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1 ---..= --+ --. -. f agentrafir 3urna , etyiateV to te .Souty Sou 9nijern ftigIt P, dat euWS, Ciffrature, fNrdihg, Qmptrante, 4 ricurt "We will cling to the Pillars of the Temple of our tAbertfes, and if it must fall, we will Perish aidst the Ruins." SImYKINS, DUIRISOE & CO., Proprietors. EDGEFIELD, S. C, APRIL 7, 1858. From the Buffalo Daily Times. MRS. LOFTY AND I. ny Mns. c. if. ILDERSLEEVE. Mrs. Lofty keeps a carriage, So do I: She has dapple grays to draw it, None have I: She's no prouder with her coachmen V Than am I, With my blue-eyed laughing baby, Trundling by. I hide his face lest she should see The cherub bQy, and envy me. Her fine husband has white fingers, Mine has not; He could give his bride a palace Mine, a cot; Her's comes home beneath the starlight; Ne'er cares she; Mine comes in the purple twilight, Kisses me, And prays that Ile who turns life's sands Will hold his lov'd ones in His hands. Mrs. Lofty has her jewels, So haveI: I She wears her's upon her bosom, Inside I; She will leave her's at Death's portal, Bye and bye; I shall bear my treasure with me When I die. For I have love and she has gold She c'unts her wealth-mine can't be told. She has those who love her-station, None have I; But I've one true heart beside me Glad am I; I'd not change it for a kingdom, No not I; GOD will weigh it in Is balance, Bye and bye, And the diffierence define 'T wixt Mrs. Lofty's wealth and mine. KISS ME! Kiss me darling! when I kiss you, Kiss m6 back and back again ! Lips are only rosy petals, Kisses drops of fragrant rain! Where's the harm, then'1 I could give you Reasons, dear! for every one, Only that I may not tell them In the broad and gairish sun. Tpke, atlleatel~lifnk)a Rweet onel And I know you'll think witl me 'Ts the Scripture: "Do to others What thou'd'st have them do to thee CIDEE Old friend, accept this botte Your mouth then open wider, First to imbibe, then to eiclaim, By George! what glorious cider. rerhaps some, fair young damsel, Whose looks have ne'er belied her, Will not object to take a swia, When you are down be-cider. And if she thus indulges, Y6u may then have to guide her ; But she will say it's owing to The stall' which is in-cider. H10W .TWO HlOUSEHOLDS BECAME ONE. Mrs. Benoni Benson was fat, fair and forty four, when her husband, a soap-boiler, in very good circumistances, was called from his life task of contributing to the general purification of mank'nd. Mrs. Benson took refuge fronm her grief in a pretty cottagze, situated on the principal street in the town of 0---. At first, she wvas inconsolable, as she used to say, with a solemn emphasis, which carried con viction to the hearts of her hearers, thlat notht ing but the thoughts of her daughter Florence would have prevented her front terminating her* existence by the intervention of poison. Mrs. Benson was, in no small measure, in - debted to her daughter-since in less than three months, she threw aside her mourning, and be * came as lively as-ever. Touching Florence, she had now reached the mature age of nineteen. andl began to think herself marriageable. She was quite pretty, and tolerably well accomplished, so that her* wishes in that respect were very soon likely to be fulfilled. Just over the way lived Squire Markham, the village lawyer, just verging upon fifty, with his son Charles, who was about half his age. Being a young man of agreeable exterior, the - latter was quite a favorite among the young ladies in the neighborhood, and considered, in common parlance, qnite a "catch." As yet, however, his affections had never been serious ly entangled, and, might have remnainled so, had it net been for the sudden apparition, one aorn *ing, of Florence -Benson riding by on horse back. It struck him at once that she was~ remnarka ly graceful,..and really quite pretty. There upon he cultivated her acqutaiinliwe with im c.reased assiduity, and after a while asked the fatal question. Florence answered in the affirmantive;: and instead of referring him dutifully to her mo1(therI, hinted (being a romantic young lady') how charming it would be to steal away to thet next town, and get married without:anlybody lbeing the wiser. Charles Markham canght at this hint, which chimed with his own temperament, and he resolved to adopt it. In order that it might he carried out with perfect success, it was resolved to senm indiffer ent to each other, until the day fixed, in order to ward off any susicion wvhich-might otherwise be aroused. -So well were all these arrangements carried out, thast Mrs. Bensou had no suspicion of what was going on. Not so with Squire Markham. He had ob tained a& clue :to the afihir in some manner, so that he had not only discovered1 the fact of the elopement, but even the very day on1 which it was to occur. *"Sly dog, that Charles," thought he to him self, .athe set before the fire in his dressing gown an'd-smoking-cap, leisurely puffing away at a choice Havana. " But I don't wonder at it; he'only takes after me." Still, I owe him something for keeping -it so secretly from me. Itnn wol . aood joke if I were a little von ger, to cut him out and marry her in spite o him." Squire Markham, who was one of those jovia widowers who takes life as it comes, mused more and more on this idea, struck out by chance as it were. till he really began to thini it worth something. " After all," shouted he, "I am not so old either-or at least the ladies