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MB ' ^ - .-~~r - -rj" ?-, y MpgP "TO 1'IIINK OWN SKL1' ]JE TllUK, AND IT MUST FOLLOW, AS THE NIGII'T Till: DAY. THOU CAX'Sfc NOT THK* HK FAT.SE TO VXY MAN."* .Jf JlV UOIJ'T. A. THOMPSON. PICKENS COURT HOUSE, S. C. SATURDAY, MAY 2!, J MO. VOL. X. NO. M. flsrs-n fff <Pi'iP re* (i-S\ iM/rs-.tr-"^^ <vr I .? M ? ??. ? ... . ... u IE.IU/ U Irt. V J The Little Boy That DiedM'lic credit of (lie follow *<g feeling line* hnS been given to |)r, Chalmers of Kdiuhui*gh.?? iiiitiij IfSniiH Iiave1>eeii fintUiolv made <lei?clafo. and how ninny Almost imagine the wniiu breath of the 1oh( one uj on (heif olickH, see i,lie wavy form bol'oro them, and feel (lie colt touch of the velvety check, and breathe deeper ntld more sadly when they iduill have pci'iiued theee 1 ei\viei- souvenir* ot Ihe dear ik'pihicd. I nin all alone in inv chamber now. ' . Ami I lie midnight hour is iicnv : 'fho Piijjot'H crack, ifml the dtlch'e full lick, Arc ?lie oil'y sounds 1 hour. AH A over my foul in sol initio, Sweet feeling!* of stillness {ili'lo. For my heiirt nml my eyes are full when 1 think Of the lit lie buy (hut ilio<l. 1 Weill one nl;;ht to n?y father's house?. I Went home to l)n* (lyiiv one: till? /.nil so'.tly 1 ojh'mmI tlio garden unto, And milily tlie door of the hull. Mv mother enmo ?>ul i?> meet her son, ShckisKdl inc. ami then slit- sighed : And her head fell 011 mv neck. and the wejit For the little hoy tlnit died. I shall miss him when the Ihnvers eontc, 1 ti the ganleii where lie jdayed : 1 shall miss liiia more t>y the fireside, When the flowers haw all decayed. 1 shall see his toys and his emj>ty chair, ,\nii Uic imr.sc lie used to villi*: Aiul I hoy will willi n silent speceb, OC ilic little buy I lint iUimI. AWMmll C'? liomo In "our Fiitbov's" bouse? To "our KntlicvV b'oliso in ibe .-kie?, AVbcrc I be linjios ofnuv souls Muill luive no blijrbt. Our love no broken lies. AYivhnll vonin on thcbmikHof tlicvivcrof^cnvc, Ami bnlbein its Missful tide: Ami one of die joys of our heaven shall be The little boy iliat ilie?l. MMOZLLAKY* CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCEA 'I'U|!1 l.litNO TAT.K?KKoM 'i llK CONFESSION 8 or AN ATTUHNKY. In tlie second year of my connection with the Northern Circuit, I wsis ngrccaMy surprised, ns 1 sat musing 011 the even injj: of my arrival in the. ancient city of York upon the capricious mode in which those powerful personages the attorneys distributed their valuable favors, by the entrance of one of the most eminent lawyers practising in that part of the coun'rv, and the forthwith tender (if a bulky brief in the Crown Court. The local newspapers, from which I bad occasionally seen extracts, hud been for some time busy with .1 1 ? ? - ' i no wise; una i kiicw therefore to In', relatively to the condition in Iito of the princi)>;i 1 person implicated, mi important one. .Humor hud assigned the conduct of the defence to an eminent leader on the circuit; Miico, one of our ablest judges; and on looking more closely at the brief, I perceived that that gentleman's name hail been crossed out, and mine substituted. f4 Vi?*i urn n<if civ 1 ^? . v?? ?<av *?, I M l.lllini lUI the prosecution in the crotfu against Kverctt V said Mr. ?Slf:irpu in his brief, business inimner. " I am not, Mr. .SShavpe." " In thnt ease, I bejr to tender you (lie leading-brief for the defence. it was intended, ok you pcre(;ivc, to place it in the bands of our great it is i jiriux leader, but be will bo so completely occupied in that court, that lie lias been compelled to decline it. lie mentioned you; and from what 1 have myself seen of you in several r i .11. ? vuovn, i nilvi: no uouot my uutortnu-.ite cliout. will hsivo nmplo justice done liim. Mr. Kinjr?ton will be with you " I tliftnkod Mr. Sharpo for lt!s compliment, nml nccopU'il his brief. As the eom mission would bo opened on the following morning, I tit once applied myself II norilsnl nf (IlO llllllrv linnni. ..1 .... I vend by the vovbal explanations mid commentaries of Mr. Sliarpo. Our conference lasted several hours ; and it was arranged thiit another should he: held early the next morning at Mr. Shnrpc's office, at which Mr. Kingston woWld assist. Davk, intricate, com passed with fearful mystery, was the ease so suddenly submitted to my guidance, and the few faint gleams of light derived from the attorney's research, preHcienco, and