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I. I n~~ 2UWi to It90t)u 9ut cre dgljn Ltt9t5aLtesi JIet, Literatur, 2ZraU i , Iumpftftlnet " "We will cling to the Pillars -of the Temp a; Liberties, and If it mast fall, we will Perlbh amidst the Ruins. W. F. DURIeS & SOX, Proprietors. EDGFI S. C., JUNE 2018.* NEOS BPISCOPOS, Editor. 'r*- WE take advantage of a few days absence and give-up our entire.space to our Correspondent " Pasrrs," whose article .ll-be found: below. - or te Avertiser. T 4 SS EPISCOPUS. DEAR Sm :--After the very courteous nisner in which you have treated my first . communication, I feel reluctant to disregard, even jn appearance, your preferences in re lation to the vastly important subject.of the Apostolic Succession. - I do not- wish to seem inlecorous 'P ob. trading the views of my own Church Before unwilliug hearers or readers, but as I con ceive my meaning in a former communica tion to have been misapprehended by you, I beg you will give -the privilege of an expla nation. I think your friends are mistaken in tbeir vie~vs of a religious discussion. Dis cussion, conducted as it should be by chris * timn gendemen, can neverbe prejudicial to - the cause oftrut.andgodliness. If the law of charitfis observed the weakest christian need not be of'ended. In sy former communicatioa I committed myself distinctly to bring your definition of di&Aj.oule to the teat of the scriptures; by that -committal I shall strictly abide. And .tow let as see what process of twisting I . have 'aiplied. to your definition. You asked, "-Whatwas an Apostle l" You answered, -i must' have seen- Christ, have heard his . oie,]and have-betn able to work miracles. This was your defanition. Now, what is a 'efinition but a description by which a per ion or.thing.may:be distinguished or known from otherpei-sons or things I That is, a de. fnitiia contains 'the diferentia,. whieh mark the distinction between one individual or class and others. When, therefore, you gave the three marks aliove indicated, in answer to the. question "' What is an Apostle g" why of course the reader could only understandyou to meap they were the marks. by which an Apostle was known from other officers or membersof the Church. .. therefore replied, you must surely be misled in supposing these to be the djferentia of an apostle, for on turning to the.Bible, 1 fine.that..nny other Christians, both men and wonen,. had the same marks. Hence; I said; "either the El wentb fthore was mu titudinous succession, or else that to have seen the Lord, to have heard hig voice, and to - have possessed the Rower of working mira les, were never the marks by which to dis tinguish an Apostle from a Deacon, or even from a layman- and a woman. If -a given quality or peculiarity- is claimed as an ear mark, it is sufficient to show that. many or all other individual.s of the sanie-class pos "seas the same quality or peculiarity to prove the one alleged is no ear mark. This is just what I did in reference to your definition. I proved that the marks allegedby you were not the marks of an Apostle, but that they were distinguished by. some other qualifca tiens. - This does not appear to me to be a process of twisting. You seem now to re linquish that which I took to be your defini tion of an Apostle. You now write: "W hat we''said was simply, that to be an 'Apostle, . one must have these qualifications." You may as well have said that to be an Apostle one-must .be a man. Neither would answer your qoestion, "Wfhat is an Apostle I" Now then, examine the force of your illustrations. Were I to ask you what js-a Deacon in a Baptist church, you surely would not answer m re that he is one who had been immersed, for . I would at once reply, that does not explain - wlaat.Iisa ojice is, for all your members are *immersed. -Were I to ask you .for the de finition of anl Episcopal minister, you surely. could not answer, he is qo who has been -confirnied, for I woulld remind you that all -our menihers are confimed. Butyou would not give .me such an answer. You- would -say rather, an Episcopal ministor is one who has boon -ordained by our Bishops, and all. persons so oi'dained, are Episcopal-mninisters. -You- -would say a Baptist deacon -is one - solemnly-set apart-fr-eertain purposes in a Baptist congregation, and all persons so set spart, for these purposes, are.Baptist Deal ' cons. Now, I un.derstood .you to say that the three qualifications mentioned by joru *defined the office of an Apostle, but it seems -you Qply meant that Apostles must have those. Then you should have said that all khristians must have those, and if no one * wJivingcan have-tliem,-then there can be -mneititer ehristians nor apostles - tBmt, dear gir, thbere 1are distinctive inarks~ ele hih an apostle may be known 4rom a Ian, and if youa have not attempt -ed to giwe thedm, I beg'you will state what you deem to. he dhe dsferentia of an Apes .tolic office. - Ba't it.