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POSYRV. [Proru ''Tlio Printer."] I wish I was an Elitor. I winl? I wni an editor? I roally do indood : It *?on? to mc that editor# Got oToryfhing they need. Tlioy get tlio higRest and (lie bcsl Of everything that grows, Au?i got in free to circusc* And otluji* kind of shows; Alii wlion a main-nolli cliccsc is cut, Tlicv alwavn get a Mice. I u II.. e -i.L . _ - ? i ur ?-?> iiix .Mrs, omiin Knows now v v To link <5 it very nice. Tbo largest pumpkin, longest beet, And other garden stuff, / I? blown into the sanctum by An editorial puff. The biggetd bug w ill speak to them, t * / No matter how they drew? / A shabby ooat i* nothing?if ! / You own a ttrintinz presf. Iy_ / > At L lilies' Fairs they're almost hugged Uy proUy girN, you know. That they nwy crack up everything The hnlics have to show. ,J Au'l thus they get a blow-out frco At every party fed? The roason is ?because they write, And oilier people read. Nr.n. WL. 1 ' _ ,.\ ,K1 TO 1(1 r?> 'M r\ iwv ?>>./-}?)J rJ J ClIKAl' Ukmc.ion --The Presbyterian Bannor thus discourses upon the subject of -v "Cheap llcligion," in reply to a cotempo| rary who snoerd at cconouiy in ohurch niuttors i Reason nnd common sense should prevail in religion. Churches should bo commodious, neat, corresponding with tho ability of tho people. Let tho church cdiGcc be nnUicUmtly largo, comfortable, in good taste, in jrood repair always, a chasto ornament to tho neighbourhood. Churches should 10 '* veilings lit for God's own children, ^cd to the emotions of n pun: and spir, worship. lience they should not bo ing i??*. jM jlioir docorutiun ; shoud not bo from tl??vecl with dcht: should not so absorb in uuuH . . .1 4. s means as to prevent theni troin ^in?jj to the proper sustontation of that Ma)tur nn(i t|,e aid of the poor.and oliiin, h^jon unj missions. A people who S id.ooi^j tlieir hrgo donations toward a railroad, V themselves, plead their cxhausnt (lie bi<iis means, or a church debt vollearn, wiincurred ; as a reason for sin.ill \ Notwitions to benevolencc, nrc just as \ ot'tlioJt in their sin, as those who pretend j g W. :Micss and economy merely to save their ^ j own pocket. Doth classes rob God. " Good men will do neither the one thing nor the other. They will be liberal toward the sanctuary, they will sustain their pastor well, and they will not bo niggardly in their benevolence. A rood un<l wi?.? plo will in nil thin?3 do according to the ability that the Ixird jjiveth ; ami will hoc that tltcir donations are affective to the accomplishing of the end designed. While \ there are almost myriads of the poor and V educated, and while the world has its hundreds of millions of heathens, pcrishimr for .want of missionaries, it is uptime for Chrisjijuns, rich or poor, to expend their money 'vjW that which proliteth not. While there ntJfi such destinations and such wants, let Christians conic as near as possible to the Master's precept and to apostolic example, in making religion cheap and its labors effective;* so that its spread may be the more , extensive. Thus shall we respond to the prayer, " Thy Kingdom conic." Fon.JivF.NKSs.?No aspect in which tho Creator is presented to ua so clonrly exhibits his bencticcnco. as that which represents Ilim an continually exereising forgiveness towards tho violators of His law. Xot tho terribloness of His majesty so stirs our emotions, nor does that constantly persorving care, which our reason convinces us is over active, so impresses us with a sooso of His giodnoss. It subdues tho pride of hearts which could never bo reached by the fe.'r of punishment, or m?vcd by tho mandates of 4'lty. It draws tlic man into a closor and V dearer communion with his Maker?a cum' inunim ot feeling, which has nothing to du with o nd, forma! reason. Similar in kind, though infinitely removed t in degree, are the nature and effects of human forgivones?. Ii lias a power t?> break down n r;ho barriers which pride ami selli'-hnoKS have V raised between heart", and to ^ivo thuu". ati i. unrestricted flow. Men never experience a I- deoper love for each other than when thoy .. have mutually confessed their errors and 1 been mutually forgiven, i iioro is a 11 <<> < >ty f'f in tho position, but it in a humility from no..>vhich all the.shame has been taken. If each ' ' V* oonneiouii of his own weakness,'he hears ..Vho other confess to equal frailty. Thus, ,l fi?Am thrtli* .> K/?.wl ..C I . - ft" ... i-V?. W, which all their oxcelleuuie* could not osthbli?h. It Is unfortunately tho ca?o in regard to human forgiveness, that if it duos not follow "'ch'ifo upon the stops of tho offenco. it rarely at all. It must always bo a positive tobftot. People cannot forgive by forgetting. ?