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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, DURISGE & C0., Proprietors. EDGEFIELD, S. C. AUGUST 3, 1859. VLUME XI1...-N 0 I Love this Southern lime. Dr FRANK MYRTL. I love this glowing Southern clime, With skies so mildly bright; Where reigns one constant sweet spring time, So full of fond delight; Where flowers are blooming all the year,. As beautifully fair, As if the floral queen had made Her fragrant palace there. I love the Southern songster's note, The balmy sephyr's breath, Where perfumed strains of music float, From out the forest's depth; * Where blithesome hearts are warm and true As ever breathed a prayer, And where enchanted pleasures woo The soul to linger there. I love the Southern twilight hour, It breathes a holy spell, While musing 'neath the orange bower, Or in some fairy dell; I love.its starry heavens by night, Its dewy moonlit eyes, Where Luna's silvery beams of light, Gleam through the orange leaves. You speak to me of happy homep, Far in the snowy North; I know the heart where'er'it roams, Will love its native hearth; But say, is not this Southern clime, So beautifully fair, More lovely in Ps sweet rpring time Than aught you cherish there ? (Memsphifa Etagle & Enquirer. Look on the Bright Side. "Old man, I prithee, tell me why You always wear a smile; Though others oft look wan and sad, How do you care beguile ? Though doomed to care and penury, And bowing down with age, Yet still light-hearted, blithe, and gay, You tread life's weary stage." "I'll tell thee all, my youthful friend," The good old man replied "What'er may hap, I always look Upon the brightest -side. O'er all the land, there's not a man, How hard soe'er his lot, But, if he will, can often find A bright and sunny rpot. "I've lived and toiled for many a year Beneath the summer's sun, And in the winter cold and drear, My labor still went on; And in that varied course of year.4 Did much of ill betide, But still I always strove to look Upon the brightest side. -When mloknesa came, and hours of pain Dragged wearily along, And mourning sad and mourning vain Dropped fro'm migoble tongue, Kind hearts were there, and kindly words Fell eoftly on my ear, And loving ones were always nigh My fainting heart to cheer. "And through a long and wearied life I've learned this lesson well That in this world of care and strife There's more of good than ill; And even in poverty and toil, Peace with us will abide; Man may be happy if be will But see the brightest side." From the New Orleans Crescent. A man may be a first rate fellow, as Matt Peel used to say, and yet not know how to keep a hotel, If ability in hotel keeping be a tert of a good fellow, there is one man for whom we can certainly vouch as all sorts of a good fellow. He keeps a hotel, or country tavern, if you will, away up in the interior of Arkansas, somewhere. The way we happen ed to hear of him was this : Several weeks ago two well known gentle men of this city went traveling, for the benefit of their health, and concluded to tr'- the fa mous Hot Springs of old "Rac ensack." There being neither river, railroad, nor canal to take a body to the Springs, our travellers hired horses at their point of debarkation, to ride in thatmanner to their destination. They unluckily did not follow the right road, or else there was nO right road to follow; at any rate they got lost, and after a fatiguing day's ride, through a barren and inhospitable wilderness, they came to a neat little building, standing alone in the woods, with farming appendages around. Our travelers halted and hallooed. A great, tall, raw-boned giant of a fellow step ped out. " Can we get lodgings here to-night ?" aske:1 one of the horsemen. " Well, gentlemen, I reckon ye kin," said the big one, " and welkim to boot. This is a hotel" The travelers, although they did not like the cut of the landlord's jib, dismounted, were relieved of their horses, and were soon regaling themselves over a goed country supper of corn dodgers, bacon, milk, fried chickens, and coffee. It was a regular country supper, but with their whetted appetites our invalids en joyed it amazingly. After supper the gigantic landlord sat on the porch with them talking, laughing, crack ing jokes, and treating occasionally to some good old rye, of which he appeared to have-a plentiful stock, The invalids set him down for a regular " brick," 'and were still better pleased when lighted at last to nice soft feath er beds, with the whitest and sweetest of sheets. "tell you what it is, Bill," said Tom, as thywere'sinking gently into the embrace of Somnus, " this fellow keeps a nice place, if it is out here in the woods." " That's a fact," replied Bill, " and I sup pose its a cheap place, too ; but I like it, and 1l'm willing to pay the full city ligure on it." Next morning our travelers were aroused by their ugly but affable landlord, and regaled with a breakfast, if possible, still more appeti zing than the last night's supper had been. The horses were brought round and it was evident that they too had been well cared for. One of the travelers pulled out his wallet, and said to the big entertainer: "AWeIl, landlord, you keep a first-rate little hotel out here ; better than we ex pected to find. We are much pleased with it, and now want to know what the damage is." The landlord drew himself up, and putting oni a very solemn look, said, "Gentlemen, I'm pleasued to hear yer satisfied. The bill is two hundred and seventy-five dollars." jHow much did you say, sir?'' asked the travelers, both startled. The big one, drawing himself up a little higher, and looking still more solemn, replied distinctly and emphatically, "Two hundred and seventy-five dollars, gentlemen." " Do I hear you right, sir ? do you really mean to charge us two hundred and seventy glv-doller for two meias, and lodging, and nirefe ? a"Gnttanue? .aid the Jand lord, with the most alarming sang froid, "that's no mistake. Two hnnd-red and seven ty-five dollars is the bill." The invalids got seared. They did not feel strong enough -to fight; and if they had, could never have hoped to make any thing out of the ungainly gaint who stood so composedly before them. With out saying another word the traveler with the wallet squeezed it and peeled its different pockets, and succeeded in handing over the full amount required. The landlord thanked his guests politely, and hoped if they should ever pass that way again, that they would give him a call. The travelers were now on their horses, and prepared, like the famous cavaliers in James' novels, to resume their solitary ride. Before getting far off, however, the traveler who had to disgorge, turned in saddle, and hailed the landlord: "I say, landlord," he shouted, " before I go, I'd just like to ask you a question-a civil question-which you can't take offence at." " Fire ahead, gentlemen," was the answer; "ye've paid yer bill, and yer welkim to ask anythin, without offence." " Well, how in the name of heaven did you come to charge us two hundred and seventy five dollars for one night's accommodation, not worth more than five or six dollars at the outside ?" "Certainly, gentlemen, I'll tell yer, and