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smoIe~wcratic 3ouvna, Derne to 9euIjyrn aigl)ts, flews, dolitics, 6menra 3nteligtuce, Citeratre, f oraliti, emprrauce, gritu tur &c "We will cling to the Pillars of the Temple of our Liberties, and if it must fall, we will Perish amidst the Ruins." V. 1 ]bURISOE & SON, Proprietors. * EDGEFIELD, S. C., MARCH 14, 1855. L * THE EDGEFIELD ADVERTISER IS PUBLISEED RY WIDNESDAY BY W. F. D U-. J 0 E i S O N, Proprietors. SINKINS, Editor. Two DOLLARS per year, if paid in advance-Twc DOL.ARS and FiFTY CENTS if not paid within six nonths-and THREE DOLLARS if not paid before the expiration of the year. All subscriptions not distinct ly limited at the time of subscribing, n,% ill be consider ed as made for an indefinite period, and will be con tinntie until all arrearages are paid, or at the option of o Publisher. Subscriptions from other States must INVARIABLY be accompanied with the cash or refer enee to some one known to us. ADvERTISEMENTS will be conspicuously inserted al 75 cents per Square (12 lines or less) for the first in sertion, and 37 cents for each subsequent insertion When only published Monthly or Quarterly Si per square will be charged. All Advertisements not having the desired number of insertions marked on the mar. gin, will be continued until forbid and charged ac cordingly. Those desiring to advertise by the year can do soor liberal terms-it being distinctly understood that con tracts for yearly advertising are confined to the imme diate, legitimate business of the firm or individual contracting. Transient Advertise'ments must be paid for in advance. For announcing a Candidate, Three Dollars, i% ADVANCE. For Advertising Estrays Tolled, Two Dollars, to be aid by the Magistrate advertising. THE LITTLE STREET BEGGAR, OR THE GOLDEN COIN. The following story is a jewel. We ask for it a careful perusal from all our young friends. It was the morning of a new year, that had just set in, bright, golden and beautiful. The suit glistened like jewelled raiment in the cloudless sky. The chitiing of the sil. very sounds of tie bells struck joytully upon the listener, in every street. The air was cold, though not piercing: bracing though ntot biting ; just could enough in truth, to diffuse life and elasticity into every one that moved. There was little girl-a child of poverty, on that new year's morning-walking the streets with the gay crowd that swept past her. He little feet had grown so numb, en cas.d only in thin shoes ; and those badly worn, that she could but with difficulty move one before the other. Her cheeks shook at every step she tank, and her lips looked truly purpie. Alas! poor Elsie Gray! She was a little beggar! Just like the old year was the new year to her. Just like the last year's wants, and last year's suffering were the wants and suf. fering of this !- 'he change in the year brought no change in her condition with it. She was poor, her mother was a widow and an invalid, and the child was a poor b.ggar ! In the old and cheerless room gleamed no bright fires of anniversary. No evergreens, no wreaths, no flowers, save a few old with. ered ones, decked her time-stained walls. There was no sound of merry voice within the poor, to say to the Widow Gray A happy new year to vou, Mrs. Gray." Heaven seemts to have walled her and her abode out from the happiness that was all the world's on that festive day of the year. It had provided to all appearances, no con gratulations, no laghter, no gifts, no flowers for them. Why ? WVere they outeasts? Had they outraged their claims on thte wtde world's charity ? H ad they voluntarily shut themselves out from the sunlight of the living creatures around them i? No! shame take the world that it must be so answered for them., Msrs. Gray was poor. a Little Elsie stopped at timti s and breathed her hot breath upon her blue beniumed fit gers, aind stamped her tinv feet in their case ments wvith all the force left in them, atnd thetn the big tears stood trembling in her large blue eyes for a momettt, and rolled slowly downt her purple cheeks, as if they would freeze to them. Site had left her mother in bed, sick, exhausted and famish ing ! What wvonder that she cried, even though those hot tears only dripped on the hot pavement. They might as well fall there as elsewhere; tihe many human hearts that passed her were full as icy and~ hardened. She would have turned back to go home, but she thought again of her poor mother, and went on, though where to go she kntew not. She was to become a street beggar. W~here should street beggars go ? WVhat streets are laid out and natned and numbered for them ? Surely, if not home, then where should they go ? It was this thought that brought those crystal tears, that checked her ittstant utterance. A youtg boy-a brighmt looking little fel low-chanced to pass her, as shte walked and wept and sobbed. He caught the glitter of those tears in the sunshine, andl the sight smote his angel heart. He ktnew not what want and