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- .. . .... ? ? rw?w . - ' yrr " t' f i -4' r" " ' '*WF T ' To tliine oun self li? true, mtd it must follow, nn (lie niftlit ll?? iluy, lltoii fituM not tlicn be fnl*e to nny man." BY ROR'T. A. THOMPSON. PICKENS COURT HOUSE, S. C. SATURDAY, JUNL IU, 1857. VOL. VIII. NO. 48. , . - i . ? 7 - * .! -'---I'-l-l'l ? ' i -I -.11 ..? . ? ^jlleoye? mtmr; Tho Old Church Bells. King out merrily, Lhudly, eheerily, IMithe old holla from tins stfceplo lower, Hopeftdly. fearfully, .Joyfully, tearfully, Movclli tin? bride from Uor maiden IxiTver. Cloud thero is none in the fair summer oky ; Sunshine flings behison down from on higli> Children sing loud fts tlio trni|\ mdVog nlontf, " Happy tlio bride that the sun thihetli on." Knell out drearily, I ?..-t Sad old bells from tlin ?teei>le t'rny. i'ricoU chanting lowly; Solemnly, sjpwly "Passcth tho corpso from fJio portal to day, Drops from tlie leafh-n clouds heavily fall Drippingly oVer tlio plume mid tlio pull; Murmur, old folk, as the J rain moves along, / " Happy tho dead that the rain raineth on." Toll at tjift hour of pi into, M,ittin, ?ud vesper chime, Loved old (Am froh\ the steeply Ingh? (tolling like holy waves, Over the lowly graves, Floating up, prayer-fraught, into the rUv. Solemn tlio losson your lightest notes tench; Stern is the preflobiny your-iron topjtuca preach; Ringing in life from tnu hud to tlio bloom, Ringing the de!?l to their rcSt in thn-tnmh, j Peal out ovormore? i j Peal a? yc pealed of ^oro. Bravo olil bells, on c*n?h Hnlibnth di?y, In sunshine and glutinous, Tliro' clouds pud thru1 Badness,' I Bridal and burial havo passed, away. Veil us life's plfianures with tlc'atb are still rife ; Tell us that DfcAth evitf tend6th lb litre. is our labor, nnd Dentil if otir rest. * I If happy the Living, tlio <lc?ul nro the blest. ~ ri~l?o?diik.tASY. T" A Leaf from Memory. TIIB 01.D nOAD. Friciul, if it be n pleasure to voti to recall old and fjunilinr scones, then read this sketoh of on oiu road flnd its companions. "Wo copy from tho Cliicngo Daily Journal: In almost every old neighborhood, there is an old road, disused and half forgotten *** " 7 1 and we liko to ffot away from the traveled thoroughfare, and wander, in n summer's day, along ils deserted whjS Otir grandfathers had a apcoien of imlomilnble directness, in making roads and making h>vo truly edifying. Thoy did not believe in the line of beauty ; there was nothing curvilinear about them, either in word or deed, i ney went oy square nno eompnF*, ami rno and religion wore laid out liko Solombn's temple. And bo, straight ovortho hill, and right jl ~u .i-~ ? I iuiuii^i mw uijf iimner, hihi plump into the ?wj(mp, and hounco over Ilio w cordu- j 1 roy," wont tho old road. It's Ioiij* bridges s are broken nnd mowy now, nnd.the brown birds in white wnisconts build rtoata beneath them, undisturbed by the rumble of wheels over head. Nobody-goes that way, not oven tho boys cn route to school j for evor bo many years ncco, in a "November day, they lmvo heard, a stranger went down by the old mill?you can sec tho riti) of its old wheel from hore^and was nover soon again, Years nfterf among the hemlocks human bones were-"found, and to this day, r%t\ ^x ? - - ? ?4 ' '1 1 .... omul - flgUlB| ^rUNIID CUIDU Olll OI me gulf, and tho troubled ghost is thought to be walking still. Over yonder, is a broad di?l ed Sunflower nnd n heap of stone. The hitter was onoo a hearth, for a house stood therer nnd after the stranger disappeared, the tenar-; ^reVr suddenly rich a* thft trstsaa went, and showed gold with unknown words upon it that none of tho neighbor* could make out, and pretty , soon, ho took all that ho had .and went west; as some ftaid, to tho "Genesee Country," arid others, to " tho Ohio," which was yet more like a dream than I lie Genesee. After that nobody would live in the house, and it grew ruinous and was Imitated, and people saw a light there in dark nights, or thought they did, nnd the children shuhfedd it, onj cept in the brightest of mornings, when tho sun wns shining and the birds were tinging, and tho cows went lowing, Indian file,to the pftsture; and after a whiLo, tho old houqe tumbled down and crumbled awayv Such stories thrive along old roads, even *{ - as tho May Weed, and tho thistle*, thafr.no-'' U?.I- ' ? 