-.seems to.: pead to sonie'of my *coteiporaries,'. that you sail sling. to your -dAefnition adf an Apostle, for you say.: "hbut . ddes Parimreau,"er.any of his frateriuty .riously dispute that those things, i. a., hay. sugad.personal acquaintance with Chrisl - sonreway ; 'and the: possession of- theie - U- atent fromn heaven ; the power of per. J6IID~. iatural works, were nedessa - ltrogiied of a man as an apostle.' - - P4.bU~IlkCO 6 o'show'by quotations * &6lithieft is specially men.tioned sDK~aiDtif seefl thE L~ord, heard him * olIc tiMid eite;of -working mira ecs? ' f~~is by using plor ef#i tvi ' hihst bolnitr, g a for'' it9hr*feCo ersonabm - seonof-thdso'lettertpaibags-f gh * ot litat to-the'istne ?l*rie quali ~:iou 47orrefeieUsefo Si~iL.9Ne I#IIjsg weesar dpeiedthbatsthe Mq~*~ idUsseU de~se powess; bAssite~M~dthatsianl . seia~ls:ou edthew,:abhireferetl tspaurnsthae-6On igh usegger uwbekrih jby pose/r . It is true, I have denied the necessity of any extraordinary, that is, miraculous quali. fications for one to hold the office of an Apostle. The original twelve, indeed, and two or their successors, Sts. Mattiias and Paul, did possess extraordinary or miracu lous powers, which were necessary in begin ning the new dispensation, justas.Moses and Aaron, and their immediate successors had miraculous influence in *commencing the former ; but after that necessity passed away, the successors of the twelve Apostles no more retained them than did the line of suc cessors to Adam and his sons. If you suppose the office of an apostle in the church is extinct, -because their succes sors, the Bishops, do not possess miraculous powers, then you must also suppose there are no " believers" in the world, a because members of the Church have not the miracu lous powers of the first christians--laymen and women. . In contending for your definitions, if you will still allow me to call it such, you have cited two instances from the bible, in which you allege some kind of personal acquain tance with Christ seems to be required to the recognition of an .Apostle. I.propose to call your attention to several important points connected with those instances. You have shown from scripture that the original twelve, to whom, in your first article you could: al low no successors, had really two succes sors. I beg you. to examine them again. Forty days had . elapsed since the vacancy caused -by the death of Judas. occurred. During those forty days our Lord was "go ing in and out among them, speaking of the things pertaining to " the kingdom of God," and if we scrutinize the nature of those in terviews, we find them mainly occupied with the powers of the ministry, the sacrament, and the church, or as St. Luke terms it, " the kingdom of God." Yet, all this while that " He went in out among them," he did not appoint a successor to Judas; but as soon as He ascended his apostles entered in to the election. No believer, theni, can-as sme that the Lord taught them that their number was never to be increased, or that they' proceeded on their own.notion. It is true that Dr, SjvoDaAss attributed it to the "characteristic. precipitation of Peter," as several infidels had done before him. Mat thias then was chosen "that. he may take part of this ministry and apostleship," and "was numbered with the eleven apostles." Acts I. Here th'en are thirteen apostles. But the number is increased again by your o q_sln to fourteen at ,n ,dia'ererit the first successor from among " those men which have companied with us, all the time the Lord went in and out among us," the head of the church Himself chooses the se cond successor, or fourteenth apostle, from among' those who did not company with them one hour of that time. And may not this have been to. teach the apostles that it was not necessary to confine themselves to their former companions. If you allege then, that St. Paul was miraculously called, we answer Matthias was not so. He was called, as was Aaron, through the agency of his fellow man. You might have proceeded further and named other apostles, some of whon the bible no where 'records as having "compan ied with the apostles beginning' with the Bap isi of John," as Epaphroditus, Barnabas, imothy, Titus, And others, so that, your de finition, [ submit, is in every respect defee tiv. In my last I gave, to meet the particu lar view broached by .you,a partial definition containing two of. their powers, the third you have mentioned.in your last quotations from| the Acts, viz: the powver to confirm, so then, the apostolic office as always held by the church consists, not in its extaordinary. but ordinary powers, in ordinary confirming and ruling. .Those powers, as they'-are and were necessary to the. continued