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Think ve that I could be happy-that the past could be forgot ? No; a heart's truest affection cannot ever thus be bought What to me the wealth of India, what the worth of je wels rare ? Can a heart give up it's idol i'r the p-Ce Cf dia Monds clea ? For the worth of pearls and opals, coral red, a::d rubies bright? No the true hear:'s sable curtains closi:g round woLd make ad night. And the miid!ilt plumieS of :orrow, waving ever o'er the heart From which c ve: rhig of pleasure, j o y a I a ness did dert, Woud Wemll ee LU 1j wV sp r::g, a; tae gLhn made the: move, II have seen , sad, sad burial, Lere's the grave of a lost love." So from earthly things I'm parting. Why ca:c I to longer Stay I'll be nearer to my daring when from e,rth I am awav. And when met in Heave: as s NN'its, wo so hat' pyas we ? Come, my darling, to the portals, I'll be w atch~n there for t.ee. NEW ya:r, May 1 th. C I-L The Old Acadlemy. The sun has sunk to rest 'neath the western hills, the hum and tread of children's deput ing feet have died away and we are all alone, sister and I, in the old Wake Forest Acaaemyv. It is an old time defaced building, surrounided with noble oaks which bow their heads in solemn majesty to the passing bre-ze. And in the evening's dusky light the village church looms up, rear ing its humble spire toward heaven's blue dome, as if in m1ate adoration to nature's God. Sister is seated by a window watching in tently the golden hued clouds left in radiance by the last reflection of Sols departed glory. Her 'tboughte I surmise are of home and the loved ones there, as ever and anon a smile of pleasure flits over her faice. Now she leans her bead wearily on~ her hand and heaves a *sigh, ah! there is a depth of meaning in a sigh,they conme from the heart. Sweet si.ster, I would that Heaven had willed thee a bright er lot, but if my love and devotion can allevi ate the monotony, or- cheer the dark ptath of your life it shall be yours as long as I exist. 'Tis true that our lots have been thrown in an uncongenial spot, Lut we have fannd friends around th1e hearth:stones of trange:s. ne itt particulatr w hose frien,t; i is va ned 'byme as a priceless pLarl. A.s I gaue into theC silent depths of this grove I wonder where are the manty busy feet whLieh have press'd this sod in dlays of vor,. Some have gone fort h to act their part :n the gie:d drama of life. <>Ithers, alas' rest in ~he quiet city of tonis,sic transa: glaia mnun li; thus does the revolving wheel of time bring chlang:s. A few nw>re tmonths and I will bid adieu to Waketv l'ret and its inmates, ohr other lands an d stra'nge eeenes. I some tim:es t:kfo de . respon;si > tv of present hand. I hae et many hours in this old Acaden : . wre pler:sant, some were sad; but ' en i roam f wil bear with me : te'ler recollections, arnd sweet ascrain:, a Lected4 with this spot. n It the eissc hulls of my alma oae re than twelve months ago, little did Sthe-i think that I would be breatt)n' cut stence in this secluded rpot, but so it was. Eerman andi his vi> follow'ers swept through? our sunny land like a scourging p:t:>!ncc; and our Leloved cnpital waas a doom ed city The holy hour of nigt annsse th trr no scenme of destruction, and when morn~ daw.ed mockingly on then once g:arn Cy our loved, time honored inti:to ahtr n eons mass, a blac na pil ofr s.A ism indee is lv '' cha s. I though! but I found a frien on whn:- brow is-< - the seal of noiiitv, whose everr netac is guidd )y honor ar(d truth, inl wIon I placc implicit conrldence This "r'. tie solace of mv weary hours, a beaon c hlit:ht in miv dark pathway. Then why, ah ! why, my heart this sadness, 'md scenes like these de c ine. Alas, a few more n%ths, and I will roam f-r away, a strangem in a strang land. Then no heart will heat for the abs.ent one, no thought be given to the wanderer. But tine %Vearsapace and I must ce:ie. Yet what eer befalls me, Wake Focet and its associas shall not be forgotten. 