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Oct 4 t m 3 GROERES, &U[., :k sl of (:oTI~hCon an telro Baggi; .: Njew SiT, ireoo Wareouse a 2. & 'Rvcds ret. . ma...:..-: ,nesim'ad when h de s ANTEIEGPULAIN, THOMASR J. JIENN, Anais. i.... ct 41 w 39N -IMrC Wri'ten fur -: Edgefield Mvertiscr. MA.Y R IV E R S. UY KATE B. TALBIRD. MAy Rivv s! Brilliant MtY ! I was ab, t to introduce her to you, as the belle of the gay world in which sh moved a half-a-dozen year.. ago. But rt-considering, Ihave ducided to teSt your de s ite f1 thricing the nettiAotance of iny earliest friend, by Compelling you to wait if you will, while Ireach beck and unfold, briefly, the influen ces which placed her there. Years ago. upon a sloping hill-sil: in one of the central Counties of New Yrk stood , simple cot tage, the abode of pe.ee aLnd joyou ;:eas. The jar of the world broke not up..n its hus!:ed :ranquility, and to its rural ilnMtLS the rosy hou:s danced lightly aloug, freighted ouly with love and hap piness. The great world, with its selfishness, aud jealousies, and eauker worms, was to them a sealed *ok. But unspairing de.th sought out this re treat of contentment and desolated its unfolding promises. In the full flush of manhood was the devoted husband and father summoned from his usefulness on ear.th; and in'the bitter anguish of a stricken and desolated heart, the widowed nmoth er gathered her fatherless little ones to her bosom, clasping them convulsively. us though even in the fir-t hours of her lone agony, she feared or felt something of their impending doom-:o be torn frin daily conmaunion with her l.!-eding heart, :nd from the angel gaardiainship of her vigilarnt mother's eye. And as her first terrible woe sub:ide-!. the truth of her intuitions diselosel itself. Interest.:d friends felt that the little lonely group could not dwell alone upon the hill-side; and in compliance with their suggestions. and in the silence of a heart breaking with its untwining from the most tenler *'d end-arin; :s.en'tons, did the genle wi-'o sedfr herself to be i'uiled. But irhen the final t,.,r arrived h-:r handoning the (l.e:r lio.u--the -varm u-sr of afrectin. enftiden-e :itd prot'Con, di place hail:ed by death-:d! the pent-up mi sery. the c.rorroding yearning, to linger on the sa ered zpt. hroke forth. tnd in soibing, weilinp he~piessness w:s she removed tM the ch-eerf2 henrth rf the br.,ther, w.t;'i ho ieved that her :a .i t:4ry grief shouwi ' admit the inowiv:. of syinp-. :t -mis.-et.A:- ;,-r darlinps lookedxi - n Or, . i'vre2;ee. i!:: t..-'. terri' e :itinL0h of i!tir . 2 her, in WC.iering itrq:. Clr . ' .er a fit e . n Ite, n N :y.Ibo, e t o*;! he11 r 1:-.k anld ;(it, her how, wt'en hIt grew %, be a man. h2 would :nk her back to lhe howt: .-.here Papa di-:dt ; il 'hen he. tit,, wept na:it.:tcly for his ow-n 1oe. ond 'ils mn- in te .-eiun. anl his swing in the ::pple tree. W'iere In. ad pbi-ced theta. And 1-i.. h:eairt -: i.e .- .. st~uZ.y garlon an! the :ildy I -ts -nd *h' .unnin vices and wou:d r - P."Cy ar.y :v-d. A - ..;: pr-" a--d se n.:tive Hittle May, bt-liev -r re i -iv. s I 'Lo t-t.: in. trit- r.:s of her inot.' . fr% nuz tistry, t. ,.- - - y de.-.hndetd t h. .t: d oule: a-id Y - ip iier :1r.7 f.ot, --:h:l 1! % ie v-tins . r :.:-. .d Iwql d alo:-. her 1i V. we - - .. . .. -l t.: of rew rin; ..r.. a-id i. trit.. o :the u..,. aie.a gradual :.g!eet .1 d a i1niin on hei o ther. L-t it sulliet thait the brot-r grew we:. ry if the enduesan;. r .-e*c whicl. c-hu!d ).t be 2liVened or t..irwch . : u; .u. .- i.-r w :h - % .!.w :. :i. fa. r ' .d.1 remaiut.i ith 1..II a t w ye:.rs, ie extortei - he hill-side bin,- . - r-.mze-tuerati2m for the c-ott politie shelter. LdA i2en e..ue the sundori:.... each one floa:ting out a!oie into~ tI. - br:,n:d tide o; th-.: worid's hollow, 4-enchmerous surf.ee. Cuarence -ilbdiied a pilnce in nu etieu where he tunderwent the u:nunt ordeal of tieuius pittet a:gainst Fortune. For .May, her brillinuice atnl elevationm lua attrue icd the it.:reet of at ;ettleman oft wealth andu in iluece. who sorro~wing; for the lone, proud gii. -hrus to: th ni on the world, kindly took her utnder his jpri teeth n. and :dupted ther into the puaitioin o! his dau'gler. An.h the l-.vinur-he.irted mother. Whlo h::d lived r-niy for these, her jewels, nocw thamt they were plucked from her, bowed her head in despaiir before the blast, which, like a balighting doomn, had desolated her path. iler life was left objecthess, anud a few montths sufficed for her cager spirit to fret awaty the worn bars which fettered it, and exultingly she met the sumins which she felt would join her to the dear one " Who had gone before To that serene and~ silent shore, Where all shall meet some sumumer morning." And now we will turn to May- Rivers. Her mother's death left her heart a blank solitude. She dlidnot abaindoni herself to the outbursts which might have been expectedl from tier childlish years: for May was yet a child, scareely twelve years old. Blut a silent misery enehiinted tier; sympathy sh~e dteired unot, for the heart whose avympathetic ihrobh ings had made the music oif her young life.. was !:ushedi in the gre : and she felt tha:t its stiliness .ads her de.s'olution. Yet was she alwayt ininig. .dtways lov-ely in her uneomnphiining grief. But as time wore on,. her y-onn; s--irit inronsced itself from the gloom, am in sc-hoeI we biehll her thte precociitus studen t. drnwing gay- g:onips aroundii ter b.y hecr vivar~ity, andi the keen sal~les of her lively- wit. She was the faivorite if ill, and yet nine kew her-she hat no intitmates-she was ::Ione!I S:he attachul her. elf teo sadey. anid for her do vainS iec ele:ld its p.cre, :ntelkeetual tren uires, ountiit her m.rt-b wias pi e-verhi::l-whatev-er .'es~ tom lied, she m::steredl, foer o~utsirippiin" withi m.a eire, her compoaers; and1 still her brilliat~t oit went com:et-wise, ibanginrt on~ward. Buit this *-endur of iintelle:e was emijoyedl a'. thte e-xpense - f at ie of te tea trt- richest tteetions. For - h I the h~epse tif hier ,enoud days paased hecr hwok -o.:.n in.t theni cae-il a 1:een senuse of her :ar'.i, her p..sence waes iegairdled ai rivalry by3 - .:Vi.. ..s lauhten :. and, nii titetd i.