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"We will cling to the Pillars of the Temple of our Liberties. and if it must fall, we will Perish amidst the Ruins.
SIMKINS, DURISGE & CO., Proprietors. ED EFIELD S. C. MARCH 11, 1857.
"HARK! I HEAR AN ANGLE SING."
Hark ! I hear an angel sing,
Angels now are on the wing;
And their voices singing clear,
Tell us that the Spri::g ismear.
Dost thou hear, then, gentle one
Dost thou see the glorious Sun,
Rising higher in the sky.
As each day, as each day it passes by.
Hark! I hear, &c.
Just behind you cliff of snow,
Silver rivers brightly flow ;
Smiling woods and fields are seen,
Mantled in a robe of green.
Birds, and Bees, and Fruits and Flowers,
Tell us all of vernal hours,
Where the birds are weaving lays,
For the happy, the happy Springtime days.
Hark ! I hear, &c.
Look, oh look, the Southern sky
Mirrors flowers of every dye ;
Children trippling o'er the plain
Spring is coming back again.
" Spring is coming, shouts of glee,
Singing birds on bush and tree,
And the birds with their merry hums,
For the Springtime comes, the Spring time comes.
Hark! I hear," &c.
THE LOVER TO HIS BETROTHED.
The hills do kiss the sky, love !
The rippling waves, the shore !
And there are lips that I, love,
Mlay hope to kiss once more.
The skies embrace the sea, love !
s The seas embrace the earth!
In this embrace, e'en thee, love,
I hope to clasp thy worth.
The stars have wed with night, love !
With day hath wed the sun !
But I know one as bright, love,
And I would wed that one.
iscdianwu ~eait
CHARACTER BETTER THAN CREDIT.
We often hear young men who have small
means, dolefully contrasting their lot with that
of rich men's sons. Yet the longer we live, the .i
more we are convinced.that the old merchant
was right, who said to us when we began life,
"industry, my lad, is better than ingots of gold, I
.yapbha-oredit'.NWp
could furish if need were, from our own expe
rience, a score of illustrations to prove the truth
of his remarks. In all branches of business, in
all avocations, character, in the long run, is the
best capital. Says Poor Ricwrd: The sound
of your hammer at five in the morning, or nine
at night, heard by a creditor, makes him easy
six months longer; but if he sees you at a bil
liard table. or hears your voice at a tavern, when
you should be at work, he sends for his money
the next day.
What is true of the young mechanic, is true
also of the young merchant, or the young law
yer. Old and sagacious firms will'iot long con
tinue to give credit for thousands of dollar:
when they see the purchaser, it a young man.
driving fast horses or hanging around drinking
saloons. Clients will not intrust their case to
those advocates, however, brilliant, who frequent
the card table, the wine party or the race course.
It is better, in beginning life, to secure a reputa
tion for industry and probity, than to own hou
ses and lands, if with theam you have no char
acter.
A facility of obtaining credit at the ouset is1
often an injury instead of a benefit. It makes1
the young beginner too venturesome, tills im1
with direams of too early fortune, tempts him
too much to neglect hard work, forethought,I
caution and economy. Excessive capital is as
frequently a snare to young men. It has almost
passed into a proverb, in consequence, that the
sons of rich men never make good business men.
To succeed in life we must learn the value of
money. But a superfluity of means at the out
set is nearly a Certain method of rendering us
insensible to its value. No man ever grew rich
who had not learned and practiced the adage,
"if you take care of the pennies the dollars
will take care of themselves." Knowledge of
nmen, self-discipline, a thorough mastery of our
pursuit, and other qualifications, which all per
sons of experience look for, are necessary to
give the world security that a young man is of
the right metal. Capital may be lost, but char
acter never. Credit once gone, the man without
character falls. But lie who has earned a repu
tation for capacity, integrity and economy, even
if he loses his capital, retains his credit, and i
ses triumphianit over bankruptcy itself. A man
with character can never be ruined. It is the
first thing that a young man should seek to
secure ; and it may be had by every one who
desires it in earnest. A poor boy with chiarac
ter is more fortunate by -far than a rich manl's
son without it.
" NEVER BAD A OFFER."
Look at her as she sits sewing by the window
with the clear light on her forehead, and a cher
ry smile brightening her whole countenance !
Many a maid less fair of face, less gently bi ed,
less kindly dispositionedl, goes to the bridal al
tar every day. True her cheeks have lost the
first fresh flush of early maidenhood ; her form
is not so round and symimetrical as it was a few
years since; and the'shining braids of her dark
hair have parted with somewhat of their old
luxurmianice and gloss. But look deeper into her
blue eyes and y ou will see there womunly puri
ty, serenity of thought aiid earnestness of pur
pose enocugh to counterbalance these deficiences.
You wvil! read the expression of a heart that
puts its own loneliness under foot, and compels
it to lift her one step towards a higher life
that has strung the spotless lilies of contentment
upon the very cord which binds her back from
the mated lot of other women.
Never had an offe! What a pity ! There are
wives who sell themselves for gold to husbands
they cannot love-.willing to exchange the white
pearls of maidenly truth and purity, for paste
board jewels, so that they only glitter in golden
setting. There are others, (in shame and pity
for my sex I say it,) who prefer marrying their
inferiors in mind and he.:rt, linking themselves
to pollution even, rather than carry to the grave
the honest nam'e bequeathed to them in the
cradle. They are the ones that angle for hus
bands, who dehight in "offers," who despise
"old maids." Among thema you will find the
heartless, extravagant woman of fiahion, and
the Mrs. Caudles of domestic life. Following
in their train are bankrupt busines men, hen
pecked Imsbandea spailed children.
