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r i4 iU EDGEFIELD _VRISR Democratic 3onrd, xIoM tet t*ljt Sut u J 9autjern aigljts, Joliii Catet News, Citatre, f~orality, Entperane grittue &e. "We will cling to the Pillars of the Temple of our Libe and if it must fall, we will Perish amidst the Ruins." W- F. DURISOE & SON, Proprietors. EDGEFIELD, S. C. UGUST 13, 1856. VO-. pct . THE STAR OP HOPE. When the heart is filled with sorrow, And the spirit boweth low, Joyless seems the coming morrow, All is gloom and silent wo ; Lo ! from out the distant heaven, Pitying, a star looks down, And affliction's pall is riven As the light mist by the sun. Beams of brightness pierce the blackness, ' Melts the cold and hardened heart, Triumphs over dreary sadness, Life and joy and hope impart. 'Tis the star of hope still shining From a smiling Heaven bright; Ever through the darkness gleaming, Ever giving life and light. To the mind of careless childhood, Sporting without grief or fear, On the green or in the wildwood, Bright the star is ever near, Dazling, it leads him onward, Clears his path with love and care, While his gaze is ever upward ; Fastened on tlit star, so fair. When long years have oft departed, And the cares of manhood press ; Still the eye with-joy is lighted, Still the star and hope-light bless Through the clouds of dark affliction, Through the shadow black of pain, Breaks it glory to the grieved one, Fills with hope the heart again. And when age, like hoary winter, Sprinkles raven locks with snow, Bends the haughty form-to wither Strength, and life, and bow it low; Still the trembling eye is lifted To the darkened sky above, Where, from out a storm-cloud rifted, Lo! the star beams hope and love. And when death the heart bath stricken, Life's dull tide is ebbing fast, When no art that tide can quicken And each hour is thought the last; Still the star of hope is beaming, Lights the dull and heavy eye, Points to glories brightly g!eaming, Points to angels watching by. L. B. BIastow. THE 33IDEGEOO COHETE. DY TUEoDo:E TiLToNr. Behold ! the Bridegroom is returning ! Rise, trim your lamps, and have them burning, The final hour is nigh ; Watch ! 'twill approach with stealthy creeping ! Watch ! lest it come and find you sleeping! Watch! lest it leave you wailing, weeping Dying, yet ne'er to die! When ye shall hear the trumpet's warning Lo! 'tis the Resurrection Morning ! Then they shall live who died ; They who His palmy pathway crowded, Who praised His glory while 'twas shrouded, Shall then behold his face unclouded And they who pierce his side ! Ye then shall hear a loud lamenting The woe of men too 'ate repenting; These shall be left to mourn; The power that rent in twain the Temple, Shall cause the earth and Hleaven to tremble, But lo! the Lord shall then assemble HIis iansomed and first-horn. Hail ! day of triumph long appointed ! Hail ! day that brings the Great Anointed ! Ye little flock rejoice; Ye shall look forward without fearing ! Redemptaon dawns with His appearing! Lift up your heads-the hour is nearing ! Elect! lift up your voice! From the N. Y. Spirit or the Times. A BAND-AROUND SUPPER IN ALABAMA. Among the most perplexing of the small calamities to which civilized humanity is heir, none, for the time being, are better cal culated, to disturb good humor, and upset equanimity, and radically take the conceit out of a man, than to find himself placed im a situation, in a drawing-room or at an eve. ning party, where prompt decisiotn is itidis pensible, and neither guide or precedent is at band to indicate the course to be pursued. There petty annoyance are sometimes mag nified by circumstances into positive distres es. These are things more comforting in life, there are situations more to be envied, than that of a man groping in the 'terra Un cognita' of fashionable society, compelled to act without previous acquaintance with its usages, and painfully conscious that the slightest ignorance or inadvertance will be duly heralded as the 'best joke of the season.' And little sympathy or disposition to re lieve from embarrassment is felt or manifest ed by the generality of man or womatn kind towards a suffering victim. There is only one instance on the record of courtesy and true politeness where a gentlemanm, at his dining-table, drank off unhesitatingly the finger-bowl of tepid wvater, in order to keep in countenance an unfortunate guest, whose obliviourness of that "institution" had led him to despatch at a gulp a similar bowl to appease his thirst. TIhis exception, confirm ing the