1 J * uuujr ?s?wr winn uvwii, hihi on wnose fnnK !tops,, the yellow birds rocfc up nnd down, |iko lit'.lo boat* at ft^Chor, til) the fall wind# whistlft awriy tlio goldetf birds and the ^Mto down. - Even the brooks that used to tinkitJ Across IUbe track undor tbo little bridges, have eowebow run dry. or gorto another way; and you wslt gets an old trough, dusty and bletiched, by the roadtido, tho strips of bark that brought the wato^ from fho rolls, broken amd scattered, *nd the earth worn bard pod smooth with tho trembling of many foet. Very long " ago, a tlnenp URed to I^iang there, tethefed with a airing, for th# fcntra nf Wfl like to ?tarid by the deeerted watering plaeo, where only k broken thread of 1 oft-cold water tiidkloa Un why down to tho road aide, and fal?oy how eagerly* In the long ftumnier day*, the horse* panting through tho heavy Rand and up the rocky hiller, threat their nose# deep into the-overflowing trough of otfyttul coolnew, while, ?ver nnd anoiv tho caution* driver* puH vl up their headn with a jerk, until the long-drawn hreath of infcpiioulate content?. W ' ; s->l h.-.-.i , uVi*V IV. I'.1.A i*. ildi.t t .... I w iiiiiih <i|irw iiiu m?|?|Mrry ou|? rW#J borne to bMAhtffftpe< f tit Ht- v?*ro'eloquent nnd trq* of obV, and lip*, perohnnco of be*??tyv tb?%t are dmiiyj hc?*? frrnn th? shimmering ffokli, oiyne btigllng.lhlth#rf hu<] ort-pi, >rHb djiiiii^- icoly along the * trough's damp edge; how birds eat there < and drank, and rendered their little thank1), and rode away upon tho billowy nir; how, now and then, a squirrel, rod aud sleek, with showy throat, Hashed chattering along the devious rails thereto, nod (lashed away again ; or a gray rabbit, with littlo noiselogs leaps and listening ears, took hurried draughts and squat tod among tho alders till tho panting dog had lapped the ncctar of tho wnysido spring, . There, where tlio maple wears its crown, a laay gate is swinging in tho vVind, solo rel- < i 10 or a luncc mat strangled round a home, ( of which llio w^?<ly, tangled hollow alrtnc | givcB proof. It may havo boon, aoino Ra- I oli?l dwelt therein, who mot a ?econd. .la- < oob at the Rpring, and Fancy liMeuu for tho > words thoy.fluid, not found in " Ovid's art I of love"?the maid a matron, and tho ma-, t Iron dead. . And then strolling thoughtfully,-along, i wjtoro tho track growt? dim, and lossoa it->. i ielf in tlie grass, wo come to tho beoolics, f whoroto, we liko to think, glad children f onoo made pilgrimage. That chafed and i .m.-.!./ if.-i. . .1. i oi.lwj Hiui',ju?ii .*ner?, lias uorne a wojglit more precious than its leaves. U.p<n tlial stout, old arm,swayed to and fro, like Ca- i italics in a ring, swung clusters of laughing ; e I girls juid boys ; and in long [ows and hand | 1 In hand, in Ado bowjj and "courteMos" to . f ' tlio passing tttiVelor, while tattered hats of f straw and wool tossed.here and there, pro- ? claimed the coming stage. Ah, ihcrowc.ro. f days when ovor the old road, ran the yol- i low, mud-stained conr.b ; laboring up . >la * hills, and pitching along its log ways, and ? lurching in i*a deep worn tracks, and rat- 1 tling down its steeps, and splashing through i l its brooks. And tbore, even thcro, in that I roofless dwelling, whoso clapboards ratllo i in tho wind, behold "tha atago house" of tho older time. Day after day, from the i neighboring bill, tlio drivel's born blown t sharp and ,sln ill, proclaimed bis coming ; c gallantly he brought to, before that low- v browed stoop, through whoso broken floor t Weeds are pro wing. What a Kittling of t uoiis ana axios, and jingling of chains there )' wero, as lie drew up, and with whaL a pro- v fcssional air, he gathordd thu ribbons in 0110 a hand qnd tho Aloxandr 3 lash slipped t noiselessly through his .fingers, and explo- c ded like a witch's laugh bolftften tho two ears of the off leader. Very grand people t nsod to get out of that stage, sonietimos, li and quite as grand were the dinners that d IIIV>XH.0W...6 ..V. j ~ , ,, Then it was, that tho blacksmith, in his dusty, shop across tho road, was wont t0 'ean upon his hanimor, apd discuss the merits . of whocl-boric and loader; you can see, ' even to this day, tho bnrned and blackened ( ring ot tlio green ft.wnvil, wltere he used to I 1 " set the tire.'