Never had an offer! Perhaps if she had
strayed farther from the charmed ground of
genuine modesty and womanly worth-if fash
ionable novels had occupied the place of the
work-basket-if she had drained the purse of a
hard-working father to gratify a foolish pride of
dress, or been content toshinea giddy, mincing,
artful attendant at balls and fashionable partie4,
instead of a gentle, self-sacrificing, ministering
angel in the home-circle, she might, ere now,
have enjoyed the blessed privilege of devoting
the dregs of her wasted life to the service of
some smitten simpleton or dissipated roue.
Never had an offer ! Probably she never will
have one. There will be no strong hand clasped
in her's to lead her safely when her unsteady
feet are crossing the quicksand of evil; no dear
voice to whisper that she is all the world to one
true heart when her life rings like a hollow
mansion with the echoes of its own solitude ; no
rosy children to clasp her neck and nestle in her
bosom. But if she must give up this sweetest
part of woman's destiny because no whole-heart
ed, worthy man ever asked her to bless his path
with her companionship, she, at least has not
manmuvered for it vainly, and staked the holiest
portion of her nature on the throw for a hus
band. God bless her !
HOSPITALITY.
We Americans are not noted for very emi
nent social qualities. We are not a remarkably
hospitable people. As a nation, we are still in
the morning of life; that season of activity and
independence, when the heart is too busy and
too ambitious, to devote much time to the plea
sures of friendship. The yankee has not yet
dined, and sat down for an easy after dinner
chat. Ile loves conversation, conviviality, coin
panionship, as well as any man ; but he has had
time as yet only to snatch a hasty breakfast ; he
is eagerly earning his dinner, which he means
shall be a good one; and will liberally invite all
his friends to supper; with which pleasant pros
peet before him, he is perhaps too intently ab
sorbed in preparing for the generous enjoyment.
of the evening of life.
It is the fault of youth-or is it a merit 7
to anticipate and postpone. The present good is
never good enough. The joys of to-day are
mean ; we shall have better to-morrow ; and
still better next week, and next year. And so
the golden hours of youth escape us, and we
row prematurely old. Ten to one but we have
become dyspeptic, by the time dinner is ready ;
md when our evening leisure is earned, and our
house set in order, and our friends arrived, we
find that too much toil and care has destroyed
>ur capacity for free enjoyment.
Thus industrious forethought, which has its
nestimable uses, is capable of abuse. It is like
some excellent medicines; an over-dose is hurt
'ul. And it seems to us that the Yankee has
trunk the contents of the vial, well shaken be
'ore taken. The'dram flies to his head, and he
s slightly tipsy. But let him alone, he will be
riser some day. He must have his way, and
ork out his own salvation. He is no worse
han the rest of the world ;-but he began poor ;
mdghgehnnl-of-a& g ea im ,...
" Early frugal, like h beggar's child."
lIs heart is warm and generous ; and tl is lack
f iospitality with which he is charged, is the
esult of pinching circumstances. lie is con
cious of the defect; and, ashamed of it, lie
ecks to make amends by excessive display. A.
oon as he is ab e, he makes haste to build hint
fine mansion, and invites the world to come
aud see it, and drink his champagne, and eat his
ce-creams. His tables are loaded ; .his drawing
-ooms blaze with gas. But this is not hospital
ty, this is not social enjoyment ; he knows it,
mnd his friends know it;-but it is a munificent
pology, and pride, if not love, is satisfied.
L'rue hospitality is a creature of habit and cul
.nre. The man who has spent all his days in a
:ounting house, cannot enter a splendid parlor.
mnd make it comfortable to his friends. He has
mu art to learn; and it will take him long to
rush off' the dust of business and assume the
Marments of social ease.
Nor does true hospitality stand greatly in
ieed of a fine mansion, gas-light and champagne.
'ordiality and welcome are its essential at tri
utes. We have secen the farmer in his homely
atchen, the mechanic at his simple board, as
Jroadly and as richly hospitable as any prince
>f the earth. For the gentleman of fashion and
ortune-for the owner of large estates-for thc
naster of many semvuts-lavishiness and atten
tion towards guests, is a matter too cheap to be
boasted of; but the heart's welcome is always
rich-thiere is nothing so dear and precious; it
s nog'espector of persons, it requires no letters
>f introduction, no talisman of aristocratic pre
entions ; but in the face, in the eye, it reads
:he name of brother, and bids him enter, to be
:oforted and-cheered. This self-forgetfulness,
:his ready sympathy, is the secret of hospitality ;
mud of this there are generous fountains in the
Aierican heart, waiting for the rubbish of care,
md ambition, and vanity to be removed.
SAcREDNEss OF TEAs.--There isa sacrednes
i tears. They are not t!:e mark of weakness,
but of power. T1hey speak more eloquently
than ten thousand tongues. They are the nmes
mngers of overwhelming grief, of deep contri
ion, of unspeakable love. If there were want
ing any argument to prove that man is not
mortal, I would look for it in the strong, conl
ulsive emotion of the breast, when the soul
fns been deeply agitated; when the fountains
f feeling are rising, and when tears are gushing
orth in crystal streams. 0, speak not harshly
f the stricken one-weeping in silence ! Break
not the solemnity by rude laughter, or intrusive
ootsteps. Despise not a woman's tears-they
are what make her an angel. Scoff' not if the
tern hearmt of manhood is sonmetimes umelted to
.ynmpaty-they are what help to elevate him
bove thme brute. I love to see the tears of af
lection. They are painful tokens, but still most
onl. There is pleasure in tears-an awful.
plesure! If there were none on earth to shed
a tear for me, I should he lothi to live, and if no
oe might weep over my grave, I could never
die i peace.
