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"WE WILL CLING TO THE PILLARS OF THE TEMPLE OF OUR LIBERTIES, AND IF IT MUST FALL, WE WILL PERISH AMIDST THE RUINS." SIMKINS, DIRISOE & Co., Proprietors. EDGEFIELD, So Co, MARCH23,186' THE AERONAUT; -OR The Fate of Count Ludwig Paulder. -0 On the 10th ot June, 1b-, an announce ment. stating that an aeronant would ascend in a balloon, startled the inhabitants of Mu nich. .;he first-in fact, the grand triumph which Mtontgolfier achieved, had given to the idea an impulse which, through the medium of public journals, had spread over Europe. This impulse was the great ruling princi ple which had always governed mankind, and which is called curiosity. The excitement caused by this first great success in aeronau tics, had set half the world as much in a fer ment as the assumed discovery of the load stone, of the South Sea bubble, or of steam, or of California had or has done. It had become a subject for lectures and expositions. It was talked of in the college and the cloister. Fashion made it a subject of conversation, and those ignorant of the laws of nature were in a state of the most profound astonishment. Young ladies and young gentlemen who could make silk balloons, and aerify or rarify them, from the soap-bubble blower to the nore profound amateur in the art, were sendidg up their fimsy fabrics into the heavens, when this astonishing act of daring was first an nounced as a thing that could be attempted and done, as it were, by sound of trumpets. It aroused the whole city, and by the appoin ted time, and indeed long befsre, a vast con course of people had assembled. Much admiration was bestowed upon the gaily-colored and elegant machine, whose ve ry peculiarity of construction elicited their astonishment, and whose strange interlacing and wild purport roused every passion for th~e wonderful and the surprising in their breasts. It was one of the largest then made, and. its improved car, deep and wide, capacious enough to hold two or three persons with case, became a source of much conjecture with the curious. They fancied themselves borne aloft into the space beyond the clouds, and shud dered wita dismay at the contemplation of trusting life to so appalling a height in so frail a machine, subject to accidentA as it was; and yet to him who could keep his brain cool. and collect his faculties of observation and watchfulness, n9thing could be more secure, inure delightful. Ideas and thoughts such as these were ex changed among the groups of well-dressed people whom an overpowering sentiment had drawn in large numbers. The profiessor of the art had also become invested, in their eyes, with marvellous attributes. He was something more than human ; and as the time approached when he should appear to conduct the process of inflation, expectation had raised itself on tip-toe, and the passion of the crowd was at its utmost height. A disappointment, however, or what was feared would ultimately prove to be such, now began to offer itself The noble gardens, laid out in beautiful walks, above which arch ed and overhung in many places the branche. of stately trees, and -which now held half the population of Munich, one would have at first thought had assembled to enjoy music and dancing instead of a balloon ascent-these began to grow dark and sombre all at once. The bright and glorious sunshine was sue ceeded by a broad bank of threatening clouds gathering in the .horizon, which grailually overspread the heavens, and made the change, by contrast, sad and dismal in the extreme. A storm of wind and rain was expected, and almost all came to one very unsatisfactry conclusion, namely, that there could be no balloon ascent. Tfhe storm, however, did. not .appear, but the long-expected protessor did. lie wasa man of keen eye and intelligent face, with a calm expression of concentrativeness about his mouth, which indicated a c..mimnd over the nervesthat must be wonderful, considering how they were at times tried. There was no pretension in dress, person, or manner, of the blightest kind. He merely bowed his ac knowledgment to the spectators, who saluted him warmly, and in a quiet, unassuming way, went on with the business of preparing his aerial car. Ini the meantime, there appeared going from group to group a remarkably handsome -young man, whose light, easy,-and lofty air, elegant dress, and the somewhat haughty expression on his fine features, indicated one of some rank and pretensions. Such, indeed, was the fact, for he was named Count Ludwig P'aulder -the descendent of ain ancient fatmily, very wealthy, young, ha::dsome, a libertine, aind powerful at court. No wonder, then, that as ats he gaily went fromi one to another, nod ding ihmiliarly to one blushing beauty, and bowing lowly to another of more aristocratie paretenisions-no wonder, we say, that wvith the prestige of his name he should have bud denly becomeasubject for conversation among the assembled crowd. Tne chief reason ot this was, that he was going to asend in the balloon wvith tbe professor ; and rash anad dan gerous as the determination was, his daring and coolness comum.aded admiration. - Leaving Count Ludwig to swagr from one to another, the group.s to distract themselves with apprehensions absout the storm, which yet seemed undecided, or to speculate stil! more upon the presumptive fate of the bal loon with its designed carg.-leaving, also, the professor to regulate the filling of thi machine-we must beg the reader to retract his stess with us fhr a tew hours, in order to relate to him what took place bet ween the professor and anm unknown individual, more important to our story, during the past norn ing. Tihe proicssor, who was staying at one o1 the principal hotels, while perusinig the news paper after a late breakfsast, was itnormed that a stranger was without desiring to see him. len in the position of the aerotnant, hatve 6fsen e~speriened the ammyance of imupersi nient curiosity, Thinking that this was somne uclh mzatter1 the pirofessor was about to plead business or a particular engagemnen t, wheni he suddenly altered his mind, and desired the waiter to show the stranger in. A tall mans, elad in a vast cloak, with a face and lfea tires the umost remarkably stri king of anythe prore.ssor had ever beheld, was theni ushered inito thme room. There was such an air of majesty and commiami about himt, that the aeronaunt received his unexpiecteds guest with the most prolfiund respeLt. We1 will endeavor to sketch lhim as lhe appeared. He was not mnure tanx live or six and twen ty, but looke I in reality for-ty years of age. His hair, which must have beenm magnificent at one time, was dry and mntted, anid sprinkled with gray locks. His bro~ad and massive fore head was ploughed with furrows, his chieeks white and sunken, the angles of his finely chiselled mouth contracted, as ii with oft re p'eated spasms of agony, and a sadness-a deep unutterable despair-was so visible above all, that he looked like a noble anid majestic ruin. ?Iis great apparent grief coimmanded instatit sympathy and respect. " What miay be your pleasure with me, sir?' demanded the professor, after an awk.ard pause of a few