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Those desiring to advertise by the year can do soon liberal terma-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 Advertisements must be paid fur in advance. For announcing a Candidate, Three Dollars, ts ADVANCE. For Advertising Estrays Tolled, Two Dollars, to be paid by the Magistrate advertising. From the Charleston Mercury. THE PROGRANMN. The spirit of aiti-slavery must be considered just now as the real motive power of Northern politics: All ideas are seething in this men strum. It is the universal solvent and test of Northernism. Whoever is not anti-slavery, is not only a dough-face, but a traitor and a mon ster. The one idea is absorbing all others in polities and ti.ere threatens to survive no party which will not admit this as the primary ele tnent in its creed. Whether we call it Aboli tionism, or Free Soilism, or Whigism, or Know Nothingism, all seeks anti-shivery as its nutri ment, its necessity and its soul. And this spirit draws after -it, as we have now abundant evi dence, the overwhelming predominance of North ern votes. The Democratic party on its old basis scarcely has an existence. The North is politically arrayed against the South, and for no peaceful purpose. The antagonism is deadly. We warned our friends when the hiolloiw truce of the Comleomise of 1850 was accepted, that we were only deferring atn issue that would be forced on us at no distant day, in a shape still more fearful; and now we have it. We have, in fact, wofu!ly mistaken the way of mas tering this spirit of anti-slavery. Concessions tn!y embolden and madden its ambition. It is at struggle for power on the part of the North. Every concession is a victory, and every com promise is simply a diversion of the struggle into another channel. There can be no peace except by the utter submission of the South, or by the exhibition of such power and deter mination on her part as to leave no doubt that the further progress of anti-slavery must be, not over remonstrances, resolutions :,nd adverse minority votes, but over a phalanx of cold iron. The people of Missouri have really made the true issue, and discovered the only practicable remedy. The territory of Kansas was made by law open to everybody. The Abolitionists attempted to seize it by organizing hired hands to herd upon the soil, for the avowed purpose of making at the outset an anti-slavery colony. The people of Missouri saw this danger gather ing over theni, and organized to meet it. Gov. Reeder says they hve conqured Kansas. We hope so, and that they will hold the conquest as gallantly as they have.won iL There was need of such an issue to wake up the sluggard spirit of the South. While we doze in day-dreamas, the North is everywhere fernmenting with fiery passion and breathing hostile design against us. Formerly the Aboli tion meetings of New York were gatherings of a select set of fanatics; but this year they are assemablies of the general public, and seem to be the centres of political movement. The anti-slavery orators are now, not the prophets of an unfashionable heresy, but the Tribunes of the People, the statesmen aid leaders of the North. This is a state of things that we ought to know and be prepared to cope with. From the speeches delivered at the recent anti-slavery gatherings in New York, we extract the concluditig panrt of the. address of the Know Nothing A bolit ion Senator from Massachusetts, Mir. Wilson; and we ask our readers to deter mine for themselves why it is, that after propo sing all sorts of injuries and insults to the South as parts of the settled policy of the North, he yet dares to encourage his friends njltb assurances that thtese atrocities involve no sort of danger to the Union,-in fact, that the South canntot be kicked out of the Union. But read and judge: " The time has come to declare to this coun try tha~t we are in favor of the immediate aboli tilti of slavery, wherever we have the constitu tional p)ower to abolish it. Let it be under stood that our object is the emancipation of the bondmen of America. [Applause.] WVe do not propose to interfere wvith slavery in the slave States. In those States they have the power and arm responsible for the existence of slavery ; but in the District of Coltumbia and iti the Ter~itories slavery exists by our authority, and we have thte power to abolish it; and we iinte-nd to abolish it. [Applause.) We intend to repeal the act of 1807, under which the domestic slave trafice is tnow carried on utider protection of the national i-ag. We initend to 'repeatl uncondi tiotnally thte Fugitive Slave act, of 1850. [Loud applause.] Atid we mean that Kansas shaill never come ittto this Utnion as a slave State ne-ver. [Sensation, applause and cries of brave.] Let titese twin Amnericians--Strongflyer and A tehison-carry their hordes into Kansas, and conquer it as Governor Reeder says they have conquered it; but let them u~nderstatnd this let tihe South utnderstand it-that Kansas moust c-ome intto this Union us a free State or never come irnto the Utiion. And let them understand we bstall matke it aii issue in every Congression al district; anid I venture to say there are few Cotngressional districts in the North which can send a man in tavor of amlhnitting Kansas as a slave State. [Applause.] Let them understrand we shall conitest it in every Legislature in the free States; and let them understand that in 1856, we, anti-slavery men of all parties, make it a condition thtat we will not qualify for any panrty or any set of men in the country who are not in favor of our sentiments; and that the ipan whom we vote for President shall be piedg ed int favor of the policy of freedom in Kansats sind Nebraska. [Applause.] Let it be under .stood by the country-by the whig party-by the democratie party-by the Ameriean party that the candidate of 1856, if lie gets the votes of these f-ee States, must be pledged by his past life, or by pledges which shaill bind him as stronigly as pledges enn bind meni, that lie is in favor of resttoring freedom to Kansas. [Con tinued applause.] Let them uinderstand, further that we, anti-slavery men of the-coutntry, shahl carry out these measures. We have the power to do so, and we intend to use it. We do not war upon thc South. We do not denounce the South. Weo support this policy because we love the master and the slave, and we intend to perform toward the master and, the slave--to use the words of WVihliam Leggett-.-" the offices of a kind humanity." We intend to wipe out of the constitutionis and statute books every law whicb makes any distitnction on account of color. [Applause.] You of New York owe it to the cause of liberty to blot out-from the eon stitution of your great State those provisions which make a distinction here on account of color. [Applause.] If we would show our devotion to freedom, if we would give the pow er we possess to the cause of liberty, we owe it to ourselves that we place ourselves right in the free States. Let them understand, too, that we are devoted to the constitution and the Union-thtat we are national. Let them under stand that the great doctrine of the Declaration of Independence, that all men are created equal, is the national American position; and that the declaration of the constitution of the United States, that it was framed for the purpose of securing the blessings of liberty to ourselves and to our posterity, is a national position; and that on that national position we stand--that freedom is national and slavery local and sec tional; thatt we intend to stand lyy the consti tution and by the Union. because by so doing we enin secure emancipation, and by keeping t.