sagacity, served but to render dimly visible n still profound and blacker nbyss otcrmto tlimi tlint disclosed by cvidenccfor the crown. Young iib I then wiik in the profession, no marvel tliat 1 felt op- j pressed by I ho weight of the rcpOnsibility enst npon ino. Iluppily the next day was j nut that of trial; for I nwoko with a throbbing pulscand burning brain, nnd should have been but poorly prepared for a struggle involving the issues of life, nnd death, j Extremely sensitive, as, under tho circumstances, L must necessarily have been, to the arduous nature of the grave duties so unexpectedly devolved upon nie, the following rctfuino of the chief incidents of the case, as conlidcd to mc by Mr. Shnrpo, will, 1 think, fully nccount to the reader fur the nervous irritability undur I which I for the moment labored : Mr. Frederick Kvcrctt, the prisoner about to be arraigned for the frightful crime of murder, hail, with his father, ('uj?t. Anthony Kvcrctt, resided for several years punt nt Woodlands Manor-House, tho scat of Mrs. Kleanor Fitzhugh, a rich, elderly maiden Iftdy, aunt to tho first, and sister by marringo to tho last named gentleman.? A generous, pious, high-minded person Mrs. Fitzhugh was represented to have been, but extremely sensitive witlinl on the Hcorc of " family." Tho lutzhughfl of Yorkshiro, sho whs wont to boast, "camc in with tho Conqueror nml any branch of the glorious tr(!c then firmly planted in mi' phii m iMtuiiimi tnut degraded itself by nil alliance with wealth, bounty, or worth, dwelling without the pale of her narrow piojudiecs, was inexorably tut off from her affections, ami, as far as she was able, from her memory. One?the principal of these offenders?had been ' Mmv Kitzhugh, her young, fair, gentle, and only sister. I n titter disdain and slight of the dignity of ancestry, she had chosen to unite herself to a gentleman of the name of Mordaunt, who, tliollglt possessed uf great talchtN, !kh \mfpottoil name, mill, for liia age, high rank in 1110 civil service of the Kast India Company, had?-inexpiable misfortune?ft trailer for his grandfather ! This crime against her " house" .Mrs. Kleanor Fitzhugh resolved never to forgive; and she steadily relumed, unopened, the her frequent letters | . ddicssed to her by sifter, who pineu in j her distant Indian home for a renewal of l I.I i-- ? " inu uiu MMiTiy mve which nail watched over mill pltiddencd her life from iufiiucy to womanhood. A lonp siloing?a silence of man v years succeeded ; broken at last by tlio sad announcement that the unforpiven one bail lonp since found an early pravo in n foreipn land. Tlio letter which broupht the intcllipcuco hm*n the l*ohdoii post-mark, and was\vvitten by i apt. Kverott; to whom, it was stated, Mrs, hlcauor Vit/huph's sis1 ter, early widowed, had been united in sec ] ond nuptials, ami by whom she bore :i ! stm, I'llileviok Everett, uo\v nearly twenty | years of age. The long-pent-up afleetion J of Mrs. Fitzl;ugh for her once idolized sisI ter, burst forth at tlii.s announcement of bcr I deatb, and, as some atonement fur ber past | i sinful obduracy, sbe immediately invited i the husband and sun of lior long-lost Mary j to Woodlands Manor-1 louse, to bo licncoi forth, sbe said, she hoped their home.? I h'oOn srftiM* tlii>ir jii-i-iv-nl Afru | inndi* a will?tlie family property wns entirely :it her disposal?revoking a former j I one, wliieli bequeathed the whole of the real and personal property to a distant reln| tivc whom she had never seen, and by whieh all was devised to her nephew, who j was immediately proclaimed sole heir to the j Fit/hutch estates, yielding a yearly rental of nt least M1 The will also provided, in the event of Frederick dying ehildl less, that the property should pass to his ' fiither, Mary h'it/.liuirh's second husband, i Some years after he went to rendc with I 1.5 .1 I I. I iiio.kiiu, r ivuiTii'K livcvctt oceanic neqnaini tod witli Imcy ('arrin?ton?the only child ! of Mr. Jitephen ('nrritifrton, a respectable i i retired merchant of moderate means, rcsid' in?