inomnents, during which he handed his visitor a chair, who declined it. and remained standing. " You are going to makte a balloon ascent to-day, I understand," said the other. " You io noura line So hinderedn "Hindered I" echoed the professor. "I mean," added the stranger, hastily, "hindered by the weather-by the probability of a storm." " No, sir," replied the aeronaut, with a smile: " unless it blows very violently indeed; but my experience of the weather tells me there is nothing to'dread." "I am glad to hear it. You are engaged, ram informed, to take some one up with you? At this moment a spasm crossed his face, and and writhed itefor a single instant, till it took a dark and sinister aspect. "Yes," was the reply. " A young noble. man of this city, Count Ludwig Paulder." "Ah !" said the stranger, "I knew him once; an old friend, sir, till we were parted, and-and years severed us. I should like to ascend with you." " It is almost, I may say utterly, impossible,' was the quiet answer. "I never accept that word as an answer in dicating to me any meaning at all," was the halt-fierce and moody reply. " Nothing is im possible, sir; and I must repeat what I said.' "It cannot be done." "Sir! do not deem me insolent or rude. Anything-everything can be done ;" and he proceeded with amazing coolness to take out a heavy purse of money from his vest. " What is your charge ?" The aeronaut shrugged his shoulders, and a smile at the absurdity of the dentand played on his l'ps. "There is room for only one, in addition to myself, in the car, and that one seat is en gaged. as I have said-and as you know." " What did the Count Ludwig pay for his privilege ?" demanded the stranger. " Di you not think, sir, that this is going a little too far?" asked the professor. " Your pardon; sir. I will give you double.' The professor shrugged his shoulders again, smiled, and turned away. "Come," said the stranger, 'I must not lose my object thus-" "But, sir," interrupted the other, "if you have so intense a desire to aseend, do so with me to-morrow or the next day." The stranger shrugged his shoulders in turn, "No time like the present," said he. "1 have an absorbing, adevouring thirst to go up, and nmy desire must be gratihed." "I have no objections, sir, to your having what you require." "Good," cried the stranger. his face lighting up with a gleam of intense delight. "But I must repeat, and I do it with regret, that to day, and with me, it would be impos sible. I say impossible I because I mysell know a word which implies that a thing can not be done." " It shall be done-it must be done! and what is more to th: purpose, it will be dote.' The stranger spoke so calmly, so decisively, and with such force of conviction, that the as tonished and half oifended aronaut drew back with an exclanatin. " Your pardon, sir, once more. This is the way which I propose to arrange the diliculty: 1 will give you your owi terms to take your place. I have ascendedl before, and know how to take the entire management of such a machine." And he forthwith began to explain to the professor the whole structure and working o the balloonl, in a manner s.i plain and perfect in its details, that it was evi.i-ut the stranger was no novice in the matter. 'rhe conclusion was, 'the-refore, that the stranger should take the provfs or's place,and ascend with Ludwig Paulder, the whole beinp left to his care and gnidance. We now return to the garden. The noble machine was fully dist-nded. and little more preparation was nece sary before i would ~be loosened to so-,r lightly aIoft. Thc crowd turn now and then an anxious and even a hopeful eye towards th-tt quarter of the sky which seemied to threaten most, and trusted b) a few faint indications that all would blow% over, and that the ph-nsure would not bc narred. Count Ludwig Paulder had in the meantime taken his seat in the car, and was gaily bidding some of his friends "good bye, when the stranger, in his dar-k anad amupl cloak, strode out of the crowd, and-advancing to the professor, whispered something in his ear, to which the other replied assentingly, and before any could recover their surpr-ise, draw ing his eloak still closer aroundl him, he had taken~ his seat opposite the handsome yong count, who, momuentarily surprised, glanced first at one and then at the other. "I am to have company, then it seems ?' asked Ludwig half haughtily. The stranger turned his head. The profes sor at the moment, all being in readine'ss loosened the balloon, and having made a feint to leap into the car, tailed, as a matter 01 course. Away it dartedl upwards like a vast and brilliant rocket, amidst the applause of thousanads upon thousands of .spectators. Those who were nearest, however, and be held the professor left behind, looking after his fugitive balloon with a sort of drily humorous surprise, were blind with dismay,nas they anti ipated nothing but an instant and horrible ea tastrophe, arising from the asstmed ignorance of those in the car. and thme strange manuner in which the aeronaut haimself hadl been left. When thec excitement of the moument had subsided, when wonder was gr-eater than cu riosity, when every one thoughasand wondlered, almost awve-stricken aind breathless, upotn this marvellous mode of traversing through spa1ce, and defeating the denizens of the air in their ownt elemen--to all the eager questions of the crowd, the aeronaut only replic 1 that "all was safe, that there was nothing to fear, the stran ger had- proved himself to be perfectly calm and eol eeted, and that he ha' been able to give one or two hasty pieces of advice, as re .;arded the working of the machine, the using~ of the ballast, and the regulating the aseent .tnd the descent-4hat is to say, the manaage .nent oft the gaa within the body~ of the silken: globe.'' 'Theoretically, nothing can be more simple than the mnanagemenit of these thing4 Whetn proper'y comnstrucated, balanced, fitte~I andl pro. visioned, there is no reason to fear whatever. In a-scenidinag higher, aill the aeronaut has to d is to poufa out his b'allast in the shape of sand, which oboviateA dl.Iget' to those below. a die scndinag, he miust iuncrease the weight of his vslby permittina toare e ce moa which, b'y degre, retre tencache itgs own proper gravity. We must now :accompany the amateur aero nauts. The bamllooni wont upward with an astonish' ng swiftness; Count Ludwig had barely re euvered his surprise at b. holding the bal oon1 boundinag away, andh the proafessor ~ ab~t. At the first few mom~uents, a& terrible dismiay seized him. .lie knew not ho~w to nmnage the ma ehine, which was to hinut, s intricate as Aratch n-es web.l, and lie suppts.-d his comlpanioni to hi quite as ig.norant. He ventured to ga below, and his brain reeled and his heart sick eeud at the thioughit of ant accident whicb should preci pitate theni both downawards. As the bal looa', however, wvent onw.irds and upwards with an easy and gentle, thouigh still rapid mnti ona, hen becamne a~ little moure at ease. though he still felt mnisgivings about their de scent. It appecared easy eniough to ascendu; bitt how were they to descend?