* Of the smithy and tho man 1 R no Other trace remains. ,Children sometimes wander out to the 1 old.road, and wonder whoro it leads, and whether to the end of the world ; and wq I delight to join them in conjecture; to think c what stalwart men they weie, that, nxe in 1 hand, so bravely out tueir way through ike H dim resounding woods, and rolled tbqij; f{ cnbius.Up; to iliiuk what " beauty" and . what " beast" iu olden \iinea did pas;* along this road ; what laugliter echoed and what 1 1.1. _ i 1 B juaio ttviiii,.ruuiiui now-cjiijvn,"?-oovereu wains in many a camp were scattered towards the. f west, and, red fires twinkled Uu'ouffli the * leafy tentnj bow soldiers in some old campaign, and pQndcroiift ennnon went tli/U 11 v.r.y to war, find rc^r.syd at last, but fewer f. tlia.n lbey wont. ^ This was the route of lli<;m, perliaps.who *j founded cities, in the Vrave, yopng we*t; its 1 future sinews Anil its coming men; of new- 1 ly wedded pairs bound for the later Canaan: 1 of murderer* hastening from tlie hue and cry. Across its beaten U'aek, I lie Oeerliave x dftshed, tlio r?n(mn notseles* stolo. the {yr- 1 1 St shsuluw:, ('alien at hi<rh noon. Westward il Won t, to some great Inkp, I hoy said, c where field.-) nil ready for the .plough grew '< green to Alio, water's* edge'; where Springs s cainc early r.iul guidon Autumns fyigoiod 1 late. Romance passed that \yny, And hand in hand with humblest Hope, and J,oyo bo- | guiled the hours, &nwk-eyed Speeiilation HDuried his jad/M steeds nnd young Afubition followed hard behindAlong lhat way, trnmejed bcnenlh the driver's fiwl liiu mnii.rmiv. wont. ?r><! ?oii>i> " - "TT7/"T f**" " V,H v'H "|,,Vv? and now and then, a letter from tlio West \ ' a great, brown fjlmet, ana trAoed with awk- ' ward pen and faded ink, yot how like ri ' l .-'liid tlie juw^ejv missno ran ; of green I iiehla, ^0(1 February flowers j of NTa- 1 luru'h lpWt>WS Wftitfrtj for the. scythe ; of ? clustering grapes iiiAt mnnMcd ft|I U^o wcods;-of nearest neighbors.but two apart ; of droams of plenty and of penotf.? ^ Hlendvd therewith. were potroriee of home 1 and words of lovo seof, back, and a link 1 sigh half brnrtthed, f<>r faces tliay yaver J should eca moro, Wliat tidings >ent, J sometimes, off fortunes won. andfame, by I ^ i"U J- - " - f I ? *4 lit5?!ss. I t ?rru?u.*pjj?; 01 gms, wnose grave* wcio made 'whore llio minboRips r<?*. "wjien Uiay ' promise a glorious morrow/' Thuo slowly', 1 to ftiid f?n; crepttho bwcoI sy llables of fovo, " ttfe uittr?n*phmied Ooftpel of the human 4 henrt; flnd though long; on (ho way, they nevergrew chilly o* old. , Hutover on (ha new route, they bore 1 I run j^tiio Telegraph, where the rise of Hour | A ml (hi &1L ?r?J iliisi ara teajsjmiKsiir Km (Iii> Anino flash, nnd iho prlea of barley and n f prioolcs* l>h;Rsing go flickering alon^ io , uomjfttny.. The houses 'on tho old roadr-"- | wtont fwv? there iirfc left?alHhd wilh their 1 bnel? to tho frnlfway and the telegraph; and j tho World, no ft gore* tfi(mtf?r?ug by, foot" eSkance ttpon the back-kUobetjA, mop bau- ] % ' 11 o.s anil pigpens of the oWl time. But the houses on the now road, nro very now, nod smell of pnfnt ; tlio blinds are rery green, and llid people very grand.? I'lio East and the West have kisnod each jthcr, across the continent, and every body uid thing between are bri*k as a tlen, and breathless as a king's trumpeter. Even conmunition has whinned utS its hal?