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-v -I -,v t - -P -- -. *-t the Pillar of the Temple e, and If it inust fal, we wil Perish amidst the Ruins" -wF.e wIE& SON, Propre o. EDGEFIELD, S. C.OCTOBER 29' 1856. S T IS THE SONG XY KO t SINGS. * DT XCLII COOK. - It is the song my mother sings, And gladly do I-ist thestrain, I never hear it but it brings Th6 wish to heak itasung again She breathed it to me long ago. To lull me to my baby rest, And as she murmured, sof and low, I slept in peace upon her breast. Oh, gentle Song! thou has a throng Of angel tones within thy spell, I feel that I shll'ovethee'long, And fear I love.thee far too well, For though I turn to hear thee now, With doting-glance of warm delight; In afer years I know not how Thy plantive notes may dim my sight. That mother's voice will then be still, I hear it falter day by day, It soun deth like a fountain fill That trembles ere it cease to play, And then this heart, thou gentle Song, Will find an anguish in thy spell; 'Twill wish it could not love so long, Or had not loved thee half so well. y0SETS BABY. Sister Josey's got a baby, (She is but a child herself,) And the baby is a bright eyed, Laughing, cryiig liule elr. Well I mind the April morning II was searcely five years old Addie came with smile of gladuess, And a wondrous tale she told: How a tiny, pretty creature, To our mother's arms was given, How a-white-winged angel brought it From its happy home in Heaven. Mother called our baby Josey, And she was our pet and pride; No one thought of.scolding Josey, When she p M riowkolned or cried. Only think how years crowd round us, Bringing trouble, bringing change Now that baby's got a baby! Bless me! ain't it very strange ? Such a precious, winuiug darling, Eyes of softest, dark grey, Cheeks where blessed cnning dimples Piny hnneen the livelong day. You should hear him laughing gaily, Cooing like a little dove, If you were the crossest fellow, Josey'; baby you would love. TIATS60!. The world gets wiser every day, That's so, that's so; A woman's bound to have her way, That's so, too; To contradict will raise a spree, That's so, that's so; But man with her should still agree, And that's so, too, She carries hoops beneath her skirts, That's so, that's so ; They show her off when'er she flirts, That's so, too; She wears her bonnet very small, That's so, that's so; And flounces if she's very tall, And that's so, too. SPICED VINEGAR, In the winter of '47 while residing in New Orleans, a youth who stood about fie feet eleven and three quarters in his stockings, who hailed from somewhere up the Wabash, was invited by ,a friend to dine at the same house where 1 was boarding. This was the Hoosier's first trip away from home, as he told his friend, who was in the prodnee business,.and had pur chased his cargo of corn. As they took their' seat at the table the youth told, his frend that he would show him all the sights of the town and as he wanted to -lot the folks at home know all about it.- - The servant brought him a plate of soup, and observing a gentleman opposite put considerable catsun in hi dish, ourHoosier pointed to a~ bot tle of peppersauce and asked what it was. "Spiced vinegar," was the reply. " Wal, s'pose you 'blige a feller by handing it along."~ "Certairdy,"~ was the answer. * The Hoosier took the bottlo and commenced .dousing it into his soup, but as the sauce did not flow very freely, lhe took out the cork at the same time observing .to hi.friend-' " Kindercelose folks yer stoppin with, to put| -such a plagny litule hole in that cork, to prevent a feller takin' much cf that stuff. I spose it -comes high, don't it 1" During the time ho had poured nearly a wine glass full into his soup, and taking his spoon lhe dipped it full, togelhe-- with several peppers, and put it into his mouth. The next instant lie apurted the corntents of his spoon across into a French gentleman'' bosiom, and bawled "Water water! snakes and wild cats,give 2nesome waters. .'im alU afire l" "By, gar, sair," exclaimed the Frenehman in a rage, jumping up f'rom~the table, " you have -spiled my shirt, sir. Spoiled everything, sair: Iygar,.I sall see'aboiit thais' sair." * n the ..meantim~e' the Boosier had seized a .pitcher containinig water and had taken a tre .mendons draught. Setting the pitcher down, he . eyed the Frenchman for a moment, and then ~yelld ~"od blast your old shirt! .Sposie4I was goin 4-irhrn my inards out for yo~u or yout old sliirt? You cuss! Come down to the boat and I'lgive you one of mine!" A it was with difficulty that the Hoosier's friend ul~d.allay the Frenchman's rage, and set mat. -1straight again. But ever after "spiced vine. rwas a by-word and suflicient to set' the ..whole table in a roar. [Right here we would take occassion to say, that that Grocery man LEGG, at the Corner, has atbs of the best "Spieed. Vinegar," that ever was brought~ in these .part.-ED. ADY. \A ensorship of the press is about being es. Naliuhed in Spain. Indeed, in no Europeas ,ner. arant nolad-tthenresannac.ked A Boy oF THE TuIA.-We like an active boy-one who has the impulse of the age-ol the steamboat in him. A lazy, plodding, snail-paced chap, might have got along in. the world Gfty years ago, but he don't do for these times. We live in an age of quick ideas. Men think quick, eat, sleep, court and die quick-and slow coaches are not tolera. ted. " Go ahead if you burst your boiler !" is the motto of every one-and he succee'ds the beat who has most or "do or die" in him. Strive, boys, to catch the spirit of the times, be up and dressed always, not gapeing and rub. bing your eyes as if you were half osleep-but be wide awake for whatever may turn up, and you will be somebody before you die. Think, plan, recollect as much as you please before you act, but think quickly, closely, and when you have fixed your eye upon an object spring for the mark at once. But above all things be honest. If you in tend to be an artist, carve in the wood, chisel it in the marble-if a merchant, write it in your ledger. Let honeaty be your guiding star. A PoUNT OF ORDE.