-gethier work out the destiny which Providence ime,-nd..d we should work out. Our Southern fre.:l . mm.a thbreateit to dissolve the Union, Va voice "no danger," no, sir, there is no danger; none. Mr. Mason, of Va., at the close of the session, told the Senate that if the next House of Representatives should place on the civil and diplomatic bill a provision repealing the fugitive slave act or restoring freedom to Kansas and Nebraska, he should turn his back upon the Senate and march out of the door. [A voice " let him."] I venture to say the Union would stand, and the Statea would move in their orbits round the great central sun of the Union, even if the great luminary of Virginia should be withdrawn. But there is no danger of Virginia leaving the Union. She has got two or three hundred pledges to the Union in the persons of some of " the first families of Virginia," feeding at, the public crib in the city of Washington, and while they remain V.rginia will belong to the Union. (Laughter.] Gentlemen, the slavehold ers cannot be driven out of the Union, if this Union were broken to day into 347,000 frag. inents, and one of the 347,000 slaveholders on each fragment. [Laughter.) Slaveho'lders know that the great doctrines of anti-slavery would reach them-that they cannot hide from these doctrines. For this reason they wish to remain in the Union, and by the Union to govern and direct the policy of the country. Let us take the government of the country, as we have the power to do it, control and direct its policy, and and establish the policy of freedom, and the slaveholders of the South will quietly submit to be ruled by a majority of the country. At any rate, let anti-shivery men of all arties see to it, thatt whenever and wherever, and however we may be called upon to act, we shall give our voice and our vote to freedom and free institu tions for all, and chains and fetters for none." [Loud applause.] THE MEETING OF THE NATIONAL DIVISION. In Charleston next, month will be a most in teresting and delightful occasion, one which se' dom occurs, and in all probability may never again be enjoyed by the friends of temperance in South Carolina. From the Charleston Stan dard we copy an article to-day, in which it will be seen that the most extensive and elegant ar rangements are being nade for the reception and entertainment of this highly respectable and intelligent b-idy. which embraces many choice nd distinguished men in America and in the British Provinces. The committee in Charleston, of which our w'rthy and much esteemed brother B. C. Press ley, e:q., is chairman, are doing everything to make the occasion pass off in a wanner worthy of the noble cause in which we labor, and of the great renown of the "Queen City" for elegant hospitality. Let the efforts of these genflemen be strongly aided by the timely and efficient co operatiorn of the order throughout the country. It, is unfair to leave the ivhole burthen of the duty upon a few. We are proud to know that some have re-ponded to their call, and that mon y has been subscribed, but as yet it is a mere iota, and the expenses necessarily incidental to in assemblage of this chararter will require a large amount. Our Charleston brethren have one, and will do, nobly for the cause; but as we learn from an esteemed friend and brother vho is on the Committee of Arrangements in the city " they want money very much, and are short in thir subscriptions, particularly from th country, it becomes us of the country to do something to relieve them; some of us may not be able to give largely, but every contribution ade, however small, will lessen the weight pon those who are working nobly for our cause and the cause of all mankind. We learn from our correspondent that the ills House-that elegant palace of' the travel ler, will be the head quarters of the order gene rally, andithat the proprietor has generously lowered his rates to accommodate all who may visit the city. The larger the number, the lower will be the fare. In this connection we would lso state that it is expected that the several R.uilroad Companies will reduce their fare, in rder to accommodate as much as possible de'e wates and visitors to the National and Grand Divisions-of this, however, more reliable infor .ation will be published when the fact is ascer aited. We are requested to ask that our exchanges will call attention to this meetitng, and they will ablige by so doing the friends of temperance in South Carolina.-Camden Journal. SAD RESULT OF dEsTING.-On the 2d instant tt Memphis, (Tenni.) a young man, in a spirit jf levity, said to Mrs. Greens Wormecly, a re spectable lady in deliente health, that her hus and had been seriously injured by a dr y run ling over himi. The announcement gave her ~uchi a shoek, that she immediately fainted, and n a short time was a corpse. FINE SEASoNs.-WVe have been blessed with fine rain in this section of the State, and are ~ratified to learn that it extended to the' upper listricts. On Thursday night the rain commene d falling between 9 and 10 o'clock, and did not ease until daylight vesterday morning. That *in, if general, as we are inclined to believe it as, worth millions. At our present writing .he clouds arc agaiin pouring out their moisture >n the thirsty earth, with a promise of abuns ance. The grain crops in the upper districts md in North Carolina will be gre-aly impro'ed y these welcomte anad genial showers.-South Larlinian. TaUE, EvERY WoRD.-There is not a news paper editor or publisher in the world who will rot fully and truthfully endorse the correctness f the following scrap which we find floating the rounds of the press: "You may insert a thousand excellent things na newspaper, and never hear a woird of ap probation or remark from the. readrs; but just .et a paragraph slip in, (by accident or indiffer anee,) of one or two lines that is not in good ~aste, arid you may lie sure of hearing about hat to your heart's content." NULLIFICATION IN MAssAHUUsETTS.-The los ton Courier oI Wednesday morning says: "Oii Monday the Massachusetts Senate pass Id to be engrossed, without debate, and by am large majority of the members present. at bill relating to personal liberty, which practically nulliies the fugitive slave law of Congress. The meaning of the bill is, that no slave who has escaped from servitude shall be returned until he has passed through such forms of law as shall make his reclamiation a nullity. The bill will probably pass the House of Represen tatives, and those who regret that Massachusetts. is thus placed in opposition to the laws of the Congress of the United States have no hope except in the action of the Governor, and his veto would be likely to be futile in this instance, even if Ihe should have the will and courage to interpose it. ITS CmitEF USE.