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f lic imcmUx Cciigcr, ' Ii9 PIPR ANNTTM Turn to (lie Pr?!i?-iu leeming ShccU snrvcr, TTVT 4 imt 4 \t/ . f* 1 FjI\ J\L\ 1^ UlU Big will. ?lie wonder* of oucli passing day. { JN A !)\ AN( K il iuinilg anil .political jtaBpaprr Dcautcil la ttje Irta, icifaces, Xitrratncf, ^Dotation, Agricultarr, 3attrnal 3mpraueuipnts, /urcign anil Fouipsiir jthros, auii tlir ftlurkrts. VOLUME VIII. LANCASTER C. II, SOUTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUG, 17, 1859. N U M B E R 27 . Iflert j The Music of Nature I ^ lHY rtifotcAS IIOPLKY. "There's music in the rivulet, Ami music in the flood ; Ami music in the waterfall That echoes from the wood. There's music in the sunny prove, And music in the rain, Quick pattering on the forest-boughs, 1 And nil is blight ngnin. 'There's music on the upland slope. I And music down the dell ; The loving herd, the bleating fold,4 Its pretty tinkling bell There's music in the joy of birds, And in the hum of bees; And mu*ic in the waving corn, Danced over by the breeze. there's music in the ocean-stream, When foamy billows roar ; And more, when rippling, peacefully, It seems to trip the sboie. I There's music in the stilly eve, Ami in the hush t>f night; And mimic in the rising morn, And when the noon is bright. 'I here's music in the voice of love, And joy that others share ; And in the voice of gratitude, And in the voice of prayer. On me, nh (tod ! Thy grace impart, To prize w hat Thou hast given : Tench ine to ponder what Thou art, At early dawn and even ? The music of a grateful heart, Is music heard in henvon. For the Lancaster Ledger. Mil. Knrrnn :?History tell# us that when the mother country was endeavoring to enforce her oppressive laws upon iin* coiciiu.-, iiihy Mitre wore manv meet j ing* h?i???nn**t the people to consult what wi.nhl lie I,est to he done. We he;ir of 4?'<i Mecklenburg County, N. C. through (lie patriotism of her sons and the pen of the widow Brevard's Son, having tlie j 1ii?t I teolaration of Independence; and we hh\e no doubt this grew out of an associated meeting held in Charleston, 1 I think, sometime before, where all met for the purpose of consulting how they would further on the [reaching of the Gospel j and secure to us our rights. In the year ! 76, there was a committee appointed to j draw up a 1 teclaration of Independence and when the Committee made their report through their Chairman, Thomas Jefferson, by whom it w as read, the house frowned, hesitated. That instrument cut them off even from She mtnw of Great Britain. They saw with prophetic vision j all the hoirors of a bloody war. They 1 saw the prospect of having riveted still I more closely the chains of slavery. This | hour is described as one of awfwj solum- i tiity :?"The House seemed to waver? silence, deep and solemn silence reigned ! throughout tlie Hall. Kvery counten- ! nnce indicated that deep thought was at UK.,ll ?.1 - - " ! nuu Biiiciiiii reiioiuuuiis were cam | ing for double energy. At this fearful | crinis, when ilie destiny of our beloved i country whi Hti?|teri<l**<J upon the action | of a moment, one of the member* of the /drafting Commitle, an aged patriarch arose?a venerable and stately form, hi* head white with the frosts of many year*. He cast on the assembly a look of ine*. pres*ib!e interest and unconquerable dc? termination ; while on his visage Ins hoary age wan lost in the burning patriotism /bat fired his cheek." "There io," jaid lie, "a tide in the af /airs of men, which, what; taken at the ginod leadi on to fortune. We perceive /I now before us. That noble instrument #jpon the table, which insure* immortality /o its author, should far subscribed tins .Wy morning by every pen in the honse. He wrUo will ju>t respond to its accents and strain every nerye to carry into effect its provisions, is unworthy the name of /roeman. Although these irrav iiairs must oon drtr?ri(i into the sep'ltchre, I would infinitely rather that they should descend thither hy the hand of the executioner, than desert at this crisis, Use sacred cause of my country." The patriarch sat down and forthwith the Declaration was signed by every in. ni. her present. This ?