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'- ]l ' " - .' ' '-'"'l-'. j' ' ' ' ' "- ' ' 1,1 " I.'-.. ' ' 1 " "'* "" """"" """ " ' '? ? ' ' " ? ' .1 .. I!'..! . .1 I ? ' 1 1 1 ' " ' ' *' '' ' ' , _ "To thlipe ?mii m'I( !><> (mr, :nt?l IC IllKSt IoMom, :* ; llio lh? ?l?y, (lion Cll^t nol !>?< ful?v ???y BY KOH'T. A. THOMPSON?., PICKENS COURT HOUSE, S. C. SATURDAY, MAY 9, 1857. ' vm vtt. v? ^ELKorts:'D ipty&rni, . Flowers. They spring'unni'tircil OhJ unknown, j 'Mill roi-ky wil<ln t'nj.y UJ<Wr). > Tlioy tlmn i.-'h 'iriiil tho ilqsert lone, ) They dock tliu oiliMit tomb. "They cljcer (lie pe&fnnt's lowly cot, Adftrn the monarch's luilJ, Tlioy till each qplet shady epot-r- . On! who cim tell them nil ? Sonic o'er the ttiufniTring streamlets flirtg Their blossoms bright ami fa'r. .And there, in vernal beauty,spring, Kantied by the fragrant air. Son\o lioath tlio ocean's rolling waves tn silent grandeur grow. Nor head the storm which A'er thorn raves Hutfitili in boauty blow. And where the oagle builds her neat, Where man has never trod, WIntro even the chamois dafo not rest, I'pon tlio crumbling sod? Yi'k, there, even there, wild tlow'rcfs grow, in ru-nest, uresn arfnydjj, And o'er tlit clamorous ( oglots.tlir.ow Their light and graceful ajjude. 'Mid mountains of perpetual snow, JJy icy jririiles bautui, Some reniWed doubly beauteous, glow, kAinl deck the fro*eti ground. And 'iniil coM winter's angry storm The "enow drop rears its lie/id, Anil shows its pure "unspotted form When other flowers have tied. Some on the breeze of niijht. Their grateful odors serfd: While others, children of the light, To day their perfume lend. Some bloom beneath the torrid 7.ono. 'Neath India's sultry skies; 'iliil Iceland' ciiiil and lono, The to- nr 6t other* vino. Tho stately Corn, tho g"ly?fuun?om, Tho lilty, tall and fair?? All tliOHo in rioli succession bloom And scen^ tfie summer air. In secret dell and rnurm'ring rill? In frardetui bright and gay? W|tliin tho valluy?on tho hill-? l'luwors cheer our toilsomo way! Flowers imngo "fprtli tlio boundless lovo Hod liiMirn 1)Su plulilfpn nil "WJhcIi over droppoth from aliovo Upon the great and small? Knoli blossoln that adorua our path, 80 joyful ami so fair. Is hut 11 driVp of love divine, ff That fell mid flourished there. mmsLumV. Our Country's Mission?Speech of Hon. Caleb Cushing;. On Thursday Inst, II011. (Jalob Cushing, lato Attorney General of the U. States, arrived at his home in Nowburyport, Mass., i and was received with imnrv<?n<Y onrnmn. I - I? nies, Mayor Davenport welcomed hi in in a brief speech, to which Mr. Cushing replied in 0110 of iho grandest ell'prts, it has ever been our fortune to listen to' or lo read. Wc would gladly publish his remarks entiro, if our limits allowed ; but must content ourselves with the following eloquent extracts. It was tny fortune, not niajiy years ago, to trnvni-SA tlio l'licidn fWon tic _ - mvu.v? yuwau iii ico wkium i expanse from the Continent of Asia to that I of America. We launched forth upon it I in our frail hark as Columbus did on the j Atlantic, with nothing save it, not to speak I oftoinn'? picaenuv, in tlmi ^ruat worhj-of sea and skv. It may have been that some i solitary, daring Imntor of the seas, from New Bedford or Nantucket, chased the whale in the distant bays of Kamschatka or the ANfetian Islands, or that some litwsian coasted along the Straits of Betiring from the Asiatic to the Aniorican Siberia ; jiui, oiiierwisu, ironi mo oanuwioii island*, | ' 'boneath tlio Tropip of Oancor, to tlio iccbound foundations of llie L'olnr North, we fllono woro out on that immense ocean.? 'J'huro might linve been a stray ship from Jioston or Salem, painfully colleoting a carj po of raw hides in Sun Francisco or San J)iego, or another from our city, with perhaps your present Mayor and others of "V you* immediate fellow-citizens on board, planting our country's standard on the banks of the Columbia ; for, be it remembered, Oregon wfts originally colonized by men ot ^ewDUrypoft. JWt no longer were v> tlie great galleons of Spain to bo seen there, transporting the wealth of Mexico to China, It was a desort waste of water, as if awaiting tho winged mossenger of the ark to fly forlh upori it, and seek a now resting place for the feet of another Noab. While navigating that waste of water-awhile qailing by its almost uninhabitable shoroa, the thought camo to mo?bow ehould it not? 4..