'To r e : to re:,*ar , I wm!!:1 -ot 11t , Thecar wh.l!i ch the pat Q er the p:Ce!t can thro2\V Fri al? the gayv* vi4:s t!u i''y may'. nCIV No. 6 In a f rrmer nu:hor rfrcrce w;as m e to the 1cv(actioln 0f te c.et 0 N2nt5, anf lin( co:ieret remol': of th-: i nia:en"t5 umm France to Eng1uli : otIer countries I' th ni . e 7: ration ci P'rot%ta l it- :!,:!I t1ii.ir si t t!wmn,t in' Ena.al it was that manu;:Anre began11 to flllnnsh, and~ t:';lm toat In::O 2:ve .L 1, ,r 'lven the :seew.'mey t i:t r'nnou: tryv to c(land 2v: 1 'th2r (n=1 - 2 e do rot ifer to this to :how tlat t .110ICy of drivi::- a people from thiir native s be ad0ted by any govern!enit ; but to pr, 11 sent thek faICt that mannieturesiare a i to a countrv when .iy spontancou'usiy grow up and are fostered by the exgcies of the pcol e. The'. encouragemnt o.f marnufactures by the go vernment) 1 tentd, directly to f4ster one branchl of :nlastry at the cxpense of some oher bramv-hbt whenO I n nuemtur iare (Ic:n and ec bV the condition of the countrv, o they then grow up, thle people are beI;evted by themr; lcuseU5 investmt2C arc nuaU. p so1s' who have cal!it!!, a:.d tIt cci n,, is em love in s methi:e 1,.,1t :1,i 'tie r m n r t t . z o vtiO Il'111 U f'i.1,:, I l CS. t,T C l te t sthi, there is amt e rInor .. growvthi of mnanufactutrs.\ Whr .1ie n liom ishes con) .I"i" .i1: p, ai.-n ; d way aticlcs are exch J a t' en im t:ade, wvh 1 , inus t ini Si ic Ui nt a iur e v i long run, be pro!tale1 to some (1 the pa! eS engZ.ag1,d in it. Thl,, "s the g n rlr l i c 2. la!al cases. Inc the present eclll(tion of the~ Amb, one of the c;ni'-tions pr'2 .11nted for t0ir co :-ra tion1 at tis i ei ni. I t exe):t t es taVi-h mna nt.le:t: es of any ahB.d 1: if n what 1bon'd be <'enz ? There are nl1um11)ie tres of cotton) goods1 and of iron, u; hi h Il be put inoperln. ThJeSe ought to b cn couaged1 to go to 'o:. -for f '-tim i o u to any extent, aid mnanufactured here, there must (of necessity large profits to some per sons, say those intereKted in the estat:ii !me1. Beside the direct profit to them, the hands employedi ':ust be suipportedl. Th'is will cin connri e the~ production of breaistuffs in the eihbohood of these mmfaof 'ies-aiid then an internal trade l arsJ, which never couhi have taken phace were this state of things not existing. Here there is mutura beneit, and there is no injury done by the operationi of government. Shoull such a .cou-e be ade'pted by imen who hla-e tihe meal.s, the drooping condioni of aliis WOul 5Con assumel a more el eeri ng aspecti, arni tihe loom which overhatngs our 10olitical horizon would .' (I:ssipatec T o effLct such change CS will recinire activity and elnterp'r:se and me~.n mu st look around onI tmngse~ as they are, mad prel:ce to) :nr.noe the best ther Canl Cut of D)espo:iency never enabled a penple to re coer' from decpre.i i1n. When C tile Hu lguenots were e:le,l froml rlnu::-e, thteir l was neVer suphedi, and even; !4'-day Enllli fcelS the in-. -nry l1ii(ei hv tha:t fa-' step (f 1nll\y. lgUn:: ha: iCCeived thISe ,KOcfa -' whieb a noble andi 'id*i1-s1-1 pet-e always ee01:r uponl a country ; a!:d il 50e 15 w iSt' e e rta in tha t powei for yealrS to emie. ii ou r de;ire- i l I' srvywia is befoe u1. We 71.-tiy kV o.w tIe lo2-c xe have sntered-hnit ?2r2la s 'Xe do not 1< these losses capita1 a:1.l la,r [1.uKt (ic d BC, andl be ecCragOItC to comeI. 'ud ('can, mi un.i p'rSvreXOiC Call overem e i n te o sta:e5 that mIl he in th 2.1y il any i-'LFe exce>t the tiiu tA eta-tie re n1 of b-ad legishation. \Wer the (overnment protects tile people in0 Cn e. Vyment f t..e fits of thIeir inhor, m:d 'mke p rope ty so cure, andl the admhin;itrati:II of justice imupar. tial an;d sure, theore a- no0 ob tacles w Kich1 a virtuo us anld great sunled p e le 11y not overclime ; butt if' th.ey are so corapt to:,t tese o':ects cannot Le obtai:.ed then~i there 19 n hopKm for them. H >-UN JN-'M 'iOo W.'v.