existence of the kingdom of Christ, must belong permanently to thefr office: the extraordinary or miracu lous powers belong to them and- to others, as founders of a new Dispensation, and theyv who snceeeed them in their office succeeded to the powers properly belonging to-the of fic, and not to the incidental miraculous powers. This is all we claim for our Bish ops, and this is what the church in all ages claimed for-the Bishops. You have certain ly presented in a ridiculous light the illustra tion of the learned Blackstone. But this may well be turned over to your " Lawyer friend," who can but admit it to be)s good an illustration'of the succession of adi incor poration, as can be well conceived. The successive individuals of no corporation are the same in' all-respects, nor is water in the same state at all times; still corporations do coninue with' the same powers -and rights; and the river Thames has continued and its successive particles flow by " London town" without abatement. This is all .Blackstone claimed for corporations, and' this is all we claimed for the uninterrupted succession of Bishops. - . We held, then, as 'th'e doctrine of all ages that when Jesus Christ- said to the eleven apostles': '"Lo I afti with you always, even unto the end of dlie worid," he spoke to then .as a corpor ate body, for He knew that titey as idiiduals 'could .pot live'"unto the end ol the world?? To them, t~drpfdre, who belong to that' corporata body, i. e. to' them whb wqge appointed by the apostles a'those whon they appointed again,.on dowi to the resent-j ay; He spoke; hence these hav4 'the edmumission to baptize, or else, when thi eleven apostles .died, the authority to preaci and baptize in Chrisit'a name, died with then Tie only way then in which one can aboy that he has the right 'to. baptize, i. e. to affi: the seal of the Gospel Covenant-.to -individu al Tilles, is the show Ihat he has receivedihi commissiQs from one of the coporate bod* whom.Christ appbointerd to act in that'offieia s.pacit for him. 'ths'v'bssed ther succession of- Apostle's ii*called Bishops, (history discloses thi a " 'o techange of name,) upon tk ~. ud we receive it-as an ar ti~o~ye...-.,.edsave taken thegkrounl l son .sId- .e flo ; .for.ItItaa been, a a mekitwicafc 5.ou Atatcit, a receiv ed doctrine in every age of the church, 'that no ordination was valid but that of Bishops: this doctrine has been a constant guard upon the Episcopal succession. As it was univer sally .believed that Bishops alone could or dain, it was morally impossible that any per son could palm' themselves off on the church, and be received as Bishops who had not been so consecrated by living Bishops. - As well may you suppose that- 1 and: others could combine and assume and be allowed to enjoy the vested rights of any existing corporation. Is it not morally.. Impossible that any one should now be made a Bishop in the Episcopal church without Episcopal consecration I Is there any possibility 'of any one forging Holy Orders and utealing a Bibhoprick by any stratagem g. It is moral ly impossible, because it is a-well establish ed doctrine among us, that a Bishop can be made only by.Bishops. Now as this doctrine among us must necessarily prevent any one being a Bishop in our church without Epis copal consecration, 'so it must have the same effect in every age, past 'as well as ours ; and consequently it as reasonable to believe.that the succession of Bishops was not broken in any age since the apostles, asthat it was not. broken in the Ameican church for these last seventy years, The same doctrine' which preserves- it seventy years will as well pre serve it eighteen hundred years. If there fore, you still think the promise of Christ has failed, ( beg you' will show when, where, how the succession'was broken. If yo cat not do this, I claim to have established that it is as important for Christ's disciples, " to continue in the apostles' fellowship," as in their "doctrine." The latter they may do in some sense by having similar.doctrines, the former they cannot do, but by being mem: bers of the actual organization established by them, and this actual connection can only be maintained by an unbroken succession of officers and members of the one organiza tion. - PRESBYTER. TIlE COLPORTEUJ AND THE MAN - WITH A JUG. A TRUE sTORY. . About six years ago, a colporteur of the' American Tract Society, was travellin n horse back through one of 'tie most moun tainous portions of Cherokee, Georgia, laden with books for distribution and.sale. When passing thot a rsow!;oebadb, , 1 reon to pass, "e met a man with 'a jug. - The jug had no handle but was held by an old greasy. leathern string lied around the -neck. The-' colpor tur accosted him: "Good morning, sir, can .1 sell .you a book." " No, sir, I have no money,' was the reply. " Where are