Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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South Carolina. A short time since we sent a spe- j tial correspondent from tins office to South Carolina, and the Southern States genet ally, for tlvr purpose of canvssingpublic opinion'in <hose|parts of the confederacy uul reporting the progress oil lie great secession movement 111 that region, which was originally set in motion by tlie abolition fanatics of the North, and which, according to present appearances, is rapidly approaching a crisis. The first of our correspondent's despatch_ i ? ? * es lias already been given, and the last two will be found in our columns to-day. It communicates the important t^ct that the first movement in favor of secession, or revq^jjjnn. iu. the Southern States, will be made in the city of Charleston, by a convocation, or convention, of all the States JKi^nts Associations of South CaroIhm, which is to be held early in the month of May next, for the purpose of discussing the great question of aecessionThe important subject is beginning to "ttract the attention of the whole world. Our readers may rest satisfied that we shall place the earliest ami most reliable intelligence before them connnrtnrl with thin suliioot having made arrangements to procure it by mail and telegraph. We phal] publish in our columns, from time to time, information of the exact position of the public mind of South Carolina, and the Southern States generally, as well as of all the steps tlmt I\n InL'nn nnn In; .- >? wx * iiiw in v/nv Ipy yjllV*^ ill llll' grand national denouement now in proccss of development in that section of the country. The declarations made by Senator Butler, of South Carolina, recently, and those of other public men in that region, at different times, vary more or less in detail, but all unite ou one common ground, thai ol the propriety and necessity of South Carolina seceding from the Union, and setting ail independent nationality, without respect to whether the movement is countenanced In any other Southern State or not. In this, all her speak- i o n/1 ?1 A 1 vto mill JJ111JHU IIIUIl itJireCi ctlHt meir j opinions, accoro! lg to all appearances arc entertained by the great mass of the people. In this region of ihe. country, politicians, as a general thing*scout the idea that Souwf Caff* lina intends to carry into effect the purpose which she has so often avowed to the world; but in doing so, they snow that they do not know the character of the people with whom they are dealing. IS1either do they properly understand the state of affairs at the North, which is urging South Carolina into secession and other Southern States into the same current. They do not comprehend that a dissolution of the Union would ruin theNoith, or that the Southern States, from their vast agricultural wealth, possess the elements of a 1 mighty empire within themselves.? J They do not comprehend that we are j dependent on the South lor our prosperity?that two-thirds of the commercial wealth of the North hangs upon our union with the Southern States, a3 it now exists. The North, regardless of oil these considerations, and apparently reckless of results, persists in a course of policy towards the South, which, if much longer continued, will inevitable produce a dissolution of the Union, and with it the downfall of the prosperity of the North. Notw'distanding the hostility waged against the South, a large portion of the neonle of the St:?tn?. particularly in Georgia and Virginia, are still loyal to the constitution, and are willing, as far as in them lies, to carry it out to the fullest extent. But we cannot close our eyes to the fact . that an immense majority of the people of South Carolina, and large majorities in other Southern States, are fully determined to unite in seceding from the Northern States, at some early day, if the provision of the constitution, relative to the reclamation of fugitive slaves, be not carried out, in an its original strength and vigor, | and according to the intent with which it was framed. The proceed-! ings and debates of the convention j of States Rights Associations, about to be held in Charleston, South Car- . olina, will be probably the most im- ! port ant that have talu|n place in any | part of the country, Tor many years j past, in their affect on the future.? vVe IlflVO flprnr^infflv nnsiflf nvn"/ I _ ? - ? (?"o'j V J preparation to give the public mind in tnifl region, and the North generally, the earliest information of this great movement in the South.?