Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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^jjjjj ^ ^ 1 I ^ ^ ^ n ^ ^ ^ ^ 11 ^ jjjjj ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ III 1 ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ $2 PER ANNUM. CHA5TRARY SWAY,T^ 8 WE CLs?,AEVLEEMrW XvH?RE'ER IN ADVANCE j NEITIML IN POLITICS?DEI OTED TO LITERARV, COMMERCIAL vS3Ef AGRICULTURAL, SCIENTIFIC, GENERAL AND LOCAL INTELLIGENCE. VOLUME II. LANCASTER, C. H., SOUTH CAROLINA WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 17.1S5;3. NUMBER 88 IK. S. I5A11.I-3V, j race. If lie could relieve Ruft'erincr ?<? I il.? i!" * *- 1 "" 1 EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. TtvltMS : The *Lidokr" is published every Wednesday morning, at the low price of TWO DOLLARS per Annum, if paid IX ADVANCE ; Two dollar* and a half, if payment be delayed three months, and THREE DOLLARS at the end of six months. * ~ ADVERTISING. i Advertisements will bo inserted at scv enty-livo eonts per square for the first inner tion, and thirty-seven and a half cents per square for each additional insertion. Single insertion, one doll r per square. J>pUrtfi <&oIpd. | IrVflfri the Star Spnnylcd Banner. CONDEMNED SEL F'CONDEMN El); ! oh, i THE MYSTERIOUS MURDE3. iiy donald mcdonald. ( In uiic of the uppers rooms of an old building in tlie very heart ?d obscurity, : where rugged children swarmed and pale women darted mysteriously about, a i Klrmim. liml !n-t I.1...... I, ..? late in llie after no-at, ami lim spring ami luul already began in climb the mot's and ' Uiu i'liiiiM eys. The sounds in the crowdel alleya luul begun to die away, iiim) the I rattle of (he carta in the distant streets was sohe and more subdued. s The room in question was locked on the i A woman, seeming more like a I inaniae than a ja-raonof right mind, stood i t lher middle of the th>or, glaring fright- I fill at an ol.jeet that lny lifvon the laid i ill tie corner. That ohj. et warn a female < lardy, ll was dead, and lay extended on i its back. A of blood hud collected ' oil the Ited-cloi lies, tie r its neek and shoul i dr-rs, staining the cheeks and the throat 1 with it> crimson spots. The throat hail beet) gashed Ir.gln luily, all the way from i ear to ear! (i i The female who stood and gazed so I fearfttlly at this horrid sjteetahle, held an i ojien rtizor in her right hand, its bright i blade smeared with the blood. SI e bad fastened the door, and seemed to have no C.-ar* of discovery. She whs contemplating with a strange ferocity the deed Iter I hand had done. "Yen, I hud long ago determined on this," said she, in a low, but highly cxeited voice. "She wronged me?she did that i whieh no other permit ever tried to do ; it was she who molted me of the one that had promised to be niv husband?she who I 9 t V # " deceived liim?deceived me?aye, doceiv- i ?*(1 hrrtrlf! All that cruel work was hrr doing, and now *he pets lier pay, and I get my revenge ! All thU work is mine,mine! 1 take the responsibility, and I can get rid of it, too 1" It was a long time before the infuriate fctuale could con?jM>se herself to her ordinary manner. She had long t>ecn a monotn.uiiac on this subject of revenge, am] now that she had tasted it, her feelings with difllculty went hack to their usual condition. She kept the door baked for nearly two hour*. Evening gathered; the shadows crowded to the windows. The night onus on. It was dark; it grew duiker; it was quite dark. The woman cautiously unlocked the door, looked out to see that no one was near, put the key in on the outside, locked the door again, and conccaliug Iter face, crept like a cat down stair*. She found her wnv round through sev.11. 1 a 1 t crn> niivjn ?il?I I'UIIIIIK'U ny-WHTS, HTWI HI length approached h thoroughfare Many jteople were pns*ing. She stepped up to the first person she could lis her eyes on - h man-?and begged him for mercy's sake to ootne and help her sister, who wa? dying. 80 earnest was her ap|>eal, a* she plead with a voice seemingly choked with emotion?so wild was her iitaniier, as she .caught the stranger by the arm, that he could not refuse to go with her wherever lie might lead the way. "How far ia't I" asked ne, in his gruff | voice. "Only a few streets, lie quick, or she 1 will die! Oh, my stater! my p?