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"We will cling to the Pillars of the Temple of our lberties, and if it must fall, we will Perish amutds the Ruins." - W. F. DURISOE & SON, Proprietor%. EDGEFIELD, . C., MARCH 12, 1856. *E - 9 T1lE ELECTORAL QUESTION. Concluded. N) TiE PEOIEiO'F tEDGEFIEL DISTRICT: In these efforts, Fellow-Citizens, to thange the basis of our Representation, and the long-established usages of the State, we see rising, anong us, sentiments dangerous,! I fear, to the peace and order of society. Men seem, in this fast age, to be forgetting the plain, old-fashioned doctrines, taught by our tiathers of the Republican school, and to Ahave now about as much relish for pure Republicanism, as tir an old garment quite out of fashion. In some parts of these Uni ted States, where, under the standard of i Black Republicanism, all regard for consti ;tutinial law is sunk in the slough of a -" higher.law" rule, the notion is fast g..inilg )ground, that the old-time element of )roper xy, so long held as the basis of order and, liberty, is to be discarded by the framers of our laws, and that the mere counting of .heads is all that is necessary in building up jand sustaining the edifice of government. Numbers, irrespective of any interest they .pay have in the soil and property of the :country, are there held forth as the political t jasters of the land, by whose lawless touch ,cagsipttions, and the most sacred charters;. Wf'lfVeqVy crumble and fall-and before %Nhoseigpricious will, patriots and states-, men, cit'ens and soldiers, are expected to bow as to the sceptre of some omnipotent. Demigod. Such notions never entered the r plain, honest minds of the founders of our s Aepublic; and as they have not hitherto, so t ti jimst they may never, become popular a -ameng the Republican people of South : Carolina. They are the very sei of agra- s rianism. Under the prevalence of such I sentiments, no law, no constitution, no re- tl ligion can lie of any practical efficacy; and property, liberty and governmeit will be ii tossed about, the niere sport of a fickle pub. n lic opinion. The only sure basis of a free and stable gOvernment is a fair property and geographical representation in the Legisla. live Body. Suppress this, and all will be tur bulence, faction and revolution. Order and -liberty can be preserved only where the rights to property are fixed a'nd sale; and how are this certainty and security to be gained, if they, who make and possess the n property, have no in voice making the lawst that regulate and govern that property ? In giving representation to property, population and geographical sections, our nobile consii tution has but inicorporated oie of the great principles of a perfect representative goveri Ient, andi of a wise, sound State policy. In this particular, at least, may it never undergo k change- h That advocates for these changes should a hbe found in the mountain regions of our State, and, to sone extent, in the city of Charleston, may not appear umiatural, but that they should be numerous inl the middle and lower Districts, in which reside more especially our great slave and planting in terests, might well excite surprise and ap prehension. - 1 In what I am about to say, there enters, I am sure, no feeling of a local nature. I ' am no sectionalist, at least in South Caro 'lina. I go lor the State, and the whole State-nay, the State as it is, and all its institutions, and all its peopic. In my feel. inugs, I know no up-country-no low- coun-u try. I wish to be regairdedl only as a Soudlk Carolinian. I honor and respe-ct our muoun- s itaini population. I like the hold, mnanly spirit, which usually characterizes them ; but ti *the faict is not to he disguised, that, ait non great period of time, their initerests wiilh ma- d terially diverge from those of the middle andm b ilower Districts. Cotton and slaves are eveni a -.now comnparativrely of no great importaiice to themt, and the more their natural resourees c aire developed, anid the denser their popula tion becomes, the less wiill the slave interest : there prevail. It is usless to tell us there wvill be no danger of improper sentiment fromi this source. Man is selfish all te world over, and his sentitnents are nearly - ,always the offspring of his interests. Ibad e pi beeo possible to make cotton and rice #jelds flouiisb izn the bleak regions ofNe gngland, who dochts, sht, even to this (lay, l1 slavery would hare been tljere a faivorite in stitution ? Show me a country, or a saection i; .of country, where, by the operation of itaig- e ral or poliiical laws, the institution of shivery d ,is rendered valueless, and I will show you, e among its people, sentiments, dangerous to 'n ,thie existence of the institution itself.l While, moreover, they wvho breaithe the t pountain air, are generally actuated by a 'b .buld spirit of adventure and of liberty, they s .are, likewise, easily affected by the tiew-. fangled theor ies and extravagant dogmas ofa the titmes. Thley often delight also to be- l .come aggressive in their movements, and to) ,propagate with zeal their moral anid pohiti cal tenets. I appeal to history for proof of pay assertions. i Nrow, at this present titge, iore than onie- r iourtha of the voting population of the State t lIive in the five coiitiguous Northeru Dis-a tricts, viz: York, Spartanburg, Greenville, s ?ickens and Anderson. Tlhese Districts L ,would, therefore, if the above change be a ,made, possess more than one-fourth of the o I'ederah power of the Stateo; and if other chaiiges iowv desirel i' some, should he p effected, these five Districts would hold l more tha~n one-fourth of