--" What is the chief use of bread ?" asked an examiner at a school exatmi nation. " The chief use of bread," answ' red the urchin, apparently astonished at the simplici ty of the inquiry, " the chief use of bread is to spread butter and molasses on." NoT TO BE SENT FROM THE STATE.-AS sonme dissatisfaction (and properly so) exists in con sequence of sending so much wheat from the State last year, thereby causing much of the scarity now, we are authorized to state that Messrs. Walker & Pitts, of Cliniton have pledged themselves not to send any of the wheat they may purchase out of the State. We are much pleased to heatr it, as we feel assured it will be needed at home gnite as much asm abroad. [Laurensville Herald. Mss LUCY STONE, whose Bloomer dress and "strong minded" lectures on Woman's Rights, have drawn public attention to her, was married some days ago, under protest to a Mr. Black vell, of West Brookfield. She protests against the existing laws of marriage, and as a wife, laims a right to be a completely independent and seperate ind.vidual, such as she wvas before marriage. The protest wits signed by husband ad wife." THE Ecurs.-The St. Louis Republican states that ma'ny persons visited that city under the impression that the eclipse of the moon was to be seen only in that pltace; the disappoint ment-was great. It adds that a gentleman from Illinois, who visited St. Louis expressly to see it, pronounced the whole thing a humbug, got up by the St. Louis editors to deceive the un ARTHUR SIMKINS, EDITOR, EDGEFIELD, S. C. WEDNESDAY, MAY 23,1855. g" THE communication from " A BACK WoODS MAN," was received too late for this issue. g7 AT an election l'eld on Saturday last, for Lieutenant in the Edgefield Flying Artillery, Mr. CIcEao ADAMS, was unanimously elected. We con gratulate this spirited Corps on its excellent selection. RAIN AND HAIL. WE learn that a portion of the caluda side of our District was, on Friday last, visited by a severe storm of commingled wind, rain and hail. Cot siderable damage was done to the young crops, especially cot ton, which was completely battered into the earth. Corn will rise up again, and, in the end, do about as well as it would have done. But cotton, thus badly bruised, can scarcely recover in time to do much. Some planters, we understand, are replanting their cotton fields in corn. If all were to do so, the storm would prove a blessing rather than a misfortune. COLD NIGHTS. TITE nights for the last two weeks have been re markably cool for May in our latitude. Fahrenheit's has regularly gone down to 70, and in some instan ces several degrees lower. It strikes us as being unseasonable and we have been expecting to hear of sickness to a considerable extent. But as yet the health of our district appears to be good in every part. TIE SOUTHERN REVIEW. THE April number of this Review is received, but we have not had leisire to read any of its articles. Their externals are decidedly taking; and ne observe that a good judge among our compeers of the Press pronounces the present number rather a brilliant one. BUSINESS NOTICES. DRs. A. G. & T. 3. TEAOUE'S STORE.-The full and admirable advertisement of the Urs. TEAGUE is referred to with particuiar stress. Medical gentlemen throughout the District would do well to observe it closely. The ladies should look to it too, if they desire elegant perfumery. The beat thanks of this establish. ment are due our friends of the Drug-store for the treat or deli'ious iced Soda, with which we were all regaled a day or two since. That pda Fount is a great institution. GRAY BaoTHERs, AUGUSTA, GA.-These favorite Imerchants are now closing out and selling offat New York cost,for cash. Here is a fine o portunity for tip top birgains. Call and see them, every body. W31. H1. CRANE, AUG USTA, G.t.-See also the new advertist-ment of this old House. le offers great in. dncetments to purchasers and should command, as doubtless lte will, a liberal share of our Edgefield cu. torn. DEATH OF D. J. 3IcCORD. W E learn with regret that this eminent South Caro linian has been gathered to his fathers. Politically unaspiring, Mr. 4lCCoRD yet possessed, in a higher degree pertaps than any tian in cur State since LEGARE, that combination of legal, political and lite rary lore which characterises the scholar par e.rcel lence. He was at ore time an active laborer in the outer fields of human effort, and always commanded respect for his independence and information. But of late years, he had retired from the more garish walks of life and devoted himself to a quiet proiion of those studies which had ever been the charm of his existence. Article after article in the Southern Review has evinced the kind and character of these labors. Their polish, their philosophy, their erudition have not been unobserved by the most casual readers of that publication. They have endeared to many the name of D. J. McCoav, and will result in connecting his name with the history of his State and Country. We tender our brief tribute to the memory of one, who if neither a statesman nor a leader in matters of pohiti cal strife,htas yet done m're than many such aspirants by illutrating to his youtng countrymen the high char. acter of the gentleman and the scholar. TIIE COMBAT DEEPENS. LA-rE intelligence from the seat of war represents the Allies in the act of nmaking their grand uni ed ef fort for victory. All preparations possible having been carefully made, the bloodiest act of the Drama oipen ed one day last month with a furious bombardment from the most powerful array of ordiiance ever brought to bear up~on any battle-field. At last accounts it wias still increasing in fury. The next news may tell us of the fall of Sebastopol. Many, ho~wever, are rather of opinion that Sebastopol will resist to the end, anid after all suirvive the iron tempest. If so, the hopes of the Al ies will be indeed blighted. And Riueican in. vincibility be well-nigh proven before the world. TIlE CIIASM. - Tux-r there are before us fearful political trials, to. wards which as a people we seem to be steadily mov ing, is too true not to be seen by every wakeful oh-,i server. Use whatever figure we may to illustrate their frightful character-abyss, maelstrom, chasm, or what not-their magnitude cannot well be exaggerated. Because they thireaien for the country at large anar chy and bo-,dsehed, and for the South, the destruction of all we hold fair and beautiful and beneficial in our private and public economy. And yet we lie asleep as it were, unmindful of the prelusive flashes that in dicate our thick-coming troubles. Twenty years ago we thought it terrible that abu'lition petition's should be for a moment recngnised, as aught but flagitious effu sions of disteimpered brains, in the hi :lls of our Feder al Legislature. Ten years ago, we regarded the as sembling together of Northern Abolitionists in their party conventions with disdain, firmly believing that their wicked purposes must perish ofotit their ownm in nate corruption. Yet to-day that party s':ands domi. nanit in the United States. Whatever may have been the assistant causes of their astonishing success, the truth is undensiable that