welkim. Yer see I keep a hotel; and some times I has customers and sometimes I hasn't. When I hasn't I has to charge accordin', and as you are the first customers I've h:.d well nigh on to a year, yer bill was a little bigger'n it mout ha' bin otherwise. The hotel has to be kep' up, gentlemen, and when customers is sea'ce, I has to charge accordin." "Good morning, landlord," said both the travelers; and they rode off satisfied. They didn't go on to the Springs, however. They took the back track for the river, and returned to this city for money, the big hotel keeper having pretty well cleaned them out. Be-supplied with funds, they are now off to the Virginia Springs; being unwilling to trust themselves again among the hotels of Arkan sas interior. They declare,. though, that the big landlord who fleeced them is a capital fellow-all sorts of a fellow-and knows how to keep a hotel into the bargain. A Fifth at Whist. We had been playing all the evening at whist, says Lient. Col. Addison, a distinguish ed British officer stationed in India. Our stake had been gold mohur points, and twen ty on the rubber. Maxey, who was always lucky, had won five consecutive bumpers, which lent a self-satisfied smile to his coun tenance, and made us, the losers, look anything but pleased, when he suddenly changed coun tenance, and hesitated to play. This the inore surpiised us since he was one who sel dom pondered, being so perfectly master of the game that he deemed long consideration superfluous. " Play away, Max., what are you about ?" impatiently demanded Churchill, one of the most impetuous youths that ever wore the uniform of the body guard. "Hush!'' :esponded Maxey, in a tone which thrilled through us, at the same time turning deally pale. "Are you unwell?" said another, about to start up, for he believed our friend had sud. denly been taken ill. "For Heaven's sake, sit quiet !" rejoined the other, in a tone deno ting extreme fear or pain, and he laid down his cards. "If you value my life, move not." ' What can he -mean? Has he taken leave of his senses?" denanded Churchill, -appeal ing to myself. "Don't start-don't move, I tll you!" in a sort of whisper I never can flrget, uttered Maxey. "If you make any sudden motion I am a dead man !" We ex changed looks. le continued: " Remain quiet, and all.may yet bevell. I have a cobra capella round my leg I" Our first impulse was to draw back our chairs, but the victim's appealing look induced us to remain, although we were aware that., should the reptile transfer but one fold, and attach himself to any other of the party, that individual might already be counted as a dead man, so fatal is the bite of that dreaded monster. Poor Maxey was dressed as many old residents still dress in India, namely, in breeches and silk stockings ; he therefore the more plainly felt every~movement of the snake. His countenance assumed .a livid hue; the words seeming to leave his mouth without that feature altering its position, so rigid was his look, so fearful was he lest the slightest muscular movement should alarm the serpent cand hasten his fatal bite. WVe were in agony little less than his during the scene. " He is coiling round !" murmured Maxey ; "1I feel him cold-cold to my limb; and now he tightens. Call for some miilk!I Let it be placed on the ground near me; let some be spilt on the floor." Churchill cautiously gave the order, and a servant slipped out of the room. "Don't stir I Northcote, you moved your head. By everything sacred, I conjure you not to do so again I It cannot be long ere my fate is decided. I have a wife and two children in Europe ; tell them I died blessing them,--that my last prayers were for them. The snalke is winding itself round my calf. I leave them all I possess. I can al most fancy I feel his breath !" The milk was brought, and -carefully put down; a few drops were sprinkled on the floor, and the affrighited servants drew b-tek. The snake unwound himself, and made for the milk. " I am saved-saved !" cried Maxey, as he bound from his chair, and fell senseless into the arms of one of his servants. In another instant we were all dispersed, the snake was killed, and our poor friend carried, more dead than alive to his room. Poor Maxey from that hour pined in hopeless imbecility, and sank Into an early grave. The Sin of Dancing, Rev. James L. Corning, the Presbyterian minister of Biuffalo, whose lectures on " The Christian Law of Amusement" have occa sioned some comments, is in favor of dancing, at least as it is practised " on the Hlighlands of Scotland and the green swards of Switzer land, and in the rural districts of Germany." lie objects strongly to fashionable suppers and parties, and would seem to speak in the following passage, not without personal ob servation : " Why, I have sat beside a professing Chris tian woman in one of the beautiful parlors of a fashionable metropolitan avenue, whose jewv eled neck, and ears, and fingers, and dazzling brocade, as much as said to the assembled guests, "none of your dresses cost as much as mine ;" and then I have seen her go into the supper room and eat enough to make a swine have gripes of conscience, and then come out, obe:.e, ai.d panting for breath, made marvellously religous by sandwiches and champagne, and wind up the farce with a pious discourse on the sin of dancing. Now, I think that if she had transported a portion of her conscience from her slippers to her stomach, though she might have an- inch or two less of phylactery, the loss would have been compensated by several additional y-ards of Christian consistency. Mi The very tall and somewhat short sighted Count A., on a journey, had to sleep with -a much shorter friend in the double bed of a country inn. Waking up soon after day light, hec found his short friend far down into the bed by his side, and saw a pair of naked feet hanging over the footboard. He waked up the snoring man, and said to him, " Yon will get your death of cold, my friend, if you do not draw in your feet" " You are mistaken," was the reply; "those st ,-ur fee dower below there." A Large Fish. Old Joe Phillips was an awf.nl story-teller. When a stranger came to his tavern, if he ap peared at all credulous, old Joe~ would tell a long yarn to his village acquaintance, but talk at the stranger. A short time since a stranger came into his bar.room, with rod, line, and other fishing paraphernalia, when Joe seized a friend, and startled him by the question: "Did you hear about that big fish Col. Potter caught in the river ?" The stranger pricked up his ears. Joe and his friend talked on after this style: "No," said the friend, in answer to Joe's question. "Biggest sturgeon that ever was caught anywhere." "You don't say I" "Yes, when I came away he hadn't caught all of him, although he had about six fe't of him ashore." "Gracious I how much did it weigh ?" "Three hundred pounds; and he made nine barrels of oil." " Nine barrels of oil ?" inquiring the stran ger, advancing, " did you say nine barrels ?" "Yes," said Joe, fiercely, "I said mine barrels. Is that anything strange, sir ?" " Oh, no, beg pardon," said the stranger, musingly - " only I was thinking it a little singular tbaf, you could -extract twenty-seven hundred pounds of oil from three hundred pounds of fish P' and, gathering up his fishing utensils, he left. Loyc-wrx:En persons can g.ther a hint from the following: " Here, John," said the gentleman to his servant on horseback, in the rear, "come forward, and just take hold of my horse whilst I dismount; and, after I am dismounted, John, you dismount, too. Then, John, ungirth the saddle of your horse, and put it down ; then you will please ungirth the saddle of my horse, and put it down. Then, John, take up the saddle of your horse and put and girth it on my horse. Afterwards, John, take up the saddle of my horse and put and girth it on your horse. Then, John, I will seat myself in your saddle, and you. can seat yourself in mine, and we will resume our journey." " Bless me, master, said the man, " why couldn't you have simply said, let's change saddles ?" THE ECCENTRYC RoniEns.