the ordinary legis- 's lative power of the State, and would have e gmore than oine-fourth of the voters in elect- fi ing all our geqeral officers. Such is the i ease nowy. itt, in fifty years hence, per- t haps in less time, or if you please, ini a een-a ,tory to come, with tla.e gradmual development t of the resources of that region, a still moure t numerous, thriving, " bite population will ' spring up; while, in the zieain-time, frome the expansive force of our siave population, e amd of our cotton interest, the middle and lowver l)istricts, will have a cuomparatively small increase among the wvhites (in~ somler pistric.ts indeed the whiites are acaiudy de creasing;) whereby great inieqinaiity .wil ( arise betwveen the two sections at the ballot-. pox. Now, with our present distribution .. pf power, this inetnnality vwill pirodluce no un iatural or unhappy results, Under tie I noderate rule of our present concurrent i najority of property, territory, and popula. I ion, we might contiie to live happily to. 4 ,ether for centuries. .t -,qome, as we have I ived happily tog 'i1n the past. Har. 1 nony and good feeling will continue to bless a >ur political well-being, and the patriotism >four people will be co extensive, at least, I vith the boundaries of the State. But turn oose among us the two greaw parlies sought I o be formed. From the numerioal strength j mid homogeneous interests of the mountain 4 )istricts, the controlling party would soon rather its forces there, and by its union and trength, might easily svay the political des inies of the State. Imag'ine The wild fanat- j cism, the moral and political corruptionls of he great pa ties in the Union, seizing upon he minds of our fellow-citizens in that re. ion-is it difficult to see, looming in the I ture, serious danger to the rights and roperty of the-middle and lower Districts? ffect these changes, and in less thani half century, you will form in the State almost new North and a new South-a new up nuntry and a new low.country, with the ine or division some eighty or one hundred liles above its present position. And when hmt time comes (if ever it should-which od forbid !) we might well wish t'or Parishes nd for Parish representation ail over the w and middle Districts ? Do any wish to meaken the political power and the safe. uards to property, in our own section I to istract the public councils of the Statet to eap an abundant harvest of discord, civil trife, aid bitter sectional animosities? Let wiem cnspire to work out these changes, nd succeed in their object. A full gratifi. ation of their wishes await them. But how ould they pause and trealile before at 'imptiing to plunge the State into a career, nit must involve it in cQnsequences so fear. i and disastrous Have they no dread rearing their fanie upon the miseries and isfortunes of their country ? " - i there not some chosen curse, Some hidden thunder in the stores of IeaIv'n, Red with uneonitmon wrath, to blast t'le man Who uavss h:s gieatness to his country's ruin?" or one I prefer to let things stand as they re, uiless t could see some prospect of im roving our condition. I prefier to chersish id preserve the harmony and kind feeling w exist:ng among the people of our State, i opening up scenes of strife, discord, and Cliolnal iatred. Above all, I wish still to )Id flst to our State Cossrrrro-the -ca, irrittcn, sicereign Ieill of the peopic of tiuth Carolina-the noble charter of our rties, and the cause of our political pros. ity and hap ,ipiness. What but this has -lit us ill the road to prosperity and to morable ftme? What else has made us 1 Souith Carolinians, animated biy abinoit so spirit of devotion top our imuch-loved tile State? What else has preserved a st balance or power between the various tionms of the state, and secured the inter. ts and welfare of all ? W'hen, however, rorts are tnaking to destroy this balance of >wer-to disturb the beautiful harmony in c body politie-to give undue influence Ssonie sections, and to leave others unpro ted-to throw ts, as it were, upon the ide sea if innovation, to lie wafted wher. 'er the shifting *breezes of party ambition y carry us, I feel it my duty, as one seek g the welfitre of his native State, sternl msy to opapose this move. I prefer vet .hile, at least, clinginig to thle old vessel of, tate, which has borine us safely through so anyv stormis and1 trials, to venturing upon is tnew, untried harqlue ; a nd it; ill contin, . ngl our vroyzage together, the interests of thle ifferenit sectionis are to be endanlgered, by ing turned loose to seek new safeguards id proitection, can any complain oft us, who enpy the middle Districts for tnailiing our >lors to, the mnast, most likely to.bear us noothly on in our future passage, anud save roml a wreck ? Where this spirit of political change, when ruce set at liberty, will hereafter carry us, od, ill Ilis Providence, can alone tell.g hait there is danger ahead needs not .the Ip e of the Philoso[pher to perceive. OddI Jtions5 of reform are spritiging up all over iS r country and Staute; which, under thea adu of tlic political Sciolists of the day, are ovoking muischie-f anid disaster in our p0. d ical relautions. In sm0)e portions of the yuntry, nlothinig seems too sacred for the si e:inig touch of the innmovator. Then hands hi rdeseeration are laid with egnal reckless. C ss upon our most timne.honored institutions, ci ud upon thle broad prinlciples of liberty ,es.t blised wvithr so much toil and bloodshed y the Ifathiers of our Republic. Shall we ,er the-e great unnatural throes of the liticnl pulse of the North to invade and itate our own minds and hearts i How1" estructive would it not be, to our permanent 0 eace am.4 happiness? flHow subversive of1 I great edinece of our political liberties! -c govrnmciient which is adapted to the ge.. h iet princple :-hc sbae ncr of our nature, and has stood a te lest of tinme, may occasionally require. ti ,endments to suit the growing wants of ciety, but will rarely, .if ever, need reform- sa ig. It will stand good to.day, tpj-morrow, I n forevrer, as immiutable as the great prjq. s ples 01 our nature, on which it is b~ased..