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- - - # - *. - -- - * -6 -- -- -- --W .* - - -21 A 6 - - - i-c ~- - -- 6--...--*--:.--:-- ----- ---- e~onn EDGEFIELD, S.) 0., FEBRUARY 9, 1859. Trip ligiy over trouble, Trip lghtly over wrong; We oul+ ake grief double By d lhing on it long. Why clsp woo's hand so tightly? Whyiigh o'er blossoms dead? Why elg to forms unsightly? Whyuot peek joy Instead ? Trip lightly over sorrow, Though this day may be dark, The suilmay shine to-morrow, And &ily sing the lark; Fair ho+e has not departed, ThouShfeason may have fled, Then never be down hearted, But look for joy instead. RATHER ENTRUSIASTIC. The following story is acknowledged to be "good'un" but we believe it has not found il way into the papers to any great extent. A few years since, some roguish boys in. town not a thousand miles from the capital New -mpehire, rsuadn&JeWOcO N as be was generally called, " Joe," to atte Sunday School. Joe was an over-grown, .wittedppfane lad; and the.boys, ant' considerable fun; but the various questions pounded to him were so geadiy and corr answered that no one could for a moment p pose that he was not versed in theological 1 . Joe was duly ushered in and placed on a t tee in front of one on which his friends ere seated, and recitation commenced. The teachers first questioned the cil .n their regular lessons and afterwards turr to Joe. " My, friend, who made the world in habit 1" "Eh" aid Joe, turning up his eyes e an expiring calf. " Who made the word we inhabit 7" Just as he was probably about togivethe an swer, one of the boys seated behind 'him, in serted a pin in his (Joe's) pants. ab' t nine inches below the ornamental butto.j on his coat.: '. " God Almighty !" answered Joe '~J eleva ted tone, at the same time rising to hi~ fet. " That is correct," replied the teach , "hut It is not necessary that you should ii in an swering; a sitting posture is just as w ." Joe was seated and the catechism pr eded. " Whd died to save the world " The pin was again inserted, and Joe replied " JesseCkrist I" in a louder tone th before, againrrising from his seat. ":Thetis also correct; but don't ni ifest so michdearling; do be a lhttle more rved in your mianner," said the teacher in an ex ala ting tomse. After Joe had calmed down the ex ination 4 htwill bA the doom of all wicked men?"" uadath. subject now up for consideration, and, s the pin was again "stuck in," Joe thundered out,-with a still higher elevation of his body, ""Heg-an4 Damnation 2" "My young friend," said the instructor, "you gave the true answers to all the questions, but while you are here we wish you to be more mild in your words. Do, if you can, restrain your enthusiasm, and give a less extended scope to your feelings." JUDGING FROM APPEARANcK.-We have a good voucher for the following item: Not long since, while Rev. Mr. Mc--, a Presbyterian minister, was 'n the neighborhood of Bull's Gap, visiting his fI ends, he was over taken one day by an old gentleman, who seem ed to be quite inquisitive. After riding along some time together, the stranger remarked: "Mby friend, I believe I can guess your occa. pation." " Perhaps so," re'ponded Rey, Mafc. U From appearances, I think you're a presacher - Presbyterian preacher." "You are ri;,ht, 'said the Rev.; " but how do you tell ?I" "Sir, by the tie of your neck-cloth, and the cut of your coat, togethier with the fine horse you ride ; any body can tell that." After a while the stranger rode a little in ad vance of the Rev., when the latter, not to be -outdone'by his oompanion, exclaimed : "Sir, I believe I can guess what you follow for a living." "-I guess you can't," said the stranger, rein ing up'.. "Yes, sir, I can; you are a preacher, too ; a -Hard-Shell Baptist p~reacher." "Rleally, you surprise me. It is true-but how do you tell ?" "Why, sir from appearances, and from -the sign yu carry in your pocket," pointing to a quart bottle, with a corn-cob stopper, wbi-h was sticking about half way out of his over coat pocket. The stranger had business in another direc tion, which he left to attend to immediately. " CAPPING TH E C I.:E A."-A certain political speaker was addressing a large audience in' Vir 'nie, .and descanting vehemenitly upon the nsus.l Fourth of July *.heme., whie his eye fell u en ajittle G*erman'Jew, a peddler of ready made clothing, who seemed to be. very much impressed with the arguments .of the orator, grediy swallowing up every thing he uttered. 'man too good an opportunity not to make the most o1, and looking the little peddler full in the eye, he exclaimed: "Furriner, didn't you come to this countr7 to escape from tyrannical, down-trodden and oppressed Europe ? Didn't you flee to these happy shores to live in a land of freedom, where the great rights of tiberty is guaranteed to all? Didn't you furriner ?" lie paused for a reply, when the little peddler squeaked out "No, sir; I comes to dis country to sell sheap ready-nlade clothes." The astonishment of the orater, the shouts and roars of the multitude, cannot be described. The speech was finished. PL.ASANT WORDS.