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Jan 3 3m 51 Law Notice, T IE Undersigned have foried a Partnership. . and will PRACTICE LAW in Edgefield, Ab beville and Lexington. GEORGE W. LANDRUM, ABNER PERRIN. Edgefleld C. IT., Sept 21, 1854. U? 36 DENTAL SURGERY! D R. H. PARKER, respectfully informs the citizens of Elgefivld DistriCt, that he May be found during sale day week at the Planter's lio tel, Edgefleld C. H., and tit his residence on thte Anderson road, eiAteen miles North-east of the Village, on every Friday and Saturday following. Specimens of his work, put up on the latest and most improved principles, can be seen at lis Uflice. His address, when in the couotry, as heretorore, Sleepy Creek, P. 0. Dec 27 tf 50 Practics of Surgery! DR. JURIAH HARRIS. Augusta, I Ga., is prepared toaccommodate with Lodging and Nursing, such patients as may be directed to him for SURGICAL OPER ATIONS or Treatment. 27 Masters may be assured that their Servants will have every necessary attention. Augusta, May 26, 1y 19 .FRESH ARRIVALS, R. A. G. TEAGUE respectfully inf)rins . his friends and citizens of Edgefield generally, that he has just re-:eived a LARGE ADDITION to his already extensive Stoek of fresh and genuine Drugs, Medicines, Chemicals, &c. His Drugs are carefully examined by himself.anl .all that are found worthless, rejected ; and thost that are approved may be relied on as eflicient and of uniform action. A .LL of his Medicinal Compounds, Tinctures, Pills, Ointments. &c.. &c., are put up under his .own sup.rvision and in strict accordance with the United States Dispensatory. From his long and extensive experience in the .practice of Medicine, he has made several Com- I .pounds of his own, not to be found in the Dispensa tory, viz:-A Preparation for the CROUP, which he' has used extentsively for eighteen years, anzd re -onmmerds wita confndence: a VERMIF UGE, safe and effiient; and nmany other Cortpournds which he makes extemporaneously to fulfil thneindicationrs Jn each particular case for which it is used. It would require more space thtan could be 01b tained itt a Newspaper to give a Catahogric of thre Drugs, Mledicines arid Chemicals kept and sold by .him-suffice it to say, he can furnish a Physician's -Office COMPLETE. witht Physiek andt Furnitture. lHe has added to his former Stoek sorme of the most reliable Vegtabie extracts, viz: PODOPIIIL LIN, STrILLINGINE, LEPTANDRIN ,&c. 07 Planters artd families carn be supplied with all Medicines tnecessatry in a family-and when desired, direetiorns put up withr each article. All of the mrost reputable NOSTRUSIS rmay beI foutnd in hris Esrtablishment. Also, Candies, Kisses. Sugar Plums and Sands. ALSO, FINE WINES AND BRANDY, for Medicinal purposes. Perfumery of his own and Northern rniake,, hard to beat. ' SOAPS.-A large and extcnsiv-e variety. CA NDLES-Wax, Sperm and A damantine. Paints, Oils and Dye Stuffs, WINDOW GLASS, Pl!TTY, VARNISHES, &c. 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Hamburg, Nov 14, tf 44 ggThe Laurenaville Herald, Independeint Press and Anderson Gazette will copy the above four times, and forward biils to J. S. & SON. 5addlery and Harness. A e-s, at ROBINSON&JA CKSON'S. Hlamburg, Dec 4, if 47 gieli Year Cotton and Pay Your Debts ! - S Cotton is now bringing a good price, I think Ait is the proper time for all persons indebted to me, to sell their Cetton and pay up promptly. What say you gentlemen ? M. W. CL ARY. THE CONTENTED MAN. Why need I strive or sigh for wealth? It is enough for me That Heaven hath sent sent me strength and health, A sfiirit glad and free; Grateful these blessings to receive, I sing my hymn at morn and eye. On some, what floods of riches flow; House, herds and gold have they Yet life's best joys they never know, But fret their hours away. The more they have they seek increase; Complaints and cravings never cease. A vale of tears this world they call, To me it seems so fair; It countless pleasures hath fur all, And none denied a share. The little birds on new fledged wing, And insects revel in the spring. For love of us, hills, woods and plains, lo beauteous trim are clad ; And birds sing far and near sweet strains, Caught up by echoes glad. "Rise," sings the lark, " your tasks to ply" The nightingale sings " lullaby." And when the golden sun goes forth, And all like gold appears; When bloom o'er spreads the glowing earth, And fields have ripened ears; I think these glories that I see yl kind Creator made for me. Then loud I thank the Lord above, And say, in joyful mood, Ihis love, indeed, is Father's love. He wills to all men good. Then let me t.ver grateful live, Enjiying all Ile designs to give. DUTCH MARR AGE CEREMONY. You bromish now, you goot man dare, Vat stands upon de vloor, To haf dish voman vor your vife, And lub her ebermore? To feed her well mit sour krout, Peans, puttermnilk and seheese, A nd in all tings to lend your aid, That vill bromote her ease. Yes, and yon voman, standing dare, Do blege your vord, dish day, Dat you vill take vor your husband, Dis man, and him opey; Dat you vill ped and poard mit hint, Vash, iron and ment his clothes, Laugh veni he smiles, veep Yen lie sighs, Dus share his shoys and voes. A ell den, I now vidin dese valls, Mit shoy, and not mit krief, Dronounce you poth to pe von mint, Von name, von man, von peef; I pooblish now, dese sacrea panns, Dese matrimonial ties, Pvfore mino vife, Got, Kate and Poll, And all dese gazin eyes. And, as de snered Scripture says, Vot Gut unites tog, dder, Let no -nan dare assunder put, Let no man dare dem sever; And you pridegroom dare, you sthop, I vill not let go your collar, Pefore