Edgefield advertiser. (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, May 21, 1856, Image 1

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-*-E 4f- - - -o . .v - * - -S mocrlic 3outnd De' tov dje OunIj a 9ouiljeir fliS, V~zi~ctes flew, "We will cling to the Pillars of the Teple oopfr o Libertes, and fit must al e *Wo F. OUION A flON, Proprietors* EDGEFIEL.-?, S. C4, MAY 21,15..L rx SORRWJUL, I CANNOT SUIQI BY Tru COTTAGE BARD. Oh ! do not ask of me a song My heart is filled with woe, And mirthful notes augment my grief: .mut thy wish forego. There was a time when not a cloud Oer east my sunny sky When sorrow never piereed my heart, Nqor tears bedewed mine eye. That time is pas-ny youthful joys Have -parted 'witld' e vwers; And I have nought but sadnes left An aebing heart and tears. 1 would that I could live again - The blissful season o'ver, And feel the joys which then I knew, And part with them no more. I would the grave wouVi -a" me back The treasure of my That we might dwell foreveriare, And ne'er be called to part. Then could I sing with happy heart, And while the hours away, -'The earth would prove a pleasant spot And life a joyous day. -But she is gone, and all is d'rear There is no joy for me, And I have hung my unstrung late Upon the willow tree. My hopes lie buried in the tomb, My youthful dreams have flown, .My heart with sadness now is filled, I walk the earth alone. Oh! do not ask of me a soug, While sacred ties are riven, But when my love and i unite To dwell fore'er in heaven ,Then will I tune my harp a new To notes of love divine. And join in anthens evermore In that celestial clime. THE WOBN OUT PONT OF TYPE. I'm sitting by my desk, George; Before me, on the Boor, -There lies a worn out foul of type, - Full twenty thousand score. And many months have passed, George, Since they were bright and new.. Their beauty has all gone. George, You scarcely anw may'trace Upon the snowy medium Thre likeness of their face; They mind me of a. man. George, Whose morn of life was full or promise. but at evening's close Was desolate and dull. Whati tales of horror they have told, Of tempest and of wreck. Of murder in the midnight hour. Of war full many a " speck," Of ships that-lost away at sea Went down before the blast, 'Of stifled cries of agony As life's last moments passed! 'Of earthquakes and of snioides, Of failing crops of cotton, .0f bank defaulters, bro~ken banks And banking systems rotten; -Of boilers bursting, steamboats snagged, V Of riots, duels fought, * *Of robbers with their prey escaped, Of thieves with booty caught. Of fisod, and fire, and accident, Those worn out types have told ; And how the pestilence has swept The youthful and the old ; ~Of marriages, of births and deaths, Of things to please or vex us ; Of one man's jumping overboad, Another gone to Texas. 'They've told how long sweet summer days - Have faded from our view; - How autumn's chilling winds have swept The leaf-crowned forest through ; How winter's reign hath come and gone Dark reign of storm and strife And how the smiling spring hath warmed The pale fl.owers back to life... I can't pretend to mention half My inky friends have told, Since shining bright and beautiful, -They issued from the mould How unto some they joy have brought To others, grief and tears, ' Yet faithfully they record kept Of fast receding years. TIE LAHCE OF ENGWHD AND FRANCI. The tone of -the English press is remark able for the bitternjess with which it has < 'late assaile the Emperor of the French. lue ie' ttle' pledge of aff'ection in fathered ;by Punch, much' t6 the chagrin of the 'hus bend of the lady y the 1'imes publishes Be. 'ranger'. revoitonary/ g '; the Daily 'News issues advasane theets of icter fgg's ContemplatiOnsa the lit'appid~i in rhotirs ing for " the-Frenehmzenda''peace," Andd'' 'Mrig Herald proelaimus 'd~at Engl'aid has been betrayed by her ily. Every where .is the ministerial attempt tp Ipphe the proc ~lamation of peace a subject of rejoicing re ceived with sullen disdain, and it appears on * all hands a,matter of indifference whethpr the alliance between England and France * shall continue another day. The truth can not be diugeised/that the British governpent 'haa-been outewitted by the crafty Emperor, -.andtbat/England has exposed the weakness of betfrulers, and lavished her wealhh for nto useful urpose. . * ?W~have a. cause for dejection in the Sc. taal stte. f -ffar. The .alliance could ized fromn the frst that a-despot and a hody ' of arrogant oligarche were Ibaguedi together for no, honorable sonsiderations.