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"TO THINK OWN SELF HK Tit UK, AN1) IT MUST FOLLOW, AS T11K NIGIIT TIIK DAY. THOU CANST NOT TIIl'.N RK FAl.SF. TO ANY MAN " HY ItOB'T. A. THOMPSON. PICKENS COURT HOUSE, S. C. SATURDAY, JULY 'M)y 183?). VOL. XI. NO. I. y?? _ . _ m ^iglLtEQTiE) IPOrraV, Tho Truth Loth Never Die. Though Kingdoms, States and Kmpires full, Ami dynasties decay : Though cities crumble into dust, Ami nations die away ; Though gorgeous towers ami palaces In heaps of ruin lie, Which once were proudest of the proud, The Truth tbjth never die ! We'll mourn ivnt o'er the silent past ; lis glories are not tied. Although its moil of high renown He nunifvered with the dead. We'll grieve not o'er what earth has lost, It cannot claim asigh ; For the wrong alone hath perished, 'I'hc Truth doth never die ! All of (lie Past is living still? All that is good and true; The rest hath perished, and il did i Deserve to perish, loo! The world rolls ever round and round, Alid lime rolls ovov 1?v Ati'l (ho wrong in over voole<l up, P.ut (lie Truth ?lolli never <1 e! t ' 1 G O M 5$ iD"N]fl?AYC?m KOK TIIE KEOH'KE COl HIEH. A Rural Sketch. Mr. Ktlitor: We inhabit a hind of vast extent, possessing every variety of soil ami climate, and abounding with natural scenery the most picturesque, romantic and grand. The increase of our population has as vet found littlo or no resistance in the want of the mean? of subsistence. Its tide is now swelling and overflowing in every direction, and perhaps before some of those who are present shall sec death, it will equal if not surpass that of the greatest empires of the ohl world. But the rapid increase of numbers will not be attended with correspondent increase of happiness, unless the region of intellect is cultivated as well as that which yields a supply to our physical wants. Man lias higher wants and capacities?his soul if filled with aspirations after knowledge am' I,inn:, null ill! IIIMUIHUIC I Mil',St Of liapnilieS: which seeks for its gratification not in the enjoyments of some, hilt in the cultivation <>! tlie powers of liis intellectual anil moral tin ture. The sentiment of patriotism is not merely associated with the clods of tlie valley which rave us hirtli; it is complicated ol the recollections of tlie great men our count r\ lias produced, of their heroic and beneficien1 actions, of affection for its institutions, its manner#, its lame in art and in arms. Tliisentiment must he cherished and invigorated 11v axsociatiiyr with it an eolH'Uwiuad. enthusiasm for those arts which lend to lui man existence in its most refined enjoyments Now, let me refer you to something tlun has arose to my own knowledge. In romiu. 1 i-oin Nloan'a Ferry, in 1830, there was bin one house close to tltc road, until you conn to a place which is now called Townville. an< then there was l>ut one eabin, and :i sinal wood shop. In coining up in sight of Town ville a lew days previous, a thought catn< i it to uiy mind that there had a great changt taken plaee in thirty \ears. l.'nexjieeted t< me, 1 came in sight of tlx* mansion of Mr Saiiiki. IJrovvn. I stood some time in adinl ration to see what time could bring forth. J was expecting to travel the Oconee Station road, but gratitude said ean'st thou forgo! Townville. So passing onward, 1 met Oapt, Yaxdivkk, after shaking his friendly hand, with as much friendship as mankind is endowed with, and lie passed the compliment, the same 1 never can forget. Thinks I hi tutrc/iir ?" 4' " ? ' ...j.-vo. mm iinn mail, ino perk'et gentleman, Iiv the free choice of tlic citi'/.cita of An<1 i;rs<>ii District, who bonded the ticket for the Stnto Legislature. " i'roernstination is the thief of time." f must stop a little while at Townvillo. Mr. Brown, with the sunn* friendship he assumed twenty yea>*.? ngo, met me in good health and spirits, and 1 must actually say nge has not taken away all his handsome feature*. After a hearty laugh with the Captain and Mr. Brown, the Captain remarked lie. was glad I had come that road, there was groat improvement going on in the upper end of town, and still a little farther there seems to he a great deal said of a min crai spring. It surely docs produce mcdiciiial water. After (ulvi*iu^.uie to take tlio lhudi" "* elors TTetreiil r??ad, I wont on at a slow and moderate rate until I became adjusted. 