*>r *?i terP ' Wbet'a fjA her am ?atk I" aatd he ; "has she l?een so long I" "Hunger?itarmlion / She's dying of M want!" v "There, take that," ami he plunged his hand into hie pocket and brought up a couple of pice** of money. "Nobody aliall starve while I've got a dollar in my pock ei. 1 end on the way." , ip "Oh, if you onn but bring her back to M strength again, 1 shall never know how to think viv.i Ctr it '-?if mt nnnr iW?Ui?l i . 'j- : / i?' -? ?w !C40 ngtgk wHl T hopo for the boot, anyhow," ninnrbod he. 'Tin rtv^t afraid il't hoping against "Thsft givr> up iln? whip tooaoon ; there's nothing to 1* got by too much harry, you know." Th? man Happened to bo a Bailor, am) cueof the ra?M grottem pf hfegwrtrouc k iL ?_ p, u matter in what quarter, ho needed gene- & rally but a single call to tho place, lie o followed close after the wuman, bidding her to hurry along, though both were go- ti ing as fast as people well could travel. "Turn in this way," directed she. v< "Aye, ave,M was Ids seaman-like response. "Turn in it is." "Through this door." e< "Through this door ; all right." "N"w step as light as you can up these d< stairs." Shu had stopped and laid her hand in upon his arm. tli "No noise at all," he half whispered. w She sprang up the stairs before him.? th lie followed her till he reached the third hi (light. When he found hiin*elf at the st foot of this, she was at the top. She had hurried on before him to unlock the door, le She feared lie might ha c suspicion if he found that she had locked the apartment, tr He reached the door. . sli "Come ill," whispered she. in And in he went. She conducted him Lo a seat in the farther part of the room l?t ?pcaking iu a low voice, as to a si-k |?er- dt son? jji "Ixuiisa, nre you awake!" lo Hut no answer from the gory lied ! ly He sat with his back to the door, as wi l ie bad pur|a>aely arranged it. She itvw a match across the wall, and lit the in lump of a can lie. Before it had burn d nc tiitticiently to light no the oliscurity of the room, he heard the door suddenly shut, In md the key withdrawn! wl The woman had left him there alone th ivith the murdered cor|ise ! lie rose front his seat, and sprang to he dwr, but it was locked securely.? df l liere was no retreat. His curiosity was uiddcnly excited to know what all this in{ might mcHit. Taking the candle, theie- an ore, in his hand, he approached the bed. Hi* heart grow sick?his brain swam? inl lis senses neatly led him, as his eyes took n that fearful sight I There lay the muriervd woman iu the glare of the light wi nor throat gashed terribly with the cruel th weapon?her mouth open?her glazed i-Ves set, and all the evidences ol her last fearful struggle for life still about her ! in lie stood jierfectly inotionh-ss. t He did so not scciu to know where lie was or what it was that lie saw. His senses seemed benumbed. He was in a waking sleep? in rivuttcd, lie knew not how, to that fatal en it nit r? As soon as ho could sufficiently recover tli bili)?clf, lie lilted llie hand of the corpse; it wits cold. A lock of hair was still light- se ly clenched lietween tlic lingers, the last testimony of the fearful struggle for life. in lie turned again, and went to the door, cl He tried it onee inure?pulling, pushing, A strain.ng, prying, wrenching?but all to a no purpose; he was secure. There was li| lio escape through the door, unless he th risked noise enough to rail attention, when of the ennte would be instantly discovered and laid at his feet. w He set down bis light, and walked on tiptoe aerosa the room to the window.? ot Three stories to the ground 1 No escape, surely, there. He was fast in the tods of lu the deceitful woman who had drawn him se through *yn>|Mithy to the spot, lie could di not esi?4>c except by force, and violence ,, would at once lead to the discovery he t), most dreaded. |? 'JV' whole design uow Hashed upon his IU mind, 11c was a dujie, and at how fear- ol fui a tost! |,, He sat down in a chair, brooding over w hi* Iteavy calamity. The perspiration |,j stood \n I tended drops upon his forehead, a-d the palms of liis hands wcro profuse- ^ ly wet.. He could not keep his eyes away rc Iroiu lite corpse, lying there so rigid, and ^ ghu?llytand cold. It froze lib blood with Jn terror. \ To tl^u day he had never expected such a determination. When he rose in the *' morning he little thought of seeing bis * hands tied nn a murderer; but hero the 1,1 u f iU^liorii 5. ura/1 liim fall in *I?? face; no, corner in which he might hide Hl ?no croioe through which he could ?