|, Time inoiifios, bat never totally extinguishes the ro*entin?nt which arisos from an offence. \Vhon this has summoned to its aid pride and 1 tho other passions, although its violence may have passed away, it is far more unyielding than %i first. The first voice that bids forgivones* should be hearkened to?the first opportunity embraced?Otherwise, the mftn may pass on for years, cherishing an anger ovor growing in bitterness, and perhaps plouding the whole aspect of bis life. [ Orortjia Crufiader. ?pp? Tin: Tiiutu.*?-Shclton in one of his ser' lor^TOO? anjfc ' " Au upright is always easier e' f<;hari a stooping posture, becnuso it is more latttrul, ?nd quo pnrt is better supported ",VOI;ljftn another; It is better to beiin honinni) than a knuvo. It is siIho more the Wjocful.',' hU" No 't'DDRN KKt'OHM IS P088IIJLK.?To ? liopo to change from vice to virtue i? like hoping for youthful veins to bo opened, un?l IhoiMicnlthful vijror infused into the <Ii'ie<l-up slnicos of n^e. 0?IK OV TUB HbASONB.? 'Two COIjntry wont into 8 batter's to buy ihic o^tb?i<ii * font. They were delighted with (be mihpie, ittaido the crown ot' which wj# in.vrtj ed n lookirt?>gla8?. n What is tho gl/lHs for?" said one of the men. The other. J.\. impatient ft such n ili.pliiy of rural ignorance, oxchnmed, "What for? why, for the 0Qi?n who buy* the Uiit Hj too bow it Jiil' * lift m yr ' v'mhrv. Burliug, the New York Dan. Tito Boston Post's account of this man piven hut a faint picture of him. I will I give you ono from real lifo : i Ten year# ago I wns seated in lUy office i at No. 12, Wall-stroet, busily driving tlio J quill, whon I heard a quiet step behind j and then a mild voice inquiring if I hud i the transcript of u certain judgment against one J. (r. ().?the projector of the grsat Peg-gho-wah-wah Company for selling Indian Medicines. I looked up and s.v.v a man whose twisted foot and palsied arm were quite familliar to me, but of whose iiamo or callinc I knew nothing. " Yes," 1 replied, " I have the transcript." " W'oll. I want it," he said, "I'm going to collect it for the creditor." " Going to collect it!' X exclaimed, " Why, the judgment is perfe ctly worthloss. I'A'OMllinnH fitwl tivnnAftJS.w" ? | ?.mv* |Mu\<ov;uiii^;n unci I judgment, and nil ordinary means of grace I have long ago boon exhausted upon O.? lie is hopelessly insolvent, and is. besides, the most adroit scamp 1 over encountered." " What's that to me?" broko out tho visitor, in a gruff, strong voice, quite different from his lirst tones. " Perhaps you don't know who I am. I'm Burling, the mau about town. You a lawyer, and not know me ! Sheriffs are good for nothing; constables are good for nothing; executions and creditors' bills are good for nothing.? Give me the transcript?here's the order for it?1 11 make the monc.v out. .-if liim " I swivelled arouud uiy chair nud stared at tho man. " And will you bo so pood, Mr. Thirling," I asked, " as to tell mo your pi 'cut plan for supersedingofficers and writs, and for squeezing blood out of turnips, and cash owt of the President of tho Peg-ghcwah-wah Company l " llow 1 do it ? you mean. Why I dun | '(?m at their houses, 1 dun eir in the street, I dun em at the theatre, I dun 'cm in church, I catch 'em early in the morning, and stick to 'cm all day ; follow 'cm up wherever they go; go to meals and cat with 'em ; go to bed and sleep with 'em ; give 'em no peace night nor day. Sunday nut* ivnnt/ *! ?*? 1.1--- - -1'- 1 ...f. uv>,? vu< % y oiiv.rv iu VIII IIJVU U'WIIII U) <1 dead uigprer. A man owes n debt, ilo 1 won't pay it. I follow him up nil the week so he cant do any business, nor <jo to seo bis sweetheart, nor walk in Broadway, J nor eat with any appetite, nor sleep with! out dreaininir I'm after him, with the devil I to help run him down. All this won't do? j Wry well. When he <jocs to church, Sun| day. he limlsme in his pew. (Your sheriffs can't, work Sundays?I do my host then.) The conjrrejration rise, and he rises. takes out his book, opens ut the place, and there he finds the bill I've stuck there, and (ri'fs sn iii.'ifl tw? niti'l ? ""? " " Sheriffs and constables." continued ho. gettimr loud anil fierce; " will a sheriff go of a Sunday morning to a parson's liou.se, j and follow him to church, and walk up the i broad aisle with liini before all the coogre! {ration, and tro up tlic pulpit .stairs close to j his heels, and slip into the pulpit after I him before he e m shut the door, and take 1 a seat by his suf.;, and net up when he gets j up, and when ho opens (he Bible, opens j John Jones' bill full length, and lays it | down over the chapter and verso, and t<>|| him : There's that bill of horse hire?pay ' it before you preach ! Hut, that's what 1 did, and 1 got my money, too." j .