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' WSCELMANEOUS. | . Recollections of the late John C Calhoun. PV HIS I'll'.VATE SKCKKTAHT. Mr. Calhoun was very simple in his hah'ts, both in eating ami drinking. 11 is fool was plain ami simple, an I he rarely p irlook of m >re than one kind at a iiual. II j ate to live; he wis not <>n^ of r the cln-* that live to cat. Co'd water was his favorite beverage. IIj rarely drank wine; wiien he di I so, it was claret. At a dinner party, he woul 1 sip a very little from his wine gl ?si. I lis physician ortVlerevl hitn to take a very sum I quantity of bran lv, for a year Ur more previous to bis death; but it was like taking a nauseous dose of medicine, ami it was with some trouble that he could be induced to comply with the prcsoiiption. My fond- j . ness for ardent spirits was a matter of * great surprise to hiin. To use his own I "> 'words, ' I don't understand the philoao- | pny ot it." Hctween the years 1812 and 1 850, some very amusing anecdotes oc cur red in relation to my drinking propensity. Iu the summer of 18 41, when he was Secretary of State, lie was living at j L 1 1 Mrs. Owen's; she kept a hoarding hot s* , on Capitol Hill; I lived with him; his family was not at Washington that summer; it was very dull, .lohu Tyler was President; Mr. Calhoun used to rise about daybreak, and at 10 o'clock go to the State Ijepartincut?return about 8? when be had dinner, afterwards he would walk until tea time; generally, in the evening, I used to have a great deal of writing to do and he would retire about 10 o'clock ; after he I had retired, 1 don't think Tie remained awake a moment; I have heard him say, that no matter how much care or anxiety had been upon his mind, that no'sooner did liis head touch tlie pillow, than lie flung it oft"and went to sleep, and never wolce until morning, unless he was disturbed. As sooy as lie had fai.Iy retired I used to lay aside tnv writing arrangements? very quietly make my way out % of th'o house, go down upon the AVdntft1, and at Mr. Jcnkin's or some other ten pin alley, pass away two or three hours very comfbrtnlfty'nnd actively, at the same time indulge in three orf'>ur mint juleps, and about one or two o'clock reach Capitol Hill, slide into the house, and up ' stairs and go to bed. A little later in the morning, when the train went rattling out of 'Washington towards Baltimore, I would -be up, dress, and go to work as busy as a bee; very probably, n li.tlc later, if I was doing any particular writing, be would enter the room { everything would appear like clock work ; this state of things went on for some weeks. The town was very much excited about the election which was to come off in November, between Polk, or Clay. During my night trips, 1 bad a great deal to say about Mr. Clay and Mr. Polk, and I had managed to bet , a hundred dollars 011 th/j result. Unbeknown to me at the tune, a great many people to whom I talked freely, convey ail' ' mV ilniiuM QIWI ?uILm??/vo ^1- ^"'1* j ?niMiii^a txj mi. v.'.^nuuil. Une afternoon ho took me to task,very gent ly, however. "You ought to be extremely careful of what vou sav in refeenee to Mr. I'olk or - Mr. Clay." " . . "Me. Sir. What have I said I" "Well, I have heard of a great many things that you have said, recently, although I don't exactly comprehend when you have had the time or opportunity to . say so much. Hut being with me, a great iiiariy worthy people hold me responsible, <for they think you express my sentiments. Hid you not tell some one, that if Mr. Clay was defeated, 1 would never bo Pros1" identI" "No, Sir. I did not exactly say tlmt,v but I said if any unknown man like Mr. I'olk. could be elected President over mieli a man as Clay, no great man would ever .be elected again, and 1 still think so. 1 * .did not mention your name." "Ah, that's it. T wobldn'tr talk politics on the Avenue," said lie, good natuiejly. Soon after this, 1 came home one night, and Mr. Owner's two dogs set up such a -mm . racket that I went back again to the Avenue, determined to wait until day-break before 1 went homo. I found a billiard saloon open yet, and into that I entered .and got drinking very freely; about day light I started for home, and had just xencbed the West grounds of the Ca|?itol,' when wllo Should 1 nniet butnlr. Calhoun. I stopped short, &o did he. His eyes went through me. There was no need of my saying anything. At last he spoke very kindly. "*Comc with ntc into tlid '^rbliuds.