*? the man who ed- | ucated 523 young men of which 150 be- i came ministers of the Gospel. The name of this veteran was John Witnerspoon, a I'resbyterie.n minister, of the line and lineage of John Knox, the Scotch Reformer. As a nation, we delight to honor such hrave spirits as those were, who Jrafted, adopted, and signed the Constitution of I our beloved Country. Wo fool that while we are enjoying such peace and prospers ty as we aro. that we cannot rovore these veterans loo much. They, by their gah laiitry and noblo deeds, laid the founda tion of this great dud glorious Republic, the freedom o( whoso institutions excels any nation on earth. As evidence of our feelings for tho actors of 70, look at the Monument erected to the memory of the Father of our Country; Hunker Hill monument ; Kings Mountain monument and others in our own State. We see in Camden one to the honor of (ien. I >eKalh; one to .1 I'. Dickenson, in tlie public square in Camden. The Palmetto monument in Columbia, A:c. These are themes which we delight to dwell upon. Hut I go for sharing these honors equally, I would rejoice to seo an etlorl to erect a monument on the battle ground ol Hanging Rock. As pure blood poured out tliere to water the tree ot Liberie, u?i? der whose brandies we now feel secure from foreign invasion, as on any battle field in the (J. S. Fellow Citizens of Lancaster District, let lis not allow these brave men's actions at this place to be forgotten It was hate that the Hero of New Orleans was lirst in nction in bis 131li year. Let us place some sign here; ao that future generations may behold 'lie place, where our forefathers contended for Liberty, lias the c unmittee appoin ted by the Hanging Rock Division Sons of Temperance b**en endeavoring to get this thing in motion ? I would he glao to hear from them upon tlds subject.? Art* t l.iito 111* r.il'.tlnibu <? tl*?? iiiilitpj iii Lancaster District i Are there no re latioDa of the Unroof New Orleans in Lancaster f Ami in our sifter I).strict* are there n?? relations to these brave Urn roes to advocate the erection of a monument ? Fellow Citizens of Lancaster Dis triel and State, let us go ahead ill the work. The signers of the Declaration.of Independence pledged their lives, their fortune4, and their sacred honors, to sei cure our liberties. Hut the common sol dier is equally entitled to our tolice?they hore the fatigues and toils in ramp ? risk* ed their lives and fortunes ill battle, and sealed our liberties with their blood. Aug. 5th, 1R59. CENSUS. For the Lancaster Ledger. Wai.ni't Drove, Orange Co., N. U. August 2d, 1859. Mil. Editor.?1 am not accustomed to write for the press, but as I am a few miles from home, in the Old North Stale; ami nave a lew leisure hours, L will give joii a word about the weather and crops, The uight* here for some liuio past have been a little cool, though warm enough for the season now. Corn crops between Orange and Lancaster are very interior, and promise the husbandman but little remuneration for his labor. About Hillsboto and vicinity com crops look more encouraging than in the lower part of the State. The people of Orange plant comparatively small crops of corn. They raise large quantities of small grain.? They nre beginning to turn their alien tion to the Tobacco crop. When their Tobacco is dried they get from 5 to 15 dollars per 100. They can raise from five hundred to one thousand pounds per j acre. They are an industrious and free hearted people. And they seem to be zealous in the cause of Temperance. Their division of the Hons of Temperance meet once a week and they have very inte-esling meetings. i ne v, ingressionai election in una mate come* ? {!' tin; first Thursday of this Inst. This Congressional District consists of 7 Counties, viz: Orange, Granville, W arren, Johnson, Nash, Wake and Franklin.? There are two candidates before the people, both under the same banner claiming to belong to the Democratic Party.? Branch, of Wake, and Kanders, of Johnson County, are the candidates. Branch was elected at their former election, and it is thought will be the choice of the peo pie at the ensuing election. Orange is a Democratic County. Sanders is looked u|>on rather as a slip in from the other party, under the guise of Democracy. I was hi conversslion a short time since with a citizen of this place who advanced the idet?, that our next President would probably be a Black Republican, and that if this should be the case, the South would dissolve U?? ties tiist bind her to the Union. Now Mr. lvhlor, I am no politician, but I think, sir, with what true men '.here la in the North and our large majority in the South, the Constitution and the IJn ion can wn? will be preserved. The Black Republicans, Abolitionists and Northern fanatics, inay endeavor to deprive tbe South of lif-r Constitutional Lib?rti?