-An old gentle man, a Mr. Pheifer, one of the oldest foreign residents in Lima, used to tell the following story: He was riding along the road one night, and suddenly, when least expecting it, he was attacked by half a dozen robbers, some of whom, seizing his horse by the head, rpreed him to dismcunt, anti, finding he had no money on his person, were about proceed ing to extremities, when he exclaimed "Gentlemen, I am Don Frederico Phiefer; you doubtless all know me. Now, I promise, if you unhand me, and set me on my horse, I will lead you to my house, where, after giving you a good supper, I will dismiss you with a golden ounce apiece, and say nothing of the affair." The robbers tknew their man, and, setting him -on his horse, accompanied him home. Arriving at his house, he invited the gentlemen to dismount, and, entering the house, begged them to be seated, telling his wife to order supper immediately. Without at all understanding what he meant, Madam presided with a good grace, and this repast being concluded, each guest, receiving his onnce, took his departure. Of course, Don Frederico never divulged the names of these scamps, gtherwise his life would have paid the forfeit. Pleasant Variety. irf Lord Bacon beautifully said, " If a matt be gracious to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from the other lands, but a con tinent that joins them." Mi A man has no more right to say an uncivil thing, than to act one ; no more right to say a rude thing to another, than to knock him down.-Dr. Johnson. Mi OvER a bridge in the town of Atheus, Ga., is posted the following notice : " Any person driving over this bridge in a pace fas ter than a walk, shall, if a white person, be fined five dollars ; if a negro, receive twenty five lashes, half the penalty to be bestowed upon the informer 1" Mir Lucr STONE says " there is cotton in the ears of man, and hope in the bosom of woman." Lucy has put the cotton in the wrong place this time. W A theoretically benevolent man, on being asked by a friend to lend him a sover eign, answered briskly, " With pleasure ;" but suddenly added, " Dear me, how unfor tunate I l've only one lending sovereign, and its out." *ir JusT So.-These mild evenings are exceedinaly favorable to keeping the new commanment-" Love one another." Mi'"I think our church will last a good many years yet," said a waggish deacon to his minister ; " I see the sleepers are very *Mir Little drops of rain brighten the mea dows; and little acts of kindness brighten the world. Mi Be not affronted at a jest. If one throw salt at thee thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou hast sore places, gijp A depraved man does well to go upon the stage. tie had better exhibit other.' char aters than his own. R$ Talleyrand, talking of a man who dealt in nothing but quotations: " That fellow has a mnind of inverted commas.". Mi An Irishman called at the bookstore in Jordan, the other day, to purchase a steel pen. The clerk handed him one, and after examining it a moment he threw it down, declaring that he didn't want to be cheated in that manner. The clerk picked it up and asked, " What is the mat: with it P" "Its broke," said the man: "I want a whole one, or I'll not pay ye for it." The clerk assured him that it was whole and a good one-but was effectually' silenced by the Irishman, who, pointing out its defect, thus loudly exelaimed, " An' will yez be after calling that a whole one ? Don't ye see its split!" Mi " Adam,'-' once said a sagacious man, "showed much wisdom in giving names to the animals when they were brought to him. But as for the htog, I think any one would have known what it was if he had not named it so." UsEFUL ?JEDIcA L IIINT.-If a person swal low any poison whatever, or has fallen into convulsions from having overloaded the stomn ach, an instantaneous re medy, more eflleiebt and applicable in' a large number of causes than any half dozen medicines we can now think of, is a teaspoonful of common salt and as much ground mustard stirred rapidly in a tea-cup of water, warm or cold, and swal lowed instantly. It is scarcely down before it begins to conic up. bringing with it the re maining contents of the stomach; and lest there be any remnant of poison, however small, let the white of an egg, or a tea-cup of strong coffee, be swallowed as soon as the stomach is quiet; because these very common articles nullify a larger .number of virulent .oi.o.. than any medicine in the nhoan.. (By Request.) Blue Ridge Railroad. 'b the Editor of the South Caroltuian. DEAR SIa: In your paper of the 18th of June, I perceive an editorial giving a very favorable account of the progress of the Blue Ridge Railroad. Now this is gratifying to me; for if the State, in the madness of her folly, will persist in going on with the work, it is well that her money should be judicious ly spent; for I feel assured that, when the road shall ha'e been completed it. will prove but a barren triumph of skill and science over a costly and useless undertaking. When yon speak of the Stump House Tunnel, as the lion in the path, the bugbear with which the adversaries of the -road h'ave sought to avert the sympathies of the people of the State from the enterprise, you certainly at tempt to make an issue which neither myself, or I trust those who act with me, ever de signed to make. The science and practice of engineering have taught us that tunnels, like deep cuts, high embankments and heavy rock masonry, are only costly impediments, and not insuperable obstacles in the construction of a railroad; and may so swell up its cost as to make it unprofitable, or where there are contending routes, go far to determine the comparative merits of the two; and in this respect, the seleb'Ln of the Blue Ridge over that of the French Broad, is an unfor tunate feature in the enterprise. Mr. Edi tor, once for all, I shall e'ndeavor briefly to state the true issue between the friends and the opponents of the Blue Ridge Road. We object to the building of the road as being, not only too expensive in proportion to its benefits, but wholly unneccesary, inasimuch as the Georgia and Tennessee railroads and their connections extend into the very region of country proposed to be penetrated by the Blue Ridge, and already give us more busi ness than we can