-One of the members of the Lower House of New York rejoiced in the namo of Bloss. He had the honor of repre senting the county of Monroe, and if his sagac ity as a legislator did not win for him the res pect of his associates, his eccentricities often ministered to their entertainment. One day, in the midst of a windy harrangue that had be came intolerable for its length and emptiness, a "gassy" member from the metropolis stopped to take a drink of water. Bloss sprang to his feet and cried, . "Mr. Speaker, I call the gentleman from New York to order !" The whole Assembly were startled and stilled; the "member from New York" stood aghast, with the glass in his hand, while the speaker said: " The gentleman from Monrae will please state his point of order." To which Mr. Bloss, with great gravity, re plied: " I submit, sir, that it is not in order for a wind-mill to go by water." It was a shot between wind and water: the verbo.ke orator was confounded, and put himself and his glass down together. BEARDLESS BARLEY.-We have received from Uir. J. N. Briggs, of West Macedon, Wayne :ounty, N. Y., a few heads of barley without beards, and which an accompanying note informs as was originally discovered in the valleys of the Himalayan mountains. Wherever it origi rated it is certain that the specimens before us ire entirely wanting in " those annoying and oisonous beards attached to all our common rarieties." Mr. Briggs informs us that he ob ained seven grains of the new variety a few ars ago, and being much pleased with its gen al appearance-being, we suppose, an anti nousache and "pro-slavery" man-spared no mins to multiply it as fast as. the Shanghais Lnd other birds would allow. That his experi mypersosi '' d i t vili one postage stamp, will receive from him me head of barley, containing from thirty to ixty grains. Mr. Briggs is very desirous or iaving trhis remarkable grain thoroughly tested, tnd hopes that every grower of barley in the :ountry will at least give it a trial. DFXmAL ENTERPrIsE.-Dead Englishmen's ,eeth, collected on the battle fields in the Cri nea, are now in great demand by the London and Pari, dentists. The price current of hdman vory has greatly fluctunated recently, owing to .he quantities of deceased soldiers' masticators int into the market. It is stated that the idea irt entered the heids of some Londoners to ;end voyaging clerks to the seat of war in search if teeth. The harvest was a good orie appar. mntly, and promises to yield a remarkable price, s connoisseurs vaunt the superiority or English nen's an.l lighlander's teeth over all others he Coldstreamis chaps particularly had famous prnished jaws, and it may be a comfort to their teparted spirits to see at least one portion of heir mortal selves take the journey back to ondon to be polished and soine in the kindest nanner. HAnD TO FIND.-A man who never declines fice on account of "ceircumstances over which ie has no control." A merchant who has never said that his biusi ess was " only tolerably good, and money hard to get these times." A man who never took the beam out of his >wn eyes. A ereditor who is never " very much in need >f money." A politician who never invited " particular ttention to his public acts, or challenged a strict nestigation without party prejudice to his ea reer while representing a constituent on a for nr occasion." A statesman who is governed solely by a de ire to benefit the public. A thinking man who is not disliked by fool. A preacher of small intellect, depending more an the power of a sanctimonious long fsee, for a passport through life, than for any important good he could accomplish, rebuked a brother, for his social fire-side and perhaps some frivo lous conversation: " Brother," he was answered, " I keep my nonsense for the fire-side, while yeu give yours from the pulpit." A SING T.E POINT OF YIEw.--A prodigious deal has been said and wvritton for and against mar ringe-for and against celibacy-and the ques tion has not yet been solved. Punch is too nreful to lay hands on so thorny a subject; but this much he does not mind saying: that it i always open to the bachelor to try marriage as soon as he has discovered the error of.his ways, but it is not quite so easy for the married mni to turn bachelor. GENTLE SATIRES.-H-OW much more diflicult it is to get a woman out on a wet Sunday than on a wet week day. Can the shut shops have anything to do with this? The oddest muemonic curiosity is, that wo man, who never knows her own age, knows to half an hour that of all her female friends. If you ask a lady to walk out -with you, she first l'ooks at your dress and then thinks of her own. Notice, when you have accompanied your wife to buy a lot of things at her favorite shop, w hat ostentatious care she takes of your inter est in seeing that you get " the right change." A gipsy woman promised to show two young women their husbands' faces in a pail of water. They looked and exclaimed: "Why, we only see our faces." " Well," said the gipsy, .those faces will be your husbands' when you are mar. ried." A -gentleman having done somneting wrong in a public garden of Paris, and being called to an account for it by one of the guardians, said te him: "If I were to put a dollar upon each of your eyes, could you see ?" The answrer was: " No, and if I had another upon my mouth I ponld not speak." The type of chills and fevers in Anne Arun del county,:Md., is of rather a violent nature. An editor of that section spaaks of a visit he had the