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It shows how prone mankind are to seek after novelty; when found hpw inadequate to satisfy; how unstable, inconstant, and ever-changing are all- human affections; how principle and honor, which alone ennoble man and elevate him beyond the level, of the inferior species of creation, are sac rificed to glut the unholy desires siringing from a perverted and concepted nature, the deplora ble consequences of which are a destruction of virtue and innocence, and utter extinction of happiness, and blasting of hopes. Excuse me for troubling you, and .use your own good.pleasure in reference to the piece. Yours, Very Respectfully, G. G. K. THE .BUTTERFLY AND THE FLOWER. "True love, still born of heaven, is bless'd with wings, And, tired of earth, it plumes them back again, And so we luse it." Deep in the bosom of a southern forest, there grew a beautiful flower, the swetest flower in that lonely region. Its leaves were of the purest white, for the first time unfolding tq the world around them, and revealing, as they did so, the fine and delicate droppings of violet and purple, which before, like so much hidden wealth, had. lain within its bosom. Its odor was fresh and exquisite, and no flower in all that forest eould come near it for sweetness, or for beauty. In excellence, and in condition, it was equally alone. sh II. But it was not destined to.be alone always. There came to it, one morning in May, a golden butterfly-a rover among the flowers--an an cient robber of their swueets. Gayly he plied his flight throughout the forest,-now here, now there,-sporting about in a sort of errant un consciouness. It was not long before he inhaled the ordor,-it was not long before he saw the pure white leaves, and looked down, with a yearning eye, upon the rich droppings of purple and violet which nestled in the bosom of the isolated flower. hI. Flying around, in mazy, but still contracting circles, lie gazed upon the loveliness of the flower, and grew more enaiored at each mo ment of his survey. "Surely," he thought, " this is a flower by itself-love's own flower dwelling in secret-budding and blooming only for his eyes, and denied to all beside. It is my good fortune to have found it,-I will drink its swets,-I will nestle in its bosom,-I will enjoy its charms as I have enjoyed those of a thousand others. Verily, it will better deserve my embraces." Iv. Even with the thought, came the quick reso lution, and another moment found him lying lying close, and pressing fondly upon the bosom of the flower. There was, at first, slight effort to escape from the embraces of the intru der ;-the flower murmured its dissent ; but the murmur died away into a sigh, and the sigh was inhaled, as so much delicious dew of Eden, by the pressing lips of the but terfly, Hie sung to the flower of his love-he, the acknowledged rover,-the unlicensed drinker of sweets-the economical winner of affections, with which lhe did not share his own,-he sung to the flower a story of his love ; and, oh ! saddest of all, the young flower believed the dishonest story which he told. v. And, day after day, he came to the stolen embrace ;-and, day after day, more fondly than ever, the lovely flower looked forth to re ceive his visits. She surrendered her very soul to his keeping, and her pure white leaves grew tinged with the pressure of his golden ringlets, while his kisses stained with yellow the other wise delicate loveliness of her lips. But she heeded not, she knew not of the change in her purity ; while yet the embrace was still fervent -the kiss still warm upon his lips-the return of the worshipper still certain to her altars. But when was love ever certain ? not often, where the lover is a butterfly ! There camne, in time, a change over the fortunes of the flowver, for there camne a change over the habits of the wanderer. He gradually fell off in his atten tionts. 1Iis paso grewv cool, and the ease of his conquest led' hinm to undervalue i:s acquisi tion. Each day brought haim at a later hour, andl hi< stay wvith the Ilower grew mnore and mtore shortened at every visit. 11er feelings perceived the estrangement lung before her reasoni hatd taught heri to think upon or under stand it. She, alas ! felt nout of her ownchn ges; she only had consciousness of~ hi<. At leng th she mnurnmured her reproaches ; and the grievance nmust be great when love will erv. so fondly as to comnphain. "Wherefore," she said, "Oh! wherefore hast thou lingered so long ? Why dost thou not now, as before, vie with the sunlight in thy advances? I have looked for thec from the dawning, yet I have looked for thee in vain. The yellow beetle has been all the morning buzzing around mte, but I frowned upon his approaches. The green grass hopper had a ,ong under my shade, and told me a dtil story of the love which lie had for mec in his bosomi; and, more than once, the glittermng hunmiing-bird has sought miy enm braces, but I shut my leaves against him. Tlhou only has't been slow to seek mec-thiou whom only I have longed to see. Aht! wherefore, when I so much need thee, is it thius? viii. Gayly the butterfly replied to these re proaches, nor heeded the increasirg paleness of the victim of his snares. "0 ger a thousand forests I have been flying, each as beatutiful as this-on a thousand flowers I've been tending, none less lovely to the sigh t than thou. Hlow could'st thou dream that, with a golden wing let, broad, anid free, and beautiful like iimie, in a single spot I still should linger, of the world around unknowinig aught? No, no; mine is an excursive spirit ;-for a thousand free affec tions chartered, wouldst thou have me, like a roigspider, striving still to girdlo in ray - 1x. It was a murmuring, and a sad reply of the now desolited flower, and she lived not long after she had made it: "Ah! now I know mine error-my sad error ;-having no wings my self, to mate with the lover who bath wings only. Alas! that I have loved so