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"WE WILL CLING TO THE PILLARS OF THE TEMPLE OF OUR LISERTIBSB AND IF IT MUST PALL, WE WILL PERISH AMIDST THE RUIN. ................................................ ...~...... L. U E X V 2 SIMKINS, DURISOE & CO., Proprietors. EDGEFIELD, S. 0., AUGUST 24, 1859. ~.VLJIEXXV--o 3 The Little Pool Will Soon be Dry. 0, brightly beams the summer sky, And rarely blooms the clover But the little pool will soon be dry, The summer soon be over. 0, light and soft the west wind blows, The flower bells gently ringing; But blight will fall upon the rose, Where now the bee is swinging. A smile is on the silver stream, A blush is on the flowers; But the cloud that wears a golden gleam Will waste i.self in showers. o little hearts with gladness rife, Among the wavy grasses A deoper shade will fold your life Than o'er the meadow passes. 0, maiden lips! 0, lips of bloom ! Unburdened save by singing, Pale Grief shall leave his seal of gloom Where kisses now are clinging. 0, hope is sweet, 0, youth is near, And love is sweeter-nearer; 0, life is sweet, and life is dear, But Death is often dearer. 0, shield the little hearts from wrong, While childhood's laugh is ringing: And kiss the lips that sing the song, Before they cease their singing. 0, crown with joy the brows of youth, Before their brows are older. 0, touch with love the lips of truth Before those lips are colder. For the little pool will soon be dry, The summer soon be over, Though brightly beams the summer sky And rarely blooms the clover. Be Gentle to thy Husband. " Be gentle, there are hours when he By anxious care is tossed; And shadows deep lie on his brow, By business trials crossed. Wife, be gentle to thy husband, never multiply words. When you see a cloud gathering, (lark, gloomy, portentious, hear distant thunder rolling; now and then see a lightning-flash, srop, NtMp. Be gentle as a lamb, wait calmly, patiently, till the storm is pasz and the bright sun-beams shine forth. One unguarded, hasty word may set the world on fire, the whole course of nature! " Be gentle. 'tis for you he toils, And thinks, and st'rives to gain Home comforts and home happiness Don't let him strive in vain. Be gentle, though some hasty word Should fall-it was not meant; A smile, r. kind word will recall, And miny more prevent." Be careful of that little unruly uniber which no man can tame. Keep it as with a bridle. Be geutle, put Un tb anugel. " A VgutlzuiU .1'.1qAi&.s in a very rainy day, and a contentious woman are alike." From Porter's Spirit of the Times. DEACON JONES UP FOR CUSSIN. SHOWING HOW OPINIONS MAY CIIANt. DY HAZEL GREMN, ESQ. Rap, rap, rap! " Come in, Sister Shaw !" "No, thank you, Sister Grimes, but I haint got time." " Haint you? Then I'll go out in the gar den and pick you a bunch." " Ha, ha, ha ! I'll try and call in as I come back. Was jest a passin,' and thought I'd stop at the door a minute, and see how you all come on. Sayr, Sister Grimes, have you hear'n the news . "News ! no-whlat news ? " Why, Deacon Jones has been a cussin'." "Deacon Jones a cussin'! Cant be pos sible !'' " True, every word on't. Pete French, he was a comin' home from Louisville this mnor nin', and jest as he got to the ford of the crick, he seed Deacon Jones thar with his wagon stuck fast in the mud, and he hecar'n him a cussin' like a trooper !'' "Sister Shaw, you shock me ! Oh, ni, oh ! what could a got inter the Deacon. If any one but you'd a told me, I wouldn't a b'lieved it, for I allers thought Deacon Jones was sitch a dear good old soul !" " So did I, Sister Grimes, but the old boy is shure to show his cloven foot sometimes. He's gone and cussed, certain ; for Pete French hear'n him ; and what Pete sez, he'll stick up to. Somethin' must be did about it right away, or the Church is ruinated." And without further parley, Sister Shaw hurried on to the next door to break the news to Sister Taylor. Sister Grimes doused a bucket of water into the cooking stove to lower the fire, and then tripped across to tell Sister Elliott; and Sister i!liott, and Si.,er Taylor, and Sister Shaw, and Sister Grimes, they all, by ditferent routes, bent their steps towards the " parsonage," each resolved on being the first to impart -the shocking bit (if in'elligence to the minister. They were, evi dentlv, "striving for the championship." To whorm it should have beep awarded, I know not, but certain it is, the minister soon re ceived the report from one of them, and ere he had time to make up his mind as to its trut!niness, the others were at hand to sub stantiate it. Here was an awful state of affairs ! Wig gletown in a stir fromi centre to circumfer ence, a church disgraced, and a deacon who had been "cussin'." Fortunately the regular meeting " in course" was but a few days off, and at it the piously-disposed portion of the populace expected to wipe out the stigma. For the short space intervening between the time above iuentioned, and the next regu lar meeting day. Deacon Jones' "cussin"'' formed the principle topic of conversation in Wiggletown. The good brothers, after dis cussing the matter at length, generally came to the conclusion. that the morning on which the great event took place was slightly cool for the season, in consequence of which the Deacon had, probably, taken a nip too much whiskey. If thuat turned out to be the true state of the case, and Deacon Jones would make due acknowled::ements, they telt some what inclined to fordive him, even we-re it the " ninety and ninth time." The good sis ters were less charitable, however. They believed it to be a show of the Evil One'. cloven foot. and they believed the Evil (Ine had always been there. Most of them hadl been noticing the Deacon for a long time, and though they were too charitable to expose him, they had repeatedly seen, to their own satisfaction, that something was wrong. They had withheld any remarks on the subject, im hopes he would reform; or, at least, they preferred the Church should find it out through s>me other channel. At length the day of "general meeting" rolled around, and the old church was ram mand- jammed full of spectators, all wait ing impatiently to hear what excuse the Dea con had to offer for " cussin'." A charge was preferred in due form, to which-unexpected ly to all-tbe Deacon plead, " not guilty." " Brother Pete French !" shouted the pre siding officer. "Here ! "Get up, Brother Frencb, and tell the con gregation what you know about this cussin' of Deacon Jones's." " Wal-ahem !-i'd been to Louisville over night-ahem!