other day from rather a. queer genius, named Tom, when the -following dialogue en sued: "How do you do, old fellow?" " Hello, Tom," said we, "where have you been so long ?" "Why, sir, I have been down on Seven Riv er, in Anne Arundel county, taking Shanghai notes on the chills and fever." "Ah, indeed," said we, " are they very bad down there ?" " Rather bad," said Tom, drily. " There is one place where they have been trying to build a brick house for eight weeks-well, the other day, as the hands were getting up the bricks, preparatory to finishing it, they were taken with a chill, and shook the whole building completely down, and kept on shaking, till the bricks were dust of the finest quality! Just at this june. ture, the chills came on with renewed force, and they commenced shaking up the dust with such a gusto that they were entirely obscured for two hours, and the people of the neighborhood thought the sun was in an eclipse." "Can't believe nothing like that, Tom." "It's a fact!" said Tom, and resumed: "There's a farmer down there, who, in apple picking season, hauls his negroes out to the or chard, and sets one against each tree. In a short time the chill comes on, and every apple in the orchard is shaken off -the tree on to the ground." "Incredible !" said we, holding our sides with both hands.' "Fact," said Tom, " they keep a man along aide of each negro to take him away as soon as the fruit is off, for fear he will shake the tree down." Tom continued : "Mr. S- , a friend of mine, and a house carpenter, were engaged a few days ago in covering the roof of a house with shingles. Just as he was " finishing," the chill came on and he shook every shingle off the roof.. Some of them are supposed-to be flying about yet. " Another gentleman near the same place was taken with a chill the other day at* dinner, and shook his knife and fork down his throat, beside breaking all the crockery on the table. His little son, who was sitting at the table at the same time, was taken with a chill and shook all the buttons off his inexpressibles, and then shook himself clear of them!" We then prevailed upon Tom to desist, who did so, with the understanding that he was to give us the balance at some future time. Persons who think of emigrating to Anne Arundel county, will please take notice. - "" I always thought so!" is the very wise remark whielf every body makes when the most unlikely thing in the world has just happened. It argues great penetration and foresight, and as no one has a right to dispute the remark, we, ma&Yfancy it.-i.believed. Prison in -, and a very judicious oppoint ment it was. The old gentleman had retired from active pastoral labor, and his venerable ap pearance and gentle manner were fitted to in spire respect even among theives. When the ftet of his ap.pointment was made known, a member of the Methodist Church, residing with in one of the circuits where Father Jones had preached for many years and was well known, having some business to transaet with one of his neighbors, thought lie would have a joke at the expense of old Mr. Jones, and astonish his neighbor, into the bargain. Now this neighbor Brown, had been a great admirer of Father Jones, had shouted the loudest under his preach. ing, and cheered him with the heartiest Amen ! So to him came the humorous friend, Mr. Smith, and cried out to him over the fence, as he found him at his work : - ' "Brother Brown, have you heard the news ?" " Why, no. What news, Brother Smith ?" " Well, they say old Father Jones has been sent to the State Prison ?" "You don't say so, Brother Smith ! Is it really a fact !" "I guess it's so," says Smith; "I heard it from Brother Cook, and he saw it in the paper, and I guess there's no mistake about it." "Well, well! Now, Brother Smith, I'll tell you a thing or two that i neVer did tell any body before, not even my wife. T1.he fact is, between you and mec and that stone wall, I always thought that old Jones wasn't just exactly the right kind of a man; and when he was hero I used to think he'd get into the State Prison one of these days. I think the old sinner ila better in it than out amongst honest folks." Mr. Smith left him without explaining the misapprehension, preferring that the scandal loving Brown should find out his error by de grees. All the world does love to kick a man going down hill. INOPPoRTUNE QUoING OF BaRIIS AUTHOR! TIES.-British authorities in our courts arc con sidered standard authorities for reference on doubtful points of law. The late Judge Dan. iels, of Virginia, used to tell us how, with great glee, when a young man, on the circuit, he saved a client's life, solely because the opposite coun sel quoted from British authorities. It occurred during the last war, when the English squadron, under Admiral Cockbarn, were ascending the Potomae river, burning and plundering the v'il lages along its banks; a negro man was ar raigned for the murder of one of his own color ; the offence. wvas clearly proved and the only chance for his escape was a slight informality in the indictment. The prosecuting attorney, in reply to Mr. Datniel's defence of his client, quo ted from British authorities, showing elearly that the ground taken by the latter wiis untenable. While he was quoting and speaking, at inter. v'als, bang ! bang ! wvent the cannes from the British squadron. Daniels rose to answer, and with groat tact seized hold of the strong point of his opponent's cause turning it completely over against him. " Gentlemen," said he to the bench, " the pros ecuting attorney quotes on this occasion from .British authorities! British authorities, gentle men ! -Can there be any one in this court room except himself so dead to -feelings of patriotism as at such a moment to listen to British authori ties, when Britis's