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. .4 "WE WILL CLING TO THE PILIARS OF THE TEXPLE O OUR LI3ERTIEB, AND IF IT MUST PALL, WE WILL PERISH AMIDST THE RUINS." SIEKINS, DURISOE & MO., Proprietors. EDGEFIELD, S. C AY 11, 1859. VOLUME XXNJ.-O. 18. From the Southern Literary Messenger. "Willie.--Meet me in Heaven!" It was a morn in Spring The dowers were dressed in all their brightest bloom Sheddingtheirfragrancethroughthed.arkenodroom Where Death stood lingering. A young disciple lay With folded arms upon her dying bed, And friends drownear with light and noiseless tread, To hear the sufferer pray. "Saviour !" she whispered low, "Let me thy blessed will, in faith obey, And guard my spirit, as it soars away, But heal his fearful woe! "Soothe all his grief and pain Let him with Faith's consoling hopes be blest, And guide him to thy house of blissful rest, Where we may meet again." Then turning to those near, She waved her hand&-and with beseeching tone, She asked that she might now be left alone With the chief mourner, there. And as, with anguish bowed He knelt beside her bed, and heard her speak Her last farewell, and kissed her fading check, Calmly, she said aloud, " Willie !-my race is run And now I am to leave this earthly sphere This world of sin and sorrow, pain and care My work on earth is done. " Meet me in that bright land Where grief no more shall come, and troubles cease, Where dwelleth holiness, and love, and peace, And joy at God's right hand. " May grace to thee be given To follow me, to purer worlds away My Saviour calls me home-I cannot stay WILuI! xzrTNZ I RHAvN!" - CLAUIL Charleston, S. C. Heroic Conduct of a Missouri Girl. -0 The Sunday Times has lately given a sort of romantic history of an event which occur red in Southwestern Missouri not many years ago. The facts are gleaned from a rep-rt of the trial of Mary Silmore for murder. The writer of the article says that he was himself counsel for the heroine, on her trial, and the principal events related are on record in the archives of the Circuit Court of Jasper Coun ty, Missouri. On the 4th of July, 1840, the lynchers of Jasper were all in motion. The captain of +be-band had made a reqisition for their whole force, and, accordingly, full two hun dred, completely armed and equipped, assem bled at the court house as the point of de parture on their desperate expedition. They were all well dressed, mounted on strong, serviceable horses, and might be termed a respectable looking set of men fur the back woods. Their captain, John MayS, in par ticular, was a splendid fellow, at least in physical appearance. Tall, graceful and com -manding, he was fitted to adorn the drawing room as well as the battle field. One of those changeable beings so' numerous in the far west, where any profession may be assumed at will without preliminary training. He had been first a bee hunter, then a Methodist p reacher, then a doctor, then a lawyer. le He was now "a fighter" and, on account of -his astonishing prowess in this new occupa tion, had recently been elected to the cap. taincy of the lynchers, in the place of a pre decessor killed. The company left the court house, which, on the frontier, is the public hail for all sorts of meetings, and set out on their campaign at ten o'clock in the morning. It was a fine sight to see them skimming away over the green sward of the level prairie, their hunt ing shirts streaming in the wind, and their guns glittering in the sunshine. Many spec tators, collected to celebrate the glorious day, witnessed their departure, and many predict ed that they would not return as they went.. As for the lynchers themselves, they seemed to labor nnder no gloomy apprehensions, as the following conversation (sworn to after wards in open court) will show: Tom Barker.-Well, captain, do you think old Silmore will stand up to the sticking point this bout?~ Captain.-No, by J-and General Jack son! (His favorite oath.) Have we not whipped him three times already, until there is not an inch of his hide, from the neck to the hills, that does not bear the deep scars for our hickories ? Barker.-Very true, captain; but then they say that he now keeps twelve loaded guns, and as many pistols, always by his head, and swears he will never he taken any more alive. Uaptain.-I don't care if he had fifty can nons. The old rogue is a coward, and a cow ard would not fight if he could be armed with thunder. Barker.-Yes; but they also say that pret ty Mary, his younger daughter, has been practicing lately, and can shoot nearly as well a~s her father. May be she will take it into her head to give a pop of powder and lead. At this singular intelligence Captain Maya turned pale, and drawing a long breath whic's sounded very similar to a love sigh, answered in a softer and sadder tone-" What a pity that such a beautiful creature as Mary should be the child of a thief and counterfeiter." Barker (with a smile.)-I am told that she used to be your sweetheart. Captain.-I loved her as my own soul, and am satisfied that she loved me until I jouined the lynchers, and then she never would speak to me again. But that must have been the work of her infernal father, and il have his scalp for it yet. Barker-They say that she can cut off the head of a hawk with a pistol at ten paces. Captain.-That may all be as they say, but yet abe will never do harm to any hun man being. She is the most tender-heartedl woman God ever created. I wish you could have seen her weep at the death of her little a tdfawn, torn to pieces by the dogs, Barker.-That's no sign. Parson Brady. you remember, cried one day over his dead horse, and the next day killed Jack Coulker for calling him "Old Snuffler." rears arc as great a humbug as smiles, and I would'nt trust either farther than I could throw a blacksmith's antil. But tell me, captain, what shall we do with Silmore if wo catch him this time ? We have ordered him of' and he won't go; we have whipped him till he has no skin on his back, and yet he budges not. What are weto do? Captain.-Haiig him to a limb of the mug nolia mi his own yard. While the lynchers were on their way, let us antielpste their goal, and view the position of their enemy. :Immediately on the Southern bank of Spring River-, embowered in the shade of a dms AfamI u olas-the onl spec seen the log cabin of Lewis Silmore. The spot was surrounded by palings, enclosing some half an acre or more, to which the ap proach led through a whitewashed gate. Both above and below, by the rich bottom along the stream, bloomed fields and gardens, with other evidences of comparative wealth, and, among the number, half a dozen African slaves, who were buily employed with the plough and weeding-hoe. The owner of the farm was a Yankee-at all events such was the general belief. lie had emigrated three years previously, was poor at the period of his arrival, and acquired his property since by dishonest practices. In fine, he was a counterfeiter, whose ingenuity and caution were alike remarkable, that it was impossible to procure his conviction in a court of justice. A striking example may serve to illustrate his extraordinary