you going, my friend, with your jug I" " To the still-house, sir." " Suppose yo'n take the money, with which you propose to buy the whiskey, and buy a good book-and' go home without the whis key and read your book,, and I. promise you it will be far better for you." . "But; sir,.I have no money, andI am. tb get the whiskey on a credit.". "Well, my friend I will make another proposition. .I will buy your. jug, and give you a book for it., What do. you say to thatV" 'rTho man with the jug hesitated awhile, and then replied: " I will let you have-the jug." The colporteur took the jug, and gave him a copy of the Temperance Manual, and hanging his new. purchase on hisarms jour neyed on till night; when he gave the jug to the lady Qf the house 'at which' he spent the night.. H1e visited several families before night, howiever', carrying the jug,.whiph was a great matter of astonishment and wonder to all who' 'saw him, and .the question was frequently a'e '"Wat are you going to do with that'jug." - . - Tihe colporteur heard 'nothing more of the man from whom he bought the jug,- until this year during the sitting of. the Superior Court in the county of' C- -- six yearb having elapsed. -'Being at 'Court, still'"en-. gaged in colportage for the Tract Society, he was accosted by a gentleman, with the inquiry, " Do y6u remember trading . for'a jug severalyearsaago in the hills-above here I" "i do, sir,"-replied the colporteur.. " Yon der," said the gentleman, pointing. to' 'a sober looking man, " is the man from. whom you bought it. He was at the time you met him a drunkazrd-a' pest to so'eiety. Now hie is 4 sober man,'and. has been ever sine the day you took his jug away from him. He is noiw an" 'orderly and consistent mem. her of the Methodist Charch,- and enjoys religion. '.He is' industrious and sdpports his family well, .whereas while he ,awiiedtthe jug, he did little-'else than make his visits to the still house, and fill' and empty his jog." - The colporteur feeling.some. interest, in ~uiredi of the refe'rm'ed man how-the 'change was so suddenly wrought on him--" was it the tract?" " No," said he, " it was your determination and' the interest youtseemed to 'manifest in 'my welfare, and besides this you took my jug, and that 'set-me thinkiri' -then' I went horne and read the tract, and determined by the h-elp, of. God, ( would no' ver 'drink another drop-and I have been enabled to keep my prdmise."' ,Thiss is a plain unvarnished tale,' and shows. bow much may 'be done by _strong personal efforts. " Cast -thy bread'upon the waters, for thou shalt find it aftr many days.' DEATr PROM TuN S-TING OF A LOCUST 2-We are-informed, says the 'Athens Herald (Ala.) by a gebtleman, whose veraeity a reliability we can vduch for, that a youth ui ,theadjoining'cointrof Lawrence while onl fishing one da'last 'seek, was stung, by -. Locust frgin -h48fbets of which -he died al the intention of aftf p as 'bait, and pu thein ini'hi. hat for' 'kkfe g, wtien on' 'of thsem stung hid'on tiheradgbausiogedhu OF TIlEELM!. ?1' /sp tSwap-" Boot" Given 4c4cItis now, more than a ago that two citizens of thisrgion . simple men-who bad lonrlived:on squats" as lords of two 'everaJ ;,met together for the purpose dfa i ab. They wre "in tended" move r wed of East Mississippi, and afflicted. that singular mania of ihich sonie "r possessed, to follow several- hundy easa twowbeeled oxcart and a solitary " ofbullocks, in quest of Dream -Land, had determined upon migrating, one " la6ama, 'the other to. Texas.. Of. Co meeting 'was anaf. fecting one, In with all thesolemnity. of an eternal uce. We shall calf one Dick' and te. idiah, merely for the sake of distic e nd not desiring tomake public their ess After some on conversation, Dick pulled out his fe, opened it, and com menced nd whittling, as prelimina. ry to a sugg of unusual gravity. It was a large d, :venerable log upon which they we. ed-Dick at one end and ObediabAt lier, " uxtaposition," as Gov.Foote 4 say. .'O jah noticed the gesticula " vemet, and'pidked' his ears for thei " something pathetic. tt last, Dick, a acing the timber to a ittle hillock mared to Obediah. that he had ;} . g of a very delicate nature to 'tal . "Go ahead!" said Obed, with an _-ngIearetneoi. And' thus Dic menced : "1You'know, Gb, that me and wife he got to gittin' doin' very badly.' some howhor other, kinder slants fo of late days. Andf I t'ought, as I w ae to Taxas and you to Yallabam,. tI~a ".uld offer to swap~you my tige for you see here, Ob, won't give boot !'"~~ After a_ pause,. ch many a thought, passed rapidly ' the mind of Osedish he answeredp.. t ( S"Well, Dick b 't know but nwhat I'll do it. But you -n6w, my Pol is purtier than your Sal ha o know she ise youn ger critter by 12- -years.. Now, .Dick, 'old fellow, how you likeatoa trade a young and likely 'rmn old broke wind. ed and homely. b lid~ git no boot?"