say so-and they ought to be good judges in such matters. I have been a bachelor a good while, and ought to have found out before this, how much more comfortable it would be to have a pretty wife to welcome me home, and do the honors of my table, and to help me keep that rascal, Charles, in order. Egad! I've half a mind to do it." Squire Markham took two more whiffs, and exclaimed: "I vow I'll do it !" What this mysterious IT was, we will leave the reader to infer from his very next move ment. Iinging the bell, he inquired of the servant: "Is Charles at home ?" " No, sir," was the reply, "he went out this morning, and will be gone all day." " Hunph! That'll do. So much the better for my purpose," thought he, when left alone. " Now 1 shall have the ground left to myself. Let me see; the rascal intends running away next Thursday evening, and to-day is Monday. Nothing like striking while the iron is hot. I'll write to her in his name, telling her that I have altered my mind and will go just at dark to morrow night. She won't suspect anything until the knot is tied, and then what a laugh we shall have !" Squire Markham did not consider that it might make a little difference with the bride expectant. Ile considered it a capital joke on his son, and looked no further. Ile accordingly drew his writing materials towards him and indited the following epistle: Inr.nir Faor.txcE: I find the day fixed for our elopement on some accounts objectiona ble, and would like, with your perrnision, to substitute to-morrow evening. If I hear noth ing from you, I shall infer that you assent to this arranigemnent. I shall have a carriage in readiness under the old oak tree, at half-past eight o'clock. You can walk there without at tracting suspicion, and, as there will be no moon, we shall be able to carry out our plans without fear of discovery. I am happy to say that the governor dosen't suspect in the least that a daughter-in-law is in store for him. Won't he be shamed ? Your devoted CuAnLix. " Egad !" said Squire Markham, laughing heartily, " that. isn't bad; especially about hum. bugging me. Charley could't have done it bet ter himself." - So saying, lie sealed it up and sent : a little frish boy in his first mark1 " n lemr iiM -nomptry conveyed in this cliarac teristic address, aroused Mrs. Benson's curiosi ty, especially when she observed that it was addressed to her daughter, and not to herself as she first supposed. She returned to the par lor-not to read Iarper's Magazine, that had lost its attractions. " What in the world can it be," she thought, " that they should be so secret about it? Can Florence be carrying on a clandestine correspon dence ? It may be something that I ought to know." Stimulated by her reminine curiosity, Mrs lIensonl speedily concludeid that she woul bie false to the responsibilities of a parenit if she did not unravel the mystery. " I think," said she, " I will open it, and if it shouldnm't lie anything piarticular, 1 can easily re-seal it, and Florence will still be nmone the wier" This she accordingly did. What was her astonishment when the plan of elopement was discovered to her! "ll~ere's pretty doings !" she exclaimed, as soon as she could recover breath. "So Florence was going to run away and get married to that Carg Markham, without so much as hinting a word to mec." She leaned her head upon01 her hand and began to considler. She was naturally led to think of er own marriage with the late Mr. Benson, and the happiness of her wedded life, and she rould not help heaving a sigh at the recollec tion. "Am I always to remain thus solitary ?" she thought. "i've half a nmindl not to show this letter to Florence, but to run away with Charles to-morrow night on my own account. It's odd if I can't persuade him that the mother is as good as the daughter," and she glanced comn placently at tihe still attractive face and form reflected from the mirror. Just then she heard the door open, and Florenceu entered. She quickly crumpled up the letter and thrust it into her pocket. Florence and Charles did not meet during the suceed(ing day ; ehiefly in p~ursuanice of thme plan they had agreed to, in order to avoid sus piicion. Squire Markham acted in an exceedingly strange manner, to his son's thinking. Occa sionally he would burst into a hearty 1aug1h, wich'hie would endeavor to repress, and pace up and dIown the room, as if to walk off some oi his superahiundant hilarity. " What's in the wind ?" thought Charles to himself. ": i can't be the governor's getting crazy !" Something was the matter beyond a dout. But what it really was, he had not the fidntest conjecture. A t the hour specified, the Squire had his car rige dIrawn up at the appointed rendezvous. ie began to peer anxiously in the dark for Florence. A t length a female form. wvell imiulled up, muade its appearance. Thanking her in a very low whlisper, lest it might be susp~ecd that he was thle wrong person, he helped her into the carriage and drove off. Their destina tion was the house of the Justice of the P'eace, residing at the distance of sonme eight miles. Durng" the first piart . f the journey nothing was said. lBoth parties were desirous of con eealing their identity. At length, Squire Mark ham, consiidering that after all lhe could not marry the lady wvithiout her consent, and that the discovery nmust be made before the marn riage, decided to reveal hiimself, and then urge hi; own suit as well as lie might. SMy dear Miss