cunning. Silmore was arrested about a year before the date of the visit by the lynchers soon to be described, and brought to trial for pasring spurious money to the amount of five thou sand dollars, which he had given in payment for -a drove of slaves. The proofs on the part of. the State were positive against him, and there seemed no chance for his escupe. But to the astonishment of everybody, he intro duced as a witncss of his innocence one of the most reputable men in the county, who swore " that somemouths anterior, the pris oner at the bar had staid over night at his house, and that in the morning, when they both walked out to the gate, Silmore ex claimed, looking towards the public road, "Yonder some traveler has lost his pocket book," and running to the place, picked it up, when it was found to contain five thou sand dollars in bank bills the same then pro duced in Court. That the numbers were ta ken down by witness, at prisoner's request, and an advertisement inserted in the Spring field newspaper, with an accurate account of the finding." This was conclusive, and the accused accordingly received an acquittal. What a rogue's ruse was here !-what fertili ty of invention 1-to lose his own counterfeit money, and then find it in the presence of a credible witness, so as to have proof for any contingency. The log cabin of Silmore, on that bright 4th of July before. specified, presented in dubitable tokens of preparation for some ex danger. The door was shut and. fastened with strong woodn bars on the inside. Sev eral port holes, with the black muzzles of guns bristling through.their apertures, might be noticed in the walls as well as doors. Within, the scene was worthy of a painter. Intently watching towards the South, through a small crevice left between the logs, sat the counterfeiter-a slight, well favored, grey haired man, with restless, rolling, and very bright black eyes, and a disagreeable puck ered expression about the corners of the mouth. Close beside him were his wife and elder daughter, Eliza, both in tears. But that creature of grace and beauty, the sylph like Mary, whose charms forned the topic of wonder and admirition for the whole country around, although not yet sixteen, neither trembled nor wept but constantly examined the guns-saw that there breeches were pro perly supported on chairs and tables, and that their deadly dark muzzles were pointed di rectly at tue gate. Sbe looked at the prim ing in the pans, fixed fresh caps on the tubes of the pistols, and laid bowie-knife and hatchet in places to be handy for sudden use. All this was proven on the subsequent trial. And yet still there was no appearance of unusual emotion perceptible on her counte nance, which was mild, calm, and sweet as ever. Near noon a column of horsemen became visible in the South, moving rapidly forward over the even prairie. The vision of ominous peril affected the inmates of the log cabin in different ways. The features of the counter feiter grew pale as marble. The mother and Eliza uttered suppressed cries, and entreated him to seek safet in flight across the river. " Never I" exclaimed the lovely Mary. " Never run from such a band of murderers. No, dear faher, defend your own house or die I I wiln help you defend it, and die with you." In a few moments their foes were at the gate. They alighted, hitched their horses to the palings, and were in the act of entering. The gate was fifty paces from the house. " Now, father, is the time to fire. Let us shoot sure and quick," said Mary, in a low and calm voice. But Silmore was in no state of mind to heed such excellent advice. His courage had vanished in the exact ratio of the enemy's ap. prach, until he stood pale, trembling, and powerless as an infant. " Why do you not shoot, father ?" asked Mary, with flashing eyes as the lynchers rush ed through the gate and hurried on towards the cabin, and the mother and eldest daughter screamed outright w ith terror. The father could not even answer, but sunk down, quaking on the floor. " Then let me shoot," cried the young heroine, springing to a gun, as the savage men advanced half way from the gate to the door. "No! no!" ar.iculated Silmore in tremiu os tones, so faizat as to be searcely an audi ble whisFer; and at the same instant the mother and Eliza caught Mary, and by main strength, with considerable difficeulty, preven ted her from firing-an act that, under the circumstances, would have looked like mad es I for what might the despairing bravery of a girl avail against two hundred of the most desperate lynchers in all the backwoods? Little time, however, was allowed for action, In a moment the door was beaten fronm i's hinges. The evengers entered and dragged the quivering couunterfetr fbrth, his .wife ana Eliza following after, and calling out in the ost piteous tonecs for mercy. The prayer was offered in vain-offered to ears as deaf to entreaty as the adders to the charms of music. " Let us hang the wreteh to the first limb I" shouted Captaini Mays. " Hang him to the first limb I" echoed two hndred voices. " Here is a rope," said the captain, drawing a strong cord from his pocket. " Mercy ! mercy !" " Climb uip into that magnolia, and tie one end of this to yonder swinging limb, while I fasten the other in a rnoose round the villain's ek ; and then when I give the word, pull him up six feet. Let him go off high and dry," ordered the chief lyncher. Bob Mays, a brother of' the captain, and another man ascende~d the old tree in the yard, as directed, one of them holding the rope between his teeth, while their leader pro eeded to adjust the noose on the fainting victim's throat. "' Mercy ! mercy I" Still arose that wailing cry, in shrieks dreadfully loud and shrill. " Take away these yelling wvomen I" said the cap~tain, as the two females ftll on their faes before him, and clasped their arms close ly about his knees. The command was executed, and as the rude murderers bore them of!', they both still screamed " mercy I" and Elhiza added, " Com cone, sister Mary, and beg tIle- captaiui for mery. Hc.,onced loved you so well, perhaps he will hear you." Mays turned pale and glanced his eyes towards the cabin. No one, however, was to be seen there, andl the door itself was again shu.L " Are you ready ?" inquired the chief look. ig into the tree-above him. # Mercyn raebm .h;.,...a t&. ....t.. feiter, as terror renewed partially the powi of speech. " Mercy I" cried the mother and Eliza seve al rods distant from the awful spot. " All ready!" said the executioners perche in the magnolia, tightening the fatal cord. "Then -" But the captain's voice wi drowned in those-screams for " mercy," an by a sudden shock of air, more terrible stil and far more difficult to withstand. " Boom I boom I" loud and heavy, two r ports, that roared almost together pealed froi the door of the log cabin. The girl Mary ha begun her work. The commencing sentence died on the cal tain's livid lip. He fell to the earth-a ghastl corpse, his head torn to pieces with bulleti and buck-shot, for the heroine had taken aii with a double-barrel gun, and had given th enemy both loads at once. "Boom! boom !" sounded