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* ^ . ,1, , 11 i ?ni ~ r*i - - "'~^^K^r'? * ~!^ ' " "**" ' - * J " J '- r ^ **'' ' 1 -r~rr-__.. ... . . - ' i . .. ,_ $2 PER ANNUM ISitf Willi ?Ii<> Moiidt'in of ciu li |U)Mjii^ IN ADVANCE jl /nmilg anil ^olilicnl jQ?u5gn|ift?Prun'ril In tjjt .Iris, S-rirnrts, i." iitralarr, cfbutniion, Agritnlturr, 3altrunl Sniftaofuituls, /artign imii JPnuirstit Sinus, nnl! tljr 351nrkets. VOLUME VI. LANCASTER, C.I!., SOUTH CAROLINA. WEDNESDAY MORNING, Al'lilL I. 1S57 NUMBER 7. I . .1 TV% \|rn '",l 1,11 'lont'*1 Rn<' n,an> I Hm f*1"- j tears and kbses, to a youth wln-m she ' bur row ??I that money i ? got a ipMilor of ' is inv heart, an>! Thine 'it *1ih1I rt'inain ' " ! tup. rbppvmf c ott tj t TurTrnre-rrim """" " " ^yPlFll JcOl llll? ing you the simple, unvarnished truth." I IotmI : n??r? nf min.l . i- ? 1 I > There ia a land supremely bright, A land for you and me, Where angel* dwell in purest light, And souls aro ever free. Sighs mingle not with tear* of woe In that bright land of song ; Hut joys with smiles eternal flow, 'Along that celestial throng. , There flowers of sweetest fragrance I bloom In radiant be*it*y ever ; The ambient nir with sweets perfume j The senses, satiate ever. The happy home for you for me, For all who love our Cod ; And mansions for the happy freo Are muds for our abode. Then seek to reach that distant star Which brightens as you pray? That star of hope, though seen afar,-. To cheer you on jour way. Some shining one will point you whore Your happy home will be ; For happy homes for all are there ; Bright homes for you and me. ^1 T\ A I t\ iV l.v\ s'nruru aruuij. (Kioin Dr Hst-ileU's A nglo-Saxott. A LEA! EhtiMTHE MAIN BHUCKE I. W;l? pa*t lldd.light?the Ii|4111 Otl the | piling budge which rrwHM the nr?r Main al h<*uktori were st II burning, t! ougli the liMitk(f|m oi passenger* 11.?11 died iiwhv for ?me iinii* <>ii its |i:orinei<(? ?lien p. young man approached die bridge from the town wuli hasty strides. At the sutne time ansillier hi an, advanced in years, was coinlug iiis-rili l.ini from Sichsenhausen, the tve,! know n suburb oil llie opposite si !e . I die river, i In* I Wo had not yet met, wlien ' tin- latter turned from hi* path, and Weill towards tiie parapet with llie evident in t-irti'u ?.J leap tig troin tin: I.ridge into 111<* Ma n. I in* y >vng man followed liim u-iukly, a i t lain bold of 11 111. ' Sir," >a>d he, " i think yon want to d'own yourself," ' Vmi think light, sir; hut what is that t "\no j" " Nothing at nil: I was only going to a-k you to do llie tlie favor to wail ? few minutes, and allow ins to j in you. Let us draw close to each odiei, rind, arm in arm, tak* the lei p tog, tin r. The idea of making thej.? tmey with a perloel *tian ger, who lias chanced to come for the same pnipo**, is reidlv iiiie'ss'ing. Indeed, I linvcii'f e |iericti.aul anv thing v ?-vc| tug 'or ? no* lime: itid I .-liould not Inite llioiighi that, m in % last hour, so pleasant 1 an incurrence would happen. CJome, s'r, 1 I..r many vears I have not made a r, <j test : ? any human being : do not ii-Im-i ine I (lis one, which must he my ls*t. ] h*- , sure you, i do not rmnsuiW having ever ?p?nl to many words aIkiuI any reu iesl w hat ever." So saving, the young man held out h'* hand; hi*Companion t'ok it, and lie then i oiiiinued, witfi a kind of enthusihiii, "So be il ; arm in aim?mi'l row let u? Id ^ >u-k about ii ; 11 in realty dimming to t? ?-i a heart near me in theve lust moment*. I do not h?L what t?m are, g?od ui bud? ( rome, let its tidii'ii." The elder of the tiro, who had at first been io eo great a luirrv I" end In* cj,i>. once in (lie writer* of the river, now re *1 rained ilir. imperio?ity of ihe younger. i' Stop, Mr," ".nil lie, while hi* weary eye triedlo examine the feature# of hi* com- ' puliloll as wed a* the lie ,'titling hght of ih? Ihin|> would allow liun?".Stop, air ; vou Mdin to he too v oung to leave life in this way. I am afraid ioil me Committ , log * rash act ; for a man of your Veam, life must have ttili bright prospect*/' "l>right prospects ? in thu midst of rotteriin w and decay, falsehood and deceit, vice and corruption ! Cotne, let us make an end of it." "And so young! Your experience must have bean very and to make yon consider alt creatures which have the hu man form a brood of serpents." "Oli, aerpenta are noble being* com pared