*capo. I . h< lie waned there till ten o'clock. They were lond and weary hours. He ant u *t silent as if he had been keeping wat:h in tt a sepitkhr^ the dead right beforo him.? ?' The immi terrible thoughts harrowed his oJ ind. I'U bitterest reflections tore his hi heart. Tl^ gl wrniest fancies and fears, * writhing tlemselree promiscuously togelh- di er, tort (ire. this brain. h< He ItartUy knew his own Identity, so <b absorbed bfcsmo he in planning the mean* ?' of escape. There were but two way*?by 01 the windows and by the door, 'lheibr- hi roer was out of the Question ; the latter? it was that ? whicti he was so gloomily m studying. ^ But f??ot4epa were to he heard on the * stair*?heart feet. Others had come np ? and gone d^rn since the wretched man I tad sat tberi but ho had ceased to feel ? alarmed. T1 is step, however, startled H liiin ; it sous *4 liks this doom eoroing ^ on. T *1 Straight | d steady it mounted the stairs, moved Across tbs landing?nearer n ?nearer?M rer. si It ?aa dosf at the door 1 w A Hand wdl laid henvfljr ?n the letch. tl "Let me inil saj," demanded a gruff b *oK3s? T a A ? a ' L L^at ? *. At 1 *? ilIWv* VI^UIT) ft llvnl Huui* My, and his fa* grew paler than a ghost's, 4 Us rnMfflbw^br tic Oast tiros, that b a vauuic wan nun ourmng i I lie jtcr>n at the ?loor would know that some no was within. Again a rattle of the hitch, and this me a violent shaking of the door. "Let me in, I say I" thundered the sice. No answer?nothing but silence. A heavy kick at the door, that rcsound1 all through the room. "If you don't let me in, I'll break the x>r down !" Tho man within was terrified exceedgly, and as fear began to get control, he lought only of policy and escape. He ould spring behind the door, and when le stranger effected his entrance, he would maclf rush out, and so escape down airs. Another kick upon tho door, more viont than before. Tl ie victim sprang across the floor and rinblingly stationed himself where he lould he ready when the opportune moent came. He could feel the insecure harrier yield fore the steady push of that stout sfioul r. He could hear it crack?crack. It ive way. Tho l>olt slipped from the ck, bent nearly double. Slowly?slow, and now fnster, faster, faster?it came i ith a crash ! Ho thought of the light?why had he >t put that out I Hut it was too lute < >W. A stout man eamo tumbling in, and i tiding on by tho handle of (he latch, was l liirled round so as exactly to confront e terrified prisoner face to face, lie seized him at once by the collar. "What are yo doin* licrcP ho gruffly manded. i The poor innn was too much under the fluency of terror to reply. He only stood id trembled. "Louisa I" called the new comer, looking to the farther part of the room. < No answer. . Still holding on upon his victim, he slked slowly with him across the floor in e direction of the Ited. "Murder! murderI" - The cry escaj?ed from his lip* the moout that bloody spectacle presented it"Muidor ! murder!" lie cried again. There was nt once to be heard an dpeng of doers, nnd a tramp of feet in the itrica and on the Main*, and a buzz of >ices. The cry had thoroughly alarmed e whole house. . "I did not do it I" was all (he victim had If-poascsaion enough to say. They came crowding and unarming i to the apartment?men, women and ildren. The room was instantly full.? k soon as they saw what hud been done, i wild shriek seemed to escape from the is of all at the same moment. Even at multitude stood appalled with an Fence of such enormity. "Kill him ! kill hiln !