< she wies r er -eticat lif.. ihis wioidtlt hve ime:ledi tier to te T.. of .a is,- n-:22:1tn minta2i..C-. ':suld she .n -itve, itei:ant ;ei,.071p shouldh '.e---emi fromi~ l.-r -plend'-id renais 2-, gappl~.e wu itetutal exe- tien .I.! ... t .: ..itc-i l.imii:t: s itnd soliiciide h ei :' -:e-ihr ina,.2t :dIYertiom~te araitite : his I r.-.-~ her bewt-: .ori ini :nerordn.:, wihb tIs, .2- . h:a :;:ipp':tus hionn-, with , ride u. .. ....in : . :ih.n2ely heart. .rie i .- te inne ifti by~ -i. i' e.ad hreher alitterin: exterior :taseini'--.-h. r .-it ine... w~s loveline--s in its . x' re- in.- tisgiie. -:- waiS inde ai eiiiid wi. I --. lis.. - . - l'- lea'sing persiinal at ,: titoins, tier ext. *mne cultivatiion, the easy ielva ti--n of hcr ...--:ietiant mniliers, with a due.h of mys iism coupled with frank gaiety, made her bewitchiing!y eniptivatinmg. Andt sherev-tell in the hi.mage wh-hb she exieted, qjunfing with, indis .-riminating iniiencition, hi.- flattery, unit the ear ies: devt.i-s n~ bich were y offered her. Ini the h.ahA mra an~a ham~d " the sound, orve*ry by. ni," ight she lie fiund. tho leading tar. Anid ine woui I nve guessed the proud pain rankling in her heairt, though scorching sarcasms did mingle with the flashing reintillations of her mirth. But the orelty and the excitement of such a cour.,. must, with one of her capacities and sen sibilities, wax only to wane ; and then came wea riiuess, emptiness, mockery. Admiration she had laved in, until she was snitited,-and love! noble mrn oflbroadeloth and moustasehv, with greathearts throbbing with selfishness, and vanity, and con eit, idolised her. But what was this to the deep demands of her passionate, ideal soul! What was worship to her, if she could not reflect the adora tion ? Sho was alone, with an awakened heart wildly clamoring for a congenial sobject upon which to lavish its excess of exalted tenderness. Poor May ! She was indeed alone! And often di1 she turn from the brilliant scene of her hollow triumphs, to the solitude of her chamber, the gloom ier elitude ofher lonely heart, with a prayerfor the sympathy and protection which would have shiel ded her from the artificial world;-the protection which left the earth with the true-hearted man who died in the cottago on the hill-wide: the sym pathy which left the earth with the loving-hearted woman who drooped and died from the interrup tion of her affections. And thus went May's life, vibrating between anxiety, despairing depression, and the wildest excitient. There was no tameness, no modera tion in her spirit. Flattery, the cnciousness of power, toll with effect upon her course. For now she lent a ready ear to " the voice of the charm er." and, when failing to find her ideal realised, she broke frot the frail meshes of one conquest, uily to enter regardlessly upon the experiment of another. And notwithstanding these indications of heardasness, it yet was frotm her great eapaci ties for aflection that she became a flirt. She de sired to love after her own fashion, and to be true; but sha tmot not the heart able to attract and res pond to the sympathies and demands of her own. Ali ! who shall chide her? Are not all hearts here below longing fir and seeking a joy-giving, peacn conferring y:npalby ? Some hastily snatch at a spurious res.:m!liince, ated sorrowfully diucover th:at they have grasped1 "the shadow with a thorn:" a happier fe.w reecive all their conscious .strength frnn the sweet certainty that they are journeying nwn d it rapport with congeniality-and some, a'as! rever fin-1 it through a long life, and grow skeptie-il or i'ts existcnie. Adti tlit, it was w't!i .ny. As the years rolled n _-.iy a - 1h t -nid no counterpart, she decided 01-! ll '' im.w u- i vr. not mi.de in HIeatven,'-or 0. t!. v;-::y it earth was not a grand fet _.o the aa::gmt:-and in bitterness she res:.lveli upon a ivorldly. p1olitii marriage. Her be, I was weary: her rot.ices head longed for a sez1ure. p*e if repee: iher worn spirit yearned for a *... And mating at this time, in the fash . . ... : t;. : , . o :0 ai t.p 1 o0 tue ,u . .. . i. ,e.. icear a giow:ng, full-orbed . . . Ii... d a un:y, lixurious imagination ri o.id i aduiiat:on of her sulimtated el-.ganco. .'0e Vaw only Ler stiperiiity of inteheet, her eleva t. WU and exi.mne culture. ller volcnic heart wie . ivwith these gariands, and while the fire .:i utde: ing hu offered to take it forever to hi.;: : ,race. Aud 31 iy necept itt. She, with her dele ueres: ofspiri. her ti'ree, tei-estunus unatureplett ing i. r wild, eager w.;r~hip, becamie the wife of he e. hui, tri miy minan. She might have bielieved thait .reat ex-remnes wounl. harmoini:e; she might bari betz:ievci th:it the storm of her soul was laid l--rver; but whatever tany- have b~een her theory, t was foiundedi iu error, for she knew she did not ove him. iShe reepeted his talents and acquire iitnts, and beyond ailt, his eazrnest, unaffected na tre ; if his heart was caltu it exacted nothing, and as iutiiiitely pireferable to a c'ounter-tentpest. Butt woe for ner delusions ! The truth that she as defraiudintg a generous, truthful heart was a oad to her conscience, and when this was aroused all ber obil resttessness followed in her train. She elt in hiittertiess that her heart must ache and trub alonti, while duty pirotmpted her to act the luing mtutal throtngh ill the hated life.long dra. .a. And her~ s.,um despised this duplicity, and iterly condemntted thu heartless, tmocking fashion in whicht she had given her hand, and implied the eart in it when no heart was there, and the smile fled her lips, and