* and trai"pl? upon her rights, hut when th?v find thut the South will maintain ho' j righls, hi Htiy and every hazard ; llwit , tliey will liHve equality in the Union. or Independence out of it, the North will . look u? her own interest ?nd safety, hih! j etop her aggressions. Since we hstvu been able to defend our selves against foreign invasion, and have CCIKiuered Our fii?Ainrn fr>ua I* *" " "V"*? " OWL- j ington 8*4i<l to !iis soldiers, after gaining j glorious and signal victories over tlieir en j einies, "and were in sight of the promise land, vvlien thev were about to turn hack ; ] to worse than Egyptian Bondage."? | j Let us now conquer ourselves. Let tlie North maintain her rights; but keep hack ! her aggressions. The South will ask of | the North no more than she is willing to do herself. Let both stand by, protect *and defend the Constitution. "United 1 wo stand divided we fall." UPPER CREEKS. THE FATAL STEP II Y M A II R I. LANSING, I have been sitting for a full hour think| ing of the past. Rut what is the past I ] What is the present ? Ah ! the present j is now while I strike my pen down thus; | hut that instant is forever gone to eterni i ty, and is numbered with the past. In i deed, we tnav atoms! sue t'lura m .... ! etit, so closely is the past interwoven with I | the dim mysterious future. Hut to uight I have heel) thinking of j I tlie long ago ; when with a heart as light I { and free as tin- mountain air I roamed be' aide one of the proudest rivers in tlie Km. I pire State. Ah ! life was then a scene I of uninterrupted pleasure. I knew t.o I ' sorrow, an?l could hut wonder why pen| pic were sail when earth was so strange* ! ly beautiful. ^ ea mine was u glorious j day ilrean). Oh! I would that >t never I hail passed. i The pier by which I spent my child- | hood, flows through the finest portion of | the slate. In one place it winds through j I green meadows, and peaceful valleys, j w here tlie songs of the forest birds min gleil with ita perpetual murmuring make ! jstiange sweet music. Again it flow* i through dismal swamps and dark forests i where branch entwining with branch as j if to say we clasp one hard in brother i liootl. At Noilly pUcai 1 ' r 1& uu?i nlu^^Sdh at some others clear ami limpid it carries feelings both of pleasure and pain. In : ono place tbu cliffs on the bank rise al- | ! most to fearful lieigbls and suddenly as | i il hurried on l?y soiuo mysterious power | tlie water rushes over locks which are so I much higher than the bed below that a j cascade so formed which though not fear fully sublime, is remarkably beautiful, and 11 almost vested with the power to charm ' one into a quiet slumber by its hurling j I sound. A few steps below the cascade there is I | it whirlpool which is so deep and rapid I i that it is utterly impossihle to remove anything thai has been thrown into it. Il was a beautiful morning in early | i spring that a happy group might have | been seen standing on the hank just he | | low the cascade. Nature was clothed in I ! her most glorious beauty. The very air ; ! was vocal w ith the music of forest songs | , ters, and every heart seemed laden with j | swwl perfume. No wonder llien that j j each beail bent joyously, and that a fair j haired maiden ii|?m whose locks the sun J I beam seemed to rest lovingly, almost shouted w ith delight as she sprang from ' knoll to knoll culling the fairest dowers of ' , [ spring. Ah ! my bride,' said a gentleman who had been watching her attentively. 'Not yet she answered with a ringing laugh at the same time pushing him playfully iroin her side, lie slipped back j ' not realizing how near he stood to the I j edge of the bank. The treacherous earth gave way and in an instant he fell into ' the foaming waters beneath. He struggled manfully for his life, but in vain.? His strength was soon exhausted and the I current bore liiin to the fatal pool. One ! j more desperate struggle, one longing I look towards the hank and ho was drawn down into the deep, dark, mad waters. } I Ami then a shriek rent the air so wild, so fearful, that through the stillness which ; surrounds mo I almost hear it nowr. With terror stricken hearts, thoso that , had witnessed the scene, saw that she, | the young and joyous being as it were but a moment before was