they have the numerical strength by which to control the next Congress of the Union. WAere we to ask our readers to mark thuis condition of things, to reflect deeply up on the threatening aspect of our future, to beware, to trembe, to shake off apathy, to arouse themselves to readiness for action, we fear the reply would come Ifrom many quarters--" This is the old story that we have heard for many, many years ; and yet we are here still, a happy, floturishing people." If we sought to impress upon them that, although difficulty after dificulty, and crisis after crisis, had been escaped by us in the past, yet each one of them had narrowed our bounds and added new links to the political fetters that are preparing for us, we should be told that it was time enough to grapple with the adversary when we m: him in the way. There is an almost insuperable aversion'among Southerners, we regret to say, to look the perils of our comnmon emergencies fully and square ly in the face. Trhat aversion is growing stronger every day. And the time may soon come when we shall prefer to submit to any and every wrong rather than take the trouble of open, bold, mani ful resistance There is a stupor being fast superitiduced over our section that looks vacantly upon all probabilities of evil. We will not say that this is thsn natural result. of repeated submission to oppressive legislation. But it is cegin that unless some startling injury, far out of the course of our common wrongs, shall burst its spell and relieve us from its bancful thraldom, we shall sink deeper and deeper beneath its influence un til, demoralised and dispirited, we shall be able to rise no more forever. Of that day and that hour, who amongst us does not say-" God forefend it?" .Let us not thean turn away indolently from contemplating the political chasm that yawns before us. There it is, dark and dreadful in our pathway. If we are men, if we are patriots, if we are worthy the privileges of freedom we have inherited, we will shun it resolutely -we will turn upon and rend those emissaries of the devil who would drive us into its polluted depths-we will resolve to unite as one man in our common Sonth ern cause-we will hope and struggle with the energy of desperation for the security of our homes and fire sides-we will ponder and mature some rational me thod of common defence, and we will prepare at once, as the last means left us, to dissolve the Ulnion as it stands, and form a new " Union at the South for the sake of thec South." In the name of all we esleem worthy of our love, let the people hear the voice of timely warning, now being echoed from press to -press LOUIS AND EUGENIE. WE mean the French Emperor and his young wife. Among the notabilities of earth, they are perhaps the sost notable just at this time. Tliair recent visit to tI Queen of England (poor Alberj! nobody ever men ions him) has been thegrand subjectof gesip through. lut newspaper-dom for the last three or four weeks. :!olumn after column giving detallafter detail of this -egal expedition, has been spread before the hungry nasses on either side of the Atlantic. And the cry is itill they come-longer columns and fuller details. Well, they are a very unusual couple, whether as to heir antecedents or present fortunes. That Louis a an extraordinary personage, may not be guiasayed rhen the coup d'etat by which he was made Emperor s recalled. That EuGENIE is a peerless beauty-the [elen (in that respect) of modern days-,is the uni rersal acclamation of all who know any thing about he matter. Whence sprung they! Louis is the nephew of Bonaparte-the Bonaparte-, Lnd the grandson of that Bonaparte's first wife. His nother was Hortense, a daughter of Josephine as dadame Beauharnois. His blood is the :ecret of his uccess. But how of his brideI EUGENIE is said to be the grand-daughter of Wm. %IRKPATRICK-plain Mr. W.M. KIREPATacK-of alaga. Mr. K. married a Baron's daughter to be tire, and thus came EUGENIE. Her beauty is the ccret of her success. Yes, there they are, the great ones-as little as any ody a few years ago, but now the. " observed of all ibservers." Fortune-the dame that turns the wheel --has here been playing one of her most remarka >le feats. She is determined to leave her impress ipon the age, and this is one of her devices to that td. The dame is certainly dqing things up splendid y for the nonce. But by and by (the fickle queai!) he'll turn that wheel just a little, and down goes the mperial card-house, Kings, Knights, Liamonds and ll. Before this event however, she has doubtless everal other bri.liant acts of the play-the ballet we nightsay-to amuse mankind with. "All the world's stage," wrote the hard of Avon; and some o..e ilse speaks of the "boast of heraldry, the pomp if power, the pride of beauty," &c and whither L all tends. As for NAPoLEoN, we care not-He is loubtless as graceless a fellow as the Royal purple has Ldorned for a century. But NUGENIE-heautiful, ;od EUGE NIE-ah! let her be spared the iron scourge if an adverse hour. Yet some old republican reader ill say-" What's he to Hecuba, or Hecuba tohim1" ithing-only we felt bound to say something on a bject which all the rest of the world are talking Lbout. Having said it, we pause, not however before :alling the reader's attention to the following grap: ic escription of the " personell" of the French Emperor knd his Empress: THE PoTiTars-She.-As for Eugenie, she has men the theme of all tongues, each out-clamoring the ther in her praise. Such beauty, to begin with, has lever been seen ; at least so it is said, and the saying loesn't exceed the truth as it is in the sayers. It is a eautiy that. combines all styles, and excels in each. t unites tihe romantic gravity of the ...oresque Span ard with the airy piquancy of the Parisian; the re ervs of th) British belle with the abandon of the con inental southern. Her complexion is at once hlonde and olive, and omprises the charms of both. The - xpression of her ace is at once winning and commanding, confiding td dignified. Her stature and figure are all that :ould be wished in a woman or desired in a monarch, tnd each dress site has appeared in public in seems :actly the ote of all others that she iihould never ap >ar out of, if the spectator at the moment had his vay. Moreover she is just at ;be precise age when the everal graces of the sex seen to blend into perfection, knd when the diminution or addition, almost of an lur, would impli a forfeiture of some one attribute ssential to the completion of the real and the ideal, lie poetical and the practical before you. The lady utongst us who bears the nearest resemblance to her s the Duchess of Wellington, or rather such was the a.se when the latter was a little younger and Land eer's liket.ess, in the " Visit to Waterloo," was a ithful potrait of the then Marchioneps of Douro. There is the same con.minglemeni of the half Orien al, half Scandinavian aspect; the large open antelope ye, with the full droo ing fringe, at once heightening id mitigating its lustre; the same small rounded imbs and majestic presence; and thesame pensiveness n the midst of animation, perhaps arising from the :ame cause, the childishness of an otherwise enviable 3non. This probably is but a passing sorrow with the Epress ; for the port .rtms that the stag hiunit .at ingh, on TuesdW, unas not joIned by the Imperial ady, last equae-trianism, for reasons known in all well -eguated tamilies, should be detrimental to the proba >le prolongation of the line of " the new Sesosiris, sho, born iio kinag, made motiarchs draw his car." Hfe.