fondly and foolishly;- for while thou hast gone over a thou sand forests, seeing a thousand- flowers, I have only known, only looked and lived for a single butterfly." . Drooping beneath her own shroud ing leaves, the victim had no more reproaches. The false one was soon a'way, after this, to anbtlier forest; for his ear loved not the lan guage of complaint,. and he had sense, if not feeling enough, to know that her's was uttered but too justly. The flower noted his departure, and its last sigh was an iudible warning to the young bud which grew into bloom beside it. The wood-spirit heard the sigh and the warn ing; and when the bud began to expand in the pleasant sunshine, he persuaded the black-brow ed spider to spin his web, and to frame his nest in the thick bushes that hung around it; and many'were the wanton butterflies, after this, who, coming to prey upon the innocent atfec tions, became entangled, and justly perished because of the guardian net-work thus raised up for-its protection. From the South Carolinian. "THE LEXINGTON FLAG." The readers of this journal have already been apprised of the cause of its not appearing for several weeks past. Having just sufficiently re covercd from a severe and painifl illness to use my pen and survey my shattered affairs, I em -brace the first opportunity of informing my friends and the patrons of the Flag, of the ex tent of the loss they, as well as myself, have sus tained in the death of young Leppard.' While he'filled the post of Junior Editor-writing only when he felt inclined-being a good practical printer, he acted as foreman of the office, and directed 'and superintended all its operations. His loss, therefore, to me and to the paper is at once fatal and irreparable. It would be impos sible for me to supply his place by another person. In this connection it is necessarf, too, to state that Leppard and myself were united by sone thiing more than a mere business partnership. Uy the niar-iage of our parents when we were small, we became brothers ; for a number of vears we were at school together, during the greater part of the time, class-mates-when at home room-mates-when separated, almost week ly correspondents; and were thus endeared to each other by all the ties of long, intimate and ripened friendship. I loved him as tenderly as if he had been a brother of my own blood. None knew him as well as I did, and, I may say, none could appreciate as I did his priceless worth. The many virtues that adorned his spot less character are enshrined in the inner chan bers of my heart,and the image of his handsome fbrn and manly mien will ever linger in the greenest isles of my memory. Leppard appears to have had an almost intui tive knowledge of the printing- business. He had worked at it but a short tjime, and for more than a year had not handled a type, belbre we coitmenced the publication of the Play; and vet he soon brought the most perfbet order and system otit of the chaos of confusion and ill n'sage in which we found the ollice; and the neat and reglar appearance of the paper bore veek lv testimony to his skill and admirable handi work. We struggled at first against many dithi culties :id disadv-antages, but had overcome theimi all, and were gradually winning our way to success. But alas ! when the goal fir which we toilkd had well nigh been reached. when the flush of victory was already upon our brows, death came and struck down the Moses of our band! Leppard, gifted, noble and pure as lie was, must be laid in the tomb, his ninible fingers cold and riged as marble, his clear hazel eves, where beamed the fires of genius and looked out tie windows of a masterly intellect and lofty soul, closed forever upoii all earthly things. But lioignant and bitter as is our grief,~ and sad and severe as is our loss, we must bow to the will of that inscrutable Wisdom, fromi whose court there is nto appeal. If I cannot find a good practical printer to purchase the Playj aiid continue it, its publica tions will have to cease. To a man of the righit stamip, I will give a bargain, and under pi-oper management it would prove t profitable invest inent. in the meantimie, I assure the subscri bers to the paper that 1 shall doeverythiing lecan to secure its continuance. I should deeply re gret to see the district deprived entirely of a newspaper of its own. With this comunication, mny career as an editor closes. My connection with the press has been so brief, and the field I have occupied so obscure, that I hardly consider a formal with drawal necessary. I will only say that I am not consciotus of having deviated inthe least fromn the principles and line of conduct 1 marked out for my guidance at the beginning, anidhave enideav orcd to dischatrgetfaithfully thieduties thaltdevolved upon me. Djoubtless, however, I hav-e failed in ma niy particulars, and comue fhr short of the expecta tions of my frienids. If in dealing with the strictest impartiality with all, and with the fullest convic tion of rectitude, I hiave given offenice to alny one, I have ito apology whatever to make. To my late bt-ethr-en of tfie piess, I will addl, as a parting remark, that from what I have learned of tlim during the short space of four months, I have formedi a high opinion of the ability, dig nity andl self-sacriticiing spirit of the editorial fraternity of South Carolina, anld regret thaut it is not myi lOt to continue an humble member oit it. E. J. H. IlIIEl. L14x ix4;ros, S. C.. June 2t6. 1.457. llow .t Sr-s-Srnon: Am-r~s MLis.