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"TO Hi INK 0\? X SllLF 1.1. Till I., AND IT MIST TO! [OW, A.S Til i: ^ ^ ^ ^ NHUJT Till: DAY. TllOt: CAN'.^T NOT TflllN tU! F.U?i: To ANY M \ ^ f UY llOB'T. A. THOMPSON. PICKKXS COUllT IIOl'SB, S. C. SATUKPAY, DECEMBER 24, 185(f, VOL. XI.-- NO. 22. ? 1 11 ? ? - m ? i,,n |?f? ? ? (t , |_, u - - r\ m- hi, I ^"?'Lrp,:naif,;5"n I ! n C...V~T: I 1 k, _? -* - u irj ^ J ii j U ili H J From tlie ('hiirloHton Courier. The Angel Guard. (TtAnslatccl from the Gcrmitn.) 11V MllS. M. H. It. I>\S\ "III N(11.KII-. Wli?rovrr little ones may tie, lit.out or palace dwelling, . (toil's angel follows silently, His watchful love revealing; Ho, <lay and night. with earnest cave, Jlis faithful guiml keeps every where. * *r??o -.1/1 - f ri 1 ?- < -> "* lint V II Mil yiuu I'U.lllimim To keep (hum :i 11 from danger, Kaoli uhihl to guide through ilii3 difrk land, In wMiich lie is 11 stranger; <\ - 1 . ? angels this oonurian'l obey, Nor leave young children night nor day. While o.lliMrcn sleep. the nngol liovt Their blessed watch are kovpiug; Throjtgh (l ukcrtt nights thqy keep llnjir potd, No'cr slumbering nor .slocking ; Ami 'lis lliorto angels' high hcliost To jj'rffc those children peaceful rest. Ami when tlmy piny, the angels kind Arc. ever watching o'er ilicm ; Tjiey lead litem as they would (lie blind, (!o stvp hy stop before thoni, (If els-.' the* Utile children soon AS'uiil t ftiW and perish, evory one.; Tlinso angels cot'iw from Heaven hero?' Without the lonst repining? Wln-re song* of joy salute the env, 1 And goldv? crowns arc shining; They love to do God's holy will. And so they watch young children still. They're joyful when each lltllo clild His parents' will obeyed)* And wlieu, with heart all undefilcd, Unto his <ioil lie prayeth ; When each obedient girl and boy His parents' heart doth till with joy. To cvovy child of honest heart T'ic angels' love is given : Tliev help liiin here to act his part, Ami guide liiin safo to Heaven; ml when ihey other nngcln soo? To pralso the child tliey nil agree. I'r.m'.vt.k INstiti'tk. Jttph?'y, Tennessee. Correspondence of the Keo?vee Courier. C\u.f miii Docembor 12. 1859. Du.vrt T(ioM!'o >N" : O.io week more of the Session has gone by and very little has boon tlotio that Avi11 benoilt the pc;>plc of our State. A good many subjects have comw up before IliQ legislature which have createil a grqat <leal of interesting and animated discussion. Uo.sjIuti iit^ for and against reopening theslivc trade, tlie Charleston C invention, ami any quantity of resolutions in regard to federal relations, but niter tlley have all l>oen discussed thoro seems t<> he hut very little difference of opinion under present circumstances. There seems to ho but one opinion, which unites all parties that the timo has eomo whan South Carolina should say to her sifter States, ire arc read;/, and "set her house in order." The bill to afford aid to the l?luo Jlidgo llailroa?l. was voted down iu tho hnjtso last week by u majority of soveii or eight. It was brought up to-day in the Senate, ami nmomled by asking il.? ?..l < IIIU Uimu ur Kuirunuu iiirui: lIUOil.VU si:M1 tert thousand dollars in stock. \v 11 i < -11 nmuint shall lie usoil in coinp!otiiij,j nn?l equiping the road to "W'ulhallu. It m thought tliat the umumhneiu will pass l.iot(i houses. It will come up hi the Senate tomorro\v. This will ho much le*s than the fKendd of the enterprise honed fur. I hivvc no dunht that tliu State would ho much inure. JihoHftl if it was nut that our fine State House in costing so much money. Mr. Memmivokk is still active rn trying to improve our common school system. Mr. Uiiktt Is also very attentively on^ain this cause, lie is Chairman of tfie Committee on I'Mucat5Oh. in the Senate, and is very anxious to renort a liill that will suit every portion of the State. This is one of the uiost important subjects that is n,ow beforo 1110 Logiislaturo. I'iekons ami Charleston have gained additionnl members by the hist census, 1'ickcpa oite, and Charleston two moiuhoi'8. This gbes evidence ?