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|7 the Can raster f eager. *2 PER ANNUM IN ADVANCE | * >amilg aaa political iieiuauapet?fituaieii tn ttje ilrts, ideates, titrraliirr, fhrntiau, itflricnltnre, Maternal ^mpranriuruts, >'nreign anil JDomestir jBems, nub tjjt JHnrkets. ~~ Volume ix. Lancaster c. h., south Carolina, Wednesday morning, sept. 19.i860. VT, J>Herteit Miq. Blue Eyes Behind a Veil. 1* Mr. E-:ge was late ill breakfast?that j n hh Dot mii unusual occurrence?and tie was a little disposed to be cross?which was Iikea se nothing new?i>o lie reiiied behind tits newspaper and ifei'juced liia 1.cgg and itw.st without vouchsafing any #*? <? iiihiivihI inonosvlaMe* to the ^CMiv run.uks of 'lie fresh,looking litl'e "i'|\ 0|i|HiHite. to nit ; Mr*. Edge Hut h t ot gitoering n getlier uer tor-e* tor h ?i?ml final onslaught, no I when at Iiei j_th Mr. Edge had got rlown to the la" paingraph Mini laid aside the resiling si e>", it came. 'Deal, did'nt \on say jou were going to <vrvm ute a Itu>i<Jred dollars l<>r m> fur* to o H \ ?' 'WiiMl furs V (Kather shortly it wm spoken ) . ' 'I'liuMi new sables, dear; my old iff iin ;im* ge ling >It?n ki(i?rI\ shabby, Htm I re*I l\ lli'iik ' *Oli, pshaw ! what's the use of being so extra* gaut i 1 haven't ?uy money I just no * to lav out in useless lollies I lie oki furs am good riiniigli for a sensible woman to tts'it,' Mrs. Edge? good, meek little soul that alie whs ? relapsed into ot eilient silence; site only sighed h soft, inward sigh ; ami jmsciitlv began on a new tr.ick I 'Henry. will \ou g<> with me to aunt's to i t' 'U in'i von no alone ?' "Alone ! How would it look ?' Mrs. I Kite's temper ? lor she lia.i one, ilioiigh it lidn't VI rv of ell parade Itself?was f'l.ly Aroused. Von are so ueglecifoi ol ili se little attentions you mod to nay no?you never w >lk wuii me, nor pick iu> hii handkerchief, nor in-tiee my d:ess as you nnce did ' 'Wei , u fellow can't l?e forever wailing up it ilie wimen, can lie,'grow V?i Mr. I. Ijje. fc\ l.ll ft lllli I l? Unlit.* iMiaMlnll ! ? \i;>h i\Y iiiir* lust iiivi!)I. when you timer thought to a*k tue if ! wanted anyming, . though you knew pelffollv well iliui I had m I ttHOHcl e. I tlou'l believe j on onro fo much It*i int* a* you used t?i I' Ami Mr*, IiIge looked extremely pret ty, with lear* in licr blue eies ami t* ?jup v?-t on ilte round rn*v lip*. 'IMihiv !* miiiI ilit? husband, peevishly. Now tlou'l be filly, Mann!' 'Ami hi ihe tinop, ie?terdav, you n?*\er .t.tkfi iiie it I *m warm enough, or |iut ii y bawl round me, wli'le Mr. Hro?t? 1>'v*? so off .In nate to In* wife ! ? it whs moo hiving enough, lloniv? it was .indeed : 'I didn't know women *(r? stub fool*/ ?.i il Mr. Kdge sterulv, n* lie drew on hi* overcoat lo . > ? ipe tlie tempest which lie ? i? r tpidlv impending. 'Am I the nort <ot ,i iiotu .it iiu?..e h ninny of myself, do ? . a tig the polite to hi y female creature f? J Mil you ever know u u to he conscious v. tieilier h woiiiMi: had n shnwi on or n * ullow-t niled cost f' Maria cehpsed the blue eye* hehind a ijiocket liniitlkert liief, him] Henry, the anvi age. hanged the door loud enough to ;give Hetty lu the kitchen a nervous start, 'limning ag. in 1 I do believe we are *1 ? second edition of the I Mii.t*,' ft .id Mr. Kdge to himself I In* turning ?s lie eacouced hi* six feet of in iqiiity in tli* south wcm corner of v cur at | the city hall '(.to ahead, conductor, can't yon i What are \ oil nailing for f you are fte'ie loll, and it's dark alica<l\?' 'in one nntiiiie, *ir,' said the conductor, aft tie helped a Utile woman wnli a 1>.?h ket on hoard. 'Now nir, move up a inl if you please.* Mr. Kdge ?Ai exceedingly comfortable didn't nanl to move up, l>ul lite light ? ol tl.e lamp jtiftl lighted, falling lull on the pearly forehead and shining golden liatr of the new coiner, he altered hi* id>nd and did iimie up. Wna love y ere?,' quoth he mentally. n? lie bestowuu a single acknowledging mile. li-al violel blue! the very color I ad mire most. lite** me ! what business haft an old married mau like me thinking at out eye* f What would Maria ft ay. thai jeahiua little minx f ( here, she's drawn a confounded veil over ber face, and the light i*> a* dun a* a tallow dip ! J>111 tho*e were pretty eyes !' The fair possessor of the blue eyesshtv .ered slight.y and drew her mantilla closer nrouud h?r shoulders 'Are you cold, Misn ! I'ray honor me by wearing my shswl. 1 don't need it .1 all, myself.' She did not refuse?she murmured some faint apology for troubling btm, but u was r.ol a refusal. 'No trouble?not a bill' said lie with alacrity, arranging it on the taper shout der ; and then, as the young lady hand ed her fare to the conductor, he said to himself, 'what a slender, lovelv little jtand ! If there's anything 1 admire in a woman it's a pretty hat d 1 Wornler I _. LJ.J ,.f . ........I. at..'