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A Family Companion, Devoted to Literature, Miscellany, News, Agriculture, Markets, &c Vol. X. WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 23, 1874. No. 38. THE HERALD IS PUBLISHED E.VERY WEDNESDAY 310NINGs At New6erry C. lot kditWr and Proprietor. uVw!W*ly in Advance. ~Y~'he pperis soppd at the expiration of tiMefOrwhic:iti18 ptpd. C7-' The 4mark denotes expiration Of sub ?*fE ]DOWN HILL JUG. A 9q'~heteUofa lutlc man, Wbo slid down bill in a Warming pan. He steered himself with the handle, of course, And chuckled way as he would to a horse. Uiigit istrue," were somewhat in the A,d WI seat rather tht, if a body migh say; .But he laDded all right at the foot of the hill, Ani5rZlja& know Is sitting there stil YoiL smile at the story, and wonder how -folks Can get from their brains -such a terrible hoa; But sliding down hill is many a man om'i.ie thing than a warming pan. 'on.rgoing down at fullI speed on their A5dio'te*5whcon their*stinginess slide: But the strangest way of taking that ride Is tp^&, soawedo, On a jug astride. a Bewarm of such coasting, or like Jack andt Gil YonjtqaM sorr work-in getting down bill a Beva,jIbi w1th what other evils you tug, t D~~4~gglMe-sliding down bill on a jug. :'"VR,*RNK AND DEBT. 86in vftbel the world before you Spre&atensand sutsares Round the feet of evezy mortal Rf(e!sIkg-highway fares. 1 etM6 warn you, "It depends," said I, laughingly, For the fellow's earnestness amused me, "it depends on the quality of bhe metal of which my wife should be made. If she was one of your :love-eyed, moon-on-the-lake sort of xomen, I suppose, like most men, [ would take advantage of the situ ition; and issue my commands most .oyally, at the same time making dove eye' wretchedly miserable. "Then, on the other hand, if my vife should chance to belong to the agle species, and possessed a will Ls strong as my own, and after I iad issued my commands, should ly at me with distended claws and lashing eyes, Id-" "What, tell me, what would you lo then? "Strike an attitude, I suppose, nd cry, 'Let us have peace."' "Pshaw! too tame; you are quite oo yielding a nature to marry. My dvice to you is to remain single all he days of your life;" saying which Le was gone. Well, I went to the wedding of his matrimonial lion, and a gor -eous affair it was. I learned after it was all over that had been his wish to be married i a quiet manner; but his promised ride had set her heart on having grand wedding, to which she Duld invite all her schoolday friends, ad show to advantage her exquis e beauty. "If ever a woman should look ell, it ought to be on her wedding. ay; and as to most women, this ay comes but once in their lives, it me have my own way for the once," was the argument she used > win consent from the man who ,ould always rule in matters be ween husband and wife. After their return from their ,edding journey they went to house eeping ; and, as I was a bachelor a forlorn, and out in the cold, and Lone, since my friend had deserted ie for this fairer portion of hu mnity, they both agreed to turn Good Samaritans," and take me in share with them the comforts of home. So behold me duly installed i one of the cosiest rooms that ae house afforded. But do not rpect, because you find me this Lorning sitting before a warm rate-fire, and inclined to be socia Ie, thatlam going to tell you all ae little ins and outs of my friends aried life, simply because you ave so good-naturedly asked me. There are certain things with hich we of the outer world have othig to dc in the married life of ur friends. -I do not blame you, owever, for wanting to know which Ethese two actually does rule. ot that it does to any great extent mern US, but Ned Ashley has so ~peatedly avowed in our presence is determination to rule in all iings thatlI will not hesitate to t you into a few of the secrets of married despot's life; and,I think no better way than by giving ou a sort of diary of every day rents. First, last Monday morning while e were seated at the table, Mrs. shley said: "Oh ! Ned, I want to go to the era on Wednesday night, Kellogg to sing in Faust, and I would not s hearing her for anything." "But, my dear, you know it is e evening that we are to spend with [enry Lewes, and-" "Well, never mind, dear ; we can iily send him a note, asking to e excused. You know I have only eard Kellogg once, and Faust is ty favorite of all the operas." Tea time ! Mr. Ned Ashley walks ito the room, seats himself at his ife's side, and while one arm en Lcles her waist the other places in ers two tickets for the opera.