>f the prowjiOr1 * of your district. Col. Oitn. our former roi)roH?ntati\'? in Congross,, is hero, lie is looking well, ami sCorns t>> have a great many warn! friend?, who greet hi in at every turn. The Stato House climbs up slowly., Iu aivHwcr to a resolution asking for information as to tho estimated cost, the Superintemhnrt has Ktatcil that it will u ?t cost over two million*. We are glad to hoar that Vigilant Committees are forming al| ovor the Syate. Voi^r delegation are all well and at their post. . ? oconke. - Xmv Yokk, December 4, 1859. ' Tlio mortal remains of J.din Hrmvn. reached this city on Saturday,everting about 7 o'clock, liy the Camden and Amboy Railroad, in chArgc of J., W Hbrrsn, ot' Brooklyn. Otfvroaching this city it was oonvoVifitl to' tlio establishment of Gratv and Taylor. The lid was taken off the coffin, which was the snmc the convict had rode upon to his execution, and tho body was found just as It g-ftfl Lwe'fid from tho gallows. The corps proRcutod tho'nji^nynce of oric in a deep dleep. The faco was quite limbed, and the eve-* quilo red. Tho mark of tho rrtpt. visible on the U<fl fido of the neck, and under li.' His hair nod whiskors woro neatly trimmer. Altogether* tho rtppoaronec of tiro body is that of nue in h Citim ?le?Vn. 'I'o-mnrrrtw i?. will i.? doli voted to Mrs. J{ro<rp and two ^cijtlcineu, and token by the Hudson ltjver uu\lrond to Kofrth Klbn.'nt which pitted it will be iutered, M requcatfld by llrown. The exeit?s??nt !s"grAdanl!y dicing out; In Ibis city, but tho fanatical sdiriekcrs of Boston, Albany and other cities, continue, nnd. if wi nro to J?dge from tho sympathy expressed by ft tho first Nor^Ofn won With Brown, indorsed j,v thoir constituent* and approved f>y tho press, (fio vehicle of public thought, the South has teijiopo (Vom N'orthorn conservatism." H u but 4 Mlind to luit mo ttoutii into lanoicd Boouritr, Tho powor of the oonsorvfttivo party kI-?.'. ....I'i.? I I- -e ?1.~ 1?I ?- ii J .i if W l/tWITOM IHUI HIV U| LIK/ JMUIJH IV',|MI I^H? i ; can?, which ljft? boon nrovpd to fho conviction of ; ' tfio moat bigotod, by the lust olotHion, whan they nvropt the entire Btnto; f|. flowttn Helper's Jfivnd Hook of Tronsoi], (4 offered for vttlu nt Jlnrdiuk'a, 145 Nosttiiu street, wlioro uoy one can purnhftfio a copy. /Uj- doctrines ftrethflso of the Uopublioao party, viThftt slavery &t the 8'itjih mu*t bo throttled, and if it cannot bo BtipproBsod by morn! fbr<& and rogiMctivo onant\ mailt*, it must bo overthrown by violence; and Whatever cortROqnonce* fo|W, th6y (the aboli. tjnqfctd) aro determined to have it ono way or |io otber.'", In tbo rmme of thft aholiiionUt the enthnr #olpmnty ewpai'e that if flavor* be not nbol . invk> ?>ni u^iii uiiiii irom iuoir bones i tlio tlcli bo huckoiK',' lie propose* thu following plan of operations: | I 1. Thorough organ'uatioii and intlcpi&nlcnt { 1 political notion cjn iho part of thu noii-slavuhold- | ing iv it it vh pl the Solvit. 2. Ineligibility of pro-slavery slaveholders;; never another vote to any one who advocates ; t) 10 retention and perpetuation of human slavory o. No go-operation with pro-slavory politicians; no IcllowMup with tltom in religion; no a tli Tuition with them i" "ocictv. 4. X > patt'onngo tit pro-slavery merchants ; nognesUh'p in slave-waiting hotel*'; Ho feCs to pro-slavery lawyers ; no employment of proslavery physicians; no audieuco to pro-slavery parsons. 5. No more h i t ine of slaves hv noii-.slnvelinl.l ers. <>. Abrupt discrfntiniianco of subscription to pro-si avory now- paper s. 7r. Tin; greatest possible oneouragcment to free white labor. This volume which advocates an agrarian insurrection against the South by tin? poor whites, in combination with a servile revolt, -compre- I bending the massacre of the Southerner and the confiscation of his property. Thin incendiary and treasonable volume we find supported ami endorsed i.y seventy members of the llouse of Uepresenlativoof the national-Congress, and (inventor Morgan, of New York. Horace Greyly, \V. Bryant, ). A. Kennedy, Tlmrlow Weed, i ?> . iiunun, anu over 0110 Hundred prominent Vn??iiucss men of the imperial city of Now York, lt'bchoovos tlic South to dtfnand nit ftK9ur:inee | in future of safety or to retire from the Uhi on land institute a SJouthorn oonfedoracy. i On Wcdtie?day the eleetion for .Mayor will ; take place. There are tlirQp candidate* for the J lucrative post, Fernando W?wd, Democrat; ! llarcmeyer, half-and-half Republican ; Op] dyke, Hlaek Hnpuhlican. Considerable excitement Is manifested, and a most rowdy time is anticipated, in consequence of which tho Seventb Iti'giinCnt bus been notified to turn o'Ot to picmmvu order. It in calculated that iivo hundred thousand dollars will change bands on the day of election. It in believed that one of the Black Itcpublican candidate# will be elected. The election is regarded by the papers as a national question, and the Now York Triinnc declare.? that the election of Opdyke. as Mayor, fc? i isiiMiunmiiti to t no election or \V. II. Seward as ! President, fit' ilio United States in 1800. The J/ ralil endorsos the remarks of the Tribune, and adds; The Uopuhlican victory in this city, which is highly probable would be but the beginning of the end, the foregone ooflclufdon of Sevrnrd and revolution, and the inauguration of a tierce ami civil war." Tlie is scvcro upon tlte eandidatos for I AUldrmcn. Hear his description : "The can-. | didates for millions of plunder?the aspirants to seats in the Common Council?are the greatest set of scoundrels and cutthroats that ever dared to put forward their names in a munici- | pal election. They arc indicted thieves, convicted felons and allowed murderers?