1 passed (be blacksmith shop of \Y. 11. IIutcuixs, where buggies can he repaired with dispatch, from thence to the store of ('n r., ks Maokf. & Co., who seem to be enjoying g<>od health and an hnnorrble share of public, patronage. The next was the shoe shop of Mr. Itol.T, tho* it seems to have formed line to the front. Likewise, the frame of a dwelling house appears to be in agitation. The next is a wood shop and grocery, where she spreads her delicacies upon the board, when her wine sparklcth in theeiin??-lmn upon ' theo and persuiidoth you to be joyful and happy, then is the hour of danger?llien let reason stand firm l?v on lier guard. The next is the hliicktnnitli shop of .Iaxks it Co., a beautiful house on your left hand, finished, nod having :i very picturesque nppearnnco. The next on your left is a school house, the teacher is Mr. Kant, who is capable to teach the Knglish langungo with propriety. lie cannot he surpassed, and verv in-J ?- * * ' vi|iiuiivu, in ido *1 istriot. L took the right hand|round the corn or of Tom Mookk's shop, towards Bachelor's Ret roar,"*?) till trn+y a nico rpnd for travellers. Tlioy soom to ho building now houses pretty thick along for houtc distance. 1 had not wont fur be.lbro I came to my friend W?. If unt's, ft ne?v house, on tho road side ; ho is Notary Public. 1 suppose he administers oaths and marries any one who sees propor to call on him. Af- i ler n. litllo rest with him. 1 went on m ??v? ? ' look at tlio mineral spring. 1 was informed it lielonga to Ji. 11. Harris. Incoming up a littlo fartlior, I finmo in fi^lit of tlio minora! spring Academy. l>ut I would rnthor call it bummer Kill. Ouo level plain extending from tho school hmiRC to tl u rond, nn I tlicit on tlio other aido it lias a nice declivity o<f towards ConeroM. I was compelled to give utterance to tlio expression, calm was tlic day nnil the scene delightful. I couM not ! help but think that the mineral water ami ! tho beautiful scenery wouhl mnko 11 it* sick I eonvalesoent, they certainly wouhl foci 1>y health restoring ai<l. their charms renewed. \ I certainly wouhl cull this place Summer ( Hill. It appears to ino if people in general I wcreacqnainted with tlic virtnesof this spring i MlOV wouhl lliuke it n siiiiiin?r rovi<t<>....r. : Vou ean walk as far us you please, and then 1 von enn see i\s far as the natural eve ean see. | i ami vet there is snaoe beyond. 'l'here was I somo people making use of the water, ami , i they said it seemed to strengthen them ami | do them a great ileal ot* good for the time they , hnd used it. *?*? , Additional Details of tho Battle of Solferino. J We have additional details of the hlondv tight aiid great ettrnnge at Solforino. The ' three armies Fullered most severely. <uid J the wounded wore pouring into Milan and all the other cities in tho line of tho allied mui'i'li in irrnnf tJiiinlun-u Tin; Kniperor Francis Joseph, it is said, ! committed extraordinary blunders in his ! command. Kossuth had a most enthusiastic I reception in Italy, iniiunn.se war propara' tions worn continued in France. The 7 V I>'mil in N??tro Dame t<? give thanks for the victory was very grand. [Cavrinna (Juno L'8) correspondence of the London Telegraph.] SCF.NKS OX TIIB IIATTI.K 1'IVI.II or SOI.KKR1XO? KKKKCT OK TIIK Kit KM II IIIII.FI> (ANNOX. 1 have visited to-day the plains of (iuidiz/.olo, where the battle which began at Sol fori no terminated at a late hour of the night. At ten o'clock, in fact, the Sardinian anil French cannon < uld (.till be heard. i no nruuery may bo saul to Imve done its work for the first time during tin1 present campaign on that occasion. Until then it I had now and then heen brought out, hut at last it has played the principal part. The ' power of the rilled cannon is henceforth esl tablishcd. I will cite hut one (act in support i i of this assertion. General Pesvaux saw in i the distance nhout thirty squadrons of cavali ' ry, consisting(d' Italians and dragoons, lorm| i ing into masses, and preparing to thunder ; 1 down upon the squares of Holland's division. . The danger was imincnt and grave, for the. r rciieii troops had their Hanks compromised, . ' and wore in front of an Austrian battery. I which worried tliem with grape. (Jcncrul Desvanx pointed out tbc danger to Captain [ i Fist, commander of the eighth battery of the j Tenth regiment of artillery, who at once esI j tablisbed a battery of iitied cannon upon a < small eminence in the plain, and fired four < rounds of shells containing forty balls a dis| tance of more than two thousand yards. The n'r\Vn!'rntV't place wi<lo paps had been made