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Up Pusscugee, Leave Augusta at,,.,.......,...,,.,,,,,. 7 A. M. tthnrleston at..1.,.,.,.,?.,.. 8 A.M. ". Orangchnrg i<?., 1.80 P. M. A' rivoat Columbia 11?.,.5.20 P. M. Down Freight., Lr-avo Orangcbnvg at.10 A. M. Arrive, at Chai h-ston at. 0.1O P. M. Up Freight. r,'cave Ornngeburg at....'..1.88 P. M. Arrive at <\di;mh!.;; at.,.0.80 P. M. innr 28 ? g ?c POETRY. X'Auto-Da-Fb. In tlio luisli of the winter midnight? In tho hush of tho sleeping house? ; Whon no weird wind stirs in the gloomy firs, Tho spirits of storm to reuse. When never n glint of moonlight Gleams from tho grcnl blacli skj, By the red tiro's glow, ns it smoulders low, We crouch, my letters and I. .'.,' . ' '.' ".. #? My letters, they lie where I tossed them, ,. On the crimson hearthrug there, Still, vivid, and bright, iu the ruddy light, As cobras in their lair. <,?).? '-'' 1 '' ' " ' ?'i I-push the hair from my forehead, That burns and throbs so fast, Thinking the while, with a strange dull smile, Uf the task I must do at last. Who knows but I, tho comfort Those foolish letters have been ? The depth and scope?the strength nnd hope? Of thotiO "leaves" that arc always "green".'"' Who knows hut I, how sadly, To-morrow, I and my dream, By the ashes grey will weep ami say, "Woe's me for that vanished gleam. "The gleam of idle gladness. The glimmer of memories bright, That hid in each line of those letters of mine Those letters I burn to-night ?" Ah well! the dream was a folly; Its joy was an idle thing, Its hopo was n lie, nnd its loyalty Died of a whisper's sting. So a kiss?the last?to my letters, A resolute hand, and?there ! Do the sad dark eyes of my Paradise Meet mine through the fierce frame's liare? ?Tiili t'l.k P. mi. 1 LITERARY. E L E C T E I) . INIIIST^ I> 11 A. Tin: P HIL, AN THE 0PI 8 T [ A TALK OF ASIA MINO?. [Couiiniutl He was in tho right. The controversy spread through the ship, until the pilgrims would neither eat nor drihk^with caeli other. Fortunate lor them if they had been deaf j still more, fortunate for them if they had been dumb. Eyqry man had a different opinion, and every man disputed in its honor as if it were necessary to his existence. The color of the camel branched into a hundred controver sies, and each made at least a pair of orators ready to strangle each other. Mustapha, irritated and impatient, at last proposed to the Scribe that they both should go among them ; and explaining the absurdity of their quarreling on points for which no hu man being could be the better or the worse, recommend them to pass, at least, the remain der of the voyage in peace. "Are we strong enough," said tho Scribe, simply, "to throw one half of them overboard every day, until buv you and I arc left ?" "No," replied the Bey; "but they must'be tired of lighting by this time." "Nonsense is indefatigable," ob served his companion. "But," said the Bey, "I shall rebut their nonsense, satisfy their reason and compel the f??ls to see that nothing but mutual concession can ever produce cither general comfort or general safety." "Try," briefly said "the Scribe. Next morning, when (ho war of words was at its height, and the deck was covered with knots of enthusiasts, all descanting on their own wisdom, and the folly of the winde human race besides,?Mustapha came forward with his proposition for laying aside, all quarrels on creeds during the voyage. His figure, lofty and commanding, his line countenance, and c~en his embroidered robes and jewelled weap ons hud a powerful effect on the bystanders : tjic pilgrhu8 paused in their disputes, and all. forming a circh." ?wund the glittering preacher of peace, dcclared-ti.'cir readiness to adopt any plan which ho thought ut to offer. Mustapha. elated at the prospect of success; spoke long and eloquently; the man of genius broke out. through the habits of the Osnianli, and stU his audience wero enraptured. .Shouts of approv al soon began to follow every sentence; ho spoke of the original fraternity of mankind, and was applauded; of tho dignity of truth, tho supremacy of conscience, and tho purity of reason,?and was applauded still more; he then powerfully described them ns combined in tho act of exhibiting to others tho same free dom which we claim for ourselves; and in re membering, among all the d^Gfcrences of opin ion, that the man who possesses a spirit of good will for his fejlow men. holds the master key of all the virtues. An uproar of ad in i nitron folj? lowed the speech ; nud the whole circle) cried outthat neither Staiuhoul nor Smyrna cAiuS'pro duce his equal. He next proposed that ovcry man^phould come forward, and pledgo Mmsclf to general