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THE BRIDAL EVE. BY OAK riNTIl. TU th? night before the bridal, And to-morrow *he murt wear The emblem* of affection Amid her 'unny hair, But not the orange blossom*. Nor the diamond's co<tly blaze, Can give her back the brightncHs Of her girhood'a happy day p. Tu the night bcrure tho bridal? There are no sounds of glee, And the young ones are c'.inging Around their father's lmee; Their smiles arc changed to sorrow, Now the morrow is so near, That must part them, and forever, From their gcutlc sister dear, Tis the r.ight before the bridal? *1. .1,.-i.:.i <re?j, uw iiui vuiuv iivi ivwin, Tis no slight pang to sev<>r From the friend* of earlier yetirr To leave (hat homo forever, When all seems bright, and bless'd, Where all was mirth ami gladness, And a mother's pmile care3?'d. SING THAT SONG AGAIN TO-NJGIIT. OH I pint/ (lint enmr nomin tnniirht o O ?O 0~* The Fong of other years; They'll bring ognin fome past delight, Inrun^hinu and in tenr>; They gild the gloom of present cares? They tell of joys to come; Then sing the nong of other years, Of friendship and of home 1 Oh? sing the song vro mo.l to sinj In youth's uneloudod day, When like thn birJU of early spring, Wecarrolo.1 hour* away! When life was like a rainbow beam? A mj of golden light. A zephyr o'er n w ivelois streamAn ocean ofdelight My heart is pad?then *ing to mc The songs wo Iovofo well, The pleasing thoughts they bring to me No feeble words can tell; But sing of pleasures nnd of pain?, In some melodious lay; And touch the lute to nonsive strains? I would not have tliem gay. There is a pathos in thy voice ? A sadness in thy tone, That makes the weary heart rejoice? A sweetness all thine own. Then Ring the song wo loved fo well, And sing them o'er and o'er; I ever fcol the magic spoil Of those sweet songs of yore. A PIEOE OF LEG A L~ADVICE. Rennes, the ancient cnpitol of Brittany, is a famous place of law. People come from the extremi.ies of the country to get information and ask ndvice. To visit Rennes without getting a i vice appears impossible to a Breton* This wna true at the latter end of the last centu'v, just as it is at present, and rapt-cully among the country people who art! a timid and cautious race. Now it happened one day that a farmer named Bernard. havini? come to Ren nes on business, bethought himself that ns he had a few hours to spam, it would he ^ell to employ them in get ling (he advice of n ijood lawyer. lie hnd often he ?rd of Monsieur Potior de la Oermodaie who was in such high repu'e, that people believed nl'iwsuit gained when he undertook their cause. The countryman enquired for hi> address, and proceeded to his house in i?ue St. The clients were numerous, nnd Peinnrd hnd to wait some timo. At length i is turn arrived. and he was introduced. M. Potior de la Gennodiue signed him to bp seated, then tnkiP{r?flF his spectacles, and placing them on hi* desk, ho requested to know his husines*. "Why. Mr, lawyer." said the, firmer, twirling his hat. "I h tve h'*ard so much about, you, that as I have come to ftennes, I wish to take the opportunity of consuming you." "I thank you for your confidence, mv friend, you wi.h to bring nn act'oa, perhaps?"* "An action! Oh, I hold that in abhorrence! Never his Pierre Bernard had a word with any." "Then if. is a settlement?a division of property?" "Excuse me, Mr. lawyer; my family and I have never made a d:vision, seeing that we nil draw from the b mo well, as thev sav." "Well, is it to negotiate a purchase or a sale?" "Oh, no; T am neither ric'> enough to puv*ha?e nor p^or enough to sell!" "Will you tell me, then, what you do want of m*'.'" satfl me lawyer in 8urp-;?e. "Whv, I have already told you, Mr. ltwver," replied D T?nrd, "I want your adviee?for pavnacnt, of course, as I nm well able to jrve it to vnu, nnd I don't wish to lose this opportunity.*' M. Potior too'c a pen nnd paper, nnd anlced the country .win Hs name. "Plerrj Bernard," replied the latter, 3mite happy that he waa at length une?