-men who J ou^hb either t*> dangle from tlie gallows or be sent to Sing Sing, where there arc far bolter This is certainly ' liberty of the props." Wo had n 1 ?>^lit fall of show to-il'.iv, followed by loot. Tlio winter thus far has been exceedinglv mild. Cfnwdn are Hocking even* evening to the Winter Garden to view a Piny by lloureini unit, vailed "The Octoroon, or bife in LouislI ana." I have not as yet feon the performance, lint intend go doing. The Octoroon is a Souiherr. name given to the eighth blood?being the child of a quadroon by a whito. . IhiVN'IVKT. , j i. .. .n^. ... i . ..i,...,. ...hi.., ). A I'a.ki.oh Urnam nt.?A.ludyof Now York oity wrilfij* thus: * " I not.o'tlv fend you a dollar for onr friend's photograph (Old Brown V) but shall make every efioYt in my fiowor ti> induce nil my friends and acquaintances to join me. I hope all tbe mothers ?,if our city will each consider it a privilege i to have ono <of -tht'so photographs a* a parlor adornutcut. * * * * I want tbe imago of this modern Moses imprinted on my vcrv foil}." Why not gef one of Old Brown's pikes for butchering infartt*? It is vastly more significant id his purposo and quite as elegant as " a pi-.rbir ornament" as Old Brown's face, and I then slio is onlv fo iitnov a bnbv mininiun^ .m itH p<>jnt to have tin) " modern ptoses imprinted on her' very *oul "?if, hided, such a womau l?a? a soul ? ,Y. V. Day Book, J>F.ATil Flirtm STARVATION.?- *4 Woman h'vt'f fi\rfi/-eif/hf. Dnvx irithmit Fond /?The . wife of Mr. Harvey Cruzcn of Madison totfnship, in thin country, had been deranged for nbout tlireo yea in-1-so much so some of the time that she had to be confined by her friends. On the 13th of September la><t she dcolured her determination to commit Suicide by starvation. A night or two previous sho liad taken from hgr husband's pocket some forty dollars in rooiiey, ami announced her intention to start for Ohio. Foiled in this, she ?i.~ n i? i ' - sum onu himuu uiuut cut nor iiirout ov orown herself. Not |)crmittcd to do either she dofcrmined to stnrvo heself, and no'told the family. She resolutely persisted in this determination for sixty-light days, which cam6 to lu>r relief on {Sunday evening, thu 20th of November. ' W e nro well acquainted with tome members of Mr. C.'s family, and have ulndc the uiost careful inquiry in regard to this remark,iblo case. Mrs. G. was closely watched and attendbd the whole'time, and tliosc who were with her orb ,3&tinfied that besides the water sho drank, sho difi not tnke hco QUnccn of nourishriient during thd cntiro sixty-eight day$. Mrt^rO. was forty-four yC^*3 imcriu mo Beginning of lier abstincnco ,'?'om | food irr very vigorous physical health. Nho was large and lier flesh was vciy solid. During the last thrco weeks of her starving period she buffered intensely. Shft could seldom be ralset^in be?l without fainting, llcr stomach became initablo, so that fcho could, soarcoly rotoiu the water sho drank. During the whole time there wafl but little action of tho other digestive < rgans. There was no movement of Iho bowels cxcept on two or three ooon?ionn, whon site Wo* provuilcd on to take ?otne cathartic) 8Iuj would not have tni^cn ony medicine hnd her nttondants not given _Ju;r ? dozen pHfo at a time. She thrtuplil '.tTiat quantity wouHfjH* an end io hov lifrt. "Hl|& did not know thot nil buttho f^xUidte mimber wore inn do of dough. Hho Kitahicd her obnKeioiwnes* and her resolute detortmiintlon to dlo iintiH throe or foar cjays boforo her do.nth,-? Oxhrtlaox* lUrald. Moprnr i? t* guard to virtue. REPORT. To the Senate ami House of Representatives of the State of South Carolina : The Comptroller (General respectfully submits to tlie consideration of your Honorable, bodies, the Annual Report from his department, containing statements and exhibits of the transactions of bis olfice, and of the Treasuries of the Upp<5r and Lower Divisions, during the fiscal year ending the.30th of September, 1850. The aggregate of the taxes for both Divisions amounts to live hundred and ninety-one I thousand eigbty-twA dollars and live cents, l'S5(J1.082.0f>.