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BY ?TO THINE OWN SELF BK TUUE, AND IT MUST FOLLOW, AS THE IIOB'T. A. THOMPSON & CO. iummMmnmt?i?fm*?m)?mm i m j '-_ ^ M I I - - rn Milli II I I I I i i n II irn?ri?. m.mi mniii PICKENS COURT HOUSE, S. C. SATURDAY, JULY 27, 1801. NIGHT THE DAY, THOU NO. 5& Th? Ladder of Lifo. Like ? ladder-still enlarging Year by year-our life is giTen ; On? step fixed on carib's green margin One ascending high in Meuten ; Up lida bidder of our being .Morn nod noon mid evening go; Moment nfl er moment Hoeing, 'Till (heir worth too late we know. Some with gold the steps environ. Cieth of gold timi Hernia sublime: Sonic aseohu o'er steps of iron Wet with leurs, mid hurd to climb! But though sorrows muy bo sleeper, Though in cure und HuiTcring trod ; There is comfort for tho weeper In thc endless time of Clod I Time-nias, how snd wc use it, As through lifo we wonder on ; Scarce we hnve it-ere wo lost it ! - Bro we sny " "J'ix here"-'tis gone I 'Till time older-wen ker-Rudder Takes its dark and awful stand ; And upon bile's trembling bidder. Holds us by n trembling hand ! Let our souls. Iq this attending, Keep (lund deeds in daily store; Still ascending and descending bike (i'ood Angels evermore ! - Deeds lliaf make thu Futuro gladder, bend a blessing io bile's hours; And the. Inst step of bile's Lsd der Crown with Cod's immortal Howers! 0 ~JFL I G- I 1ST X-i . f WKtTTfiN FOR TUM lt KO WE ft COURIER. Allegory. M Oh ! King, we ?ire not cart ful to answer thee in this matter." " If it beso, our God whom wc serve is able to deliver us from the buming fiery furnace, .nd ho will deliver us out of thine lund, oh ! King." *. Hut. if not, ho it known unto thee, oh ! King, that wc will not serve thy Gods, nor worihip thc golden image which thou hast set up." Revolving these words in my mind, I fell ?steep. 1 dreamed, and behold ?in immense image, ?f the eoloi of gullly was set up. And all nations and people bowed down be fore it. O? its forehead was written, in col lossal letters, Mammon-which is to say The World. Every one, whom I saw, hastened to how down b ifore it, and toohey thc dictates of thc Priests and Priestesses who ministered before it. And I beheld that even 6ome of the crowd who worshipped it, they ordered tobe trodden down, for they were very merciless. lint when I looked closely I saw that these very persons were most cager, in their adula tion at its footstool, and most loud, in their declarations, that nothing .should indue? them to swerve from its dictates in any way. Now thc Priests, who stood before thc im age, were tierco nnd cruel men. 1 saw one, who being continually intoxicated, was raging forth profane language against thc God of Heaven. 1 saw another, to whom cruelty and oppression were ns daily bread. 13 . . ' ile they continued to obey the dic tates oi their idol, there Bcemcd no power on earth which could arise against them. And I was grieved for this people, which did err in their debasing idolatry, but there eeeuied no help for them. At length 1 perceived a stir to take place amid thc multitude ; nnd 1 heard it reported ?ulong thc Priests and Priestesses that one had boen found who would not bow himself down to the idol. " Ile is accursed," cried thc Priest* ; u wo will hold no intercourse with him," cried thc multitude ; " we will do every despite unto him," said thc Priestesses. And imiiicJiatoly proclamation was made that none supply this during unbeliever in Mammon with lire or water, with food or clothing, nnd that none should even hold friendly intercourse with him, upon pain of the like exclusion from every right und office of common humanity. 1 looked around to see what mighty Poten tate was this, who dared to set ut defiance thc world's dread doerceBr\ I looked in tho direction in whioh all eyes seemed bent, ond I beheld approaching a shepherd hoy, clad in white gar tuen ts, of the lumpiest form. Ile did not appear to notice the multitude, who were nlready thronging around him, nor to perceive that he was the object of their attention. His eyes were fixed, sometimos upon an il luminated manuscript, which he boro in his hand, und sometimes were raised to Heaven, as in prayer. Even when those nearest to him threw mud npon his white garments bc did not seem to perceive it, and I saw that their efforts wero in vain, for soon the mud fell off. und tho white ness and dourness of his garments were thc ?arrie fl? before. An I watched bim ho began to perceive that ho was the object of universal attcction. But for a moment tho hcnrtB of his persecu tors seemed to relent.. His youth ana th? in nocence of Iiis looks, for a moment, averted their malice. Let us give him ooo more trial, they said. Arid the next insUut