*' cried some in the ildness of their momentary passion. "Throw hiii*out of tho window !" cried hers. And still the cry resounded through the mso and out in tlie narrow street. It eined to choke up tho alley with its -cadful sound. Officers were soon nt hand, who took ie man charged with the crime away to -ison. There, in the silence and darkjus of his cell, ho was left alone, to reflect i the singular event of the night, and dw he might release himself from the eh that had been woven so artfully about im. When he. was taken the next day here the magistrate, ho found a great crowd sadj to look on such a monster of wickIncsn. lie was asked if he had anything ? sar In explanation of the crime. lie paused, stammered, lost courage, id felt overwhelmed. He almost felt ill in 7 to let the whole matter go against in, so dark were all the circumstances. Then self-possession came back again, id he spoke, lie told the.n of the m*iiu?r iu wl.iv'ii tj had been thoughtlessly entrapped into lis net, from beginning to enu; of the range woman who caine up to him in te street at evening, begging for charity ih! assistance, of liis protest, and then r his sudden and impuUive sympathy ; of is consenting to go with her to the placo here he hopeJ to alleviate such deep istress; of his entering the room, and sr abrupt departure?h?r locking the ?or, and drawing out the key; of his rerwhelming contusion and fear when he tale the awful discovery that awaited im on the bloody bed; of bis after reactions and plans of escape, and ten thou md terrors audi as no man ever had here : and finsllv of his foolishly nlsnninor v ? i '***"? sudden escape, and being oh ugh t by tlio ?e who ho least hoped would find htm. The story wm a very strange one, and (cited much comment; particularly was is canning discussed. People thought iat Mich a tale, if not true, was the very irewdeat of device* There waa general inquiry for this wotan, whoae artfulneas had ae completely Yielded her. Who wae she I?where as she! Was there aay ooe living near ?e murdered person who waa known to ear her audi enmity t Had any such era a a beta seen about the plaoe V He waa aaked to describe her dim*? ia far as bis confused memory helped him, ? did so. No women thus attired could e anywhere be found ; nqne such had ever l?een seen there. s Now people began to pile up their t anathemas higher against him. They a slid that this story nfevbis was all a fabri- a cation, having for its <d#ign nothing but his final release. They siwu that he thought e to impose on public credulity, ind to ere- e ate false sympathy for himself. Ami then o one began the assertion that he was ba- n ser than even this crime would seem to h prove him. Ilia very stories, already l?elieved false in every particular, served to o heap hatred higher on his doomed head. h They found the key of the door of the u mu-dered woman's apartment out in the h street. Ah, said tho public, this is his c< ruse/ lie thought to hide his own guilt w by this shallow artifice. He first locks the h door on the inside, after bis deed is done, ? and then throws the key out of the win- b dow to carry out his deceit! \Vc can r< see through it all! There was no wo- ti man in the case ! It was false?all a false o story of his own ! And with this prejudice in all minds to combat, and no light s< of testimony to shine on his dark side of p the transaction?with all this positive cvi- e( dencc against him, and not a single par- h ticlc to contravene its straight forward lo strength?it is not to be wondered at that ir the unfortunate man's guilt was publicly si fastened upon him, and tbat a jury dcci- d< ded that be ought to die! When brought up for senlenco, he was asked wlnu he had to say why the sentence of murderers should not be pronounced on him. "I have nothing to say," answered he, Y "only that I die an innocent rnnn I" gi Such evidence of confirmed hardihood c< sent a new shock to thq hearts of nil.-? lo They felt that ho was doubly deserving of vi his awful fate, and hung on the words of is the judge with a sort of satisfaction. ?l And with his sentence still ringing its fe death knell in his ears, he was carried back tl to his cell. tj The day of execution drew near. The 01 public event was finally announced in the tl papers, and attention freshly called to It. h In a city far back from'tlie seaboard, a tl paper containing the announcement chanc- J ed to fall into the hands of the very wo- h man who was guilty of this double crime, c For the first time she knew the uaine of g the man who had thus unwittingly been h made h r dupe. In tliree days sbo presented herself at tl the door of tho prison, demanding