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Ormtraic30una1rsra o f Soutf) auv$uia ilt ,Cta oCtraue NrltEmaue g "'e will cling to the Pillars of the Temple of 'or- beles, and it it must fall, WeWlveihRmdtteEI~ . DURI*SOE SON, Proprietors. EDGEFIELD,. S:., OCTOBER 15,91856 THE lATER 18 CONING BY NARY HOWITT The clock is on the strike of six, The father's work is done; Sweep up the hearth and mend the fire, And put the kettle on ! The wild night-wind is blowing cold, Tis dreary crossing o'er the world. He's crossing o'er the world apace, He's stronger than the storm; He does not feel the cold, not lie, His heart, it is so warm, For father's heart is stout and true, As ever human bosom knew. He makes all toil, all hardship light; Would al men were the same, So ready to be pleased, so kind, So very slow to blarne! Folks need not be unkind, austere, For love hath readier will than fear! And we'll do all that father likes, IHis wishes are so few; Would they were more! that every hour, Some wish of his I knew! I'm sure it makes a happy day When I can please him any way! I know he's coming, by this sign, That baby's almost wild; See how he laughs, and crows, and stares, Heaven bless the n.erry child! Ilis father's self in face and limb, And father's heart is strung in him. Hark ! hark ! I hear his footsteps now; ie's through the garden gate; Rui, little Bess, and ope' the door, A nd do not let him wait! Shout, baby, shout, and elap thy hands, For father on the threshold stands WHAT WOULD I BE 1 DY W. C. 1o1.631R. What would I be ? Not rich in gold, And with a narrow heart; Or misanthropie, stern and coid, Dwell from my kind apart. I would not be a man of war, Who looks on death unmoved, Give me a title dearer far "1 The well beloved." I would not wear a laurel erc Its leaves conceal a thorn: Too oft the children of reno' Are f1iendless and forlorr 6 .Q!ajgt.jeda bla"e By young and old apprc Called, in a world of sin an . "The well beloved." God g ant mue power to guard the w ak, Anl sorrow's inonning lhb, And never feel upon my ehieck .)ark shame's betraying blush; And when, at my Creat -i's call, Frem earth I am removed, Let friendship 'bruider on imy pa1, "The well beloved." For the Advertiser. "HOLD NOT TUE CUP TO TRY BROTHER S LIP." By ELuJan KEEsE. THEa subsequent story may not be altogethier i uselebs in the moral world, though it lc the b spice and the racy perfumes, with which genius e is ever wont to embalm its productions. Shtonld the moral, intended to be conveyed, be instru mental in doing good, in oven one solitary in. stance, the unpretending author will feel that he has not written in vain.. Reader mine, wilt thou lend me thine ears i whilst I tell thee a tale of " solemn woes ?" Ed- d ward DeDonaugh, the only child of his parents, was a native of Scotland, and graduated at one ti of her time-honored institutions with the high. o est distinctions, when twenty-one years had b just vested in him the prerogatives of a freeman. In consequence of some unhappy family dissen-f sions, Edward's father determined to alienatea the ancestral domain, and seek quietude and a home on Columbia's thrice happy shore. In aa few weeks our Scottish friends were ready fora emigrn.tion. 'With tearful eyes and sad hearts . they saw the receding clifi'z of the glorious old fatherland grow dim and indistinet in the haze of distance, as the vessel bore them swiftly on I over " the waste of waters." But night, and the mild splendors of the mioons throwing a " veil of 1 silver bright" over the bo.-oma of the deep, soun gae cheerful turn to their thoutghits, and al layed the excess otf sorrow ;thongh it seemed tihat trouble was never to ho absent f'romn the breast of the elder McDonough. It so happened thait he hand been hannted by a t'ecling of super stition from his early youth. When lie wais abroamd in the army his father, mother and a loved and only sister hadis all died within the space of two weeks. And whilst death was stalking through the piaternal mansion, dreamrs of woful import, conjoined with a strange tinde finablo sense of' coming e'il, made him wish and yet dread to hear fromi home. Thu immediate intelligence of his irreparable loss, not only struck a pang of grief to his heart, but enntiirm ed forever the superstitious bias of his mind. What wonder is it ahen. that he began to regamrd Edward'fauture as :aready d:ila ned anid blast. ed, when, for three con~secuive nights, after em barking for Amieriena, lie should dream that lhe saw lhim with clothes all tatteredl and torn. rav ing like a maniac and brandishing at /'r!