- a lence. sonme wvise statesmuenl and philoso- b hers have held-" Th'/at the preservation ofI ti 'aires dependsv upon lue more than reform. ig and bringing them back to their ancient a som." Arid this aphorism receives con- y rrnationl in the fact, that nearly all chlarters ti liberty, obtainied in the succeeding hlis ry of nlationls, have been little more than niowdgements ~f ancient rights. When, erefore, our post.erity shall have gone p. rough tho whole cycle of political changes y nd so-called reformns, still later geteratpuos a ould, probably, do nothing better hlian re-. r to the excellent gqvernq)ent, w14ch nitre now seem so anxious to abandon.. I trust, f'ellow-Citizenls, ini co~nc~jluo, it may please anl all-wiso Providence, to pre- L erve s long in thet enljoyment of tbe 99b4e upstittity, wvhich has secured for uvs so mch political happiness and prosperity ; M 'l,'-.l Bacon nt lro li~in vcni. Indto preserve that. admirable document, lot only in its general outline, its mere frame vork, but, likewise in all the great principles of liberty .that run through and viviy it, idelity to its generous precepts and pro isions, must be ranketi among the most ex Ited political virtues. Had I but a single Prayer to offier, it would he, that no rude and, no bungling " architect of ruin" may lefitce this proud old, political edifce-that o ote'nitty attempt to destroy its beautiful inef'iryts toiselate' masonry, its dove-tail d indenfures,its majestic cofuntis of liber. y. o,; ljt i stand, beautiful and sublime no and indivisible-now and forevet! W. C. MIORAGNE. Ilad you ever a cousin; Tom? Did your co'inipn'to'ing Sisterq we have by.the dozen, Tom, But a.oossin's a different.thing. And if ever you'd cbance to. kiss her, Ton, (But let this be a secret between us.) Your Ups would have been in a blister, Toni, For they're not of a sister genus. There is something, Tom-, in a sister's lip, When.you give a good-night kiss; Which savors so much of relationship That nothing occurs amiss. But a .cousin's lip, if you once unito With yours, in the quietest way, Instead of sleeping a wink that night You'll be dreaming the following day. And people think it no harm, Tom, Wit, a cousin to hear you talk ; And no one feels any alarm, Tom, At a quiet cousinly walk. But, Tom, you'l find, what I happen to know, That such walks oft grow into straying; And the voice of cousins are sometimes so low, Ieaven only knows what you'll be saying. Then there happens to be so often, Tom, Soft pressure of hands and fi ngers, And looks that are moulded so often, Tom, And tones in which memory lingers. And long ere your walk is half over, the strings Of your heart are put into play, By the voice of those fair deni-sisterly things, In not quite the most brotherly way. A nd the song of a sister may bring to you, Ton, Such tones as the angels woo; Rut I fear if your cousin should sing to you, Tom You'd take her for an angel too. For so curious a note is that note of theirs, That you'll fancy the vohe that gave it HId been all the time singing the national airs, Instead of the Psamls of David. I once had a cousin that sung, Tom, A nd her name tmny be nameless now; But the sound of those songs is still young, Toni, Though we are no longer so. Tis I-lly to dream of a bower of green When there is no leaf on the tree; But 'twixt walking and singing that cousin has been, God forgive her, the ruin of me. And now I atm not for society, Ton, But lead a most anchorite life; For I've loved myself into society, Tum, A nd out of the wise for a wife. But, oh !if I satid but half what I might say--I So sad are the lessons 'twould give It would kecp you from loving many a day, A nd from eousins as long as you live. TME BRIDAL EVE: LEGEND FROM A LECTURE ON TIlE " SCENES OF THE REVOLUTION." One summer night, the blazo of many lightsI reming fromn the windows of -an old mansion, I rehed yonder among the rocks and wood., i~hed far over the dark waters of Lake Chamn- I In a quiet and comfortable chamber of that ansion, a party of British ollicers, sit ting around table spread with wines atnd viands, discussed; topic of some interest it it was not the most portant in the world, while the tread of the meers shook the floor of the adjoining rocmh. Y'es!,while all was gayety and dance and mu e int the largest hall of the old mainsion. whose mndred lights glanced far over the waters of' hmplai-ere in thIs quiet room, with the ml evening breeze blowing- ini their faces rough the opetn windows, here this party of! ritish oficers had assembled to discuss their. in and their favorite topic. That topic was the comparative beauty of the omen in the world. h "As for-me," said a handsome young Ensign, I will match the voluptuous forms anid dairk re of Italy against the beauties of all the orld! 1 " And I," said a bronzed old veteran, who had, sen to a Coloneley by his long service a.nd urd fighting, "anid I have a pretty lass of a tnght~e thiere in'England, Wvhose blue eyes id flaetn hair would shame yout' tragic beau. es of Italy into very ugliness." " I have served in indhr,ae you all mst know," iid the major who wqp gest toa the veteran, " and will confess that I nevpy