general rule, adds this general truth as another argument ini supp~ort of the theo ry of innate cruelty. And hence, many an unhappy soul is allow ed to figunder about. about in all the mazes of gaucharie, enduring agony the most pitiable, until he is slowly and tenderly drawn ashore by some fiendish Chesterfield, who, in his mission of mercy, takes good care that every body present shall have a fair viewv of all the points of the "animal ;" or, until the poor devil, disen cumbered of all remaining sense, with a des ..raioen of resolutions adequate to the most forlorn hope, cuts the Gordian knot, and re lieves himself from his dilemma by incon tinently taking to his heels-vamosing. Th latter was the inglorious expedient adopter by Bill Brisson at the memorable" tea flight that came off at Gen. Jones' on the first a May, Anno Domini 184-. But we mus permit Bill to relate his "hair-breadtl 'scape" in his own language, as he narrated it last winter to an admiring crowd assem bled in the social hall of a Warrior rive steamboat. "Speaking of awful fixes, gentlemen, was in once; but as long as my bead's hot i'll never be so caught again-never. Yo are all acquainted with Miss Angelina Jones -General Jones' second daughter; abou fifteen years ago, you know, she was a beau ty, and no mistake "The most peerless piece of earth, I think, That e'er the sun shone bright on." I was just sixteen years old-Angy, as I endearingly called her in my heart of hearts was twenty-eight; still, Byron-like, I lovec her, and with a devotedness that had no par allel outside of fashionable novels. i fee queer when 1 think of her now. The spell this paragon had over me was wondrous ; an accidental look transfixed me, and set a wa. tery vapor floating before my eyes; a word set a hundred jewsbarps a playing in my ears; her touch gave me absolutely a buck ague. In short, I was heels-over-head many fathoms deep in love-encountering, in im agination, multitudinous perils for her sake; had saved her, in my walking dreams, at the lowest calculation, from the sinking wrecks of thirteen steamboats, three hundred runa way scrapes in carriage and on horseback, fought and killed twenty-seven 'men in buck ram,' in duels, on her account, took to 'rhyme and melancholy' and whisky, and, to cap the climax, I engraved her initials, 'A. J on every beechen tree within a circuit of five miles-an operation by which I was fast acquit ing notoriety, in a political way, some wag having made people believe that 'A. J.' stood for the hero of the hermitage, until an evildisposed person, much to my detriment, interpreted them to signify A. I "About fifteen years ago, I was invited, by the latest imported method, to take tea it Gen. Jones. That was an epoch in my ife ; it was the first public acknowledgment >f my sixteen-year-old manhood, or' ;olved to go. Now 9 -airing, and t - - y in society. - ong to the mt unhifaiu. iousehold ecom . . - iur meals we sat he eatables were ind us to administt. (ones, being descended from the ..... ies of South Carolina, which is a kick above he F. F. V.'s, connected things on an upper. en, high pressure, patent back-action prin :iple, a la Francais and fiddle-sticks latest provement, and all that. I went to the ea-fight-God forgive me! Arriving at the loor, I was salaamed in by the finest dressed igger I ever saw, and entering the drawing oum, around which the guests were arranged, every other one a gentleman, and every olker me a lady, 1 dropped, in a state of collapse tnd embarrassment, into a seat nearest the lour. I was not suffered to remain long in -epose ; a nigger, holding in his hands a huge raiecr, covered with empty plates, entered he door and marched right up to me, first nan. The brilliant idea flashed on try mind hat this mnaneuvre was only a prelude to etting the table, and the pantomine poking the macline with empty plates on it towards mte was quickly interpreted by me to signify that lhe desired little assistance, or, in other words, that lhe expected me to hold the con ern, whilst be brought in the table, spread he cloth, &c. On this hint I acted. Spring ig up hurriedly, for fear of exposing my ig norance of haut ton, I scized the - institution' which he held out to me with both hands, and strove to disengage it from the servant. Now came a scene-the servant backed, I forwarded, shook the waiter until the plates thereon jingled again, to satisfy hinm that I had good grip on it, and that lie might safe ly give it up ; wvhispering, by wvay of quieting his apprehensions, ' I've got it--let go !' Blut the