." The argument clincher; and Dick, th6'" reluctant. to .; ledge it, manifestly, flt itsi force. farther pauleying, iwas -greed Ii faithless Bene that the former should give the latter, in the wy of pboot, a cow and calf, two goats, an old shot guna wd i aa ox 'bell p The 'treaty of exchange waso ratified c cordingly, and Sal went to "Yallabam" and Pol to' "Ta~cas." The respective children of the two mothers remained with.their respect ive fathers, and thuv were favored with that peculiar t elation, a step mother, by process of swapping. We assure our readers that this statement is substantially true, the incidents 'having actually occurred as above related. Itemay be, however, that so far as the wives are con cerned, the swap was more formal than actual; that in brief, the kow, calf, goats, sh~ot gun, and ox bell were a ,~dead loss" ob the part of Dick, and but fair tribute to mercenary Obedia. ,he parties were both subscribers to the' Eastern Clarion, and we imibe from thse sne, whev, moa give beot efcso erydcain purer moaliy pan aidhr many etimagte passeld deapibys th e msid o O oa heanfawered:ln.i~loi~trs ..i half ll, hicckun i tknowi mut b'at pll d~ it.acetfou aesmir, Po is toadtir the ans oura; afi o kow shetiosyun 'The cfe l , however ar e t te ae cupnando tike praneyany oldns Drokesd of wind homesy ae gtnofrqe, andot ee wolfe aeute( isqie r com; and Diok th'rinagetan to glpedgef is, lanige bliy bteltsfr. "Aft Tea is rthe paaeyingi tils andgreepig thd Ratles en e-c hasi snesfreonmerous iv tevtein t he ah strat the bieofate fosrater ises ordngy, drnkin Saw whette"Yllbat pandu Poer isto Tcuas. The rapetlisve phleaof thsito twmothers rmintoaque with. ee ie spier, with asbody aored wth thofa phen'is ego, a lestfe motr, by rchessng an o verepwithng.'ore lc Ja him .assue ou readrs thas 'hisbtei satemen sitaly crrneas andoe evaed. gest ay anyrne. thwahu wan jmprewor tan feetol;fthat is d readyfe T theeaf goas . t gunte, rnisbed with an "dead ose" Sthe prt of legs,' ach bnfair tite toaw Iferealks oerh you atnight were will subsciber to ome asterind aiso, ad we ary pofisnduy atuisead ta thery didnot tobiealro .Jwthegcolumns waeser mayl. h'emeenihe dfets wofn balyengcation, ai purer morliaton and a reb irany tteer son "beve'urt on sit ta o ean-a wie. -Pauldstngi, thsisiyi arionywr. . s forA cuas o rpndnt eoihen Yor bural desrwibtht"e oed frogcts onf .thgfavoet aistUIhrand'i goinitrs. .pfter thecl ca nlofsa ths ne of "thoniptons. 'si- Theaetes howeer rs. nothe broterobu upra ote praringeb any pean.i Drves roi wih ar inoct4. srequen, a ee wtei olforyetorespon uite th commonjq tteasoll edt afe wicps ofhis large. Thao b'o~xntherRt Teaksoisthe pa'roadire of-er til'ali wreinth bing Rttlegandino aes'tifuyat;dtheabiete formeisasydn thd ere isano cure.T issarcetly eve-a ps after. The only varieties that I have seen are the quail, patridge, snipe, mallard, plover, and paririe hen. The following lines are said by the Fredericks burg Arena, to have originally-appeared in the Eto ian,:a periodical started about twenty years ago by the - boys of Eton College. For truh, tenderness and-melody; they are incomparable. I often think each tottering form That limps along in life's decline, Once bore a heart as youtrg, as warm, As fall of idle thoughts as mine! And each has, had its dream of joy, His own unequalled, pure romance ; Commening-when a blustering boy First thrilled at lovely woman's glance. And each could tell his tale of youth; Would think its scene of love evince More passion, more unearthly truth, Than any tale before or since. Yet they could teli of tender lays At midnight penned, in classic shades;. Of days more bright that modern. days Of maids more fair than modern maids. Of whispers in.a willing ear, Of kisses on a blushing'cheek ; Each kiss, each whisper, far too dear, For modern lips to give or speak. Of prospects, too, untimely. crossed, Of passion. lighted or betrayed Of kindred spirits earlylost, And buds that blossomed but to fade. Of beaming eyes, and tresses gay, Elastic form and noble brow, And charms-that all have passed away, And left them-what we see them now! And is it,thus-is human love . - 86 very light and frail a thing ? And youth's brightest visions move For ever on Time's restless -irig? Must all the eyes..that-still are bright, - And all the lips that talk of bliss, And all the folis so fair to sight, Hereafter enly come to this? Then what are Jove's best visions worth, If we at length must-lose them thus? If all we. value most on earth, Ere long.must fade away from us? wuai, uiuging d -Id. nEryT!. Williamson about seven miles from this city, hung herself and two children-on Wednes day list. One of the children was about five and the other two years old; The only r-ason. we have heard for the perpetration of this double crime.of murder and suicide, was the " objection-of the woman, who had formerly been a house, servant, to working on.the .farm. She.had threatened to com mit suicide, but it was not supposed that she, would execute her threat. Mr. Williamson is reputed a kind master,, every way attentive to the comfort and. happiness of his slaves. The rash and misguided woman could have received no provocation to the horrible act. Griffin Union. THE VALLEY "SURVEY-AGAIN.