* within a few miles of Woodlands Mn^ nor-1 louse?and an attachment was in the ' eourse of time formed between them. The at last tacit consent, and approval of Mr. ] Cavrin^ton and his fair daughter secured, ; Mr. Kverett, junior immediately disclosed j his -matrimonial projects to liis father and ' aunt. ('apt. Kverett received the announcement with a sarcastic* smile, coldly remark- j j ins, that if Mrs. Kitzhtmh w.ms sutiifiril h<* i had no objection to oiler. I>ut, ah'S ' no sooner did her nephew impart his passion for the daughter of a mere merchant to his mint, than a vehement torrent of indignant I rebuke broke from her lips. She would rather die than consent; and should he persist in yielding fo such gross infatuation, i she would not only disinherit, but banish ! him from her house, and cast him fftttTi a 1 beggar 011 the world. Language like this, . one can easily understand, provoked latii guage from the indignant young man which | in lef-s heated moments he would have di.-?* I [ daiiied to utter; ami the aunt and nephew j parted in fierce anger. The quarrel was with some difficulty patched up by ('apt. Everett; and things, after a few days, went on pretty nearly as before'. The Hidden rupture of the hopes Mrs. Eleanor Kitzhugh had reposed In her nephew as the restorer of the glories of her ancient " house," tarnished by Marv Kit/. | htigh's marriage nflfccted dangerously, it soon appeared, that lady's already failing health. A fortnight after tho quarrel with her nephew, she became alarmingly ill.? j I'nuKual and baffling symptoms showed j themselves ; and after tfufl'ering eight days j from alternate acute pain, and heavy unconquerable drowsiness, she expired in her nephew's avins. This sudden and fatal illness of his relative appeared to re-awaken all Frederick Kvcrctt's tenderness and afe...?: _. ? t ?? " " u-cuuii lor ncr. lie was incessant in his I closo attendance in the sick chamber, j On the morning of the day that Mrs. I Fitzhugh died, her ordinary nied'u nl attendant, Mr. Smith, terrified and perplexed by the urgency of the symptoms exhibited by his patient, called in the aid of a locally eminent physician. Dr. Archer, who at once changed treatment till then pursued, and ordered powerful cmetics to be administered, without, however, as we have seen, producing any saving or sensible effect.? i From the symptoms of tho nation*. Hp \r- I overstated that, in his opinion, poison had been administered to tbo deceased lady, though vrli.il precise kind bo.wag somewhat at a lops to conjecture. Tbo consent of the relatives being obtained tbo body was opened on tbo following morning?and it wtfs found that the deceased lady bad perished by ncctotc of mbrphino; tlins verifying the sagacious guess of I>r. Arobor. A minute search was nnnunediately mado throughout 1 flm nnftrhnnnla ' *' MJ.MOIIIVIIIO, 1IIIU IICIIIIHI <1111) UI ll|U drawer# of a cabinet in Mr. Frederick Kvcrett'n l>edroom?nt fake back of the shelf or partition upon wlife?*'}the drawer rented, and of conm^cotn^lotely hidden by the drawer itself when ?* 1 Ih nhicc?\ra? found aflat tin llask, flutotfon the outride, and closcd with si scvtw stopper; it was loosely enveloped in a sheet of brown paper, directed ? Kverett, Kstj., Woodlands !ManorI louse, Yorkshire;" and upon close OKninination, n small (juantity of white powder, which proved to be acetate of limrpliiiie, | was found in the llufck. Suspicion of young ! lOveriftt'f <:uilt now became conviction. 1 These were the chief incidents disclosed t<? lllf? 111' All- Hlini'iin .1..... ?... I 1 ...v w, A.... [IV , villi lll^, UUI HH1?? Will I painful consultation. Our consultation the next day Was u sad anil hopcUtwonc. Nowhere did a gleam of cheerful light break in. The cane \vii,s Overwhelmingly complete against the prisoner. 'J'lie vague suspicions wo entertained pointed to a crime no monstrous, so lnerouioic, that wo felt it could not be so uiuoh as hinted at upon such, legally considered, slight grounds. l'usincss won over, an Mr. Khiirpe's chief clerk entered to say that Servant Kdwards, an old soldier?who luul spoken to them some time, before relative to ii large claim which he had ngaiint Captain I'.vevdt, vising out of u legacy brrjurnthed to him in India, and the best mode of assuring its payment by an annuity, as propos cunythe captain?had now called to say that the terms were nt last fitlully arranged, and that lie wished to know wliou Mr. | Fharpe would be at leisure to draw up the bond. " He need n*d feat'for his money !" exclaimed Sbarpe tartly, ' the captain will, 1 think, be rich enough boforeanothcr week j has passed over ot v heads. Tell him to call to-morrow evening; I will see him afterwards. 