- He knew ver-y well that the gas within the balloon was hiighly inflammable ; that electric currents were met with in the atmaosphere, anad that thaey mnighai cdtmet in contat. Hie shuddered as lie thuunuhl of the resul. An instaiit explosion-the burn ing of the silk bag woul I follow, and the aun supported car would go instantly downward. lah i how he shuddered at the thought. He had not spoken. His companion, closely wrpe pnhsckhdno ken either Ludwir ws nta a deth. as ot a coward in scarcely any sense of the word ; but a firm man might well tremble when in such a predicament or position. Ile was, therefore, pale, full of doubt, but still collected enough. His breathing was strangely light, free and rapid. His blood becoming more oxygenated, bounded through the arteries with greater ra pidity, and increased the pulsation of the heart. A wild, terrible, utterly indescribable exul tation began to fill him-to make him thrill and tingle from the scalp to the very feet. It was so singular that he almost felt terrified at it. During all this time the ballon still con tinued to ascend. He ventured another glance at the panora ma below, and found that 'he could endurs to look now without shrinking; and the magnifi cence of the sight was certainly striking in the' extreme. IHe beheld an immense crowd in the gardens they had just left, but diminished to the size of pigmies. The city itself, with its white structures and countless streets, was spread open to him like a vast plain ; and the extend ed country, with its woods, fields, forests and streams, filled the eye with a picture of which he had before no conception. Going slowly southward, beneath a dark pall of ether which spread above them like a vast sheet, he beheld distant mountains, far off cities, noble rivers, all white as snow under the peculiar medium through which lie gazed. They crossed slowly the Chiem See, a large lake through which the river Inn flows. Many towns which he knew, and many which he did not know, also appeared, one after the other, till he was dazzled and bewildered by the sight. Soon the snowy peaks of the Tyrol began to exhibit themselves, while dark chasms into which lie could not penetrate revealed to him the deep valley between the mountain ran ges. Feeling the air growing cold and chill, he turned to look upward, and saw the black cloud above, stretching every way as far as the eye could see, like a roof, which he could touch with his hand. They were sailing in the midst of light; one moment more, and they would be, as it struck Ludwig, in total darkness, floating in a horrible gloom more tenebrous and opaque than that of the bhndest night of Egypt. The count, to his increased astonishment, beheld his silent companion pouring out bal last, and making the balloon, as a matter of course, still lighter. " What aro you about ?" be shouted, and shrank back appalled at the sound of his own voice; for the reverberation of thunder was as nothing compared to the vast and resound ing echoes which it wakened up. The next moment they had broken through the cloud, and were wrapped up in its bliignting chaos. A sound, like the iingling of mighty sands with tempest-wakened seas, assailed them on all sides. A sulphnrous odor, almost over powering, nearly deprived theni of conscious ness. A coicu-ion, a roar, a tremendous outlhurat, like the discharge of a thoisund parks of artillery, followed and after the whole space beneath had seemed like a bil lowy sea of fire-blue, coruscating, and blind ing-the whole space around them became re.l-glowing ; and they were circled around, above, and below with that sinister and tre mendous outline of terror to ii bich neither coulI give a iimiie. A furiouis .t aw of. aiJ now follwe, and tter the unnatural heat they had expo rienced, they felt a cold s fl.-ree and bitter, that the marrow seemed frozen in the bones. In the mneaitime, the balloon ha-l began to collapse and till in a umost fearful manner. Once or twice this allowed it to fall witi bor rible swiftness downward until it had passeii out of the cloud. The next mnoment, with a violent f1:ip, t..e balloon distended itself al most to bursting again, This carriel them once more into the horrors of the snow cloud. aid once more were these portentous terrors rei.ewed. Ludwig conld not see, in the intense dark ness whicn followed, that his taciturn fellow voyager wa still continluinig with what ap peared an insane temerity to lighten the ear by casting ont stIll miore ballast. Th'le effe'ct of this wvas ton c4)ntinue their aiscent, till all ai once they bust forth cut of this hideons manss of mete~ric vapor-s, and were in a region ol such dazzling purity, beauty, and heavenly radiance, that it was like a foretaste of the blessed air which once breathed softly through the foliage and amidst the bloonis of mian'a lost Eden: Surprised and awed into silence, Ludwig gazed around him, and was struck with the scene-the almost divine tranquility which reigned in that pure locality. They were now at an altitude beyond any ever rbcordled, and still they contined to mount upward, They hadl losst sight of the earth totally, anti below them they saw noth ing but voluminous clouds, black and purple, sometimes yawning horr-ibly, to show the rifts 6f fire that issued for'th at intervals, Ilshinig and streaming; and then caine the terrible sounid bf the thunder toiling ini the boundless abyss. "For the love of God!" said Ludw ig, at last, " do not throw away more bljlast. We shall he in some awful peril it' yon do." " We have been ini peril down below thr, said the stranger, speaking for the first time, and giving his voice an intonation that miade the other shriink. "1I thought that the light ning wvould have ignited the gaLs anid destroy ed the balloon. Ini that case," lie added, with a frightful calmness "our fall would have been lhke that of P'hmton, for between us imd the earth there iay at leastjfbur miles."~ Ludwig shook like an aspeo, "llorrible !" he murmured; " and you are not afraid ?" "1 ' the st ranger laughed. Ludwig feared him ini spite of ihimself, fo thme laugh was so mcking and pnarthly. " No, [ don't fetir," neC added, aeti sbiverlUg; i b-ut I begill to feei the cold greatly?" "'LThere ms seine bran ly In the flask here," said Ludwig, taking one f rom a sort of pock et in the side of the car: " try a little of it;i" and he oliered It to him. " No. no" replied thbe stranger, shaking his he'l, and drawing his clo:ik closer round him as if to pirotect himself; " you do not know what the consequience would be if I drank any of that, It .would make me mad. I sho'dld il~ng myself of you out of the car, or cut the corits with my kiiife, or do some trick still muire dreadlful." Ludwig's diread was not by any mneansa qui eted by thme cahn candor of the coiifession, the the miore so as they yet comitiniued to ascendu, aind wvere approamching a region of cold1 so sve're whmere it umighit becuomen abislutely ne eessar'y for him to have recourse to the reject ed stimnatamt ; and then thought Ludtwig, "Whait a position !