-Ilt was strange that the people of England should have been so purblind as to clamor for a war which was fatal to their liberties. They have at last awakened from their folly, and it is a healthy promise for the future that all the attempts which Lord Palmerston, through his organs, has made to raise a feeling of animosity against the United States have re coiled upon himself, and that the expression of amity between the people of England and America has been almost universal. It may be proved that Palmerston has made use of that potent engine placed at his command, called secret diplomacy, to breed bitter dissensions between us in Cen tral America, but his tenure of office ap pears so feeble that it will hardly be possible for him to complete his designs, whatever they may be. He is now in a decided mi nority in both Houses of Parliament, and when he falls, not only may we anticipate an end to the active alliance between Eng. land and France, but look forward to a sat isfactory termination of all existing disputes relating to our country,-Chronicle & Sen. tinel. REPUBLICS AND MONIRClIES. Republic has been defined as a govern, ment for men and a Monarchy as a govern ment for children. The one demands the thought of the many ; the other the almost total absence of it among the multitude; thus men of a mature age in Paris may be found taking part in silly gaines of play that American children of ten years would utter ly despise. It was a subject of general re mark among travellers'in France during the tine of the late Republic, that Frenchmen had suddenly become grave; but since the despotism of Louis Napoleon has succeeded, they have returned wvith zest to all their an cient frivolities. They have resigned all the rights of men to one who treats them as spoiled children ; now letting them play at soldiers, anon preparing a fine spectacle for them in th-o church or in the theatre, or per mitting them to see some fireworks, or a display of fountains or to stare at some baby linen, or to dance until their legs ache. The only two possible forms of govern. ment, according to the late Emperor Nicho las, despotism and republicanism, have doubt. less found their finest illustrations in Russia and the United States. The medium be tween the two, which Nicholas could not comprehend-a Constitutional Monarchy, of which England is almost the only success ful experiment-is rather a transition form of government than an established one. Since the day when the last despotic king of j FagJajdied ;&nggeoaIfd, therra.orsI have been steadily increasing in number. First the aristocracy, then the great commer cial classes, then the men of letters came in, and finally the vast body of the intelligent people must follow. A comparison of the speeches of Edmn.nd Burke, who mourned fifty years since the decline of chivalry, and designated the people a swinish multitude, with the addresses of the great men of to day, who recognize progress and appeal to the intelligence of the mass, will show the spread of republican instimdions. Already have the sovereign and the House of Peers become curious anomalies in England, and the time is rapidly approaching when they can no longer exist. The wonderful discoveries of modern times, such as the powers of machinery, the propelling force of steam, and the uses of electricity tend to liberalise the world. Machinery, by taking the place of the uni skilled laborer, compels many to think in order live, and by its uiiliimited power of. production' it oflers plenty to all; steam anid electricity enaible every one to know the im provemweuts that have been intro duced in the Rysical or moral world, and bids them take advaintage of it. Tlhe day when the rich mani rode in his carriage and the poor trud ged on fno,t er movedh slowly in the wag.,n, is at an end, aund the stae train, if not the same car, now carries both, The gifts of nature can never be fully enjoyed except by the co-operation of manm, andis as this truth benmmes more widely kni own, R~epubl,1ican instit utions must exitnd ; for if co-operation he so~ beneficial in simial tumgs, how nwuch more advanita;geoJus imuai it promve -in highest of all-the form ofh goviernment of a country. As meni forsomok nature aind he~r laws tuon archies arose ; as mien recmognize her inmpar tml spirit, Republics must increase'. Tlhe usurpation of power by a few is a source of corrption to all. What a cause for rejoicinlg it should be that the barbarous days of chiv alry are no more, and that aristocracy is he coming a mere by-word. The age when the many were otnly men in statuse is dying out, and the time when the whole race shall be men in' brainm and heart is coming in. Let it come.-Chronicle & Senitinmel. DARING ATTEMPT' AT ROBBERY A.ND MURDER IN CLEvELAND.-The Ohio Cleve lander of the 5th, reports the folhowing by a man named Beebe, who, claims to be a resi dent of Georgia: On Saturday morniing, about three o'clock, Mr. Geo. R. Bronson, agent for Van Am brgh & Co.'s Circus, was suddenly waken ed in his room at the American, and saw a man in possessiotn of part of his clothing. Mr. B. instantly sprang froru bed, and though told "don't foltow me, or ll shoot you," rteped forward. The man fired a pistol and repeated the caution. Mr. B. still 10l dealwtiea he fired a second time. Mr. 3.'