-and was a comin' home in the niornin' tolerable airly, jest as I got nigh onto the ford of the crick, I hearn some one in thar, a splashin' about and a cussin'. Think, sez I to myself, that's some poor wicked crit ter mired up, a tryin' to cuss himself in fur der. Jest then, I got to the top of the bank, and look't down and who should I see it war bult Brother Deacon Jones, thar. He was up OIL top of his wagon a skippin' about, and a lamin's his hosses, and a cussin'. It made my hair fairly go up on eend to hear him. I felt so dreadful bad, I jest turned my hoss back, and went clear around by the lower fo:d, afore I'd let sitch a wicked man look ms in the face." An audible groan passed through the con gregation. "Then you actually hear'n Deacon Jones a -:ussia'?" " Cussin'! you'd a thought so, if you'd a bin in a half a mild of the ford !" " Deacon Jones, you hear the testimony. Now, what have you got to say to the charge ?" "I'm not guilty," said the Deacon, rising to his feet, and turning up his eyes in a man ner intended to make himself look solemn. "I never cussed a word in my life. Brother Pete French is mistak. " You can't come that over'n me, old scape goat !" sang out Brother Pete French, rising to his feet, and displaying a list on the end of each arm. "Don't you s'pose I know cus sin' when I hear it ? and don't you s'pose I know vou when-" "0'der !" shouted the official. "Let us hear what Deacon Jones has to say, and then we'll take it for jest what we think it's worth, and no more. Go on, Brother Joues." " Well, to tell you the whole on it, I went down to Louisville with a load of market truck, and I had mortal good luck with it, too, for I lumped it all out to a 'eller in the evenin', and so didn't have to tend the mar ket next mornin' to get rid of it. " Well, arter I'd disposed of my market truck, I filled my wagon bed with loose st raw, what another. marketer gin me, cause 1 thiouglit I mont want to ride in it part way tionIC, and then, -1 begun to look about for some place to stay all night. Purty soon I sec a big house all lighted up, and I thought it must be a tavern, so I axt a feller if it "N. sir." .id he, "it's the place where the VotLries of Temperance hold their meeting0." " Thinks I, if this is a Temperance house, I couldn't find a better place whar to leave my wagon a standin' for safe keepin', cause Temperance men are aller.3 honest, moial. 0ou sorts of fellers. Then I told the feller that. and he laughed and sed it was true; and then he Went up the stair.:, and that inal me know he was ore of them:. Then 1 j.!.t on alitced, and left my wagon a standin' th-ere by tso .iai wuere aom v . er remper-~i ance met. "Next mornin' I came out bright and airly, and :ound my wag<.n and everytlin' all right. jest Is P'd lef1 it. Not evren a straw semed to be iin::'. I hitched up my hosses in a jiffy, and mountin' on the lead one, was oil; but sIlme how another, I noticed they couldn't hardly start the empty wagon. In a moment, it struck me that the tar in the hubs had got stif, and then I thought no .more about it. I went on a thinkin' wbat a nice set of' fellers them Votaries of Temperance imust. be, and a itiakin' purty good time, till I came to the ford--where Brother French seed me-where all to once, up 1 stuck in the mudl ; and all my13 hosses could do they couldn't pull the wagon out. Thinks I, this is rather strange work. to have no load; they must be some thin' wrong ; so I got off'n the nigh hoss and jumpt up in the wagong a thiinkin' I mnut make them pull better up there. Instead of goiug up to my knees in the straw, as I ex pected to do, I lit, kirvim ! on somethin' solid, which held my feet nearly on a levil with the sides of the wagon body. This astonished inc dreadial, so I begun to di;g dlown inter the straw; and, pai-adventure, I found the wagon was loaded smack full of grind-stones. A t first 1 thought I'd made a mistake and -took seone other man's wagon, but arter I'd look't around a spell, I seed it wvas mine, and no mistake. While I was standin' there tryin' to think what to think, I happened to Look up the crick, and there I seed two city chaps a standin' with their thumbs agin' their noses, and their fingers, a wigglina' at me. One of them Itook to be the very feller who had told mec about the Totaries of Temperance. "Xotaries of Tremnperance!" hollered they, still a wiggl'n' their tingers and laughin'. " Then I seed inter it all ike a flash. Thems Votaries of Temperance, as they called them selves, had bin a playin' off' a trick on me, so sais I to them, purty loud: "Vo'taries of Ihell, more like! A purty set you are to be a servin' the devil under a false name. Sneak back home, and the next feller what axes the namne of your society, hit the truth, by tellin' him, Votaries of Hell !" "That's all I said-" "That's so ! That's jest what I hear'n him a sayin'," said Brother French, " and [ thought if it was rale eussin'. i'd never hear'n any like it afore. Here's my hand, Birother Jones, [PIl take it all back. You're not one of the lost she3ep yet, by a long shot.." I need not tell you there was a general rush to get the Deacon by the "lbread hooks," now that the matter of his cussin' was set tled to the entire satisfaction of all. Nex: day several brothers called on the Deacon to assure him that they had always knmwn lie was innocent of the charge, and to ask him for a grind-stone ; but to tkcir disappointment, they learned he had 'taken them back to the city, anid sought out the owner. It should be the aim of young men to go into good societv-we mean: not the rich, nor the proud, nor the fashionable, hut the society of the wise, the intelligent, and the good. When you find men who know more than you do, and from whose conversation can gather informalion, it is always .safe to be foiund with thema. It hmas broken down many a man to associate with the low andl vulgar, where the ribald song ws sung, and the indecent story told to -excite laughter or influence the bad pason.. Lord Clarendlon attributed success and hap pness ia lire to associating with persons more earned :rnd virtuous thman ourselves. 1I'you wish to be wise and respected, itf you desire happinet-s and not misry, we adviso you to associate with the intelligent and good. Strive for excllence and strict integrity, and you will never be fond ini the sinks of pollution, or in the ranks of profhigates and gamblers. Once habtitnue yourself yourself to a virtuous coturse, once secure a love for good society, and no punishment would be greater than b~y accident, to be obliged for hll a day to asso einte withi the low and vulgar. Liws may be merry as well as useful, every persoil that owns a month has always a good noning lor a laugh. A Legal Reminiscence. An episode in 'he professional career of ar eminent jurist ol Pennsylvania, late a judgc of the Supreme Court, deserves to be-rescuec from oblivion. Soon after his admission tc the bar he had occasion to go to Williamsporl to argue his first case. As he was pacing thd deck of the canal-boat on which he wai journeying, he encountered a group of threi substantial, rustic-looking, persons, who were deeply engaged in discussing the merits of ar important lawsuit which had recently beer tried. Fresh from the study of Blackstone and