cannon are shaking the very walls of this court-house to their foundation ? [ pause for a reply." Up jumped one of the justices,'higlily excited at this appeal, and thus addressed the prosecu ting attorney : " Look here, Mr. A---you had better strike a bee line from this court-ho~use with your British authorities, or ll commit you! Prisoner, you can go I Crier adjourn the court I British authorities be d--d." The prosecuting attorney h.as struak all in a heap at these extra judicial proceedings, and resigned his office the very next day. WtH yotu See a girl so weak that she can't sweepi out her own seven by nine chamber, and can go to a ball and dance all night with the power ofa locomotive, make up your mind that she is "got 1ip on bad princi les.' The sooner you takes your lat.an'd 'abaqatulate the better. Such a sort of calico as ee the everlasting rnin of many a mart To the Editors of theLoat' oMZ: SAVAmNiin, GA. 81856. GKNtirEMEN: Yesterday, I jn a list of overone hundred subscribers a check for one 'hundred and seventy-f dol!ars. That list might have been almost sa large but for one error you have commi -recently, and I trust you will permit me to -dispassion ately with you aboutc that err eause, while I utterly reprobate the course those members of our party who refuse to n you because you have offended them inA'the mes, never theless I cannot endorse your rae, and, with your permission, will succinc state the rea. sons that impel my judgment repudiate both your conduct and theirs. It your severe strictures against Col. Brook .8. C., I allude, and you shall soon see my ob 'ons to them rest on a higher ground than onal prejudice or sympathy. In the first p] hat did Col. Brooks do? He committed uit and bat tery on Senator Sumner. t In the Sen. ato Chamber, after the Sena had. adjourned. Why did he do it ? Because mner had out raged decency, sunk the dign of the Senate, and degraded the American c ter by the ap plication of epithets opprobrio .. and insulting to the State of South Caroli and to one of her venerable Senators who the kinsman of Col. Brooks, and moreove nt- at the time. Where occurred the first blu .in tbe record ? It occurred when the Preside of the Senate allowed Sumner to use the age he did without calling him to order. e y tis was not the fault of Col. Brooks. N let us review the position of Col. B. He native son of the Palmetto State. Ho *aHe his post in the Lower House at the time. I not mountains, valleys, plains, rushing rive or silver lakes that make a State--but her I and her people -their mental, moral, and p I attributes, principles, and idiosyneracies. When you denounce a Sta you denounce every man and woman in it. ol. Brooks had heard the wife of his bosom, e mother- that bore him, his consanguinity a affinity, his old school mates, and his compan s on " the tent ed fields and embattled plaI of the tropics, where lie followed the " stars d.stf-ipes" (when Sumner was at home studyl illingagate rhet oric, it may be, with which t aduce and'villifv Souli Carolina), his "old ends -and true friends," and, though " last u least," his con. fiding constituency, all at- -fell swoop de nounced and held up to the- oration of man' kind, under the dancing i es of ridicule's attractive phesphorescenee.-' ow what is. he to do? He is young. He is b i. He is noble. Like all other young, brave, a noble men, he has sensibilities. The Pa~ n arrows of Sum ner are rankling in his boso What his im. pulses are all -may imagin t what are his duties and his rights, mora d legal? This requires us to look for a mo tintoithe organ ization of society. Society' 'its appropriate tribunals to take cognizan of-alls issues of ethics'or law, of either a . li' or a private character. They are four. - ' rst three are the Equity, Common Law of -ostedj tLtfUMn can be tried twice for the same offence, in any form or forum, and no two tribunals can obtain juri-diction of the same case. When Equity gets jurisdiction it keeps it, and ousts the jurisdiction of the Com mon Law. If a man commits murder wiLh a club, the offenco of assault and battery is merged in the homicide, and when he is acquitted or convicted of the latter, he cannot be afterwards indicted and tried for the former offence. In all cases the major merges the minor of'enee. This is wise and well; were it otherwise, malice, abetted by capital, might wear out the existence and conpume the resources of innocence and poverty-make life a curse and justice a mocke ry. Of what cases has public opinion jurisdic tion ? Only such as no other court can take ognizance of. This is the proper interpretation by a parity of reasoning of the organization of our Government. What cases are they? All instances of moral turpitude which do not vio late a penal statute. Any others? Nay, not one. Why? Because the office of a tribunal's jdgment is punislimenit, and when that judgment s rendered by a competent tribunal it must shoc.k vry eexalted sense of right and justice an honora ble heart can reel or soul can conceive of to allow, oitrry to the letter and spirit of' our .theory f' government, another tribunal to usurp juris ietiun of the saime case, and try him over again. t would lead to a sacrilegious desecration of the ermine by the demoniac spirits of fanaticism, ho would try their victim in his absence, refuse im the right to cross-exaimine their perjured itnesses, refuse to hear his witnesses, though they were corroborated in their truth by winged ngels and divine revelations, and condemn and xecute him, it matters not what may have been the v'erdidt at' that impartial tribunal where in the presence of God and under the injunctinn f oaths justice may have been already amply ad ministered. Now, what is the oharge against Col. Brooks? Assault and battery. This, then, is a