. i t It WIJJ1! milt! VI ? MivubH a a? mun u? delightful if it corresponds with Iter hair and eyes. Plague take tb?t rt\ r Hut 'plague,' whoever that mystical power may be, did not take possession ol the provoking veil, so Mr. Edge's curiosity a I-on l the mouth ol the blue eyed damsel remained ur.gratifled. . 'Have you room enough, Miss ? I feai you are crowded. Pray sit a little closet to me.' 'Thank you, sir,' was the toft replv, ,coming from behind the veil, as Mr. JMg, rapturously thought, Mike an angel from tli* gJoooa of n dark okrud.' And hit I heart gave h loud thump as the pretty | k'roiu shoulder touched did own shaggy over Sketches j coat in a nesthtig loft of way. I 'Llevidedly this in getting rnther romam , ! tic,* thought t e ; Htttl then wito audible loM j whisper, 'What Mould Maria way !' H drivu The rest of thai long, dark, rainy ri<|f H Km" 11 I wan de ici- 'in w.th that ahouhier against 1,1 1,000 his own. How ysllantly he jumped up M,i' ! to puil the strap for her?bv some lavor * oc'JU"> 1 ita Ireak of uatuie it happened to he the K**ini,,>' v%" very aireet where he intended to slop? "ja'cl ing And under all circumstances we can hard j a '"ul r j ly hiame hi to. whfw :|;0VMr Stopped sud OUf ^ 1 j denly and >ne caught instinctiVelv at hi* *1 , hand I ir support, for the squeeze lie gave w< '* I1U j her plump, M,o?, pHiiit. " Any man n. ?'?rched n In* senses would unts done die same it *'.x u'vh" i w?j hiicIi aii inviting little lily ! : vx 111?11? 11 ) Out into ilie rxin and darkness onr two ^'"'"ty. uiif? sailed, scarcely more than ahle ,,h(' "* 11 ' ! to steer iheir coiiise hv the glimmering 'ei1 'l>r reflection rf the a'reel lamps on the w,lh aoiue ' streaming pavements. i ^ o'clock 'Allow me to tarry tour basket. Miss, halting ?i as h.ng an our paths "lay in the same ili. ' ^ c' "l"| red ion, said Mr R<lge courteously, reliev rt,ly by t| 'i1 if her of tier burden a* he spoke 'And j "joined to ? and?mat i>e you'd find less difficulty I0"'1'1''' ?'i in walking if you'd just take mv arm !' I a v,-ry Well, wasn't it dehghlfid 1 Mr Kdge 'L'"1 dome forgot the wet streets and the pitchy lu take an darkness?lie thought he was walhing J l,,M 8,,w Cl on roses, t'nly as he approached his ?mta apiei own dour, lie began |o feel a little nervous ' "''"il long and wished 'hat lovely incognito wouldn't kindness l hold on quite so tight. Suppose Maria i '"'f ww should I e Hi the window on the lookout I'ro,,,1: for liini, a* she often ?us, how would she i us ""r interpret niallers. lie couldn't make I r | '''"mhoi believe (Inn lie only wanted to be pol. e j w, r<-" ;,t " to a lair traveller. Besides his sweeping l,,u ,rol:i 1 declarations o! i|iu morning?she would tWinn. be sure to recall them. guard can As tie "lopped at the rigid 'number and ' wa.ke ; ttiriiml ronn.i i<< ln.t il>? klnu u i.l Iu#ti t. march, am ! '*xri'iliil adieu, lie whp astonished io m-p suk, with Iter run lightly up the steps to enu r like : ' "I'nimit wj?p. (minions Apollo ! I>o iiow hurst hours lust I in?o a chilly perspiration al the id.-a <1 | l?ht?iei^*1 i? j Maria's horror. constant 'I ihink you've made a mistake, Mi.**. I ? ?ck. \V , stamn ere.l hp, 'this can't ?.e your house !' ! Hf:< r Mm it win too Ihmi?slo- w is already ?'n j in the brilliantly lighted IimII, hii?| tinning which the round threw oil her dripping habiliment* , '' and made liiin a low courtesy. ^ e left Very much obliged to jou for your j a politeness, sir.' I with a p "VN hy, it's my wife,'gasped Edge. j '"wed to ( 'And happy to see that yon liavn't lor *'"ch w, j gotten r?H your gallantry towards the la entail tu\ 1 Jio,' pursued the merciless little puss, her - ^ haitaliui blue eyes (limy were pretty.) nil in a I Hbove w hi i dance with snpprci** >i rogtterv. ! "f Ocurgin | Edge looked front ceiling to fi->or, in uimlo a pi | vain search / >r a loop-hole of r-treat ; > rivet i ; but tne search waa unavailing. J u'" *crc 'Uall,'said It?, in the most sheepish of ! 'v ed ones, 'it's the first time I ever was po 1 i-ase, but lite to a woman in the car*, and hang me j rt "UHtc't ^ if it shant be the last.' ! whiskey. 'You see, dear.' said the ecstatic little j After in j i nly, 'I was some what Mi t d ?didn't the public 1 expect to be delayed so long, Hid hndtA ' Hn<' |"ckin any idea that i should im-ei with so milch r/"W<r, v?i niteniioii in the cars, and from my own respective ' Inn hand, loo ! Goodness gracious, how ! a'ait. \\ I Aunt Priscdla will enjoy the joke!' a'"' sncaii 'II you tell thai old harpy,' said Edge, j *,y<,dlel ai 1 in accents of desperation, 'I never shall | 0,,rt 'rout | hear the lust of it.