-ped hig .cjosely, crying "stop thief," down tle staifrs into the office, when the ian fired 'a third shot, the ball passing very eloi'to"Mr: B., sitijof ani inch into the wall~ ;nd glanced, 'lodging 'in a wooden frame. As the man r'an to the 1front door, which was locked, and attenfptod i'c break through the glass, Mr. B.'caugit him ['y ,Lie ollar,'throwing an arm around' iimn.-fo this position the thief placed ile kiato~bd tween (N'~legs in hopes to shoot Mr. B., and fired it othe fourth time. Mr. d.' wrenehs~d the pisto.l away and mastered his man,'wio was soon #cured by the'police. In Beebe9s pdebket were found a bunch of skeleton (ejsi, a sponge and two bottles of chloroform, and $30 or $40 in money. The pisto used was one of Coh's five shooters. PATENT MEDICINES. To the Editors of the Carolina Times. GENTLEMEN : The probensity which ma. ny persons exhibit to treat their own disea. ses by the use of Patent Medicines, is truly lamentable. The press, from one end of the Union to the other, (with few exceptions,) is filled with glowing Accounts of wonderful cures. And the mind, enfeebled by disease, is apt to grasp after any remedy that offers a prospect of relief. Patent medicines are concealed behind the veil of mystery ; and mystery is the very soul of quackery. Withdraw the impene. trable veil which covers the means employed, and the confidence of the patient is lost. At one period, a great prejudice existed against the use of calomel and other mineral substances. Crafty charlatans and patent medicine men availed themselves of this de lusion, and encouraged the belief, by all sorts of abuse of mineral substances, the dangers that would result from their use &c. The consequence is, that all kinds of vile and nasty compounds that have been vended for the last thirtyyears, has, as' their great est recommendation, that they are composed entirely of vegetable.substances. All the old women who pretend to be skillful in the healing art, fortify themselves and console their patients in the belief, that, if they do ro good they can possibly do no 4arm. And thus the deluded invalid loses uch valuable time that an educated physi. Dian would have availed himself of, and have ipped the qisease in the bud-whilst he was wallowing vile poiypounds; for aught he knewt, poisonous in his p#se, and producing in his constitution, in one week, more seri )us injury than a skillful practitioner could restore in months. If the community would take the trouble to seek the advice of their family physician, ie will tell them that lie uses comparatively but a few of the mineral substances in his practice ; the most of the remedies he re sorts to is found in the vegetable kingdom, nd as a class of medicines, are much more powerful and poisonous than the mineral, when injudiciously prescribed. The patent medicines are m-anufactured )y whqjesale ; they are made by machinery ; i heterogeneous compound is thrown into a nill, and out pours the hills, by dozens and scores; and how little reliance can be placed n the quautity or in the ingredients of each )ill! The pills invariably are manufactured in he North; and our maket is glutted, and our tmnachs are erammed, to fill the pocket of iome crafty impostor, who laughs at our red , if not our ignorance- +hi e rows wealthy at our expense. It is time that our Oomnunity should be wake to this h'grrible imposition that is aily practised upon them. low different the judicious and honora. Ale practitioner, (of whom oor pity affords any skilled in professional lore, and who would not stoop to do an act that would pose upon the community.) He always elects the medicines he wishes to adminis. Ler to a patient, with due reference to the Affect he desires to produce, and the consti. lutional peculiarities of his patient; and, whether he takes them from the metals and their salts, or from the herbal riches of na ture, will always proportion his doses to the ex, age, and condition of the sick, the sea idn, the climate, and nature of the disease, and thus render all the productions and pow ars of nature subservient to the great pur poses of medication, the removal of disease nd preservntion of health. .JNo. [I. BOATI.IGsT, Druggist. TIHE POPULATIOYIINOUTH1 CAROLIN. We have compiled from the Census Re ports, the following table of the population of South Carolina at different periods: WHITE POPULATI iN OF SOUTH CAROLENA AT DIFFEaENT PERIODS. Decimal increase 1790......140,178......per cent. 1800.......196,255.......40. .0 1810. ... ...214,195.... ....9.14 1820. ......237,440.......10.85 1830..... .257,863.......8..6 1840......257,684.......0.47 1850......274,568.......5.97 sy4vE 'or'ULTaroN IN sourn CAJIOLINA 4'S DIFFERtENT PERIODS. Decimal increase 1790.,,,...,,W(7,094....per cent. 1800.. ... ...146,151......86.46 1810. ......, 196,365.,.. 34.35 1820.......258,475,.,,.. 31 62 1830. ......315.401. ..,,22.02 1840...".....7327,038......3 68 18.50......884,984... - .