mnisdemnea nor provided for in the penal code. In it all im morality is merged like assault and battery is in omicide, when death ensues therefrom. The criminal court has jurisdiction of it, and in as sming that jurisdiction which it did, It ousted the jurisdiction of public opinion, and contrac ted to do justice between the brc' en law and the law-breaker. Let us return for a moment to the rights and duties of Col. B. in his unpleas antly delicate position. Had he been insulted ? f he was a gentleman, and worthy of that soil on which the light of Heaven first broke upon his infant vision, "' had. Sensitiveness of hon or and State pride at the heaven-born instinets of the lofty soul. . it criminal to love your mother ? If it is, let us " all curse and quit !' Who planted that love in our heart? Nature's God. What for? Wiser purposes than you or I wot of; but in it there Is religion. It is pecu liar to no race, class, or sect. If it is an infirmni ty, it is a bright one, and has outshone the best virtues that have struggled in the darkest ages to redeem the moat depraved and adorn the most exalted natIons. It burns ini my heart at this moment. I never hear the crack of a rIfle that it does not remind me of the glory of our sires. Kentucky, "my own, my native land," there are but tree things on this earth I _love as well-the wife of myb bosom, the offspring she ias born me, and that honor of my soul and haracter that is necessary to their happiness and that of my own. The man that eneers in my presence at the "Dark and Bloody Grounds" becomps at that moment the outlaw of iy con tempt. This proves to we the perfection of God's work, and his design that the love of spots and the emulation of races should redound to the :erection of governments, and the perpe tuity of salutary distinctions in the human family. The love of Col. Brooks for South Carolina that made hIm return the blow given to her is a virtue too noble and too fresh from the hallow ing breath of Heaven to endure the contact of a groveling sentiment of any imaginable descrip tion, and in'his bosom, on mny soul, I do not be lieve a dishonorable purpose ever folded its rav en wing. But by whom had the indignity' been offered? A4Josng man, his superior in s4tip wer"i'nd, if he..had had the spint to havetfought Em like aia ianmstead of playing the woman, i. an atampt to disarm him he awk* have over. come him. Would:tho aggressor respond to a 01 challenge? No. He will cry .now if you hint w fight to him. He is an overgrown, blustering calf; valiant In vapor, and vaporing .in- valor. V His own friends admit that his physical con. -is stitution was so literally shattered, with fright, ti< that it is by no means certain yet 'that the be sight of canes he. is daily exposed to, in a M fashionable world, will not end his days in sa a mad-house. Say cane to him and he will s faint quicker. than ever Pierce did at. the snort th of a foaming oharger. Is resentment not both bi natural and legitimate, when insult exasperates w, feeling? It is more than all that it hecomes aa duty, if not a necessity, when impunit7 may in- 4' vite its repetition. In this State, on page 841 Ae of the Digest of the Laws of Georgia, is the th following statute: " See. 841. On the trial of nc any indictment for assault or an assault and u battery, the defendant may give in evidence to to the jury any opprobrious words or abusive Ian- kv guage used by the prosecutor or person assault- m ed or beaten; and suck works and language w may or may not amount to a justification, ac. t cording to the natuie and extent of the battery; nl1 all which shall be determined by the jury." D This places the beggar on a level with the ro millionaire, and allows the medicant to hold up di his head and feel that he is a man. He does be not have to pocket an insult because his pocket no is empty, but, without endangering the crumb mi that feeds his needy offspring, he may maul the "I haughty scoundrel who taunts his freeborn and an independent spirit with unbearable affronts. w( Then it would seem that'in the region Col. B. hi was reared resentment is not only regarded as a ha right, but, by implication, made a duty, and, on being esteemed too precious for the monopoly no of opulence, is placed by a special statute with- g in the reach of the lowest humility and most PO abject penury that when forced to blush may in burn to strik3. Had not the Senate in this case co; refused to interfere, and, by its guilty silence, ell said to Sumner, rail on-vomit your filthy black. the gnardisms upon South Carolina and her white. vc haired and absent Senator, aye, let the exquisite lo virulence of your venom-draw over -her limbs in and his the fabled shirt of Nessus until, all .il seething and festering in moral putrefaction, if they stink in the nostrils of all Christendem. frc Free speech is your birth-right, and we will hear th< you and so shall the nation, and, what is alas! tic still more mortifying, so shall all nations. Now b] what is Col. B. to do ? Obey the high and holy Is impulses of nature. Prove neither false to hin- trc self, his housqhould, constituency, nor State. its Meet this dirty onslaught with a manly resent. thi ment, and teach the world that, albeit raving efi fanaticism may hate, botter men shall respect en South Carolina and her proud race of brave. m< .born sons. He opens the statutes, reads the die penalty for assault and battery, decides to meet "a it, hunts, cane in hand, for two days through fut highways and by-ways for the skulking libeller, ce and when exhausted in patience and disgusted 0i? with delay.he finds himtat last, and, quietly.ap. tie p-oaching him.in front;looking him .nthe-eye th and warning him of his intention, f.eathers in on th him.Wth A small cane and.gives him a filoderate Pu