-Th~e en ral imipressio'n is that death by sun-stroke is very paiifu, bitt theu contrary would sem to be the fct., judging from the following account of the effect of such a visitation, given by General Sit-. C. .1. Napier. lie experientcedl ant attack while in Seinde, where the thermometer, according to Gen. N. hiimaself, was of as much uise to him as it would have been'to a boiling lobster, and wrote as follows to onte of his daughters: " The sun stroke was a staggerer; yet my hope is to die by one, for nevir cani death come in an easier shape. I was just deadly sleepy; it was deadly had I beeni left alone ; but the only feelinig of the trant sition wouldi have been a tiredness, like that ex perieniced at being suddenly waked up libi-cr timie. This was to a degree abniost to lie called pinid.; then camne a- pleasantt di-owsiness, with ager that the doctors would not let nie sleep. Were it inot for others, would thatmy horn had be-n sounded ;so easy, so delightful, I mayv say, wats thets at~ppro ach of' death." TIhis iresemblles the accounts that have beent given by mteni who have beeni sav-ed from fi-eezinig to deth, after having got far down into the da~rk v-alley ; so thatt the ex etss of heat anud excess of cold prouice precisely the samet effects.. 'Tere are in Bostoii five huntdr-ed and twenty sevein personse- of the iiame of Smith, thriee hunit dred anid seventty-thiree Browns, two hiuindred anid niniet v-seven Sullivanis, two hundred and twenty eight' Clarks, two hundred aiid eighit -Johusons and one huiidred aind eighty-three Jones. iirAro-r that belongs to many, is ill stirred and worse boiled. O 0MM U NI U A TI 0 N S. For the Advertiser. REQUIE. Strike the lyre mournfully, for an arrow hath sped From the Insatiate's quiver, and MARY is dead! Touch the strings softly, for fond hearts lie crushed, Yearning, yea bleeding for the voice that is hushed! Gloom for the home the dread-dart hath shrivon, Wo for the dear ones from whom she is riven; Meet that hot tears from their eye-lids are swelling ; Meet that loud sobs from their. bosoma are welling! As wife and as mother, 0, who hath excelled her? As sioter and daughter, who ever was dearer? To the eare-worn and weary, to behold her was joy, So kind was her greeting, so free from.alloy. Oh! word., are too poor to picture the anguish Of the des .late ones as in sorrow they languish, Too poor to describe the treasure that's flown, Or the jewel that beams in yon radiant Throne! E. W. R. For the Advertiser. CELEBRATION AT HAMBURG. MR. E oDITO :-Saturday was a great day for Hamburg. The Anniversary of our nation's birth was observed by that people, in a manner be coming the august occnion, and the glorious re collections inspired by it: A hallowed enthusiasm pervaded t he very atmosphere of Shultz's Park, and scitinments of patriotism were breathed in eve ry passing- wind, and echoed by the woods and groves, aid spoken in thunder tones from the can non's month. Large and ample preparations bad been made for the convenience of participants, and from the erliest of the morning, until the gun announced that the Orator had approached the Stand, the stream of human beings, of gallant men and lovely women, and of the young and old of every shade of beauty, form, and complexion, was continuous, from the end of the Augusta Bridge through the streets of Hamburg, clean to the famous heights of old renown. In a word, much ofethe fashion and elite of the conntiy around, as well as of the City of Augusta, and Hamburg's whole population had come out to present their offerings on the al tar of their country. Nature appeared to conspire with man and woman to give all possible brillian cy and eclat to our national Jubilee, for the air was calm, temperate and bracing, the heavens se rene, and the rays of a summer's sun were modi fied, and gently obstructed by passing clouds and delightful breezes, and the waters were as delicious and refreshing as the fountains of Castalia them selves. Nothing was wanting to make our assem bling together pleasing, imposing, exhilarating and rand, and nothing was present to disturb our har inony, to mar our enjoyment, or to check the spon Laneous out-pourings of the grateful hearts of our eitizens. The firinu of thirteen rounds was the signal for the vast multitude to give their attention to the exerciscs of the day. Capt. W. W. SALI, then introduced \lr. J.o. C. McDoxx Ar.n, who, in an im pressive and handsome manner, read the declara Lion of Independence, prefacing his reading with a few happy and appropriate remarks. Josnru .\nsmx , Esq., the Orator selected for the lay, was then announced, who, in a style peculiar ly his own, and full of earnestness and zeal, enter ained the anditory for more than an hour, dis oursing of patriotisn, love of liberty, and resis Lame to oppression. lie drew a vivid and graphic picturo of the condition of the euuntry, of its pow r, its almost illimitable resources, and of its fu Lure prosperity, grandeur and greatness. The por trature, extended to the destiny of the North American, or British or Anglo Saxon race on this continent, and to its final achiievment of dominion over the whole of the New World. But whilst lhe claimed this unbounded rule to belong to the race, and denounced the vacillating and blundering poli cy of the government towards Nicaragua and President WAL.KEa, he yet deprecated the acquisi tion of any new Territory, excepit for commercial, naval and defensive purposes, to be hereafter ad mitted into the Union as States, and to be allowed to become integral parts of the Confederacy, as detrimental to the peace andl well-being of the country, and calculated either to destroy the Union in the end, or to subvert the liberties of the people. The soil recently acquired from Mexico had been nothing but a bone of contenition, bietween the North and the South since the ratification of the treaty of peace ; and had proved conclusively to the South that she had nothing to give but eve ry thing to lose by new conquests of territory. Evey Northern President, was, at heart, a free soiler, from JOHn Anasts to JAstES BucCIAN.c, and had secrmetly aided and abetted thme abolition ists in their infamous intrigues. If wve allow our selves longer, (said lie) to be duped by Northern men with Southern pirincilhes, and especially, If we suffer ourselves to be madIe the instruments of our own oppression, in the system of territorial aggrandizement carried on by the