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-L~e i ovd gyigd 19 tl guti gui S trfIev ft 5, p99 i1 Ccdet 3Tes, Ciit nne fiti, eupernu, C iettre & We will cling to the Pillars of the Temple of our Libtsave will Perish amidst the Ruing SIIYIKINS, DURISOE & CO., Proprietors. EDGEFIELD, S. C0. L.UGUST 19, 1857, O.11.N.3 SINGLE BLESSEDNESS. An old maid of our acquaintance, just sixty threc years old, has of late come to the coiclusion that she will never marry, and sends us the follow ing lines with an endorscmcnt-" thcnis my sen timents." Go it, old lady, we admire your spirit. -ED. ADV. I mean to live a single life, And live so till I die; I'll never be a husband's wife I'll tell the reason why: The men are a deceitful set, They'll talk as fair as day; But when they've caught you in their net, They'll turn another way. 0 horrid! horrid! only think, White wives are cooking victuals, To see a carcass filled with drink The floor with 'bacco spitt!cs! Then how disgusting is the noise Of fretful husband bawling: How little peace a wi: enjoys, With lots of children squalling. 0 no: Ill never married be, While stars are in the sky: A single *ife's the life for me A maid I'll live and die. ROME. Home's not merely four square walls, Thounh with pictures hung and gilded; Home is where atfection calls, Filled with shrines the heart bath builded. Home!-go watch the faithful dove, Sailing beneath the heaven above us Home is where thei e's one to love Hume is where there's one to love us. Home's not merely roof and room, It needs something to endear it Home is where the heart can bloom, Where there's some kind lip to cheer it. What is home with none to meet, None to welcome, none to greet us ? Home is sweet, and only sweet, Where there's one we love to meet us! THEASSASSINOF KLAVA. BY wILLIA.I 0. EATON. FRESu converts are ever the most zealous, and this truth was exemplified in the interior of the Russian empire when the doctrines of the Greek Catholic church were first introduced among the semi-barbarous inhabitants of those benighted regions; the people looking upotn the priests as messengers from Heaven, and obeying them ahnost as punctiliously as if the Deity himself commanded them. In the little town of Klava, thissuperstitious reverence was carried to extremes, and it was for a long time common for the people to repair to the neat but humble cottage of Klanderi, the priest, at sunrise and at sunset, and kneel and worship by hundreds, before. the rudely fashioned and gigantic crucifix fixed in the greensward before his door. Klanderi was past lifty years of age and had a commanding and benevolent aspect, though the deep lines in his face showed that either sorrow or care had gathered great harvests in his soul. His goodness of character, his mild injunctions, his simple life, and his solicitude for their welfaire, endeared himn to the rude peasantry, and they reverenced the very ground upon which he walked. One morning, as he threw open his window, he noticed an unusual commotion amnong the villagers, who, instead of devoutly kneeling where they were wont, were hurrying, with widd gestures and words of alarm, towards the edge of the forest, which rearedl its dark outlines at the distance of half a mile, over the undulating plain. " What has happened ?" was the question of -one villager to another. "HIaste and see !" was the reply. " An old man, a stranger has bceen murdered in our midst. An ill omen fhr us all. For has not Klanderi told us that the sirints have said that the (lay when a murder should be conmuitted in Klava, would bring a curse upon us all--and doubly great if the slain should be a stranger ?" " Woe for us, then!" cried the hearers. " Some one of us has done the deed of Cain to. his brother, and moreover violated the sacred law of hospitality. What wvill Klanderi say? Sorely will it grieve the heart of that good and holy man." With lamentations like these they repaired to the .,pot, at the skirt of the forest, where the murdered strnoger lay in a pool of his own Lold liis gyuellty. lace was turned towards heavein, a::d his eye-, wvide open, wer'e glisten irng in the red ligiht oi' the early sunJ. 111s livid lips we te slightly par~tedl. and between themi as$ also in his clench~ed hianid, rmiainedl tults 01 grass which hie had evidiently torn upl and bit ten ini the agonies of death. 'Ile wa, a gray haired man. A etamff lay' lby iis .side, and his habili mnents, muich wor~n and dus$ty, seeimed to indi eate that he had travelled from afair. "A pooJr wayfarer', gray with yer, ni mr dered tor' what tic.lle of' nmney be might have poe ue was the generous thou"ght of* tie 'oimpissiouate thronig who stood aroid the body. -No good will come of this to u~s ! but whio, who is tne assasin ?" was th~e next i:.uiry. in an indignant tone, which boded no good1 to the *oilfender, if caught ; fhr the prediction of Klan deri was renmemobered withI con-ternationm nowu, and the impending calamity mnade the miurder of the strainger a circumnatance of piersona;l in tere., to all. "We will seek him oult, andl slay lhin at once. wh ever 'e nmay be !" was the samvage resolve of thei ~ j~rtity, their semi-barblar'u 'ssin beiing arl~e at the t hiought of the unmknown tronble wih the venigeante ofI I Liven was to inflhict ul1:0n 1 hemi. A-.