-Certnintly lie looks~ev-erythting that his impas rioned assailant in "Napoleon ie Petit" describes, and tt all the circumstances of splendor surrounding iin, not all the romasnce of his life, and not all the flct wvhicti such considerations produce upon the ust phle matic and philosophic of minds, could de rive his countetnance of its itndefinable hut unmista eable repulsiveness. In it is disclosed no 'ne trait >f attractivenes. Indeed, the absence of all trait is he otnly decidecd trait about it. It is perfectly expres riouless, whether in animation or repose. Ilis face is a blank, or rather a blight. It may aave becen capable of conveying some expressiona rome time, but ihat time has gone by, and now trealty expresses nothing. The eyes are dead; he complexion lived ; the mouth, even when smiling, natimate; the muscles of the whole face at once igid and relaxe-d; and the contemplation of the vis age altogether leaves a most utncomfortable iimpres ioni, no mat ter what one's predilections in favor of ie man himself, or however biassed by the lascina ion of the immortal deeds of his uncle, by virtue of vhose name the nephew is what lie is. Between the two men there is not the smallest facial >r physical semblance, and certainly as far as exter tals are concerned, there is much colioring iaft'rded y Louis Napoleon to the poipular seanihal which usigns his paternity, not to the King of Hlollatnd but o a Dutch skipper with an uniprononnceablu name, md of whom Hlortenso was said to have be:omne en Lmored. In the configuration of the head there is sonme simi arity between Napoleon t:se First and Third, and the parseness and quality of the hair favors the likeness. ut in the faces themselves, and even the foreheads, .he most acute physi- gnomist could1 detect no trace of ndeitity of blood between the relatives. The Italian element is altogether wanting in the resent Emperor, whoi is mitch miore of the bad French ype of face, what Voltaire called between the tiger mud the monkey, than was the great Corsican, whose ntique beauty, sCarcely loss thtan his deathless ex toits, universaled his portraits and busts, by ro ider ng their production a labor of professioiiat love to the rtrist as the fittest subject they could be employed apotn. __________ NO WORD FOR HOME Is it true that the French have no word correspond ng to otir " home 1" If so, how significant of the empers and tastes of that versatile and volatile peo le. They live to enjoy the visible and material of rarth, not the contemplative and ideal. They live to risit, to talk, to hear, to be amused, to be excited, to >e admired-and thtus finad their chief pleasure out-of loors, in the midst of the 'beau monde.' Hlome, hough dear to them, does not occupy that first place n the affections which we accordi to it. Hence, while we have given it the sofiest andI sweetest name n our language, they have scarcely wherewith to de rignate it. As illustrative of the peculiarities, of Parisians es ecially, its this respect, we will mention a simph: in ident as it was told to us by one who was there : ~Ionsieur B.- was in love with Madamnoiseihe C-. [e visited her conistanttly and might have been he oved in return. Her fathaer's mansion was a fashlion tble and delightful resort. And Monsieur B- was ,he envied o'f all his. bon-camarades. At length, mit ars continuing as they were for months and miinths, me of his friends asked him in some surprise why he lid not marry Mademoiselle C---. " Ah, mon Dieu!" eplied lie, " Wonld you have me deprive myself of he only pleasant place I have to go to 7" How could such a fellow appreciate rte quiet sweets f " home ? Yet such is Paris. And as Paris, so is Erance. A POLITICAL EPIDEMIC. Tur. Corner Stone (Columbus, Ga.) thtus speaks of ;he Know Nothings: We have no idea that their organization will any ahere last longer than one general election; indeed e have been rather inclined to the opinion that it ould not last that long every where, but the recent :ourse of' thmgs has changed at opinion. We now hik that like the measles or thme htoopitng cough, it ailIgo through wherever it starts-but that then t will be catching only once in a life time. It is out inion that they will beat Wiss in Virgeinia, and if hat old Commonwealth, which withstoo the Hiarri ion and Tyler insurrections, shall yield to its powver >tier places may look out. VIRGINIA ELECTIONS. To-morrow is the great election day in Virginia. A lovernor, members of Congress aind State Legislators tre to be chosen. The contest is between the sound ld democracy and a multifariouti combination of rot en democracy, wvhiggery and K-now Nothtingism. Ii s supposed that the latter will be successful. Yet Mr. WsE. expresses the beli.:f that he will he elected by 12,000. The Know Nothings claim a calculated ma-' ority of 30,000. If there is any thing in counting, the ;enteman from the Eastern sho're is whipped. We h..ll c... A THOUGHT FOR THE TIMES. PERSECUTION, religiously speaking, has often been the best evidence of genuineness in the sect persecu ted. In the history of christianity, this has been ex emplified again and again, from the days of the mar tyrs down. And, what is more, this persecution has in almostall instances been directed by Providence to the good and advancement of the persecuted. Remem ber the "seed of the Church." Shall Protestants then become the inquisitors of the 19th century I If they do, it needs no messenger from above to declare to. wards whom the sympathy of Heaven must flow. Let but the lurid sun of intolerauce rise into the midst of our Protestant sky, and " all that is pure and lovely and of good report" will be led of God to seek refuge in the bosom of some holier faith. Should not the re flection " give us panse?" As we love Protestantism, let us eschew aught that savors of persecution. COMUNICATIONS. A FEW WORDS ON THE SUCCESSION CONTRO VERSY. BY NEos EPIsCoPos. OUR own " department" being filled up and the paper struck off, we have requested a small space in the inside of the paper, to say that we cannot con sent to discuss the question any further, except upon two conditions. First, that all communications on this subject be addressed to our '-department," and thus subjected to our inspection before being pub lished. Secondly, that such communications pro fess at least to be original. If the publishers and inside Editor see fit to republish all the Roman Catholie literature, from Iildebrand to the "Im maculate Conception," it surely is no concern of ours. That is a matter entirely between the parties. But for our own part we have too much work on hand, to consume time in writing replies to the stale and stereotyped and a thousand times refuted essays and homilies, about "ecclesia docens," the " Rock," the " keys," et id omne genus. We say this not from any feeling of ill humor, much less of disre spect to the