*tood. "Your a^eT" "7Mrty years, or very nenr ir." "Your vocation?" "My vocation! Oh, tbat mean* what 2 do. Inmn farmer." The lawyer wrote (wo line?, folded the paper, mid handed it to hid strange client. "Is it finished nlreuly? Well nnd ijood. Whnt is the price of that advice, ! Mr. lawyer?" -.'1*1. . * . C #? -1 nrce mines. Bernard paid the money. and took hi* leave delighted that he hud taken advantage r?f his opportunity. When he reached home it war. four o'clock, the journey had fatigued him, 1 and he det ?rmine 1 to rest himself the rv mninder f the day. In the ne m time the hay had been two days rut. and was completely saved. One of the working men enme to ask if jtuhould be drawn iu. "What, this evenng exclaimed the farmer's wife, who had come in to meet her husband. "It would be a pity to commence the work so lite, since it can he done to-morrow without nny inconvenience. The man objected that the weather nrght change; that the horses j were id) re :dv ard the men idle. Hut : the f irmer'js wife rejled that t'ie wind | was in a good quarter and that niirht would set before their w .rk could he completed. Bernard, who had been 'istening to the argument, was uncertain which way to decide, when suddenly recollected that he had a lawyer's advice in his pocket. 14\V7:.it ti minn'n " lm r?v/?l have an advice, and n famous on?? too, that 1 paid three francs for, ir, ouy'it to tell us what to do. Hun*. The csa, see what it says; vou can rend wiiitcn hand hett.-'r than I." The woman took the pipe", nnd tead thi- line:?"Never pur off till to-morrow what ma>/ be dove to-ilai/.'' " That's it," exclaimed Bernard, struck with a 8udd<-n ray of light?"Come, he <)iiick: uet tho carts and away; hoys and girl-, all lo the hay-field!" His wife ventured a few mo *o ohjeo i..., i._ J...I i 1.. i?i iuiiif>, nut in; urri/in'u mat nu iriti 1101 bought n tinee. francs opinion to make no uso of i', and lie would follow tlic I iwyer'sndvice. He himself set. the example hv taking t.ho lead in the wo.k. and not returning (ill the hay was brought in. The event seemed to piove the wisdom of his conduct, for the weather changed during the night; an unexpected storm burst ov. r the valley, and the next n?<? ning it was found that the ii<er had overflowed and cirried away all the hay that had been left in the fields. The crops of the mighboring farms were completely destroyed. The success of this lir.-t expeiience gave him such fait1- in the advice of n lawyer, that from that day forth Ik* ndopted il na a rule of hi** conduct, and became, by his order and diliij nee, one of the richest farmers in the country. He never fo-got the service done him bv M. Potier de 1:? Germonunie, to whom h ! afterwards carried n couple of his finest fowls every year us a token of grati.ude. From the L"ioishur/ (Pa.,) Chronicle. CESAR'S I1EAD. VuMn/l rtWi I ViantilSfiil no L tl*/* eAoiSrtnti I of the United St iles, the c arc still many of its most sti iking and magnificent features that repose in almost primeval solitilde, unknown to the world at I irg', and hut lit tie appreciated hy the few scattered settlers who have chanced to locate in their vicinity. An yllpine precipice in South Onroiiiv, heating the n; me which hen. s thi .article, (deri\c*d from a fancied resemblance of a portion of the rock to a lutnvin countenance,) furnisher a remark' aMe illustration of this f.ict. A glance at the map of thU section, will show the reader that the Alleghenies bound that .State on the north-west, and in places extend several miles over the line. From the foot of the Blue Ridge, as itis there called, eastward to the shore of the Atlantic, the count*y Uan inclined plane, of gradual and uniform descent for two-third" of the way, when it becomes low and level, and covered with pine forests. T'le upper part is rolling and diversified, but presents no high hills or mountain lidjres, a>id is covered with for i'sU of oak, hickory and short-strowed pines. Up near the mountains hut a few scattere 1 plantations appear to break the wildnes* and uniformity of the scene, and they fi-om ten to fifteen and twenty n lien apart. We may remark, in passing, that it is in this remo'e region, a few miles from Pendleton Court IIou*e, that the 1 lmentcJ JrUn C. Calhoun had fixed his residence Not far.from Greenville, nnd projecting from tho south side of the Blue Ridge, is the celebrated Table Mountain, with its rockv crest lifted to the criddv In i?rht of twelve hun lred feet. It hna hitherto been the centre of attraction for fttrang -vs and travellers, wiio, of course, frid their way to it from the lower countrv, and a* they do not happen to come down over the mountains from ihe north-west, go way in total igno-ance of the incomp'triiably pf eater magnificence of its near neighbor, Crtsar's Head, all the while in full view, hut its peculi ir attractions generally unknown and therefore unvi-ited. But reverse the point of approach, and let, the vi-i?er come leisurely on foot, a1* did our informant, Mr. M., in November last, down thrru^h the picturesque and romantic valley between the ridges of the ??w??????