we Of. course the highest offence he committ M was charged in the indictment. He is arraigned vu and tried by the only tribunal entitled to take i cognizance of the case, is found guilty, fined and itR paid the fine. New was he not fined enough ? cO rhat is not Col. B.'s fault. le " faced the mu. lii sic." He stood up in court expressly to be fined an enough. . im Curse Judge Crawford then if he was permit. d" ted to escape too lightly. Would the law not a-i admit of an adequate fine being imposed in the case ? Blame the law-makers then for that again th can be no fault of Col. B.'s. But a word about be the place. What sort of superstitious horror is this, you editors 'of the country, who are the judges who preside in the court'of public opin- du ion, and deliver its decisions, are essaying to of inspire sane minds with about the holiness of B place ? I take it that the U. S. Senate chamber is, when that body is not in session, a ten thou- n sand times less sacred place than the lowest hut a on the sea beach, where the prattle of a fisher- .r man's babe proclaims the harth of a home In it heaven's high and holy name, don't insult comn- fri mon sense and provoike the laugh of scorn by making appeals in the meridian of the 19th d century to such passions as peopled the dark ages with hideous .and frantic phantoms. The a hurns of oracle altars have been found out to mm be hollow, and had to be bored and sawed off tri long ago. We have no sacred political places in this enlightened age and country, and, if the U. S. Senate ever was sacred, the presence and conduct of dirty-mouthed abolItionists haveth long since profaned and degraded it, and if it is Dit a fit place for them to vomit their slimie, it is the best of all places to make them, dog-like, ma return to their vomit and gulp it down, or sub. mit to have their noses rubbed in it. But you Br have committed another error. When the ceun- be try was crazy about Matt. Ward's case, your the faming sword gleamed amid the gloaming dark-sr ness of popular madness and folly with a light ne celestial, as you fought the battle of eternal jus. do tice against the infernal demons of prejudice an< that sought to pollute the pure fountains of pub. bol lic justice by heaving ihto them the dirt aiid rub- his bsh of prejudice b-fore the proper tribunal had di; heard and past upon the merits of the case. of Then you were right, and you won the applause of every legal mind in the Union by the brilliant -' triumphs of your genius over the blind;, wicked, o and abominable moral heresies of your silly ofW mad-cap and hell-bound adversaries. But in d your hot haste to pre.judge Col. Brooks you wI soil the laurels yostwon in that memorable con fict, by anticipating pubice justice and inditing infammatory phillippies against Col. B. before y he has had his trial. for Well may Col. Brooks say to you and others, 00 " Saul ! Saul I why persecutest thou me t" if he ref were one of the meek and lowly type of men. You tried him before he was legally tried, and condemned him. You saw him legally tried and R condemned and then you tried him over again, g and again condemn him, and what I wvant to in know is,. " in the name of all the gods at once," ke when and where are you going to stop trying vs and condemning him. Allowv me to tell you, at he is no coward, no villain, no blackguard. All th these epithets may belo.ng to. Sumner, but do bo not belong to Brooks, and witty as you are, brave as you are, fierce as you are, and mentally powerful as you are, you may hurl the anathe. R mnas of your invective against him, until the earth quakes,tanld the heavens trenblp and Col. se Brookcs still will havd millions of irreproachable N witnesses to bear the highest testimony to his' m valor, discretion, and Integrity. If calling bold ta men cowards could only make them such, then he would Col. B. be one indeed, and I dare say it ci would not be long until the flippancy . of dlas. frt tards would commit the destinies of a chicken. se hearted worldsto the reign of a despotism of cr poltroonery'. The Journal has more influence Eu with me than all other paj'a in the Union, but lv in this matter, while I regret the necessity that w forced Brooks to cane Sumner, I am ready to exclaim, " Well done, thou good and' faithful servant," under like circumstances "hit him is again I" make him hold his tongue or hold.his ar own, be dagesz or be silent, one or the other. . h Now let me put our Amerlean friendas, who re- f fuse to support you in consequence .of your ar course in tis1 matter, through a brief Ug.gg ,b sprouts,". and conclude.. In Ih.fimt- place hat .eat issues is before the public now To be ornot to be." Unjoh. or. dissolution Fhat is the Union w'orth ?. Everything. .How it to be saved? Only by the election ofa na mnol President.: How many national men are afore the.; people for that offie But one rho is he? MillardFillore. Fremont's:wife ye he is a sectional fanatic, and Buchanan him. If says he is nobody any more. It would seem e Democracy have persisted With such inflexi e pertinacity so long in nominating men who are before their noimination nobody, that their pirants have been educated,- by the force of bitual reflection, to feel that If they were any. dy before they.were nominated, by virtue of sir nomination they e- instante must become body. With them success seems to depend on it. Is this not a crisis in which we .ought have somebody for a President? I alwaye ew the Democracy were easily -led, and st11 Dre easily - misled, bl .never dreamed they uld openly consent, before heaven and earth, follow the lea&of a man who vanishes into a neutity under the touches of his own pencil. .mocracy was once a conglomeration of hote. genous principles. But those principles have Ad out with the dry rot, and Democracy has come a spirit, and an evil one at that. It is w the god of a party, and its worshippers ght-well Iut the motto of Mahomet In two, [here is but one -god". (to-wit, Dembcraty), a inscribe It on their .