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3 Democratic 301trnaL, D no to tie 01S:ud a n SoittIern fRiglts tics, Catest feuo, Citeratire, ,raiti .emperanee g titre & "We wilt cling to the Pillars of the Tenple of' Liberties. and if it mnust fall, we will Prisl nuaIdst tile Rui. SIlMKINS, DURISOE & CO., Proprietors. EDGEFIELD, S JUNE 16, 1858. Written for the Advertiser. THE WIFE'S PUNISHMENT; on, BY aENNY WOODB[LNE. ---o CIIAPTER II. Hour after hour Day after day ; Some gentle flower Or leaf gives way Within the bower Of human hearts.-Motherwell. "But Clarence does not like Julie Clare, Monia." Mary Hilliard occupied her old place as counsellor. " Well, who cares for that, .Mary-Mrs. Clar ence likes her." It sounded so like the Moina of old, that Mary Hilliard could scarcely repress a smile. "But I tell you again a wife should have no friend, that her husband dislikes. It is a part of the duty that you owe him, 'to obey him there." "Oh! fiddlesticks with duty, and obey. 1 detest the words. I like Julie, she is ao amusing, and- clever. And then Clarence is too much like his amiable mother, he wants to rule every thing; and I shant let him, that's the amount of it. Why if I countenanced 11 his silly whims,'I should sink into a slave. I will tell you wrhy he dislikes Julie. Every time she comep here, her brother comes with her; and some meddlesome old somebody has told him that George Clare was an old love of mine. Oh! it's too rich Mary.-he is jealous, ect'wlig jealous; and of George Clare. who is an amu sing fool, and brings me all the latest intelli gence,-so I countenance him for the. sake of being amused." "Moina, you are an idiot; and I dont wonder that Clarence grows vexed with you. And so, for the sake of being amused you are willing to displease your husband-a sorry anzusement." " Oh ! Mary you are so sarcastic; and look at every trifle in such a serious light. Now, I don't trouble Clarence about his friends-and I don't grow jealous of him." "No, because he never looks at any one but you. Suppose he wer e to change suddenly. Suppose to night ho takes Julie to the opera, and leaves you at home." "Take Julie to the.opera-leave meat home ! You aretrazy Mary Hilliard. Why if Clarence were t, mention such a thing Id go straight home to brother Hal, as fast as my feet would carry me." . "And yet you went with George Clare last night, and left him at home." "So I did-but George i nucrh ra /dJ * fei,,d otmine." ' So is Julia an uZN: friend gj' :ci. ; for it yru will believe ijer he was once en the point of maning1:er Mrs. Staten." " Stop, Mary Hilliard, you madden me. I:m possib!e ! Clary never could have loed her, a little, -illy, flirting, freckle-faced thing." " And yet so clecer, so am. ing," a dded Mary iilliard sarcastic.lly repeating he r own word Shortly aftewards her friernd d.epartedI leaving poor lit tle silly Moina as jeal'.us a pc.-ible, and of Jiulia Clare. Oih incon.sistent woman ! When Clarence camne in to dinner he met noting bu:t frowtns. A poor reward for his morning of pa tient toil! " Ihere, pet 1 have brought you! :a new book." "1I don't want any new book." " Here is a bunich of flowers4 too." SI don't want any flowers." Clarence couldl not fancy what was the mat ter ; nor did he trouble hims~elf to inquire. But the " business man" felt very sad, and lone ly as he sat in his offIke that af ternoon. In the bower of his heart niany flowers had perished. " Hour after hour'' he had 'watched the decay~ of some early dream. W here was the bliss his boyish fancy had painted ? Oh ! where was that happiness lie had pituredl to himself ? There camne back to that thoughtful man, a drea of his boyhood--he had fancied it dead, but it wras not. .lHe saw before him the pale, sad face of one he had loved, and cruelly de serted. Lena Vese! Hie started at the sound of t/at nam -it had been so long unspoken. Wnere was she now '? 7Teoce ,f his al-the being of his he .r!, ad intril'et, not the one who merely pleased the eye and fancy. Oh! it was no common thing to have won the love of that proud, glorioudy intellectual creature; and to hace los it. That calm, tearless face, bearing its proud, silent agony, it haunted him now. And the little note w.vhere she bade him "hbe happy, and think of her alwayvs as his frind." His friend! Yes: she could never be more to him noer. -And yet once, his smile was her sun shine ; once she called him " Dear C.larence ;' conce she severed a silken tres from tihe many that floated over her brow, and gave it to him, not playfully, but earnestly. She would have died for him then-she would have torn her heart from her bosom, and placed it under his feet, if the gift had given him phansure. Kw oh ! how bitter was the thomght, all that love, that devotion, was changed to one feeling, con tempt! Hie was on dangerous ground. I pity the married woman, whose husband pase to thuink of " an 01(d love"-it does nvt argue well for Ler future'happiness. And yet Lena Vese, brilliant. gifted woman though she was, had been forg~t ten ; and if Me'ina had been wise, memory would never again have stirredI the ashes of a d'ead past. As it was lie felt his ardent love f'or his young wife rapidly departing. It wvas as though he had stood before a gorgeous painting, exquisitely beautiful in appearance, and watched some unseen hand draw aside vel after veil, exposing hidden deformities. He was losing too his faith in