to sec b the condemned man. No one had seen p her liefore, to remember her; no one knew rr her; she did not reveal her name. All r< that she wanted, she said, was to have ah tl interview with the prisoner. n A request so strange, and made with h such earnestness, naturally excited more 01 than ordinary attention, especially as ?t A whs known that a strange female had been o mixed up by the prisoner with the matter, a An officer accompsnied her, and she was ei ushered into tho doomed man's presence. Hie poor victim was to die the next a day. As soon as the light afforded him a n fair view of the visitor's countenance, he R threw out his arms wildly, and exclaimed: "Ha ! that is the face! that is the woman !" r "My brother /" shrieked tho woman, t rushing towards him with open arms. lie stood back appalled. The guilt lie had just sought to fasten on her in the presence of the officer, too, he would by * sll means avert, if she in truth were his sister. There was a terrible revulsion of feeling in his hoart?first remorse?then pity?then a generous resolution to stand in the stead of a sister, when the law was thus terribly to be vindicate \ and upheld. lie a as sorry that be had charged her with the crime. Far?far rather would he suffer for it himself. "Oh, iny brother I my brother I" exclaimed the heart-broken woman. "To think that I sought to bring this upon you 1" He embraced her, but so frantically that he seetned hardly to know what he did. "Hash ! Lvsds r said he, hi b Sow voice. "Don't take this on yourself n?>w?-let me bear it all 1 I am better able than you.? Oh, Einily that it should ever co-ne to this!'* And he bowed his head, and they mingled freely their burning tears. The officer wna deeply moved with what he so unexpectedly saw. "1 am the guilty one!" at length cried she, raising her face and looking at the officer, "lie did not do this deed ; it was myself?nobody but myself." "Hush?hush r said the doomed man ; J "this will do you no good, and it can't me. ' 4 most die?I must die to-morrow. Lot mo go in peace." "No, no, no J you shall not die! Yoo did not do this 1 It was nobody but myself! Take mo into custody, sir 1" said she to the officer; "let me suffer myself for what I bare done P "KmUy, why do you seek to draw on yourself what is already put upon me t I can bear It?I am able; let me do so." The seene was one of the moat affecting imaginable. It was all tragedy, and real tragedy, too. On the one head was the brother, eager to aasame the guilt, aad willing to puttha lie on his former declarations, if only be might tare bis erring sinter thereby; on the other, she stood weeping and beseeching that his sentence should be taken from hU head; tad ptaoed oa W p It lasted for nearly an hour. When ho whs taken from the cell, she was alogether exhausted. They luid her upon \ bed, where she did nothing but moan nd accuse herself of her double crime. The matter came to tho ears of the Governor, who at once determined to delay the xecution until this mystery could be thorughly investigated. If the man were sally innocent, then his life should at any azard be saved. I The officer gave up all the particulars i f the interview between the woman and er brother. The woman herself contined to persist in her self-accusations and l er confessions; and the person under i )ndemnation said nothing, only that he < as willing to die for the crime. He would ave been glad to retract his first charge, 1 'hen his sister surprised him in his cell, ut it was too late now. Justice must be jached, though the sword severed relaonships closer and dearer still than that f sister and brother. She was at length condemned, and he ?t at liberty. Her sentence was life imrisontnent. The poor man ngain breathI the airs of freedom, but the woman? er heart broke with remorse and agony >ng before she began to understand the leaning of her sentence. Her own guilt ifficently condemned her, and thus conemued, she left the world. [From the New York Sun.] Fashion in Fonerals. It has become unfashionable in New ork for ladies to attend funerals to the i rave. Even the mother may not ac- i nnpanv the little lifeless form of her be* t ived child beyond the threshold without < olating the dread laws of Fashion. It t no new thing