- -ft ^1 - ? ? ? ' ? -* * * virr. mt uto tnvaiuaunt' rictics or motto vast ftm t/iohs of earth io profit tnan! Is that vast H ocean to continue thus barren of use, with jfl no white (winvim 6( tho mariner, iiq stenrti9 . ship, with its clouds by day and its pillar W flf' ,,,-g by flight, to plow the ddep nnd J>reji?t the foJIiug cures, bearing tttt freight 4md wealth of the Western to the Eastern i 'fndies. Time?ar.d how briof a *?nio!? has answered <J?U nueatioin Tho opulent Stnto of Cllimoh f:ss arrown un there, ns I it were, in a day?giving /vnd receiving jtreasury of wealth %\\d assuming it* proud place in tl?o gnluxy of tho Onion. \.tdpond Stato, Oregon,?? about to take on the robes of sovereignty a* a coequal meflnber pf the confederation of Stales. A third, Washington, perpetuating tho nam? pf tiic * father of his country in that ultima thnln of America, wilt not be content to reman long without its fnli.onjoytnent of yonsiitutlonnl right#, and it* duo representation in-the MR Bonateof tho United State*. And that po 0p?p recently rinocdnpied ooenn of tho North Vncific?how buoyantly do<^? it tfow hoar r * ! upon its swelling waves thoso noblo fleets of clipper ships of Newburryport and of Kast lloston, by the side of which the galloons of Acapulco and Manilla wero but unsightly hulk*, and which are freighted v. ith wealth sugh as a poet never dreamed of to fill the ^'reat argosies of Genoa and of Ve^ lliOO ? \Yllt>. Ml sr> b*???f n limn , ... .... ?. tiniv, UIVUUIIV | all those wonders-? Wni it rlio w6ik of legends of fabulotis'gir.nts, marshalled to their stupendous task by tho miraculous j charm of the ring of Solomon, such as we j rend of in tho picturesque legends of Ara; bin ? lie who saw it as it was ten years ago, and sees it ns It Is now, might well conceive that nothing short of supernatural powor could have produced tho marvelous change. It is miraculous, it is supcmaiur :u?r>oi ft miracle of demon slaves driven under the lash of some magaclan taskmaster ; but tho mirafclo of American courage, American genius and. America virtue, workingdut our country's great destinies, under tbo preordained impulsion of Almighty God. It was my fortune, at another time, to fitaiul on the summit of llic lofty ridge of land which divides tlio sources of the Mississippi from those of Lakes Kupcilor, Hurou. l?rlfl ?>?<l Oi;i;;r!w, pAViiip; on iiiy rigm iihiul waters ol that mighty river, wljicb drains, ami, as it flows on (o the (Julf Moxico, fertilizes tho largest ami tho ncTr -t valley of onliivablo !/>.rid on the rnc<5 ?f the oartb ; ami, on my left hand, that unique succession of great rivers and lakes?tho .iver alternately expanding into magnificent frosh water seas, and tho sens narrowing again into beautiful rivers; and so, through forest and meadow, rind ovor Cataracts and rapids, rolling on with lavish profusion a thousand miles to tho far oil' n..lf cn T - ^ vtiin ui 01. t^awrcncc. ftiicii was the stand i point of view. Hqforo, behind,.all around mc, were noble forests of onk and pirio and maplo anil elm; earlli-born giants of the primoval world : mid beyond them, stretching far away tq tliO uttermost ucuiids of the j horizon, verdant savannahs in all the luxuriance of nature's virginal unstinted pr6di- j gality," sublimely immense as an ocean, lovely as rv dream of Paradise. Streamlets . and fakes were sparkling amid the trees in ! tlio sunlight, like diamonds and sapphires scattered over the ricli tresses of some fair maiden as she steps in tlio prido of lior bean tv and her youth. All that magnificent scene however, was but a Nvilderness, where the {ndiau still roamed at will in his native forests, or paddled his light canoo on river and lake ; and whero no sign of cultivation, no mark of'civilization, was to bo seen,save in tlio glorious banner of the stripes and stars floating over some military station or outpost, to bo witness of the omnipresent power of tho lTnion. Iiere, again, tlio thought canto to me- can it be that all ? ?ui. i ? ? iiim nuHiiu 01 muu ami sea is lo remain lost to the uses of human greatness nnd happiness ? It half tempted one to impeach the divine justice, to reflect that-, million# and millions of men .