saw painting or atue, much less living woap half so lovely sone of those liindoo maidens, bending dowt Wi waterlilies in their hands; bending down , the light of tarelies, over the dark waves of And thus, one after -another, F~nsign, Colonel, id Major, tuntil that young Amnericean Refugee inder, at the foot of the table, is left to decide t argument. That Apmeriena---for blush to i it-handsome young fellow as he is with a! l of ianly beauty, deep ble~e eyes, ruddy teeks, and glossy brown hair, thtat 4meriian is Refugee, and a Captain in' the jk4tish 4rmy. [e wore the handsome searlet coat, the gitter. ig epaulette,, lace ruffles on his bosom, and eqund his wrtsts. " ieu, Captain, pass the wine this way !" ai~jted the Ensign; pass the wine, and lieeide uis great question-Which are the most beauti il: the re4 cheeks of Merry England, the dark ges of jty, .or the graceful forms of llindoa. The CaptaIn hesjtated for a moment and toss ugoff a bumper of old Madeira, someu hat tshed as he was with wine, replied: "Motd your three mqodels ot beauty, your .nli lass, your Italian qtn'en. your IIlindoo| nymph, into one, an a dto their charms a thousand graces of colorind form and feature, and I would not compare Otis perfection of love. liness for a single miomend with the wild artless beauty of an Amwrican gill." The laugh of the three gfficers for a moment drowned the echo of the dance in the next room. " Compare his Americah milk-maid with the woman of [taly !" "Or the lass of Englanft!" "Or the graceful 1ind* girl!" This laughing scorn the British officers stung- the handsome Refgee to the quick. "Hark ye !" he cried, Ahalf rising from his seat, with a ifushed brow "but a deep and delib ernte voice, " to-morrOW I marry a wife: an American girl! To-night,4 t inidnight too, that American girl will oin dances in the next room. You shall see her you shall judge for yourselves! Whether t American woman is not. the most beatiful in oe world! There was something .n the manner of the young Refugee, more th4a in the nature of his information, that arrested- the attention of his brother officers. For a. moment they were ilent. " We have heard something of your marriage. Captain," said the gay Ensign, " but we did not think it would occur so suddtenly I Only think Df it! To-morrow yon will be gone-settled verdict brought in-sentejee passed-a married 7an . But tell me? No will your lady-love e brought to this houstt-o.niglt? [ thought the resided within the R I lines 1" "She does reside the But I have sent a I nessenger-a friendly I an chief, on whom I :an place the utmost deppndence-t bring hier From her present home, at the dead hour of iight, :hrough the forest, to this mansion. He is to -eturn by 12; it is now likf-past 11!" "Friendly Indian !" echoed the veteran Colo iel; " Rather an odd guardian for a pretty wo nan ! Quite an original idea of a Duenna, I ,ow P " And you will match this lady against all the orld for beauty?" said tje Major. "Yen I and if you do nit agree with me, this undred guineas which I lay upon tle table. hail serve I- our mess" ftr wines, for a month o come. But if you do not agree with me-as rithout a doubt you will.-then you are to re lace this gold with a hundred guineas of your 1wn., " Agreed. It is a wages" chorussed the Colo tel and the two other o&icers. And in that moment while the doorway was bronged by fair ladies anggay officers, attracted rom the room by the debte-as that young re. ngee stood with one hand upon the pile of old, his ruddy face gremsuddenly while as a broud, his blue eyes 4ilated until they were aeh encircled by a line of white enamel the re nained standing there as 'if frozeto stone. Why, Captain, what he matter ?" cried the jolonel, starting tip iilarm, "do you see a host that you stand gang there at the blank vail?" The other officers al started up in alarm nd a-ked the cause o sloldur demeanor, t nt still for the space of a minute or inore, the r tefugee Captain stood there, more like a dead nan suddenly recilled to life than a living being. The moment p:ssed, he sat down with a col; t hiver ; inade a strong effort as if to coninaud iis remblon ; and then gave utterance to a forced augh. lla, ha ! See how I've frightened you," hei aid-and then laughed that cold, unnatural ollow laugh1 again. And yet, halt'an hour from that time lie free- C y confessed the nature of the horrid p:cture he ind seen drawn upon that banl:, wainscotted val, as if by some supernatural hand. But now with the wine cup in his hand ie urned from one comrade to :'nother, uttering c ome forced jest or looking towards the door. vay, crowded by offleers and ladies, he gaily in. ited them to share in this remarkable argn. nent: Which were the most beautiful women n the world! C As he spoke, the hour s!rnek. a Twelve o'clock was there, nnd with it a foostep; i nd then a h~old Indian form eane urging through, he crowd of ladies thronging yonder doaor-way., Silenlt, his arnms folded on his war blanket, a ook of eanim st'irismn on his dusky brow, the dian ady~ned along the room and stood at he head of thle table. There was no lady with Where is the fair girl ?She who is to be he bride to.morrow ? Perhlaps the Indian had eft her in the next ronm, or in ('le of the other als of the old tmansion, or perhaps-bitt tile ought is a foolish one-.shte has refused to . abey ter lover's request--refused to come and e neet h' . Theru was something awful in the deep si-. enee that reigned through the rooma, as the soh-i. ary Indian stood there, at the htead of thte table nazing silently itn the lover's face. 2 "Where is she ?" ait last gatsped tile Rufugee. She has not refused t~o come !Tell