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Uj) PusKcngrr, Leave Augii?ta at.,...?,,?,,,. 7 A. M. ?? Charleston at..8 A.M. " Orangcburg at., 1.30 P.M. Arrive at Columbian!., 5.20 P. M. Down Freight.^ Loavo Orangcbuvg at.10 A. M. Arrive at. Charleston at . G.JO i\ M. ? ' Up Freight. lit ?'<?'?.. ?> . ?', ? ."' ?' ^ficave Orangeburg at.l.i?8 P. M. Arrive at OoTuliibul at.,..0.30 P. M. mar 2-1 ' g <c POETRY. : L'Auto-Da-Fc. In tho hush of the winter midnight? In tho hush of tho sleeping house? ? When no weird wind stirs in the gloomy firs, Tho spirits of storm to rouse. ?\Vhcn never n glint of moonlight Glcnms from tho grcnt black sky, IVy the red firo's glow, ns it smoulders low, We crouch, my letters nnd I. * . I ?, ? t >?: 11 . v :: .; _ . ? ' My letters, they lie whcro I tossed them, ?,. On tho crimson'hearthrug there, Still, vivid, nnd bright, in the ruddy light, As cobras in their lair. T-push the hnir from my forehead, That burns nnd throbs so* fnsl, Thinking tho while, with n strange dull smile, Of the task I must do at last. Who knows but I, the comfort Those foolish letters have been ? The depth and scope?the strength nnd hope? Of those 'deaves" that arc always "green"?" Who knows but I, how sadly, To-morrow, I and my dream, Ily the nshes grey will weep and 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 V Ah well! tho dream was a folly; Its joy was an idle thing, Itshopo wns a 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 Bad dark eyes of my Paradise Meet mine through the tierce flame's Hare? ?Tr.Mri.k IJam. LITERARY. S E L E C T E J) . INITISTA I> II A. Tin: P HIL AN TIIR 0 PIS T. A TALK OF ASIA MIXOK. [ ( 'on!itilted.~\ lie was in tho right. Tho con trovers}' spread through the ship, until the pilgrims would neither cat nor drinlcwith each other. Fortunate for them if they had been deal"; still more fortunate for them if they had been dumb. Every man had a different opinion, and every man disputed in its honor ns 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. Muslnpha, 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 thorn to pass, at least, the remain der of the voyage in peace. "Arc wo strong enough, said tho Scribe, simply, 'do throw one half of them overboard every day, until bu.' you and I are left ?" "No," replied the Bey; "but they must 'be tired of fighting 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 fools to see that nothing but mutual concession can ever produce cither general comfort or general safety." "Try," briefly said'the Scribe. Noxt morning, when the war of words was at its height, and tho deck was covered with knots of enthusiasts, all descanting on their own wisdom, and the folly of the whole human race besides,?M?stnphn came forward with his proposition for laying aside all quarrels on creeds during the voyage. His Hgnre, lofty and commanding, his fine countenance, and e;'en his embroidered robes and jewelled weap ons, h.;d a powerful effect on the bystanders : tjic pilgrhu8 paused in their disputes, and all, forming a circu; round (he glittering preacher of peace, declared"ti.'eir readiness to adopt any plan which ho thought hi to offer. Mustaplia, elated at the prospect of tliicccs?, spoke long and eloquently; the man of genius broke out through the habits of the. Osiiianli, aiid a!) his audience were ci.raptured. .Shouts of approv al soon began to follow every sentence; iiO spoke of tho original fraternity of mankind, and was applaude d; of tho dignity of truth, tho supremacy of conscience, and tho purity of reason,?und was applauded still more; he then powerfully described them as combined in tho act of exhibiting to others tho same free dom which wo claim for ourselves ; and in re membering, among all tho ^differences of opin ion, that tho man who possesses a spirit of good will for his fellow men. holds the masjor key of I_= all the virtues. An uproar of admiration fofc lowed tho speech ; and the whole circlcjr cried out that neither Stnmboul nor Smyrna c?iutTpro duco his equal. He next proposed that every manjfjshould conic forward, and pledge Himself to general harmony. A tall Turk iystatfhy ad vanced :?"Illustrious Sonnitc," ho began his declaration?"Illustrious Sonnitc !" exclaimed a dwarfish, but richly clothed Persian * '(why, son of a bliud father and a deaf mother, who told you that ho was a Sonnitc'( All tho genius and virtue of mankind are wfch the children of Ali." A blow with the slipper of a disciple of Omar told tho Persian tllat his opinion might not be universal. Mustapha saw his project broken upjjnt once, and cam? for ward to restore peace. Put the tide had turned; and he himself was assailed by enqui ries into his faith.. '"Do you believe in the holy waters of the Zem/.em ?" cried one. "If you do not worship the foot of Fo, cried another, "we only insult our cars in'listctiihg to you 1" "P/o you twist three hairs of the holy cow's tail of the Hedjaz. round