all life and ani nation hI.ku! litl ?iwl \T^.i - T i*ui r% icrtl dimmed iier eye mid in place of a wi'd ness tliey looked strangely bright and beautiful. Her friend* spoke lo tier but , I she answered not save with a calms I 'smile, which was proof enough that her reason was dethroned. She seemed pierced to the spot, hut when one that she had loved took her by the hand she 1 moved passively a* a child. No one dared i,peak to her and they walked in nlmost breathless silence. Their first supposition 1 proved too true. Reason, life, hope and happiness were lost to the young girl.? Saihe seemed like one walking ?n a dream; unconsious of all around yet pursuing , some imagined object. She appeared to ( know nought of outward life but to be conaious of a life within ; for with a deep drawn aigh she would place her hand upon her heart, as if Tb s*y 'my life is cold aitd dark and dreary.' Still her derangement was not a mad, nets hut rather a beautiful melancholly. Shs was so quiet, so gentle and still, so lieanlifut, never speaking of her great sorrow. But each day, rain or shine, , mud or snow, she RQut to the fatal hank ? , and there with clasped hands ?"d eves gazing vacantly around she wo /. I stnv tor hunts. In summer the choicest flowers grew where the lost one lust stood ; but they were cultivated with loving hands and watered with the tears of the broken hearted ; for 'tis said that while watching them site wept, though at any other time since her sorrow, she had never been known to shed a tear. A few bright summers past, and the i young L'irl knew that she must die With ; iier wanted calmness she talked of?i?ath. j >lie called her friends around her and I one by ono bade thun farewell. Suddenly a change seemed to come over her and she said : 'I feel so strangely?I mn tired. 1 have J slept too long, and such a dream.' Then pausing a long time as if thinking she i resumed. 'Ah, I remember now it is all ! true; it was but yesterday. I feel that I ! am dying,"hut 'lis well. Then turning to I her weeping friends, she said: ? 'Good bye; do not weep for me. I shall l>e happy, very happy. To-morrow just at evening burv me on the river hank I can sleep there.' And then Iter pure spirit took its flight. Her reason had returned, bui the few past years of her life were as if they had never been. Her friends buried her where she requested and raised a white marble at her head .villi the inscription, "01/R MARY." The same (lowers, that she had eultiva' ted, grew upon her grave and a weeping willow sprang up at her feet. Long years have past since then l?ut stiii the stream flows on as quietly as before. Rut when the w ater falls over the rocks it seems to sin ; a dirge for the dying and requiem for the loved and lost. ? Greensboro, X. C. Times. Mr- Rarey's method of Training Horses. A public exhibition by Mr. ltnrey of the mode in which ho has contrived to subdue the wildest mid uiO''. savage of tliM equine race with such marvellous ami invariable success, took place at the Aihauibra, in Leicester square, on Saturilay afternoon. A numerous and fashionable company of spectators was there assemble!. Mr. Rnrey, since his former appearance in Loudon, has made a victorious progress through the continent ol j Kurope, winning tokens of royal and im peti.?l approbation, as well as the patron ot ever* nation s cinvalry Irom 1'aris 1 to St. Petersburg. The instrument by which any man of competent stienglh and agility may wres- j tie down any horse, and quite exhaust the spirits of the noble brute in the course of an hour or two, consists of nothing | more than a pair of buckle straps, to be dexleriooaly adjusted to the fore legs.? | The arena must ho thickly covered with sawdust or tan, and the usual lent I) -rcov erings put on horse's knees, in order to j protect him from injury. A biter's head must be. secured by fastening the reins back to the surcingle. Mr. It ?rey begins by coaxing the aui inal, speaking kindly to loin, and looking j llieasnnt IV Hi liiio iti.-n I'.nHiirt ut>.1 ? >.