-banners; but truth mId require them to add, "Our candidate is i prophet." Unlike the Mecca Pilgrims, they ve no respect for the illustrious dead. Jeffer Madison, Jackson, and Polk are all nobody w. They were hailed as prophets of the d a living candidate to -wear the livery of a litical propbet, and lead .a multitude, famish. r for treasury pap. The almost unanimous ncentration' of the Northern vote in the Cin inati convention, every time, on Buchanan, and a dogged obstinacy of the Suth in openly ting against him for sixteen consecutive bal-. a, until you can almost hear their tieth grit fancy as they say no the sixteenth irne, is her without meaning orfil of meaning; and, it isl1 of meaning, -it redeems that body Im e imputation of silliness, by branding ,m with sectional purposes. In the dissolu n of this Union such purposes: must inevita r teminate. 'Now what paper in the Union worth mbre than all' others to stay this catas phy? The Louisville Journal. How? By fearless, eloquent, and powerful defense of a Constitution and the Union; and its intrepid icient and enthusiastic advocacy of the pre. inent claims of Millard Fillmore to the unani. ius suffrages of the conservative-men of this itressed land. What are the elements neces -y to make an editor efficient, able, and use I? Courage, wit,'learning, research, industry, mmnn sense, and in ndence. Is he to fol V in the trail of public opinion, like a dog, d to a ricketty, creaking*' on," troltii in i rear.? Nohdi.inust play hii..pioneer,.blaze wiy for public opinion, anif blaze away at blic opinion wh'en it wandera from.the way Ision and disgustthait the Loujava e. o-rA, a crisis like the present, whe'a it carries upon bright wings' the' last hope bf Ia inking ntry, is to be rejected by the very' men, tdf ' in the same vineyard, for the same devout I hallowed purposes, only because upon an material issue that journal has the indepen. ice- to express opinions incompatible -with air pre-existing prejudices.' Men's passions i the same in all ages; climates, and races, but felicity of Providential wisdom is nowhere Lter asserted than in the countless hues and ides of difference that divide men's opinions. hen weftel we may agree, but when we rea & we are liable to differ, and if I cannot en re and respect your views, what is to become mine, that I want you to hear and consider. it the discussion of such a proposition is be %th the dignity of argument and without the le of that tempor which self respect and good )eding impose upon the lash of criticism, when ,s to fall upon the preposterous vagaries of a and. The Brooks and Sumner rencounter as a personal matter until it got into court; ire it should have stopped forever. An inci. ital allusion to it is all that propriety can metion any press in making. -Its discussion ist be fraught with agitation's interminable ins of evils, and for that reason, at this time, POLITiCALLY, RADICALLY, AND ESSENTIALLY loNG. A, H. H. D. ANw ATRCClotrs MUEDE.-We regret to learn 4t Mr. Edward Brown, formerly of Chester atrict, S. C., but residing at Portersville, sun.) was murdered on the 7th instant, by a n named Thbou. D. Hoffler. r'he circumstances are briefly sthese: Mr. awn and Hoffier had a 'difficulty which had an partially adjusted. but on the morning of 7th, as Mr. Brown was passing 'upon the eet to procure passage to Memphis, on busi is, he was met by Hoffler who presented a table-barrelled shot gun loaded with buck-shot, I without notice, discharged at Mr. Brown thsbuarrels, lodging fifty-seven of the shot in breast. He died Instantly. Hoffler imme tely fled from justice, but a reward has been erod for his apprehension. SMr. Brown was one of the brave Palmettoes o went out from Cheater under the command Capt. Dunnovant, and durig the Campaign n for hihnself, by his conduct and devotion to ty, the admiration and esteem of all with Loin he became associated.-Carolinia Times. J. W. Barker, a prominent Know-liothing litician of New York, and former candidate ' Mayor, has commenced a libel suit for 620, (1 against the New York Tribune for personal lections on his character. THE JEWS-The New York Post, of Friday, is:-" Some important auction sales of dry ods were postponed from yesterday to to-day, consequence of yesterday being a' holy day, pt so by our hewish brethren. Auctioneers lne greatly the attendance of Jewish buyers their sales, they giving considerable tone to market, forming not only a consuiderable class t an ififuential one." THE ALABAArA CoTnoN Cso.--The Selma lotr, of Wednesday '7th Inst., says: Iisnow reduced to a certainty that the pre nt cotton crop will be exceedingly 'short. itwithstanding the disastrous spring and sum er which we had. yet hopes had been enter ined from later indications that thecrop wduld an average one; but the early front has now impletely dispelled every hope, and acgunts om every quarter have now satisfied every 'usible man that. we are to have the shortest op which we have had for many years past. any of our planters will finish picking' this sek, and in the course of a -few weeks the hole crop of Alabama will be gathered. IT is said there are over 20,000 lepers inrt. h India. ThejTorm themselves in large banrda id go about levying black mail upon the in, abitanta,:threatening If money aufood is not arnished them, to bathe in. the -wells dadthat afeet thaen. -Thea~datteto of Gowerment-ba eencalled to this hbid au~eet.. "* - w- mmUREGTB3rEANw.