-.17'l1 FREE COoRED POPULATION OF soUTH CARHO LINA AT DIFFERENT PERIODS. Dccimal increasse 1790, .,.....,1,801.,..per cent. 1800. .,.. ....,3,185. :. . ee....68 1820... ,6,826,.,. ,,..4989 1830..,,.,.,7,921.. ,..16.04 1840.. .8.276..........4.48 1850......8.960.,...... 8.26 TIhe total white and free colored foreign inhabitants of South Carolina in 1850, a mounted to but 8.662, while the number of wbite and free colored i'nhabitauts .of other States, returned as natives of South Caroli a, was 186,479, a number which, though it does not fully represent the facts, is equal to more than half of what remains in our State. When it is reflected that very many of those who l'eave our own~ State to settle in other. take~ along with them their slaves, it is not easy to estimate what we have lost by emi grationi, or what we might have been had South Carolinians been satisfied to support only South Carolina. If this emigration is to continue, as doubtless it will continue in a greater or less degree, can our prosperity be Inr,.sed according to the measure of our dishs an. bopes, without the advent of pop atin$b oc4cupy the places that are made vacant iiii .canm any $ne indicate the -di. rection whenie .mi',is to come, except through this reopenine of the 4 frican slave trade t Charleston Standard. TYiNGw a mackerel to your coot tail and imagining yourself a whale, is ,one .of .the frst lessns in codfish aristocracy. POsTF BUDDRES8ES. The blunders, *- e Postoffice are fre quently enough oe ing, but the Pqstoffici sometimes gets tb enefit of blunders o which.it was never- ilty. The Dead Let ter ofice at Washi n is not filled altogeth er by the careless of the subordinates o the Postmaster Geo* 1. The carelessnes of those who put ater in the mail has al most as much to dei th it. If a letter i; misdirected, the Poiffice is not going ti hunt up the prope ection, and how oftei letters are sent on, id goose chase by per sons who utter gri-*us complaints about i afterwards, the clerk in this department o Uncle Sam's basine .aonly know. The sto ry of the Irishman :bo thought the addresi to his "brother IdAmeriky," sufficientj speciflo, is no fable 'Blunders quite as un reasonable are contiitually repeated. On< of the coinmonest if them is to write illegi bly, or entirely omit n the address, the nami of the State. I. latter case, like thi gender of a verb wllhtwo nomnatives agree ing.with the most , y, the letter is gene rally, but not alw8 I -presumed to belong t< the State in which ass mailed; in the for mer, it may travel, . ut till it is delivered up to the flames in. Washington. To shom the necessity of thenost explicit directior of matter which is . to- be entrusted to the mail, a glance at alist of the Post offices ir thet United States, aid the numbers of the same name, will b jsufficient. -Taking oui illustrations from -seh as are found in oui own State of Soutiparolina, and it will be seen that: There are 12 Ch estons ; 19 Columbus: the same number o'd T.amburgs; 16 Cam. dens; 20 Greenville 22 Chesters ; 9 York. villes; 21 Mount uP aaits; 19 Manches. ters; 12 Midways, i8aGranges; 18 Rock. villes; 16. Millville 8 Summervilles; 21 Centrevilles; 10 Bs;'12 Belmonts; 11 Brownsvilles; 18 Rpckvilles, and 7 Ridge. villes. There are 4 SuoOCreeks; the same num. her of North Creek*'and Buck Creeks; 1 Cedar Creeks; 11 IA Creeks; 3 Willo% Creeks; the same' ." mber of Mountair Creeks and Mahii- Creeks; 2 Fowleri Creeks, and the same number of Sleepy Creeks. There are 16 Pla at Hills; 6 Cottage Hills; 5 Hickory is; 7 Liberty Hills; 4 Locust Hills; 5 Segar Bills, and 3 Sand Hills. There are 4 Chiidat Gioves; 10 Spring Groves; 8 Mill Greies, and 3 Holly Groves There are 14 E a; 8 Antiockp ; 11 He. brons; 13.. Mount armels; 9 Shilos; 14 Pwvi43A 16:Bethela ere: a to i a 16 Montereys; 3 Cherubuscos; 18 Spartas 11 Limas, and 16 Monticellos. There is nothing in the peculiarity of the name, which will-confineit to a single State for there are 9 Calhouns ; 3 McConnellsvilles 3 Travejidrs' Rest#; 4 Piickneys~yilles; A Pea Ridges, and 5 RAoboths. There is Shop Spring in Arkansas, as well as in New. berry; a Poverty Hill in Georgia, as well a in Edgefield; an Oconee Station in Illinois as well as in Pickens; a Pocotaligo in Vir ginia, as well as in Beaufort; a Feastersville in Pennsylvania, as well as in Fairfield; m Gentaville in Florida, as well as in Abbe, ville, and a Gum Swamp in Georgia, as wel as in Marion. The conclusion is that it is better to write the full address of every letter in a very plain hand.-Charleston Standards. GENERAL W ALKER's CAREER.