> tinmn In i gallop, and dashed into the stocplo olmso >f tho Age. And year aftor^year, the old road grows limmer, and the grass gats green across ho track, and it is re-christened "the long lasture," and is surrendered to the lowing liards nnd the singing birds. In the midst a region humming with life, it alono is silent, and almost awakens human sympa by, so wandering and lost it seems. Soniciines, as you dash along tho " MeAdam," ^ou can see it as it comes into sight round i clump of tangled trees, and "makes" as fit would venture into the new thorough'arc and <?o somcwherr lmi it ?nv..r X,,.. Y or speedily stealing unck Into the hollow, t is lost nmorig tho willows. Like very old memory, in tho heart, is it, ind nil forget it hut tho year. Spring reMembers if, and ohrder* it witU green and prinkles it with the gold coin of the dandeion, And liie little stars of the. May weed. Slimmer sends thy bee thither to bugle itnong tho thistle blows, and tho ground pnrrows to build in its margins, and the ndud ribbon of yellow sand grows bright n its glowlny our*. Tb? winds waft tho )ieath of the morning ovnr its desolato way ind the rains beat out tho old foot prints ii ins borne. Autumn sighs as it follows it hrough I lie ravine and among tho hemoclrt, and the diifts that Winter heaps are .. i._ l-.i * inuruKfi) ana stainless. No bolder foet, old ltond, ever left their mpress on the oilier path ; no truer hearts lian hastened on thy nigged Way, haveev-l r panted for " the bettor land." If there i-ore ever those \\1ioro laugh was mnsio, ; hen thy woods have heard it; the daugh- j ers of the West are pushing fair, but those I our.g browa of old, whoso while hashed rliilo again from thy once singing streams nd eyes glanced back to eves?no brigher and no"puror were fever bont above a laseiq wave. . Like thee, those brows are furrowed and hose eyes are dim. Like tliee, Ambition's ine fades from the eytj of time, and like the | usty "runaways1' of thy biooks,soft pulses i How Do You Do ? National forms of salutation are true in- ' licos of nation*! character. The wh'olr lislory of a race may bo found in tho dieiunary of its language. Words nnd pin ties aro the oft'spring of previously existing ihjiicts, thoughts and oiicnmstanccs, ami heir paternity is really traced. Thus, among all savage and warlike peo>le, the common salutation conveys a wish ir a prayer, that the person Baluted may Hjotf peace, the greatest good of individu Is and of nations, and tho boon most fre|uently withheld in that phase of life.? Throughout the bible this is the invariable dessing?shulum ! and the wandering Helouins of ih'e desert have, to this day, the time form of salutation. A nother phrase if theirs, "if God will thou nrf. woll" ho. 1 rays the fatalism of Islam. "Peace be unto thee," says the fluent j ind facile Persian : " I m?ke prnyera for thy j rreatness ; may thy shadow never be less !" i'his last form smacks of summer and Ihe South. Such a salutation would make a tforthmhn shiver. It shows, too, a great, espcct for fat?Tor a dignified, alderrtjr.n.ic i otundity. " | The Greeks, a joyful people, full of the igor of a life of action, expressed their sulfation in a single word?"rejoice." i Tho commercial and enterprising Genoese if (lin i/\ ^ %.,v i.muuiu ciubof iiqi-u iu ottyf AJU7i('C(fl(f ( jftfdk guo?" H<&illh and gitin,,r?than vhich n0 phrnfcc could be more characterfsic. ' ' ' In n similar, spirit, tho "swaggering Hoihnder" salutes you with liqt vara?a <jcJ ' How fare you ?" The easy, phlegmasia German spjs(,?e ten fie wohl!?"Live thou well J" The French man's CirrHmchi v6us 'jtor'ix km s flow do you carry youVself?"? 'aveAls the *ery soul of the French charac* ,<jrri How is the formulary, and, not what. And llliM) till! in.rttx V0U3, how wnil |l ex jresuc3 the eager restlessness and vivneious nanners of that nation. ' Homnieiit ca vciit't 4 - * -t it is oi u?r khi)iC luile wimi diameter. John "Bull nnd Brother Jctaiithhrt, inn iehHy> but bti6ine$R-likc t?n<\ greet you mrith " IIow do you do ?" What could be viore jchimiclerislic of ihe great nnd poienint Anplo;S?xon rnce. To 69, pf course? it thU ihoro Is no question ; ii in the ftli of [fo ; but bow do y^;: do?" "How nre you V} Yhii embrrtooB ft)l-'-hcnJ(|>; wfcnlth, power, (nowledgo. What more cottrid or.e any ? ind here it is all In three words?"IIow irft ycu ? ' w IToW do you do?" Again he nnswor in, '' Well' '?