//e over the head of a pale womaun, her form bending like "some lfrail iloweret before the wintry blastI Daring his collegiate career, Edward's ardent 'and excitable temperament had more Ihan once drawn him into thie maddening vortex or inebri ation. His father remembered this circumstanice and thought of his own nightly visions, with a feeling bordering on despair, With the "iron purpose" of true heroism, however, he resolved to banish those gloomy bodemenis of. evil from hope. Yet at times the old superstitious awe would creep over him, and freeze the very life blood in his heart! The favoring gales Roon wafted the noble vessel to the land of liberty. Colonel McDon ough fixed his abode in the "sunny South," where flourish the orange, the palm and the magnolia. Edward straightway applied himself to the study of our Constitution, our laws, and our pcculiar Southern institutions. Afler much intenge study and close observation, he was con vinced that their certain and legitimate tendency was to develop all the elements of national Zreatness. Before applying for admission to the Bar, he spent a whole Summer in rambling 'mid the Southern peaks and spurs of the Blue Ridge. He saw mountains, crags, vales, wooded steeps ind waterfalls, presenting every feature and image of the sublime and the beautiful. He was enraptured wiih the scenery; the paradisean beauty of Tocoa. the sublimity of Tallulah, and the magnificence of White-water were mirrored in the chambers of his soul, thence to be sketch ad and reproduced in miniature by his own pencil. His social susceptibilities were most ravorably educed by the chivalrous tone and :-ourteous demcanor of (hli Southrons. In fine, ic was enamored of his adopted country, and uis mind at once brilliant and profound, was soon threading the mazes of polities, as a step. ng stone to preferment. He was among the umber of those who, by their eloquence, assist d in elevating General Jackson to the Presiden. ial chair, in 1828. After the election he was idmitted. by special permission, to the practice f law. In a fiew years he was leading his cir wit, for legal lore and his profession, because iis " pabulum rioe," the matters about which his lioughts were solely and intensely occupied. Jis speeches were dist' nguished for argtintic lose metaphysical reasoning. His logic, how. ver, was illumined and softened by the Belles. etters of both Continents. Fame and success vere always his. But, in the very nature of hings. it was impossible that the law should dways remai:; inistress of his hear!. There is ;uch a dreary waste of apathy in the life of a achelor, and the heart is so borne down by a 'eling of utter loneliness, that existence itself eeus well-nigh a care, instead of a blessing. I'M ,when and v* - -n son -npathics >y the bril- h .It t mnl remarik, that love, in ios most extensive ignifieatioll. is undying, essentially immortal, or it i.i not only an eimanationi from Deity, but lie very spiritual existenc:( of the great I A31, God is v ." 1i mn: love i. ever existent; Snuy, thirough stern nmecessity. shift, from ob. -et to o).js 0e, :a;dl ve! continue Ii esse, as the ior.a in f111 tininrom that whieb i, disagree ble or repnr.nant, .-nd still r; tain I leir originil ower of h :z' rowig (he i:nages of, beauty and ve!ie.',S pon ' lie retiin.i 4, the son!!" One evening, while E-dward was particularly t home ii his ofliee amongz his books, the' fI-. >wiig lines, from some unknown poet, arrested is attention, as his eyes fell noon the columns f the newspaper : I ask not for honor, I ask r.ot for famec, ask but the true hear t, tlmt knouweth love's flame !" He half sighed as he read and thought that it was not good that man should be ailonc.'' tflecting that fame itself would be the sweeter, shared with one he loved, our young aspirant etermined to make an eflfor1 matrimionial. Vith this purpose he repaired to the city where ere was to be an assemblage of the youth, ealth, beauty and fashion of the State. At a all on the 22d of February, in Savannah, Ed 'ard Mcflonoughi first saw Julia Stanley. Be. are the presentation, which took phace directly fier his entree, Edwvard said to a friend standing1 ear him, " I have just had a glimpse of para is-have, at last, found the ideal of my heart, ndi the realization of my fondest dreams." ulia was indeed a " rare and radiant" creature. Angelic was her form; her voice, lie thought, poiured ore than human accents upon the ear." er wit and intelligence gave to the enchmanling0 eauty of tier persoin a cha~rmi of perennial fresh es and spirituCI inmmortality. In conlversinug *iih h~er, Edwaird felt that, wvith such a woman ishe for a wilfe, the decay of bea uty wuld not ec the death of admirautionz and luac. But ais to Bdard's appearancee, of which, till now, I have ~glected to speak :it was truly noble and im osiig. lie was tall in statue, and his form was fa fine Grecian mould. The dignity of thiought ;t enthironed upon his brow, and in his eye ,one tile light of sou! and refinled sensibility. ter the ball, Edward abandoned every thing 2151e for the dear society of Julia. Was it pos ibe for such spirits to be indifl'erent to each ther'~ if any of my readers (if indeed Ishiould ive any) ha~d been present oii the bridal eve md seen Juliia's chieeks, rosy with the "ecelestial abalui of iove"---had observed also the look of un utterable tenderness with which Edward re rardtai her, a negative answer to the question onidt not have bmeeni given. E~dward anid Julia were happy, ~id they thbought their happiness could terminate only with life itself. But the bright skies are oft obscured by the darkest storms. Edward's doom was fixed. Dark inexorable Fate had iinterwoven gloom and shadow, murder and su;cide in the web of his destiny. Another P'residentoi eiection wa's beginning to