believing himself to be the embodiment o legal learning and the incarnation of juridica sew::, he joined the group, and straightwaj proceeded to enlighten the party as to the law bearing on the case. The opinions whicl had been advanced he dogmatically pro nounced to be erroneous, and contrary to law reason, and precedent. His auditors listened with profound attention until he had finished his harangue, when one of them quietly in formed the speaker that from his discourse ii was evident he was ignorant of every principle of law-civil, common, and statute, written 01 unwritten. A second added that he knem nothing of the rules of logic, as was appareni from his defective style of reasoning. The third listener stated it as his conviction that the intruder was also destitute of commoi sense. Exasperated by such uncomplimenta. ry remarks, the legal aspirent abruptly lefi the group, and resumed his promenade on the deck of the boat. Chancing to meet thu skipper, inquired if he knew those three old chaps who were talking together, adding, with considerable asperity, that they were the most stupid set of block heads that ever lived. " Those thref old chaps, Mr. K.," responded the antient mariner, "are the Judges of the Supreme Court, on their way to Williamsport where the Court opens to-morrow." Mr. K. did not make his debut in the Supreme Court at that session, but postponed his appearance to a more convenient season A Yankee Trick. We remember when we were living " dowr east," of a neighboring farmer hiring a jollj Irishman, who was very fond of learning tricks One day his employer asked him if he wouldn' learn a Yankee trick. The Irishman of course was auxious to " larn a Yankee trick." Bring ing him to the end a brick barn, Jonatbar laid his open hand against the wall, remark in "Pat, Ill bet the liquor you can't hit mj hand." "It's done!" says Pat, making a vicioui blow at the palm of the hand, but it being quickly withdrawn, lie succeeded in peeling the skin and flesh off his knuckles. " That's a nasty trick!" roared Pat, " but howled on, Ill cheat somebody else." A tew months passed, and Pat's brothei cime over 11rom Irehind, as green as early peas. T.:ey both labored together, but Pal was unensy till lie should have learned his brother the trick." ".im. did you ever larn a Yankee trick ? "Niver." Pat finding himself in the centre of a large fieli. thought it would be a great loss of time to go the barn, and reaching out his open land. lie cried--" Sihrike that if you can!" --1 in .nm Lue a ilisperatc pass, Vitt raultv ing pulled away his haud, Jim fell after the blow, remarking that that " was an old woman's thrick.' Tliry it now " shrieked Pat, placing the same open hand against his own mouth. ..Ihim prepared for a sockdologer, and bring in; his massive " bunch of fives" in loving proximity with Pat's nose and mouth, whc pulled away his hand as before, he sent hin' reeling to the earth with four broken teeth and a large quantity of blood, for "larniv him the Yankee thrick." The Family Man. We like somnetimnes, on our evening journey homeward in public conveyances, to p)ick oul /he hojppy family mecn ; and they are by nc meansi so rare as sour, selfish people would have us believe. It gives us a thrill of deligi to see in their hands a pickture-book, or toy, or bouquet ; for well we know the happiness these (so called) " trifles'" bring to the expec ting nireside circle. And wvell may a mar treasnre his fireside comforts; well may he remember those who make toil light to him, and guard him with loving hearts and pure arms, from the hlighting, contaminating in tuences, which surround the solitary, yearn ing. unloved man in a great city. Well may he throw himself down upon the sofa and draw a long breath of relief, as the iron hand of barter and trade is lifted from his heart and the doors are thrown wide open for love to cnter. Well may he-like a miser-hoard these happy moments, crc death's shadow fal: on his threshold, and he wander through deso late rooms-familiar, yet oh, so fearfulli strange I followed by little pattering feet, tha1 wander up and down through the long day ir nursery and parlor, seeking her whose lost shall be greater and greater eae~h day to the motherless. Oh, ye who have happy homes who miss no dear head when the good-nigh1 blessing is given and taken ; into whose face clear, innocent eyes look lovingly, talk not o teil or labor with such blessings as these. FAYST FERN. NEvER ATTEMPT To GET OCT OF DEBT.-Thc man who owes nobody is a poor, miserabb being ; nobody manifests any interest in hit welfare-nobody cares a continental ceni whether he lives or ilies. He is lean, hungry and generally as poor and wilted as were the pin-feathers on Job's turkey. Look at oui reat men ; they are all debtors-owe every ody ; our men of science, our authors, out sensation ministers-all, the entire cahoot o them, are deeper in debt than Pharoah's armj were in the Red Sea. Debt ennobles a man gives hinm a more expanded and liberal view of human nature; keeps him moving-espe cially if he never pays rent. Nothing wil: cure the consumption quicker than a strong dose of~ debt properly taken. To owe, is hu. man; to pay is divine. Therefore, till mar becomes suiperhuman, he shouldn't attempt to emulate divinity. The science of payment the true modern science, is to get in debt tc somebody enough to pay somebody else whoa von owe. By this means, you avoid gettina out of debt, and yet maintain a reputation o; paying. The greatness of a nation imeresem with its national debt. Make a note of thu at ninety days.-Quiz. " Mv old nurse, Mrs. Patrick O'Toole," said cousin Jerry, " was a woman of logical mind, I was very sick once, and the doctor left nie an atrociously hitter drug, which I rather de elined taking. But Mrs. O'Toole carried the day. "Its th c doctor's orders," cried that good lad y: and i f you don't go by the doctor's or drs,'it ain'I no utse jbr yom. to be sick at all I swallowed my own scruples and the doctor'm also." We give the following story to our readers which they can believe or tot. as they choose -lt is. stated that a bull riised near Palmnyra N. Y., was so very ugly '.hat it was deeidet to kill him. Sn thme neigli)0rs assembled, anc sbot him full of balls, wh'ch only infuriatec tme beast. *After a lung ine he was pennet p amid tied securely wita ropes, and a twc inch augur hole bored in his head, a poun if Dupon's htet rifle piwder wvas put i and ramined down, andm his head blown te pices. Thirty-fivu innes after thfis his tai was ini active imotioni, wuiskin'g fhies of' it hWd. Anecdotes of Patrick Calhoun. We are indebted, (says the Charlestor Courier,) to a recent and pleasant acquaint ance, formerly of Greenville Dist.