harmony. A tall Turk iystauxly ad vanced :?"Illustrious Souuite," he began his declaration?"Illustrious Sonnitc !" exclaimed a dwarfish, but richly clothed Persian } '(why, son of a bliud father and n deaf mother, who told you that he was a Sonnitc? All tbo genius and virtue of mankind are with the children of Ali." A blow with the slipper of [ a disciple of Omar told the Persian that his I opinion might not be universal. Mustapjja saw his project broken upj$it once, and c-tui? for ward to restore peace. But the tide had turned; and ho himself was assailed by CuJtni ries into bis faith.. "Do you believe in -flic holy waters of the Zem/em ?" cried one. "If you do not worship the foot of Fo, cried another, "wo only insult our cars in'listcning to you !" "Do you twist three hairs of the holy cow's tail of the ITcdjaz, round year lurupu ?f screamed another. "Do 3-011 believe in Hciodh?" was the outcry of a fourth. The clamor grow horrible. "By the print of Adam's slipper!" yelled a gigantic Ceylonese, "the fellow is nothing belter than a spy; and he deserves to be impaled on the spot." "By the krecs of my fathers, he is a heretic," howled a ferocious Malay; "I would rather drinly.dns blood than a bowl of arrack !" All now became clamor and confusion; daggers, knives, scynietarsand ataghans, flashed round the throat of the un lucky Mustapha. But he was bold, was mas ter of his weapon, and the sight of the naked poniard in one hand and his scymctar wheeling round his bead in the other, partially repelled the furious crowd. '.Hear me. madmen !" he exclaimed. "Can 1 believe all your croons to gether?" "You believe none :" was the roar; and they pressed closer on . bim. "I believe all that reason tells me to believe." was the daring reply; "but this too, I believe, that all opinions have something in them right." \ The sentiment was partially npphuYdcd. iAnd also," added he. "something in ihein Krgig." This was oil on fhuno j the winde crowd J^rst into rage; they rushed j^inu him in tfv.e.Ky : ho struggled desperately^ but a blow from be hind struck the scymctar from bis hand. He glanced round, and s::w the Malay at hi.- back, with his krecs uplifted to strike a mortal blow, in the next instant, he flaw the countenance of the savage convulsed, heard him shriek, and fell him falling at his feet. In the place of the Malay stood the young Scribe, with the dag ger in his hand, which he had snatched front the ruffian in the moment of fate; and had I dyed in his heart's blood. Mustapha cast a look of thanks at his preserver; and side by side, they retreated to the poop, where the pil grims dared not approach them. Hut the lire arms in the cabin were soon in the hands of his assailants, and certain death seemed to await him and his young companion. In'this emergency, Mustapha prepared to die ; but the Scribe, repeating the famous lines of Amrou, at the battle of Tcrnnra? '?The eagle takes an eagle's llight. The hero must not die in night.'' sprang on the deck before him ; and making a sign of parley, proposed at once that they should leave the ship to the pilgrims, and bo set on the first shore they saw. Musbipha's blood boiled at the idea of compromise. But his preserver was already in the midst of the infuriated crowd, and befell that hesitation might cost that preserver his life, lie com plied, with bitterness of soul. The boat was hoisted out. and the two exiles were rowed in the direction of the coast. They soon saw the hills above Bcyrout; and trod the famous soil of Palestine. "And this comes of preaching peace to pilgrims,"said Mustapha, indignantly, as he looked on the parched and ruined face of the country round him. ? This is my last ex periment ; may the Arab pluck out their beards! But we run ib.; greatest possible chance of being starved." "My lord, may you bo happy," said tli" Scribe; "but if we had remained on board, we should only have" added to tho possibility of being starved the probability of being drowned, or something not very far from the certainty of being shot. "i>u! to be thrown into this place of desola tion for the mere attempt to prevent a parcel of hotheaded bigots front cutting each (ithers heads off!" angrily murmured tho Hey. "The man who' attempts to drive back the ocean when it rises before the gale, will lind that his labor is wasted, even if he escape being sent to the bottom, lie should lake it in tho calm." "But, that such follies and furies should have their origin in religion !" retorted the Boy. "Look on that Heaven." said the young Scribe. And well might they look on that Heaven with delight and wonder. Ten thou sand Stars blazed above 'heir heads, with a pun? intensity