[N. Y. Herald. A. Remarkable Woman. On Thursday last the widow Wilson, of Shij,pen street, Philadelphia, runvi 01 vcpiain Andrew Wilson, was consigned to the . t;ivc in Pine street church-yard. )n an address at Iter funeral, (he Hey. Dr. Brainerd said she was eighty-six years old, and had worshipped in Pine street church before the war of the revolution and over since; that when the British held possession of Philadelphia, they not only converted Mrs. Wilson's church mto a stable, but expelled her j self and family from her dwelling' j southeast corner of (?corge audi South streets, to accommodate British officers ; that, once sailing with , her husband, Mrs. W ilson was captured on the high seas and taken a prisoner to Jamaica, whe her force of will and laniruatre availed to mo tort a good part of her property. 11c might have added, that she was in the receipt of two pensions from the General and State Govern- , : ment: that she kept well posted up in all polit ical affairs, and could J 1- - a _I * .... sKeicn 10 ine prominent politicians ; | , tliat her strength of character was unaffected by years; that she carried .to U'e's close, unchanged \)y contact , toiti ?e\V generations, the poculiarities formed in the early dayh'or our ' land, and the most stormy period of our history. .She was a character at once so unique and resolute, that ; ! she would have been a treasure to the genius of Walter Scott; and we could not allow her to pass from among us without this tribute to her j 1 memory.?[North American, i * i KEOWEE COURIER, I n ? M -- ? - <* <* ? - HUiy O, IBtll. I Tlie Southern Patriot and Mr. Webwter. The Southern Patriot of the 26th i ult., takes nrrasinn in ; * t ""J > V. UIHj meuting on Mr. Webster's speech at I Annapolis: I "The South is greatly indebted to Mr. Webster i for tho bold and patriotic rebuke which he has giuen to the ubolitionists of the North. In this i 1 matter, too,he has made them take 'stepsbackward,' and caused the citizens of Boston to return j the fugitive slaves found amongst them. The w-?-..*? ... i ..... cu-iiui in ins great speecn in tne | Senate 011 this subject attracted tlic admiration of i j Mr. Calhoun, ami caused him to say, as we have ! been informed, that if Mr. Webster settled this ' }) ' tentourf question, the South ought to reward I In. ? with the Presidency." I , The South under obligations to .Mr. Webster! forsooth!? this is i something new and startling, and de- j serves to be stored away carefully among the wonderful discoveries of ( this wonderful age. In all kindness, j we would beg to be permitted to sug- | gest to the Patriot tlie propriety'of I securing the copy-right of tl isoriginI ul or perchance it may be nira-t ted. In the same spirit we would ask why the South should be grateful to Mr. Webster;?but the answer is at hand?'because of the bold and pa iriouc renuKes which he has given to the abolitionists of the North.' Mr. Webster rebuking the abolitionists! how strangely it sounds! how apposite! how well timed! In all the sentences afloat in this wide, wide world, is there one so novel, so startling, so out of the order of things, so pregnant with meaning, so fraught with suggestions as this??'Webster rebuking the abolitionists!1 The creator rebuking the creature for pcrforminor the oflirf* r?f its tirvnl O ? V/.^U.IWUI 1 lie magician rebuking tho evil spirit his spells have conjured up. For is he? not the great magician whose spells have mainly contributed to raise the spirit of abolition which has breathed upon and withered by its pestiferous breath ,u~ - . -r . t tt iuu lui^ui uufjut) l>i our cou'iiry? mrs ! lie not been the great high priest, who for years ministered in its tern pies, day and night feeding the fires that burned 011 its unholy altars? Yes, and in view of the part which he, for years, had acted in reference 1o this matter, when in 1850, he came to Washington to rnnet ihnsA l??*l assembled there in the hope ofaverI ting the ruin which was threatened by the howling tempests of fanaticism, which, gathering in .the North and West, had burst upon the coun, try; well might he have exclaimed witii (he foul spirit in Manfred, "I'm the riiler of the wind, Tlio mirror of tlio utorm; Tito hurricane I've left ljoliind Ib yet with lightning wnrm." ( And now, when he sees that this storm winch no has helped to raise is about to destroy liim and his hopes of power will) the destruction of the Union, because he, prompted by (he instinct of self preservation, seeks to lessen its fury, we tlje victims, for this great favor and condescension on his j ;>art, are to bow in humble rrrntitnrlf*. I ? 