black rascal huing on manfully. Up to this point my eyes had been directed to the waiter, nowv I looked up in the servant's face ; it was in a broad grin, ivory all exposed, as he said, " Let go, massa." A hasty glance around, the room assured mae that I had playedl ' the divil,' and com mitted some horrible breach of etiquette. I let go the wvaiter as if it had been rcd hot, and, at that instant, wotuldl have been de lighted to let go all hold on existence and all mundane appurtenances, and would have been willing, in the bargain to have signed a deed of relinquishment to everything I ex pected the old man, my faither, would be. queath me, for tIme happy privilege of ' shnf fling off this mortal coil' on the spot. I fell hack into my seat, feeling wvorse than any criminal, lBut my trials had not yet ended -the infernal servant again approached me; again I was at a loss to divine what he want edl me to do; a moment ago, it was cleai that lhe did not desire my assistance in sup porting the waiter of plates; now, it occur red to me, as no one else came forward t< relieve him, he had changed his mind, ant had concluded to accept ' aid and comfort from me, whem ho had honored by soed flattering preference, on first entering the room, as to single out as his first-assistant waiter-holder in ordinary. " Just as I was reaching out my hand i clutch the waiter again, I overheard ange Angelina say to that dandy, Bob Sutton wvhom I intend to whip if I ever catch hin out of Mobile, 'Pray, dear, Mr. Sutton don't move or say a word, but wait and on ly see what it will do next.' At the momen these w~ords conveyed no mean ig to ml mind, as the servant wvas just then making I communication to me of an interesting char acter. In obedience to his instructions, tervously took an empty plate from the wai tr The other gnests likewise helped them selves to empty plates. Briskly on the heel: - of the first servant came another, whose e waiter was covered with empty caps and I saucers. He, also, made a break at me first. 1 began to feel that I knew all about matters, f With commendable sang froid I provided t myself with an empty cup and saucer; the i other guests ditto. I saw another waiter I with eatables and another with drinkables - approaching, and having both hands entirely occupied, one in holding my plate, and the other my cup and saucer, I began to discern [ breakers in the distance. As I had but two hands, and they both engaged, it was dem onstrated that if I got anything to eat or drink, somebody would have to help me, and once helped, if I got anything in my mouth besides the tea, somebody would have to put it there. The imps of darkness came to me as usual, first. "Have some tea, Mr. Brisson? His hands were both required to sustain the waiter; mine, to support my plate, cup and saucer. I really wanted some tea, but to get it was manifestly out of the question, so I an swered, "No, I thank you, wouldn't choose any." "Do take some tea," urged Mrs. General Jones, from tho other side of the room; "you'll find it very nice, Mr. Brisson." "No, I thank you, main," says I, seeing no possible way to get myself helped if I said yes; "I am not fond of tea;" which was as big a lie as ever was told, but what was a fellow to do? The tea passed along, and next came a waiter groaning under a bountiful supply of cold turkey, cold ham, chipped venison, cakes, &c. Although I was very hungry, I inwardly prayed to be skipped-that this cup might pass. But no, the waiter stops before me. I felt a nervous jerking and twitching all over, as I replied to an invita tion to myself: "No, I thank you-wouldn't choose any." Why, Mr. Brisson," said the lady of the house, not suspecting the cause of my refu. sal, "are you unwell?" No, main," I faintly stammered out, " I never was in better health." "Let me insist, then, on your taking some of the wild turkey; it is very delicate." "Don't doubt it, mam," says I, " but I wouldn't choose any." All tl' . set viCC, SefL plates spminog m at.-.-. performed feats of agility that would have astounded Gabriel Raphael, made my exit, God knows how, and never recovered con sciousness until [found myself on the back of my favorite hunter, many miles on my way home. This was my first introduction to, and, God granting, will be my last acquaintance with, hand-around-suppers. A GOOD JoKE.