ever expect from it. Char leston, at this time, is connected with Cnat tanooga, on the Tennessee River, with Memi phis, on the Mississippi, with Nashville, on the Cumberland, and, in a very i W moUths, will be with Louisville, on the Uio-one of the termini of the ever niemorable Lduisville, Cincinnati and Charleston Railroad; and, within the last few weeks, the citizens of Nashville have voted aid to the extent of over $300,000 to a railroad to be built to the North-west; thus giving you the commerce of an area of country extending from the Western slope of the Alleghanies to the Mis sissippi and Ohio Rivers. What more can the craving appetite of a State desire ? And here, Mr. Editor, note the fact, that our friends and neighbors, in. carrying out their own systems of internal improvements, have done the very thing for us, and that, too, w~vhout charge or cost, that the friends of the Blue Ridge wish the State alnost alone to accomplish, at an expense of $,8,600,00M. Why, what a gigantic scheme of wantos ex travagance with which to saddle a State I hat has already the benefits of railroads running throughout the length and breadth of her territory, and whose pnpulation has increased but little through a series of years! Let us think well of these things L.efore we take a leap that will load the State with a debt that it may prove onerous to her to meet. Re member that we have a political enemy who, of late years, has made vast inroads upon our constitutional rights; an enemy who, thi ough, the action of the Federal Government, has robbed us of more wea'ti than even the fruitless project of the Blue Ridge can return to us. We know not how soon we may be called upon to resist this einemy. The times are ominous. Let us, then, husband our re sources for the emergency, and not throw them away upon useless and unprofitable en terprises. Above all, let us renembe the language of our sagacious staesman, Mr. Cal houn, when Gen. Brisbuane last approached him upon the subject of' the Rabun Gap. "Sir," was his grand inquiry, " have you not followed Mr Clay in his tour through the State of New York'? llave you not seen how he has aroused the people-the 3 eomnan ry of that immense State'? It is po~li/:.*, not industry, that we must now employ our selves." Again, " you, take up military en gineering, instead of civil, and examine those weak points on our seaboard, where the sov ereign States of the Confederacy have given up to the General Governmenft certain strips of land for purposes of fortification;j w'e may want to recover these before we employ our selves with railroads." These were almost the dying words of this great man, should be cherished as a precious legacy by every Caro liian, and go far to prove, either that Mr. Calhoun thought that the Georgia State Road (known as the Western and Athmntic) had achieved all that t'Je Rabun. Gap could ac complish, (of which I have the most, rehiabie authority,) or that, as great as the benefits to be derivedl from the Rebun .Gap might prove, they were more than over-riddlen by the political aspects of the times. Now, it is immaterial to me which horn of the piropo sition the advocates of the Bloe Ridge may take. If they adopt the first, then they must agree with mec that it is a useless and extrava gant .expenditure of money; and if they choose the latter, then 1 say it becomes us to take care of our means, and prepare for the impending crisie. But I find [ have digressed on the political, and shall return to the com mercial view of the question. Mr. Editor I think I have lhown in the outset, that the Georgia railroads, with their connections, have riready placed us in posses sion of the very trade which we are endeav oring to obtain at an enormous cost. But let us appeal to the I' ers. Chattanooga is only 440 miles from Ohiarle.ttn by railway ; while Knoxville, if the Blue Ridge ehould ever be completed, will be 4101 miles-the former having the advantauge of distance of liftecn miles. Let its examine the comparative amount of business that now conmes ov'er the former line, and what is likely to comue over the latter, should it be comp1leted. By the report of the oilicers of the Georgia Rtail road for the past year', it app.'ars that the up and down freight over that road amounted to $755,000, and of this, the down freight is al most twice the amount of the up, and the Superintendent of the road says that up wards of 3,000 empty cars are annually taken over the road to Atlanta; thus proving most clearly that the merchants of Charleston have the most abundant means of' getting oft their merchandize, if they could di.<pose of' it. One of the termnini of the Georgia Railroad being at Augusta, a large amount of its downx freight must find an outlet to market through Charleston; and this latter place, no doubt, furnishes a very considerable amount of the up freight for the road. And what is a little remarkable of the dlown freight over thme Georgia Road, fifty thousand dollars of freight is delivered at and rect.ued from Dalton, one of the termnini of the East Tennessee and Georgia Railroad ; and thus showing that a large amount of' business now comes fromt the very region destined, perhaps, to be the terini of the Blue Ridge Railroad. Now let us examine the amount of business that is likely to come over the other line of-rail way. And here, Mr. Editor, I must invite you to turn to a map and explore the length aid breadth of the vallies of the little Ten nessee and its tributaries--this modern Egypt, the trade of which is to enrich the State of South Carolina, to make a great city of Char' leston, and, above all, to consummate that direct trade to Europe, which, like an iyp. fstuus, we have been pursuing for the last twenty years. Let this rhetorical flourisla pass as thme idle wind ; and to the facts. The o.ertio. of ten Eat Tennessee and Georgi. gailroad amounted to $2(4,000 for the year 1858, and of this amount only $134,000 was for freight, and it is to this alure that we must look, as the exponent of the busitess that is likely to come over the Blue Ridge Railroad. The amount of passenger fare zemst depend upon the character of the road, asto whether it passes through a rich and d.ensely populated country, or may be on the line of travel North and South, East and West. The general poverty of the country along thi line of railway and its position, answers the question in stronger language than any that I could utter. The East Ten nessee and Georgia Railroad is like the top of the letter T. It collects the products of the vallies of the little Tennessee, Iolston and Clinch Rivers, and, should all of theso l&roducts pass down the Blue Ridge-which i:the stem of the letter-the freight would oily amount to $134,000. But you must bgar in mind, that this road has two other otitlets to market, besides the one furnished b the Blue Ridge. The one by Dalton to arleston and Savannah, and the other from oxville to Richmond, (a distance of 456 mles,) and you may rest assured that a por tion of the business of the road will take tlese lines. But let us be charitable-nay, even-liberal-and give it the whole income from freights, "S134.000, and let us suppose that this mountain region along the line of the road shall be able to swell the whole in come of.Blne Ridge hp to $400,000, and oven this will not he sniicient to make -it a self-sustaining road. Let us analyze, the proposition. Of the .