m1 has, ~y accident bfallen her by the way ? I know he forst is dark and the wild paith miost diffieult -tell ine: where is the lady for whom [ senat on1 into the Rebel aines" 1 For a moment, as the strange horror of ther over's fasce was hefore him, the Indian was Mi ent. Then, as his answer seemed tremblingt mn hId lips, the ladies i~n yonder doorway, thlef afficers from~ the ballroopm, an I the party roujnd 1 le table formed a group round the two cntral a ignres-that Indian standing at the head of the able ; his lips parted, his face ashy, his clenched tands restintg on the dark mahogany of that The [ndiatn answered first by action, then by Fir~st the action: Slowly drawing his right and front his wair blanket, lhe held it in the ighat. That righat htand clutehed with blood tied fingers, a bleeding scalp anml lonag atnd Iossy locks of beautiful dt rk hair. Then came he word: " Young warrior sent thte red mn or the senilp of the palefatce4 sqpIaw' Iferp it : !" Yes-the rude savagn had mistaken his mesa age ! Instead of btinmging the bride to her over's arms, he htad gone on htis way determin-. d to bring the sealp of the victim to the grasp >t her pale faced enemy.] Not even a groan disturbed the deep silence >f that dreadful moment. Look there! Thte over rises, presses that long hair-so bhiek, so rossy, so beautiful-to his heart. ittd then, as otught a huge weight,-fallinig on his brain and Ij rushed him, fell with one dead sound on the That was his bridal eve! -t Now tell me, my friends, you who htave heard tome silly and11 igntirgutt pretender pitifully con. )lint of the destitutiont of Legend, Poetry, 4e. mince, which ebaraeterizes our National ulitO. y-tell me did yoi ever resad a traditiona of Bngland, or France, nr Italy, or Spain, or any >her land tunder the Iheavens that might in point of :twful tragedy compitro with the simple 1 iistory of David .Jones and .Janto M'Cree! For is but a scene from this narrative, withI which pit have been, fromm-childhtood ; atnd that I have siven you. Wh'ent that bridegroom, flung there on the loor, with the bloody scalp in hjs hands, arose o the terrible cons~iousntess of life-the words rembled from his lies, in a fatint and alhusky "Do you remember how, hair an hour ago-1 stnod there-by tis tqhle-silent and pale, and. iorror stricken-while you all started up round mne, asking me what horrid sight 1 saw I Then, )h then, I beheld the horrid scene-that home onder by the hludson river, mounting to Hea. ven in smoke and flames! Tho red forms of ndians going to and fro. imid flame nnd smoke -tonaliawk and torch in ljand !-There, amid lead bodies and smoking embers, I beheld her 'orm-my britle-for whom I had sent the mes enger-kneeling, pleading for merey. even as he tomahawk crashed through her brain." As the horrid picture again caine o'er his mind 1e sank senseless again, still clutehing that-tr. -ible memorial-that bloody scalp and log )lnek hair! That was an awful BIRIDAL EvE. WO]IN AT HO8R. " It may be only a faney otf ours," says Mm. Kirk land, in one of her ndmirahle essays, " that 'rovidence has so decidedly fitted womnan for ionsehold cares that she is never tru!y and eilthily happy without them; but if it be-a aney, it is one which much observation has con rmed." We commend these words t-i serious consid. rttion. The general bad health of frmales, lI hat are called the respectable classes1 is a sub eet that we have (often referred to; for it is one .hat affects not the happiness of families rherely, ut the weal of the whole community-not the >resent generation only, but future ones also. hysicians tell us that not one lady in ten, In a reat city, enjoys robust health. Mrs. Kirkland, ve suspect, has explained the cause. It is cer ain that w-)men generally, who are not compell d to labor for a livelihood directly, neglect ex. treise almost entirely, and hence bring on them elves dyspepsia, nervous disorders, and other iseses. To perform house-work is too fre. uently considered degrading. Even where the nother, in obedience, to the traditions of her routh, condescends occasionally to labor, the laughters are brought up in perfect idleness, ake no bodily exercise except that of walking n fine weather, or riding in cushioned enrriages, ,r dancing at a party. Those, in short, who enn fford servant-, cannot bemean themselves, as hey think, by dom.stic labor. To make up a ed is regarded often as xiausting beyond de. cription; to sweep a carpet is viewed as worse han field work in a cane field; while to scrub alas! modern feminine language, copious as t is, has no words to characterize this inhuman nd cruel task. The re.<ult is, that all such fine idies lose what little health they started life rith, becoming feeble in exact proportion as hey become fashionable. In this neglect of household cares, American males stand alone. A German lady, no matter oW lofty her rank, never forgets that domestic bors condnce to the health of body and mind like. An English lady, whether she be a gen leman's wife or a duke's does not despise tier ousehuld. and even though she has a house eeper, devoten a portion or har tima to this. h ir rue, hlir happiest'iophere. It is reserved for our epublican line ladies to be more choice than ven their monarchical and aristocratic sisters. he result is a lassitude of mind often as fatal a health as the neglect of bodily exercise. The 'ife who leaves her household cares to her ser ants pays the penalty which has been afixed to lleess since the foundation of the world, and ither wilts away from sheer ennni, or is driven ito all sorts (if fashionable fullies to find em loynent for her mind. If she does not lounge tithe sofa. reading