Florence," he continued, ini his natural voice. " Why !" shrieked the lady, "I thought it was Charles!I" " And I," said Squire Markham, recognizing Mrs. Benson's voice with astonishment," thought it was Florence !" " Was it you, sir, who was arranging to elope mih may daughter ?" " "No, but I conclude it was you, ma'am, wh was meaning to elopo with my son." "Indeed! Squire Markham, you are wrong t the affair coming incidentally to my knowledge I concluded to take her place secretly, in orde: to frustrate her plans. h Ead ! the very idea I had myself," sai< the Squire, laughing; "but the fact is, we'sv both of us been confoundedly sold, and thi mischeif of it is, I left a letter for Charles, let ting him know it; so undoubtedly he will tak the opportunity to run off with Florence du ring our absence, and plume himself, the rasca on the way in which I was taken in." "I confess that I left a note for Florence, V the same purport. How she will laugh at me what an embarrassment!" " I'll tell you what," said the Squire, after: moment's pause, " we can carry out our plan. after all. We each camine out with the inten tion of getting married. Why not marry enel other, and then, you know, we can make then believe we had it in view all along, and on3 intended to frighten them ?" Mrs. lBenson assented with a little urging and, in the course of an hour, the twain wer< made one. They immediately returned, bul found, as they anticipated, that Florence ane Charles, on discovering their departure, lia themselves stepped off in a different direction with a similar intent. They made their appearance the next morn ing, prepared to laugh heartily at the frustrate plans of their parents, but l&arned with no lit tle astonishment, that they had struck up a bar gain for themselves. Squire Markham and hi new wife had the address to convince them tha1 it was all a premeditated plan; and to this day the younger pair are ignorant of the plot an counter-plot, which led to this double union o the two households. SIIORT PATENT SER31NS. v Dow JR. LIFE'S SUNN Y SPOTS. TEX.-Though, call you life a gloomy waste, i still hath sunny spots. MY IIEA:RS: after looking intently awhih at heaven, through the telescope manufacturei by Hope, Faith & Co., and then suddenly cast ing the eye over the country that Mortalit Imiust traverse, it certamnly looks like a dull gloomy and dreary waste. It is like turnin; directly from the dazzlig sunshine into a dusk3 cellar-all is darkness for the moment-dark a an African congregation in a thunder-storm; bl.) it soon grows lighter, and we gradually discovei that we are not in such infernal and everla.stin darkness after all. Tt n'. Al our darkest hours of trouble and desponden cy, sunshine will sometimes burst upon us a: suddenly as a bottle of ginger-pop. There ar< many golden threads that might be woven in th< woof of human existence, if muan would only take the pains to pick them up. Ahck! it i. too true, that 1many of the beautiful flower, that grace the margin of life's stream are left t bloom unnoticed-to wither and die, after hav ing 'wasted their sweetness upon the deserl air !' But, ly the great mogul of gulls ! if imy) brother man has a uinwl to be so foolish as u refuse the warm sunlight and court the col storm, I shall consigtn him to the pity of that P'rovidence, whose tender mercies seem sonmc tmes to be be.stowed, with a reckless extrava gance, upon01 olijets as unworthy of a blessing as a cockroach in a phun-pudlding. My hearers: I tell you there aas many sunny spots in life--as sunmy as the .south sidle of Methodist meeting-house. To receive a kind favor from any one in this frosty, uncharitabk world is finding a sunny spot-a gladdenin; oasis in a dreary desert. When, in a foreigi land, and surrounded by strangers, you comi across a true friend, whose sympathies naturally melt and mingle with your own, like beeswa: and tallow, you~ liud a sunny spot-a cheering glade in a gloomy forest. Doing up courting getting married-havi~ing a goodl wife or huisband -making up after a love q uarrel-recoveringl fronm sickness-recovering damnages-suddenly receiving in full from a dubious debtor--a littkt unexpected good luck-or a lucky escape fron a threatened attack of poverty-are all sunny spot<. But some spots5 are imoreO sunny thai others: some are as bright as a tinned rool beneath an unclouded noonday sun, while othern are more like a patch of p~ale moonshuine upoi the sable garb of night. The sunniest spot that ever shone in my dull existence was the spark' ig of that lovely, angelic creature, Sarah I1aw thorn; but, alas! she kicked the bucket onE day about sunset, and left. ' the world to dark ness and to mel!" My herr: there are striking lights and s hde in the grand pictre of life. They arn thrown in to relieve it from a monotonous tame ness, which we change-seeking mortals, conl hardly endure. Variety we want, and variety we must have-alt bough we sometimes get mort cayenne and mustard than is pleasing to th< palate. We are satisfied with- ea'ch different season as it rolls round, and why nmot welcomt tme vicissitudes of this varying sphere? Nat ur< ooks pleasanit and smiling in spring, while tak ing the first stitches towards her summer dres --in .summuer she appears lovely, while elegant hy attired from top to toe-and, for my plart, admire her even when the rude embraces ol autumn have mussed her~ hair and runmpled her drapery. Now, my dear brethren, seek for sunny spot and yo will find them ; but if, like melancholy owls, you~ are determined to keep in the ohl woodls of wo and misery during the day, and only3 conme out at night to complain of the dark ness-why, thou, the sooner you are o-rn iu another world, the better it will be for you and the community at large. WeT don't -want g~rumblers here to create discord- in the complet. orchstra of the universe, or to mar the social harmony that exi:sts amonig mankind. If you think there arc no simny spots for you betwecr Ihere andu the latter end of a natural life, I advis< yo uotk short cut to eternity-and bequeatl you ol botsto me. So mote it be! CLACKING WOMEN. Trr.