-We heard a good joke perpetrated yesterday, by a friend of ours. Said he to an acquaintance: "Things are really coming to a pretty pass in our- town. All the ladies stopping at tho Exchange left the dinner table yes terday ?" "Possible !" said the person to whom the remark was addressed, greatly surprised, " What caused them to do so ? " Whiy." responded our friend, convincing himself that the coast was clear, " they had finished eating !" A pass was made at him, but he dodged it. rTE following telegraph message was sent from an Albany office : " To - Third Epistle of John, 13 and 14 verses. Signed--." The text referred to is as followvs, and makes quite a lengthy and understandable letter: "Iliad many things to write, but I will not with ink and pen write to thee. "But I trust 1 shall shortly see thee, and we shall speak face to face. Peace be to thee. Our friends salute thee. Greet the friends by name" 3d Johrn, 13th and 14thi. LOAFERSsx ParITIxo OFFICF.S.-The composing-room of a parinting-oflice is not the place to tell long stories,' or argue ab struse points in metaphysics. Read, ye loun gers, and be adviseu: " A printing office is like a school; it can have no interlopers, hangers-on, or twad dlers, without a serious inconvenience, to say nothing of loss of time, which is just as much as gold to the printer as though it metalically glistened in his hand. What would ho thought of a man who would en-. ter a school, and twaddle first with the teacher and then with the scholars-inter. rupting the studies of one and the discipline of the otheri And yet thmis is the precise effect of the loafer in the printing-office. He seriously interferes with the course of business, distracts the fixed attention which is necessary to the good printer. No gentle man will ever enter it and presume to act loafer. Ho will feel above it, for no real man ever sacrifices the interests or interferes wvith the duties of others. The loafer does both. Let him think, if he ever has, that the last place lhe should ever insinuate his Iworthless and unwelcome presence is in the printing-office." ,THEa oldest inhabitant on earth is suppos - ed to be a warrior of the Crow tribe of In tdians, who, according to the red man's mode Sof computing time, wvas 172 years of age Sin Ma1rch last. This venerable old chief - tain, strange to say, is yet possessed of Ssound mental faculties, and relates with ac - curacy and minuteness some of the most .th,.illing adventnres of ancient days. GOING WEST . The following spicy article~i' swer to a letter of interrogation, receiv ithout re mittance, by some sensible fei , forcibly reminds us of jores of simila nquiries we are weekly receiving. Yank om have an idea that out'here, where land tie so cheap, it costs nothing to live, and in less to sit down and write over a few es of fool scap, and then pay postage- ' answer in terrogations exclusively for th benefit. If men want information in rd to the country, let them do as other . done, go and see for themselves, or hay common honesty to send enclosed soi~ ing to pay for paper. ink and a portio f the time spent in writing. We can't Ii at here on nothing, and make it a rule ave some. thing for something when we. change or s'wap-any one who thinks erwise, let him try, and perhaps be may t as inter esting a reply as the one bel "A correspondent furnishe e following information to the Philadel Saturday Evening Post, for the benefit. those desi rows of going West: "'The first question come om Cam bridgeport, Massachusetts, an ads as fol. lows: "Which is the best for going West, the spring or autumn I': "'The best time for going - est is when you have the most money a t, and the least fear of losing it. If yo ome in the spring you are sure to sha ourself to death with the ague before il. If you come in the fall you may liv ntil spring, if you don't freeze to death re you get there. If you come at all y had better get your stomach lined with erproof ce ment, so as to be able to dig corn bread, bacon and whiskey, for this .all have to eat, except a few French fro .and billious looking tadpoles, which we h when the river runs down. "Second question-'Wh part of the West is the best to emigrate taking into consideration the healthiness' e climate I" A variety of opinions a t that, my dear fellow. Our Senator, r. Douglas, says Nebraska is the best. t is, if you want to go into the stock bo ess, raising an unruly kind of mixed col d cattle, that will stray of' to Canada, i spite of the --..i.e of 1850 or 18 or Senator .