-ict, bu 'now of Georgia, for the following anecdotei of Patrick Calhoun, the father of John 0, Calhoun: Patrick Calhoun was born in the North o Ireland. He received a plain Northern Pres byterian education, but, for his opportunities was a remarkable man. He possessed a strong mind and an enterprising nature and spirit. When young, he emigrated from Ireland to Pennsylvania, thence removed tc Virginia, and ultimately settled in Souti Carolina, in a portion of .Abbeville District, embraced within what was then knowa a "'96" District, between the waters of Long Cane and Little River, where he subsequent ly lived and died. He was a master-spirit ic his neighborhood, and a leader among bi kindred, a large colony of whom always aO companied him in his migrations. He was a bold pioneer and a gallant spirit, who did good service to the State in the revolutionar) war, by keeping in check the Tories in hk neighborhood. All his life he was - man 01 wonderful energy, and also distinguished for practical business habits. In keeping -wit this latter feature of his character, he wai impatient of what he termed learned nonsense and also of wild speculations. He was ex ceedingly.jealous of his rights, and his jeal ousy in thatregard was once very singularly manifested. After the revolution the old Parish organ ization of the State was rather tardy in pro viding election precincts in the upper dis tricts; and he and his colleague, with their neighbors, the voters in their. section, fot lack ot an election precinct there, it is said, actually went down armed with their guns, to old Dorchester, where they held their election, had themselves returned as Repre sentatives, and took their seats as sahlii the Legislature. .On one occasion, when he thought the Legislature had been long enough in session, and he was anxious to return home, he adop ted a singular, as well as humorous niode ol rebuking and ridiculinga young member froim Charleston, who vexed the ear of the House with a very long and learned speech, inter larded with many Latin quotations. 'As soon as the gentleman had taken his seat, Mr. Calhoun rose, and, in his rich Irish brogue, delivered himself thus: " Mr. Spaker, I Ia ment, exceedingly, that I am incapable ol entertaining the House in the very learned lore of the gentleman from Charleston, but ] will, nevertheless do as well as I can, in at outlandish tongue"-and he actually deliver ed the rest of his speech in Gaelic or some Erse dialect. At the same or some other session, his col league, from "96," was a very large man, by the name of Reed, who had taken a helpmeet in the Dutch .Fork, between the Saluda and Broad rivers. Reed introduced and supported a petition to change the name of " 96" t that of " Cambridge." Mr. Calhoun as well from his conservatism and dislike of change as from the historic aud revolutiouary associa tion of "96," violently opposed the altcratior of' name, and made a long, earnest.and wor thy speech agoinst the measure. He firsi drew, on a sheet of paper, in large characters the figures p6," ana aispiaying ne agram proceeded as follows: "Mr. Spaker: I very earnestly hope tha the prayer of the petition will not be granted for "96" is hallowed by its connection wit. our early history and our revolutionary glory Its name should be preserved unchanged, a alike due to historic association and the sen timent of patriotism. Besides, sir, it would be a bad procedent, and probably lead tc other innovations of a like nature. Pass thi: measure, Mr. Speaker, and you whet the ap petite for change-change, change will be tbc order of the day, and your desk will groat under the weight of similar petitions-nay sir, our revolutionary history will be lost ii the new nomenclature. There is a smiall stream, sir, near my residence, now Called Long Cane, and it, too, has its revolutionary legends and traditions. If successful now the gentleman may next move to change th~ name of Long C'ane to Big Reed. [Mr. Cal houn here, suiting the action to the word with infinite humor, so swelled or spread himself out, as in both size and appearance to look like Reed, amid shouts of laughter fronr the amused assembly.] There is another lo cality, Mr. Speaker, now well known ovei our hitate, as the Dutch FZork; the gentleman for aught I know, may become tired also o the Dutch Fork, and peradventure may wisi to change that for something else." [Renewet merriment again shook the side of the grave legislators.] After exhausting all other arguments, Mt Calhoun held up his diagram and said :-Mr Speaker, I defy your edicts-."96" is " 96,' and all your laws cannot change it. .Hold i up, this way, and it is "96," turn it upsid down, and it is still " 96"--place it in whal position you may, and it continues to be "96," and so it will remain to the end of th< chapter, legi'slate as you may."~ The humor ist, of course, had hirb reward in the defeat c the measure by an overwhelming majority. Or, or TA.-A consumptive man in Ports mouth, says the Norfolk Argus, who has use< many remedies without relief, was advised ti take the oil of tar,.and acted accordingly. He was considered a perfectly hopeless case, bu the tar oil has cured him completely. He now hale and hearty. .As AwrnL PosrroN FOR THE PRzss.-The editor of the WVarrenton (Va.) Whig, writinj from the Sprinn's, says: " The Red Zweet Springs are delightful The bathe are really charming. At this place editors are forced down on an equality witl lawyers, doctors and members otf Congresi which I don't like. In fact, dead heads ar not recognized in this section of the State." REDEEMINO A NOTE.-The Okalona (Miss. Newos tells the following story: " Old P. is well known in some parts al one who never pays a debt if it can be avoided Has plenty of money, however, and is a jolly frollicking old chap. Gets pretty drunk occa sionally, when, of Course, some friend take! care of him. A few days since he fell into the hands of , friend who held his note for a sum of money and as it was a last chance, the friend dived into old P.'s wallet, took out the amount o: the inote, and put the note where the monoj had been. When he awoke to consciousness, as was ~is wont, he took out his wallet to count how much money he was out. Finding his purs< almiost empty, he thundered, " How did I spend all my money ?" " You paid off that note I held," answerei the friend. "Well," muttered old P.,' quietly stowinf away his wallet, "I must have been confound ed drunk I" NnvER tell a young girl she is handsom' in the presence of her old maiden aunt. Your matrimonial designs will be cold watered in stantly. A cartload of rattlesnakes can't produce as much pure unadulterated venom as the tongue of an old maiden aunt, in curls if she hears you compliment that "forkr litse. mninx," her niece. A physician in Louisville has discoverei that, living principally on buttermilk, a hn'nai being may prolong existence to the period o From the Carolinian. Views of Mr. Calhoun on Territorial Apquisition--The Slave Trade-.aud Cengressional Intervention. Diring the life-time of Mr. -Calhoun, his pr6-eininent abilities and thorough devotion to the #hts of the South, justly gave to his op.n0a the highest authority. All men felt, while he lived, that a great man was at the helm, and we all had confidence in the direc tioi he gave to the ship of State. Mr. Cal. honjit-is true, has passed from the stage of acti6 i his mighty voice has been hushed in the-ifillness of the grave. but his ideas remain tb us , legacy of priceless value. I propose to cite certaii; of these ideas, on questions now #ccupying the public mind. I shall make no copments,.but let Mr. Calhoun speak for him f. There in-e three distinct measures now ecommended to the South: .