-1 hich? Thursdaynight, Mrs. Ashley; "oh! y the way, Ned, that odious Mr. 'hornton called here to-day to see bout putting a new furnace in the ouse ; he said that you had order lt to be done. Well, Isent him way by telling him that I did not 'ant a furnace in the house-and at there should be no furnaces in ae house-and--". "Bat the deuce, Dora; I ordered jito doit, and picked it out, and ave him part of the money down, ad- -" "Yes, yes, my dear; but then you now I never liked those horrid irnaces they always fill the house, dth dust, and the dust gets into iy throat, and then you know it rill spoil my voice, and then I can't ig for you, and you know that o can't get along without my inging ; and besides, I have always ad my heart set on a house heat a with steam, and it's just too ao-ba-ad" (a few tears, which led kissed away, of course, and arbade any more to flow, then they tent out, and I did not hear any aore about it.) rrwn weeks ilae! With the ox. ception of my room this house ol the Ashleys is heated throughoul with steam, and even that has the fixtures in it, if one should wish to use them. Knowing my decided preference for a grate-fire, I have been humored, and the grate has been left. It all came about in such a quiet manner, that neither Ned Ashley nor myself knew that the thing was actually going on, until one eve ning when we both came home to gether. Dora threw her arms around his neck, as we stepped into the hall to divest ourselves of hats and coats, and asked: "If it wasn't just splendid !" Then she asked us into the parlor, and showed us the elegant register, and so on throughout the length and breadth of the house, chattering like a mag pie the while. "You see, I never, never could endure the idea of that old furnace; so I just went down to Mr. Thornton's and told him that we had concluded to have steam instead, and that it must be done at once. So he sent the very next day, and every night when they went away Bridget and I cov ,red up the holes in the floor with ome carpet, and so the thing was )1 done without your knowing a bhing about it." And what did Ned Ashley say? Did he swear? Did he rave and ear about like one mad 1 No, in leed, not he; he did a much wiser Shing. He stooped and kissed his vife, and said: "It's just splendid!" Which ? Pstellantvns. fFrom the Temperance Advocate.] JOHN BELTON O'NEALL, The son of Hugh O'Neal and Inne Kelly, his wife, both of whom xere members of the Society of Friends, on Bush River, Newberry District, South Carolina, and con-: equently was, by his birthright, a nember. His ancestry, on both sides, were Irish, his paternal great randfather belonging to the an ient house of O'Neall, of Shanes Jastle, Antrim, Ireland. His -ma ernal grandfather, Samuel Kelly, vas of King's County, and his grandmother, Hannah Belton, was >f Queen's County, Ireland, so that 1e may rank as a full-blooded Irish Lmerican. He was born on Wed iesday, 10th April, 1793, about half Smile below Bobo's Mills, on-Bush R~iver. At his earlies:; recollection, is father removed to the mills, and here his boyhood was spent. He yegan to go to school when he was ive years old. Young O'Neall learn ad rapidly, but his subsequent life atisfied him that he went to school tleasttwoyears too soon. An attack >f nervous fever, when he was three rears old, rendered his hand so un teady that he could never write a rood hand, though taught by the est teachers of penmanship. The ther children of his father were girls. They were all remarkable or talent. His eldest sister, Abi ail, went to school with him, and earned more rapidly than he did. he married John Caldwell, Esq. Tis two next sisters were named lebecca and Hannah. His young ist sister, Sarah Ford O'INeall, s a member of the Society of 'riends, (1859). In 1804, a Library Society was rganzed at Newberry, of which is father was a member. This fforded to young O'Neall an oppor unity of reading. He recollected o his latest day the avidity with hich he read the first books placed n his hands, among them the 'Pilgrim's Progress." He continued to go to English chools, with slight interruption, mtil 1808. He was occasionally imployed as a clerk in his father's tore, where he learned to abhor the iquor traffic. He acquired great acility in memorizing promptly vhatever was put in his hands. He ommitted to memory, in an