1 and Mr. Kingston took our leave. The Crown Court was thronged to suffocation on the following morning, and the cxeitenient id' the auditory appeared to be of the lntcnscst kind. A trim bill luwiiimt - * tlic prisoner hud been found on the previous afternoon j and the it had Wen arranged, to nuit tlie convenience of counsel, should ho first proceeded with. As soon as the judge had taken Ids seat, the prisoner was ordered to he broVight irt, and a hush of expectation pervaded the assembly. in a few minutes lie made his appearance ill thedosk. I lis aspect sjron^ly appealed to the feelings of the audience ?a low murmurof sympathy ran through the court. 1 The jury were sworn, and the attorney for i the crown ro.^e to address them, His speech ; produced u great impression upon all who ; heard it ; and fV\r persons mentally with* | held their assent to his assertion, as he concluded what was evidently a painful task, " that should he produce evidence substantia ting tlio statement that lio made, tlie man who could then refuse to believe in the prisoner's guilt, would equally refuse credence to actions witnessed by his own bodily eyes." The different witnesses \?erc then Calfeil, and testing to the various facts I have before related. Vainly did Mr. Kingston and I exert ourselves to invalidate the irrefutable proofs of guilt so dispassionately detailed. " It in useless," whispered Mr. Sharpo, as I sat down. " Voft have done ?n -?1-1 l... -i -? ?? i - - mtib wiriu rji: uu'i: ; VTtl 110 Irt a ftoomed man, spito of his innocence, of which 1 fed, every moment that J look at him, the more and more convinced." The arguments were made ; the judge summed up; the jury deliberated for a few minfttMj nntl a verdict of "gnilty" Was returned. Sentence, to die on the day after the next followed, and all was over ! * * w * * I wax sitting at home about an hour after the court had closed, painfully musing on the events of the day, when the door of the apartment suddenly (lew open, and in I rushed Mr. Sharpc in a state of gre.:\t excitement, accompanied by Sergeant KdWJll'flfl. wlmm f1?r* u.'.ll 1 1 ..i.viii kiiu i V4IUV 1 m Ml lUIIIUIIIUUI 1111(1 called tlio previous day at the gentleman's house. In a few minutes I Was in possession of the following important intbniation, elicited by Miv Shurpe from the half-willing, halt-reluctant sergeant, whom he had found waiting for him at his office : In the first place, Captain Kvcrett was not the father of the prisoner! The young man was the son of Mary Fit/.luigh by licr first marriage; and his name, consequently, was Mufdaunt, not Kvcrett. His mother hnd survived her second marriage, barely six months. Kvcrett, calculating doubtless upon the grfciit advantages which would bo likely to result to himself ns the reputed fatherof 1'jo heir to a splendid English estj te, sluutd the qunfrol w th Mrs. j Kieauor fc'itzhugh?as ho, nothing doubt-, ed?-he ulu?* >tely made up< had brought his deceased wife's infant son up aa his own. This was the secret of Kdwords and his wife; and to purchase their silence, | Captain Everett had agreed to give the bond for annuity which Mr. Sharpe was to draw up. The story of the legacy was a mere prctcucc. When Kdwardu was in Yorkshire before, Kverett pneified him for the time with a sum of monoy,and u promise to do more for him as soon as his reputed ho11 enmo into the propetty. He then hurried thccA'/rwrn/iiorgomit bnck to London; nnd nt the lust interview lie had with him, gave lmn n note addressed to a person living in one of tiio atrects?J forgot whifili?fif (linSiu mni'boi i -------- ri J ...... *? nil n livo-pound note wliioh lie w?b to pay llic ()crHon to whom tho letter wna nd dressed or some very raro nud valuablo powder, which thooantain winded for ftoiontific pur* posen, and which Kdwnrdu wax to forward l>y eon oh to .Woodlands Manor-II ohm*.? Kdwardh obeyed his instructions, and delivered tho message to tho queer bushy bearded foreigner lo whom it was addrc^ft cd, who told him that, it' ho brought him the sum of money mentioned in the note on the following day, he should have tho article ro(|uircd. lie al.so bade him bring a well stopped bottle to put it in. As the bottle was to he Wit, by C'wh, Kdward'tf purchased a tin flask, an aHording a better security against breakage; and havimx ob~.i ?i... 1-.. I.' -i ;? > ? t?iau\ u i in; |nnMH i , J'ilCKlMl H II1C0IV Hp, SlIUl told liis niece, who was staying with him at the time, to direct it, as he was in a hnrI )'V to go ont to Sfjnire Kvcrctt, Woodlands [ Manor-1 louse, Yorkshire, anil then take it to the hooking-olljco. Kdwurds had Vctur| ne.d to Yorkshire only two days since, to *01 flic annuity settled, an<l fortunately was i I pros.