\aN ! that we .h uld have a man .,i bad among uis, ais thus to exmte the wrathI of the Ahlniguty, anxd we not to have k.nown it in time." Men, women andu chiilren niow .et upl a serieS of hiowls which echoed farn ar'ouiid, anmd startled the wild birds fromi their nests ; ai, soaring in c ircles above their hieads, they sereauned to view tihe fanatical peasants brandishing sticks and stones, with furious gesticulations, though vet uncertain what to do, or wihere to look for a victium to appease the Divine wrath as well as they could. Suddenly so:nec one cried out: " Pe%ky, the idliot !' "W'here, and what of him ?" asked the o'.hers, eaxgei'ly. "Did we nxot see him yesterday. walking with the straner 7" "Yes, yes" cried several. "And is he not a thief as well as a fool? What more likely than that he killed the old man?" "Most true! Let us seek him. The fool shall die!" Acting upon this blind and savage conclusion, with wild hootings the fierce crowd ran into the forest, where stood a sort of lint, which had been fashioned by the hands of Pesky himself, of branches torn by the storms from the trees, and placed across a deep opening in a rock. It was a gloomy den for the dwelling of a human being, but the idiot's cunning had made it im pervious to the weather, and to him it was a palace. Though his unpleasant tricks and grimaces, petty thefts and .oietinies ferocious temper made him an aversion to the people of KLiava, he obtained suflicient trilling employments from them to gain him apparel and subsistence, and his little delinquencies were generally overlook ed ; but now, the uncoininii atrocity of murder had been perpetrated, and the peasants sought him, with no merciful spirit. hte " This is the den of the dog !" they shouted, surrounding it. " Enter, some, and seize him." Several entered the place, dimly illumined by a fir torch, but it appeared to be empty and they issued forth dis.appointed, when the sudden barking of a dog was beard within, and the low voice of a man, bdding him down and be quiet. "lie is there-that is his voice !'' Re-enter ing instantly they found the object (f their search, nestled high up in a fissure of the rock, and half-coverei with dead leaves-the head of his dog, with glittering eyes, peering out by his side. " Mercy, mercy! I didn't kill him !" exclain ed the terrified Pesky, coming down at their bidding and passively submitting to their rough clutch as they bore him forth from his sylvan hiding place. Wretch !" exclaimed his captors, with a tor rent of iriprecations. as they dragged the shrink ing wretch to the spot where the corpse of the old man still lay ; "how else did you know that ho had been blain? Answer quickly, for your own time on earth is short!" "I saw him dead before the moon waned," said Pesky, his trembling, emaciated frame and cadaverous countenance looking the very picture of guilty horror. " Then . ran to the woods for fear." " For fear of what, villain?" said his captors, now loathing his uncouth appearance more than ever, and shaking rudely, while he stared ap palled at the boly before him, and his faithful (log looked piteeu.sly up and whined iu syipa thy. "For fear-for fear that-you would kill me, too." "Had yon beci inmtcent, fool, you would have felt no fear. You kniow-confess it! that you killed him to rob him." "0, no, no:" faltered Pesky. "I know I have thieved before; but little things, only lit tle things; and only from children or women creatures ; and not much, not much! But I never stole from a man." " If you didn't, it was bocauso you had sense enough to know that a man would knock your brains out, if you had any-miserable! And now what have you done'? Look! murdered the helpless old man." The speaker seized the wrist of the idiot and pointed the hand towards the body. " What's this !" he suddenly asked, noticing upon the exteided hand of Pesky, a silver ring, ornamnted with a cross. "Where did you et that, thief!" "I He gave it to me. It's mine, it's mine ! Ile gave it to me, don't take it !" screamed Pes ky, struggling inctiectunlly to retain the ring which was taken from his tinger. "le gave it to ine for some crusts of bread and told me to worship it--and I did, it is so pretty." " Liar !'' shouted the exasperated mob, at this evidence of guilt and hypocrisy. I You h-ve not wit enou'gh to conceal your crimie. This proves you to be guilty. A rope-a rope! Let-s drag him to be shurived and then we'll stone hinm to death." A rope was brought and noosed about his neck whbile he plead for life, upon his knees, the big tears coursing down his haggard face, and his gaunt doi, true to him in his dire emtergen -" O, let mec have life, it isn't much, but let me have it. It will do no hurt to you.") "It hais done, already, miscreant !" "But I didn't kill him. And if I did, he is one, now, and killing mec will not bring hiim back. And then he wvas an old uman, and not much life in him. IIe would have died soonl. , let ime live. If not for me, lfor may poor dog, Dokv. Who will take care of Doaky wvhen I am d'ead? No one to give him a bone!" And yearning towards his dog, which was the only thing on earth that loved him, Pesky, though the rope was round his own niek, cluing to that of his dog, amnd fondly bowed his head upon him. " le will want no more bones ! ie shall wryour sheep and cattle~ no imore. You shatll die together !" was the harsh retort ; ".fori have yu not, worthless, broughit the cir.,e upon us? Thou immore liend~ than ihol ! The saints will nmake us pay the penialty of your. sin." But with whlat eloquence his shatm tered brain was master of, the" idiot, wth lapd an, stiii imiplored 'fur Jle. vt lse ad BuDt it~is bright to live, 0, let mec ! Pleas m:t 1i. wamlk in the ihrest, :mid sleep byx thle str~ais.and feed the birds with berries. Let ime. let ine ! I will never comejg from thle w~ ods ug in to phzigume you. You siIl niever. see mme more. G.ive me the beautiful ring