womankind. He began to look upon them, not as the angelic creatures boyhood ad had painted, but as something'made of common! clay-inferior creatures, unworthy the love of a true man. So apt are we to judge all by one standard. True, amid the thick mist which enveloped everything, lie saw one face shining on him-a face, whose purity made all things else look dim. a face which had made the sun light of his boyhood. And this time he drcw { that silken tress from its hiding place, and' kissed it almost unconsciously. He started, for her eyes, Lena's eyes, seemed to reproach him with infidelity towards his young wife; t here was nothing she scorned more than unfai t 1i fulness. Thus did the afternoon wear heavily away, business was neglected-secret cells of the heart were unlocked ; and ever and anon a voice ! whispered, " Thou art learning to despise her, ! and she thy itwf%." When he returned home wearily, it was his time to be cold and careless: and Muina ob. serving this exerted herself to be as disagreea ble as poo.ible-and succeeded beyond her most sanguine hopes. CHAPTER IV. Oh! when the heart has once been riven, The wound wil. firmly close no more; Let memory's searching probe be driven. i! bees. and quivers freshly sore." Eli:a Coo.. Months passed away, and found Clarence Staten and his wife still estranged. Moina! poor hapless child, Made herself miserable. and every body~ else around her. To her caprice, and peevish discontent, she had added jealousy; for she argued thu., " If he luves not me, he loves some one ele." And she grew jealous first of Julia Clare, then of Mary Hilliard almo t her wnly friend-and lastly of anybody. C'arenice .seemed in a stupor ; lie no longer sought for peace at home ; and was found oftener any where else, than at the place love had once made so beautiful. To own all, he saw Lena Vc.ec daily, she having by a stnuige coincidence made the saie city her hone. True, lie did not dare to love her again, her cold, proud look, and haughty gaize of un~.recognition silenced such aL feeling, stili we all know that memory never die:,; and he often caught himself saying, "I Lave made a life-long mistake." Moina grew, daily, more capricious, more fretful, and more unhappy. Her petty wilful ness, frequently gave way to bursts of anger; and every time Clarence displeased her, she threatened to "go home to her Brother Hal." And as it seems that "misfortunes never come singly," there came a letter from the mother of Clarence, informing them that she would soon pay them a visit. " If .de enters the houe, I leave it," was Moina's indignant exclamation. "But, Moina I cannot close my doors against may own not her." " Your own mother ! F:dlesticks. I have ! no grc:t reason to re.pect your not her. ll: ii't sh b'.en trying to puit you against me : It the time. Do on o;u supo-e I havi't seen her letter- ? 1 tell you e e fur all, Clarence Staten, if she enters the hou~se I leave it, and f~recer." Leave it then--aid the sooner, the b<.tte'." was his aigry retly; and he shut the door w ithe To, throw on her bonniet, and order a carria;;e was thie work of a imom'ent with Mina ; anid in half an hour the pretty house on - treet was; dese-rted and the beaiut v who had presided oiver it was on her war " to brother Il:al." Oh ! wi::at a scene rshe made of it-how shet went otl* into st rong hysterics, and caune too again. How :she toll ' brother Hal" she was a forsakeni wife; and had been been driven from her own dor, to make ro o e ubn' mother; anad h~ow 11Halirton .stormned, raged, and alternately pettel L hr; and vowed ven geance on the de.,troyer of his sister's peace; and how, in an hour, lie n:arched olr to town laden with great wrath on his barow, anml a re volver ini his pocket. After he left, Moina was frightened to death,~ SHal will kill himi, or he will kill Ilal-in eith-1 er case I am miserable.". She felt, thbat child-like, she had stuck a lighted match to a barrel of gunpowder; and was suflering the consequences of her own act.1 No pen can describe her wretchedness. A t one] nioment she would cry " Poor, dlear Clary," at the next, " well, let him suilter.'' She paced the room up and down, she clenched her hands together, and committed all sorts of extrava ganCies. How long the hoursi scenmed ! The suspense seemedc~ so dreadful to bear. And at last-ehl! how hier heart beat ! Hal entere:l the door, and said with perfect nonchalance, " Wellt little si-ter., set your heart at ease. Ii have ii-mkhed hlim." "~ Finishe- him !" Clary was dead then, and her brother had killed him! With a sharp cry sh~e fell senseless Oil tile Iloor. When she came to her senses she was in a p~leasanit little room that overlooked a river. Willow branches waved on the imargiin, and a tiny boat was fastened at the wvater's edgse. The scent of magnolia came to her through teopeni windowv; and a tame mockinig-bird sung ini a tree near her, as thoughl to waken her with his morning song.' " Where am I--where is Mary Ililliamrd? T Ithought she was near me." "Not Mary illiard," and a pleasant spoken lady emerged from her conce.dmecnt, and stood before Moina. a~ I am your nurse for the tile being, nm I hlope you ivill like meI." "Who lire youl ?" said the sufferer faintly. " I am Lena Vese of whom you have piroba bly heard ; and' this is my contry home. You are to stay with me, until--" Here Moina wvas restored to consciousness ; and tile awful past