-nt in conrj at the trial of Frederick i ' Mordauut, a/ins Kvcrctt, and at once re-j ; cognized the tin flask as the one he had ! i purchased and forwarded to Woodlands.? j I Tctt'ified and bewildered at the eonse<|Ueti- | i ces of what lie h 1 done, or helped to do i Edwards hastened to Mr. Hiarpe, who, by j dint of exhortations, throats, ami promises, | judiciously blended, induced him to uiakc I a clean breast of it. j As much astounded as elevated by this j unlooked-for information, it was sonic min- , utes before 1 could snllieiently concentrate j my thoughts ujiou the proper course to he j pursued. 1 was not however, long in de j uiuiiijt. nenving .mr. rrnirpc to draw up | Inn affidavit of the facts disclosed, I waited : upon tlic judge, ami obtained not only a re- i spite for the prisoner, but n wan-slut for the : flife.sfc of (Y.pt. Kvcrctt. It wns a busy evening. Edwards waM j dispatched to London in the friendly custody of an intelligent officer, to secure the person of the foreign-lookihg Vender of subtle poisons ; nud Mr. Sharpn, with two con- ! stables, sot off postchaise for Woodlands I II........ i? < ? ' louoi'. ii jiiii' wlien 111ey arrived there, and the servants informed thfnii fliat Copt. JCverctt had already retired.? TJiey of course. insisted upon seeing him j ! and he presently appeared, wrapped in a ! i dressing-gown', and haughtily demanded j their business with him at such an hour, j Tho answer smote him as with a thunder- j bolt, and he staggered backwards, till ar- ' rested by the wall of the. apartment, and i then sank f?>elilv noi'vi-lnwvK. int.? .. ! Kagerly, nfter a pause, lie <|UC.stiolied the intruders tipou tlio nature nt' tlie evidence against him. Mr. Sharpc briefly replied that Kd wards was in custody, and had revealed everything. " l.t it indeed .so?" rejoined Everett, seeming to derive resolution and fortitude from the very extremity of despair. "Then the pimp is unfjuestiomdile loft. It was, ' however, boldly and skilfully played, and I ! am not a man to whimper over u fatal turn | of the dice.* In a few mingles, gentlemen," j he added, " I shall haveehaiured mv dress I mid bo ready to accompany you." " He it so ; I shall nut detain either him or you long." Captain Kverett, followed by the officer, passed into his dressing-room, lie pulled otl' his gown ; iitid pointing to a coat suspended on a peg at the further extremity of the apartment, requested the constable j to reach it for him. The man hastened I to comply with his wish. Kverett opened j a dressing-case which stood on a table near I him : the officer beard the aharp clicking ] of a pistol-lock, am] turned swiftly round, j Too late! A loud report r;mg through the house; the room was filled with smoke , and the wretched assassin and f-uieide lay extended on the floor a mangled corpse! It would ho u seless lnimitrly to recap-1 itulate the final w inding-up of this eventful drama. Suffice ft to record, that .Mr. j Frederick Moid aunt was altera slight do- ] lav. restored to ('random nml : position in society. After the lapse of a decent interval, lie espoused Lucy ('nrrington. Their eldest son represents in this present parliament oho of tlie English boroughs, and is by no means an undistinguished member of the ('ominous I louse. F.ii k and Lovk.?What lessons arc embodied in thy teachings! stern lessons, as wo \ iu our days of hope and happiness, could never think of encountering, as we set sail under sunny skies, and our bark glidod pica?uuny over sinootn waters; wo did not i dream oi'tlio clouds. tho storm, and tlio tc.ipest. that nunc all too soon, and awoke us from our fond security. Time, the great monitor of all hearts, t< nuhe* us tho undeniable and storn truth, that ehango is written on all things ; but the saddest is death. Oh how terrible is - the wreck of hearts and homes, when the messenger resistless and unorring in his march, takes from our midst the brave and strong prayers and tears are of no avail; life's lessons wo must all learn, life's burdens wo I must boar. Who has not soon somo oftho'r loved ones wrapped in tho cold cerements of tho grave and borne to the