-1. They don't cost much. They come bubbling tip in a good natured heart, like the freely gushing waters of a fountain. It is as easy to speak them as it is to breathe. They come forth as naturally and easily from the lips of kindness, as the rays from the sun. There is no pains-taking about the matter. These kind words leap forth of themselves, and delight to fly away in every direction on their errands of love. 2. They make the man happier that uses them. They re-act upon him. Hot words make the user's wrath hotter. So'loving words make love glow the warmer in the bosom. They are fuel to the sacred flame. Loving words help to make a more and more lovin ea the soul. 3. Kind and pleasant words touch other peo pie's hearts and make them kind. They fall like flakes ofolre on the cold and selfish hearts of others-nit to scorch, but to melt-not to irritate but subdue and shame people'i cold. ness and udkindness of them. Under such words grim vissages relax, their icy outlines are dissolved, and the soul that had been frozen to the core, gets thawed out; and he who had the gloomy December on his vissage, is not long in getting a genial June in place of it. 4. Pleasant words begat other words like themselves in other people. We have been in a crowded omnibus. A few snappish, sulky words have multiplied their species, till most of the travellers have taken share in the same stock. But a genial soul enters. His kind words get wings. They produce an epidemic. Grow ler number one and scowler number two, change voice and visage. The magic of a few kind words has done wonders. Ill nature has jumped out of the coach, and is off for parts unknown; and good nature keeps all things in excellent trim for the rest of the trip. So sermonizes the Boston Traveller in four sections. A QuaFRa CoaxuataE.-Old Jacob J., was a shrewd Quaker merchant in Burlington, N. J.. ad, like all shrewd men, was often a little too smart for himself. An old Quaker lady of Bris tol, Pennsylvania, just over the river, bought some goods-at Jacob's store, when he was ab *nt, and in crossing the river on her way home ahe met him aboard the boat, and, as w a usual frith him upon such occasions, he imm iately 1RE e ahd tiied it to see what she had been lftying. "Oh, now," said he, "how much a ard did yoa give fur thatand thatr, and that, ' taking up the s-everal pieces of goods. She told the price without, however, saying where she had got them. "I could lmve sold u ou those goods for so much a yard," nentioniing a price a great deal lower than she had paid. "Y on know, I. :cSn undersell every body in the place ; and so le went on criticising and undervaluing the 'goods till the boat reached Bristol,'. when he was invited to go to the old lady's store, and when the goods were spread out on the counter, and Jacob Was asked to examine the goods again, and say the price which he would have sold at per yard, the old lady, meanwhile taking a memorandum. She then went to the desk and made out a bill of the difference between what she had paid and the price he told her; then coming up to him, said: "Now, Jacob, thee is sure thee could have sold those goods at the price thee mentioned?' " Oh, now, yes," says he. "Well then, the young man must have made amistake; for I bought the goods fronm thy store, and of course, under the circumstances. Ithee can have no objection to refund me the dfference." Jacob being thus cornered. could, of course, t refuse-as there were several persons pre t who had heard his assertions. How -rO TELL. A L~~wyR.-A few days sinCe gntleman, being beyond the limits of his elhborhood, inquired of a pert negro if the - he was traveling led to a certain place. ud'ee gave the required information, but seem rvee conludedi T e~ri, and he following dialogue ensued: "My name is-, and as to the business I olow, if 'you are at all smart, you can guess that from my appearance-can't you tell that I am a timber cutter ?" "No, boss, you no timber cutter." " An overseer, then '' " No, sir, you no look like one." " What say you to my being a doctor ?" "Don't think so, boss, dey ride in sulky." " Well, how do you think I will do for a preacher ?" " I sorter 'spects you is dat, sir." " Pshaw, Cuffee, you are a greater fool than I took you for-don't I look more like a lawyer than anything else ?" "Ni',sir-ree, lBob, you don't dat." " Why, Cufie?" " Why, now you see, boss, I's been ridin' wid o for a mile,, and you haint euned any, and on know lawyers uhraiys cusses." i Toxt strikes D:ck over the shoulders with a sttan as big as your little finger. A lawyer, his indictment, would tell the story as ,llowt " And that whereas the said Thomaq, at thme ~dlace, on the yeoir andI day aforesaid, in and ni he body of the said Richard, agairitthe ple of the State of Pennsylvania, and its iaity, did make a most violent assault, and ~icted a great many, and divers blows, kicks, (i, thumps bumps, contusions, gashes, hurts, n g 5.damage,.andl injuries; in and upon the -nck breast, stomach, hips, knees, shins es, poles, clubs, logs of wvood, stones, daggers, dfsk, swords pistols, cutlasses, bludgeoe, blun debuses, and boarding pikes, then and there ldjn the hainds, fi~ts, clawys, and clutb~hes of hib,the said Thomas ?" io-runis lovr.-Some of our readers may re lleet a thrillng balladl which was writteni .n t death of a woman who perished in the snmow d ts of the~ Green Mounotainus or Vermont. That er bore an inmfant on her bosom, and when t storm waxedl loud and furious, true to a n er's love~, rent her grments and rwrapped t nmarounid her babe. '1he nornmg fond her a 'irnedl corp4e, but her habe survied. TIhe b~ grew to mianhoodi, and become the Speaker o be Ohio Senate. [low thrilling must be, lii ughts of that mother, if he be a true, large hi man. How deep a mother'a love ! How m yamother is there who would die for her: .I Le a an when far away from home, on the land or on the sea, when the eye of no mother is upon them, remember her love and be restrain ed by it from entering the path o' vice. Let them say nothing, do nothing, which a mother would not approve, and they will never bring her gray hairs with sorrow to the grave. SAD CASE--A WOMAN WRONGED.