with men; they follow the impulses of their nature; they are oo hypocrites,! bearing virtue on their lipe end vice in their hearts." " I pity you from my heart ; but there certainly are many exceptions to this mit erahle rule." M I hare found none," raid the young man. * Then it may be a consolation, though r? po<>r one, that you have found one in thin solemn hour However much men are given to falsehood, there are very few who lie in the hour of daatli, within sight { of eternity. Hut for me, I have never tohl a falsehood in my life and I would , not, for anything in the world, enter upon the dark roa J with a lie upon my ! }> ; and, therefore, whan I tell you thai I am pot a villain, a? you seem to think me, 1 " Indeed ??thai is interesting. And so I must meet tlio only honest man ever 1 saw in the world, when I am on the point of leaving it, and in his own oonipany!" '* Let me go alone, and do you remain here Believe me, there are many good honest people who could render life charm* ing f<>r voir. Seek them, and you are sure to find them." " Well, the first one T have found already. But if life presents itself to yon in lines so bright, I am surprised you should wish to leave it." " Oli, I ain only a poor old sickly man, unable t<Tearn anything, and who can en dute no longer that his only child, an angel of a daughter, should work day and night to maintain him,and even aometimcs to procure him luxuries. No, sir, to allow this longer, I must be a tyrant, a barba ri?n." " What, sir!" oxclaunhed the other, n'most lof-ficd; "you have ?n onlv daughter sacrificing hrrself for your sake?" "'And with what patience, what sweetnes*. what love, what perseverance ! I see her sinking under her toil and her deprivations, and not a word of complaint escapes from her pallid lip?. She works and starves, and has alwavs a word of lovo, an nfTer!innate smile for h?i fathei," " Bir, and you want to commit suicide ! Are vou mud ?" " Bate I murder that arge< ? The thought pierces my heart like a dagger," said the old man, sobbing. "Sir, you must have a bott'e of wino with mo; T see a tavern open ymder.? Come, vou must te!' rr*.-* r.***v h:-torv ; and if vou have no objection, I will then tell von mine. But this much I ittav sny ni once?there is no occasion for you to leap into the river. I a in a lich, a very rich man; and if things reailv sire as you ro present, your daughter will no longer have to vrk nod ron el.oll " . ?? u?n i-inr?ii. T1 ? ohl man allowed himself to ho dr?cjr~i along I.v his companion. In a few minutes, tliev wore seated nt a table in the tavern, with full gla?*e* before them, and ench xaminiug curiously the features <>f ?l?r? other. Refreshed and comf >r?rd hv tl e t? of t? ?' > the old man Vegan thus;? " Mv hi?tnrv in soon told. 1 am a mercantile man; l??it fortune never favored me. I had no money mvself, and I loved and married a poor girl. I could never hag'n liu.-inea* on mv own account. ! tool; a situation as hooh hecpor, wliicli I load until 11 came useless from age, and vonnjror men were pref. rrc.l l.cforo me.? Tl.us mv circumstances were always circumscribed. l?ut mv domestic happiness was complete. Mv wife was an angel of !o'-c V o l. good and pious, active and atlVvtionatc; and tin daughter is the true image of het mother, l'ut age and illnos? lia\ ? brought me to the last oxlrcmitv, and mv conscience revolts against the idea of the 1 e-t child in the world sacri fi.-ing her life for an old. useless fellow. T r:tr>rot have much longer to live; and 1 I rpo t! e Lord will pardon me for rutting , ,v .. i-. ' ... . .... ? cir \v?'< k* irmn my life. M) order in | reserve or prolong that of my de?t Peri ha." " You sre a f.irMinatr mnn. mv friend," erolniined the voting man; "I lntvoncvcr sen a inoro fortunate ??t e. What you ra!i votir misfortune i? sin or nonsense. and oat in: rurial at once. To morrow i will innlo my will, and you shall he tl.e heir of all rrv possessions, anil Id morrow ni?lil I will take the leap from the Main Urucke a'one, Put 1 pfitp I leave thin world, T mnM see your llerlha, f.ir I am anxious to |?.ok upon one wlio is worthy the name of a human I eincr." " Put, s'r. what can have made vnu so unhappy at thift eitrlv acfl" ??id the old man. moved with compassion. " I helieve it was iny father's wealth, 1 am the only son of one of the licheM hanker* of Frankfort; when 1 mention my name, yon will he at once convinced of the ?