4 O and kiss with meek adoration the hem of hit) garment; or at least w.i are expected to hurrah at his heels, and reward him with the Presidency. Reward a man because, after ' having brought a great calamity up- 1 on Jhc country, and after seeing that he is about to suffer in common with wte real, no grows repentant. Suppose some malicious person should, in the night time, when others slept in fancied security, open the , dyfces tind let the ocein in tipon Hoi-,. 1 land; suppose that, when he saw the dark Hood sweeping over his country and knew himself, with the drowning millions around him, about to sink forever beneath the angry waves, ho. ill tho flosnnir nf tl,r? mnmnnl ; ' "X "" v ?> should strive to let down the flood gates and dam lip the boisterous ocean; and then suppose that, when he had fallen into the hands of hi^perishing countrymen, some one should suggest that they ought not topijuish but reward him. because he had?striv on, though irv3 late,'to avert the terrible calamity his own wickedness had wrought. What would the Hollanders think oF suctl ~a "surest Would they not pity, him who made it, as a man who had <mher lost his wits, or as one who was laboring under the unhfliinv imnroBaii-?n ilmi ?>U - - rrv ""f w^.v/M ,1UU 14,1 | Holland had lost its own? Certainly, and so will the Southern people re- j gard those who tell them to cherish sentiment? gratitude for Daniel Webster. Mr. Webster's position in his great speccli on (he compromise is rqferred to. Let ns sco what was that position, and whether it was such an one as the South should admire. We quote from his corrected speech, hear him: "I frimkly avow my entire nnwillingnp** to do any thiugr w. ich s-hitll extend the stftvery of the J ylfricnn p.rc on this continent, or ?</</ other xlavc- I holding States to the Union."?f Amiendix to the i Congressional Globe, page 27H. Here he openly, frankly and boldly avows his fixed purpose to war forever against the further growth of the South, or the further extension of, her power. Aga'n, he denies Mr. , W ihnot's right to tlie credit of the ! authorship of the Proviso hearing , his name, and claims priority of in- i vent ion in himself. "We hear much just now of a panacea for the ! dangers and evils of slavery and slave annexa- ) tion, which they call the ' Vrri!triot Proviso.' That i certainly is a iust sentiment, but it ia not a sentiment to found any new party upon. It is not a sentiment on which Massachusetts Whigs differ. There is not a man in this hall who holcU to it more firmly than I do, nor one wlio adheres to it more than another. "i ftivi some ilitlc interest In this matter, ?!> , Did not I commit myself in 1887 to the whole doctrine, fully, entirely i ilnd I must be permitted to say. that I cannot quite couscnt that more recent discoverers should claim the merit and tnkc out a patent. "I deny (ho prioriiy of their invention. Allow iric to Bay, sir, it is not their thunder. * * "We are to use the first, and last, and every occasion which offers, to oppose, the extension of slave power. "But 1 speak of it here, as in Congress, as a political question?a question for statesmen to act upon. We must so regard it. I certainly do not mean to say that it is less important in a moral point of view?that it is not more important in many other points of view; but, as a legist ?tor, or in any official capacity, I must look at it, consider it, and decide it, as a matter of political action," In the same speech he says, thai if j (he Wilmot Proviso should be pro-! posed in connexion with a hill provi- ( cling governments for JNew Mexico and Utah he should "vote against it." And why would he , ote against it? because the proviso would work injustice to the South? because il would be wronu" and o J nv:i of her equality with the other sections of the Union, and to exclude her from those territories which she by her blood and treasured, poured out on the fields of Mexico, contributed to buy? O, no, far from it. He saw notmng to condemn in the roblinrv lint lm ?"> '* ..v. j , .>..1 uiy urn iiui uiiihim: i'j IIISIIII when lie could not injure her. Slavery had heen prohibited in those territories by the laws of nature, and he did not choose to re-enact the ordinances of God ! Hut whenever a blow conld be made lo take effect on the interest of the South, then was he ready to strike with might and main ; whenever the Wilmot Proviso could he made effective then i wai he ready to npply it. Head and I r sue: u wc misrepresent him : "Air, wherever thero in a particidnr good to be done?wherever there i? a font nf land to he Htaid hack from becoming slave territory?I nm ready to assert the principle of the exclusion of slavoI ?l ? I 1 ?- ' .j. . ..... piun^uii mi 11 irom ino year 1887; I have been pledged to it again and again; and I will perform those pledgee; but I will not don thing unnecessary, that wound* the feeling* of other*, or tlmt doea diKgrnco to tny own understanding."