*vere at that hour'stifling for want of space in tho crowds conntries of Kurope--"cabinen, cribbed, confined," iK narrow lines, wheve industry had niffield to work in, and ambition was devouring its own heart for want of scope and object; and wives and children were pining ft why on tho ci'usts of destitution and miaery?r>\ InlsL ITore was early enough i to be the eeat of imperial dominion, squandered apparently on a lwuulful of untamed and untamable Indians. Hut impious would have been such a thought--tbo foolish impiety of man'* improvicjonco and ignoranco. God's wisdom is not our wisdom. lie bad his own great purposes to work out in bis own good nmi, and witb tbo iiifcCruments of his own election. For n<Jw, tbere also American activity, industry,enterprise,havQ been exerted ; and yellow harvest fields on Uio prairie, busy mills at the waterfall, nop uTW* communilieS by tho riverside, havo (ransflgnrod the face of the desert; <ind anothei powerful State (Minnesota) lias arisen thorn to add to tho greatness of thq American Union. Is tiot that manifest destiny J Is not that a p.ovulontial mission? Is not that one of the steps in tho " march, nmroh, march" of tho Union which, wlien suggested l>y me, oi> a former occasion, as what the Union had perforce to do, was tyken to bo the personation of soma awful monster shaking forth pestilence and d6ath from its horrid hair! Ay.isi ibis plonscr colony of Massachusetts, doubled with Plymouth, on tho very rock of Plymouth itself, whero rt free compaot of self-government first found n footstand on earth, and from which point, togcthor with tho cocval starting point of Jamestown, there moved tho two parallel column* of emigration which commonccd America's march?at that very place, a good and honored friend of mine ! felt culled upon tQ.'protest against my suggestion of the onward M march, march, march," of tho advan ;ing hwitir of civilization, liberty and poi.*$r which Mlow the westward flight of iht cn^lo of tho Union I Btark! to my thought. I reiterate it-. 1 stick to the purpose which brought say f;?vc j father John Cmhiiiflf. from. Hltfflfham fn Knglnnd to Hinghnm in Massachuaoltt.. I . *?y thnlevtery ship lond of co!oni?t? which enme ifr the beginning Uv Virginia and to Massachusetts, nnd ench one of iw their do* seendaiit*," who arotuit moving on with an fwaeTeration of tho original impotijs which tlfey gave u*, and cvorv ahjp lond of colonist* from Trcland Rnd C>arm?n>>jflll iwd each one of us are but the humble minis 16(4 of uoJ, appointed to oocttpy, to cultivate and to pjvili/o Amorloa. It is opprcwiotj decking to l>cfreedom. It Js want 4hk k. * i demanding to bo want nf> longer. It is the string man without air and without room, and determined to have them, or at least to dio gallantly in the struggle for them. It is tho irrepressible expansion o( <5vereompreseed human energies. It is (ho exodus of tho nations. It in tho outpomirtff of iho too full blood of the old world Into tlio nil cnpflcious veins of tho new world. It is the foundation in America nf con empires to outcount in numbers unci outvie in strength the parent States of IEurope. I sat/ t/uit is the work appointed of God for us to do, (rith the blcssiny of God upon us, (hat xvor/c wc will do. if l ivers run across our path, we will bridgo them ; it" mono tains riso up to ntop us, wo will tunnel them ; if deserts appear, wc wijl reclaim and .cultivate them: ifoconns iiilorvom* ? >' .i=iv j (gate them to which last fnd, so long as I thore's an oak left oil' earth, gallant ships shall continue to he launched into the wai tors of this our Merrimac. No material I obstacle can airoat our progress. W\j woo I this fair nature which lies before us. and we woo it as its 0911 qQ&?