* I followed without a word, until we reached the cast irou scats. "Now sit down," said lie, "and tell me nil about the matter." I did so,-and said that I was very much confined by my duties, and that 1 had : > * scarcely any lime for relaxation, and so in 'order that 1 might not disturb liim, I bud been in the habit of leaving the h..use at night, and going on the Avenue to take exercise by rolling ten pins, aud that I drank when 1 was in company. H, . ."I can't understand it. 1 have had one case before you. \Varrcn R. I >*vin cut into the same habits, and it was kept I from mo until it was too late. Uu was on his death bed beforo 1 knew what the .matter was with him. 1 don't intend this shall be the case with you." He eon tinned to oonrerse with me in the kindest manner. I promised to try and abstain., , "Or, if you do drink any at all, drink a glass of wine, as I do. LKm't carry it to excess, and (for I had expressed a Wish to out of the atmosphere of Washington) continue to pursue this course, and remain with me until the time approaches for my leaving office, and I will get the resident to Appqwit you abroad." The11 kfndixss of that interview alone made at) impression 11 noon me ihflf I never fbrrret- From tl?t mflpient the ice Wae broken upon a Jcot that bad often been uppermost in Lie mind, but which he bxd noPUllied' to nidi about before. Instead of exercwing with nine Vine, I weed to ride and walk, and became acquainted with familieein WaahWgto?n Things went oo swiromidgVyf^ aeverat week*, hut oo one oecaeioe, ae we were about leaving the Bute Department ha Mid: "To?morrow at 10 o'otoek, Mr. Pcr.kauharn will be here, and I with you to be pr^eot, to take down tba.f ooynae^tiott." ItfrlMfrftii the Oregoo^oaioeww I Letters would pass between thetn, Htid they held occasional conversations. These were wrilUft| doWti. On one side was what Mr. Calhoun 6nid, nnd the other i what Mr. Pack.mhain said, and both siguI cd these protocols. 1 did not go homo I with him at ? o'clock,but stopped at one of ! the Hotels c n the Avenue. There I met 'some New York friends?dined with them'' I ?got to drinUing chanipage, and 1 made I a night of it, and when I did go to bed, it was after leaving orders to be called at 5 o'clock the next morning. I got up, went to a bar bar, and afterwards drank a j half dozen glasses of mint juleps at a : saloon, and at a quarter before 10 I was I in his ottice at the Slate Department.-i lie* no SoodeV cut-red tho door ami saw me, than l.is eyes brightened, and he came up to me smiling, and said : "I was very much alarmed at your not coming home last night; I was fcarfrrt,' UlltT' so von have not been driiiltihg. 1 am very glad of it." Soon after Mr. 1' came, and I took the notes, and wrote thoui out, and II went home with him. At dinner ho again alluded to his satisfaction, and asked me what kept me absent over night. I could not stand this, and 1 to'd hint so, and the w hole exact story, and how Iliad I broken my promise. "1 like truth, hut I should not have noj tieed that you had been drinking so freely i i-.? ?nu sav. 1 on uiu noi snow any sign i of it either in your eyes or actions I" 1 localise, I replied, I drank myself up sober in the morning. I drank on dead liipior, if I bad not drank several glasses this morning, I should not bare been able to liavc written a line. "Well, try again. 1 don't understand the philosophy of it, hut don't drink at all, if it affects you in "that riuimVer, sand keep away from those hotels.'N Again all was right, months passed, and he left for South?'Carolina In October*, and rrmninNr'a month, and all .that time 1 was as sober as a judge, and pleased with my efforts, and exhibited it to me after his return. During the time he was Secretary of State, ami 1 was with liiin nearly all of that period, 1 had great opportunities of seeing 'HiW'As tl/fr Executive o'flie'cr. lie did* flic most enbrmous quantity of labor, with scarcely an effort Sir. Crnllc was chief clerk of the State DC, rartment, and also lived with Mr. Calhoun ; most <H' the important Staff papers were written at the residence of Mr. Calhoun. lie rarely wrote himself, or made memorandums, lie seemed to think of his subjects as lie walked or talked with people who called. He was always accessible to any and every one. There warf nofoim or ceremony, and sonletiirtcs this free and easy way of receiving Visitors was rather annoy *'g to Mr.'CVallc,' fthd 'Toy-1 self. Oiie day we "were nil iff thcTront parlor at Mrs. Owner's. DAmcV'was just about being served, when Mr. Calhoun turned to me and said : *'I want you irn inodiatuly after dinner." I had made arrangement for the afternoon on my own account^ to gl> and take a rule with a pair of ladies, friends of Mr. and Mrs. 'Cralle, tliat afternoon, but iis'l cortoludl'd Mfi" Calliotui would not wahtitte'lojVg, Uiif'reqno?t did not alarm inc. Jiist tlicn the door WH rang; Petor, the waiter, was hot /tl hand, mid 1 stepped to the door. There was a plain looking man there w ho asked: "iJoes Mr. Calhoun live here!" 4 Yes Sir,"?was iny reply. "Can 1 see him !" "What name shall I say, lie is just going to dinner, could you not call " again I was going to rtdd, but Mr. Calhoun had come out of parlo", and interrupted tlte rthplestV 44lJoes this gentleman wish to see nic ?" "Yes, Sir." 44 Walk in, Sir," said Mr. -Colhoun, and the g^ntlcMau' 'followed him into the parlor. \\ lien they go*, there, the gentleman commenced, "Mr. Calhoun 1 aih verytgla^l to ace you. My nanio is of 1- Olscgp Co., New York. 1 am considered a pretty wealthy mauMfi ' that part of the country, and 1 determined to^all and make your acquaintance." 