interest and excite the popular mind. Edward again tok a conspicuous part in the ecanvass, and ad. vocated the claims of' thme hero of New Orleans, with distinguished ability and signal success. But what was most remarkable in .his conduct r tho.u times. he neither drank himself nor in duced others to gulp the liquid fire; though a tempter was at hand, in the person of his brother. qi in-law, Dr. Dunlap, who had married Julia's sis- c ter. This sapient disciple of Esculapius was w one of those contemptible self-annoying crea tures, in whose breast enrs had a place and a lodgement. It has often occured to the writer, that if one feeling or passion bearing the sem- m blance of evil. be more hateful and more unac countably strange that another, it is envy. " Base en vy. that withers at another's jov. And hates that excellence, it cannot reach." tc The Doctor, envious of Edward's fame and in distinction, by which his own consequence in the family of the wealthy and reputed father-in- 1 law was Pensibly diminished, had 'vowed in hii a base heart,' that this bright luminary of the k< family and of the State, should suffier an eclipse. y( He cared but little for the means or the end, so 0 his own neck was kept out of the halter. Hav- g1 ing heard of Edward's early tendency to drink m to excess, and knowing old Mr. Stanley's fond- Pi ness for his morning dram, his plans were quickly and artfully formed. m Ie determined to make Edward a drunkard, la and that their common father-in-law should be ti the sub-agent in the consummation of the crime. w He resmirted to the most ingenious sophisms to s convince the old gentleman that Edward's popu- e larity, and consequently his usefulness depended ve upon the judicious and moderate use of ardent he spirits, both in drinking and " treating." Nor od "0 co was an opportunity, favorable to the accomplish. la ment of his nefarious designs, long in presenting wi itself. After a keen and exciting debate before " a large concourse of people, Edward and the se other candidates mingled with the crowd; but ca it was evident to all that his opponents were si, getting the advantage of him, inasmuch as he pt stood aloof from the " whiskey barrels." Ed- all ward was r.ot only thirsty and greatly excited, but chagrined at the march his competitors had stolen on him by their peculiar system of elee- de tionecring. ' The demons were swooping' and "C wsDi whirling about his fated head. Whilst he was hi: lost in a painful reverie, Dr. Dunlap came tip Fr with his blandest smile, and urged him to go and im: " treat the crowd." Ile refused to do so, but w. with, apparently, some slight hesitation. At this I juncture, old Mr. Stanley approached the two, %1z Andrew Jackson was again duly elected Presi dent of* the Uni:ed States. The re-action con- sh Feine-nt ip"In all ii dtIile excJiillent, fell u1pol Edward's spirits withI a leaden weight. Life 1i:11 10.,t its ti ural mid simpli- charns. " ThI' fat steep (df Famie" now stemed rugged and thorny. wl, T'he oneOi noble Edvarl was a coiirned drunk- we( m-it -.anlsh, ernel ;:ban! 'The 111mes of the intuxicaling dr::nght has drivei from his , ninory yong otuve'si witchtin''g dreamn. The ho IItite ,.MnV of his strieCtin u ifle. w:as tnhlit1elued. col His tilher was in despair. The very furies tion. lit it were bo.tles1 to atte.pt de- tu ieting all the dark scenes enacted along the gh twnward roaid to rnin. Let it siutilee to saiy,, hat in less than thir'e yeair.. fortune, he::lth'a, -puttion were aill wrecke~d and gone forever. wa '1hle catastrophe of his life wa awful in the ex- set .reme. u " It was the wild mnidni:.tt: A storm was in the sky, rat The lightening gave its light, tem Arid the thunder echoed by." to Chieating ganmsters were chtckling with fien- an ish glee over the proceeds of their craft and o fraud. Dunlap was tile man wvho won Edward yo MDonoughi's last thousatnd dollars in bank wi stock. Heated .with brandy and maddened by the losses lie had sustatined, Edward was stung an to madness by some tatinting expres'sion that asi ell from the lips of Dunlap. Seizing an iron he bar that lay ini the roonm, lie cleft thu head of the tempter in twain. The terror-stricken man rushes from the horrible scene. The murder us pistol is applied to his own iaching, feverish head-a sullen crash and the pale ghost, with mn a shriek, takes its flight fromi earth. Colonel be letDonough satnk into the tomb desolate end in broken.hearted, refuising to be comforted. The loey-ui never spoke nor smiled again. Upon the soul of Stanley there rested a sha~dow. 01 He sawv that his influence had beeni on the side d vif the infernzal powers, and his soul shrunk from sum the contenmplation or the mischief it had wrought. thi From that time till the day of hisi death, one to holy religion and temperance-total abstinaence te~ -received his most earnest and undivided atten tion. In the meantime lie retired to the country, and built a fine mansion, whither lie invited the su pious anid the intelligent. He wats publie-spirit ed and charitable ; lie wats much given to hospi- th t aity. Buat the social glass weas banlished from de his board; and over the door of the principal re entrance to his princely abode were written, in large capitals, these significant words: " HOLD th NOT T'lE CUP TO THY BIROTIIER'S LiP- in " Jurs, whiy is de gettin out ob bed on the is 31st of August. like one of Moore's iMelodies'i? y< Des yo giv up miy, spected culled frienid ? I ncorsc I does. Why ?" "llecense it's de last rose ob summer." s " Look hear nigger, if' you perambulate any a more sicha nonsense about dis chile, I'll cabe ni your head in widi a door mat.' A wvag in New York, seeing a man driving a s< tack into a card, through the letter of the word tI " Bcston," printed on it, seized the latter and oi exlaimed: " Why, what are you about? Don't a you kntow that laying tax on tea in Boston once ft raised a thunderinig nmtss there I" di PATENTS.