you answer me dish ting, Dat ish-vare is mine tollair ? OUR LOCOMOKEES. An Engtlishmattn was btragginig of the speed on n~glish railronds, to a Ynnkee traveler seated at s side in one of the ears of at " fast traiin," in amgland. The engine htell was ringing as the uin neared a station. It suggested to the Yan e an apportu'nity of " taking down his comn pmion a peg or two." "b What~'s that noise ?" innocetly inquired the ankee. SWe are approachting a town," said the Eng shman. "'I'hey have to commence ringing >out ten miles before they get to a station, or ele the train ixould run by it before the bell culd be hea~rd ! Wonderful, isn't it ? I sup. pse they hiavn't invented hells in America yet?" " Why, ves." replied tne Yanklee ; "~ we've got, blls, but can't use them on our railroads. WVe rr. so 'narnal fast that the train always keeps aead of the sound. No use whatever; the mind never reatches the village till after the tra.n gets by." " Indleed !" exehiimed the Eniglishman. "Fact," said the Yankee: " had to give tup ells. Then we tried steam whistles-but they ouldn't answer, either. I was on a locomotive hen the whistle was tried. We were going at a tremendous rate-hurricanes were nowhar, id I had to hold my hair on. We saw a two hose wagon crossinif the tract, about five miles ahend, anid the engineer let the whistle on, hreeching like a trooper. It screamed awfully, ut it wasn't no use. The next thtitng 1 knew, I as picking myself out of a pond by the road de, amid the fragments of the locomotive, dead orses, broken wagon and dead engineer, lying eside me. Just then the whistle came along, ixed tip with some frightful oaths that I had hard the engineer use when he first saw the orses. Poor fellow, lie was dead before lins oice got to him. After that we tried lights, ippsing these w ould travel faster than sound. Ve got sonie so powerful that the chickens oke up all along the road when we came by, puposing it to be morning. But the locomotive ept ahead of it still, and was in the darkness, ith the lights clor-e on behind it. The inhabi mats petitioned against it; they couldn't sleep ith so much light in the night time. Finally e had to station electric telegraphs along the oad, with signal men to telegraph when the ain was in sight; and I have heard that some of the fast trains beat the lightning fifteen min es every forty miles. But I enn't say as thiat strue-the rest I know to be so." IF there is a heaven on earth, it is on a soft ouch by your own fire-side with your wife on ne side, a smiling babty on the other, a cear cosience, a dozetn cigars, and a knowledge at you aire out of debt; and don't fear the tail , sheriff or the devil. "Ma. SHOWM1AN," said a green-horn at a enagerie, " Can the leopard change his spots?" Yes sir," was the reply, " when he gets tired BOARD OUT WEST.-Traveller dismounts at a tavern; " Helloa, landlord-can I get lodgings here to night?" Landlord.-" No, sir; every room in the house is engaged." Traveller.-" Can't you even give me a blan ket and a bunch of shavings for a pillow, in your bar-room 1" Landlord.-" No, sir; there's not a square foot of space unoccupied anywhere in the use." Traveller.-" Then I'll thank you, sir, t3%hove a pole out of your second-floor **indo1v, and I'll roost on that." " Boy," said a visitor to the house of a friend to his little son. " step over the w:,y and see how old Mrs, Brown is." The boy did tie er rend, and on his return reported that Mrs. Brown did not know how old she was. GooP ExCUSE.-A doctor had a very intimate friend, whom he was arcustomed to meet every day ; but at length the litter avoided him, and the Doctor could never get niear enough to speak a word to him. But one day happening to come suddenly upon his friend, the doctor saluted him with "How, comes it, my friend, that I never get to see you of late-that you try to keep out of my way ?" " Why, the fact is," he replied, "1 haven't been sick for so long, that I am ashamed to meet a doctor!" "THE victory is not always to the strong " as the boy said when he killed a skunk with a brickbat. A YANKEE, describing an opponent says: "I tell you what, Sir, that man don't amount to a sum in Arithmetic ; add him up, and there's noth ing to carry." PRoOF oF INSANITY.-One of our courts deci ded, the other day, that a man was insane, be cause he paid mnhney to a lawyer without taking a receipt. HOIMELY men are accompanied with a very great drawdack. They are always jealous. Show us a gentleman with " yaller" hair and a pug nose, and we will show a gentleman who is ready to stab himself with a brick bat, every time lie sees you looking at his chimney top. THE Putnam Indiana Banner wants to know what there is in a name, when George Washing ton Fleetwood, Andrew Jackson Fleetwood and Napolean Bonaparte Fleetwood were all whip ped in Monroe county a short time since for house burning counterfeiting, sheep stealing, &c. A FACETIoUs boy asked one of his playmates Why a hardware dealer was like a boot ma ker ?" The latter somewhat puzzled gave it tip. " Why," said the other because one sold nails and the other nailed the soles." "AN O'ER TRUE TALE. THF. Fceni where the incidents I am about to detail took place, is a charming one. I wish I could describe it-the quiet cotUage. with its shade trees and its vine-covered porcb, just large enough for the accommodation of a young and newly married couple, with moderate views aud still more moderate tucans, but with hearts . of capacity to feel contented, because they seem ed filled with each other. I speak now of the time when they first came there to live. It was in the bright and joyous time of spring. Nature looked