--We were gratified to learn, from Mr. Armes,.on Saturday last, that he is progressing with the survey of the Valley route. . He inform. ed us that he had been experimenting among the hills albve Stephens' Creek, and that he had found a shorter, cheaper and better line, than the one laid down in his report. The experimental surveys are nearly completed; and within a week- or two, we liarn, there will be a meeting of the Direectors to con sder the expediencv of proceeding farther ith the work. Wes yet have'reason to hope foriuccess; an'd although the enterprise is: jst now veiled in.doubtand uncertainty, we 'dnfidently believe that the project can and will he carried out; hut the work must be done by the Valley -people, for, judging from the ineftness and, atter indifference of our Augusta friend on 'the subject, it is clearly in ferable that .they- have abandoned all idlea of assisting us ; while Charleston cannot and yil net rend aid, except for the Aiken and Dorn 'lin.e, and, even that is questio'nnble. Ittherefore tihe people of. Hamnburg, and the Sanannah Velley really desire a Railroad, they may as well r....ke up their -minds, at once, to build it thro .lves.--Valley Pio neer. THE E LECTION FRAUDS IN~ WASHINGTON. .-The Star states that, some .twelve of the prsons whose votes were refused at the lite election in . Washington have enterid suits agaihnst the commissipners of election, ajid that one hundred and ninety-two other simi lai suits will be instituted in a few days. It is also stated in the same paper that copies of -the opinion of' the~ Circuit- Court (which decided on the maorning-of the election that naturalized citizens- were entitled to vote) ere Eent- to the several polls, 'by o~der .o the court, for the guidance of -the commis sioners, but, it is alleged,- they .were preven ted from rhaching their drsjination by the interfirene'e of a member ef -the suctessful party, and in' one instance the bearer was made -to -give up the ~document, and thuis the odnmissioners idera kept in ignorance of rthe decision of the court. Ms4. ELIPHALET S'l-6Bs.--A live-TYanket troni Connectidut, intends to. exhibit at the Museum; on June 5th his " Patent Bael Ation Spank'er,'. which being a'ttached to a bhy of 'any age, watches over it -like a mote-makes it'hash. when -it beedmei naughty, lobliges -It o desist from swallow ingitbinibrds;cbalk. marbles three cent pieces pins, or an..other'foodl unsuited to its stem aht; oonipels'it to. go to sleep when .il doen'twant to,. and if somewhat older,il seerihat -it keeps its hands off the sugal owl-and -jant pots;, beuides ma~king it keej t.fe cleea; and all by tbe powern of iti r"BSek AOttoO" . 'Siuui'landering: bid bade or aya It il muck joy when you-Orst get married, hot 1 magq$ enn alet-&ar orso. From the Nebraska City News of May 19. GREAT BICITIJENTT IN NEBRASKA CITY. - The question of slavery or no slavery has at last been raised in regard to the South ern portiotr of Nebraska. We have with ua many Missourians and Virginians-some of them have their slaves already here, who are among our most enterprising and popular citizens, and- we are well aware that though -they say but little in regard to the'matter, they are-bent upon establishing the "pecu liar. institution" in Southern Nebraska, if it can be done by a majority vote. Emigrants from Southern States are moving here South of the Platte, faster, perhaps, than.any other style of settlers. Emigrants from Northern States are scarce at present, in proportion to those from the South; and as -South of the Platte. River is already the - most popu lous portion of the Territory, and as it is acknowledged' by all to be by far the best agricultural part of Nebraska, it is a-matter of importance to all, whether it be a free or a slave State. We do not affirm, as many unacquainted with our settlers do and will, that there is no possibility of Southern Nebraska- ever be. coming a slave State. On the contrary,- we see no impossibility about it. We see no reason why, with a majority of slave State emigrants for- her populatioi, South Platte Nebraska should not. eventually become a powerful supporter of slavery. Northern men who take the ground that every man born south of Mason and Dixon's line is born indolent and without "'ambition,' are silly-pated, foolish men, and they reckon without their host. We have seen as much enterprise in Nebraska which originated in Southern .beads, and was being pushed. and hurried along by Southern hands, as we have of Northern undertakings. , It is no more a truth that all Southern men are indo lent and imbecile, p some fanatics confi dently assert, than it is that all Northern men are industrious and ingenious,. which everybody knows isn't-exactly the case. -'The cry has gone up.