nsow, nedl let me go-aand miy dog. Dor. We will hide , far aumoiig the woodsl. mid never fear the wmave.s; and live on the things thamt grow in the ground;' andi he hauipy withi the on anmd the loudi., and the trees-merrry, miercy !' I Ie hadl started to is fcet, while lie invoked their elemeney. an;d hiadi so moved the'm lby his fervir that foir a few imoments theyr let .o the ope by which they hel him ; and with th.e l.t words lhe sitidenily houmled firom their udd.,lt, under thle impulse oh a moimentaiy hop to e. cape. and D~oAsy gave a joyful baruk-biut he was imedia~tely re-caputuredl. and a< lie felt the mope once iniore tightly pu!!ed, lie fell finit i:g withm despair, lby the side of the murdered "Piy- lbe should (lie withiout being shrnieved, even though he is a wit les. !' sail some. " Let u awat the 'priest's. To Kland~eri's we will ~awa ad !ai.l down in front of the cot tage of " You arc the ju-t manm ! ave me !"was the piercing cry of the prnisoner, as darting friom t he litter, thle hialter still about his bony neck, lie fell at the feet of the adhvanmcing form of the priest. " What is it you would do with him. mv children ?'.' inquired K landeri, looking comipas sionately upon the wretchu who clung to his garmets aiid was ki..-ing~ his feet. SWe would haive you zhivey hinm, holy father. and theni -tonie himt to death fori the imurdler of this stranger," waLs thme reverertial reply, and the people pointed to the corpse. Klanderi, to the astonishment of all, stooping and raising the idiot from the ground and cast ing off the rope. Pesky opened his eyes with a wild stare of amazement. Life had been given to him. - He looked at Klanderi for a moment, as if he was a god, and then, with a cry of " The just man! The just man !" he rushed towards the forest with the speed of light, followed by his dog. It was now that the thron- for the first time remarked an unusual pallor on the features of their revered instructor; and wondering at what they had seen and heard, they were con fident that some strange revelation was about to be imade, and listened breathlesslv. "My children," said Klanderi, in an itgitated voice, "I have told you, long ere this, that were a murder committed in Klava, b/ one of you, the saints would avenge it upon you, and happily for your peace, I have just prevented the com mislion of such a crime. See to it, in the ft tutre, that your hands be kept stainless, when tile lips of Klanderi can speak no more. But a man has been slain among you, though you did it not, and your just nearts revolt at the bloody mystery. De not appalled, 0 my children, whiom I have so loved to teach the way to virtue and eternal li'e, when I tell you that the hands I now raise for the last time in benediction over you, were reddened this morning with murder! This man was my brother, and I slew him !" A murmur of astonishment and horror was heard throughout the crowd, and Klanderi, now standing close to the body of the dead, con tinued: "Listen, people of Klava! who have deemed me incapable of sin, and then do with me as you will. The gory clay before you was my brother, Asaldof. Birth, fortune and superiori ty to me in years were his, and under the favor of the Czar he was made a judge, and deemed an ornament of the magistracy. We were chil dren of the same mother, by.different husbands, else, though nature commits wild freaks in formi ing her characters in a family, we could never have been so widely dillrent in our dispositions, Ile was harsh, cruel and unbending,-and worse than that. I was married. A beauteous wife as ever put the rose and the lily to shame by her cheeks, or the sunny heaven by the glory of her eyes, was mine. We parted for a time, I on a distant journey. Nearly a year elapsed. With rapture I hailed the hour when I could return, and the return was swift-but what (lid I find ? My house empty and desolate! The grave of my wife! And the story of her death was coupled with a narrative of wrong suffered at his foul hands, which made my blood curdle in my heart. lie had brought her to shame. perforce, and then ordered Ler to banishient, to escape the daily rebuke of her heart-broken aspect, as she traversed the town, a maniac. She had died on our threshold, while in the act of departing, and the popular fury I ad coin pelled hint to flight. Upon her grave 1 knelt and registered an oath in heaven, that no new love, no lapse (f time, sickness nor cares, nor his most abject penitence, should interpoe a barrier between my avenging steel and his pol luted heart, wheneve: I should find him. With I this mental reservation, I took holy orders. -In time I caine here, weary of looking for-shall I call him so-my brother! Yesterday I saw him in Klava! Ile was parleying with the idiot, and spoke devoutly to hin and handed him a crosl. ie knew me not, but I knew him, through the disguise which twenty years of I an uish seemed to have ploughed in hi- features -now cold in death before me. I knew the destroyer, and "Not now, not now!" I said, as I felt my hand creeping towards my weapon. Ile walked to the fool's hut, reposed there, came forth while the mnoon was up, and stepped upon the sward alone. The bright sphere smiled on the offered sacrifice. While yet he turned his I haggard face to hers, 1 smote him to the heart, and in his expiring throes announced the ven geance of Ins brother. -Thauks!' said he, faintly, 'for now my spirit tmay rest in peace.' " And so :hall her., henceforthi cried I, thoumh a1e1naed bV the knife of a fratricide. " " \fah stwiing t'yes, lie died, as though shec were there in that piarting hour to fill his