novels all day, and growing aler and more nervoits evgrv year; if she does t weaken her chest, and injnre her eyes by oping over crotchet woik or embroidery; she rives about shopping, or visits for the purpose f gossip, or sleeps till noon to recover from the itiges of the lust night's ball ; in a word, in tic way or another, dhe injures her health most Men find occupation in business, in literature, r in a profession; and an idle man is proverbi ly considered in peril of soul and bWdy. Flow it that women act so universally as if tley rere exempted from the evils ot'indolenceI Vant of occupation rarely leads them into great ices, and therefore they fainey it does not injure tem at all. But alas I there are small rices into hich tooi many fine ladies fall, such as back. iting, enviousness, and gossipping generally,~ hich, if they are not as gross as thur sins of idle ien, aire bad'enough. If household cares were tore generally attended to, we should see but tile oif these evils, and women in good society uld be much happier and much, more truly vable. T1his is plaini'spenkinig, but the truth ist out. It is niot the fashionable gnd-about, ho lives on false excitent, that wins or re ins the love of a man of real worth. 'A thou-n nd times deaLrer is she who. like the wife' Vordsworth has immortalized, does not consid r domestic cares beneath her: "' I saw her, on a nearer vie w, A'spirit, yet a woman too: 11cer household motions light and free, A nd steps of Virgin lhberty."I We fear, however, that it will take more than his or than all the jotynals of the nation, to re tuve this cancer of aoeial life. But the press in, at least, do seomething. While so many of he evils utider which the sex suffers arid other minine assemblies, here is one that woman has .eght on~ herself and to whjeh we call her ttentin. "AINT GOT NO NALS ?"t We invite thte lovers of fun to join us in the erty lhugh we art' just nowv having over the: tory, told by one of our Northernecontempora its, of a tall, gawky looking countryman, who, tiring the heistht of the business seasein last; ll, walkerd intco one of the largest wholesale ry good houses on Broadway, and entIrely dis-; egarding the invitations of the numerons sales. .en to inspeet the latest patterns, strode into be countiigroom, where the heads of thie esn ishment were siUing in close eonversatifnh.--. tfter taking a cursory glance of the room, andm~ urveying attentively the faces of the occupants e asked with an unctious Yankee gasgJ twang; " Sy, yeou-got any nails?" "Nails, sir, nails!", repeated the loat dignified )omhey ofr the firm. " No, sir, what should we o with nails ?" " Wal, I. dtnno-thought qpaybe you nmoqght. Jaint you got no nails, eh ?" 'No, sir," replied Dumnbey ag-tin, with an emi bhasis, motioning to the door. The individul in search of nails took his time bot it, and then left, the coutnting-roomf. ,lii gzrn, he asked every eleric tjle sme q uestion, n4 received the information from all, that " nnils" ormpd nq part of the stock of thu establisi), " Well" said lje, going towvards the door,, don't keep knils here, no hJow !" The principal salesman, whose dignity was trt by the idea that any one should. sqppose hat an stablishnment where lie had a prominent lace, should keep nails, hpaded the country nan off as he >was proceedinig towards the en rance. nd asked hirr abruptly what he wanted. " Want" said the countryrman as cool as a ucirber, "I want to know if y'ou've gut any I Nails, no sir. You have been told again! ni again, tiat we've got no nais-so you'dj "Ain't got any nails, en ? Well then, just look t here mister, if you ain't got no naili, what an awful fix you'd be in if you'd happen to have the itch!" - NEWBERRY AND AUGUSTA IAIL ROAD. An article appeared in our last number f!m the Augusta Chronicle & Sentinel, on. the subject of connecting that city with the Greenville Rail fond. Among other ints of connection, that or Newbery Is nam ed. We invite the attention of our citizens, both of the town and country, to) this subject. The connection wkh Augusta would give superior advantages over tant %%ith Columbia and Charlest6n. Augiata is a very superior ritarket to Columbia, aid we' would also be brought in nearer connectioi with the West whose productions would -be brought'fo u4 cheaper. Augusta is now closely connected by the great Railroal system of Georgia with Mobile and New Orleans, the great markets whence onr sugar and molasses come, and also w ith Tennesseu and Kentucky, the great souree 1f supply of bacon and other provisions. - The interest which our citizens hrve ia4he mat ter, will he clearly seen, when it is remembered, that freight from Charleston to A ngusta is scarce ly half what it is from Charleston to Columbis,! and that the freight from here to Augnata would not be ntore or very liule more than it is to Columbia, since there is little diffrence of ds ance. The reason of the lower freight frotm Charleston to Augusta than to Columbia will operate permanently, .iape it arises from the competition of' the water navigation to Savan. nah, as well as of the Railroad in Georgia now completed from Augusta to Savannah. From this cause. a bale of cotton ja parried from Au gusta-to Charleston for ffty enti, while from Columbia. it cost one dollar twelve and a half: cents, although the distance is about the same. There is of course a like diference of freighlt e t'ween these points, on all other articles, dowq. and up. The city of Augusta can best take care of its own iriterests, and it will detemine whickof the two Roads it is most expedient for it to give nasistance to, that by the Savannah Valley to Anderson, or that which would give it connec tion with the Greenville Railroad at some lower point, a' that of New Market. It might be best for Augusta to have both Roads, but if it has to choose between thvi,'t is for it to consider whether the latter would not combine, in a great measure, the advantages of both. We can also assure our neighbors of Augusta. that the comp!etion of this project would be of vast advantage to that city. The trading of this section of South Carolina would become tribu tary to her, and she would received the large portion of the trade that centres here. The town of Newberry is now the main seat of the cotton trade in all upper portions of the State. Fifiy thousand bales of cotton are annually ship. ped here, and it would all gi to Augusta, and ouach of it be sold there.