- 1th 21st Feb a'ur. l' 5, as (Gen. .; borh I bon 7 n ss b there f civcdI ar Io eeet byi,tobj hrli:: .C m na T<:r the lI, 1.rOw. In the "Herald" of M:ay 21, there is an extract from "New 010,(rleans ('Cecet, 2ist April,' in which occurs the fu!!wing item l a z a part of the proceedings of the General Conference of the Methodist E. Churc, Soth, at its last session "A preamble and scries of resolutions were introd uce.d, protestin a ngainst the interference of the eie or other power with the ciurch. 1he (octiinc that self-preservation is the first hAv Of fnre was oIJeCted to, as opposed1 to the letter :md Spirit of christinl roligion, whi(b ipe lete rahe s ffein a d,if nedbe, - im: fr its >ake. \C rcefrred to the Coin mt1Iltee on ilevisas. This de' not give a true representation of the natue o!f the pireamle and res,hition: i. ItndA of at "Seies" thre 'as but o, 10 PIll. 2. Tih,ie ritc O did ne-t "protest against the :: f Crnce of the civil or other power With th1L ch re . 1f a . p OteC-Zt aIt al, I t Wa r*ather a proitest a?liinSt the and/7//t;/-(if tNat is th word) (f ti:e church on the subjct't o0 r.-. The r>s:im!on proPcd so to amiend t h no te to the N l \ r N XI ticle of Religion as tat w hen the ICu irL.emn ts of the civil powers C Yit \Vith the teachi:g of the Christin ripItuire. we sho uld "obey (Jod rather than 2. Nothing i : in the P namAble or Reso lution about :if ps , &c. In the remirls 1 de in support of the resolution it was "i': " hble self- preservation is the first la,w of nartur w% ith tlhe lower order of animals, andA taat i-art of our llnture comlmon1 to themi :- us., vet obedi.,nice, nctive er passive, to d, i, to moral agents, the first law of t i. tunt. ThUs mucnh-to correct what may probaboly exist-a false inuression, as to the design hal ii the esolution. The Preamble, resolution and ren .rk; would occupy too much of your colu1mns-vet without the whole a nart m not 'o understondl. Yours, very truly, I 11. B IVOWNE. It has often been Said, if we wish to be hap py we mun st eheCish a Leautiful spirit; andc It spi it more beautiful than that of love to 1riml, whielb Tmakes us d unto others as we would they should do unto us." If we L ossess a heart to enjoy the pleasures o ti, ife, let us learn to obey the "golden Set us larn to think kindly and for ivi;nly' of, other's falluls, for: ht Us remember that : ofI us have faults to be forgiven. How o h .ts siite us wihIe we think of the we ever treated them as we would not have had them tre:tt us. Every unkind werd, eivr ungr'acious look, every ungentlte aIa 0'conets thrtonginag baesi un 0ou1rr memo ies ad hat gs around our sorrowful souls, un'til w Ae wouldi gie world(S dMd we Possess them, to drink of the fountain of Lethe. We may wveave grarlamis of flowers and place them upon thle tombs of the departed ; we n:ay weepl sorrowmjg andt( repentant tears y yet a!! this cannot console our retmorseful hearts. Let us take warning by the bitterness of our onutoLe but unavailing~ tears over the clad, and henceforth be moUre faithful to the livi :o4 and inure obedient to the will of' God, who has tld uts to 'do Unto others as we would ther s10hU dot unIto u. (dL. Frma very' interee-ting Newv 0& leans letter w hhi apipeared in the col ius of the Memcii thi5 r/,,h. we one05 the foblowng ex uacts of !ntecrest to ouir r'eaders: I learn ftruom a general ofieer of tihe "so3 caed" that there are twenity-ei ght doing hus nes here who wore thle star's arnd wreath. A mong them at e Genreral I e0nuregarid ; Lieuii tennt-Gener I Is L'"IIeet, Prte.,ident South *.'. 4:ea tH I! u.rm af d. 8. Ilood & C . 