<>r, Hko the vikings oi ! the oM time winning their hi icies of the sea j in open oombat. "I say this in the sanve commence qf conviction as one who, seeing ' j the sun set forth from the portals of the I East, mnv Sltenk of its rtnwnWla omiMft ln ! i t'.e West. For time was when the United j ! States wore but weak little colonies of Kng- ! land, scattered along the seashore. Then they overflowed tlio Alleghanies into the valley of the Mississippi. Next they ab- ! sorbed tho vast domain of France from I Lake Superior all around to the Gulf 6f | Mexico, atul Westward to Oregon. iNoxt I hoy possessed themselves of the two Florida/. and then of Texas. And finally they have marched on through New Mexico irt to remote California, llut in otir conquest ' of nalurc with our stalwart 'arms, and with I our dauntless hearts' to back them, it hap- ] pens that men, nations, raccs, may, must, 1 will, perish before iw. That is inevitable. I There can be no chango for the better save ' ! at the expensouof (ljat which is?ont? gen- ! oration gives place, to another. Out of ] decay springs fresh life. The tribes of Indians who hunted over tho hind, without occupying it, retire uorore lis like the hunt- ; , ed deer nud tho buffalo tliemsolvcs,^-deeper nnd deeper into the innermost recesses | of tlio Continent. And tho Hispnno-McxieniiR, wasting away by apparent incapacity of self government, are suffering ono province after another of theirs to relnpsp into ' pristine desolation, and thus become pro- 1 pa rod to receive the people and the laws o< <1,* i': i ?,i <j AH * i?. - - - 1 viivi v irivwu oimus. 11 HI lit IS now I1IRLOrv. Vet, wise men saw long before tbal ho it was to be. From the present they inferred the future, and spoko of it with the posilivencss and precision of inspirc'l p'ropheo/. Famine in \Vksterjc Iowa.?A correspondent of the SK Louis Republican, writing from St. .Josoph, Missouri, under date aC \ mil 1 ntl? cai-o 4 I W. II 1 UUI, oc?j? rn* (.urn, WIIIIU wil >\ ICUUIlt visit to Western Iown, ho met long trains of wagons going, as the drivers suid, into "Egypt to purchase corn." The severO and protracted winter had pressed hard upon ! tho newly arrived immigrants, who had not | had time to prepare for its rigors, while tho ntmost entire consumption ol Hour, corn, I and bacon, had presented the alternative of j ! famine, or sending into Missouri for sup- ! h,?i;?Q J. Death vrom llvmiornowA.?A donth ] from lliat horrible disease?hydrophobia? i occurred in Philadelphia on Wednesday, tho victim being a child only seven jenis of age- The bile was inflicted some two I months since, and the insidious poison had remained latent untjl with a few days. The dog rrns shot immediately aflei'llrc occur fence. The wound, whioh was upon the back of the hand, scarcely punctured the skin, and not the slightest nmirehonaions , o rr-r were entertained of any uuforturwte result until within a day or two, when irwas too late for medical skill 10 be of any' avail. Thr "JNpvei. Rank Cask."?Oar renders will remember that it wks etntcd a fe?v days ago that tho Union Dank of French- i town, N. J., hud indicted certain parties for a conspiracy to break the bank, ba>ing the chargc upon ihe allegation that the defendadls had been privately col letting notes ex- i oeedSng th? amount of specie in tho bank, for the purpose of making a run upcn it, having ifift notes protested, bargaining with a notary or justice to protest tlieni for loss than the lawful fees, and subsequently filing tho protested notes with the Stste lVen?ur?r. Tho damages wero laid at $3000, ?w>d tho jury, after twenty-four hours of deliberation, returned ft verdict of one dollar for the bank, leaving eachparty to pay its own costs. This appeals to sustain the principle, though it uriunot bo said thn't the plaintiffs have mftdo much'by the operation. Tt would seem to be oucstionable, nevertheless, whethoi' it whs not nn nmvUfi t>?ni>!'imont In attempt lo punish n creditor for unking tho paymeql of its notes when fairly duo nnd payable. In this way ovoiy "run" upon ?v bank Would bo criminal, and it i? not likely thai the people would tol?rnte snch nn interpretation of-the lawa. Every sound bank is always propped to pay .its bills, and is in no dnttgor from such conspirators. Two frjtjbuiftn w?ro in prl*6n, ono for etafiliniV n i>ntr hml llin ntln.r Cur tlAialliwr ( .,VV..."