gentleman that furnished the article signed " INQUIRaE j" for we esteem him for the as sociations of " Lang syne," and know him to be a man of talents. We also would respectfully request the publica tion of the communication signed " PRrsvYTEa," on the inside, as we had no space for it in our " de partment." For the Advertiser. To the Editor of the Religious Department of the Edgefield Advertiser: MY DEAR Siat:-ln your editorial of thie 9th in stant you have briefly discussed the very important question : 4 What is an Apostle ?" Your answer to that question, enables you to draw the conclusion that it is as simple for any one to claim successor ship to the original Twelve, as it would be for one who had never worn a crown or swayed a sceptre, to set himself up as successor of Ilenry VIll. I am fully persuaded that your motive is a lauda ble one in this investigation, and that you willthere fore, allow a subscriber, who regards the Apostolic succession as essential to the preservation of the truth, to bring your definition to the test of that only correct record of Christ's doctrine, the Holy Scriptures. If your premises are incorrect, your conclusions must be also. Now, according to the terms of your definition of an Apostle, lie is one whn, 1st, has seen the Lord, 2d, heard his voice, 3d can work miracles. On turning to the New Testament I ind, -1st, that devout women, and above five hundred breth ren at once saw the Lord after he was risen; and although St. Paul appeals to them as living witnesses of the resurrection, yet surely they were nut all Apostles. I find again, 2d, that several women heard his voice after his Resurrection, yet they were not numbered among the Twelve. And yet, again, 3d, I read that the Deacons, Stephen and Philip, and other brethren filled Jcrusalem and Samnaria with the fanme of their stupenidous miracles, and that the scattered Presbyters, spoken of by St James, could raise the sick by anointing them with oil; yet plaimnly these were not all A postles! One thing is therefore certain, either that the Elders and Dea cons and Laymen, and women, were all A postles, and that thus there was a multitudinous succession, or else that to have seen the Lord, to have heard his voice, anid to possess the power of working umira eles, were never the marks by which to distinguish an A postle fronm a Deacon, or even from a Layman or woman. According to the editorial in question, an A postle is one who is int possessiotn of some attribute or pow or or authority, which no other nmembers of Christ's Church possess. From the instances cited above, I am persuaded it must be evident on reflection, not to consist in either of the facts of having seen or heard thme Lord, or being able to work nmiracles. These were inidental to thme age and possessed in com~mon by his fellows. You retmember the Saviour's own, promise: Th'l se things shall follow thecm that be lieve : In tmy ntame shall they cast out devils; thtey shall speak with new tongues ;they shall take up serpents ;and if they drink any deadly thintg, it shall not hurt them ;they shall huy hands on thme sick and thtey shall recover."-M~ark XVI., 17, 18. As logically therefore, aight yen reason thtat a Deacon is not a Deacon, because he does not work the womrks of St. Stephens ;or that an Elder is not an Elder, because he does not anoint and raise the siek, as did thme Elders of St. .James ; or that be lievers are not believers, because they do not show the signs promsed to " follow themi that believe ;' or the Apostles arc not A postles, because they do not the works of St. Peter or St. Paul, or have not their extraordinary qualifications. It fullows thten that there may be A postles still in the Ch~urch, us well as believers, and thtat they are as necessary a part of the body as believers: "for the body is not one member, but many."-1 Cor. XII, 14. Now consider this, the Apostles had all the qual ities or "gifts" of believers, they had thtose of lDea ons, thtey had those of Elders, but to distinguish them above these different classes in the Church, they must have had some othier quality or power which those did noit have. Now what was that ? In your editorial you did not state it to be the having seen and heard the Lord and possessing the mira le working pbower. I have just shown that these did not distinguish them, for many others, nay, all the other classes, possessed them also. What was it then ? Whty tanifestly the paoer of mnaking and goveining the mninisters of the Church. I beg your attention to this. The gatherinag of the christian church was accomplished by preaching to make conversions, and by babtism to introduce nmen into the Church. This preaching and this baptism was performed by a class of men set ap'art for the purpose. Thus the church was brought into being by functions committed by our Lord exclusively to att authorized ministry. It was to be continued by the same means, viz: the conversion and babtism of mankind. Persons may he converted by other means than preaching, and without any human agency, except, perhaps, that of the individual him self. But without baptism, no one can become a member of the vIsible church. A ccordingly, the first act of our Lord, in the actual gathering of his cureh, was thu appointment of a ministry. They were appointed when the church had no existence. Fronm thteir htands, and through their agency, it came into being, for Christ himself baptised not, but only htis disciples.-St. John lV, 2. The Eu charist, the discipline, and all those things by which the memubers of the church are to be edified after they are admitted, were committed to the ministry. By this ministry these blessings were to be perpetu ated in the Church until Christ's second advent. Now observe, it is equally as imtportant to perpetu ate this ministry. TheIr ranks were to be constant ly filled up and enlarged, and they must be ruled and governed. This was the office of theApst t:.s., .hen Isthnpwe which they had and which believed is not falsehood, but truth. What we ar required to believe is that, for not believing which, we shall be condemned. But God is aGod of truth, nay, truth itself, and it is repugnant to reason to as amne thulhe will condemn us for not believing fMlse. hood. The belief demanded is also essential to our salvation; for " He that believeth not shall be con demned." But it is equally repugnant to reason to maintain that a God of truth who is truth ean make belief in falsehood essential to salvation. Therefore the belier demanded, as to its object, is truth not falsehood. The truth we are commanded to be lieve is the revelation which Almighty God has made us through his Son, Jesus Christ, or in other words, the truth which Jesus Christ taught or re sealed. The belief in question ia Christian belief, that which makes one a christian believer, a follower of Jesus, a member of his Church. But ah that Jesus taught was trstht Therefore to be a Christian believer, truly a follower of Christ, it is necessary to believe explicitly or Implicip all. the truth he taught. Hence the commission to the Apostles was tb teach all nations and to teaeb them to observe " all' things whatsoever" their Master had commanded them -St. Mark, 28 