suffering were. He had never known them hinmself-never once hear d of them-knew not what a real beggar wvas -He stoptped suddenly before Elsie, attd asked her the cause of those tears. She could make no reply-hter heart was too full. " Has any one hurt you ?" asked the feel ing little fellow. She shook her head negatively. " H ave you lost your way ?" he persisted. "' No," answered the child quite budibly. ,'What is the matter theit ?" lhe asked. "Mother is poor and sick, and I am cold ad hungry. We have nothitig to eat. Our roomn is quite cold, and there is no wood for us; Oh! you do not know all." *" But I will," replied the manly boy. " WVere do you live 1" "Will you go with me ?" asked Elsie, her face bihtenintg. " es let mue go with you." said he : " show ine the way." Through street, lane atnd ally, she guided him. They reached the door of the hovel. The cold breath of the wind whistled in the cracks and crevices, and key-holes before them, as if invited them in. They entered. A sic woman feebly raised her head from the pillow, and gave her a sweet smile "Elsie, have you come ?" she faintly said. " Yes, mother," answered the child, " an< I have brought this boy with me. I do no know who he is, but he said he wanted t< see where we lived. Did I do wrong t( bring him, mother?" "No my child," said the mother, " if hi knows how to pity you from his little heart but he cannot pity me yet-he is not o enough." The bright-faced, sunn v-hearted boy gaze( in astonishment upon the mother and child The scene was new to him. He wondere< if this was what they called poverty. Hi. eyes looked sad upon the wasting mother but they glittered with wonder when turne< towards Elsie. Suddenly they filled witl tears. The want and woe, the baranness the desolation, were all too much for him He shuddered at the cold, uncovered floor He gazed mournfully into the fire-place His eyes wandered wonderingly over the naked walls, looking so uninvitingly and cheerless. Putting his hands into his pock et he grasped the coin, that his mother had that very morn given him, and drew it forth " You may have that," said lie, holding it out to the child. "Oh, you are too good! You are very generous, I fear!" as if she ought not tc take it from him. " Mother will give me another if I want,' said he, " It will do you a great deal of good, and I do not need it. Take it, take it," and he was instantly gone. It was a gold coin of the value of five dol. lars. Mother and child wept together. Then .they talked of the good boy whose heart had opened for them on this new year's day. Then they let their fancies run and grow wild and revel as they chose. They looked at the glittering piece. There was bread, and fuel, and clothing, and every comfort in its depths. They continued to gaze upon it. Now they saw within its rim pictures of delight and joy: visions of long rooms, all wreathed and decorated with visions of ever greens and flowers: v'iions of smilling faces and happy children : eights of merry voices, and the chiining music bells, the accent of innocent tongues, and the laugh of gladsomne I hearts. Ali! what a philosopher's stone was that coin ! [low it turned everything first into gold and then into happiness! How it grouped ar"unl kind and cheerful friends, and filled their cars with kind voices! How it garlanded all hours of that day with ever gcreens and full grown roses. flow it spread them a laden table aid crowded it with ner ry guests! and these guests, too, all satisfied and tippy ! Oh, what bright rays shone ortha from that trifling coin of gold. Could it have been so bright in the child's or man's dark pocket? No; else it had before then burnt its very way through and lent its ra diance to others. Could it have shone with I such visions in the rich man's hands I No; else his avarice would have vanished at once, and his heart have flowed with generosity. I No, no ; it was only to the widow and her child that it wore such a shine, and emitted such brilliant rays, and revealed such sweet and welcome visions! Only for such as they. Thnat night returned this angel boy to the b!leak house filled with happiness and lighted n ich joy ; but lie was not alone, his mother I was with him. Blessed boy. le passed the whole of the New Year's day in making others happy. And how much happier was lie himself? [low his little heart wvarmed and glowed to see the child uncover the basket he had brought with him, and take out one by one, thne gifts that were stowed there;- and hiow overjoyed w-as lie to see his mother offer the sick woman work and a home, and to see the sick wvomnan grow sad. denly strong anid almost well, under the ini flueice of kind offers. H-e wonidered if their happies could possibly be as deep as his owi hir New Years was as bright to thoem as his was to him. He knewv not how any one could be happier than lie was at that moment. Years have rolled awvay into the silent past. The little girl-Elsie Gray- is a lady. Not a lady only in name, but one in very deeo, in heairt anid conduct. She dwells in the suburban cottage, and her husband is no other than the generous boy who on the New Y ear's festival accosted her so tender ly iti the street and wvent home with her. Her poor mother sleeps quietly in the church yard ; yet she lived to know that God had provided for her child. She died resigned and happy. Are there coins either of gold or silver, than moust be locked awvay from sight at the begininig of the New Year ? ' SitoRT ACQUAINTANCES.