-ntli of my assertion. Mv father died f5?-e voar* ago. and left ine the heir to an immense fortune. From that moment, e verv one thai lis* mm? in ?.:?w mo has endeavored to florcivo and defraud mo. I wm a child in innocence, trusting and confiding; my education had not heen neglected, and I poe?ee*ed my mother's loving heart. I endeavored to associate mvse'.f in a .union of love and friendship with good and generous people, hut I found only hypocrite* md Im poet ere, who pretended friendship for no other purpos? than to partake of mywealth, and enjoy themselves at my expense. Mv friends, or rather the vidians whom I mistook for friends, and to whom I opened my heart, betrayed me, and then laughed at my simplicity ; but in time I gathered experience, ami mv heart was filler! with die trust. 1 was betrothed to a rich heiress, prt*<*?-*?ed of all fashionable accomplish ments; I adored her with enthuaiaam ; her love, 1 thought, would repay me fur every disappointment. Hut I soon saw she was nothing more than a proud fool, w ho wished to make'ine a slave, snd yoke all oilier men besides her triumphal rhaliot. I broke off the engagement, and M-lected a poor hut charming girl?a sweet, innocent Ix-in^, as 1 thought, who would )>e my lifers own angel. Alas I I found her one day bidding adieu, with 4 # * - f j ...ma ?i?uiciiru , i awi^iil ' i\ I j diverlion in travel; everywhere [ found j ! the same hollovvness, the same treachery, > <1 n the same misery. In short, 1 hecaino dis IL gusted with life, anil resolved to pufan J set enil this night to tlie pir.uable farce." ! wl "Unfortunate young man," saiil tlie I l?< J othet, with tears of sympathy, "how I | deeply I jut)' you. 1 confess I have heeti j "b more fortunate than von. 1 possessed a j he wife Rtul a daughter, w ho came forth j pa j pure end immaculate fioin the hand of wi j the Creator. The one has returned to ! or; i ilun in the whiteness of her soul, and so fot j will tlie other." J W "Will yon give inc vonr address, old ho man, and pro mil me to visit your diiugh ah i ter to morrow ? lUit von musl also give ha ' mc youi word of honor that von will not, en I itifoim her, or insinuate to her in any | lex j manner vvhatever,that I am a rich man." , no ; 1'i.e old man held out his hand. I an "I give vow my vvonl ; 1 am anxious I to convince \ou that 1 I avc spoken the ah truth. Mi name is Wiil.elm Sihmidt, vo ! and here is niv mldicss giving him, at no | the same time, a hit of pap-r which he | dicw fioin his pocket. I bo "And my name is Karl T . 1 am I rei the son cd Anton 1 . lake these , im bank-notes, but on v on comlitior, that ov | you do not leave ih.s lioiise timil I fetch an j you from it. Waiter ! a bedroom for ; an ' this gentleman. Y"U icrpiiro r?st, Jleir <>f J tjehmidt. Goodnight. Tomorrow you tin will sic mo again; but under whatever si i j circumstances this may happen, do not ty J forget lite word you have given mo." j sci I lie name the young man had mention- an P'i, as well > - tli* larg" sum, struck the ' old man with astonishment ; but before ?Ii> he cOnltl recover himself, his companion as: ' had left the bouse, and the waiter catno an to liuht l. ni to his bed-room, where, hi I I wearied and worn out, he soon sank into cd I a profound sleep. ' ie< In one of the narrow and ill-lighted ov J streets of Snchretihausf it, in an attne of a lol'ty at d unsightly house, sat a protty da 1 bloitdine, about twenty years of age, bust wi 1 ly employer! with her medio. '1 bo fur- | I nili.ro of the room was poor, but clean ' sb and tasteful ; ibo gin's w boie dress would j j not have fetched many hrcutzer* ; but lie j evert artii !c was as neat, and fitted ber | th | as well, as if it had cost hundreds. Her tin j fair locks shaded a face biiglitcned by a I ! pair of <ye? of heavenly lino, which l>c yo spoke a peaceful luitid and puto soul.? Mi j the spun of order, modesty, i.r.d cle.inli to i-.ess tetgned in everything aiound her.? iin IK-r features were delicate, like those of i h? ot.e unlay horn ; ber eyes betrayed sleep- ; be lessees* and anxiety, and < \. r lid anon Itr ' a deep sigh rose from the tna den's breast Suddenly, st? j s were heard ?<n the stair ful i ease, and her lace lighted tin wi h j'>y ; ' ha -lie listened, at.d rh'lilit Seeiln (1 to over bn j shadow lor I r?w. 