stood in array before heri She was a u-idow, and ' brother Hal,' her hus band's murderer, had placed her here ! Bitter was her agony, unbearable her self reproaich! During tlie day, Lena told her, ta hal wished to see her. No Never let me see his face again. He has killed my Clary-ny own, dear Clary." Lena faithfully delivered this message to the waiting brother; and strange, and incompre hensible as it may seem to the reader,he laughed. "Well Miss Vese, it works well so far. She is not dangerous is she ?" By no means, this illness has saved her life, the paroxysms of pain deprive her of reflection." "If after all we make her happy, we will be Forgiven, will we not ?" "I hope so for the sake of all," and the young murse returned to her labor of love. Hal Barton caught himself wondering, who tould nurse him, it he should be taken sudden y ill; he looked around at the charming room de occupied, giving evidence of the refined taste )f a pres:ding angel-thought. how lovely Lena Vese looked in her tasteful white morning .ress, and ended by saying, ( Who'd be a machelor ?" In three or four days Moina was able to sit ip. Poor child! how pale and thin she looked md how mournfally she folded her white hand-, mni looked o'ut of tlc window. Inena Veee enterel rather abruptly, " oh, you egin t> look better, little invalid-we shall ;oon have the roses blooruing on your cheek gain, nothin,- like country air, my dear. In he mean tinme will yo see a visitor." "You mean Ilal, poor fellow! No, Lena, I ould not iCt to look at hi..." "Not exactly lihi. but soen one you will ie ;lad to see." She opened the door softly anl Moina was olded to the heart of-Clarence Staten! "Oh Clary! I thought yon dead. I have ffiered. oh so much. Didn't 1ill kill you?" No darling. or I should not lie iwr." Lena Ve e waved a .:eekoning hand, and IIal urton aplieared on the ?cene of action. 3Ioii;a nade an elfort to ri-e, and he caught her to l.is >soin. Hal flushed a little, disengaged himself, made flourish of hand., and began, "As T am the orator of the d::y, I may as vell proceel. You see my beloved little sister, -ou hve been the victim of a hoax, but all for our ;ood. von httle vixen. T own that I wenti o town "on hontile thougm.hts intent"-T pro eeded to Staten's ofie 4ith "malice afore hought" to murder him in a wholesale manner; ut there I learned that he had gone to the Iotel--and what for do yen gues ? why to ,n -, and leave for "parts unknown." But s good luck would have-it, he fell into the ands of Miss Tee, her.., who with the priv age bf an old frien:l, ridiculed his intention=, d entreated him to go b::ck to yon' " f .l 1 bess you, Lena." and aloina presseed ter new friend's hand affectionately. Don't interrul;t me, ladies, fur I am not yet lone. At the IHotel I met the o:ject of my rath, and this young htdy, where matters vere 'xplained rati.-factorily ; ;:nd I conclutdd t.t to kill your ii-ge lord. On tho contrary ve lec~ae..od friends. But 2-"" were to ibe aoled. Thn:k:; to woman's rea:ly wit in the rson of Miss vete, you were to be puniished, Mil cured, through your c.l uis. which are e hest part of you1. So, I was I( lreten. hat Staten was killed-vou know the ra.-t. mour sul.ln ill:e.s frightened us all. But 3ik.= Ve-e is a good- pihyeliia n. S" she had you ie l.2ed1 he'e-..but paha ! I have sa~c id enogh." "I de.:erved. m~yI p ient,-" s:ddl Moina; ofily, " and I not only forgzive, but thank you dl., for your we'll-mneanit kindncese." A t this jumnct are, MikI Ve-'. and her guest I 'l Burton, vani-shed ; and the wedded pair were left a!one'. Roit I were loving each ot her rery tenderly just then. Even Lena's b'right yes seemed less fascinating to Clarence, than the paile features of his suffering wife. Yes: he lasi love was dearer than the tirit. Let us bope that this r'econc.iliaition, unlike the others e have witnessed, may last always. Monia did not speedily turn inito an angel; mlh hasty tran.,format ions are never seeni in real life, whantever nove! writers may my to the ontrary. But whenever she felt like ' teasing,'~ id her old toramentor, lempo-,.atruggled to us :ape its bonds. the lashes of conscience drove it back; and she thought of hecr well-merited iunislnnt. Neither were so happy as they aght have been, had both been wise at the bee ;inmning, for memory, when pirobed, contained many a atinig ; but they wer .far happier than they had been. heina even tried to be gracious with her mother-in-law, and succeeded to far as to visit her occasionally, and sit on a chair while she was there. I will not paint an impossibsility and say that they learnmed to lbcr each other they did not; but they ceasedl their perpetual jarring, which was as much as could be expected from natuores so dissimilar. Poor ~Mary Ihillicard ! a deserted wife at twenty-two! she can never- be happy herself, but she loves to see others happy ; and is rejoiced wvhen they escape those schoo!< and quicksands iif life, where her freighit of happiness was early wrecked. She is still Moina's fast friend. And Lena Vese? she, ,whom we shamefully neglected in the beginning of this story; aftd who came among us so unearemonmiously--Lenla Vese and Clarence Staten, have mutually ceased to love each other; and Moina dloes not know that sh owes her present happiness to her lhus lband''s first love! ~ena Ve.