-On Fri day last, a neatly dressed and beautiful lady, evidently a stranger in this city, called at the office of Mayor McGavock, and requested a pri vate conference with that gentleman. Comply ing with her request, the Mayor was acquainted with the truly melancholy part of her history, which led her to call upon him for advice and assistance. Through tears, 'such as only the broken-hearted could weep, she- info:med him that she lately arrived here from Charleston, coming hither at the instigation of a man who had wooed and won her affections, and then by the artifices, usually employed by the smooth tongued seducer, wrought her ruin. She stated that he had pledged himself to meet her in Nashville and repair so far as possible-by mar riage-the great wrong he had done her. Since her arrival here, she had borne her misery pa tiently and quietly, making diligent search and inquiry for himnshe had loved to her ruin. But she had searched in vain, and in her dire ex tremity, betrayed, penniless and alone, had de termined to unburthen to some b-ind-hearted er t.he story of ,er wrongsandsa db niend Maydr, she seesad quite calm an to relate with entire composure her sad griev: arces was more than her woman's heart would allow her to do. Perceiving her unhappy em arrasmment, Mayor McG. kindly suggested that he should furnish her fodging at a hotel, and the next day advise with her as to what was best to be done. She assented and was con veyed to a hotel. Next day the Mayor called on her, according to pronise, but was p:ined to find her sadly changed from what she was even Dn the previous day. Her sorrows had pressed too heat-ily upon her-her reasen was dethroned, nd a wild laugh and incoherent expressions told but too plainly how terrible was the ordeal through which she had passed. At the sugges tion of the Mayor she was yesterday taken to the Lunatic Asylum. The name of the unfor tunate woman is Caroline Walters, and we learn she is a resident of Charleston, South Carolina. -Nashville (Tenn.) Gazette. A friend has a negro, Jack is the name he bears, who not long since joined the Methodist Curch. Well, Jack seemed to be very devout -he would often leave his work in the day time, and stepping off in a good shady place, would there pray to his heart's content. And with all his praying, he never seemed to think his prayers would avail him much unfess he wound up with amen. There was rather a mischievouts bull in the neighborhood that seemed to delight in having uvery person fraid of him, and making them eel it whrne r he met them. Jack one morn ing went utit prfyby the tide 6f an old clay root, and here ie was goinon at a great rate, and as he mad . great motions with his head ind-hands; as nkgrot..rayiu are wontfo do, Aid Spot came nearly upon Jack before lie seen him, and Jack having his eyes closed, of course he did not see in4 boosrnmed t enemy. Old Spot 4eeiig .ack's um-,tins, cneu.1ni~lol Jack was for light, and he conmmenced preparing likewise: he was pawing the ground considerably, and when he brought the first bellow, you may well imagine Jack did not stay in his bended position long, but jumping up before lie had time to say amen, went with all his might for a high fence not far ditant. Some go a long ways to get a horn, but he heeled it, to avoid a couple of horag. After jinl-ing the fence and seeing him elf all right and safe, he turned around to old Spot, who was pawing at a terrible rate, and, very indignantly, says Jack: & Now, you d-n ld spotted varmint, all dot prar hab to be pray ober agip."-Sehna (Ala.) Sentinel. A FI:arFt ArrAnrro.-..The editor of the Tiffin Advertiser says that Mrs. J-.the widow of a late subscriber to the A dvertiser in an ad joining township, was recently awakened from a sound sleep at midinight, when she distinctly heard an apparition advancing towards her, uin til it finally reached her bed. A sense of suflo cation deprived her of all her power to scream aloud. She describes her blood as retreating with icy chillness to her heart from the body, when she recognized in the intruding spirit her deceased husband. The countenance of her be loved in life wore not it~s once benevolent as pct; the eyes which once beamed with affec tion upon her, were now fixed in stern rerard uon the tremmbling woman. Arouer " Charles, why do you haunt me ? Why do fou come again !" " Jessie," said he, slowly waiving in his hand a small roll of paper, " Jessie, pay the account [ owed to the Advertiser, and let mue rest in peace." Mrs. J. has fulfilled his desire, and is now noit earful of any future visits from the shadowy land. OnJY Osu O'UCoc.-.Mr.--, coming home late one night from "mneeting," wvas met at the door by his wife. "Pretty time of night, Mr. --, for you to come home-pretty time, three o'clock in the morning; you, a respectable man in the comnmu. nity, and the fattlher of a family." "'Taiint three-.it's only one, I heard it strike. Council always sits till one o'clock." "My soul ! Mr. .--.. you're drnik ; .ns true as Pl'ahtre, you're drunk. It's three ini the ". ..I Mv 3r<, .--, it's mone. I hernr.I it strike oe ats I carnei runid the cometil- ffli Or thir Ne--a W -r v i W - hr:-We snne one askedl oti E ither Scott, *t' Kentucky, Swhy do you e-ritiae to potb, when yan have coniaeted hutt one shmner in twenty years?" " hlave I converted one?" said lhe. "Yes," re plied the other. " Then," 'said the good mani, 'here's for twenty years niore; I may convert two." And thme faithful old soldier toiled on to the epd in his Master's work. A Kxowmxc Doc.