-T'he N 0. Courier, alludes in the following mannei to General Walker, of the Nicaragua army The writer of this article has knowr William W alker froini his childhood, and hai it th'erefore, within his power to correct sev ral errors which prevail with regard to him In the first place, then he is a native of thE city of Nashville, Tennessee, his father he ing of Scotch birth, coming, we believe fron Glasgow or its vicinity; his mother, wh< was a sister of John Norvell, at one perio< a Senator in Coigress from Michigan, beint a native of Kentucky. William the eldes of their children,'is about thirty-th roe oi four years of age. At school and colleg< Walker was most taciturn and studious; he was particularly proficient in mathemnatica and the exact sciences, and on his gradua tion at the University of Nashville, he wen to Edinburg, where he wenhs through the School of Medicine, and afterwards attendem lectures on that science at Paris and thei travelled over a considerable portion of mid dIe and southern Europe. On his return t< Nashville he found that neither . his health nor his temperame~nt fitted him~ for the life o a physician, and came to this city with the intention or studying law and obtaining ad mittance to the bar. He pursued his studiea for som~e time, and was admitted to practice but never, we think, arade any very strenu os ttempt to advanee in the profession Shi ly afterwards he became connectec with the Crescent, and devoted himself witl geat earnestness and zeal to editorial labors T'he experiment did not, however, prove sc fortunate as be had expei'ted, and he there fore gave it .up, and followed~ the example o many other adventurous an.d ambitious spir its, by going to California. In that State hi was also for a while conneceted with the press, and at the period of the 4eseeot upor Sonora, which hip made with a handful o followers, he was, if we paye not been nya informed, again trying his dicek at the bar However ill advised aoA unfertunate tha adventure may bie regasded by may all wil agree that so far as its history has transpired Walker displayed indomitable nerve thd he roism in the nmidst of the sternestdxfliujties ANOTHER TREATr WITH M axxCo.,-Oi the authority of a lettes from Mexico, wvhim I it inserts, the Jotirnal of Commerce statei that our Minister to Mexico has essentialij adjusted the ternes of a Conventjion with thb Comonfort Administration, by which wey to acquire another slice of Meican territo ry-how large is not stated,'nor the pr~Ieell be paid for it. It is not, we hope, the re.yi val of the fifty million purchase, which we said to have been authosised or negotiated some time ago, bvt which was not consuma ,.L-Nat. Intel. TO1 1OOD8 ADVICE. Tom Hood gives the following advice to such writers as would see themselves in f print: It is more difficult than may be supposed to decide on the value of a work in MS., f and especially when the hand writting pre i sents only a swell mob of bad characters, - that must be severally examined and re-ex i amined to arrive at the merits and demerits of the case. Print settles it, as Coleridge used to say, and to be candid, I have more than once reversed or greatly modified a pre vious verdict, on seeing a rough proof from r the press. But, as editors too well know, it is next to impossible to retain the tone of a stanza, or the drift of an argument, while the mind has to scrabble through a patch of scribble-scrabble as stiff as a horse cover. The beauties of the piece will as naturally appear to disadvintage through such a me. dium's as the. features of a pretty woman through a bad pan of glass; and, .without doubt many a tolerable article has been con signed, hand over hand to the Balsam box for want of a fair copy. Wherefore, 0 ye Poets and Prosers, who aspire to write Mis, cellanies, above all, 0 ye palpitating Untried, take care, pray ye take care to cultivate a good, plain, bold, round text. Set-up Tom kins as well as Pope and Dryden for a mod el, and have an eye to your pot-hooks. Some persons hold that the best writers are those who write the best hands, and I have known a conductor of a magazine to be converted by a crabbed MS., to the same opinion. ' Of all things, therefore, be legible; and to that end practice in penmanship. If you have never learned, take six lessons of Mr. Car. stairs. Be sure to bay The best paper, the best pens, and then sit down and do the best you can: as the schoolboys do, put out your tongue and take pains. So shall ye happily escape the rash rejection of a jaded editor ; so, having got in your hands, it is possible that your head ujay folow; and so last, not least, ye may fortunately avert those awful mistakes of the printer, which soinetimes ruin a poet's sublimest effqsion by pantomi mically'transforming his roses into noses, his angels into angles, and all his happiness into pappiness. S PJIYSICAL RECREATION. An Italian gentleman, who recently made the tour of the United States, said, on his return, he would not live there to be owner of them, adding-" What an unhappy peo ple, if their faces express their feelings! I never saw a man in the street -that didn't seem uneasy, and walk as if driven; nor scarcely a woman in' the house without -a ars.wdle iidfdytfi -r A little exaggeration is one of the privi leges accorded to travellers from time im. memporial; but there is, nevertheless, nore of truth 'in the' above description of" the Americans, as a people, iban'we are at all times willing to