-Nercberry Mirror. TALL TALKI.-The L.ondon Times has nother article. in A hich it consoles itself with Lhe ridiculous idea that in came of warthe Uni. ted States will be but a mere child in the linna f England. Hear it : Our Navy is the most powerful that floats. n ships, guns. calibre and men, we can swep the Ocean from the Arctic to the Torrid Zone -from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Never be rore in England's history did Britannia more thoroughly rule the waves. The American sea board is ours. We could annihilate their com. meree. 4s to their navy, it is absurd to talk of t; the Americans themselves confess that we -on1ld blow it out of the water in one broadside. rhen, how are the Atlantic cities of the United tates situated ? There is not one city, from Passamaquoddy Bay in the North to Galveston I Bay in the South, 'which has water enough to ioat a frigate or gun-boat, that we cannot batter o the ground in twenty-fonr hours. The fol owing citiesin the United States are compara. ively at our mercy after war 1s once declared: Portland, Maine, Portsmouth New Hampshire, qoston, Massachusetts; Newport, Rhede Is and ; New Haven, Connectiput; Neiv York, Brooklyn, and Je-rsey City, with thp tpwns an Long Ilaand Sound ; Baltimore, alaryland: Wilmington, North Carolina; Charleston. South, Drolina ; St. - Augqst jne and A palaohicol-t, 'lorida ; 3Mobile, Alabama; and Galveston 'exas; whilst San Franciac. iat t'ne certain .priie four Pascific sqnnadron. PaRISe PAssiswrcn.-The death of this: reneratble Russian 3Marshal has alrendy been an. oounced. In his early youth he entered the ser vice of the Czar as one of the Imperial Pages, ad hats ever since continued in the active milhta ry service of the Empire. lHe took part in the, rnpign against Turkey of 1806-9,--also. ip I hat of 1812-15,-was Commander-in-Chiief of:, the Russian forces in European Turkey and sia Mlinor in l428-29; and fqr his sucesas du ring this latter catapaign received the supreme sommand of the army of Poland.. After his suppression of the Polish insurrection in 1831-2< nd his occupation of' the capital, the Emperori Nicholas1 conferred on him the title and prece dece of Prince of WVarsa w. The next oppiasion on which the Mfarshal was called on to take the field, was that of Russian intervention in Hin gary ini 1849, when ho commaded the Russian fores,-and the closing act of his career as a soldier was his commtanid of the army of the4 Danube in 1854. A better story than the following, which Lomes from North Carolina, we have rat foun4 for many a month: A bout thirty wiles above W~ilningtqu, lNorth Carolina, lived three fellows, named respective ly Barham, Stone an4 gray, on the banks of' the. North iEast river. They parfle dgwn to WiV nington in a smiall rowv boat, and made fast to the wharf. They had a time a of it in the city, but for fear they would be dry before "et tijpg hoqme, they procured a jtg of whiskey, and fte dark, 'f a blapk night too, they embarked: in thsir boat, expecting to reach home in the; morning. They rowed away with all the energy that three half tipsy fellows could muster, keep. ig qp thieir spirits in the darkness by liourmng the spirits down. At break of day they thongh4 they must be near home, and seeing thraggl thu di gratv of the niorning a hopse on the river side, Sto'ne said: " Wpil, Sarham, we've got to your place at'i last." i "If this is my house," said Barham, " some. body has been putting up lots of out houses since I wvent away yesterday ; but I'll go asharp and ool5 about, and see where wp are, if you'll old her to." lirham disembarks, takes observation, and so~on somes stambling along back, and anya:I " Well, I'll be whippedi if we ain't at Wilming ton here yet ; and what's isore, the boat has been hithed to The wvharf all night !" It was a fact, and the drunken dogs had been rowing away for dear life withouL knowing it. An ignorant pandidate for medical honors, haing Thrown himself almost into a fever froi hiq inenpability of answering qenestions, was asked by .one of the censors how be would ea a patient for the rheum-ition. '1 would send him here to be examined." Wny is a sick Jew like a diamond. Because ia Jw-il.i 4 STATE OF AFFAIas IN IANA.--A free . il .a-.opean. ar-bhe NeW.- erk.$igss- mgsiing rrom Kansas on the M4apast.