all smiles, just full of green ieaves and fragrant blossoms, as it rejoicing in the coming of two happy beings to the place. I wish I could describe the two beings I speak of-the young man full of the ardent, aspirations of one just entering upon the practice of a profession, in which the promises of fane are only exceed ed by the hopes of usefnlness, and the voice of holy sympathies crowding and swelling up in the heart-the young and exeeedinglv lovely woman, weairing the bright blushes otf a new made bride, and rejoicing in the prospect of opening years of happiness-I u ish]I could des-. cribe all this, but I cannot. Let thme reader then imagine, if hie can, a quiet v'ilhage sleep'ing on the bank of a- river, atid the cottage we could wish to paint for him, just oni the outskirts, and overlooking a broad and beautiful bay, and then fill up the scenery with a11li e pleases oif beauty and "race, and lie will see nothing more pl'asaunt thain the place i haye in my eye. lPerhaps he has b'eetn there. Then lie knows till about it, anid has had some experience of how glorious nature is in some places. Perhaps lie knew the very indivi'tuals I am speaking of. If lie knew them at the time I write o, lie kntew two beings wvho, utider an exterior of the most pro found happiness, bore about in their bosoms each a heart corroded and tortured, and' hiar rowed up with unutterrable anguish. Such beings there are in this wvorld, and who has tiot known them ? It is a mystery how they smile with such heavy hearts-how they wvear a face beaming with joy and happiness. while care sits in their breast and lays its red-lint hand on every thought, and feeling, and hope. But life is full of mysteries, aind the strangest of all, per haps, is, that we can smile at all in this world of sin and sorrow-that the spirit is not always covered with a gloomy pall-that the heart, is ever light. It always appeared to me strange after I learned their history, how these two beings, apparently formed for each other, could wear, ais they did wear for years, the sem blanice of happiness, and show in their conduct to one another all the outward tokenis of ardent affection, so as to live for all that time mutually deceived anid deceiving others--how they couild smile upoii each other, and twine themselves together in loving embraces, a:nd press5 together their lips in love's kisses-how they could lie in each other's bosom aiid feign all they did feign year after year, and yet be utterly indiffer ent to each other, nay. worse-while they each loved with a deep and passionaute idolatry ano thier, and loathed and gave grudgingly their mu tual embraces. Yet such waus the truth ; and. I say it waus wonderful how they lived as they did -how they wore always the same cheerful face and smiles, and spoke their words irt tones of nitfection. But who can read the human heart.? who follow it through all its windings aiid t-r tuous ways? Whou knows that the heart lhe trusts in aiid folds tn his own wvith ardent love, while the eye answers to ever-y look of tenider ness, may not be turned at that very Wioment in earnest lgggings to atiother? Who ktnows that his own heart, now clinging with intense love to sonie vision of his youth, some fair and beautiful being, may not yet learn to look upon that very object with coldniess, arid contempt, and scorn? But let me tell moy story. Early in the spring, a young man came to the village, and after looking around for a few days, a seeing that the cottage I have mention ed was to be let, called upoii the owner and rented it. He was just through his studies as a medical student, and had determiied to com mence business there; and as he was to bring his young wife with him, he hiid fixed upon the cottage as a desirable residence, and otie which he thought wvould please her. Trhe grounds were arranged by him in advance of her ar done to benutithe place and make it smile in joy and ghadnesRto welcome the beautiful bride, who was to' outhine all the attractions around her. Then sheiame, and the villagers gazed at her admiringly, fi such beauty and grace were rarely seen. Tge quiet smile that sat upon her face, -was a welcoine to every one, and every -lip was ready to blsa the fair and happy young bride, even before they knew her. It required but a few dayb for them to become domesticated in their new reAldence, and to become acquain ted with the kind-and hospitable neighbors; and their manners won for them at once the affec tion and regard of all around them. It was pleasant to see them on the first Sunday aftec their arrival, as they issued from the little arc' ed gate, and armin arm passed on to the vithige church;. how.allanet-them wiih a smile of wel come, and manyian old and gray..headed man and woman, fin4 pg tl~eir hearts crawn to the strangers, grasped their hands with warm affec tion, and gave them protmises, which, from the mouth of age,,seeped like prophecies of snccess and happiness. Aid in the bosoms of the young arose no thought of envy, for they loved them as soon as they sawn them, and in tie silence of their own hearts..pledged them kindness and sympathy. I say it wais pleasant to see these two, strangers to#ill they met, gathering at once around them good,.wi hea-and hearty love, and finding so soon their way into the very hearts oftheir-new friends. But it ec uld not be other wise. I have much, vry Touch to tell, in the-short space allotted meC: I must compres' the joys and sorrows of for years in a few pages, and I -hardly know how-to do it. If I could rake you oil from day to day, and month to month,I could show you the constiintly accumulating sources of pleasure and