*-1 do well. ( Iloud)l? O J-| AUf /) A I'AII ,.| ??iriv ?v mv t ' ? ? ?? , A flUMOROL'S old ^nn fell fn with on ififlornnt and ritilior } , ..rtinonl young m?ni? ( ?*; who-jfrodeoded (o' fnforfn tno gerttlefnAn ft very ftosU?v? terma, (hat ?? -'ttpftM ncr^f iftrtch lu'avcQvtinlMfc'he W0H hornngnln, rthrl fidilod, f,r V<hre expfcf fenced thai clumpfe, tn<| tvoj* TceJ no ?n*ieiy", ' AHd Mv? you betitl botri ftfcaih t' nntd ?onrtp*nW.-^ "Yw, t tri.At I ||W<." "Well," ?hid Ili?< o?r! gentleman, eyeing'hfna attentively, bhoufdri't (fifn'f: it ttottftl httrt yt>i to be tK>rn oncc move." 1 . "! Going Home. I'm going home ! shouts tho little rosy cliceked hoy ; no more school till Monday, while the beaming oye, bright, laughing face, and elastic limbs, fts ho goes bounding and shouting down the street, tell how j irksome to his restive spirit is tho restraint ; of the school room. Take care, Mother ! On yon in resting a weighty responsibility. Curb not that I restless one?he is not a mar> yet?-time enough when ho fills tho Senator's chair, for a Senator's dignity. Vent it must have, j only direct it in a beautiful channel, aud it will improve and strengthen both mind and f bodv. W-iili'li H?|U fo?i -V. . . . ..v.. . f<. I "V I V I V y 1111 Cil" HIS ! stops aright ; shield liim from temptation i now; and as his mind expands, .fonifv it will] a love of right, and a hatred of wrong; thus preparing him to fight, manfully life's battles, when lio shall leave the parental | roof, and launch his own frail bark on lifers tempestuous eon. Going home! says the <|iiiet little bhtisj eyed girl. Her bonnet in half-throws; back, i while the sportive wind lifts gently the I wealth of golden curls from that fair, open brow; while her sweet face wears a sunny smile, as if thoughts of home and mother I filled that we'O one's heart. She hurries 1 Oil illlH U tmell../! I,..?..J-1.? -- ' ? ----- - *' -...j ?s7 mv\mi ugoviwu iv?* ill l\ J'urcnc R foot. Mother! nurse her tenderly. All too soon will FatherTime rob you of your rose bud. Yours is the hand, now in childhood's plastic morning, to ehdurc and prune it. Tf is your mission to water it with the refreshing dews of love; to remove all obnoxious weeds ; all that is deleterious to its .complete development, and throw J around it those hallowed influences only found within the preoincts of home until it shall expand into a perfect 'flower, and, in ' turn, others shall bo blessed iu its genial | atmosphere. | Going home ! The boarding school n .closed; trunks packed ; stag# waiting; and ! the.liappy maiden trips gaily down the av- | on lie--?'73,we.et homo" licr song. IMeasantly have th< months flown by on golden wings with an honored teacher and loved school-mates, whilo gathering unfading flowers, and plucking ambrosial fruits in the fair lield of knowledge. But thoso halycon. days aro ended, and if a shade of regret rests for an instant on her brow, as :I?Q thought Hashes through her mind it is soon dispelled by thoughts of fhat home to "t'th'at fiouseliolcl cliain to be again united. It is thine, gentle maiden, to put now to a practical purpose the knowledge you have acquired. There is a mother who watched over your infantile years, bearing uncomplainingly the burdens imposed by your childish whims and caprices, ft is thine now to euSo her burdens; to perform faithfully the part allotted thee, as an older member of that band of children. Act well thy part; 80011 may other duties call thcfi from l.flAin Tlien nli-ivrt CIn tw.r form thy present allotments that no vain ! regrets shall attend thco when thou art called upon to leave thy childhood's home; that thy memories may he but ploa$t> g echnos of faithfully discharged duties. Yes! going homo! laughingly halloes the student. My four years-at college are passed ; my diploma in received ; graduated with the highest honors; have visited every nook and haunt rendered dear by coltcgo associations; have extended the parting hand to the TrolVjssors, and bidden my classmates farewell; now for a rest bo- J neat)) tho shadowv olms at the old farm hou9c. Clothes, kooks, and all tho