?|appendix to Congressional Globe, vol. 2, p. 274. And this is iho position Mr- Calhoun i? mid to have admired, and this is the statesman whom, according to ' the notions of the Patriot, we should love and reward. But is not the Patriot getting into very strange company when it speaks so lovingly of a Presidential aspirant who has long been the chamnion of forlorn!??>??*? -j ? ~ .vMvuninin the right-arm of Nortliern whiggery, nnd the unflinching opponent of everything Democratic or Southern ?? Wo think so, verily; but at the same time, we suppose that with national oofitician* every other consideration < must yield lo the interests 61 a National Party. If wo do the Patriot injustice we will hasten to correct ourself. Bishop Hughs.?Bishop Hughs io r>nl I... .. 1: J - r. _ II ojiui iu uo a vtuuilim rtllt'l' It II, SO il seems, The Pope aftd his Council Propaganda Fidoi, having concluded io consult the American Bishops upon the propriety of introducing the dignity of Cardinal into the American branch of the Roman Catholic church, and they having decided a Hgumsi me policy oi creating' a Cardinal for tliis country. Benton's Defeat at St. Louis. ---In recent election in the city of St. Louis for municipal officers, which turned upon the question of Beiitoti or no Benton\ tho. Rp.nton nmtv mot wilh a signal defeat. Papers of the most abandoned caste were issued by the Union Office, and circulated gratuitously, for sonic time previous to the election; nothing, in short, was left undone which depravity could suggest or desperation perform to ralTy the election, but it was all in vair; Benton had ceased to be the idol of his people. I Death of Com. Kuitoti.?Commodore James Barrou, senior Captain in thd i/tkjjUKl Slates Navy, died at his residence in the city of Norfolk, Va., on the k23d ult., in the 83d year of his age. Gen. Wallace.?This distinguished rri>nll(>ni!tii cuiic ilia ! ?* ?.Vf ? nv>'uiliu?1 uoj VJ IIIC * ITtlllll'IW I'lUS" scnger, arrived in the neighborhood of Pendleton a few day age. It is said that the object of this gentle* man's visit is to look at sonic lands on Seneca River, with a view of making a settlement. Cuban Expedition.?President Fillmore has issued his proclamation warning American citizens under pain of the severest punishment not to join any hostile expedition against w> _ - vuuic v* e presume mai tne expeditionists if caught this time, need scarcely hope for protection from this Government. - tm ? ? We have received the Addressde livered by Dr. Certis before the Teachers' Association in Columbia. Frost.?There was frost seen in this place on the niorninfr of vftRirr. O J ,v" day. Sumner the Freesoiler, was on the 25th ballot elected Uniled States 'i? ... iI/in me oiau; 01 iviassaclinselts, having received 74 votes. As poor Sims, stepped on board the brig Acorn, on his way to slavery lie exclaimed, with streaming eyes, 'This is Massachusetts liberty! ? What a dream then vanished a from the bright eyes of that heroic boy!?Coi mon-wealth. The idea is suolime and the lan l--a . uuiy icHi'iigi Dm 10 consider I luil i ho 'heroic boy' was a smart lad of bright molasses hue, who danced and sang after he was taken on board the briff, in infinite glee at having escaped (lie rascally importunities of the abolitionists, very much of the sublimity of the idea and lachrymose style of language is lost. The beauft/ fit/* K ? v v, me; ot.niiiitJin, nowuver, sum remains.?liottton Timet. Pnhlic attention has been greatly excited in Constantinople, by the discovery of nn immense treasure of Greek manuscripts, of the highest an-1 linnilu fiMttxl t?> " ?J * r j . iuuiiu njf n;?i null vjrrCK OI tlie name of Simonides,in a cave situared al the loot of Mount Athos. According to 1 his account, the importance of this discovery is incalculable, since it brings to light a vast quantity of celebrated works mmta/i l>y various ancient writers, and hith erto deemed entirely lost. Tlieyfuriinh, as may be imagined, an extensive list of proper names calculated to throw great light upon many oh scure periods ot history. Ami>ng| these precioiii volumes, which are composed of very thin membranes, (ihe naUtrc of which is not stated) filled with characters, some are cal culated to f^ive a complete interpretation of hieroglyphic writing?the fortunate discoverer having already successfully applied them to tho inior. . ? - - - ? nrolation of tne inscriptions engraved on (he obelisk of the Hippodrome at Constantinople. A fnmnln iTVY~.ii ,u...u.v nntci sajfa< "looming looks worse on a lady than darned stockings.1 Allow us to observe that stockings which need darning look much worse than darned ones. Fights in rrroa shops are now call cd 'spiritual