clad in a dark, but rich and distinguished cost nie. Talleyran advanced-slated that he was a fugitive-and under the impression that the gen iteman before him was an American, he solicited his kind and feeling ofiees. Ile ponred forth his history In eloquent French and broken Flngliah. "I an a wanderer-an exile. I am forced to fly to the New World, without a friend or a home. You aro an American. Give me then, I besecch, you, a letter of' yours, so that I may he able to earn my bread. I am willing to toil in any manner-the scenes of Paris have filled me with such horror, that a life of labor would be a Paradise to a career of luxury in France. You will give ec a let ter to one of oiir friends." The strane genth.-man rose. With a look that Tallevrand never forgot, lie retreated to wards the'door of the next banmber, his eyes looked still front beneath his darkened brow. lie spoke as he retreated backwards ; his voice was full oif ingill". "I am the only nan born in the New World who can raise a hand to God and say-I have not a friend-not one in America." Talleyrand never foirgot the overwhelming sadness of that look which accompanied these words. " Who are you !" he cried, as the strnnze man retreated towards tLhe next room-" What is your name y' " ATV name I" he renli'd waihl - c-Ratm lhet 1,1 him to tell his nate--that name the syionylne oat iinfamtV. The last twenty years of his life are covered with a cloud, from wlioeo darkness but a few gleams of light flashed out upon the page of history. The manner of his death is not exntly known Bit I cannot doubt that he died utterly friend, less-that remorse pur-ned him to the grav'. whispering John Andre ! in his car, and that the memory of his curse of gltory gna-wed like can ker at his he:art numuring forever-" trie to your country, what muight you have been, 0, Arnold, the traitor." A Ncw brn:ir.NT or WAr..-A letter from Paris, dated May 10, in the Cincinnati Gazette, "A curioits experiment was made a few ay ago in the bamsiii of the fountiain in the Palais Royal, in tho presence of a crowd of promnat dlers, who soon collected. A glass glob1e on taining a certain liquidl, was thrown on thle wn ter and then broken with a pote. Th'le lignid it mediately spread itself over thte surface of the water, and taiking firo .pontmaneoiusly, conttinined to burn with an intense flame for a period ofi ffitv-six secon ds, throwing out a deise smoke. Th'e basin had the aptpearance of being all on fire. Three gentlemen welt known to science in Paris have invented this fluid, after long :ind pat iettt study', with to design of' mauking it avail. able in the present war, in butriig ships, and in ptrotecting or attamcking fortiftid pilaces where there may be a ditch. Thrown by imenins of a forcing pumtp on the headu of a sap itto an en trenehinent, or a ditch full of water, or on thme bieach at a momtent of assaiult, or int a naval comtbat, this lignid would enutse the most terri ble ravages. An experiment hais sinice been tried out the river Seinte, in which intaaice thme fluid continued to burn withm a flame sn Iicient ly intense to set lire to the sides of a shipa for more thant a miniute. Supose that a boat laidten with this liquid shtould be floated iinto the midst of aii enemy's fleet, and should lbe so managed that it would take fire at the imomtetnt of arriving near or in the midst of the flcet, anid that the lig nidl should theit lie (list ributited on the sitrthmee of the water; the wthole fleet would take lire in spite of all thme t'tyorts that ittightt be madle to prevenit it, anid they' would take lire exactly in the most dangerous plauce. It is tnot mecessamry to enlarge on the ntature and importance of the services which this fortmidamble appalication of chiemical science may rendcr in the continemntal anid naval war which ha~s just commuenced." MONEY Los5T IN THlE MAIL.-Ant applicant for a patent, on htis withdr wat of Itis applien.. tion, instructed the Coimmuissionar of P'atenits to forward to himt by mail the sum of twenty dol lars due him fronm the governmient ott said with. dr'awal. Thme Washtington Star says: "1Thte mnouey was sent agreeably to his in strutctionts, and was lost in corse of transtmis sion. Ont his appulientioni to be remtinttrate'd said sitmi, it was hield that the Post Ollice D~epairtmntn is established for the convenience of the peo'ple, atnd is a medium for those to transmit anid rte ceive imntelligence andI all mailable nmater ;but it ts ntot an isurance otlee. 