--to be ini this car, rockinig ive mmiles above~ the earth, or1 suspended over the horrib!e peaks of' the Alps, perha~ps alone with a madman. WVhat are you about'? Do not throw any more out, I beg of you 1" ex elamed die count eagerly, for another bag of ballast, had beeni seized. " Why'?" asked the stranger, paussing. " I wish to go lip highler-do you nt love it la ther, inot somiething awful thrilling, stupend ous ini this solitary and silenit flight. Up! up ! tairefore, though the vessel burst "Madman I" cried Ludwig, frantically; "would you destroy us both-bring tipon us a death so horrible ?" " Ah I you fear then ?" cried the other, dis dainfully. " Well, then, we will descend." " Do you know how to work this machine ?" asked Ludwig, a ray of hope darting inito his breast, for a silent and unutterable dread had been cregging over him. uili .r.m an .werar the othere vasive. " Let us see what this means," and hi sudden ly seized hold of a slackened cord which was suspended from beneath the vast gbbe that carried them. The car began to rock and sway most fearfully, and the balloonfitself to swing to and fro, taking at last a fedful grat ing motion that bereft Ludwig of alllower for a few moments. He closed his eye~i, set his teeth, and grasped the side of the cak with a half frantic clutch. They were d"cending like lead, and all the while e swihgin in. creased, threatening at last to fling them both out into the air. I "For God's sake!" screamed Luadig, pale with terror, " take care what you do. tWretch that I was, to trust myself with yotl" The stranger laughed, and loosed the corV After a short time the motion of the ballootbecame more easy-it ascended again, and st last it moved on with the same ease as before. " Shall I ascend?" asked the stranger coldly. Ludwig, with his lips pale as as.1, said faintly-" Oh I do not trifle with t.1 awful danger, 1 beseech you." 4 "it is dreadful to die in some unusql, some unaccountable way-by being predipitated from such a heighth as this, for insnce-is it not ' "Ve , very," faintly murmured L wig. "I am always strangely affected ,en at a great height," continued the stranger with a ghastly smil. " I feel a desire to leap head. long down; and you do not know -Li how much trouble I am -suppressing the,-desire I have te nut away the cords which suiport the ear to the balloon; but," lie added gravely, "I do not forget that in trifling with my own life, I have no right whatever to trifle withi yours. Eh, count ?" " Yes-no-yes. I knnw not that I say," muttered Ludwig absently. " We are approaching the Alps. Look! look' cried the stranger, "the cloudt below have all cleared away, and there is nothing to obstruct the vision. Yonder is ltunspruck do you know Innspruck?" added he,.beding his keen eye on the count. "I have heard of Innspraek," replied Lud wig with a face so horridly white that it might have been supposed fresh terror haO been created ; but th.: balloon went on gently and ma'estically, and did not rock and heave as betore. True enough, almost the whole of Tyrol, with the city of Innspruck as a centre, lay beneath them. They beheld the roaring waters and the faaming cataracts of that wild land butt as so many threads of silver and so manyspark. ling jets. Farther south, the mighty range of the Rhxtic Alps was towering upward like a wall of white and gleaming marble. The west of heaven seemed all one glow of golden fire from the body of the flaming suni, which was Iow hastening towards the horizon. "I know Intnspruk very well," slid the stranger; "that is, I did know it. 1 an tell you a st ry or two about it-" 4 For heaveaas love I till ne whether we are likely to dciend to-night ? "Faith, I can't tell-.ikely enough," was ihe reply. " Iii a Iinry, too, perlps." The stranger laughed, and Ludwig was soriv that he had askarl him. "Juon't )Ou like this? I de ledge Luai. The gay recklessness had a latni inuta.. on Count Ludwig's hardihood. Ile ww pale, nervous, and falht approaching a state of the most deplorable prostration. He h %d always beeni remarkable for his high spirits, his haangh. ty carriage, his courage, and his nuuerous adeels in proofs of such courage. He never th-t fear before this day; hut this ian, who was or was not insaiie, hadi at all events the advantage over him. fbr lie could jest, grimly with the nost atwf'ul kind of death. while in proportion Ludwig's terror satnd desire. to dhe scnad were momtaaiarily inacrea4ing. Bjesidles, lie wa~s at the amerev of hais wild compamtona. Aanther quaestiona nrose-Were they to ps the night int this shiapless void-floatiang ona and on ? "1ow beautiful Innspruck looks," cried the stranger; "who wouldl haive thimghat that blood staias the grass which grows int the glade oat der the shebier of thoise beeches--perhaps you kntow them ?" Hie looked iat Ludwig as he poitated to a pairticular spot, scarely vistibe. " I don't know-I cannot see it," said Lud " I wili tell you all about that blood," begana the stranger, with a wild light in his eyes. "i will amuse as as we travel oaa. Yes," he ad ded, " I remaem~ber a str.Iage, bitter history be longing to that spiot. Thmere was a yountg and tiimid bov at the college some few years ago; hi~s aname was-ah !-ah I-I forget. Well, lie was remiarkable for his genmtle'ness of ni-atre, for ahiauninig t he wild riots of his companaionas -abhorring their deh~aucheries, tad retiring, trembling, from their horrible gamaing tables. There was at this college, also, a bold, brave, hanidsomne boy,,somaewhat oldler than mny-thaa this unoaufend~iag .yoanth ; sad flr seve-ralh re-. sons the .stroanger hated the weaker, and soughat to wreak his haute upon himu. It is ahnesjt an credlible, is no't ?" Counat Ludwig was as paule as a sheeted corpse. lie glar-eud upoti the stranlger ad made no0 rgely. " Yes, this biold fellowv-this leader of all the mischief-this yonag man, wh-> conl-l at ford to love all the worhl, aud yet hated :hae youth that shunined hiat-vowed to ruin him. He forced hinm to the gaming table by an in fernal plot-lie beset his steps in every way he robbed him of his gold-he forced him, by insuhing him like a bravo, to fight a duel, an~d lbe kiled him !.' There was .somethinig inexpressibly shioek~ing ad hatrrowinig ha this wild tae toid int that s-iemni~ region. " This boy diedl with i.9 henrt cleft in two. Hie had a imother who idolized hilm. Hie could neither kiss her lips noar ask her pa~rdlea ; anid she went mtad when she haurd that her beau. tilful, her best-b~eloved chdad h:ad become a brawler, a gambler, ad a daaillist. She did not live loing. " Theare was, however, an elder brother, who was fighting in far off lands, and who knew nothinig of this till both were buriedl, and dust, manty a day goaie by. He loved his mother, and he loved his brother. Imiaginie his feel ings when he caine home to embrace thaem, and found them departed-naught- left but the miento of the gentle boy's assassination the mothers death I It was n'eessary for him to knmow thae truth, Hie dial so." W~haile tile stratnger spike, he had let his cloak for the first tinme ft!! hack, :and resting' his facao penisivehy ian his hanal, exhibited t, view the fine though tatded lineamenits of hais oce muagnifilentt features'. An unneccounta ble impulse-a vertigo--prompted Count Ltd wig at the instant to start up and leap out ; but the void which his eye caught made