be wu couducted to the footstool of tho image. The chief Priest ordered him ty kueel be fore it." "I cannot kneel except to my God," he suid looking upward. Put still the Priest had for once, a moment of mcreiful relenting "Wilt thou obey our dietatos in nil things," bc said. And again thc youth replied : " I cannot obey and liouor any but (Jud. 1 cannot make tho dictates of the world my standard." Then there wus an awful outcry around the image. Some cried, " To tho furnace with him." Put others replied, " Wc aro not permitted now the furnace ; weean only execrate him, and do despite unto him, but we will ect our mark upon him." Now the press had been so preat about this youth that I had lust bight of him fur a short space of time. Put when I ngnin beheld him his cy s were cast up to Heaven, while he clasped to his heart the Illuminated manuscript which I had before observed. Aud I saw written thereon, " Thc friend ship of thc world is enmity against Oed." " If ye were of the world, the world would love his own. but because I have chosen you out of thc world, therefore the world hatcth you." Then I saw that they endeavored to set a mark upon him, but tho mark of God was up on his forehead, and that it was not permitted them to touch. Yet they succeeded.in be spattering his white garments. And when he turned to go on his way it was only by thc heavenly expression of his countenance, by thc fervor with which he clasped his book, by his constant upward look, ?nd by thc straight and even course which he took, that I could still distinguish him amid thc multitude, which still continued tu throng him And now I saw that soino human feeling overcame him. His eyes, though still lixed heavenward, were dimmed with tears. Ile OtlVUlCU IMO lUUhlU lASIVI.Ilft .. ?>tt,t\?M,f? ,?',?IVI* boro so small a proportion to the height of the iuinge, that I had not before perceived it. Put when I now looked attentively toward it, I saw by a small steeple, which was attached, that it was a church, and within it were a few who proposed to be worshippers of thc true God. These were mostly clothed in mourning garments. The persecuted om';, entered its precincts, and when the prayers wcro over, he addressed himself to two individuals who stood at the altar in priestly garments. One ol' them he drew aside to the door, and there he humbly mude his petition. " You are sworn," he said, " to comfort those who mourn; you know mine innocence, for we have often taken sweet counsel togeth er. Now 1 am persecuted, comfort nie, 1 pray you." Put he to whom he spoke, though he wore thc vestsments of a Priest, answered harshly to tho mourning and persecuted youth : "I cannot aid you," he said, "for if 1 should bestow comfort upon you I should set against me all the world who have declared against you." An elderly person, who swept by, in mourn ing garments, caught tho boy's appealing chinee. Put sho gathered up her skirts, lost they should be contaminated by thc contact, and thus replied : ** My nails arc carefully set to go with tho wind. Whence thc world leads, I must follow, therefore come not to me." Then the boy (for bc was but s youth) wept, and 1 saw that 1 i said within his heart, "There is no hope that thc other, who is a stranger, will caro for mc, for there arc my own pastor, and my own friend, with whom I have been wont to take sweet counsel. Put the other Priest approached him. II? wiped away his tears, and raised him up. " My mission," bc said, " is to comfort all who mourn ; tell mc your grief, for I an: Christ's servant." And tho boy, weeping, poured forth hit complaint. 1 have been imprudent, he said I have sometimes erred, for oh ! I nm but hu mau. I have been careless concerning th< world, hut, oh ! Father, it is because I hftv< been careful to serve God only. I have, in deed, looked only to Him. I know that IL shall deliver mc, but oh ! Father, I am bu human. " His strength shall be sufficient for thee my son, ll iihself shall comfort thee ; fear not,' said thc Priest, ?nd bc took the book fron tho hands of thc child, and read to him man; words of holiness and comfort. And hewalkci with him on his way, for a little while, Stil speaking to him tho holy words of hope nm trust. And tho boy conned to weep, nnd now (fo his hour of trial was past) tho angels descent] cd to comfort him. Tho Saviour himscl smiled upon him ; and his garments wer ugain clean and white, nnd I saw nn cffulgenc upon his brow, whioh none who stood aroun liad any power to take norn him. And he wont on his way singing: " Let thc world forsake and ICUYO ai?, They li*vo loft ujy Saviouri'too ; Human houris and hopes deoeiv? rn?, Thou arl not Uko thou, nutt no. I hare called Theo, Abba Father, I have set my love on Thee; Stern?? may howl, and clouds may gather, Al must work for good to ?lo. .'Go then, earthly fame aut?