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"We will cling to the Pillars of the Temple of our Liberties, and if it must fall, we will Peris amidst the Ruins." SIRNS, DURISOE & CO., Proprietors.ED E IL ,S'JF B U R 18187VL.IL-O. From the Savannah Morning News. TO THE KEXORY OF PRESTON 0. BROOKS. BY NINA. And must thy chords, my lyre, be strung To lays of grief and woe like this 1 Must patriots' death by thee be sung, That fatal knell of hope and bliss, Which thro' the Soutlern States hath cast A grief and gloom that long must last I He's dead-whole ages may decay Ere one so noble, true and brave, Shall give to world so bright a ray As sunk with him into the grave! Then veil your souls with grief's dark woe, And wail the loss to world below! Tho' noble, valiant, brave and bold, He yet was gentle, soft and kind Ilis soul, like Honor's brightest gold, Ills mind was polish'd and refin'd A son of Freedom's own bright clime, His deeds will live throughout all timo! Cold new the open heart and hand, That once to needy succor brought; Still'd is the voice thro' native land That e'er with patriot's zeal was fraught, Can none the loss of him supply, So early called to regions high 1 Tho' other noble sons may raise Their voice for truth and freedom high, And crown their brow with glory's blaze, Yet never will remembrance die Of BRooKs, the true, the noble one, The patriot brave, America's son. Then weep, ye States! his loss deplore, As slowly tolls his funeral knell; For ne'er may Time to life restore The one remember'd, loved so well, Until we meet him face to face In the eternal realms of grace. BEAUTY EVERYWHERE. There is a beauty in the skies, When noon day suns are bright, It glances with ten thousand eyes Through shadows of the night; When morn with rosy blush is seen To wake-there's beauty there, And evening's golden clouds proclaim We, too, of beauty share. Old ocean's ever swelling tide, The placid lake and still, The rivers rolling in their pride, The ever sparkling rill; The mountain top, the verdant plain, The desert rude and hare, Attest, by every varied scene, That beauty dwelleth there. The opening buds of joyous spring, Its choral hymns of pirase, The velvet bloom on sumnir's wing, Its bright and cloudy days; The autumn clad in russet shroud, With treasures rich and rare, Old hoary winter shouts aloud, There's dazzling beauty here. There's beauty in the but and hall, Where sweet contentment dwells, Should science move or knowledge call, The voice of beauty swells; With childhood's silken locks 'tis blent, With manhood's piroud career; While age mature in virtue sp-ent, Both heavenly beauty share. From the Newberry Mirror. A STROLL IN DUTCH FORK. BY 0. B. MAvEn. I-r is well to ramble, now and then, over the grounds with which a man was familiar ini his bovhood. Let him be never so confident of still possessing the fullness of' health and man hood ; let hinm ho-ak his thumbs in the armholes of his vest, and twirl his cane never so jauntid hy ; a visit to such plaices will make hinm pause in astonishment, r~s he reads the record of his progress towards eternity, writen in gullies up on the face of the earth-characters, which, unlike all others, instead of being effasced, are deepened, and made more legible by time. A few days ago, I left the cars at Ihope's Station, for the p)urpose~ of' visiting a sick genl tleman in the neighborhood. I took my way to the left, on foot through the woods, one while rehearsing the six ents~ of the broad sword~ with my walking stick, to the great an novance of the weeds and Nmall sharubs. ; and, then again, whistling some sentimental cavatinai. such as " Nou pial mtesta," or " Ala non) giunge." The unsophisticated oaks scarcely recognized in me the stripling, who, long time algo, madie them resound with the jolly otr'ams of " Monzey mnusk,"~ or " The Devil among the ta'lors." Often turning round to greet somte old1 nc quaintance of a tree, I camne to a locality where recollections crowded fast upon me, andi I stoodl still, like one suddenly meeting an alnost for gotte.facee in a crowd. It was an old road, which formerly led from my father's to nmy grandmother's house-a distance of one unile. It once eiparated the woods, I had just tra'vers ed, from a field. But what a change! There was now no fence-no trace of one, except where the gras-4, growing ranker in the sil enriched by the decayed rails, stretched along in a little zigzag hedge. And coul it be paos sible that the dense pine ibrest, into which mny vision scarcely peneti ated fifty yards. is the field where, ten years ago, the cornt was wav ing with such radiant tasse>s, nad such blushing silks ! I looked round to weertama at what poit of the road I wa.'s a aniding, and sooni I was conIsciouls of a broad grin 'a-er ;lreading my face; for a reminmecence phka'im anad ludi crous arr~anged itself in nay maemzory. It was~ an incident that happenedI away hack im nay life; and before I continue ay r~ianble I must relate it. One day, in the spritng of the year, a negro girl, by the name of .Kolly, was despatched along this road, on a culiariy errand fronm our house to my grandmother's. She was not gonec ten roitmtes before sihe camae running back speechaless with fright. I confess it is difficult, at this~ time to reconcile it witha truth, but my impression Las always been that Molly wa as pale as a corpse, aand that her hanir was steidig on end. When she recovered her powers of ultemance, shze declared she had seen, by the aie of the road, a dhing, which had the bodly of a Billy Goat, and the head and face of a man. I expect I was the only one who be lieved in the truth of Molly's statement. She was severely reprimanded as a fool, and sent back upon her errand, this time, however, in company with her sister Suky. It was not long before both of them were seen in full re treat, and screaming at the top of their voices. They reported that they had seen the thing that they also had heard it grunt, and sneeze, like a person having a bad cold. After this confirmation of Molly's story, I had no doubt that it was the ghost of old Schupert she had seen. I had often heard of his appearing to people in the shape of different