< a ...i i: i .mil v? <(!. uuiiiiii insiuu uiu yuu unai'gOJ " Fifty per cent." " Rather strong," I suggested, "but still your mode of procedure was strong.? Do you often get a.s much as fifty per emit?" " When I earn it, I get it. Dr. C., of Broadway, sent me to dun a fellow who i lived back in a yard and kept two bull dogs ; that he let loose when aoyboily came to i collect hoijest debts. L went to him with | a horse-pistol in each hand and Dr. (J.'s I bill in my teeth, and made him pay up.? j What did Dr. offer me for getting his sixty I ilnllfira? Mo ~ 1 .11... I ; won't take it, says I. I'll piy no inoro 1 j says lie. J'ay me thirty dollars, says I.? , Oct out of in)' etlicc or I'll kick you out, | says int. l'ay mo cniiiy dollars, says I.? ! Clear out, 8?ys lie, and ho kicked me out of j his door and down the steps into Broadway. L goes across to the. hotel and hires a great arm chair out of the har-room, and takes it across the street and plants it on the curb-stone right, opposite Dr. C.'s office door, and I lays the bill I had made out on a full sheet of foolscap across my knees, hanging (Town so everybody that went by could read in larye, black, sanded letters : Doctor C To .T. Hurling, Dr. For collccting of Richard lloo : Commission, : : : : $80. " And all tlic crowd kept stopping to rend, so that tliero was all the while two or three hundred people standing on the doctor's pavement and reading first my bill and then his sign, and making their jokes. I had hired the chair for the whole afternoon ; but lie had'nt s ood this more than fifteen minutes before ho comes to t'le door, and says, come here, you rascal, and I went in and took thirty dollars yf bis money, and left the bill r?i?i?it>u?d." ~ - # - -r- -J " But, my friend, don't yonr impndont ways often pot you into ?,crapes; nrc you not nfnid that .some one will bjiiio day brenk your liend ?" "Break whoso head?" lie thundered; didn't (}'?!. S., of New Orleans, a man that's killed seven men in duels. when I went to dun him nt the Aster llonse?didn't ho prub mo by the slaek of my breeches, and | hold mo out of the fifth story window, and shake me there above the pavement, and s ty shall I let you fall, and break v?ur * ipuun MH VHV I7IVW?.OJ V/? imiWi III UI{U IUIW\ you down stairs? " Well." said I, Anxiously, " wlint did you do. thon '{" " Wlint did l" do? T fiflid pny mo tlint money ! nnd didn't he pull 1110 In and p:iy overy cent?" f in; iuUtarity of kb ufcmuer, a* l?o Uiuu 1 0 relutcd iiis exploits, cannot bft rendered on J nnnflr<%?r?nr>/Hiillo ?!???? 1 ?-a1 ' . r , _.-r? j ,i ..v.. >10 vAv iaiuiutl Willi closed teeth and tho fingers of hid round hand clcnchcd?" p>ty me thnt mnnoy!" Ho took tho transcript and limped out. Til another day the hapless debtor, and over-mutch for all tho. regular thumb-florews of the law. cniuc in to beg piteously I would i call off {ho blood hound. I told him it was 1 the creditor's affair, not niino. Next day i I met Hurling at the comer of Cortland | street, looking mild and happy, and asked j him how he suceeoded. " I haven't pot it yet," was the reply. " IIo hasn't found me out. but he has just paid mo five dollars to let him dine at the hotel, down there, without my company. Wc'v taken all , our meals together for tho past two days, and ho began to find his appetite fail." Whether the 9") was credited on the iitilrrnmn.t* J - * I w. us ;i personal per- | quisitc, I never knew. [From th j Mcmpli'x AvaKnche.] Snobbish High Life. The country is running wild. Extravagance, folly, and fraud are tho great prevniling vices of the times?the grand characteristics of tho ago. It in manifestly more or less in our cities and villages, and its influence is scon in tho debasement of men and women, and the complete ruin of children. Every successful speculator or fortunate operator must imitate, and if pos| siblc excel, his neighbor, the lucky banker j or the money making grocer ; and to do ! I this, without regard to expense, awav thev I ;_ro into the marble and .satin, the rosewood 1 nnd silver, keep extravagant carriages with horses to match, and jrivo parties where Brussels and Wil'on outvie in color their silks and the wino which make up the chief part of t!ie entertainment. Up iroes the new house, with all the decoration | which n vulnar or a relincd tasto may suit- j ixest. I'p it goes into the air, a huge pile t or a fantastic residence, but not a room in j it for the comfort of the owner or family? j all of it for ohow and the public naze. The ; j women flaunt about in lace and laziness, or ! I recline upon soft cushions in fine carriages. I neither knowing whether the money that I keeps them up be stolen 01* honestly gained. Tl,.?w ...? 