411 am very happy to see you. Take a seat." Mr. Cralle left the room for his apar.nients, where Mrs. Cralle, his,Indv* . was very sick. The gentlemen from .Otsego, had been drawn out by Mr. Calhoun into a very pleasant narrative of everything relating to Otsego Co., when Mrs. Owner announced dinner. "Won't you dine with us, our dinner is ready," asked Mr. Calhoun. 441 don't care if I do sit down with with you, although 1 have just dined III VSelf." Tim IIIMil IVUN fiisi i mill though I dun t iliink lie ntc two mouthful*, yet lie devoured all Mr, Calhoun'* conversation, and was told more aliout crop*, food, fruits, soils, so intermixed with questions, which called for a reply, than lie had evef tieard or drWiped of bo^orc. An "hour passed in this way, and the stranger had my lionfst wishes that ho should have remained iu Otsego Countil he was before I19 paid us fs, visit. After dinner..tbjey adjourned to the par.or again, -and an hour or *svo passed, during whicu period, which seemed to me a year. Sir. Calhoun gayo his guest more information about (lie, linjjara. of tho country, than he knew before.? At last Mr. Calhoun rose, and said : "I usually take a walk about this time." "I have nothing else to do p.TrtTciiTaVTy. I shall be happy to go with you," ami they went 1 was in despair. Mr. Calhoun expressed a wish for me to he in readiness after dinner; It was a command and I regarded my engagement as exJiyniely.tjotjbjfiil of beipg complied .w ith,. Towards evening the two gentlemen returned ; tea was ready. "Will you take u*.:t wun mo r' asKcu Mr. Calhoun. The stranger accepted. I was indignant, but it was of no use. Tea was over, and so was 8 o'cloclt,?^*n? actually furious, and had sbonti it ujion my linger naila^Mrs. , Owner ?pune in for some purposeT~""T" asked her if she had an extra bed in the house. She replied, "Yes, who is it for!" rI grumbled out, "it may be' wanted."? The stranger did not take, but Mr. Cab b)un did,ami a boat 0 o^lock, why ^e Otsego gvntrwmko'i)ati^?#rHw</himself deli^tM, and ba3.be-1<j Mr. Calhoun gflpd byrfolid had fjctually left, Mr. Cab bona took me to UsJtTkrul said, "sever let aucb an expreadon escape from you again," I expUmea/ft'kHn doing so, let' out ray own engagement and grievancee, and the annoyance and personal disapporatmeut the ,visit bed ocrasiouSd me, <u?J added, "look' ettfc Mr. Calb*u?, M? t't>* its true light; suppose ! had have gon< to Otsego, rang the bell at that gentle man's house, said that I had heard In was tltto richest Ittrtn in Otsego, staid t< (Tinner, took a walk with him, stopped t< tea, and spent the evening. If I hiu have tried it, he would have kicKed nn out, and very properly, too. Mr. Cal *houn sirtiled good uaturedly, tol\l me tiia I was'in' fault in not inlHrming him o mv engagement, which 1 could have ful filled, hut it will he a lesson, and now le us go up in my room. This anecdote o Mr. Calhoun's amiability is only one in i thousand, which I have been a witness to ?\eir York Pick. THE LEDGER. LANCASTERV1LLE, S. C. WEDNESDAY. APRIL 12.1854 &r t lie I.ancastcr Lodger is printe. every Wednesday morning nt tlie following rates of subscription, viz : Single copy one year 02 00 Five copies, 8.75 10. 15.00 J 5 20.00 20 25.00 Advertisements insetted at modcrat. prices. 9 Job work of all kinds executed wit I despatch at short notice, and sis low as car be done any where. "?' T A,pJcoowledgements. The -Hons. A. 1'. Butler, J. J. F.vaxs Jko McQuef.x, and \V. W. Bovce, hsvi placed us under renewed obligations in administering to our wants, by supplying ni with valuable Congressional documents. - ? Excusatory. Indisposition must bo our excuse for tbc short comings in this p.-Rcr. % We rectived a largo number of paper* on Monday night, lut we find but little news of consequence in any of them. The Charleston papers art filled with articles and notices of the great Convention, which assembled on Monday thfr 10th inht. It was*'otir'intention to attend the Contention, but indisposition and other causes prevented us from doing so In our next we. hope to be able to record the actions nud doings of that body. To Correspondents. Our friend and relative yKseulnpitis is welcome to our columns. We will he pleased to near irom nun again. Tin- communication from our friend C.," we will look into next week. Negro Trial. The trial alluded to in our last paper, oecti. pied three days, Monday,Tuesday and Wednesday. Nine ofthu negroes belonged to Mr .C?e<v Ma.Gj Witii tR^rooa, ar.ddwo were the property of Dr. Tiiornweix. ' The trial took place at Lnndsford, before Magistral