admit. Perpetually absorb. ed in business, with our nienial faialtjes onistantly on the stretch;.with notes to meet; moneyo tQ cqlleet, and projects to carry out, we exhaust 'the 'powers of life by over-straining them, and only think of relax'a tion when it becomes too late to reap much benefit from the change. The freest nation in the world, we are yet the most fettered. Bending all our en ergies to the one object of making money, we'.reject salutary recreation as interfering with more important duties, and toil on, tor tured by- anxieties of our own creating. Though too frequently troubled with dys pepsia in some one or other.of its protean forms, and otherwise nervous, excitable and restless, wve never seek that repose and re laxation which nature demands, until the out worn physical structure is incapable of reno vation, and premature old age admonishes us of the folly we have committed in thought. lessly disregarding those natural laws, the observance of which is so absolutely essen tial to health and longevity. IA REMfEDY FoR DR'UNKENN~ss.--I would recommend ipecaenanha as a remedy for tdrunikenness, taken in half.drachm doses as an emetic. Ipecacuanha has the extraordi nary property of stimulating the whole sys tem, equalizing the circulation, promoting the various secretions, and, indeed, assisting .each organ of the body to perform its func tion, and to restore it to its normal state. SIpecacuanba can be taken with perfect safety I as an emetic; on that account it is prefers Sble to tartar emetic. I believe the adminis tration of half a drachm of ipecacuaniha as >an emetic to be- a cure for periodical drunk. ienness. It is observed that in the intervals f between the periods of these attacks the per son is quite sober, and often remains so for -two, three or four months,'or for a Longer time. When the mania comes on, the in tense desire for alcoholic stimulus is so strong as to render the sufferer subject to no con trol, and, from the sensation of depression I and sinking, he can look upon alcoholic stimulants as his only remedy. When a person is in this state, it will he always found that his atomach is in fault, and the unnatu -rl appetite arises from that cause alone ; if half a drach of the powder of ipecacaanha be taken so as to produce full vomiting, the desire for intoxicating stimulus is immediate ly removed. From the experience I have had of the ef r fcts of ipecacuanha, I am of opinion, if a patient can be persuaded to follow up the ,eetic plan~ for a few times when the peri odical attack comes on, that he will be ef feetally cured, and the habit (for such I look upon it) will be broken.-London Lancet. THE RELIGION OF PA~YING DEB'rs.-l en may sophisticate as they please, they cannot make it right, and all the bankrupt laws in the universe cannot make it right for them not, to pay their debts. There is a sin in this negle4t, as clear and deserving of church disipline, s jn stealing or false swearing. R e who violates his promise to pay, or with. holds a payment of a debt, when it is within his power to meet his engagement, ought to -be made to feel that in the sight of all hdn eaet men he is a swindler. Religion may he I a very comfortable eiln under which to Ihide, but if religion does oot make a man " al~untly it is not wvorth having A LSSON FROM THBIROs. men observed in a thicket of b a h dwelliiij, a collection of brown I for several days attracted his atten their loud cries and strange mov"e'n length, curiosity was so much exci he determined to see if he could the cause of the xcitement aro"t On examing he bushes he fobud-1a thrush, whose.wing was caught i.a&' linmi such a way that she.could ot Near by was her nest, coninSi vii half grown bir4s. On reth a Jittle ape, a companyof thrashes i wqrria and other insects i ir ne wbini hey gave Prst to the mother, and to hIr Tpung; s0'g the meanwhile 0 therg in their islqr qf love with a stiqg gC gratitude. After Iat.hing thiuterin scene tilf hi1 curloggy was satisfed,:the - tleman reltsed the pgor birdwhen she to her nesj with a grfeful song to:. liverer; 'gd her charitable neih d persed '6 their uevirig i edes, uinging they went a song of joy. A PoWtRFuL AiwxiENT-A a mnnsa correspondent of the Troy Budget gives the following as-an accurate report of an arg. ment delivered before the mayorof the for' mer city, by a "fine, robust, well - diese slave," charged 'with inebriety: "WeU Massa Maor, dis nigger was ju.wst a home'from-de meetin' ob 4. I4ord strate - honest, and 'dat debble, old 'Smit, aid dis nigger dat he bad a leetle 'obrbes ph deohbejoyfol in his shop, and dat o4 do' dis nigger good, and make alin f uW most happiaed nigger in de whole.sou. o dis nigger took a suck, and'ds nigerrte dat, was'mazing useless, -and wastuke take -de word can't gib 'em f masa know4 him-but it don't coie qaite-sparalised dat's it; and he know'd nothin' at ill. Di mornin' die old nigger was laid out in -thi watch house, wid his hat, dat maisagib hi most offool'ry 4iscumfuuzled-aud die nigget don't know no IP' about it-dat's trate mass, as dis n t hopes to die PoPPN TUE QUsTIoN.