$400,00 of income, at least Rl75,000; or 45 per cent., musti be ap propriated to the working of the road, so that but $225,000 will remain to meet all other expenses. Of the P8,00000 which ti road is to cost, $5,0001.0)0, will be in bonded indebtedness; and if the company shbuld be so fortunate as to get its bonds oil at 0 per cent. interest, the interest account alone will be $300,000; and should not a dollar be appropriated to any other purpose, thiro will be a deficiency of 875.000 to meet its annual expenses. Who are to make good this deficiency ? The stockholders, unques tionably. Wby, then, the first loss will be the least for all parties. And I can assure you that there r.re more roads in the United 8tates in this condition, than you are aware of, so that you need unot suffer yoirself to be, any longer delded with t be idea that, be cause the South Carolina R.alroad and the Georgia roads are prof itable, that the Blue Ridge must neces-arily be so. It is just ai logical to tell the farmers of Carolina, who cultivate poor lands, that hec:au.e tey are farmers, they must make tihe :ame qi-ntity of cotton as t ho.-e who plant the rica lands of Arkausas, Louisiana and Miszsisipli. Com. mon sense tells us that there is ai much dii ference in the productiveness of railroads as there is in that of farm1s. 1;'ut it is said, ad. mit what you .'ltate to be trte, that we are getting.u large and profitable business for bhirleston over the Georgia roais; we should be dapendant upon them for it, but we tmiit' havj.a road of our own which we can con!rol. A to"d of our own ! P.'ay, tell ie how many mi. bf the Blue Ridge are upon our own soil? To the beAt.of my knowledge, there are 54 miles of road within, and 141 beyond thE limits of the State, and through ecorgia, at last, we are dependant for a part of the line. Now, if that State, actu tted by a spirit of jealousy towards us, on account of the bu siness which her railroads take to Charleston in preference to Savannab, were disposed to Iadopt a discriminating tariff of freights in favor of the latter city against the frnier, in so doing she would have to tax the railroad stocks of her own citizens, which wold lie a gross act of inju-tice. And ho.iw 11much1 more probable is it that, if ,he Imund the Tiue idge Railroad interfering with the business I I of her roads, she would tax the business to the road, and the more especially, as se would be taxing the property of the citizens of another State?7 You have heard much of this char'.er which the State of Georgia ha; granted this company, that it is so favorable, that that of itself' snould induce us to, build the road, as we may never have the chauee again of do.ing it. For nmyself, I t bitk. the scheme one of~ unmitigated evil, and the sooner it is arrested the better for the State and the other stockholders. Now, wdll you believe me when 1 tell you that I have read that charter carefully, and didi not finid a re straining clause prohibiting the State of Geor gia from taxing the p)roperty of the comitpaniy any time, and to what extent sie may think ti ?How very mndepenadent, ithen, have we nade omrselves of others, by undertzaking to build the road ! No, Mr. Editor. we needu not sil)pOse, for a mioieit. that ( eoriaWI u inlen:ed Liy any such petty notionls. Sue has alvays been guided by a lberal p-ilicy in her rdiroad<, and they havxe been mo4re sue cessful than the roads of any other state. She looks with complaenciy. if' not with comi posure, upon our ilerculean ani'fruimtl6"s un dertaking, remembering the line ohf forace: In conclus~ion, permit mec to says that this Blue Ridge Railroad is wholly uninecessary, because produce can Lie bioiught to Charleston from the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers by the preent modes of communication ebieaper. thanm it ever can be brought by r*.:ilway from Cininnau to Charleston, if o.ne exidted. 1 have examinied the subject, and 1 find that bacon and other articles taken by weight can e sent by steamer from St. Louis to New Orleans at.18 to 20 cents per 100 pounids, and fronm New Orleans to Chtarlestoui at abmit 50 cents per 100) poundsfl. So, also, . know that bacon cau be sent from Cincinnati by steamer, and by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, and then again by eteamer to Charleston for (5 cents per 100 pounds. Now, will any otlicer of the Blue Ridge Road undertake to say that the same kind of produce could be sent fromt incinnati to Ctuarleston over a railway, at any thing like the same picei, or lets thani double ? Why, look to the freight of bacuon over our own railroads. The price is I0 cents per 100 from Charleston to Charlotte, and it is 80 cents from Charleston to Greenville. Mr. Editor, let us no longer be deluded by mn who are honestly deluded themselves. I know that you and others are alarmed at the idea of losing the money that bas already been spent on this enterprise, and it is this alone that deters men from arresting the work. But refleet that a very large amount of this money has been expended on the road between Andlerson an.l Walhadla. If. the company will not do it, let the Legislature grant aid to purchas~e the iron and lay the superstructure over the section, it can be done at ciuiparatively but little cost; and probably wvill save about two-thirds of what has been spenit. I[say, then, unhesitatingly, let 6s stop the road here. At Wal halla, you have a thriving little town to collect the trade of the surrouniding country, and you will have passed through all that portion of Pick ens District that is likely to furnish businmess for the road; beyond that, the road will have to traverse a wilderness for some distance, and moreover, Mr. Editor, we shall have dis charged a duty to our citizens in having fur nished them with an outlet to market for their produce, and I have yet to be convinced that South Carolina is under any obligationi to build a road for the citizens of other States, the more especially when the building of such road will not only involve the coni tracting of a heavy debt without any corres ponding benefit, but if I[have been correct in my estimate, the road will become a perina nent tax upon the people. Enwa RD G. PA LMER. Platform of the upposition Party of Georgia. Adopted in Coneulion, at Vacov, iuly 201t, 1859. The Opposition Party of Georgia plants itself upon the principles of State Rights, equal privileges in the Union, and equal dis tribution of its burthens, and the exercise, by Congress, only of such powers as are speci lically delegated in te Constitution and those clearly inferable from and incident to the granted powers. 1st. Resolved, That the Union as estab lished by the Federal Constitution, if the lat ter be faithfully carried out, is the surest guaranty of the rights and interests of all sections of the country, and should be pre served. 