~nd.i'~ The St. Wiout R-Nbleiesnof-'ime says:-"The misguided emigrana to Dminas early in the sphrg, cin ne -that Territory,1h all dlreetions. "Thewike met in scattering ma sickly ind ' seabeT~imiby '1 & spent all thei'r ioniy,-huie tah1 - W i little effedts, had crossed the -ve .a -kowilon their way to-thefrhomes or'e tnos 160g seeluded cornerof.t*e '-wildeu*oisteeb'lf prairie, where they wille a'pee's L "Every boat which comisaum: the MissowA has among her-pasengers- ime 'of thee)ped. ple. We saw them-onee W'efore; in 4he.aW spring, when'th-wentap-the river,' .tw.an. ney in their-pockets,'hope ii their hearWkilth in their blood,and thi world-befo'ee thet. '1vis ' Tb were-thsu in companiesfdandridige they had family iree, and lookd-happrusw took quarters in the eabins of'steambeatuy af partook of the laxury of repose. andrM ous table. -They-were th akng who would do honor to any.-new.coun ryI' - "We now see:.them in aquada 'of' ied'ti twenties; crippled, sickly,: and- a iely-pos6 erty-stricken-:erowded upon the' soF 2teud. boats, almost begging their -way.'aek - lr homes they left but a few. fhonths-befora4."id civil war in Kansas baa wroughballithaifdhlef -doomed many a hopeful hear s dsspaind death, and embittered -the; lIves isb1hwsd s more whose piteoui'stbriirthe wdridni ltnet6 know. *--- * P * * T9m "The time will come whenithe pubidelle wil[ be In a teniper tv :hWbowr: anddy wibis instrumentality was thisidistres aiiatoinsy broughtiabout' ' Wh'at agecylhbad thi-CM# gressional Aid Society, and the%-Ma'. s evbu Emigrant Aid Soelety, 'an1 the - debev. 4he Sillimans, the Greeleys, the Quine k>he:ei"l ners, and theGerrit Smiths, in: eduingkthl people, and thousands of-othefss to beggryAwld squalid wretchedness-in introducing mki"d and rapine,,and desolation throughouttlier ritory of Kansas It will be festfuldreehour Ing, but one whicir will as surely overtake them as that there is a God in Heaver, wito sees ;he wickedness of men on earth, aidpuatishestham for their iniquities. . ' - BBaowl-A CoNaTsTENT' i The. Daughe f. Freon a Niger -.What ars..uwos. C,.',T following is, from a. Crawfordavl s paper. Read it,.and b.atonishr "The dootrie,.that has been s bo.dy 4.' cated by the leaders of. the-Abolition ring the last year," thatAegro wpag to as a white man, has become...with a iiptyior theomembers of-that party, sxc , e?0i o longer than.last week, a man residingai-the$ clnity cf-Oberlin Collegein;the State of Ohwe, gave his only ahtere marriage- tota. set African, who hadee ede ated at this lion InstItute. This man, we u4derstaal, ' .Sltt Elector the~mppt the neg ai.ul.a scribed as-being eits sxibepye sol l. pr'o to .6f to r tallr tanta in.their distrists th. fee. exercise of .theirpligonAhe may hear of no more peCrsetp1,Qf'b*, and that they may never againb be 4n theirworabip. . Hors.-We hear of no improvnt wd er in hogs, says the Louisville Courier,: for the approaching paekingneatson.. Thpfarmersen erally are pretty.firm, havingA good store of old corn on hand, and asking five cents .gross for their hogs for early delivery. This is equal to about six and one-half cents net a0 the packipg houses, while buyers are offering six. cents not with no sales reported. GEN. Lzwis CAss.-A correspondent of the Philadelphia Ledger, writing from Detroit tlis speaks of this veteran Senator: Gen. Cas& is juvenizing. He positivsly looks better than! have seen him for years past, though he Is canvassing.the length and breadth of' the State, and speaking once or twice every- day. -He baa jast passed his '74th year, but appears as active and youthful as ever. All who hear hims avow that be has never, on any previous occa sions, been as eloquent as now. I was myself present whop he drew a picture of sthe conse quences of disunion, which would .have 'made angels weep. The people shouted, while the old man eloquent was. himself moved, to tears by the picture his imaginatios.,had bodied forth. THE SounD OF THE CHacg.Gpmo 28%J.-A letter from .Widden, Turkey, of August 27th says, " we have this morning heard a sowid which the.people.of Bulgaria have not heard for ages, the sound of a bell .calling the Ghfjistians to church to thank God that thie Sultan'has been pleased to restore to us ocur liberty of woryhip. 4. Wiiiden is the first Bulgarian town that has re ceived a bell.. A WEDDIfo.--A wedding came .of at the court house one day last week, in 'which the biride wasourteen and the - bridegom seety odd, years of age. They wore -th chidren, the one in her first, the other in his seconds~hild hood. There was present at the nuptlal'eerb. mony adau hter of .the "old gentlema"Kol1d as the bridesa mother-Havana (Ill.) Heraif.' A weddlig took place last week, at the Court House In one of the districts of this? Btste;'n which the bride was one hundred and' twedly (120), and the bridegroom (12) years old. Bo~.h were in the prime of life. There was' -present at the uptial ceremony a son of the bride older than the bridegroom's father.-Exchange. WE clip the following fromn the 'iovId e Post: " A noted Abolition erator, :whose itick in trade Is of the flimsy, highfahgtenl onier, usk ed very solemnly of his audee"dn(Nio is John C. FremnU 7'. .A fle'mocrat who was litening .to the harangue,.and observed. the silence which followed. rose anda. replikil. ~" An eminent carde.dealer!" which' broaigb orn the house," and thme spedker too." -2,, A German prince in a dresa, 4In11100e rats-one fat, the other lean, and the thi~d~m ..sent for a celebrated Bqhemiah gpyaid a.. mandedan explanation. '"hefs bad1 soceress,1Is your- prime minister,' h ~a)a your people, and the blind rat_,yde1L DisNdI NOT 13tGEJ0~8t C' W t~imes says: The ChurchmanaeIip 9 ppr of thscity, of mucne~ d.m and siea1thful aIs e1'" " God is not dishonor ii t;o $1So~ ry, thePsalmst says," e~1~ jqi name In the dinee. At d be1vny' puritanism In ihi4 orld tq. staniding. ? ~ ~ I the hot -o~i alfa market, aak emontism,an