? .. ^-1) " ..fW V?.fV. '#? ? \YAtoh. " Mike," ?nM tho cow Matter,'ono l!?) ; wbaf o'clock ki it tn " Ocli, Put, J l*nv>*?'t my vrMtch hnndy, hut I think U b about milking ? The Hanging at Yazoo, Miss. J On Frirlny, (he 27th of June, >850, Y-. : C. Hovnrd j>tti<J the Nsl pennltv of the law, j for the-murder'?f his wife, as did t'if. thu t- j Piitchurd nrgiops, for the murder of their | master. The execution took |>I??cq in the I presenile of not los* iliim iliw i !?/* . r .WW VIII vu viivurmiu |/CI* 1 sons. l>oyard made his appearance under the pillows nt the hour of twelve, tnstafully ar- ' rayed, nnd showing no sign of alarm. His j step was firm and eb.stic, and his whole do meaner calm and self-possessed. On scanning 1 lis physiognomy, we could not discov- | cr any niftik lhat betrays tin; cofd^Mooded murderer. .Just before he swung oil lie made a speech to (ho thousands who were J "?]Jected before and arounrl him .in.. he testniomiint the crime wiilt which he was charged in the indictment, was committed by him while laboring under aheration ' of mind caused bv hard dtinkincr. To I>rnn- . j dy he attributed his downfall, ivnd in nn ; i earnest. lone lie warned ih'? yoiljig men pic- ! ! sent ngninsl tailing that which "enters the j ! mouth to slonl away lite brains," and en- j j (rented them to tuke warning from him, and j eschew ihat which biteth like a serpent and i slin^cth like an adder." Hut to his reniaiks : This yalloWs is to end mv life Tlmi t,n> to contain my body ; nV.d the giave to be I my resting place, until tlie last loud trump i of God shall sound awakening my sleeping i dust to come to'the final reckoning. 1 will make but nfo'w remarks} nwarcof : the fact that anything said by a man in my ! situation contrary to the generally received j opinions of men, (jilthough it be us tiuu ns i the sr. ri'd word of Ood) is branded as falsehoods by llu-m and men will say the wretch died with a li?* in his mouth ; but he that as it may the truth I must and will tell. You have assembled here to witness a , scenc which in all human probability you have never witnessed before, nnd 1 numbly j ! 1 pray my GbcV, that your eyes p*i,v ever be .spared a repetition uf n tragedy, so awful, from its very nature, as the one now before I you?n man to be executed lor the crime of | murdev?the murdered victim being no olhI er than his own wife?the partner of his I bosom and the mother of his lilt lo babes. Gentlemen, I am not guilty as charged in the indictment under which I was tiied ; j and condemued and in a few minutes lo pay j | the penalty with my life, I was deranged , i in t?u?l?reason had left her throne?I ha<J | no control of ray reason or myself; when! this appalling and heart-rending deed was j committed. 1 it'll you most candidly and truthfully too, that when in my sane mind the most distant thought never entered mv mind to harm one of my own family ; much less take the life of that one who was nearer arid dearer to me than my very existence ; and hftd I found a will or desire in my heart to commit a'deed of such atrocity I would have ! torn it from my breast Jitid cat-t it from me i iis bwing mi worthy to pulsate in its usual ' place, No, not nil the woalih, ihe honor, and the glory of the world combined would have induced pie,nor death itself in the most ; hideous manner which the ingenuity of man j could invent, would have forced me into the I committal of a crime of such magnitude i | f>gainattUc laws of my country and the > law? uCiiiccOxpiciue tieiug wuu nasi oecjured omphnticallyy.vThou shall not kilt." Can ifise possible tllat any man who has known me irom my ooyijoou lip {ami tlierc are mnny in this county, for it is those who ' have known me longest that have' known | me beat) can nitribuife that nwful affair to, any other than the true cnusc-~lhnl of in- j sanity. Vcf?, I tlnre to believe that in my whole: circleof a<:<jhfiintances that tliere are lutt j few who b/liovo mo guilty of any known i To reveal nil In relation to that horrible ' scene, 1 really cannot do, for I have hot ; ? vaguo and indistinct recollection ?