hour, he 9th chapter of 2d Kings. In vIay, 1808, he became a pupil of ,he Newberry Academy, under care >f the Rev. John Foster. He pushed is young pupil forward much too -apidly ; by January he had him eading Virgil, without at all un lerstanding it. In 1809, Char-les Strong, of the class of 1808 of the outh Carolina College, became his receptor, and in the next year, oung O'Neall became a thorough atin scholar, and was sufficiently ~nstructed in Greek, and all the aranches of English, to prepare im for the Junior Class in the outh Carolina College. During his time he acquired the habit of xtemporaneous speaking, by prac ising to speak every night, after de had got his lesson for the next ay, before his uncle and grand notier. with whom he boarded, at pringfield. In the year 1810 his rather was deprived of his reason, mad thi kept him home from uvhool several months, to endeavor to closi up satisfactorily his deranged mer cantile affairs. But it was all ir vain. Bankruptcy came down upor him, and his creditors nearly crush ed every hope, by sueing him in hi unfortunate insane condition, and forcing his property to a sale, at ax immense sacrifice. Thus the fami ly were ttu-ned out of doors, and had it not been for the kindness o his father's bachelor brother, musl have been left without a shelter foz their heads. In February, 1811, young O'Neall was allowed to enter the Junior Class of the South Caro lina College. In December, 1812, he graduated, with the second hon or of that institution. His diplo ma bears date 7th December, 1812, and is signed by Jonathan Maxy, S. T. D. Prmses, Thos. Park, Ling. Prof., B. R. Montgomery, D. D., Mor. Phil. and Log. Prof., Georgius Blackburn, A. M., Math. and Astron. Prof.; and by Henry Middleton, Governor, and President of the Board, and twenty-two Trustees. The expenses of his collegiate edu cation were paid, in part, by himself, and the balance out of his father's dilapidated estate, by one of his committeemen, and which was not allowed in his accounts. His father (in 1813) recovered his rea son, and, in gathering up the wrecks of his fortune, succeeded in being able to reimburse Mr. Caldwell such sums as ho had expended on his son's education. In 1813, for about six months, O'Neall taught in the Newberry Academy. At the end of that time he devoted himself to the study of law, in the office of John Caldwell, Esq. At that time, An. derson Crenshaw, Esq., afterwards Judge Crenshaw, of Alabama, lived in the village. He gave young O'Neall free access to his library, and imparted to him much valuable instruction. In a debating society, then existing at Newberry, O'Neall improved his habit of extempora neous speaking very much. In August, 1813, O'Neall per formed his first military duty as a member of the artillery company, under the command of Captain Me Creless. Under the orders from the Governor, the militia was classi fied, and the first class (to which his company belonged) was calle'd into State service, and marched for camp at Alston, in Beaufort District, near Pocotaligo. They were mustered into service, under command of Cob. Starling Tucker. O'Neall was appointed Judge Ad vocate for the command, but was allowed to remain as part of the ar tillery company. Returning home, in May, 1814, he was admitted to the practice of law and equity. He immediately entered into partner ship with John Caldwell, Esq., (who was Cashier of the Branch Bank of the State, at Columbia, and had re moved to Columbia.) He opened his office at Newberry, and from the commencement was honored with a large and lucrative practice. In October of that year, a volu.n teer company of artillery was raised at Newberry, and he was elected captain. To this point in his life he always referred as conferring more pleasure and pride than any other. His first speech in equity was made at Laurens, before Chancellor DeSaussure, at the June term of 1814, for Washington Equity Dis trict. His first law speech was made at Union Court House,in Octo b,er, 1814, in a malicious prosecution case. His first law speech, at Lau rens, was in November, 1814, in de fense of a poor fellow for stealing a sheep, who was acquitted. These were voluntary speeches, and led the way to reputation and future employment. In October, 1816, he was return ed third out of four memb.ers of the FIouse of Representatives, from Newberry District. On the 2d December, 1816, the degree of Master of Arts was con ferred on him by the South Caro lina College. On