soul wvith ho.rror. Enugh ! I have confessed. What av. ye to the (Ieed ?" Il11 expectation to be seized was dlisappointed. None advanced. Sorrow and surpi ise were on all faces, and all eyes wvere downcasat. "A dieu forcver !" said Klanderi, waving his hard sadly, and dleparting dlowly for the forest, in whose mnazes his form wa~s soon lo:;t. The corpse was borne away and the throng separated, wonderin' amnd grieving. Khmnderi was seen no imore in life. The idiot, Pesky, howvever, was ihr several day.s af'terwvards observed loitering in the villamge, and it was be lieved that he bore food to the absent priest in some secret place-but none sought him out. One morning, howvever, at sunrise, a strange group were seen beside the crucifix, wvhich still stood1 before the late abode of'.Klanideri. The priest was found kneeling there, his arms enclasping and his dead col lips kissing it, whie on either side of him were P'erky, mourn iig bitterly for his preserver, and his hialf-statrv ed dlog. I' he inst man died of col!" muttered the idiot, in tnes of self-reproachi. "1l did not go to him lfor the three days, it was so e' Id-anid so he .tar'ved and peri'Iied. 0, kil.1 moe not for t.!" hc cried. TIhe poor1 fool wats remioved byh the peole, who prepanred fur the decent buiaLI of Klanideri, amid one amoniiig themi -aid: SIt was not, thle condition of the body, but the .,orrowing .,oul that k iled himi. 31 y the sacredl saints who kniew hii s itue ain. witne's ed all hsis anmguishi, initercee wiith Gsod for hiimi andi' lead themz ini aitnmien t" And to they burisd tiieir priest, for yearis prinig for his fo~rgivenmess while thiey profited by his teachings. -in .1, ;c. ig' o.- Siir-ru ('Auzouni,.-In tlie Crusad:r, a tempeI rani m ' Ol.grzine'.. pubIlis~ifed in C ~iniai, tjni', 1''r An..ciiuis w l the mioon ing jus iia n eil imeriited1 oiimciien to the Ju-1 C.eiii'.1-: ie of Soth ,ao f'Siina:r~ii~hii r'eenitlI deli-:ere'd, in Cot nnhiau, two aid'dresses on ife'Law in d f'anii' hwelces of' that .Siate, froni their beinnmiinig I. let.!s il eacht . ,indge Land ChaincellI r ""ep o-te ly,uiind gves is beiugria -,p aind sketches hi s p een liaities. Tlhe'se ad n'I.es s hounld be presierved~s ini the arivei~is of th .ic .. as.. they w ill hie of' inestinale~ valnie to the ii ourie his tiaon. No man hiymig is so wel abIc to ''iii th... e del ietons as the veneriable i'ea .\hhoughfiiil wei aire iiot j.:rsoinally inaer ct-c', " e haivi reia them w'~ih pr'ofounid interest. 'iitat in lhe L':,ion has hiaet an abir Court, from jth ei n 'ininig of' the U epublic, thatn Southi Ca roinia." liiu' Patss-os S. BiUors."-Thie South Caoina RI. i1. Co., have recently addued a very iin pa'isenger Enigiine to their alr'eady large stock of uine~iiry, which is namied in hionor of' the mnited h rooks. TIhis E~nginie which is ofi beau tit worknmaiishi p, is frioii the establishunent oh' the M1essrs. Norris, Phiiladelphiat, and fias been la'ed under the chiairge of' .\r. TI. Biiahiy. a imoist coimpeteint Enigiineer. It i. enibell ishied w'ithm ext.llnit likenesses of Juidge Butler iiid our late repr'esentative, Mr. Birookst. CURRT ITEMS FROM AW.Lj.UAlRTERS. FACT, FUN AND FAN. . E Tom Thumb has a rival-:named Major Littlefinfier in Boston. IIe is epresented as six years old, and weigbs onlWe lve pounds. Advertising is the oil wise trades men put into their lamps, and foolish ones neglect to use. Z2 Never be dependent. !at your crust honestly earned. Look the world in the face; smile at its frowns and laugh a its malice. Use energy. Strive and still tri , and if all is lost, strive again. Never say die Zr In various counties of !igland "Pro tective Societies" have been formed of persons who pledge themselves nt to purchase a thim bleful of sugar until it has declined four cents per pound. W The Sherif' of Polk coquty N. C. was murdered last week, while attemping to levy an execution upon some property. Z Rev. J. P. Boyce, of Greenville, South Carolina, has been elected President of Mercer (Ga.) University. E: A correspondent of the Carolina Times proposes the Ion. Daniel Wallac, of Union, for the next Governor of the Stati.'. jV Letters from Leconpti. say that five of Capt. Caldwell's, four of Capt.TIerifs, and the whole of Col. Manner's suir'eying party, have been murdered by the Cheyennes. 37 A little girl, on hearing her mother say that she intended to go to a ball, and have her dress trimmed with bugles', innocently inquired if the bugles would all blow when she danced. "Oh, no," said the mother, " your father will do all that when he discovers I have bought them." 2 An English paper gives' an account of a tea party of sixty old women, who were the mothers of eight hundred and sixty-nine chil dren ! They must have had sombthing to talk about at that tea party, we should think. E The man who always' "'drives a good bargain," has lately procured a ndw whip. ES Why are potatoes and torn like cer tain sinners of old? Because, having eyes they see not, and having ears they hear not. ' A popular writer, speaking of the pro posed oceanic telegraph, wonders whether the news transmitted through salt water would be fresh. EG- Mr. Robert Epps of Williamsburg, the Star says, has raised a pumpkin :wvhich weighs one hundred and twenty-five pounds. It was the product of seeds obtained from the Patent Office. gig "I say, Paddy, where did you raise that loafer-like hat-must have belonged to some scamp ?" " Och, an' ii's there ye are; troth an' you're right, yer honor-it's an old un ur yours that missus gave; me yesterday when yer honor were toNton." Nuf ced. The qucrist stole aiiiy like a;n