ch. But the truth which Jesus Christ taught or re vealed, appertains, in part, at least, to the superna tural order. By which we understand the order above nature,that is,above the order of creation. Ali ereatures, whether brute matter, vegetables, anr, mals, men or angels, are in God, and without him could neither be, live nor move. But God has cres ted them all "after their kind," and each with a specific nature. What is included in this nature or promised by it, although having its origin and first motion in God is what is meant by natural. Super-natural is something above this and super added. God transcends nature, and is supernatur al ; but, regarded solely as the author, upholder, and governor of nature, he is natural, and henes8 the knowledge of him as such is- always termed na fTural theology. But as the author.of grace he is strictly super-na.. tural ; because grace, though having the same dri gin, is above the order of creation, is not included in. it, nor promised by it. It is so to speak, an exem of the Divine fulness not exhausted in creation, but reserved to be super-added to it according to the. Divine will and pleasure. In this manner God may. be said to be both natural and supernatural. As natural, that is, as the author, sustainer. and1 governor of nature, he is naturally intelligible, ao cording to what St. Paul says, 1st ch. Ror, " For the invisible things of God, even his eternal power and divinity, from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that. are made." But as super-natural, that is, as the author o grace, he is not naturally intelligible and can be known only as super-naturally revealed. The fact that he is the author of grace, or that there is grace is not a fact of natural reason, or in -trinsically evidtnt to natural reason. It therefore. is not and connot be a matter of science, but must be a matter of faith-belief. Hence. Itb. I1th, ch., " Ie that cometh to God must believe that he is and that he is a rewarder of them thatseek him." That he is as author of nature we'know-but that he is as author of grace or that he is a rewarder of them that seek him. we believe. Now, the revelation of Jesus Christ is.pre-emi neutly the revelation of God as the author and dis penser of Grace, and therefore pre-eminently the revelation of the super-natural. " The law was given by Moses, but grace and truth by Jesus Christ," John I ch.. 16. Hence to believe the truth and all the truth which Jesus Christ taught i to believe truth pertaining to the super-natural or~ der. Among the truths wh~ich are not naturally in telligible, or comprehensible, but which we are - bound to belieue, we may instance remission of siner. the resurrection of the dead and final, beatitude. To question these is to lose all right to the Chris tian name. But these all pertain to the super-na tural order. Remission of sins, means remission of the penal ty which God has annexed to transgression. To assume that the order of nature remnits it, is to as- . sume nature to be in contradiction with herself, Rtemission is necessarily an act of grace, and there fore super -natural, '-nd to believe this remission is to believe in the super-natural order. So of the resurrection of the dead. We will not say thmat by natural reason we demonstrate a future continued existence, but that a fact answering to the term resurrection is naturally neither cognoeible nor demonstrable. By no natural light that we profess can we come to the knowledge of the fact that our bodies shall rise again. Yet it is an article of thte Christian creed, belief, or faith, as it is mere generally called. By what natural powers we pro fess do we arrive at the fact thtat there are glorified bodies, much- more, that our vile bodies shall be changed into glorified bodies. And by what process of reasoning, not dependent for its data on the re velation, can we, even now that we sic told it shall be so, prove that it will be so ? So as to out- final destiny, upon which we shall not stop to argue. The result thus far is, that in order to be chris tians to be saved, to enter into life, to receive the re wards of hteaven it is necessary to believe the truth which Jesus Christ taught, and that we can not be lieve this without believing in that which is super natural, and supernatural both as to the mode 'of communication and to the matter communicated. The truth which Jesus Christ taught is in general terms the Christian revelation : and that the ehris tian revelation is a super-natural revelation, and in part at least, a revelation of the super-natural. This revelation and its contents we must believe, or resign our pretentious to the christians name. To believe this revelation and its contents is net, we admit, all that is requisite to the christian char aeter ; for faith without works is dead, and there fore inoperative. Nevertheless faith is indispensa ble. " For without faith (belief) it is impossible to please God." But faith or belief as distinguished from knowledge and science, rests on authority ex trinsic both to the believer and the matter believe4. In it tht~re is always assent to something proposed ab extra. That the sun is now shining, I know by ny own senses ; it is therefore a fact of knowledge; that three angles of a triaugle arc equal to two right angles which I know not intuitively, but dis cursively, is a fact of' science. The first I knowinm. mediately ; the second I can demonstrate from whaS In contains in itself. Bat In matters of the chris. tian belief the case is different. The mnatter assent, ed to is neither intuitively certain, nor immediately evidest. We aro told there Is mugh a city as Len, don, which 1 have never seenl. Having toyself ever seem London, I have no intuitive evidenas that there is such a city. Its truth can he estab, lIjhed tonme only by evidence extrinsiohboth to mystlf and to the proposition that is, by Testimony. Wp will inquire hereafter what must be the nature and charater of the witness which is to furnish lhe testimony necessary to elicit faith or belief. INQUIREIR Ciaprs us Vnragma.-The Frederlek.sbrg Het ald of the 7th says :-> The wheat prospect Ia Stafford and King George, for twenty-five uipe In anyfiedsthe growthiskehgprm ing an early harvest. The joint worm generilly makes its /ppearance abogt thp i5th. We ha~ve heard but little 9.f it thpa far. EnEctnT.-.