2d. Resolved, That as the institution of slavery existed in the States of the Confed eracy prior to the adoption of the Constitu tion of the United States: and as the right to hold slaves as property was conceded by the framers of the Constituticn and fully rccognized therein, therefore slavery exists independent of the Constitution; and as slavery is recognized and sanctioned by the Constitution, Congress, which derives all its powers from that instrument, cannot legislate on the subject of slavery except for its pro tection where it legally exists; we believe: also. that the further agitation of slavery will tend to no practical goi to any portion of the country, al should therefore cease; re garding the principle as settled, both by leg lative enact ment and judicial interpretation, that the people of the Territories, when they conic to form a State Constitution, and at no other tine, (by "Iunfriendly legislation" or othcr*ie.) shall decide the iuestion for themselves. We firtlhermore repudiate tbe doctrine of " squatter sovereignty" in all its lormis, A aln inidious and certain mode of excluding the South from the coinnion terri tory of the Union, and stand ready to op po.,e, sternly and uncompromisingly, all who! advocate that doctrine; that the trritorie4 are tLe cormumon-'property of all the States, and, therethre, the people have the right to enter upon and occupy any territory with their slaves, as well as other property, and* protected by thi Constitution and flag of the ountry, that Congress has no right to legis late slavery into, nor exclude it from, a ter-| ritory ; and that we hold that the doctrine of non-intervention with the institution of slavery in the.States, Territories, or the Dis trict of Columbia, does not, nor was it intend ed to. confli,:t with the assertion of the power a Congress to protect the property. of the itizen. of tile several States who tmay choose to .settIC in the several territoric. 3d. Ilesolved. That the recommendation of the riesident that Congress should confer upon him the war m,,aking power, and sublject the army and navy -to hik control, coupled wit h the demand for enorimoius appropriations of the publie uoney to carry out his views, call for and deserve chemuost uneqtivocal and unqualified condetinattion of the'whole counu try. 4th. llesolved, Tlhat the. reckless extrava ace )1 the preceding and present aihninis trations-of- the4'edend' Guv-rnament,-and-e pecially the unblu.-Ahing corruption which has marked the ?atter, by which the public ex penditures have beeni increased from fifty to near one hundred millions of dollars per an nui, is a deep wronmg that should be rebuked and must he corrected. We hold Congre-ss equally responsible with the adtiui-tration for this extravagance. A QUF.Et SvoRv.-We learti-l a qIeer little it of Listory lateily. A few days sinece, a citizen, in order to preveit heis creditors fromi getting hi-3 property, sip'ed off some .S-20.000 in reat estate to histstep-sons who Ladi decis recordad, nid in aboat three days had real estate ctiverted into money, without tep-father knowing anything of the matter. Having convet ted real estate into mnoney, step-ons statrted for the West, leaving step father to "grin and bear it" as be4t he can. Step-father 1;aving put all his property ont of hi hands, now his hiimelf withon: sufficient. flmds to go i pursuit of step<One. It nlow loks as if step sons had sold step-f.ther, and got step-fatber into a tight place. Step-futher b-gius to think that he might better have settled with his creditors. In endeavoring to bo "smnart:," he has redluced himuself to tw, shirts atnd a boot-jack. TIhis world is fll of incongruities. It you doubt, serve a tel year.d wprenticeship to newspaper re pirtig, and these doubts will be removed. in all our e>: eietnce, we niever yet flundl a ae where ra:lscLity paid the first perny to its stockholders.- liLilarielphia North Amueri Tite nyA. .-:o tiesria.-Thiere is a chis of en never couuity, W'20 go abou~it with v:iegar tface-, tbecase someioodyil fedsk abv them:, or beca-he they are not, ap pteiatd as they shunid be-, and who have a e.stant quarrel with what they aLU rkstny. \-V hatr ei c peol. Tlhey are- a iitiumance anu a peat. lhey m~ake all withm i their im tlue un~ii tleot-i ortabh.l. 1Tiese men~ hive usu ally inmde a grave mistakei inI the e-Sumate of thr abhilities, or are unimitigited asses. Weneer th,' [titlinuding- with onm~ coin itin2 orm p~oshion occhrs. the-re is alwaiys want ot self respect. It .ou .ire a rig i ht dwn clevi-r llow, wash t -e worm- wood otf your face, an show y,>ur goodl ill hy your good deeds, It pople " feel above vou," why return the compiment ard fed 'ahove them. If they tinru up the~r nosesi iecause you are it mechamic or a farmer, ir' a cerk, turn up~ your njoses a itotem highert If tbicy swul whei thtey past vyon in the street swell yourself. Deliver uis from he whtining f.>:ls wh~o go aroutd like tribies :eliing howv folks abiise the, and whiingi h~eranse society ai .not take them by thle collar and drige them into 1 lo.-, os, lIaii.-.-i lob1 4, n to yor tongue wvheni you are just ready t) , grear, heC, or speak hiarshly, or say any iiapro~hpe~r word. Hold on to your hadwhen you are about to strike, pinmcL, stratch, steal, or do any i proper act. Hold on to your foot when you are on the poit of kicking, runninog away from study, or pusigthe path of error, shame, or crime. Ifold on to y-or temper when you arean giy, excited, or imnpose.d upon, or others are aigrY about you. IoId on to y-iur heart when evil associates seek yoitr .0 company, anid invite yon to jOml in their gamnes, miIirthi, and revelry. IId on to v-ur good name at, nll times, for it is mnore v luable to you than gold, high places, or fashi.>nable attire. Hold on to tae truth, for it will serve well, and do you good throughout eternity. Hold on to youar virtue-it is above all price to you, in all timnes and places. Iold ott to your good character, for it is, and ever will b-e, your best wealth. YoL-s( MEMu, 1A v A-r-ro-rm.-Donl't be a loafer-don't er.ll youirself a loafer-don't keep lomers' company---don't bang about loating pae.Better work hard for nothing and oarl yourself, than sit aroun~d day after day or sand1 arounid corners with your hlands in your. pocket. Dletter for your own mind-better tr yotr own health-lietter for your prospect. Bustle about if you mean to have anything to bustle about for. Many a poor physician has obtained a real patient by i-iding hard to attend an imaginary one. A quire of blatnk paper, tied with: red tape, carried under a w er's arm, may procure him his first case .ancm hi. rtun. Snch ii thn world: to him that hath shall be given. Quit drontng and complaining, keep busy, and mind y-ur chances. The Dead and Wounded of Solferino. TnE Wo UNDED.