knockings.' From the Pendleton Messenger, 1st iost. General Wallace. We have been kiiullv permitted uy a menu, to make the lollowing ex ; tract from a letter received by him a short time since, from General Wallace, on the subject of the course to he pursued by South Carolina. It speaks for itself, and needs no comments at our hands. Gen. Wallace thinks as a lYeemati should, and spunks.??.statesman ought. lIn youY4ottcrof the 31st tilt, you ask iny views ou Federal relations. In reply I have to say. that my opinions have underwent no change from the beginning of the controversy until now. NVfi'&re doomed if we | remain in the anH'T ahi'fb'lr ! going out of it, by the shortest road. | The highest aim, and the highest | remedy, is a Southern Confederacy. If we cannot get this co-operation, I am for acting decisively without it; and believing a dissolution of the Union inevitable, I am in favor of entering at once into an energetic system of preparation, with a view to put the State in a position to resume >11/1 ?? * I i ? ....u iv 111 (itutct 111 n?r independence* and to take her rank -among the nations of the earth, as a separate and independent State.. A Slate is respected in exact proportion 1o its ability to defend its rights with the sword. 'The money appropriated at the last session of the Legislature, would nnnnln no It' ?-?? ? -1-1 * - .? |?i"|iviij v;AjjgiuU"Ui lO bring twenty thousnnd men into the held, for we had seven UioOsapcl muskets and eighty pieces ofcannon before. Every dollar of this money should he spent in the purchase of j arms, and the Governor ought to he al)le to ronnrt lr? ?!,<? i,?vt ~c ...V. UV.AI oinaiwil (Jl ihe Legislature?sWe have twenty thousand muskets and small arms, one hundred and twenty pieces of caution and tee can bring twenty thousand men into the Jield at a moment s warning This would look business like?warlike if you will, and it would tell upon the public'mind in the State and abroad, for it whnlrl InoL- lil-o ??/*. . , _. . . .wv??4 nno UU til U in earnest. It would tell too, upon the Cabinet in Washington. You will perceive, therefore, tiiat I do not approve the building of an armory now. This is too slow, and we have not the money to spare. This step should have been reserved for amort* advanced stage of our progress.? What we want now is to be prepared at once, so that we ronld say to the Uonveuiion when it meets: 'if war I comes oft/our action ice are prepared to meet it." If the people, will not act thus, my word for it, they never will secede. If we gam Confidence?if we command 1 ho respect of the United States and of foreign nations, v e must show them that we can and will maintain our independence. It is idle to close tho e)es to the fact, that without military power we can I not maintain our independence. If we would preserve peace?if we would avoid bloodshed, we must show t at we are not 10 be assailed with impunity, and that having the I sword we know how to wield it. Wo ought to choose agents now, not for what they know, hot because they can solve a problem in Euclid, but for wlmt they are able to perform, in giving energy and effect to the resources of the State, to prepare her for a separate and independent existence. 'My motto is thon?prepare, prepare, and then act! Willi company if you c.?n get it; if not then act without it, for I know no more terrible doom Mian that which awaits us in j the Union, and to go out of it cannot | make our condition any worse,audit may be better i , A Flnri/ln nlnnlnf "' >< me conclusion of a letter of business, writes to us as follows: j 'Send the Mercury on. I believe ' in its doctrines, and hope to see the clay when South Carolina will relieve herself from the odium and disgrace under which the Southern States are now living, and if you need help, sound the tocsin, and hundreds and thousand will flock to her standard from the surrnnn.lin<? .n " llto Men nnd money will be forthcoming to the extent of your necessities.? One muakrit is hereby tendered.' Mercury. 