government, wholely for the benefit of the North, wve will lbe made slaves. and deserve our doom. Northern prepoderance has already become so marked a'nd potential, as to render us the merest ciphers ini the Union, and that preponderance is hound to increase in weight, by the influx of' foreigners, so long as the confederacy shall last. The interest of the sections have become so dif fercnt and conflicting, and the people on account of their Institutions, have become so distinct from each other in character, and actually so hostile in feling that they can dwell together no longer in unity and good-brotherhood. Eachmsection is able to take care of itself, andl they should calmly, quietly, and definitively separate their estates. The Union has become a carse to the South, rather than a lessing, and the tongue of a Southern man, who with a knowledge of our oppressions, can ad vocate its perpetuity, is false anid traitorous ; and lie himself is a bastard to the spirit and blood of his ancestors. No man of sagacity who has diligently watched the proceedings, anmd faithfully studied the policy of our government on thme subject of slavery, for the last qjuarter of a century, can enterlain the least hope11 for the South in tihe confederacy, unless he is really capable of hoping against hope. Why Mr. W anrs-runt himiself, the most moderate of abo litionists, made no secret of his oppositionm to the spread of slave institutions;,.and every Northern nian of any prominence, including the President himself, has long ago been pledged against the extension of slavery over another acre of the Uni .i ates. noaesinne Evarj compromi.e and every act, and everyrepeal of an act touching Af rican slavery since the first restrictions imposed upon it in the days 16 JfPPERSON and MADISON, has resulted in ad tage to our enemies. and in most damning con ons by the South! We are completely cbeckma , and we are in a minority eternally growing lesi and mores powerless, whilst the shackles of a hid confederacy shall be suf fered to gal our 1.. The pretended removal of all restrictions in .ard to slavery in the Kan sas-Nebraska and otler late acts, was nothing but delusive baits to lurdimd deceive the South, and treacherous emollienftgo soothe her wounded. spir it, 'whilst the floodetes of abolitionism were opened to the Nortr West. The repeal of the Missouri Compromis has lost us every thing. Foreigners, in the pay of New Englanders and paupers from Europe$uad from Boston, Philadel phia and New York, 9Sbsidized by the emigrant aid Societies, will noliV up every new Territory, either North or Sout -as they did in the case of Califoinia, and decri4 the abolition of slavery there, inspite of all tt Southern money, South ern eloquence, South"n courage or Southern pow er can effect. My last hope, is bloAdespair. Kansas is gone. We have felt the weig of the government in that quarter, ever since thebeginning of the contest. In my opinion, the aims~f President Pierce during his administration, weW directed solely to the em ployment of such inefeiient agents in that territo ry, as would temporiz and dally with the rights of slaveholders, until.#ne should give to an aboli tion majority every thing sought. Mr. Buchanan has followed in the fo'.steps of his predecessor, and appointed a natlk of his own region to set tle the great issues inrhich the South has con sidered her destiny involved. That governor holds peaceful kind relationsivith his less zealous Free soil brothers, Robinso' and Lane, who openly commit treason and nimend measures tanta mount to murder an , ry in his very face. This noble-minded of , instead of resenting the most flagrant outrages ever perpetrated with im punity against law inlany civilized country on earth, appeases the anger of the ruffian malcon tents by a manifesto in which be promises them, contrary to all precedent,the most glorious oppor tunity of bafiling the lejally constituted authori Lies of the territory; yd of annulling the enact ments which have cosk-some of the best blood of the South. From the late proceedings of the British Parlia ment and the speeches of its members, I am re luctantly forced to the eoriction, that slavery has been one of the grav obstacles of Walker in Nicaragua; and that th6'-United States Govern inent has actually syni#i ized and co-operated with Great Britain in sn-,holy combination, lo ppres, defeat, shame4lhinurder her own cliil ren; and to exclude them. from a country, which by American valor and American enterprise, might in a short period, be made to rank with the first nations on the globe. In view of all our wrongs and injuries, we are a degraded people if we do not redress ourselves. We are sunk in the profonndest apathy that ever benumbed the facult es of inen, and we possess the hearts of dastards, if we do not take measures of resistance to Northern abolition encroachments; and we are no sons of the revolution, if we do not sever the bands of a Union which is preying upon our substance, which is oppressing our energies like a hellish incubus; and which threatens in the end, not only to subvert our liberties, but to deso late our fields -and consume our dwellings by the hands of the assassin, and the torch of the mid ight incendiary. Great God ! if the South could but live alone, the tax she pays to the General Government in the shape of- duties on impilorts alone, and to piampier and bloat an insolent mnonied aristocracy would make her as rich as Egypt in the days of her glo r. 11er cotton would command in exchange, the productions and the nma!ufactures of every region and every clime. It would be a mine to her pee ~le vaster and more exhaustless than all the mines f North and South America and Australia to ether. It would secure the friendship, the favor. he alliance and the good oflices of all nations. It ouhl purchase peace with all the kingdoms of men; and if a wa~r, by any extraordinary and un toward circumstances, should be waged against ier, she coubil