the 7th August, 1817, he was elected Colonel of the 8th and 39th Regiments -of Militia. I.n the December session of the General Assembly of that year, he voted for the increase of Judges! salaries. The consequence was, that at the election of 1818 and 1820, he was left at home. In 1816, he was appointed by Governor Pickens one of his aids, with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. This appointment he resigned, in consequence of his election as Colonel. In December, 1817, he was elect ed a Trustee of his Alma Mater, the South Carolina College, and filled that statioL over forty years. On the 25th June, 1818, he mar ried Helen, eldest daughter of Capt. Sampson Pope and Sarah Strother, his wife, of Edgefield. Together they toiled through life, enjoying much liappine~s, and, in the death 3 of all their children, drank the eu - of sorrow to its dregs. In JunE t 1820, his grandmother, Hanna L Kelly, died. By her will, she de vised to him "Springfield." Thithei in August of that year, he removed I In 1822 he was returned to th L House of Representatives, and b successive biennial elections, he wa returned, in 1824 and 1826. L 1824 and 1826 he was electe< Speaker of the,House of Represer tatives, without opposition. Durinj the four years ih which he held tha great office, there was only a singli appeal from h decisions, and i that his decision was sustained. In February, 1823, he was eleci ed Brigadier-General of the 1Ot] Brigade, 5th Division, South Carc lina Militis. On 20th August 1825, he was elected and commnis sioned Major-General of the 5t Division. On the 20ih December, 1828 John Belton O'Neall was electe< and commissioned as an AssociatA Judge. He iode the Southern Western and *Mddle Circuits, iz the fall of 1830, the (then) Easterr Circuit, but at Chesterfield wai taken dangerously sick. As sooi as he could ride, his friend Dr Smith, of S6eis!y Hill, remove< him to his residence, and gave hin every attention which was rapidli restoring him; when the sad intel ligence reached him that two o hs children were dead, and a thiri at the point of time. He did no resume his circuit. His friend Judge Johnson, of the Court o Appeals, held the Courts from Marion to the close. On the 1i December, 1830, Judge O'Neal was elected a Judge of the Cour of Appeals. With Johnson ani Harper, he encountered and per formed the labors of the Court o Appeals-Herculean as they wer( -until December, 1835. The Cour of Appeals was then abolished, ani Johnson and Harper assigned t< Equity, and O'Neall to the Law. Im May, 1850, on the death of Judg( Richardson, he became PresidenI of the Court:of Law Appeals ani of the Court di Errors. In 1846 the degree of Ii. Li. D. was confer red on him at Columbia College District .of Columbia, and was re peated a few years after, at Wak< Forest, North Carolina. In May, 1847, he was elee President of the Greenville ani Columbia Railroad. On the 31st December, 1832, t< save a friend, he abandoned th< use of spirituous liquors, and, ii June following, gave up the use o tobacco. To these two causes h< ascribed his health and ability t< perform more labor than most men He joined, soon after, the Head'i Spring Temperance Society, New berry District, of which he becam< President. He became a teetotal ler, and, in December, 1841, he wai appointed President of the Statt Temperance Society. In 1849 he joined the Sons of Temperance Butler Division, No 16, Newberry He was elected G. W. P. of th< Grand Division of South Carolina October, 1850. In June, 1852, ai the city of Richmond, Va., he was elected and installed M. W. P. o: the Sons of Temperance of Nortt America. He attended, in 1852 and 1854, the annual meetings al Chicago, Ill., and at St. John's, New Brunswick Then he surrendered his offce to his successor, Samuel L. Telby, of St. John's. In 1837 hE was elected President of the New berry Baptist Bible Society. H was also President of the Bible Board of the Baptist State Conven tion, and was, in July, 1858, elect ed President of that Convention: and again in 1859. He was elected President of the Newberry Agri cultural Society in 1839, whicl offce he probably held until the end of his life. Judge O'Neall has written and labored much for his fellow men. He wrote, in 1818, many articles on the increase of Judges' salary signed "Cato." In 1840, he wrot the "Drunkard's Looking Glass,' and, afterwards, the "Wanderer,' with many other subsequent fugi tive essays and letters, in the Tern