-16The cquisition of more territory-that :i tbi acqniation of Cuba or Mexico. 2. The retival of the African slave trade. -:3. Congressiohal: intervention in favor of slavery in-the Territories. In reference to the first of these subjects, Xr. Calhoun said, in the Senate, May 15th 1848: "So long as Cuba remains in the hands of Spain-a friendly power, of which we have no dread-it should continue to -be, as it has bein, the policy of all administrations ever !sibce Thave been connected with the Govern ment, to let Cuba remain there." In reference to, Mexico, Mr. Calhoun said, in thi-Senate, February 9th, 1847: I hold that there is a mysterious connec tion between the fate of this country and that of Mexico - so much so, that her independence :anacapability of sustaining herself,arealmost as essential to our prosperity and the main tenance of our institutions as they are to hers. Mexico is to us the fcrbidden fruit. The pen alty of eating it would be to subject our insti tutions to political death." Again, upon the same occasion, he says: "Shall.we annex the States. of Mexico to otir;Union ? Can we incorporate a people so dissimilar in every respect-so little qualified .for-free and popular government, without cer tai: destruction to our political inbtitu tions? Can we bringinto our Union 8,000,000 of people, all professing one religion, and all concentrated under a powerful and wealthy priesthood, without subjecting the country to thienaost violent religious conflict, and bring ing;.the Government, in the end, under control of a'single sect ? No. These difficulties are insuirmountable." Qn the second question, Mr. Calhoun sus taining the treaty of Washi gton, which, among other things, provided that the United Statesrshould keep a squadron of eighty guns on the coast of Africa, for the suppression of thealave trade, said, after premising that he regetted having to enter into any stipulations with Great Britain on this subject, but that he did not see how it was possible to avoid doing so: " Congress, at an early day, as soon in fact, as it could legislate on the subject, under the Constitit-.. - .sg ur lead at on:...cueement, and with such success as to compel vessels engaged in it to take shelter almost exclusively under the fraudulent use of our flag. To permit such a state of things to continue, could not but deeply impeach our honor, and turn the sympathy of the world against us." Further: "The other article in reference to the same subject, stipulates that the parties will unite in all becoming representations and remon strances with any powers within whose domm ions markets are permitted for imported Afri can slaves. If he were to permit his feelings to govern him exclusively, he would object to this more strongly than any other provision in the treaty, not that he wods opposed to the object or the policy of closing the market to imported ngesonth~e contrary, he thought it both right and expedienat in every view." Upon the third question, he said, June 27th 1848: " There is a very striking diff'erence between. the position on which the slaveholding and thn-subjectolding States stand, in reference to the subec under consideration, (the prohibi toofslavery in Oregon.) The.former desire no action of the Government ; demand no law to give them any advantage in the Territory about to be established ; are willing to leave it, and other Territories belon;;ing to the Uni ted States, open to all their citizens, so long as they continued to be Territories, anid when they cease to be so, to leave it to their inhabi tants to form such governments as may suit them, without restriction or condition, except that imposed by the Constitution as a pre requisite for admission into the Union. In short, the'y are willing to leave the whole sub ject where the Constitution and the great and - fdamental principles of self-government place it. On the contrary, the non-slavehold >ing Stateg instead of being willing to leave it on this bread and equal foundation, demand the interposition of the Government, and the passage of an act to prevent the citizens of the slaveholding States from emigrating with their property into the Territory.' " I hold that justice and the Constitution are the easiest and safest guard on which the qnestion can be settled, regarded in reference to party. It may be settled on that ground simply by non-action, by leaving the Territo ries free and open to the emigration of all the world. If a party cannot safely take this broad and solid position and 'successfully maintain it, what other can it take and main tain ?" Again, on the 12th August, 1849, Mr. Cal houn said, referring to the Clayton Compro misc, which was non-intervention : " Less than a month since, there was a fair prospect of the adjustment of the territorial -question on the cowmpromise of the Constitu tion itself, without a surrender of a particle of constitutioDal right on either side-" Such were the opinions of Mr. Calhoun in the maturity of his powers. I admit they don't quite comes up to the standard of modern orthodoxy in certain quartors, but yet they smack very much of that profound sagacity which characterized the views of the illustri ous South Carolinian. McDUFFIE. "You MIGHT As WELL"-A plain old gen teman. went with his team to bring home his two ,ons, two young sprigs, who were soon texpeeted to graduate. While returning, they stopped at a hotel inone of our country towns for dinner. - The landlord, struck with the dashing appearance of the two gentlemnen, while he took the old man, from his homespun appearance, to be nothiing but a driver, and asked tth:m if they wished the driver to sit St the table with them. ".Well, Dick," said the youngster, aside to his brother, " as he is our father, and its his ..eam, and he will bear the expense, I think we had better let him eat with us." " Yes, I think so too, under the circumstances," he replied. " Yes, landlord, you can give him a place at the table." Should not those who go up in a balloon in company be good~naturedl people ? .The con sequences would certainly.:be dreadful should RUMORED RETIREMENT OF THE RoTH SCHILODS.