-e is married to Hal Burton-didn't you know it would be so? And she allows him to snmoke in the parlor ; for it is hard to f'orsake one's early ways--eh, ald bachelor ? Moina has given up) ' teasing;' and she, and Clarce as well ats Hal and Lena, although they deplore the cause, do not regret the young wife's punishment, and Lena's stratagem! AUGUSTA Ghi. As ]rishman whn lives with a vegetarian writes to a friend that if he wants to knows what ligant living is lie must comec to his house, wvhee the brealkfat consists of nothing, and thmmespe is of what was loft at breakfast. For the vortiser. THE WIFE TO, E HUSBAND. AO- 0o7s. Ahi! come beloved to y y wood where oft in childhood's hou e strayed, E'er yet with plighted wo stood beneath yon bending willow's: ade, And I my early drea wits tell and blush not though thine ey ehold me I feel thy voice's ai51 spell-thy loved and loving arms enfdl e. Al little did'st then dream how long I loved thee with a hiden he , When e'en amidst som.buching song my sighs would breathe an tears would start; Thou could'st.not deem t this weak breast which in thy joy'stood te beft re the Long'd but to share thy itl's unrest when sorrow's nit! was deep'ni g o'er thee. And then die sullen yea drew on when thou must part yet leavq no keu, And I must bear ishar alone a grief which yet might not he sp' ; . Al! love, it was a featfr time, but all is past forgotten now Yet soaething of its yeas iful prime has fled frot this devoted brow.' This grieves re not, forrwell I know thy spirit would iot love tie ess, Thou th time upon this 1ead should snow or on thi cheek too rtdly press; I fre that thou wonld'st dearer be if ought to me could make thee d'arer, When the spring leaves o life's young tree around thy brow are growmg serer. Years waned and thou ' iember'est yet tl.e hour tiat led thee haek to me When sickened with the World we met and each was cha- ged yet Loth were free ; Not changed in soul, but sa lder grown, and touchel as by the wand of rrow. Or doomed like huds too erly blown t-, greet with wasted bloora the morrow. Thea once again I dared to dream, but now no T .n re a Idea r of td dre s; Thy spirit soothed my- 1f's rnth s:ram and led Inc back to youth an. ..laadness; .nd somethingdild.ourhearts sub:ue: a yearning thought, a thought of home, As thotul our soub. moe closely drew, c'er yet the darker days s(ld come. Now let them come, I fea; them not, for art not thou beloved one e, And is not this -time-h4Iud shot the alt'tv of.a love divine ? 0, may the lamp that liglhts us t.ow f.:revcr on that alt~lr burn, And ne'er through life our spirits know one sev . ered hour o'er which to monrn. A coan SiDRY. The hanner of, Nashville of Sunlav, contain the ibllowing story: In a re tant inmber of the i3ton Pot we ll a veriv int r..-tin; ilat. r from its corres:pou d.. I:, -' 1i as b r," ivingr couog 1ti(! :n-emt~::: (:of lnl'.iS :Ins! ph''-'es ab ouit Naihvill'. Wet arse rrmeed to omit: all of the letter emcept the co, elutding parnraih. in which the tUllowing pl-as storyv is roldI it certain polditicatl nol b1i lities of or it mate. 'The ineidetnt has~ niver bethre:pre gishied umembelr of onr Siate Seunto' ir its en tire acenracy. This IRamler wve suspect to bte Jhn C. Samx'e. the New Erngland poet. and the complimient of the soeird qjualities' of our nih bor,'Major Eastmann, contained in the r-oielumiinig paagraph, we most heartily eimiorse. and ats to the political sins which he ha~s committed, we canut a ey tor. his eincouirgemn "While the Ismnp hul out to burn," &tc. And now for thec story: In conclusion I nmust tell you an anecdote whi-h, as it particularly concerns the spirit mal welthre 4.f your ol tirirnd Major. F-'nmtman. yon willh rend with intercst. Not more thtan tour years ago Andrew .Johnsonu, (popnlarly c-all'.~ 'Andy') now in the United States Senate, was the dimi ortie' candidat~ for gover of' Tennessee agintst Gentry, ..mecrica n. .son lnhownhow, the notorious " fighting~ .\ethodist," of the Knox ville Whig, wvas 'the warum partisain of' Gentry. Eastma. as the c-ondneatOr of' the leading demo eratie, journal, wams, of course with Johnson, and, as is his wont, gave the enemyv vigorous and telling btlows. Gentry was tdefeated. but in honor of his "brav'e associates, partners of his toil," he celebramtei thme event byv a gruad supper, tt which Browinh~w was present. When the copanitiy lhad got pretty deeplyj into their eups, adwere growing rathe'r boisteromus, the par.,oni (who happens to be am teetotaller) thought hae aitd better retire, and was nmaking a movement to that e-ffect, when he was stopped by Gentry with the ob~sermvation that no minister of the Gosdell should edme into -his house' and enjoy his hospitality and go ott' without praying in the family. Br-ownlow felt the rebuke anal at once set ma'hont his duty. H~e recad a chapter in the Bile, suing a haymn, aind commnecedm a prayer. lie prav:1ed ihr Geintry anmd his househol andm f-ieds;' for the welfar-e of Tenunesice, of the national confederaey, tAbe American eagle, and the star spangled banner ; for Chmriste-ndom ad heathendomn ; for the universe "and the rest of makinid4' "Anrd fmnally," said thes pgson, " we pray thee, 0 Lord, if it be :possible, in the plen tte of thy infinate mercy. to p)ardon and save Ady .Johnson and E~. G.. Eastmnan." "Stop! Sop I" exclaimed Gentry, "dont let him do that-it acould exhaust the plan of salvatlion !, My letter is already too long, hut I cannot close without expressing iny' cordial