-Nearly 10,000 patents have been issued in Washington since the 1st of January li -a greater number than ever before issued in a QuEEE GRATITUD.-4 a Captain-- was alking one afternoon in 6ompany with the Mar. fis of Anglesey, along Picadilly, he was ae sted by a fellow-haluoldier, half-beggar, ith a most reverential.military salute "God bless your honorland long life to you," id the fellow, with an -a8ent which betrayed e strong Irish brogue. , "low do you know mel" said the military an.Q "An' is it how do I knw. yer honor," said it. " faix, good right sur.I have to know the tleman who spared my.litfe in battle." The Captain, highly gra tied at this tribute his vigor in such hearin slid half a crown' to his hand, and asked h where? " God bless yer honor Im' long life to ye,' id the grateful veteran, ! an' sure it was at ew Orleans, when, seeing. yer honor run away hard as yer legs could carry ye from the Yan es, I followed ye hard and fast, and ran after out uv the way, whereby I saved my life. .h! good luck to yer houor, I never will for. t it, sure." " The gallant Captain didnt wish to hear any ore of such history, andgaved his hand for it to vamoose. - CAN DO THEIR OWN Krss-G.-Not a thousand iles from this village Pres a very exacting idholder. He makes his tenants " come to ne" on the very day the -ent comes due, and il only relax his stern decrees when a hand me woman is in questiom- Not long since, he lied for his rent of a ve - worthy mechanic, io, by the way, rejoiees i-tle possession of a ry pretty little wife. T . husband was not at me when Shylock called,'and he was enchant with the pretty little wifei.of the tenant. She uld not linquidate the :nount due, but the idlord becoming really gtnmored, told her he >uld give her a receipt in.ull for just one kiss. ir," said she, boiling with indignation, " my If and husband are ver.poor; perhaps we nnot pay our rent; butitell you, sir, we're t so poor but that we can do our own kis. ig !" Ain't that a glorious consolation for or folks ? The hardened creditor may take their property, but he ean't deprive them of a privilege of kissing.-'Elmira Gazette. A DUTCHMAN'S IDEA OF .EAUTY.-In Phila phia, the other day, a Fremont man was lectionioneering" with a sturdy but verdant tchman, anu nmongothr reasons urged upon consideration that he should vote for Mr. emont, from the fact that.Mrs. F. was a wo in of rare personal beauty, while old Buck 5s a bachelor, and Fillmotea widower. Dutchy )ked reflective at this reirark. " Den you say -S. Fremont ish a butivool woomans, eh ?" )h, yes," was the repljdshe is as beautiful , uuesn't vote for no man mit such a wife d at. I goes jr a wtomans like a bed mit a ring tied arounsdt der middle." A PuNNI-M MINIsTER.-Some of the most tinguished clergymen in the days of our hers were iioted for quick, sharp wit, and ich they used without scruple in the pulpit as il as in social lite. Of this number was Dr. les, who could scarcely utter a sentence % ith L a pun. rhere w:is a slough opposite the Doctor's ise, in which, on a certain wet day, a chase naining two of' the Town Council sitck fast. Vue ducior came to his dior and saluted the ials with the renark: " Gentlemen, I have eni comiplaine.d to you of this nuisance, with any attention being paiid to it, and I am very d to see you stirring in this matter now." il'n Qwizzisa Grass.-The Rev'. Mr. M-, beeoteh iniuster of some note, was one day king through the streets of Edinigburg, d res I in hib roug h country clothes, when a young y, the leader of~ the troop of fashionnble les, surveyed him thirough her quizzing glass her more curiously than he thought consis it with female delicacy. S eeuming suddenly recognize her, he walked up to her briskly, 1 seizing her by the haydi, with the familiarisy old acquintaunce, accosted her wvith: 'My dear Maria, how do you do? how left a your worihy father and venerable mother, en disi you come to town ?" A~ll this was expressed with the rapidity and argy of an old and familiar friend, and with air of equality savoring of superiority. The onished fair one had not time to withdraw rhand, and saijl..with some alarm: ' You arc mistaken sir!" a What !" he replied, " is it possible, my dear, Lt you do not know me?" Indeed, I do niot sir." "Neiiher do i you," said the parson. " Good rning madame." And making a ceremonious w, he wvalked away. She was perfectly cured of quizzing strangers the street.-Salem Register. SLOUDER !"