>f a"fly? J thing occurring to or with me, from Sunday night tho 18lh of November previous to! that night on which the deed Was commit- ' ted until Thursday morning the 2i2d Nov., ( when I found mynulfirUhe hands of officer* I at Mangum's Hotel ?t Uooton. During this time, however, 1 had one or two lucid in* j trfn'al*, one of which I iccollected distinct- j ly. It must have occurred shortly after | the doed was dope, for I do not think that there was any one there at tho time; how j j lortg it lasted I cannot'tell; it seemed to me , that 1 had juct nw"okfe froirt n frightful j didani, when to my horrdto 1 oiemlj saw ! that it \yn8 tio dioftrn, but a sad reality ; and ' th? firstjhougl;^. which came to nty mind J was to tako my own life, npd acting on that j impulse, I got my gun .and I rind to idioot myself'; thevgun woujd not fire, and aff^r "scvoral attempts' I g*ve that op. I nexl l.liniioht that i nAiitfl fliu>QMnluh niu with Opium and recollecting that there was ! some in ? drawer, I immediately got it, nnd commenced o?iing it, as to what quantity I I look of it 1 know not, but from what ' h?v? heard, I drunk at least enough to have killed three men, labeling under no menial derangement. 7.1 would be well perhaps, for"me to slate ' for wlwt pifrpose I had procured CTus Opi-j nm; I had been drinking extremely hard, f$r some time, and 1 had determined in my j own mind that I would Quit it. and become n sof>cr ir.np, ^ntl try lO.rfgAfcn tl'Rl Mnwl-' ing bi the community. *vhi?h I. !(ii?w I had l?ist J?y ?:>y drunken hnbilp. Willi tbiij <! termination I procured |l)f? opium nl liliri cMl's di ng store, thinking tljni 1 couM grrtdunify roducc tho high stole {>f ftfr^# <?* j citemcnt, which I knew,would nulufnlly follow in quitting the use of w hi.-key, and for tliis purpose and no olhe.r I y;ol it, A|)d now, sirs, us yon heboid this wreck f?f nn ill.cnonl 1...* -* ... v 9i\ i?iipi>viiui:u urnvrvii UIU . Heavens and the Kaiih ; remember that brnndv, thnt cursc to mankind, has caused all ?!?is w.v?. and brought about mv untimely end. To you who are in the habit of using, the accursed slufl", this scene ought lo speak louder than the thunders of Heaven, in warning you to desist from so baneful n practice, one, which, if pursued in, Iheir is no telling \vhefe it will lend you. Sirs, it is whisky tlini fills your-.] nils, crowd < your Penitentiaries. nnd nhis ! furnishes Victims for your PcnfV"lds. It changes man into a llonutn. aiul ilw iiJllinnry, )u} JlTJLIltt.trntrs the most nenuisnnna diaboTlcfn entries. Young- men, to you in pellicular, I nd- ' diess myself. When rtt tho'lig^ of twenty- ! one, thcie were but few young men. if any, ; who stood higher on the platform of honor than myself. My character, so far as I , knew, stood out to the world unimpeaclu-d in every particular ; hut in the shoit space ' of five years nnd a half, where do you find me ? You find me a convicted felon, stand- j ii>? ?ni nit; very volumes 01 earn), wuil DUl i a few moments between me and eternity, | nnd to leave behind men mime wliicli a cold nnd unfriendly world has chose to encircle \ with the deepest infamy. And now, sirs, with this picture before j you. nnd possessed of the knowledge that | you nro not infallible nnd liable nt all times j to fall, will you do ns I hnve done, in spite > of the entreaties and admonitions of kind ! friends, work your way down to the lowest (Vgredntion, to be unhonored, unlamented i and despised by nil good men. s Ob ! sirs, you who have imbibed the hah- | u or uopnng, i pray you to take warning I /torn mv sad end, before it is too Into, and if | you are ev?>n (cmpled to drink the fiery j liquid, think before you do it, that he who drinks this glass may fill a murderer's grave. ''Touch not,taste not the unhallowed thing." 1 will now speak of some charges which nve circulated about me. I am sorry that I feel called upon on this solemn occasion, at, least so to me, to do so, but in justice to myself and family, it certainly is my duty to lay these matters truthfully before the I people, so that each man, woman and child in this coi\nty may know for themselves, and not from others, what is the truth. It is reported that I acknowledged myself >0 be the man who hurried the rrin hnnso nf Mr. Addison Burr us, of llus county, Hljuut the middle of December, 1854 ; I have no recollection of making any such acknowledgement. I will now say that I did not burn it, nor