'I ben came a knock j -?! | at ll.e do< r, w I licit made her tremble so j much that she almost tvauled the courage ' !e< to say '"Come in." A young man, shale | th bitv diesseil, entered the room, and made Ze ? low but u*kwurd l.ovv. an "I leg your piiitloli, Miss," said he, , th j "dues ! {err St l lliidt live iil-le !" i ?li 1 . V i .vv i h l .e \ "in p!< mile ?" lit ! "Ait* vi ti his danghlei l.eitl.H (fa j "la..;." la "Ther ii is you thai i seek. 1 com*. j In from your lather." nr "For Heaven's sake, where i* ho ?? lit What Ima happened j Something must to have happoi.i-d? this is the lir-l time he lias stayed awav all night." in " I he mi?fotlune is not very great." "v ' 'Oli, 111 v poor, poor father, what shall a ! I hear I" * ri| The young man seemed to observe the i visible marks o' anxiety with 31eat in tli i let est ; then looking round tlie room, lie . said, "l>o not be frightened, my dear ' nr girl ; it is nothing of great imporianee.? j Voiir father met, la*'| night, an old ao- In j ijiiailil Alice, who invited him to a lavein. ?e j 1 liey had some witie together ; but when the landlord eaine f<>r lua hill,your father's in friend had decamped, and left htm to |>av tho scote. lie had not sutiicient | pi money for this ; ami now the man will j?j ! not ict hill) go utild lie is paid, and <ie i w I rUri.fi ll.ul in.!..? I a I-? 1 11 , ...... j^> io un money, lie . ti Mill send ti nt (u | rison." j!< "To prison !?iny father lo .n !" hi exclaimed the girl. "Can you tell me s'i bow in tic ti tlie till comes to !" I "Three florin* and a halt.*' Iii | '"O, God !" sighed the girl, "all I have w ; Ji??h no! amount to more than one tl??rin ; liut I Mill ifo at once to Madame Uerg, l)i and ta g of her to advance ine the m?D< at ?y" p< "n ho is Madame Uerg f |>? "The milliner for whom I work." bi "liul if Madame lh-rg does not ad- tr vance the money? what then ?" TLe m girl burst into tear*. "1 am mucli afraid she will refuse. 1 fi already owe Iter one florin, and she is In very hard." ?* "For what purpose did you borrow ai the money )'<?> owe her !'* m Ihe girl hesitated to reply. ai "You may trust u?e : I lake the deep- I est interest in your n tofnrluiiee, and 1 ni sincerely wish 1 could assist you ; but I tli an) outjr a poor e'erk myself. Tell me w for what purpose did you borrow that j to florin r i O Well, r.y father is very weak, and'hi rrasiofallv r/qures strengthening ; I'T 'A . iuwi ior mm." "Under theso circumstance*", 1 iVnr Manie l?erg will not give you any more, ere is one florin, but that is all I pos- j "s. Have you any valuables upon licit we could raise some nionev 1 '? I rilia considered fur a moment. "I have nothing," said she at length, I ut my poor mother's prjyer-book. On j r death bed, she entreated ino not to rt with it ; lliero is nothing in the ! >r!d 1 hold more altered tiian l;er mem- | y and tiie promise I gave her ; hut still my father's sake, I must not hesitate." I it'i a tieuiblitig hand, sho took the i ok down from the shelf. "O, sir," said p, "daring many a shep'?"-s t ig 1 t 1 ve been accustome?l to enter the se t thoughts of my heart on the hi ink ivet at t l.o end of the hook. 1 In pe ! otto will ever know whose writing lh?\ \ p ; wii 1 you promise me that ?"' "Certainly, my dear Lh-rtha. l?o not uni yourse'f; I will take care that ur ? l ifts ?hail not le profaned. Hut w get ready, that we may go." Whilst she left the room to put on her tniet and shawl, Karl T (for the j tder will have guessed that the young j in was no other than our hero) glanced I cr the writing of tlie girl in the book, , 1 bis ?yea filled wiih tears of emot'oti i '1 delight as l.e read tho outpourings a pure ami pious I>ca11 ; and wlien ?y bad left tlie hoti?o t<gfc'her, aid i p \\,is walking beside him w ith a digni i of which she seemed entirely uncotr ous, he cast upon her look* oi re-| ect 1 d admiral ion. The;. l*tist w. iit 1 <*> madame Berg, who i 1 not give tho advanced require I, but i ured the young man that Bertha was angel. Certainly th praise Mr. i?? j 'tied higher than the money be had ask r. r '1 .....v. ...I 1." 1 - ? ' ' . .. . ?.v J I'n ?I?VM ?nr m"'r,.uin IIIU pored sum witt made up. Bertha was ctjoyed. "But if you spend ail your riioney to y," remarked the young man, "on mt wiil you live to morrow !" "I do not know, I ml I tru*J. in God. I all work the who!