in the ene. iny's ranks, then all of a sudden that this t terrible piass of cavalry was dispersing in r every direction, utterly disordered, and witht i out heeding orders or rallying at the word ol ? , cuiiiiiiKiiu. i wenty thousand of the Austrian | , cavalry, unnn whose aid every reliance lnnl | 1 heen placed. were thus rendered useless, ami . it was directly aller this catastrophe, it' 1 am ? ' rightly informed, that the Kniperor Francis . ; .Joseph nhandotir.d the camp, tears of vexai tion and despair in his eves. , TII K ril.KSOl' IU.AI> ANI> TIIKIK A I'l'E A IJ ANTE. The plain of (luidi/.zolo is really horrible ' | to look upon, F.ven so late as yesterday the i dead were not buried. They were to be seen in groups of twenty and thirty, huddled together in one spot, where a shell had exploded or the Chasseurs d'Afr'ume luul n?cvn,i . ! All still maintained the attitude in which ' death hud struck them down. ! ilere was one with uplifted arm to ward I off the Idow which had split open his skull, | and splashed his brains far and near. Close j by was another, with his hand upon his I breast shivered and rent by the grape. An! other seemed to he smiling, as if in mockery of the grim warrior's approach. .Some were ! lying upon their backs, with faces turned I towards Heaven, and prayers still seeming ' to limrrti* ???,.??* * 1.- ' , "I ? ?"- "l,sFurther on, there was a Hungarian, who had thrust his clothes into a ghastly wound I near the heart. At his loft was a Tvrolcso, I with tlio unused cartridge between his teeth, 'l'o the right, a Croat had his head cut otV hy a ball, and his head was hy his side, with its horrible eyes, glaring and leering, as it soeine i, at the dismembered body. Two young lads of eertainly not more than sixteen were lying in each other's arms.? Death had surprised them in that attitude; or, perhaps, feeling themselves about to die, ) they had clung together in a last embrace, : and had fallen tliii" never to rise again. Up! mi tiif* iirt'i** a ii- ?:? *** ... .? jx/.tuin isii mnccr wo noticed a ih>g, waiting apparently for his master to get u |> ! Wo had not the heart to mil off the faithful animal by a word or a gesture, for we felt sure (hat God would reward tlio devotion of this po<M- dumb creature, so touehingly shown amidst the carnage which man hail waged against his fellow man. On every s'.'lo it was tho same. Death, in his most horrible and ghastly form, glared .?v ?i.-. mi manor wncro wo gazed. Enough, j however, on this sad tlieiMO. ITow to Avoid tiik i)anokr ok Lioiitmno.?During thunderstorms, persons in houses should sit or lio as far distant ns possible from the chimney and tho most exposed parts of tho walls The middle of the room, if it is large, is the safest localitySailors on the sea should keep as far from the nirsts as possible, and farmers in the fields should never seek shelter under trees. ! Horizontal strokes of lightning sometimes take place, and several persons Jiavo been struck while sitting at an open window during thunder storms. Every window of a | room in which persons arc sitting in suoh cases, should be closed; a flash of the flujd, which would pass through an open window into un apartment, will bo conducted down through the floor and wall to tho earth, if the window is shut. Tiik following notice may he seen 011 a I blacksmith's shop in Essex : " No hormi shod on Sunday except sickness and death." | . > Douglas, Forsyth, and tho Cincinnati Platform Mr. Vorsjth, Into ministor to Mexico, liriR written nitntWr nrilitiivil lnftnr In fln> Mobile llegister, of which bo is flio editor. It is made a grave cbargc against liiui tbat bo is not opposed to tlie nomination of Douglas for the Presidency of 1800, :nul tbat be does not insist upon slave legislation for tbe Territories In bis answer, which is important, just now. in view of bis having control of an influential Southern press, he says : " My solemn conviction is, that the Southern mind has hoen led astray on this i rpicstion, and that its leaders aro hurrying it on to a point where our vital interests in the Union arc to he jeoparded and onr honor compromised. 