* ' H"me cor ! A try probably,'said Maria, provoking ; ll'eir fiici ! ly. old friend 'Now luol heie, darling, sai-l Mr E-tge, v,e(' ihetn coaxing.y, 'iou won't say anything will t>ilai you I A fellow doii'l wmiii it) he laugh j blew m>iiI| | ed m: Iiy nil ilie world. I sat. Maria you #? ' ; shall lime the prettiest fur* in New York walked in il you'll only keep tjuiet?you shall, on v,'ry neiirl I in v honor.' i on din v, I 1 he terms were satisfactory, hh.1 Ma i *-'amp fire, j ria cm pit uinted?who wouldn't I Ami j covering I I tl.nt i? the way she got those splendid j Friday 1111* thmi filletl the heMriM of her female : this morn I Iriend* with envy ; Mini perhaps it ?v.?s j menced 01 j wiiMt made Mr. Ivlge uticli m scrupn'ou", made j courteous husband ever Mfter. ' M"d reach - ? I The morn Scoi.dino.? A li'Me girl, not six voirs H "I th? r< of age, screamed out to Iter brother, who ' pavement was playing in the mud. 'Bub, you good j today, cm i fornoihiug little scamp, come right in to at lh 1 the house ilim minute, or I'll bent voii ti t treated or | the skin comes t ff.' ' whiskey, 'Why, Angtoline, Angellne, ilear, what ' '""t for do you in can I wheic tlio you learn such 1 blessing* i talk V exclaimed the mortified mother, Jefferson, who stood talking with a frietia many i Angeline'* childish reply was a good from the < j Commentary upon this manner of spt ak f?oin ihos I ing ofcliildfu :? ! together | i '\\ hv, mother, you see we Hre playing climate ol i and he's my little boy, and I am scold to myself , ing hull just as you did me this morning; hs?a?l, Mini I that's all.' cliOose t | iter tone and manner corresponded, as place. I the* usually do Fretting and scolding Saturn I mum necessarily havs. a different dialect ' niarcli to | fr?>m opposite*. The influence up beautiful I on h daughter km unmistakable. Yet where tlx I the mother never supposed that 'ike w s camped I I producing like in the child, until she *m ' Ml*y (l> il litua keenlv rebuked.?floppy Hume < ' ca - -mm am m day in in Somk gentlemen of a Bible association i inn-kept, calling upon an old woman to see if she a true mi had a Bible, were severely reproved with Sabbath the spirited reply, 'Do you think gentle to forget men, that i am a heat hen, that y u so 1 turni should ask m^sucli a question ?' I hen, cration, h addressing a little girl, she said, 'Kun and heauiiful fetch the liihle out of my drawer, that I night I | may show it to the gentlemen.' The g?n | llenien declined giving her the trouble, hack if I i hut she insisted on giving them ocular to make ' I demonstration. Accordingly, the Bible a storm, ' | was brought, nicelv covered, and, on We lei opening il, the old woman exclaimed, January, ( "Willi, flow gma i nin jn u n?i"- nmin . ; mt ii.^f it i, Iter* ore my pecurle-*, thm I hnv? l?e?n b "it five t , looking for thrt* ymrt and didn't 1 rnlled N< i i kwif ?b*re U> find VoiP of tlie the H. 0., Sou of Temperance Were halted in about a mile ?.f . of the Palmetto Regiment mid drilled l>v Col. Dtckensi dense an uuderurow ill as I all HY A. M KM IIKit. , r . saw. in performing our evoni mi of (Jreetiville (in, is a new ,,Hi| ,() over bll8|ieB, , ag hula place with some trade, ^minpH. Soiiio had their caps ai any stores, and between 800, ?s)ck? ,?rn ,lff bv (|,e i,rH,u.|ie.s o inhabitants. We eat and l)i,kon~oti's excuse for .1 rambled over town till about lllK|,r Sik|i unfavorable ctrcu ii tiie afternoon, when (lie as | W|)^ that he wished to keep is sounded, ai d ail put under j unlil wo ,??k our M.al8 lI; lk orders. Y\ e proceeded only ; vt i;^ ?ivill. ,|io oiders. he s onines out of ova n, and pitched u^u llig> |rul|l of U8< ui,h or toe night. i ne( c.(p |,nj;et| tightly over his li unes'.irt>, the 6th of January, H p blanket wrapped about our tents about sunrise ; we We reached the Uaihoad hIio ib'hiL eigl.to-n lin es lliat day j r|(?.|( HIld ,ook ,|l<5 C|ir8 ,,,r Mo,, Lk, r M , wli..|? brought We traveled in open fro.^ln t tunes oi VNesi P,??, in I rottp |(,||v a rH,|ul^ Ml ,he side, ami se I became very htl.gn to day, ^ roUl!h plank. It was decided ah- not m.i custom t,? hai- , ,|(e col,|osU ,|HXS ] ,.ver expertet mer, I pushed ahead uglier ; ,|ie wjn(1 ? rftt>l llelil.H1 two or thee others and .bout j fl(Mir llfl(J lr,7, we look the responsibility | ^ ^ ,(S ( .bout orders. ?,i,. i.i i i >- > oped nl the house ol a widow I f'-' "" "u ,"""u, 1 111 ,n' ,? name oi llowell, and as she ' \>U] , '"r , " lUu \ d"? be well 10 do in ,lm worlu, we ' . 'M' 1 ? *: r?^c"r; short. iiuif, ami h most xoob ?.,,ii. _ ' ' , . iVwait She Hi li.s, refused c.t|H ,,u ' m,e n,lcr ! s' > lm> l;,,v hk<! ?t ' v\'e passed RII1M? to nit-eiiied lo lake, the sum u| lo Wl((|e Hwfu|jy ^ l*' ren'J,1J' 1 | readied Moi.t'gomerv 3 0'cl0 lememher Mrs. Iloweii for l.cr t , , , ' i , , .. .. I aliernoo, . having made ..j;.,.,,.. oward* us lliai day \\ ? told ; (|ll!^t | )|e cntzeiis ?>f M, .' ,uld call as wu Came buck, ftid , ?? ,5 ? of >e,l to have a better dinner ho | |((>.. j,, dinner" as we l.ad renin,. lie advance, of our L , |i(>| ,r(l||i rnm ,r H|ul had j.iomm me bouse, white wo IM|).