1oaann \. I'. :--.xard, n'w Ste.sait & tMrneral~' lan '''t ardner2i, draughitsnou:; \ r~t ( 1nn ', B. lockner, of firm of Ir0M ph Wheeler, otf the cavary', carriges buit''e, &c . ide al'1.Jef.' 1> hap-sn, the famous"'Ssamp '-' rie 1 e it t- 11 t.i air a tiel w of ou I athi' e 1 s 1) 'ilas i.ta i: In- Wouh ne-,* n * uit up ( th het aticl of ch 1'ho i. th:- m: rktaiM' -ner al ~ - L 14 s1, 'Loiot, co~tt( t o factor s; a li ('"1ed O sicor lct adineresitoing as everl i-cr-Ge':c:alr-arne,a Urtgg' . f ofa 'nit '1. ocert a: t' conenisio merchn (;eUn - diir--ene f McNa, o 1r tTOrigdierGe meiI i; ' gI'ader-t Genra btt-raitids tr ng, t1heting near te ce ajter' etntn :c.ol ..thj l ia natneC !n i atn (7Wf the A mr"n Iud gen:er.) * Letter From Mexico. We havc the pleasure of presenting our readers the following lettgr from an esteemed felPow-citizem$Col. E'; Sharpe, who is at present in M*lico.e Ilis views aod comments un,n the conMition, cimate. soil and advanta ges of that country, aid tie inducements to emigrate thithei, will be found interesting. Tlie -etter was not intendel for publication, and we have to return thanks to another friend for tile pleasure of its re-producti )n ConovA, MI:.X:0, March 16, 1866. This is the most beautiful country in some respects, I have ever seen. Our days are snh as you have In the .month of May; the nichts are cool, and w, oleep under two or three bhmnkets e':ec nieit. We have all the tropical fruits in abumdance; the trees are all green ind a good many flowers, ald anv amoIlit of blirds, a(l sieh caroling and si n ing I never h:ard We h:ive -il Irds of ve0eth in the n:,rket that I euer saw in the .h1ri.ton market, and a gr2at manv nore that I do not kniow-green corn, pens, bean, "uttuce, radishes, potatoes and toma toes, &c., and yet jIst bve us, we have a most beauiful mounain, I1,(( feet above the sea, w.th its top always white wih l snow. it is the most beautifl sight I ever saw. Sugar cane grows from twelve to fifteen feet high and has only to be planted once in nine years, and they are grinding it all the year rund. Cfee grows very finely and pro duce"s punds to tle tree vt hen foliur yeavs OiJ. Tobacco grOws wll als; the r!'e is to plnlt, Corn, and when it is nrret' well grown, to hmt tobacco between the rows, and when the tobacco is pretty well grownii andI ready to ither, ilant corn betw een the irws, thus maigr three crops durinf the year; the hind"s are very rich. T i .is tIhe dry season, ad said to be the warmest weather we have. TIe we!!s here are alout sixty feet dvel; there are some running streams hut very few. We have h:d tu%o or three good showe s since I have been here, the rainy season will emmence in May. The lands are exceeding lv thickly Covered with bushes, vines and Si nub; it costs five dollars n acre to clear them. Tihee is a z'-"l deal of stone upon tI ground; the tim)ber is generaly small, but in sonm plac' s i. sufliJunt for cross-tie's for Railroads. The whole country bears ev id.nec of 1%ziness and ne.-loet, and the coU1n try- is aI o7clr-wn for the want of work ther ar he uliis of large hacindas all over ,n dolh r ; these liac*erdas are enltivat I now il lpt by he natives, who pav the p ietolr certain rient; they contain fron one to two thousand acres and can be boughit fur al ma four dollars pr a re, paying one fifth '.wn, aw waiting four or five years for the alme:; iese are considered better than the ( vernmnet lands. The GovornmeUnt lands, about 60,000 acres have all been taken up here, even faster than they can be sur. veved. There are hindreds of emigrants oinin r': e cverv day from .1! -States,of tle ver Ou<t people suine of these are disap 1 oin'tod, whilI others ale delighted and set t1ing dow,. This is a fixed fact, and a large an11d SU)e ior colo!N is settLd here now ; thre wvil be good American society here in a short tuie. Carlotta is about eight miles from here; nil in the bjushi yet ;it wvii be s'ome tirae before nv one can live there wxithi any~ conmfort. en. Price anrd Gov. H arris are