^fcaay Alleghcnies from the Virginia line in Ashe county, North Carolina, towar s Pickens Cou I IIou?c, in South Carolina, ai d he will stumble in hi* way upon scenery that in scope 'uid sublimity has no parallel in the known world, and once looked upon v ill i)i: ireJi^umi iiir iit-iwis best nv-moies until celestial gloiies burst upon lile'rt purling vision. Passing tbus idong the valley, you leave Black 3/bunt .in 011 your lert, lif ing i's rounded cone above the el >ud.?, densely (l>thed to the wry t?>p with the balsam fir-tree, which gives it nn aspect dark as night, wr hout i.s starry nrigluneKs | A slio't distance south of Ashville you have a fine view of the Blue Uidge on ihe I e ict, and on the west, and the dista ee of fltipft* niilnc iivwl in Kti il'inrv nnnfrutf lliu lofty peak* of the I in Mountains meet voureve, tin*!'- nvnth* of balsari firs giving them a hue of nlmost ebon blackness. Thu whole valley i?'s bi<fh, but heyorid /A-nrlerson, (where Mr. M. was info-mod in a vn^uo, indifferent way that a pretty ?;ood \iew could be bad fiom a place on his route called Caspar's Head, and of which ho had not before heard.) the , co ntrv ri<ea pradualiv, but as Mr. M. j s:ii i. without indications of nnv gre;tt ele- | vat ion, except the temperature, sparse , vegetation and slun'od growth of the | pines, until ihc? narrow foot-path turned . off rather abruptly to the left, and after , proceeding a few rods, an op ning in t'-o ' trees on 'ho ight gave liim n glimpse of scenery of su o iling extent and beauty. 7urning off ;i few steps from the path, appearances induced him to move guardellv. //e pi iced his hut on the ground wi h a stone in i\ to keep it there, nnd moving along on his hands nnd knees among the rocks nnd boulders* that lav scattered n'ourd, with a strong nortieaster blowing nt his Uick. he suddenly found himself on the pe ilou. edge of a precipice of primitive t o-k two thousand eight lain Ired feet above the level of the country In-low?the fi st thousand feet as perpendicular as a plumet could have made i*, nnd the remainder rough, nigged and p ecipitious. And wlu-ta p o * I * I... I . ,? 1 i i it peci i.iv su-?u?neu oiu ncm c nun! lie j sail ih.'it if ever ejaculations of prayer and adoration went up horn r.is heart to the /llmiglitv, it was at tlint moment. /Ill the I uul-viewa coml ined that lut had ever looked upon, and the Miblimest scenes he had ever encountered upon the ocean wave could notcompnie with theamaaing panorama (hat now met his startled S 2"' . (/lose in to the light at a distance of ten miles, you look down up n 7'able Mountain, while beyond, in the same diicc i?-n, the Blue Ridge heilds around westward until it soon recedes from view. In front, eve and brain fii lv ieel as thev * J attempt to measure the dizzy depth* helow, whee the early fiost h s linprotJ the leaves with crimson tind gold. I'o the left, the mountain you stand on passes on out of night to the north-eiwi. Thvn, from centre to circumference, sweeping that vast semi-fiinle with n radiu?of ninety miles, so far oil i??o the dim blue distance that th3 eye falters in its flight, you look upon a seemingly illimitable, shore V 1,1 3 goi'geous autumnal robes, threaded here nnd there hy silver streams, and reposing in the. mellow sunlight as still and pulseless ns an KM en sabbath?with no break in the hoison, no c oud to dim the sky above, nnd no high hill* or mountain gor ge? 10 dist urb t lie unifoi niity be ow. ylfter lingeiing for hours over tliU scone of entrancing beauty, our f iend found his way, bv n circuitous dang rous route of throe miles to tin* foot of the mniml'iSh rtn/1 * moi** ! .? ...1.1. -- II...UMIMMI, r|n III VI V ?llll 11 hospitable pi inter. lie lieie learned that an officer of the Ame<icnn navy who h id travelled extensively in Europe and Mexico, as well as in the United State*, had a short time before visited that neighborhood, and after scaling botji lhwe el.vat ions, assured his host that in all hU travels he lvid never found scenery that could at all compare with the transcendent beauty and suhlimi y of the prospect r rw i Mill V/WOIU S (It'IlU. Ruins of nn ancient C'al[fomia City.? Antiquaries will fee! deeply interested in the discovery of vast regions of ancient ruins near San Diego, and within a day's march of ihe Paclf.O Oeenn, at the head of tbo Gulf of Cali ornia. Portions of temples, dwelling*, lofty stono pyramids (<even 01 these within a mile squnre.) and m m-ive granite rings or ci-cular walls round venerah'.u tiees, columns nnd blocks of hieroglyphics, all speak of some ancient race of men, now forever gone, tin ir history actually unknown to any of the existing f imilios of mankind In so .e points, these ruins resemble the recently discovered cities of Pulonque, t - ? - - " * ?c., nour tne Atlantic or Mexican Gulf roust; in others, the