animals. I re collected with horror, how he encountered Bet ty Frey once, in open daylight, looking like a hog that had been scalded and scraped; and running after her with its throat cut from ear to ear, and its liver and ligh ts el cetera trailing along behind it. But the communication be tween the two places must be re-established We were all marshalled, accordingly, into solid column behind old Aunt Hannah, who, it was said, was afraid of nothing upon the face of the earth. When we came within a hundred and fifty yards of the monster, we halted, and it was agreed that same one, the swiftest of foot, should make a cautious detour, and inform the people at my grandmother's of the mysterious obstruction in the road. This desperate duty was entrusted to Molly, and she performed it with such skill and despatch, that the thinq could not have the slightest suspicion of the march thus stolen upon it. In half an hour the party, sent to our assistance, was seen stealthily approaching, and making signals for us to be of good heart-that plenty of aid was at hand. The situation of the thing was now critical in the extreme; and it certainly would have been excused for attempting to escape; but no-it stood perfectly still, and, just as the allied forces rushed upon it, (nobody but oht Schupert could have done it) changed itself into as ordinary a lightwood stump, as I ever saw. It remained there for fifteen years, du ring which time Schupert's spirit was never seen. Ile was so hard pressed, that lie was compelled to change himself into an object, against which there was no counter-mnetainor phoisis. At least so says the legend. Passing on through the old field, I entered the lane that led out to the " big road." Here I leaned me against the fence, and looked long and pensively at tho old house that caime in view. In it lived one of humble life, but known far around for the gooi she did. We caled her Granny Summer. Heaven bless her goodness of heart, and let her abundant charity cover a multitude of silis. How many are now liviiig, who subjected themselves to her inno cent incantatious, and, th:cough mesmerie im presseion, or influence upon the imagination (or call it witchcraft if you like) were relieved from intense sufflring ! She was a user--one who cured many diseases, especially diseases of the eye, by a spiecies of sorcery called weing* er manner of proceeding for the relief of the ffection just mentioned, was to trace the point >f the finger around the eyes, while she repeat d in a low tone soime words in the German aniguage. I looked upon the old house, and bought of the time when I was there present t a tremendous wedding. What a ebange ince then ! The plouglishare has broken up the compact yard, where so many busy mat rons were hurrying to and fro, and ,o many deemful patriarchs were cracking their rugged jokes. And then what a jollficatio:a there wa In the house, when the young people danced with a vigor, that made it dangerous for per sons in delicate healthI to he near theil, anld, above the din ol the. crowded reel, could be heard the foot of Sligi's Bob, the fiddler, beat ng timie as it was generadly conceded, but. which as absolutely crushing it into chaos! It. i, itunolg my earliest recoilcmctiOn4, anmd why I have treasured it up I do not know, but, as 1 eanied against tWe fence, I could see imyself* peeping through at the " many twinkling feet," and revive the astonislunent I felt at tihe feats f Tom Sligh, who it seemed to me, was inlcer antly springing into the air, :unl erossinlg his egs three times before re-fonwhingi, the floor, to he tune of -' Ripi tip tido Kate's got a mani." But the old house is passing away. It ha :ownm gray with the mildew and the lichen; nd the rain, which once poured from tile eaves n such glitterinlg fringes, is now absorbed through the swollen shingles, and drips its idnight monody upon the floor. Twenty years ago there extentied a quarter f a miiie down the " big road," in the corners f each side, an avenue of~ Peach trees. The traveller, oppressed ith the heat and dust of n August day, could not fail to perceive tihe ;enerous de,,ign, and as lie disimountedI from his eary horse to mefresh Imnself with the fruit, md1( rest in the sha~de of the trees, lhe blessed he old Gergian who planted them there, and ent on his way a better man, in as much as his heart was filled with gratitude. Of this venue there remains onlly one tree. It is ead-but from its roots a dlegeinerated sprout a grown up, as if mierely to ask why the ex imple has not been followed, since so much benevolence could lie .shown by so little labor. It was evening ; aiid having discharged my dtty to my patient, f left him with the inteni tion of passing the night with my ienids at Poaria. On my way through the lane fromi he main road miiy attentin was drawii to the arn. For fifty 'yearms was it the boast of D~utchl Fork fhr capacity, and durabzity. It stood up ravely aigainst thle attacks of' time but iiow it is pristraite-.-a griml pile of ruinis. Ilard by, owever, a shrub the name of w hichi I hadl nev er t roubled mnv.-ef to learn, hut behiind which [ had of ten cr'ept to fire upon the hundled biroth erood of .doves, was grown upi to a magnificenit Weiary tree. Then I looked ,..ver to the left of the lane. I can niever forget the shlarp frosty moring, when forty neighblors asseimblled there in the ihreat with their axe.5, anid it souinded throughout the day like a battle, as they chop ped, anid miinghed their shouts with the crash of fallinig timiber. For weeks afterwards the steady strokes of the maul were heard, and a field was founded. Since theni it has had its iise anid progress, but now, in its decline, I see it is abanidoiied to the vaiidalism of the JBroomn sedge, thle Sassafras, and the Persinunon. Far tier on ini the hane there is a knoll up~on which * This piractice is still in vogue in Dutch Fork. To give the reader aii idea oIf what it is, I will here describe the imnipu!ations, and anve the wors, by whlich the Slear is cured. The Shear is the naine given to ani infianmatory enllargemlenlt of the glanis a ibout the anale of the jawv of a child. Early in the miorning the child is takeni