1. .?. ?? - ' * *? - *' ' i m j ...v> mi mi: nii-i inui. nicy unsn j j a.s much :is tl.e richest of their neighbors. j For an American of fortune?-real solid ! I foitunc?to dash into nil this extravagance, ' j is folly ; hut that man is guilty of down- I i right wickedness who, upon a little money, I | goes to vast and foolish expense; lor he ! I must rob Homebody to carry out his plans ; j { or if lie has enouirh to warrant it all. his j children, when his fortune is divided among j them will have all the silly and extravagant 1 ! notions of their father without the money ' j to give them reality. Out of all this mis- j ! erablc life there spring evils worse than , j bankruptcy. The sins of the father arc I I visited upon the children to the third iren- J or -tinn. Of what use to society are the i I children of such people? Sons who have j k...... ~A.? ? 1! ? * ?? .H ^n vuul'iIICU HI UCI1CVC lllill >111 tilts splendor constitutes the best of life, and that fust horses and champngno nre emblematic I of high life. Daughters brought up by ;i silly, ridiculous mother. who glories in licr carpets and curtains, her carriage and her parties, and the fashionable training of her children. Nice creatures these for a life battle in a world whore energy and industry and endurance are worth to them more than all the airs, graces, tin J style that they learned in the pritemd drawing of foreign masters. Out of this struggle ti excel in this sort of life there spring, too, fraud and chicanery, and ill manner of crime ; for in the contest, j gold, gold, is the end and aim of all?the I means are not. n>i?nvil?rl Tim ! p u t of tlio community laugh at this tolly I and laugh loudly, too, ?t coarse vulgarity 1 parading itself in gay equipages, and moving about with all the airs and affections of snobbish high life?people elevated above their fellows by a stock operation or a rise in town lots, and rejoicing thereafter in flashy and in gaudy houses. If they made fools of themselves alone, it would all he proper enough. But the effect upon their families and upon society is most to be dreaded. In a country where the law divides 1 among ^ man's heirs all his estate after ' death, unless disposed of by will, and when | the chances arc that the property will not j remain in the family beyond the second generation. it is utter folly to build palace* to live in ; far better would it be to expend the some money in building schools or founding asylums, the benefit of which the rich man's heirs may need. On; on, goes our American life ! Helter-skelterhurly-burly?on it {roes?Dash?tnako a sensation?get money?honestly if you can ?get money; but educate children after the same fashion, and thou die and be forgotten. lloiuum.k Affair.?A correspondent of the Sacramento Tlninn e-r? TW V ^ I I VHII Forknof Bulte on the 20th of July, cives particulars of a most atrocious deed, which miikcs the blood curdle with indignation uprninst the niu. 'erinjj white friends; Koine Indians, camping upout two miles from there 011 the ridge in the direction of j (Miiea qreek, were surprised by a pirly of white men, piinted, who l^ed upon ?ind killed nine of the Indiatftf, wounded several j j others, and robbed them of ot ?70 in 1 I money, and whntevef elrff' r?f rnln? H.n.r i could lay thoir fiendish fnm/la upon. Of I the killed, two were children, two women ; four of the'me.i were sick, one of whom was blind, one nfred, nnd. ifith one exception, al) were l'l-lph'F*. Tho ooFy able victim was scalped. f{ATTClr.?We once heard on Knyltshmsn fjive his ostler ordera ns follows :? " 'Enry, take tho 'apneas hofTthe hoff 'orse, slip the 'alter hover 'is/end, hund ?;iyc 'iin I 'ay hand honta." j Courtships are tho sweet nnd dreamy j thresholds of unseen lOdcns, -where hajf I the tforld has paused in couples, talked in 1 , whispers under the moonlight, mid jiufwcd ouj uuU uc/vr ic^)Uiw4' ' j Catastrophe. fIT ROD HIlA.MDI.R. Pwcot Jullv in t!io witching dunce, Received full ninny ?n ardent glanco From tniinly. love-lit eyes. Hut witli a toss of her fair hemi, She motioned, an if pIic hn<l sftid. " 111 vilin tiro nil voiif ?i?rlin!" She