-At a late ball in Baltimore, a gentleman having danced with a young lady, whose-.attractions, both personal and conversational, seemed to have made an imipressiori on his sensibilities, asked on leading her to her seat, if ho might have the pleasure of seeing her on the following day : "Why no, sir," replied the fair one, " I shall be engaged to-morrow evening; but I toll you when you can see me." " I shall be most happy," exclaimed the stricken swain. "Well, on Saturday night," resumed the lady, " you can see mec at the foot of Marsh's market, selling cabbages." If the young man is wise, he'll be there certain, for that girl will make him an ex cellent wvife. IA DANDY, while being measured for a pair of boots observed, " Make them cover the calf." " Heavens !" exclaimed the astonished ar tist, surveying his customer from head to foot. "1i have not loather enough !" A PERFUMER should make a good editor because lie is accustomed to make " elegant extacts." ONE of the locomotives, on the lilinoim Railroad, wvent so fast the other day, thai she threw her driving wheels apart, arid slid into the depot on her axles. Progressive n eople, those westen engineers. Little Souls, What a contemptible thing is the man to whom this epithet justly applies. To possess a " little soul" implies a strong affinity to the brute, or rather reptile creation. We had I heard or read of individuals having such small souls, that they would "rattle in the I hull of a turnip-seed," but placed no reliance in it, until experience convinced us it was so. A man who does a little under-handed action, who puts on an air of consequeuce, and plays, the trickster's part in disguise, is I false at heat t, and cowardly by nature-And i yet there are some, some who have sudden ly risen to prosperity, who are guilty of such paltry conduct, and, nevertheless, call them selves men, gentlemen. The blackleg who struts independently along the side-walk, conscious that the mark of his profession is stamped upon his face, has a better claim to this title of distinction, than the conniving wretch, who, like the Hiena would prowl at midnight around your domicil, awaiting some favorable opportunity to satiate its blood-thirsty heart. They are "Little Souls," indeed, who look at money as their God; who bow with truckling knee to the " Golden Calf," and foolishly imagine (as if in a heathen land) that every body else necessarily worships at the same glittering shrine, and worshipping there, must be seriously affected in mind and body by its rises and falls. But it is not so. There are those who are born to bid defiance to the storm, to rise above calamities, and surmount obstacle after obstacle as they are hurled into the pathway of life.' Such spirits cannot be crushed. Like Mrs. Elliotte's "Rebel flow ers," the more they are trampled upon the better they flourish. They possess not " little souls"-and will live, by good deeds, in the hearts of the wise and virtuous long, long after the mean and treacherous conni ver at the peace of others will have sunk into merited oblivion.-Edisto Clarion. BE OF GOOD CllEER.-lt is pleasant to associate with men who ai-e always happy, never disconsolate, down hearted, or " out of sorts." It is strange that so many of the crab-apple kind exist in society, cross, al. ways in trouble, sorrowing, bitter, will not enjoy themselves, or let their friends have a free heart. Why is it? Disappointments will come, but the man of true nerve and good discrimination rises above them; cool, and sell-possessed, he never frets over the past, but with a hopeful and cheerful face looks to the future, and goes through the world with crowns of jny upon his head. The current of life carries us along; like sea-weed torn'from a rock; we cannot con trol it, cannot stem the tide, but may make a pleasant journey. Long life to the cheer ful man! BENJAMIN FiIANKLN.