innuuimorablo citv of tbr> dead? When wo roinomborod that in all our wandering* through lMo's paths wo should meet them no more, see their kindly beaming smile, hear their kindly beaming smile hour their loved tones no more, liavo wo not, in anguish of soul, utteYcd tho wail of a bleeding heart, let me dio, for in all this biond eaitli I have naught to live for; but wo cunnotdio when wo wish to most; wo iu\y ' weep at many a gravo beforo wo reach our own, : Who has not wept over brokpn hopes and I sovored tics? Who has not soon, ono by one, life's eherished dreams depart, its gold on ciiniu'o turned to bitterness: or xnatched ! rudely from our grnsji (ho hop) and trust of yours? OK, who cannot fav. when all our honrriori Import nro cvVhIicI, our, hou?ehoM jrotls nrc "oatlorcil ntul broken, 1 wouhl not liyo j\lwuy# 1 Cotton. Cotton is Kiii?, nml wields nil tistOnishirig ' inllueneo over tlio world's coininoreo, and over the minds of thope engaged in its j?roihietioil. Wo have often thought it too kingly, and, if nnything, too influential in iW way. i Tho host of things lire lialtle'to nhuso, and. ; however good ami desirnhlo, the ends nro often perverted. Ihit Cotton is King. and absorbs tlie attention td'Southern planters, and nowovcr much exchjsivcness may attach to its culture, the world godson tolerably fmooth, ' though not so prosperoutdy at> it would under a littljo diU'oroiit system front that pursued. In contemplating the attention bestowed upon cotton in very many instances, we are forcibly reminded of the parent who fondly , and affectionately takes ono ol his.children ; to his bosom, in love and confidence, and , eiddly neglects (lie balance of his household. When we see the planter cultivating his cot- j ton to tin; exclusion of his grain, to the nog- [ led of his stock, and to the extent of impov- { vii.-uiiii? iiiM 1:11m. we (.1:111 ic 01 the unnatural | parent, and foul if it isriglit and just for that j parent to love nil Iti.t children ami treat them e>]tuilly well, it is equally incumbent oil the j planter not to become so absorbed in cotton 1 culture a.s to neglect his grains, stock, ilit- i j r.iveinents upon liis farm, and the. renderinghis home more delightfully pleasant and prosperous. It is right for us to grow as tiiifli cotton ,ts wo can ; it is pleasing to contemplate a larjrc . crop; it is flattering to our vanity to he able : to boast over our neighbors : but', in the stun- ' ming up of accounts if we have to buy corn, t stock, and repair dilapidations, the result of I gross neglect, we shall liiul startling inroads j upon our profits. Our ambition .should not be to ubint tin* largest'<juantity, liut only so much u.swcciin ! work well ami not to tlio neglect of ecpmlly j important'field products nnd adjuncts. The planter shoo hi determine how much i lie can cultivate easily uml well to the hand ?when his.miml if matured on this point, he should address himself to as perfect a preparation of his field lor the seed as thought and physical industry will admit of. A great I ileal of loss is annually sustained hy the crops ; driving the planter instead of iiis driving or , keeping his crop in advance. To explain? | time is not economically used at the hegin- j inn;; in mcyr.ir?Wio season advances" Iii.0 a thiol ill tlic night upon tho planter?it is then ! discovered tlmt no time is to he lost?a rukli , to got cotton beds thrown \ij , corn land pre- j pared nnd f?CC'l in tlieiu, cliuriiutej'i/.cs overy , moment?crops arc sown?all <01110 up to- : get her?lor want of system in tho beginning, up to the t a is in grass is the consequence? negrpes are driven?stock plowciL to death, and a Tom Thumb plant ingots tho eye all over the field?drouth comes, or a wot season sots in, and one's luck is enrsod. and in- ' fidelity springs up in tho heart. Planters, is , not this more or less tho case every year?- j [t has a remedy, but that remedy can only j be found in 11 more thorough tilth. The true ,i,.:?.,i..in ... ..I-..