happiness that gathered around our young friends, and opened to thema promises of enduring bliss. But I -nn only say that as busi ness increased upon the young physician, lie only seemed to court it and rejoice in it, because of the wider spheie which it opened for his beautiful wife to. find enjoyment, -,)He seemed entirely absorbed in her, and she-in him; yet they entered into society with all the zest of tho..,e who find injli.their only comfort, and all around them loved item. BIut I may best sow the apparent feelings which illed their hearts, by showing tliem in the bolitide of their cdttage home. I say the ap parent feelings for twould have my readers re umember whatl hae said above, ttt:it deep sor row, and eankerineare, and mutoal loathing and contempt sat cdptinually in both their hearts, and made them, under all the joya and happy exterior that deceited others as well as them selves, the most lis~iiable of beings. Anid it is this I wish to mpkeidisiinctly appear-liat the ace is no criterio':O the heart, but is often the veriest hypocrite, -4reathing itselt into smiles, when tears of anguish ire ready to start from tfli eve, andbeingchtcked and smothered down, eat ii.to and corrode-:te spirit. The tiiue then at'nihich we visit them, is an evenig.atew-moi afir the . ernmrponcement of our narrative. The sin is juist setting, and sheds upon the beautiful bay in front of the cot tage, a broad path of golden light. All is cali, atid the very air seems filled with the sate quiet that seems to fill their bosoms. He is sented on the piazza, and she, altilost at his feet, ou a low ottoman, leans confidingly upon his knee, If they love not, and trust not in each other, who do? Aye, there is the fault. They each .believe the other loves, and trusts and believes, and thus they deceive themselves and each other. " Ilow very beautiful it 1,'' says Amy. "To a heart like yours, Henry, filled with high and glorious thoughts of nature, nothing can be more lovely than this ?" "And why not to yours, may sweet wife 1 1 not your heart tuned to the same feeling of beauty as mine ? Have we not always, since we have known each other, loved the same things, books, and songs, and scenery, an. flow ers? Do we not think alike and feel alig in everything? Then why should not this be to you as it is to me?" "1 It is," said she; "and I could almost wish it would last forever. But it is all passing away, just as the joys of earth p-uss." "Onily to be succeeded by others as bright," said her husbanid. " Do you believe, Henry', that there are any, to whuo life is alwatys happy, and who never see the clouds that darken the path of so many ?" lie looked in her face a monent, as if lie ex pected to see there the very clouds she spoke of. But though there was a sin"'ilar tone of sadness in her voice, there was nousing there but the same happy and contented smile she ever wore, and she ret urned his gaze with a still warmer smile. " Why do you ask, Amy ?" lie inquired. "Becaus~e sometimes fear, that happy as we are, it may atl be false and by and by fade away." " Dreams, Am -all dreanms. This earth is not a place whea. we are to look fo'r nothing .but dhadowy utnrealities-where happiness is on ly a transient ray of sunshine, to be darkened over by clouds or torn away by Ltormy winds. - No-far from it, my beloved. In each other-in our friends--in the deep and ardent ove of one another, and the kindred hearts we are gathering arotund us to share it, and bestow theirs in return. Love, Amy, is the universe to those who understand and know its p'ower. Not that selfish contracted affection which confines itself in sickly solituide to one only object, and banishes all the world besides ; b~ut that univer sal benevolence, that, with one object uippermost and supreme itt the heart, embraces all, and delights in the happiness of all." She laughed as ahe replied. " You speauk like an enthusiast or a philosopher, I can hardly tell which ; but either way, I believe you are right." "Iight !-to be sure I am. We are ha py now. Is it only in each other, or is it not also in the affection atnd kindness we meet itn every one of our new neighbors ? Should we contin ue to be happy alone, confined to the society of each other, snch would otnly be the innectvie con tent of the birds atnd beasts. We should ti 3, my own one, of that one only presence, and our restless hearts would wander out, anxious and dissatisfied, and longing for communion with others like ourselves." " Were I inclitned to be jealous, Henry, I should fear for the future. But I am not. Inm too sure that I atn the one uppermost in your ove. anid I rejoice in seeing you loved and hon ored by others." " And loving others; is it not so, dear Amy ? You yourself would not be so happy, did you see me ever tied to your side, an~ slighting the affection that is springing up at'otnd me, and making me feel as if my life and yours are only a part of the great whole, that is folding us to its heart in so much gladness." Poor, deluded self-deceivers! Thus they spoke, but far from thus did they feel. But a fewy months before, they had both, by a strange coincidence, seen their early hopes and wishes broken, and thteir hearts had bowed down in un. utterable anguish. But they were proud and strong-hearted, and they met to rise above their sorrows-met for the first time, and unknowing each other's griefs, rushed with a strantge wil inges into each other's arms, as if they were thus to drown the misery they suffered. Both thought themselves beloved, and thus trusted to the other a heart weighed down with sorrow, ...,:.,y thinking that itn their faneirc~afect ion they could