use jft escap cd from thestalons of a cat. ry The dearer oats become the more horses are licked. Dobbs says a shilling rawhide will give as much power to his grey mare as twenty live cents worth of corn. Dubbs-is becoming a philosopher. Be An honest Iibernian, in recommending cow, said she would give milk year after year, without having calves ; " becaumw," said he, " It runs in the brade; for she came of a cow that never had a calf." Er The 8 partaln mentions a bunch of six ty-two stalks of Mogul wheat which contains iout 4000 grains---the productyf a single grain. It was grown on the land of Mr. W. C. Miller, on Tyger. Ma The Atlanta Examisur. of the 7th inst., ays: "On Tuesday last, one hundred and wenty freight cars passed over the State road, from Chat tanooga to Atlainta, headed with wheat. Te receipts for this freight, by the State roadh, n that day. amounted to S ,500." g:"Stranger to a little boy-" Well, my ttle son, ain't you lost ?" Little boy, stepi ng back and eycing the stranger--" Look here, ni.ter. don't be so tinniliar, if you p~leaise, I anm not unprotected," laying his hand on a revolver ; you tuust remember I am a gentleman.'" _.__ An infant son of Dr. Uniley, of Rockville, Con., (during the doctor's absence from home. rept into a room where morphine had been spilt on the carpet, and ate enough of the pow der to produce death. cN' To MI.u: Lua:aP ]thf:a.-Take a barrel, [ll it with rain ,cater, put in one par of old bok, a head ,eg' last fall's cabdme, two shwrt sucers, a prig ef worm,rood, and a little yeast. Let it work, And when clear, You'll have excellent .Lager beer! yr An Indian Chief being asked his opinion of a cask ol .\ladeira wine, presen~tted to hun by~ an allier, saiid he. thou-iht the juice ex:racted front toe's ortonges andl lioun's hecaris ;for when lie drank a botile of it, lhe could talk forever, and light the' dev.il. MW' .\ : Elephlant1 once neanrly killed an Irish nimm ir anI insult olfered to his trunk. "The act was rash ini the extreme ; but it was impiossi le." the liiernian said, "' to resist a nose you old pull with both haniids." hy"Iow old aire you, Bridt'et ?T' said a gen. teomn to his servaunt girl. " About fiity, sir," :pliedl ]rbiget.' Yon are miistauken, Bridget, o are~ lnot .a.Ceri twtv' " Yes~' sitr, this is it. 'm about t wett or lift',tmewhmere along there.'' T[his aimver iicaittesabout the sanme degree of intellirnce as that of an old gra-hteaded negro in South Carolina " low.' old arc you, Pete T' said a genitlema~n to himt one day. " I dunna 31at ,J1fella berry old 'spect Ise about five or Errni X pxeanm Ytn: r .-We have 1been shown by our frieitd, William L. Goggini, Esq., sonie stulks of whecat, thatt excel any'thiing of the kind that we hiave: ever seen. The product of three 'trains of wheat was 2000 grains-aL yiel that, e' maginte, has inever been excelled, if equalled. Thei' prodnet of a sinigle graini, from which there spug 27 stalks, was 10.O gratms, averaging '10 trais to each stidk. The several graims pro the entire crop of Mr. Goggin ha~s not thtus been prlitie in its yield. this circumistan.ce alonte tendls t show the 'eapa'eity of Bedford land for the prouctiotn of grain. What couinty in thte State, or Lnin can beat this ?-Bedtbrd Sentinel. A prisonier int jail lately sent to his creditors "he followintg proposal, wh'ich lie believed would he for their umutual beinefit : "1I have beeni thinik iig that it is very batd for tie to lie here and( put you to expense. MIy being so chargeable to you has given ine grate uneasmiess. I kntow .niot what I mayt cost you in the end -.therefore, w.htat I wold say is this : You let tie out of p~rison, and insteadl of iine shillings you shall allow me seven shillings a week, ami the other two shil u. ga mewnlsth delr1t1' C OM N UN I C A TI ON S. For the Advertiser. REVISION MOVE3ENT-REVISIONISTS-" MAIN DESIGN" CONSIDERED-.CONCLUSION. MR. EDITOR:-Our object in writing these articles, was not so much to consider whether there were errors in the common version of the Bible, or whether it was expedient to have them corrected, but to enquire if these modern revisionists are suitable persons for this work. We have seen that a studied effort to mislead the public in reference to the "main design" has characterized their movements, professing to be Catholic in their feelings and object, and yet secretly engaged in preparing a version of the Scriptures on immersionist principles; in veighing against the Bible on account of the contradictions which they say it contains, while marked and irreconcilable contradictions have been pointed out among themselves; in fact, Proteus like, they have changed their face and form according to circumstances. Attention has been called to the daring and presumptuous 1 manner in which many of them have spoken of I the Bible, and of their union with infidels to ' destioy the veneration in which it is held; and I yet these are the men, whom "E. L. W." says, I are "superior to party considerations, who love Christianity better than the Church, who res pect the Bible more than the creed, and who have resolved to have a translation of God's word, free from any sectarian bias." Oh! "E. L. W." how could you talk that way? As the "main design" of this movement is to have "immerse printed in the Bible," a brief consideration of that matter will conclude these numbera. We are confidently told that baptism means to immerse. In this, according to " E. L. W."all denominations, and allt.exicons agree. This, we are prepared to prove is untrue, in both cases. But, suppose that baptize does mean to immerse, will it follow