perance Advocate, the Newberra RB .asg Sun, the Greenville Patriot Patriot and Mountaineer and South ern Enterprise. H e wrote Beminis cences of the Revolution for th4 the Southern Literary Register . Revolutionary Poetry for the Orion and a sketch of Joseph M. Jenkini for the Magnolia. He has deliver ed innumerable addresses on Temn perance, Education, Sunday-Schools and Railroads. He has permitte< to be published an oration on Pub lic Education, delivered before th< Clariosophic Society of the Souti Carolina College; a fourth of Jul: oration, in 1817, and another o:1 the 4th of July, 1827, on the deat] of Jefferson ; another on Education before Erskine College, in 1842 another on Female Edncation, il 3 1848, at Anderson ; another on Pub h, Speaking, in 1851. 2 He has published the Annals of Newberry. He gave the people of h - South Carolina a digest on the Ne- c 1. gro Law, in 1848, and, in 1859, pub- d e lished his Bench and Bar of South y Carolina. MODELS OF PRAYER. p Wehave been interestedinlooking a through the Scriptures for the pur- t< pose of comparing the prayers there in recorded with those which we hear y( from time to time in public, and we m are astonished to see how they differ st in point, expression, directness, and, ti above all, in length, from those a heard in these days in the christian it pulpit. It is not exaggeration to G say that we have listened to a single y( prayer longer than the whole ten e: that we find in the Bible put to- m gether. The first is in Genesis m xxiv: 12-14, and contairs one hun dred and ten words, and itis not h more than one minute in length. tj The next is Exodus xxxiii: 12-15, e and contains one hundred and ai eleven words, and is not over a m minute long. The third is in Joshua p, vii: 7-9, and contains ninety words. la The fourth is in 2 Kings xix: 15-16, the prayer of Hezekiah ; it is com r posed of one hundred andthirty-four words, and two minutes would be d( ample time to repeat it. Another ni is found in Nehemiah i: 5-11, and ct is about two minutes in length; al another is in Ezra ix: 6-15, and is tr about three minutes long; another f is in 1 Kings viii: 23-61, an im- d< portant dedicatory prayer, offered , by Solomon himself, at the dedica- tl tion of the temple, and it did not s< occupy more than six minutes; al while that of Daniel ix: 11-19, was tj probably four minutes long. In the New Testament, the prayer of our Saviour (John xvii) is well known it m is contained in twenty-six verses,and , is five minutes long, while the mod- in el prayer-the Lord's prayer-is b< far briefer still. Now here are ten is prayers -from those who certainly A knew how to pray, and they are all y( less than thirty-five minutes long, tl or an average of three minutes each; and yet we sometimes hear men pray thirty and forty minutes, ni and after wandering all over the fa moral universe and wearying their si fellow-worshippers with vain repeti- w tions, utterly fail of the prime ob- w ject of all public prayer-to lift up al the hearts of men to commune with ju heaven. It must be an extraordi- at nary occasion, equal at least to the tc Sdedication of the yewish Temple g< at Jerusalem-an occasion that none a of us shall ever see---t justify a h( prayer more than five minutes long. fa There are few "Oh's" and "Ah's" in p these models. These authors do not g often say "0 Lord, Lord," but ten derly, filially, directly, quietly, sim ply, they ask the blessing they de sire as though they were children who knew that they were address- se ing One who was more willing to je give them good gifts than they were to ask them at his hand. ax [Gospel Banner.] -hE ct War Ens SHoULD NOT BE EoxED. th~ -In Physiology for Practical Use we fmnd the following : "There are p things very commonly done that lii are extremely injurious to the ear, and ought to be carefully .w4 avoided. And first children's ears er onght never to be boxed. We have seen that the passage of the I ear is closed by a thin membrane, w especially that adapted to be influ enced by every impulse of the air, pl and with nothing but the air to sup- be port it internally. What, then, can be more likely to injure this mem- flu brane than a sudden and forcible flu compression of the air in .front of it? If any one design to break or bE outstretch the membrane he could scarcely devise a more efficient w meansthan to bring the hand sud- t1 denly .and forcibly down upon the passage of the ear, thus driving the fa air violentlp before