-A somewhateurious exans ni of intelligence in a dog is stated to have oce:ar er a few days ago at T'oulous". Sonie imischaeaus boys fastened a tin kettle to his tail, and the p.oor anial in great terror ran otf, closely piirsued bv them. .In spite of his terrors, the dog, it was noticed, looked in a peeniiair way at the house lie passed, as it seekinmg for shelter ini one of~ them, and at last seeing one in which wvas the office of the comisary of puolice, he rushed iuito it, en tered the olice, and qjunetly lay down, as if cr taia of obtaning protection:. If the local newspa pers are to be buelieved, the reason why the dog selected the ohlice of the commissary in preference to any other wias thamt his mistress, an old and soewhat eccentric lady, having a few days be fore been persecuted by the same boys, went to the commissary and sought anid obtained his protection. Thme dog, who was with her at the time, remembered the local journals remark, the ef feet produced, and in his turn took advantage of it.-Gaignani. GATJIERIMG8. ! "W rAT is the matter, Julia, you loot as sorrowful as a sick lapidog !" "0O, don't perplex me, that's a dear ! my grie is too great for utterance. I've had such ai awful vision! I actually dreamed that Roa Smith had got a new silk dress." Zg47 Tum editor -of the New Orleans Pica yune, in describing the launch of a grand steam boat, says, "She dipped into the waves as gracefully a! the Widow Green could make a courtsey." - Z A manager, not particularly erudite refused an original play, recently, on the groun that the language wa4 " too much like Shaks. peare." Si " Turr motion is out of order," as tlhe chairman of a political meet ing said when ht saw a ruffian raise hisarin to throw a rotten egg, ' IT is proposed to pay the iembers U1 the British Parliament '.5,(K eaelh, per auintim, and no mileage. E' A FrLLOW who chopped off his hand, th other day, while cu-ting wood, sent, to an apothecary for a remedy fur "chopped hands.' E ' " Ar ! is it possible that you are still alive ?" said a fellow, pn -meeting unexpectedly one whour.he -had yogsay injoe&l.* "Yes, and :A rr.-We find in an exchg pierh-e statement that seventy-two white females were married to black men in Masiachusetts last year! If this be so, it. is carrying out the abolition doctrine to practical results. E QuicK.-The " boys" having in charge a fire steat-engine in Louivifle, Ky., I lie other day, on a wager, harne.sed and hitched up the lor-es to the engine and hose carriage in 1 min ute and 1.5 secunds. Zr A Japanese nobleman, upon being shown a fashion plate in an American magazine, was much startled and exclaimed: " How very fat your women are. Z,'' ONE OF TIE AlIsERItn OF IIVblAN JIF. -Being beaten in argument, and afterwarda thinking of some haipy. retort.or very appro priate joke, which would have smashed your ad versary to smithereens. - L : Dean Swift, heariog (f a carpenter falling through the scaffolding of a house which he was engaged' in repairing, dryly remarked that he liked to see a machanic go through lii work promptly. Z Tua monument to Ethan Allen, at Burlington, Vt., is completed. It is forty feet high. E A pedestrian traveling in Treland, met a man and asked him rath guilly, why the miles were so plagued long, 'SIen the lliberniar replied: " You see, yer hounr the roads are nol ll goodco6ditidri,so wigive' -- god measure. , V'a-1m.v all gather 1 around a cosy fire. Affectionate little d r with ear ache, it deep revt:rie. " 5o1thm . she, "t iy ear have gone to where iave never been! " Where to. my child ?" asked the fond mother "To achinif (Aiken,) was her reply. Mothei looks with profound astonishu-nt at her pre cocious daughter. E ition0l-r lIAr.1; did not lose his powe or retort even in madness. A hypocritical con doler with his misfortunes once visited him ir the inad-house, and said, in a whining tone I What brought you here, Mr. Hall' Hal significantly touched his brow with his finger and replied, " What'll never bring you, sir-tot inuch brain.". g Tu E Western New York papers recor' the marriage, at Plattsville, on the 10th inst, a V, P. M. or John Bivens and Miss M. A. Turk and in the same issue announce the death o the bride at 1. o'clock on the same evening, u hemourrhag'e of the lung:'. E' Tu;; Senate of New Yoi '< las pissed bill! prohibiting the admuissiEn of .boys in the New York Theatres when unacconmpanied. Er NsarLY all the sulcides in this countr are by foreigners. Yankees rarely, if ever, mnaki away with themselves; for nearly every on thinks he has a chance of becoming President and at any rate, his curiosity prompts him t live on, just to see what he will come to. rg' Doc~s of every kind, setters, pointer bulls, Newfoundlands, muastitt-', and terriers, ar all lap dogs-when. they are drinking. that the total of the inhabitants is about on hundred and eighty thousand three hundret and fty-seven-a tigure at about which the city has remained for the last two hundlred anc fitty years. E' A QU~AKRa lately popped the questioe to a fir Quakeress, thus: "Hum--yea, an< verily, Penelope, the spirit urgeth and muovetl me wonderfully, to beseech thee to cleave uint< me, flesh of my flesh, and bone of nmy bone ? " Hum-truly, truly, Obediah, thou hast wiselj said, and inasmuch as it is not good to be alone I will sojourn with thee !" gr Capt. John Travis, the great pistol shoi has gone to Huntsville, Ala., to display his skil in the use of that weapon. lie proposes, at th place namedi, among other exploits, to shoot at half dollar ini the hands of a boy who travel with him. g Ocr. "lien expreaeigret uneainte oi accottnt eef the authrr tf [me Miol~wing ine: adsug- ~'gest, that our .