your (urlvm ?" screamed another. "Po you believe in Hpodh?" was the outer)- of a fourth. The clamor grow horrible. "By the print of Adam's slipper!" yelled a gigantic Ceylonese. f:thc fellow is nothing better 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 drinl^his-blnod than a bowl of arrack 1" All now became clamor and confusion; daggers, knives, scymctaraand atnghans, flashed round the throat of tho un lucky Mustapha. But he was bold, was mas ter of his weapon, nnd the sight of the naked poniard in one hand and his scymctar wheeling round his head in the other, partially repelled tho furious crowd. '.Hear me. madmen!" he exclaimed. "Can 1 believe all your croons to gether V "You believe none 1" was tiioroar; and they pressed closer on .him. "I believe all that reason tolls me to believe." was the daring reply; "but this too. I believe, that all opinions have something in them ;??//</." i The sentiment was partially applauded. tAnd also/' added he. "something in them i r^iy." This was oil on flame; tho whole crowd J^rst into rage; they rushed tfpon him in n^ioSy*1) ho struggled desperately, but a blow from be hind struck the seymular from his hand, lie glanced round, and saw the Malay at hi.- had., with his krecs uplifted to strike a mortal blow, in the next instant he saw the countenance of the savage convulsed, heard him shriek, and felt him falling :;( his feet. In the place of the Malay stood the young Scribe, with the dag ger in his hand, which he. had snatched from the ruffian in the moment of f:-.:?'; and had dyed i;i his heart's blood. Mustapha cast a look of tii.inks 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 tho battle of Tcrnara? "Tlic eagle takes an cable's llight, Tlie 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 be sot on the lirst shore they saw. Mushipha's blood boiled at the idea of compronii.se. But iiis preserver was already in the midst of the infuriated crowd, ami he felt that hesitation might cost (hat preserver his life. He com plied, with bitterness of soul. The boat was hoisted out. and the (wo exiles were rowed in the direction of (he coast. They soon saw the hills above Beyrout; and (rod the famous soil of Palestine. "And this comes of preaching peace to pilgrims,"said Mustaphn. indignantly, as ho looked on the parched and ruined face of the country round him. "'['his is my last ex periment ; may (he Arab pluck out their beards! Dut we run the groatesi possible chance of being starved." "My lord, may you he happy," said the Scribe; "but if wo had remained on hoard, we should only have added to the possibility el being starved (he probability of being drowned, or something net very far from tho certainty of being shot. "!>;ii to be thrown into (bis place of desola tion for (he mere attempt to prove:.t a parcel id' hotheaded bigots from cutting each Others heads oil !" angrily murmured the IJoy. "The man who'attempts to drive back the ocean when if rises before (he gale, will lind that his labor is wasted, even it' he escape being sent to the bottom, lie sh mid take it in tho calm." " Hut, 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 wondor. Ton thou sand star* blazed above their head.'., with a pure intensity of light, an essential glory, to which Mustapha, had novcr seen the equal even in the serene skies ef Asia Minor The. ky was m ? showorcd with stars, a shower of diamond. A few faint clouds, slightly tinged with tho last hues of evening, lingered on tho wostcrn hori zon, like the last incense from some mighty al tar. The air was still, and breathing the odor of tho sheets of wild jessamines and myrtle which clothed the sides of the mountains; all was richness, solemn splendor, and sacred re pose. The vivid eye of the Bey, made to re joice in all that filled the imagination, roved over the boundless field of the stars of Heaven with a delights 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 the treasures of nature to the .Sov ereign of Nature, descend the thunder and the tempest, the bolt that strikes the mountain pin nacles into dust, and the hurricane that swells the sea into destruction. And shall we 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 nlrthat is bold, imagina tive, untanieable, 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 white camels." The young Scribe smiled, and simply said, "My lord, while nine-tenths of mankind are fools, why wore we to expect that our pilgrim ship contained none but sages. While all man kind are creatures of the passions, why wore we to suppose that a crew of enthusiasts alone were incapable of being frenzied by scorn. But let us not lay the blame oh religion. To produce great effects, we must lind great pow ers. Where universal man is tobe stirred, the evil will be stirred with the good. But if the Nilo, when it poms down its Hood of fertility on the burning 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 thblworld with light and life, ave'we to extinguish his beams, through fear of the insects which he quickens in the marsh and the wilderness?" The young speaker of these word.