two others, a the panic-stricken lynchers fled away in th most hopeless consternation, leaving on th bloody field, besides their dead captain, sevei al others badly wounded, and many of the! weapons cast behind them in their fligh Ind.. ed, so thorough was theii alarm, that the dared not return to their horses, or to bear o their slain, until they had first sent back committee of neigrhboring females to crav permission in the'humblest of terms. In the meantime, the short, -sharp crack of several rifles were heard. Mary was er deavoring to bring down the two lynchers i the magnolia, who had hastily ascended higi er up, and hidden deeper in the thick foliag -themselves now crying for "mercy" in thei turn. Through the interposition of the countei feiter, his wife and the elder daughter, th backwoods "Mfinerva" was finally induced t spare the rest. The news of this tragedy created, as ma well be conceived, a tremendous excitemeni and led to the abolition of lynching forever i the prairie land of Jasper; for the peopm everywhere, are always certain to take. side with extraordinary bravety, and, although th friends of the old regite of violence manage to have an indictment returned by the gran jury against Mary Silmore for the murder c Mays, she was acquitted afterwards on trial amidst the acclanations of five hundred spec tators. Much greater interest was manifeste in her favor, owing to the general belief the she was not apprised of her father's felloniou practices. The female members of the fami ly had been popular all the while, even whe1 the counterfeiter himself was universally exe crated. As we are not dealing in fiction, but naked unadorned truth, proven and sworn in a cour of justice we cannot gratify the reader's curi osity by any additional particulars as to th subse.quent history of Mary Silmore. Th writer shortly afterwards emigrated to Texa and has not since heard aught fromone whos beautiful image rises up often before the ey of memory. Why is "truth stranger than fiction 7 Because truth is from the wild, passionat living heart, while fiction is forged in the col crafty intellect. The one is wrought in figure of fire; the, other in embroidery of frost-wori A New Game. "Pool" is a game extravagantly indulge in at Buffalo. I he game is played on a'bi liard table, with twenty or thirty balls, eac ball numbered, the numbers running fror one up. A dozen or more can join the gam A certain number is fixed upon, and the pla] er who shall first pocket enough balls whos numbers will amount to it, wins the pile which is made up by the players staking certain amount each before the game -con mences. Previous to the commencemeni each player draws a marble from a box an puts it out of sight in his pocket. Thes marbles are all numbered to correspond wit numbers on the table. The player, after r( ceiving his narble, recollects the number, ani his game is to pocket balls enough, the nun bersi of which added to that of the marble il his pocket will make the number which win the pile. The Republic tells a good story of an ac venture an old gent passionately fondc '-ol had, a few nights ago. He is occi sionally given to chance in other games, iti intimated. Well, he came home very lat from a seige at " pool." His wife was asleei When she awoke in the morning she foun upon the floor a marble which had droppe out of her husband's pocket when he camet bed, upon which were the figures "17. " What is this ?" said she to her lord. Lor opened his eyes, looked, blushed, was confuses and stammered " why-why---it's marble, aim it ?" " Yes," said she, " but 'what are ye doing with a marble in your pocket ?" " I my pocket l-well-ah I-the fact is, I've ha that marble in my pocket for the last thirty-fiv years-ever since I used to ,play for .keep with Bill -." " Indeed I" ineredulousl asked his wife-but what are these figures o here for ? what does 17 mean ?" "17 mean ? said he hesitatingly-" Oh ! 17 ?-why the was the number of marbles Bill owed in when we quit playing, he marked it on ther so I wouldn't forget it." The old fellow ha a narrow escape, and hasn't played any mor " pule" since. " Pick up de Stobe" A correspondent, writing from Washingto: Pa., says: " Like most other small towns, we hav here a "cullered church," where a great mano amusing things are said, exhilaratimg to th spirits of a few who occasionally visit oti "ilayti" meeting houses. "1{ayti" is th name given to that part of the town wher ".p -ssons of color" reside. One winter evi ming, when the "cenllered preacher was in th midst of his sermon, making a most violeri if not a most eloquent appeal to his hearern one of the stove legs fell out, and, as a nati ral consequence, the red hot store tipped ove at an angle alarmingly suggestive of fire The audience of course commenced crowdin out of the door like sheep. But the preache was equal to the occasion. Addressing on of his prominent members, he cried out " Piek up de stobe, brudder Bolah I piel up de stobe ! De Lor' won't let it burn you Only-hab faith I" Poor brother Bolah had unfortuately to much faith, and immediately seized it, al glowing as it was ; but tto sooner had his fit gers come in contact with the fervent iror than he dropped it again, and dancing aroun on one foot, blowing his skinles4 lingers, h exclaimed, with all the energy which he coul throw into his voice " De debil he won't I De debil he won't! KEEPriNG A SE~carE.-Neighbor Wilso caught a cooper stealing some hoop-pole which he had just got ready for market. Th cooper was astounded, and offered Farmer 1 ten dollars not to mention the fact, which pri positioti, duly backed by the montey, was ai eepted. But that same evenmng, wheni 14 Wilson, the cooper, and a lot of their mutm neighbors. were talking politics at the villag grocery, the former turnted to a friend an asked-. " Did I ever tell you, neighbor Jenks, th~ I caught the cooper here stealing my hooj poles?" The cooper betrayed his guilt by blushin crimson, amnd the party addressed declared, reply " You never did l!" " Well, theni, addled Mr. Wilson, I nevi will, for I prnmnised him I wouldnm't I" The next day, a first-rate cooper settled I a neeghborng villaje. Hard Shell Whiskey. This may perhaps strike our readers as r rather a curious name for the ardent, yet there is an article that bears that name, d When we were in Oglethorpe the other day,' Mr. A. A. Lowe, of that city, presented us a ,3 bottle thus labelled-!' English's Hard Shell d Whiskey, made in Sumter county." Wo I, were informed that it derives its name.of " Hard Shell" from the fact that it is made by a Hard Shell Baptist. This is prima facie n if not conclusive evidence that it is pure un d adulterated whiskey. For whatever may be said and thought of some of the tenets of this denomination we think it is generally ad Y mitted that, for plain common every day s honesty, they have no superiors. In our opin-, 1n ion, they are, as a body, not only more honD e est, but in those opinions which relate to thei affairs and business of life, more nearly righti 9 than any other body of people in the world; e they are particularly so as to the principles e of government. We will venture the opinion that there is not in the United States a sin r gle Hard Shell Baptist who is an abolitionist, a protective tariff, or internal improvement V man-not one who is in favor of a State sys tem of education or of State aid, or in favor ' of corporations of any kind, or of any of thid a partial legislation which is intended to use the power of the government to give to one man an advantage over another. They are an honest people who desire to do justice to 3 all men. There are therefore very few if any of them who would adulterate whiskey; in fact there are some of them who, it is said, r do not like even to put too much water in it. By.the way, some time ago we were laugh ing at one of our hard shell friends, about the charge that is sometimes made against 3 them, that it is one part of their creed that they must drink, if not get drunk. He re plied to us in this wise. Said he-"It is not that the members of our church get drunk any oftener than those of other chure- .