\lsrqtiall lbe int ruetldt keep an eye Onm him, SA dest~tnetive durl( li i i. i'l 144' phburewell to cier.y phear, Thon n~l'ipo my weeping I. Andl Iku my throe rtronm car te car." g' " Is this your brother, Pat ?" " Y is, sur." " Is he not older than you ?" " No, indade, stur, he's not." * " Well, then, he is younger ?". . "Noy inhehnot her one or tl other !" "kFaix, then, be's nayther." " Oh! then you are twins ?" "mIdade, now, and how did you know it Tim: iemr sa n's 1i sOI.UTI oN.* " Too muech drinking has causeed mne pain, I'll never book at a glass again." H le kept hirs weird and never iedI, Anid yet by drinking wine be died. " Heow could he do it ?" Only think : Whey, he shtut his eyes when, he took a drin S" How is it," said a man to his neig~hb, "-that parson W--, the laziest man livin writes these interminable long sermons?'' "Whby," said the other, "lie probably gets writing and is too lazy .to stop." g g Sutrinsmy was once asked by a you aspirant fur literary fame, what he should e to make him think. The joker recommended re eprwhich the aspirant swallowed, ii mmdaeythought--of water. that hideous thing, as it seems-io~ inffrof all parties, a sectional man. I stand here a south ern mini, and a Representative, in part, of a s ivereign Southern State. That South, that State, are of the weaker section, and we cannot bit. lie sectional, because we must be united, in order to maintain ourselves. Sir, I do not elasa myself in the great national democratic ranks. I will act with the democratic party faithfully, honestly, truly, and heartily, where I can do so conscientionsly and consistenly with the rights and honor of my State and section. When they call on me to depart one iota, the half of a hair's breadth from that course, I turn my back upon them and leave them forever. Yes, sir, I am' willing to avow myself a sectioial man. T cone here to represent, in part, the State of South Carolina, and her rights and interests are first in my estinatig~p and foremost in my heart at all times. I, sir, am not prepared to advocate the re opening of the slave trade, but I am prepared t) advocate with all my mind and strength, tc sweeping away fron our statute-book, of laws which stamp the people of my section aspirates, a-id put a stigma upon their institutions. It is impossible to escape the inevitable logic-the logic which the senior member from Ohio-[Mr. Giddings.] I believe, uses; if the slave trade be now piracy, it. :always was piracy; if the slave 'ie: ~galnst morality an<Lrew Igida it alway wtif dtl iitestlistfb would hang to-day, stand on the same footing with my forefathers, who employed and encour aged their predecesors. I'will never consent, if I can possibly help it, to allow' this stigma to remain, which dcgrades and puts a slur upon the people of my part of the Confederacy. I believe, Mr.,Chairman, that these are questions that ought to be left, as gentlemen havesaid, to time; and to be controlled, moreover,. by the sovereign States themselves. I have very grave and serious doubts about the constutionality of the laws for the suppres-ion of the slave traole. i f have very grave and -serious doubts whether the constitutional power " to define and puniih Iiraey" gives Comgress the right to say than anything else shall be piracy than what the laws of nations had previously made so; and the word "define," I think it may be very forcibly argued, was only intended to do away fur the future wilb ambiguity, as to the precise delim tioa of piracy, as commonly but perhaps smine what vaguely understood at the time of the adoption of our Federal Constitution. I say, sir, that I am not prepared to advocate the re-opLning of the slave trade. I do not know that I will ever come to that concin.ion.. IL is a purely economical, and not a moral or religions question. If England and France con tinue covertly to carry it on, we may be forced, in self defence, to do the same thing; and, whether you call it the " coolie system," or the "involuntary emigrati6n system," I, as one bred and reared where slavery is in full vigor and thoronahly ozzanized, know that omur s'.tcmn is infinitely inure humane, infinitely iore gentle, infinitely more Christian, than the coolie system ever can be. [Here the hammer fell.l Mr. SaWa i. T an oppose;1 to the amend ineut as I am olpo.sed to the whole section .and I propose.to giVe by reason., for it. [ Mlok upon the law for the suppression of the slave trade as umischievous and wrong. While I do not pre tend t coinmit myse"in reference to the policy of the slave !--le it:; affecting the States whose interests wouid be touched by it, I am opposed to the whole law, because I think it wrong, and a violation of the constitution. The act suppressing the slave trade actually sub jects the Iruperty of citizens to forfeiture forever. if gentlemen look at the cons-itution, they viil find that there is no crime known t it, except treason, fur which a mian's property can be fo: feited, and then only for his life. And yet we are appropriating.money here to carry out a law which fIorleits the property %f citizens forever, an i deprives theti und their children of it: there hy visiting the sins of the father {if it le a sin] on the elildren. I e constituion of the. United Stafe4 never regairdedl the slave trade as piay A limitation was pitt in the conistittutiotn, upl to 180.3, against interftece with the slave trade, and Conigress lie. tually made the t ade legal by permitti y a capi tatit'n tax of tent dollars per head to lie aissessed on the importation of tnegroes into this country. lDesides that, Congress has tn ade that a crime, ptunishmemnt b~y death, which was legali:.ed by this very capitation elaunt. Now.'let us reverse this. Suppose we were to call otn Congress to pass a law authorizing the Pre Ssident of the United States to employ a thousand m narshmals, anil to pay