-- What strange thing is aqquaintanceI"'said a-beau-. tiful girl, the other dg, to a fried of our "A year ago we had nt seen each other -many a season bad lolled ftt.eonurse7 bringing hope, happinesi,'ana per-h4ne sorrow to each, without izance of - the other, and now oe are Our friend says she loo so lovely be could not help pressing her, ' he asked her " if he had-aug d6ewith the happinessof her future." "j .o-ae. In We consider this one of the neast "p''? pings," especially as it happens in leap year. -Portland' Transcript. 4 paper in Ohio tells a good joke on sev. eral prisoners who were coqzfned A one et the country jails of the Backeye Stats. Thd jail wa oey and 1.1apidited, and one nigh) they esspedfr. tliair durance vile,'in other words"'f broke jail,""-but, next morning seated on the top 'cf i r "Ponse pounding the roor with great vi&.en e. ar prised beyond measure, he asked tlip w1at they 'yere doing whereup6n' one of then replied thatth'e 'hogie Jeafed so bad when it rained, they conilud64"ey' would jus step outand repair the roof. ' LADIES THINK OF IT.--Acording to tI* Abbe de Daguerry, a French divine omen who wear hoops stand a -poor chance fo Heaven. In a recent sermon he observed ; " Women now a days forget in the astoni ishing amplitude of their driebtha y ths gates of heayven arp ey dineroV.3 Is a shirt-store window, in New York, the notici Ol1ands wanted oli bosomsN - was displayed.' 'This gttrgted the attintioq of a wag, who coolly walkM ,1)' ud~ witE an air, of affected simplicity inquirk of ta lady in the store whose bosoms she want& hands oni ' Jape,'eried the lady, "'brink mether-oom, and be ga'ie ?' " WelJ done 15rnest,"-:.exclaimned F'redri "to get rid of'.yo~r heroine''you dest bythe mnagnifacent 4ity -bf garis'1 9bod'' ga) Robespierre. in his blo~dest teoy not have wished for mo~re. And uo noiseles,bo-'La why an earthquake could not have done it witit out a crash. Ah Ernest you have brough~ty story to a fine conlnionr -'"-' PnocyasrzN&vzos.Archbishop Tileq thuins oth1 ihe flyof the great majort of mankind: Man~ )ne1 pas tri years in the wo~ld; afd w% ?iis ' abutg in ut ol't emybshn vem and stepi back, as ft Viert to"'d8 somhettinj wvhich they b'ad all the while fdrgot, via:th swain bizsiness'tor whi'oli they came into the4 wovrd-a'gist of thleir sins, and refo their lives, anfdae ier se wiith and in time to prepare for eternity. TaE Newberry Mirror sayi that Cait. Waters, whose name is mentioned with honoj in the acediii''ct's biettle between Wa - - er and the5Idosta 18eadis, ik 's. )itivj~ 19ew1terry Distfridt 'He was a't HnIfare' yitib'Gen. Th ' -;and was wdundid in the attaic on . 'Cbf. F'V, ' wiei~*I is dientione 'zt~ accaidefrthongi to be i Brother-in-law af Ctrs. Psana.-Accounts- from Teheran s that the Americand are eiidkvofing to pJ ebre a tre'atr of -66rdmiere. wththe'Unitet $tatse. "i duffescity with England is in th4 wa'M ealf. -'I "d ".V ""d 4- - LEAVING oUrsyuLTa.-Tbe Louisville CeNrF says that a larg -company, composed plcjsl of citizens of oulsville, have laid out a town I Kanske, and'called it Pritirls-Clty, and thatou A Washington corrs ndeni the Boei sa Co&rior's that'there s uat etb Yorwed ~.Q~'of'8oth %3klOas he ~,rate .d ae fori Presidene~ -. ' in~e~ontaii thiors pains, hasrecebily bee gousry county, Ga.' These perpent - DEATE OF TEE EN. . C. DAWSOI. Aiother of Georgia's favored and honored qons has been gathered to the tomb. The tion. William C. Dawson, (we learn by passengers,) died at his residence in Greensboro', yesterday (Tuesday) morning, of bilious cholic. Few men in Georgia was so extensively known, or so universally esteemed. For thirty years or more he has ocepplpd a prominent position in the State, either as Senator or Representative in her Lesgislature, Judge of the Superlor ou'ot, or Representative or Senator inCongreas, in'all of which stations he conferred honor upon himself and his native State, to whost Interests he ever devoted himself with a ;eal and energy tn knew no flagging. He was emninently a man bf action, energy and enterprise, and 'has associated his name Indissolubly with the history of the State and its progress. Nor was'his rame qon. fined to Georgia; his career in Congress had ivon for him distinction abroad, and he had endeared himself to his associates from every section of the Union. He was not less distioguised In private than public life. There he exhibited all those traits of charae~er which are calculated to adorn and elevate the social circle, and which bound him by the strongest ties to those -who knew him best, and therefore loved him most. In that cir cle, his death will create a vacuum which cannot be filled. They have the consolation, however, of knowing that he descends to the grave at a mature age, full of honors and universally re gretLed.