forget. From this moment lire to them became a constant struggle to deceive. Every power of their minds was tasked to the utmost to play the hypocrite successfully, and from their heavy and overburdened hearts were forced up smiles, to repay the love each believe ed the other to feel. Yet during all this, th.ey were ever looking back with anxious regrets to what they had lost, and in their solitude they sighed for the past and mourned bitterly over the step they had taken. And thus wore on month after month of this life of terrible strug gle-a life in which every advancing day, cover ed and filled as it was with joyous smiles and the honeyed words of affection, oily made them loathe more and more the presence of each other, becanse they were continually compelled to strive against the real feelings of their hearts, and show in their outward acts a love which they were utterly ignorant and destitute of. It must have been terrible to live thus, and yet for years they to maintain the same undi minished appearance of affection, and to cheat themselves, and all who knew them. But it could not last forever. The time drew on slow. ly and gradually, when they began to discern the truth, or rather, at first, to suspect it. I know not what first revealed to them the true condition of their hearts. It might have been the muttering of a name in sleep; or the di.scov cry of some toy or little keepsake, treasured in secret through long and solitary years of bitter. ness, and almost worhipped for the memories it brought back of the past; or, perhaps. a letter written years ago, in the young heart's first love, and cherished since, and read and read again when the other was absent, till it had become soiled, and worn, and faded, and blotted with tears, and now left by aecident in some place where it had been seen and read unsuspectingly by the very one who ought to have been the lust one to see it. There are a thousand ways in which the discovery could be made. That is nothing strange. The only wonder is, that, though there had been nothing to reveal it-no toy, nor memento, nor letter, nor anything else -they should have been able to treasure up and keep their mutual secret so long. I only know that he discovered it first, and some months before she did, and in his manly and noble heart buried the awful truth and scarcelv breathed it to himself again, knowing as lie did the agony of spirit it would waken. Still he was tender and kind, and full of affectionate aittentiton to her. Perhaps lie thought lie might yet win her love, or that he might even now have no mean share in her heart. obscured as lie knew he was by the image of one who evidently had long held a Iarger part, and to whom she now clung in memory with wonderful constancy. IL is singular that he did, feeling at the same time that lie did riot love her, and never had ; that she had been deceiving him, as he had him self for so many years; and knowing now that all their mutual protestations of :fectiot had been the strained and forced exhibition of feel ings that never had a place in either of their hearts. - It mu.sthav been a life of terrible agony to him. for the subsequent months'during which he suffered her to live on under the im pression that she' was still loved-o receive from her the same ,nrcsjes lie had received for yearo, and know they were the fond!inrs of a hypocritical hand, and that while she bestowed them, she was thinking of another. It m.ust have been just as hard for him to return her to kens of affection, while he kiew all this. But he did, and would have done the same till death divided them, had not iecident In time revealed to her the trite state of his lie:rt, It must not be wondered at that, situated as he was, there were strange inconsistencies in his feelings and his conduct. The consciousness of his own %ant, of love for her, struggling with his high sense of honor and his sincere wish to nake her hppy, woulI have made any man inconsistent. Amy would often ride with him, in his visits into the counirv, to see his patients. It was on one of these o'casions that lie had taken her with him some miles, to the house of a gentle man who had been unfortunate in business, and and had recently taken up his residence on a farm, and whose' wife was in feeble health. It was their first visit to the house. The gentle man was absent, and they were shown into the parlor, where they were shortly joined by the lady of the house. I cannot describe the scene which took upon tier entrance, for she was~the early Iloved of Henry. For a moment all was forgotten ; thme presence of his wife-the misery of all the past years of deception-all was swat. towed up in the hitterness of that one instant. What hours of agony followed! But after ward the calmness of their former life returned to them, and they revealed to each other all their thoughts and feelings for years paist, theIr mutual deceit and toathings ; and then what was left for them to do ? To live as they had done? That they could not. They were no longrer ignorant. They had tasted of thme tree of knowledge. Henceforth life was a barren waste, leafless, flowvertess, hopeless. They knew each other's hearts, and now they hated. They cou!d no longer took in each other's face and wear even the smile of hypocritical affection. It was after midnight. that night, when they parted. Sie left the room enilmly as if nothing had occurred. Site left the house, baut tie did not know it. He sat ini his chair, and hour afer hour passed on. He did not slumber, neither did ho take any heed of passing time. It was onug after sunrise whetn he was aroused by the by the voice of his neighbors approaching the house, and they entered bearing the dead brdy of his wife. Some fishermen had found her in the river below. It might have been entirely accidental that she was drowned. Let us believe so.' But Henry tnever believed it, and a few weeks after wards, when, as he was leaving the place, he told me the story which I have repeated in my own words, he was prematurely old and gray. SDLsiy KICKED.