-In a recent letter, the Hon. Edward Ev -ett pays the following just and beautiful trib e to the great printer: The name of Franklin is one of the bright est in our history, and his eventful life is full I of interest and instruction for men of all pursuits. He was a first-rate printer, an in. dustrious and methodical man of business, an active citizen, alwitys devising measures for the public good, a self-taught man, but a friend of education, master of the English language, a sagacious observer of nature, a bold and scientific theorist; as a patriot intrepid, though cautious, and faithful, in the discharge of the highest trusta at home and abro~ad. lie first conceived the idea of a Federal Union as early as 1754 ; he wvas one of the committee for drafting the Declaration of Independence in 17763; he was one of the negotiators of the treaty of peace with Great Britain in 1783, and an influential member of the Convention w'hich framed the Consti tution in 1787. Boston has the honor of his birth, Philadelphia holds his ashes ; but the whole Union enjoys the benefit of his. lessons of wisdom and patriotism. His name is co-extensive with the civilized world, and his memory will live forever. YoUTH ntever comes but once! Hence we should, in our youthful days improve our time. The sun arises in the East, and rolls on its upward course until noontide, wvhen it gradualty descends and hides itself in thie West. So with youth. It rises in the morning, and keeps rising until noon time 'f life when old age, with all her in firmities, comes upon us. The youth should not underrate their days, for the day is com ing wvhen all this wvorld's riches wvould be given for the return of one hour- mis-impro ved. Boys do not mis-spend your time, bu; improve every moment as it flies, and you wvill reap your reward hereafter. W ELL SAD.-Question.-What ought to be done wvith a gentleman who engages the affections of a young lady, and then leaves her ? Answer.-Bless him, and let him go. We always think, mi such cases, that a young lady has abundant cause for congratulation, and, instead of whinning and crying over " spilt affection," let her put on her sunny smiles, and endeavor to captivate a more worthy beau. You may depend upon it, that a man who has no more stability of mind, or honesty of purpose, than to aut in this way to a young lady, is :not worth a tear of regret; ont the contrary she should be especially happy that she has so luckily got rid of a person wvho, throughout his life, mn whatever he underto,lc, would unques tionably exhibit the same unfixedness q[ purpose and the samte irresolutio:3 of mind. Love is like every thing else; a man who is not to be trusted in that, is very likely to be unsafe in other respects-N. Y. Sunday Times. THE author of the following original con undrum is now confined in a calico straight jacket, his feet in a wvood-box, and his head in a honeycomb poultice: When is a lover justified in calling his smwethr+ hney? When she -i Bce-lonved. RASCALITY OF A Hl'EN.-A Spanish hen, which was a great favorite with her mistress, was accustompd to be fed with a dainty meal every time she laid an egg. Cbicky soon found this out, and would go to her nest and sit there a few moments, and then come forth chuckling as loud as if she had performed a great feat, and for a day or two got her usual reward ; but on no egg being found on several occasions, it was suspected that Mrs. Chicky was playing false; and her usual feed being withheld, it was found that for two or three times together on the same day she would repeat the dodge of going and sitting for a short time on her nest, and then come forth chuckling as loud as she could for her expected reward.-Poul try Chron. THE CLOCK IN ST. PAUL'S, LoNDON. A writer in the Foreign Quarterly thus de scribes the machinery of this great London clock: "The pendulum is fourteen feet long, and the weight of the end of it, is an hundred weight; the dial on the outside is regulated by a snialler one within; the length of the minute-hand on the exterior dial is eight feet, and the weight of each, seventy-five pounds; the length of the hour figures, two feet two and a half inches. The fine toned bell which strikes, is clearly distinguishable from every other bell in the metropolis, and has been audible at the dis. tance of twenty miles. It is about ten feet in diameter, and is said to weigh about four and a half tons. The bell is tolled on the death of any member of the royal family, of the Lord Mayor, Bishop of London, or the Dean of Cathedral. The entire expense for building the cathedral, was over a million and a half pounds sterling. DRY CLOUDS.-TWO boys among the blackberry bushes, some mile or two out of town, saw a eloud rising, and heard a sound like thunder. One who was a little timid said to the other. -"Come, Fred., let's go home-it thun ders." The other, not wishing to return home so soon, denied that it thundered at all. Di. rectly the rumbling noise was again born on the freshening breeze. "What's that then I" inquired the other. "Why, Frdd,, don't you know what that is? If you don't, I'll tell you. What clouds there are floating about are as dry as old sheepskins, andavhen the wind blows it rat tles them!" "Pa, is a mig ma a tame animal?" "Why, Bob, i dilemma is not a beast, but a peculiar kind of 'a fix,' that people get in. to sometimes." " Well, pa, the paper says here you can take either horn of the dilemma." "Sarah take the child to its mother." W.AT's that?" said a schoolmaster, point. ng to letter X. "Daddy's name." "No it isn't your daddy's name, you block head-it's X." " I'll be shot if it is. It's daddy's name, low'd if it aint. I've seen him write it often." WHEN you sleep at a meeting, do it with. >ut disguise or concealment-a church is no place for hypocrisy; besides,.to sleep at your ease on such occasions shows that your conscience does not trouble you. "SAM, why is your head like the moon i" " I don't know Jim. Give it up." "Because it is supposed by some to be nhabited. Yah, yah, nigger !" THE CALIFORNIA CoNDo.