thann for many kindinesses to the final subijects of Brown lows prayer-a genial, noble hearted gentleman, whose fie, manly face would, go fhrther with the janitor of Heaven than the most flattering certificate of all the "self-electod saints" who (as Hloodl says) think they've "cribbed the im pression of St. Peter's keys in wax." A grave' digger, who buried a Mr. Button, ~laedt the following iteni in a bill which lie sent to the widow of the deceased: 'To mnak ing a JButton hole, $5.' A SPEareH FROf BILI.y BoWLF.s--iowlegs has been making another speech at New Orleans Here is the document: " I statnd up here big chief, brave war-rir. I kill heap your people belore, I can do him again easy ; give Billy seven good nien to follow on the war truck, and lie lick all the United States, sclig fa athe at Washikton! Whoop! TIlE EMPTY CRDE The death of a little child is to the mother'. heart like the dew on a plant, from which a bud has just perished. The plant lifts up its head in freshened greenness to the morning light ; so the mother's soul gathers frot dark sorrow which she has passed, a fresh brightening of her heavenly hopes. As she bends over the empty cradle, and fan. c brings her sweet infant before her, a ray of di vine light is on the cherub face. It is her son still, but with the seal of immortality on his brow. She feels that Heaven was the only at mosphere where her precious flower could unfold without spot or bleiSh, and she would not re call the lost. But the anniversary of his de parture seems to bring his spiritual presence near her. She indulges in that tender grief which soothes, like an opiate in pain, all hard passages and cares in life. The world to her is no~longer filled with human love and hope in the future, so glorious with heavenly love and -joy ; she has treasures of happiness which the -orldly, unchastened heart never conceived. The bright fresh flowers with which she has dee orated,her room, the apartment where her infant died, are mementoes of the far brighter hopes now drawing on her day dream. She thinks of the glory and beauty of the new Jerusalem, wheruthe little foot will never find a thorn among the flowers, to render a shoe necessary. Nor will a pillow be wanted for the dear head repo sing on the breast of a kind Savior. And she knows that her infant is there in that world of etiernal bliss. She marked one passage in that book, to her emphatieally the World of Life, now tying closed on the toilet table, which she daily reads: " Suf for little chiildreni to come unto nme, for such is the kingdoa of Heaven."-- ood News. WRAPn'- DE W.Y TO CANAAN? --Mrs. Stowe' book ' Dred,' teaches many a lesson'to white folk.s through a dar k medium, and not the lea-t pointed one is the rebuke given Christian de nominations by 1,Old Tiff;' for their mints, anaie, and cummnin' wranalcs, while inrpirers asking the plan of salvation. Old Tiff has the care of the children of his dead nistres, and having told them that their nother had gone to the land of Canaam, one inquires Rs fillows: "1 ncle Tiff. where t4 the hnd of Canaan 1' 1"e Lord a-einery, child. dat a's what I'd like to know nyself.- I's stuldin' upon tint ar. l's gwine to campi-mcetin' to find out. l's been to plenty of drei ar-. and never could quite see clar. Pe:rs like dey talk about everything else muor'n de dues about dat. Dere's de Methr, dists, dey cut up de I'resbyter'ans, and de Prcsbvter'ans pitches into de Methodists; and den both on 'ena down o' de Piscopals. My ole miss' era;i a Piscopal, and I never see.d no harm in it. An do Baptists think dev a'nt none on 'em right ; and while dev's a blow.in' out at each other dat ar' way, I' trnderin' citer's der :ry to Canaan." A coquette is a rose-bush, from which every young beau plucks a leaf, and the thorns are left for the hu-band. Mr. Singletiek mystified .a tea-party by re markinr, that women are fhcts. When pressed to exphaiin his meaning, he said " Facts are stub born .hinigs." A fl!e coat may cover a fool, but never con c-als one. W::.,. dill DIr. Mlott ray, "The finished gam blur hr no heart; he would pl:iv at his broth er's funeral-l:e would gaamblc upon his mct her's coffin." Ie ource Walpole ment ions an anecdote of a man'. haviing, in his time, dropped down at the door of White's Club-House, into whit-h he wa.: carried. The imemzbers of the club inmnue diateh- made bets whether he was dead or not, andi uipin its bting pr roI.o-el to f.leed him, the ware:(r" fir his dIatii intLih'u--ed, alleging that it would ive tnf:.iea.< to the bet. W '.nu-r o lhDors.-The poor creature, Crock - et, who is to ie hung shoity ti foer his participa. tion un the m-~urde~r of old M\r. Landirumi nat .\t hante, for- the .-an nof,/i//fi ce ecu/sq, was biroughit to his unfor-tunait end be~ habits. of idiene-ss and~ dis.<ipationm.-.Judge llull, in passing senti-nce i upon him.ii coijures-d the y-oung men psresenit to t~ike watrninig. Tlhey eannot he' too often wvarned. Iriier.cs i.<* er:iuue! In the parabile of the ten tahi-ints this doctrine is clearly developed. It does not a ppr~ar t hat the servanit who buried his talent was iniCl l:hhabt ofi comminitting crimes andl vm lie is (:al!led " wiecd. Why? Jheause he wras lizr--idle.-.f/ens 11i:!e/nwan. .