TUHE righ teous man has a strong- tower that
the sinner lacks. Hie is fitful to battle with
olitude and fearful darkness ; an unseen light
shines in upon his soul-an unseen hand sus
tains him. The darkness is no darkness to hirm,
for' the Sun of righteousness is nigh. In the
deep solitude he is not alone, for good angels
whisper by his side. " Yea, though he walk
through the valley of & shadow of death, yet
shall lie fear no evil, for God is with him ; his
rod and his staff they comfort him." The wicked
have not this comfort: to them darkness and
solitude must be too horrible. Satan-not God
is their companion. The ghosta of their past
crimes rise and swell their present horror. Re
morse and despair are added to the double gloe m
of solitude and darkness. You don't know
what you are doing whcn you shut up a poor
lost sinner of excitable temperament in that
dreadful hole,.(solitary imprisonment.) It is a
wild experiment on a human frame.
It has often been remarked that children will
frequently n-k questions which even the wisest
are puzzled to answer.
"Mothaer," exclainmed Jittle Charley,9.a
big w. ? wham van asa t kP
CHEERFULNESS.
There is no quality that so much endears man
to his fellow-men as cheerfulness. Talents may
excite more respect, and virtues more esteem.
But the respect is apt to be distant, and the es
teem cold. But it is otherwise with cheerful
ness. It endears a man to the heart-not the
intellect or the imagination. There is a kind
of reciprocal diffusion about this quality, that
recommends its possessor by the very effect it
produces. There is a mellowed radiance in the
light it sheds on all social intercourse, which
pervades the soul to a depth that the blaze of in
tellect can never reach.
The cheerful man is a double blessing-a
blessing to himself and the world around him.
In his own character, his good nature is the
clear blue sky of his olyn heart, on which every
star of talent shines out more clearly. To oth
ers, he carries an atmosphere of joy, and hope,
and encouragement wherever he moves. is
own cheerfulness becomes infectious and his as
sociates lose their moroseness and their gloom in
the amber-colored light of the benevolence he
casts around him.
Is it true that cheerfulness is not always hap
piness. The face may glow in smiles while the
heart runs in coldness and darkness below, but
cheerfulness is the best external indication of
happiness that we have, and it enjoys this ad
vantage over almost every other quality, that
the counterfeit is as valuable to society as the
reality. It answers as a gmedium of public cir
culation, full as well as true coin.
A man is worthy of all praise, whatever may
be his private griefs, who does not intrude them
on the happiness of his friends, constantly con
tributes his quota of cheerfulness to the gene
ral public enjoyment. "Every heart knows its
own bitterness," but le. the possessor of that
heart take heed that he does not distill it into
his neighbor's cup, and thus poison his felicity.
There is no sight more commendable and more
agreeable than to see a man whom we know
fortune has dealt with badly, smother his pecu
liar griefs in his own bosom, and do his duty in
the society in which Providence has placed him,
with an unruffled brow and a cheerful mein. It
i.s a duty which society has a right to demand
a portion of that great chain which binds hu
manity together, the links of which every one
should preserve bright and unsullied.
It may be asked, what shall that man do
whose burdens of grief are heavy, and made
still heavier by the tears he has shed over them
in private ; shall he leave society ? Certainly
until he has learnt to bear his own burden.
Shall lie not seek for the sympathy o1 his
friends? He had better not. Sympathy would
only weaken the masculine strength of mind
which enables us to endure. Besides, sympathy
unsought for is much move readily given, and
sinks deeper in its healing effects into the heart.
No, no! cheerfulness is a duty which every man
owes to the world. Let him faithfully discharge
the debt.
WOMEN.
It is a noted faet that the ladies are becoming
0"ggid eftrug ... Sometinejback we
Ebsrved in ur exchanges, that it was a cam
non thing for women, particularly at the Spring,
- have on hand from seventy-five to three hun.
dred dresses. Recently we observed that it was
..-io.nable for those in large cities to have an
innumerable number o.f dresses, and never to
wear the sane a second time. Certainly there
cannot be many of this number. If there wa.,
one only of the thousand casualities that are hap
peing every day in the week, and almnst every
hour, would deprive them of such vain-glorion
iotions, and make them feel that life was good for
something else-more than mere aecumulation
,f dresses, or the childish notion of exhibiting a
new plaything. We cannot help feeling a senti
anent of pity f->r such women, whose sole, entire
existence is thus dissipated and spent between a
dry goods store, a dressing-rm.mn and the parade
ground. We otentimes think, have inch wo
men any heart ? Have they the feeling of daugh
er,wife,siter,or mother? have they eter loved ?
Do they kno.w anmy of. thme w.omnly pleasures of
naking daily macrilices for toted ones? or the keen
eation when the se.lf-denminl gi vesan added grat.
iiationi or soothies uone momenit's paini ? No, alas!
h'ey canmnt feel this, becauste they are encrusted
n sellishness,anid ozmlynmppreeiate thai which min-.
isters to their vamnity and self love. The woman
is conicealed. bidden, covered up. and somnetines
wholly dies out under thiis mass of glittering cor
ruption.
Such women as those are found not only in
ries, bt in villages and eveni in the cotuntry.