paraphernalia of student life, are thrown into the trunk in rt state of glorious confusion. Never mind how disordered uow, When home is reached, some careful mptlier or doling sister will arrange, repair, and systemite., | Happy art llion, young man, if thou hast passed through alt thg vutissiindwof a ^oll^giate course unscathed. Thus far hast thou been guided?in a measure cont rolled ?by .Othon. Now you are launching upon your pwo. responsibility. Oo forth, vjhat over your unuortairuig, with a realizing sen so of tho position in society you occupy as nn eduertlod mart. Whatever your aspirations, bo governed by firm, leli'gious plinciple*, a determination la persevere, and success will'attend you. poing homo ! murinur* tho young bride, her head retting lovingly on hef husband's shoulder. Threo short months has sliu been n happy wife! fio 6oon ta the hireling uneasy 1 S9soon the dove, scarco ca gcd i? anbther hom6/s:gmiig for its- native skies, and tlio land where U was -nm Mired! Ah! she krmws'that there,. h?. one vacant placc in Jhe home thatehu. has left-r-rthat fond parents and loved brothers arid sifters anxiously wait her relifrn, and slio longs again to bu cfaspeil fr? the loving embl*acfe of earth's first truest friends. has she been with her husband ir? the home oVer which she had been installed a? its giVardiuft angel; yet thu'home of ber child: fvood, iho fiieiids of hor yoMtht shq forgets not{ and though years may come and go with their pleasures and blessings, Aften vtill her thoughts revert to the hojneofhor youth,' and often, vfrhifo that homo remains will she "thither* fly." Thou doest ttell to vabio if highly, ftoon will thoao loved parent^ , fc*t heroath the valley PoJjjJ poon wilj tlic*e brother* and sisters lie widely pc])?rfl(cn ; and ftrnii^ofs tfifl gather roiind that honflhnfortb. Thoh pf-i??e ft Htabfy ? " ' Oolrtg horrtel says the aged pilgrim.~Tho sands of lifo are uearly run. Soeo'wjll my pilgrimago on earth bo ended. I am j nearitig llint dark valley through which all i must pass; and whence nono ever return. Alone? Alt! no. "1 know in whom I havo believed." My lamp lias long been "trimmed and burning," and now 1 have ' no (oars. . j Going home! That home, unlike those , of earth ; when onco its portals are passed, j sickness and sorrow, death and Change are . Illlk-nnwh. A llotnta ---- f " "^ 'V ?"?'? ! with precioiiR stones, and whose streets arc paved with gold. St renins there are, on whoso banks perrenninl flowefs bloom, I "that make glad tho city of our God." There tho society will only bo the pure and , holy. Tho only employment, singing "the Jtong of redeeming love," and worshiping | and adoring otir Creator. And Jesus will j be there. "He will i'oed me, and lead me I unto living fountains of water," and "God shall wipe away all tears from mine eyes." | Goiim home I I hear e'en now t.hnnwfel- I ling of Jordan's flood ; angels arc hovering | o'er me, chanting the song of reed?oming love, waiting, on wings of love, to carry my spiiit home when it bursts its clayey tenement ? " O, death! where is thy sting? O, grave! where is thy victory ?" Hard SftftvlCE.?-Tn n conversation with our friend Todd, the indefatigable Mail Agent on the Columbia and Greenville Railroad, he incidentally mentioned some interesting particulars as to his mail service YVe trust ho will-pardon their publication, as thoy possess interest to the public. Since his appointment, August 2G, 1853, ho has mado 685 trips as Mail Route Agent over the Greenville and Columbia Railroad, 280 miles to each trip, making 107,310 miles traveled. During that time ho has mailed over 36,000 let ters. Ue lias employed substitutes for only five trips, and lias never lost a trip on account of his own sicl< n ess. Has any other man in the Slate traveled as many miles in three years and nino mouths ? If the Government had as faithful and punctual pgents on some other roads, we nilgiu got some of our mails more regularly, and in better time.? Curolinian. St. Louis', June '2.?The Leavenworth Herald learns from Mr. William^, who left Salt Lake City, April 15th, that Brigham I Vaiuy.