- from- Abolition throats, "slavery shall not enter-Nebraskal' It is the- sage'yell of .fanaticissi that- shriek: ed in Kansas, , and called the. Missourians) Where to make that territory a slave territory. It is the same voice that reverberated in- the balls of our national Congress, that hissed in-the' negro-saving mobs of Boston and Chicago, and, that now calls slaveryto this ' territory, by a regular challenge. Kassas Is a slave State. Who hastened to men I The opposers of the Nebraska bill, in order that their predictions might prove true; that they might be written down pro phets; excite a Northern -war on Southern States; sever the Union,- or allow each one of them to .be -a President of the, United States as early as 1856. If there is one thing more than any other that gives vitality to slavery-that .propa gates it-that .spreads- it.liie - an infection.; that one thing is the frothing, boiling, ram pant -abolitionism of the Northe'rn States. [Had it never existed- slavery would have died years ago, and-the inscription upon its tomb-stone -would have recorded a natural death; but verging' towards its dissolution, the galvanic action opposition was applied, and it revived to .fight and increase in strength, as the battle lengthened, until now it has grown a formidable foe to those who first threw down the glove and the gauntlet. And now slavery is here, in a smaull way, a few negroes, twventy or so, and its suppor ters are coming faster and' faster. What sends them herei A beautiful country is not all that they seek, but aL slavery victory over those who had challenges them. They seek to drown that hypocritical voice that. ried "slavery shall not enter Nebraska," and prove it false; they seek -to conquer those who have .taunted them, by miaking south of the. Plate river a slave State.. .The mien who started this excitement live ~in Bos'ton and other cities, and send now and .then '& handful of deluded mortals- to these territories -to carry out the farce,- and illustrate their devotion to -freedom, by at tempting to govern all men in' and after the manner of doctrines taught by Seward, Wendell Phillips, Theodore Parker, et id omne genus. And so we have some excite ment in Nebraska city in the' way of'street debates, door-step discussions; and the ques.. tion is " sall Nebraska south of the Platte river be a slave State." [lFrom the Colamnbus Sentinelr- 6th inat.] A FEW lORlE OF TIE SADE SORT. WAvERLY Hm.r, Harris Co., Ga., June 2. Messrs. Editors :-As the Know Nothings in this immediate section 'of the countryare accusing me of acting in bad 'faithr to their principles, allow md to say through the eol-. umns of your widely .eireulated paper what caused my witdrawaL 'When this new born party first' came 'to light, it was claimed by~ Southern men to be a Southern party in toto; and before I attachr ed-inyself' to. this new order I distinctly told those- who belonged to the- order that if their principles xwere not purely' of a South-. ern characterl would- not remain with them' one hodur. This I.. have -acted -up-"o,. and stand, by it-regardle'ss as to consegueinces. As to their principles:I have never - seen any, in -fact they have go.:'uone.' I 'regard them as destitute of- soend-.Southern politi cal principles, as is the' sandy deserts. of Arabia of-producig sotton'and corni.' As to Americans 'ruling Ameuies I am not, and never have: been, the least uneasy as to' foreigners getting Into theascendeucy, ,politcally, in this govemtmenlL They never have controlled ns and neve'r will. - -As to Roman Catholicisin,'I dread notidta influence.. 'The-political history of -this gov~ enent piroyvea beyond ,the shadow ont doubt that the Southi has 'rithinttolose from thse Romnan Catholics~but pinceltogaini And furthermore,.Chheb.pir.arebYOfld the province of -civl -govrnDuSelt. .The sir, and many- other reaswhich. Fn ight asig,forbidsfne--ptingt with thianow o,. de'ang 'Ionger. " : Alid inu'onlusleni, wlfj'etthy re'blatnibg me witheating 'i. bad faiti,1 woild hayi .tm ahiinrat dr many jood -Whir and Democrats who have abandodN efr anti.Republican,anti-Constitutioia"d .. patriotic principles.. Suck .as Dr. T4'd; Williams, Granbu~ iCleD 'rbGee g and about thirty oters In much. haste,: tic. The Lonuon Times is firfous' .thi apathy, poupld with'duplicity, * n Bi Ministets are -njanifesting in tiom sis.in England's history.' WiA it. says that neither Louis Na-on,.io" British Ministers