\iftuN1osM Priu~n-ot Carolina is a kimd Sttie tioi midge in umore thanz one wife. At Cuimberlaind Supreme Court last week, II. C. lhari let, couivict-d of bigamy, was se-nteniedl to lie brawiled oin the left dce k wi;h the letter B, to receive thirtv-rline lashes on his bare back, to be iminprisoned 'thirtmy davs andI then to, receive thirtyv-ine lashe-s niore, und to be het loose, le had inarried four wi v-s. - A Giw.rr Rtiiac FeATr I: C.ui.w~~l.An .-A great riding t'eat was acconmplishedl on the Union IR1ace Couirse, neai- Sacranmnto, Cal., on the 2nd inist. .Iaek Powers, an Irishman,.whio has been in C.aliforniia a gre-at nmany years, and hais be. cioiun almost half Spainish, ride 1.50 mijles in 6 hor n 1 inuntes, or at the rate of a ile in 2 iniute-s andl *0 .seconids. The best tine was the' first milie in :2 minutes and i8 seconids and the worst was the Utlth nmile, which was made in 10 mlinuites and 241 seconds. Hie used 24 hiorse~s, all of Califoruia stock. aind rode none more than four mileA nor less than one mile. He mounted 72 iimes in the course of his race. Ten thou sand persons were present. Powvers had a bet of 82.500 that he would ran li hi 5f miilesq in eight hours. anid the result showed that lie haid an hoiur and seventeen minutes to spare. To wards the end of' his task lie began to spit hhood anad show signs of weakness, but it'is said these wereenily tricks to get bets ouit of tihe green ones. Ho weighs 150 pounds andl rode upon a full ilgged California satddle stogenough to boll a bull by the pommel, and weighing forty pounds. Thero is a cockney youth who every time lie wishes to ge't a glimipse of his sweetheart, calls out " Fire!"' directly nuder the wiudoiv. In the alarm of tihe moment she plunges her head out of' the wvindlow, and inquires. " Where?" The lover then poetically slaps himself on the bosom, andi exclaims, 'tre, rmy Hangellina!I" A.RoMANeCi.-Laur-a is a daughter of a weal thy fturiier for whom Tonm Barnes was' plough hoy. Tonm, the rogue, stule Lauira's heart and then hersei lf.lThy ran away and by legal pro cess got spliced. Old Lee offered five. hundr'ed dollars fori the~ recovery of his daughter. The young couple concluded to go hack and take the mniey aind the curses. Wh'Ien they arriv-ed, they we-re agreeably astoniished to find themselves heartily forgiven by the old man, and awarded a homestead anid finrm of sixty neres, T4herq wa-s common sense all round, A TRAIu ON A OaalrT-DA.-Mlr. Makeweighit has gone into the country. We asked him whether Ito was going to take thme eleven o'clock A. M. train, or the three o'clock P. M. boat. "Neither," he replied; "I am only going to ta a calnet-hag." Tuc CTUone: CHWRcnt AND SLAVERY AITA TiON.-Tie Archbishop and Bishops of the Catholic Church, recently assembled in provin cial Council at Baltimore, issued before the ad. journment of the Council, a pastoral letter to the Catholic clergy and laity of the United States. We take from that letter the following extract in reference to the agitation of the sub ject of slavery: "Altnough history plainly testifies that the church has always befriended the poor and la boring classes, and effectually procured the miti gation of the evils attached to servitude, until through her mild influence it passed aw.ay from the nations of Europe, yet she has never dis. turhed established order or endangered the peace of society by following theories of philanthropy. "Faithful to the teachings and example of the apostles, she has always taught servants to obey their masters, not serving to the eye merely, but as to Christ, and in His name she commands masters to treat their servants with humanity and justice, reminding them that they also have a Master in heaven. We have not-, therefore, found it necessary to modify our teaching with a view of adapting it to local circumstances. Among us there has been no agitation on this subject. Our clergy have wiselyahstuined from all interference with the judgment of the faith ful, which should be free on all questions of polity and social order, within the limits of the doctrine and law of Christ. We exhort you, venerable brethren, to pursue this course, so be coming "the ministers of Christ and the dispen sers of the mysteries of God." Let the dead bury their dead. Leave to worldings the cares and anxieties of political partizanship, the strug gles for ascendancy, and the mortifications of disappointed ambition. Do not, in. any way, identify the interests of our holy faith with the fortunes of any party; but, preaching peace and good will to all innkind, study only to win to truth the deluded children of error, and to merit the confidence of your dlocks, so that, be coting all to all, y.u may gain all to Christ.' A G~av AFFAI.-A rich manufacturer namned Oppelt, died about fifteen years since at Reichenberg, in Austria, and a vault was built by his widow and children in the cemetery for thle reception of the body. The widow died about a month ago, and was taken to the same totb; but when it was opened tr that purpose I the coffin of her husband was found open and empty, and the skeleton of the deceased discov ered in a corner of the vault in a sitting posture. A commission was appointed by the authorities to examine into the aflitir, when they gave their opinion that M. Oppelt was only in a trance when buried, a!.d that an coming to life he had forced open the coffin. LAnos FIEL OF PINEAPrr.a.