-Castiglione, June 27. This place presents just now a hideous sp.ec tacle of human suffering-every church, evrv house, is full of wounded, and the arcades are so crowded that there is hardly room for the passer by. The mortality among them amon tits to beyond 100 a day; but this is principailly among those who were brought late from the field. Several hopeless cases, where death must supervene within a very short time, have been leA there, in order to give a chance to those to whom removal might offer a chance of recovery. This appears a terrible alterna tire, but it cannot be helped ; all the carts of the contadini are taking .up for the purpose, and the peasants thmselves are so entn ely occupied in transporting the living that the burial of the dead was not entirely completed yesterday. The whole road from Castigli..ne to Montechiaro, and the places in the vici;ity where the wounded can be placed, is cov. red with lines of vehicles going full and returi ing hither for more, who are sent away as soon as the first dressing and necessary operation, are concluded. I saw a Hungarian boy of not more than 17 put into a cart after having iad his foot taken off above the angle, to p. 15 miles to another small town where there was still accommodation left. French and Aus trians are all treated alike; but the wa-:t of accommodation is very gfrat, although, n,, sidering the weather, those who lie om. all night now are no worse off than those wi Iin; indeeithey must breathe a pirer air thai the others. The wounded French otlicers have mostly gone to different villages in the neigh borhood, or to Brescin, where they canl be better attended to than here. THE PILES OF DEAD AND THEIR APPEARANCE. The plain of Guidizzolo is really horrble. to look upon. Even so late as yesterday the 1 dead were not all buried. They were t, be seen in groups of twenty and thirty, hud lled together in one spot, where a shell had explo ded or the Chasseurs d'Afrique had pasied. All still maintained the attitude in w.ieh death had struck them down. Here was one with uplifted arm to ward off the blow wide had split open his skull 'and splashed his brains far and near. Close by was another, with hi's hand unon his breast shivered and rent by the grape. Another seemed to be smiling, as if in mockery of the grim warrior's approach. Some were lying upon their backs, with faces turied towards Heaven, and prayers still seUeming to linger upon their lips. Furher on there was a lung-atrian, who hail thrust his clothes into a ghastly wound near the heart. At, his left was a Tyrolese, with tle Inused artridgc between his teet.h. To the ri;h-, a Croat had hi, heead cut uff iV a lall, and !Le head was by his side, with its horrible eyes glaring and ht-eing, as it seened, at thie iis memubered body. Two younz lads of certainly not inore than sixteea were lying ill each ot'ers arms. ieath I had burpri.,ed them in that attitude or, per haps, feling themselves about to dlie, th.ey had fitln thu's neverto rise again. Upon the hbody D' a hn diMier we- noticd-ii dg, I waiting apparently for his master to get up. I We had not the beatrt to call off the fiaithrul aninal by a word or a gesture. for we fl~tsure that God' would reward the devotion of this poor dumb creature, so touchingly shown amiidst the carnage which man had waged again.t his fellow man. On every side it was the amne. DeatL, in his most horrible and -r;astiv fori, glared at us, no matter where ,v nzed. Enugh, however, on thi.s sd TIhe' Largest Harvest on Record. ThI Philadelphia Ledger, a pper well in. ormned. anl certainly not given to exa,;:t, r ted f'orns of speech, designates the wheat liar vest of this vear as - the largest wlheat lar' ve.-t probbily thtt ever was prodcel cn this earthi." The seasonr has bennr unusually eatrly; the inseicts anid the rust have not bieen able to ext.rt, fromi the farmers their n.,nanl r.-anrs and growlings, and with the excep t -ut' a si:gle night ..f frost inj urinug the crop in u fe~w conities of Western Virginia, PennsylIvania, New York anrd Uhio, t e ground sown in wheat has yielded most abundantly. There has ben a greater breadth of wheat laid out than ovcr before ; from New York to Arkan sas innd from Cv ifournia through to the Atlan ti, moure land, by foir it is sidf has baeen thus eltriarted Ihan ut anyv frnner tinme. Whilst the exenmt a:mrd su~er s of' thein whe.t erop in the United Startes nre utnprecedenmted, the same is true a a'CanadIa, anti in all the~ ob1l ctoumries -.l'Europe thre promis: of the barvest at the inst arccount:s was extrraoni inari ly gouml. It is statCe] that w~tai the a.,t- ten y-rs Irelanrd homs muntifplied thre production of what inn xin-.;1, as I at a ls'ol'im Fane, under muoreseienit itie in.>deCs it agricuhl Lre-so mtui.h so itmleed, thart wittjin but a shaort pe~rioad qute a qulantiry of' the very fittest. wh.:.:n ar rive:1 in New York, which wat., r,.aily sold at five 'cents per biushel more thani our best on account of its qtual.ty and ceilies. There is nn abidant subaject In.' pn.titude and congratulati.m in this mangnifient bar vest, especially at a period whe~n anu pienstve war hras aiugmtented the price.; of bread in Eu ripe, andi witihdr.iwn the labor of~ a nitn .rof mni romi the? fields. I.it thte present arnustice shall evenituaite in peace, the price if floumr ad provisions must come dowin tremendously -a consunmmationi devoutly to be wished by conisumers, Even if' the war be resittned, an the harvest in Europe beais good .rs iin this etattry, the productr of wheat on soa a scale will prevent prices fromi becomning opressively high.-Richnmond Dispatch.1 EcAs.-The Emiperor's nmiraicuon escape with thre loss of his epa:ulettec has been ex. plai.. T1he shot wiebi' shiauereda Genueral Anger's arm carried nifl his epaulette. Tire General. being bronyght to the rear, encoun-~ tered the Empileror, whao hrad a kind and cherinrg word for everybody during the fight. Seig the Genei-al's forlorn plight, he unbut tned one of his own epatuhltes and placed it on General Auger's shoulder, thereby creating hint a genteral of divison on the spot. Sueh is the vere-ion given of this extraordmnary in cidett. The Emiperor, on being seen ridingi abut with otre of i wings, was supposed01 to have beeni deprived of tht. other iry a cutiOnno ball :but hrad irl nh betnc t ase. Ih li~wmda~ge alone would have serioru.ly injured1li him. A lII:rlNm:.-A !.,mg the wondedl convey ed to Verellhi recently was a yoiung womiani, a continiere. belonrging to one of thre regi mets, who received a ball in the thigh in the affair of Turhigo. Hav.ng seen several of the French soldiers fall around her, she seiz ed on a musket, charged with the bayonet against the Aurstriarrs, and continued to fight until shrot down. Her conduct has been speilly mienitiorned to the Emperor. It was at first ~proposed to amputate the limb, hut she refused, saying, " I do not feanr the opera ion, but it will prevent mec frorm following mry regient.' She is now considered in a fair way of recovery. A touching story is relatedl of a Zouave, who had picked up a wounded Austrian and was carryingg him out of the melee. As he was trudging along with the man upoir his back, arid caurtiously looking arounrd perceived that the poor fellow, with a pair of scissors which he had contrived to draw from his pocket, was cutting off a lock of his preser ,,--s ai to keep as a memento. Peace. The curtAin has fallen on the denouement of the bloody field, and from amongst the mass of maimed and shattered creatures of God, PE.cE, in fmi'es. decorated with the victor's paints, risei pale and tranquil, scarc- biush sunfused With the dread struggle, but calm, holy and beautiful, the apotheosis of a fearful aspiration--the climax