Yet to this rtihe, there are discovered some ex
~ep:ionis. Yes there atre iomien who are women
in every sense of the world-not dolls to carry
siks, flounced and flushed, mantillas, and jewels
-not pup~pets to be flattered by profane adora
tion,. reverenced to-damy anid discarded to-morromv,
always jostled out of the place whtich nature
nti society would as..igni them, by sensuality or
contempt ; admired, but not respected; desired.
bit not esteemed; ruled by passion, tnot affec
tion ;impatrtitng their weakness, not their con
sanv, to the sex they could exalt ; the sonree
and mnirror of va:nity. We say there aure women
whom we see as wives partaking of the care
ad cheering the anmxiety of hiusbatnds, dividing
their toils by domestic intelligetice, spreaditng
cheerfulness around them, for their husbamnd's
sake sharing the decent refinement s of the world,
without beitig vain of them, plncing all their
joys amid happiness in thme men they love. As
mothers, we tinid theta the affectionate instruc
tress oif their children whom they ha~ve tended
from their infnney, training them in thought anid
benevoence, addressing them as rationalh beinigs,
preparinir them to becomie men and women in
turn.- ewbery Riit:g Suri.
A NEw-F~simwuN REEI..-" It begins by
soec six or eight couples waltzitng: a chair is
suddenly introdluced into the ceiitre, in which
the first gentleman seats his partner. ie then
leds tip, and lmr.esents tacht of the other gentle
m-ui in succession. If the lady rejects, the dis
carded retires behind tho chair; but when the
"right man," as the old snyn goes arrives, she
springs up, the tone and accent of the music are
accelerated, and off she waltzes with the elected
-the rest seize their partners, and the circle is
continued. All in turn go- through the process.
Three chairs are tl en placed. A lady (in suc
cession) is seated between two bearers, who
immediately solicit her reluctant regard, till at
length she gives herself to one, and waltzing is
resumed. A gentleman is then seated in a cen
tre chair, hoodwinked, and a lady takes the
place on each side. In this perplexity of choice
the Tantaltis of the mirth remains, till, by a
sudden resolution, lie decides for right or left,
uncovers his eyes, and waltzes away with his
chance-directed partner, followed, as before, by
the rest. The chairs are now placed triangu
larly, dus-a-dos, and three ladies are thus seated.
The youths pace around them in a circle till
each of the fair.ones throws her handkerchief,
and away they tugain whirl. The men then ap
pear to deliver to each, but to one alone is given
a ring, and the dance concludes by the ladies
pas~ingr, hand in hand, through arches made by
the extended arms of the gentlemen, and each
seizes his partner, and once more swingr around
th circle. We have learned that this dance
.maw educed1in all the che khshieA
DO YOU OWE THE EfRTER
Come sinful debtor, in whose breast
Some conscience may revolve,
Come with your coward fear oppressed,
And make this wise resolve:
I'll seek the printer, though my debts
Have like a mountain rose,
I know his wants, I'll pay him off,
Whatever may oppose.
Perhaps he may take my excuse
Perhaps believe Iie
But if I perish I will pay,
And then his thoughts defy. -
Straiglitway I'll to his sanctum go,
And see him faeego face;
I'll boldly " frrk thetin" that's due,
And thank him fYr his grace.
Although ashamed thus late to go,
I am resolved to try,
For if I stay away Iknow
In infamy I'll diet
I know his patient nature well,
Delinquents he'll orgive;
He'll kindly pardon 4ebtor's sins,
And bid such suppliants live.
FACY DANcEs-WH E THEY CAME FROM.
-It is very true that w tzes, polkas, redowas,
schottisches and all thereat, are importations
from over the water. ut it is equally true
that the importers do ri bring them from the
fashionable circles of ris. They come in a
more direct line from ce in equivocal hot-beds
of manners-the balls 'the " (ellarius" and
" LaBurde," so well kno n to the demi-respec
tables of Paris. For, a Paris, though there
are always Young Ameripans enough to be seen
on the promenade, it is rare to meet them in
the saloons of good 'c . They prefer, usu
ally, the other class of 'loons, mainly because
the admission to the la r are vastly most easy
-the fact of having plenty of money in your
pocket being no passportat the door of a duch
ess, and the best reonmendation elsewhere.
And these more accessilje ladies are very ready
to initiate young gentl *en into the mysteries
of dancing. Young A rica, consequently, at
Paris, gives up the braiis and legs to the over
coining of the difficulties of the chorographic
art, and with the practice of female partners
that they have it is rarely that they do not be
come of the premier fo a. The first thing after
their return from travel~it is natural that these
acomplished young g lemen should initiate
some of the less favor' of their countrymen
in the privileged secret-imparting to them,
that is to say, the grace that they have learned
from the free and eaiy{'ladies of Paris. It is
from this school that emanates the waltzing
which, in the city of . York, passes ihr the
ne plux ultra of Pa ashion. Hence come
those postures whicl . nd so yielding to the
measure-those ext us qf the arms, like
thdhinge ofg: . l t soft cheeks
laid so confidingly on the shoulder of the gen
tleman!-and those youthful beards mingling
so freely with the curls, ribbons, flowers or
other coiffures of the lady partners.-De Tru
riaud in Cu'. rier des Etats Unis.
You-rnrer. FaiN nsims.-What fond and
generous friendanips are often bred among
youthful companions in the bright epoch of
school day life! Then the innocence, gaiety
and hope of unsophisticated hearts create sky
and laud anew, and robe the scene in their own
suit hues. No cynic frost has fallen on our dis
interested sympathies. The world has not laid
its icy hands on our throbbing pulses. Our
faith in each other, in whatever is lovely, virtu
ous, heroic, knows no limits. Then how fre
quent it is fur attachments to grow up, at whose
stainless sincerity and tender romance we smile
in after years, when, alas! in too many ca es,
tie has hardly brought enough to compensate
us fur what it has taken away ! Together we
wander through the tield as tiirough enchanted
rounds. We dream dreams resplendent with
the triumphs we fondly vo and thiink to win.