to a small streamn, anid the user dippingt up smlle wat tr, baithes its neck; at the samec time mnutterinig these Gerimian words. I )er Schlear unmd der Drachi Giugen mit einander uebier'm Blachl; Der Schlear sich verdrank, Uiid der Drach verschwand ; Gbott der Vater, Gott der Sohn, Und Gott der lleilige Geist. Amen A literal translation of this runs thuns: The slear and the dragon Went together over the brook; The Slear wvas drowned, And the dragon disappeared; God the Father, God the son, Amd God the Holy Ghost. Amen. I used to pause, on my way from school, to lis ten at the tones of the boathorn wafted by the evening breeze from the boatman's camp, in mellow crescendos over the neighborhood. The spot, the time of day, the stillness around me carried me back to my boyhood, and I listened towards Broad River for my favorite sound. But a different one reaches my car. My fancy compares it to the panting of a toiling monster. It comes nearer-up the valley of CHRis Ci eek. It screams-and the forests resound. The earth trembles under the roar of its wild speed, and before I can return to the realization of what twenty years have done, a dragon of fearful ap pearance trails its length across my path, and darts over the creek, at a point where, when I was a boy, the most confident horseman would not have ventured to take a leap. At length I came to the forest of St. John's church. It consists of one hundred acres of land in its primitive freshness granted by George 111. to the first settlers of Dutch Fork for the purpose to which it has been applied. It is in these woods that the scene of many a ghost le gend is laid, and where in the night, after a rain, amidst the spangling of fire-Ilies, shieedt figures can be seen moving anong the trees. Ifere the old tine lad scarcely out of his seven teenth year, hunted with his long flint and steel shot-gun, with his shot gourd in his hat, and his powder horn reaching from the centre of his breast bone around under his right arm, to his spine. I can see him rest his piece in the fork of a dogwood, and take his six deliberate snaps at the unsuspecting squirrel. The report of a gun is now, however, rarely heard. The squir r.!ls have all disappeared before the destructive scattering of the double-barrel, and the infidli bility of the percussion cap. The solitary one seen here and there, is willing to' sanction a degrading treaty, and run the remainder of its race in a revolving cage, for the amusement of the farners daughter. In the centre of this forest is St. John's Church, with its schiolhouse and grare yard the neighborhood cemetery, where those who were once neighbors in life are still neighbors in death. But what a rush of recollectionls the schoolhouse lets loose upon ine ! The piazza, built for the Drama (exhibitiu in those days) is still standing. It was converted into palace r prison by quilts, borrowed from the beds in the neighborhood; and the drop curtain con <isted of three experienced counterpanes origi nally died in copiperas. Near the door, enter ing into the schoolhouse, is the place where itejuaCo poisoned hajiscif with a cup rull of pure water fresh from Mirs. Ehjting's siing; a little more to the left, is where Robin Roughlihead distributed two dollars worth of coppers for two hundred guineas; aid, near- tIme edge oft lie stage, I could put my stick upon tle very spot where Douglas bled to death with Pokeberry jiice. In the interior of the house I found the sane benches and desks, covered with the ini tials of schoolnate's nanes, jusit as I I ad left them years ago. low still it was-not even a nouse was disturbed by .iny entrance. and no iving thing could be seen, but a bat flattened gainst the cviling. This ilt-lc; citsiel with the noi-e of ibrmer days, was painful. and I left the old I school IIout-e sadlenel bly the re lectioni. that I hadl li vel to .-e two tirds of the.-e samlle initials clissledI upon tle foetstones of graves. I walked ftri, and eve:y Square yard of greouild held u tip its reiniseenie. Tiere. by the ide of t he road t, upon that little baNk. is where Levi Stuick proved too lard flor nC inl 1 trial of jiuvenile prowes. It. was while I was shedldinug teelth, and ILevi restored ie to perl-et od hitioor. tle next daly, by dlisplay inig the alf of 1I.- leg, whecreon I had bitten a paren hesis in black and blue, with hiere and there a lut.licrotis lit tle gap, left by the vacCies whterC three of my invicisors lam 1 dle.wertel the rak. At the roots of that bi-g bluie-lel. ak. aboutt wic can be seen so tn:iiiy t-agiim-et.s ol stones Wml bric-klats, is the place where we boys tought lie vellow-jackeis iest. It was a hard contet ed bat te. aind it wa-4 dillicu1ilt to del-ide whiebu party woub1l have Ien Victoriu h:1l the con liet'one oiini lnistmit-heel but t he auithoieta tive r-i- of - books P fromn t he schioolhouset door bi-ce'ed u.s to beat. a dlisgraceful ret reazt, ibllowedl o tile ver-y step-ls by our triiihlanit loes. It asthe ucuto of our Mamster- to exercise us. lirectlyv after 1 la u', n mieatn; ,hti,, alie boys at e.~:tad topel l , atL lhe op of thieir~yoices, a columnt of those niiono'eyl abic words grouped tongetlher in the imiddile of he old Webteris spelling look. I tell you the foests of St. John's used to ring to its veryv imits with the lir-st after-noone's lesson. After- I id miade liy escape li-omt six or sevetn yellow ackets, wvhich mar-keed me for thieit own. 1 .,eiz' d myv book, and. with one leg crossed over- the ther, comeniced, s.pelling. in i tone sonmethiing ike t hat of a moderately sized green bull frog, uch wvords as these : 'lH-o-o-p htoop, L-o-o-p -- ven. to miy amtazemnt, I heard, a little above ny ktiee, a buizzintg soundie, which convinced ine hat a yellow--jamcket !;ad crawled up my breechtes eg. I gr-abbed that part of liy towser-s, aml. tetching it as far- away from mty skin as possi bh, devoteed a full mtinuite toe er-ushing the atuda ciou.s wretch, thait could cairy its thirst for ie ege to such a r-eckless extentl. Fallinig ini with le boys again, somie filtecen words lower downt he coflumin, I wats gettinig oen vet- well withi R-i-n-e rine, when the satii seeundls reached niy ear, tinder nodficationls laitnly shiowinig thait iiy tormeniu tot, in his struggles to resist my atttemplts upon01 ii litfe. had shilted his positiont a great deal tigher'upil. IHe had aulso chiatngede his buzzinigto a ierce qiiver-ing wheiie, expreLssive of the moest iutplcabuile vindica:tiveness;a and I knew thte eserado wats thriusting his sting in every di -ecien, to i-each mty nervouns system. Th'lis time, however, 1 suceeded in despatching hiimi, tmnd I stood ump aitu s.hook his life.less buody ot of my bireechies' leg upon11 the floor, anid al-unged him into ntonenttity. I-ver-y nman has had his hai-rieadlth e.