- had been roused b}' the subject into unusual fer,vor. His pale counten ance had suddenly lighted up. and as he gazed on the firmament, unconscious of all things but {lie glory which had awoke his feelings, the Hey found it impossible to withdraw his eve- from its animated beauty. The expressive features (lushed with new intelligence. The glance, always powerful, seemed to catch, new brilliahey from the splendors above. Even the voice seemed to be changed. Always sweet, it wai no;-,' lofty and solemn, yet it touched the spirit of the he.rot niOre than in its softest moments. It was oucc nni.de to his ear ; it was now conviction to his soul. The haughty warrior, the pmud philosopher, the conscious superior of every mind that he had till now encountered, all gave way ; and Hinging hint sell' 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, and the guide of his existence. The Scribe suddenly disengaged himself from this impetuous instance of friendship, and with one Struggling hand .-till held in the grasp of Mustapha. and the other pressed closely to his forehead, turned away in silence. ??Hear me now," said the impatient Bey "ont o for all; I abandon all eagerness to interfere in other men's concerns. This voyage, this hour, have given me wisdom worth a life. And if ever Mustapha,Bcn M ustaphn troubles his bra in 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 friends, even from his young philosopher." The young philosopher answered this burst of sentiment only with one of his quiet smiles, and drawing his t urban st ill deeper on his brows, and wrapping his mantle closer round him, re marked, that the night was at hand, and that some village should bo sought for, where they might find shelter and entertainment. Mus tapha. in the ardour of the moment, would have despised the aid of man, and remained gazing on 1110 stars, and listening to the wis dom of his companion. But a gust from the sea. followed by the rising roar of thunder among the hills, awoke htm to the realities of the wilderness ; and, anxious for the safety of 80 fragile a frame as that of his fellow traveler he followed the sounds of the baying dogs, and an occasional blast of a horn 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 at. once," whispered t he Scribe. '-The panther i^ lord in tho desert." The lion never flies." was the bold excla mation of the Bey. as ho drew his scymoter. The Arabs seeiujj the flash, returned it 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 enenvy, the handsomest of Moslem, who still defied thorn. They burst out into laughter at his presumption, und at the same moment a dozen fellows leaped from their horses, and threw themselves upon him. Ho struggled desperatcly, but a feeble voico' reached his car, which totally unmanned hint. By tho gleam of a torch ho saw his friend in the hands of a crowd of tlpo Arabs, who were carrying him away j and to his still deeper terror, Ire saw a long line of blood trickling from beneath his turban. He 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 fur the suf ferings of his wounded friend; The Bey was in consolable for the misfortune, which he attribu ted entirely to his own rashness. "Well was it said by llafiz," he cxclr.'mcd in bitterness, "that he who takes the wolf by tho throat, should first sco that his tusks arc plucked out." Tho young Scribe pointed with his slight finger up ward, and said with a faint smile. "The skies are as bright above this tent, as they were on the sea shore. The sun will rise to-morrow, as ho rose yesterday. We arc 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 hi our Ncxi.'X M ISC 10 I, L A N K O U S. The President at Uosion. 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 wore call^tfor from outskirts of audience. The cheer.*torero not given. During Mr. Seward's speech three cheers for North Carolina were called for. Mr. Seward said you may well givo three cheers for the State of North Carolina. Sho was the first Slate to put forth the Declaration of Independence in the Devolution against Great Britain. You may well give three cheers for North Carolina. Sho was the State of eleven who seceded last, and wont most re luctantly out of the Union. You may well give three cheers for North Carolina. She was the first of the eleven who seeeded to come back again to the family fireside of the Union ?and. to day. nothing is wanting 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, k coming about very soon. I have seen the earth and the skies full of tho elements of fer tility 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 Now 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. 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 wc have seen him at din ner. In the dead of night he is again Prime Minister'. 