Co.nnkli.. Four of Mr.. Witherspoon's negroes were^fpqnd guilty^ and sentenced t?i be hirng on tliedirst Friday in 'June next Wc understand Mr. Witherspoon will appeal for a now trial. Lotteries, Ac. A man calling himself the Falter of Siv:i played a trick or the people of Haltiuiore and flFwindlcd them out of several hundreds of dollars. His plan was as follows :?lb advertised that he would distribute a largr number of prizes, amounting in value to ti great sum; and offered so many ticket* each ticket entitled the holder to the prize answering to the nuiulacr drawn, so thai each one' \V6uld get something. Thesi tickets were sold, maybe, at f>U cent J each Now be it known, with the exception of .1 few articles of trinketry, most nil the prize* vvyro pamphlet books of the Fslter's life consequently of little or no value, flo a( tempted the same gan\p in New Jersey, bul an investigating committee scared the Kakei off. We nention this ??<we 'hear that 1 'goodly number of our citizens are swallow. incr H.l it a fif 1 Vw? an in* n?l < ?/> o<T..? A ? - m nnkuir, unci V U IU >91 t.-mptingly, by Northern swindlers. The following.Geptlen)en,were elected, or Monday last:'officers of the town of Comden for tho ensuing yenr: Dr. E A. SALMOND, IntenJrnt. C. H. Davis, I XV. A. Ahcrum, ( C. Mathisos, I K. 8. MorrAT. \ w arden* South-Carolina Medical Association At a meeting of the Board of Connection of the South -aruliiuv .Medical Association held April 7, the following gentlemen wen appointed Delegates to the Convention ol the American Medical Association tonssrm Weu on the 2nd of May, in the city of St Louis, Missonri: Dr. Jas. Moultrie. I *r. p. W. Baker. Dr. E, Geddings, I Dr. J. QtiaTttebamn*. Dr. E.llolbeeK, | Dr Thus T. Robertson! Dr. R. S. BaiUy. ( Dr. G. II. Wsddell Dr. J. 8. Crane, Dr. Thomas Smith, Dr. J. J. ChUolm, Dr. John I*. Barrutt, Dr. W, Rarenol, Dr. J. Mayes. Dr. G*d Mailer Dr. W. H. Uajer. FRANCIS T. MILLS, Bec'ty. I Ion*' Thomas L. &nhal|, afKrftudky who sad* ii|eh a sensation twelr# years age aa tarn paragon laatsrar. baa again baeow * aottUb drunkard. ' t s t .ia -..V '- gjAjw "f ' EDITOR'S TABLE~ 3 The Eclectic Medical Jouknal, for April, } received. Published in Cincinnatti, Ohio, > nt $2 per annum, by Dr. R. S. Newton. ' The New York Monthly. 0 The April number is the best that has t beep published. It contains as num]bor of j. well executed engravings, and rending matter of an interesting charncter. Price $3 a t year; two copies for$5, five copies for $10 f C. It EAGLES, Publisher, ii New York. * i ' Putnam's Monthly. April number received. "Notes from my Knapsack." " The Groat Paris Cafes." "A toss up for a Husband.'* " Review of Reviews," are seine of the interesting articles in the present number. Wo know of no work ol the kir.d more deserving of pntronnge than Putnam's Magazine, ahd wo warrant no one will regret spending his money in this manner, after taking it one year. We linyc rot as yj t liad time to peruse all llic articles, when we hnve done so we majf give n more extended notice. G. P. PUTNAM Si CO. , .. New York. Blackwood's Magazine. ' D'lsrneli?A Biography. The Quiet Heart?Part IV. The Russian Church, and the Protectorate in Turkey. The Two Arnolds. Count Sigsraondi's Will. News from the Farm. Alexander Smith's Poems. The Epidemics of the Middle Ages. The Song of Metrodovus. The New Reform Bill, Tertds?83 per year Pfice of Blackwood * and any one of the other reviews 85. The ' four Reviews and Blackwood, 810. LEONARD SCOTT & CO. . , .. New York. Southern Medical Si Surgical Journal. The April number contains the usual amount of medical information, some of the articles are peculiarly interesting. Terms,. ; i$3^ier year. JAMES McCAFFERTY. 1 Augusta, Ga. i The Southern Cultivator. Wo 'welcome the April number. Great care is bestowed on this Journal?it is therefore an interesting, and valuable, periodical , to Farmers. Price 81 per year. H7 d 1/ W t' o X . -w . "? ?? . , Augusta, Cia. The Soil or the South. * The April number received.?Original rending matter good, and selections judi1 ciously made. J^QMAX & EL^IS. i Columbus,'(in. Methodist Female College. ^ ' We understand thai the building commit' ten in charge t?f'this enterprise have pur'..Kiaod two ?oro? of the square fronting on ' Plain street, bounded east by Pickens street and ?eat by Henderson street. This is n ' beautiful , lacntion, retired, but convenient enough to Main street, and to the various churches.. \\ e have no doubt but this institution will he nn ornament to our town, and an honor to the Church under whose patronage it is founded. Although under the direction of the Conference, it will not he a sectarian school. Its doors will be tl rown open to i ll, the first object being to establish in our beautiful town a Female College of the highest order. Wo do not suppose that its hoard of teachers will be purely Metho dint, but presume that accomplished guntltv ! 