thtem S.A00,000 to go anid ar rest poorie --ho interfere with slaves in the South howl wotuld be got up here for thus tak'tg montey ouit of the treasury? Your Navy is a police on te sea to interfere w'th people, anid to arrest them in the nbsence of any aflidavit, by which alone, uinder the euonstitution, yon can arrest a party for crime in this country. Is it niot true that a man cannot be arrested on land unless there be somne specific chmarge made agaitnst himt untder oath? And yet, when you get to thme high sena, yottr Navy is to be utsed as a po lice to intterfere with the businmess of citizens, and to arrest them for a iErime which is said to be piracy. I say that that does strike at the inistitu tuin of slacvery at the Sonith. I want to have that law repealed. I want to leaye this matter to be settled by the States as a domestic question. I doubt whether, so fmtr as my State (Georgia) is concernied, she would he benefitted by the foreignt slave trade, becautse I thitnk she has at ptresenlt a sitticietnt supl of labor. Bu ltt there tire otiher St atesi that tmty udiffer from nta in thatm respect ; fnr itI at t ihe St Me ofFTx na inmi wat aUtheStats i hav th rritt! thme slavnc irade',tI i tv Wh. I. dic nia tramie any moinre piracy-is it tany morec pirneyv to inke' a negoto the cmoast of A frica andmi rinr hmiim to : Moutthern Ptate thanit it is to like hitm nwnyt fromn : Sotithernt State and run himt olY to the Nor th ? W'hy tnot pat bo~t~h orn an equality ? Illerec thte htamme fell.| T''Ihe gntecstionf was taken on Mr. B~onhm'.m ,amendment, and it was rejected. ' iu Sursm Tt .A:. Wlle Hav n mdent of thme Say fimah 7epubican says: ~The A frican slave trade continues to prosper, nas heretofore. Recently the brig Ellen landed a cargo of A frican.9, of~ about nine hundred itn ?number, only fty.tive of whom were captured eon b~oard -one of 'Marti's fishing vessels. The lEllen was abandoned aground in the " Canal e *los Barcos."~ nt which place three deal h l'lies of her slave cargo were found, anid four or five othters were savee: te remnainduer r..achteid the pejlantationis. Annther cargo of~ upwards of n thonsantd, were landed tabout. the middle of last 2month in the district of~ San Juan de los Remne dteios, to the great joy of the sngar grineh'rs. and~ denrie~ichmet ioI'the stavers and their ass4ociat6e. ifMr. Urawford, British ('insul Genmeral, mutsi feel qjuite ugly at these " goings ont," but priohnt bly the Spanish amuthorities were consoled fo th'ese flagrant breaches of' the treaty with Etiglfand thave this instatnt beeni told -by a friend whtoseinifortmationt I believe to be reliable, thatar dorder will so ibe issn.l for all vessels bringing eC cargoes to this Islandt, to have their mantifest Ccertified by the Spanish consul at the port fron .u whih they sail. I00BRESSONA DEBATE. Remarks of Messrs. Km-r-r, Wn.uM and Mr.rs of South Carolina, aid Mr. S.:waIn, of Geor r gia, in the House of Itepresentatives at Wash inglon, January 20, 1859. the Consular and Dipromatic Bill being nider consideration. Ma. KrrT. Mr. Chairman, I do not think, with the gentleman from Virginia [Mr. Millsun,I that any one on this side of tbe House is in i tlnenced by any apprehension that this appro. priation reflects upon the institution of slavery, by uniting slavery and the slave trade. We do it oltject to $45,000 out of the $75;(00 ap propriated in this clause of the bill, bee iuse ithat amount is pledged as bounty by existing law; but we object to the remaining $30,000 because there is no color of law for it. We pro test against this government, full-mounted upon the anti-slavery sentiment, riding agaiist and riding over and riding down the restrietions of law. What authority had tho President for re eiving the negroes captured on board the Recho, and sending thMn to Africa? lie has only the authority, which is given by the second section of the act of 1819, in relation to the slave trade. It enacts: " That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby, authorized to make such reg ulations and arrangements as he may deem ex pedient for -% -saitekeyifig ~ M- teost l -United S igs o isucl Ps, ulattos,.or!persona of color, as may be so delivered and brought within their jurisdiction; and to appoint a proper person or persons, residing upon the coast of Africa, as agent or agent-, for receiving the negroes, mu luttos, or persons of color, delivered from on board vessels seized in the prosecution of the slave trade, by commanders of the United States armed vessels." Now, sir, under this section the President is empowered to make provision for the "sae keeping and support" of the captured negroes ithia the liimis i' the United etates, and for their " removal" beyond such limits. Beyond the limits of the United States, he is only ema powered to appoint an agent or agents to 1: re ceive" the negroes, &c.; and when such appoint ment and the delivery of the negroes are made, his power.is exhausted. There is no power given to convert the government into a huge grocery, to dole out provisions to captured ne groes ou the coast of Africa. The appropriation we object to, is the $30,000 for supporting and educating these Africans which have been de livered in Liberia. The lack of power seemed to be appreciated by the gentleman fron Ohio [Mr. Nichols.] yes terday, and he sought to eke it out by an ap peal to humanity and civilization. Sir, hunmani ty and civilizition are inlissolubly intertwined, and their initial point is in slavery, the or dinance of (od which commands that our bread shall be eaten in the sweat of our brow. Physi cal civilization must precede mental - and the former can only be achieved through labor and toil. Will these African.s.be subjected to this indi'pen~sble training ? JNo,- sir, -thy will merely Lbp encouraged in indolence and lethargy. The President has no right to usurp power on philosophical or sentimental abstractions; noi have %. ich .righi but if we dil att otn. such abstractions, a sounder and tuore rolu.