* night through." "Yes, trust in God firmly, and lie wiii J lp you," exclaimed Karl with an en- | usiasjii which almost be Ira \ id the cmo- j n lie f? lt. When they came to the tavern, the i ung man went in first to prepare old r. Schmidt for the | art he wished him act ; then he fetched Borthn. It it possible to decribo the joy he felt w hen raw thn young girl throw herself m J i father's aims and pre?? him to her ; ait. "O, father," said she, '"what a dread | I tiight have I had ? how uneasy I ve been about you ; but, thank trod, 1 i vo von again ; ami her face brighten up with a smile of joy. She paid the bid, and triumphantly I him home. T accompanied j em and said lie had a f-*v more krent- ! rs in his pocket ; she had better go j d get them something to eat. And ! en you should have sm-ii this girl, how e Uu?icd herself, and how the ??t about : the young man felt at if he could II at her feet and worship her. It was to before T went home that night ; it the leap from the main Biucku was ? morn thought of. He came to th<* . >ti?e everv ovening. in order, as l?c sii.l share, with them !:i* scanty o?rnincjw. Ahotit a fortnight after, as he was gog away one evening, lie said t<> liertha, nil you become m\ wife 1 i am only j poor c!crU, I ut 1 am honest anil up iht." ?3crtl.a Mushed, at:J cast her eyes to j o grout.(I. "Can yon love me, liertha I" lie . eh?d "in, in ar. nveifhiw ol feeling. . She was silent, an.I ili.l not r o*o her >a?l ; hut she 1 eh I mit her hand. lie 7.*" 1 it, ami kissed it fervently. "Iti-rlha," said !.e, "I love yon im- j nnsural Is : you have save.) my life," A few davs after the young couple,aim* y hut respectably altitrd, ami accominie-i hy llerr .vdnnidt, went to church, I.em tl.i;. wcic marti-d in a <j<ii?t w.iv. 'hen tl.ev came out men an ! wife an v- - ------ ' * i Cant c.trriago was standing at tin- door, id a footman in rich livery let down the ' 'T* "Gome," sai ! t!.#* L:*pj^y Imshand to s bewildered wife, who looked at biro it li ainnz* mer t. Before she could utter a word, tbe iree were seated in tbe carrineo, driving ?ht at a quick pace. The carriage stopsd before a splendid house in the best art of Frankfort. They were received i a number of dorm-sties, who conduc d them to apartmcDte decorated in the os? costly at vie. Thia is your mi?treas," said T? ? to e servants ; "and her commands you ?ve henceforth to obey. Mv darling ife," said he then turning to Bertha, "I 11 Karl T , oi e of the wcnilhiest en ol thia city. Thia house i? ) our*, id these servants wdi nlleinl on you. hold a pledge from you that riches will >t corrupt your heart. Here it is, in e prayer book of your poor mother, riften by yoor own hand : 'If thou wort i give me all the treasures of the world, Lord, I would still remain Thine bum* ie servant. For what is gold In-fore he*, that look eat into the heart! Thine U- ? ? "It i* the Lord's and tliin**t my beloved | Karl," whispered Pertha, ami sank in his 1,]( arms ' * | cei "Hwrrahrfor the leap from the Main ! oa! Hrucke!" exclaimed 1' , embracing jtp his father-in-law. | ol JWisrflloiifons. IE | th THE WAY TO PREVENT THE Sl RAISING OF RENT. f'1' .... . . , , .... in; I lie raising ot the rents, in 1 arts, at , (,c present, la <piit? e<pial to ehul-ra, as a scourge to tlie economical classes of gen- | c ^ lletnen in lodgings." A story is told of < yvj one of these s n tie re is, an at list, who was ' called upon l>v his landlord with llic tisu . i' i iii Ho hi warning that Ins rent would he raised at a certain time. It had aheadv been I ( !1G advanced from one bundled dollats t<> I two hundred and twenty dollars per an j . num. and the poor lodger was, of coiirso j hard pushed. lie stammered at tiist, I with an attempt at a remonstrance, but j|R Mons. X was peremptory, and turncd to go. Hut with his last look ha-ik- ' , n/ wards, lor the polite "good morning." I )|) there was a new expression on the lo> coimtenatic". With an intent gnxe on cc his \i?itor, hi* eyes enlarged and his lips ^ arted with tender earnestness of anxiety. tj ( Not rjui'c cotnpiehending what this could I mean, but conjecturing that the distress ! (j of poverty was at the holtom of it, Moris X pr^flvred a consolatory word or fm two, expressing hft regrets hut insisting I stiii on the necessity. I (.