-caipe-tlhis wai iecin2. But the suin waLs get i..g lowv;-1 hastened on to Ponmria. Tfhere, r-etired fort the night, I wodeired why it was, that, inistetad of beinig fixeed by the freshiness ofC the pr-esenlt, we are so prone to beeckone back the peast. I saidl, per hals in a dream, thlat the past was a thunttder clottd thaut htad sped by, and was banked uphoni the horizon, so that we could admitre the rain bow contrasted against its gloom, withotut fear of the lighttenning hhishies; while the futtu-e was anoter, just buristing into the present, amid but half divested of the dread with which its ap proach had iinspiied us. But a voice, perhaps in reality, chided tme, saying: wascte not your thoughts, for no man can really distinguish between the world that is gone, and the wvorld to come-since the grave is equally the gate way of the past, and the future. t Theee appearaneces are caused by a lumiinous vapur risiing upj fi-oim the deconmposig leaves. They have a startlinig effect upon atny one not rea dy wvith ant explanation. Hie that tells all lie knows ill also tell what he does not know. my IIAM OME HUSBAND. Yes! handsome as a picture. and with just about as much sensi and feeling, too ! -'O. ye gods and little fishes!" that I, aller cutting ihur of my wisdon tectir should be brought to this A hanidsome husbanit I The saints deflend us! You must know there is a natural antipathy hetwcen me and nyiown sex. The ladies don't like me, and I retirn the compliment, most heartil*. When thiy can ont talk, out stare, and out flirt me ; when they can get my seat at church, lecture or c4cert hall; wheit they can Squeeze in before md at dinner, and sit beside the very one I had-)ny eyes on, or talk more scandal about ie iiethe course of live minutes than I Could in a twelveionth, though I were paid ten dollars a line; -they do it, with all their hearts, and I. pocket'the insult, set my teeth and breath hard for a second, anid then come up with them in one way or other, at the very first opportunity. It was solely on that account that I married. They were all in lovo.with Absalom's eyes, and hair and imoustaichelnd I thought if I could se cure the prize I might snap my fingers at them all. In the language of another, almost as cele lIrated as nyself "I came, I saw, I coiquered." A bsalom, like the Turk, could " bear no brother near the thrope," and lie Las more than once hinted to me since the honeyimoon is over, that if I had not been " plain" lie should never reqiiested me to becoine Mrs. Poodle ? (Think of that, 31r. Editor! Wouldn't it he as good as a shower bath on a hot suinier's day)? I married in halstc,-land I am attending to the other part of the story. J1 it isn'L refreshing to see the way things go'on, I ami no Yankee. Ab salomt is a 'erirhant, his store away douci town; his hoise (and I in-? it, of course,i away up. Don't I eA niorallr certain those feanale women (o all their shoppig. at his store, and that the clerks are of nto account, when they once get a sight of hini! I)oii't I know that he lehes with then at Taiylor's; proiena-les on Broadway to show hiiself, and catch one glance from all those stricken dames ; rides up in the oninibus or ear with them, all by accident, of coure!i Oh ! Certailv ! I've done thin, - by accident" beibre now ; and oue was, marrying him Iin beginning to lagh out of the wrong side of my mouth. If von could only see Absaloim look first in the ga'ss, and then'at ic if you con11h1l only hear hin say so condescelndingly: .lv di~ar. men are au-uy haudsomer than wole: it can't be helped. and you knmw you ar- mit'to bii.o. vou didn't imake plir twe jf vou oulI reild sono if the love-letters I have Iisied wlt his breast jieket When he comes home a little ' elevated ;" if vou coilhl See the wauetle look. and tto' men slner it hii (from p1'n. envv. y OI wOIild agree Willi me tha. such : artiage v itli siu-l a man in tist be heaven :n ealti-" Over tie lft." I only Wish duliinliig was inl fa1shimi amiong tl wolwn. 4Il have " pistlrs anl LoVIft fii two'" on the table night 1u day till I could live ill peaic'e. Write to ,11j/ husband. will they slakl 0' ". the insormnounlt 1, lstacle'' letwCon tLem! i ITiiinpii Mt it . , .whr/t. .halit little wav of heii:. deoiated--dont yol hink Tlhere goie .\Nr. i el ain. weeingi dmuv town to s,-e mliy hu1sliand. She is the one who thinks ino such' n o- obstacli." I ichiove tli:t I'll /~ one to-dav. TitIv, ihan.1 me my lomin iii. fur. and ci reilar. If' I dont go straight Idf own to te sior., and tako mY llee buhiiti tIh' eoniier. io.<, /o .ilmulm. (that will make lur frIantie!) Div nm:11e, i-'t Mr<. l.! I windc'r 1111V nIm-h grontue she will ,;!t witli h-Im /i. nuion ! nev timt --hbital" knows a hiniig ruu i). liv h-nr! Con'lfidential 1'. S.--a ca anyhin llamid maplpieln il Mr. 1'. and I should wat to ch:iti.re IV ,at1tion agini. let it le fuflv undeclcrstol liii none but hon ':i mn -ned *allily! I'mi t giing to have: myl fe:ling4 laceirt-d :nitri 0haini incie. I van assiurc vin. .in cni- anyll ie I.mut 'I in this city has red hair, : /urra.//, I re conpulexio o (o half, wauvllsinieis will n nuthi. 'to saiy nothing of a goiod. righit-down: imp anduc a l;:uto fog--or twovi. if he. titih proer-het mauv i'ninlire for tuy auire~s at once.