of light, an essential glory, to which Mustapha bad never seen the equal oven in the serene skmio of Asia Minor The ; ky wad p ? - ? . sho'worcd with stars, a shower of diamond. A few faint, clouds, slightly tinged with the last hues of evening, lingered on tho wostorn hori zon, like the last incense from some mighty al tar. The air was still, and breathing the odor of the sheets of wild jessamines and myrtle which clothed the sides of the mountains; all was richness, solemn splendor, and sacred re pose. The vivid cyo of the. Hey, made to re joice in all that filled the imagination, roved over the boundless field of the stars of Heaven with a delight,which kept him silent. "From that sky," said the youth, "which looks one vast palace of holy trauquility, from this fragrant air, which breaths like an offer ing of all tho treasures of nature to the Sov ereign of Nature, descend the thunder and the tempest, the bolt that strikes tin; mountain pin nacles into dust, and the hurricane that swells the sea into destruction. And shall wo wonder that religion, bright, holy and boundless as those skies, should have power, from time to time, to fill the earth with terror, to dazzle the weak, to overwhelm the bewildered, to give an irresistible impulse to alPlhat is bold, imagina tive, untamcable. and soaring, in the heart of man."' "But what has the dagger, or the pistol, to do with this impulse? yet those sticklers for their contradictory follies would have flung me to the sharks which carried off the doctors of the black and while camels." Tho young Scribe smiled, and simply said, "My lord, while nine-tenths of mankind are fools, why were we lo expect that our pilgrim ship contained hone hut sages. While all man kind arc creatures of the passions, why were we to suppose that a crew of enthusiasts alone were incapable of being frenzied by scorn. Hut let us not lay the blame on religion. To produce great effects, wc must find great pow ers. Where universal man is tobe stirred, the evil wi'l be stirred with the good. Hut if the Xile. when it pours down its Hood of fertility on the hurtling soil of the Delta, brings weeds into life with the harvest, is the fault in the Nile '.'' Or when the mighty orb that has but just finished his course of glory in yonder waves, rises to circle tho world with light and life. ni'SpWC to extinguish bis beams, through fear of the insects which he quickens in the marsh and tho wilderness ?" The young speaker of these words had been roused by the. subject into unusual fer'yor. His pale counten ance had suddenly lighted up. and as he gazed on the firmament, unconscious of all things hut (he glory which had awoke his feelings, tho Bey found it impossible to withdraw bis ( v - from its animated beauty. The expressive features (lushed with new intelligence. The glance, always powerful, seemed to catch, new brilliancy from the splendors above. Kven the voice seemed to be changed. Always sweet, it was now l?fty and solemn, yet it touched the spirit of the hc:ror more than in its softest, moments. Il was once music to his ear; it was now conviction to his soul. The haughty warrior, the proud philosopher, the conscious superior of every mind that he had till now encountered, all gave way ; and hinging him self on the neck of his friend. Mustapha pledged himself by every light, blazing in that sky of serenity never to part from his young sage, his counsellor, the tamer of his follies, ami tlie guide of his existence. The Scribe suddenly disengaged himself from this impetuous instance of friendship, and with one struggling hand still held in the grasp of Mustapha. and the other pressed closely to his forehead, turned away in silence. "Hear me how," said the impatient Bey "once for all; 1 abandon all eagerness to interfere in other men's concerns. This voyage, this hour, have given me wisdom worth a life. And if ever M itstapha,Bcn 31 itstapha troubles his brain about making fools wiser than nature intended them to be; about giving experience to slaves incapable of thought ; or teaching toleration to traders in bigotry : may he go the way of the doctors; or worse, may he be parted from his first and last of friciidsj even from his young philosopher." Tiic young philosopher answered this burst of sentiment only with one of bis quiet smiles, niid drawing his turban still deeper onhis brows, and wrapping his mantle closer round him. re marked, that the night was at hand, and that some village should he sought for, where they miglil find shelter and entertainment. Mus tapha, in the ardour of tho moment, would have despised the aid id" man. and remained gazing on the stars, and listening to the wis dom of bis companion. Hut a gust from the sea. followed by the rising roar id' thunder nmong the hill.