him sit shudderinag where he was. The gray anid ghostly Alps hegan to draw nearer towards theta. G auntsolitudes, drearanid hite, or black, like a bottomless abyss, met the eye by turans. Nature, in the repose of horror, had taken her seat here, after havinig piled up, in splinitered and colossal propor tionis, pile u poin pile, of driven but snow-crown-~ ed rock, which, in fact, were mountains up wards of a mtile high. The stark atid rpuinud grnideur of the scene below was painfully vivid, inasmuch as thec balloon was not a mile from their summits. The air was k'een and bitter cold ; but wound up to the' pitch of excitement in which both were, this was not heeded. At all events, Onnt Lundwig Pan1deP a hard that whn made him think, and which lid not bring back the color to his palled cheeks. In the meantime, the stranger had begun to empty the last and largest. bag of hallast. The balloon, suspended over this Alpine re gion, did not move horizontally but vertically. Up! up! it went; and this time, light as it was, the surface of the earth was dim and indistinct. " We shall see the night come on," muttered the stranger. "In the name of God, no!" cried Ludwig. "Let me entreat you te cease forcing us up higher, at least, if we cannot descend . My God !" he added, "we shall be perished with the cold before morning." "Why do you not try your flask ?" said the stranger; "and now that I am reminded of it, let me taste it, for I too am cold." "But-b t," hesitated Ludwig, "if you say its influence upon you is so pernicious, will it not be endangering us both if you partake of it?" "Perhaps, yes," was the careless reply. "Shall I tell you another story about lu. spruck ?" " Why do you dwell upon that, name so much ?" inquired Lud wig, sWhy! hum! I don't know, except per haps that the things I speak of did not occur elsewhere. I am going to make the balloon descend now-look out!" They were at a most fearful altitudle at this present moment, and Ludwig, who rememi bered the insecure position in which the ma chine had once before placed them. felt a mor tal terror alnost choking hi n, as the stranger with a smile utterly indescribable on his dre.dfully di.spairing face, pulled the! cord of the valve. There was a sudden hissing heard, a st re.,n of white vapor seen preceding a sudden col. lapse of the balloon, and then as sud.len a dis. tention followed with a loud and menacing report, succeeded by a rending sond. which threatened a peril of the most ininitent kind. With a bre:rhless, an absolutely appalling rapidity, the hug machine shot downwards; and while the car was ruckins just as fearfully as before, Ludwig, who in his terror hail closed his eyes, to avoid the sickening sight of the sounding void into which he was then, as he thought, plunging, felt himself flung out of the car, and had just time, with the instinct of desperation, to catch hold of the side, to which he clung with feelings of which it is impossi ble to give any adequate idea. The loosening o the cord h lud nga1i per. mitted the valve to close, but it was too evi dent that there wa-s some tattl injury done to the balloon, of which the stranger seemed to take no heed. Downward it went, till, at last, the vastexpanse of thesilcufered a resist ance to the denser air, and, on the principle of a parachute, in some degree checked its fright ul speed. The strugglcs of him wvho hirug without were tieientous, but unavailing. lis i for help were piteolns, al wt.re -mwt with a imocking1 langh. Tue ani te nOy appeared in sane1C it his remor;eiess impas.iveness. lie quiet!)' left the place lie had ocenpiedin the ear, and went to the other .ide, where lie sat face to face with the deathly-pallid man, whose b'4. of the ancient Neinl-t, would thing dretaiiui me tue) i.,.. spruk.' His sluiberia; couscieIce waS aiV kened, and its pangs were awful. la a voice sombre and sinister, and full of inpressive meaning, th stranger addressed his victim thus Count Lud wig Paulder," saiHl lh sriitrer, ben tlvei adt fixini:; opon the awft'l tacet! of the m,1.1 who k iog supendledlt over the poro ,ound1 1yss below, with n, hope of being a his col and merciloss ghniee. "I laive vet a little matter to relate to yu tand1 whilie ~vucani hold on there, you can li.-'n or tot. :s you choose. I procee.i. rThe hihtory which [ hrst related tii you was oneC in whlich yeou phaye~d the principal paIrt. You were the hater, the gambler, the assassin-'he slatyer iil the son, an'd the destroyer of the monther'. Look at mec ! Alh! you knotw me not!-well, kn.,w ime now, I am th~e brother who wias absent the son who returned and tounid no imoiher to emblrace! The villany of your conduct wast nut yet completed, for there is yet ai st'gnel!I" The man paused, tin I pressed his httn.l against his head, as though to still the throb biing of his brain. By thme ghastly expression of hi~s coutenanice it was easy' to tell the strength of his emotion, b~ut it counld not exce'ed the gastlines of him who still, wirth the tenifty ol despair and mortail terror, yet chtung to the car. " Mercy !-pity ! For the love (1J the bless ed God ! tak'e mi in," lie crtie.. lUut the stranger g ive his alppeal ito heed, and, in measured wochL, went oni "In the saime town lived a ('air and beatuti t'ul girl, cousin to himi who wa~s shiin-ege'sin to mie who have three lives toj ave:e, andi' for whichi I have gone t rough incredible dhiilienl ies to obitain. At last thle hour comes ! This beautifil girl yoni propoised t> live-you se ducedl hei. deserted her, awil killed he-r ! Youi had no pity, not remnorsie, no tear. You b.,ast edi of yo~ur work-you exiilted in the ruinr yo worked. Be brave, and exult still. Pray to Goid for pardoti, miiserabtle wretch that you are. If you can yet cling and save yourscelf, do so. 1 leave you to whatever fate ia point. ed out for you I" So saying, he roso, a grand and mournful solemnity overshadowing his face, and seated himsolf' on the other side, totally out of sigh~t of the man on whom lie Was taktig so terrible a revenge. Dona i'o 1k, grey rntto-spher, dihriteniung and gloomty, the tadloon was atil dlecemhnirg. Looking over, the stranger f.,tnd h-it he wonidi probabry descend amrongc the rugged pe:iks ot probaib~y thme most ba~ld and frightfi mun t.inousL re~gion,~ Pine foresits wav'el lfa ts'iwa below., anid iabove them rose the white pe':.kk' ereste'd with .unow, lookinig like the hcea:ls of' so mtany grim and gibbering gho~nss All this waile thaet awfid vciec- fhiit without the ear rose itn pne and bilasphemties, in entreaties amid reproaelies, hut all in vaini. Th'le avenger had for many a year taught his heart to becone stone-crashed, one by one, the tender impulses of human naturc-weaned himself from loves and friedships--dogged, dy3 by day', and month by month, the steps of. Coun it Lud wig, himself uniseen, unknown raede~ hii invetionm to discover one meanis of death mor'e efuli thani aniother ; le~r, to shoot, or stab, was to kill hiim at once. Accidlent liad aidedi hitm, atid lie was now killinig him a thosandi times over. In is dreadful to een-t tephte the sutt'erinig the wretched Ludwig must have undergone. Gotleeting alt hi-i energies together, it ap peared thtat