-O! bleep my feet in hoiling oil, Or~ put nme on1 the rack; But save me, while 1 tarry here, Fromn yonder woman's clack! Mv lIranan'iS perhaps we male mortals ough Inot, generally speaking, to brag arter about out faculties for restraining that ' unruly member called the tongue; but I do think that womer n hav no ood reason to say ANYTuIG--for. , we are incompetent, in a Mrtain degree, women most certainly are, in a very uncertain degree. Their tongues are reeds shaken by the wind , splinters upon a chesnut ail, that keep up a r buzzing and a jarring so-longas there is a breath to move them. The least'breeze of passiorthat I aprings up in their bosomssets their mill-clacks 3 in operation; and, as foristopping them, you might as well fire a pop-gun against thunder,or - blow a hand-bellows against a hurricane. They will talk, like a poll-parrot <merely for the sake of the noise, and, (givingltbem credit for no evil intention,) they piroevere in jabbering, without once reflecting tht, what is music to them may be murder to qthers. Oh! woman, woman! wherefore art tou gifted with such gigantic powers of gab! ' fhou wouldst have been an angel, hadst thouL angel's whisper. My hearers: I have beeft speaking of women as a whole. As regards tifeir noisy loquacious ness, there are many beaktiful exceptions. I know some whose words Iave fine fur, instead of dog-hair, upon the' ni.huse tones are as soft and musical as the mild breathings of the Rl'olian harp-to whom itA. soothing to listen, and whose society is as tnshine to a storm beaten flower. But, oh.! e my bed under a tinned roof during a nig - of incessant hail; I place forty tomcats at myowindow, all in 'full teather' (fur I should have/said) for a row; bid mie deliver an impressive 4iscourse in a grist mill; soak my corns in a biling solution of pot ash; bore my ears with a',two-incg auger, or a congressional speech upon the tariff; compel me to endure the infliction of;A fashionable opera; grate loaf sugar by my sidi while I am prepar ing a sermon on Sunday;: ~ut me on the rack, if you choose-do anythiityou like, if von will i only save me from the ee asting clack of that f woman, whose mLDEs- nes are enough to harrow up a man's soul, ,Akspere!] freeze his warm blood, and make edch particular hair whiskers, moustaches, anunperial included tp stand on 'eend' like bstles upon the back of a pup-worried boar-pig., My hearers: I am afrasa that if I say much more about the (ENTLE! .ex my soul, iext week, will be as full. of rereti as an old cut is of bedbugs in August: net rtheless,Iam bound to preach the truth to-day, although the devil nay tell me to-morrow -hat I ought to be ashamed of myself for sindoing. But, when you see my nose projectingrfrom this old pulpit, know ve that I care not for the fear of man, the favor of women, nor tlie scoffs of Satan. I let out the truth, link . b link, and, it I am thought to libel my brother man or my sister woman, let heaven be ig judge-the twelve apostles, now above, constitute a jury-and Il ancept of any thing.for cou2sel other than a New c-, representing as ready to accept a challenge, has led Leslie's Illustraled Papeer to reprint the fol lowing pertinant anecdote from I1eems' Gossip ping Life of Washington: "fin 1781, Washington was stationed at Al exandria with his regiment, the only oii of the colony, of which he was Colonel. There hap pened to be at this tine an election in the town fbr members of the Assembly, and the conteat ran high between Colonel George Fairfax and Mr. Elzey. Washington was a warm friend of -olonel Fairfax, and Mr. Payne headed the fi ends of Mr. Elzey. A dispute taking place iiin the Court hou.-e yard, Washington, at this tie not twenty-two years of'age, contrary to . Is usual manner, became excited, and, what ws still more uncommon, said something that -offended Mr. Payne, whereupon the little gen tlenman, who, "thongh but a cub in si:,e," raised his sturdy hickory, and by a single blow brought WVashington to the ground. Sever:l of WVashingrton's oflicers being pres ent, they whipped out their irons in an instant, and it was supposed that there would be mur der off-hand. To make bad worse, the mouem bers of the regiment hearing how their com imandler had been treated, bolted ont of~ the barracks, every man with his weapon, threaten ing vengeance on those who dared to knock down their beloved Colonel. Happily for Mr. Payne and his party, Washington recovered time enough to go out and meet his enraged soldiers, anid after thanking them for their ex pression of attachment, assured them that lie was not hurt in the least, and begged them, as they loved him and their duty, to return to their barracks. As to Washington himself, lie went to his room, and finding, on mature reflec tion, that he had been the aggressor, he deter m nined