-> tirijr his shoulder with :i guileless air, un til watching his opportunity, ho can sud- j denly lift tho near fore leg, and taking the first unobsvrvedly out of his pocket, , fasten it below the pastern and half way j above tho knee. Krorn that moment, the ! limb being doubled up, the horse can only hoc painfully on three legs, and a child may lead him hy the bride. The next i thing is to atlHih the second strap to the oilier fore foot, and, bv a judicious pull, to bring the creature down upon both knees. Then begins a very unequal struggle. The horse rears himself upon his \ hind legs, and falls again and again. The man has to exert some activity to prevent the Iiorso falling upon him, and to hold the strap of the off leg in such a manner as to prevent tho horse putting his fore j foot to the ground. Trailing his superb nose in the sawdust, panting and wearied with these unwonted exertions, the indig' nanl steed is presently obliged toauccumb and a slight push on the quarter makes lii 111 lie down, l in n the man definitely ' lies up llie oil' fore foot to tlie upper part ' of the leg, in '.lie same manner as the I noa* fore leg lias heen tied up. Then he | speaks comfortingly to the captive, con- | soles him with friendly and flattering gestures?makes love to him in fact, as he lies there in helpless pride an<l resentment on the ground. The horse may sudden ly get up on his hind leg*, plunging and rearing again ; but the result in a few i minutes, will he the same : down .upon his side he must go. As Mr. Karey observes, the generous 1 beast has not sufficient intelligence todis- J tingnish between the trap which throws him down, and the tinman hand which fixes the strap so that (he impression up on hi* unsophisticated inihd is that the animal man is physically stronger than the animal horse. The beast being of an eminently practical turn of mind, no i sooner is this conclusion arrived at along -t with the experience <>l man's kindness and benevolent intentions towards him? for a blow, a harsh word, or even an irn- ( patient nnd startling gesture would spoil , the lesson?than the horse consents to I let the man be his master henceforth.? We saw Mr. Karey apj^y this treatment to A CuIIaw xsf u Btwiiion tin* of Ou?le," belonging to Mr. Thomas l'urr. Thia h. * **, which in seven year* old, And above *ixteen hands high, ha* once or twice run with glory on the turf, hpt in the Htehle hie cocduct ha* been execrable, lie line been known to Attack the groom who was as good ha h tether to him, and tear t,he co?t off the tnan'e hack; he baa kicked Ins stall to pieces, and torn the j manger into shreds with his teeth, until the stable furniture was cased in plates of iron to defy his mischief. When lie was brought in, snorting and furious, held by three men in the arenc, he stood erect, ferociously pawing the air, and capered | about in that fearful altitude, as if he were executing the war dance of the in- ! domitabie Cherokee, and one almost ex- I pee'ed to see him hurl a tomahawk from i liis uplifted foie foot. Presently, however, the fatal strap was I adroitly thrown or or that foot, and in a very short time the savage was humbly I on his knees, nor was it long before he was obliged to beg pardon as plainly as a horse could express himself. So earn est was his contrition, that Mr. Ilarey, having first asceitained by the flaccid and tlexible state of the bind leg muscles, that ' the "King of Oude" did not intend to | i-:..t. i i i i ? i rwiv,i\, uuwii uciiiuu nun without the j slightest hesitation, anil calmly pressed i that dreadful hind-foot against his own smiling and finely featured face. After this satisfactory evidence of a mutual < n tctc cordiitlr, he untied the King of Ou de's fore-legs, carefully straightening'.hem and made the King of Oude stand upon all four, saddled and mounted the King of Oude, showed the King of Oude a lug drum, on which, after tho animal had been allowed to inspect it and smell it, he beat a triumphant peal upon the King of Oude's bach. The horse pricked up his ears, and certainly looked puzzVd.lnt had not an idea of questioning the propriety of any thing wl ic'.i the man could lay him prostrate and sit upon him might choose to do ; anil this conviction had 1 been wrought in the equine mind so tho roughly, but with so much good humor and gentleness on Mr. Karey's part, that he might exclaim more appropriately than the butcher did in Hood's comical story of the recusant sheep, 'There, I've con ciliated iiim !' Two or three repetitions ol the treatment are, however, advisable, since brutes, like human beings, are apt to forget what they have learned. The | ct'ieoralei Urutser, who was introduced to tin* company on Saturday,continues to do credit to hin instruction. London News. How To Deal With A Cross Person. We know of no better rule than to I keep one's temper under provoca'.ioi ; hut I litis we know is a very ditticull tiling.? l'eitect silence is the only way some per*OIJ?