'Thle postage charged is no more in the esialo of Congress than a fair compensationi for thet services attially ren dered, and is not a reward t'or atny risk run in contveying mtailablde matter. if the Postmaster tineraLl, oir the P'residenat and Senate, have ap pointed a dlihmotnest post mtaster, the United Stat es are tnot bound to remutterate the loss an itndivid uatl sutstaiined bv his hav'ing violatetd the laws, and( there is no liiability imiposed Ott the Utnited States in this ease, frmom the fiu't that they were the trustees of' said applicant, and sbnt the tmotn e y by mail as he directed." A Californtia paper gives the following as a bill of fare at a Chiniese restaurant in that, city: Cat Cutlet, 25 etnts: Griddled Rats, 6 eents; Dog Sotnp, 12 cents; Roast Dog, 18 cents; Do Pie n ,.titt' tell that rllei had deertecd his.home. Sh had fone with a foreigner, a self-styled German Court, who for some months had been produc ilg a sensation in the fashionable circles of the city: and whose visits td Ellen had been the suiject of earnest remonstrance from her hus band. The almost distracted:man informed .31r. Lisle, that he had not decided what course to pursue, and as yet he h d obtiined no trace of the fugitives. A letter .hich Ellin had left, nd dressed to him, upon hr toilet table, lie enelos. ed to her mother. It as of r.o great length and contained among otlders these seiences: e "I m.rried you for wegilth for I sever loved searce regard'ed you with commoi frielndslip. If you thought other'iiie you were the dnjie (f' vour own infatuatios for I never manifested whiat I did not feel. J ltve fai i:hfully tried the expeiriniit, and fined tit wealth canndt produce happiness. I have not leeded all these years to learn the meaning of gtled misery. Since my marriage as well as b Lore, I lme tore than once, been the subject'oTlaniost idolatious love. I have scorned the agonies or lily victimies, and witnessed. % ith a fierce delighit, it eir puny strug eles. I thiouiht myself-secure inl the coldness ot' my natire. and fondyi believed self live the warmest emotion of wlth I iWas capalile. lint I have fmnd iny heari at last-I know the joys nod sorrows, the deights and the agonies of love, and now I leave joyfully, this empty splen dolr; content, come sorrow, or abuse, to follow the destiny my heart pInts out. It is a poor return for all the kindnes4 yon have lavished upon me, that I now make, b'y bringin sliame oi your honorable ni* but be:ter titfus tian ti live as we have lived4 I can almost pity you, now, for I comprehend hl'at you have suilered. I anticipatC what yo1 must suller. "Farewell ! iny .mndhcr.who will sufTer too. Poor mother, she wauned :e of the consegneii. ces of' my fearful wrogr-duing. Farewell! You will never again hearfrou ELLEN." And lie never moredid hear fron Ellen. A bowed, old man-pronaturely old-he passed a few vears. at the lithe cottage on the Hudson wit h tIle mothor of is lost Elleii. There lie lied with the name of her he had so loved upon bis lips. Searce had the gra-a elosed over him, when Ilhe wanidvrer returm -a fided wreck of the ome joyous Ellen. Ihe never told of the year., rlf shane, and povery', and wretchedness wbich ,.he had sient. It ws only known that the man for whom she had dserteil home, and friends and duties, had beer murdered in a drunken brawl inl a southern cy : and she had somehow foniid her way back n her old home. Misfor oie had not sofiet'd her nature. She was hIard. proud, and deiaat to the last, and soon went down to the grx.e without one expression ,f sorrow, or repentutee for her mis-spent lile. The love oi wealtland station had warped the nobler purposes ' her being, and made ier . a seie of fearful 'errors. She auididate for Coiigress Friends anil feller iiiizens, of thii conflictious omuiniiitv, l'se ris ip to give you warni' anid ::tlike a 1olitical speech, and what I'm going to speak about I'll ullud: to. Now, I'd like to have o u pay particular atention, as the preachier says when t he boys is a ptchin beans at his nose. I say a crisis lias arrivd, wheels of govornment is topped, the niaehiimry needs greasin, the rud. er's unshipped, th- buster biled, and h-'s afloat and t e river iii. Our glorious ship of' tate, that, like a bibtailed gander, i's floated down t le p'aeiful current of time, has had its armony diturbed. and is drifting with fearful rapidity towards the shoals anid quicksans of di.u'uiin, thrieatenin[ tio dash everything into iliders, and pick itAelf ilp in the end a gone r.iin. liarkei no