overcome the most dominant em pires of the Universe. She could equip and main taini in her defence for an unilimited time, a million f troops; and put to death all her enemies with silver bullets and silver gunis. Cotton has now be ome a necessity for all nations. It has not only ~supplanted in a gloat measure for clothing, silk, woolen, hemp and flax, and the skins of beasts, but so many persons have beconme enicaged in its manufacture and in its trafie, and so much capital is invested thercini, that the suspension of its trade for the period of six. months, would spread ruin, starvation and nakedness through the whiole of Europe. In England alone, it furnishes bread to millions, and the frustration of its purchase and sale for thlree mon'this would create a revolution, if it did not destroy the Kingdom. The chariness of Great Britain in quarreling with -the United States, arise s from nto fear of the prowess of our army of tea thousand, or of our diminutive navy, but from the dread of interrupting or losing her cottoii trade, whiihh would ruin the State. The slaveholding eotton-growving South holds in the paln of her hands, more po wver, more wealth, and more abundant resources for acquiring indepen dence. hlappiness, glory and renown, than any two nations in existe'nce. Providence has lavished up on her all his goodness, and all his bounty ; and that she suffers her sons to be slaves-to be " hoew ers of wood and drawers of water," to a misera be set of cold-blooded abolitionists, is a reproach to thle name, and a satire upon the nature of man himself. In this indignant strain, the Orator poured forth his feelings in argumenit, reason and invective, for near an hour and a half. We regret that we have no means of giving moro- than this meagre s*etch of an address we approved. At the conclusion of the speechI every body par took of the entertainment of dinner. Then the young joined in a dance to the strains of cheer ing music by the bandl, upon a platform erected for the occasion; and towards evening adjourned to tile Carolina Hotel, when that innocent amuse ment was prolonged till near midnight. Nothing but order, joyousness and good feeling pervaded the immense concourse, and reigned throughout the day. ONE OF THE COMMIT TEE. Hamburg, July 6th. 1867. For the Advertiser. THE REVISION MOVEMENT, SECTARIAN. MR. EDITR:-When an important enterprise is on hand, the completion and success of which de pends upon the degree of favor with which the public regard it, a full and honest showing of all matters connected with It should be made by its projectors; and this is the more indispensable, when the contemplated enterprise is intended to do away an old, established and universally received order of things, and alfect the best interests of so ciety, These remarks will apply to the subject in hand, and before entering upon the main question, a few members will be devoted in noticing the tac tics of the Revisionists. A reader who is in any tolerable degree posted in the history of this movement, cannot help ob serving the pains that is taken to conceal its sec tarian character: Mr. EDXONDS, says, " The plat form. upon which these societies stand, is in no sense Sectarian," "It is Catholic in Its largest sense, every man is at liberty to qngage in the work whatever be his denominational connections." "E. L. W." in his concluding article, says, the "new version will be the work not of Sectarian, but of Christian Scholarship." " Sectarianism Is not capable of such a work." Before proceeding to show that Sectarianism is at the head and front of this movement, wo will refer to the meaning of the word Sectarian. Web ster defines it thus, "Pertaining to a sect or sects, peculiar to a sect." The word Sect, he says means, " A body or number of persons constitu ting a distinct party by holding sentiments differ ent from those of other men." Now, if it can be made to appear that it is the " main design " to have immerse in the place of baptize in the new version, the charge of Sectarianism Is sustained, and the honesty of the Revisionists brought into question. When " E. L. W." said that "Sectarianism was not capable of such a work," what could be have meant ? We would rather believe that he was ig norant or forgetful of the history of the A. B. Society, and of-other Bible organizations in this country than that he would wilfully mislead his readers, and yet this has been done, not only by both of the writers above referred to, but by all engaged in the movement. In 1832, Dr. Judson and three or four other Baptist Missiona ries, enquired of Professor Stuart "shall we trans fer the Greek word Baptizo into the Burmese lan guage, when it relates to the ordinance of baptism, or translate it by a word significant of immersion?" In his reply, he advised them not to tranlate bap tizo by immerse, but to " transfer it as it had been done into the Latin, French and Englb-h." These missionaries refused to follow his advice, and pro ceeded to use a term in the Burmese Version, which signifies exclusively to immerse; and yet " Sectarianism." we are told "Is not -capable of such a work." Two Baptist Missionaries in Bengal, Messrs Pearce and Yates, in prepairing a version in that language, did the same thing. The Ameri can B. Society refused to patronize this version, the constitution opposing the publication of all Sectarian versions, and this refusal resulted in the formation of all the Revision Societies, both in this country and in England. We repeat the remark, that no organization for the Revision of the Bible was forned until the A. B. Society refused to print this version; and in the face.of this fact, Mr. Edmonds, endorsed by " E. L. W." tell us " these societies are in no sense Sectarian, they are Catholic in the largest sense." But let the fathers of these societies be heard as to their object. Dr. MlcClay said, " though we consider the re ceived version in the main to be an excellent one, yet we believe great injustice