at this plhace; they have laid it out and named it in honor of the'loipress. It is very dmficult to build a frame house out here, there having been no saw mills'- one or twro are now being put tip; every' one seems more anxious to get the r lad open for cultivation than anything elSe. The coatry is a vast wilderness and abounds in ruins of former wealth and grandeur. The natives live in huts 'onilt of bamboo and cov ered xwith straw ; the higher class live in hiuses built of stone and lime, or cement. SomeC of the Inidiains work well, and you can hi me them for fifty cenits per da:y, fininmg themli selves. Th'iey have tihe best staging and wag 010in? here I~ever saw. The Railroad wvill be here'in abo ut e ihteen :nonths; it is about tlt een n ie s from h ere. 'Thiis p!a:ce is about 2,50' feet above the sea. 1 went lip to townI fi tee I n mileCs above Ier ;O it con tailns 2~2,000 illha :bit:1 i s. ninaeteem run: of mill-stones, three or four ilne floaring mills, and1( a latrge cotton factory withi I4,'000 spiiulles and M00 looms. it is ini a valley,aimlidst the mountains,and ooi if the imost wealthy laces I ever saw. 'The city has fouirteen fount:ilns spoutimg tip in eve ry' uarter oft the city, and (1 0coInstallt riun - n:ng trc:-mi ill thne id~dle of their street, and te street.s a'"" allnl paxv:1. I would rathm bylie here tanl any' placee I ever saw if there was \me: ie society, buit it has but four or five Aimericain ioni!es. Tis is 4,000) feet abhove the se-i, :m. has10. all the tropical fruits; tis is the hm of( 0 fruits :and ilwers. llorse.s ad cows aire us'ed her"e all the year, eating nothng bt gra0::. T::kinig all tngther, tids i the N irn est and U et beautl i ful counItry I ver s:nr ;o: e canl work (out here w ith ph as uVe :norilng and eveninig, but hot ill th.e mi-il die of the (lay ; no0 files or'li musquitoes as I have seen, and not manny insects or reptiles. u's. surver\ hias takeni himil inito a very u id counity, t!i.eeol'r tMa1iy r :; from here, where he had the t l:r , panltheri and wvolve-s around their can.p'; they~. were near to a eamp SLiI-nrais ;.( and were afraiid to fire their go. s ftrlfe a they would be taken [(r irenchi spies. We take no p:a in polities, andi tile Libierals do ikt ohIjct to our comling lie?e; we have notihad anyx dIi iculty wit anyv of them ; there are someC r~ob*eries cominilt tedl on the roads sometiniem. 'There aie p!enty of (leer and part ridges andIi diih'erenit k ids o fl re her-e. A~ person~ cn i v e hlere (enit) for thirty-five Celt- per da '. Iloutel S eba rge om:e dollar and : ift cents p'er day. If a mni wil wei hiere hoe olght to make I ,OU0 dellars a year. 1 am11 sure it Canl be dcir.C. Now, tomr thle objections to the country. These pele are as meanti as they can be as a geeral thn,adas laz athey can be. Nie-tenths of the Ipeole areIndl~ins antd look like the [mians vwi sec. abtit Penidleton. oui have to ilearn tlle language of the cotin' tr. Youi can have no) as1ialtilns with the uatY-O: th ir relim dues n"t suit us. Ye iemii of the in-4tilily of till Govxernmenm, bet I do not fear mu ch that account, fur let wat oW'''' it there muay me, with anl .\micia oIl )ony, we wiil be Cole to nave a ve in:tinence( and COn protiet our1ives.0 I ami u ou n i n t tWre will lhe one th iusaind r mi;es hcr before eishiteca monthms. Mlany persons are disappointed because their pre conceived notions are not fulfilled. I expect ed to see largcand extensive valleys, such as we lve in !he states, with large and finely cultivated fields, but these is nothing of the kird-the country is table land, as level as any one would desire, but only opened and cultivated in patches ; a great deal of stone on the land but not enough to interfere with plowing. Tle Death Sentence of Probst, the Yur. derer. On Tie(1av, in the Court of Oyer and Ter miner, in Philadelphia-Judges Allison, Did 1OW, andG