longer, ye worthy denizens (t Ilog I lole, Terninl Neck, and adjaceiit re rions, to that sirenvoicei that whispers ini your oo credulous cars, tie too delusive sound, peace, pece, tfor pieace hin dune sloped and flewed to ie other hands, or dv to the depthI of thie migh-. ty deepi, or in the nore emphatic laiiguage of' Teeumise'rum ,goniielickerin threw frogs of other clinies, to tide the niser watcher in huis dimes. r ot' the great Alkander, at the battle of hlun kers Bill, who, in igony of' despair, frantically shrakt., " (O erary ! peaceo ha~s gone like myv schuitleboe y dayvi, and I doni't care a darn." lie was a whole horse and a team, suire. Feller citizens and gals too-ill our halls of legisatunrceconfu'isioo runs riot anid anatrchy13 rains supremle. Rise uip, then, like pokers in a tater p~thi aiid shook oil' the dew drops of yer hunt in.-,kits,and fell in to ranks. Souiid the toesin! beat the drum! and blow the tin horn ! till thle startled echoes. revcrberattin fronm lill top to lill top, anld friomi gophler hill to gaipher hillI, make the animantine liilla of' New Eiigland, the ferru ginous dispiositionl of' Missouri, and the aurif'er tus pa~rticles of Californy to prick up their ears, and, ini whispiered accents, enquire of their na bor, " fimt's thle mat ter !" Feller eiiizenis and the wimmiin-1- repeat it, to your poist s, from the tip-tofp most peak in the Ozark .Ilonutainis, and bid deliatice to the biullI eartiby hull erOin wLs afeard, in such thurader in tone, that, qual;ena with terror, thie'll forget what nigger is. J)on your dusty regimertals, rease thie locks of your guns and put in new lits, grind your old seythes andt make sords ut on 'cm, mount your hosses and save your na~tioni or bust!. The timle is critical, bloods goin to be poured out lik'e soapl suds! outten a wash tub, and every man that's got a soul as big as the white oif a iggoer eve'll be ready to fight, bleed and die for his couintry ? Themu's the imes-you want mien in the councils of the ntationl that you can depend on--that's mle. Elect mue to C.ongris and I'll stick to you through thick and thin like a eani tick to :a nigger's shinl !I'm nlot going to uuke a electionierinig speech. I'd seorin the act. You know me; I've been fotented up among ie ; already oin thie winig ot a topohitical imagmn atin I fancy3 I see you muirebin'*up to the polls ii a solid pialan t, amid with a shlout that makes the earth ring, ' huirrah for Jim Smith," come downt on imy opploent like a thousand of' brick on a rotteni puntim. " Doc-ron," said an old lady the other pay, to her l'fiiily phlysiciani~" kin y'otu tell nme how it is that somte folks is born dumib "-" Whay, hiem! why, certainly madami," replhied,thie doctor, " it is owing to the'fact that they came into the world withot the power of speech." " La me!" rema~rk cd the old had',,"now,, jest see w,,hiat it is to have a physic educationi; I've axed niy old man tmore n~r at hiundred times that air same thing, and all that I could ever get, out on him was 'hase hey is." A GEotOGIS-r NONLUssE.-An old bacihelor geologist was boasting thlat every rock was as lluiliair to hiim as the alphabet. A lady, who was precsent, declared that she ntew of a roek of which lie was wholly ignorant. "Name it, madam!" cried Umlebs, in a rage. "It is rock ihe cradle, sir," replied the latdy. Celbs evaporated. From the Liverpool Northern Timnes. Probability of War. War between Spain and the United States appears to be inevitable. The Spanish Ministry have refused the compensation demanded by the United States for the detention of the Black Varrior, and will make no cofeession beyond remitting the penalty of $6,000, which the Cuban authorities have levind on that ship. We may, therefore, foresce pretty clearly what the result will be. The States have at present a volunteer army numbering 85,000 men, for the most part Iri-hmon, well drilled and arm.ed to the teeth. This force is actually ready for the field, and can be an'grented to any extent required for the invasion aid subjngtlion of Cuba, or old Spain herself. At present the Spanish forces at Cuba may Ibe estimated at froni24,000 to 25,000 ien, which is to he increased to 30,000 with as little delay as possible. But what does this bombas tie display of numbers and military renown amount to? Spain might as well send so many of her troops to defend Odessa against the com. bined forces of England and France! The Spaniards may have batteries and for tresses to screen them from the assaults of their