has becen done to the word of God, by concealinmg tihe true mleanling of baptize from the unlearned." Dr. Conc, one of the Presidents of the Union in a pubilic speechm said, "our main design is to show to all that baptisnm is immersion only, anld there fore it is tighit to print it ill the Bible." Every one must suppo~Se thle President to have been posted inl regard to thle "1mi design." J. WV. Lynd, D. D., in Tract No. 6, of the " Bi ble Union's plan oif Revision vindicated," shows teimportancean necessity of Revisionbth benefits which will flow from it, anmd one of thme benefits accordling to this tract, is, that immerse will take the place of baptize. A gain, tihe Secretary of the British Translation Society ini his fifth Annlual Report, says: Our only buisness is to uphold immiersionist versions, this single object is our rallying point." Inl these sen timets says Dr. Cone, " we cordially unite." It would he anm easy matter to multiply quota tions of this kind. We will quote however, as further evidence of the Sectarianism of the work, a few passages from the new version prepared by Messrs. Coec amnd Wyckoff, and wvhichm has beenl scatteredl through the land. Mntt. :3: I1, "I indeed im amerse you unmto) repenltanlce, but lhe that come~th after mie is mlighmtier thlan I, wvhc.se shoes2 I am not worthy to bear, he will immerse you in time Holy Spirit and- fire." Mark 'f: 41. " And when they come from market, exceplt they immerse, they eat not, anmd maniy other things thlere are which they have received to hold( as the immuersing of cups, and pots, and brazenl vessels and couches." Luke 11: 38, " When the Phlarisee saw it, lie marvelled, that he had not first ilmmlersed before dinner." Atlouah~ this versionl was published by the A. & T. B. Society before they abandoned thle idea of a new version in English, yet, thme Agents of the Union are circulating it, hence they endorse it. There is another circumstance to be conmsidered. One reason given by these gentlemen for the ne cesity of a new version, was, the false renderings of certainl words, which were calculate d to mis lead, as for example, the words Chunrch, Angel, &c., and yet, when the version is printed, these very words which they solemnly pronounced im proper and false, are rendered the same way as in tle received copy, but when it comnes to speak of baptism, that word is not used, immerse is substi tuted in every instance--this is never neglected, and yet 4"Sectarianism is not capable of such a thing." From tliese facts it is easy to see what thmese Re visioists are after, andi the way thmey are trying to blind the " dear conmmoni people " for whom they are so much concerned, reminds one of time strata gem adopted by Cacus in stealing the cattle of Hercules. It is said he - led thmem by the tail in stead of the horns, so that if pursued, his pursu ers by following tihe track might be sure to go the wrong way, and arrive at tihe wrong place. Inm our next we shall have something more to say of the manwuvering of the Revisionists. CANDOR. From the Charleston Mercury. THE EDGEFIELD ADVERTISEL 1 It is furthermore urged by our cotemporaries of the alarmist school, that an apathy the most deplo rable, hait spread itself like a pall over the spirit of the South, and that, without a cbange for the better, we are soon to be bound hand and foot to the car of Northern.power. - While, in point of fact, the real sentinel men of our section were never so well fre armed as now ; while the States of.the South were never so completely united; and while their mani lest ability to protect themselves never before calted forth from the, rabid exponents of Northern Aboli tionism such unmistakable evidences of mortification and disappointment." " The alarmist school " This, we suppose, consists of those who, not satisfied with the Union in its present and past condition of hostile agitation and danger to the South, cannot see that-because the North does not yet possess the Federal Executive, the Federal Judiciary and the Senate of the United States, to wield against her on the general subject of slavery the South is " more powerful than it has been for many years," and that the "anti-slavery tendencies in the frontier States are growing weaker every day." It is those, who cannot comprehend how the South is growing more powerful in the Confederacy, when the last House of Representatives in Congress was pre ided over by an Abolitionist; and when, in the late Presidential election-slavery being the test question-the South, although exerting her en tire and united strength, was beaten by a numer ical majority of the people of the " National' Union. It is those, who are so very stupid as not to see the most brilliant prospects of securi ty and power rising up, like some splendid au rom-borealis over the beautiful hills of Kansas. [t is those gloomy malcontents, whose cold hearts warm not at the late breaking asunder )f Churches. and Christian Associations, and Tract Societies, on the slavery issue; men, whose reluctant confidence does not mourn up with these gratifying indications of the growing soundness of the Northern people and their returning sense of justice. These morbid indi viduals cannot see, as the Advertiser does, " from the rabid exponents of Northern Abolitionism, such unmistakable evidences of mortification and disappointment." It is true they see a continu ation of the furious agitation. They perceive, too, immediately after the Presidential election, the election of the Abolition Senator from Penn sylvania, the only State in the Atlantic North which went with the South-pitiful vote as it was for their favorite. They also perceive since then, that the Freesoilers have carried every questionable Senator in the North. Such are some of the views of the alarmist school. Now, if we understand the Advertiser aright, these views are erroneous, or the facts on which they are based very insignificant; and he places his statements, that the South is in a