the count determined to miake on~e tremendlous effort to save hims..If. By the frequenit jerkitng of the ear, the avenger guess. ed what his victim was about. A sombre and melacholy smile, but cold as a moon-beam, crossed his lips, but no word farther dlid he say. Ini, ton, sh.ook from head to foot, from a sense of unicoatrollable horror, when all at once Luidwig drewv himself up, anid the hoirri ble face, lined and dug as with a chtisiel, ex pressedl how the passions hadl been working within htis breast. Frightful indeed were the ravages which a few nmomnents of such tretnen dosdespairashe had experienced had written deeply on his features. O.h! the agoiy-ohl the an ish of that int imineineleak. owr asd-h vatne would then oe itr donars. He Womuiti then hire prolm/sly for oiod anti raimient. This would enable all our p-)or people, who are not able to buy negroes at die present high prices, to procure them, say some; and in that way all would become deeply interested in Slavery. It would enable the owners of the waste lands in the older Southern States to reclaim and enrich sedge fields and piney groves, say others. But wouldapoor man buy a negro, if that negro's labor was only worth fifty dollars a year? lIe could not afford to feed him. And indebtiedness, which would now only abso b oae-fourth of a man's negrae4 would then take all that he had, and thus many small slave. holders, and o ot a few larger ones, would find themselves emancipated by the Sheriff from all further concern personally in the queadon of Slavery. A breeding negro woman with three or four children would be a burthen that no one would be wiling to suppiort, unless at tached by stronger ties th-uti interst to the in stitution. This would strike at the very root of our slave property. The east of raising and maintaining an imfant negro, would consume twice his value. This would tear up the in stitution by the roots in Georgia, to say noth ing of Vh'ginia and other States which raise them for the West. It would be worse than abolition in its worst forms. It would force emancipation up:n us by the pinching "en croachiments" of irresistiile necessity. There would be no escape from the bainkruptcy of holding and raising slaves but universal aboli tion. Neither could the proprietors of tho3e waste lands, which we desire to see reclaimed and blossoming with the cotton pliant, afflord to feed and clothe negroes, and employ them in reclaiming worn lands if, when thos: lands were reclaimed-which would require an ex pensive process of several years--they could expect only to reap as the fruits of the labor of their slaves sch profti and income as would correspond with the above valie. The result would rather be, that' both the waste land and the ivasted property ornegroes would be abandoned by proprieto a as a meaanre of self-defence. Ifow would this state of value affect us, even here in Middle Georgia, (to say n*>thing of Virgiuia) where women and chil dren are now considered the best slave pro perty ? It is needles's to pursue this view of the subject into further details. Every one can reason upon these consequences for him self. Instead of this condition of thin~s strengthening the institution, it would pull t down with iron hooks. Iustead of inducing an e xpansion of the ba-sis. of slave property, it would have just the opposite result, bien would iot buy nor hold slaves, if they were so reduced in value as to he rather a burden than a benefit. It is well known, that there are many slavehulders in the older parts of the Southern country who now make very. little above the support of their slaves-their prin Uipal accuImulation consisling in the increase an4d growth of their negroes. ut where would this procesa of the increase or slaves, an-d over-supply ,I' pi'-.ltetions, and lecreatse if price. ant1d jraiits end ? I have, .argued it at. the poiint witere the .lavC popula tiot was supposed to he doulledl. and then I have taken it at the low figure of three hti dred dollars for negroes. But have we any assurance that it would stop at that? As long as money could be nade by importing a wild ............... ...... .. Leigressi'mal power to) pri teet her ngainst so gr at an evil. Long ero this, some (if these arguments I am makingagaiiist it would have been more than speculation and theory. And the effort (now) would be jut the reverse of that which thu advocates of this policy atre mtaking; inistead of getting niora negroes, plans wunldl be devising to -colonize them back itn Arica, or inl soine other way to get rid ofl thei as a nuisance. The oniy mnode of making the instittution of slavery per-mtent, is to ke-ep it valuab!c an-I profit-abe. Whent, fromt any cause or comibi nation of causes, it is renidered valtless, slaves will be emiancip'ated. Thfey never were emaun Lipatted int any of the Northern States while it was to their interest to keep them enslaved. When that guaratntee failed, the institution fell into decay-. When niegroes were useful, it was right, religiously, morally and pulitientlly. Butt whent negro property became a burden instead of' a bentefit, and a tuisance instead of a blessing, the religion, morality anid politics of men chanted accordinmgiv. It was tnot aibo lition societies, nor abolition speeches, nor sermons thait converted the Northern Slates into free States. it was the workings of the highr law of self-interest. The law of utility is the supreme law of nmandkind-it is above ta other law ini its pratical intintence. Anid I am mneh inclined to suspezt that the sanme priniciples woutld work out the same results everywhere. The tmintds of the Southern peo ple are now firmly grounded upon the ques. tion in a'mnoral, religions anid political view; but it is fact, which thme history of the aqtrestion even iii the South fully verifies, that our eon vict ions have kept pJ.tee with the advancing usef~ulness of slave labor. And if von could r-ednee the value of our ne'grosrs to "dhlree~ bun dredf dollars," ins.teal of twelve hundred, and by them :Ltunet prcs bring about tha~t inievita ble Ic:otn pantying coinsueglance of reducing the ptrotue:ive v-ahre of slave labtor, you would strike a li, at the security andi permanetney of the institution; you woald pave the way for abolitionism in the Southern mtiad. It is a wyell known fatct, that many years ago, even in Georgia, when negroes were worth scarcely one-fourth what they are now, there was a hooso stto of puab!ie tipinden on this subject. Geo~rgiia tut-l t., receive the resotlulitin ofi the b . .gis~oitr 1 i itr Sumte, vunei,tnendli-g o,s.:etiptti.ml, with mnnel h,-.i istlig~t a thtan Si." Vould ttom It wonldl i Sprikq nianit who hatve not lo.ited i~nto j e hlistdf its .pies.i m.t to sed~ how loo dud tlnstalble were the ountdi. i..,o .'l t is chterishe.d imn,tirutioi i:n tIntes 11tth itt the opinhmitt tf th Sup.