1 ask yon, as a man, if, having these convictions, 1 should not be a political and moral coward, unworthy of my post on the watch-tower of the press, did 1 fail to raise my voice against such a i career of madness, because to do so is unpopular, and as you sny, " injure luy paper in the country?" Tlio chief risk T run in nssuminjr my position is from the clamor I knew would ho 'raised against me of being a " Douglas j man," and his advocate, for the l'rcsidenc . I am in favor of th<; nominee of the i ? linrleston Convention, and T am in favor | of the harmonious action of that Conven1 tion. The Democratic party is now the 1 only barrier to the designs of the Abolition party. Break that down, and we are all at sea, and good and patriotic' n?cn will not know where to turn for succor and the i public safety. A scrub race for tin* I 'residency, its final decision by the House of 1 Representatives of Congress, and the chvi tion of an Abolitionist, will be the serine]. 1 am unwilling to risk this fearful future, i for an abstraction. If it is answered that j this abstraction is a principle, and wc are ; bound to stand on it, f answer, granted that I ii is so, but it is a prmciplo which (he I? ?mocmcv of the North west claims that wo | agreed in the Cincinnati Platform to yield | up, for the sake of harmony and the public good, and for a valuable consideration faithI fully paid down by them, and that consideration was the yielding up of another prin, j ciple on the part of the North, to wit, that j Congress had the power to intervene and ! settle the <|ue.?tion ot slavery in the Tcrri lories, jiim in unite Willi US Ot tin' .^outli in prevontinp; tin* l>laek llepublieans from i piifdi'cinji that principle in tin* prohibition j swer further, tlint if every department, ot j tbo government, and the unanimous voice i of the North, were to yield to us our principle, it would not possess the value of a i pin, for it would not make one foot more or j less of slave or free territory l'or these, j reasons I am in favor of standing on the ' Cincinnati platform, of readoptins it at the j ('liarleston ('onvention, nrttl of leaving the j question of slavery in tho Territories where | we agreed to leave it?to wit : to tKe laws j of climate and geography, to the judicial | tribunals of the land, and to the Kxecutive | authority to enforce their decisions, and to ] the political communities of American peo , r.v. ,iuu .in; iu ix; turcica r>v it. I'ixoept j by this course, 1 hoc no escape from tho | greatest political calimitics, and this course i I am utterly unable to perceive how the South is to suller even an infinitesimal loss, either in honor or profit. .Joiix FOUSYTIf. RK.tnr.vcnino.?The Scoretary of tlie Treas! ury bus boon compelled to reduce the cnor mona and unncecsHarily large expenses of ' collecting tho nulilio revenue. II?> i><>" ; "V ] commenced the good work l?y turning out I about a hundred useless employees in the 1 Now York Custom House. Lot him keep tlie l>:ill in motion. A Washington corvcaj pondent writes as follow: The present Administration spent over $81,000,(100 tlie Jirst year uncording to their own showing, exclusive of a deficit of $10,i 000,000, which hud to ho supplied. During the Tftjlor-Killmoro administration, tho expenses of collecting tl>n ? ???? ?? ^ ? : . "v,u ?*.?? < by Congress at #2,500,000, and it wert out of office leaving an unexpended balance of tliat fund, amounting to $800,000. Mr. Seoj rotary Cuthrie soon contrived to got rid of that balance an<l a good deal more, by atock; ing the Custom House with partisans and j seedy politicians, and, under l>omocratic rulo, the expenses for the same service have run up to $i),GOO,000 a year. Kop'eatcd efforts I were made by t lie opposition sidcofthe House i nisi, mission. io reuuec tins expenditure, but | on every occasion* tlio immediate reproson* j tiitivoa of the Trcnsurv Department resisted . the retrenchment, and Mr. Letcher tarried | tlio appropriation. Mr. Cobb's action now, evon in this limited reduction, is u virtual confession of judgment, in regard to these I abuses, nnd an admission that they ought to i have been corrected long ago. Am Kit if an .for un a i,ism.?W'c believe, says the Xew York Tribune, there are now | printed within tho limits of the Union not Iixsh than four thousand newspapers, nt least five hundred of thftm dailv. and fivn Inm. drcd semi-weekly Their nverago circulation wo estimate at two thousand caoh for | (ho dailies, tweuty-iivo hundred for ilio i sen.!