am I nccessoiy to it in any umn ncr, shape or form. There is another of like cast. It is further reported that I endeavored to get a negro man, belonging to my father's estate,to burn the gin house of Mr. Alonzo Brown, of fliis county,' but like the other, it is false. And in conclusion lnt nip. snv to von tlint time may prove to you; hut if timo in her meandering ^ourse should fail,the judgment bar of a just God who knows the secrets of all hearts will not fail to prove to you Young O. Bovard at heart, is not that wilful sane murderer ; that low degraded and debased villain which jou have heard so faithfully ?nd fnr nn((lit 1 know...believed. I have now alluded to nil the reports which have come to rpv knowledge, there may bp others which 1 do not know of, as my chance has been very bad to learn anything, ! have been allowed to spo my friends but very seldom, and then but a lew minutes. Sirs, I will say for your gratification, that if 1 was guilty of wilful and knowing murder, 1 d? sei?v<!' this ; yep, if possible more than this!. If I was guilty as charged and found, I deserve the fiery stake instead of /I... II - t* I? I ?- J iiiu yiinows. i nu ceriHiniy (lisnonorcu your hulls of justice by giving men Irial anil ch?;ncc for lift*; but I am not guilty of known murder, although 1 committed the deed, ii was the acl of a maniac, not of u sane man, and According to your laws, bow can you reconcile ii with your coivSciencc to take my 11^. O!. 1 f . I me. oii8,_you n|'e aoing me a great wrong! One which yoil can never repair, even if I time should prove it to your mind clearer than the mid-day sun that my statements are irue. ^ o'ti are not only depiivinjj mo of my life, my all, but you *re wrorlrfyillly depriving two unfortunate children of their only protection. You are casting Sh<jm npon the charities of a cold and unfriendly world, without the arm of a falher to C'ire for their tender vfi'ns ; think of this, oh! how il would triieVA vour 'he?t ts In h?^ eiit nfF from life, and tbat too for a orimo of which i you are hot legally ttuiHi, And to leave your helpless (.AVpimjr to the nducute Jtnrl sneers I of a scoffing woild. AiC you n? willing to \ do as you would be done by tjnder like rir- | cumstarices ? I upper.! to bdavVn for tii?> I proof of my statements**? to that judge who knows the McrVt* of nil beam. I humbly hope and Irust thai although ' my days are numbered nnd my hour ha* cyme. that yon will not forget thntj'ou are : by nature resting ui dcr a tike sentence nnd perhaps for aught you know ere another Sua has run itR vr??i l?w mnc ??. ? / "r - ~ * *' */ \ * | lent in rteath nnd your pp'nM, lihe mine, nave wipgedjU wayto the God who gave jl.? To you who are unprepared for a tran?it to another world, let nie entreat yon lo begin that nil irtipoftant woik to day. Tlu^hoUncsa of life nnd .the certainty of death and j iiioj(re?u, worm or your tmmori?j soiiis oaii aloud lo vo? noUptiMuy. You I?hvo (ipd'si word for it tbrVl yon must rtpon?, n?j ft is for ytfu lo cl)6o?c whether you will in time till?"" IX U. 'J?>, !' [ or in vast eternity. In time you have tho Hope of mercy but if yon postpone this mat-^ t?-r for eternity you will ropnnt for ovcc, where tho distant hope, of mercy will never , cofne ; nnd to you my Christian friends let* me say be faithful to iho trust which God , bus confided to your cure. Guaid well that ' Sacred cause to the end of lif<v mwl o r.....? will be given you by your Father, decked with brighter jewels than ever graced a monarch's brow. ! If there is "any man under the sound of my voice or elsewhere who I have ever in! jured by words or notions 1 pray you forgive me, to those, who have wronged mo particularly in my trial I freely lorgivp. I have no bad feeling or ill will towards any imprisonment please accept the deep gratis ivnir 01 my lU'Hrl. May (iod have mercy upon you all, and do you all the good that Ins in his wisdom may see you need, is tho humble but fervent prayer of an unfortunate man. Farewell to all until we meet ni tho judgement bar of God. Y. C. Kovaud. A XoVKI. FlNALB.?Wo find in Mia V.?.u> York papers the following account of <t closing scene in tlio recently adjourned, black republican legislature