weariness, dulhttese, supplanted he brilliatnce of her former lifa. She miourned hils greait wrong she hail done herself, this griev us sin against antother--this ill starred thing, natritmotny, without the truest, de pest affection. [nt this shte htad been treacherous to her own heart, to her very vital tiature-and to hter husband, thut nble, kind, ealhn sband whtose love flowed in a ,e.p unde r-euirent, andti developed itself after ti type so mild, she einuld tnot appreciate or cornpre hend it. And she reproached herself that her heart ws so rebeliious, liut the very silken chains whieb he* tr,i w arontad her, wore hor soul like iron, and feuered her freedom, her independence more than limns of birass. Bitt the strong, ftxed hand of Des tiny htad patsed liver her, and she was chainged " Changed as by~ the sichness of thto sotd 3taking the cold reality too reLh. lJeep down in her heart was a painfully acute viliy, but 'twas so stitled that its workings only at long intaivals, penietratedl to the surface. Her husbandl regar.ted her gloomy ahi-tractiotns, her witi effitrts .at. gaiety. with wonder and grief. He knew sh'; suffered, lint ho could not reach the enuSe, Ie knew nout how to unfold htis heart and ps.sitonaely enwratp the erring, fainting one in its ore, thn.ugh Ihe e-midb tunfihintgy have laid down his life for ther. Ohm, the depths of those suffering hearts ! Oh, the immensity, the difference be tween thetti Where thtere was so mutch respect aid adhniratiuon-whtere there was nto jarring chord, wat contstitttd this great didtance? It was the absece .r sympa&'.y. There was no answering ch--r.-:n, cominiiglinig, no unity, no oneness. Ot! had they but engrafted upon their lives a -trng, wcot-foundiedl, mtutual regtard-but perfeet ly. fully. tand entirely ived eacti other, then' '- la the stormti pelt, or fauir weather bteam, It were all tbtlist-" A t this dire jietactro Maiy wasrequired to arouse hers::f tromm her listless meditations for the enter tainenit of a mest intimate frietnd of Mir. Linwood, wo was just returned from Europe, atnxioius to mee~t thu lovely wife oft his friend who bud sent .uerross the broad waters to himt ,uch living, glow iig piemrets ot his brilliant bride in the first days of tijz.mrriage. Ji.irry Chiurebill foiund tthe picture hadl not been iverrawn.l ii Tfrit-, Ma4y was stubduted, almost ii ligly sutbduitd, tbut there was cottnected witth it a gcnctienes wthich woni at ottce upon0 the heart, an easy elegatnce which Churebill was prepmred to up irecite fronm his expeirienilie with foreign pumps ande etmipty formality. Andi as his visit was to tie a protraeted one, that easy naturalness of aetiott and feeling established itself in the little circle .shich s most dan~roUs to an untguarded boeart holding a secret in reserve. If May was sad, the unobtrusive sympathy of Churchill's genial naturi met and refreshed her. There was always a sim ple, thorough-bred grace in his manners, his fee lings were vivacious and electric, and she learned. there was a charm in his presence to lure her' spirits from the torpid gloom which had nearly paralised them. And so a few weeks flew happily along. Mr. Linwood was delighted to see some4 thing of his wife's characteristic animation gush-) ing forth again, and May was joyous for the fresh-. ness, the new life which had supplanted the dor. mancy of the past. Books, music, chess and eon versation filled up the hours for herself and Chur-J chill, which her husband gave necessarily to the duties of a practical profession. And in these hours May all unwittingly, betray ed the barrenness of her heart; and as page after page unrolled itself to Churchill's clear-judgingf lierceptions, he perceived the impress of pride,j and loveliness, and misery; and yearnings fo gushing affection grappling with a rigid con-' science. And as he pondered over the discoveries, ande onsidered the rich oapaeities of her nature, hisl eye took a dreamier glance, and his voice a ten derer tone, while wild fancies woved themselves -inl to the web of his musings. I) May's relation as a wife-the wife of his dearesa, friend,-had been a passport which opened thel way for her unchallenged entrance into his heart, and when forced to define the truth, he found her enshrined, the very embodiment and incarnation of the ideal of his soul's adoration. And May had, without an aim, given herself up to the allure ments of the time; had, with child-like gladness,4 been drawn from the fearful gloom into the warm sun-light. Her blighted spirits bathed in the unspoken sympaties of a congenial soul, until a. throbbing, quivering vitality deman de.1 herto look*; after their tendencies. And then the bitter-sweet, humiliating truth stood unmasked before her. It needed no spoken word; by every indication or the past, by every leaping beat of her own heart, she know she loved, and was beloved. V.!. hea-, ing emotions, rapturous and wretched, thrilled her. All other impulses, all other attachments fa ded away before this grand master-passion, and Churchill was the contre and the compass of her existence. Mentally, materially, he was the ideal of her girl-life, the realization of her woman-i dreams. Alas! for her, with this wild torrent ofr I oundless affection pleading in her heart, at such. an hour, for such a man! Yet she would control it all, forego it all, so she resolved ; and the idea of sacrifice (lid not carry. with it despairing misery, or if it did, it brought also a dark, wild bliss. The great dream of her life was merged inte an intense realization, and she plunged madly into the rushing under-current of fierce, seething passion, and wedded herself to the refined misery and ecestacy of her wild, scorch ing emotiuns. And then, when Churchill kuew, intuitively,'. licity of a life intensified and beautified by nas guidance, and tenderness, and sympathy; but pride and remorse stayed her. She would die wil iingly