(j "Ah," sail the artist, "how little you {i understand ?y present emotions! It is but a trilling tiling for me to change my ,|0 lodging*. I am a bachelor, and am any- rwhere at home. Hut it is your impend- ,j|( ing destiny, that I now contemplate with lerror'n ... on "Eh! what??mine? Explain yourself!" e rid Mons. X? . j |nj " May I ask your age?" said thelodg- | ? or- I be 4 Fif'V years. ^ 11){( "And your health ?" j r, "IVrfeot." ' " A las! both these happy promises w ill j ( jnot prevent you being a dead man in (,y three months !" i rt. ' 11->w i?a threat ?' asked the landlord . ( amazed. '(.n, " A threat of Destiny, indeed 1" replied 1 j the other. "J.i.-t< n ! Two years ago I 1 ,t occupied an apartment in the Fauhourg i * n >r < ierm.iin. Sly landlord gave me w am- ' j ing that tlie rent mould he raised at the ' ft ei d i f lire quarter, nod before the period ()f cstne round lie was dead. I moved to i . the M..rais, and was warned in the same j ' way, again; and a^ain the landlord tea* | i?( hud before the date of his new rent. I third tune, the name thing happened, at my last lodgings L? fore this?the pmpri e*or young and vtrotig like youitcl'. And ! alt now !" ed "Dies* nie ! What onn you mean !" ask- Tii ed the now anxious looking Moiia. X iln "Simply, that therein >i fat'iliti/ often- { ml Hunt en my leatiny a house. 1 am not rie usually superstitious, hut I know that it is j nx certain death to my landlord, when 1 go. | To morrow, 1 leave \ <>u ! And, ah ! Mons 1 tin X 1 It you hare any tcMJinu ntnry tin arrangements to make, ilo not 1 hog of lat yell delay !" j "u "My dear sir!?really was it to-nior th row \ on thought of leaving my house I" eel now exp >?lulated Mons X??. "Could iJ1( I r."t, l?y allowing your rent to remain th the same, induce von to stay I I should I ty lake it 1 assuie you, at a scry great fa- an Vol." 1 jig "For how long thoughtfully inquired j the artist. ev < ?h, forever !"' eagerly exc'aiined the j ha landlord. "I will give yon i? written eon se tract?rent unchangeable?is it so under ne stood, my dear t*nantT" ' Ai "Certainly?if you so wish," said the j m now happy artist; and stepping to his ( 7( desk he drew up the written obligation, j ri? and will) rotnola'r i v wools to tn* ?.li..w?.it ?i . - ? y- I ?" mind of Mons X ? ?, exchanged will) ! e* liim n cordial pood morning. Ho well understood hi* man! ; ?h Akfkoiino Kkmonstkaxck.? A genu- ' ft ine Down KnsWr km lately e**a\ing to ia , apprr ptiaie a square of exceedingly tough ; jt; i lioef at dinner in a Wisconsin hotel, li s g! i convulsive efforts with a knife and foik at- | |)t i traded the smile of the rent, in the rnme ;tr predicament as himself. At last Jona- 1 w than's patience vanished under hi* ill *uc- gi | reus, when Inying down his utencil he j hur*t out with the followinp ; ' Stranger*, ij| you needn't laff; if you liaiiit pot no tegard Vr I f <r the landlord's feeling*, yon ought to to hare some respect* for the old hull,*' This flt ! sally hrouglit down the hona?. I 0t A* a newly married couple froiu down ! <li east weie one night lying in bed, talking tr i over "mailers a ad thing*," a heavy ihun- "I : tier storm arose. The loud peals of limn- to l der and vivid ftaahe* of lightning filled c> th< m with terror and fearful nppreher- ! di sioas. Suddenly a tretnendovia crach 1 tl I caused the l"vmp couple to start aa though n< I they ha.| received an electric shock. J .ua- o! I than, throwing hia arm around his dear, i ci I i-xcl ?iined ? Hug up to me " lux" let's die b ] like men." jd This learned tribunal lias given a heavy >\v to Northern fanaticism in their rout decision of the celebrated I)red Scott so, involving the constitutionality of the ssouri Compromise and the citizenship the African race in the United States, ed Scott was a slave in Missouri; his aster carried iiini to a free State, where resided some tune, and afterwards re j rned to Missouri. It was contended j at on the removal of l>red to a free | ate, he became free, and could not af w arils be reduced to slavery by retum? to Missouri, in deciding the case, all c Judges except Justices McLano and li tis, held, that the African race had no izenship under the Federal Constitution lether slave or free ; that the Constitu i n of the United States was a ConsliUi- j n tor white men; that the Missouril inpromise declaring that slavery should t exist north of a certain degree, was nntistltutional and void ; that slaveho ders ve a right under the Federal Const ilun to cmivcv their slaves into the I > rri rie* of the United States ; that Congress v no