(1 t|,e ci,v nape, iii.uei bui ilw goon lad\ shut h | c.,.n ?? tlte movo s'ii.cv ? I. >r. ami Cone, ., ed us lion, be j mor,d,ltr> Hm| ?,.1lh,.r reVf \V? liuiried oH before tho roar i n? (|;)V jf wouKj ^ no up, and lb,is wom scol free ,M ,n ,,1<U wo wo.,M ,1 ,la> on rathe, a forced | ,|KVe fv|,l|fe ?mel| fJ ,((H d earned my pun and knap ,hjll pu?and the nil more than rdm.tri bill',ie. , i i . i 3 .1 pales and disbes to llie In tun si u to the dinner, and tl.e ' non!l My fcul W? re Considerably I TO UK CONTINfKli.l nd also nn si.on.tiers Ironi tbe dialing ol toy gun and knap . , , , , , ** , ' , I' urrcMioiidciice ol ,lio New , ink e i>, died our tents aliotii dark, a hasty su|,| er, wo slept with 1 The Abolition Horrors in ' g, and eiijoved ,t nigli '? tepo.se Svs A>roMo, Texas, Au-us pampered sons of wcanf, who promised you in tuv last, that ,f eds ol tlow n have ro ver kno.sn fur; !.< r - lioubl <cur al "'the >ea llie camp i ext morning re in T?-Xas, I wool ! nrinedialel> ?: iud in h g , spiriia, buoyed up | cale the same lo you. Sine- i romibe thai. v\e would h*- ai | was wrillen. the excitement n slop and d,i,e at \N , si IVi.i.i il??-r- iii ;, * exislitij; in Kastern an i,s 11 ini es ahead. 1 Ina ,s a : em Texas has '^one <>n iticrein .v u Im<iIt on both s.des ol ibe j spread liself -dl mi r tbo State, icltie li ver, roinu distauee even <la\ lias deve'oped Koine n ere the river divide? the Stale j villainy on the par, td llie ab, i lioll, that ol Alabama. We j while iho excitement lias been relty l>r<r?k tnnrch, iinu ci..rsc<i 1 up i a ft ver lu-nt. 1. l:n- in-t ill..ill twelve o'clock. Severn ! t-s topmost point. 1 cannot ? loiluiiale enough to get dinner j Iiow a can grow any higher ndoipli 11..use, kepi by Mr* | so ago, a minor r.-ached our city it was very scanty, and rntl.er I twaiithid aial w eallliy little lowi jHtne, was i.e. I down wnh liad derson, in Hush count*, had bee j to lite ground. It: spite of tin itnhling oter towr, looking it idown nj Ihilla# and several oth buildings, and other curiosities, some time ago, iiol.odv was it ig up chickens and ot.'.urs t'ff/ believe the rumor, lor llendi lespi.n.led to the Call ot cur I r*e er I een" hotliered by about uflicera, arid prepared for the l .N.'jie had ever been ditven oi 0 marched about four ini'cs, place, hi d we believer.! that ii iped in Chambers County. Ala J the world I.Hii any malice again id Karle, two of my cuupaii- izens. Wo could t.<?l ilii'ik tl Greenville, belonging to the I exoled villains of so deep d\e npany, (G) got permission of | out pn vo ation, to apply the (oi its to slop over night with an | incendiary to so quiet and inti who .iverl near by. And i en little town. Hut tin* event ha? their comfortable berth, for it ll.it the villainv of Nor hern ah in\ the coldest night thai ever ) lias no bounds. We received, t Ii of the North l'ole. I was on | lug, mails direct from the rloon J built two large fires and j and thn news is the effect th y post between llieiti, and had little town of ah"Ut 2500 peot y fiozcn at that. \\ l.ile not three business houses have l e got snatches of sleep l?v a ] from the devouring el.-merit, on the frozen ground, with no j nearly the whole town h is beet u: my travelling cloak. ! ed, and what was but a few , Jan fit/i ? S;ruck our tents ! one of die most fl xirailing towi mg beh.re sun r:se, atul com [ is now a crumbled ruin, simd iir inarch on the frozen ground. ' the ground. The town was set 1 a march to day of 18 miles, I several places, ali at once, helwc td camp hi quite an ear v hour. ! am! dark, w hile the people we mg was clear cold and frosty, enjoying their evening meal. 'J uad frozen as h ird as a s-one a sttll breezu on at the time?e We pasned two small towns was parched bv the late protr 'led Caii*scta ai d M 'Ui.t .feller withering rlrotiglit ? and the (la e latter of \>lucli, the citizens 1 kled on beyond the power of m i to h barrel ol North Carolina I rest them. Scarcelt ant tiling t which wo thought very line, at Families that were but a few so|d>er* We left with mam I he ore in affluent cirenmstar mi the hospital ci izens of Mount rendered penniless and miser a 1 We did not, however, receive of ibe white abolition scoundrel iClw of kindness and g?n<*io-M\ cited the negroes to and asst*te< Citizens of Alabama as we did ' tliis horrible work, were f< e of Georgia. In fact 1 was ai I caught and imm diatelv strni .rleased with the people, soil and ' tveen heaven and earth. The i the latter Slate And 1 thought ! deserved their fate. 