Pierce 01 the hench-when Probst, the mutirderer of the Deering family, was -r r'lignd for se ntencc, his counsl moved an - rest Of julgient and a new trial, on certain echicAl .lrounds. The aI n, ho% ever, wns overreled, and Judge Allison, in the pre S Of a crowded court-room, and amid pro found si!ence, proceeled to pronounce the sentence of death. Addressingt the prisoner, th al'e remarked: By none other but by legal evidence, not in the lestt degree by your own confession, but bv evide'ce from which there was no escape, n;io-t clsCL1SiVe ill its charate_, you have been foznd nitd of the conizission of one of the moSt a p alling crimes of which the rccor!.s of' e:l : ri:ree rnnke any mnen:ion. A fclon!y of murder Inparalleled your heart conceiVel and your hands extcuted ; in Plan mes'~;~. t neeniv in minuteness of cetail neqal1; 4in ex%ecution re:etles, brutal, savo:e beondl( precetlent. A hushaid and a father, returnin: to his home, in all the strength and glory ofl hs man hood ; a wife and mother, toiling for the little, loved wr.0s, whom God had given to her-toil inz at her domestic altar-her humble fire S!le ;a companion of your daily labor, who with you shared your bed ; who almost slept in your arms ; at peace with you ; the very b cath of w hose life you breathed ; your fourth Victim, an inoflensive visitor. whose sex Vold have not in vain appealed to your 'ompassion, if compassion you possess, had y,i but thought of the mother who gave you hirth. And four helplers children of these slaugh.tere( parents ; four little ones who had never donc vou harn ; of three of these, in innocent anl happy chiildhood, you had been the dai',v witiness ; liktced to their vounf aid mlerry VOces, and perli:ips hre had them lay in con(idence anrd trust about vou ; amd Ic arto, a :inig, telnac, gelu Licaue, wHO had not Vet learned to lisp your name, or to know you as a stranger in that househcid whose tiny, bloody girment, broughit here by other hands, bore testimony mot crushinrig against the monster, in the shape of man, who cut an1d hbacked its young life away. Of ill who gathere 1 beneath the humble roof of Chri.topher Decrinr, but cne rem in a little lonely, solitary bf-y, saved not by your mercv, for mercy you had none, but by ain interposing Providence protected from your iurdrls aria and uplifted axe, with which you sought to kill therm all. All these you performed alone, or aided by another, iti mat ters nv't which, so far as the legal and moral Suilt of all these murders committed by you is concerncd ; and much more that human eye hath not Ceen you didl with malic incr ceivah!e. Almost without tr.ative you went at your Iwork self-imposed, and eight innocenit victhms you slew ; not suddenly, niot in a temipest of resistle passion, but in the coolness of a pre meditated design-one by one, at intervals, withi solemn ptause ; with calm deliberation, and wxith a cuencrhles: thirst for blood, you ca-ed not u'u til all that you set out to do was fully' ended, and you found yourself alone with the dead. Your triumph was then corn plete. Tfhiis is but a poor picture of your werk: and of this I here remind you, that you may even now, at this dread hour for you, realize, if it indeed be possible for you to do so, the enorm v of &our deeds of blood, and before Gmod seek for pardon for your crime. No one may limit his power to forgive, but you can find melr cy oinly iln redeeming love. Men can not, w ill not, dare not pass by unavenged a crime so fearful as to be almost nameless. Society demands prosecution and violated law vinadie-ition. But the Omnipotent God ha'h said,~ Whnosoever will, let him comne."