-... . t speculate in - ^vn ague prevail much in Vseonsni "Of course it does. Nobody out West is fool enough to ask such a question. Eve rybody shakes; even the trees shake ; you can't coax a crab-apple to stay on when its good for anything; it will shake a man out of bed, kick him out of doors, and shake the bedstead at him.until he gives up. Fourth question-'lowv long does a pre-emption hold good ?" "That depends on circumstances. If you have a good rifle, and know how to use it, you have a chance to ten that you may live till you starve to death. But if you can't stanid fire, andl are not a good shot and a quick one, take my word for it you had bet ter tarry in Jerieho until your bear" be grown; they are all too smart for you in that nieck of woods. "Fifth qjuesion-'[s land to be had in the northern part of Ohio for $1 25 per acre, and is it good 1" "'lThat's all fudge, got up by speculators to gull some greenhorn like you or me, for to the best of my knowledge or belief, Ohio was worn out ten years ago. T1he whole business of the railroads in warm weather, is to carry back persons who have been fools enough to come out WVest. All the railroads are doing this winter is carrying dirt into Ohio out of Michigan, to raise a few beans and oats, to keep the folks from starving to death next summer. " As to the land in the north-west of Ohio, it is eighteen inches under wvater most of the year, and will probably be worth $1 25 per acre when water-snakes and copperhieads bring as much per barrel in the Newv York markets as potatoes are worth per bushel in Alton. And lastly, he wants reliable information -a short article in your paper relating to the subject-and he wants to go to a healthy location, decent land, and fair water. Exactly ! Why, my dear sir, there is no such thing as reliable information out WVest, unless you pay well for it. A lawyer won't tell the truth unless you givo him five hun dred dollars, and then you can't believe half he says. " A witness won't tell the truth in court unless you first scare him to death, and make him swvear he won't lie, and then neither himself nor any body else knows whether he tells the truth or net. T1he preachers all call us an inveterate set of sin nera, but from what I have wvritten you, you must know we are pretty good sort of peo ple. " If you ash a miss of stout, blooming sixteen for a kiss, she pettishly says no, when everybody knows she means yes, of course. " On the whole, if you feel obliged by our short article, .60 do I. If you want to go to a healthy land, stay at home, and don't be a fool like myself, and come out West. And as for decent land, my dear fellow, what do you mean' t You must know that all our wild prairie is very indecent, especially when it is burnt over and left as naked as it was when born. 'Tis true, na ture weaves a sort of fig-leaf apron every summer, out of a coarse kind of grass, but it soon gets burnt off, and is as indecent as ever. " As fr fair water. we have none, it is all a billious compost of liquid mud, dead buffaloes, fish and rotton rattlesnakes. "Our common drink, when we can't get whiskey is one-third coffee, one-third prairie mud, and tobacco juice. Upon the whole, if you have good water, and have half enough to eat, stay where you are. Yours truly, THESPIAN SOCIETY, We design penning a few lines upon the propriety of establishing this Society and the benefits resulting therefrom, and would take occasion to say in the outset, that if in aught we say there should be found a single word calculated to give offence to any one, that that word was not designed so to do. But a few weeks ago an effort was made and made successfully, by the young men of Anderson, to establish a Thespian Club for their mutual improvement, and for the amuse ment of themselves and the community at large. That there was or is the slightest particle of impropriety in their having car. ried out their design, was an idea so perfect ly preposterous, and we might say stupid, that we never for an instant gave it a place in our cranium. What! improper for young men to band themselves together for the pur pose of improving themselves? Improper to establish a society which will require young men to spend their evenings in storing their minds with useful knowledge, rather than in idling away time and spending their precious moments in dissipation? Call you this improper? Let him who asserts it to be so, take heed least he assume too fearful a responsibility. We never dreamed of hearing that it was so. But we have been t awakened from our delusion, by learning that certain professors of religion look upon a participation in such a society as a griev. ous sin, and consequently several who would otherwise unite with the society, are debarred the privilege of so doing. In what F consists this sin? We have conned the mat ter over, and can find not even the slightest resemblance to sin, twist or warp it as we may. Vas it ever looked upon as a sin for a school boy to mount the rostrum and de claim? Certainly not. Did any one ob ject to his so doing, because ho selected his speech from the works of the immortal i Shakespeare. The most bigotted fanatic in religious matters must admit that there is no a impropriety in his so doing. Wherein, then, n --.