that Christian baptism must necessarily be administered by immersion ? By no means. The word baptize is translated from the Greek, though there is no wird in the Greek language that means what baptism means in English. There was a time when there was no such ordinance ais Christian baptism,-the idea did not exist, and of course there could be no word in any language to mean that which did not exist. Now when the idea of baptism as we now understand it in a Christian sense, first came bout, in speaking of it, they must use such a word or words as they had which came nearest to it.. Of coursethe wQrd, would now change to conform itself to the new idea, or have a new meaning, and be used in a new sense from what it was before. It is absurd to suppose that the word in the ecclesiastical sense in which it is used by Christians to denote their ordinance, means the smae it did before' it was used in an ecclesiastical sense. We have another example in the word "Church" which " E. L. W." says of right, has no place in the Holy Scriptures." What is the meaning of the word " Church ?" We answer, "a company of Christian people met to worship God, &c.," but lie says it means no such thin,-it mcans merely a company or ongregation met to deliberate on any subject. Then, a Rail Road meeting is a Church, a Town Council is a Church, &c. "We are bound to admit," says Mr. Abbey, " that this is the only neaning attached to the Greek word which we translate Church, but contend, neveirtheless', hat its nmeaning is changed very materially, hen ap'plied to the use it now subserves. But ve are told that the " word baptize is a word f mode." This is a favorite argument with im rersionists. Now will anyv one tell us how one ord can describe the mode of doing a thing? No word as a noun can fully describe a thing, neither can a word a~s a ucrl describe the mo~de f doing a thing. The word house means a thing, but what sort of a house is nieant, a buildinig, or a del berative body, as the horuse of Representatives? or a mercantile house, as the house A. 33. & Cu ? Just so in regard to verbs, the word eat mueansto do a thing ; a bird cats, a fish eats, an ox eats, a Frnchman eats, but they cat in very different modes. E it also means to corrode, to wear away, &c. This word is as much a word of mode as any other, and vet thme word does not tell you how the eating is done. The word inuinerse itself, dhoes not describe thme mode in which the act is done, whether the thing is immersed in water, spirits, the carcs of thme world, &c. Anud so it might be argued of many other words. The new apphi cation given to the:n, the mnew idea they are made to represent, gives a new meaning, and of couse, whien used in a new sense, they are no lnger to be restricted to the old meaning. This shows the folly, ini attempting to describe Christian baptisnm, to go back to Greek litera ture, to get at a correct manner of using it, by searhing out thme imeaning of the Greek words Iwhich we translate baptism. We submit this deouraion" to " E. L. W."-he will find it hlly elaborated in Abbey's " Baptismal Demon strations-and to our non-secarian revisionists, though with no expectation, that men who will do, wiiat they have done, will, in any degree, be Ibenefited by it. The caus~e of immersion must be in great danger, wheni it has to be sustained by a new verion of the Bible with IMERSE, " printed in it." Whatever other corrections may be made, this is a " sige qua nonm." A Bible with out immerse "printed in it," the revisionists will not have, arnd one with immerse in it, other denominaticns will not have; and to sup pose that the time will ever come, when four fifths of Christendom will exchange their Bible to satisfy the intolerant bigotry of the others, and that too, when no vital principle, but an outward ceremony only is involved, argues an approach to insanity.I Thus, instead of the orthodox denominations, becoming more united in these latter days, and making a common cause against vice and error, a precedent is being established to widen thme distance hetwveen them, and which will admit of no comproiise or reconciliatitm. There is another objection to this movement, which, of itself, in the estimation of unbiassed and reflecting persons is fatal to its success: that is, the profound secresy in which its translators are enshrouded. The names of a few are known, but of the majority we know nothing. We do not know where they live,-whether they are ministers or not,-with what institutions of learning they are connected, or whether some of them are members of any Church. Now, have we not as good a right to know the men who-are to interpret for us G6d's word, as we have to know those who govern us, and make our laws ? Should we not know the men whom we are called to support, and whose work we re expected to endorse? This secresy places ur Baptist friends, who boast of the democracy nd republicanism of their ecclesiastical matters, in an awkard predicament. If the revisionists id not believe that their course was open to strong moral objections, such concealments 1vould not be resorted to. This secresy con lemus them. But they do well to hide, for they will never be able to restrain the indigna Jion that will come down upon them with Itremendous power" when the sophistry they mave invented to jnislead the public in regard ;o their "main design" shall generally be known. CANDOR. For the Advertiser. A PLEASURE-SEEKING TOUR. Ma. EDITOR:-There are some bright spots n every one's life which are like the oases of he African desert to the weary and jaded trav fller; and the past few days have surely been me to me-replete with amusement, happiness, 'rolic and fun. Liberated from the monotonous routine of lill wearying duties, always to be fohd within he sphere of an humble pedagogue, I shook ;he dust of S-m off my feet for a few days. :o roam about the country to see what is going m therein. I first had the pleasure of spending a short vhile with a kind family who always receive ne with bright smiling faces, which betoken a icarty welcome, and a we-are-so-glad-you-have ome, so calculated to render any one easy, omfortable and happy. 