-The high ountains of California are frequented by a spcies of condor, which, although some-. what jiferior in size to the condor of the Anades, is probably the largest bird to be( oundI within the confines of the Goldeni State. A full grown California condor 1 easures upward of thirteeni feet from tip to 1 ip of its wings and when in its favorite ele-. n'ent, the uir, is as graceful and majestic ast inv bird in the world. They make theirt omes upon the hedges of lofty rocks, or in he old deserted nests of hawvks and eagles, pon the upper branches of lofty trees.r heir eggs are each about twelve ounces in, weight, and a're said to be excellent eating. he barrels of the wing feathers of the con or are about four inches long and three ights of an inch in diameter, and are used1 y the inhabitants of Northern Mexico to eep gold dust in. VIRUS FRO)5 A CoRPsE.-Dr. Miller, whlo ttended Professor Mine, during his sickness, or the satisfaction of thie friends of thei eceased, in order to convince them of the uture of Mr. Mine's complaint, dissected the body, and in doing so, inflicted a small gash upon one of the fingers of his right and. At the time it was disregarded, but day or two afterwards the arm became ery painful, and commenced swelling. Yesterday morning the symptoms were so larming that we understand, amp~utation of I he limb was deemed necessary in order to save life.-Cincinnati Enquir er. BlooM FAcroar.-Messrs. Cloments and Mfays h'ave commenced the manufacture of I rooms, out of Palmetto leaves, on an exten. sive scale, in tbe county of Muscogee. he brooms are made upon the pattern of the corn broom, and will last four times as 4 ong. They furnished them at 30 cents a a iece. We are indebted to them for a sam [e. This bomte entterprise is worthy of public patronage, and we hope the eliter. I rising manufacturers will imeet wjth abun ant suppess in this new phangel of industry. -Colugnhvs Times. Og " WE have the muost religious hens," aid a little girl, " that ever you saw. They ever drink the leastd drop- of water, without look jru p to the sky between every swallow I wjppose to thank God. I am sure such < ens are an example to us all." 07 A Parisian modiste has invented a new way of making ladies' dresses, by which she can cut, fit, and complete a dress in o.he EESSIE. BEssE wears a gown of red, A homespun gown and apron blue; She has no hat upon her head, And her wee brown feet are without a shoe. Bessie has hair like the sunset's gold, And her eyes were born from the deep blue sea; In their depths is a story told I love Bessie and she loves me. Bessie's hands are hard with toil, And her cheeks are dark with the wind and rain; But her lips are rich with the rosy spoil, That if once I taste I must taste again! Bossie has ne'er a silken gown, Nor a crimson hat, nor a necklace fine; But she wears of cowslips a golden crown, That I'd rather than any queen's were mine. Bessie dwells in a lowly cot, A lonely cabin with trembling walls; 'Tis old and poor, but she thinks it not, And loves it better than lordly halls. She counts the stars as she goes to sleep, And loves to listen to the pattering song, That, o'er her head, the rain-drops keep, In the April weather, all night long. Bessie's step is light like the fawn's, And her voice like the chiming of silver bells I hear it oft in the summer morns, But I dare not whisper what it tells! Lingering and dying round my heart, Ever and ever its echoes be; Who shall divide us, or what shall part ? I love Bessie and she loves me. CENSURE NOT THE HEART. Oh censute not the heart that loves, However strange a choice we see; Each gentle spirit knows its mate, Tho' hid from us the tic may be! When mortals meet, their spirits hold Communion, in the silent air; And trust, and doubt, and love, and hate, Invariably are awakened there! Oh let them freely love that can ; Our mortal loves will soon be o'er; We cannot know what earthly bliss Survives upon a heavenly shore; Full many a fragile, tender joy, Was made for this poor world alone And whether found, or failed of, hcre, lI after-life will ne'er be known! Sqally Times. The political cauldron in Washington has ,en bubbling and boiling famously. As the ession has approached its conclusion the embers have grown more and more impa. imnt and irritable. They have had to work ard, and hard work does not agree with hem. They solace themselves by attack ng each other spitefully and rending the nion in pieces. The abolitionists and free oilers are perfectly rampant, and avow heir determination to bring the nose of the 5uth to the grindstone. Seward says the aouthern talk about the dissolution of the nion is very laughable to him; that he his iard the cry of "wolf! wolf!" too long to ndulge any fears on account of it. There I s no doubt that he is sincere in this declara. I ion, and that other Northern agitators seri- I usly entertain the same idea. To talk of 4 lissolution of the Union seems to these men i nero bravado--childishness, nonsense.