> (UU tlif'n * .? J ?L tv a cross person is often but adding fuel to tlie llamo. A little unexpected act of at lention, or kindness at such a time, will sometimes surpiise jour opponent into good humor in spite of himself, and start repentant tears from bis eyes. II ippv In* who can do litis, for by every such act of magnanimity does lie diminish the dis tance between himself and l eaven. Well, lias it been said, 'Greater U lie that rnielli bis spirit than he who takelh a city.' It would he well, too, in cases of conver sational disputation, to stop till you have stated your definitions of the subject in hand ; as often, after a long, sharp skir tnisli, eager disputants have found to their astonishment that they perfectly agree as to essentials. There are some persons who always take the contrary side, because it in contrary, and who will neither yield, nor agree to differ, but t'ol low von like a snarling cur, and, like it, only make themselves a laughing stock for their peevishness and pureility. Treat such as you would tho cur ;?shut your door in their face, and let thein snarl. Noiji.k Conduct.? We learn that on Friday night last, three negroe men, the property of Messrs. W. E. and J. II. White, discovered that the bridge over the Catawba River hail sustained some injury, and without awaiting tho arrival of the train or examining how much damage had been done, stationed themselves on tho line of the road with torches, to stop the Passenger train, duo a*, the Itriilorn ahiwit mi.l Tl.?.. .~ 1 - l ^ .Ii.u AIICJ nilttCCUCll, and no doubt prevented the destruction of property and loss of life. Mr. K. Myers, Conductor on the train, promptiy rewarded I lie negroes, and the passengers gladly made up a purse for tliem. As tar as we have been able to learn, liie damage to tbo Bridge was trilling,? seine of tlie sheeting and tiuning bad been blown up and thrown across tbe track, during a thunder storm late on Friday afternoon. Tbe only annoyance was a detention of about two hours consumed in clearing the track.? (Jhalotte Bulletin. Writing for the Press.?There is no class of people more frequently sneered at than editors. It is the easiest thing in the world to charge them with being mercenary.; to say that such and such an article pfti<! for ; that anybody can have anything praised or abused in a paper. if be will nav lor it oi..i - , t - - r v *? ' y ,,mM wiseacre, every now end then, 'If I had a newspaper here. would'nt I pitch into this or that, and would'nt I show the people what an independent paper is ?' Well, my friend and pitcher, why not establish a paper and 'pitch into every thing and every body ?* Nobody can object to your doing so. The papers that are in the habit of pitching into everything are the easiest edited in the world. It is only well piacticed and matured editors that possess that wisdom and true indepen derce which consist in refusing to 'pitch in that manliness which can withstand a public clamor, that can scorn personalis lies, and that can treat public questions with the dignity and tobetnesa that can alone secure respect tor the press. &ituilai) lUuiiiagt j The Laud Beyond the Mountains. The little child was dying. 11 s weary limbs were racked by pain no more. I'lio tliish was fading from his linn cheeks, and the fever that had been for weeks drying up Lis blood, was now cooling rapidly under the touch of the icy hand j that was upon him. There were sounds and tokens of hit- ' tor but suppressed grief in that dim : chamber, for the dying boy was one very i dear to many Learts. 'Iikv knew that he was departing, and ! ii... it.." 1 . i. ? - V..O tuuuguv w ;is naru l>> Hear ; bill tllOV | tried to command their feelings that they mi^ht not disturb the last moments of their darling. The father And mother, and the kind physician stood beside dear Eddy's bed, j and watched his heavy breathing. lie I had be<n silent for some time, and ap j peared to sleep. I hey thought it might j he thus that lie would pass away ; but | suddenly his blue eyes opened wide and I clear, and a beautiful smile* broke over his features, lie looked upward and forward first, then turning his eyes upon his mother's face?said in a sweet voice :? 'Mother, what is the name of the beauli ful country that 1 see beyond the inoun tains?the high mountains !' I can see nothing, mv child,' said the mother, 'there are no mountains in sight of our house.' 