-A man lately went to the Post lie, and putting his mouth close np to the livery box, cried out " Louder!" The clerk pposing the man to be deaf, and that he was king a reqnest of him to speak louder, so it he could hear, asked him in a very loud e, the name of the peson for whom lie wan I tihe letter. "Sonder !" cried the man. " What naume ?" yelled the clerk. " Louder !" again bawled tihe man, who now pposed the clerk to be deaf. The clerk took a long breath, and with all ;might again bellowed out in the mia's face same question, "what namle?" This was ne in so lonld a tone that the echo seemed to urn from the far off~ hills. The man started back in alarm, shouting to e vry top of bis big lungs. " Louder, sir, Louder ! I told you Louder ! y mem is nothing cise !" " Oh. abm! oh, ho !" said the clerk, " your name Louder, eh? Didn't think of that; here's >r letter i Mr. Louder, here's your letter." GOOD IlUzo.-lt is the clear blue sky of the ul, on wyhicha every star of talent will shiine ore clearly, and the sun of genius encounter >vapors in his passage. It is the most ex aisit beauty of -a fine;face; a redeeming grace a homely one. It is like the green in a land ape, hlarmnonizing in every color, mellowing s light, and softening the hues of the dark;. like a flute in a full concert of mnstruments, sound, not at first discovered by the ear, yet ling up the breaks in the concord with its sep melody. TnERE are three thousand and fifty.five pub. shers in the United States, two thousand book ilers, fifteen thousamid printers, anid three thou mad fiv handred haakhinderu. From the Charleston Standard. TIM CRISIS OF l186. NO. III. " To do that," (that Is, to resist the anti-slavery ag gression ofa fixed majority of non-slaveholding States,) "concert of action must be necessary-not to save the Union, for it would be then too late-but to save ourselves. Thus, is my view, concert is the one thing needful."-J. C. Calhoun. From the second reply to Mr. Grayson, I give the following paragraph. This pamphlet was published, let it be remembered, in 1850-none but the little corporal's guard sympathizing with the Collector, thinking that it went too far, and not one at that time (this was long before the May Convention of 1851) rebuking it as not going far enough: " In conclusion, I desire to explain more fully my views of our true remedy. By present im mediate, urgent action, I do not mean separate State action. - I consider the dissolution of the Union necessary to our safety, and a matter de sirable in itself. I would, therefore, avoid all measures leading merely to a compromise. The North never has kept, never will keep to its en gagements, and, if its character in this respect were better, that would not alter the case, for :ompromises are not what we seek, we desire peace, safety, freedom from aggression and lia bility to insult. Any compromise of this ques tion would itself be an insult, and would still leave in full action all the machinery of the government already in motion for our ruin. Nothing can stop this action, and put us in a po ition of safety, but a Southern Confederacy. Believing this, I deprecate any movement which might prevent or retard the Union of the South. rhat Union should be one of a people roused to the same feeling, and joined together by a :mmon interest. They should feel that they iave joined willingly and as equals, and that the :ause of each is the cause of all. This result !ould not be accomplished, if a single State were to precipitate measures, without due con Ference with her sister States. It becomes us, therefore, first to exhaust all the measures which may promise to bring about this unanimity of ietion. It becomes us to make sure work in the present movement, for the opportunity once host, may never again be reasonably expected. 3ur acti'on should be decided and prompt, but ts purpose and aini should be to bring the other Rtates up to our position. We should make ue allowance for their present situation. We iave been united whilst they have been divided an the old party grounds. They are now strug. 'ling to break from their former ranks, and take QOSItion in the new organization. This must )e a work of time. The people must be taught hat their old party leaders are deceiving them. 'hose leaders, themselves, may, in many instan es. be brought to a sense of their folly. If, athiot thia ctrnmala iq rinr on. and a spirited aw o6u.. L $ ciuau W U. - ow us Ihe necessity of our position would force is into another compromise, which would serve is it mere patch to cover and conceal the wounds t could never heal." At the time of the publication of these pam hlets there existed in Charleston a " Conmittee >f Safe/y," of which Colonel Isaae W. Hayno ws the Chairman, and and of which Colonel lacob Bond l'On, Mr. James Rose, Mr. A. G. ilagrath, and others, were active miemnhers, and t was well understood that the views, in the nain, of a majority of the committee were ex Pressed in the extracts I have given. At this ime there was not a cloud an hlg as a man's and indicating the tenipest of distraction and livision, which afterwards burst on our people nd rent into fragmients tho Southern Rights 'arty, which, until then, was