0! how happy a ouple days were passed laughing, talking, read ng, discoursing upon what we read, strolling ut into the soft and balmy air, and listening to he. sweet carolings of the innocent songsters of he grove, rambling into parterres of freshly >ooming, fragrant flowers, then returning to omplete our happiness b. the heavenly music f-the pianof and drinking ie weet and-angelic, lear and love-inspiring voice of the musician. hus the swift-winged time fled away, forming , period in the annals of the past so pregnant rith innocence and joyous gladsomeness that re should not be ashamed to clip it from the iook of time, and frame, glaze, and hang it up r the inspection of the world ; and I do verily melieve it would charm away the most obstinate ae of 1 blues." Every thing earthly must end, and so did his-and I now called on my old friend C-1, ,nd his inestimable lady. Would to God that had such a wife, and were happy as he! In tead of warbling birds, sweet-scented flowers, ud delicious music, I was soon introduced into ich pastures of frisking lambs, bleating ewes. t sleek horses, mules, and colts, plumpest pret iest pigs; fields of green,' waving corn ; and otton loaded with full-grown bolls, formns and Ilooms, which seemed to say " we'll haul in the !irmes this season to tl-e tune of fifteen cents ir pound." Would to goodness our country ere full of men of the industry and enterprise if friendi C. ; men who turn their attention to naking cribs of corn, and raising fine horses, at hop,. and scores of fleecy sheep. But alas! he present generation appear to have inherited ir imbibed principles of hatred and aversion to nanal labor and the honest farmers ; and, a loctor's b)oxes, a lawyer's office, or a public dilee of emolument or honor, is the height of heir ambition ; and to arrive at which they~ egard the culminating point of all their glory. here are others more grovelling, who forsake he plow and the hoe, and, for the sake of a few ~altry dollars, rear institutions of vice-licensed ~rog-shops, earthly hells-and commence the usiness of dealing out +.be baneful draught, listributing drunkenness, profanity, sabbath mreaking, gambling, cheating, lying, theiving, overty, misery, death and destruction, and all tme other grades and species of vice and imnmo ality of which even the devils of the infernal igions do blush to acknowledge themselves in rentors. In short, if you were to pass one of hese institutions Tou would imagine, from the noise, that Vulcan with his cyclops was there hammering thunderbolts for Jupiter ; and would crtainly think, that hell had burst its belly, and poured out its entrails amongst us, on ac count of the hideous cursing, swearing, damning. singing, scolding and bawlng, tearinig and fight ing, boasting, lying, cheating, and unclean words, looks, and gestures, which there abound. Pick your clients, (lose and physic your pa tients, serve the devil, but give me the happy life of the lazborin'g farmer. Ihow palatable his food, how sweet and invigorating his sleep ! On my return, I called on my dear friend Frank, who showed me over his farm, which is deciddly the best, both corn and cotton, but especially the latter, I saw during my tour. Cousin Frank (as I sometimes call him) is a thrifty farmer ; and, ladies, a word with you if you please-nowv don't tell every body-is a yotfg bachelor, well prepared to take a boarder. Major S--r is an energetic, go-ahead, good practical and theoretical farmer-one who stu dier, the nature and qualities of soils, and a con stant improver of lands-and, if his whole crop is as line, and promises as abundant a yield as the portion I saw growing upon Terrapin Creek, he need not feel ashamed to show it to any one. I saw nearly all the corn and cotton fields between Red Bank, Edgefield, and Cross Hill in Taen am1 I am drieirn to conlide therm never was a better prospect for plentiful crops than is now had. Among the variety of interesting things Isaw in my peregrinations, I had the pleasure of tak ing a peep into -the -Gin and Thrasher. Shop owned by Mr. T. E. CHAPMAN, in this;(Edge field, District) aid examining the various speci mens of Gins and Thrashers made by him. Mr. C. is quite a mechanical genius in his way, and his present mode of constructing Thrashers es pecially, is a decided, improvement upon his old plan. The Chapman Cotton-Gin and Thrasher are extensively used throughout the State and bids fair, in time-on account of their superior excellence-to supercede all other make. Weal thy and extensive planters in Newberry and Laurens have given them a long and fair trial and they express themselves highly pleased and perfectly satisfied with their performance. Well, you are tired and so am I, and I will close, by hoping that if you should take a jaunt, you may return as well satisfied as I was when I got back into SODOM. From the South Carolinian. OUR NEXT UNITED STATES SENATOR--WHO WILL HE BE ? Messrs. Editors: If we are to judge from the . number of persons put in nomination for this distinguished position, it would seem there is no dearth of