I the artlessniess of that pure time our secret
souls are tran.,parent, anti in the unflawed clear
ness of our communion we look through eacti
other. Our joys, our griefs, our whole ,earts,
are united in a free friendship, whose strength
and closeness foretell a sweeter and nobler life
than the fairest passages of history have yet
relized. These halcyon unions rarely survive
a full entrance upon the common plursuits of
life. But they are prophetic., And when the
cares of the world, the deceittulness of~ riches
and many sins, come upon us and alienate us,
still their' glorious oracles are never all forgot
ten. They haunt us like voices from fairy
land. And oft the cliffs and shores of' memory
reverberate the plaintive echoes of our love,
calling after milny a beautiful Hylas vanished
from beside the fountain of youth. How often
th remnembrunces of the friends and the friend
ships of other days come back from the by
gone times when we knew them, and ill our
hearts as with the wild, sad melodies of an
sEolian harp ! Who, as he reviews the hallowed
hours that went so swiftly in the morning of
life, and recalls the dear, familiar faces laid so
early in the dust of the grave, would be asham
ed to shed a tear to their mingled memory.
Alger.
FIFTY YEARS IIENCE.-Rt. Rev. Bishop
Clarke -delivered a lecture in Cambridge on
Tuesday evening of last week, taking for his
subject, Fifty Years Hence. From a sketch in
the Cambridge Chronicle, we take the follow
ing extracts:
"Fifty years hence the newly married pair
will step into an emporium for the sale of
houses, look over the book of pat terns, select
one to suit their taste and means, order it, and
it will be sent home in the morning, put to
gether and occupied at night.
"In travelling, as great changes will take
place. Instead of the dusty road and crowded
car, there will be a splendid Locomotive Hotel,
fying over a road carpeted with turf and bor
dered with shade trees, and heralding its ap
proach with sweet music, instead of the de
moniac shriek of tho steam-whistle, and labell
od, Through from Iloston to San Francisco in
four days.
"Instead of the unsightly telegraph poles,
there will be, fifty years hence, a net work un
derground, and under the. bosom of th'e dead,
and it will click off thoughts instead of words.
Then the Electric Battery will light all the
street lamps at once, enable all the clocks in
the city to keep exact timne, and kindle the
Beacons on the dangerous rocks, where now
men hazard their lives and wear out their lone
hen the author will Dot write by our slow
poess, losing his rarest fancies, bu' he will sit
down to the newest Invented Chirographical
instruments, and putting his fingers on the
'keya write as fast as he can think."
Everything is gained and nothing lost by
courtesy. Good manars insure success.
Ma 1rhm nothiqr so' iJraly as thekr adY(ve
LONDON LABRUERS ANJ UUTannl uamliA .
The late arrivals from England bring us ti
dings of distress and destitution among the free
laborers of London, which has no parallel in
this country, except among the laborers in the
free States, where similar scenes sometimes oc
cur. With the double object of teaching our
people the value of ;heir institutions, and to
show our friends in free society that there is
ample employment for all their benevolent im
pulses elsewhere than among the negro slaves,
we present the following glimpse at the beau
ties of free society:
The miseries of the 'unemployed classes in
London continue to make themselves painfully
apparent. The several police courts are be
sieged daily by applicants for relief; and large
group<, we learn, parade the streets, ehauntig
words of distress, and bearing a public declara
tion that they are out of wortk and want em
ployinent. The proceedings at lie Mansion
House may be taken as a type of what occur
red at the other otfices. Three parties, de.scrib
ing themselves respectively as a grainer, a house
decorator, and a bricklayer, waited upon the
Lord Mayor on Wednesday, to make application
on the part of themselves and others. Here
are their statements:
The bricklayer said he had not been to the
parish, and did not want to go, if there was a
possibillity of getting work, or keeping away j
at all.
The house decorator said lie had a wife and
child, and having been out of work for four.
montas, had only been able to support thema by
pledging and s.lling everything belonging to
him ; except the clothes on their back<. Yes
terday, being at the last push, he went, with
150 others, to the workhouse, where they were
set to break stones, and at the end of the day
he gut Is. and a quartern loaf, but ost of the
men whgwere single got only 4d. or tld. and a
half quartern loaf, after being all day without
anything to eat. That was a very little, and
the stone breaking had so blistered his hands, .
that lie could not go to it again, for if he did,
his hands would he in such a state as to make
it impossible fur him to do anj work at his own
business for three weeks or a month, even if he Ia
got any. The poor fellow here held out his I
hands, the palms of which, as he had said, were t
blistered all .ver.
The grainer said he did not appear so much C
for himself as for the others, many of whom, I
who had been twelve or twenty-four hours with
out food, were growing very noisy. He had done t
all lie could to keep them -quiet, but they were t
growing desperate and threatened to have food f
by fair means or foul, unless something was done
for them, and that quickly. A good many of
them were anxious to emigrate to Australia if
they could get a free passage, and land to culti- a
rate when got there.
What a startling and instructive contrast to a
all this is presented by tho institution of slave- a
ry in the Southern State. ! At the very mo- t
ment that the free laborers of London were
howling through the streets, and beseeching the I
Mayor to give them work, our slaves were
quietly resting in their cabins, with no madden- f
ing hunger torturing them by day, or corroding r
care to disturb their slumbeniy night. .-Both
classes of laborers were without work, but one I
was pinched with hunger, frenzied by the suf- r
ferings of wife and children, ready to starve if
honest, or to plunder to satisfy the cravings of I
hunger, while the other was comfortably hous
ed, clothed and fed, saw wife and little ones r
enjoying similar comforts, and was totally un- a
concerned whether the morrow should be clear c
or cloudy, as, in any event, his sustenance was
sure. Without work the free laborer starved, s
t..e slave laborer feasted; the former howled v
as he ran through the streets seekiug work or
bread, while the other sang cheerful songs, or a
danced to the music of the banjo, as the wood c
burned in the chimney, shedding warmth and
light around. Which, let us ask the abolitionist,
had the better portion, the free laborer with c
his poverty, hunger, physical and mental an
gish, or the negro slave with his plenty, con- I
entment and comforts?
