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,EDGEFIELD, S.. v EEAVEN. Oh, Heaven is nearer than mortals think, When they look with a trembling dread At the misty.future that stretches on From the silent home of the dead. 'Tis no lone isle in a boundless main,, No brilliant but distant shore, Where the lZvely ones who are called away Must go to return no more. No; Heaven.is near us-the mighty veil Of mortality blinds the eye, That we see not the angel bands Oi the shores of eternity. Yet oft, in the hours of holy thought, To the thirsting soul is given That power to pierce thro' the mists of sense To the beauteous scenes of Heaven. Then very near seem its pearly gates, And sweetly its harpings fall; Till the soul is restless to soar away, And longs for the angel call. I know, when the silver cord is loosed, When the veil Is rent away, Not long and dark shall the passage be To the realms of endless day. The eye that shuts in a dying hour, Will open the next in bliss; The welcome will sound in a heavenly world, Ere the farewell is hushed in this. We pass from the clasp of mourning friends, To the arms of the loved and lost; And the smiling faces will greet us then Which on earth we have valued most. ON WHISY. Of all the plagues that scourge mankind, There's none that so impairs the mind, And renders it to virtue blind, As whisky. What is the cause of every ill That does with pains the body fill I It is the oft repeated gill - Of whisky. What is it some do love so well, For which their bodies they would sell, And send their very souls to hell I - 'Tis Whisky ! What is It poisons all their lives, And makes men beat and curse their wives, And thousands t destruction drives I 'Tis whisky. What makes chill penury prevail, -Tis whisky. Oh Whisky! thou'rt the curse, To soul, to body, and to purse Pandorh's box held nothing worse Than Whisky." AN INCIDENT IN THE REVOLUTION. In the summer of 1779, during one of the darkest periods of our revolutionary struggle, in the small village of S-, in Pennsylvania, lived V--, one of the finest and truest patriots within the limits of the "old thirteen," and deep in the confidence of Washington. Like most men of his time and substance, he had furnished himself with arms and ammunition, suffieient to arm -the males of his household. These consisted of three sons and about twenty five negroes. The female part of his house con sisted of his wife, one daughter, and Catherine, about eighteen years of age, the heroine of our tale', and several slaves. In the second story of his dwelling-house, immediately over the front door, was a small room called 'the armory,' in which the arms were deposited, and always kept ready for immediate use. About the time we introduce our story, the neighborhood of our village was-much annoyed by the nocturnial prowling and depredations of numerous Tories. It was on a calm, bright Sabbath afternoon in, the aforesaid summer when Ju'ige V. and htis' family, with the exception of his daughter Catherine, and an old indisposed slave, were attending services in the village church. Nout a breath disturbed the security of the atmosphere .-not a sou~nd profaned the sacred stillness of the day ; the times~ were dangerous, and Casthe rine herself and an ol slave remained in the house until the return of the family from church. A rpwas heard at the front door. "Surely," said Catherine to the slave, " the family have - ot yet come home-church can't be dismissed." The rap was repeated. " I will see whoi it is," said Catherine, as she ran up stairs into the armory. On opening the windows and looking down she saw six men standing down at the front door and on the opposite side of the street, three of whom she knew were tories, who for meily resided in the village. Their ntames were Van Zant, Finley ahid Sheldon; the oather three were strangers, but she had reason to be hieve them to be of the same political stamp, from the comn; any in which she found themn. Van Zant was a notorious character, and the number and enormity of his crimes had ren dered his name infamous in the viciniity. Not a muarder was committed within miles of that he dii not get the credit of planning or executing. The charaicters of Finley and Shel don were also deeply stained with crime but Van Zsnt was a master spirit of iniquity. The appearance of such characters, der such cir cumstances must have been tru y alarming to any young lady of Catherine's age, if no.t t' any lady, young or old. But Catherine V possessued her father's spirit, "the spirit .of thie times " Van Zant was standing on the stoop ' ping at the door, while his comnpanion's were tlking in a whisper on the opposite side of the IsJudge V-.at home 1" asked Van Zant, when he saw Catherine at the window above. "lHe is not," said she. "We have business of pressing importance -with him, and if you will open the door," said * Van Zant " we will walk in until bie returns." .-"No," said Catherine, " when he went to church he left particular directions not to have the door opened until he and his family returned. - You had better call when church is dismissed." "No ilnot," returned lhe, "we will enter now or never."