- the sin of the members of a i beg some of the captious -.. oppose it, to come out with their views and let us see if they have their foundation in reason. As we have said, we cannot see v the matter as they do. Nor are we yet pre. pared to believe that religion-true religion a -requires its votaries to oppose and de. s iounce every scheme which may be set on tl foot for tho purpose of enhancing man's temporal enjoyment. Did we think so, we G would go instantly and unite ourself with i the howling devises of eastern notoriety. Weo cannot think that Anderson contains within her narrowv limits, all the genuinc I religion of the country. We are not exalt- I d above our sister towns in point of religious t privileges, and yet Abbeville, Newberry and Edgeield, all boast their Thespian Societies, composed of the most steady, moral, gen.c iemanly young men of their respective communities, many of them we know to be1 sons of sires, who are as good Christians as are to be found, and who, so far from think ing it to be a sin, actually give it counte nance, by attending thie exhibitions regular I. Why this diff'erence of opinion, even I among Christians i We feel pursuaded that I these objections, to say the best we can for thenm, are simply captious, and have no con netion with any religious opinion entertaim ed by those who urge them. if we are mis-| taken in our views, wve shall take pleasure in permitting such as have urged them the privilege of an explanation through our col umns. We hope wve may hear from some one.-True Carolinian. SU313IER BATIIINo.-M any erroneous no tions prevail respecting the use and proper ties of the wvarm bath. To muany persons, the idea of submersion in warm water, on a summer's day, wvould be preposterous; but if it be rationally considered, it will be found that the wvarm bath may be taken with equal, perhaps greater benefit, in the Sum mer than in the Winter. During hot wveath er, the secretions in the skin are much in. creased in quantity, and consequently a grea ter necessity exists that it should be kept perfectly free from obstructions. Another prevailing error respecting the warm bath is, that it tends to relax and enervate the body ; for experience has sufficiently proved the fallacy of the opinion, and many physi cians have prescribed its use to patients labor. ing under debility from disease, none of whom experience such effects, but have all felt invigorated, and mostly restored to health and strength. Many persons are de terred from using the warm bath, especially in winter, from the fear of catching cold; bt this fear is groundless, for it has been found that the warm bath, by increasing the circulation on the surface of the body, ren ders it more capable of withstanding the effects of cold than it otherwise would have been. WVASIINGToN IRVING, in his beautiful Affections of the Dead, says: "Go to the grave of buried love, and meditate. There settle the account with thy conscience for every past benefit unre quited, every past endearment unregarded. Console thyself if thou canst by this time unavailing sorrow for the dead, and hence forward be more faithful and affectionate in the disharge of thy duties to the living!" TIE EXILES OF SIBERIA. The laws of the Russian.Empire require that all those condemned, in whatever part of the country they may have received sentence, should pass through Moscow on their way to Siberia; the traveler who may have chanced to be there during the weekly gathering, will have little difficulty in recognizing facts in the following account: On reaching that city, they are allowed a brief rest in the convict prison, their daily journeys being so calculated that the separate bands all arrive there from divers directions each Satur day night. After resting throughout the enau. ing week, during which term they are relieved of their chains, they are despatched in one com mon band on the second Monday after thdr arrival. The prison is divided into two or three courts, each strictly guarded by sentinels. In the first of these, both sexes are to be seen mingling in discriminately, and are