enemy, bit how long will the Americans take to sweep them from the face of the tarth ! The cainct of Madrid can have very little idea of what power thy iave to deal with. The United Statcs is the Czardom of civilization; it exhibits the very perfection of hurman power; its resources are illinitable; its debt little more than imagina re: and the burdeps of its Deoole are absolutely ileal. And tie idea of an old, care-worn ard impoverished nation of very questionable valor and military prowess grappling with this great creation of modern times is somewhat amtisig. If the overthrow of Spain's power in .Mlexico and South Amerieni goes for tiny thing, we may fair lV assumtrre that the Mexicans make quite as good soldiers as tie Spaniards; and that therefore any resistiance they mrray attempt to otrer to an Ameri can army on the coast of Cuba, will share a worse tate than the Mexicans when led by the gallarntL Santa Anna himself. But tie Spanish Cabinet is famous for the va rietv of its idea<, and the endlessness of its hopes. It b'elieves that the emancipation of the negro popuilation of Cuba would lead to the dismem bhrrrerm t of tire American Union; and that when all hopes of succe.ssful resistance shall have dis appeared, they will leave the African population fr*'e to carry on the defence of their country ngiainst tire United States. In this there is more l' tie spirit of bitter revenge, than the coolness arid wisdom which ought to prevail in tire Coun cils of ic of the oldest European States. That tire nrmie's of Spain will be vanquished by A merica, is certain. And when that event takes plce, if tire negro population oiers any further reistance to the American arms, it will lead to a war of extermination, which is almost too fearrful to contemplate. 'T'lre Spanish Govern nient are well aware of this; and if they pursue tire policy which it is said they have in contem -hey will add another cbapter to tire his *eir reckless career and disregard of hu ItI the American flahr ha~s been insulted, rights of her citizens violated by the authorities of Spain, the Cabinet of is bound by international la to offer an - logy to the American Government, t ftrill compensation to tire individuals ve suf'ered from the a1buse of power by tire tiatn authorities. If, ott the other hand, America denands any thing more than her honor and justice demands, tire Spanish government should have refered tire whole case to sorme other power, ard have endeavored by all micans in her power to secire a peaceful and amicable ar rangeirment of the alltir. To rush headlong into a war in which a spee ud1V defeat was inevitable, and then to leave a helples.s negro population to be slaughtered in tie event of their attenpting to offer any resist mice to their invader, is both wicked and inhlinan. In I he war which we see impendiiig, Ergland has little or no interest at stake. Our possessions in the West Indiesare sulliciently nuierous and exjt-irsive to supply us with all tihe tropical pro ducions we ern consume ; and it would be little short of insanitv oil tIre part of this country to sanct(tion the exp'enditture of onre shillirtg on the etentsion of ou r troipicll donminiorns, while we have such irexhraustible regionrs as those which rmiain uniexplored in Demerrara arid British Girnina Tio these regions we must look for lire extension of dominion, anrd progressive in crease in the tropiicail productions~ and riot toward tire fronit ier of A rrerica,whrere we have to cotitenrd with strong~ political jealousy anrd commrercial rvalry. As for receiving from Spain thre sovereignty of air iand wich it has not the power to hold, rnd threrefore cannrot have tire right to transfer, s an acquittarnce for tire enormrous debt Spain owes to England, is perfectly nonsensical. If we took Curba from Spain on such terms, the Erglish Government woulid be compelled to take uplon itself tire debt due by Spain to its English erditors, for wiech we could get a counttry inhabited '> a slave population, whro would be comne freerren under outr flag, bdt who would be totally tunable of p-oviing for thremselves, anrd whio cannot speak our langirage. With urneh a population whart couid Enrglandl do with Cuba? To us sire wourld be perfectly worthless. Wihy, then, is this riot openly stated to the American Gvernmrernt, in order to arrest that current of ilfeeiing wichd has grownr out of tihe silly idea that Enrglanmd wishres to possess hrerself' of the islnrd of Cuba? If tire people of the United Sttes were convirnced thrat Eniglanrd had no de sin whatever on that ishmid, arnd that it wvould b~ very questionarble policy ont her part to accept tie sovereignty of thrat courrtry as a grft, tire Aierican Governmnent mriht be disposed to sanction tire frienrdly interverrtion of Enigland at this unhrappy jurnction. 