~' nt re.si saitisth'.d that lie is just iii:im 1or n.e. Second~ P. 8.1 wo~uld b.' bes't not tii pl nluss sinithming uipipens to Mrlz. P. A!g, i( li Li rheumaitie or pal.ied, it will be nu'o objection. vimenihianuu toil orl :aorrow. (toediu.me to f.shi lin is a grea';ter t~i ir~'gressh of* the laws iif wii nn's nature. ai !.rtiru minry to he-r phlc~iial niid meta.l e litiaitn, thati th~e hardshipe of oerty :md ni uegh-et. Thet slav e wuioman at b:..r ask.s (vill live anid grow old, :uid sie tlwo oirthrtie -ieeratioins of hter moistress pasi awvay. The aseruomtan, with screl ray of hope to heer her ini her toils, will live to see her fash inable sisters all die arioiuid her, and the kitcheni aid is hearty and strong wheun her lady hais to e tnucrseid liki: a sick : aby. It is a slidl truth that Itishion pampecred womlen are ahunost wiorth lss ihr all thme gtreat endsi otf human life. Thiy have hmt little force of character ;they have ill less power of moiral: will, andi quiite as little physial eergie. Th yie for tio great pur p'inihthey accomplish no worthy ends; hr are only diill f riis in thehIandos of mnill iies uomI servanits, to lie dlresed andi fed to (irdeir. They dreis nmoodv they fi'ed inoblody. anud save~ nobodv. Tlhey wi-ite no hooks;: they'st no0 rIh ex:ihiilies of l'irtume andiu wolyiil lit'. If t hey rear~ chiildreni, servaint and nurses ido it all, save to coniceive amtI give them birthi. Anid whleni reared, what are they? What ido they ever iioiiuiiit to, but we~.lier seiioiis of the old stock ? Woever* hiard of a tashiioniale wiomian's ex tiit ig ani power of indi for which it becanm nminent? ~Itead the biiogiraphies of otur meni and wvoen. Nut onie of them had a lhshionauble .ither. Thiev near~ly all sprang froml plain, srog iimidd vivmen,~ who had about as little to do with liashions ais with the changing clouds. A N F-irricii IN h:.mv:.-luider thme above capton, an exchange gives an oboitunarl of a lroher of the quiill from which we extr'act thei closing pluagraphi "' A re we ntot also glad that such an editor is in Hceavuen? Thlere the cry of "m uore colpy"' shall iever again (ilit iuponm his'dhistracted ears. There ie will no moire lie abused bcy his pcoliticail an troists, withI lies amid detracti thaut should shamie a deumon to prmulnigat e. Tlhiere lie shiall ie no0 miore used as a laddoer ihr the aspirinig to kick downi as son its they reach the desired height, and ineed him no more. There lhe shall be able to see the inmmense masses of unnud he has moved, all uniknlowinigly' and unknown ats lhe as been, durinig his weary pilgrinmage on earth. There lie wuill find all niticles creditedh, not a alap of his thunder stoleni, and there shall be iio horriid typoographical errors to throwy buim inito a fever. 'We anre glad the editor is in Heaven." A clergyman asked one of his scripture pn pils whet her "the leopard could change his Ispots?" "To be sure," replied Billy-, as piromipt as might be; "'when lie's got tired of oine spot he goes to another.' As Athenian who wans lame ini one fool, joiii ig the army, was laughed at by the soldiery on acunt of his lameness. " I am here to fight," . sa heero "not to i-un." CORRUPTION N CONGRESS. The Boston Journal seems to think that the House of Representatives might take a more di rect way of getting at corruption if there be any in its body. than by making a great ado over a poor newspaper reporter, and gives the following suggestions in support of that opiion: "A gentleman who was long a member of Congress, and whose veracity is Unimpeachable, in a recent conversation on the progress of cor ruption at Washington, informed us that he was told by one of the New York members of Con gress, that it cost Mr. Collins $50,000 for every visit lie made to Washington; and that lie was further told that one member (his informant pointing over at the same time to the seat where he was sitting) had demanded of Mr. Collins $3,000, failing to receive which he would op pose his mail contract. The friends of Mr. Cul lins had actuaily to run himt out of Washington to get him clear of the plunders by whom he was surrounded. "It was the opinion of the gentlenian with whom we conversed, and who knew something from extended observation, of the rottenness which exists at Washington, that a very large slice of the moncy granted by the government to Mr. Collins and his associates, is absorbed in getting these appropriations through Congress. Now, these statements were made to us private ly. Our informant fully believed them to be true, but lie did not communicate them to us to be spread before the public, and in thus allu ding to them without his express permission, we should not f'eel justified in making him per sonally respaansible. Like Mr. Raymond, if sniianunCol before a Committee of Coingres, we would refuse to dIivulge the name of our infornant But we shoulI suggest a way which tihe com mittee probably would not care to take, by which the accuracy of' the statements could be verilied, and that is by summoning Mr. Collins to give in his testimony. ile " could a tale un fould" which would throw more light on this sulject of Congressional corruption than a dozen editors could do from information received through indirect sources. Exact ly. A gentlemnan who never- was a inem mer' of' Conlgres, but who was connected with the Collins Co. as stockholder, and was thorough ly acquainted with all the ropes, told us that it cost the Company $450,000 to secure the ap propriation relerrel to by the -Journal ; that mno.st of' the muemibers w'ho voted i;or the appro priation were briied. or bought, or compensa ted, or influenced, or whatever term may be ap plied to I he operation of sectring votes by. pur chase. The ficts were coIImIIImicia.ited to us without any injinction as to secresy, but we would iot teel alt libeity to div'ulge the name of the author without his con.<ent. We will sa' Ihis nIrela, howei'ver. that if' we should namne the gentleman iit th. ( azette, very few tuen in or omit of Cona-'ress Wouthal doubt the statemnait. B41t Mr. Caol linis kanows ail about it, anda1 we say with ihe .1oaur'nal, that if the [nvestigaf ing C m m itee in earnest, it will send fir Mr. ('"allins. Clarijostlli (io:de. - -'vs(;i.~ u(w00b. At lte reCent ImeCtilg of the Bo:ardal of Edmi cation of' New Yoirk "ily, William C :llen liry ant. f the New York :1vening 1, nade a capital .peeelh up1on tihe .,1tl ject of " Mu.,ai in chol ,11." hia which we make the fullowing extract -,I initakii-: mIlusic a brinch of' v'aaumniaii edii cation. we give a new attraction to nour c'aomitntnl schools. M uAm-i is not iierel a si t dy, it i. nit oil tertainimn t ; wherever there is mana.sie there is a crowdl of litener.. We comniplain that our caaamnun~ scl.