for this ill-timed affection, but she was a wife, and she could not inflict the pang of dis grace and treachery upon her husband, by flight with another. Crushed, humiliated, temptedt, her pride now prompted her to escape from the pres a sce to which her hseecching affections would have attaeed her forever; to escape, too, from the pres ence of the tiggrieved husband, whose kindness ad attentions piorced her like two-edged swords. Accordingly, with affected playfulness she con signed the gentlemen to the detlights of a honting excursion and camp-life, while shec arranged to pay a long-promised visit to an old school-mtate about a hundred miles away. Ihastily the pre parations were made,-hastily the farewells were said on boardl the Steamenr's deck-the rig;ng of a bell, a smile, the flutter of a handkcrchief. und se was gone. Gaily the springing, plunging steamer cut the wrsters of the noble Hudson, while liv.ely groups ane up from the crowded Cabins, for the fresh breath fanning down the Highlands and~ rippling aeross the water. The htum of mingled voices, bursts of gay laughter, music, and hark ! a terri ble crash-a boom as though heaven's artillery had discharged in their midst; shriekr, smoke, raining fire, leaping flames ! The bailer had ex ploed, tearing away decks, cabins,-hurling men women and children, mingled with fragments of wood and iron, shocked and maimed, into the cold, deep bosom of the river. Many swam to the shore, others sustained themselves on fioating pieces of the wreck, and some went down, in the stillness of death, into the gurgling waters. And of this last number was May Rivers Linwood ! The news of the appalling disaster sped with the 4ighting through village and city, andl with the first alarm Ing note, Mr. Slnwoodhurried to the scene. Poor, inanimate May ! The eurrent had drifted her t the shore, antd she was recovered, but not rnmove", when the frantic husband reached the spot. Ex ttndod upon the peaceful, green bank, her still pliant form in the attitude of negligent abandon, her wet robes clinging to her graceful limbs, her long, bright hair encircling her, 'lripping with shining water-drops, her marle faee of earthly beauty and heavenly rep~oso, turned in the solemn osh of death towards hinm-such a meeting for the light parting on the steamer's deck ! It broke down the bolts of his reserve, and boro away all the calmness of his life. In passionate agony he clung to the pulseloss form, persuasively, caress ingly entreated her, called her by every tender, endearing epithet. But the wild outbreak came too late ! Her whole life had been a struggle, a prayer for vital, eager affection, and now, when that burst forth which would have glad'iened her young life, it fell upon the unheding, stony ear of death. In sadness the hands of strangers composed the lovely form and smoothed away the shining hair, and the silent one was borne hack to the hearth desolated by her death. And together above the swet, still face did the husband and the earnest, hut erring, misguided lorer, bend in anguish. But if the husband mourned, what must have been the pang, sharpened as It was, by remorse, which tor tured the tempter ? Yet here, beside the pale dut of the freed one, he would confess to his deeply injured friend, his love, hIs temptation, and his despair. And the wronged and suffering, but generous Linwood, gave him his hand and bade him go in peace. A few months ago Bruce Linwoo~d took a gentle, glad-herted girl to he his second bride, enfolding her so elusely in his heart that the pulsations of the two must meet and blend like melody struck from music's harmonious chords. And Churchill ! Occasionally a plaintive, heart broken strain comes floating to us from beyond the Sea, and a paintinlg from an inspired hand is hung up to embellish the studio of the Masters, Churchill, a wanderer In a foreign lanud, is still wedded to the sacred ineiory of hit, early love, and to the high vot-ations of the Art Divine. The Contented Man. Why need I strive for wealth? It is enough for me That Heaven bath sent me strength and health, A spirit glad and free; Grateful thede blessings to receive, I sing my hymn at mern snd eve. On some, what floud, of riches flow! House, berd, and gold have they; Tet life's best joye, they uever know, Iut fret their houre away. The inure they have, they eeek increase; Complaint aad eraigs unorer cease. A vale of tears this world they call, -To me it seems so fair; It countless pleasures bath for all, And none denied a share. The little birds on now-fledged wing, Anil insects revel in the spring. Fur love of us, hills, woods and plains In beauteous hues are clad ; And bird.s sing far and near sweet strains Caught up by echoes gladt; "Rise," sings the lark, " your task to ply;" The nightingale sings "lullaby." And when the golden sun goes forth, And all like gold appears, When bloom o'ersprearls the glewing earth, And fields have ripening cars, I think these glories that I see, My kind Creator made for me. Then loud I thank the Lord above, And say in joyful mood, His lure indeed is Father's love, le will.1 to all men gond. Then let me ever gratoful live, Enjoying all he deigns to give. From the Wedowee (Ala.) Morenry. The Favorite. A mother had two daughters, And very fair were they, And she had no rouianilment But what they did obey. But she, like many mothers, made The younger one her ohuiec, Because she had a lovelier face, And such a winning voice. And Sweet, the one who hal become, The mother's darling pet, Received all the affections That her own heart would let. The elder saw, with a sad eye, That she was not beloved; The mothei's hear: began to msito; A ! now' that heart is moved, Anil ** Only mec" is happy tov, For she knows that she is loved. You mnothern, now no difforence show, But let your children be As happy, pleasant, and as good As " Sw.t" and " Only m." ESTELL E. Ster Springs S. 