-, awoke him to (he realities of the wilderness; and. anxious for the safety of ho fragile a frame as that of his fellow traveler ho followed the sounds of the baying dogs, and an occasional blast of a born which sounded on the night air. until he found himself suddenly called on to stop. Ho was in the front of a troop of Arab horsemen. "Fly, or surrender a' once." whispered the Scribe. "The panther is lord in the desert." ?The lion never flics," was the bold excla mation of the Ucy. a* he drew his scyinetar. The Aral'.- seciiiy the flash, returned iL by a general fire of their muskets, and rushing on in the smoke, to their astonishment, they found that instead of a troop of some hostile tribe, they had but a single enemy, the handsomest of Moslem, who still defied them. They burst out into laughter at his presumption, and at the same momenta dozen fellows leaped from their horses, and threw themselves upon him. Ho struggled desperately, but a feeble voice reached his car, which totally unmanned him. By tho gleam of a torch he saw his friend in the hands of a crowd of tl)G Arabs, who were carrying him away; and to his still deeper terror, lie saw a long line of blood trickling from beneath his turban. lie felt himself in stantly powerless, and flinging away his weapon, yielded at once. The captives were carried in triumph to the camp ; where Mustapha's jewels were infinitely admired and plundered to the last stone. But his true sorrow was for the suf ferings of bis wounded friend; The Bey was in consolable lor the misfortune, which he attribu ted entirely to his own rashness. "Well was it said by llafiz," be exclaimed in bitterness, "that, he who takes the wolf by the throat, should first sco that his tusks arc plucked out." The young Scribe pointed with his slight linger up ward, and said with a faint smile. "The skies arc as bright above this lent, as they were on the sea shore. The sun will rise to-morrow, as he rose yesterday. Wc are in hands stronger than the hands of the Arab. The first refuge of the fearful, but the last refuge of the brave, is despair." [ Concluded in our A' .?7.] M ISC E L L A N E 0 Tj S . Tho President at Boston. During the President's speech at Boston, which was confined to thanks to the public for courtesies to him as a citizen and Chief Magis trate, three cheers for Congress were call??t^r from outskirts of audience. The cheers ?wCro not given. During Mr. Howard's speech three cheers for North Carolina were called for. j Mr. Sewnrd said you may w^ll give three cheers for the State of North Carolina. She was the first Shite to put forth the Declaration of Independence in the Devolution against Great Britain. You may well give three cheers for North Carolina. She was the State of eleven wdio seceded last, and wunt most re luctantly out of the Union. You may well give three cheers for North Carolina. She was the first of the eleven who seceded to come back again to the family fireside of the Union ?and. today, nothing is wauling for her to resume her ancient, honorable and most patri otic position in the family of the Republic, but the consent of the people, of Massachusetts. Now. I know that all that is coming about, is coming about very soon. I have seen the earth and the skies full of the elements of fer I tiliiy of health and of vigor, and I saw in North Carolina the Cotton spring up which is to supply, next year, the mills of Massachu setts. I have seen in New York the wheat growing that is to supply the West Indies and the Southern States. I know that nature de signs that this whole continent, not merely these thirty-six States, but this whole conti nent, should be, sooner or later, within the ma gic circle of the American Union. -? ? urn - * ? <??i ? Bismarck's Private Secretary. Dinner is over. It is well nigh midnight. Putbus is sleeping. Only a single light still sparkles through the autumnal trees of the Park. It leads us to the pleasant villa near the Prince's kitchen-garden. Count Bismarck is still awake; but he is no longer the same gay talker, the amiable, witty companion, such as we have seen him at din ner. In the dead of night he is again Prime M inistcr. He who has come to R?gen to repose, from his toils, .sits at a desk covered with papers: his right hand is closed ; his face looks almost gloomy; the thoughtful brow is clouded; the iron Count is at work, lie reflects long and profoundly; and then he dictates a dispatch. But where is his private secretary, to write what he dictates'/ The Prime Minister has not taken a private secretary, nor any of the officers