- - "Impossible," cried she, " you cannot enter 'until he returns." "Open the door," c'ried he, "or we will break it down, and burn you and the house up to gther." So sayiing he threw himself with all the force he possessed against the door, at the him.: The door however resisted their efforts. " Do not attempt that again," said Catherine, "or you are a dead man," at the same time presenting from the window a heavy horseman's pistol, ready cocked. At the sight of this formidable weapon the companions of Van Zant, who had crossed the street at his call, retreated. " What," cried the leader, "you cowards! are you frightened at the threats of a girl ?" and again he threw himself violently against the door. The weapon was immediately dis charged, and Van Zant fell. The report was heard at the church, and males and females rushed out to ascertain the cause. On looking towards the residence of Judge V-they perceived five men running at full speed, to whom the Judge's negroes and several others gave chase; and from an upper window of his residence a handkerchief was waiving, as if beckoning for aid. All rushed towards the place, and upon their arrival, Van Zant was in the agonies of death. He still retained strength enough to acknowl edge that they had long contemplated robbing the- house, and had frequently been concealed in the neighborhood for that purpose, but no opportunity had offered until that day, when lying concealed in the woods they saw the Judge and his family going to church. The body of the dead Tory was taken and buried by the sexton of the church as he had no relatives in the vicinity. After an absence of two hours or thereabout, the negroes returned, having succeeded in cap turing Finley, and one of the strangers, who were that night confined, and the next morning at the earnest solicitations of Judge V- , liberated on the promise of mending theirlives. It was in the month of October of the same year that Catherine V-was sitting by an upper back window in her father's house knit ting; though autumn, the weather was mild, and the window was hoisted about three inches. About sixty or seventy feet from the rear of the house was a barn, a huge old fashioned edi ce, with upper and'lower folding loors; anif accidentally casting her eyes towards the barn, she saw a small door (on a range with the front door and window at which she was sitting) open, and a number of men enter. The occurrence in summer immediately presented itself to her wind, and the fact that her father and other males of the family were at work in a field at some distance from the house, led her to suspect that that opportunity had been improved by ome of Van Zant's friends to plunder and re venge his death. Concealing herself behind the urtains, she narrowly watched their movements. he saw a man's head slowly rising above the oor and apparently reconnoitering the premi es: it was Finley's. The object was now evident. Going to the rmory, she selected a well loaded musket and esumed her place by the window. Kneeling ipon the floor she laid the muzzle of. the weapon pon the window sill, between the window cur ains, and taking deliberate aim she fired. hat effect she had produced she knew not, t -SOLM ea;W A out.o aU hre ought her 4fther and his workmen to the mouse, and going to the barn, the dead body of nidey lay on the floor. Catherine V -afterwards married a Captain f the Continental army, and she lives, the inored mother of a numerous and respectable ne of descendants. The old house is also " in le land of the living," and has been the scene if many pranks of the writer of this tale, in he iey-day of mischievous boyhood. " MEET LIZZIE AT SIX". That was all the despatch contained. Four ittle words; yet what excitement they cau-ed n the household at Maple Cottage; the quiet, ober household, whose members, at the mo nent of its reception, were on the point of etiring to rest for the night. " Meet Lizzie at six !" Was our darling in leed so near us ? Two years and three mnunths mad passed since our eyes had been glalidened y her girlish beauty, since her voice had mum ;led with the bird-music that floated all the ong Summer days among the maples. Two rears and three months she had been buried imong books, in a far away city, bowing hecr uny curls oever algebra, geometry and philoso phy, astronomy and botany, French and Latin; patiently at first, because her parents desired t afterwards cheerfully, to please the teachers 'e had learned to love ; and at last zealously, from pure thirst for the treasure these studies unlocked to her. But it was *.yer now, these~ toilsome years, and she was on her way once more-our Lizzie-our pet and pride--we should meet her at six ! She had left B. in the morning ; had jour neyed without stopping all day ; this we guess ed at once; and at eight in the morning, find ing a hasty opportunity, she had telegraphed to us the words above. At six, the Eastern train arrived at our station ; Lizzie was to ride all night, for, the sake of reaching home thus early. It was like her ; impulsive, warm-hearted child that she was. How little we slept that night ! What slight sounds afoused us ; how early we were all astir -even the baby, and the white-haired grand father. " Meet, Lizzie, eh ?" he said ; " aye, indeed, will we !" And the old man-s voice caught a youthful tone, and his crutches an elastic mnovement, as he hobbled about the house, giving orders, as if all the responsibility rested upon him, to be sure. There was Hannah, too, bewildering the mother about breakfast. " Did Lizzie like coffee or cocoa best ?" And would she make biscuits or waffles ? And the mother, smiling all the time, nodded her head to everything, and went hurrying about, with the gridiron in one hand and the egg-boiler in the other, coaxing Fanny to curl the baby's hair, andl looking at the clock every five minutes. But Fanny, with mysteri ous spoonfuls of- something, was flitting up stairs and down, leaving a book here, a flower thee, a daguerreotype on the table, or a rosy ceeked fall appln in the window-somnethimg for Lizzie to see and smile at. i mly the father seeed undisturbed. We noticed, to be sure, the dimples in his cheeks, which Lizzie always said she made with her fingers whein she was a babe, looked deeper when he smiled, and that his voice was a tritle less steady when he told Thomas. to bring the horses; but he did not like to b>e considered a demonstratye man, so we looked significantly at each other, and said nothing. Still waters are sometimes very deep. At last the carriage camne round, and wve got in; two of us beside the other, who was to drive. There was room for more,, but it was quite out of her line, the nmother said, to go on a dashing drive before breakfast ; so we left her on the piazza with a pickle-dish in her hand, and wiping her eyes