-In Liberia, a few miles northward from Monrovia, towards Cape Mount, is a tract of land about a mile from the beach, of more than ten miles in extent, entirely covered with pineapples. The fruit buds out in April and May, and ripens in August and September. It is of a delicious flavor. The apples are taken to Monrovia in considerable gnattities, where they are sold as low as two for a cent. Pineapples grow wild in the woods, and thousands of them are seen in half an hour's walk. Mr. Bowen, a missionary, was in Liberia, and in his book "Central Africa, 1857," says the pineapple flourishes very well in the woods of Liberia, and is superior to any we can prpcure in this country. i,nsn R.tcixr, IN Axamnrct.-The Boston Tran:rrip( claims that horse racing may now be regardel as one of the "ins-itutious" of America, as it long has been of England, and if racing is not considered an institution in a country where the number of races averages three a d'ay, Sundays included ; where more than fifteen hun:dred horse" are kept in training for the ;:.urpose of making miloney and affording antu-muunt : where upwards of a million of dol lars is yearly expended in its support; and where f rtunes are mnale and lost in tl:e course of' "the s~mson"-we cannot imagine to what extent it is necessary to carry the business, in order to have it regairded as a " popular anmust. mnent, or "national sport." Caos.;.-EtmxAio.--"Mr-. witness, you stated that niy client mainifested great astonish ment when you told him the facts you just sta ted. Now hmow did lie manifest astonishment ?" "lie looked astonished." - " But what were the mndications of astonish-. mient, sir ? You seem to be a very smart wit ness and ought to he able to tell me this." " O,1 merely judged of his feelings by his general appearance." " That won't answer sir. If you can't de scribme the appearance of my client: when as tonished, in order to give the jury anm idea o'f it, suppose you look astonuishft/, once yourself!" " That I will do, if you will show -nme some thing astonishing." " Well, now, my sharp fellow what would astonish such an astonishing witness as your self, hecy ?" " Why if you want to paralyze me with as tonishmnent, just show mae an honegt lawryer!" "Th-the--wi--witness can take his seat." I-r is said some babies are so small that they can creep into a quart measure. An Alabama cutempjorary makes fun of this, and says the way adumlts in that State walk into such meca sur-es is astonishing. H[is word is good, if expe rience can be relied on. A COMPraO>:se WohmAN.-The Richmond Seuth says: " Our pen recoils from the duty yet it is otur province to record the revolting tact, that a wbite woman in Mecklenburg county. Virginia, buecamne the mnother, a few dlays since. uf tibur ehildlren, two of wvhom were cf her own color and the other two black." CAu~tronYIat Sromsr.-The Marysville (Cal.) Herald girrs the following account of somuething new under the sun: IA wvhimling match lately came off at Moke liumn Hill. Two whistlers commenced at 9& o'clock in the fvening, and kept it up till ten minutes of two the next morning, when one of them caved in, and was forced to stretch his mouuth in all sorts of shapes to get the " puck er" taken out of it. lHe "allowed" his lips felt "like they was the toe of an old boot, with a large hole in it." The best cure for hysterics is to discharge the servant girl. Some women think they want a physician when they only need a scrub bing-baush. THIE Brs-r PL~ACF FOR BABIEs.-" Mother," said a little three-year-old, whose nose had been " put out of joint," by the recent arrival of a baby brother, "Muther, if the baby should die, wouild it go to heaven ?" " Certainlym child," responded the parent, " Then I thin$ heaven is the best place for him," was the affee tioinate sister's conclusion. THE Isl.AND OF CCHA.-There are sixty sea ports in Cuba, and last year there were thrbe thousand six hundred and eighty coatwise arri vals, and three thousand six hundred and fifty nine clearances. This will give an idea of the trade of this beautiful island, which is not more tha.. halr onitvatad ndera the nresent regm. SENATOR HAMIOND. The following is the official report of Senator Hammond's in reply to Senator Tombs of Geor ria, who, while the report and resolutions of the Committee on Foreign Affairs were under dis cussion, said that he wanted the British cruisers captured : I wish to say. Mr. President that I -differ with the honorahle Senator from Georgia. I. think there is much substance in these resolutions; I think the resolutions for the committee on For eigh Relations have taken high, strong clear and true ground ; and that if it is maintained earnestly and faithfully by this (Government and- - by the country, they will accomplish all our pur poses. It is not a small thing to resolve that we are determined that England shall abandon the right of search. I think it will probably bring war. I hardly believe that England will aban don the right of search without a war. I am not for making a declaration of war by indirection. If it is the intention of the Senate, if it is the will of this country, .whether we are prepared or not. to go into a war, let us make a formal declaration of war. It is a momentous matter. Let it be done with all proper form. If we intend to abandon the ancient usages, if we omit the " Feciakc" of the romans, and send: no messengors for explanation; let us at least cast the bloody spear in due and solemn form. I am not willing to be swept by the very first wave of public excitement into so great