'Tis a p if Santa A film did not get in v [ those at the North who are ma I I lived to get home I might out of these miserable devils hat State for my final resting I meet with the same fate Sev#were taken tip, and on examins Jay Jan Oth.? Made- a forced quantities of stn ehnine were day of 21 nules, and reached a their possession, which they camp ground in a pine hwircn, been given to them by white m j Georgia Volunteeis had en ' son the public wells, and on th lie previous J .ne, while on their of a certain day to charge he ie Ibo Granoe. We remained it the breakfast of the people ! mp over Sunday, and spent the gfos were then to fall upon I ?shmg our ch> lies, cleaning ??ur with knife and pistol, and be i Hud shooting at a mark, hi* the work by abolitionists. 'I ixim which Kay* "there is no i tale they tell It seems hard ii> Camp." I had not been able that there are such Innds in t all my eatly teach up* so q uk, but I assure you thai tliey are Si 1 aside from the general dese 1 in Texas just now. I have o< uid read a few chapters in a ; met them mvself while iravelin gilt llible presented me the ' the State, and have heard then left home, by my friend Mrs. ' their abolitionism, and wliich I vowed to bring We received intelligence als< lived, but this e?>w I was unable ning of the binning of two r good, for I afterwards lost it in towns in Kastern Texas?B? on the cost of Vera'Cruz I >angerficbl. We havens y ft camp on nionday, the lltli of no particulars of the hnrning before daylight, and marched, son is situated in the heart of inost cold and cutting wind, a cotton producing country, wl miles to a little town or depot, are exceedingly numerous, ytasulga, which is the terminus j Abolitionists are being bun Montgomery Rail Road. We the State. I suppose dnrin % this placo thirty days not less tlian twenty hare upon the cir< >n, in us been strung up, and every in nil brings us , cliurcb : and nost ever accounts ot fresh hangings. The people they cannot Minna, we are exasperated beyond all bounds, and tbere are nb ogs and I fear some innocent persons have sutler. ' cannot be ra in! b?vor< ed and will jet sutler. If such is or should | The argumor f tree- ? be I lie case, let the blame fall on the bill became a rilling us shoulders ot the abolitionists of the North _______ instances who are producing this work. It is not us warm, ; to bu expected iliat people in "lie midst ' f o cars.? I ot a servile insurrection, with their prop d upon a erlv burning down on their beads, and a striped ibeir wells being filled with poison, should 1 Future lead, and always act with judgment. They have j Ins h< dv. g<'t provocation enough to make them j ut 10 o* I act a little crazilv. At least *3,000,000 1,,fa *el1 11 tgotnery. < of their property have already Leen lie } pondenl of I irs, with stroied by these doubly infernal abolition writes as toll ats made fiends, and still the work goes on. Such | jr,stant : lv ?>ne of a state of tilings rover existed in any ' . , = . . e 3 lhecensu! iced, and country before. 1 lie people of one sec ^ earliest i ne. The lion earning on war, and war in its most ytHles an(j ?j'( , and we \ infernal aspect, against the people of an . _ i i , a r C61V6(l WRB oiuforta other section I truly, we Americans are > . r N p lieve if it a "bund ot brothers !" Texas is no place ? ,H ? e . . ! . xt i , I. been received It cloak lor Northern-people just now, especially . . . I should | lor itinerant pedlars, and so torlh. Such j 18 conJ*c u u so be ' a class hud belter keep away. Their , H Por,,nn loiild not ! necks would he in great clanger of break- ! P1*"800 wl 1 .? . i .i i r j. ' lh? returns o >1 otl the tug. h is in the character of pedlars or i , , . , , , | i. * i border south* preachers that these abolitionists have r . i ,.i . i .i ?f interest to wns and mostly been traveling through lexas?I. rk, and They skulk around the plantations it j ^ emiera'uor ck iii the l '?iizi>t. and ?ell the neuros alioul 'freedom' ,? ' .. . , < .! ? . the slaves in e t>! ti! v ! and the great army of Mbolilionists who . J .f* , . mg Mates, w merv sa | are ready to join them so soon a* they j *? . in?m hut make ? stand for themselves. These '' i ' 1 : , , . ,1 employment en led 1 tentnres on the aroe plantations, where r n .I ' ; . , I . , . elsewhere. I l'? , ?U they seldom speak a word to the whites, io|U,lwMl fof is*. **-v r*?rt<ln\ believe nnvtlnng thai a white 1 rp. o'clock I. | mav tell them. Without beir.g incited I r.? . . I ... r tin .* . . 1 . . i BIBMSSinpl, iii I mi nor e,i (,v w hite people, such an idea as an , ' v.. . ,,,11 in - . 1 i . . ! of that state (tin in ti- j irection wouid never enter their . . ?nrB iiifinitoIy hem. | |,e\ are perfectly contented and si heel to I happy ???mt MH 1 yon before, white ?" " 6 '' 1 rattle ol , men can ,|;<. Hum? especially those on hreM er<^"f >g ol can | ti'" large |> ,,|ftl;0,is?believe anything ' they choose to |( ' b the States The excitement ?rowi 0|ll of tl,ese ^urae requiii j matters has killed conaerVA,ite fee| ?? ?? 8tate Herald ] j tug m lexas Vnu m..>|)OW no|#doM four Mi llions < every lexan a* a disiinn. . 'i i.pv do : l'r0,ie"1 nun,U Texas. j noJ c.