ruins of ancient Egypt: in o'hera, again, the monument of Phoenicia, and vet in many features they differ from nil that I have referred to. I observe that tho discoverers deem them to l>e antediluvian, while the present Indi ins have a trad i'Ion of n great civilized n?iion, which their fe-ociou- forefathers utterly destroyed. Tho iegion of ruins U called by tho Indians "the Vulley of Mystery.? Wtimer's Chronicle. Do kb jrou would be done by. A Daughters Love.?There is tio one so slow 'o note the follies or sins of n father as i .laughter. The wi'e of his bo- ' o*>m mny fly hi horror from his embrace, j but his fair-haired daughter cleaves to ( him io boundless chat i'y. Quickened by the visitation of the pmn to the pater -al dwelling, lu-r prnvers are mo e brief but iiKiic ??nrnost?ln?r i fTu'ls <1< ublrd mid untilinir?nnd if s-he can hut win a (ranscient smile from thai sullen and gloomy ] face, she is paid. Oh, how richly p lid! | for all her sleepless cares and unceasing ( lab<>'8. The father may sink from deep to deep?from a lower to a lower depth, J Satan's kinsman and Satan's prey?those , who in a happier hour received I irgelv of ' his benefactions may start wl en they !? - ' hold his shadow, nnd accelerate their ( pace to gel hevond it: all, all may for. ( sake him?God, the wo id; /11, hut the | de*il; and his daughter. Poor child! if thou ennst not save, thv feeble torch, j made as bright as thv power can make it. , thiowi ?t lcr.s' i flickeiing light upon the , p itli, till the object of thy unquenclmhle , affection has Or ever left thee, and is ] uhrcuded in thick daiknesp; and when undone, when gon?? ftom thee and ijone for. \ ( e\er, though tliou mayest wed thy eailv |, love, and know in hi:n ;dl thv young, fund , heart pictured, vetagrin and iig.;in, in the midst of thy pl iei<i joy, oven with tiie smiling infant on thv knee, the lost one will not he all fo-gotten! Seeing the past as it wee only vestmd iy, forceful of thy little d irling, thou wilt ex-d iim, j from the denths of t'iv ever mindful unit i ' nflcctionatc spiri.: "My father, oh! my ? father!" Rorr.?At a very excellent hotel, not a hundred miles fioin rnr parts, they . were one cl-iy short of a xvniter, when a i ( newly arrived Hibernian was hastily 1 made to supi ly the pi .ce of a more cx- 1 p ,-t hi nd. ! "New, Barney," says mine hos', ' 'mind you t-eive eveiy man with soup, 1 anv how." "TV dad I'll do that same," said the aler* Barney. Roup crimp on the ?tar?, and Barney, 1 afte* helping nil l.ut one guest, came upon the last one. "Roun, sii?" "No." "But you must Itnve i?," said Barney; II H IMP rUKHI or tilt* Hoiw." "Damn I lie housr," cxcl.iim^d the ! guest, highly ex tspewted: "when 1 don't want fi< up, I won't eat k?get along with you." "Well," sni;l Barney, wi:h great solemnly. "all I can say is just tlii ; its the regulation* of tlu* house, nnd dutnv the (Iron elsr t/e'll III ye fiui.-h the soup!" The traveller gave ie, and th? eoup was gobbled. In a large city lik?; New York people very generally mind their own business, ano do not peep into their neighbor's key-holes. One of those houses which contain many fan ihes, w ts discovered to he on fire in the lower story, pome time ego. The watehman rapped loudly at thrdr.O'. A tenant in the fourth story looked out of tho window, nml nsked what whs wanted. "Your house i? on fire. The first story is ?ll in a blaze," c i -d th.e watchman. "Very well,"said the tenant, drawing in his hi a 1, "lell tho people who live there. I is none of my bus:noss, as I occupy t?-,e fourth story." A lady ii? Chester was ashed to join tho Daughters of Temperance. She replied. 'It & unneeessniy, as it is my intention to join one of the ' ons noon.' /SgrTllE friends of the Hon. A. Ev ins announce liiin as n candidate f' r reelection to jeprerent the people of Pendleton District in the State Sennte. MANY FRIENDS. April 2nd, 1850. NOTICE. Those indebted to me previous to the 1st of January last, are requested to make immediate payment as in ulgence cannot be extended. A. M. FOLGER. M -eh 0.1800, 42 tf SOUTH <:Al*ni.iiVA~~ PICKETS DISTRICT. Tyre L Roper, <fe \v?f?* Melindn Roper Applicants; VI. Wm. Edens. . Mexander Edens, Pascal So tfhcrlund <? wife Esther SOtifkc-laiid Jcs f Adams and tone Polly Adan>4, D?fen 'ant*, for the wile of ihe Real Estate ofSimuei Edcim deo'd, And it appearing that .le*?e Adnms, and wife, Polly, re-?ide without the limits of thix State. It in therefore ordered that they do nppe.ir within three month* from the date hereof < or their conAent to said dait will be tr.kcn ns confessed. W. D. STEELE, o. p. ?. 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