for fashion to usurp a I wpotic sway over the best and purest t clings of the human heart. It is no new ? ling in the world for the greatest of all ] rrants to forbid the expression of fueling I r the display of emotion. It is not new t lat Fashion hna set aside modesty, every umaniung law of nature; but it is southing new that, in the republican city of Jew York the mother may not pay the ist tribute of affection at the grave of her hild, nor the sister drop a tear in the rave as ali that is mortal of a brother is id from the sight for ever. We have said they may not. Oh,ye>! i !iey may, if they have the courage to rave the scornful remarks of the high riestosses and devotees of Fashion. They lay, if they can disregard the whispered marks or the earnest expostulations of lose who are more concerned that the i atural emotion shall have free and ealthy vent. Hut how may we have sense i r nerve to despise the tyranny of Fashion ] das! too few have the courage to trample u tho demon that mocks at their griefs i nd aims at corrupting their principles by ncouraging their vanities. < Whence originated this conspiracy gainst nature and religion? It has ' olhing Amebian republican, or Christian bout it; and yet it a sums to lie imported 1 ere from a professedly Christian country, iucen Victoria could send only her cariage to join in the funeral ceremonies of lie Duke of Wellington. Iler carriage rpresented her grief as well as her rcpeet. It was an empty tribute. We'.l. Lmerican ladies?women are growing car< cr?nnist, we suppose, bo in fashm with the English Queen and the English aristocracy. It is not fashioiiahlu 11 England lor ladies to attend funerals o the grave. Even fashionable gentlenen send but their carriages and servants ii livery; and have we not an .-iristocracy a vain as that of any country, as foolish, >nd more contemptible and more ludicrous ri their fashionable antics? We feel sufficiently provoked at the ices of Fashion,when we see it destroying ill sense of shame and decency, in perons claiming to be virtuous and respective?when we see the morals and tastes >f fashionable life in Paris ard London ufiueucing the tuorals and la.nco of die nen, women, and youth of this country, ind when we soo the modevt plainness of epublicanism disappearing before the nost immodest and laeivious innovations ii dress and social lifo which depraved ngenuity can invent?but when wo see addon with its poisonous infections talking into the House of Doalh, and liasing its foul and dreaded contempt at lie grief, the tears, and the clinging afectionsof the bruaved, not rage so much ishorror seizes the mind, because we eel in contact with a fiend, fresh oomc roin the infernal region*, whoso breath hills and withers the teuderest sensibilize*. Oh, Fashion, thou plague spreader! thy 'ictirns are counties* millions. Knetny, 4 man, potent agent of the Evil One :urse of 'civilization, enemy of vir-? ue, religion, and human happincs* lothing is too sacred to escape thy pol" uting and destroying touch Thou *e>aratest the infant from it* mother's >reaat: thou divorceat the child from the tare of the parent; thou driest up the taUiral affocltons; thou standest by the liter to tern true?'evotion into hypocrisy, ind after haunting thy devotees through life, thou enterast into their death-chain hers, boldest thy revele over their poor day, converting the solemn rites of sepulture frftn a rfttoluting fame. SMnr art lh6u a slave to Fashion! Smiitaq lUaMng Servants of God in joyful lays, Sing ye the Lord Jehovah's praise. Montgomery. The Jews. The Rev. Mr. Duffield, of Detroit, win lias spent the winter in the East, in a let ter from Jerusalem says: One of the most affecting sights I havi witnessed during my travels was encoun tered yesterday, P. M. I repaired to tin appointed spot to hear the lamentation: of the Jews over their desolated tcmph and scattered nation. The site of the an cient temple is now occupied by th< Mosque of Omar. No Christian or Jev is allowed by the Mussehnen to enter it precincts. The nearest approach that th Jews can niaka to it, is to the large am massive stones of the wall which Solotuoi built from the bottom of the narrow val ly or ravine called tho Tyropcan, for tin purpose of sustaining and forming