of that State : " Shortly after six o'clock, tho Senato chambcr becoming densely packed with spectators and lobbymen, soinc industrious wag busied himself with sprinkling cayenno pepper over the carpets in the room aik* qii the Tpgiti^rs, the ctVccU of which wero almost iustantly perceptible on tlioso nr/ie. eot. Tho slight and iriegular coughs, and delicate sneezing. soon increased to a general and prodigious cough, aneezo, hawking Spitting, and blowing of noses, the " noisn and Qonfupion" from which at timcR entirely precluded tho possibility of hearing anything uimj. So general did tho scene at length become that nearly every Senator, not excepting the President, was seized with the mania. Tho chamber, which Was cram ia .... " ...v,,. .... i.uwiMiwiiiiuiv iivgreo, liiewiung a number of colored people, now becamo iho scene of a general eongh, sneeze, and blowing of proboscis, so as to render it impossible for business to proceed." Boston Immouauty.?The cnpitol of New England is acquiring an unenviable notoriety by its indecent criminal trials. Directly npon the heels of the Knlloch tiinl comes tlx. IlnliAn trinl. which lhf? ItriSton papers slate exceeds in repulsive indecenev nnv .imiin-H..i I ,..v . wiic (mil. lino ever laKRn place Hi that part of the country. Even the Uostou Times "shudders at its revelations." AbJ vet vlte parttes Involved in these scandals are young married people belonging to highly respectable families, who had borne good reputations until their immoralities wero brought to light by the homicide of young Sumner, who was beaten to death by the man whose domestic pejica 1>? ricot?w>?u>. Host on may not be worse than New York, or any other of the large towns of the Union, but it has lately had to endure j the shame of more scandalous trials than us population would online it lo it their morals were on a par with other American cities.?N. i". Times. wstRl'QTIO!^ ok PktRksdi'uo.?The last Hnvre steamer brings Oermnn papers of iho 7ill instant. Among them wo find tho Allgemoine Z?-itimg, which contains the following singular paragraph, which we trans line lor me ucneni 01 our rentiers: " A startling occurrcncc happened in tho Slate of Virginia a few days previous to iho Bailing of our last steamer, the- Hermann. A?sudden and mighty inundation of '.he famous >iver, Appomatox; bearing upon its bosom an enormous avalancheof timber from above, and sweeping in its course every dwelfing,milj| hotel, tower'and fortress upon its banks, coming upon the town'of Petersburg in the night, and sweeping it nnd tho .. j.-I- _r i > ? hum' hi dtihioi rtii iHd imp uie spa. ?>omo i of ihn fortresses upon lhis rivor Are snid to ! hfliye covered t'-n hundred neves of nren.? j Three of ihe lowers were one thousand feet hjph each. The spectacle wns nwfnl.? Trees, churches, forests^, negroes, ladies. i judge*. councilmen, si reel commissioners, i.-i. i? ! |)i>n i; I y, hicu IOCOS, Wlll??d, lIHIomitai bl?-8, aitfd luUt ondejs, wore nil hoped up | together in n crude and shapeless mass of conglomerated improbabilities, like an tinappvoacliaftle Uland, about one hundred miles from the mighty riv**, whose Impetuous course inflicted the calamity. Wlieu lV left, she passed the inundated town, and saw lo.OOO neonlerstj?r?ftln<? n-ir,** iv ? I , rt the fiiirrmpnlh of irrrei lucked limber.*, musts, roof-,, columns and vessvls, waving whito pocket handkerchiefs as signals of distress. TUo lown is rniiied. of emirs <\ Hanks rtU snaked, and specie all sunk in the sea. U is reported ibnt tb'w awful calamity might lmve been averted, but for ihe obstinacy of iiiu uHmiuines ^one ol the local p??rties) wlio were too mistocratic to reccivo funds from a ti'rriioiinl neighbor fjrftti*, whereith to build n wh 11 for the cuy's protection. The whole Stale, it Is s;?kl, m in imminent dnngorof inundation.. fiold help our brothers in ihiu uuluippy land, and all the poor people!" 1 Jftivcn bless tUf> Oi<rm#nt ' AVI? ?* * ? ~ - v""v,v" Munchausen ?)? I'ftcrxbiirf/ JfaprMH. Mu. D'hown'4 compliments to Mr. ft futility think? it neoc&snry his pig(?s #ho?l?l not go tV\ro' his cjromuU," /wpfyr.vV* Mr. Sinith'a compliment*to Mr. llrown; thinks it equally twaecwsary 10 a^ell two vtet?*