- w, but that more notice is taken of it. Let one of our members get drunk, and he is obliged to be dealt with.- It is the duty of every other member if he knows or hears of it to prefer f charges against him, and they are sure to do it, and he has to come up publicly before the church and make confession so that every body hears'of it; but you let a Methodist, or a Soft Shell Baptist, or a Presbyterian, or an Episcopalian get drunk, and if he ain't so drunk that he can't walk, or- unless it is so public that every body knows it, somebody will take him off and put him to bed or hide him away in a back room. They may per haps give him a private talk, if he is not a. very prominent member, but they don't bring him up to a public trial, for fear of scandal izing the church. But you let them all try their members for getting drunk like we do, and you will hear of as much drunkenness in any of the rest of them as amongat the Hard Shells." It struck us that there might be a good deal more of truth than of poetry in.this. view of the case. But to the whiskey. We think it is pretty well settled that the a people of this country will use alcoholic stim ulants; they have done it at lea.-t as lung as we can remember, 'and the indications -are that they will do it for. some time to come. And since that is settled, it is important tiat some attention should be directed to the character of the article that is used. We have no doubt that the evil, even of its ex cessive use, would be greatly diminished by using only the pure article. There- is more importance in this idea, in a w.>ril point of view, than is generally attached to it. It would be no inconsiderable improvtement of morals of the country to put a stop to the frauds and the crimes that are committed in the adulteration and poisioning of the liquors of common use, and much would be accom e plished in this way if those who deal in them would purchase and sell such, and such only, as they knew to be pure.-Corner Stone. 2 WHAT THEY WONT OWN To.-A witty writer s says: "There are several things which you never can by any accident get a lady-he she tyoung or od-to confess to." Here are some f of them :-That she laces tight. That her Sshoes are too small for her. That she is ever s tired at a ball. That she paints. That she e is as old as she looks. That she has been 1.more than five minutes dressing. That she i kept you waiting. That she blushed when a I certain person's name was mentioned. That 0 she ever say's a thing she doesn't mean. That she is fond of scadal. That she can't keep a Ssecret. That she-she of all persons in the Iworld-is in love. That she doesn't want a tnew bonnet. Teat she can .do with one single athing less when she is about to travel. That Sshe hasn't the disposition of an angel, or the Stemper of a saint, or how else could she go e through one half she does ? That she doesn't a know better than every one else what is best i for her. That she is a flirt or coquette. That a she is ever in the wrong. ereTrx greatest instance of- impudence on ianrcod is that of a Yankee, 'vho, in an Ital i a city, stopped a religious procession, in e order to light his cigar from one of the holy candles. Ere the procession recovered from its astonishment, the audacious smoker had disappeared. 4 A father was winding his watch, when he said playfully, to his little girl, "Let mns awinti your ndhe up I" No," said the child, i "I don't want my nose wound uip, for I don't e want it to run all day." e "?IN~ you tell me, Sambo, de key to de pros B perity of d e Souf I" " Kfey to prosperity of de Soul? B3Igwords, SJuno: guess you must hab be.en eating mas-. t a's dicksrunary. (Golly, I ain't larned nuff~ to answer dat. " Well, chile, 'tis de darkey." SWuEN the Earl of Bradford was brought r before the Chancellor to be examined upon a application for a statute of lunacy agamnst him, the Chancellor asked him: k "'How many legs has a sheep red ! "Does your lordship mean, ansre Lord Bradford, "alivo ahpep oradieadsheep?" a" Is it not the same thing ?" said the Chan-. 1 cellor. " No, my lord," said Lord Bradford, "there , is much difference. A live sheep may have I four legs, a dead sheep has but two ; the two e fore-legs are shoulders, but there are hut two legs of mutton." "A PaITs-rs's Assepo-r E.-It used to be re lated of Corporal Nymn, a printer, well knowm a for many years in this town as being more s remarkable for his odd humor than the length e of his purse, that-while he was travelling from Lowell to Bostoi, he was met by a highway man, who politely (as is the custom of those gentry) demanded his purse. " My dear sir." q uoth Coorod Nvmn, " I perceive you doni't Iknow me I' "That is nothing to the purpose, e sir,-give up your purse immediately," deman - d ded the highwayman. The Corporal repeated with earnestness which could not be misun t derstood,-"P1ositively you don't know me." . " Well," said the highwayman, somewhat sur prised at the manner of the Corporal, " who the devil are you ?" "Why, i'm a printer." "A printer did you say I Whiew 1--'mi ff dry pickingq! P'Ltepaper. r kit- HE who forgots the fountain from which he drank, and the troes nder whoso shade ho a gambld ithe days of his youth, Is betaatran Per kethostrsetiuiessekasefabS~eseei The Late Dr. Abner Landrum. Ma. EDITOR: YOu will please publish tht following notice of the late Dr. Landrnm which is suggested by the aunouncemuent o his death, at his residence in the sand hills near Columbia, April 3, 1859: He was born in Edgefield District, in the vicinity of the village, and bears a name whick in that enlightened community has been long associated with honesty, industry and the sterling virtues which distinguish the good citizen. Dr. Landrum received his education t the celebrated academy of -the Rev. Moses Waddel in Abbeville. Having a good uu derstanding and large industry, those of ny readers who have heard the name of that re. nowned teacher, will feel no surprise when I say that he.returned to his home with a mind well stored with elementary knowledge. He determined to pursue the medical profession, and with that view entered the office of one of the