6C. A Streak of Lightning. The Poctor thus fervently appealed to laid Lown his hand at eucbre, pushed his specta des up to his foreheadl, gave his half empty umbler an intense lo'.k,ansd gratified our curt oity 28 to the origin of the'ant phrase, "Eo.)s, did you see that streak of lightning'? "'You mnust know, my dear young frien-1, hat St. Louis was not always as big a place as it now is, and accommodations for man md beast were not fifteen or twenty years ago as they are now. " About those days the tavern at which I stopped, and it was the principal one in the town, contained one long room, like the cabin of a steamboat, which served in the various capacities of a ball room, a ball of jumtice, a ommon council room, a theatre, and, when th towns was full, for a sleeping ap-irtment for such of the surplus population as were not lucky enough to get accommodation in a more. limited space. " Well, busine s once carried me there in midsummer. As, the town was thronged, I was put with thirty or forty others in the great accommodation room, and consigned for the night to my pallet of straw. I came in late that night, for I had met someo acquaintances, and we had made rather fast time of it, so that I found all the mattresses occupied, save the one reserved for me, and each occupant fast asleep. The landlord had given me a mtall piece of candle, about an inch long, to light me to bed, and as he wats too sleepy or o lazy to get a candlestick, I took the tallow in my hand and marched up to my dormaito ry. 'It was a fearfully hot night, and the temperature, of course, not munch lessemned by the heat radiating from the carcasses of thirty or forty sleeping men. "I soon found my bed, and I forthwith proceeded to "unshuck." Sticking my candle on the edge of my chair, I carefully laid my lothes on the l.ack of it, so ::s to guard as far as possible against all p~robability of' their Contact with the tallow, and I was proceeding to blow out my light, when in my anxiety to save my clothes. the only suit I had with me, the thought occurred that I had better remove the candle altogether. A fler a glatnce arouand the room, I found this to be a matter of.some dificulty. I saw that every r~hair wa~s occu pied. I was afraid to setrit on the floor, and the ire place was too far oWl to justify even the remotest hope of may ever regaining mny couch, onace away from it in the dark. While i was in this quandary mny eye fell upon the forni of a large man, who was sleeping at a tremendous rate, about ten feet off. From the excessive heat that prevailed, he had thrown off' every unnecessary article of cloth ing. Hie was, breathing at the same time as hard, and snoring as loud as if' he were deter mined to extract every possible particle of enjoyment from those musical accompani mets. "Quitly advancing towards my snoring neighbor, I soon found a firm and permanent lodgment fer any piece of candle, now con considerably reduced, upont a very prommnent and very exposed portion of my fat friend, and he was so profoundly asleep that I had no difficulty in finding a fixed basis for may burning tallow. As soon as I had, by actual experiment, satisfied myself that smy " illu minator" would, in its upheavings turn neither to the right nor the left, buit would burn aam., ..e... K had aet a, I stale back o my place in bed as quietly as possible, and soon tried to get up a small gamut of extra noises with my nose and throat, but it was no go. Every incipient effort at a snore was sure to terminate in a titter, and so I just lay still and watched the course of eveuts. "I never saw a piece of candle take so much time to burn half an inch 1 thought it had the lives of nine cats, bat burn on it did, and still snored on my fat neighbor. The light gradually approached the period of its extinguishmert. I confess that it. was about the most exciting moment of miy fe. At last, to my inexpressible delight, I saw the sleeper give a twitch, and then fur a moment all was still ; then followed a spasmodic action a little more violent; a calm of an instant succeeded, when the candle performed a circle in the air, expiring as it reached the floor, and the fat man wide awake and perfe.ly crecet was beard to exclaim, " boys did you see that streak of lightning I Any boly d'ad l I'm hit; don't you smell scorched nicat1" Ex. paper. INEBRIATE ASYLut ..-Pro. )unbar is ac tively engaged in the work of establishing an inebriate asylum in Maryland. The Aneri can Medical Gazette, in noticing his labors, makes a must earnest appeal in beh Of of such institutions. A large asylum of that kind has been begun at Jinghampton, under the charge of Dr. Turner, and we doub't not that after its beneficient influences have been ob served, many others will be founded'. It is well ascertained that tiee appetite for intoxicating drinks, like any ,.tL.,r alpp- tte, is hereditary, so that sometime., a child i., scarcely inoreto e blamed for it than ftor having received a con sumptive weakness frui iis parents. It is the opinion of the experienced men who favor the e.4tblishment of these asylums, that intemperance, particularly in its worst stages, should lie treated its a di.as. They believe that, with special treatmien.t, it may in many cases be cured, anl in uiost caies al leviated. The demand for stich in-dtutiors, is very great. We have been told that Dr. Turner has received several hundred applications for admiission, many of which came from clergy men, ladies and other persons occupying most respectable positions in society. They have inherited an uncontrollable desire for intoxi cating drugs, or liquors, and plead for a re ception into this asylum as their only hope of usefulness, safety, and even of life. We believe that this treatment of inebriates has been for somc time practiced in some of thi European cities, and with the most flattering success.-Providence Journal. TuE WonaiN o -uE Faiss Ne';uo LAW iN LovistmA.