-week lies, and fifteen hundred fur tho \ wookliex, making a total circulation in this I country of more than four hundred millions of newspaper shoots per annum. Vet in ! IS 10?logs than half a century ago?the I total circulation of iiimsmnnN i? ?i,;u I |...t VVMIIfry was estimated by Isaiah Thomas, in lii.s " History of Printing," at oolj* a little more than twenty millions of sheets j>er annum. At that time there were 851) newspaper*, of which 27 only wore daily. What an advance in le?a than half a century Desperate and Bloody Affray. A Fayetvillo (Arkansas) paper <*iv<>s tlie following particulars of an allYay which took |iln<;o in the town of lluntsvillo, wherein roster Black, Kfifp, a son of (,'ol. William Kliiek, of Fayetville, ami Mr. Warren Sums, a merchant of lltjii\tsvillo, were killed immediately, nml John Black :\n<l I>r. .lames Smithson, of Fnvetvillo. ami t.'onMubltf Moody and ..r ' II -- 1 yuM.x, .tui-uMUMj uiu euvuroiy wounded. Ii appears that on Friday, tho 'Jlth inst., some altercation between James Sams, tho son of Warren Sains ami Forester Black, , took place, in which insulting words and , threatening actons were used by voting Sams toward Black, ^^"o collision, however; ref suited at this time, ami it was supposed that j there would be no further quarrel: Several , hours afterwards some hard words were in i icrciitin^cu neiwcen w arron Sams ninl Forester Black, when both drew weapons, the lor in or a howio knife ami the latter a revolver, Black's pistol missed lire twice, ami was dis charged at Sams twice, the last shot, as is supposed, taking effect in the head of Sams, Sams in the meantime advanei?g on Black with hU knife. One of our informants states that Sams was in the act of falling when tlm report of lireams from an unexpected <iuartei was heard, ami Sams fell instantly. Just at this time young Sams came running up witli | a douhle-iiarrelc'l shotgun, and dis"harged 1 one barrel at. tlie rlist!im>i> nf l.n? v-.... foot into tho side of Mr. Illack, and just as lit ' was falling, lire 1 tlio other barrel into hi? j back, liotli barrels heavily chargcd witl buckshot. Young Sams then attacked Dr. .Tame; Smithson, knoeking him down with lus <^uii I wbon 1 >r. I'. Sinithson, a brother of Jsime? j advancing to aid his brut her, struck at Sanr ' with a gun, bat missed him and tidied hi: brother to the ground. James Smithson who, it seems, was unarmed, wrested tin shot-gun from the hands of I>. Smithsot ami chased young Sams nil' the ground, snap jiing the gun at him in bis lli^ht. Severn i pistol-shots lired, and bo vie knives used b ' some persons vet unkown. nrobalilv liv inti j rested spectator.-*. An idea nmv l?o forme j of din iinporiillclod savageness of this strec ! lij^ht, when it is eonsidored that Warrci ; Sains was shot with ten pistol balls, an ; ?tabbed onre or twice in the breast?tha Forester Black was sb<>t twice with a doubl barreleil thot-gun? John Black ami .lame , Smithson wounded in the thigh, lames Sam stabbed with a bowie-knife, ami Mr. .\loud, fioverely wounded in the lejj?ami furthci ! that after the light bail ended, four revolver ' wero found lying upon the ground of battle three of which were entirely empty and on ! partiailv discharged. V..I .1 l-~ I -ft.-.. ! - ...... ii.. vi .it. neurit tuier iik; siiuuimi j eoniinenecil, stive tiio sharp, < j nick report < the revolver, the stunning sound of the ileai .3. *" x "i"'nV Y\ V, "*ool, nut ; Villus and nlitcK hau fallen, nun men im ' 11!<?? ?I wr.s pouring forth through the gluistl j ami fatal woiinils. The scone of this traced ; was enough to sicken a manly heart, j young man in the morning of life, and a tn:i | turn man in the autumn of his days, lyin with'a a few feet of oaeli other, their live pouring out in torrents id' blood, and fou others hlpeiling from severe wounds; ho imagination can feelilj* depict the heart-rend intr Innieiitiiiiniw iif : II.will* in, rw.TiUtn, WIVl'h 1 relatives, mid lViomls. Our informants say 1 l?ut minute or two elapsed a ft or tin; Pirin; licforo the sijuare was covered with near i j hundred woman. wlio made t!i?? town rosoum with their lVuutic scroanis ami wild cries o | gV'?f> Than siM. A NT i NH KV r.iidUKF.Ns.'