^ whii'h is Mil iii/>ri>!iEi> r.f rxirt hundred at*<1 twenty five thousand five hundred and sixty-three dollars and sixty-six cents, (?r25,50'j.li0,) as compared with the abrogate of JHoH. The increase is attributable to the higher rates of taxation adopted at the last session of the Legislature. During the last fiscal year, it became necessary to raise by taxation sixty-three thousand dollars (803,000) to meet tho payment of the interest on the Hoods and Stocks issued/for the construction of tho Now State Capitol. During tho present year it will be necessary to raise eighty-seven thousand dollars (887,'> 000) for the same purpose. In anticipation I of tho anpunl increase of tbc interest on tho Ullblin fur snrornl vmVo *. ? I - - ,T?^ , Comptroller deems it ptoper to sugneftt to the Legislature the necessity of a re-valuation of the lands of thc^diftcreut Districts and Parishes of the State, as a menus of furnishing a sufficient revenuo to meet the future drafts on the Treasury, without a much greater increase of the rates of taxation on oilier species of property. The present system of taxation is strikingly unequal in its operation on lands and negroes. Some of the most valuable and productive cotton lands of the State are returned as valued at twenty five cents on acre, according to the classification of 18 L.~>, when, in many instances/twenty-live dollars an acre would be refused for theui; consequently landed estates, worth ten thousand dollars, pay j into the Treasury a les^s amount of taxation i than is paid for n superannuated negro. It appears to liavo been the general policy of this State to raise the largest portion of the annual revenue from the tax on slaves, without, any discrimination n.s to ages or value.? i The tax on slaves in 1S')S amounted to nearly four times and a half as much as the tax 011 all the lands of the State for that yo<ir. P.nt as the increase of the negro, population was only 87,598 from 18 IS to 1858, in oonse! quenceof tlie sale and largo emigration from i une state, it^cems evident t'.iat tlio time has arrived whon, it' tho'State intend* to meet her j future obligations and keep up with the matoI rial progress of lux sister Stntos, it, is the imj perative duty of the Legislature to endeavor j to dcvelopc a source of roveliuj from the : lauds of the State more uniform and productive than the one derived 1'voin the present ; defective system of arbitrary valuation. A j system inaugurated in 1781, and, with all its defects, continued in full operation to the preset! time, notwithstanding the great and important changes which have transpired since that day in the values of all the lands of the State, isccrtainly a very striking instance of the conservative character of our State Government. The whole machinery of the system, from the mie of twenty-five years, without any 1...H i? ..I -A i I ?v|> 111y nun uvjuuiuu mint!?)!, uuuruiy warn out I ami worthless ns h. means of collecting (lie necessary revenue from lands. The Land Tables of 1858 clearly demonstrate the necessity of making important changes 111 the existing system. The whole number of ncres returned in 1858 amounted to 17,558,401 ; of that number 10,3(11,05(1 acres Were returned as valued at twenty cents an acre, and -1,520,078 acres as valued at forty cents an acre, a large j>urtion of which returns covers some of the most productive cotton lands in the State.? There were only 1,017,495 acres returned as valyed at niore than one dollar an aerc.-t rrom tno ahoyo tacts, is it not surprising that the total valuation of ;>U flu; lands of the Statu amounted to only #l0,257,727i in ParnWoll Districttho.ro were returned 1,035,076 acres, and o( that number 1,000,970 were retained as valued at twenty cents an acre. In Darlington District, one of the most productive cotton districts of the State, there Were returned 480,988 acres, of which number 400,080 acres wore returned as valued at twenty ecnts an acre?thousands of acrcs of which can be sold for twenty dollars an acrc. The unequal operation of the land tax in different sections of jjie State is strikingly exemplified,by the same tables. J-'or instanco, St. Helena Parish, containing but 79,880 acres, pays a lorger tax than Harmvell ....i nik/\ /\fu\ -A.* ?? | j 'inLi n t >y n 11 ujnvuivi.ikui i ui iiuil'gj Land Prinec George, Winvaw, containing only I #41,,494aorofl, pays more t han doublans much ! as tho largest and wealthiest District in t!ic I State. Tho land tax of 1858 amounted Jo only $61,540,36, which was loss than the generiil taxes paid by.