most distinguishe.l physicians of Augusta, Georgia. Other pursuits, however, became more attractive to him, and in a short time he abandoned the practice of medicine for the more quiet vocation of the planter. Here he displayed great energy and industry. He believed that science could be brought to bear in the culture of the ground, and to this end he engaged largely in experiment. I will not say that he reaped any pecuniary reward, for 1 know otherwie ; but I will say that he was among the first to direct the attention of the people of Edgefield to scientific arriculture; rand that in his case, as in nany, others have reaped the benefit. Dr. Landrum is the fath. er of the pottery businas in Edgefield, having established a manufaetory near the town of Edgefield, at a place which, in the progress of time, became a large and flout ishing village, known as Potteraville. I trust that I will give no offence to the citizens -of the ancient and worthy town of Edgefi.d, if I add that little village, which at first seemed but a speck in the distant heavens, increased to such dimen sions as to threaten to overshadow it, and rob it of its brightness and glory. There was a time when Pottersville boasted a population of hundreds; when to the factory were added hotels and stpres, of every description, the shops of various artisans, a carriage manufac tory, a school-house and a church. Bat this is not all. The editor of the Edgefield Ad vertiser, that most wo.thy and intelligent gen. tleman, who is ever ready to battle for the renown of his ancient city, will pardon me for reminding his readers that there was a period within the memory of man when her .citizens looked to Potter.sille for food for the body and light for the mind. Never shall I forget that Pottersville was once a youug incinnati; that she slaughtered hogs by the thdusand; that she had houses filled with the precious substance, which makes rich blood and strong muscles, and that a vast, multitude, pa by day, repaired to the spot, as if to a hfy shrine, to make iti adorations. But still more. Time was when the cheer. g light of the Adrertiser had not burst upon e world-when, to drop metaphor, no news pape was published in the town of ilgofield. he " Suth Caroluna Republican," the - Ciaro. inian", no longer had existence in that com uity. Was it noa period of darkness? IPi.ottersville she looked, and from that vil. age went forth the light of civilizaton. The reader will pardon the train of thought in which I have indulged. The only paper in that portion of the State was published and edited by Dr. Landrum, and I think he con ducted it with great ability. In its latter days, it bore the name of the "Edgefie d Iiee. Let not the town of Edgefield forget its in debtedness; let it hold Pottersville in eternal remembrance. It lived freely upon the ioney from its hive; anld no less a person than Gray tells us: "The bees collected treasures sweet, - but sweeter yet Tbe still amall voice of gratitude." This was the period of the great nullifica tion struggle. Dr. Landrum espoused the cause of the Union party, and was largely in the minority in the commniiy where he re sided. But he attracted the attention of the Union party of the State, and was invited to .olumnbia by a committeo of that party, to take charge of a newspaper. Accepting the invitation, he removed to that place in 1831. There he labored with great zeal, but on the termination of the controversy, dissolved his connection with the press. While conducting his paper, he had the honor of beiug elected State Printer, and he discharge~d his duty with great fideliry. H~e retired to the sand hills about 1837,'and fromt that period to his death, was engaged in the occupation of a planter and the manufacture of pottery-ware. Dr. Landrm was known to the whole (com tmunity of Columbia. It was his misfortune, if it be a misfortune, to be poor, and enga;;ed in an humble occupation. hut poverty s niot a crime. Distinguished for his intelligence, his industry and his integrity, no one was more respected. He was a man of rare vir tuecs. His personal morality was unexcep tionable, and he has left to his family a le~gacy far more valuable than gold or silver.-Caro linian. - - Pretty Fair. Dr. Nichols, writing from Mobile to the Boston Pilot, concludes as follows: "~ If I could only bring all Northern and Southern men together, and get them to knaow each other, all their bItterness would be at an end. If Greely, and Seward, and Phillips, and Garrison, could but lIve here and knowa these people, how different would be their Isan. guage in regard to them. I speak, of course, upon the supposition that they are all honert, and not utterly fttnatical anid insane, I do nlot shut tny eyes to the falts of the South erners or the South. I have no mission to he the optimist, or propagaizdist, or even the de fender of the peculiar institution, in the ab. stract or the concrete. But I do say that]I would sooner trust this whole question to the generous good hearts of the South, than to the fanatical phariseeism of the North." TaxY have a sharp set of fellows in Kansas city. We heard a good story of a trick played by one of the residents of that city a short time ago. A lean,, lank, shallow-faced indi. vidual, rode a mule into Kansas city, and wanted te sell him. A genius standhag by, offered to sell him for five dollars. The offer was taken, and the mule disposed or. the auc tioneer warranting a good title. Thu pturcha ser scarcely got his mule home, when a Shaw nee Indianceamo into thae city in .search of a mule that had been stolen fromn him. The~ auctioneer was on hand again, and offered to show the Shawnece where the manle was, if he would plank down a V. The Indian paid, and the auctioneer after pointing out the mule, went to the new purchaser; and told him how the case stood, at the same time offering to run the mule across the river for ten dollars. The bargain was struck, and the auctioneer mounted the mule, and that is the last that has been seen of the auctioneer or mule. TuE SoUiRCE OF TUE NItL--ANOTHER Ex PEDITION.