with her apron. It was half a mile to the depot, and the sun had not quite risen when we started. Ilow balmy the air was, that' soft Sepitember morn ing. We thought, egotists that we were, in our happiness, that nature sympathized with us. It seemed us if there had never been so fair a sun risirig before, and as if half the glory of the morning would have been wasted had not Lizzie been coining home. The car had not arrived when we stopped at the station, but we heard the whistle of th locomotive, not very distant; and those fem sweet waiting moments-what a world of bless ed anticipation they held. The sun was rising -ah, Lizzie! Lizzie! At last the train came up-stopped. We looked at the windows; only a row of sad fa. ces! Lizzie must have sat on the other side A few passengers came out, solemn-faced and silent. We pressed forward-so did those wht were going out of the train. The conductor appeared and waved everybody back, then m tioned to somebody in the car. Two men came out and slowly descended the steps, bearing a lifeless body-a woman, her features covered by a veil. They bore it into the saloon, and laid it reverently upon the sofa. Still the con ductor waved the crowd back-except our par ty. He knew us, and turned away his face as we approached. Then we knew how it was; all except father; he could not believe. Firmly he raised the veil from the dead face. Oh, God! all merciful! Is it thus we meet thee, Lizzie, darling, our best beloved, idol (-f our hearts! ' In a brief time we learned the story. Learned how the Angel ,.f the Lord had met " Lizzie before us, in the still twilight of that Au umn morning, and after one pang, terrible, we knew, but brief, had wafted her gentle spirit to those who waited for her in the home of angels." At the very last stopping-place, Lizzie had left the car to procure some food f.r a little child that had fretted all night in the arms of a wearied mother. The train stopped but a moment; it was dusk and none of the officers had seen her leave it. She returned hastily, to find it moving; made a mis-step, fell forward and thc rest is a common tale, such as newspa pers chronicle every week. The beautiful head with its sunny curls-was what we saw at the station-house! IlUW TO BE A N12. [We take from " The Happy Home," pub lished in Boston, and edited by Mary Grace Halpin, this excellent article from the pen of Rev. W. Warren: " BE A MAN," by filing the place you are in. If you are a man, be a nian, every whit a man. If you are not a man, glory in this, be a woman in the true sense of the word. If you are a youth or child, do not disdain those productive, disciplinary years. Are you poor or rich, hum ble or honored, citizen or magistrate, be your pozition what it may, if you cannot improve it, show yourself a man in it. To the young I say, do not make haste to be come men prematurely; but Feek to become the best possible specimens of youth. Men's garments do not become boys; youth is the stepping stona to manhood, the apprenticeship )f life. Let that stepping stone be high, and that apprenticeship long. Life is preliminary, probationary to a future world. Some seek to show themselves men' whom God has destined to a more relined and influen al sphere. There is a limit where the sea. ds and the dry land begins. There is an ele nent where the birds sing, another wherd -the .eir sphere, man his, woman hers. God has ade the dififerences, established relations, rawn lines of distinction which neither inan or woman may confound. Ile has adapted responsibilties to relations, snd these to natures and spheres. Seek to show ourselves true to the nature and sphere you re in; it is thus you will prove yourselves to e men, in the best sense. Out of our place and ex. we sink ourselves. Let us be true to our sature and our tastes. Let us mnagnify the po ition we are appropriately in, and show our elves to be the 'noblest specimen of what God mide us to be. "Br A MAN" by culticating yourself. The mental and mioral are the noblest elements of nature. There is need of a sound bo-ly, invig rated by habits of virtue and healthful enter prise; but there is more need of a noble mind, disciplined by culture, and subject to principle. this is essential to the highest state of manhood. ncultivated mind, like usubdued soil, or rute strength, fiils of its highest producti':e ess. The whole mind and hear-t neceds thus to e developed and disciplined. We cannot show urselves men in any true sense un~til we raise our standard of thinking, of acting and purpose, o the highest practicable point; and to gain this high ground we must make a covenant with abor, we must resist temptation, and 'put the eel upon the neck of appetite and indulgence. e must store the mind and taste with what is seful and wholesome; we must be able to go from cause to effect, and from etrect back to ause, upon the strong chain of rcasoning; andl e ought to know how to form those chains by close links of logic. We measure men not by stature, nor statio)n, nor by age, nor sex, nor circumstances; but by cultivated powers, and he success with which they are able to bring hose'powers to bear upon the ntoblest inter-ests f earth. A BA NE~ ia your pleasures. When pleas-, ure is sought as an end, it is pernicious, but hen recreation is sought as a means to an end, it is useful. But why depend on special ex citements and occasions for happiness, andl not rather seek enjoyment from the or-dinary scenes of life? Do the birds have jubilees? do the ngels ? why then should human life be as the waves of the sea? The reaction of excessive excitement upon the mind and nerves, creates depression of spirits, and a sort of lassitude and woe, that calls for the oft-repeating of the same thing. Ilow much better to ply the ordinary means of enjoyment ! These are always health fl, open and perennial. It is the part of true manhood to have the full command of the comn mon and every day sources of enjoyment.' And let recreation, when indulged, be rational and