was ii oreaturo full of pride, And full of lofty ??irs busido? She would not smile on any. Her suiters watched her every gaze, llcr gl incos not their hearts ablaze. And these were rich ami many. She waltzed with grftoe. and polkn'd, too, There were no figures but she knew, How stately were her motions! Her tapi'r fingers, sweetly gloved. Seemed all the things in life she loved, All else were simply "notions." Thus whirling in the graceful dance, And trying every ohaVin to entrance-She paused! ami blushed! while o'er Her cheeks ran tears! how pride was curst! The string slys trusted, too. had burst? Her /wops lay on the lloor. She gathered them up and ran as speedily as possible to the dressing room, and from there home, and for several weeks was seen no more. Thu Mirror held up to Uj. With the importance of uinl- rst tudintr ourselves as a nation?our foibles and deficiencies as well ay our points of pride and onr real advantages?wo think it worth while to copy, from ono paper to another, what may chance to be wisely said on the subject. Here, for instanee. are some excellent remarks from Dwight's Journal of Music," suggested by the German Singing Festivals : " Divided between money unking and polities on the one hand, and religion without much of "the beauty of holiness" on the other?between a barren puritanism of eorrcet deportment and its natural alternative of stupid, besti.-d indulgence?we Iihvp xnmpu'livt. ii? n Imc* tlw* ??vf a?' - - r ? ' v ' v froo, spoiltiineons. fjenuine, h appy life.? We iirc nn unhappy people ; none the less so that wc aromore prosperous than others. Prosperity is the bunbc;?r tyrant whom we serve as anxious bondmen, fearing to call one moment ourown, fearing to live, in our unceasing, feverish pursuit of the means of living; " We are r.n anxious people, uncomfortably denionizcd and ridden, ni<rht-iuarc-1ike, by that which gives in power We <ro ahead faster than others, but it is by a centaur like contrivance. by allowing; so much of our real vital, human self to be absorbed into the lower animal, or the machine that nc h?a ",yv" .Ml M 1. I m;n v? v ; nill'll \-UilfV IU UU IllUli at all, \vc shall ho so <l fust." Your native Americin " livo Yankee" wistea his li-'e in riviiHinpr n strain enuine ; hq. makes himself a inert! machine tor irat!ierin<r power? power for what ? And with what a solemn, pious, lean, hard favored way he does it! Willi what a quasi-religious reverence he 11 notes hi s business maxims, his rules of principal and interest, and so forth ! How lie amalir nnatcs unworldly orthodoxy with the most secular showman's cant in the advcrtisimr of h.is wares. How ho practically confounds religion with his own selfishness, as generalized into prudential maxims! " Perhaps there arc no people who put forth so much of will, so much of multifarious power as we 4 as there are certainly nolle who hiivfl so touch political freedom, so much liberty nnd even liecnso of opinion. And yet we Imve. perhaps, as little freedom as iitiy other. Wo aro the wlav s of our own feverish enterprise, nnd ot' a b oron theory of life, which would fain tnako us virtuous to a fault, and substitute negative Abstinence for harmonious, positive living. We are sadly destitute of the spontaneous element. Wo aro afraid to jiive ourselves up to the fr^c and happy instincts of our natures. All that is not business. or politics. or str,dy. or religion, \vc count waste. We have done it so long, that now we aro i:i,~i:?*iA ?I.:i i..~ i;. . i 111 nu uumu Oil, llllUb Ml OO ion lO dill'wolves to on joy ourselves tofrothor. IMo.ihure bccomes intoinpni'nnci? with us; amusement. untaught. uninspired by higher sentiments, runs into tho gross nnd sensual. " Wo liick jrcniality; nor do wo as a poopie understand tho moaning of tho word. It comes of the same root with the word goniuM. Gcniu& differs from tho other ruling principals of life by tlio fact that its methods arc spontaneous. Genius is the spontaneous priuoip d ; it is frco and happy 111 us worK ; it is a practical reconcilement of the harticst pleasure with the highest scope of duty, with the most holy, universal ends and sentiments of life. Genius, as Beethoven gloriously illustrates in his Symphony, finds the key-note and the solution of the problem of the highest state of joy. Now, nil mny not be geniuses, in tl,? ?u..? ....ii 01. -i *? hi*- IM7HOU bmib uiiii niiuitapiuiru, mozart, and Raphael men of geniu*j but all should bo pnrtakcrw of this spontaneous, free and happy method of gonitis; all should live child-like, genial lives, and not wear the marks of their unrelaxing business, or the badfro of party and profusion, in every line and feature of their faces."