emphatically the tate. To all outward appcaraince the party vas unanimous, and the voice opposition was till small and impotent. In December, 1850, he ause- of~ division began to be manifested at he session of the Legislature in Columbia. Thoi'se in the Legislature who entertained the aie general views with~ the "Committee of afety" in Charleston, favored the policy, which, appears from a letter of Gov. Troupe's since mblished, received his warm approval. This vas to arm and organize the State, in prepara ion foar a conflict of force, and thus to wait un il our siiter States of the South were ready r a movement. Others deaired to take steps nore dcisive, which wvould commit the State to eesion in any event, even though no other state should join or sustain her. The first car ied their object of organizing and arming, and he recommendation contained in a memorial rom the " Committee of Safety," ini Charleston, repared by Mr. Magrath, were substantially idopted. This, however, was not without op. >osition from many among the most extreme of he resistance nien. To prevent a division in he ranks at that time, a compromise was efe d in the matter of the call of a Convention of lie people. It was, after mtneh parley, agreed hat the election of the members should take >laco in the February following, but the time of neeting left to be fixed by the Legislature at its iext session, the preamb'e to the bill being in he terms following: " Whereas, the Convention of the slavehold fig States, lately assembled at Nashville, have -ecommended to the said States to meet in Con 'ress or Convention, to be held at such time nd place as the States, desiring to be represen :ed may designate, to be composed of double ,he number of their Senators and Representa :ives in the Congress of the United States, en ;rusted with full power and authority to delib 3rate with the view and intention of presenting Further aggressions, and, if possible, of restor ng this constitutional rights of the South, and hf not, to recommend due provision for their Future safety and independence." And the 5th section of the Act ordains a Con vention to assemble " for the purpose, in thejrst place, of taking into consideration the proceed. ins and recommendations of a Congress of the slaveholding States, if the same shall meet and be held ; and for thes further purpose of taking into consieration-)theO general welfare of thi~s State, in view of her relation to the laws and government of the United States, and, thereupon, to take care that the commonwealth of South Carolina shall suffer no detriment." The differences which began to appear soon after became more and more manifest, until the meeting of the Convention of the States Rights Ass'inionis in Charleston, wvhen the irreconcila ble conflict was developed in a form which per mitted of no further parley. An overwhelming majority of that convention decided -to instrnet the convention of the people to pass an Orda nane of separate seecasion for South Carolina, and abide the hazards w'hatevor they miget be. This was resisted by Messrs. Butler, Barnwell, Orr, and a few others. Issue was joined. Bitter parties formed, and with the usual injustice of parties, the position of parties and conduet of umat;dan.1 was grnonly miarmaated. Timre ought to have restored to us cool judgments, right reason, and the disposition to deal fairly with each other. If time has failed to effect this happ result, the necessities of our condi. tion should enforce a reconciliation; not feigned and grudgingly and ungraciously rendered but genuine and cordial. How else can any more be effected at this time than was in 1851 and '521 Without the aid of the Co-operationists of that period the secessionists are powerless now as they were then. If the Co-operationists are in. deed all cowards, and traitors, then all talk of resistance should cease. It is mere " sound and fur signifying nothing." I have undertaken, however, to show that without inconsistency or change all parties may unite in the present crisis. Secessionists would consider it a waste of time to argue that they may be relied on. They have only to respect others to secure respect themselves. Let them relinquish their exclusive claim to patriotism and manhood, and they may be counted for good service. As to Co-operationists, do not the two ex tracts taken from the pamphleta of Messrs. Magrath and Pressley in 1850, meet the pres ent issue? If so, has the party ever shrunk from these positions? What number of the " Committee of Safety" was there who failed in sustaining what was their propositions? But for the most satisfactory exposition of the views and precise position of the Co-operationists we must look to the platform selected by them when they organized as a patty. I conclude the present number with an extract from the resolutions adopted at the meeting in Charleston when they organized as a party, at which Messrs. Butler and Barnwell were present, and letters were read from Judge Cheves, Cols. Orr and Chesnut, and others. This meeting was attended by all the prominent Co-opera tionists of Charleston, who selected as their organ Mr. W. Peronean Finley, a man without guile, who never spoke