-t hunani ty would have kept thema here, where they could have.qeen properly educated and elevated through the only ordeal whieh educates anl elevates a people. We protest then, against that portion of this appropriation which applice to the support in Liberia, of the negroes whici ifwere captured on board the Echo. The appropriation is. too, to a great extent, for the bupport of the Colonization Society. This concern has become not much mere than i i rickety stipendiary of the government. It sprang up in almos .- single night, under the hot and sickly vapors of a morbid sentimentali ty, and is now dying out, amid the scorn ol some and the indifference of others. Outside of the prostituted charities of the government f it is now, I believe, mainly supported by ohi f maids, whose tender bosois-tender througl age-are ilooded with romantic kindness, ant dilapidated politicians who are annually stimnu lated by doses of maudlin humanity. I will not consent that the restrictions of law shall bi overridden for the beneftt of this humnanitariat f concern. a Mr. Chairman, it has been said on the othei e side of the House, that the re-opening of the , A frican slave trade enters into this question.J a do not so understand it. That question I wil meet whenever it comes up. 1 deprecate it .agitation because it is disturbing, and can nov result in no practical actioni. Ikther men no parties can hurry it on to a successful and pr ma-tumre udevelopment; but to this developmen .wn inherent forces. When it biecomnes as eco noamical questi.pn, it wilj tm neh the policy of the Iworld; it will become imb~edded in ithe pohgs of the South;- an'd then it will force a solution through thme 'mmntumn of its ownt power. wish to await this hour; this hour when thn question will transcend parties, anti cle policy of parties, and when it will grapple itself to th<n public feeling with books of steel. Now, t those wvho agitate on the one side and on th<n other, [ would say, stand aside and let udestiny take its course. Every gr-eat economical pro Iblent forces itself upward and forces itself int< solution. This will not be acquitted fronm thal law. In the meantime I would sweep from the statute-book every interference with slavery ; hwould repeal the law declaring the slave tradi e piracy ; I w- uld withdraw our slave squadroi a from the coat-t oif Africa; and T woultd leavi A slavery unintervented against, wher-ever the poe of th~e cmount r-y strcehe -. The power ther fre St ite keep.< the goverinment r:-,m hi terguintrg in our favo.r, I woul disuin It fru:1 IMr~. ioktIt.i. .ilefore that 1tartin la put, mnove to amend the sectivi by strikiilg utt th wotrds, "andi anly subsegnjent :tdA nit hii ford for- the s.uppressionm of It ne slave trade.'' Inm res piet to thme few remiarks I prtloose to mnake, desire to have the ear of thme Chairtman of th Committee of Ways and Means. No other act so far as I am aware, which has been passe apropriating montey- for the putapose of carryin out the act of 1819, except that of 1820, whtc e attaches the death penalty of the slave trad' Now, I would be glad to know of the Chairma of the Commit tee of Ways anti Means why thes words are inserted, and whatthey contemplate F If it is intended to putt into the hands of th P'residecnt money for thme purpose of bhetter ext enting the act of 1$itI this 'is not the place fi it. If it is intenited to enabmle thte Presiden thtrouglt agents or otherwise, tore elfcnitall to suppress thte trade I submit to the conmtt< that this is not thme-proper pla5ce. Anid indee r ir, it is not proper that a.ny monm-yshtonblu be a k. propriatdfr s9uch a purpose: for the Pres-idei Dr i led lte with power. I s-houtld be gla g, to know from the chairman of the committee Ways and Means why this was put in. Mr. Mmms. T move to amendi thteamendmer mby striking out thme last three lines. at Mr. Chairman, I have, perhaps, listened wil a more regret to this discussio'n than anty o d upon the floor, because I entertain peculiar se I tional views. For I am, f mest frankly confel LETTER FROMl - SENATOR ItAMmND. We find in the Boston Post the following letter, written by-llon. Janes I1. Hammond, of South Carolina, to the anniversary dinner, in honor of the birth-day of Daniel Webster, at Boston, on Monday, January 17, 1859: WAi1rovo-, Dec. 22, 1.858 Dear Sir: I am very grateful to you, and to those whom you represent, for your polite in vitation to attend your dinner in Boston on the 18th prox., in honor of Mr. Webst er'sbirthilay; and for the kind assurances accompanling it in which I have full confidence. My duties here, however, so entirelf engage all my time, that I nmst respectfully decline your invitation. You say, that in the revrolution, Alassachu settL and South Carolina stood -sh.mulder to shoulder." I would he well for tC-e world if they' stood so now. And why do they not -1 To have brought about their present relations, one of them must have erred much-possibly, both. Another age will decide between us. lrn and bred i South Carolina, of wbich State my- mother is a native, my fiittlr isa Ma. sachusetts man-a college friend of Mr. N019' - ster-and descended, I am proud to say, ironsi your earliest Puritan immigrants-in thmf- - tagonistic positions of these two-small, but no ble States, I htive personalLy..gu tu ekri t na a patriot, still'more. I