-the Parishes of Sfc Philip's and St. Michael's for that year. Of that amruiMfcv tho Lower Division, containing 5,324,607 acres, paid 882,575.18, and the IJp(.nr Division, containing 12,280,7(14 acres, paid Ssio,971.18, snowing that tho Lower Division, containing loss than half tho number of acres, puid n larger land tax than tho Uppor. It is' cvidont that undor tho presont system of fictitious valuation, a ruio of tnxation that might be viewed as opnro.?wivo in one section of tho State, would bo uumim, noui'inal in other sections. For tho li??t fiscal Voar, n . , 1-L-J - A- .. <. tno lax uii juiiu ttiiiuuntuu wi e>j(iity-two im>u~ sand eight hundred and Srty do) has aixtj.fivw cents (882,840.05.) Tho incense was owing to ttio chansfcrif tho rato of taxation at tlio last session o? tho Leftislaturo from sixty to eigMy-ono con is a<J, valorem on every hundred dollars of th'ij yaluo of nil tho lands granted in this Suite, accord ing to tho existing classiGoatiau. Tho land returps of 1858. show an evident want of n proper classification nccoi)JW to tl\c requisitions of tbt Act of ItJlb, Th<j following iu stances will furnish .?uflicint evidence of the fact: In the ci<rht districts of Ahboville, Anderson, (Ircenvillo, Chester, Lancs>ster, Laurens, &partanbu;r and York, containing in the aggregate >, i l -J.u'Jfi acrcs, there was returned | <3,1 18,1 ID acrcs as Valued at forty and twen- J ty cents au acre, and only lo,0(>S acros of the ! I lirst quality, toubracing high river swamps I n.,,1 l...v 1- 1 ' ' mum ivH I^iuuiiu^) ?tn\i Witu ci11vi mcKory iiti)HP. J11 Lancaster niul Laurens Districts there i\cro no returns of high river swamps and low grouhdp, or of oak ami hickory lands of j first quality, l'n fjhester district there wore j only 060 acres of high river swamps and low frrou da returned ; and in York District only hcros. In the parishes of Christ Church, St. dcorge Porchc*tor, St. Luke's, St. Paul's, and Marion District, thc'classifications were incorroct. In faot, under the present system of arbitrary valuation, roguluted usually by the estimates 'of tax payers, all the return* ' must necessarily bo more or less incorrcct and unreliable. A system of valuation which | f a ??? ? if. * ?... .. ^lviiv nun wih(,i principle of legislation which, in ilevolopiu|i tlie 1 resouroes anil enhaneim* the value of the lau- | tied property of tlio State, by appropriations from tlio treasury.(for the neec.?sary facilities I of conunofiial *ntet;ctHirsc,) creates the means, j under a proper system of assessment. of nlti- j mutely refuudinir all Mich appropriations by ' ! the increased value rif the property to be as- , Lsesscd. For instance: I'nder this existing | sj'fctcm of obsolete valuation, five thousand 1 iicres of land conveniently located on or near a | railroad, with improvements, which mitrht be] valued at 8200,000, if returned according to j tlio classification of 183 )> at twenty cents an ! acre, would pay into the treasury t>ivt uijrht I : dollars and ten cents. fsurh iiis<niw?->* of ?K.? I pnicticid operation ol' the Act would aeeiu to [ indicate tint this State might advantageou.dy I adopt the plan of appointing commissioners at stated periods to re-vtdue and .is? -ss all the { lands of the State. I nder a judicious syni-j tern of valuation and assessment, the lands 1 ' eoidd he mado to yield an nnnu-d revenue of ; two or three hundred thousand dollars, with- | j one resorting to anything like oppressive tax- | i ation. But in case the Legislature should j 1 ({coin it wise and proper to preserve tho Act ! | of 181") Imclmnged. as a memorial of the log-1 islativc wisdom of the Wt ooilturv, tlio^Comp! trollcr would respect fully suggest the ini|>or- | | tnnco of a clearer delinilioii of tl\o Indian : boundaries referred to in said Act. T. J". PlCKf.NS. j Woman and Flov/enLet woman summon around her homo all J (ho beauty with which the Creator has en- j (lowed this cavth. Let lrcr surround herself I with a wilderness of sweets, and there amid \ j fragraucc und beauty she will Gnd that tlir> ! virtues whu.*h :iro gurmain to the unpolluted , i hcurt will also spring up. IIt*r children will j j have. more tenderness ami beauty of character, j I nml will be far less apt to go astray among the I . briars and brambles of \ ioc and error. The ; I effect of cultivating beauty around her home ! I will be to causc every sentiment that sweetens i J her own existence to Rpting up into newness j I of life, to Lud and to blossom in nil its lovoli- I j nosij. She too will conic to prefer a display | of rich colors in her garden walks to such a j j Minj/??vy Uii III.! .