?Home Journal. Tiik Mad Stone.?Wo havo beard of the ' mad stone" ever ninco xr?t were a child. At first wo had uhwnvoring faith in its perfoot control over the deadly viru* of mad dog*,, ami with one in our pi>okot. wouhl have braved a yard full of hydrophibift. When we grow to more mature aj^e. wo loMtull confidonc.e. and holioved that such a thins; a* the "mail Htiino" nevei exixted. and if it iliil that it wjjs n jrrnnd liuinlm^. Hut n few day* n^iour frioud. l>r. II. II. Avros, of litis county, bttan^lit ouo into our ?>flieo. that lie lia* IiikI in iiko for many yours, and performing the moRt wonderful cures?novor failing in ? ^i11jrI? inMnnce to oxtruot poison and restore tin* patient from tlio bifoof not only tli<! no.d dug. l>tit from tbnt of every poisonous reptilu tliut may fliok its deadly fangi into human flosh.?Jackxon (Venn.) Whin. l>r. Avre* fufninlje* tlio Whiff with fin ucconnt <if thi? ninjfufar aton*. >Ve give nti OxtriMil from liifl o ?tnmuni?iiitl?h j D ies tlio miuf Krone uft'mlji remcOy tor the Itite of Htmkos? and wliat in the* mud Mono? ft if a fine And poroui Mono, capable of absorbing wutor and other fluid*, nx epongo doe*. and in probably of ooral formation, ami foijud in nonie of the youth VaciQc Ixlo^. The common notion that it bufc boon ^u4 tbyaVcuqadi of lUt> (i^r if Vvj tn need contradiction.' I When ilxed it is dipped in water qnito j wnrm and applied t<? tho WMind. when tlio patient fcrtl* the wnMljiin nf drawing; and t it irt i;nid that hiiiiiII ouch will ntick until full (if poixon iiml then drop oil', ond after boing ' <11 nupil In warm water Anil lo-nnpliod. will | at :i cabin twit so well provided as the former. Tlio poor wo.iiitii of the .house h id ' neither miliar, tea, nor eolFoo, and spread before him i dish of clabber, uttering a ' profusion of ap-ilo^ies and regrets that her , house was so iil provided. , " Why, madam," said lie with perfect i truth, ' 1 prefer this to tea ov eoffec. or even strawbonies and cream; and often ' take it in preference, on hot cveninjrs like j this, when at lioinc. It requires no apolojiy, for T couldn't be better suited. " Now, stranger," responded tlm doubting Irdy. u are you 1\ iusr jist because you are a candidate; for I've beam tell thorn candid; les it> the l)inebt ciilters on the J yerih ?" Tl>e Ci< von or oru'd only vindicate his truth by bolt iifi a second dish of clabber. What auk imrsos with It.?A * xtf jirow older, it is with hearts as with heads of liair; for one. that we find red, there un; mm; uku ill" | STATU 01? SOUTH CAROLINA, P/CKKXS?IX EQUITY. J nil it li ilsirup ) vs. ' Bill for Rpcclfio IVrf.," ?io. II^-'ov Tripp. ) T T NltKU tin or lor of (ho Court of Equity. i vJ made in this cause, at June term. 18<V[). | 1 will soil ar public aueri<>:i. to tliu highest ! | bidder, at Pickens Court |[>>us?on Sa'edov in October next. tho tract of laud described | ! in tho plcad'ngs. vir.: ONK TRACT OF LAND, situate, lying | and being in tlio Stale and District afore-mid. j on Rice's crock, waters of Twelve Mile River,* ; containing Ooc Hundred and Seventy Aero* more or less, ami hounded by lands of John A""'il. J isopli Young and others. Tlic defendant. Tripp., has until tho day of sale ah.ve mentioned to come in and redeem the land. by "atisfying the demands of tlx; eomplaimuit. tiilstrtip. His tailing to do t h the ii?;:d must he sold. Tkums or Sai.e.?On a crolit of twelve I month", with interest from tlio day of sale. except tho costs which must bo paid in cash, i Tlio purchaser to give bond to the Coinmis| sinner, with at least tw.? cood sureties, to so J cure the puyinontof the purchase nionoy, and | to pay extra for titles. I ROB'T. A. THOMPSON', c.k.i-.o. Oomr'iH Offieo. Sopf, 7. 1 . 7 tn. Male of* 6??ta1c. C. J. Ilerdrieku, } vh. > Siunmort# Sit Partition. M P. C'Mtcli. ct.nl. ) BV virtue of nn order to mo directed by tlio Ordinary of Pickens District, thero will lio mdd at public Auction, to the highest bidder, at Pickens Court llmse, on Salcduy in October next, tlio Real Kstato of James W. Conch, deeoftsed, situate, lying and l>eing in Pickens District, nn ft branch of Little Uo>irge'? Cr?!ok, waters of Saluda river, nnmel v: ^ ONfc TRACT OP LAND, containing Two j Hundred and Twont v-threo Acres mure or ' !o<?. hounded bv Inndii i.f .fm?l of Win. Bohhoii find others. TKUMS OF SALR.?Sold on n credit of twoke month*. witli intornst from theduy ?