- i hey laugh at it, and will proceed in their 1 trpose and plans, wholly unmoved by it. It is considered by intelligent observers< ore than probable that one of the great hemes of the abolitionists will be trium iantly carried through Congress next win r--the abolition of slavery in the District 'f Columbia. Should the measure pass ~ongress, the President of course will veto tBut the abolitionists will have shown eir strength, and the South will no longer oable to close its eyes to the future. It ust wake up and combine its energies en, or never. But let us have no more lk or menace. Let us lay aside words for eds, and party for country. Decidad andI animous action on the part of the South ay yet save the country from the perils hich menace it, and preserve from over-I row and ruin the fairest form of free gov-t nment on the face of the earth. We wvould wvarn these Northern agitators, ut that we knowv the warning would fall on af ears, that their course will bring upon his country all the horrors of disunion and ivil war-that, though there may have beenI else alarms of wvolf, the wolf is nowv really tthe door. They will construe the warn-t g as a menace, and " laugh" at the childish ~ly. Our only hope is in the firniless, the oderation and the unity of the South. [Richmond Dispatch. Sebastopol from the Inside, An American physician, attached to the .ussian army, has written a letter to the -ovidence Journal, dated Sebastopol, De-< mber 26th. After describing the situation I fthe towvn and beautiful views fromn the i valls, he continues: "Three days ago I crossed the bay for I e first time, passed several hours in the ity, had the honor of diniifg with General stensacken, who has lately taken the de ne of the city, and was most cordially re- I eived. Aid-de-Camp Rumini conducted I e to the cupola of a house used as a place, ifobservation, on the side of the city near- I t the French works, which commands a erfect view of the entire English and French tterps, andl of their enpamnpent~. Thp enhes of the French are a little wghin ;OO feet of the otetr lines of the Russian tatteries, but I believg tlicy have approachs io nearer than they wore twvo wveeks ago The c'5 baying been $esieged two monthts I id ah as ga~t as you may imagine, an I mtirely dgee~rted appearance. Stores are( pen, 'wotte~ and childlren are seen here d there 'ni eh s'teed and every pleasant fternoon there is'music on the Boulevards. hi gty Way to the ferry, after leaving the Inerl's to return to our hospital, my pro. ress was suddenly arrested by some -plain. iv strains wafted dowrr frtth-the heightia of, the Boulevards; and as I listened the music was rendered more plaintive, and even more touchingly sublime, by the oft.repeated peals of the cannon, ever and anon intermingling their deep and terrific bass. " The military operations, as conducted at present, consist only of more or less firing from the different bastions during the day, and occasionally at night some pretty hot cannonading. To witness at night at these times, the rapidly succeeping flashes of the guns, the bombs, like balls of fire, perform. ing their beautiful curves through the air, and to hear the terrible whizzing of the balls, is peculiarly and - fearfully interesting. Chritmas has passed here without anything whatever to remind me of the delightful and merry Christmas holidays of home. The Russian Christmas comes twelve day later, as their dates are so much behind ours. The climate here is not severe, with very little snow during the winter. Last night it was sufficiently cold to freeze up the mud, of which, in rainy weather, the depth is ac tually frightful; and for the weather to-day, nothing could be finer, clear, bright and it is only at long intervals that we hear the re port of cannon." State of Mexico. The revolution in Mexico has attained a power and consistency which demonstrate, if they be not speedily checked, that Santa Anna will again have to retire to private life, nd to the joys of his hacienda at Cartha. gena. The revolutionary parties have deci led to unite under the leadership of Alvarez, nd the chances are decidedly in favor of is success in overturning the existing gov rnment. He is already master of the most mportant Mexican possessions on the Pacific .oast, and the villages and towns of the nterior are rapidly declaring in his fovor. .anta Anna's generals, whose patriotism is always at the command of the highest bid. der, already perceiving the danger, are de serting him, and it is altogether probable that in a few weeks we shall hear of his total overthrow and the accession of Alvarez to the supreme power. What will be the