- 1? ' 1 1 inw^uv; 10 lU jililllt 1?1 UVCrVUllH^ JUKI j cultivate wlint 3011 ilo plant thoroughly, nnd, j rely on it.yuur profits will bo greater. The ! quantity grown mav lie smaller, lint the jui- i periority of the article, and the enlisinced j Value because of that, superiority, will over j balance greatly.? ShiiMhru llarul O'cul/riitan " One Ever S.U'i.,"?Our readers w ill, w o are sure, tlinnk ua that wo refused to victimise them by publishing a few chapters of a mmdhkioii Mory sent us with tins tit lo. si ml winding up 1?y telling tlnun thov eonkl liml the rest elsowhero. The Etlgeliuhl Advertiser snys of it: A donih farce is just now passing before the eyes of many newspaper readers in South | Cfttolinu, bourin^ the Polyphptic titli- of | "One ]\veil final." IIore conies nearly h ! iloxcn of our eonntry cotemporarios this week. ! I llSlli'filled witll !i Kinrv lima .liwi./iml.i.l .....1 I only told in part, .which is published as an advertisement at throe cents a line. Th'o New York Weekly is the advertiser in the present instance ; ami socks thus to' entrap subscribers in Snath Carolina. We can't imagine liow such a trick can take nmoiif; j our people so transparent is tbe strategy.? j The wonder is. that it does not disgust ami ' | produce the very opposite effect from that do- I si roil. The Xew York Weekly evidently | prosntiies upon I lie supposed ignorance and ; gullibility of South Carolina readers. And I we arc mlher surprised that any portion of: our press should incur the charge of* soenfiiig [ to second the conceited metropolitan in bis ! vanity mul impudence. We however run- 1 (Icmii no one in tli<S prom i?;s. Lot every pa per judge <?t' its own course' in sucu inaticrs. I The question is lictween them ami tlioir reader*. Still,- we can butjaugli at. the fa'ce of t " One Kvp.1 Stiul," especially'when wethhik [ of such gravo old Makers an the Caiftden Journal stud the Spar anbury Spartan, con- I conting to enact the parts of servitors and I janitors therein. Take no aft'unce, gentlemen.?it is but a laugh,?no disrespect. TjOud Df.kuy on thk DtiKAnr.n AVau ?Tn a t'eec'nt speech on the Italian qucs tion, i/iru Derby sauj : My noble friend has already pointed out tbe lamentable consequences which must arise, if war does breakout, to Italy herspjf, wlintevcr be the ultimate result, or whoever be in the first instance successful. I think ho under rates the magnitude of the danger if ho supposes tliat the war will be j eonfinc>1 to Italy. It will be a war, in the . first place, of the most sanguinary deserip- i I C 1 l- i null, ftjut'MUKU ii wiir ui j>i iiieipit? imu ui |i;;.ssion. It will not be a war between two great nations contending for sonic definite S object, but a war exciting t lie most violent ' powions, nnd mice begun in Italy it will extend far beyond the- limit!? of that conn- : try. Otber passions will bo roused, other interests will lie touched, other 'nations will j be called upon to interfere, and war orig* I inatin^ in Italy, will certainly, at no di.s- | tint period, extent! l'irnnd wido. wranniiitr tlie wlinlo of Europo in one general con- ; tlttgvation. Ax Irishman who hail ii'turiKSl from Ttalv. wliore 1)0 lui'l liOOH with his man'or, wa> H?>KC'l, in the kitolicti. "Yea, (lion. I'.it. what is j thft lava I hoar llio ma-tor talking ? j a ?.lr?j? of the crutor," wuf I'at'i? roplv. The American Eagleis v IKK I'AItT! NCTUN. This is the viva tost bird thflt over Fproatl his wings over this great and ghiiu>us? country. Tht! place whefO he builds his 11 eft is called an eyrie away up in the prec* ipies where the fuot of man can't tome, tlu ugh, j.t:p", boy s might. The ea <;k' is ii li'inciiius follow, and ?it< on (lio top of the el iff# nltd kfoks sharp for plunder. 1 le gets tirod of waiting, and then he stints out in tin; blue expansive lleaV* oiis, and soars nil around on his pinions over tlio land and water to see what he ean pounce down upon. Hut rhough he is called a very cruel bird, ho always preys before <at'mg. just like" any good moral man at the head of his family. lie e:tts i.: . t _ i i in* vinuiiis raw, which is an uutMVoraljto habit,' it i* supposed tlnit lie cats it so bc'j cause lie likes to, lie is n very eourageous bird, and will light like blazes for bis young, ?nd steal chickens wherever lie ciln sou tbeio. He is u bird of great tallons, and is nmcli rcspeetod by birds of the feathered tribe tbat are. afraid of hiiu. lie is a great study for artists, but appears to best advantage? oil the ton dollar gold pie cry, aim pretty wen on ino tunica, as ho sits gathering up his thunderbolts under him, as if he was in a great hurry to he off. lit? lias lately broke out on the new cent, uutl 8CCMR sis if in his hurry ho lnul dropped oil his thunder. The Auiorican ctgleisthc patriot's hopo and the inspiration of the fourth of .July. 11c soars through ihc realms of the poet's fancy and whet.