innocent ; let parents indulge in the pastimes of their children ; it is easier thus to restrain them. To be young is no crime, nor to be old, except in wrong feelings and habits, but mere pleasure-seeking is debilitation ; true joy comes ursought. But men often show themselves to be mere brutes or savages in their sports. Despise those that cost needless pain. Shun the joy that is had at the expense of virtue. Show yourselves men in y-our pleasures. Let them be rational and contribute to moral dignity. " BE MEND inl/waOr and libeYality. Always do your part, and more than your part, if need be. Be noble and generous and large-hearted ; I do not say you will be richer here nor hereafter; that will depend upon the spirit and motive in the case. But it is wise to be just, and wnag naimous, and benevolent, always. Be not mean, but always men! Never let others pay your bills, either in the house of God or else where. Always pay the value of a service. Be liberal in your contributions on the Sabbath and at'- other times. Don't nod the deacoil along when the contribution box comes, nor cast thither a three cent piece and a copper, one fom coscience and the other for sound. This ii small for the Christian, for the man, for the child even. " BE A SIN" in your dealings. Be honorable be honest with all. Some are so upright that when they injure others they ar~e careful to dt it lawfully. They have no higher standard o conduct than human statues. They fear finei and prisons more God W his judgmen Such are quick to e advantage of another ignorance, are read- overreach them in trid are hard upon- th *debtors,. and still hardi upon cieditors; *i. 11 you injured articles f those which are p and give you bad weigl and measure in aif ion would lead you i suppose by their h bills that they are sellin goods "at great " when their only ol ject is to make ins, and a great man of them; who s eir neighbor that whic takes away the c er and the senses, o what is worse, wo '1 their neighbors thenr selves, body ana foi filthy lucre; such for feit the character en, aufi earn the charac ter of felons or de .-Be open, be honesi be upright. Neve p to what is treacieron or vile, it is infini : :bad policy. There is law that preced. :human enactments, t which all are ame It was shadowed fort] in nature; but it. ded nature. It-was writ ten on fleshy tablet rwards on stone tables afterwards in the rule, and on the crim son cross. It is th eliest standard of earth Let the merchant * when he takes excbssiv< profits; the brokef enThe refuses to give thi value of paper, o es exhorbitant interest the gentlemanr who' Lk" to enrich himself a others' cost; the - ir 'who carries injure< articles to the mark0 or'lets his cattle or hii fowls destroy his ne r's fields; the mechani when he m:akes h - for sale and not fui use; the ..ofessiorn man who "multiplies bi calls to lengthen his bills," who "encour ages suits to get g fees," or seeks the flecec instead of the floc d the people, too, wher they refuse to be eir 'portion of parish or public expefises. th Iearn this higher law, and be gove by i in the dark as well as in the light, wh o law reaches, as well a4 where governmen "BE A MAN" - in .te responsibilities n) life, not in word achievements; not ir promises, but prac tpresent. Every man is not like Siloin a king.; but every ran has responsibilities important, perhaps, a. kings once had. I kings now in some sense. Every citi is a:sovereign, and our sovereigns are all 'and' in tl:is pregnant age when mighty p ples ine biing transferred to future generatio we need men, true men, well-read, strong ':stable, capable of com prehending the ag , Its responsibilities; not pretenders nor poli 'ps,-nor kentlemei, but melt of the true s d st'rina. I have done 6with words, platfo -olutions. I want prin ciples, character, d that will not lie or die, but that embody ivesin wise, prudent, energetic action. want men whose zeal has wisdom, who no-mandates but those of truth and pnrii , who'cannot be bought nor bribed with us'd gold., God dues not work ordin thoiut men; when le gives us a refori e gives us a Luther; a revolution, a WIs It ir -men, next to the spirit of God hed world wants, and when I look over. de world, and witness the qountless evils- s'ociety and hinder salvation, and ask .' so;- why, upon this fair earth, man 6 afidjnah is onlpfxila. wh avnee IVM i nd abundance, has so ong looked down upon such scenes of sorrbw and woe as this world presents, and all this after the finishing hand of God has been upon it. and the footsteps of the Soil of God, marked by blooo, have been upon it, and the Spirit's infinence more powerful than the agent that moved te ocean or the forest has breathed upon it; the answer comes back to me, "man has not bem himself," but failed to act his part upon earth. The church wants imen more than menbers or numbers, and the world wants men rnae than armies'or govern ments, education or 9ystems of ethics. or a for mal christianity. 11 wants men after God's own lieart, to put lIe into them, and to put thOn to the great csq andyork of earth. " BE A MAN," by pvaring for the destiny of mn. Man is distialuished from the brute in that he is imnortal.and has reason and con. science and freedom 'f the spirit to prepare him for the future. .he present to the future is whrat the line of the hore is to tire vast ocean, a changeless future nrits us. The bird builds for itself a nest, a'r'thus makes provisions fur its little future. T21 aimral digs for itself a hole and prepares a ganary for its future wants. These are true to insinct, they prepaire for the future; shall man ft.et his immortality ? "118 k1'T STICK." Whenever a drunl resolves to reform, arnd unites with some onof- the temperance organ izat ions for that pur~se, there are those inr rhe commrunity who are-ver busy to pnblish their opinions respecting L iprobable'wvant of initeg rity in tire premiise; They manifest a great pleasure in co nteniping the step the nnrfortu nate nian has