blissful state of satisfaction, on two grounds-1st. The " sentinel men of our section were never so well rorearmed as now ;" and, 2d. " The States-of the South were never so completely united." Possibly we may,not understand whom the Advertiser means by "the sitinl menof'ni section." Once we would have classed him with them, foremost and staunchest in vindica ting the rights, and protecting the safety and bonor of the Southern States. There was then no congratulation about a paltry temporary suc :ess in checking the march of our ruthless as ailants ; no utopian and low-toned reliance on Northern party,-utopian, inasmuch as the ational Democracy has aided in putting upon the South every burden and insult and dange rous blow to our institutions, under which we have chafed-and low-toned, inasmuch as we are told to lean upon others for safety or hope in our wrongs and perils, when we Southern peo ple can ourselves work out our redemption and ecurity without intrinsic Northern assistance sought in tame acquiescence; no apologetic si lence or self-complacent patience with proceed ings in our Territories which must in their con equences, if successful, reach with disastrous in fluence every home in the South. Once these things were not. Such was the sentinel man in South Carolina not long since, is this the sen tinel man now ? and if~ so, where is our cotem porary ? The Advertiser's sentinel man is " forearmed." his is the single feature given .us by which he s to be known. And he is " forearmed"-with what ? Is it only with National Conventions mid their platlcorms, and a National Democracy illinity ? Are these the weapons with which to accomplish the deliverance of the South? Is it with hopes of Northern help, or Northern rorbearance, or Northern associations ? Is this the defensive armor with which he is clothed ? If so, no wonder every man who even dreams af Southern rights, is, in the apprehension of the so-called sentinel man, an alarmist. A sen tinel-but he mistakes his commander. ie is sentinel-not of the South-but of the North ern Nation~al Union Democracy, whose success tiow lies in the ruin of Southern rights in K~ansas. But "the Southern States were never so coapletely united ?" And "lunited"-in ichat ? [n abandoning or supporting the rights of the South? If the former, then have not ":the alarmist" cause for desponding and pointing out rangers with voice of warning ? Does not, in that case, " an apathy the most deplorable spread itself like.a pall over the spirit of the South ?" But if the South is united for the defence and protection of the rights of the South, show us the proof. We long to see it, and will join the Advertiser, with all our feeble power, to effect the end. The present union of the South is theoretic in -her supprt-it is in practice an abandonment of her rights. Let our cotempo rary call for " an union of the South for the sake f the South," as a Governor of Virginia has eloquently said. Every brave spirit in the South who understands and appreciates her position, will obey the summons. But if the union of which it speaks is " a disunion of the South for the sake -of the North,"-:-an union only with some time-serving, treacherous, national party, and for other objects than the preservation of the South, it fully justifies all the fore-bodings of "the alarmists." These anxieties-these arnings-these entreaties, are but the words f truth and soberness-the beatings of the rightfully and wisely indignant heart of the South. From the Chark ston Mercury. TRE EDGEFIELD ADVERTISER, "Still it is perteveringly intimated that we are upon the verge of a vortex, in which we may soon be swallowed up with all that we hold dear ; and the plince among nations which knew us once, is to know us no more forever. What and where is this vortex ? Is to be found in Black Republicanism ? The South knows that enemy well, and, with that knowledge, feels secure of her ability to vanquish its endeavors for evil. Is it to be found in 'the powers that be ?' They are all for us. Is it in Southern dissensions ? We were never more united. Is it in Southern concession? The-South stands firm upon thme Georgia platform of 1852. Is it in Congresional oppression? We have gained the repeal of the Mlissouri Compromise, a more explicit recognition of our rights as to fugitive slaves, soma lessening of the burden of tariff exactions-and we may without infatuation.expect yet greater justice in the future. Or is lain the crushing pressure of an outside eivilization ? Let it auffice to say that our labor clothes the world. Where, then, we ak ain, and what, is this vortex?" The Advertiser says tht flib -' the Black Republicans " well, and with thaw" knowledge feels secure of her ability biangds1Mw its endeavors for evil." These words -seedVto" imply that the Black Republicans or Abolionu.at ists now do us no evil, and are- endeavo rng4't do us no evil; but that. when they- doahAe. such endeavors, the South, 4feels.aecuroepf-1he ability to vanquish them;'" hence. all .agitatignar upcn the subject is superfluous folly-..:,- - Now, unless we greatly mistake thotqju state of things, the Abolitionists of the Noib arnot. only daily making endeavors for p bt doing.usevil--.aid gret evil. IZ ,, have made our position one o 'p'ov ,gg dationin the Union, and who me ,ende oring to make. .worse... That posin now one of infei-oity-inferi'oriy of pwer o In feriority in dignity. That eqchlty 'ot pow'e . which we once held in the Senate ofrht nitd. States is gone. That equality in liinitylEnb respectability in the Union-the last which a P self-respecting iMd lypE wilevsf-F mit to have wrested .from them-is also gone. The great business of the Congress of the Uni ted States for the last ten years, has consisted of assaults on the institution of slavery-an institution which.we once supposedwas a con cern belonging exclusively to. the people,. of the South. The South, whilst enduring these as. saults, stands in the inferior position-efethe-sr