-emne '2.rrt of deorgi t, pronionne~ed by Jwigl~e Laump siin, ini te. case of Glehantd vs. Water.,, v.ol. xvi., page 5 14, the fl.lowintg allusi ii to this subjet wits mtade by that disuinguished jurist whtle reviewinig the history of otur policy and le;;isiation upona the subject of emancipation and the importation of slaves, &c.: " In 1824, a resolution from the State of Ohio on the subject of the abolitioa of slavery having been laid by the Governor before the Legislature, the report which was adopted thereoni, alfter expressing regret 'at this un nteessary interference on the part of a sister Staite,' e'mteludles with this sentece: '(eor giaL claims tihe right, with her Sotmthern sisters whost: situattion itn this regard is simihar, of mnovink this qluestion whent an enlarged sys temt of benevolent aind philantthrolpie exertions, in consisutncy wvith her rights and interest, shall render t practicablIe.' Is it not appa ren't that, up to this period, the true character of thtis institutian of alavery had not beetn fully understood and appreciateal at the South, and thatt she looked to emancipation, in some un delinted mode, in the uncertain future, as the only eure for the supposed evil ? Thanks to the blinad zealots of the North for ther un warranatable interference with this institution. It has roused the public mind to a thorough investigation of the subject. Tho resalt is, a settled conviction that it was wisely ordain ed by a forecast high as heaven above man's, for the goo-i of both races, and a calm and fixed detertminatiotn to preserve and defend it, at any and all hazards." It is generally supposed that this change of opinion on the subject has arisen iQom the ..... dr ittnal .nliekaaen and, iron a snu -uuru" ' subject," caused to some ex.b - ference of the abolitionists, as justly observes. Now, that there our country much intellectual 0 to be denied. But, on most quetioii ral statesmanship we have not f " the early patriots, even if we the wisdom which distin still yield a reverential acqin judgment on most subject&-4ri ject of slavery we have grown. perince and time. And there periment in the philosophy of - time and experience alone cold. which has thrown more light " tion In all its hearings than, all the' wisdom of our anc . esperintent has done mucht6 b "full understanding and apPre-M true:qlaracter of this instiutiong that experiment? It i a the one which has been iad ment of those great agricultu of indus and labor, in w been chiefy employed, and whic in the exhibition of the wonderfu and productive value of neg utility and value of the instittti,1 ed and established; has are understandingof the nature of the and proven to the world and io on it is a good institution. Thisdl its usefulness, which renders it ing "to both races," is by fhA gument that ever was made tn has been, both substantially -andI leading' argument in defence o i the theory and metaphysics all fol wake. Neither is this the 2dkn w a fact which ilaveholders or ther slavery need be ashamed of. No stiro gument can be had of the divine era of the morul foundation of slao fact of its great utility to Ma maker and consumer (f itq prd to the slave himself The faetIlii descendants of African barb the industrious producers of' which add so much to the comforti and so much to the progress of o which itself has been the zation, and the vehicle of -0 tZ my mind, no small evidence oN the "forecast" of that myteo which transferred them hither, argument of utility the a take into consideration a condition of the Southern sla, : socially, as compared to the miseahi of 1he opposite course of things itt ! which resulted in demonstrating theiiti I and caused them to be emancipatedand out to perish. 1 think, therefore,-that tdo Injustice to the conscience of-Aho.netly no violence to the defence of slvery~ ,i6 say that the vast increase of the usefulness, value of slaves has something to dog.t change of' opinion which ha taken pi the South within the last forty yeais.' If at the North, Slavery hid cmtad gro.w more and more uiseftl and, auai stead of becoming worthless, by-i density of their population, and gap of other furnus of laor mpmnid fact tlat% - '- a .1 Wit tsil..laiU tue motral 1aundation U W stands; f.r an unprofitable Institution never be defended in any ground. It I ten, all its good qmivlities, and no logic. sustain It. 'to all that can be said in Its fence, on gt'ouds of political, iuoral, or ligious economy, the reply would'beIt its worthless thing. Tnat reply destroys all fences and the motives of defence. It str at the root of the institution itself. thus yo i would weaken it in public opinion-you a straight in our very midst the path oft 'ilitiionist-y'ou overthrow an institusg,. you desire to fortify. If you would defend slavery-if yogwid strengtheni it in the wnind.s and h'eartso Southern men -if you wouldt have theiot to be united in its maintenance against al1..~ toes-keep the in.,titution foie.ver fiunije1~' upna solid basis of useluinemu. The d.nam-* for id ave labor, which is so serious uanoplaati in the cstimnation of many, giows ouIo I,' usefulness anid valu.-While'lt is pro~Un that demand will exist. Satiate that d#aa overstock it with such an unnatural, 3 as Africa would pour in upon ae, if channel., oft hle "mddle passage" ~ ed1, and you will find, when yon heae thecomplaint, you will have killed the pa5j~ Ton New PosrMS~TER-GENEuat -o on seph Bolt, the new PostmasterGenerali a-, native of Breckenridge .county, "Kentucy and about 48,years of age. Heisarem'z prol'essiion, and for a number of,yrspl sectuting attorney for Laouisville city .us a. son-in-law of ex-Postmaster-GeneraJ Wiek~~ anid a broth rin-law ot' Senator Yuleg~ Florida. Mr. Hlt re.'idedl foi~ about year:, ini the State of Mississipp, iwhere he a-' c'umulat.-d anm ample fortune.- He was a staog suppjorter ot Mr. IPolk in '44, to w~hose adtnn istr'ation lie gave a wacrm support. In 181'' he went abiroaud, and was gone about, the years. He is a sound, able and supero businesas man, and is perhacps the hestapp:V"' ment Mr. Buchanan could have made. e ' is-well known in Kenoky, wher e hes the utmost confidence of ex Secretary Gutli~. and other leading Kentncky Democra~u We haue no donibt he will be found a un~'geo'of the able man woiIi~t~.. fi:Is,-Aew J,k 0kijlJ14k. IA Wll!'rti U01:1..-.e MaW.Js-g ifhite. rj'b. Which had bern seeil nbout tI for -oe day~s. ,and Was sum~ just beydud.' I4 ouitskirti. Th.a -Wi'gs anal ba.fit w=r<-1*70 cream color, t'.e renm4'nd.-r perfLE ly*lai . We'have seen it statedl tha.t white specin~es~' of se'veral ki adls of hi dg aud quadespedsli.,b b en seena thi.1 Winter, i:l var.o .s parsfta o country, e--pecially in ti~e Nmthern paon .t.-Cerawo Herald. N'roROus Gor'o Socrm.-The We~d~ (North Carolina) Patriot says that'two sand negroes passed through that plae I' the month of January, and not less thesi thousand, it is informed, went into thsed regions during the last year. We are pleased to have assuran Washington S&ates,) that the Supree', mien I to uphold the laws and the by all means in its power. Bf'i ~n eison in the case of~hermnaii W. nally asserts the validity of the t law and itsm authority withinmh~ of the State tribunals. - *It remains for the Executive to coimplete the work by a&praot of the ent t~nent. MhmAvoUs MznltoL-T moat wonderful cure effected ~ icine.,mecorded, is the foling A boy had swallowed a all oif the faculty could deise. whereupon the inventor orf was sen't for. 