< an not attended'al as thev ,ihuld he. What is to b doia ? Shall we comielil' attendancet f cihnl ? Htiliahe let is. it' w' cai, so-rI'h thing that 'hiirei shall :.1tatend valata'ril-sh:alhl fli. ea' t t'1i'rwd tio tile hl a r this pVrpn'.- ning han e mOre M:.tna. it .seims to lii, thaln th1e art t wvhiihI tfihe anii15nts aeribed1 sith Ipower that, Ihe very .;tanes of the aarih frnaiI their bils. anil piled t immi ini a w'l oal aund the cityv of' Thebes. ''It ,aalholc beconsidered~a. toun~eve. thaat imut sie in s.-hools is usefiati s imi in euntila' to st udy. .\i'th-r a wearyt' hauri of' poing aaver books. withi iwrihps saime discouai'gemem~n on th' pariit of! the kaae-r'. if' not dela.1:ir at thei h:r.bwias em'his iash, a 5,?nd plts ftimt iallaa a naai're elaiaerf'al :aana ahop.-f~ uaf Id the lay if fte hamgs frieshenms tin' circationiat aaf the balo :iand lie sits ad awn a~:aian to. his task in biater spairit5. aand wvith an itavigaarateda inda. A lmotst tall ovecnpatiosar'e ch aeae :and ligh.tenedh bay iie~I. I ri' nber'atiti a:aa'e beinig ini a taccott 'ma~m:.wa1ti'ry in\'r ias. whati the~ a a.:'k a ptrm ed byarI i slaves. whola a'i!i .'-naed their 'aasks with uti rat.-s taf p a n. " a'e eneun'rage their sir~ginag." sa id oane ofati' praopr'auietatrs: ' aher work flhe better i'r it.'' M:tia's pull nior'e v'ieorouts amt the rope iar thirt " Yaa hueave ho!I" which is a kind of' song~. I have haeartd thle vinie-dressers- inl 'Tusea ny, ini te hitid aes, resaoingia tao ceh other ini sigs, waith which thie whoale region r'esoun~ded, and which tuinead their liartd day"s work inlto a A Lt::ast. mravi: Sesi:.-A .seene occurred in the I lliinois House of Rlepr'esentaves, an the 5th inst., which was more rear~ikabale lfor its siiglartity than its dercenr. Thei Houaise, tie foic orgaiizaution, elected "a Sperake'r. pri'a t'itn. Thei Cler'k oft the formier Hoause ehdmned thle chair' till a Speaker was t'egular'ly elected. iritdges coantinutally interuptead the Speaker', mtitil thme latter' ordlered the Ser'geanit-at-.\rm'as to tremove the disorderly Clerk. As soon as the Seraean:ut-at-Ams took htold oh' hini. they' eliiichet), while niany of thme imemiber~s umade 11p to thie s~etne of act in to assist thle &eargeanmt in the discharge of his duties. Af'tet' soime cont Sidrable wrest ling, kanockinig over chauirs, adaskii, mkstands, mten and t hitags generally, Mmr. Jiid ges was git out with his coat shiockintgly' turn. ive or six assistant Sergeanmt-at- Armas were then apapointedl to kep order, and the House praoe.eded to butsiness. 'Tian-: lb :t.tnos maaxa P.m V n 14:irr'as.-Meni mayt sophlistica:te as they pleasa~e, they can nievr' make it right ;anti tall thte b anokruptt laws ina the un i ver'lSi enunoltt ma4.ke it r'ight. tIhrm them nt ato ay ~ their debts. The-re' is sin in thtis netglect, us chea' andl deser'vinmg of' chtu'rch disipine as inm stealinig or ise sweam'ing. lI h who viatfes his pmise tat pay1, or withholds thae paymait aof' a debt whenm it is in his paowaer' to amee't his aengage mentit, aaughlt to lie madae tao feel that ini the .sight of' an hioniest maan he is aL swinleri. W~'s-rs orV .t Dvmxt M.ts.-A San F'rantcisco paein givinig tan aceotunt tof a trip aeross the plains, durinig which thme partty hadl a battle witht the Indttians, satvs that "Poor Reddy," omne of' the par'ty, "who was fast givinmg out f'tom his wounids, heggetd uts to leave hiuinad save our selves." As the. pairty were heavinig the wounidedi manm to his fate', thae writer says, "hle tdesired its to give him some matches, a 'pice of tobatcco, aimd to pray for him." AN'-tPoTR.-The Petersburg Express no tiees time s9udden departutre from that city', uinder fear' of' lynch law, of'.Dr. ,J. JT. Stephenston, a three years graduate of thme Pennsylvanimt pemni tentily. Ho had succeede 1 in getting into "good society," but a letter from Phmiladelphmia made his "quietus," and time "doctor'' was frced to l1a.ve. AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE COLLECTION OF INTEREST ON JUDGMENTS, 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House.of Represntaiies, now met and sitting in General Assembly, and by the authority of the same, That in all eases where any judgment exc!usive of cost shall bear interest from the date of such judgment, and that the collection of such inter est may be enforced by execution, in the same manner as now provided by law for the collec tion of interest. In the Senate IHouse, the twentieth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thou sand eight hundred and fifty-six, and in the cighty-first year of the sovereignty and inde pendence of the United States of America. JA1ES CHESNUT, Jr., President of the Senate. JAMES SIMONS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. FREE SCHOOLS. That the present system of Free Schools is productive of but little good, is a fact universal ly conceded and deplored. It is therefore in cumbent upon the Legislature now in session to take sonic action upon the subject which will either remove difficulties in the way of the pre sent plan, or present a new system in lieu of it. We say the Legislature now in session, because we regard it as far too important a matter to be delayed a year longer. Besides there is no sub ject that can possibly be brought before that body that should take precedence over a mea sure designed to further the education of the people, and certainly out of so large a number of intelligent gentlemen as compose the pre sent Legislature; there are some who may de vise a plan which will bring about so desirable an end. The State adopts a poor system of economy when it withholds its money from an object like this. Dollars and cents can never have a relative value attached to thei by which the benefits of a general education of the ma'es can be estimated. 