-Sir-if you see fit you can can give thi< a place in your paper. I have sev eral times felt the effect of tiny square toes ap plied to the skirts of my coat, but was never smashed as fiat as when the following occurred: Not long since I happened in company with~ a tolerably looking gal with dark complexion and black eyes, and I thought just to pass away thme time as I drew up my stool, took hold of her hand with mine, and put my other fin about her neck, which caused a deep blush to mantle her face and neck. I then commenced and emp tied my hold gizzard to her; telling how beauti ful she wais and everything else that I could thitnk of, and wound up by telling her how I loved her. She heaved a deep sigh wheun I had finishued which caused me to think all was right, when she lookodi sorrowfully at me and stid, "XWas yer taken suddenly br did it come on you by degrens 1" We could not tell which, and left immediately. SAW dust pills would effectually cure many of the deseases with which mankind are afflicted, if every individual would make his own saw dust. TiHE GROWING WHEAT CRoP.-The Rockville (Md.) Journal of the 13th says.: " We have never scen the wheaut in thuis (Montgomery) county look so well at this seasonm as it now does. The warm and wet wcathcr have acted upon it pour out indefjnite millione to liuild'.up sueh Navy as will enable us to contend ith th Powers for the supremaey of the seas- a then, indeed, would it be a xhort-%ighted'po' to acquire such col'onies, whch. we worl& h by the uncertain tenure of Evopean toen'a Fo'r y own pa1t,I am unwilling to increaae Navy a single gun beyond what I, necesingy f the serviee of the country i its pf*sent an tion. The people are already suffi"ly' I and the Navy is already, in my opinion, a mot of adequate appetite. The conviction 16t cnnnot acquire Cuba securely withbut'a 'vst i crease of the Navy, is an additional obstacle t my taking any steps in that direction. - But it may be said it will extend our bom meree. I admit this. The annexntion of Cub would furnish an increased market,for certa agricultural productions of the midl'e te-north western States, and the manufactures of th eastern States, and to the extent of.thi.' - ed trade; and even beyond it, under the pref' ence given to our own ve-ssels in the cpsui' trade, the shipping interest of the Noit woo be benefitted. Under the influence ofthC several causes, and others which could bere sented, I have no doubt the free States -wu make a great deal of money out of Cuba, if it is - nexed. Though I see the North would reapaIgld en harvest from Cuba, yet I cannot, however great may be the interest I take in.theincreasa of nothern wealth, forego the objections. hhave to the annexation of Cuba on other,groundi. Besides, while I consider the adviantage;eertaia .great forms' of industry at the North would a rive from the admission of Cuba, I cannot fprget that the admission of Cubalmight parslyze the' vast slave interest at the South engag.ed in rais. ing sugar. When.f am.told that the armexi1ion of Cuba will extend our commrrce, I teply First. This mere moneyed motive is .out weighed, in my mind, by other more important and more elevated consideratIons. Second. That this advatagee may.be.attain ed, to a considerable extent, by a courgs orpilicy short of annexatio:i, by the modification of our own commercial regulations and those ofSppin and Cuba. To understand my meaningmthis point, I must briefly refer to.the nature.ofiour commercial relations with Cuba. The dukiie.*on foreign vessels in. Cuba :ire #1 50 pdnjon.;- on Spanish vessels, sixty-two and a half centsm.per ton. The duties on foreign merchandise import ed under the Spanish fing, tire from.sever to nine per cent. less than in foreign vesselsek eept a few articles. paying specifie dutie..pne of which is flour, the duty on which, in f-1.vor of the Spanish fldg, is from 8.1 to St 50 per barreL The Uiited States, in order to coerce a epe.al of these regulations, in 1832. passed. an et by which Spanish vessels coming'r. m.Cubat were required to pay the same'rate-of-duty on tonnage that was levied on American ve.-sels iii Coba. In the same mittaken spirit of retaliation .he United States, in 1834, enacied that Spanuish vessels coming from Cub hol' i h p.ortf4jh United Ate iic .r tonnage duty, in addition to the tonnage duty alreadf payable, as should be equivalent to the amount of discriminating duty that would have been im posed on the cargoes imported in the said ves. sel.. it the same had been exported fiem the port of Havana, in American bottoms; and fur. ther. that before such Spanish vessel should be permitted to depart from a port of the United States with a cargo fior Cuba, such vesselhould pay such further tonnage duty as should be equivalent to the amount of dieriinating duty that would be payable for the little being upon the enrgo, if imported into the port of Havana in an American vessel.' The di-crimiin-tting du ties above alluded to amount t about eight per cent. ThSresuJt-is tIMat Spani-h vessels le:tving our porti with cargoes for Cuba, have t14 pay eight per cent. more; than if they imported the same cargoes frofifv' other ftri-iti itort. In our anxiety to monopolize the freights we have los, to a very gredt etent, the sale tof t he mer chandise. Under the influence of our acts of 1832 and 1834, the imports into Cuba. in Span ish vessels, from the United States, amounted, in 1849, ti, only $11,000, wherens the imports from England for the same period, in Spanih vessels, amounited to $4.345.300. That this striking differenice is muninly attributable to our own regulations is obvion<, from the fuel tn England stands on no more favored footing in reference to the commercial -regulations of Cuba' thani the United States, except her freeaom fromn our owni enactments. For ten years preceding 1832, the nye'rage of foreign merchanditse export - ed from tlhe United States to Cuha, wvais 1,56i3,.. 