-The New Orleans correspondent of the St. Louis Democrat writes as follows: The chief item of public note since my last s the enforcement of the law passed at the last session of the Legislature, and duly promulgated, giving timely warning that it would become an active statute on the 1st of September. By this law free negroes born ' - .-- .e--- mnt.l lavn it within sixty Mamny will be successful in doing tis, an1 inose will certainly do so who have fifty or a hun. dred dollars to tempt a couple ot white wit nesises to swear that they tire na:.i * . A ood many free negroes have already seleet. d their masters, and though in most. instani es th.:y find little difliculty in persuading the chosen ones to add, gratts, negroes to their personal wealth, there are many inztanees where a refusal has been met. One lucky in ividual and excellent fellow arose one morn ing darkyless, and went to bed that night the older of the right and title to tenm valuie daves, who had torce-l themselves e pon his eceptance. The niegroes, with thcer quick appreciation of character, understood his, and ence the:r selection. S-rsAu Pt.owiy; .'er LASr.-The following is n account of the late steam plowing match t Chicengo, giveu by a eorresp )mdcnt on the spot; The Fawkes machine wast Crs: brought upon the ground anud set in motion. The piliws at tached to cut nine furrows, each twelve itnches wide, making a very neatly laid swarth of' nine feet in width and from two to three inches in depth. The Waters machine then got tunder way, and after soge I.zde preliminary arrange'nent started off with thirteen plow-hare: in it, m or, which cut a width of ninieteen feet and and a depth of six inches, turning the most perectly mnaael single plowr. This operationi was witnessed by the assem bled thousanids wh~o crowdedl uipon the maebine in .mtneh a mannier S to render the risk to ~life ad limb most imuminentt, anid at its termimna tioni called foirth roi.mnda of cheers, sneh ns enn only atrie romu a dlense nmulittumde in a state of excitement. The result was s) unex peted that thle demionstrationiamount el to ,on thusiasmx. The sturdy fairme~rs who followed this new propeller of the plow-share, were astonished to ace a width of nineteen feet turned as easily, and in much less tinme than they have been accnstiomed to turn ai single furrow twelve inches broad, anda ent cd their feelings without stint. The distantm.e plongh el was about a qtuarter of a mile, part ol which was quite rotugh and uneven. In one spot the machine rana ug an elevationi of about one foot in twenitv, a~n'i draggedl the~ plows, which buried theinselves to depth of nently nine inches, with searcely a perceptibile diminution of speed ______ A Bin UcMPLINGa.-An exchange gives sonie account of a Devonshire dumpling as follows: On the opening of thme Dartmouth and Torbay railroad recently tihe workman employed in constructing the line were en tetined, at a dinnter, the principal feature be ing a " D~evonshmire dumpling" of unusual magnitude. ft was in the f'orm of a cone, about eight feet in diamteter at the base, and about thirteen feet in perpendicuilar height. It weighed two thousand onte hundi ed pounmds, and its inigredlients were five hundred and seny-tree poundis of flour, one hundred adni'nety-one' pounds of bread, three hun ired and mighty-two pounds of raisims, one hunredi anid inety-poiunds of cnrrants, three hndrcd anti eighty-two pouinds of Nuit, nine ty-tie pounds of milk. It wvas baked in sec tions anti t;i.en built up, the fabric betng kept together by hoops and other niechanmical de Errixo a newspaper is a good deal like making a fire. Everybody supposes lie can do it a little better than anybtody else. We have seen people doubt their fitniem foir apple peddling, ox-driving and counting laths; but in all our experience we never l et met with that individual who did not thiink h:e could double the circulation of any paper in two months. SLve Ta.ra,-At a nmeeting of usame of tme parishioniers of St. James' Santee, Dr. E. F. Allston was called to the chair, and A. H. Dubose reqnested to act as secretary. Mr. Joht S. Palmer, jr., offered resolutions, ap proving the slave trade meeting at Mount 'leasant. A committee of ten was appointed oatod. Fr..m the Mereury. Aiken Vine-Growing and Horticultural Sneiety. CtLT.RE OF GRAPEAND MANLFACTUREOF WINE. Da. McDONALD'S REMARKS. The subiject under discu-sion before the A iken Vine-Growing and Horticultural So city, cm the 15th September, 1850, being tLe culture of the Grape and manufacture of Wine, Dr. McDonald, who had been appoint ed to discuss the question, arose and addressed the Society as follow.s: Mr. President:-In compliance with the request of the Society, the Chairman of the Vi.iting Committee. and your letter to the same effect, I presume to give some statistics of the vine-its culture and its produce as a field-plant. I *ill, however, confine my re. marks as much as possible to what has teen imly experience in my own vineyards, w'ich, in a practical point ofview, will, 1 think, he-l satisfy the desires of the Society, and give a certain platform on which the inexperienced in the culture of the Grape may confidently titand. Ai I am not writing a regular essay, I will begin at results, and take the present. V01a as a standard. The Catawba and Isabella averaged about three pints of juice to the vine. The-e grapes suffered much from the intense heat of t.e middle of July; all those branches which were outside of the leaves during that hot time (when the thermometer in the centre of my house stood at 99*, and in the pilzza., 12 feet wide, at 1030) had their herries par boiled, and they shed off. The Is.abella Grape suffered more than the Catawba. The Vsr ren, Pauline, or Burgundy and LeNuir, were not. affected by the intense heat, nir were tLe. Mary Isabel. Tlie last named Gra pe i- .tined accidentally; it is- a