Such are the contrasts constantly presented
by free society and slave society. Whatever '
anciful, sentiniental notions may be entertaiedc
bout I reedlom and slavery, no observant man
can deniy that the free laborer is infinitely be-1
low our nugro slaves in all 'physical comforts,t
cnveniences and enjoyments, and that slavery
tvoids a thousand privations and sufferings toe
hich the free laborer is subjected. Is theret
othing in all this compensating the slave fort
his subjection to the will and control of another ?r
s self control so valuable that it must be re-i
taned at the risk of starvation? Must a man
perish for food, after seeing his wife and cuii
iren perish, sooner than submit to the gover n
met of' a master ? Does thme master's care of
the slave, at seasons when there is no work to
be had, and when free laborers starve, give hinm I
o just claim upon the services and willing obe
dience of the slave ?-Richmond Enquirer.
THE SABDATH.
The day of rest!i What old and pleasurable 1
associations are connected with the Sabbath
To many, it will recall their childhood, andI
bright, sunny Sabbaths, when they, as happy,
lght-harted children, accompanied kind parents
to a place of worship, there to offer up their in
nocent prayers to heaven. Then of thme evenings
spent so camly and happily, and of the family
Bible, from whose pages a dear one would read,
words of g'uidance and comfort. Perchance
that voice is now silent-.the seal of death may
have closed those lips-yet memory loves toI
bring forth, from the shadowy past, scenes like
these, andio place them again before us.
Blessed day of rest ! How gladly art thou
welcoed by the weary, hard-working class as
a respite from incessant tauil. Visions of green
fields and fresh, pure air flit before thme sons
ad daughters of poverty; as each Sunday
draws nigh, their careworn faces flush with
pleasure, as they admire earth's beauties and',
glorify God.j
On the Sabbatlh a holy calm seems to rest
upon all nature; everything is peaceful and still;
even the birds' sweet songs seem to fall upon
the ear with a softer cadence, and the music of
the little rivulet, as it dashes along, bringst
thoughts of peace and joy ; while, far away in
the distance, the church-hells are ring forth their
their invitation in softened tones-" Come-come,"
and quickly Christians hasten to obey the~ call1
with cheerfulness and alacrity, that indescriba
ble look of peace resting upon many of their
countenances, placed there by a quiet c, nacience.
There is something very beautiful and sacred
about the Sabbath, appointed, as it is, by the1
Almighty as a day of rest; and our hearts
should fill with gi'atitude as we read the corn
mandments. "Six days shalt thou labor and do 1
all that tho'u hast to do; but the seventh is the
-Sabbth of the Lord thy God ; in it thou shalt
do no manner of work." -Warerley Mamgazine.
THE BIDL.E-Lieutenant Maurey, of the Na
tional Observatory, in a lecture in New York
said:
" I have always found, in my scientific studies,
that when T could get t'.e Bible to say anything
on the subject, it afforded me a firm platform
to stand upon and nther roundi ini the Iadderp
yw a Iad~ 4 l!ait
rANNYT ERN, nas tne crews of perpetrating
the following on whiskers; she says:
"I for one like the feeling of them, and think a
handsome mouth fringed with a soft silky mous
tache, has a moss rosy look that is quite invi
ting."
Indeed, Fanny, do you thinic so 7 There are I
doubtless some other feminines who have the 1
same longings tho' few can be found with their t
strong mind to acknowledge it. But I, for one,
object to the wearing of hair at all on the up
per lip, or within a finger's breadth of the
mouth in any direction, and for good reason. i
First, no man who eats at all, can possibly keep
a clean skin under a moustache, (think of that!) V
and then think of receiving a kiss through a
bramble hedge, with eyes, nose and mouth ex
posed, to be crammed with bristles instead of
I moss rose," is perfectly horrible, indeed, im- I
possible, for where is the "electric contact that
:onstitutes the bliss of kissing?" And then to u
alk of a handsome mouth, under such a cover! a
[t is not only hidden, but absolutely deformed. I
Just take a profile view of your hairy friend as
ie takes his soup, (don't look long lest you .
oose your gravity,) but notice the dropping
md drippings "'twixt moustach and goatee."
'hen turn to your bearded terrier as he pitches
nto his mush and milk. Is not the resemblance t
striking? The only case where a moustache is ?
allowable, is where there is deformity of fea- b
ures which may be concealed by ,it, and then a
f the hair is red. or the color of slack burnt F
>rick, it may be a delicate matter to decide af
hether the remedy is not worse than the dis
use. HATTIE. a
[Savannah Morning News. P
SINGULAR SUIcIDr..-A letter from Vienna
lated the 16th ult., in an English paper, says:
"Two suicides have taken place here within b
he last week. A singular event has occurred T
.t Pestb, under tragic circu-u.tances. A Hun- a
rian lawyer and his wife had arrived in the n
ity with their young daughter, aged twelve h
rears, for the purpose of soliciting an appoint- h
nent as judge. Their general appearance was ai
legant, and the lady had been much remarked
t the theatres on account of the dazzling bril- b
aney of her complexion. One evening the en- Ii
ire fimily dressed as for a fete, went to the n
yanks of the Danube, and, tied together by a
ord, the child in tho middle, leaped into the n
iver in the midst of the pieces of ice which to
rere drifting by. A piercing shriek escaped "
he mother, and with assistance the parents T
rere dragged out, but the child had sunk. The ,'
ther was dead, and the mother, on gaining the r
hore, was found to be mad." t
n
PICTUR'OF A GooD WIFE.--Will our young h
parks w..o are pleased to think of a wile as
a elegant plaything, intended only to dress
nd dance, visit and spend money, please look a
t the following picture of a good wife, drawn 0
y the pencil of Solomon: Prov. XXXI.(7.) e
Verse 10. Behold a virtuous woman, ir her
rice is above rubies.