%saya.: In all the -f"on& towno'M'aor-pie enliatmept is going on, aAd volvateer .ompainle are being rapidly, formed h' ' purpose. Filse threats of making another invaion'aginist both Lawrence and Topeka.are no 1einjg jir eulated by tts geoslsvpay' tn. lii order to eon seal thi setal dealgns. I,awuonse ia, honever; activefy preparing Jo btAth eptergenclies ti forts and the town ae. placed nnder guar4 every night and aline of pickets., int. e tnps agg;I, has been exterided i'wiLwa io iep comt&hik. tion open. , . . , We Ame f6O4 glaijnhl it.ig ki t.i A of Starch, and if by t'Aai time 'Onges.pas .Aot recognised 'ii na' rue or affrird'ed b'ang irotes, lion against blipsourian trpipy,. wesulfall ' s our Declaration ofndepndeu, ano in 6ei lawa extend and parry out the blpasing4ptf fteedp, and eqnality in every corner of'the Stt. Ta LAKEMAN RAT.NiefOlaV Wheitoyt Lnkeman, first mate qf dim sthip A're, wht a charged with the wiffitl i n ie aof'- . & H. Eayre, at sea, i tho going of ~ a 4 A ugust, 1855, has beerr-on trial iri'Charle 'W, The case 'occopieif tie U. . CfiIt'C rt rourteen days. and terginated pA Wedn&adag night by the Jqry urn a vardb . j 4 Ao Guilty. - HenryGiratli as Georg As twolads informally apprmoticed to ths captasih were in .eoshneamet whea Ip. .Arietrriud 14 Charkeston last Septemburnspeited of belg Donoerned in the murdes - but the Grand ,Toroe railed to fnd a true bill samalt Glira and whe4 Anderson was put on trial he was. acqqitted, areat mystery still hangs over tba fiC d.eed, which will probably never be clease4 awsy., Ch1arestor Stadar'd AMoaig the jokes which have bse go' .og faring the dedteins ocasioned by the deep snow, is the following, oipped from a Vermont paper';"tadam,"iaid a.condpetor, a day or tw , since, yo4r boy can't pass athalf (are-he's tooa.arge." " nw may be tooduge now," replie4 the woman, who hpad 'H c a half ticket, "bat Ne was small enog When he started." The sbove diiloge Wijs 0aeoheaid on. one of the train f the Rutland as4 0erf' gton railroad. The joke may be app iated when it is know4 that the train had - a.dolsysd 11 night ata by-station. MILITARY Scuoo. AT YoRKVLL.-Prom A etter we have received from Yorkville, -we are ratifled-to learn that the 3iilitary tphool, esta. >lished by Aiessrs. Coward and-Jenkln&, now mumbers some seventy-five scholars, and some welve or fifteen more ase expected In a day ot wo. We are gratified to learn this, for It is an in., titution which should be patronized.-Lancas erl.edger, A FATAL mIrTA.-fr. J, D. Gibson, en raged in the auction and comnistloft business n this city, through mistake, on Saturday even., ng last, drank from a bottle a decoction of poi, onous ingredients ued for gralvanizing jewelry, mpposing it to be wine, and died in ten stinuies -Khoxyltte Standardt. -- 5fOXUMENT To ANDREW J. 31ILLEL--The Jeorgia lioue of.Representativen on Thursday veek passed a Wi1 appropriating $1,000 to erect monument to the me ory of the Jfon. A. ), Ifiller. Col. John )iilledge and .U&a Gar4ne;. f Augusta, were appointed to preparean ia, cription. ";Ie who goes to bed in anger has the devo or his hed fellow." . A wag desires us to say hat ho knfaws a marrWpd man who, though he oes to be-d meek and geatle os a asnhl, is in the ame predicament. "ir dear, what is the matter with puss-Rco ow she swells is. tail, aq4 arches her back, at he sausage - ave her that wa left 'on th1e nto ?" "Oh that's nothing, she merely sceqts hIr o14 nemy, Cmsar, it it!" A western editor tmuch wishos to know vhether the law recendly enacted against the arrying of deadly weapons applies to doefore rho carry pills in their pockets. PanPr.E t urn up their pasea at th$iis Arid, an r they were in the ha bit -of ||:eppihg company rith a better one. A physician passing by a stone-mson's shop, yawied out-"Good-morning' Mr. D! Hlart at york,I see. You finish ypnr grave-stones-as 'ar asc "In memory of," ad thew wiak, I suppose 6 see who wants a monument- next?" "Wity, res," re~plied the old -man; unless -somebody's .ick, and you are doctoring him--then I keep ight on." A WoIAx's IDEA 'oF HAr'piEss6.'k lAdy om-espondent of the Boston -T'Ime- gives her dens " of perfet bliss " in the bilowing parar raph: '-I'm a woman, with a woman's weakness, nd havin~g a goa4 constitution, ean bear a grett eal of happinesa. If I was naked my idea of erfect bliss, I should say, " a fast lhprse, a duelt f a cutter, plently nf hutialo Febeg, a nspat titting vercoqt, with a handsome man in it, ad-onn uf Undatpe Washel's little French bonnets. If hat wouldn't be happiness for one lifatitge, 1't enc~ tp pqnviction as to wihat wi:114.". - Barnum was brave, for he sold h', olife"s early as possible, yet It appears that 1n' aiding aclock company, the Napoleon~ pf shaympen has een going it somewla pitagslvg|r em ti*. . (otps on~ 1ipte bare hes) q tai to him in more enhes thiaq one. But-it, is really somecwhat ex. raordinary that; in'attempting to makeuierome's Socks go, Barnum -should have teoumd uj'Lim MfEANN'Ess.-We hiard an ilpident tsasI yes erday, whiph is strongly attested, and is proba. ly true, that beats the.tisanness we read of in ho atory about robbing thes blin4:isaR of blisnep tars, on4 kicked him becagse tlpy were nt qutar era. Jt rqns thus; A man in indigent circzmetaineea, was votadi en dolars by a lodge of Odd Fellows, Ip whislI s belonged. The rqoney was pajd qrer to thu and of hi* fatthprineinw. by him sppropriated to ds oa-n use, and in lists 3ihe , aosgnterfeit. jye 4ollar bill was sent to tha. stsussaMfamily ,f his daughter. If thils is not a fawi specsient >f meanness and inhumanity, theq we will gi's p the search of ese.-Healester.Ufnjqn. GREATNEss mny rr a gylg # loml but ~oodness alone can deserve a pitaph.. gg" Ay %;.oajoaa 4paps.pl'Fis New Orleans True )Re*e say. there is goy eq~ elhibition. st tlhat sty a horse ~wenty7ens hands high, qgqi wailnagIwo osand and sisty pasnnela I|T A sa tr the s'aisof KRisecntly attemP ed to sel White eitildl in Montgeamsry, A?#s The uor boy wasn Fase Moais, fortherly of Grille andi Ijacaej. Ktie Is nqow enjoyppg the knapitaljtles of Ih~e bfontgoptery jail. f7Tum Or~nus LAWYEa Vt -rTUE st Tn rES -ASIA Asnaxws, a Lawyer of 70 years standling li.d in Mr...m.....,,.. . . .:.... tim .in...