future of Mexico, wheth r under Santa Anna or Alvarez, or perhaps ander some new aspirant who may roust them both, it would be in vain to predict. The political history of the country shows o progress-it is continuously a scene of troubles and wars, and of succeeding rulers, who bring to the people no additional secu rity for life or property. It would be difli cult now to say what principles, if there be any, are proposed as the ultimate object of I the present struggle, and it would be almonst I ratuity to expect from it any results of per nanent benefit to the country. Corrupt and ad as Santa Anna's government is, there is o prospect of an improvement by his auc -essor. Mexico has in truth no men of i atriotic impulses or of honest intentions, i who can rally the people to the reformation I )f abuses, the protection of order and liber- i .y, and the establishment of permanent in- i aitutions. Bankrupt in her finances and :rippled in her resources, she is still more I opelessly bereft of honest public men and I -eliable independent citizens. Money is a < yrimary necessity to the stability of the i overnment, and unless it obtains plenty of t the administration must fall. Santa Anna i ias proved an unscrnpulous adept in the pro :rement of means, but in spite of his exer- . ions and willingness to sacrifice everything i o the exigencies of his position. he seems to i ie unable longer to supply his treasury with he money to purchase the fidelity of his >iicers and the subjection of unruly parti- I anis. Mexico will only learn frorm experienoe 1 he vulue of liberty and peace, and the les- I on must be taught through a long course I f turbulent revol 'tons, which in the end I nay leave her up le to profit even by the I chooling whic has cost her so dearly.- I ler great f-its are inherent in her people hey belonA to her race-arid have been bred nto stren rth during the centuries she has I ufered under the despotism of her rulers C nd of the church. The tendency to revo ution has become with her people achronic ffection, anid they fly to it after each brief uterval ol peace with a readiness that ever laces them at the mercy of aspiring chief ains, wvhose object is limited to the gratifi. ation of their own ambition and greed of ~ain. We can promise ourselves, therefore, I 0 improvement for Mexico from the change f her rulers, now apparently on the verge f consummation. Alvarez, wvho is mental. y inferior to Santa 'Anna, has no character I or uprightness, patriotism, or statesnmanshlip hat will enable him to relieve the country rem its desperate condition. A br ief reign 1 nd the certain disappointment of whatever xpectations may been placed upon his gov- I rnment will turn the tide more strongly I gainist him than it now runs against Santa I ina, and another revolutiQgn will be de- I nanded in the vain hope of escaping from vils that only patient habits of self~restraint ~ an cure. Until her.people at large acquire C he capability of governing themselves, Mex-' co must be rent by discord and harassed by Ssuccession of feuds, dignified under the t sine of revolutions-Baltimore American.t Gen. Houston and Slavery. The Boston Atlas makes merry over a ecture upon slavery, recently delivered in. hat city by this notorious individual. " It1 vas perfectly good natured," says the Atlas, mt " certainly a weaker defence of slavery han Gen. Houston's wve do not remember o have read," and " we cannot help think. ng that he is not very deeply enamored of he nstitution," &c. Now, it is by just such ~recng~s specimens of sypo phancy, and mean atering to Northern prejudices as this, thatI he cause of the South suffers in the pyes of r enemies. Hero is a Southern Seitor, eaying Washi~ngton and his offiial 4tia, whioh, however, is to be. rejoiced at~ so far s th'e dee'ornis and business' of the Senate a concerned,) perambulating the Northern tates and attempfing; by- temnperartie lec ures; and "good natured,"' inoffensive, tame Lpoldges for slatery, to ingratiate himself I vith tle sworn foes of the South=!.- And for .at? The -Preidency, of course. What! I has the Chief Magistracy of this republio got so low as that Sam Houston can cast confident and hopeful glances thereat? 'And' have caucusing, and time-serving, aid. party expediency and availability, so dragged, down that office as to be within the reacfr of such a game I Or has the South grown so weak in the Union-her voice so inipo tent in the choice of public servants--her institutions so despicable, that henceforwTar& Southern politicians must buy office an' honors by vile treachery to her! It.was not to be expected of Gen. Houston t make other than a weak defence of slavery. Intellectually, he was nowhere equal to it; morally, in Boston, and with his eye upon the Presidency, he certainly was not. To have taken, boldly. the side of abolf. Lion, would have, no doubt, disgusted his hearers, and therefore he adopts the tone-of which the Atlas speaks. But it will not do; Freesoil has its own true men to rewaid, and