^oasure, Come disaster, scorn and In thy service, puiu is plea Afr?, With thy luvor, loss is gain. " And if thou shalt smile upon me, God of wisdom, love and tinghi, Foes may lnitc, and friends deceive me, Show ihy fuco, and all is bright." AMY HKRTJERT. From the New YorMjjTiraes. The Education of tho Negroes in South Car olina. It is stated in a circular '.issued with the sauctiou of the New York American Mission ary Association, that there are no less than 20,000 negroes in Charleston to day, 4,000 of whom arc of school agc. To provide for thc training of these and large, numbera of the same class throughout thc Stiito nf South Caro lina, colored teachers arc needed. With this v JW a scheme is set on foot to establish what we take to be a sort of Gimnmnr School or Normal Institute for those tjreedmeu who may be anxious to become teachers. We do not know enough of the particular plan proposed to gi ve it a specific endorsement, or to ruccommend others to; do so. But it is significant thal the proposal.hns tho hearty ap proval of Governor Orr, of} the Cx Secretary of the bte Confederate. Treaisiiry, Cr. A. Tren holm, of Hov. Mr. Pinekney, Hector of Grace Church, Charleston, and of other men of al most equal standing. Govonior Orr says he heartily approves of "tho scheme to educate thorougly 'he colored children of Charleston." Mr. Tren holm says bc has no hesitation in fix pressing his "cordial upprpvul of the enter prise." Judge George S. Byran say? he hus been " a gratified witness"'of the zealous ef forts made to educate the poor colored people men't'a of'tfio Bpc?\aV^u?tt^^ fers, and of which wc personally know nothing -ought to have some weight, as showing thut the representative white men of thc South ure desirous of seeing the emancipated blacks elevated above tho condition in which slavery left them ; and that they have at heurt, the advancement of thc freedmen in those branch es of knowledge which will tend to thc im provement of their social position and fit them for political enfranchisement. lu view of the experiments willoh are like ly yet to be tried before thc great task of Na tional Restoration is completed, the educated people of the South-those especially who nave still a material stake io the country-can do nothing more politic and wisc for them selves than encourage education among thc ne gro race by every means in their power. It docs not yet appear what limit may be set lo thc conditions on which the readmission of the unrepresented States is to hang; but, in any event, it is wisdom, and wisdom of the highest kind for thc dominant race at thc South to make fast friends of their poor depen dents, for dependents they will continue to bo. It would bc au evil day for tho whole country that should see a political party at thc North sustaining itself by a negro Southern vote, as thc old Secession leaders wero so long sus tained by a sectional vote hero. The industrial interests of the two races at thc South ure identical. The one cannot suf fer without the other suffering also. They know each other thoroughly from long and close association. There is no natural un tag oiiism between them. What is wanted in their new relationship io ihat it should leonine ns soon ns possible like the relation of master and servant in other parts of the country; the lat ter bavin by means of education and thc enjoymcn. of equal civil rights, something like tho samo chance ns the former in thc race of lifo. No better solution, than this of put ting education within the reach of tho freed men, can bc found for tho serious problem of reorganizing society at thc South in conformi ty with tho now order of things, tnd of resto ring something liko real harmony of feeling and symphathy between North and South. DECLINE IN PRIORS.-Tho Now York pa pers announce thc breaking up of various speculating movements in tho necessaries of lifo in that city, which has caused a most grat ifying decline in prices. Pork lins fallon four doll irs n barrel, wheat from (ive to eicrht centB a bushel, and corn eight cents a bushel. Buy ers, it is reported, cvon at theso reduced fig ures, arc very scarce. COLUMBIA AND AUGUSTA RAILROAD. AUGUSTA, Nov. 19.-Tho total voto cast to day G27-for subscription, 537 ; against sub scription 89 j for loan, 1. So thnt tho City Council will bc nuthorizod to subscribe $100, 000 to tho Augusta and Columbia Railroad. Tbis settles tho saccess of the road. Correspondence of the Charleston Courier I WASHINGTON, NOV. 1G. J The rumor that the Cabinet was yesterday engaged in the consideration of tho amnesty j question is no doubt correct. Jefferson Da vis was not, however, the subject of the de liberation per sc, us has becu reported. As incidental to the question of amnesty, his eise was, no doubt discussed. Thc two gentlemen who were appointed under a resolution of the - Legislature of Mississippi to present the wish I cs of that body for Mr.