|rfc ^oll Hu ,|(, ^ jjorl|, _ ' ,s exPect it, 'JO ?I v believe that this stale of ':n?s wj|| j somo wbo any thing , continue so long as the Union^i . o' slaves, chie it <d war' tiierefore the great majority of us (f< ton States, wi mm muni - 0H,? how soon the crisis comes. W? o the federal col l.at letter ileve it is bound to come, and it had as ulsves aro incl lentinin d : w,.i| j(l ?<> ixiw as any other time. We ^dative popti it North j ,j,.nt care the toss of a copper whom you .j.hecuine ei sing, and pject President If you elect Douglas or . (1^-esenl Almost 1 Hreck nr'.dge, or Hell, tliis hollow Union ^ WHa*,^1*sl ew >ct "I will continue a few years longer; and if rence bv ^,4' ii ontsts, vo? pi, o (hat niiserabio old rail splitting (hut the Son wrought abolitionist, Al?e Lmcoln, you only hasten ru|p n\ reached , by a few years, ilit- event which is hound House ?j" |b> asi'y see to transpire. 1 herefore let every North C0n0? Stales A day or J ,.rn idhii do as hu chooses. If he is a bahle result, that the , pluck llepulilican, and at the same time 1 i of Hen j jn fHvor of the Union, let Itiin not fear to Tomaiokh n burned 1 Vote fir Lincoln, for disunion is bound to f0uowjn? fro i burning j come upon us at no distant dav, and . ler places ' ,|,ere is no use of prolonging the misera 1 i'? b * id need to Hfp,r History does not fitrnisli an ^ot being rson bad examp'a of a countrv containing two bit- l',e tfcr"'? iimists. ? j ( r v lio-ti e sections which long remained j the use ^ ,t ,.f it... I " > j iii slum quo. I pruning knil< lobnds in _ . T ? r I some atientii ht j's cil ! Old Maids I of ve li.it there , . , main be sru a?, will. A" d.us discourses ot ^ Un^ reli of llie I ''?is estimable class of females. Tlieru is perchance bt re.s.ing a ! trull, and beauty ail over the paragraph : their fruits, ii i proved ,.j j|MVe n0 sympathy with that rude, *u'18* '""J le 0 ttionists nnleeiii.g, tiiiil indelicate phrase, old maid, 1 P*1^1 ? 161 ii> n.oiu which is bandied about in the mouths of mong ot H"1 i n.de, unfeeling, and indelicate persons. | K" ^ It is true that a selfish nature, cut off ,eed ^ *,C ' '' cn,v | from all duties ami ties, and sinking back Cow8> " 1 e *Rve<l | into the solitary IT*, of a Selfish heart, be ' |.?,I H1,?1 1,1 re'ly | nilnl.9 ,noHl unlovely and useless. Itut ; unng 1 > tsiroy #jm|| ihe few cloud the true nobleness of j 8ar' *"1* * ,!nv", ! the many ? Ilow many elder sisters, it to t,rW lhfc,r < am t.\?B |,e unblessed with outward conr.eli- i ^ ting rom |leK,( |,?Nt, entered into a brother's or a j "'J R.""! on ire in (il?ier,I, family, ami accepted ali its cares . an ?on' 1 .< n sunset |||(t <|uty of their lile, and, twining ! lt! ^IV,B. H r? (jutet \ |lllll(|a W|ili the mother, given to each ? "ll j. . i child, as ,t were, two souls of love, like ?"s conditio. \er\t i ng ^ ^ ( wings of <?od, to help it fly up with state, rik m artei am , from weakness and ignorance to man | roZ4>B? ,nt's rrHC | hood and strength ! How many have h,H changed ail to ar- | c|,et.,fu11^ given no their own whole lib- i * ,e^ 4 was saved. , i .. ? ' c*. 'i . ijJtj , ImiM no nest, sought no companion, nut | . moment* .? . i .1 i- i though 1 n I sang in the tree, end near the younglings r e?s, were , .. . . . . -i . i? i ' much tmprt , of another* nest, patient in toil, walclifiil i ? tile. I ?\r. ill- i t i : ... lhese are , | and laborious in sickness, frtitr*1 amidst , , la who in I , , . . i . i i. and 1 trust , , : poverty, 11c11 in nothing out good works, i . I lliem in I , . - , . /* , it*, will teat the . and in tnese abundant in wealth ; W hen I , >r iiiia11 \ ro|| js reH(| M|iove, nod thev are nam ^ 6 ' '{J "p >e . e j in s,.|f aacrifice, in gentleness rom ' ?'n' *roundreU . . , , . .r' , , ' in n.dience, m love, and in the onlv tn , iir,u, Trt iimv that ' , , ? now to , umnh of diam'ereated mercv, they who <.nrr|Mlflftn(ifi king tools | 1 . , i L-i ii .i . .1 _ | correspond? , are unmarried and childless, that they | i/-.?/,v cou il not I i . i <i .it | tieraia gm might more heroically aerve Hie house t ? ,i, ral negros j , f. e . . \ ,, t i keepn g th holds of others, and become mothers of . *i ition large . . , , '. , ., . , , winter .? i , .r < Inhlien not then own, shall stand high , 4ilU,_ foiind in I . i . i . ? ? in , it does said bad | HP<I bn?1"- dried?in a ion to |t<i| ' sun, so that e morning Coui.d not iiavkthk Gohpki. for tiik i quiied. I a v i 1 v w*tli Fox ics?That was a novel bill not so had as it costs f< The ne an argument which the mountain mem good. An] ilia whites bei urged in the Kentucky Legislature : with a stov< a?aisie(i in A fe.w years ago a hill proposing a pre of cigbr or i itih i* me iiiiuiji on iox scaip* wast under discussion. c nveintmci to believe I' bad been somewhat roughly handled six or eighl lie world, in debate by members from the more pop they must numerous uUma regions, where