dressed alike in long loose great coats, made of a kind of grey cloth; the only distinguishing mark is, that the men have half their heads shaved-whilst the women retain their long hair-a privilege also granted to the men as regards their beards; which deco ration is the pride and delight both of the mer chant class and the peasantry. They are led thence to a second court, where their names are registered, as also their crime and history. Here they make their petitions: some soliciting leave to travel by the side of a brother, a fellow-exile -a poor consolation, that, of being together in disgrace-but the boon, if granted, is hailed with the greatest joy. A woman will also some. times petition to accompany her husband; but only in rare cases is this permitted. According to the laws of Rusia, she may marry again, for the banishment of her husband cancels the mar. riage bond as completely u death; but if her prayer is granted, Government pays her expen. sea, and she assumes the convict dress, though not the fetters. The examinations past, the exiles are led to'* third court, where fetters are placed upon the whole band. This is a most cruel and brutal affair. The fetters consist of a couple of heavy ron rings, one for each ankle, united by a chain, not adapted to the size of the person and his length of stride, but of one unvarying length, 1batwe1. This is: connected, by means f linlka. from four to five incbaa long, with an. takes charge of them during their pilgrimage, and he sees them properly secured and fastened together in fours by the wrists. This ceremony over, the gates are thrown open and the world ceases to exist for them. It is surprising to witness the calm bearing, the sad but resigned looks of that melancholy as. semblage. Hope is now dead; and in its place dim vague glimmer appears in the distance of ife, to which .they look, perhaps with a more reamy curiosity than with any active feeling f terror or dispair. The gates are thrown open, the exiles are handed over to a strong guard, employed erclusively on this duty, and ach soldier loads his gun in their presence; there is also a mounted escort, with spears, the ommander of which carries a long whip to lash the cavalcade into order ; and thus they move on, the male first, then the carts, and lastly the females. Persons of rank are not treated oth erwise than the lowest serf, noblemen being compelled to march the dreary journey on foot, and as heavily chained as the vilest felon. Those destined for the mines shut out even from the light of heaven, they not only lose rank and riches, but, by a refinement of cruelty, are deprived even of their names, and a number given them instead, by which the driver of each band calls when he has need to address them. IM~oRTANT BILL.-Judge Butler Is about to introduce to the Senate from the Committee on the Judiciary an important bill for regulating the succession to the Presidential office in case of vacancy. " The bill provides for those cases omitted in the Constitution in which not only the President and Vice President, but also the Speaker of the House is unable to perform or are prevented from pcrforming the duties of Presldent. In that case the bill provides " that the Chief Jus tis shall act as President," and if he, too, is unable, that the next oldest Judge, and so on until the whole Supreme Bench is exhausted. " The bill also provides for those cases* in which the different provisions of the constitn tion as amended come in apparent conflict with each other, as for Instance in the case in which the Speaker of the House who is called upon to act as President is not a native of; the coun try; the constitution prescribing that he shall be, or in which one of the officers or judges desinated to act as Chief Magistrate has-not the age required by the constitution for Presi dent. One of the most remarkable features of the bill is that the President thus called to met by the oper ation of law shall be President for four years, and that no new Presidential elec tion shall take place before the end of that pe riod. The bill, as will be readily perceived, is of vital interest at this juncture."-Charlestou News. W'" A Yankee has Invited a usae for ex tracting lies out of patent medicine udvertiae ments. Some of them are never seemn1again after entering the macblne, as only the tuath HENRY CLAY.