(MYIJ JHM.HH1, Jlllll ICiiril tO H])- | , preeiate that bnbit which covers 111 form in j I a profusion of huge ami brilliant printed How- J j crs on niuslin, and which Seems to indicate an j | absencd of the flowers of Sentiment, and an : j absolute want, of that taste which shows itself in the cultivation of the garden. We would have cVery woman both a lover ! and a sedulous cultivator of flowers. Wo are I confident that many of those women who I grow and expand like Weeds in the heated j apartments of gaiety and fashion, and become j ' dried in heart and stale in sentiment, might be rescued by a timely attention to flowers. They would regain their lost freMhnesx, the bloom would revisit their wan and Wasted cheeks, and fresh life would circulate through their chilled veins. The etfefct would be to reclothe the saddened and attenuated victim ! oi tasmon with licotity, and to c;:uso flowers i of scntitiinrit again to spring Up in the hearts which had been overran with weed.-*. Take j n thin and sallow and diseased person from the room in which he has respired the unwholesome ami close atmosphere that there prevails, and place him on the mountain side, and how lomz will it be before the blood in | his system, that has half the time been eon-! pealed and ohly flowed fast under the impulse of fever", will go merrily on its " winding way " through arteries arid veins, rtnd he will again become strong and vigorous? So also one who has wasted h< beauty and her freshness, the tone of her heart and the refinement* 1 of her sentiments in those saloons in which the atmosphere is full of moral disease, mid whore fashion and folly dance hand in hand in positive mockery oi' all those qualities of which men and women have a ri<rht to boast. nnil which oily tlieii! to Mie angelic exist-1 ciicos, will, when transplanted like a blighted i flavor tp a. garUon, ami then', Joarns how to j worship nature instead of th$ painted idols , she has boon accustomed to, soon begin to rc-1 gain a portion of the original loveliness of lior 1 nature, and may by and by become entirely i redpomcd from the taint that has stolen " fire f from her eye uud vigor from her limbs/' j I'Vivi'ti.vn Cot ton.?The New Orleans Mcaynno Says: We have Ucqu thowii several bolls of this ( tine co^tuu, grown on the plantat'um of. Senator Tlammoml of .South Cuvoliu x. The fibre j. fa Hffivlv Mr a inr>liM in )i<noptli. hinl i>? nn finn find glosayns floss* silk . T)?o plant is said to ' j gfo'w from six to eight foqt in hyjght, ,ntid will i piwUoo a thousand pgunda of oiean lint to | tho aero. This is oortainly tho king of out,ton. j ( 1KB otime from school *ory immh nj/itatQ<l, ' beofttJHC her couldn't muIoi>:tnnd tiiu principles j 1 of Allegation, a? luhl down in Groonltef. "Tlioro, i ' dofrr,!' anid .Mrs. I'sirtingten, " Don t frot about ' it<; you mftsl toll tho teachor yon ain't no jilii/fca-?- i lur, and I know ho'll relinquish you."'?Tho ,i (ad was cctnfortcd^accordingly. , Letter from the President. The following letter from President Huchminti, in reply to Gov. Wise, regarding tho nttenipt sit rescue of Brown and his associated nvisunors, will bo read with interest : W,\s|iint!ton City, Nov. Silt : 1 received on yesterday^ your favor of tin; H?)th inst., stilling that you liave received information from various qaartcifr, on which toll rely, " tluft a conspiracy of formidable extent in means and numbeVs, is formed in Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York and other States to rescue John Brown and his associates, prisoner ?t (JHarlostown, Virginia." The in formation, you believe, is "specific enough to be liable,'' and von arc convinced " that an attempt will he made to rescue the prisoners, and, it" that, fails, then to seize citizens of that State (Virginia) as hostages and victims in case of execution." You do not communicate the facts on which your convictions ore founded, in the absence of which it would scetn almost incredible that any portion of the people of the Stales mentioned should be guilty of the atrocious wickedness, as well as folly, of attempting to rest ue convicted traitors and murderers from the penalty due to their crimes under the outraged laws of Virginia. You express entire confidenne, in which 1 heartily participate, (hat the noble old Commonwealth is abundantly able and willing to carry her own laws into execution. Had this been otherwise, and had you, as the Governor of Virginia - T i * 1 * vim: legislature not uow being is session) inade application to mc for the aid which the Constitution and laws of the United States would allow .no to afford, tins should have been eheerfully and cordially granted. Still there is one measure which on the presumption that your information is well founded, it is both my right and my duty to adopt?that m, to reinforce the guard already .stationed at Harper's L-Yrry. This may become necessary, not only to protect the public property clearly within federal jurisdiction, but to prevent the insurgents frotu seizing tho arms in tho arsenal at that place and usin<j; them against the troops of Virginia. Besides, it is possible that additional troops