it, withno possi- bE bility for its escape but by the mem- hE brane giving way. Many children tb are made deaf by boxes on the ear in this way." fe -*+---- --- -- in -The sea is the largest of all ceme-G teries, and its slumberers sleep m without monuments. All other te graveyards, in all other lands, show ti some distinction between the great and small, the rich and poor, but g in the ocean cemetery the king and le clown, the prince and peasant, are a alike undistinguished. The same wave rolls over all-the same re quiem by the minstrels of the ocean 'is sung to their honor. Over their Iremains the same storm beats and the same sun shines, and there, uin Smarked, the weak and powerful, the Iplumed and unhonored, will sleep runtil awakened by the same trump. d Five of the sweetest words in The a ,English language begin with H, a ;whichis onlyabreath:Heax,Hope, r Hoe apns,adHa& t a wnma Hanninana. and Heaveh. |ts MR. GILE'S HOME. "You have done the chores, aven't you, wife?" said Mr. Giles, )ming in one night about sun own. "No, dear, I had supper to get ad the baby was so cross."' "You haven't been setting sup er all the afternoon, I hope." "No; I had some washing to do, id the windows to clean, and piep > bake, and-" "0, stop that, please. To hear >u talk one would think you had ore than your share of work. I'm tre there is no man tries harder tan I do to save his wife steps, id this is all the thanks I get for . Don't go to contradicting me. ive me the milk buckets; if I ask )u to milk, you will have a dozen ,cuses. I want Katie to go with e to keep the hogs off while I ilk" Katie goes and her father keeps :r three-quarters of an hour, and en tells her she can go and take re of the baby while her mother tends to the milk. In about five inutes Mr. Giles come in to sup )r. His wife is down in the cel r. "Say, wife isn't supper ready ?" "In just a minute." "Just a minute! Everything is >ne in just a minute. Another ght I suppose I will have to ime in and get supper for myself, ter working hard all day. If you ied as hard as I do to make home easant, we would get along a great al beter than we do. You are al ays behind with everything, and Len you grumble because you have much todo. WeIl supper is ready last, is it? It is about time, I ink." They sit down to the table. "0 Lord, we thank thee for this id all other blessings; feed us ith the bread of life and save us . heaven. Amen. Is this the st table cloth you have got? It ? Why don't you buy another? in't got any money? what did )u do with the money you got for ose eggs ?" "Bought a hat for Katie." "Bought a hat for Katie, and me seding I don't know how many rm implements ? I never knew Lch extravagance in my life. It mild please me exceedingly if you ould consult me about such things ter this. I guessl'll go to bed, at patch that rent in my coat ; d, oh ! I wore ahole inmy socks -day. You must either mend or it me out a clean pair. There is chicken in the barrel by the hen >use; I want that for my break t. Come children, come and kiss spa. Good-night and don't for ,t to say your prayers." WOMAN'S RIGHTS. The following are the opening ntences of an address on this sub :t by Mrs Skinner. Mrs. President, feller wimmen, Ld male trash generally: I am re to-day for the purpose of dis asing woman's rights, recussing eir wrongs, and cussing the men. I believe both sex were created *rfectly equal and the woman a le more equal than the man. 1 also believe that the world >uld be happier to-day if man nev had existed. As a success, man is a failure, and bless my stars that my mother is a woman! I not only maintain these princi s, but maintain a shirtless hus nd besides. They say that man was created t. Well s'pose he was. Ain't at experiments always failures ? IflIwas a betting man I would t $2.50 they are. The only decent thing about him is a rib that went to make some ing better. And then they throw into our se about taking an apple. I'll t five dollars that Adam boosted r up the tree and only gave her e core. And what did he do when he was and out? True to his masculine stincts, he sneaked behind Eve's recian bend and said: "'Twasn't e ; 'twas her ;" and womaanhas had father every mean thing and mo .er it too. What we want is the ballot, and e ballot we're bound to have, if ~we b down our back hair and swim in ea of sanguinary gore. A student undergoing his exami tion was asked what was the ac yn of disinfectants, and replied: [hey smell so badly that the peo e open the