foxes were scarce, inchea from reasionally and Mr. L , from one of the moun potatoes, a ^ through tain counties, rose to replv. I give on'y the pomtoe ri discourse his prerotation : 'And are we. Mr. Speak deal said al er?we of the mountain regions?not ( ail fudge. :> tliia mor- only to witness the annual destruction of , he kept we uher small our crops, hut actually to be deprived by , der to kee llevue and these varmints of tliA consolations of re must he at et received ligion ?' This woke the House up, and The mer:u Hender set it agape for an explanation. He con j if it does, t a very rich (inued : "You know, Mr Speaker, that : it also mm iere negros we live in a rough country ; that your ' will grow. fancy churches?your Presbyterians and ! t<*?a except g all over Episcopalians?never send preachers a cold. A t 0 the last mong us. We depend for the gospel and every i f ? u m a u: k 3 2. :uit riders of the Methodist %, I sir, everybody knows that ^tUlUtttl UXPflulUfl be induced to travel where 5 O# chickens, and that chickens ? = ised where foxes abound l'? 0- Ye of Little Faithit was unanswerable, and the Matt, viii: 26. 'MMmi Saviour and his disciples are crossing the Sea of Galliiee. lie is asleep iu llttl^rt I the stern of the boat. A sudden and vio [111 lillul ill* lent stortu bursts upon them. The waves * cover the boat. The disciples, though ~ ~ ~~ "Z ~~ fishermen, and accustomed to battle with of the Cotton Growing i|)e fury 0f the elements, are alarmed.? htates. They awake Jesus, crying, 'd^ord, save : nfurmed Washington corres- we perish." lie rises to quell the temibe Baltimore Sun, "Ion"' pest : but first rebukes those who had ows in his letter of the lOih PrHye<' lo M10, (|oes ,'?t ^ I ye unbelieving : for if they had been ut| ter skepticta they would not have prnyed t returns come in slowly, and at H||> There was faith in their appeal, returns were from distant | but it WHS feeble : and for its feebleness erritortes. The first report 1 they were rebuked. Let ub look then at from the United States mar- I the nature of their faith, iraska. Returns have also 1' ? ? - I i ney nad seen Christ working miracles from the martial of Florida. | a|| jHyt H,s touch, his voice, had exred thai Maryland has lout > pel led diseases and devils, They believed her slave population, in com- no ,ioubt, that il he should arise and ex the enumeration of I860.? j t,r| j(js niiraculous power, he could deliver f the slave population of the them from the wraih of Ike tempest.? ern States will he a subject J y\?(| thuk they showed very great confithe politician and statesman. ! <ioru.e in the Saviour, lie bad wrought V.y appear that the amount ; no miracle hitherto on the water, lie i has tended to concentrate | had exercised no control over winds or the cotton and sugar grow waves. It was a grand and nokU faith hich, by their fertility and then, wliich led those disciples to go to n give them more profitable i t|,at weary teacher in the stern of the than can be found for them j boat, and ask him to aave them. P?rPliere is not room in the j |,aps not another being at the time, on the extensien of cotton ctil ; ,,Hrl|lf would have trusted as the disciple* overnor of the Stale of Mis^ ^j.,1?would have waked up the sleeping i message to the Legislative ' Saviour, expecting to be delivered from a year or two ago, siaied j fUrv ()f the night tempest, claimed lands in that Slate | there was alloy of sense in this le capable of producing a , They must see before they could ity ot cotton than the whole j fui|y believe. Christ awake, with his eye e entire cotton product of i Upon the danger; Christ speaking to or at this time. It would of j laying his hand upon the ciested billows, 0 for this increase of product j would have inspired them with hope.? the employment, of three or j ]jut (Christ sleeping in their midst, appa f slaves, ii, addition to iho j leutlv unconscious, env* them ?? O " ?' fori In lite facts tlial they had embark ed that within the life lime C(] ;,v his special request, and that he are now living, the number WHS'wjt|, them?he the Son of God? fly concentrated in the cot having all knowledge and all power, and II be sixty millions. Under <jeH| the Father on high who never iistilution three fifths of the slumbers or sleeps, they found no comfort, tided in the federal repre ,\nd vet these are the facts which should ilation. 