variety of the Is abel. I but has larger grains on the bunch, and larger seeds, and does not ripen so regu. larly or so early. It is a profuse bearer, and its proper name I do not know. The [sabella had some rot in tLe early sum mer; the Mary Isabel did not have any; the Warren and LeNoir had a very linle, not worth notice. The produce of the Warren was double that of the Isabella or Cataw ba; that (if the Pauline or Burgundy was less, .my about one quart to' the vine as the aver age. The LeNoir is a poor bearer. The Scppernong a very heavy bearer. I am now harvesting the latter. So much for the pro duce in Wine. I will now state that the land which I p tnt is poor pine land ; and a I have a large scope. I give the vines plenty or room. I prefer newly cleared land,. and set the cuttings on rooted vines at eight feet distance, one from the other, in straight lines each way, so as to plow both ways for the first and second year, and afterwards only orc way. The first vear the vines are cat within two or three yes of the ground, and the second year raised to twelve incIes and staked ; the third year they are trimmed to a single cane or wi;th awl bound to the stake, or e-1- - Prior to this last plowing, the vines are pruned and tied to these stakes fir the season. The pruning of the vitne is elone with me during the Winter, by cutting off all the lazt year's bearing wood, and reserving one, two or three healthy branchescof the present year, so as to secure from twelve to fifty eyes, ac cording to the strength or tize of the vine If it is a poor, weakly grower, one half dozen eyes will be enough; and, on the contrary, a strong grower and large vine, it may stand the expansion of fifty or more eyes. If you alculate that each eye may have three or four bunches eatch, it will be understood that fifty eyes will call for one hindred and fifty o two hundred bunches; and, therefore, reat caution is necessarr not to have too uch wood or the vine ii ill be exhausted in a few years. In this concise mianrer I think I have said all that is neces-ary to hold up to view the planting, the pruning, the culture of the vine, ad it~s products for wine in open-field cn!ture in ordinary pincy woods find, whbich, I may add, was manured only twice in, eighteen ears. I stop to correct a popular error. Iti is thought that to grow the grape xmine to :-i rantage, the .landl must be turned uip side. down two or threce feet deep. This, or some-| thing like it., may be necessary in hea-vy, dry l-and, but not so in light. sandy loam., In illustration of this fact, I have had a con'imu ous r-ow of vines planted in 1840, in shallow ' holes, which are in as fine bearing this year s before. The Society will again excuse my digressing to say, that wisen the vines are in full bearing the plowing and hoeing ought to be suallow-not exceedmng two or thbree inches dep-or the main fruit-bearitng roots will be cut off and the crop spoiled. The process of making wine is very simple. The grapes being fully ripe are gathered into the wiehonse and placed on a platform, on hich there are clean cloths. Th'e green and damaged grains are picked from the bunches. The clean bunches are mashed with an oak pestile in a half-barrel; the broken mass is put into the fermenting vat, in which it re mains from 12 to dS hours, accaur-ling to the strength of the fermentation. Three timies a day the mass in the vat is pressed dow~n. TheI object proposed in pressing the mane donn mnto the juice is to secure an: ecunal fermuema tion throughout the entire ma:3s. The vatsa and barrels are preparedl in the tirst inistanmcI by washing with put-e water, drying thorongh ly, and then burning a paper covered on both sides with tmelted brimastone. The fumes of the burning sulphur destroys every acidity or mould in the barrel, and consumnes the prin ciple of acidity-oxygen gas-in the barrel. The grape-juice being sufficiently fermuented on the skins, is drawni ro and poured into the barrels. The miass in the vat is taken to the wcine press, the exudatioan is added-' to, fill up the barrels to within two inche< of th~e bung. The biung is set on cluth over the orifice, so as toj let the gas escape iiruom the ftermntimg jimce. In three weeks the bumr.g is tightened; about Uhristmas the wvine is drawn off from the lees into clean barrels, and again in the spring when it undergoes its second and final fermentation. I t is t hen wine. The Isabella and Mary Isa-bel untke a Claret Wine; the Pauline and Catawba a IHock ; the Warna, a Wine approximating to Madeira; the Le Noir, a Port, without any foreign addition ; aid the Scuppernong with sugar makes a pleasant Muscat Wine. These wines have. hitherto, commanded two dollars per gallon, by the barrel; the Isabella and Mar)- Isabel twenty cents a pound, by the box, in the Charleston market. I trust, in this succinct account, I may have entered sufficiently full into the .ubject to meet the views of the Soiety, except the expense. I am not positive, but I think the ninety acres which I cultivate ini the sine, had the labor of four hands and two mutles through the season, and the h arvesting. when in full bearing, will occupy many haut. tor the time. This last expense miay be lesserned by cultivating the varieties which ripen suc K~tl For the Advertiser. Ii Memory of little Wesley K. Death's wintry breath, has chill'd the warmth of heart That lately filled our de.r Joss WESLE'S breast, Sadly we grieve thus frum our pet to part, But bow to) God, who orders all things beet. Long will we cherish all thy peansant looks .Thy merry laugh and cheerrul sounding voice, Here are thy former playmates, hero thy books In which, whilst living, t'on didst qo rejoice. Death's sable curain r.hurs out frrn cur eyes Thy (orm, and nau;;ht remains Lat inemory, We trust thou art at rest beyond the skies, And that united yet we'll be wi-6 thee. M. D. W. The Territorial Issuc-The Re-action in Emilzration. 