000 ; in 1849 the same class of expormts mnount ed only to $276,000, of whuich onily 811.000 was in Spatnish vessels. In 1851, the vaune of cottotn gcoods sent.to Cuba fronm the United States, amounted only to $26,000, while the aount for the same period front Europe wvas necarly $3, 000,000. It is evident we hare greatly aiff, cted our corn merce with Cuba by our ;iets or 1832nand 1834. Let us repeal them at oncee. It is time t iban doin this policy of retaliation. We should fur. ther exercise our diplomacy with Spaitt to get sonmc m(ditiention or her restrictions. Let us seek commnerciatl reciprocit y with Cuba instead of annexaltiotn. The first, I'believe, by judicions cotnduct, we might alttzin ; the second we cannot but by. force. Bly thte first rui will attain sub. stantiatlly all the moneyed advantages of annex ation, and escape its political objections and dangers. The whole argument for the annexation of Cuba, in a national point of viewv, may be sum med up in the four propositions I have been cont sidering.. 1. More territory. 2. More population. 3. Militiry position. 4. Mo.c commerce. The first three have no merit ; on the contrary, are full of disadvantages. The latst has some merit, but is enitirely outweighed by oilier ad verse considerations. I conclude, therefore, on national grounds, that it is inexpedient to annex Cuba. I propose now to consider the annexation of Culba as a southern measure; for it is supported by many at the South on thtis ground ; and, un less!I greatly. deceive myself, I hope to be ablo to show that ft would be, under existing uirctnm stances, a most perilous measure to the South. How could the annexation of Cuba bentefit the Southt?' To. answer this question understand. ingly, I would refer to the eine of Texas. How -did the annexation of Texas benefit the South ? for I admit it did -so greatly. The entite advan tages to the S'outhi from the annexation of Texas, may be comprehensively stated int twon proposi tions. First, it furnin'hod a wilderneoss where the .people of the South could go and imaprove their .oonditions. Second, it furnished a stable politi cal community, reliz'ble nponi the shavery issue. Would Cuba ful: these requl-ites? I think .not; clearly not the first; because Cuba is an old settled country, settled before any part of the 'United States. It was discovered by the great -Columbna himself, and has been the favorite seat 'of 'Spanisht power for centuries. .It is not only .eivilized, buut popalous; the population Is vari ously estimated f-om one million two hundred thousand toeone million five hundred thousatnd, and that -on an area the size of the 'State of' Tennesseo, ' In order to realizer agrapie idea of the extent and population of Cubi, we barse only to imagine Tennessee 'with a range of mountains runntine longitudinaltly from east ta SPEECH OF HON. W. W. BOYCE, OF SOUTH CAROLINA. Mr. BOYCE. M r. Chairman, I propose to make some observations on the annexation of Cuba, I consider it the great question in our foreign relations. A feverish impatience seems to be seizing up. on our people for territorial extension. In some quarters the cry is for the Canadas. Upon this point, we have been informed by a leading mem. ber from Ohio (Mr. Campbell) that the people upon the northern frontier look with deep feel ing to the annexation of the British Provinces of North America. In other quarters the cry is for the Sandwich Islands ; some are wishing for an. other partition of Mexico; others are looking to the regions watered by the mighty Amazon; more are bent upon the acquisition of Cuba, and some have such inordinate stomachs that they are willing to swallow up the entire continent. These are all but various phases of the manifest destiny idea. I must confess, I do not sympa thize with this idea. I think our true mission is conservatisnR, not indefinite extension. Why do we desire further ex.ension? Do we need any more territory ? On the north we lose ourselves upon the verge of eternal snows ; on the south we penetrate to the fierce heat of the equator; upon the east and the west we pause only on the beech of the two great oceans of the world. If.we apply. the instruments, we find that the United States are ten times as large as Great Britain, Ireland, and France combined; three times as large as the whole of France, Great Britain, Ireland, Austria, Prussia, Spain, Port ugal, Belgium, Holland, and Denmark, near. ly equal to the whole of Europe; as large as the Roman Empire when its eagles dominated from the Euphrates to the pillars of Hercules. If it be possible for a nation to have territory enough, we certainly have it, and whatever else we may need, we do not need any more space. If any one were to propose placing the whole of Eu rope, one of the great divisions of the globe, under a single Government, he would be deem ed a madman, yet we realize territorially this idea, and still ciave more. Strange hallucination ! Do we