the ter ace or arches, which were built from tin ace of the rock on its four sides, and or vhich the temple on Mount Moriah wa>riginally constructed. I saw thirty-five Jews, standing or sea,cd, near these stones, all of them bowing ?nd restlessly swinging to and-fro, while ,hev read their Scriptures in the Hebrew, tud some weeping bitterly as they uttered .heir wail of distress. One man sobbed at if his heart was earfy to break, while he stood reading, md trembling with emotion in his whole rame. Women, w ith white scaifs thrown ?ver their heads, passed mournfully along he wall; some kissed the stones with theii ips, others laid their hands on them and hell kissed their l ands, whilst most sat 01 iquatted in a Turk-like position, rending sarts of their liturgy in Ilehrew. 1 veil lured, with a courteous salutation, to lool upon the page, from which an aged mai was quietly reading, lie politely pointei his finger to the place, lie was readinj the 48th, 59th and 00th Psalms. Th whole scene was so deeply moving, exhil iting in such a powerful light the sad rea ity of the Jew's great national s rrow, am caused such .a rush of solemn thoughts i my mind, that I was quite overcome b; it Fate of the Apostles. Sr. Matthew is supposed to have sul fered martyrdom, or was slain with tin sword at the city of Ethiopia. St. Mark was dragged through tin streets of Alexandria, in Egypt, till ho ex pired. St. Luke was hanged upon an oliv< tree in Greece. St J oh a was put in a caldron ofboilinj oil at Home, and escaped death! lie after wards died a natural death at Ephesus in Asia. St. James the Great was beheaded a Jerusalem. St James the Less was thrown from i pinnacle or wing of the temple, and thei beaten to death with a fuller's club. St. Phillip was hanged up ngninst i p liar, at Ilicrapolis, a city of I'hrygia. St. Bartholomew was flayed alive bi the command of a barbarous king. St. Andrew was bound to a cross whence he preached to the people unti he expired. St. Thomas wax run through the bod by a lance; at Coromandel; in the Ens Indies^ St Simon Zealotes was crucified in Pel aia. St Mathias was first stoned and the i?i !? uvuuaucu. IV o reat souls attract calamity as mountains the thunder cloud; bu wliilo the storm bursts upon them, the are the protection of the plain beneath. To forget and forgive is the good man1 revenge. Man's life, as a book, has two blanl leaves, infancy and old age. As the sun to the sun flower, so i flriend to friend?attracting and attactec Wihin thine own bosom are the stai of thy destiny. Jew lb IIetond Piuck.?Kind won! are the brightest flowers of earth's exis enoe; they make a very paradise of tli humblest home that the world can sho Use them, and especially round the fir side circle. They are jewels heyon price, and the moro precious to heal tl wounded heart, and make the weighe down spirit glad, than all the other hie sings the world can give. Increase or Lioiit.?Prof. Jam* Swaiin, of Philadelphia has informed i that if the flame of an oil lamp with a fl wick is brought nearly into contact wi a bat's-wing gas burner, the intensity tfe light will be increased in a dout proportion (a quadruple one,) to th which ia due to both lights when aepi ate. We have not had opportunity trying the experiment yet, and Mm a our readers may bo able to do to bafic wa can; the information ia thnrtft thro*., out for that purpoee. It is i known whether or not there it an foors ad consumption of oil with the incr* of luminosity.?ScienHJle American. &grntltnraL Is sloth indulgence ! 'tis a toil. Enervates iiiun und damns the soil. Young. Farmers, do not Turn Your Stock Upon Your Fietfls. > It has boon a very common practice . among the farmers of this State, after gathering the crops from their fields, to b turn their stock upon them nnd let tbem . eat the stalks and vines. There has in ? our opinion been nothing that has so much s conduced to the general exhaustion of our , lands, as this practice, although we have . been very of en told by farmers that they a regarded it as farm economy. All writers v upon Agricultural Chemistry readily ads init that the stalks and vines of plants e must be left upon the field, in order that | by their decomposition they may return , to the soil tSe elements for