to make Mr. Payne honorable reparation by asking his pardon on the mor row. No sooner 'had he m'ade this inoble resolution than lie re covered his natural cahmness of ruanner, dressed 'himself and went to a ball, behaving as if ntoth ing had happened. The next day he went to a tavern and wrote aplenoeto Mr. Payne, requesting to see hi.M.Payne presumed the import of it was a challenge for a duel, and repaired to the Iplace appointed for the meeting, expecting to see a pair of pistols introduced. But conceive his surprise upon entering the chamber where Washington was, he discovered a decanter of wine and glasses upon the table, and upon his entering Washington arose and in a very frien' ly manner met him, and puesented his hand, saying: " Mr. Payne, to err sometime~s is nature, to reelily error is always glory. I find I was wrong in the affatir yesterday; you have had, I think, some satisfaction, .and if y-ou think that is sufficient, here's my hand, let us be friends." it is only necessary to say, that from this time Mr. Payne became one of Washington's most enthusiastic admirers and friends. If this con duct had not been deemed in Washington to arise from marnanimity and not from fear, theii he could not Irave become the immortal hero he is regarded in history." Tur. LAnrES-r Roos.-It is stated that the largest room that was ever constructed is that Iin which the tobacco stores are kept in the London Docks. The room is said to cover near ly six acres, being, of course, undler one roof. It~ is a curious circumstance, that this enormous apartment should be devoted to an article of tmere luxury. A certain bion sivani, who carried his eating even into down.right gluttony, went to his phy sician, one day, with a list of his-ailments, for advice. "Diet," replied the doctor, " diet upon two bowls of gruel a day."~ " Dctor, I am no better for your advice," said the patient, a week or two afterwards. " I~ave you adhered strict tly to my orders ?" asked the Esculapius; "did Syou cat nothing but the gruel?'" " Of course I did. You don't suppose I could live without eating; do you? Why, I took my gruel be f. ....n ma."-Tinstnnl Poet "HISTORY OF THE P.TtErTTovs."1-B. Lane Posey, of the Marion (Ala.) American, in his issue of the 18th, says: This is probably the last chapter of the "Pal mettoes in .exico* that will be published in the newspapers. I am too busy to write them now, and 1 discontinue them for another reason. I am satisfied, from assurances that I have received, ved, from South Carolina, that I can make both reputation and money (the latter a particular desideratum) by writing the history of the Pal mettoes, and I have determined to do it. The chapters that I have written were crude and careless, dashed off at a heat for an ephemeral existence, and their style is not a fair specimen of my merit as a writer of history. Still, they were received with high commendations from the press. It is my intention to visit South Carolina du ring the present year, in the prosecution of this work. I may be'delaved in it, but it is a fixed fact that the history o' the Palmettoes shall be written, not only for the present, but for future generations. Oio CnIvAtVnR.-The Cleveland (Ohio) Plaindealer tells the following story:-Two fiery students at Oberlin College had a falling out the other day. Lovely woman was of course the cause. Having conscientious scruples against dueling, they resolved to adjust the difficulty by an appeal to the code fistic, or as we think we have heard it called " the manly art of self defence." They accordingly met with their seconds in a lonely cow-pasture, about two miles from the College. They fought nine rounds. One of the parties was badly whipped and vic tory consequently perched upon the banners of the other party. What makes the affair particu larly racy is the fact that' the lovely woman above alluded to is a dashing mulatto. Tim: Yoamvi .L.. Mt.iTy Ar'1Yav.Wt have recent advices from this highly prosperous preparatory school, and congratulate the profes sors and Vrincipalk, that, in this day of general insubordinatin among studients, and the laxity of discipline, or its excess, in other institutions, they have been so succesful as to reach the juste-dlicu-that happy medinin which old mor alists used to style the Golden Rule-which ten pers autherity with indulgence, and subdues li centiousness under the curb of authority. The Yorkville school has now one hundred and twen tv students-has attained a number beyond that of any previous report; and is winning its way to popularity among its sister States of the South, so that it now has repiesentative pupils from all. This is a point gaiied-a great point-as it ta citly invokes a delightful emulation, for the hon nrau. among the cadets of several, sister commu - .'...-. : ithA great and then himself got into the coffin, lay down and covered himself over. In the course of a short time the master came, looked in at the door and saw, as he thought, a sulky lad stand ing against the wall. " Now," said the master, "do you want any supper?" There was no answer. The question was repeated, with the same result. The boy looked out fron the cofin and said, " if he won't have any, I will." The master lied mider terror, and received such a shock that it is said he has since died from the effects." WIIY LAES Sumwim RE.m Nnwsei.mr.s.