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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