-- wj??j.0w"iwwr. ~rWimits rtr""> way. Judge Stiles, the U. S. Marshal,Sur veyor General, and a large number of emi- i grants, had beon obliged to leave the territory. New Ok leans, June 1, 1867.-1110 steam , bh.ip Louisiana was burned in Galveston, (Texas) Bay, on tho morning a? the 31^t. irinUo.. ?... " ?i a^iwwii i n wo tigio wnniui^ WUIUUCj l>ainbridgo, of the United States* Army, and thirty-one others are missing. Twenty-five poraons were saved by seamen belonging to the steamship Galveston. Youno America,?The following letter, ' we are informed, was actually written and i sent to Mr. Bnchanah, by the eon of one of i our most estee ix'd citizens, (and by the way | a prominent ( wliiician himself,)?without any suggestion from any quarter?at loast ( so far as is known to his Father. Its contents were nccidtnlally discovered after the letter was finished. We give it as a good illustration of " Young America," and decidedly ihe best "hit" at "services" and "office-seeking," that we have ever seen. We hope I he little fellow got his office, or at any rate the Ten dollars. Such modesty in office-seekers, as Maj. Pendenqis would say, "ought to be patronised !" . Ati.aJita, Oa., Nov. lfith, 1867. *. Ifon.Jas. Jjuchattan?Dear Sir : The election is now over, and you nrc President. During the cam ass I have hollered for you until I am hoarse, and my throat is Bore, end I have *petot all my small change. If you have got any office that would suit a boy of my age, (13 years) I would like to have it?and if not?please send me Ten Dollars*. Yours Respectfully, [Atlanta Intelligencer. Tiir editor of. the Lumpkin Plaindenler, haw recently' b.^eti to Cuthbert,. the county | sent of Randolph county, nnd thus sumniH- i lily disposes of his visil < " Wc spent the two weeks in the fnM town of Cmhbert, during which ?;me they i had a fcstivnl, ? concert, one or two parties, I two or three mnriinges, five or oil death*, twj hnll storms, one fight, held court two; Woe k?,went half through the business, found no true bills, eberiff pftkl no moody to.foreign Inwycrs, and w? enme oft' in debt, mid left lhem in bi?h epiHfo, Expecting t>oon >Lo. hnvo a railtOudj Di8iNTt:ny.flTBn (jjtlicr.?Cooke, fh? tin genutn, was in tee habit ot giving, orders Jo ; h widow My, who wii:i oncu,sifting hi the ! pit, ,wjih her little girl, when th'ir friend, the performer, was about to ha slabbed by hf? stage rival. Housed by tbe supposed i imminence of his danger, the git I sui ted up. exclaiming, " Oh I don't kill him, sir?-.cfotv't kill himfor if \ou do, hi? won't gire us any mn?e pit o. ders f" Her di*rntere&ted grief, |ike the gratitude of ?inme peppte, was it lively se.^pe of benefits to <:omi. " "Hs slrftncro." n fnitng rfrnn, ! na lift afhj/srrred bnme from ft eop'pcr party, *5 bo* evil comtimdnlcntiorvs eorriipt * good tfttrtrtfra. I've b*en ayrrounded by tumbbj^ra nil I lift evening, nnd now I'm h tumbfer myself" Hay Making in the South. A Brief Kssay, .rend before I ho " Beach Island Farmer's Club," at the October "Meeting. GeNtlkmrv : As it is expected that each member of this Club shuil make a report of some experiment, I, take this opportunity to present the following, on hay making : About the first of May, I had a ten aero lot of good river-bottom land plowed up, with doublo plows, ftorn 6 to JO incite* deep; thu land was then well harrowed will) <\ good (wo liorso iron-tooth hnrrow? hcioss ihe'plowing,, and then rolled with a cast iron two-horse roller, in order to rhakn the. mii face im smooth ns possible. The land was soon covered with crnb-jj??fi?. In consequence of the lint dry weather, I had almost despaired of realizing a crop ; but after the heavy rain which fell about the 1st of September, it revived and grow oil'rapidly, and continued to improve until the Jailer pari of September, when it was froin two to three feel liiyh, at which lime I cut it with scythes. The pian 1 adopted for curing was, to have what was cui in the mornini/ hi rued over find rinruod ??