takernnd woul 1 seeri to wish that lie might be enwed with fortiturde to re sist all temptation 4 keep his pledge sacred arid inviolate, but up every occasionr ther pre dict his downfall, cieven so far~ as to 'taunt the person to his fadiy telling bhim that " he mnust stick." Now this is wronpd unjust to the person in question. Hie h en a drunkard, his moral purposes have been Ily weakened by strong drink, and now, sinve is making an effor-t to cast off' the terribhnabit that has degraded him, he stands in ~d of the counsels, the countenance and curt of all good men in order to enable himn maintain the noble pur pose of breaking theursed fetters by which hre has been bound. e feels his owr. weakness arid the weight of hid scaurge pressing him -down, and if he is tted on every hand with pr'ediction~s of his d fall, and constantly re- r minded of his weak~ and want of power to resist the temptati4 the intoxicating glass, ~ is it any wond~er Vhe yields to thne first temptation, and bees worse than before ? Such treatmrent frdinis fellow meq vividly a impresses his degradn upon his mind, and is n but too apt to confliim in the belief that he h is beyond the reaehdhope, and is doomed to e, the worst of fates. any a poor fellowv has ~ been driven into thdiness of despair-by such ci uncharitable treatml 'c, We should exerchruch charity and sym- ri pathy towards the <kard endeavoring to re- er form. His marnhook become weakness by ci .reason of strong dri and his strength like p1 that of a little childaet those who are strong ac uphol him, and chcgs failing powers. It is bi better to rescue oneq, than hundreds, to our- e lists from the ran - hose who never have vi felt the reproach dcurse. Then let all .io such be encouraged ounsel, by sympathy, by ohairity and by ~estations of confidence b in their integrity tolvows and pledges they ,ve hate assumed. Th inspire the man with w< courage to battle niialously with assailing hc -temptations and putt under his feet; while fal if we manifest no lence in his integrity, ca and constantly susp's motives and predict lie that he will abando urpose of reformation th and be worse than, we may reasonably era expect the man to, ~nfidence in himself, thi consider himself ausst and.go back to his na pots and slavery old up the hands, the hearts, of all such *encotiragements, and . happy ones shall his name in thankfulness ex around hearthston t as day, where, a lit- ne tle while ago, the v of a curse lingered Hc and dlarkened all centered tliere. ed t. THE CHARLESTON STANDARD. We find the following card in the Afercury o! L Monday r The undersigned have sold the Standard news. r paper, with the subscription list, and business It or good-will, to the proprietor of the Charleston 0 Mercury, reserving, however, of course. all claims 'or accounts now due to the Standard ofice. In doing so, they are assured they have not acted 7 against the wishes of the subscribers and adver I tisin" patrons of the Standard. For they regard r the dlercury as now upholding the principles and eneral line of poicy for the promotion of - which the Standard was first established. It is - with the Democratic party, and sustains the , Administration. They therefore beg leave to recommend to the subscribers and advertisers of I the Standard to continue to the Mercury the > patronage so kindly extended heretofore to the 1 former. They are satisfied this able and well - prepared paper will not disappoint their expec tations, either politically or as a medium of in - telligence in business or matters of general in terest. L. W. SPiATT & Co. NEWSPAPER BoRRowI-.-This is a very pre valent failing, which, in some pbople, amounts to a positive vice. Of the large multitude of people who never buy papers, because they read them free in the coffee-houses and barber-shops, we have nothing to say, fr the coffee-house keepers and barbers take the papers expressly for the accommodation of their customers. But of a great many, who, on the strength of their familiar acquaintance with those who de take and pay for the papers make a regular habit of going iter or sending after the papers, we feel a constant complaint, if we do not often express it. Economy, of course, is a commendable thing; but that economy which leads men to sponge-no, pilfer is the word-tli r comaerci-l and other important daily intelligence from their friends, who are no better able to pay for a paper than -themselves, is beneath ecoliomy; it is downright meanrness; a species of small mean ness which is so very small that liberal people, though they have a proper secret contempt for it, torbear noticing it openIy. It is this feeling of the liberal which has permitted the small meanness of newspaper borrowing to spread so largely.-N . Crscent. MARSHAL RADETZKY SELLING HIS BoDY TO A CREDroR.-Gernian papers state that the vete ran Radetzky, who it seems was constantly in debt, sold his body, some time previous to his death, to (one of his creditors, a linen draper of Vienna, named Barkfreider. It appears th..t Barkfreider, who hail acquired an immense for tune from contracts for furnishing goods to the army in Italy, was desirous of attaining a posi tion among the dignitaries of the Court, and determined by a master stroke to accomplish his elevation fromn the plebeian ranks.. Radetz figured extensively in the linendraper's .ks-the latter offered -to cancel tho obliga tions if-the Field Marshal would place his body, after death, at his disposal, to be buried in his country seat at Watzdorf, promising, at t~e same time, tliat the veteranis grave should agreement to that effect. The o 'oldier now slumbers in the grounds of Mr. I arkfrieder, whose country seat has become the Meeda of princes, dukes, barons, counts and generals. The linendraper's scheme has been crowned with success-m-inembers of the imperial family and titled nobles have necesSLrily become his guestq, and he is a member of the "Court circe. A WHoLEsAL.s Wsusia.