-A letter from Marseilles states that a fresh expedition haa heen organize-l for discovering the source of the Nile. The expedition is conduzcted by M. Miani, a Ve netian, who has inhabited Cairo for the last ten years. He is amember of the Geographi al Society of Paris, and the author of a mar of the Valley of the Nile. He has carefully studied the various difficulties attending this perilous enterprise. M. Miani is supplied with a formidable material and his escort is tc benumerous. He takes wah bim a quwtitj er Vwmeh Warinkan. Parody on Ben Bolt. Oh, don't you remember the b'hoys, Jim Hohes, The b'hoys with norei so reed? Who drank with delight wherever they met, And always went drunk to bed: In the old grave-yard, in the edge of the town, In corners obscure and alone, They have gone to rest; for the gay young sprigs Have dropp't off, one by one. Oh, don't you remember the jag, Jim Holmes, And the spring at the foot of the hill ? Where oft we have lain, thro' the hot sum'r hour, And drank to our utmost fill; The spring is filled with mud, Jim Holmes, And the wild hogs root all around, And the good old jug, with ita whiskey so sweet, Lies broken and spilled on the ground. Oh, don't you remember the tavern, Jim Holmes, And the bar-keeper kind and true, And the little nook at the end of the bar, Where we drank the wine that he drow: The taverh is burned to the ground, Jim Holmes, *The bottles are cracked and dry, And of all the b'hoys who spreed it then, There remains, Jim, but you and L Presence of Mind and Cmmon Sense. If a man faints away, says Hall's Journal of Health, instead of yellitg out like a savage, or running to him to lift him up, lay him at full length on his back, on the floor, loosen the clothing, push the crowd away, so as to allow the air to reach him, and let him alone. Dashing water over a person in a simple fainting fit is a barbarity. The philosophy of a fainting fit is that the heart fails to seud the proper supply of blood to the brain ; if the person is erect, that blood has to be thrown up hill, but. it lying down it has to be projec ted horizontally, which requires less power, as is apparent. If a person swallows poison deliberately or by chance, instead of breaking out into multi tudinous or incoherent exclamations, dispatch some one for the doctor!; meanwhile run to the kitchen, get half a glass of water in any thing that is handy, put ii.to it a teaspoonful of salt and as much ground mustard, stir it In an instant, catch a firm hold of the person's nose; the mouth will soon fly open-then down with the mixture; and in a second or two up will come the-poison. This will an swer better in a large number of cases than any other. If, by this time the physician has not arrived, make the patient swallow the white of an egg, followred by a eup of strong coffee, because these nullify a larger number poisons than any other accessible articles as antidotes for any poison that may remain in the stomach. If a limb or other part of the body is severely cut, and the blood comes -out by spurts or jerks, be iu a hurry, or the man will be dead in five minutes; there is no time to talk or send for a physician-say nothing; out with your handkerchief, throw it around the limb, tie the two ends together, put a stick through them, twist it around tighter and tighter, until the blood ceases to flow. But to stop it does no good. Why ? Because only a severed artery throws blood out in jets, and the arteries get1heir blood-fromi the teart ;- hunee, to the flow the remedy must be applied between the heart and the wounded spot-in other words, above the would. If a vein had been severed, the blood wound have flowed in a regular stream, and, on the other hated, the tie should be applied below the wond, or on the other side of the wound from t e heart; hecanse the blood in the veins IIow towards the heart, and there is no need of so great a hurry. -4 The Point of a Speech Spoiled. A good ttory is told by sonebody of the manner in which a member of the Legislature of one of the New England States was "sold" by a wag lately. The Legislator it seem, was in the habit when speaking upon any subject in which be was deeply interested, of playing with heis spectacles, which he womud twirl around in heis fingers, then lay them down, and finally place them on his nose, and remove them fromi that position to the top of his fore head. One day a very important question came up in the Legislature, an~d the fidgety gentlemean began a speech in oppositi on to the proposed measure. A friend to thme pro ject, who was somewhat of a wag, determnined that he would speoil the effect of what the honorable gentleman haed to saey. So bcefore the speaker enetered the houese, atfter a recess, he provided heimself with a dozen pair ot -spectacles. The meember comennced his speech with his usunl ability. But a few nmo mnents elacpsed, before he was at work with his spectacles, aned finally gut thn-em upon. his forehead. At this juncture, our wag, who stood ready, laid another pair on the desk he fore the speaker. These were takenm, and gradueally gainted a place on his roreheadi by the aide of the others. A third, fourth, aned filth were disposed of ine the same manneler. A semile settled upon the counectnnee-s of the hotnorabele members, which grauaclly lighted tp ten a greet, amid at lasft, whetn the speaker had warmed tup ineto one of his most patriotic and elegant s&etences, he deposited a sixth pair with the others, there was a loud and long pecal of laeugheter from all peartt of the room. President. clerk., moembere, all joined in the chorua, The ipeker looked around In as toieishmoet ajthis curious interrapetion; but raislig hise hand, he grasped his speetuacles, and the whn!a rerce torthei joke ruishedl upon hiis mlid, lIe dashed the glatsms uipoln the floor, took hsis hat anud hll the hatl1. The bill was passed hr a large macijorty, p roblably ine coneseqttnce f' the gentleemne's silly aend uise How 'ra iecItaoe:Miii not birr ov 'rens Wne.L.. -A few years ago, Prof. - nf Bowdloin College, was overseer of the building of the High School house, in Brunswick, Me. In the cellar of the same was a well, walled with brick, whose aides were consequently smooth. One day, being left alone in the building, he went down to the cellar, and in haste, uncon sciously attempted to walk over the well, and as 'eneonsciously fell into it. Here was a predicame~nt for any one possessing no more immortality than a college professor; stand ing in five feet of water-at the bottom of a 'well sixteen feet. deep--at the bottom of a deep cellar-wit h no soul in hearing distance 1 A fter shouting himself,beoarse, he betheought himself of a *piece of chalk-a renmnant of the last recieationi-whuich he applied to the walls to solve his situastion. The statement of the question was-let x equal how I shall get out; y equal depth of water ; z equal dis tance to the water,-and by means of his knowledgte of Algebra, he actually worked himself out, wonderfully showing the power of mathematics. WONDRs OF THE HEAnT-You may go into a ball room, writes the author of ' Hu man Nature," where there are two hundred woman. One hundred and nine'y-nine of them you will p ass with as much indifference as one hundred and ninety-nine pullets, but the two htundredfth draws you irresistibly to her. There are a hundred handsomer and ninety-niene cleverer ones presenct, but she alone has the magnet that attracts you. Now what is the magnet ? Is it leer voice that strikes on a thiousand and one chords of your nerv ous system, and makes it vibrate as sound does hollow glass? Or do her eyes affect you so that yote have no time to reflect, and no opportun'ity for your head to digest the notions they have pit into it ? Or is it scel . mamam r ht ndhIW$misen i t? WAR UNAVOlDABLE.