'Look there, d- ar mother,' said the child, pointing upwards, yon?/cr are the mountains. Can you see them now ?' he asked in tones of the greatest astonish meut, as his mother shook her head. ' Tltey tire near me now?so large and high, and behind them the country looks so beautiful, and the people are. so happy ?there are no sick chihlren there. I'apa, | can yon not see beyond the mountains ? Tell me the name of that land.' The parents glanced at each other, and with united voices r- phcii, 'The hand you see is heaven, is it not my child !' 'Yes, it is hear en. I though! that must be its name. O, let me go?but llow sball I eriss those mountains ? Father, Will VitU liitf /? m r? t? nw. 2 ? 1 ! . ..wv %,? j inu j w, liiKU me in your arms ami currv 1110, for they c:i!I me from the other side, ami 1 must go.' There wns not a dry eve in that chant her, and upon every heart there fell a solemn awe, as if the curtain which conI >V U .. j. -! . . ... UA nl.n.,t A- I. . ; withdrawn. 'My son," s:ii< 1 the father, 'will you stay ' with us n little while longer ] You shall cross the mountains soon, hut in stronger | arms than mine. Wait ? stay with your ! mother a little longer; seo how ?he weeps 1 at tie* thought of loosing vou.' '(>, mother ? <). father,?do not i r<, hut come with me, ami cross the mountains? < > come ?' And thus he entreated with a strength and earnestness which astonish ! ed all. The chamber was filled with wonderj ing and awe stricken friends. At length he turned to his mother, with a face j beaming with rapturous delight, and i stretching out Ids little arms for a last I embrace, be cried, 'Good by, mother, 1 i am going ; but don't you be afraid ? the 1 stiong man h is come to carry me over i the mountains.' Tlios-e wore his parting words ; upon J his mother's breast lie breathed his last, and they laid the fair baby down again upon the pillowti, and closed the lids over i the beautiful blue eyes, over which the mists of death had gathered heavilv, and bowing by the bedside, they prayed wi'h submissive, but bleeding hearts, and said: I 'The Lord gave, and the Lord takelh j asvav ; blessed bo the name of the Lord. Bethlehem. The birthplace of the Savior 'is associated with the tenderest recollections ol the founder of the Christian faith. The town stands on a hill and presents a fine appearance from a distance ; hut an enlerenoe soon convinces one that it is hut I little better than other oriental towns.? The church and monastery covering the I Cave of the Nativity, are very imposing ; j and the interior contains much to boast I of, among which is a long double row ol [ elegant Corinthian pillars. The Cave ol j Nativity is lighted by thirty 'amps I which nurn nay ho<i night, Minding the I eye with their brilliancy, which, togethei with their reflection in the polished sur I faces of the marble walls, completely bewilder one on first entering. The altan 1 are continually wreathed with fragrant I freshly gathered flowers ; and a silvei ! star, inserted in the floor, marks, it ii said, the exact spot of our Saviour's birth This may not bo the true manger, alle ] ged ; but at any rate it cannot he very far off. We therefore satisfy ourselves with the belief that we are at least neai the spot over which the star appeared,an. nouneing the birth of the Messiah. Iti rapid succession, its incidents crowd upon I the memory^?the appearance of the stai to a company of shepherds watching theii flocks bv night on theso plains, and aim to the wise men who go to Hethlehem t< worship the babe, and pour out their off erings of gold, frankincense, and mvrrh ? the unavailing efforts *1 Herod to des troy tho child ? and the flight of Man and Joseph with their precious charge in to fcgypt. We should not merely imitate the hec hut his discrimination ; when we extrac 1 the good, we should reject tho had. Nature has sown in man tfie seeds o knowledge, hot they must be cultivate* j to produce fruit. | fthmuiniiKi. Inclined to Quarrel. We heard tliat pnnce of story tellers Tom Cailoway; get oil' the following, a midst burst <>t Ifilter, tlie other night. Squaring himsilf aiul stretching out his | legs, he began : 'There was once a little, slam built felJ low, rich as a .Jew, and independent as the devil, riding along a highway in the Slate of Georgia, when he overtook a man driving a drove of hogs by the help of :i big, raw boned, six footer two, specimen of Immunity. Slopping tbe last named individual, lie accosted liim : 'I say, are these yoiir hogs ?' 