-? nlmnt f~.. - or five hours nfter it was cut, nnd thai part, of it ilimi had froth four lo six hours sun on it iv? then put into common si/.o shocks and remained mutt ilin next day about ten o'clock, or until the dew was vfUiivly off. at which time they were >ig:iin opened an<t the buy ajj'iin ?plcad, nnd lemained so unlif ev.ening, when ii was put into shocks nuQ.il>, and lemained so until the dew was ofl* n?>xt day, when they were opened and spread a * above stMed ; in the afternoon, such as wnn sufficiently cmed I bad packed in r barn. 1 measured one uoro. and obtained from that 7,67,5 pounds of well cured hay, which I sold for 75 cents per cwl. in Augusta ; it was Wefghed at the city scales, and at that low price amounted to $?o7.fifl. At r???r - f hundred, (he' amount would linvo been $70.7o ; at $1.25 per hundred $116.12.? These pi ices are not unfrequently paid for an article in no way superior. I think '.herH were three or four acres in the lot ns good as the one I measured ; tho balanco not more than two thirds as good. Attheratn sold, the whole lot would amount to $400 : and of course still higher nt increased rates, its shown above. I would simply call the attention of the members to the fact that if this crop hnd been made. iNOrt'norn liny roln'mnnds in Augusta, which is about $1.-* 50, it would amount to $020, or $92 per aero. My impression is that two crops may bo hlliPIl fl'Am t Yit* ktt r*rv> ?v*?J .. "J wv'?.??v,.vtl?JJ puilicr in the season, and there is no crop more profituble with the same nraoont of labor. All of which is respectfully submitted. Jonathan M. Millkr, Goouai.e, nenr Aiiguatn, On. Hkn Pkusoadkuh.?The Springfield Republican, In speaking of n new invention for ? hen'e nest, whereby theeggs drop through n Irnn ilonr a I i.r\ 'ln/uiuno il>? '! ?? ?!ic keeps on .laying, is responsible for tlio following : " Blobbs mcl with a loss, however, with one of the persuaders. Blobbs bad a lovely young Shanghai pulUt, of boondlee? ambition. Blobbs bought a persuader, and his lovely Shanghai used it. She went upon the nest in the morning. Blobbs saw her go, and his heait bounded within hfrtl.-? Alas! lie never saw her come off again. At night, he visited the persuader. In the upper compartment was n handful of feathers, a few toe-nails, and n bill ; in tho lower compartment were three dozen and eleven eggs! Blobbs saw It all I! Her delicnto coiisumuon mm ueen unequttl to lite effort, find, fired by young ambition, she had laid herself nil away.'' -C- M opinions of a disai-pointicij mai?.? The iniii) who is proud uf hit* money has rarely nnything belter to be prottd of.-? Trees with double flowers nre too often, the emblem of friendship?there is plenty of blossom, but no fruit. Ther% nre many men who dflight in plajing the fool, but who got angry the moment they are told so In medicine, a Brougham goes much further (huh knnwli'/lorn. Sni>iplu I>nc a rirrKf Ia " . 'V ? > ? " " particular-*-it. is so often deocived ! Common sensp lias becopie such n rare commodity Uwt the woihi has entered into a tacit, compact to live without it. We?lth itself ; ? not art much de?|>ised-"-?t i? only the man who is the possessor of it. Every woman is bori) with a master mind ; that is to say. with (? Hv'nd, to be master, if 8he pan. man living should .say an ill word ngainst the doctors. Compliments nre the coin that we pay n m-m to his face--.?A?casms ftrn w|iat, we pay .him put \fith behind his hacV. Toad-^atin^is always in fashion' In France, I hero is nothie.ij vonnir?uAnr ? <v~r>, ? o y? jet* a antique.?I dnch. Tmdv Krkbdoms.-'? We certainly woaM tinker the world, hero and thero, If it wer?i comnifW nhfe?hut particularly for thn U9es of entbarVftssed young ladies, Say? a certain otherwise nhcniymoii? 4' ln?" to a?, at the end of n long communication ; "Oneo agrtin I rt??k; I* it proper for a foong, lively and unprotected female, to introduce hlfifrlf ta the man whom of all other j she ?n<*t desire* l? know, while al the shme lime she would ralltftf die than forfeit bV go^.1 opinion ; nnd would the-fact of her being a widow mnko the nelf-presentntion ni>7 less proper ?*' To which wg say, busihertqucjj, " ao abend." . - - ? * .tv t ? 'r-iy i :l*Ol !i j*