-A correspondent of the Memphis Appeal thus describes a con nubial convention and demonstration that oc curred recently on the plantation of Captain J. W. Jones, near that city : Mfr. James Hubbard, the faithful and excel lent manager, assisted by his kind and affection ate wife, had every thing in readiness. The I brides, beautifidly attired, were in waiting ; the I bridegrooms, each of ebony color, nine in num ber, made their appearance and were conducted to the proper cottage and the order of the eve. e ning made known. Then with pr-elimninary air rangements, they with each of their aLtendaLnts,. four in numimber, marched foirth to join the bridesr and their attendants, tonder the bluc canopy of heavens, and on a beautiful blue grase plot pre- s pared for the occasion,, for no house could be a. found to aecommodate the croiwd of over one n hundred and fifty. T1hey (the nice couple and ni attendaints) then forumed awl mai-ched in, silence y ini front of the dwelling wvhere had asse~mmbled hi many lfriends oif Capt. Jones and Mr. and Mrs. nm liubbiard to see an unusual sight ; ninte hltn-py 1 Louple to be united in thle holy bonwls of matri- s mnony by Iter. -Join Rosser, servant of Mnijor b Johmn Rosser, of Camden, South Caiolina. h lach coniple, with their attendants, marched o .ip aller the ceremony, by our pious ntmiister-, fi iud lie knelt in prayer, imp~lormng Ileav-en to ec sless each tine of the nine couple. Atid, sir, ki he prayer- seemied to lie breathe~d with fervor it mud devotion for assistance from on High ott htis' ellow-servants. Afier- prayer such kis.ing and tl 'my as was manifested by the -friendIs of each, of L'h en in a few minutes suppier was anniounced; mud permit mec to say, that it. was the most or lerly crowd I have ever seen of blacks, attribu able, no doubt, to no spirits or wine being used in the occasion. After supper, came the dance ct uir the nton-religious ; but ntear by on anothers qutally beautiful grass plot, wver'e found abut ne-half-the religious--in play of' Sister P~hobe ai mnd other kinidred plays. And never have Ilhad a de pleasure of seeing a happier crowd.* TIhey danced and played until necar the break ~ f day we understand, anid to their credit be it th aid, everythtinig passed off wvithiout -any inter- -cr iption ; and this morning, Monday. all ar.: ready er ith cheerful hearts (recounting his fun at the 'edding) to do his day's work. 1 -.. pr A AIuDEN'S FInsT LovE.-Human nature has th a essence more pure-the world kntows nothing Ce Lore chaste-heaven has endowed the mortal dii ~art with no feeling more holy, than the nas.-p mnt affection of a young virgin's soul. The del armest language of the sunny South is too of ild to shadow forth even a faint outline of that noa athusiastic sentimenit. And God has made the yo' thest language poor in that same respect, be- .adi use the depths of hearts that thrill with love's ciotionts are too sacred for the common contem ation.-The musical voice of Love stirs the ni, urce of the sweetest thought within the hutnan ~a east, antd steals into the most profound re- Re, sscs of the soul, touching chords that never nui brated before, and calling intogeneral compan- giv mship delicious hopes till then unknown. ie Yes-the light of a young Maiden's first love ion saks dimly but beautifully upon her as the sil- ine r lustre of a star glimmers through a thickly- 1 yven bower: and the first blush that. matntles eel r cheek, as she feels the primal inmfluence, is on nt and pure as that which a rose icaf -might ma: it upon marble. But how rapidly does that enji ht grow stronger and that flush deeper-until an powerful effulgence of the onie irradiates ev- wvo -corner of her heart and the crimson glow of ridi other suffuses every feature of her counte- erii mce.-Mysteries of London. cer A. man in attempting to hang himself, in hisr sitement forgot to put the rope round his ft ik, and jumped ofi the barrel into a mud hole. of I did..not discover his mistake until he attempt- ties his last kick. WVBA i DRUNKARD MEANS. Some one answers this question after the fo lowing style-we know not the author-and i the absence of that knowledge, appropriate tb article: Lest I should seem to claim too much for th name of God and thus loose all, I will take few illustrations and show that the names of al things desjgnate our notions of those things, an that the name enlarges in proportion as our n< tions enlarge. For example: What is mear by the word "drunkard?' it is a name; an what is implied in this name? To the unthinli ing, it means nothing more than a' worthles, disreputable, despicable wretch. To the rum-se] ler, it means a poor ragged, thirsty customer who brings his pay in small sums ; who is alway thirsty, always profane, and always welcome when he has money. But to his family wha a different meaning the name of "drunkard has! It means a faithless husband, a bruta father, an everlasting shame, and a perpetua (read. And what does this word "drunkard" mean t< the thinking man, the philanthropist, and. the Christian? It means a violater of the laws o health and, decency; an offender against the du ties and charities of home: a neglector and des piser of morality and religion. A blot, a stain and a burden. A living libel on his race. An outcast from the decencies of life ; a poor, pita ble offender, who is destroyiun every fair thing in his body and soul, and wlile bringing blush es and tears to the eyes and cheeks of all about him, is preparing to make his bed in hell. PRUNING FaUrT, SHADE AND FOREST TREES. June and July are good months for removing large limbsfrom fruit and shade trees. The sap is now in a right condition to form new wood. and the healing process commences at once. The foliage also serves as a shade to prevent sun checks in the wounded parts, although where large branches are taken fro~m fruit trees, it is better to coat the exposed portions with the so lution mentioned below. The tools for pruning are: First, a sharp fine ly set saw, nearly pointed at the end, that it may