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 iroii Count is at work. He reflects long and profoundly; and then he dictates a dispatch. But where is his private secretary, to write what be dictates 'I The Prime Minister has not taken a private secretary, nor any of tho officers of his depart ment with him tollugcu; but at a side-table ' with n lamp, sits a lady, modest, plainly drcss I cd ; her brow beaming with great intelligence She quickly writes what tho minister dictates to her. "We know this lady; we. learned already to esteem her ; now we r.dmiro her. The Coun tess Bismarck is not only a loving wife to him, an excellent nurse to him in his bodily ailments, a devoted mother to his children ; she is, bo sides, the iron Count's faithful, indefatigable assistant in his grave toils: When King James' '?tutor lay upon his ex piring pillow, his majesty sent to inquire how ho dm. "(lb toll," said lie, "my royal sover eign thai 1 UUl going where few Kings go." HUMO R0TJ8:' ' " ? ? Etil ? ? '? ' ? ' * One of the Alabama frcedmen applied Ui to Governor Pat ton for a divorce on' tbo ground ' that his wife couldn't i bo coming home every week, and he knew another woman who would do very well. "Come till America,jj'nt 1" writes j n/S(V|i "of the Emerald Isle to his friend in Ireland';;' ^tis a fine country to get a livin in. All ye7- have . to do is to get a three-cornered box and Wie wid bricks, and,carry it .till (he t<-j> of a throo story building, and the man at tho (op docs all the work." . , >.,- [j An Irishman entered a barber1 shop" !Whllc drinking ate with the brush a cup of lather, dug.out the ball of soap at the bottom Withe cup. at that, and sat down to Wartivhis feec.'-' "How did you liko your lunch ?'"? asked a bystander. ? "The custard was illegant/hut by my soul. I - b'lnvc the egg was a little to Jong in the w?t- ', "Well, Jane, this is a queer world,' said a "brute" to his wife, after breakfast recently. "A set of woman philosophers have just sprnng >? ? '" " ?' *'V * up. "Indeed," said Jane, "and what .do they hold ?" "The strangest thing in nature," said lie; "they bjpld their tongues." ..? - ' - . Sharp'promising littlo hoy, just learning to talk well: . : ? :,-?..'. "Father arc j'ott going to:sc6-the1 race lo day?" " ' >? ??>..? Father, brightening op-^"\VJi:?!: rrtcd,-' 'my son, will there be ?" ? . 1 "The human race." Husband to wife-?"Mary Aim,'that boy will be an editor's pet." Wife?God forbid/' ti .1 oiaVil A Guekn Customeu.?A few days ? since n gentleman called upon some lady .fnoud?,vjatal was shown into-the-' parlor by o. ^efvant I girl. She asked him what,name she should announce, and he, wishing to take them by surprise, re plied, "micus," (a friend.) :The girl seemed at first a little puazled, but quickly regained her composure, and, in the blandest manner possible, observed, "What kind of n etwa did j ? ort !<! fvViul ;orur you say, sir (" -idt A provost marshal writes : One of Ine pro* vost guard brought a colored man into the ofiiee, charged with stealing watcr-anelons. As he was being led away, I said to him: "I hope, Tom, that I may never see "ou here a'jrain." , , He turned to me with a pccpJia?,. shrewd expression, and wtid: "You wouldn't ha' seen me dis lhae, eap'h, if de sogcrs hadu't a fetch.me.'.' \ :i . - im . ?ii hi.im I t , A certain green customer, who wa*-? stronger to mirrors, and who stepped into* cf.'c eabin of* one of our occuu steamers, stopped 'i? front' W a large pier glass*, which he took; lor a'door, and seeing his own reflection, he said:!''' '"It "I say, mister, when doos this ere boat, start?" ^ ?? ? ?V ti Getting no answer from the dumb roUeetioii before him, ho again repeated: T|yi;?rt \ "I say, mister, when docs-thi? ^?^[bo?t start?" " Incensed at tho silent figure, he (hen broker out: "Go to thunder 1 ye cursed Bassafms'cotorcd,> shockhcaded hull c ?.lf; you don't look as if ' jto knew much anyhow I" A Ratheb IxquisitiveYankkk.?;Ayh[y| Lord Grosvenor was traveling West, he w| one day waiting at a country station Ibra tardy train, when one of the fanners of the neigh bovhc d entered into conversation with him : "Been about these party,considerable, stran~ "cr?" ' ? - o1-' - ? ?tOpl< "Vcs, for some length of Ihne/, : "Like 'cm pretty well, eh ?" ?. ^ " Vcs, pretty well." ( "How long haveycr bin here?" "A few weeks " "What's ycr business Vr . "I havo no business,"" "What, arc ycr traveling for then ? "Only for my own ploasure." "Don't ycr do any business ? How do ycr get ycr living, then ?" "It isn't necessary for me to work for my support. My father is a.man of property, an?? gives me an allowance sufficient for all my wants." "But, 'sposo tho old man should die ?" "In that case I daro say he'd leave me onough to live upon." "lint, 'spotc he should bust up?" Hero.-tho conversation ended, and Loul Grosvenor walked away, evidently struck with a now idoa. i