-Shortly after the agita. tion of the famous Compensation bill in Congress, Mr. Clay, who voted in favor of this bill, upon returning home to his consti tuents, found a formidable opposition array ed against his re-election. After address. ing the people from the hastings, previous to the opening of the poll, he stepped down into the crowd, where he met an old and in fluential friend of his, of the name of Scott, one of the first settlers of Kentucky, and of course in his younger days, a great hunts. man. This gentleman stepping up, address ed Mr. Clay as follows: "Well, well Harry, I've been with you in six troublos; I am sorry I must now desert you in the seventh. You have voted for that miserable Compensation Bill-I must now turn my back upon you." "Is it so, friend Scott? Is that the only objection I" It is." "We must get over it the best way we can. You are an old huntsman I" "Yes," said Mr. Scott. "You have killed many a fat bear and buck, no doubt ?" "Yes." "You have a true and fine rifle I" "Yes, as good a one as ever cracked." "Well did you ever have a fine buck be rore you when your gun snapped I" "The like of that has happened." "Well now, friend Scott, did you take hat faithful rifle and break it all to pieces n the very next log you came to, or did ou pick the flint and try it again I" The tears started in the old man's eyes; he chord was touched, "No, Harry, I picked the flint, and tried ier again. Give us your hand." We need hardly say that the welkin rung vith the huzzaing plaudits of the by standers Jlay was borne off to the hustings and re lected. THE ELEVENTH COMMANDMENT.-The enerable Josiah Randall, of Pennsylvania, ho knew all the Presidents, beginning with Vashington, made a glorious speech at Tam nany Hall, New York, on the 4th. He aid: "I come, fellow-citizens, from a free State ke your own; I never owned or expect to wn a slave. But other men, better than 1 m, and as good as any who are around ie, have conscientiously held slaves. It is i vain to attack the motives of a whole RODBERY oF 'A L A ntu.... - aluable jewels presented' to Tom Thumb in is travels in this country a n Europe, sever I of them from crowned Beads, were all tolen, together with the caso containing hem, from the Melodeon, at Cincinnati, on onday night. The case, which is two get long by eighteen inches broad, had een placed near the piano. The contents onsisted of watches, diamond rings, pins, re., of the valo of twenty thousand dol. rs, which sum, however, it is said but poor. y represents the value set upon them by eir owner. INTER~oURsE R EsUMED.--[t is stated that lr. Lumeley and one or two of his asso its of the British legation have returned o Washington, anid that communications ave lately been exchanged between the tate Department and the legation, showing resumption of intercourse. FoR CoNGRESs.-The Pee Dee Times ominates Hon. J. Izard Middleton, of leorgeowvn District, for Representative to ongrercs for that Congressional District. A Vir-ginia postmaster has been inquiring f the department the meaning of the little pictures" stuck on the lettors; and another d~icial in Iowa desired the department to ustain hini against a " fellow" who insisted ihat " them pictures of Washington on the etters, paid the postage." THE old adage-" You should not count -our chickens before they are hatched" has >btained a nowv reading thus-" The pro. ucers of poultry should postpone tho cen ns of the juvenile fowls till the period of neubation is fully accomplished." THE Emperor Alexander has authorized oung noblemen to enter the civil profes sions without losing their nobility. Hither. o nobility has been lost by a nobleman's eon if he did not devote himself to the na tional service; but, henceforth, in conse uence of the new arrangement, it is hoped that a good many of them will embark in fnancial and manufacturing enterprises. RECREATION FOR THE PEOPME.-The King of Prussia, has, it is stated from Beri n, devoted no less a sum than ?120,000 to tho formation of a covered garden in- ine entre of that city, to be used as a winter promenade by its inhabitants. A regulated temperature is to be maintained, and rare exotics of warmer climes cultivated in this truly royal design. Col. PREsToN S. Bioo~s IN YIRGINIA. While at the Virginia White Sulphur Springs, Col. Brooks was quite a lion, having to un dergo an introduction to several hundred guests. When leaving he called for his bill, nd was informed that his financial matters had been attended to by the guests, and that a private carriage and an escort awaited him without. The ladies waived their handker chiefs in honor of South Carolina and her chivalrous representative. OlM THE Central American Question is re ported to be settled on favorable terms to both onries..