>f HiJe. oxcopt tho C'lHtH which are to ho paid in enxli" Tho porclinxor to jrfv6 bond to th? Ordinnry. with two good mirotio*. with u mort* pngo <?f (ho prcmUe*. if deemed neoon*nrv hy tho Ordinary, Purehn^er to pnv for ?iilo?. L. 0. CflAlCfc 9.\ n. jiept. 5. \m ls 7 til.; ; Notion. Vri.\AJ< SIvTTI.KMKNT??f the K?tdtoof (ii'iirge I). Cltirily, (Itfopiupil, will bo nui'le Iwf-iro the Ordinary. tit Hicken* (J. }) mi Friday t)io 30th ?h>y of l>ci-dii)hflr npxt. I'ornqiiH |i|<)uhUvl mtiHt nay byfirn that dnv, and 111<>60 having dOuinmU imjst prcont them on ?r hofiru ihi?t d4y or limy.will bo Inirred. Per*unn intor??l^d will take nojine (WnJ g<?Vi orp tl|ou>8olr'oi* i)iMQri|(i||ivl r JOHN u. GLAKDXi Ad.nV. rf I' * Election kkui no.?Governor I > , ! of Kentucky, tolls a couple of good ones I on himself. When on n canvass preceding { his election, lie stopped at a cabin on the wayside, in the eastern mountains of the iSt.ite, for a bit of dinner. The good house wile .serve.! !>mm n hetter repast t!i;<n he ex- | pot ted, tender and juicy fresh venison beiuir one of the courses, followed by a tempt* ' inj* display of pastry. Cutting into one of the pieMnstin;; thcs.ime, bis palate was entirely propitiated, and lie pud bis cnnpli* j incuts to the lady by way of making an in<|uiry : " .Madam," ?aid be, " this is a vcrv do- , licit-US pie; but upon my word 1 don't know what is the fruit in it?pray tell me, j U V?)M , ' Why ! .stranger, where did you oo:no \ from d;;uaiul.:d t!ii! <"l:i 1110 in turn. i ' Well. I am from (ho lower put of the 1 S11?to ; but no suyh fruit as this jrrows there indeed. madam. 1 am ignorant of this fruit, and hoc you will inform nic what it is." ' l*p for Govern >r." exclaimed the ustoni.shcd woMian. "ami don't know hn*;kolberries ! Well T mUtrust you ain't li'.ten for the ofiico !" ( The Governor would linvo relinquished , tho track, but his p iffy wouldn't let him i off; and he was elected in spite of hid ignorance of hnokelberries. ! On one occasion he stopped for supper fltiok till all the poinoii in extracted. M'tio | ' is t<x> large t<> Htii:k in that way. being over j h two inches Nfpnu'O, containing ?b ?ut coven | I boTmI inches. Vei tln?se to whom I have ?|>? j ' plied ii lyssorto 1 that they felt it draw. I ' Well. <1"0h it cure? This stonp was nsod j in Buckingham emintv. Yn.. from about 1S1.? j 1 ! to IMji. ami in tlfo West sineo. in my own ! I neighborhood. anil lias never fa led to euro in | ' any cusp. ahhough in ?evoral instance-'. 4X I ' j hours, and in one. several days elapsed be! foro it was applied. fn a cam bitten by a j cotton-mouth snake la-'t week, in the vicinity j ??r Milllin, ilie remedies prescribed l?v the family physician wore used until thole;: and thigh were badly swollen (bit on the tinkle.) ami the body had commenced swelling : slept none t!iroii ^!? the night. an 1 had mi ea-o till i I applied the mad stone, which gave relief | iinmedia elV. and she fell asleep in twenty niinutoK. Seventeen hours had elapsed liefore it was appliel. It arrests the swelling and pain in c ise of the sling of insects in a few inomcii'S. as I will prove at any time, on my own pors<>n. or any one else." UKfiBNVlf.LK WARBLE YARD, r|1IJK Mtbrcrtbor lin* on hnnd nnd is cent' X ?t;w?ilv rocoivinp a lurgc Mini vtiricd a*' ort incut nf American and Italian Marble* l\> which lie wouldcnll the attention ofthnt-o n wnnt <>f a MiitnUe Monument to mink tlu> pot whore repiine I lie reinuiiiH ??F their d?>n'.rted relatives and friend*. Curving nnd ettoiiug of nil kHub neatly ami promptly pxponiod. gviy- i'urticulnr attention phid to ordofx by mail. JAMKS M. ALLEN. Orci'iivillc C. II., S. 0.. Feb. 22 31-tf N. II. lit* refer* to l> (? WenlHold, Onwer, CJox, Murkly it Co.. Dr. M II F.urlo. W II Wiitsoii, l-j;*i|., Col I) H ike, fl McKay, Esq. r. \V, MJIIUIH, JK. J. w. IIARRtAOX. 7.. c. ri'Ll.lAX n o urns. iiarIuSon & pifufBr, Attovucj'fi ?t Law, AMI SOLICIT () n S I N Iv'Q U IT V. \\'ILL attend promptly to :ill bupinovs en'rm~ 11 ted to ilioir care. ,Mk. 1'lI.liam enn ultvuj s b t'ouiid in the OIKcc. OKFK.'K AT I'lCKCNS C. IJ-, S. C. Sept. 1 H.r>0 ll tf Rags Rags \T7"F. wHut to buy 25,(K)0 pounds CLEAN >> HAGS. J. il. B. SLOAN & CO. Pendloton. July 4. 