'qt is evidmn 9o consderale a coin can. any emetic known to se him take this pill, and will be likely to ensue. blue lips now. They were pareied and (try. The eyes, fixed and stony, with such a hag gard and dreadflul language written on them, glared upon the stranger -with so hopeless a look that he wai softened. "My Until" he said, casting his own eyes upwards, " hath he not in his sufferings made expiation and become peuitent? Shall I yet save him? But, no," he added bitterly, al most ferociously, "with his danger would deo part his fear. With his despair would go his sorrow and his remorse. Let him perish, therefore, and let me be the avenging angel that has naught to do with pity or with atred. Let him die then; I can at least offer up a prayer for his soul." Gradually, as' the haggard eyes seemed to rend all that p:ssed in the stranger's-mind, the face sank-it lost hope-it was no longer seen. The fingers grasped the sides, but it was evident that they were relaxing, weaken ing, anid would not hold long. The gloom deepened below; the gray,ghast imviuntains grew inore monstrous and spectral; the fingers loosened; a shriek rent the air, and the a tranger put his hand to his ears. Down went Count Ludwig Paulder. The nin knelt in the ear and prayed. * * * * * * * The next morning, in a. rude chalet, saved from being dashed to pieces by the aid of hun ters, on a rude bed1 or skins, wounded, weak, arid bleeding, lay the dying stranger. A priest of the Lutheran creed had been lronght at his earnest prayer. To him he m1iade the confe.4sion embodied in the strange tale we have told, and when he had uttered his last word, he breathed his last sigh. The world had naught for him after his revenge was completed. The Poor 3an's Book. The windis have blown the smoke away Cu!d is the forge and hush'd the nill; The "t)oil-worn cotter" rests to-day Traffic is mute and labor still. The unlnrnesse'l horse feeds on the green, The laboring ox rests in the shade; A holy calm pervades the scene, And beauty smiles from hill and glado. The modest flwers that light the clod, Like drops of sunshine from the sky, 1 w their sweet beads and worship God, And send their fragrant praise on high. Beneath his fg trec and the vino, Doi'le the lowly cottage door, The poor man real.s the precious line Of proise to the humble poor. Tile bible is the poor man's law, Biei sed boon t5 mortnls given; A bl,:1r eiu-h as Jncob sawl With angels conting dot froir hearcn. :I - AN APlI!'IENT AGhIlT THE PlCY OF RE. OPE..NG TIlE .AFIC.1.N Uh.VE TRADE. IfY R. G. HARiiPER, L--. Value of Slave L-abor--Extract No. 3. liaving now ascertained the effect of this policy upon the lprice of. our great staple, we upon nuW j.. iW, aii 3t tar as p vosio is ue paradloxical proposition put forth in the Report of the Save .'rade COuimitte.:, as to the effect of the imp.rtation upon the niegro property ;lready in the county. In reviewing the run sonlinog of that Report also, up1on1 the subject of populatiu and chealp labor, this sulject in Iident,dlv caie to li-sht in s-ver:d points of view, and some observ.ittions were made which would be c'jtully just and uppropriate in this conniIex'ion. Noiw the reduction of the. valu of nie*.zro labor, by, rednetilt.: the prico of cot ton and the value of the ne.gro's pro.aetive labar, is a monre direct strokgt the interests of this institution thani the mere ..ver-a.tocking of thu m, urket, atnd it is a si roke fro,:n which it would ne :n.,re dilihe,,lt to ree iver. Tnue p~ricet of an arti,-le is its exchiangeable value. Tihe price of those coimm~oliti..s which perish inl thle use, cop-sisti f the cost of pro diuctionm plus the effect of supply and demand. The value ot real estate is estimanted by its produetivencss i-ither'in rents or tlhn pjroceeds of its fruits. And niegro property partakesi of Ithe ntatuire of realty to Bi:,me extenit, and its. price is estimated by its prodnetive value phis1 the utfeet of the anpply and demzand of' n~egro labor; and the deiimnd, as has bieen initi nated, is stimiuhaited or dereasetd by the valuie of its lpro)l ier-ivllesi. fo resloicI ie price of Cotton, thi-n, or othe1r prodlts of stave labor, is to rednee to the val ue of thle negro. It is absurd to 'talk ab itt cheaptl cotton without inrolvingr the~ idea of cheap negro larbor; and equally absurd to think ot' cheap ne.;ries withut thle iietl of' cheapness in the products of their labor. Thle moist:rk - male by somet in the Somth -rnz Convention, who advocanted the Slave T'rade upotn the grnaima that it would furnis' cheaper neigroecs, wars, flhat they deniie-l that lis produictiie vatlue would bet c-hiapeuu.d when lie uwas mai~de.eheap. Thei~ one is ini.41.parilble fromi the utiier. To'. talk abonut bttving nieptoes at $:300~, wheni the. pr..daet ot' hislabor i.4 the samte that it itow is. wouild be~ to udeal inl fala cies anmd sopliistrie.s to.) apparetnt foir the most illiterate tiller of Southern soil. The elemnenits that enter ioto the value Qf a negro, the figures by which lhe is bought and sold, are too well uderstood and kniown froma exp rienice. Even an inicreased~ supply would ho voni..4ttily e'mmltertleted. i i(in acpsing UeL1elivb this sitgr ca4nii, if thmat cause remnained the .ise,~a tn.l was no~t itse!I(remt.uvdu be reduttion of the prie of praduee, Anldi u~s tum va1l prl,ita nre1ig f-rm time dif.;rtence io lho cost of the Afrticansi itmporited and the puirchase muoney here- wvould lie r.::tpa I bty thy~ ki lonp per, and -I by.tl ther S.'mhercun pl.uit.-r w-ho 1.ur cha~tsedi hiun. 11e wortld' lbe s-jhl here hiv thet ,uile of h i roihteiiti Vah :ulei, andl i say th..t heC wed:M be. somet itheaper, biecause lie lpre. seted "a cheapeur foirm of' slave labor,'' or, in other words, because lie could do but pour work, is to imiscoinceivetheimnp.>rt of the term; tor a negro who sells for leaa than other negros, only iAs piroportioni to his worthlessness, is no chieaper', though you should buy him at $300. It' that is the idea, there are cheap formes of slave labor already ini our mnidst. ~t eaninot requlire mlor~e arguiientt to estah lish this point. It is clear that thiose who are .ioping for cheap slave labor, on the one ha~nd, and high prices f'or their produicts on t heu oftier, are hui ggimg to their bos-uis a delusive phai toml of Souitherni prosperity. Take~i it, thetn, that thiin'is true, andI let us see what would be the consequeiice, reasonling uont the hypothesis of S$0 as the price of a ingr.a, which was the amuntt mentionted by a gentleman in the Southern Conjtvention, asl a resutlt desirable and itttainable hy the A frican Slave Trade. The three anid a half million o1 iegroes we now possess are worth, at their presenit valuation, more than three times what tthey woul be worth after the reduction of field hands to $300. So that, whenl six mil lions arut added by that policy to our present nuimber, the negro profperty of the Southern State~s wold be worth no more than it is at presenut upioa Ai. ,,lautiona. Would the South ga.ini by the exchange in numbers? Agatin, if a negro now is n o:th in Alabama or Mississippi four hundred dollars a year1 he would then be worth one hundred. It in Georgia or South Carolina hie is now worth e., 6-,~1An11m a)W un-.is nanade