sailed and defensive. - - - - - The- Abolitionists are doing-us evil, in tbe*' general estimation of the world, by itreldng'ItW' moral coidemnation on thebasgef9 thodihWnt" falsehoods. They are doing us eil, pieBV ing our legitimate expansioiin the cotiffio territory, whilst we pay for their ' to the country. They are doing us i stiimy lating our slaves to leave us, and mudring our citizens, or the officers of the law, who attempt their legal arrest. They are doing us evil, by., exciting insurrections amongst. our slaves,,s,.4 was distinctly proved in the late. insurrections .o in Tennessee and Kentucky. They are now - putting forth " endeavors for evil" against us-ia Kansas-supported by trusted agents of the National Democratic party-and not only in Kansas, but.in portions of the South itself. These are positive living evils, which the Adver tiser seems to ignore. f these, in the opinion of the Advertiser, justify neither indignation nor cause for anxiety in the. South, we do not wonder that it stigmatizes those who have quite different sensibilities and perceptions as "ultras" and " alarmists." Our cotemporary says that " the South feels secure of her ability to vanquish its endeavors for the evil." We do not doubt thi' -ability, but when will it be exercised.? The inhabitants of Pompeii had the perfect ability to escape from the burning lava of Mount Vesuvius. For weeks and days the smoke and. flaies manifes ted the approaching irruption.. Budid they escape ? They asked, just.as:our cotemporary now does, whele is the danger? where is the vortex ? We point to the past alnivement,f. Aboliti6n, and sy toour co", is the vortex.-- 4thas. portion of the and froni ~' plenty has convert it into barbar wretch edness and waste. With steady and unflinch ing perseverance-it has seized the mind of the Northern States, and has dragged us into its resistless eddies. We are on the breast of the current and we are sweeping on, inert and idle. The North is fully organized against us. Our institution of slavery is the.grand controlling' element of all politics in that section. And the subversion of the South in this vortex of Aboli tion is the leading idea of the Northern mind. Does not the Advertiser believe-does it not know, that if left to its unmistakable designs its fierce and ruthless policy-the South must go down into its remorseless gorge? And yet it asks, with an air of noble innocence, where is the vortex? "Simple shepherd, tell me where." Next to our ability to vanquish endeavors for evil, our cotemporary, in the extract we have made, ask: " Is the vortex to be found in the powers that be ? They are all for us." By the, powers that be, our cotemporar'y doubtless means the "National" Democratic Administration at Washington. Are they aU for us, as the Advertiser asserts ? It is notaso certain. If what Governor Walker asserts is truth-which we are loth to believe-they are all against us, in the one great matter in which . the South is momentously concerned-in the one great matter that elevated them to power by Southern hearts and Southern hands. Be fore we are satisfied that the powersathat be are all for us, we must wait for the response of 'the Government to the Democratic party of Geor gia, demanding that Governor Walker shall be recalled from the Governorship of Kansas. If he is left to carry out his policy in Kansa-ad he has been already left too -.long-whether Kansas still be lost to the South. or not, then, we say, the powers thatbe are against the South; and, however earnestly we labored topac the Administration in power, we are done with it forever. For it will give to the world one of the most flagrant instances of base political treachery and disgusting ingratitude, fr selfish proses, that the annl of politica history But let us, for a moment, put away distrust, and suppose, as the Advertiser asserts, that the Administration is with us. This, to be sure, will not help to make " the vortex," but can it arrest it? Can the Abolition spirit of the North be put down by any administration of the Federal Government ? If it could, it never would have existed ; for every Administration, from the foundation of the Government to this day, has been actively opposed to it. Yet it has. grown, until at the last Presidential eleection, nothing but a division amongst the opponents: of slavery prevented their seizing the power of the whole Government. Is there ainything in. an Administration thus holding power, to justi fy a reliance on its ability to protect us, or -a state -of contentment and inactivity in the South ? We cannot see why our cotemporary . refers to the present condition of things, except ing that we are very apt to value extravagantly what we have justhbeen in great danger of lo-. sing. When before Fort Moultrie Sir Peter Parker had only his silk pantaloons shot off. with a cannon ball; no doubt he patted the grazed part with feelings of unwonted self-con gratulation. So it is now with our esteemed - cotemporary. As AxERICAN IN LoXo.--The NorthAmeri an Review tells the fell owing good story: A .A countryman of ours, of somewhat rude.appeare ance, walking in* the Strand, early in May, saw his favorite dish of Strawberries and cre-am blush. ing at hin' from the counter of a restaurant.0 Entering, he carelessly called for a bowl,-torthe marked surprise of several persons preet, who knew the extravagance of the luxury, and right ly presumed the American was ignorant at what cost he was putting himself. He had not finished . his repast before the curious looks of the company suggested his mistake, and aroused all his latent p ride. "What is topay ?"inquiredhe, as helaid down the dish, not without a lowening aide-look at the wiseaeres who waited for his chepl11f aspect when victualler's reply shotuld -~lo his waiting ear. " A guinea, sir." Tossing dw the coin from a net overfull purse, and bridling up with an air of assumed indifference, "PIl take another I" a the Amerian's only rejinder.