in a double sense, or was ever known to shrink from a pledge once given. "Resolved, That the aggressive measures of the Federal Government, in eonnection with various exhibitions of public sentiment by the people of the North, through their State gov. ernment and otherwise, for series of years, in dicate, in our opinion, a deep.rooted hostility to the interests of the South, and a settled purpose te deprive the Southern States, on account of their peculiar institutions, of their original rank as sovereigns and equals in this confederacy, and that the Inevitable result of such proceed ings, if allowed to take their course, must ine vitably be the entire abolition of negro slavery in the South, and the erection, in the place of our Federal Union, of a consolidated govern. ment, alike despotic and irresponsible. "Resolved, That in view of the humiliating South may propose, for re-Instating us in the possession of our Equal Rights, and providing as with adequate g'uarantees of our future se.. enrity. " Resolred, That as the subject of controver sy in whieb we are enigaged is not peculiar to South Carolina, but equally concerns the other sveholdingr States of this Union, our only true policy and most proper mode of procedure is, in our opinion, to make common cause wnth our aggrieved Thateerates, and unite with them in couhsel and action to obtain redress for our commo wrongs, " euch concert of action," ae. eording to the views of ournown Calhoun, being is the one thing needful, whether to save the Union, or if (as we believe) that be now too late, then 'to save ourselves.'" A SOUTHERN MANJ. GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITUREs. -The receipts and expenditures of the United States Government for the fiscal year ending June 30th, 1856, are said to have been as fol lows: Receipts......... . .......$13,918,141.46 Expenditures................72,948,792.62 The expenditures on account of public debt were: Payment of Texan creditors..6,820,016.77 Mexican indemnity............3,000.000.00 Domestie debt...............5,956,373.61 Total................15,776,390.38 The revenues were derived from the follow ing sources: Customs.... ...............$64.022,863.50 Lands...................... 8,917,644.93 Miscellaneous................. 977,633.03 A Western newvspaper publishes the follow ing: "'I know an old man who believed that " what was to be, would be." He lived in Missouri, and was one day going out several miles through a region infested in early times by very savage Indians. He always took his gun with him, but this time he found that some of the family had taken it out. As he would not go without it, his friends tantalized him, saying there was no danger of the Indians; that he would not die until his time coine, ninyhow. " Yes," says the old fellow, " but suppose I was to meet an Indian, and his time was come it would not do not to have my gun 1" " Sambo, what animal hazs the greatest quanti v of brains?" '" Don't know, Cuff, 'cept it be the be wvite massa animnal." " No, Sambo, guess agin." " Dent it must be de black nigger animal, Cuff', you and me." " You know noffin, Sambo. It is de hog, you block nigger ; for do you see he carries a hogs head full. Yahi, yaa, you nigger I" "Julius, was you ever in business?"-" In course I was." " What sort of business ?" " A sugar planter." " When was dat, my. col ored friend ?" " Der day I buried dat old sweet heart ob mine." A DISCONSOL.ATE HUSAND.-The Marshal of Cincinnati, a few day. since, received the follow. ing telegraphic despatch from Dayton. We hope for the sake of the " paby" the frow may be caught: Mister Marshal, mine frow runned away mit one d-d Dutchman dis mornin ; she has but von eye, vich is black-t'other eye is black, too, but she lost him. She ish ash big ash a hogs. head. I vonts you to ketch her mit do delegrsph, and send her home to her paby, for if she ton't cooms, I vips her like de debil., ,ALEX. HAVENS. Exceedinely modest young lady " Isn't this a very pretty aby, Mr. B?" Brown-" Yes, miy dear ; is itsa boy or girl?" Young lady-" It belongs to the female per I sftip, sir." THE EPEAl SD Ta E TAIJI WIL iI Am TILNICE ItftSf. If we were allowed. to. purchasteall of our goods, where we would get them cheapest, we should get a much higher price for oursotten. We are aware, that a great many peoplI-icon tend that the Tariff is of great advantage to-as because it gives us a home market -forlonrot ton, and produces a competition bitwe~v e6 land and the North. Let'us see. If there were no duties on goods,?Enqtli would not only supply us, with a greSt inny more than she does, but, she would sell a great deal more to the North, she would consequent. ly want a great deal more of our cottonisid would pay a much better price for it. It would be very easy to show the reason for this; and when we have more leisure weslall perhaps attempt it. For the present, wasbeli content ourselves by showing, - from factsf that the state of the tariff is a thermomsteffr meas. uring the state of the prices of6ottW. The prices of cotton have now failed to .dee46ioan the increase of the tariff-never failed'totg up with its decrease. In 1828, we believe it was, that the tarif 'ct