?Tin London (.lardncr's Chronicle describes tin : following nicthodas promising great eflicac; 1 in reviving plants dried l>y having liat their routs too loniiout of the Lmmml :m. j insuring their sale removal in lato spr'tni j and summer, ami as Wing especially littei j for evergreens when transplanted : Make a hole in the ground to contnii ! about 20 gallons of wat'-r, and pour ahou lt'? gallons into it; add to thisnhout 20 lh.? j of ham-yard manure mixed with ahout th same quantity of line rich soil, Bvworkinj | the mixture for a long time, and carefully I you reduce it to the consistency of white j wash In this mixture, steep the roots o 1 your plants just before putting thorn int< i the gfound ; the earth thrown fiver them I into the hole sticks to the roots, which ini j mediately begin to swell. At the vcrj i first movement of sap, rootlets appeal through this coating, which gives the in | mediate manure, and not only brings on ! hut secures the further formation of roots j Once fairly started, there is nothingmori l to fear." j A i.itti.k girl, of this vicinity, was eu 'redof a rattlesnake bite recently, by the ; use of a strong decoction of white ash leaj ves, taken internally, and also applied to ; the wound. The decoction was not used until the day after she was bitten. Had it boon used immediately after receiving tin ! bite, there would pr< hably li:?vo boon nc I swelling at all. Tlioro is a species of black snake (not poisonous) which always lights the rattlesnake when ho moots him, and always kills him. Hut, in the encounter, lie generally receives many wounds from the fangs of bis poisonous antagonist. These ho cures by chewing white ash loaves and applying his saliva j charged with their pulpy juice, as a sort of j liniment. The instinct of the reptile sugI gosted the remedy to man.? Quid .Xunr. Moi st Vbrnon.?The Alexandra Gazette s:\vs:?The Home and Tomb of \i'? ..i. i. ii.-Miiii-wii win soon pans into tlic possession of the Ladies' Mount \'ornon Association. Various. repairs of the promises will be commenced to-day, under the superintendence of Col. Charles S. Price, of this place. The carpenters' tools imported from Knglmid by (Jeneral Washington, during liis lifetime, have been preserved, and will, in r il probability, bo used now in making the contemplated reparrs. Thg Ex King Jerome BonaparteIt has scMum fallen to Ilio lot nf man to sci' such amazing vicissitudes of fortune, affecting himself and family, >s has boon witnessed by the personage whoso name heads this article. The dreams of romance have heen excelled hy the actual realities'of his life. 11c is the only surviving brother of the illustrious Napoleon, and was born in 17*1. So long lias tlic hitter been ii historical ehnractcr tlmt, nt first, it si|>pe:\rs almost impossible tlnv' ' great compioror, who, after running the i st remarkable career of twenty years that the wovhl ever saw, tcriniiuiteil it. by his death nc;jrly forty years ago, upon the rock of St. IIc-Tcna, should have a brother now occupying ft high position in the French liovornnieut. ? Of ?ll his family he alone is pcnirfttc^to i witness both their remarkable rise in pros |ii.-i u> niiii I'm iiiim', uiiii uicir buoscqnciili ir'j mendmts downfall, and theiro<(?mlIv wonderful return to the heightof power awl influence. His recollection goes hack to tlic time when tin- family of llonaparte was not known beyond the range of ii few friends and acquaintances, and when its members, in private life, ! were compullcd (<> .-struggle in obscurity with : penury and misfortune, lie can recollect iiis mother, a widow with a large family of children upon her hands, and when it roi 1 quired a stern conflict to obtain for them the necessary means of existence. lie was in I early manhood when the genius of his brother J tirst burst upon tho world, and opened to his ; l relatives visions of power ami splendor, tliat i | never, oven in the wildest llights of iniagina! tion, liad they previously entertained, lie saw his brothers and sisters placed hv the j magic wand of Napoleon niton nearly all the . thrones of Europe, and decked with diadems and coronets. I For the first time in the history of Europe, was the extraordinary spectacle observed of a family of private citizens parcelling thrones t and crowns amonir themselves, as if thev lnul | been the merest baubles. Jerome was thirty1 ( one yours old when the dark clouds of ini*y fortune ami disaster gathered black and heavy nver ilie fortunes of his family, and d | when the storm came that swept them from t j their height of grandeur and glory, into the a j depth of humiliation and debasement. He il saw the star of the Bonaparte destiny, so t "i'ten apostrophized bv Napoleon, sink be.. I %A.t11* i i * '> * - ? in;,nn i in; nuinn, il | l|UH'UII U^f IIUVIT in 1'ISC* s ' again. Fur nearly forty years, the blackness s I of 111o night enveloped it. Not one of the y original family saw this long night to a close , 1 save Jerome?as, before it again emerged s from the political horizon they were all doceased. .Jerome has had the remarkable fee licity to see the fortunes of the family re-established under a new Napoleonic dynasty, g One ol tlie chiefs of the old Empire, lie holds >f a similar position in the new. He directs 1- ; the t'ounsels of the Regent Empress Eugenie, il i as be had nreviously done those of Maria . 