-It is a great nistake in feinale education to keep a younma lady's time and attention devoted to only he fishionable literature of the day. if you would quai~lify' her for conversation, you imumst ive her som'ethinig to talk about; give her edui nation with this actual world and its transpirim.g vents. Urge her to read newspapers and be one ihmiliar with the present character and mprovement of our race. ilistory is of some mportance btut the past world is dead, and we ave nothing to (do with it. Our thoughts and onerns should be for the present -world, to now what it is and improve the condition of it. Let her have an intelligent opinion and be able o sustaini an intelligent coniversation concerning the nmenital, imoral, political and religious ui provement of our ti;mes. Let the gilded annu ls and poems on the c-entra table lbe kept a part f the time covered with weekly and daily jonrnals. et the whole family-men women and children read the newspapers. COXSeMPrIo.--A Paris correspondent of the ew York lierald says: "An interesting papler on the properties of the sap of the pine tree has just been published in the ~Abeille Medicale in reference to its curative effect n that terrible scourge of humanity ini Aumerica -consumption. Dr. 1)esmaurtis, of Bordeaux, is he author, andl quotes thme result of four years, experience. One is an instance of a young hady who was obliged to give up her revels on accounlt f phthisie, which was hereditary inm her imily; her mother, father. sister, and other relations avinig all died of the disorder. She was aillie ted with violent retching and spitting of blood, ad all these symptoms of an advanced pulmo nary comnplainit were ascertainmed b~yauscultation. The spitting of blood was stopped m the course of five days by adlministeriung one gramme of powderedi rue pe day. Dr. Desmiartis considers rue (ruta graveolens) to be one of the best anti asmoaties kmnwn. After which the patienit. took a bottle of pine sap per day for thme space of two months andh a half, at thme end of which time her sirength hadi' returned, her cheeks had re mmd their formner hlth~uy condition, nind every harinug sym ptom hadl disappearedl. Thle patienit had suiffered nmo relapse. The i author quotes in umerable other inistances. lie says that pain i the chest is not assuaged in the chest unless companied by a friction of th~e following~ corn positiotn; oil of rue, one hundrod gramnmes ; es euce of~ rue, twentv-five grammews; concentrated tincture of aloes, oiie hunidred grammes. Pine sap generally purges ihe~ beginner, but this effect, which seems to lbe climinative, soon ceases. ksm :ialytical proportins are--one of resinous mat ter, two of extractive substances (one soluble both ini water and alcohol, and the other only in water), three albumen, four a kind of gum, and six soda, lime, magnesia, iron, alumina, phos phates, sulphiates, carbonates, and chlorides, all very small propiortions. A corrrTTo.--We learn that those persons of the Vigilant Committee, engaged in the recent fatal affray at Cartersville, in Darlington Dis trict, who wvere tried for inurder at the recent Court of Sessions in that district, have all been acquitted. We have also learned that several of thme opposite party indicted for illicit traffic ing with slaves, have been found guilty.--Cam den Journal. " Gently the dews are o'er mie stealing,"~ as the mzan said when he had five bills presented t him at one time. TM KANSAS BILL. Every man woman and child has heard so much of the bill for the admission of the State of Kansas, that we present it for their perusal as it passed the Senate: Whereas the people of the Territory of Kan sas did, by a convention of delegates called and assembled at Lecompton on the 4th day of De cember, 1857, for that purpose, form to them selves a constitution and State government, which said constitution is republican, and the said convention having asked the admission of said Territory into the Union as a State on an equal-footing with the original States Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep resentatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the State of Kansas shall be and is hereby declared to be one of the United States of America, and admitted into the Union on an equal footing with the original States in all respects whatever. And the said State shall consist of all the territory included within the following boundaries, to wit: Begin ning at a point on the Western boundary of the State of Missouri where the 47 paralled of lati tude crosses the same; thence west on said paralled to the eastern boundary of New Mexi co; thence north on said boundary to latitude thirty-eight; thence, following said boundary westward, to the eastern boundary of the Ter ritory of Utah, on the summit of the Rocky mountains; thence northward on said summit to the fourth parallel of latitude, thence easton said parallel to the western boundary of the State of Missouri; thence south with the wes tern boundary of said State to the place of be ginning. Provided, That nothing herein con tained respecting the boundary of said State shall be construed to impair the rights of per son or property now pertaining to the Indians in said Territory, so long as such rights shall remain unextinguished by treaty between the United States and such Indians, or to include any territory, which by treaty with such In dialn tribe, is not without the consent of said tribe, to be included within the territorial lim its or jurisdiction of any State or Territory; but all such territory shall be exempted