known as the " bill of abominations" waspi0ed. The average price of cotton, for the five pieced. ing years, was 141 cents; for the' uxtufive. years, up to 1833, the average price- as 9-14 cents; in 1838, what was called the eompro'mise was passed, the tariff reduced, and tiWietdon to go on prospectively, until it should1W6dio. ed to twenty percent advalorem for the iext five years, including 1837, the average price w s14 3-10 cents. In 1842, the whig tarif was pa'sed, and for the four years during its existence, the average price was 78-10 cents. This too, it will be remembered, was during a tim'of, pro. found peace and prosperity all over the-world. For the five years preceeding, the passage of this tariff the average price was 1 1610 cents. In 1846, that tariff was repealed, and theDemo. cratic tariff passed, for the next fivetyearsthe average price was 87-10 cents. This periodit will be remembered, included our wart with Mexico and the French revolution. Thielnt five years, includes from begining-to end of4lie war between the three greatest, powers ofEn. rope, and the average price was 96-10;eents. Thus it will be seen that - the difference b. tween the price of cotton, for the five years pre. ceding the passage of the tariff of. 1828 and the five years after, it was nearly five cents per pound; the difference for. the fve years, while it was in force and the five years afterit was reduced, the difference was nearly five enls The fivo years-prededing the passage of the tariff of '42, from 1837 to 1841 incluife,sem braced the most disastros commerelu ev. sions that the world ever saw;-and:yedridg that time the average price of cottonwawithin afraetka eof fem eaEzi nr uThighe ih:- i 3urilt Lhu fon- yes of lii ex.ALer.ce. Vor tho - -rs ;Jter ts repeal, although there a.d rt 1-.ne Fn.c.. o . - i!.;(~ A.'.u Sitia,4#.. -;o (Ga.) Corner Stone. TuE PRnrrER.-The printer, in his folio, he raldeth the world. Now comes tidings of wed dings,mummeries,entertainments,jnbilees, wars, fires, inundations, thefts, murders, massacrei, meteors, comets, spectrums, prodigies, ship wrecks, piracies, sea-fights, law.suits, pleasproc. lamations, embassies, trophies, triumphs, revels, sports, plays; then again as in a new shifted scene, treasons, cheating, tricks, robberies, enor. mous villanles of all kinds, funerals, bafmals, new discoveries, expeditions; now comical, then tragical matters. To-day we hear of new ofli. ces created, to-morrow of great men deposed, and then again of fresh honors conferred: one is set loose, another imprisoned; he thrives, his neighbor turneth bankrupt; now plenty, then again dearth and famine: one runs, another rides, wrangles, laughs, weeps, and so forth. Thus we do hear such like ; both public and private news. -Od Burton. Memory, who can escape it i No sorrow, or sigh or bitter heart-wound can be forgotten er entirely healed. We may seem to forget for a time, and our lives may glide on in apparent tranquility, but in some unexpected moment, a word or look may stir the long silent chord of memory, bringing back each painful event and even thoughts to the mind, and causing a dull leaden pain, as difficult to bear as the first iharp agony. " A wounded spirit, who can bear 1" "'Tis hard, yet howv many of earth's children are suffering in silent, uncomplaining sorrow from an inward woundl R EVOLUTWoNARY SOLDIER GoNE.-Rho Wood. stock (Va.) Tenth Legion publishes the death of Christian Dellinger at tihe advanced. agp of 92 years. He served in the revolutionary war at the age of 17 years, and was present at the siege of York town. LAwN WARanTs.-I& has been decided by Judge Parker, in the Hampshire (Vs.) Cireuit Court, that a bounty land warrant issued under the act of March 3, 1855, was not liable for, nor could it be " in any wise affected by, or ch'argjid with, or subject to, the payment of any bill dr claim incurred by the soldier prior to the lesa ing of the patent." MIAoa BUFoRD.-This -gentleman, says the Alabama Banner, passed through Clayton, Ala., on Wednesday last, en route for his home in E~ufauia. He returns home to devote a brief intermission.from his labors, to busineas, rest and family. A ToAsT.-" Newspaper borrowers."-may theirs be a life of single blessedness; and miay their paths be carpeted with cross eyed snakes; and, may their nights be haunted with .k'nock kneed tom cats, provided they do not live 'next door to a subscriber who has paid for his paper, A'wise man will speak well of his neigbor, love his wife, and pay for his newspaper. WHAT man is there wito, had he a indown his breast, would not speedily clode the brinds. " I say, friend, is there anything .to aaoot about here l" asked a Kentucky sportsman of a little boy. Boy-" Wall, nothing )det 4Aout here, stranger, but the schoolmaster is'dovn'de hill, yonder-you mought pop him over."M CAUSES AND EFFECTs.-It was .obserted~of a deceased lawyer that he had but fewefihets. "No wonder," said a wag, "he had but asfew causes." - .w Kindnesses are stowed away in~thsesarkike bags of lavender In a drawer, and sweeten every object around them. n He that knows his own heart bqt'a sds his own life mothnst yad , lJgs truly'as wrell asebutal will theet to condamn.