1 bus those States have encouraged thein. That sleeper milled to a number which was their lhvine Master. He kuew all forty millions of free whites wolI|j occur during the night, when rn Slates. he commanded them to embark. He -ipated as a possible occur j controlled the elements as truly wbilo be iljinet" of the constitution, slumbered as when he arose and rebuked itain1,1'1- lliro?t:h the threepresent?.asce,u','l?c^ ,'n '!,e An absolute and perfect faith is like isecede, lif.8' "I1. , un^8R 1 ,e that of Jesus himself who slept during *i e t e pro 8torm. lie had toiled all day for the ? M glory ol God. He had exhausted the ah kooD kor Oc ^strength of his human body in labois of m the Ohio F'arrii.. . love, and lie bad a right to seek repose committing himself to the sleepless care a farmer, in the true set J of his Heavenly father. He knew that though somewhat given to > /*? w?? beloved Son, and that ,e hoe, the spade, and the | thcm,ld no1 be forgotten or neglected, 9 I am led to notice with rCHV<k,,e '*>' h1 >nblo.gliton a fratl boat in the various processes and iween Tin\be 1 he contrast be gelation Though my do of the decf|d >'ke sleep and the terror all, and hence my observe R?d better hit s,'OW8 bow uch l,uer in point ol space, they may Every Christitf. *^n9 , .,e,rf, ? llfine tils !"?? n<V?l?ralo or..I f ----- " ? ?-..-w, nuu jesus on me aea. CJ l"e iaui? 01 I" not marked by great re- gotten Son, but he is8 not l^e 0D'y l?ead to induce thought on the 'true vine' of which fhel'LrhIu^ t',Rt rs. band man. While he tries'" 18 ^US' her things that have assumed honor tiod lie will be guide<ferve an^ rins of facts, one is that as ,Jed as Jesus was. 11 is doubts aifi_l,ar ick, and especially for milk are an impeachment of the gra'?r8 s no vegetable superior to the promises in his tiehalf. They grieve tL e evidence of this was inaui* hearts on high which love liiui ; liiey as* r the past fall. Having in lonislied the ministering spirits which i surplus of these, 1 resolved come to protect an J serve him. 'Little ?ffioiency as feed, and accord faith' is better than no faith at all, but it liein to inv cow, (tiie only subjects us to a great deal of needless rial i had to feed tbein to,) trouble and fear. We should seek earbat they not only caused her nestlv to have the dross of sense purged od supply, but a rich quality away?to be able to believe because God hey were fed in all their vari- has spoken ; or because we know that ns, froin the green to the ripe God, as a reconciled father, is omnipresiany of them after having i eut and omnipotent, ard not because we The results did not seam to Bt.e evidences ol His interposition in our by the condition in which behalf. d. Not having the proper 'Phis faith will not lead to sluggish inirefore, I did not cook them, activity. Christ toiled when there was elieve their value would be work to do. He trusted only, without rved thereby. toiling when human power and skill were plain and simple statements, insufficient. Our unbelief lead us to neg I.? ..t .W_ P um lomicix UI IUC runner lOct Wtiat *6 CHI1 ?TI<I (Might to do, and tO lir value in a practical way struggle and tremble when we ought to :uming season, and let us hear , trust. When we have spsnl tlie day a? Jesus spent his, we may sleep at night ' " , amid the wildest tempests, as the child K*kp Sweet 1 otaroks.? A in j)s molj,er'a arms. And sleeping thus nt ol the Oskaloosa (Iowa) wj|| rjJ ?s for tlie loil, of a true life, is 'lie following method o. There is an intimate connection between e sweet potato through tlie the fiefib of energy and the faith of reuse dry sand and put them Chris'. Herald. not matter how the sand is ' kiln, in a log heap, or in the * , it is dry, that is all that is re- i About H ating.?Hate not. It is not prefer drving in a log heap, worth while. T our life is not long enough Mir time-* Jess and is jusi as to make it pay to cherish ill will cr hard y family that has aliitle room thoughts towarj any one. What if that e in it, may keep a box or two i an had cheated you, or that woman ten husheis without much in has played you false ?^What if this friend i. The hoxes must he raise has forsaken you hi time of need, or that I inches from the floor, and one having won your utmost confidence, not be nearer than four your warmest love, concluded that he the wall. Kill the box with prefers to consider and treat you m a nd then put in sand ; cover stranger ! Let it pass. What difference a with sand. There is a good 1 will it make to you in a few years, when [k>ui Kim-rtneu mrnl, but it is j vou go hence to llie 'undiscovered counI have also known them to try ?' All who ill treat you will be more II in buck wheat chaff In or eorry for it then than you, even in your p potatoes with success, there deepest disappointment and grief, can be. .berinometer kept in the room. A few more smiles, h few more tea,*, ry roust not sink below 40" ; some pleasure, much pain, a little longer he potatoes will chill and rot ; hurrying and worrying through tbe t not rise above 60", or they world, some hasty greetings, and abrupt I never lost any of my pota' farewells and our play will be 'played by letting the room get too out* and the injurer and the injured will hermometer only costs a dollar he led away, and ere long forgotten, Is osn ought to have one.' ! it worth while to bate each other f