12. She riseth with day and prepareth break
st for her household ; yea, before the sun has o
isen she hath her maidens at work.
13. She seeketh wool and flax, -and layetly w
er hand willingly to the spindle, while her
ight hand merrily turneth the wheel.
14. She looketh well to the way of her fami- u
, and eateth not the bread of idleness. N
16. By her industry, her cheeks are made
uddy like the rose of Sharon, yea, her nerves
re strengthened, so that when she heareth talk a
f hysterics, she marveleth thereat. sc
17. Her house is the habitation of neatness, cl
o that the heart of her husband is refreshed A
Then he enters into her chamber. h
18. She maketh fine linen and selleth it, s
nd delivereth much fine cloth to the mer
hants. w
19. Her husband is known in the gates by r
he fineness of his apparel, for she maketh him a
lothes of silk and purple. C
20. 11er children rise up and call her blessed, a
er husband also, and pi'aiseth her.
TnH E Parisians are famous for their originality.
~hey conceive and accomplish things which no ta
tser people in the world would think of, and
hich no other people in the world would do. ti
~ecently an enthusiastic young nobleman, of
he French capitol, fell ardently in love with a e
eautiful and wealthy widow, and in an hour
f pleasant conversation, at herSdoonz, promised
o scnd her a New Year's present. It was then e
he last day of the year. He hurried from her
nansion and hastening to a cabinet maker, or- n
lered him to construct with all haste, a beauti
ul rosewood box, large enough to contain a
nan. The next day the box was completed, n
nd elegantly lined. Placing hiimself, arrayed g
i his nost elegant ball costume within it, the
over was screwed on, and with a perfumed bil. m
et on the top, requesting her to opien it immne- t
iately, lie was conveyed to the house of his t
nsmorata. LUortunately, however, the air ti
oles which had been made at the sides, pioved
u~sufficint for the purposes of lire, and when o
e fair lady proceeded to examine into the na-t
ure of her present, he was unconscious and al- 't
nost lifeloss. By the aid of propelr measures, a
ue was restored to life and health; and it is
ai that she to whose love he had so nearly
al len a martyr; consented to reward his devo- g
ion with her hand.
WENu carefully laid under ground, lead pipes u
re found to be far more durable than iron. e
acad often lasts fifty and even a hundred years, it
hile iron has been found to rust through in t
ess, sometimes, than five years. One advan- n
age which iron possesses over lead pipe is that o
e salts produced by oxydastion are not so poi- ti
onous as are those of lead, especially if the wa- a
er has been for sonie time exposed to the at
nophere. But in the lead pipe this may be
bviated by tinning themi, a practice introduced e
ome years since by Mr. Ewbanks. Tinned L
cad pipe is to be preferred to iron for conveying t'
rater or gases under ground, even when it ts 0
'equired to be of such size and thickness that h
he first cost will be con .ideratbly higher. c
INTER STINO ExPERIMENxT.--Take three bowls
our into one cold water, into aniother hot wa
er, and into a third water that is neither cold
lor hot ; then place each hand respectively into
he hot and cold, and now thrust both into the e
uke-warm. The band that was first put into y
he cold water will feel hot, and that which was ,d
n the hot will feel cold, although both are ex-a
osed to exactly the same temperature. This
imple experiment proves that the sensation of r
meat or cold is, to a great degree, relative, and
eaches the lesson that to secure comfort, in the ~
xtreme of our climate, we must neither warm
mrelves too much in winter, nor cool ourselves
oo much in summer.
Miss BREMER thus expresses a good wife' I
luty :
" If you will learn the seriousness of life, and
ts beauty also, live for your husband ; be like
he nightingale to his domestic life ; he to him
ike the sunbleams between the trees; unite
rourslf inwardly to him; lbe ynsided by him;
ake him hap py, and then you will understand
what is the beat happiness of life, and will ac-i
mwreiny owuri even a worth ith tGrl and I
IRE ET UNit UF Uu3aIUl 5UM5AR 'TUl WASH
INGTON.
The Evening Post of Tuesday-announ
he Hon. Charles Sumner left home on the 22d
or Washington, where he will remain until his
reparations are completed for a -voyage to
Europe. There is something to be remarked in
is sudden determination of the Senator to re
isit, at so unfavorable a period, the mcene of
is recent slanderous attack upon his Senatorial -
rother, which we cannot avoid noticing. Why
as Senator Sumner so rapidly recovered his
ealth ? How is it that the .afflictions- under
rhich his friends pretend he has been laboring,
re thus instantaneously abated ? The report
f his condition, communicated through the
rhining columns of the Black "Republican"
ress of this city. to the public, seemed to indi.
ate that his injuries were such as to utterly
nfit him for the duties of his office for at least
year to come. But alas for the verity of .pro
ssional opinions. Friends and physicians were
rrong. The obstacle to his recovery 'was be
one the teach of mortal science. Human
kill and ingenuity were poor panaceas for that
rhich was illimitably removed from them.