power to restrain it or authorise e territorial government to legislate ahist it. This knocks abolition and all e difficulties about our Territories into ocked hat. Well done for the Supreme | ?nrt of the I nited States. We have al 1 i\s looked to it for protection against it usurpations of Congress, and for so ritv of the citizen and the States in iir constitutional rights. Our (iovern >nt may go wrong but it has the e!e nts in its organization to correct its crs. Tlie abolitionists are furious about | s decision, and w e presume some of j dr disunion friends in the South are not itikfu! for the decision, as it blasts their pes and prospects of breaking up the : deral Union. We have never doubted ; s permanency of this Union, and lie j blican principles, wlii'sl civil?/ation was tlieadvar.ee. It will some hundreds I years hence f ill t'? pieces as the Ko- I in Umpire did, and as all great empires j ve and aie destined to fall, but it will when the American w01 Id beouuien t?? j rhted and corrupt and enshrouded in lorauoe, as the lie man Umpire was, .en it disappeared amongst the nations the earth. There is a long future, bower of rr:?Mileor nii.l t.nui>..riti. ~ .... H.V. before the American Republic, which 3 will have to pn*s through, ere such sinires overtake her. Sei?Mic??, art, irning, civilization and Christianity have rogressive and centralizing inflnenecon governments and nations. History :>\vs that they enlarge, consolidate and engthcn all nations and governments people, instead of weakening and break- , j them into party fragments, the charlerislirs of ignorance and barbarism.? t(riot and Mountaineer. ORTALITY TMONG BACHELORS. ! 1 bo forlorn condition ol bachelors baa | iMijs l i on a tavoraritc. theme tor ladies, ilois, and other wits to expatiate upon. io untidy rooms, the buttoiiles* shirts, j j stockings full of holes, and the thouml other of inconveniences of t lie unaiar-. d state are familiar, in this way, to the . ist obtuse of all. The poor bachelors have, in fact, a hard ; no of it. '1 hey have been ridiculed by e sox, and sometimes taxed by tl.o logis or*, and now statistician*deal diem tin- , i.kindest cut of all," by proving that oy d.?s enrher tlian married men. Tl.o j lebiiited I)r. Casper, of Berlin, estimates e mortality among bachelors, between j o ages of thirty and forty live, at twen- j -seven per cent.; while the mortality j long married men, between the same : ea, is only eighteen per cent. As life advances, the difference becomes en more striking. Wliere forty one | cholora attain the ago of 40, there are j veiny eight married men, a difference of any two to one in i.ivor ol ttic latter.? i L tiio age of CO, there aro forty eight 1 urried men to t .verity two bachelors ; at i, eleven bachelors to twenty seven mar- ! d men ; and nt 80, nine married men ree bachelors. No bnchelor, it is said, er lived to bo a hundred. i no reason lor the comparatively ort life of the bachelor is obvious. Of| i'O uco exactly similar in other respect*, eept that one is married and tiio other , not, the bachelor will have the more j regular habits. Gentlemen, when sin- ; e, are twice as apt, as l)ick Swiveber is it, to "pass the rosy," as when they ' e married ; and especially to d> it into' hat Hums calls "the wee siua* hours font the iwal." Ten bachelors sing " wo won't go home II morning," where one married man realizes in the same manner. No doubt, bachelor taste, all this is very delightI. But brandy and water, cards ct iJ nne gmus, especially after midnight, Le care to compensate themselves, in le season, for the fun that has been ex acted from them. They may caat out due*," so incident to the bachelor state, r the time being, but the "blue*" thus ist out, invariably return, bringing "seven evils worse than beforoand among icni are gout, fever and rheumatism, if r?t delirium tremens and death. T<>o flen, indeed, the bachelor lives on the vpilai of life, and hence exhausts his ar.k, when the married man is w?H to o in health, happiness, and longevity. jl? x nuunilAKAUUA, Tlio New Yoik Herald publivhcs tho following intelligence from Nicaragua, which it claims to be reliable. (.ten. Walker's in four lights. Tho enemy lost several bundled; our loss in all dots not exceed ten. Col. Lockridge and (ion. Wheat have done well. The cannon, the ton of powder,^the caps and rifles from New \ ork arrived just in tituc