'Thle fast and loose part we hrave been playing with tihe United States ont this stubject, has been productive of much ill feeling towards us in America ; anrd it is high ti:re thrat tire Cabintets of Wrashrington and St. James should understand eachr other on the sbjet. - lin tire United States we have too many in terests at stake to think of trillinrg with matters wich tire of lithle or rno imrportatnce. If Spain persists in tire policy sire has laid down in tire presenrt instantce, blhe mrrst be given to understand tha~t the English Govertnmrent will have nothinrg wateve'r to (d0 withr tire dispute between her arnd Anerien. For if we give her thre slightest counternatrce, it will be construed by Amrerrca itn a wany which ma~y leard ho very serioursconscrere es. Armerica was never better prepared for wrr tan sire is at this momencit, rand if Spraini chooses to purt her powers to tire test, let us hope thant tire good sense of our Government will keep England from being in arny way inivolved in a contest where we haive everytinrg to lose arid notiing to gamn. _________ THma Detroit Tribuno says:" Not the least amuinrg tihing in tire doings of yesterday, was tre fact that latrge rnumbtiers of people--whole families fronm the country ceamte into tire city, withr their toams, to see Lire eclipse. This is a fact. THF. Emperor Nichuolas has called hris brother it-lawv, tie King of Prurssiau, an Angel of Peace. Pnrch says that an angel-after tire Rurssianr vic--ha's, ofecouirse, two wings, one of infantry arid onefartillery. Feeling In Boston. We do not perceive any abatement in the anti-Southern feeling in Boston since the rendi tion of Burns. It is stated that Major General B. F. Edmands, commander of the military force ordered out at Boston, by requisition of Mayor Smith, has put his name to a petition for the repeal of the Fugitive Slate Law. The editor of the Gazette, an officer of the Boston Light Infantry, says that nine-tenths of the men on duty sympathized with the slave. A committee has been appointed by the officers of the Light Dragoons to raise funds for the purpose of se curing the freedom of Burns. We also observe that legal notice has been served upon the United States authorities by the city government to quit and deliver up the rooms now occupied by them in the County Court House. The last day of the present month is the time when the Marshal and all other officers of the General Government must quit the pre muises. The memorial at the Merchants' Reading Room for the repeal of the fugitive slave law has received several thousand signatures, and their number is constantly on the increase. Throughout the State simiiar memori lS are in preparation, and will pour in upon Congress from all parts of New England. We regret to chronicle these indications of an outrageous, unpatriotic feeling among the " solid men of Boston;" for although we care but little for the Union, with its constitution and laws set S wt te me fanatic is (in ~ ~ ~ In wne .) South would be permitted, under said constitu tion and laws, to occupy an humble position therein. We are content, however, to meet the issue of disunion, which is evidently detigned to be forced upon us.-South Carolinian. Cuba. A writer in the New York Journal of Com merce, who has lately been on the island of Cuba, thinks that the people of this country are grossly deceived in relation to its strength and military force. He says there are twenty-four thousand regulat troops on the island, and to these will soon be added three thousand negro troops, to be attached to each battalion as flank companies. The number of frigates, armed frigates and "guarda costas," all manned, on the coast and in the harbors, is four times greater than is generally known here, and there are also a number of vessels which may easily be con verted into vessels of war of from ten to twenty guns, besides which four steamers and six ships of the line are now on the way to Cuba, in con voy of transports, with six thousand regular troops, one thousand of whom are artillerists. This writer adds: "A register of all the landholders and royal. ists, and those suspected, is in the hands of the Governor. All those who can be relied upon, and those