-On Friday Ila hit.,' WIflhi Heter, of th on-fOrnr.ot Caroli na, was exeegted at. ittahoo h~~thpecriue of neo stealingHis ag asg ot 41 yeaes, and hswhole career ias-en one o riul,. distinguished tnem from their brethren. If, there fore, this office of sending out and governing the ministry, is still essential to the preservation of the church, then the Apostolio office must still be in ex istence, and the original Twelve must have succes sors. You seem to think the original Twelve had no successors. And you ask what does Succession mean? Why, evidently when the word is applied to the Apostles it is not illustrated and explained by any of the examples you give. It is, however, il Ilustrated by that sort of Succession which exists in corporations, and which is the very s.ul and es sence of a corporation. Of the reason or origin of corporations, Blackstone says: " As all personal rights die with the person, and as the necessary forms of investing a series of individuals, one after another, with the same identical rights, would be very inconvenient, if not impracticable, it has been found necessary, tohen it is for the advantage of the public to have any particular rights kept on foot and continued, to constitute artificial persons, who may maintain a perpetual succession and enjoy a kind of legal immortality." " The privileges and immunities, the estates and possessions of the cor poration, when once vested in themi will be forever vested, without any new conveyance, to new sue cesors ; for all the individu-al members that have ex isted from the foundation to the present time, or that shall ever hereafter exist, are but one person in law, a person that never dies; in Ike manner as the river Thames is still the same river, though the parts which compose it are changing every instant." instances are found in the Mayor and Commonalty of a city, a Board of Trustees and trading compa nies. This is the meaning of the word succession. The A postles were constituted a close corporation and hence had the power of self-perpetuities, and the authority and power vested in them continued in their body on from age to age, and it is still posess ed and exercised by their lawful successors. Hence it was that the Saviour said to the Apostles, the body corporate, " Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world."-St. Matt. XXVIII, 20. If he is with them it must be in the person of their successor PRESBYTER. ror the Advertiser. APOSTOLIC SUCCESSION NO. 2. Ma. EDITOR:-laving disclaimed all pretensions to originality, and desiring neither victory nor fame upon this matter, but simply to elicit the truth, I shall use the thoughts and the words of others whenever I think them better than my own. This is a matter upon which I have spent many anxious thoughts in my inquiries whether there be at this time on earth a visible authoritative body of teachers of the revealed law of God, in the Apos tolie succession, without which faith is impossible and infidelity inevitable! In our first article " we proved, as we think, from scripture the first part of our proposition. We will undertake to show the same from positive necessity. We proceed. By the Church we understand, when taken in its widest sense without any limita tion of space or time, the whole of the Lord's fami ly, the whole congregation of the faithful united in the true worship of God under Christ the head. In this sense it comprehends the faithful of the Old Testament, not only those belonging to the syna gogue, but also those out of it, as .Job, Melchese deck, &c., the blest-even the angels in heaven, and those on the way. As comprehending the blest in heaven, it is call ed the Church Triumphant ; believers on the way, Church Militant; not that these are different hnrches but different states of one and the same Church But the question before us turns on the Church Militant, in which we must distingush betwen the ecclesia credens, the congregation of the faithfnl, and the ecclesia docens, or congregation of pastors anud teachers, referred to in our preceeding article. But the chureb as the simple congregation of be lievers, taken exclusively as believers, is not a visi ble organization, nor atn authoritative body. The authority of the church in this sense is a fition-a mishievous fiction, as the history of our religious sects for thtese hundred years of their exirstence sufficiently establishes. When we contend for the chturch as a visible, au thoritative body or corporation, we mean the body of pastors and teachers-the ministry as we say. The question before us turns on this ecclesia do cens. Ila our blessed Saviour established a body of teachers for his Church, that is for thte congrega tion of the faithful? hats he given them authtority to teach and govern unto the consumnbation of all days ? Asa a matter of course we take it for granted that our Friend ad mits or inteuds to admit the [Divine origin and authority oif the christian religion, and that the namne of Jesus is thme otnly name " given under heaven among men whereby w*e must he saved." It would be discourteous therefore on our part to reason with him as we would with a .Jew, Pagan, ?Mohometamn or IntidleI. We assume, there fire. that hc hoalds or intends to hold that the gospel of otur Lord Jesus Christ is the only law of life, without obedience to which no one can be saved. Te Chturch comprehends thu followers of Christ. No one who is niot in the church is a follower of Christ. If the gospe.l of Christ be the only law of life nto one notnafollower of Christ can be saved,and consequently no one not a member of the Church of Christian be saved. To deny this is to reject christianity altogether, or to fall into conmplete indif fereney. If men can be saved, or be acceptable to their Maker in otne religion as well as in an another, wherein is one prefierable to another ? If the christian relevation was not necessary to our salva tion, why was it given us, and why are we called up on to believe and obey iti Why did God send his only begotten Son to make it, and why was it de eared to be of such inestimable value to us ? If our blessed Savior taught thtat salvation is attainable in all religions, or In any relig'on but his own, why were the A postles so enraptured with the Gospel, andI why did they make such sacrifices for its pro mulgation ? If they had not been taught to regard it as the only way to salvatioin, their conduct is un accountable; and if it be not the only way to salva tion they and their Master can be regarded only as a company of deluded fanatics, whose labors, sa eriices and cruel deaths -nay indeed excite our pity hut cannot comnmand our respect. We pre sume our friend concurs with us in all this, and therefore we shall presume that he holds with us, that all mankind are bound to worship God, that there is one true way of worshipping God, and therefore but one true religion and thtat this true re ligion is the Christian religion. Hie who does not admit this can by no allowable stretch of courtesy be called a Christian. This premised, we proceed. In order to be saved, to enter into life, or to be come acceptable to God, one' must be a Christian. To be a Christian one must be a believer. No one one is a Christian who is noit a follower of Christ. Every follower of Christ is a member of the church of Christ, and the members of the church of Christ are a company of &elievers. Therefore a christian must be a believer. Hie who is a belies er is a be hiever because he believes senmething. Therefore in order to be a christian it is necessary to believe something. Christ was commissioned by Almighty God to teach, and to teach the truth. But one canlPpt be said to be a follower of a teacher unles be believes what the teacher teaches. This Is further evident from the Holy Scriptures-" For without faIth it Is impossible to please God," Heb. 11 ch. " He that believeth and is baptised shall be saved1 but he that beieveth not shall he conderpnedh," St. Mgrk, 16 chapter. This is sqffiient to establisib that in or5er to be a Christipn it is neepssary'to be a believer, that is, to