-Chronicle & Sentinel. FROM 0AS. ST. Loul, May 13. Advices from Kansas state thit' Governor Robison attempted to leave Lawreinse on the plea that indictments bad been loupd against him, but the people compelled him to remain. Warrants had been issued for the arrest of Reeder, but he had defied any one to take him. The sheriff would proba. bly return with the United States Dragoons to effect his capture. J. D. Lecompt had directed bills to be found against all parties concerned In the Topeka Convention, but no bills had yet been found. ST. Lotus, May 14. The Democrat has advices that warrants haye been issued for the arrest.of Robinson, IIeeder and others. The people of Law rence had been informed that the border citi. zens of Missouri were preparing (or another invasion, and they were making preparations for defence. FIGHT IN A CHURCH.-A correspondent, writing to.the Baltimore American Demo crat from York, Penn., under date of May 5th, says: Yesterday (Sunday) there was one of those disgraceful scenes that sometimes oc. cur in this country, but very freqdedtly in heoEurnopeanear git- uI that the German Roman Citholid Priest on dertook to chastise one of his. members in the churih durihg' the hours of' service, *bicli did not en-without a iegular fist fight among the members, *nd only terminated after the Priest had lost nearly all his ves rps, and numbers of his worshippers, had recelyd blick ayep an4. bloody -noses, nop excepti'ng the women.' V''ar that the.priest, with a 'meniber, bal been ar rested, and wil 'be-bound over to keep the peace. This' priest is the "Austrian Jesuit who burnt the bible in our place a few years ago. You will no doubt have the' full par. ticulars by the papers in a few days. To PERIUDICAL PUBLIsHERS.-The editor of the Washington (D. C.) Spectator designs to pub. lish, about August next, a list of all the period icals, from monthlies to dailies, in the United States-embracing California and the Territories -with terms and general character, so far as he can ascertain them. To aid in making up his list~and in carrying out his further plan, he invites all publishers to send him three copies of their publications, first issued after the fourth of July, (or such as shall contain fullest accounts of the occurrences of thiat day.) These he proposes to bind-one set to be filed in the Congressional Library-one in the Library of the Smithsonian Institution-the other for his own sanctum.' .lHe also requests thi's 'iHotice may be inserted once or more times, ini the editdi coilins of his cotemporaries. Those publishers who give it a place and send him a copy of their papers con. taining it, will be furnifshed with a copy 'of the list when publishod. '" Washington, D. C., May 3, 1856. CAMPHOR AND STRi~eHNNE.-The beneficial effects of camphor, as an'antidote to'stryhnine, are illustrated in a case reported by Dr.~ 1ewkes. bury, of Portland, Maine. "It apylears' th a1' boy was seized with convulsions, and it was ascertain ed that he had just eaten a .bisdit,'picksd up'at the door of an eating house, that *ras inade'for'the purpose of killing rats, and contained about one and a half grains of strychnine. The boy's spasms were so severe that immediate death was inevit able, thougrh all the usual r'emedies were resort ed to. Camphor could not be introduced into the stomach on necount of the continued lock jiw. Accordingjy, strong injection ol' camphor were used, and the body immersed in'a hiot'dam phor lhath, and in few hours the boy was come. paratively well. SENDING LETTE.-It is a violation of law to enclose to different addrepses, two or more letters in one envelope, though more than one letter may be sent in one6 envelope to the same address. The Washington Union says it is sur prising how there are so many persons ready to peek out ways of evading the payment of post age, though our rates now are the lowest 'of'any country in the world. " There is no't a doubt but that the Post Office Depart:6ent tvould not only support itself, but would b#iable't6"extend its accommodations, if all the inattbr conveyed. in the mail were paid for, eveh at the pro'sent reduced rates." In Blosf.n, and In othee cities, meetings are opg~asicnav holdt in favor of re' dyeing the presentl poistage' rat~eh,'which do not pay the co'st of the carriage of the letters. Would it 'not be better 'to have a fe* weetings in favor of hoir'estly' sustaini'ng the Post dfile aws', so that the governmeht woiild irot bd'so oftn dfaddotof three cent1.9 CoUNTERFEIT GOLD Dou..,E.-We saw in this city a fsw days ago, a good brass im itation of thie goki dollar. Th'd scoundtal wsho got up the dies evidently' pogedI. s good deal of sk' i. The size is the. siie is fJe genuine. fb t the frord * kibertf,"~ in the hea'd of Libertyf tindisti, and so blurrd'as'not to be read. 'On the reverse side at the bottom is the letter C, showikg that the die is made from the old California issue. The'-date is 1853.-We advise the public to be on the look-out for counterfeit gold dollars.-.Adanta' Piscip1ise.