eminent men in our State ; but there are few, in my humble opinion, ~who have any claims or pretensions to the office. I think it adds but little to the dignity of the place to put men in nomination, who cannot possibly be con sidered candidates by any except a few warm personal admirers, and I feel sure that had thoso gentlemen themselves been consulted, they would decline being placed in a position so un suited to their merits or expectations. But one alone, I believe, of all the young men nominated has had the modesty to decline; when he could, with more propriety than a dozen others, have consented to run; but true genius, it is said, isever modest, and we are glad to see one prominent man at least unwilling to enter into a scramble for an office which should neith er be sought or declined ; so much intellect with so much good sense combined in one person is rare indeed in these fast times, but it will not escape the observation of those who think ear nestly. Now, several estimable gentlemen have been nominated, who are hardly known beyond the limits of their own districts! Some havo been taken up and nominated before their time -we know nothing of them; they are too young to have experience, and have not'been long enough in public life for us to judge what they will make or even what they are. Some again have been nominated, who, if they have any antecedents either good or bad, or have evcr distinguished themselves in the " court or camp," it has never yet been known. By urging the claims of such .gentlemen, at such a time as tbis,-illtendnotohy to raise imbitions ex;: pectations which can never be gratified, but will also estrange friends and embitter those who are almost enemies already. It appears to be the object of some persons to bring forward men whose procont ocoura-- -" - - totally at variance with a Senatorial life-a sort of non-committal man, who has no enemies, be cause never having done any thing either good or bad, no one ever heard of. Such men are good for nothing, for all great men have ene mies. Such men only should be nominated for this office who are known not only in our own State, but whose reputation extends throughout the South. We should not send men there to build up a reputation for themselves, but to sustain the reputation of our State. The pre cedent established by the Baltimore Convention, of throwing overboard the best and truest men of the country and taking up second rate men, is no one for us to follow; it was that which kept Messrs. Clay, Webster and Calhoun out of the Presidential Chair. But happily for the country the last National Convention eschewed the principle and took the man whose promni nence could not be smothiered; and we should (10 likewise, and discard all minor considerations, and take the man whose position nd talents will do honor to our State. PROPRIETY. Lwu Asa DEArn i:; CAurxona.--" Bury me twenty feet north of my cahin, and don't ina-c no d '-d |}us abomt it neither !" were the last words of'a poor fellow whose California life was anything but romantic. Ensign Church, of Car-s field, Ohio, killed himself by taking two ounces and a half of laudanunm at Selby Flat, Nevada county, June 19th. He was once an editor and left some "copy" in the shape of manuscript, of which the following only was legible. His po liteneuss at the close is touching. Henry-God dont lie. I told you if he did I would be back bofore the sun went clown. For the last four years I have known the day of my disease, but my God, I never thought it would come this way. I hav-e not been down to see about that d- d dog, for I knew when he bit me I was a goner. [ have been to see the spread eagle, and you arc right about it. 1 think I have some fifteen or sixteen dollars. Bury me about twenty feet north of my cabin out there, and don't make no d-d fuss about it neither. All of you boys have seen how I have lived. I wish yon could see how I die-without fear, without'hope. Yours with thme utmost respect, HENRY CHURCU. A FAs-r Do.-Hlenry A. Ewers, of this town, left on Friday for Astalan, Wis., whcre he has purchased a farmi. lie owned a sumall dog, which he gave to Henry Briggs before he left. The (log fillowedl Mr. Ewers to the depot it, this town, and uiponm the cars leaving, followed on after, overtaking them at South Deerfield before they left that station. The distauce run by the dog was eight miles, and the time occupied twenty-two minutes, or over twent-mdimes an hour.~ Mr. Ewers concluded that such a faithful friend was not to be partedl with lightly, and took the dog into thme ears with himm for Wiscon sin.-Grieetield Gazette. U~rAI.1.ELED BiWUDENCE !-Wbat impn dece on the part of the oppo.<ition to talk about Kansas being lost to thme South through the efforts of Buchanan and Walker? Have they not told us all along that Kansas was nut adapt. d in soiI or ellmateb to slavery-tbat the South could not estab~lish slavery there against the laws of climate ? If then the South never could possess Kansas, how have the President and the Governor wrested it from us ? Can we lose that which we never had and never could obtain'? What impudence ! What a low estimate the opposition place upon the intelligence of the masses !-Montgomery Advertiser & Gazette. Mrs. Hubbs always had a full house. Two years ago she used to collect lobster backs, oys ter shells, and steak bones, throw them iij front of the door, and advertise for boarders. The bait always took, and the old lady now indulges . in a three-story domicil door pate, anad ease. Land-ladies having a handkering after those lat te things, will do well to make a note.