-In the Paris corespondence of thl 'Morning Star we find the following: "The assurance given in finnancial circles of the approaching retirement of the Rothschilds has created a strange sensation. If the rumor prove true, not only Baron James, but both the sons, Gustave and Alphonse, would also withdraw from business, the account of the house in Paris be closed, and, in short, it would exist no longer after the month of De cember. The deplorable state in which Na thaniel Rothschild still remains, who in the flower of his age and strength has been sud denly struck with paralysis, the uncertainty of financial operations in the present unset tled state of Lurope, have decided Baron James to take this step, so it is said. But al though the announcement, even unconfirmed as yet by himself, has occasioned some little emotion amongst the moneyed men of Paris, men of experience in these matters persist in declaring that such a measure is utterly in compatible with the baron's age, his nation, and his love of domination, and they there fore reject the possibility." How AND WHEN To EAT FauIT.-Fruit should not be indulged in between meals, as though it was a luxury, but used in moderation at meat time, in the place of animal and other food. It should not be eaten for desert, after a full meal has been made, as is usually done -a custom which cannot be too severely re prehended. Fruit may, with safety, be eaten at any meal, but it would be well to confine it to breakfast. The old saying will be found true by practice. " Fruit is gold in the morn ing, silver at noon, and lead at night." Let it constitute a part of the breakfast, and be eaten at no other period of the day, let it be ripe and not eaten immoderately, and incal culable benefits will arise from its use, both in preventing the access and staying the pro gress of disease during the summer and fall months.-Hall's Journal of Health. HEART-RENDING SCENE-APPALLING DEATH FROM HYDROPHoBIA.-We are nearly evdry summer doomed to record one or more of those most awful of deaths in which the King of Terrors assumes the appalling shape of hydro phobia. Some four weeks ago, a Frencho.en named Louis Laclere, a laborer, as bitten on the arm and waistby a dog. About four days ago the symptoms of the horrible malady, he feared, began to manifest themselves. His employer procured his admission to the city hospital where the best accredited remedial measures were at once studiously adopted in his behalf. Despite these, he steadily grew worse. For the most part entirely conscious of his condition, he gr.-lually, became the helpless prey of a series of terrible spasms, which hopelessly increased in intensity and frequency. His agonies were as if an internal fire were consuming him. In calmer intervals, when water could be offered him, he would snatch the dipper and greedily gulp the draught, upon which a spasmodic closure of &imuZLra'L1Un we have known for a long time of the Scriptural maxim, that " unto them that have shall be given, and to them that have not shall be taken away even that they have,"' has recently occurred in our city. The great, rich institution, the Louisi ana State Bank, whose stwck is quoted at $180-which has three millions and a half specie in its vaults, and nearly six millions invested in paper, loans, discounts, pledges suddenly turned up the other day the legatee of $150,000 bequeathed by a gentleman in Mississippi, who is an entire stranger to the bank, never having had any transactions with it. The circumstances are these: A rich old planter named Matthews, desirous of spiting his relations, left his property, exceeding $150,000 in valne, to his illegitimate children by a colored woman. and in the event of their disability to inherit, to the Louisiana State Bank. This will contained a few small lega cies to his brothers and sisters. Under the lair' of Mississippi, the colored children cannot inherit, and the bank seems to have a pretty clear prospect for this property. His white relations, however, have commenced to contest it, and the bank has employed counsel to maintain its rights. -New Orleans Delta. A FREE NEGRO AsKtIN To BE MADE A So-Y.-A petition has. been filed, in the clerk's office of the circuit court of this county, by a negro niamed Wmn. Braxton, a free man, praying that the court will consentto his being a slave of Mr. Samuel House, of this county. Branton was manumitted by the last will and testament of Elijah Grenwell, deceased, of this county, and having enjoyed, for several years, Pennsylvania fr-eedom, has become 'isgusted and returns asking to be made a slave-which blessing, of course, will be granted him.-Romnney (Va.) Intelligencer.. GUARn AGAIST VULGAR LANGUAGE-There is as much connection between the words and thoughts, as there is bet ween the thoughts and words; the latter are not only the ex pressions of the former, but they have a power to react upon the soul, and leave the stains of their corruption there. A young man who allows himself to use one profane - or vulgar word, has not only shown that there is a foul spot on his mind, but by the utterance of that word he extends that spot and infiames it, till, by indulgence, it will soon pollute and ruin the whole soul. Be careful of your words as well as your thoughts. If you can control the tongue, that no improper words are pro nouncedl by it, you will soon be able also to control the mind, and save that fr-om corrup tion. You extinguish the fire by smothering it or by preventing bad thoughts from bursting out in language. Never utter a word any where which you would be ashamed to speak in presence of the most refined or the most religus. Try this practice awhile, and you will soon have command of yourself.-New Jersey Farmer. .CaocKE-r-r's Lon CAsN.-On the Mobile and Ohio Railroad, not far from Jackson, in Tennessee, say an exchange paper, still standes the humble log cabin, 18 by 20 feet in size, built and occupied, while he lived in the. dis trict, by the far-famed David Crockett. its logs are fast decaying, and desolation sur rounds it, but no traveler passes it without an eager desaire to look upon the humble roof that sheltered one of the truest repr esenta tives of the American pioneer character-a hero and an honest man. Near it is a rail road station, called Crockett's Station ; around it, perhaps, will arise a town, to hear and per petuate a name as familiar to his couintrymen as that of Jackson. A correspondent of Porter-'s Spirit says: " Did the U~nited States ad opt any mesures to delay the European war ?" And answers his own question, "Yes, they sent Morphy over to hold their kings in check." LAsT Sunday, in a Western village, when the " plate" was being passe in chulrch, a entleman said to the " olctr- Go on;i {m a de.,4-bnd..nq o t a mas I" Douglas and Iverton.