1 men ami ladies from other communions will ' ! lie invited to son.e of the professorships. It is understood that the popular and elo' I quent divine, WhiUford Mirtith, D. D., ?i!l 1 he invited to the Presidency.? Carolinian. Messrs. Cutting and Breckinridge. Our hopes have been realized. The personal difficulties between these gentlemen have been honorably adjusted to the mutual 1 satisfaction of themselves nnd friends. We ' doubt not that they nil now " breath freer 1 ! nnJ deeper," uftsr the four days painful suspense* The respective gentlemen. two ?n each aide, who particularly a i vised and in1 tervened, bear military titles; and one of 1 them, si lenat, has been inactive service. ' (ilorious ah are the achievements of the ' field, we question not that, in the settlement of this quarrel, they have realized the triith , of the expression, that "pence hath its victo. rien no lens renowned than war." Mr. Iireekenridge wnn in his seat in the House of Representatives yesterday, but Mr ,Cutting was absopt on account of sickness 1 in the family*?Watkitigion Sentinel 31*/, r ult. arm ax,?An affray took place in our ' streets last night, between William Hough and James Freeman, in which the Intter stabhod the former, inflating a dangerous wound, ' the tkriife ehtMliig'below the left shoulder blade, and penetrating to the depth of tw o or three inches Freeman was immediately arrested and plrfced in Jail. We learn this morning that Hough is doing vary well. CamJktt Journal. A Mew Triok. Wo wort informed ycatcrday of a new [ trick formed to raiao the wind by oftn of ^ tiume cheralim <T tnduiirtr, wlio bow, too frequently, we regret to aay, pay our city a vi?it. About three woeka aince an individual ot genteel apparenee and plauaible addreaa, called at the residence of a gentleman of thia city, and introduced himeclf to the hnihowj #4- Uiq^(IV)(9 being abeent from the State, aa a ^r. W. juat arrived from Cambridge, and etatedthat he had been reqeeeted by her aoa, then at Ih ft| tV" Charleaton en romlt fo$ home, to eall on the family. Of fevflSvtHtar thee* eirenmetancea, he ; wimwell jpired, ami on leaving waa (qvi> ted to renew Me *U|t, which he did on the > frqqnenUy eon nn hia cleaunate, calling him familiarly C". .A . * tf-. Chester Court. ... < The trial of Dr. A. P Wiley,.for tboimur- \ dor,of J. A. Parham,\bccupiod the attention ? of our Court two days. The Jury remained :i out for a groat while, and laat Saturday t evening made a mis-trial. The question i with the jury was whether a veidiet1>'o?,"t "manslaughter" pr, '{Justifiable homicide" a should bo rendered. This was nn unfortun- |i nte affair, and we had hoped the matter ( wouid be settled at this time. The charge t of His Honor, Judge VVhitncr was entirely I non-committal.? YorkriUe Miscellany p ^ ?.?.< 4 i *'Veto. . Governor Seymour has vetoed tho pro- t hibitory law pissed by tho New York I.eg? t! iahiture. IIo says that tho bill is unconsti- c tutional, unjust and oppressive in its charac- I ter, and subversive of well settled principles J of.Jegisltniou.and that the people,irrespective a of their different views of the use of intox? 1 by his i^ven name, and offered to convey to him anything she might be disUoahd' (o' send. Before leaving, 'howeve/, no re grcited tliat he had lotit hit* purse, and prom* ised that if he were accommodated with the loan of twenty dollars, he would return it to the son on his arrival at the University No fraud having been suspected, the required sum was readily handed to him, hnd he took his leave. Since his departure, however, the lady has heard from her son, who disclaims having any acquaintance with the said Mr.. New, and in order that the new trick may not be practiced on any of our readers, who have aons'at College,we have mentioned tho circumstance:?Charleston Courier. COMMUNICATION. For the [jfdjer. IMAGINATION. The human body with all its intricilics has been examined, its operations analyzed, and the functions of its various organs atm >at thoroughly comprehended, with t'ie relations they mutually bear to each other. The study of its tfbndWful iink-hincry is replVte with interest, more especially as it awakens in us a sense of the wisdom of Him who framed it, and causes us to endorse the language of the poet: "how wonderful is man, how passing wonderfulbim who made him such." It causes us to spurn the advocates of Atheism, when we have proof of tho exhibition of the First (Jrent Idea, and confirms the lar gunge of the psalmist, that "the fool hath said in his heart theVf is no' God." But when wo tike into consideration the human mind, that immaterial principle which brings us in communication with the external world with its various and wonderful attributes,we are lost within ourselves. Fyrhaps there is no one of these attributes with which we are more singularly and beautifully endowed than that which we Are