~ To lk i ismre 1 comimend you. But w~hat von have to do, do speedily ; for the ighlt of death casts its shadows already around' yon. The aven;er of blood has ful - lowed~ siel ily after vou', and in the dlark ness of the i ht the ini. siible finger of the Al ihty pointed y-ou Gut to you:r pursuer3, an :1 j u tiee now claimus yo u as its owna. And that whiebh it requires to be done shall not long~ be eled You had y-our s cess iin the execu trinof y our fell pur"pose. llut it (lemnands its tinmp now, in the detection, e .p osure. con v ict i mo andI p romtes t ar d neveCrest pish merit of the cii m iial, w ho has deiit-d ailike the laws of God and:. man, and ou traiged all the nobh- ripathies of h is naturne. It only rermains for mel to pass on you the judgnLent of the law, which is that you (here the fr juIgr rose, and4 :aid a brcatlhb:s sic!nce 'conicluded the sentncL Anitoini t'robet, the pri.-oner at the bar, be taken from~ thence to the jail of tie enunty' of Philadel pii:, from whience you camne, amd fiomi thenIce to the [phoe of exce'utionf, andi that you there be hanr&d by the neck until you are (lead. An 1tmay 1:bod have mer-cy on yt,.r soul! .Judcee Arihi's remarks were dleliveredl wi thl nmeh emrphasis, andr ini avery impjresi ye min ner, anid amid tihe most profornd il Sene, notw bs~ tauringr the crowded condition. of thre 'lhe prirsoner stood erect, and kept his eyes fixed on the Jutdge. le (lid rnot more a mnrlsele duini, the enltire timeC of tihe dTlivery of tie sentencee, and at its close (Lnietly te A : seat. Dheet!v after thle sentence he was a5ked by Mr. f!:en, the (1ort i terpreteor, n hiethier lit Iu nderstood the sentenlce. Priob,.t repheid, "I hnl1rto(lal te .Judge saidl, hit hie lid ot sayv whein ! was god to be hun1g. 'io (,mor1t. &ann s te dar.] The remrovail rbtie the part of the inn' :n-c OlllLitiil :serle on0 Sixth-s'treet, and as tire van ii,' \*a*blir* oif' to tihe plrison, fulowed by a btdy 'f ei tcemien on tie ruin, thre groans andi hi-e- ue re at their heig':t. Ez-/inge. islrrig Uii tuium'ua. IETTER OF GENERA1. WADE UAIPTON TO THE UOY. REVERDY JOHNSON. The followin.g well written letter, addressed by General Wade Hampton to the iIon. Rev erdy Johnson, in relation to the burning of Columbia, South Carolina, was read by the latter in the Senate on Thursday: WILD WOODS, Nfzss., April 21, 186C.. To the Ion. Rever .77n1 , iiited States Senate : Smn: A few davs 1go, I saw in the published proceedings of Congress that a petition from Ier.jamin Raws, of C ol um1bia, S. C., asking comnensation for the destruction of his home by t,e Je01era! army in February, 1865, had been presented to the Senatc, accompanied by a letter from M:jor-General Shcrman. In this leti r General Sherman used the fullowing lan "They," the citizens of Columbia, "set fire to thousands of bales of cotton rolLd out into the streets, and which were burning whn, I entered Columbia. I myself :azs ill tle City as earl as 9 o'clock, and saw these fires, and knew that efforts had been made to extinguish them, but a high and stormy n ind kept them aivc. I gave no orders for the burning or your city, but, on the contrary, the reverse, and I believe the conflagration resulted fron the great imprudence of cutting the co*ton ales, whereby the contents we.e spread to the winds, so that it became an impossibility to arrest the fire. "1 saw in your Columbia newspapers the printed orders of General Wade Hlamptp, that on the approach of the Yankee army aPl the cetton should be birned, and, from what I saw myself, I have no hesitation in saying that he wa; the caue- of the destruction of your city.' This grave change made against me by Gen. S , having been brought before the Senate of the United States, I am naturally most solicilv. ous to vindicate myself before the same t,-b, nal. But my State has no representative in that c;ty. Those v, 3o should be there are de barred the right of entrance. In those halls, there are none to speak for the South-none to participate in the legislation whicb governs her-none to impose the taxes she calleuI on to ay-and none to defend her or to vindi