- his beak on the highest; peak of the c. itor's imagination. He is in the mouth of every politician, so to sppii'c. lie is said by them to stand on tho Uoel;y Mountains and to dip Ins bill into the Atlantic, while his tail casts a shadow on the Pacific coast. This is all iraninioti. There never was one more than eight feet lonir from the tip of one wing to the lip of t'other.? I lis angry scream is heard ever .. . r. 1 i. . i ' > * .- J i.ii, iiiMi iif nun i ciirc a icaiiior ior nuv body. To he him every way 110 is an immense fowl, ami liis inarch is over the mouniipir wave with the starspnngled banner in his hand whistliiu: Yankee .Doodle. Tin: Corns' Makku.?Tito business of an umlortnker lia.s always jiur-sesseil a molancbol.v interest for us?that is, merely ixy a timUcr of observation. The ulivj-i. nm. in the course of his professional dutic*. is often compelled to lie present nt tlio Booties of ileal li-bed agony. when the fa fill nrvow is rankling in tho heart?when life ebbs away like a gentle stream. or in Iqiii from tlio breast with a suddeu and remorseless grip. Tlio clergyman ficrpieiitlv ter.ds 1 y tlie bedside when spirit of one of a ilcnrly beloved tlook is nhont to take wing, to make tlio pathway shining u| lo (b.d. IVnt to tho undertaker tlie cold victims of dentil are familiarized l>y daily trade, ami the tearful anguish of the bereaved becomes a thing ofcourse. 1 le pushed daily from the house where the mother weeps for hev lovely firstborn, to the mansion where tho demise of nn ajrou ami wcaitnv parent mis at length graUtlod tlio yearning of expectant heirs; from the ci.liiu ot the .Y>'ung wife. perhap-s the briile of a work, to that of the faithful partner of joys nml sorrows fur a quarter of. oentury. Tlioro is a variety in tho " niotle ami t-hows" of crief. hot to tho hnliituatoil oyo of tho undertaker, they come alike naturally in the way of initio, nti<l ho moves ahout his mMancholy business quietly. delicately?with gravity, yet undoubted dilVerenee to tears ami the all ensuming grief that scorches up tho futmis of tours. Tm: Mattui K'ni.r.n.?'i'l.o Press,published by Mr Forney, in Philadelphia* undertakes to answer the anxious itit'|uirie.s of the Washington States as to tIk* designs ami policy of the Douglas 8<|Uatter sovcrii. \ ~?1. mm... w .1.:. III nil- .Mil III. 1 III! 1 t ilMII llljton St- .rs, amongst other <(iic:.stions, nsks : ' Do tiioy pledgo themselves to support the uominatious.of t he Charleston ('on vent ion !" The Press answers as follows: H. Jf tlie nominees of tlie Charleston" Convention shall be the representatives rtf tlie principle of non-intervention and popular sovereignty, as accepted, advocateu and understood, in IS.")!), as explained and defended in 1 fta-S by Stephen A. Douglas illll It IO iVJC'i'i/il-ifita i.xl !?* 1 ?.i ..... inn n(i>7wiiiivn| uiiu no .i|i|UKU uy i\Ji\ <* ing Southern statesmen, (bun do we pled re ourselves to support the nominees ot that convention with all our zeal. Hut it", oij the other band, that convenl'on shall .o committed, in any shape, to the theory so eloquently denounced by the States?that this (lovernnient is fo be dedicated "to tlio propagation of slavery"?then we. shall unquestionably oppose its nominees. This is pbiii enough, and just as any one might have oxpe( ?:d from the previous course of this party. The nominess of the Charleston Convention must, ''be the re-presentative of the principle of Hon intervention and popular sovereignty, as accepted, advocated, and understood in 1850,- as explained and defended by Stephen A. i'uu<r|;is nnci ins associates,'' or lie will ?Yfil be nup'ported by them. As tlicy khoW that no such nomination can bo inside, they intend ti? remain where they are, in c..-operation and nOiliatiou with the lllack ltepublican parly, It they attempt to enter the Charleston Convention, thoy onuht. to be turned out of it; but we do not think 'hat they will seek to enter it. They are much inoro likely to take part in the l>lack llcpuhliean Convention, as they frndonbtetlly will with the party in the I'residcn* ti.d election.? Chin f. </mi Mcrrm-tj. - ?- _ Kl-..ilVi1 ! niMllo .ft. ...... ? ?; I I I WWW II MSlini, :i yoniip; p.Mitlom.m ufckfd " wli.'t ui.;clo lior mi sweet ' (),y alio replied, in nttor innocence, " in> father is n fugnr planter."