-The editors of the New Orleans Commercial Advertiser have been permitted to make the following extract from a private letter, written by an American gentleman now on the -continent "of Europe to his friend in the city of New York, the writer being in a position to observe correctly the current of affairs: " In spite-of the congress to be assembled, there will be no peace. Neither France nor Austria wants peace. The peace party of Europe is confined to the Derby miistry in England, to the anti-Austrian Regency party in Berlin, and to the stock exchange. The Derby ministry is now powerless.. Russia will remain neutral until Austria is attadked at home, and Russia aims at nothing but the humiliation of Austria. " War ii necessary even in a financial point of view. It is the only means of avoiding national bankruptcy, the only decent excuse for not paying the interest on the public debt in Austria, or making a new loan in France. The war, however, may be confined to Au;ria and France. In no case will the Emperor of France provoke a coalition." Juno JoHN A. CAMPBELL OX THE SLAVE TRADE AND FILLIBUsTEsBsm.-Hon. John A. Campbell, Judge of the United States Circuit Court, says the New Orleans Bulletin, deliv ered a charge to the Grand Jury at the open ing of tAt Court for the Southern District otf Alabiamna, at Mobile, on Tuesday last, t he 12th nst, which is one of the ablest and most de cded that we have ever read. - It is devoted exclusively to.the Slave Trade and Fillihuster isn. and re-asserts more pointedly and em phatically than before all the general positiuns which the same fearless, honest and indepen dent Jurist assumed in refbrence to these sub jects in his charge to the Grand Jury - at the same place some months ago. His charge occupies three columns in the Mobile Adver tiser, and was delivered as the papers there inform us, with an earnestness that elicited profound attention. The Judge is thoroughly in earnest, and intends that no far as it de pends on him the law.shall be fully execnted in letter and spir*t. That this course of Judge Campbell will raise him in the estimation of the great mass of respectable and intelligent citizens of the country, South and North, East, and West, irrespective of party. cannot be for a moment doubted. He has shown himself the incorruptible and the fearless udge, who plainly lays dowt the laws and alls upon his sworn co-associates to perform their whole duty in executing them to their ullest extent, He examines the 81ave Trade and he finds it in fact, as well as in the opin' iins of the great men of the country, past and i resent, North and South, as well in the words they have uttered in regard to it, as the awa they have helped to frame to crush, it to partake of the nature of piraey, and he so re trards it. He quotes the language of many distinguished Southern men, refers to the trea. ties of all civilized nations for the purpose of iuppressing it, and to the rigor of the laws of the United Sates f6the same end, an'd declares that "the public conscience has sanctioned the rigor of the laws.,, MAssAcrsETs LAwYEas.-It appears by tbie an&ed-thavbeami ebeaz Massachusetts are so loose in thseir' nandial rrangements with plaintiffs, that the Legisla. ture regarded it necessary to pass a law comn pelling them to disgorge. funds received for their clients instead of pocketing them. " Among the laws passed by the Legislature of Massachusetts, at its late sessicn, was one relating to the "Collection of money frand ulerntly withhe'd by Attorneys-at-law," which declares that "if any attorney-at-law shall unreasonably neglect to pay any money col. lected by him for and in behalf of any client, when demanded by the client, lie shall forfeit and pay to such client five times the lawful interest of the money fr.m the time of the demand until it is paid." A clause i& added to the Act for the punishment of frau ulent debtors, by which if ani Attorney is under arrest for nmoney collected by him of the debtor in behalf ot' the creditor, that he has unreasonably neglected to pay over, lie shall not receive his discharge under the provi sions of the act concerning imprisonent for ebt, except by giving bonds for the paynent f the due, with costs." A Cuamsr-LIKE SusT:r.rr.-Rev. Dr. Johns, an Episcopanl clergyman in Baltmore, aavs of "excess'ive denanminationalism," SWherever this goes beyond hove for ,-ouls, soiethinmg is wrong. Sn. feairful sin I of this spirit, that I have been accustomedt for years, in passing a house of other denowniniation than my own, to lift my heart to God in prayer for that minister anid his people." Ur. Johns Was in the prime of his useful ness, say between 40 amnd 50, when, on Good Friday, he was cut uoff by the handt of death. The nma may die, but so true a Christian charit,-a truth so exaulted and so well ex prese,-onghat to live forever~, bouth in our apprciation and our practice.-New York Express. - A FABLv.-A young man once picked iipa sovereign lyinif in the road. Ever afterward as he walked aong, he kept his eye steadfastly ixed on the ground,'in hopes of finding an other. And in the course of a long life he did pick up at different times a good amount of gold and silver. But all these days as he was looking for them he saw not that heaven ws bright ab~ove him, antd namie bietutifli around him, lie never once alsnwed ble cye to look uip from the mudh nn filth in which he sought the treasure iand wthen he died,. a rich old man, he only knew this fair eartb of out-s as a dirty road to pick tup money ats you walk Totvso AssacuA.-We have redeived a commendatory letter from one of the students of Columbia Colb-~ge, S. C., oraering our papier to his address, which he designates as " the southern rights paper of Alabama." The approbation of the college boys of the country of our efforts for the canse of the South, we value highly, for they will soon have in their own handa the destinies of the country.-Mo bile Mercury. On Monda iast,saysaPitsbrgh paper s. Strakoseh effected a definite engagement with M'lle Piccolomnini for five weeks at $10' 00 per month. Five thtousand dollars of the sum was p aid at the time the contract wat concluded to binid the bargain. It is to be the farwell engagenment for the petite prin ess in this country. " Ho:.n oX Dts, kfacuuie Mosn !"-The Piqa Register has the following in a recent issue, which we suppose to be perfectly relia Quite a revival is' now in progress at the African Church in this city. We .were pres et a few evenings since, and witnessed, with much gratification, their earnest devotion in the good cause. All seemed to feel the need of a more thorotugh reformation. Of the in cidents consequent, we cannot fail to note one. A brother was supplicating the throne of grace elognently, wtent another brother called out, in a stentorian voice: " Who dat prayipg ober dar?" The response was " Dat's brudder Mose." " Hold on dar, brudder Mose I" was the dictum of the former, " you let brudder Ryan pray ; he's better 'quainted wid de Lord dan you am 1" Brudder Mose dried up, and brudder Ryan prayed. It would be well for persons " better acquainted with the Lord," to'lead an. prayer stam aer iw mmi uemiie. Colo W1gehae We have beena induced to copy tha follow. ing paragraph fron the Gilmer Democrat , I from a convlt'ctn that it contain no small measure of truth. That Col. W4gfall is a gentleman of commanding talents, no one will pretend to deny, but at this ertiis in bur country, we do not consider purely intellectual capacity the only esential requisite In s ESouthern statesman. What the South now needs most is men . ho have not only the ability, but an independen-e and fiarlosness that cannot be overawed or iatimidated in the assertion of our rights, by charges of diant" ionism, of ultruista, d-e.. witri which the adv.' *cates of unlinited Rualuii,1ion ar endeavoring t overwhelhn ev.