cate her sons from misrepresentat:on, injus ti-e or slander. Under theae circutltances, I appeal to you, in the collilent hope that done in this matter. I deny most emphatie:dly that any cotLop was fired in Columbia by mny order-! deny that her citi.zens set fire~tc thousands of bales rolled out into the streets-I deny that any cotton was fired when thI Federal troops en tered tie city. And I mo: respectfilly ask of Congrcss to appoint a committee charged wth the duty of ascertai.ing and reporting all the facts connected with the destruction of Columbia, and thus fixing upon the proper author of that enorminous crime the infamy that he deserves.c I am wilh . t case to any hor est tribunal. ~efore any such, I pledge my self to prove mY positive order, by direct:i of Cencral Beaure~ard, that no cotton shoula be fired-that not one bale was on fire whea Sherman's troops took possession of the city that he positively promised protection to the city-and that, in spite of this solemn promise his soldiers burned it to the ground deliber ately, systemiaticnlly, atrocionsiy. I, there fore, mnbst er.rnestly request that Congress i.av take prompt and efficient measures to.Ir: ves~tigate this matter fully. Not onily is th:s due to themselves and the United States army, but to justice and truth. Trusting t'eat you will pardon me for troub ling you, I am. &. WADE IiA3iPToN. At the Court cf General Sessions, Charlee ton, the following sentences were pronc'unted: Thos. Cook and~ wife IIannah Cook, con victed of larceny and sentenced-the former 20 fine, 8 months imprisonment and 10. stripes. The latter fined $100 and to receive 1 stipe. The routh's, Rantin, Smith and Wether horn. against whom a jury had rendered the vrdict of guilty with a recomnmendat:on to mercy, were th~en cal1ef np to !earn theie doom. Althou.:h the Judge intimated that there was a hope that the (lem(ency of the Executive won!d be exerci5ed in their behalf, yet lhe urged upon thiem to lace no undue reliance on this possibi!ity, and so to disfo. e their murne that if their l'ves were to be rpare{1 their eendu!ct would be re trmed, and if the-r hopes shiouldU prove r!elusivye, thait they would be prepared to meet their end. The sentence of the law was, that they be carried to the lace from whence they came, and there kepti 'n ca cutody until Friday, the 4th day. o: ,Jly' next, when, between lie hours of ten in theor eroon and tw.o in the afternoon, they we to be hung by the neck until they were I ntil this moment the boys seemid Eat to app eiate the consequences of their crime; but when thi .awful doom was pronounced, te'y e:li'>i ted, by their bitter anguish, a ke&n ne lzation of their perilous posit ion. WVilliam lii~h fi e!d. convicted of the crime of rape tipon a ch'id of six yeaLrs, n~as sen tenced to be kept in saufe cus-tody until June 20th, when he be hung byv the neck until he be dead. ~o.mas IN ON: IPA.\n.um.-The follow fi ininitable hit is irresistable in argument is it is in hiumuor. We gaote from the Char lttes'ile (/,,ni"le: "It~ sems to us as hard to get in the Un;io;n as it is to get out. Tie South respectfolly asks to move one way :r the otner. We are like thre M!o:w who was ored to go to the show, and then not allowen to Lro anv fuirthier than where he0 had paid for or his ticket. We have been dragged intro the dor.'av of the Federal tent, and not al lowed to see anyv of the perforrmxycaex0cept to settle wI hi the t x. c CleLOr. i. e can hear ie annals gr iwlingins n ha h rack of the ring most er's whip, but~ we can' t ee the Thow uin~le.s we jay for two and take i a coo ladyK. Andi thxe worst of it is, rer keep a great e:; le perched over thre en :raie, whichu, if youl atoemp: to go back, woo)p5 down upo you~ SOnd 1wks a hole ire your head. Wet jIsy think: ti, is unrcas - li ; the ough0i2tt ei thert to t Ii pass m, or. 1 'c-m1nif th n)oy nd t o u the e:mls.'