'Tis already a stigma upon the State that fbr so long time the practical inu tility of the present Free School System has been admitted on all hands, and yet no proper efforts made to improve it. We believe the great difficulty is that mem bers fear the cry of " high taxes" which they have themselves put in the mouths of their con stiuents, and therefore do nothing requiring an expenditure of money; but it is very seldom the people complain of taxation intended for purposes of this kind. Let them understand that the money is to be supplied to the educa tin of every child in the State who cannot otherwise receive it, and we are willing toguar anty not only their acquiescence but their hear ty approval.-Pee Dee Herdl. INFLUENCE OF MIND AND BODY. The inflnance of faith, helefit' or opinion, on the bdv. is unuiestionable. Wo have seen ehildren'of two, three or four years of nge shiv er in the cold bath, because th'ey tared. before hand, it would be cold to them. The proof of iental inflihence iitli'i C14e is deri*d fro'm th'e' iet. hut imwhen th, sanie process in the same cir cinstanes, or those which euarly resemble it. is submiiit re to cierf'u llyi nd without npprehen. sion, there! is ino shivering. T'lle son-lii tIrthIi is applicalble almost every winin. in li , and in nearly all ciriicuimstales. Thtimgs are, to a vev great extent, as we appre henil theim. (r we expect a rooi will be cold] Al Sixtv de'gIeis ilf Fahllrc-nhiteit, it is very apt to pr.ivI so. It we expe t to- Ie fltigued with a c.rtin kind or degree if exercise or labor. we 11r aI t I.e SO; :1111 the cntrary. Sol if we xpe :~ to earl coll or an ither diaease--event s mall-pioix-1 iw ' art very .p1t t find it so. On th. omitrary. Ie who iues not expie't to be' sick or to ltw assailed, iny walk unscnthid through ilang-ur< liv wtiihi th' mitor. timiid man would be lestroyeidi. WVe might illustrate the principle at wi'hiicliwi aiim b litimimeroums'exaiples, but a fhw will be smiuliient for our 1 pr'esent putrlpose. We wih. it ple11' Ill histen the' conviction on the miinds of' our readers, that just as surely as the ixpet t Io o eingt wealthy. wise orl good, tenids to.sehr sim Iosuel dis thle e'xpectation thait we shall bie hie:,hblyt ior diseased tend to nmake In Pais' lit' of' Sit' Hlumphrney Davy, we are to ld that Dr. Weilmddes onice went to him i with a piatienot whii wais gr'eatly afflicteil with one spe cies ot pais', iiiniorder lhat lie miiight receive the in'ins oxicie gas, lint withuit explaining to his pa~tientf thei niature' of' the operation. Betfore ad minister'ing te gats, however, a thermometer was plac'ed hinder' his tongue, to ascertain them. Lrinera:l tempelrature of his syte.Th atienit. Iiit so in ieh n<- imnagiinig what w:s to be done. nio$0: sonrltdo f h iit i of' thme thermometer un-) di'r hi.4 to'~nue, than1: he declare'(d lie was betteir. Th'le gas, the'reforie, was not given,. but the man was requiiredi to conme and hi' operiated upon01 in the sameu waiv the following dayi, which lie did, and wvtih .iimite happyi~ effects. Ini sine, after r'epeat inlg the opecraition of plcn the bulb of' the ther'momte'r under~i his tongue every day, for a fortnight, the patient, was dismissed perfeyetl ceireil. EJinamlly worthy oil our creditb though it nmay ISeemt to paritak;,' a little more of' the imarvellous, is a story whiichi Dr~. Gregory, of' Edinburgh, was aceni'otined to relate to his stuidents: .favingi onteed a youg patient of his-n miedicalth tleit-to tauke an an~odvne at bed time,~' the '.ounmg man uniderstoodi him to say a cathiatrie.' The ic ~oiine was accorilyl takeii 'in die f'ull expem aiti otf laxative etuee'ts ;which. in truth. werie reailized. When Dri. (1. asked tle next mornmiing wmhat eth'eet the anodlyne had, die sick tmant e~xelaimued with g reat surpri~e- Ano dyne, sir' ! did viu ni ot send me i athartic't" liv' no mencus, saLid ti' he dctior ;it wmas an anto dote. Weil, said the piatienti, it has certainmly operuated as a c~aiatie,anid I f'eel greatlyrelieved by it. Now, it is ?inite possible that the condi tin of' the yong mami was sneh that the ano dvmme piroduceed enthartic efleets, indekpendenit of' the state ut' the mind ; still it is scarcely probainble. It is on the sante principle fliat medicines in general niot only' in thle hands of quacks, but in iose of' r'eguinr phjiltsiciants themselves, hiave' muchi of' their eflicacym. 'fThe influence of charmis, aind contjuriations$, anid inctt'tationis, to restore health amonig savages, is well kntownt. - Ciis'i.m:E Iba~notuso lIAvs.-Awlmfuml! It is evidlent that dhe capacious hioops and " et cete ras" of' the ladies havme a more terrible evil to beam', thtan we had thought o f.A rt-atcher' adveitises in one of' our lip town cotemnporaries: " Ladies and gentlemnen inifested with those destrutctive v'ermnin, rats, would do well to call oii him." Oh, Jehu! Its the last place we should have thoughlt of for catching rats! But fun alive I wouldni't it be spoi't to see a lively ferrier at work " in tile premnises?"-Monitgomecry Mail. A TlrAn.-It is a little thing, glistening but a monment, a pearly deep in the window of the soul, but who may know the language it speaks ? Who can tell what bitter thought has prompted it to flow ? The oplhent poet Rogers thus rhythmically spieaks of' a tear: "Sweet drop of pure and pearly light, In thee time rays of virtue shine, More calmly cleai', more mildly bright, Than any gem that gilds the mine." DIVERGING EMPIRES. THE SWORD OF PHYSICAL AND MORAL TRItMPE. Two classes of conquerors appear upon th'e earth, and from each class we select a type to illustrate the difference which lies between their practice aud achievements. There -are soldiets whose mission seems to be to -pull down and overturn-and such were Alexander and Napo leon: there are reformers who, from the ruin of decaying systems, create and build up new structures--and to this latter class belong such men as Luther and Holloway! Let us contrast Napoleon and Holloway--two men, alike per haps in the normal nature of their genius, and each aiming at a certain universality of empire in the professions they respectfully selected. The empire of the sword which the former created and for so many years of fluctuating victory sustained and fostered was, after all, an idle and a bloody dream. It faded in thefrost of his first reverses, and when he died, a lonely exile on the sea-girt rock, there was no compen. sating benefit that he could point to for all the carnage, misery and ruin his personal pmbition cost the world. Professor Holloway made a wiser choice, although the enemy he grappled. with had more than mortal terrors at command. 