may be required to act as a poxsc romi'ntus, on the requisition of the marshal of the I'itltcd States for the western district i^f Virginia, to prevent tlie rescue of Stevens, now in his custody, charged with the crime of high treason. L have, therefore, as a precautionary measure, directed the Secretary of War to order two cmnmnies of nrtillnrv f/> proceed immediately from fortress Monroe to Harper's Ferry. Vou also inform me that " placOB in Maryland, Ohio and Pennsylvania have hoen occupied as depots and rendezvous by those desperadoes, unobstructed by guard* or otherwise to invade Virginia "?and you apprise me of the facts in order that L may take steps to preserve peace between the States." I am at a loss to discover any provision in the Constitution or l aws of the United States which would authorize me to take steps for this purpose. It is, doubtless, the imperative duty of the respective. State governments to break up such depots, and to prevent their citizens irom loaning incursions into Virginia to disturb its peace or prevent tbc execution of its laws. If the Federal ivvccuti vo, however, were to enter those States and perforin this duty for them, it would be a manifest usurpation of their rights. Were 1 thus to act, it would be a palpable invasion of State sovereignty, and as a precedent, might prove high* ly dangerous. My,authority for calling out the militia and employing the army and navy is derived exclusively from the acts of Congress of the 28th February, 170f>, and the 53rd of March, 1S07, which, clearly, did not embrace such a case as is now presented. It will nut be pretended that such incursions from one State into another would bo an invasion of the United States " from any foreign nation or Indian tribe," tinder the act of Fehru/irv 17U."i v^n. t - -;-v 1 dcfin?j it latvful for tlic President to employ tho federal forces " to repel such invasion." lu conclusion, I bog to express tho hope that, whether tho information you have received be founded in truth or not, the cilei*tretie measures already adopted under your direction will prove sufficient for any emergency that may occur. Yours, respectfully, Jamkm KichanAV. To His l'i\'c?llcney Henry A. Wise, Governor of Virginia, Richmond, Va. IIoMi:.?^?It is a little word; it lias its own interests, its 0W11 latts, its own difficulties and sorrows, it? own bleesings and joys, ft is the sanctuary of the heart, where the affections ure cherished in the fenderest relations, where the heart is joined to hertrt, and love triumphs overall Selfish calculations/ It is the training school of the teudor plants, Which in after years are to yield flowers and fruit to ...i 1 * - Ta I puicmai care, n 19 inc stream wmen UCauti- | fits ami enlivens social life. If any man should have a home, it is the ' man of business. Ho Is the truo vrorkinp I man of tho comiuitoity. Tho mcchanio has ; his fixed hours, and when these have run j their course, he may, ore the day closes, dis-; mis* all anxieties as hta lahorr, cud, and seek j fhe hoine eiroV, Comparatively little has i been the tnJc on his mind, and not much more' on his physical systotn, as ho learns to take nil easy. Hut the man of business is under a j ooustant pressure. llix ih nojt, a ton-hour sys- ; tern, with uu interval of rest; but he is driven tmwavd arfd onward early and late, without! the' calculation of hours. Ho must bo em- j ployed. In tho earnestness of competition;?* j iu the complexity ot modern modes of business?in the fluctuations vvhicKfrrrjOPntly <kv jut?.in Ilio solicitors dependcnooon the fidelity and integrity of others? ho has no leisufo moments during *<ho day. With a mtnd in* aosximtly unUor exciting engagements, and a body without its appropriate nutriment, he may well pant for homo, and hail the*rnoincht when ho may escape from his toils to seek its juiet, and its. a flection aud confidoucc. _? . ? iiy.t The War Woman's Creek. I In (Icorgiu nud North Carolina tlicro i.*< hardly a river, crock or stream that lias iifit connected with it some old rudian tradition. * , ; The above title of the crock is taken from one of these traditions. The crock is a tributary of ( liutMiira river, and Hows therein from lla bun county, (hi. The story as told by iho few Indians remaining since the removal of 1 it.n . I I IV t i ? ill lllW > \;il I iUIH.' I UllfJ I'll 119 i I Many years ago in tlio fir?t settlement of | tho country a wandering parly of their tribo i attacked the house-of a squatter somewhere ^ 1 upon tlioir borders during 1?ir? nbsonco, and , mtipsacrcd r.ll of his children andjeft his wifo covered with llxi mtuigled bodice of her butchered offspring. scalped like them and apparently dead. She was not