out of the boundaries, and constitute no part of the State of Kansas until said tribe shall signify their assent to the President of the United States to be included within said State, or to affect the authority of the government of the United States, to make any regulation respect ing such Indians, their lands, and property or other rights, by treaty, law or otherwise, which it would have been competent to make if this act had never passed. Sac. 2. And be it further enacted, That the. State of Kansas is admitted into the Union uon the exnress condition that said State shall vene or declare the construction or tue uonsu tution of any State, except to see that it be Republican in ferm, and not in conflict with the Constitution of the United States; and nothing in this act shall be construed as an assent by Congress to all or to any of the propositions of claims contained in the ordinance annexed to the said Constitution of t-e people of Kansas, nor to deprive the State of Kansas of the said grants, if hereafter made, which were contained in the act of Congress, entitled " An act to au thorize the people of the Territory of Minneso ta to form a Constitution and State government preparatory to admission into the Union on an equal footing with the original State," approved 26th February, 1857. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That until the next general census shall be taken, and an opportiomnent of representatives made, the State of Kansas shall be entitled to one repre sentative in the House of Representatives in the United States. Src. 4. And be it further enacted, T hat from and after the admission of the State of Kansas, as hereinbefore provided, all the laws of the United States which are not locally inapplicable shall have the samie force and effect within that State as in other States of the Union; and the said State is hereby constituted a judicial dis trict of the United States, within which a dis tict court with the like powors and Jurisdictiog as the district court of the United States for the district of Iowa, shall be established; the judge, attorney, and imarsh'al of the United States for the said district of Kansas shall reside within the same, and shall be entitled to the same compensation as the judge, attorney and mar shal of the district of Iowa. FnOM H~osnUea5i-IsmlAs Missica.-By the arrival of the schooner Mary, from Rluatan Is land, says the New Orleans Picayune of the 23d, we have the annexed letter from a correspondent at Belhize, IHonduras : BeI~uz;, March 6.-Eds. P'ic.-I have but a moment before the Mary leaves to inform you Ithat the Indians have taken the the town of Ba calar, one of the chief towns in Yucatan; that they took it by surprise in the night, and not a sin gle one of 'the inhabitants escaped. All are prisoners, and we are apprehensive that all will be p)ut to death, as the Indians do not want mon ey, but say ihe Cross (t which they worship) wants blood. Capt. Anderson and a portion of the 2d West India Regiment have been sent up to our north enboundary to 'keep the Indians from crossing the line after the Spanish living in this settle Our Northern Magistrate, with two others, has been sent up to redeem the prisoner at Bacalar. Yours, &c. P. 5.-I refer you to Capt. Stevens, of the Ma ry, who can give you thle various rumors intown. Capt. Stevens, reports that ransom for the pris oners not being forthcoming, they were all men, women and children-massacred. NOT TO DIE OUTDoNE.-An Englishman and a Yneweerecently disputing, when the former sneigyrmarked : " Fortunately, the Ameri cans could go no further than the Pacific shore." Yankee scratched his prolific brain for an in stnt, and thus triumphantly replied: "Why, good gracious ! they're already levelling the Rocky Mountains, and carting the dirt out West. I had a letter last week from my cousin, who is living 200 miles west of the Pacific shore-on made land !" The Englishman gave EYr~t IARD...." It is very hard, my lord," said a convicted felon at the bar, to Judge Bur net, " to hang a poor man for stealing horses." "You are not to be hanged, sir," answered the judge, " for stealing horses ; but you are to e hanged that horses may not be stolen." Mr. Albert Smith wrote once in a hotel visi. tor's book his initials, " A. S." A wag wrote ndearnath " Two-thirds of the truth." PEDESTRIANJI[ IN ENGLAND. On Saturday, February 20th, an extraordinag. ry and unprecedented pedestrian feat was per formed upon the London and Cambridge turn pike road, at Newmarket, from the Duke's. Stand to the toll gate, by Charles Westhall, the noted pedestrian, who had engaged to walk twenty-one miles within three hours. This match had been in comtemplation for some time., and on Friday, the 19th inst., Westhall and his trainer (Woodstock) arrived at Newmarket, and quartered at the Carpenter's Arms Inn, near the railway station. During the afternoon of Saturday the town was in a complete state of excitement, and many were the opinions of the public respecting the chance of the man, and some scores of pounds were laid out in conse quence, the odds being five and six to one in favor of the old unflinching veteran Time. As the hour approached the sporting and specula ting portion of the town and neighborhood were seen wending their way to the scene of action, and at the hour of, starting some hundreds had assembled upon the ground. The stakes were one hundred to twenty pounds sterling on time. The wind and