about to consider. Imagination ministers to {the strains rif Jlofc'tryV it guides the artist's pencil, and gives splendor to language?it transports us into the regions of bliss and makes earth a heaven, or itch-*' shrouds us in the darkness of hydra-headed despairtand sinks us into misery and wretchedness. This faculty, w hen regulated, has n.grnat influence over both,the moral and intellectual mnkiifestations?a diseased imagination , entails upon us all of the evils of capsicicmsness which blunt those finer feelings, and in the end destroys that which makes man a semblance to deity?or w hen well regulated it unfolds the power ot intellect and makes the pen mightier than the sword. There is no faculty with which imagination is more i closely connected, or even subservient to, than hope; it is this latter power which has the same rylutioo, so imagination as the loadstone, exerts towards the magnet, and if wc were deprived of this attribute, imagination would be nt a very low standard, its workings would be the cloudy phantoms of despair, but "Hope, like the gUnsoring taper's light, Adorns and cheers the wit. Atul Mill a* (U' kor grow* tb<Mnight, 4 *4 Emit* a brighter ray." Hopi see us to bo the suggestive?imngin\tion, the creative fucultv?tho one it the bane, the other tho superstructure ofhuhinri 1 progress; and there seems t?t be nlieli'h reciprocity of action existing between the two, that they both are very often lifted to expre*s the name tiling^ )\hil?t the j>ne points the future, the other delineate* or describes the operation* of tliat future. Imagination exert* a great'influence over our physical.nrganizationA, by calling into action disetme*,or by aggravating those which already exist. When ther4 is n ptvponder-* I mice of this element over the combined opperntiops of the intellectual endowments constituting the pywer of region, it is then that facility ofl.fjiguage qnd argumentation inherent in those who are happily thjjft em , dowed, enable them to exalt the imaginations of those who nre feebly intellectual, and thos stir their heurts to mutiny and rage, inciting them to superstition, (which at present exist* to a fthigulsrly gruat'ife-* gree'id our country,) or convey those use ful leftsons which are the foundation* of ntor nl excellence. It i* then that the atatesman exerts his influence in the councils of the nation# ; that the General implants courage in the heart of the soldier, nn<l it is the. happy ,comb:nation of,the moral with the intellectual endowments, of the statesman with the warrior, that so beautifully characterise* him wh? is justly styled, "the father of his country,*" who, by rousing the imaginations as well s* the other faculties of his countrymen, enabled them to chant their oreatful and ?o plant the banner of freedom* in a soil so indigenous to it There is soother subject with which imraagination it intimately connected : it i? the phenomenon of dreamt, which may be ascrihed to the working* of an nncontioiled imagination being* not -under the influence of the other faculties, tin j' being ?tip; but in proportion aa the diaconnected evcnu ! then existing are regulated, or In harmony { with other- elions of the mind that mny be awake?are, our dreamt pottataed of inter* est and conaistency. Dream* may also be awakened.by peculiar conditions of the system There nre no ngenta, pcrhap*, that sail into action our iinaginatfohK more than the iiic of stimulants nhdlfaftoHc*. "WTheThakM'' the poor man rich, and the coward brave; it makea a plebian a king, and wisdom spring out of ignorance. Opium has even a morn special action, for all who have beeujd?nr ted to the unfortunate exeoea la the use of this drug, particularly refer to the exaltation* of their imaginations, and the iaauinrtioos uk ' iSktlf, if it v^ern^ot for iinoginmfc* the world would bn bereft of all' iti twVffty The aublimlly of nature with all of her vi? eeanitqdes which ill us with admiration Would btf lost, *nd>th? sunshine at life, would bs oben 14red by Mte dsffc|pftd--?M(" ?we ofmo?|#tyi|>.v-?r 1 am '" ***' mhcvlatim. ?tarch 58th, 1854. Wh ijjif ' ^ V, L - "Ml tew**- iNfwi' icating liquor*, when advised of it* provisions ii will regard them with surprise and alarm fl He concludes his message ns follows: d ' The constitution makes it my duty to t point tfut the qbjddtitfnhblo featurs of this bill but I owe it to the subject, nnd to the friends of the measure, to add the expression of my belief that habits of intemprauec cannot be extirpated by prohibitory laws? J hey are1' 1 not consisUmt with sqund principles of leg- j islation. I.ilcc decrees to regulate religious creeds or forms of worship, they provoke ^ resistance, where they are designed to c - | force obedience. The effort to suppress intcmprence by unusudbind arbitrary measures | proves that"{fie legislature, is attempting to B do that which it is not within its province to ( enact, or it* power to enforce. ?J "This is the error which lies stthe founts'11' tion of this b^ythieh distorts its details and ' ( msksit*.cause ofangry con|rr>Versy*.