--Who are the Heretics? - We publish in another column, a most re' markable article from the Augusta Considu tionalist. Senator Iverson has throw nhimselr forward as the head and front, the very point to the spear, of Southern ultraisni in Georgia None so violent in his opposition- to Judge Douglas' views on thi question of slavery in the Territories. He declares that Douglas is a traitor-a deserter-false to the party -and recreant to the dictates of constitutional obligation. That his territorial views are wholly, unconditionally, and most perniciously heretical. Such was the tenor of his recent speech. It was abounding in all that could enkindle the fires of enthusiasm in the ardent bosoms of those whostill cherish the traditions of.disunion and the bright, fanciful visions of a Southern confederacy. It was evidently a bold dash for leadership by 'an attitude of vehement antagonism to Judge Douglas. Un. fortunately for the Senator, he had in former years been a member of the Federal House of Representatives, and had there expressed his views on the question that is now being so uselessly agitated by politicians. I Still more unfortunately, that speech was ae curately recorded in the Congressional De bates. And still more unforturiately, some prying personage has rescued it from oblivion and paraded it for special perusal at this time -very inopportunely, Senator Iverson doubt less thinks when " tho crisis is approaching," and Georgia elections are about to take place. In this speech we find that Senator Iverson occupied substantially the position which iow strikes him as being so heretical in Judge Douglas. It will be seen rhat he not only ad vocated non-intervention by Congress, but went the entire length and was willing to leave it to the people of the Territories to decide, without even providing for their unconstitu tional legislation being over-ruled by judicial interposition. This was the platform to which he urged Northern men to meet him. Judge Douglas meets him there by invitation; together they fight through two Presidential campaigns, when suddenly, after the lapse of ten years of cordial co-operation, Senator Iverson wheels upon his political confederate, anathematises him as a heretic whom it were contamination to associate with, and excom municates him from the fellowship of the true fold. Ce.n anything more strikingly illustrate the wretched uncertainty of reliance in politi cians, and the little significance really to be attached to their buncombe declamation, pre pared for temporary display? Slavery in the Territories--Senator Douglas and Senator Iverson. In the speech delivered by him, on the oc casion of his public reception by the citizens of New Orleans, on the 5th December, 1848, Mr. Douglas, in summing up his opinions in eference to slavery'iu the Territories, said: " if the people of a Territory are in favor of slavery, they will make laws to protect it; ' ---~1 tr- -1---- they will notimake . -~~~ ~ .~O"uild we quarre about it ? ~ When you arrive at a certain dis tance to tLe Northouf the line, there cannot ): any doubt of the resalt ; and so when: you go a certain distance South, the result will be equally certain the other way. But in the great central regions, where there may be some doubt as to the effect of natural causes, who ought to decide the questioin except the people residing there, who have all their in terest thereo; who have gone there to live with their wives and children? Any party which attempts, by a system of coercion, to force any insti tutions igia re-gions not adap ted to tbein, violates the great principle on which our government is founded. " Youi now have my views on the subject of slavery in the Territories. Practically, they amount simply to this: If the people want slave'ry, they will have it; if they do not want it, they will not haive it, and you cannot force it upon them.. If these princi ples be recognized and adhered to, we can live in peace and harmony together ; but just as surely as you attempt to force the people to have slavery against their will, in regions to which it is not adapted, fanaticism will take control of ihe Federal Government." These were the views which were express ed by the Senator fronm illinois, in his speech at New Orleans. They were urged by him before that speech, in his address to the peo ple of Illinois, and after-'ardls asserted by him on the floor of the Senate of the United States. In the speech delivered by isim in the House of Representatives of the United States, on the 26th of July, 1848, when the House, in Committee of the Whole, had under consid eration the bill to-organize a government for the Territory of Oregon, the Hion. Alfred iverson, in reference to the subject of slavery in the Territories, said: "Now, sir, whether the people, in their Territorial capacity, can constitutionally or rightfully exclude slavery, I am willing to leave to the decision of the Supreme Court, which many gentlemen contend is the proper and constitutional tribunal for its decision, or to the consideration and judgment of the people themselves. It is a principle in hjuman nature, as powerful as universal, that'politi cal action of communities will be regulated and controlled by the interests of the parties concerned. If, therefore, it shall appear that slave labor may be profitably employed in these new Territories of the Union, and the people are 'left free to act, they will adopt the institution .of slavery. If. on the other hand, it shall be found that the climate and soil are not adapted to the profitable employ ment of slave labor, no slaves will ever find their way into the country, however wide the door may be opened for their admnission All that the South, therefore, can or ought to ask is, that the people of tbe Territories be left to decide this most important question for themselves. If their interes-t dictates it, slavery will be established in spite of the prejudices, either of Mexican residents or those who may emigrate from the States of I this Government. Experience teaches that the Yankee, who moves to and settles at the 1 South, where slave labor is profitable, is as1 willing and as ready to own slaves-aye, and to task them, too-as those who have been born and bred up in their midst. That zeal for human freedom, so patriotically cultivated and proclaimed in their native land, like the courage of Bob Acres', 'oozes out at their fngers' ends' as soon as they come under the genial sun of Southern slavery. The promnpt ings of ambition and interest soon overcome the prejudices of early education. If slave ry, then, cannot be pronitably introduced into the country, it will never'go there, although you may pass -laws recognizing its existence and protecting its enjoyment. " If it be profitable, depend upon it, the people will have it in spite of prejudice, il you do not prohibit it by Congressional leg islation. Let, therefore, this exciting, dis tracting, distui-bing subject, be left to the judgment and decision of those who will be most deeply interested in it and affected by it. The~re it will be coolly considered and prenr decided, and, a a Southern mans I am willing to trust the decision and abide the result.. Let it be.kept out of the halls of Congress, for here, and here only, will. the exercise of this dangerous and disputed power put this experiment of a Federal Union to the severest test." . Let our readers compare these two extractA from speeches of Senator Douglas and 'Sena tor Iverson, and judge for themselves if there is any difference in the opinions they express, in refer-ence to the influences which will con trol the determination of the question of slavery in a Territory. The only difference which we can see, is that the Georgia Sena tor is more elaborate and more decided, than the Illinois Senator, in the expre-sion of the. same views. Both assert that the people of the Territories will and ought to determine. the question of slavery fo. themnelves-ac cording to their interest.