a war as this; still less am I willing to be smuggled into it by an amendment to an amendment. If we intend war let us declare war. I do not say that I am opposed to it. We have just.and ample cause of war. We have receieved the most flagrant insults ; and I repeat that if this country is prepared to into it and will make a solemn declaration 6# war, I shall not stand back, nor will the people whom I represent. But a war with England will be the most momentous event of the last three centuries, if not in any century sine the world began. I am not blind to the disasters and calamities the earlier periods of it will prob ably inflict on us ; yet I believe that if Etgland provokes us to it, she will be rushing on her fate. It is perhaps inevitable, sooner or later, and thenever she sets her time for it, that must he our time. But, sir, let us adhere to these reso intions : let us giv.e her a chance to postpone an event which, whenever it comes, will -change the whole face of human affairs. A correspondent of the New York Times, writing from New Orleans, says: " Bad as we of the North believe slavery to be,.1 have yet to see the first sign of the squalid wretchedness, poverty, and degradation among the blacks here, which we daily see among the blacks and the foreigners of the North. "I have been in several of the chureles built for the slaves, and I have seen crowds of -them worshipping with their masters in the same great congregation. They are wonderfully im pressible, uttering their feelings in the very midst of the services-.sometimes by. a simples "Yes, yes;" sometimes by a long low wail, or a sweet plaintive musical sound that goes all over the congregation, and often a. shriek fr'ma some female voice, followed witha.spasmodic uplifting of the hands; and then asligbt swpon, which draws together a crowd of sympathizing negroea, who attend. to the subject until she is restored to consciousness. All the' while .the services go on as if nothing was the matter, the preacher evidently satisfied with this evidence of his power over his audience." - TaEc Srcs.-The Baltimore Republican notices three things which have just come .to band that are strong signs that sectional agita tion upon the slavery question has had its day: "1. The speeches of Mr. Pryor and others in the Southern Convention against the revival of the slave trade. " 2. The refusal of the National Tract Socie ty to lend itself, through its publications, to the objects of Abolitio.nists. "3. The refusal of the California Legislature to receive free negroes within the limits of that State." When Kean first played Sir Giles Overreach, (June 1816,) he made as groat an impression on ui., fellow-~actors as on his audience ; insomuch, that they agreed to present him with a silver cup. When Munden was applied to, he replied in his peculiar manner, "I've no objection to your cupping Mr. Keen, but Ill be hanged if you shall ideed inc." THiE Cmt.p.-The first mention of it to he found in any Anmerican diocumnent is ina the fol lowing advertiswement, from a Boston paper pub lished about the year 1760: " Brought from Havana, a box of Cigaros, a very rare' article. The best of tobacco, roll'ed nyp to the size of a small Finger, and of about !ive inches in length, Tor smoking. They are preferred by the Spanish Dons to the Pipe. fhose who may wish to enjoy such a Luxury, will please call and try them. " WILLIAM STOCKTON." AN IvNIDE CONVERRED.-Th~e English corres pondent of the Zion's Herald writes: "Thonias Coope, the noted sceptie, and author of '"The Purgatory of Suicides," has recently be come a convert to Christianity ; and after having spent thirty years of his life in lecturing and wvritinig againstt the Bible, he is naw striving to .nake replaration for the mischief he must, have Junme, by lecturing in defence of the Sacred .scripture~s." On.a NAToN~u. DEFEN~Crs.--The Washington Union urges the importance of strengthenmng -he national defences. It is persuaded that, whileahe admintistration is deeply sensible of its ituty to protect the people from actual aggression, or in the anticipation of danger, there is gross inetliciencey in the preparations for the contin. gency of a war. QUEER DuciszoN.-A judge of Evansville, lad., has discharged Richard Webb, aceund of hav tng two wives because it was proved that one of ais wives was over 14 years ot age. According to the construction the judge placed upon the law, a man may marry as many wivea as he cho s, provided they are not over fourteen years of age at the time. An editor, who has probably sufer~ed some tells people how to stop a paper. He says: "call at the office and fork up arrearages, and :,rder it stopped, like a man, and not retuse to :ake it ont of the post office, and sneink away-like a puppy." OmancnD 'ro nE Ct~osD.--It is stated that the Vice President has ordered the refectory attaecd to the United States Senate to -be closed on ae. count of the obvious injury to the progress of leg islation from it, besides the fact that it crestes - personal difficulties.. G EN. IHousvoN.--A Washington remer baa 'it that Gen. Hlouston is about to head.56,000 men and immediately invade Mexico, -with -the vicw of " Texasizing" another slice of it, and bring-it into the Union, and with it Houston intoth's Sen. ate. Rather adoubtfunlstory. e ec Cream msay be frozen by simply puitting it ina to a glass vessel, and ~then plaeang theirlile .ia