*1"(hould . it become a law it would render its advocates ( odiou*, as the supporters of unjust and arbitrary enactments. Its'evils would only cease ^ upail its repeal, of Mien it become a dead, ^ letter upon the statute book. Judicious leg- ^ islation may correct abuses in the manufacture, sale, or us^ of nfoxicsting liquors; it ^ can do no more. t y ' Tho experience 'of *11 nations, in all po? " riods, demonstrates that teinperatice, like ^ other virtue^, jvnot produced by the law c uiakv-r*, but by the inliuence of oducation, c morality, nnd religion. "While a conscientious -discharge ofdutjr^ 1 aihxl a belief that'explicit language is du^.'to ' the friends of this bill, require me to state ' my objections td the measure in decided terms, it must not be understood that 1 am indifTerent to the evils of intemperance, or' wanting in respect and synap'ttfiy for those ? whtrnnr engaged in their suppression. I re- 1 Intemperance as a fruitful source of * degradation and misery. I look with no favor * upon the habi's and practices which have I produced the crime nnd suffering which are c constantly^ (greed upon iny attention in the, J paiu^U, discharge of officild duties. After 1 ioiijj nuu earnest iviiwiiuDi i ??n !Wll?n?a reliance cannot be placed upon prohibitory * law * to eradicate those evil*. Men may be * persuaded, they cannot be cr^npolled tcradbpt1 liilrfts of tcmpcraco. '' v "1 concur with innny of the earnest and f devoted friends of temperance in the'opinion P that it will hereafter Ihj cause for regret if the 1 ihtefdfl wHicVw now excised in the public ^ niiiid upon '(he subject should Ins diverted from its proper channel*, and exhausted in attempting to procure legislation which must " J^e fruitless,* .. ' . ( The Senate on Saturday tried to pass it t over the veto, but failed to obtain the cousti- > tutional majority. No Mot nun?"She has no mother!* What it volume of sorrowful trut^i is comprised in that single utterance?no mother! We must | go far down the hard rough paths of life, | and become inured to care and sorrow in ~ their sternest forms, before we can take | home lo opr" pwn experience Ihil dread ( reality?no n o'her?without a stuggle and a tear. But when it is said of a frail young girl, just passing from childhood toward 1 lilq of woman, how sad is theatory sum- ' riwsi? uf? in that r.m* short slntencnce! Who noW shall administer the needed coun- i srjl?wllo ahull cheek the wayward fancies j w lfS'now shalt hear with the errors and , failings of lfie''m\ltherlcns|iiaiighter.t , Deal gentl) with the child. Let not the cup of her sorrow be overfilled by the harshness of your bearing,or your unaympathixing j upldnetav Is she forgetful of duty? la she ] careless In her -movementsJ Keinein'>er, oh, | remember, "she has no mother!" When her young companions are ga> and joyus, doea she ait aorrowiog? Doe* she poaa with a Ithguid step and la downcast eye, when you ( ' vf buld fain witnctftMrf) gusking and overflow- ( ing ginuuoM of youth ? Chid* bee aet?for she is motherless; and the great sorrow - ^_ L ItL eel (pvuirn uuwii upon ner boui Ilif Ml IOCQM1I. Car 799 her confidence. can you win her ( love? Coma then to the motherleaa with , the boon of you tenderrat-*Afr,ond by, the , memory of your own mother, ulrody, pvrhjpnu j peaaod awuy?by the fulloeee of y??ar own , remembered aorrow?by the possibility that i your own child tnny yet be molherleae-- I contribute aa far ae you may to relieve the < norroW And repair the loee uf that fair, frail i child, whVi?' w rAtcn'.WofhArfWJ.?PurtikrU \ Eclectic. Tho Or?(M >o* t'ha fnltouriag U tr.,m tl^ fahUT H'" j (Fla.) Newer "Mr. Albert O. I'hillipe, of King's Point, Hi. Johns riMf|1!u been kind enough to leave | at our office a sample of the Oregon yta. i Ho inform* oe thal.aotee two yeao OijMfJia l noticed an aeeooat of tboni in a (MMp* i paper, prhlch fUted' ^hrflbef^rew vefyTui- | ariantly, and it woald bo of advantage , to tboae parte of the 8?.uth where J Xmm i bo wel^wnpvttloenlj Irate thorn aaa j tute for he}. W^meohpdblltjaur" it, and the hope of being able In benfff^Rt* * agriooltaro af the State, Mr, Phillipe ecnV. ' %r a pint of tb? pHfeat a ooat^f^^and' j paid an additional ft aoftrfSotegp, '1 On reooivlng thnni bo plaalgi SWfWo fbot 0 caeh way, H ||? >btffiig <Mm? ?rt^fr < * * I I sight poos inn hill* Though the summer . I was 'dry, end on this nccount he had some? # I loubt whether they would do well,they flour , J shed,, grew finely, end soon spread so that hey shaded the ground. The stalks were itouf'itotd' hotwitl.standing their abundant oliage and eoasequeut Weight,bore theirt- ? elves up, and grew from turoe to four foot 1 ll?h' ? ' , ,T|io great advantage attending the use of his pea is, that in curing it does not oase its , A eaves as is the case with the common cow ? v ion. This is of no trifling advantage for there- , ^ iy a-large amount of tender vgatable matter is ated for tho use of stock. It was found * ' j| 0 answer well as s substitute far hay, and | | h ?t stock are fond of it When we consid- I r thut rainy thousands of dollars aro annual- . y eipe.ided on tliis river tai the purchase of iorjthern hay, for Ihe usu of ourloggers, nay v nd even for some of our farmers, as we are old it become highly desirable that the plant- ^ | ig community should reap some of the bene- , . 