need any wnore population 1 Why, our population is already near thirty millions, and increasing at a velocity so fearful that the boldest must tremble at the futtire. Our annual increase is a million. If we ~had the same density of population over our entire surface is in Massa chusetts, our population would be four hundred an I twenty millions; and if we increase for the next century in the same ratio we have for the last sixty years, our population will be within a fraction of five hundred millions. What a pros. pect, and how short a time ; for what is a hun dred years to a nation; the Roman Empire ex isted twelve centuries-there are noble families in England who date back the lustre of their houses four hundred years. A century to a na tion is not more than a ye r to an individual. When we look beyond the present, and pierce the fu.ure, the increase of on population pre sents a great .p 0ien. .W hen thevast surfae ' of our territory shall be in a blaze with the fires of civilization; when the living tides of human tzitogs flowing from the shores of the Atlantic shall be met by the returning tides from the Pa. itie; when the very gorges of the Alleghanies and the Rocky mun ains shall be full of people; when piopulation shall be pressing upon the me:,us of -tubistence, what will become of the Rtepublic, what will be the fate of liberty itself? Instead of desiring more populatioin, we would be most fortunate if we could remain at what we are. A nation has sufficient population wien it is able to protect itself from external violence. We have .lready fully reached this point. A Republic, a Federal Republic in particular. cannot exist without external pressure. It is the fundamental idea upon which the whole theory rests. Take away the pressure from whhltout, and a Confederacy necessarily goes to piecem. As long as Carthage stood a rival to be dreaded by the Roman people, the Republic flourished in its greatest vigor; but when Carthage was over thrown, the Republic, re'ieved from external pressure, became the prey of factions ; the Grac chi, Sylla, atd Marius, Potmpey and Cmsar, p:s? ed over the stage, convtlsing the State with their struggles for potwer, -making it bleed ut every pere., and trampling under fuot the gloiry and the liberty of Romte. t he history of our ownt coun try is instructive on this point. Before the war of 1812, while the State was ini dread of English power, sectionalism was unknownt. \Ve were one people. Patriotism was ant Anmericamn plant, idigenous to the soil. It grew as well otn the bleak hills of New England as itn the swamps of the South. Gretat men anid great ideas made our history. But after that war hamd demonstrated our entire security from externatl force, sect ional ideas aid sectional parties aroso. Factions usurped the stage. Narrow ideas loomed up in to gigantic proportiotns. The North and the South became two hostile camps; and the gulf of sepa ration has gradually b 'en widenitng as we ad vance.l in our career or greatness and power. It is very clear that. do what else we may. we have nothing to gaiin by antnexing more territory, to increase our poptulation by a foreign supply. If~ we do not need any mnore territory, or anyv ex traorditnary addition of population by acquisition of territory, then tihe annexation of Cuba cannot be urged on either of these grounds. The nupon what grounds can it be urged!? Perhaps it many be urgred on the ground that it is necessamry to us as a military position to protect our commerce. Yet I catnnot admit thtis ; attd, in considering this point, 1 must assume that it is the settled policy of our Government not to permit Cuba to pass f om Spain into the hands of any of the great Europeatn Powers. Taking this for grainted. I say we have nothing to featr from Cuba. We have strong positions at Key WVest and Tortue gas, which we are nowv fortifying, and whiib cnn be rendered impregnable. Our naval power is infinitely superior to that of Spain; wto can. ef fetually comumand the outlets to the Gulf of Mlexico ; and thte idea of our commerce being in danger from Cuba, is, I think, without the slight est foundation. Experience is the most conclu sive argutnent on this point. Onr commerce never has been disturbed from Cuba; and if we have not bectn disturbed in the infancy of our power, what have we to fear tnow in its maturity 1 But I go further. So far from the acquisition of Cuba strengzthening us in a military point of view, I think it would be a source of infitnite weakness. And if the htistory of the conteosts in Europe, between the great Powers. demon strates tany facet, it is that tuaritime colonies to a nation of seondsry naval force are great draw backs. Where did England strike hier great ri vals, France and Holland ? Not in the heart of their dominions, but in their extremities, their colonies. The contest nuow going on between the Allies and Russia, is most inistruetive on this pont If Russia had isolated maritime posses sions, the Allies would wound her severely ; but, as it is, she has no such vulnerable points ; she is comptict., massy. solid, and in vain, with frantic rage, they dtash their proud fleets and well ap pointed armies against her huge bulk. We are now in the position of Russia, with mill lien advantages; we are the Russia of the western contitnent ; we hatve a vast territory ; we re comapact attd invulnerable, defiant of the world in arms. Shall we weaken our position by the acquisition of maritime colotnies? That is the question. I think not. Before we determine on the policy of acquring maritime colonies, there is a prior question we shouldAemsidcr. t s this:- A,.e we willing to