windows, and fresh air ts in." A wag, one evening, pulled down burner's sign, and put it up over lawyer's door ; in the morning. it ad, "All sorts of turning and risting done here." A NIGHT IN A BARN WITH WOLVES. We find the followingin the Pis ctaqua Observer. Silas Wood, a true born Yankee, tells to "the squire," one winter evening, the story of his wolf adventure in Stockville, Vt. He had been hired by one Dea. Nathans, to watch a newly raised barn frame all night, and while there a prowling wolf scented him and called together a pack of twenty or thirty to help eat him up. He says: "The varmints were now close by, and just when I bad given up all hope, I felt something touch ag'in my head-it was a rope as had been fast to one of the rafters. I guess, 'Squire, if that ere rope bad been a foot shorter, I'd not been here now tellin' this story? The way I went up that rope, hand over hand, was a caution. And I'd barely swung myself on the rafter and began lasfiin' myself to the beam with a rope, when, 'Squire-it makes my blood run cold to tell it-the barn was alive with wolves, yelpin,' leapin' and tallin' over each other. I could hear them routin' among the shav ings; and in a minute they had them allspread over the barn.foor. Then they began to muzzle the earth and scratch it up with their paws. At last one of 'em scented me, and told the others with a yelp. then of all the yells I ever heard I -'Squire, I most.swooned away; and if I hadn't lashed myself to the rafter, I'd ha', fell right down among 'em. Oh, such a yell I never heard afore, and hope I'll never hear agin! Though I knowed they couldn't get at me, it was dreadful to' be there in the dead of the night, with a pack of hungry wolves lickin' their slaverin' jaws, and thirstin' for my blood. They ran round and round the barn, leaped onto each other's backs, and sprang in to the air; but it was no use; and at last I began to get kinder easy and 1 looked down on the howlin' varmints and bantered them. 'Squire, .you'd ha' tbought they understood a feller. Every time I hollered and shook my fist at them, they yelped and jumped louder than ever. For all this, I wasn't sorry when it began to grow a little lighter; and about half an hour before dawn they began to see it was no use ; so they give me one long, loud farewell howl afore they went. But, 'Squire, the most curious part of the story is to come. Some time after they went, it had*grown so light 1 could see 'em plain, and an ugly set of beasts they was, and no mistake. Well, 1 noticed one wolf separate himself from the pack and try to slink away. He had his tail between his legs,. just like a dog when he's beaten and had a cowed look, as if he were ashamed and afraid alike. All at once he made aspring out of the barn, but the rest of thie pack was after him like lightnin'. ''Squire,' continued the Yankee, laying his hand upon my sleeve, 'you may believe it or not, jest as you please: but beyond some hide and hair, they didn't leave a piece of that 'ere wolf as big as my hand. He was a scout as give the signal to the others, and they devoured him out of hunger and revenge, 'cause they couldn't get me.' INIDELITY.-Infidelity i s an evil of short duration. "It has,"] as a judicious writer observes, "no individual subsistence given it the system of prophecy. It is not a beast, but a mere putrid excres cence of the papal 'beast, which, though it may diffuse death through every vein of the body on which it grew, yet shall die along with it." Its enormities, as we have lately seen in a neighbor. ing kingdom, will hasten its over throw. It is impossible that a system, which by villifying every virtue and embracing the patron age of almost every vice and crime, wages a ar with all the order and civilization of the world; which, equal to the establishment of no thing, is armed only with the en ergies of destruction, can long re tain an ascendancy. It is in no shape formed for perpetuity. Sud den in its rise, and impetuous in its progress, it resembles a moun tain torrent which is loud, filthy,. and desolating; but, being fed by no perennial spring, is soon drain ed off, and disappears. By per. mitting, to a certain extent, the prevalence of infidelity, Provi. dence is preparing new triumphs for Religion.-R. Hall. This is the beginningof a 3Indge's charge in Iowa, recently: "Gentle men of the jury, you must now quit eating peauts and attend to the '1 case. 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