having cajoled such blind and emility oreatures as Sam Houston, will kick them, easily and with disgust, aside. He; per. aps, will learn, when too late to Tise, that ie has earned nothing but contempt and ignominy at the hands of those for whose mmiles and votes he deserted and betrayed the South. The day, we trust tbo, is tmt ar off, when the people of the South wilt visit, with just notice, that brood of subser. ient, self-seeking politicians, which has. so. lung tampered with her interests and honor, and of which Houston is one. If, by her. indifference or thoughtlessnesi, treachery is to go by unpunished; if her public men are permitted to truckle and sneak, instead of earlessly resisting every assult, then, indeed, s she prepared to sacrifice thove hopes-of a ong and prosperous career, which can oily )e advanced by sterling faith iu her repre. entatives.-Charleston Mercury. The Court of Claims. The passage of the bill establishing this., Board, will, we are quite confident, receive a very general approbation. The advaita ges are many and apparent; the evils, ,if any, are only those inseparable from 'all tribunals. The President no doubt will sign it, and it will therefore become a law of the land in a Few days. It will be a valuable law; for many reasons, provided the President-ap points firstrate men, as we presume he will. The judges are to perform the .duties of nasters in chancery. They hear the cases )n both sides, and state the realfacft, with heir own opinion thereon. The result will x, that the tin' of Congress will besavd& ionest claimants can have their cases speedi. y brought forward and decided, the system )f electioneering will cease, and the good haracter of Congress will be preserved. If it had no other effect than to diminish he pestilent evil of lobbying, it would on his account alone recommend itself to the asting gratitude of all succeeding Congres. es and of every person having just claims ipon the Government. People not familiar with the system of, obbyinig, as carried on in Washington, can iardly conceive the value and importance. >f a "measure which will be so efficient in. liminishing this great evil. It will be information to many to learn, hat a large body of men are systematically Lt work to defeat every claim. in which their. ervices have not been engaged; and. to en. age in procuring the passage of any bill, or which they are to be compensated here are many honorable exceptions to this ul-gentlemen of integrity, wvho, shun mproper conduct. Th'le poor claimant is made to feel that,. mless certain opposition is removed, his bill :annot pass; the lobby cormorants are so lumerous ana~~ greedy, thnt, in order to iave anything of bib just claim left for him. elf, he is i.duced by these advisers to claim' wice or thrice as much as he would to ob sin only indemnity. Of the thousands of Claims before Con-1 rss, each has upon an average some half. ozetn persons, hunting members (if Corngress cessanitly, and by personal importunity eekingto secure iheir support, or by long nd tedious narratives and arguments can uming their titme and patience. A system, f log-rolling is also all the time going on, mong the lobby attorneys of the severabi laims, and the passage of one man's claim a made dependant upon his removing the btruction in another's way. The reports are necessarily mostly esxparte nd cannot command the confidence of Coja ress, because,9 with the best intenmtion on he part of the comimittee, they cannot in a. ast many cases, make a thorough examnin tion. This tribunal, it is fair toj presume, will ave to preside over it, men whose charne er and abilities will he a guarantee for in egrity and just award. The judicator ap ointed by .Governmnent and selected to ofend its interests, will have his reputationi stake to secure the most thor ouwvh search f every case and to allow none to pass of rhich there can be any reasonable doubt. he supervision reserved by Ctdngress,Mwill ang perpetually on the court as an incen e to the most unexceptionable decisions. he losses and anguish of hope deferred, to many wvorthy people, will cease to carry to. be grave so many as has the present mode, where the expenses to a claimant in most tances exceed the a~iount to be recovered. The sagacious Senator (Mr. rodhead) ho originated this bill in the Senate, will ave the satisfaction, as he ought to have redit, of bringing forward a bill of utility econd to but few measures which have ever assed. The work so well done by him ine he Senate, was well and.. ably carried out' y his colleague in the House. Hon. . lancey Joties. Trho practicaltalent and' ersevring energy shown by these gent~l~E ~en i~n t~s piatter, give ageh assurance of he true metal, as should aecure the lasitig ofidence and supiport o( their ce (e ies.-Washingtonl Se'tinel~ Tus wags will neter. ipet &nim alone. Phe' last story .int regard i4.hiism i4 thai' id picked -up in big' travels -aiemall-pot e ar supposed to . are been loft :wheioe.t sralites pitchedi their tents.