can- afford 'to wItdra, their forces from the Crimea shortf.via tory. - "England cannot afford this -44dfall nor can the Empyeror of the French. His throne rests on - opinion.. ' HseprsMits p people. He is of their.ejection' h'e is r idol, their voice; and,' so long as;he #rgia pers, their pride. -Should.his, legionaeeturn with nothing-to show for their campaignv but an enormous .bill of gots and .list of killed and woonded, he wilizave -to fight a harder battle at bemo than his generalshi e: been doing-in .the Crimes. " But there is not een'safetfr a "a snch as ours when she;once begns t for -when-our tide po loigei flows ikir gin to ebb. -' The battle we ared -ow 8 1i at. Sebastopol we. shall, beforelngi h* tght nearer home, puad eten-at-h&e1i opInfess opc incapacity, for 'ivar. On.'I . is much the same as 'nothey in and to be beaten in the Crimea is rt a e;" thing as to b6 beant'en 'all-over " w There is no sash thing as a ;g dgraphaia" reputation, and a man may as.a elsw1ekpect to enjoy a'charadter for probitin ,pace' which he does-notn. anoodr/ as t'aro % military reputation "-estrictedio erti isfj tudes.. We-have to secre~noxely; ifear of an eneny, that is distant, 'but-thp tes e )f an ally that ia-very pear, and oneis' tbt are also within. reach:. Even noi when .ve press Austria -to tahd''tb -iIfe onoe and advantage,-sbe thnts us wiW' iralliess of our. cdnti'btiods to ir LOO tells us thit~we are ne..coilti o ask. the aid ofotlierivhi A'tms arselves. This, .it least,. sho.t we have to deal with, aqd it is pirkjb vill be'ready enough-to assuine ive should- the ocessio r-ever'' ae to teach' nt'only-Rosa1 lb f Ear d the-wh we can bring into-the field, but; foonugevi lent determination 'to- fight. out, at every szard and cost, the cause,. we have .once ambraced." FATAL ACCIDENT.-On Saturday la. lear Dr. Downey's, on Arnachee creel, a Mr. Hodges was suddenly killed~ by' th a% idental dis'harge of -a rock'ubhile engajed: in loading it for a blast. The tamping-iron. passed through his. bead, going in uear ne eye and coming out on the backside, tearing off one side of his head and mutilating.it in a most shocking manner. .H'e was engagedu in sinking. a shaft in search for copper and was then 54 feetbelow'the surface. Aqnoth. er man with him in the shaft had his hand torn to pieces, and his arms broken .above the elbow.-Rome; Courier. - DESTRUCTIVE FIRE'i: 'FLORIDA.-We regret to learn from -the Pensacola Demo. crat the entire destruction, by fire, of..the " Arcadia Cotton Factory," inthe' 'vieirty of Milton, -St. Rora countyv, of. Messrs. Forsy.th, Sympeon & Hlyer. The Gre ias disco.vered at half-pist .2 o'clodk Sait'rday afternoon last, and in less thaji one hout the buildiudg was totally ,burnld: to the giound. The loss is'es'timated'at $O,600--only par tialyinsured. . - - Sjnvs EfrOzE nNr-FyLra n uae 28th of Mpiy, a Dechinan passjd~rough Columbus, Ohio, -en -dae fo~r France:-hav.. iung obtained passports foihimself and slaves,. Ihree in .number. Tile'virtuous abolitionista of Columbus -immediatel .had the slates siesedi and taken 'before'Jdg Swan, of dei Supreme Court, te get their liber.ty. Who there, they derjined takink'their liberty, apA insisted .upon.'going with their ttastet, much' to the discomfiture: of'their disilitereted. friends, who retired under 'the' irpession, that those negroes -could. not appreciati freer' ddm, if they had it.- -- Tox THUMB NOT MARID.-The New. York'Ev-ening Post has been authorised tb say that 'there is no truth. in the story bi' Tom's mariage. The lady to whotnit k1q been alleged-he was married,- is merely.semn ployed. to attend to the wardrobe of thne " General,' 'who is ntw on a professional tour.in New York State, with H oie's-me nagerie and circus . SAD AcrsTuTheJunler alnautiful little girl, foerteen mou~~a daughter' of Horn. -Albert. Adea of t Cambtidge, hnferly.,of. Barre, 'andificer in the Customsj camei to 'her death 66 day of iast week under..distressing crud stanftes. She had-been. put tbu Sedfo & usual Aftermoon nap,.and-at athe ebd" gq houe, wben her-mother-went intotths, tfie little one,.was-jound - iuspended behind' th6.bsd, withth~iknof-aer healakansu the'sall alidrt hin- resting; upoq the aiat~ tress., tShe slas bbm'edlitely taken upbur lifegas- T,tlin Courier., A PseuiNe fl.-ilOnl ai '.~ by a frenid, whether he woed ini j-5flib daughters In' thie dileen langagsyftr which ha replied - 35 "-Nti.sir; one tongue is .srfiiia .woman. - . . O~4is coqi s to0 hatea.pb~e~yitl - *perthe front door-and mnistake you. for'ber cousis; but .tiil -ore deWeioua,. to vue , remain-decdived tili ihe has kifsd'te)\ 3and htngjd 'ths 'bnttobn, of ",M'au, he ''"Chied" - 1 aI-of the rst lass hotels of this city -having tband the lttefadvance in the prise of. board 'chargEd b tUdm a losing speculation, mae stithe tothholdrates of 3,0