enter between closely growing limbs. Neither should it be a "backed" saw, but like the com mon board saw used by the joiners. Second, a hand-hatchet, like a small axe, easily used by one hand. Third a stont pruning knife; and each of them sharp. Then a step-ladder, easi ly carried in the hand or on the shoulder. Of course, we give no directions as to what particular branches are to be cut off as the trae or-shrub is not before us, presuming also that the pruner understands his business. As to the mode or manner of doing the work, let every branch ba cut close to the body of the tree, or main branch from which it is taken, and the bark pared close and.smooth, for the wound rapidly to heal over. If a choice tree, & solu tion of gum shellac, dissolved in pure alcohol to the consistency of cream, should be laid upon it with a paint brush, to exclude the air and pre vent the exposed wood from an:.eracking. Pruning, in general, is not .half enough ie garded by tree and growers.' A shade tree de ning. Foresttree where it is an obect to; do so, are all -for it; and every fruit row er khows, or ought to know, that he can get no perfect nor full crops, without special attention to its practice; while every florist will tell you that to obtain the finest flowers, and the high. est perfection of bloom, the nicest attention should he given to pruning out and properly ad justing the spray of the plant.-Amrci-u-an Agri. cullurist, June. THE OD M.ttD.-From a book entitled "A WVoman's Thoughts about Women," just pub. ished, we make the following extract, descrip ive of that useful but much abused personage, 'the Old Maid :" " She has not married. Under Heaven her come, her life, her lot, are all of her own making. litter or sweet they have been-it is not ours to neddle with them, but we can any day see their esults. Wide or narrow as her cirele of influ nce appears, she has exercised her power to he uttermost, and for good. Whether great or mall her talents, she has not let one of thc-m ust for want of use. Wh'atever the current of her xistenice may have been, andi in whatever irc-um tanie3' it hams been placed, she has v-oluntarily !iasted no portiaon of it-not a year, not a month, ot a day. Published or unpublishied, this wvo ian's life~ is a goodly chronicle, the title-page of hich you may rend in her quiet countenan-e: er manner, settled, c-heerfuil and at ease ; her tfatiling interest in all things and all people. ou wvill rarely findl shte thinks tmuch ab~out her :lf; she has n-er htadl time for it. And this er lifei--ehronicle, wivieb out of its very ful ness, is taught her that the niore one dloes. the morec l me lima to do-she wvill ntever flourish in your .ee, or the face of Heaven, as something un unmanly virtuons and extr-aordinaury. SheI iows that, after- all, she has simply dotie what was her- dtuty to do. "iBut-and wheni her place is vacant on earth, is will be s.iid of her assuredIly, both lherei, and hierwise-' Shec lut/ done u-hat dhe could.'" Tus WIIoLE Sruar.-A young man named I Lines Powr/was hanged at We1ashington rg- i ntly for murder. Just before mountinig the e alffold lhe bade his hbrother farewell, atnd said:t lemembher what I told you, let' the liqunor n mne." The same counsel has gone fort't from il thousand scaffolds in this country, anid its a hoes arc heard in many a prison cell. We Io ste much breath and ink in speculating upon e cause: of crime and its extraordinary in- d ease of late years.. But the confessions of the a minal tells us the whole truth of the matter. , is rumn that makes demons out of men of orig- h diy good impulses ; it is rumn that is filling our lc sons, feeding thie' gallows, and dimiinishing os (security of life aiid property. Under its 'ae-'I rsed iiinence men who, when sober, would rather than commit a dishonest action, scr'u not to perpetrate forgery, robbery, and mut- ~w -. Of all the propositions for the prevention d< crime we are strongly persuaded that thtere is re se-of equal efficacy -with the simple advice of km ing. Powers-" Let the liquor alonq."-Pil- h lphia Journql.a ESESIDLE BRIDAL.--The .Easton (Pa.) Times es an account of the bridal festivities atten- w it upon the marriage of a daughter of Gov. eder, in which the festivities continued for a di, nber of days, in a series of eiitertainments jvil en by the relations of the bride and her Bc :nds. U pon this departure from the too fash able mode of getting married, and theni leav- ins in the first train, the Times says: I Ve like this old-fashioned, joyous mode of ha mbration, which makes such formidable-war "dull care" aiid melancholy, -because it eks the happiest era of life with the highest thm >yment, and makinig for the anxious editor -inc interestinig local item ; and if we could,' thu dld utterly explode the fashionable, and to us era culous custom of rousing up a sleepy, shiv- or g party before daylight, to perform a hasty mmony at the gray dawn, and shallow a dys tic breakfast, in order to drive out a nervous, -' hted girl by the early train away from~a er's house, as if parents were glad to be rid ter, or the whole affair was one that all par- ) were ashmed of, and could not dispatch too ma before their neig-hbors were asti'r... qUITEIN AND BoN. . The Waco (Texas) - Southerner thus nomi a nates the above true Southern gentlemen for e President and Vice President, and in so doing says : e We hoist this week at the head of our columns a the names of Jno. A. Quitman for President I and M. L. Bonham for Vice President. Solita. I ry and alone these gallant sons of the South - bared their breasts to the storm and dared to t maintain by their voices and their votes, in the I face of an overwhelming majQrity, the honor, 4 the rights and the liberties of the Southeru tiople. Bravely and manfully have they stood y the Constitution-bravely and manfully bat d for the doctrine of non-intervention. They dlon6 of all our members of Congress could neither be bought, frightened, or fooled into a betrayal of Southern Rights. To them all honor is due. We do believe that the good and the true, the noble and the brave, throughout the length and breadth of the South wits one voice and one accord, will ratify and sustain the disinterested and manly course of John A. Quit. man of Mississippi, and M. L. Bonham of South Carolina. " Corrupt must the heart be that would not be friend them. And moveless may the arm be that would not defend them " - A PRINTEI's TRIBUTE.