'i iivicau. A great hi.sl.orioitl m<.uu merit ol y i the past is this old King Jerome, who pery ! sunnily has witnessed the most remarkable \ family history that the world has ever soon, i- It is nut yet finished, lie has not vet at <* ; tmncu the most extreme old age, and it is possible that lie may sec events all'eeting bis r funily i{?<ite as startling and reirurkabh' as t , those which have hitherto characterized its i- career.? (Jiin iiimili I'minirrr. j 1 ioi.mks, an American poet, discoursing ^ of the eyes of rival lady-loves, exclaims : i j ' The bright black eye, the inciting blue, 1 j I cannot choose betwixt the two!'' f ( Tho choice lias puzzled many man bcl fore and since. Hlack eyes are the. more ^ ! brilliant ; blue eyes the more winning.? & il .1*11 ; umuiv <vs u;?kii ; uiuc eyes languish.? || I Slack eyes are passionate; blue eyes are I , tonder. IJlack oyes are most, abundant in j France., Ttaly anil Spain ; blue eyes in l'-n^. land and (lerniany. Kxccpt smnn of the ~j early Norman Icings, antl except also Cliar; !es 11. (a great sinner and voluptuary,) all the. sovereigns of Hnj'land had blue eves. [ J lint the fact is not much to the credit ot the azuro, everything; considered. The ' Saxon race, it is worth knowing, are a bluc0 : i ... -> " y nni liiuuj -omaia uiuo eye is no sign of ' I weakness. If is said that all the presidents ' j of tin; 1 nited States, except (Jon. Ilarri.. I had blue eyes. Anions the great men of the world the bine eyes appear to have been predominant. Socrates, Shakespeare, ! Locke, Bacon, .Milton, (loethe, Franklin and Napoleon, all hud bine eyes. So also, according to tradition, had the Saviour.? Yet in the entire world of mankind black eyes are greatly in the majority. So the ' blue eyes must " look out" for themselves. [ /lostan ]*<>(,{. * ? Tub T?\st I,kix;kk Storv.?Tho Salem (Mass.) Register tolls a story of a teacher in j a district school in that neighborhood, who > | was in tho hntiit of questioning the cltihlron ; under his charge as to what they knew of i | various historical characters they happen to I j meet with in tlicir hooks. A few days ago I iiiu iiiiuiiT oi asnmgiou occurred in tlio | morning lesson, and thoso who had anything ' 1 to say about him were asked to raise their i hands. Of course uj> went all hands, and young America onco more paid tribute to him " who was first," etc. " He never told alio," shouted one. " Ate out of a tin plate all through the war." ' Never smiled for nine years," cried a third. " He was the 1 father of the country," piped several. " Ed- j j ward Kvcrett is getting money to buy his I grave," and so forth. " .Vow, then," said j j the teacher, " who can trll ino about I'M ward ! Everett?" No luind was raised. The teacher, somewhat surprised?" Is there no one hero who knows anything about lldwnrd Everett ?" No 1 and was up. " AVell, wo shall see what wo can find out about Kdwrrd Everett. before to-morrow." 1'. M.<?Before school opens, up runs a little girl in great , excitement, and the teacher enters t!m school room. ' I know something about Edward , " " W.ll - i.-? . ..in, wiini is it; rtsKOd tho toncher, eagerly. " 11o writes for tho New York Lo<lgor." She luid rend it in nice largo lottors on the fenoo as she wont h'-ino. Hk who gives pleasure, meets with it. I Kindness is tho bond of friendship, and the hook of love ; he who sows not, reaps not. An Aiimy at Hkst.?The Albany Evening Journal remarks* that " there is one army which will never quit Italy. It sleeps on its arms in an eternal bivouac.? New recruits join at an average of a thousand a day. They arc picked men, the bravest in both armies?the foremost in every battle In twenty-seven days Italy ha* been strewn with twenty-seven thousand corpses, men who sought an epaulet, and fntinrl ft frVnl'A V f linifbiinil fj?ll in flu> \*?? ( B... .v.. .v.. ... n.v. ..." I rinus early skirmishes. A thousand uinrkj od the invasion of (iarihaldi. Nine hun' died French and Sardinians perished at I Montebello. Two thousand Austriaus por, ished on the same field. Two hundred Zouaves were, killed at I'alestro. As many | Sardinians died witli them. Four hundred i\iimiiui^ nnu uhmvimu in mi: c;m;u. Mure than twenty thousand must have fallen in the action at BulTalora and Magenta." The Journal then spealcs, h}' name, of the distinguished officers killed and wounded. adding : " But this is the fortune of war."