'Long, Low, Black'?Steamer'? TheBaltimoreans were considerably excited, a day or two smce, in consequence of a suspicious looking steamer, the nnmo of *?" ?? . _ w. h sacyt-T wnn iiui re- l cognizec, entering Hamplon Koads, on Thursday night, and after commu nicating with the p.hore, lea ing again with a large number of men on board. Cuba? San Domingo? or where? Kxpress. Growing fungi, so soft tnat they can be crushed net ween the finger and inumh, have been known to lift out of the ground flag-stones, which a strong man could not move without a leve*. Man issaid to he a bundle of hab its. What then is woman. From the National Intclligeiiccr. Ifty the President of the V. 8. A PROCLAMATION. , I Whereas 1here is reason to believe that a Military Expedition is about j to be fitted out in the United States with the intention to invade the Island of Cuba, a colony of Spain, with which this country is at peace; aoch whereas, it is l>elieved thaf this expeJUi - - '* * union is instigated unci sot on foot chiefly by foreigners, who dare to make our shores the scene of their guilty and hostile preparations against a Friendly Power, and seek, by falsehood and misrepresentation, j to seduce our own citizens, especially ine younff and inconsiderate, into Hheir wicked schemes?aji ungrateul return &>iv 0ve" benefits conferred upon tFiemoy tins people in permitting them to make our country an asylum from oppression, and in flagrant abuse 6f the nosnitnlitv <l?i? - _| -j ??auO V/AIUH' i (led to them: And whereas, such expedition can only be regarded as adventures for plunder and robbery, and must meet the condemnation of the civilized' world, whilst they are derogatory !o the character of our country, in violation of the laws of nations, and expressly prohibited by our statutes* which declare Slint if nnw ...... mm HIIJ |/UIOUia shall, within the. territory or jurisdiction of the United States' begin or set on foot, or provide or prepare the means for any military expedition or enterprise, to be carried on from thence against the territory or dominions of any Foreign Prince or State, or of any colony, district or people, with whom the United States are at iu>ann ? ?? ^ 1 v-n-iji pi;iauil eu UIK'llUing snail be deemed guilty of a high misdemeanor, and shall he fined not exceeding thrree thousand dollars, and imprisoned not more than three years:* j Now, therefore, I have issued this | my Proclamation, warning all nerj sons who shall connect tnemselves ; with any such enterprise or expedii tion, in violatif n of our laws and na: tional obligations, that they will ' a I I , uiereuy sunject themselves to the I heavy penalties denounced against ; such oneflfces, and will forfeit their I claim to the protection of this Govj ment, or any interference , behalf, no matter to what extremities they may bo reduced in conseouence of their illegal conduct; and* therefore, 1 exhort all good citizens, as they regard our national reputa I uon, as iney respect their own latvs and the laws of nations, as they valJ | ue the blessings of peace and the welfare of their country, todiscoun| tenance, and by all lawful means prevent, any such enterprise, and I call ! ^ 1 ' mjjuii wvory omcer 01 tins uovtjvnment, civil or military, to use all efforts in his power to arrest/or trial and punishment, every such offender against the laws of the country. (iiven under my hand and seal the twentv-fiflh flnv nf A i\r'?l '>? ^ r ?#. ill * IIC# year of our of our Lord, one thouj sand eight hundred and fiflyfone* and the seventy-fifth of the Inde| pendenoe of the United Statos. I MILLARD FILLMORE. By the President: \V. S. Derrick, Act. Sec. of Stat? mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmemam DlP.n. fit Wf?ut lT*.tr.r? " ? "U'1- : * , ... .. V/IMUII1 Ull AOIII |l)Hl> at 3 o'clock, A. M., Mrs. Martha Josephine* wife of Maj. William S. I Grisham, aged twenty-one years, two ' months, and nine days. Her illness lasted about six weeks, and was very severe. She has left a husband, many relatives, and numerous friends to 1 *? ... luuni men ioss. riaving lived at West Union only a few years sho gained for herself the esteem of all her acquaintances,?and truly they who knew her best loved her most. In every relation of life she was amiable, affectionate and kind ; as a christian, sho livuri;" and alwc 8 recommended the reli/srion sho and enjoyed, by a pious deportment and well ordered conversation. As she lived so dht> uiou?*Ul? of faith, and in full assurance of a blessed immortally. Her, sun sunk not Mind a cloud, but a star in .tui!heaven she seemed, shined away by the brighter glories of the iis'mg sun. She often spoke during ber illness of her approaching dissolution, Oh calmness and with confidence that she was going to Ki better world, ami when the final hour cams she twfet the King of Terrors with becoming Christian fortitude, breathed ber last ? ?*? ??' ~ iVin* * ?? ?* ?#? Tf mivwi <* nil JIBCI ICH asleep in Jesus. >V "Friend afte* friend departs? ; w Who haa not loci a frtend! ' There ?e no onion here of hearta * * Thfrt finds not here An end. *? Wore this frttil world nur final reVt^Mk' Living or dyiug none were Most, ! ?;. {-V .vjf <|h Thiwetar byrtardeclfooa, Till nil aro pawod away, Afl morning high aiwl higWr ohiiiiw. ^ ; To pure and |>oricct day; Hi ?*f3- . ' '<*- - t- - i^wr Minn mtstuur in empty aiight, But bide? hsclf ?o Heaven's oyt\\ light." [Cotn.