'He levied war upon disea-e, and with the self-made j weapons of his Universal Remedies has fought and over come his enemy in every land, on every sea, among all tribes and nationalities of the earth. It was a stubborn floht and one in which sue cess brought no triumphal cries to cheer the. prowess of the conqueror. The silent grati tude of a rescued sufferer, the still small voice of an approving conscience, the assurance that his years had been. devoted to a worthy object, and the growing respect and- admiration of all whose good opinion deserves to be considered, -these were the only stimulants which prompt. ed him to despise the calumnies of interested hate, and persist in the dissemination of that medicinal empire which he has at length estab lished among all the nations and branches of the human family. And his is an empire that will last, and a re.ward that shall not pass away. It would be an insult to theunderstanding of our renders-versed as we must suppose them to be in a matter of such vital interest-to enlarge upon the different steps of the investigation by which Professor Holloway succeeded in demon. strating that all maladies took their rise in ai organic impurity of blood. He did discover it; and by discovering in addition, one single combination of herbs capable of restoring tbe blood to purity, arrived at that UniversaL Reme dy which, though dreamed of, and balieved in, and hoped for by the wise men of all former ages, had never before been realized in the test of universal practice. Great, indeed, is the re ward of the learned and indefatigable physician: the prayers of the millions he has saved accom panying him through life, and the record of their grattitude will have gone before him when he is summoned from the scene -which his genius and philanthropy have so largely. contributed to improve, The reward of practical. benevolence it.an,peihabler cury. The Montgomery Adreiiser says: It was with infinite regret we heard yesterday of the death of the Hon. Preston S. Brooks. Many years ago, when both of us were young, we met him often at the house of a common relative, in South Carolina. He had then the careless gaiety of youth, with the bold, daring spirit which he has since manifested. He was fit to have been one of Rupert's gavaliers, and would have dashed against the advancing pikes of the Roundheads with the same inditference he would have ' thun dered on their rear." He had not only rosolute courawe but intellect. To one of his organiza. ion, though, life was too full of enjoyments for that application to study which, when greater responsibilities were cast on him, we have been told Ie was devoting himself. Had he lived, he might have been known for intellectual achieve ments as well as for the incident of a year ago which male him noted. He was a fearless, chivalrie muan, devoted to the South and her cause. His death, under present circumstances, is one which the South may unite with his friends in lamenting. BaUTAL Mt'RD.R OF A SL.AvE BY IlS OwNER. -Michael Boylan, a German, residing on Lov er's Lane, near this city, was arrested yesterday by Sergeant Wilson and Privates Richardson and Wailer of the 'Mounted Police, on a charge of whipping his own slave, a man named Step ney, to death. The circumstances of this out rage as we have learned them, are as follows: It appears that the negro hnd been run away for some time, and was taken on Tuesday last and carried to jail by Constable Jones. lie was then whipped, and turned over to his mas ter. Yesterday, Bloylan, while under the influ ence of liquor, renewed the punishment, and continued it until the negro sank under the in diction and died. When Sergeant Wilson ar rived at the spot, the negro was lying on the ground lifeless, and Boylan by the side of him, compi~ltely stupified by liquor. The latter, to gecther with his nephew, whose name we did not learn, was arrested and carried before Jus tice Russell, who committed them both to jail f'or further examination. Sergeant Wilson is of opinion that but for his prompt arrival on the spot, the negro would have been buried and the crime concealed, as the conifin was already preparedi and a hole dug to receive it. W'e are shocked to recOrd such a crime in our midst, and trust the law w~ill be rigidly en forcedl against the offender.-Savannah Repub lican, 6th instant. MoxvUENT TO' NR1l. TABER.--TIe amount of moneyv raised f'or the purpose of building a monnient to, the memory of Mr. Tabor, has, we learn, reached one thousand dollars, which huas be.en contributed by the press of the South, which Is thouught to be suficiently encouraging to .iustify the commencement of somes initiatory mev~anres looking tow ards the commencement of the work. It is now proposed to locate it at Magnomlia Cemetary, and have it of such mate rial and proportions as to do honor alike to the living and the dead.-Correspondence York Dis trict Chr'oucle. " Wnders the matter, Uncle Jerry?" sail Mr. --, as ol Jeremiahi K. was passing by, ;,owl ing most ferseiouslv. "Matter !" said thie old man; "J've been lug ginl' water all the mornin' for Dr. C.'s wife to wash with, and what d'yo s'pose I got for it ?" " About ninepence." "Ninepence I She told me that the doctor would pull a tooth for mec sometime I" "Ax ILL WVisn," &c.-The Boston Herald mnentions as one of the incidents of the late snow storm that a milkman got blinded with the blowing snow, and failing to find the village pump, drove into town with several cans of' pure milk. Tn E net amount in the Treasury of the IUnited States, on the 26th ult., subject to draft was $21, 496,881,93. MARRTINo FAMitr.-A mother and four daughters, all of whomi reside in Northampton, have, collectively, appi-oached the altar tof Hy men seventeen times 1 The mnother' had four husbands, one of .her- daughtersfdur, 'anid'the others three e-a