-ry etlurt of selfdefenace on our part, or of resist.-nee, to, the aggressions on a he Siouth. A flow years uge .we had oar Calhotia, and huncdre.Is of bold spirits who dared to a-tand up and warn our pweoprle of ap pruaching danger-but now Calhoun is gone, an1d Butler, Quitman, Rusk, Henderson adt .other champios of our r'ghts are no more, while their places seem to he supplied with men who think the advocacy of the Union, under all circumstances, is the only means, or at least the most effectual and safe means left us to protect ourselves from aggressions. The popular doctrine now seems to be that we tutisit take such union as our enemies choose t., give us, whether it is such -as our - fathers hut us or such as will mnake the South erma Im utly depenlentt onl the Nt.rth. The grat crisis is at hand -that will udeturaine .who are or are nut (tends t.f the .oul I. Thespoils of party are now in the hanads of our eneties -they have the ascendency-they have the controlling majorities t , scure patronage and power. We can now, therefore, look only to thuse who can rehist such temiptatioins-who are willing to incur opprobrious epithets and forego a #bhue in the spoils of pRty victory, without a hope of reward, 0or with no other reward than a cousciousness of having labored in defence of the cou.titutionaal rights of the South. V. hether Cul. Wigfall. is uha a-man, the future alone will prove. "We can see from our exchageA that this distinguished champion of democracy has been renderitg .such aervice to his party as only Wiglall can rend..r. in the easterna and middle coutnies of our State, We have read extracts from several of his speeches,.and they are what we consider true dem-anracy, and the exponents of our preisent attitude of the ada miuistration, But Wigfall tIiever will be ap preciated in Texas ihe is too bold i I e advocacy of what he believes to be the interest of his native South and the good of the whole country; li .e Calhutny his worth will only be appreciated alter death. It inS not the gallant warrior that goes forward is front of the battle, that is rewardod, but it is those who, by some fortuitous evenat, perform some deed of apparetat valor, that are rewar ded. We hope to see the day when Col. Wigfall will be in the afairs of' tiss nation to Texas, what John C. Calhoun was to South Carolina. There is no man in the State to be preferred to him."-Galveston News.. Chess Literature--Light Wanted. A new species of Literature has -arisen, clalningno small space and miakinig ho small )nd~per us of our ignormance,. and- uts the refc. tion that our ignorance may dt-priving us of a very pure and solid etajoymwent. We take up our Curier in the mnorning and fre quient ly our eyes are arrested by twu columns, noro fir le&,,, of strange nanes, uncouth hieroglyphics, and curious dirctlots, as une intelligible to us as the hiscriptions on an old gylptin toila, or on a slab ju-t dry from the ruins of Ninevah. Our Greek, we blush to confess, is ru-ty, an our latiu sadly in decay, but we could better mauage two col uins of Greek or Latin over our co4ee, than thee cheas colaumns. What shall we do? Will sote ministering broth, r, tor somae good deacon, who ha been aiiiated into thepe vaterie enalighaten uts? Shall we advertise foji- a chess teacher. anid addae~ os urselves. to the work of naa-teri..g ti i subject ? We have read bow R abert flail, at quite an ade vanced period of his life, commirenced the study of Spaish taint he~ might ua~joy Don Quixote. ins the original. Thoug~h geting towards that, stage in the jurney of lif., when one does not care to tell how mnany aile stones are beimia, we still would 1e willing to attack this Ci-eaa Sience, wader the confident advice of judicious and pious friendls. Will it pay ? Will it improve our preching, or advance our spirittiaty- Isl it desirable to openi a chess column in the Southerna Baiptist Now, seriously, we would like to know tL~e honest estitmate of' this game, as arrived at in the experience of sauame candid anda earnest Christian man. Is it upon the whole a harm les and useful recreation ? rTe insaportance whicha this game is assumig will render nae esary the diseusioan of this question. 'Wo. are int profound ignorance and would judge no nan and no thing in advance, and witfhout adequate informiation. Our paersonaal exileri eee in this department i., littnited to A n Geese, and Checkers or i.,aug~la. Thbe for nmer is stublimne for ef.il-'rena; the latter, ini our judgment, if not sever. ly to be condemn d, is not much to be cotnmended.-Suthera Baptist. A married oouple reshhntag oun Frienal-s'rocha uear tha ann'al roimda thr~a n r ta~tw y.ats r cnaunthlal fethtty, theiy wre he mosat mitsera blei mortls alive, being taniblc to tgree lapoitt any rjio point of domatnsi Iteandiny aid di lumacy. Their datily Cenres waeru sure to hi iilinate in an evening qtuarre'l, and they sometimes astonished each other with blows accompanied by the usual marks of thecr res: pective distinaguished cotnsidlerationas. Fintding ife disagreeable, anad being~ able to agree upoetI no other point, they fially con~claided to try the last grand experiment together by juamp. ing into the -Scioto. Night before last was the time set for the attempt. A raw and biig air prevailed, bat their resolution was fixed and they descended the banak together, each trying to nerve the other' lby depreciattag his and her couragd with bltter wordsa. They reached the bankc of the Scioto.-hand in hand they stood upon the bank of that abyss which mortality is wont to regard-with horror. The air was cold and so was the water-neither was congenial, neither was the existence they were about to leave. This thought was deet. sive, and they planged into the water, whicht was not deep, but very cold. The man could swim, and his first imnpulse on rising to the surfacee was to strike out for the shore,'but. Ieo wated to see what his wife woul do. Ste' came sputtering and bldwing to the surfke and supposing in the da'riiess that her lor was at the bottom called loudly fort help, a4 sank again. When she .n'ext appeared the husband caught her, and they both reached. the shore in safety, wet, cold, feezing. Crest. fallen and ashamed of the- tholish act, they went home together, negotiated a new treaty of peace, and commenced anew, satisfied that nothing can be worse than the bottom of the river. There is now a fair prospect of the couple going down the hill of life together quietly and in peace.-Ohio 8tatesman. Luccy.-Wednesday tnorn , a wealthy gentleman, residingon. Buo soo trest, whtle searching in his cslle for some mimuing~ article, in turning-up the loose earth,'liad the' good fortune to find a ome' hundred ioll1 noe oh the Stateaikof Georgia,and nearly. oty ears back. The brokers )# 1. p -oeunid feetly~go.P~i (V&Uaiie5W,32diIaist .