tho reproduc . vi oiiL-uceuiiig^ crops. ine various 2 plants we cultivate are composed of ele. meats, a part of which are mineral and a > part vegetable, sind tlie mineral mustnei cessarily be afforded to the plant by the ( soil. Now, it is not.very plain to be seen, that if year after year tliese mineral elements arc taken away from tlio soil, with, out leaving any means for a re-supply, i that in a few years the soil in which they once existed will be deficient in them! A I very large quantity, it is true, are carried away in the crop ; but if in addition to , this, the stalk and vine are consumed by stock, from what source can the soil ob, tain them again, uulcss the) be supplied ! in the form of manure! Our readers will P recollect that in the last number of our paper we answered a question submitted I by a farmer from Greene county, in which , we ventured to account for the failure of p the pea crop upon land thai formerly was. 1 well adapted to the cultivation of the pea. . This exhaustion had no doubt been caused ^ by this very practice of turning stock up} on the fields in the fall, as farmers say, Mto ^ eat the pens, nnd thereby save them from J. wasting. In the vine or stalk of the pea is contained '27 per cent, of the carbonate I of lime ; nnd these being consumed year r, after year by cattle, horses and hogs, it is ? but reasonable to supj?osc that the land v. would fail to produce the pea luxuriantly. The exhaustion of land by this ^practice cannot bo perceived very ready in the beginning, and hence the continuation of it; but every farmer may rest assured that he . is sustaining a very great damage by cont, tinning the practice. Let us now look into the saving that is so generally believed ; to la) caused by turning stock upon the . tields. Practical demonstration has proved the fact that by giving proper attent tion to any kind of stock in tlie way of furnishing materials for making and sav , ing manure, tliat the food consumed will ' be paid for in the return made by the manure to the land. If this be true, and wo do not doubt it in tho least, tho practice t of suffering stock to run at largo upon fields must bo a bad ono indeed. It ia .j true that hogs turned upon a field in the fall upon which peas have been sown, will Urome fat; but the manure from % them may be said to be almost lost, for it is deposited in every direction and upon y the surface of tho land, and volatile properties, by far the most important, are , scattered "to the four winds." As wo said j before, the hog improves at the expense of tho land, which is greatly injured, and .. without the application of manure, will ;t fail to produce. If the hog were kept up in a close pen, and the proper attention r. paid to the collecting of materials for making manure, tho land might be much imn pro veil by the application of this manure, and not as in the other case, at the ex~ jiense of the hog. Tho farmer would find it much to his interest to keen every kind I of stock from his fields, and thereby leave * upon them the materials for the repro* duction of other crops.?Farmer'? Journal. ^ Accident on the Railroad?Aa the downward train of tho Wilmington and Manchester cars were proceeding form . the head of the road tuia morning at ^ about 8 o'clock they ran over ana Instantly killed two negro men, the property of Gen. 8. R. Chandler, who #ere lying on the track, asleep it is supposed. A. Coroners inquest has been called, but ttp l" to the time of going to press the ver16 diet has not been rendered.?Sumter w Banner 26th. e- mm m The Reported Ordination or Rev. '* Dr. Ives.?The Roe ton Pilot, a Catholic print, states the following reasona wbieh ** will prevent Bishop Ives from rsesiving ordination aa a Priest of the Oathotta Church. It savs: ? "lie cannot be ordained priest without l,s the consent of his wife. To make hereonnt sent worth anything, she must be a Oath i" olic. Even then, H will be worth nothing of unices she retire voluntarily to a convent. >1* Even m>, there witt beeome difficulty hk At obtaining permission for him to M * ir* print" of Dkavh or CoMMOBoftB Nvwto*.?We we lenrn from the Bencon of yewerdny* the* >re * letter from TenancoU, o ?u officer of the 2 i#e modoreJohnT. Newton, CommM^ng Abe Bone Squad row.?