of his depart* moot with him to Ilugcn; but nt aside-table with a lamp, sits a lady, modest, plainly dress ed ; her brow beaming with great intelligence. She quickly writes what the minister dictates to her. "\Ye know this lady; we. learned already to esteem her; now we admire her. The Coun tess Bismarck is not only a loving wife to him, j nn excellent nurse to him in his bodily ailments, a devoted mother to his children ; she is, be sides, the iron Count's faithful, indefatigable assistant in his grave toils. - in?Iii- - - ? ?turn - , When King dames'\utor lay upon his ex piring pillow, hi- majesty sent to inquire how he did. "Co toll." said lie, "my royal sover eign thai 1 oin going where few Kings go." ?UMO ROTJ^; ^' : _._ .v; -H.i ho;, mnj One of the 'Alabama, frcedinen applied In to Governor Pattoh for a divorce on' Cho gro'uiid * that hie wife couldn't i ho coming hmn? every week, and ho knew another woman wlibwiulhi do very well. J ummi m ... 'T "Come till America,J^atl" writes. n^iojVof the Emerald Isle to his friend in Ireland :'( "tis a fine country to get a livin in. All yo havo to do is to get a three-cornered bojfand fill it wid bricks, and carry it till 'ho. ti p of a ffhrco story building, and the man at tho top doct3%ll the work." ?? .nit t>"f> ?*tlW?''? An Irishman entered n harbcT,:shop, :Whllc drinking nto with the brush a cup: oi : lather, dug.out the hall of soap at the bottom 1|Ffcbc cup, at that, and sat down to warm his feck'1 ? "How did you like your lunch ?"'? asked n bystander. IT; * "The custard was illegnnt,bul by n?y spbkl b'lavc tho egg was a little to long in tlipt wji- - tor 1" 'i. "Well, Jane, this is a queer world," aaitl a "brute" to his wife, after breakfast recent^* "A set of woman philosophers have just sprnng _>? up. ? . "Indeed," said Jane, "and wiiat Vdo they hold?" \ M ? "The strangest thing in natnre," said lie; "they ||pltl their tongues." !'4h'& W<*" ;> ?-L~ - . Sharp'promising little hoy, just learning'ic talk well: ... "Father aro yott going to:sec the' rart; to day ?" " ??>???>?< H . Father, brightening trp-^"W.hat metf/7fby son, will there bo?" . ? " "The human race." >,,. Husband to wife?"Mary Ann, that hoywjll be an 'iditor's pet." .,; ..( .? Wife?God forbid." .-. ; ?- . " .:??? A Gueen Customku.?A fow dayst sincen gentleman calle^d upon some lady - trioudfc,v*nii i was shown into tho parlor by <? ^ervantf girl.' * She asked him whatuamc she should announce, and he, wisbiog to take them by surpri?o, re plied, "micus," (a friend.) vThe girl seemed at first a little puazlcd, but quickly regained her composure, and, in the blandest manner possible, observed, "What kind of a'cttss did ? ?>?> ?? '<??! miwe. \ y0"^'"r'.___ .-. ..????Hill? ? ?. i A provost ftiarshal writes : One of the pro vost guard brought a colored man into the office, charged with stealing water-melons. As he was being led away, I suid to him: "I hope, Tom, that I may never see, you here again." . t He turned to me with a pecptwrr,. shrewd expression, and suid : '?You wouldn't ha'seen me dis lime, cap'n, if de sogers hadn't a foteh me" | t A certain green customer, wW wa? a strqngcr to mirrors, and who stepped int??j(J?*'cabin of" one of our oceuu steamers, stopped ' in>: front? *if a large pier glass, which he took for u I door, and seeing his own reflection, he said : !?ijl "I say, mister, when doos this crovb&it start?" v ? -Ji?. ?? Getting no answer from the duuib qpafiectioii before hiin, ho again repeated: ^ .. v j "I say, mister, when does this e|o ^.boui start?" ? .???*'^rv..-. Incensed at the silent, figure, he then broker out: 'Go to thunder 1 yc cursed Bassafrni colored,, shockhcaded bull calf; you donrt look as if jam knew much anyhow 1" 11 rr 1 ; . A Rather InquisitiveYankee.?While Lord ?rosvenor was traveliwg West;, he w one day waiting at n country station for a tardy train, when one of the furnier? of the neigh borhood entered into conversation with. Iiiii^: _ "Hccn nbout these part^eonsidoraido. stran ger?" "Yes, for some length of time," "Like 'cm pretty well, eh ?" "Yes, pretty well." "How long have yer bin here "A few weeks " "What's yer business ? "I have no business." ' What aro yer traveling for then ? '?Only for my own pleasure." "Don't yer do any business ? Jlow do yet* get yer living, th\ n ?" "It isn't necessary for me to work lor my support. My father is a.man of property, and! gives mo an allowance sufficient for all my wants." "Hut, 'sposo tho old man should die?" "In that caso I daro say.he'd leave mc onough to live upon," "Hut, 'sposo he should bast up?" Hero the conversation cndcity-ajid | Lnul Grosvcncr walked away, ovidently struck with ;i new idea. i