wis -he8 t - bfilled..gayI you wfong, if we have beaigreisab think 1 cn assure you that there inot a<inm in South Carolina who is conscious'"of it ;4- i t one who would deprive Massacliusetts of ? sa gle political right; not one who woul with any of her institutions; not-on -iou thwart in the least any of her p'uliian gitimate interests and could it T ~shoin th we have done any of these things, not one but would desire to make prompt and ample repara tion. If the same spirit animate the people of Massachusetts to the same extent, we may just ly hope that-the deluding falsehoods of politi cal aspirants trampled under.our feet-our two States may yet stand "shoulder to shoulder. the pillars ofa constitutional Republic, - wisely and justly administered for the protection and advancement of all, without special privileges or endowments to any section, class, or indi vielual, but insuring to all and each the full do vclopment of themselves. I have tho honor to be, most respecfully, your. obedient servant, .. H. HA MMOND. PF.Y.FR HAWVEyr, Esq., Boston. PROPOSED CRINGE IN THE TARIFF. Prominent Republicans of the House of Rep resentatives, it is stated, have intimated to the Chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means, that they will not vote for..any appropriation bill which may be reported by the Committee, uTless some irivision is made to meet the obi gations which would be incurred by itis ps -in other words, tha t stoi the whole machinery of governmentj-na less they can secure an increase of the tariff. .ht notwith.t;ndling...?hii determniation-of the Ba Riepublhcan leaders, and'the fact of the e:istence of a decided majority in the House in favor of a modification of the tariff to increase the reve-nue, we do not believe that it will be changed at the present session. The nerdbers of the Committee of Ways and .leans difler both as to the neces-ity for a modi lication (if the tariff and the mtode in which it should be acvonplished. Mr. l'helis, the Chair man, has a project of his own; Mr. l'hillips.has another; Mr. Maclay another; and the Rtepub lican members of the committee another; whilst Messrs. Letcher, Crawford, and Do.wdell, are opposred to any action upon the tariff, and any report upon the subject. In the House, the diterences of opinion upon the bubject are a wide as those which exist in the committee. There is a majority which would do something with the tariff, but fortunately it is divided upon dilerent projects. In the meantime, it is wdcrstood that the Secretary of the Treasury is now opposed to any change in the tariti, upon the ground that there is unusual activity in our commerce under which the present tariff will .-onm yield revenue enough ; anSd the Democratic memtbers of the Senate have determined in c:menus that it is inexpedient to make any change. It may be regarded therefore as settled, that no hill which proposes to change the tariff to in cr-ease the revenue, can be passed at the present session of Congi ess.--Constitutionalist, re'cently a boy, eight years old, was comrnitted ror the theft of a purse containing a sovereign, from the tail of a cart of an old woman, who had Igiven him a ride. Bail was refused and the lad sint to jail. The father on partin~g - . it1 his complained immediately aftet of having received a sudden shock at his heart-as if shot. Al though in good health at the time, and a robust and hearty man, he went home and never again looked up. A deep seated melancholy took possession of him ; h~e was obliged to give up work, and after a few days was cornfined to his bed. He gradually grew worse, and on the day on which his child was to be fried, he breathed his last. The surgeon who attended him, says that he died of a broken heart. The boy was discharged. Co-r-os is Lmmaiu.-The American portion of the population in Liberia have commenced, with much spirit, the cultivation of cotton. Pres ident Benson, in a recent letter, says; " There has been twenty times more cotton planted by A merica Liberians this year than ever before, of both ntative and foreign seed. and I feel sanguine that its r-cbiientin will incre-ase e~neh succeed, ing yrr" A half tgon of etatotn ad*' Mmlt- 'lt cili: tbl~ !ii a-1T-mipn d yl enrhy,'' i As:;mitin hts taI tier-md )trise-n fin,, the phi' (:Cit i tof ct. WhIch Mr, Ict!!On tItinho~ il loper:ste na ci sttt!nig i-timuhits to'itg dultlvdti: A part ofY esiligrants~ fr.59 Ocorgia tefit 1.'jiid lat-.ly a samtcple of t.~tonu of a spyt-id R Itich bloSz somms prceiaully, and' on6 oftheir zdummler asserts thmi g.,out sea iahund cotton can be grown iin Liber'a. The youmg republic has a most hope ful future. sCASH Sis-rxr.---The Nashville Unki has resolved to adopt the cash system for sub. script ions in future, and says, "the most power ful argument whi'ch has urged them to this pd-. sition is found in their account books, wherein is recorded a debt due them of over sixty thou sand dollars, accumulated since the 15th of May, 1853, and for subscriptions alone of more than forty thousand dollare." T'his looks astonishing, but it is the hir-tory -of every newspaper in the land that is published on the credit system. How long will publishers cont inmue to pursu~e that ruinous policy '? It is o bliged to end in beggary, try it who will, and - et nine-tenths of the newspapera of the United S tates are wilfuly traveling the dangerous Iroad. Er " TiE candles you sold me last tere very bad," said Suett to a tallow dealer. "In deed, sir ? I am sorry for that." "Yes, air; ; do you know they burnt to the middle and would burn no longer 7" " You surprise me; what sir, did they go out?" " No, .sir, uo; they inrxnt shorter."