'No, sir, I'm to work by '.he month.' 'What pay might you he getting, friend ?' 'Ten dollars a month, and whiskey thrown in,' was the reply. Well, look here, I'm a weak, little, inurtonsivo man, and people are apt to impose upon me, d'yousee ? Now, I'll give you twenty live dollars a month to ride along with me and protect me,' was Mr. Gardner's reply. 'Lint,' he added, as a thought struck him, 'how might you be on the light J' Never been licked in mv life.' rejoined -? - J ? the six fouler. .lust the nifiti I want. It's a bargain!' queried Garduer. Six-footer ruminated. Twenty-five dollars?douldo wages? nothing to ilo but to ride around and smash a fellow's mug occasionally, when he's sassy. Six accepted. They rode along till at night they readied a village inn. Dismounting at the ?loor, they went in. Gardner immediately singled out the biggest man in the room, and picked a fuss with him.? j After considerable promiscuous jawing, i Gardner turned to his fighting friend and : intimated that the licking of that man had become a sad necessity. Six fooler ' peele l, went in, and came out first best. The next night, at another hotel, the same scene was re enacted?Gardner <??? I # t ting into a row with the biggest man in the place, and Six-footer doing the fighting. At last on the third day. they came to a ferry, kept by a huge double listed man who had never been licked in Ins life.? j \\ bilst crossing the river, Gardner, as I usual, began to find fault and 'blow .*? The ferryman naturally got mad, threw | *1 KUlU V iWev, fkiiU ivtvt vtiVUi | his opinion of their kind. Gardner then turned to his friend'from | the shoulder,' and gently broke the intel ' ligenco to him, 'that he wis .?orr\, but that it was absolutely neces>aiy to thrash that ferryman.' Six-footer nodded his head, but -aid i nothing. j It was plainly to be seen, that ! e dm | not relish the j?d>, by the wuv he shmg 1 ged his shoulders, hut there was no help for it. So when they reached the shore, both ; stripped, and at it they went. Up and ' down the bank, over the sand into the I wa'er they fought, scratched, gouged, bit and rolled, till at the end of an hour tbe i ferryman caved. Six footer wit: triumph j ant, but it bad been tough work, j Going up to his employer, he scratch oil his head for a moineu'., and ihen broke forth. 'Look hero, Mr. Gardner, y our salery 1 sets mighty well, but ? I'm?of?the? : opinion?that you are inclined to be quar relsome. Here I've only been with you three days, ai.d I've licked the three biggest men in the country 1 1 think this I firm had belter dissolve, for \ou see, Mr. Gardner, I'm afraid you're inclined to be quarrelsome, and I reckon I'll draw !'? Tahamci Gazelle. Power or Prayer.? A mmi-ter, whose : name it is not necessary now to give, had a son who was quite a rouge, and withal something of a wag. One day the hoy had been guilty of some naif demeanor for which the father called him to account, when the following dialogue took place : John, you have done wrong, and 5 must punish vou.' 'Very well, sir just as you say.' [ I 'Then take of!" your coat.' [ I 'Certainly, sir.' 'Now, take off your vest.' ' 'Just as you please, sir.' 'Now, mv son, it is my duty to flog y ou. 'Yes, sir; father, would it wot be best , I first to engage in prayer V This was too much lor the minister; ' the waggery of the son completely over' | came him, so without either prayer or 1 flogging he dismissed the boy, while be turned away to relieve his risibles. A young fop who has just begun to shave for a beard, stepped into a barber shop, ant', after a grand swagger desired to be shaved. % The barber went through the usual 1 movements, and the sprig jumped up with a flourish, exclaiming: 'Mv foiu fellow, what is your charge f' I *< Mi, no charge.' replied the barber. * 'No chaise! How's that ?' ? 'Why, I'm always thankful that I can 1 pet a soft piece of calf's skin to sharpen my razor on.' f A would he erudite yojnp man, wishing to ask a young lady if he might speak to her a few moments, * wanted i?> know if he could roll llie wheel ol conversation around the axle tree of her understanding t for a moment.' The poor girl" fainted. A Mr. l'ea has been indicted for whipf ping his wife and children. No doubt I lie thinks it a hard case that a man can't he allowed to thrash his own l'eav