dust were very much against the man, and, therefore, it was deemed advisable t contrive a shelter from so great an obstacle, and a canvass screen, forming two sides of a square,. was arranged upon a frame, and attached to a cart, and so carried before him, and a further shelter from the power of the wind was afforded by a horse van, kindly lent by Mr. S. Roger', being driven by his side. The necessary preliminaries having been gone through, Westhall toed the mark in complete walking costume, apparently full of confdence, and exactly at one o'clock commenced his ar duous task. His style of walking was certainly first rate, and greatly admired. The first mile was accomplished in excellent style in eight minutes and six seconds; the second in eight minutes and eight seconds; the first four miles in little more than thirty-two minutes ; the first seven miles were gone over in fifty-six minhtes, the fourteen miles in one hour fifty-fiveminutes and fifty seconds, and the twenty-one miles in. two hours fifty-nine minutes and one second, being fifty-nine seconds to spare. The twen tieth mile occupied a considerable deal more - time than any previous mile, and many began to imagine that Westhall was "done up," and betting began to turn more spirited agair itbim.. '. Many, who had laid against him, expr;used an opinion that they were safe, and offered to ir. crease tLe odds. Whatever might have -been their opinions or desires, they were quickly undeceived upon entering the 21st mile; Here, as in many parts of the match, he was londly cheered, and his perfect style of'walking con vinced eveg ona ' - IT asnIngton. correSpU&.&%;. - - "It is curious to notice how 'family iifience controls things in Washington. Some skillfuL. commentator could make up a most taking bro cure on this subject if he chose to do so. The old families are adepts at this business. They are the nobility of the capitol. They seem to think everything belongs to them, and that they 'row sons only to put them into place, or totrain laughters only to match them to fortunes or to bureaus. There are a number of families who have five and six in office. The army, the navy the marine corps, the civil service, home and foreign, are honored by the scions of the first families. All kinds of fascinations are resorted to to accomplish these results. The labors of a dozen senators, the laurels won in a dozen party campaigns, even the learning and experience of 'C a life, nre nothing in comparison to the system adopted by those veterans in Washington socd ety. Not, indeed, that there is anything morally wrong in their mnaneuvres. I do not charge it, But it is a thing of almost doily occurrenceto find a young fellow, without brains, but abun dantly skillful in the arts and graces of the sa loon and the opera house, and an fit in the - more daniger us mysteries of the higher circles, seated in soiz e ollicial snuggery, where he can remain as long as he pleases, making his duties the inoidental and his moustachios the main busi ness of his life." THE 0O.D GmtN AND THE MINNXE RIFLE.-I learn from the best authority from the War Depart nient itself that a growing disinclination exists . towards the use in the army and navy of the Minnie rifle, and of the breech loading arms in. general. Thme old fashioned single barrel, loaded'K in the old fashioned way, proves, after all, the. most effective instrument in the hands of our soldiers and marines. Gradually the use of all others will be abandoned. Of course the best improvements in priming and in primers will be adopted. It is not likely that we shall ever re turn to the old flint look, when we have the wafer primers so arranged that a musket may be fired fifty times with but a single charge of primers. This matter is now brought to such" perfection that a common musket may be loaded and fired about as rapidly as a breech loading arm, and with much less danger of anyds ra'gement.-Washinagton Leuter.y A SE.NSIBLE D~~~N-Pre' Spirit, In reply to a correspondent, thus settles a point not generally understood: It is optional with the non-dealer to claim the deal, when the dealer makes a misdeal. If it were otherwise, the dealer, when he and his opponent stood at six and six, could always shift the disadvantages from himself, by purposely making a nisdeal. - How -rO CT GLASS WrrH A PIJcE OF Inor. Draw with a pencil on paper any pattern to which you would have the lass conform; place the pattern under the glas, holding both together' with the left hand, (for the glass must not rest on any plain surface,) then take a common spike or similar piece of iron, heat the' point of it to redness, and apply it to the edge' of the glass drawing the iron slowly forward,' and the ..edge of the glass will immediately crack ; continue moving the iron tlowly over the glass tracing the pattern, and the'elink in the glass will follow at the distance of about half an inch, in every direction, according to the motion of the iron. It may sometimes be found requisite, however, especially in forming corners, to apply a wet finger to the opposite side of the glass. Tum blers and other gasses may be cut or divide& very, fancifully by similar means. The iron must be re-heae as often as the crevice in the glass ceases to flow.-Sientifie:American. T HE happiest man in the world i ?sih~ with just wealth enough to keep him in 4irn't and just children enough to mak.hm Indus-.~ trious. - A little boy describuaziaaringM ks~ ltsg sleep."