-Athong the other pleasing associations cunected with laying the corner stone of the Calhoun Monument, is one that will be grateful to the feelings of all South Carolina printers. It is this: Mr. J. Geter Lynch, who is a native of this State, and was once a drummer boy in our rggular army daring the Florida campaign, afterwards an apprentice in the Charleston Mercury office during the-first .year of its commencement under that name, more recently and for many years a journeyman printer in this same office, and now a printer in the Charleston News office,. desired to express his feelings of interest in the Calhoun Monu. ment celebration, and acordingly presented the ' following articles, which were accepted and placed in the corner stone of the monument'on' the 28th inst.: A Text Book of Calhoun, a work complied by *Mr. Lynch, embracing all the important public and personal opinions expressed on the life and character of John C. Calhoun. A list of all the Masonic Lodges that con. tributed to the fund for the purchase of Mount Vernon. The list of the birth-days of all great Ameri cans. from Gas. Washington to Col. Benton. Papers and documents bearing the titles and names of the different Cabinets of the General Government, from the inauguration of Wash ington to this period. The last speech of. J. C. Calhoun, delivered in the U. S. Senate .on the 4th March, 1850. Mr. Lyseh is fell,and favorably known to our citizens.-Charleston Mercury. THE WTrrs'SLAYs or Etr!AND. The Lon. don Times says the young millihers.. and dress. makers of tli city ;are condiemaes to siteen :oi ei UeaI!?s1't:?f j J isoarried on =ni'c ,e veflbla: where their frtnesam ke itaa s t 'thetieas - until their eyes ache ald their limbs refuse to perform their duty. They have a short painful life and early grave. In a recent speech, Lord Shaftesbury said that many of these young women had been trained gently and tenderly in happy homes, possessi.g all the virtues and ten. derness that belong to the female sex, and reh. dered, by those very characteristics more obedi ent, more unmurmuring ; inure slavishly subject to the authority and tyranny of those who are put over them. His Lordship adds that they have no alternative between submission and the street door, and then asks, " Is the condition of such a young woman one bit better than the most wretched slave in the Southern States of America?'. THE TEXAS FREE NEGRO L..-The last leg islature of Texas having passed an'act allowing free persons of color in that State, of their own tree will, to select masters and become slaves, some of the free black are availing themselves of its beneficient provisions. A Bastrop corres pondent of the New Orleans Delta reports the' ase of "William, a. free man of African de. scent," who filed his petition, and was, on the Tth instant, allowed to choose his master. The ipplic-ant was an intdlligent man, wvho had been North and seen the true condition of the free iegroes of thait region; his uge is about thirty rears, and he has a good characte-r for honesty Lnd industry. Trhe p~residing juilge was careful o institute a searching examination to as ecrtain whether any undue influence had eeni used to induce the peCtitio~ner to manke is applicaution, and finding that it was his vol iatary nnd deliberate act, bound him over for ite to a good master. In the language of the )elta s correspomndent, William "preferred, a, outhern gentlemian f r a master to a northern tholi~tinisLt fr a compni on."-Exchange. AYER's CtHERRYa Paar.ui n..-We see by the* iourt Rlec.,rl that the two Counterfeiters,' ihite, of Suffalo, andl Lawrence-of Epping, N. [., have been placed under ten thousanid dolla onds, each, for making and selling, imitations f Ayer's Cherry Peetoral. This is' right. If ie Law should protect men from imposition at l1it should certainly protect them from being nposed upont by a worthless counterfeit of such medicine as Ayer's Cherry Pectoral. WVe can sly complain that the punishment is not half iough. The villain, who would for paltry gain, dliberately trifle with' thme health of his fellow an;.by taking from their lips, the cup of hope, lien they are sinking and substitutinig a false yod-an utter delusion,, should be punished at at as severely as he who counterfeits the coin his country.-Green .'Co. Banner, Carroliton, kinois. A gentleman from Bolitar, Tennessee, last ek saw a nondescript sort or article floating iwn the Mississippi, near his plantation. fT sembled a miniature Noah's ark with the hull neked off. Curiosity led him to board it, when *was asstonished -to finthimself in the store of Friend fifty-tuites'up the river. The contei~ts re not greatly injured. He tied the store to Sshore,: afhd started off to let his friend know ere he might find his place of business. TALLt PRcHERiSb-There was i the Metho t Episcopal Conference, in session at Nassh-. le, Tennessee,. some pretty tall preachers: the v. .i r. Young, of Missouri, (i feet 8 inches; v. Mr. Kelley, of -South Carolina, 6 feet 6 hes ; Rev. Mr. Alexander, of Texas, 6 feet nehes; and the Rev. Dr. Mitchell, of Ala. na, 6 feet 4j inhes., A noble saying is recorded of a member of British House of Commons, iwho,- -by his tustry and perseverance, had won his way, to ~t high position. A -proud scion of aristo cy one day taunted him with his hunible mi, saying-. 'I remember when you blacked my father's Well, sir," was the noble response,. " did I .do itwell ?" 3e courteous. Remnember that bad inanners ke bad morals. A kin'd no is often more eeablo than anm uncourteoos yae.