-that if they want. blaves they will have. th;em; if they do not, they will not have them, and there is no power which can- force the institution of slavery upon them. But Mr. Iverson is ex plicit in declaring that slavery -will not go into a Territory where it-cannot be profitably" employed. and where, consequently, the peo ple do not want it,- eien it ,Congress passes laws " recognizing its existence - and.protect; i g its enjoyment.1 - Why, then, does the Seuator now insist that the South should de-, mand from Congress protection to slave pro perty in the Territories by Federal laws, and make the refusal to grant itva cause for-the dissolution of the Union 7-Augusta Consti-. tutionalist. The Results of the. War. The New York Herald thus sums up the results of the late war: lut, it has been asked, what bas Italy gain ed by the war? What us Austria lost by it ? Italy has gained muich-gained almost all that the must enthusiastic partisan of war looked irward to-more than most people expected she would gain. The kingdom of Lombardy has been won from Austrian domi. nation, aud goes to play its part in a free constitutional Italy. T ,e princely puppets that-governed Tucrany, Modena, Parma and the quasi vice royalities of Austria, have been Wet aside, and the people of thcse duchies are n1ow-as Farini, the :ardinian Commissioner, expresses it--iasters of' their own future, fre, organized and armed It is only in Venetia that -the yoke of tie Austrian still. pres-.s; 'and eren there the movement rr freedom is uot ended, f*.r we see that a. ieputation of Venetians recently .waited on he French ambassador at Turin to deliver an address to the Emperor, protesting against being left under the dominion- of Austria, whether direct or indirec.. This determina. Lion en the part of the Venetians will not be ithout its due weight upon the conferences at Zuricb, though it is not to be expected that, it will have the ellhet of inducing Austria to ren3lnce her rights to Venetia. This is what Italy has gained by the short but. sanguinary and decisive struggle-in which Lanee lent hersword to freedlm. And what .rol aid influence. In fict, all that su. ained in Italy for the last half er-utury is lost :u her. ,Nothiug remains but Venetia and wen there, as we have intimated, her rule is ,v no means secure. in view of these lhets. how could it be main ained for a moment that the war had no 'ruits, or that the peace was prematurely and uconsiderately made ? At first that was the ery general inpression ; but now that tihe rists-of passion and prejudice are clearing tway, people see that, the outery made against :he \ illa Franca peace wa~s unwarrantedl. 'o be sutre, Italian afflirs are att present.'in a rather chaotic condition : lbut we may be con idcnt that out of that chaos will come order -the order of libernd and enlighteuied institu tions. It will lbe for the Zurich conferenei', in part, to promote and give direction t.: that transition movement. In part, the work d. rolves upon the Italian petopmle themselve.. Mat. Diatrra'r, -ru Nu'.in~r;m:?x Mixtsvnv. -The Washingtun Sla/es of .'.lounday, say's: 31r. Dimnitrv will leave Wathington at a very early day, perhaps next Saturday, for Central America. lie will bie instrutedl not to persernt his credentials to the Nicaraguan governmient, unless thar gtov*'ru:mtnt expunges the obnoxiou, articles ini the Liiaar-Zeledon treaty, which no doubt, will bie done long be fore .\r. Dimitry reaches Nicaragua. We are satisfied, in fact, that it has already bee-n acomplished. Our friend Dimnitry we must congratulate. He will have few difieulties to contend with, but what, with his goo~d judgmnent and lelas iu manners. he w~ill soon overcome. The, most seriou~s dillicult we apprehend, will be to make the Nicaraguanis believe he is a bona fidc American. Hie look~s so much like one o their countrymen, and speaks their lani uagTe so correctly, that they will swear this government has autempted to humbug them in palming hinm off upo : them as an American. itien. But he will :an a tte thrat matter to the 'satisfaction of all. To y will soon be sat isfied that Alexander Di.... .'. not only a native born American citizeo, ,ut one of 'the most patriotic among us... A TIrstLv SrGGEsrox.-A Southern jmir nalist. wiio was once employed in the arduous duties of taking the cetisus, to avoid many of~ he inconveniences attending upon that duty, makes the following timely suggestions for 1860: " Now, what we suggest is, that each far mer this fall, as h~e gathers his crops, shall keep something like an acconutt of the quan ity and value of the same ; and, if he will ake the trouble to make out a statement of the tames and ages of his family; the number f acrea ot land, cleared and timbered ; the iumber and ages of his servants ; the umber md value of his horses and mules; the num-. >er of bales of cotton, barrels of corn, bushels >f wheat, oats, rye, barley. potatoes, &c., and he value of each, and leave it in some place there any member of the famnily who may e at home when the Deputy Marshal 'shall ~all, can readily get hold of it, it will save ime to all concerned, and very greatly assist a make the census returns perfect, compilete md satisfactory." A Posrmn.-Ned wvas arguing in faivor of ~ivimg woman the elective franchise. " Why houldn't women vote as well as men ? Are hey not as capableof forming correct opinions y political subject<? Many a woman knows nore than her husband." ' That may be," aid Jim, " but do you suppose IPd have ras ally politicians come electioneering with my rie ?" Ned was silenced. Cot.jw's-r STAYn THE Doeroas.-Some rears since an old Revolutionary soldier, namied' Benj. Johnson, of Milford, Mass., was struck by lightning, but not killed. For two iys be was. insensible, .wlien two doctors we're called, who said he would die. Just at that moment his. speech <iame to 1dm, and. calling his wife by' name,. he said, " I have stood, cannon-and musket balls 'd baybnet, and Lecan stand thunder and lightninzg, if the' doctors, will only let me biel"--and sure enough he reovered. - -