hfrtfever wounded so badlv r.s tho Indians had supposed. No > rf fioonor did she hear, tho sound of their retreat- ' ;jj ing footsteps than disengaging herself from the hoiip of slain, haggard, palo and drcnchcd with Inr own and the blood of her children, she peered stcathily from the door, and finding her enemies no longer in sight hastily extinguished'the Hro which before leaving tho I Indians had applied to her e;tbin j bitt, which, . . ?X j had as yet made. very little impression on thd rrcen loirs of which it was . ttomr>oscd. Wi ! piu<* from lies eyes the warm blood which Was ' ?till reck in pc upon her scalped head; sho di- :V^v I'ccted her agonized gaze to the bleeding and ' ' disfigured forms of those who soarco an horn* before were playing ut the door and gin don- J inghcr maternal heart with their merry laugh? " y j tor, and as she felt in the full sense of hci4 I desolation the last ray of hope died within liflt ? ; bosom there stole ovet'ner ghastly face an pression a? savage as \vas ever worn by tho j ruthless xlayersof her innoccnt babes. III eye gleamed with the wild fury of the tigr( rubbed of its young as closing her cabin care! fullv behind her with a countenance nlilmaI ted by some desperate purpose, she started in the same uatli hv whie.li the tniirrJnrnie >-?/! departed. Heed loss of her wounds and wns-/ v:' ' ting blood and lost to all sense of hunger amy j fatigue in the one absorbing and fell purpL j which actuated her, she paused not upon th? . / trail of her foes until at night she came, up ?S with the??? encamped for the night at the V i uf the creek, which is indebted to her fot* j present name. Kmefjring from the gloom | the surrounding darkness, on her hands7 knees she crept noiselessly toWai'ds the j the blaze of which as it dickered upwrrdrf. covered to her the prostrate forms of tho dians, five in number, who overcome by unusually futiguiu'* days travel were wrap* deep sloe]) with their ouly weapons? tljei*' tuahawks?in their bi'lt*- IIev own &? i ly advancing figure as the uncertain ltk the burning pine fell Upon it with ntf}^ j less distinctness, now exposing its linoan blotted with blood and distorted by an cj; I sion which her wrongs and the sight ct desolates of her hearthstone, cxaggGrtfc*1' degree almost fiendish and now shadi save two gleaming spectral eyes, wa? cVeiv. more striking thun the swarthy faces which ' she glared upon. Assuring herself that tfie.y wore fast asleep, she gently removed their *.>>mahawks and droppe d all but one inty the crook. With the remaining wcaprtfi- in ho* ' hand and cool resolution in her heart, si i bent over the nearest enemy and lifting tf ; instrument to which her own and her chit| drens blood still adhered, with one terrific ah'' I unerring blow buried it deep in the t?{ it.-} owner, l'lic savage moved no iriot ; partly to turn upon his side, gasping ft qitivored :i minute like :>n aspeti and Hun to his former position quito ^cgjj^ ^ ghastly in his rigid face. The ifflj .into two-' a . tnnn loft liiin, and noiselessly ;;s 'i%rc tics- j patched all of tho sleepers but on C to tli^tiy \ long rest from which only the la| tvumjicti $} can awaken them. The last devote* .'vietiu however was aroused to a eonscioliHnee% of hi | situation by the death struggle? vf his coti! pantons. Ho sprang to his feet and fftlt fy . Ii'-; weapon ; it wa.; | plaining every tlurl^ to liiin. Ife ovkdod tho i iihiw aimed at him by the bfave aid voVcOge[ ful woman. Seizing from the firwa bwfaing ; brand and with It succeeded "warI ding off the furious attack W1 .el i In ( 111* 1 ii-n- <*-n r<" - I - .....V. VI. V) .^.1 " the Indian desperately woutftil^t,. man fnint with the loss of blood traordinary exertions. lioth \|if to hiirni each other farther, and t\ savage only availed himself of his strength to crawl away. * In this piteous plight tho poor v(. inaincd until near noon the < folio when she wasner-idently dieCo1 rlinjr party of whites to Avhoiu story and then died. : +?}&?>' After burying her on the sppt thcta some exertions to ovortahe tlr^ fugitiyt1 an, but proved unsuocfssfuWiVi Ho succeeded in ro.itfhiiJLd'.is tribo from his talo tho little stniiiijhofory m$pl| ed was over afterwards Cheroke.es and also by the yfijjjfe A Lesson for IjAzv U'liijiP a stndy peasant whs, at amidst storm and r,\i ii jiflfTffffiffiuitP eveninjr tired, itnd His lovinp; wife Haul, " '-%l raininu su hurd that I ctv*1' ho I haVc rtot been fiWo nor. A*"'3*0111 ?fa \vc* lined to you to fctf' of Wrtterj you oiv argument w >!? sti4" buokots arvd^Mcf which wan ?V a roachiutr his he ^bly moated \iy buoket after ll liia1 kind ?nO wife,",8ai?| h yu you ir\ay yon can't go Many a clmhbft; thi This is but