at Oreytown lor the men, and Col. Titus and they re took in one day the boats (steamer included) in the river and up to the lake.? Gen. Walker's troops have takeu Serapiqui and Castillo, and are dnving the enemy before them, lie has before this tho whole lake and transit route in his possession. lie has be?rn re-informed from tho Pacific side, and the English merchants in 1 Vru have sent him aid and constrained 1'resident ('a-:ilia to deny assistance to the enemy. English merchants in Liverpool and London have also shown that they understand tl.o interests of their country and the advance of civilization better than their rulers though the British government has not attempted to prevent shipment of arms nnd amunitions to our friends. 'I he Panama Company and the C? sta Kicnn speculators in New York, Irving to s<-l! tiaiisil stock, w:!l surpress the facts and lie thetn down. So 1 write fully what you may rely on. Kinney has gone to Panama, and will do all he can against a ker. ? i? m turn - THE Bi.ACK RACE. Chief Justice Taney, in his decision on tho celebrated 1 'red Scott case, used tho following language, in reference lo tho history and destiny of the colored race : | It is dillicnlt at tins day to realize the state of public opinion respecting tbo unfortunate class wiib tho civilized and enlightened portion of the world at tho titno of the Declaration of independanco ami tho adoption of the constitution ; but history shows they have, for more than a century, been regarded as beings of an inferior order, and unlit associates tor the white race, either socially or politically ; and bad no right which whUe uieu ?veio bound to respect ; and tbo black man might be reduced to slavery, bought and sold, and treated as au ordinary article of merchandise. Tho opinion, at that time, was fixed and universal with the Civilized portion of the while race. It was regarded a- an axiom in morals, which no one thought of disputing, and eve.y one huhiuiallv acted iitw.n it .m..n? - j * I M " ,V,,WMw c?vuuv" ing for a moment the correctuess of the opinion. And in no nation was this opinit'n more fixed and generally ailed upon than in England, the subject of which government not only seized them on the coast of Africa but took thetn as ordinary merchandise, to where they could make a profit on them. The opinion thus entertained wis universally Impressed on the colonists this sitio of the Atlantic ; aecor dingly, negmes of the African lace were regarded bv them as property, and held, and bought and sold as such in every ono of the thirteen colonies which united i.t the Declaration of 2ndepemlance, and afterwards formed this constitution. The following rich incident actually oo curred not long since in the recitation room of a law school not a thousand miles from Lebanon. One of the professors to tost the abii ty of a s'udent he was examining, propounded this question: "Mr.?, what do you think should bo done with a man that had committed suicide I" The student was puzzled scratched his head a moment, as it to brighten his ideas and then responded : "Well it is my opinion, as a j rofessional man, that he ought to be made to support the child!" ??m? ?- A darkic having been to California, thus speaks of his introduction to San f raucisco : ?"As boon as they landed in the ribhar. dar moufa began to water to 1-e on land, and soon as Jey waded to da -bore, dey did'nt see any goold but they f(?n'id such a large supdly of uofBo to eat, dar gums cracked like baked clay in a brick yard." Doswell once asked Johnson if there v. as no p >ssible circumstance under w hich suicide would be justifiable ? " No."' was '.be renlv. " Well," aays lioawell, "suppose a man had been guilty of some fraud that Le was certain would ho found out." ' W by. then," sava Jonn?on, "'in that j case let him go to aofli* conn try where lie I in not known, and not go to the devil wh<*ro , he ia known." An ignorant follow, in petitioning to the Justices of the Inferior Court of a certain , county, addressed the honorable gentlemen aa "jwt aft'*" not more to their indignation than to tItc ninth of the wage of the county, who declared that (he lernt was exceedingly apt, particularly the last part of it. A man whodialikes mop-handles and broomsticks should be careful how he spits tobacco j.nee on a redheaded woman'* carpel. To do good and wi?h penjl*! lo Vnow ?t > is not true goodoeia.