1 s of lid* expenditure. We hope the intro- ,, luctioa of this pea may4be^pndmtirciAeA.? 1 hf ftatual benefit of all concerned. t W. R Taber Em. - i Wo had the pleasure of listening to a ^ pjV?iU.delivered by this gentleman at Gr^en- . * vood, on Friday last, before the l4a^ies,'Ca|. , loun Monu nent Association, aF rote his con,..'! lection with the reccntylifficulty, in'wtiich ** le won tho rypvtatioivof being an original '? hinker and strdng Writer, public expectation vss wrought dp to the highest pitch. We 1 ' ' istened attentively to the greater part of the I i pooch, and unhesitatingly pronounce it one ?l tins very beat, which we have ever heard i'pon a similar occasion. At times hi* burata if >f . eloquence were aublitne. During hi* Ivseriptiun.pfMr.iCrdhoun's last appearance * ? n the Heante, >and" the fia.il scene in the hambor of Death, but few could reetain heir tear*. NVe trust that the citizens of DrAoAwood may secure it for publication, rbo day 'pashod offvery pleasantly. Green vood well sustained her character for hoalilulity. Wc arc iuclined to think that this lemonatrutiun will bo regarded by Mr. Tuber j a the greatest compliment which could have -v K'cn payed. Tho immense and respoctable loncourae of persona in attendance, evince*! * ilcarly a disposition to forgive all past errors f f indeed errors had been committed, and to tztund the hand of friondship to one whom hey deemed to he the victim of unjust H'raocution.?Andcrton Oitette. Qxpat and PimiroM Conflagration. An extra rueeivsd this morning about 1 o' lock.by the steamer -Florida, from the Jacktonvilh (Florida) Republican, Informs iu of ' t i deatrnetive eofltfiigrstioo, which occurred it that place on t ie 5th inst,atone o'clock ?. m.,* by whftrli 'about 70 bildings w ?re IWtloe'd including (lie offices of tlie Jackson ille Republican and the Jacksonville News, nost of the business houses, and the cus-om mass. We are unable to give tbq entire Sl xtra to our Readers owTafr?s'tt?l*t?iT >* >f the kaueet which it was receive!. The , leas' Office wss entirely consumeI, but- n iiiough of the Republican were saved to mblisli the extra wi.h which we woro furushed. About one half of the property desrA cd w.is covered by insurance in New* fork. New England and Georgia nffi are. The first edition of Colonel Benton's 'Thirty Years iu the Usitod States Senate s. to be 60,000 copies, and most of these rill be taken to fill orders which have alwtdy besn received. , 4 Botinuas Botice. See the advertisement headed "To Rent.** We' fe<^ satisfied' tliut there is business rnqugjb here for two public houses, and at present, thsre is only one. Tlie house advertised for rent by Copt. McKenna, hss Ik-os put in repair, and to an approved leneut the terms will be very fenaonablr. ~* litis Hotel is in tho centre of our village, snd therefore calculated from its central locality, to provs an equal competitor with any house of the kind. To one deliinut ' ( t? 't-!- * " t- "? ~ ?una m % favorable opportunity not ^flen met "S y with. 7-4t . <7 Enter* dsjnsftoJj^^oot, . . (tert dAJlUe'lleriw, . . . UM dates from Havana, . - . Ch&rlMtea Xtrkit AprtHth?Corrow.?Ttte Rales to-day amonoted to rising of S00 bdlsR.-M ftdm tat fat?the 4 market depressed and prices in favor of lawyer*.* ruiemfain Market Aran, fefc?Cone*?Up to fa* eAqae sf baolaeas on Hatarday rrrstng the demand was good with prices vary Ml and Ana,, tfc* satan gt tfcaft swetMttrwpAseT.Oirbnl*, tdR tfahhethmaonr > bnamuproutioos, with this rsasaik that one wataid* fapwes aim more easily obtained for a Baa artiels than they ware at dm dele of ear last report, viat lafarter d 1-i a lyndtenry 11-4 a 1 1-4; eiUdlng 7 fat at 1-4; goad adddtfoff M a fat; fair 7-? to ; and ehotes |-fa to 1-i esets. * ij ygamgnw " "-fa?ay j SR. OC7YHOTTH IMPROVED EX TR^CT OF YBIJOW DOCK Aw sXPARILLA a tboc mm son llrredttarj TaimL / / ' J Thousands of individuate ars anmed ?ith |rtevoua conspiaiata whisk limy inherit froov their entente. TV nee of Urn fslm Or* nfa Bhijmpvjflk will prev ot all this, aad n?satm a Oa JnMttAissat nf mlaadv tnstdl maa wains . m VMWIIVlm VI HnWIJIRM MRV YWV'' bte Usee, Ibr R fhrnnpgl% tapJUfn*) (/stem fhf whteh la Hwuel off ?^^>?r>5ri> !s*Ji3W PaMnU w? It to UgMfec** *<fceU w m&iU'ti* m?m l^oomtHilwM ky/Awml, m4^P<1r^i < Cf?T8J?VC?l - *v I