'T!.e NewI.erry Un:-rr.Dt replies te our reiarki in a spi;rit of fairm s 'n:hich we are not disposed to overlook. Our viesys in reft r ence to the Territories are not hastily con c lived ; nor are they f1r.ned with reference to party succe.w, as has leaet frequently hi.ter boy imOetof our cot-in I ries. The wzmo -aurces that we hare derived information from, we would refer otlir- 1o. Let any ene rea.l the reporti if ihe' scienitic men-not the politicians-se'nt. out to explore a route for the Pacific Railroad. :id thence derive inforntion that will enable them to estimate propelly the uninhabIted and uninhabitable doinain iof the Union. Kendall, in his bintory of the Santa Fe expeditiun, says from that place to the city or Mexico bo did not see trees enough to cover twenty miles reinare. In New Mexico, in Arizona, and in portions of Texa. even, cultIVation of the soil i4 only possible wl:ere artificial irrigation is practi, cable. We .,incerely wialh it were otherwise. Theie Territories are immediately in the line .of tarch of the Southerr. States. New Mexi C:> has protected s'avery, Fo that whatever effliaci there mny be !A . "Territorial sover eignty," we noW lave it in our faver. The l.st Patent Ollice Report oitains a map, 5:owing the forest. atnd prairie lands of tLe 'n't..d States. That presents, in a small vace, the whole case. 'That will show what . shadow we are fighting h.r. The Western ide of emigration must soon ctae. Then will the Atlantic States, by the re-actionary movement, receive an impetus in prosperity which they have never known. To this re action shutti we all look with hope. Let var railroad system be exteniled so as to offer every inducement. South Carolina, Georgia, Tennc.tsev, Kentucky, Virginia and North C.rolina, blest with a clitatesof urqualed slubrity, and a soil capiable of the highed tillage, will then teen with a populattin more 'lense than any other porti-sua of tihe Con fe.leracy.-Suuth Carolinian. Gen. Jo. Lane. Tl.'s gentleman has been named in comiec tion with the Presidency. lie is out-and-out :ti-squatter sovereignty in his political be ~ief: v eic'States; and it must be sustained, for it W.mtid not be safe to risk the govermnent in e hands of a setional party, which would lenly the eqiulily of the Statelof this Union, mit which declares that no Territory shall I e i ltnimied as :t slave State, though every mnan, wiomnuli and child in such Territory abtuslel >je in favor of it. That sectional idea wiul not, do, sir. I look upton the Demeeratic p ar s the Union itLelf. 'Its p n;ciples are uhe rue principles of the country, andl cannot I e , mpromised ;they mus't be uminntained, ft r verything depends nj on that par-y. " Congress. then, canniot interfere* with the ubje~te f slai e v; an's t'.ue peoplpe lis tng inder territorial governmiient cannoi't dou, tmder~i an raniC law framed by Conrress, tiat wnic'h ongress itself cannot do. It dodis rosnainally xist, and must always exi-t, in the ts rrit' -ies uotil they comn. to kormn their S:ate :->vernmiients, and then it is thecir right to. -~lebe the matter as the' I L ase I iappeil C ~tlemten, t hen-Nor thern uien anti Sufhit rn mien-.!o nm: j-:nin :tt91 prot- ct the ights guarantiedl by the Co.nstitution." K now Tua t ..7-An old Greci::n ;,.d .soi.hef- adrisei all men to know th~ieelvt u 'fhat's advising a gewl imany to formi ver y low and di-reput.ble acoqnainztancer. The crowning glory of a healthy woman is rt lage famnily, and her -Creator has given: *uverwhehuing proof, lvy inuanerable inetan CcS tinder theC observaition of every one of us, ..at. when !ithlfuilly enrryn'rg utut the grt at end of her existence, she is :okiin toi l.< r lkngth of years and the hal .pitrwas of her u.lul agt. There is not a shad- w ..f dloubt that by far the greate.r portion ol be:dth~y andl die: ifiedl old women have borrne lat ge Iimilie.: <* children.-Scalpel. ____ Won-ru or' Cuiwzrt oyv.-'We live in tics' mid't of blessings till -.i. :-- utterly inben' of their greatness. and i . :rce wtwnwo they flow. We Fpeak oC out e t' :'zttion, rour arts, our freedomn, our laws, an;: : r-et low large a aae is dute to Chrkstismn;, .'0 LChistianity out of the pages of mnan's1 r, anti what WgdItIe liis laws have at..I gbaat ib riviliz.tion ? Curistianity is mnixetd p . ih outr very*. i.cincg antd otur daily lhfe;i there is not a famiharit oIljeel' around us wicfr does not wear a different :ap;ect, because ttiC lihtr of Chri~stian lo-; is on it-not a law which does not owe its greatness to Chri.: tianit v-not a custom whticha cannot be traced in all'its hoy, iiwalthiful par ts to the Gospel -Sir Allen Park. Sa..rvC rTn.n:.-e learned by a gentleman from Itock liill, S. C., last evenmng, -that a meeting~ in f..vor of appointing delegates: o cnvention, suggested by a meeting held at Christ Church Parish, in the .same State. was held, on Tuesday evening last, and andt committee of ten appointed. Whant the i:onr' of the resolutions mtay be, time must dens r mine --Charlotte Bulletin. pir-The "Professor " says in his last l'aper, that "I love you" is all the secret that many. ac.y, mostwomaen, have to tell. When that is said,tn-y a~r like China crackers on the mernig 'f i!. fifth of July. ggr The $lhip Saecehanpore, bound to the West Insdies with coolies, was burnt at .sea'Julv h~t. The crew, sixty.fcouri in number, were ri ited, lbut all the coolies, to the number cf 3Z' antis perished. pa-Th,. rin ter of the Western Gasette h tely pulishedtihefalluwingnftice: "Dry stove-wit - wjtedl immedciiately :ut this romfie, in eiehann fr papiers. N. II.-dont bring lngs that the d.e: ggrDuetor-" John, dlii Mrs. Groen.get the inedcie I ordered ?" Druggist's Clerk-- f-gue . o, foir [ SeW a creape "in thet door this mnornin'g." .ta Don't torco a meatn to take yuadviti... You can adlvise him to tithe a bath without pitch3' :.g .. ti into the river.... '.... --. ..