1HJ9 <S0 if T TT VntnTIT W AAi f V/AVAA.A ) '1'ln, C'?ppcrM?. I'll &. .v U.I Milker, W'ALIl Alil.A. S. C.. ^I'I hi, give strict attention to nil businrF* cnt. trusted to .! ?? earn. Terms tlie most reasonable. Jan. 12, I860 2"> If NlaU' or Solid! Ciii'otin:i, I ICKKNS?IN KQVITV. Ephraim IVrry, ct all. | vs lam ? Kobinson, Adm'r. Kill for Helief. Disjoint McKinncy. Adm'r, covory, Account, et nl*. ; .J v &c. IMIK Conn of Knnity. for Pickens district, having referred the matturs of Account in thin caso to the Commissioner tor settlement, it is ordered that Monday the J 7tli diiy of October next. l?e bet apart for holding the ?nid Ilolerunce; nnd that tlio following absent parties nro hereby notified to attend either personally or by ritcrney. at that time, namely: James McKinncy. Sarah McKinncy nnd her husband James Mo Kinney. Preston .McKinncy. Gcorgn VV. McKinncy, Mary Murplty nnd her husband Murphy. Francis McKinncy, Preston McKinncy. jr., Nancy McKinncy, jr., Mary ISriicsi and William McKinncy. The part it .1 ilc i 'ii<lnnts, within I lie jurisdici ion of t lio Court, ire also required to bo likewise represented on ilie day aforesaid. ROlt'T. A. THOMPSON, c.t.r.P. t'om'rs. Office, Aug 1'2. IKiO id. Brandrcth's Fills, Ft) It SAI.fi A T SA LU1UUTY. X. C. IMIKSF. celebrated l'ills are of vegetable c<>m)>OUii>l, free from mercury or drugs of any kind. Tliey sire a sovereign remedy for pain or my uneasiness in tlic body, or coftivenr?s.? >kin diseases of any inveterate and piiinlul cliartetcr. such as erysipvliiH, Halt rlietlm. letter and summer heat. Ii.ivo been eradicated by their use. These pills have cured the rheumatic, the epleptie, the par^lvtic, and the consumptive. Jn jaundice and all affections of tl.c liver, dyppej lin, dysentery. and diarrhoe, pleurisy. sud'lcu pains and inflaiiiinali'tiis, female obsinn lions, scorbutic, and Hcrott'nloua, oven gouty and neu- ; rnlgif affections. have given way to tho iikc of tliiw medicine; nnd now. after twenty years cxll.? ....l.ll.. -K... ; ? ? - * - I'vitvuvvi, ? IIU liUWIIC V.MHIimiUll OI I)vn 11U r?t ll 8 I'ilta continue to increure. Kor Wornm lltiuiill'oth'ii I'illa arc llio best vermifuge : ilioy nio iufaiHMv A l\ttic child. ?ix voars old. for khiio weeks wii* drooping ; its mother g/ivc it one of Itrnndrctli's sugar conled pill)*:, the nest <l?y there eoia'o nnity worm nix toon inches long nn 1 largo as >i child's finger. T ho child wim well. And lor l'lcuriBV nothing is heller. Let ilit? people discard prejudice and trv tlicm. ffcS~Sold h.v W. S. & (I. V. WILLIAMS, ot S-iluhrWv. S. (?.. at the upuhI price. April 20, 11 v.t if NOT Of IS.'"' 1 fXnr.ll nn order of the Court of Equity, v > ?'o hiivo been nulhorr/.rd. nnd fire nlvn MmU. ni'Mttirnil *L- - * . II1U JMTNIlIUll CHlnlO of ItiisVoll Cannon. deceased. The lioirc-ntlaw nf Riiid deceased nre luucl.v rcqnc-'ti'd to uppl.v f<>r their distributive share*. as w e will mil lunger Ik* hold ro^mnsible f?r interest. HANSOM f)UKR. . JIAItRlKT Dt'K K, J Adm r"Au^l.lftfip '1 notiYim. IFUANCKS A. V; W IllTK, wife of C. ^ 11. Whit0, Ilarnc'.s*-inukor. of Walhalln, hereby jsivon nntico tluit. at the expiration ?>f three month* from thin date. I will transact liuninonh i.4 n t?ole trader nr free (T-.alor. My occupation la that of MiHinor. F. A. V. "NVlflTK. Aug 1. IK)'J . 2 _ 3m ?TI?AYRI> |?ROM Il?o milist'i-ibcr, in J? :p last, a pic?l Hull 1 Ox. with mottled lacc. nml tvhiteon the back. Itntmluil on -tlie horn with an X?car murk not recollected. Information concerning him will he received with thitnks. and expenses paid.? Andci tfuu's Millu is my post ottu-o. \VM. AI.LKN. Sept 1, 1B00 0 If x Notice If! hereby given that application will be tnttdo to the Lcgitdaurre of SOntli Carolina. at Hh next seasion. for an act to incorporate Curmel ('liuro)i, will) tlio usunl power and privDogej incident to jinch corptiiate hodiea. Aug. 18. lbf>9 ft ftin. STATU 6? SQVTH"(JAUOUNA,' In Ordinary?PlckenH, W. B. CLllderB \ v*. / Sum. iu I'.irt. Abram (,'hilder*. ) IT n^poaiing to ' ?/ #atuf<M*tion Hint Abram t'tiitdorn. onn of tlie dcfcudantx in this cane, rcxidoa out of tlio limit* of tlii* State: It in ordered iliatliodo appear, either prraonalij oy by attorney, in tho Court of Ordinary, at PicVttts ('. il>. on Mondav th? 11>thdi?v nf bur i\e?t, to object tu tho dinvialoii or unleoT tho Henl lirttuto (>r John ChilJcru. docfAsod, ?r hi* coii^c At thereto will he entered of-record. W. J. 1>AIU*0NS, op.n, fniry'f) OfT.fo, 9y>>t.. 12. lPftQ 3tH. Notice. ALL pnrnonn nr? hereby forewarned fr?n? I Hiding for n note given by mo to >|. y. Mitchell. ?>nio time in April for Ow ??in ?f One Ifnndred nnd Tl)irty?jnrp fMlrtt*, j>rt>'ftt?le ?is qontliH .titer duto t n?tho connidvrutiun of till) abnvp lfot? lin* fWfled. . V. M. SLOitN. Hon*. 12. IH.'.ft ? ? i.0*T, ON Sulflflny a Puc-Kcf DnnV. of akin, ctrntfllri'mjr Home money #nd Mt pern. Tlio fimle'r will l>c naWnlily rrwftr>Ic?l by len?iii? It at this office, or roturnlnjt M,*u ?he ?nh?ci-il?uy . 8. J? MX, $, t , 9