The country is suddenly startled by the news
at Preston S. Brooks had expired at a mo.
lent when his death was little expected,.with
ut a few firm political friends around him to
iminister the kind otlices of wife, brother and
arent and to chasten by Weir attentions the
sonies of his last moments.
The memorials of friendship are scattered ?.i. -
round the deceased, and his remains are ex
sed in the halls of Government. An oration
his social worth follows. Men of all parties
single round his bier. There are some there
ho lament his early death ; and some In whose
-arts the deep dyed prejudice planted by a
ogle act, conquers the emotion which hd.
most formed itself into a tribute to his noble.'-d
as of soul, . and to those high qualities -
art and mind, for which he was eminent in
s lifetime. He is buried, and his deeds are
story.
0, wonderful remedy ! Hardly has the mar
e been laid over his d!ffin when the victim of
s insulted honor, as if feeling the remedial
agnetisni of the truth, springs to new life.
e is all bustle and hurry to resume his duties
the Senate Chamber. A comtemplated visit
Europe for the improvement of his health
ust be deferred to some more convenient time.
here are a thousand interests at =take which
quire his immediate presence at the Capitol.
he clock of liberty has run down in the in
rim of his absence, and its constant tickings
longer delight the ears of Senators. No
mnd but his can recall it to vitality.
Duty is imperious. There is no tampering
ith the sacred impulse which bids him away !
pay ! an.: away he goes, but to the mental eyo
men, whose faculties revolve around the
ntral orb of a nature quickened with the fire
a chivalrous adhesion to the noblest elemebts
character; in whose bosoms the spark of
iman dignity has increased to a broad flame
hich permeates and illuminates every crevice.
existence, there is sketched out over "his.,
hole track~frim' Boatoa?.tiioa banksf ..h " ,
etoa 6i la eris 'ii~r "'
living fire (a name and a charater, whose odi
u the act of his fallen foe can never rival.)
hat name we will leave the reader to apply.
ew York Daily News.
BRIEF CoUaTsHIP.-Lord G. was strangely
lvised by his physicians to marry, and lead a
Aber, domestic, and steady life, as the only
tance of improving his shattered c natitution.
ccordingly he formed a resolution to offer his
end to the first woman who caused preposses
ons in her favor.
Being one day in Kensington Gardens, he
ent to shelter himself from a heavy showerof
in, in a covered seat., to which two ladies had
so repaired. One of them was Miss V. A.
onversation ensued, during which his lordship
ked:
" Have you a carriage in waiting ?"
" No," they replied.
"Will you take a seat in mine, and allow me
convey you home 71"
The offer was ac-epted, and on their way to
>wn Miss V. said:
"2J think this is the easiest carriage I have
rer been in."
His lordship politely replied:
"You may be mistress of it, madam, when
rer you please."
The lady blushed her thanks, and they were
an and wife before the exp~iration of a month.
BEAUTIFUL TnoLUGT.-IHere is one of the
any thoughts to which Fanny Forrester has
yen expression...
"0O let me die in the country, where I shall
at fall like the single leaf, unheeded; where
o'e that love me need not mask the heart to::.
u~ careless multitude, and strive as a duty to.
ircudt me.
" Bury me in the country, amid the prayers
the good and the tears of the loving; not in
rie dlark vault, away from the sweetened air,
rid the cheerful sunshine, but in the open fields,
ad among toe flowuersi that. I loved and cher
hotd while I was living.
NR.GROEs RsEHNN RaO MEXIcO.-The
an An -io Texian says:
H . y a wee passes but runaway negroes.
re captured in Mexico, and returned to their
asters ini Texas; and it is now seld' m the
use that we hear of one running away to Mex
o. The plain truth is, that those who are
,.'re now are in a wretched condition, and ma
y of them would be glad to get back to their
Id homes. They are not only ragged and des..
tute of the comforts of life, but most of them
re really in a starving condition.
LARGE RECEIrs oF CovFE.-The receipts of
ffee at New Orleans on the 7th in -tant were
nusually heavy ; no less than seven vessels en
nred port on that day, bringing an aggregate
1' 33,356 bags. Among the arrivals was the
ark William R. Newman, of Baltimore, with a
urgo of over 5,000 bags.
SCORNING THE IDEA-A vagabond-loolhing
laow, but with stinw wit nevermkelena, was
roughat before a mariktraie at Tourbridge, las.
reek. on ilie charge of atealinig turnipa. 'After
imking somie droII re~marks., he~ was a-ked by ihs
lmgiistt," but dida't yau take Ihe turnips
.und in your piacke~t T' Prisoner-"I, you wor
h~p! certninily nomt. I went to sleep in the field
monir the turnip< and the threae you found in
uy pokets graew ini them while. [Isv, the heat of
ny huody enuaingr themn to shoo~itilp fas9ter th--n or.
iniary. I iettal tornips, you woirshiip 1 I'd acora
be iden !
" Jimmy, are your folks all well?1"
" Yes, ma'am, all but Sally Ann."
" Why, what's the matter with her?"
"0O, nothing' partic'lar-only she 'had the-.
Loopin'-cough once, and she haint never got
>ver it. The cough aint of anny aecont now,
ut she has the kaop desper'te.
A SERVANTs G!rLt-s Rnr.n.-Agenteman
>bserving a servant girl, wlao was left-banded.~
>lacing thme knives and forks on the table in thE"
nine awkward position;-reniarked to her tlet'
Jhe was laying them left-h~anded.
"0' indade!" said 4. "i fa,16tta