suspected, are noted. In the hands of the former arms will be placed in the cvelt of invasion, and all suspected wll be immediate ly arrested. The ammunition and arms are carefully guarded, and arrangements are made in ease of trouble to pass all public and private treasure into the Moro Castle. The foolish young fellows ic the States who join the filii busters in expectation of plunder and easy con quest, will be disappointed-and, instead of realizing these expectations, will find defeat, death, or imprisonment. The natives of the is land supposed to be friendly to revolution are a feeble race, ignorant of military matters, without organization, arms or concert-and will disap poiint tle expectations of their friends in the United States." PREsENT POLITICs.-A strict adherence to the Constitution and a stern maintenance of the rights of the States, have come to be consider ed as at once quixotic in polities, and extreme in practical principles. The tendency of the Washington papers is to ignore every thing but expediency and partyism. The Sentinel, in re gard to the freesoilers and abolitionists, says, " that their opposition proves the soundness of a measure." It is or should be well known that anti-slavery, to attain its ends, disregards all the fundamental principles and practices of our Con eeacy under the compact. It opposes any measure, which is not, outright, subversive of Southern institutions, of the guarantees in their ihvor, and of the original rights on which thecy are founded. A measure which is short of this pulrpose, and yet one of a mere miserable expe dien'ev in favor of partyisnm and nationalism, and itself'in conttravention of the essential doctrines of State rights and the federal compact, can nei ther secure their support, nor what is more vital, the approbation of all the sound and reflecting, who maintain the true theory and demand the just action of our constittional system. Yet it is the fashion at Washington, and is even spread ing South, to attempt to bluff off and disparage this latter, the only true men of the Republic, by cornfounding them with Abolitionists, who are in the opposite extreme, and to denoune their position because forsooth it is as that of our rabid enemies, in opposition to measures unprincipled and destructive. This cant is as destitute of setnse and justice, as it is withott integrity and creed. If tabolitionism can only be broken down by a desperate sacrifice of every principle, of all faith and right practice, the Union is not wvorthi preserving. If we can not maintain the Constitution and the rights of thme States, in comtmon with its preservation, let the politicians and press at Washington ack now ledge the lfact, and let Southern men look to Southern safety.-Charleston News. A DesrER ADo.-Satmuel Murray, a convict in Sing Sing Prison, attacked a keeper named Geo. P. Sherwood, on Friday last. with a razor. Mr. Sherwood received two frightful stabs in the left thigh, and another wound near the groin, which penetrated to the depth of about two inches, and will probably terminate fatally. Trhe occurrence took place in the hat shop, where Murray worked. When assistance came he made a terrible resistanee, but after a severe struggle he was overpowered, and placed in soli tary conrinement to await his punishment. Du ring the etncounter, the desperado fell upon ano ther oficer of the Institution with a knife in his hand, and was only repelled by the latter shoot ing him in the legs with a six barreled revolver. The wretch being divested of his clothes, the Warden examined his body, and discovered over twenty scars, which were the results of stabs while in fregtnent rows and fights when at large in Now York. A NEW Excrr.EM'ir.--It is stated in the Eu ropeatn papers that a new wonder has sprung up at Stockholm, in Sweden, in the shatpe of a singer, whose voice is more extraordinary than that of Jenny Goldschmidt. She has taken the people of her native city by storm, and set them frantic from 'excitement. It is said that she so enraptures her hearers, by her singing, that the musicians in the orchestra frequently forget themselves and stop. Her name is Mlitchelet. A RATHER hard specimen of a Yankee late lv returned from Europe, told his friends he had een presented at Court there. " Did you see the Queen ?" asked one. " Wal, no," replied the Yankee, " I did'nt see her, 'zatetly, but I seed one of her friends,-a Judge. Yer see," ho continued, "the Court I was presented to there happened to be a Police Coured"