^Pav- enlargement, have discharged that Uuty, nud pcrimpil have thus given the subject a prominent place in thc consideration of the President. The plan of an adjustment by universal am ncsty and impartial suffrage has been strongly pressed upon tho President, und upon tho heads of Departments. A number of prom inent Northern politicians, both Democratic and Radical, recommend und urge it. Thc President has the power under exist ing laws to pardon all persons who were en gaged in thc late rebellion, lie can hy procla mation declare a general amnesty. Therefore, it has been represented to him that he has the power to restore tho Union without any inter vention by Congress. It is urged to propose to the people of the late Confederate Slates that they adopt impartial or equal suffrage, bused on education and property, in return for universal amnesty. Thus by the co-operation of tho South with the President, an adjust ment may be made on this plan. But there is no reason to believe that the President will umkoany such condition, though ho may proclaim an amnesty. The President baa determined to make no moro appointments before thc meeting of Con-, gress, and the reason given for tho suspension of removals is that bc does not wish to ex asperate Congress, upon thc eve of tho ses sion, by party acts. Thc Secretary of thc Treasury has not, at uny time, approved of indiscriminate removals on party grounds, and has lately refused to make them in his d?part aient. Tho published letter from a member of thc Cabinet defining the President's position in regard to Congress, shows plainly enough that the President will avoid, if possible, any coi to force Southern representatives into v.en gross," and he will faithfully execute all the laws which Congress may pass over his veto. A Boomed People THE OHEATER PART M' S'. DIE. Thc u New York Times" corresponden gives the following interesting particulars o the great famine in India : A Calcutta paper of August 10th says tba 20,000 paupers from thc famine-stricken re gion have inundated Calcutta, and tho arri vals aro reckoned tit 200 a day. Wc have, oi thc highest authority, a frightful picture c thc prevailing destitution, especially in Cal cutta. It would bc difficult to exaggerate th magnitude and extent of the calamity. Al thc accounts I have seen have under rated il It is di ?Vie ult lo obtain reliable statistics a to the mortality from famine, and cholera oe casioncd by it ; but ul! that I have KOCH an heard has convinced me that it has been on scale of frightful magnitude*. There aro st i four long dark months before us ; though fe a month past there has seemed some sligl abatement in the distress in the four distrie of Bat.v/.or, Mednapore, Sarum, and Tirnhou Over 10,000 non-laboring paupers were bein daily relieved in the latter part of July j b sides 7.000 who were able to make some r turn for food by working. A week later wc find ?14,000 daily relieve in Batazoro and Mednapore uloue ; whi Poore and Nudda add 17,000 more to thea; list. It is believed that in Cattnelt the majori of the people must die before relief eau rca? I/IICMI , "MU. l?ooA iw.viMiisa day were peris in?; ut the single rt ittoll of Batazoro. ?v vt sef, the Tubal Cain, ./hieb was bringing the food, was driven off by ? storm, and rompe cd to throw overboard'1,500 bags of rice. But this is not till, and possibly not t worst. Tho new crop of rice will scon obtained, but is likely to ?dd a new source damage. For, lacking other food, the pt people will devour it in its miniatured a unwholesome state, and a dreadful pcstilct will probably thus be produced. Until tho land can bo covered with a n work of railroads anti canals, there seems escapo from tho frequent repetition of su calamities, and that day is far distant. Another account says : When the fain was ot ita heights, tho starving poor, we told, crowded into tho streets of Cnleui and it waa estimated that no fewer than '2 000 to 25,000 starving people wero wane ing about thc capital. ! At MulHok Ghat, where tho Bombay rt chants ruiscd a fund and distributed food, tit wero at ono time 7,000 famishing applioti crowded up. They were described aa pla in order uoon an open space, waiting for distribution. On ono sido nearly 4,000 1 doos, oach with a leaf platter beforo him, v : scattered on thc wet ground hastily partait of the scant dolo they received. Ou thc i cr sido were thousands of famishing Mussel* tuen, ranged iu like manner, and