? There must he deaths, or there ean be no promotion. A dozen eager hands are reai dy to grasp the baton as it falln from the ! ~r ?i.? .1..:.... M?1...1 v i iiuiivi wi tuv; viyniL; .iilll.>IlUl. /\ UU/A'I1 hearts burn for the gold epaulets whoso last owner lies dead in the ditch. From tlic (General of Division down to the sou* lieutenant, each finds his commander's , corpse, a stopping-stone to his own glory." An I *pkhinr ?Ji.'ixiE.?In the ease of ! the convicted and sentenced Oberlin slave rescuers, whom the Abolitionists hoped to have discharged from imprisonment by the Supreme Court of Ohio on habeas corpus, .Judge Swan thus nobly concludes the opinion of the Court: As a citizen 1 would not deliberately vi olato the Constitution or the law by interference with fugitives from justice, but if ! a weary, frightened slave would appeal to ! me to protect him from his pursuers, it is possible I might momentarily forget my allegiance to the law and constitution and give liim a covert from those who were on his track?there are, no doubt, many slave ( holders who would thus follow the instincts of human sympathy and if 1 did it, and I was prosecuted, condemned and imprisoned ; and brought by my counsel before this tri ! buna I on a habeas corpus, and was then | permitted to pronounce judgment in my own case, I trust I should have the moral courage to say, before (iod and the coun try, as 1 am now compelled to say, under ! the solemn duties of a judge bound by mv official otitli to sustain the supremacy of tlur , Constitution and tlie law. The prisoners j must be remanded." Judge Swan waselcctcd by the Kepuhlii can party, ami a few days after he delivered the above sentiments, his party met in i State Convention to nominate a Judge of the j Supreme Court, and .selected another man to take his place. A (JooD-111'MOitKD Ukhl kk.?A trrtai:i good natured old farmer preserved his constant good nature, let what would turn 1 up. One day while the black tongue prej vailed he was told tliatoijeof his red oxen , was dead. ] "Is lie?" said the old man, " welllio Vf.io .mviivn a UUVIMIV OIU leilOW. J ftliO Olt ( his hide ami take it down to Fletcher's ; ! it will bring the cash." j In nn hour or two the man came back ; with the news, that " 1/me-back and his ] mate wovo both dead." I Arc they said the old man,u well, 1 ! took them from 15 , to save a bad debt ' I never expected to get. Take the hides \ down to Fletcher's ; they will be as good as cash." la about an hour the man came back to inform him that the nigh brindlc was dead. " is hi; ?" said tlie old man, " well, ho I was a very, very old ox. Take oil' the huh I and take it down to Fletcher's it is worth j more than any of the others." j 1 lorenpon his wife, inking npon her the : office of Klinhaz, reprimanded her lmxlvini-J J severely, and nsketl him if he was not I nware that his loss was a judgment from Heaven for his wickedness. " Is it?" said the old man ; "well, if they take judgment in entile, it is the easiest way I can pay them." ??m* -o mm ? sdwinfi T.mik.s.?A good story is told of a grave divine on Cape Cod, not. long since, who awoke from n cnnifr?WfiJ.l.? - v ""i' i in liip chair, and discovered his amiable j helpmate in the performance ot' an net fur j which Governor Marcy once made a chargo j of fifty cents to the State?in other words, ' mending his pantaloons. Inspired with a \ lore of fun, which .seldom aficcted him, ho ' inquired, " Why are you, my dear, like J the evil adversary spoken of in Scripture I Of course she was unable to discover any I resemblance. " Jiccau.se," said he, " while, the h unhand man slept, you sowed the lures !" Mn.n Otnvowukh.?A country grocer* i famous ns " the very pink of politeness," ! was also an expert salesman. Disparage ] one article as you nii^ht, he was sure to Hud Houiotliinjr (?"? praise in it ; if his tea W?h not strong, it whs well-flavored. t)u one ooonsiou, a customer having called for ! a .-ample of gunpowder, rubbed it in hia i hand to ascertain the proportion of charcoal, and then observed that it lacked I strength. " I know," answered the im| perturnblo salesman?falling into his old j tea formula-?" I know the "powder is not so strong as some, but you'll find it very ' luild and agreeable % I J