to an awful episode. The combatants remove themselves from the hand to hand contest; the rush of war, the agonies and the madness of enraged passions -to breathe-to check the quick pulsation, to lay down the dripping sword and view their work. . The master spirit who has wrought this late - cnvulsion in Europe, may now garner in his spoils o- his advatntages - may play the moves on the giant chess-board, and in lieu of pawns, m-iy or-der Kings and Bishops-take castles, or march with a conqueror's steps across a late enemy'a territory. He has played a mighty game and has, for tl.e nonce, gained iL-let -him either hold, yield or lose it, the merit is still his. The great military power of Eur-ope, the troopa who have ioved as one man, tq whom the precis of order was a nature,' whose ideas, education and feeling were, as it were, reduced to a'stand, and hbae fled before the banners of Napuleon-have cast fro n them the subordina tion oftheir lives, tieesprit o'their corps, and 1lntteri.ed before the semi.barbaric troops who hav, poured in thousands, like a plaue pon then ftir lands of Italy. A brillia't drama has thus been evolved, it has hal its bye-play, its under cu-rnt of collateral interebt, but has culminated in the overthrow of power exer. eised for the suppreision of a Pople, for the silence of a nation. That Kanpoleon has achieved this. he who has garroted the press of France, trenchtd on the liberties of her sub jects, is a fact which pales in interest beside the gond nehieved. Austria, the arch tyrant, the Frankenstene of Italy, the incubus of Piedmont and Lombardy has fallen from the high estate whith she held at the point of thonsands of bayonets, and has flown, eowed and despirited from the hearth over which she tyranised and crossei.the bourne of, a territo. ry which she held by chains and ruled through fear. From the farther South' out-of this fierce war rises Sardinia. less in numbers. butgreater in moral prestige i.han her proud ally, France, whose bugles ever sounded the poans of her own conquests with a note too loud. Another and more interested party in the late sanguin. ous quarrel finds his power extended, tempo ral as well as spiritual, and senrce one of the fact statnds pnusing on the brink of greater events. Pio Nino is at the present m.ment as powerful as any Pope, who. within two c:nturics hrs enti:red the Vatini--v.Uill it !ast? Who e in say, unles. the cdark and troubled spiii cnnnot, who by this tin:e has d.mbtless enitered Paris as th'e Hainan Empe rors formerly et-tered Romie crowned with sucessC. but dlrorping from his chariot wheels ,outs of hh-od, and perhaps trembling it the sounds of welcome, and wondering will those vo'ces ever chant another air. It may not now be amiss to review the Siate in.wsichhe.late bjigeent.pj)ers.dis cover themselves. -~Frane has carried her arms into Austrian Italy, with the niterior or declared intention of restoring its people to liberty. That Napoleon did this from a good reason, the march of the Austrian army makes patent to the world, or hal it been to aid a weak monarch, to assit Emnuel or to strengthen the papal power, or, as subtler politicians have declared, to take the in:itiato ry sti- of a -rand European %nr. his action hla blrr.-n on le. lrilliant-h6s %i-;ories no les, .-,nal. Ansiria, the pride .& inilitary Er.pi, has o-.ed her weaknket li flight. ita!v bas r*.eLI, parttinily awakoned by the silock (if wnr and rallied rondml the chiefs of h--r soii : has suppoortel (;ariiml-li Und, of her own will, carried on aun itde-ndent war a.ails: ler 1tmner master. Vitor l-mantual has raise-d Srdinia a step higher amongst na tions, and deiimuded the rigrht 01 t'rrimiry with her own blood: whilst the whtta. flermanic Confederation has stood brenthba~- wai'.ing fr tire transpirat ion of eventS. 'Tha si e-vents have beeun hastened in their sajpiel by the action of Napoleon himself. wh~o I aving ear ied the war to the Austrian houndacry, claims esxtwu as the rewartl of his boldness, and with the hand which has snatched the brand fr-om the fire, delivers it-to its guardians-rsised the hopes and strength of the Popre. and given tranuility to Europ'e.- li/l i/ lasd .' 1.T, wih..le cainpfigns has bieen at series of billant sutCCsse. imlparting ntew lustre to the arms of Fr'ance,' and. demnonstratling to the other 19twer-.s of Europe tht she cit n still bring i~to' the fitld thet 'iighest qu~alifient lonsa in Gen eralship and D~iplomeecy.-Columia~ G uardian. B mxn i Rmix M~ss Mta:'rt Nu.-The Kings tree &arJ, in referrintg to the umas -meetng appointed t'or thie Ib prox.,'~- at Tunnell Hill, We look forward to this tmeetitng and its proceedings with mtuch inter-est, and would like for the enemies of that roasd in this D~is -let to attend, and hear and see a practical deonsration of thei whole affa.ir-. We im agire iha.t on that ccasion, gentlemen who arec capable of doing so, will dissipate and bry forever t t obijections which have been nrgd nigainst . it enterprise. We regret that thet are tho.-~ i.: ths Stte who are en deavoring .,im divert i,. Lin attention from that road, and 1..-9,i' it uipou n .nther route, (the F~rench Blroad'I i sny thme lo ;c m which is, in our judlgnt. implit!C, uspettally at t'ais titet. The Blue~ Ridge qtuestion should be decided first. The state abmould r~ettie down upon one thing at a time, and not1 after ex pedig nmilions on otne road, discover a great imaginry bjlund. r in its wisdom and econo my, and ab.mni thet entterptri.-e to commence another. If our peo~ple persist in this kind of' poliy, the iteirets of the lie ple will be in cotin ~ual jeop.~ardy and th, Ar n-mney foolishly thrown away. DF.erH OF Mas. JL'Dor RtccHAnDsoN.-Th6 venerable relict of the late Judge J. S. Richa ardson, expired at he:- residence in this Disa' trict. on Wednesday miorning last. Shi had, for s'everal years pant. expetrienced an amoun of physical aillietionl that but seldom falls. o tle lot of nmortals; but she knew the hand that chastened, atnd ki.<sed the reud that smote ter. Shte had passed~i tile scriptural limit of hutan life, htaving~ r-eached hera eighty-fourth year. More tiant half a centu.ry since (1803-) she for- the secondl timne assumedi the conjugal relation, witht hini, who, in after years, be caie one of thle most honored and useful of Carolina's sons. Few, if anly, expounders of law, and administrators of justice in otur Courts, have risen to greater eminence, have been more thoroughly conversant, or eom anded more universal respect- than Judge Richard-son. His decisions form important parts of the law of the country- The greater portion of the long and 'useful life of this en timable lady was passed :n-Sumter District a:hort residence in Charleston -during the Atorney-generaIlhilp of hter husband being tt. only exception. Calm and peaceful, after her lengthened stay on- earth, .was her pa' sage to the skies-to that unmortal irorld, where her spirit wvill 'forever -shine in .the courts above.-Sumnter Watcinnan,27th uilt. A Washingtoa' clegvman, a Sunday or twao sinc, while stating a aeficientcy in.~the collee, tions, remarked thlat since the issue of Uhre cent pieces, the revenue of his finreh lisa decrae nearly ne half-..