watching >vith silent and greedy eagerness the mea) of their Hindoo brethren, and counting with bitter longings the minutes till their timo should come. Under thc shelter of tho Ghst, crowded women and girls and children, and outsido tho gates were hundreds and hundreds wlio had lust their chance till the next distribution. Over uti a horrible deud silcuuo reigned. There w.ore no chattering or conversation; hardly n sound, excepting when nt interval* some wretch threw up his arms with an ejac ulation to heaven, wrung from him by tho unappeasable pangs ot' hunger. Moro than this, officials wrote homo des criptions of meeting dead bodies in every morning's ride, bodies lying in the road, with the village dogs eating them at leisure. A Calcutta journal stated that in Latr.zorc, having a population of 12.000, tho doutha ?.mounted to 80U a day. and on the Govern ment demanding of its ofiicials a report against the libel, the collector of the district replied, that on the 8th of August he had 2-15 deaths in thc city, and on tho Oth, 151, and for tho week ending tho 9th, 126 a day, the bodies sometimes remaining unburied for three days. The province of Orlan suffered thc most severely, one paper declaring that 400,000 souls have perished in maratimc Orisa alone. Indeed, a telegram from India announces that half thc population of Orisa have perished ia the famine; that is fully 2,500,000 people. EMIGRATION TO AMERICA.-A Liverpool paper says : " Until within thc last day or two, such a thing as an emigrant ship going to Texas has rarely if ever been known in Liverpool ; but such, however, is thc fact, and in a few days there will sail from the Mersey for Galveston a ship with o00 emigrants. About 240 of this number will be Scotch ag ricultural laborers, and thc remainder will come from Devonshire. On thc arrival of tho vessel at Galveston, the emigrants, after a de lay of a few days,, will bc fowarded into tho interior of Texas, where they will be employed 48 agriculturists. A German paper says that thc number of applications at thc Frankford Trtwn IJaJl for. nassnorts to go to America, surpasses thc moans for supplying the demanu, and pace cannot bo kept with thc anxious wishes of thc intending emigrants. They aro alarmed nt the prospect of being called upon to bc soldiers for three years under thc new parental government, nnd have no taste for unification. ALL HAIL, KENTUCKY.-The "Louiavillo Courier" says that Kentucky has an immense surplus of corn and meat this season, and sho intends to give liberally of them to her suffer ing brethren in thc South. For this purpose societies are being organized throughout tho State, and before the dose of the year wo hope to hear of one in every county. We also learn from tho "Courier" that tho Louisville, Frankfort and Lexington Railroad Company, announce that they will transport over their roads, free of charge, all contribu tions for the destitute poor of thc South. All of which is creditable to our moro fa vored sister State, and for which she will havo thc gratitude of thc South. THE VOTE OF THE LARGE CITIES.-New York city and county, 300,585; Philadel phia city and county, 100,500 ; Brooklyn und Kings county, 48,010 ; Cincinnati and Ham ilton county, 40,448 ; Baltimore city nnd county, 21,000; St. Louis city and county, 21,135; Chicago and Cook county, 20,045; Heston and Suflolk county, 11,570. tOT" To him that goes to law, nine things aro requisite : First a good deal of money ; second, n good deal of pntience ; third, a good cause; fourth, a good Attorney ; fifth, a good good jury ; eighth, a goo?'judgc ; nmfl?'/g'?Oc? luck. Even with all these, a wise man should hesitate before going to law. HEAVY CROES IN THE WEST.-It must bo a matter of congratulation with our impovcr i. d planters to know that thc great grain fields of tho West have produced an nbundant harvest, and that the prospect of low-priced com for tho next year is good. Our western exchanges report 1 *o crops of all the differ ent cereals, in that teeming section, and wo have no doubt but that provisions, and partic ularly corn, will be cheaper than for some time past. It would be better for our planters in each county nnd neighborhood, who have to buy corn,- to ngrco rmong themselves how much they need, and send us on agent to moko the purchase for tho whole amount required for each county or neighborhood. In this woy, wc have no doubt that the corn necessa ry for the cultivation of tho next crop cnn bo purchased for about ono half the price it is now selling at in our large cities. Tho ex periment is at least worth n trial. [Augusta Chronicle. AN old lady hearing somobody soy tho moil? were very irregular, said, " It was just so itt my young days -no trusting them."