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'.id bright Q,)wers entranced I wander While o'er earth Spring's verdure falls 0'et their graves, how sadly ponder, When appear their frosty paIls. I have seen in youth's bright morning, Joyous hearts with pleasure beat, Then came death-a solemn warning They lay lifeless at my feet. Hence, I learn to value lightly Joys that quickly pass away Hence, I learn to clasp.nore lightly hopes that never can decay. While our friends are around is fallig.-... Yielding neath the embattled strife - Ilark I a voice is to us calling, Lo ! am the Way, the Life. Strive, life's pilgrim, ptrive to enter . On the joys prepared for thee Let. thy hopes but on him centre, " Who, a ransom, died for thee, On, then, on, the right pursuing, Until freed t'rom doubt an't care, In the home Faith now is viewing, Thou a Crown of Life shalt wear, Remarkable Oase of Fright,. A MAX'S HAlt TUBNFD wilT IN A NIGHT. A Pariscorrrspondent of ti' Natfn related the case of a, well known, mining engineer, who ia voetched for as bheing a man f tah-ni.t and edlucation,. of cool and .nIt.hodicaol temperament,. a.nd; about ihir. ty:ye arr'of ag. and .ha' beuatemat unexpeeted to'hituiIt;'th, Ite nof ni' days' :.t of wonderm, nt on hie pattrt. Of the Parisians, froin the fact that ie hair,. black and usually tuxurient, has been whiten"d in a tingle niight under the impression of a dream. ''We should not give plac tho the narrative of this singular adventhtre," says the editor of the PuI/s.. ilh whose columns t.he incide' t.was originally men hioned, 'vere it not that Mi. C' , is peraotuily well knows to. us as a truth ful and honorable man and has himselff furnished us with the account we pil. Ii.hII, nffirmuing oin oath the abjoihte eo. scrne.ss of every detail theroiti given." From the.account thus given to the public, it appiears that M:r (:' ,. when in.,pectin certnin nmine'ra1 tracts in l3rit tany, stopped one night at, a little road side inn, a few hun1red! yards distanb from a mine which lie had never seen, bit which he pi;rposed visiting. next day. Ifsving walk-d many mliles in tho course f tie day, M. ( , on. reaching the inn felt tired. He accordiigly w(ent, to, bed early, fell asleep at. once and, dreana' ed, lie asserts the following dream:. lie thought he had just been appoint eE'to the muanngership of .the mine in" question, and he was busy itisupermten (iig the work of tlie ipiners, when the owner of the mine appeared on the ground. This Ian rough and ill.hred, addressed ihee new inanager rudely, reproaching him with. his inhactivity,add tug: "Instead of standing there, with your arms fol.il, seifig other men work, you had better go down into. the wine (nd drnw the plan oflit,.as-you.engngkd to do."e "I will go downs andl begin the draw ing at once," replied ihe young:engineer, hurt and annoyed. at, the manmier of:his cPlacing hmef foth with. ini the has-. ket, heordered thme-men/.at' the windlass to let him downi inito the mabte. Tis doteu; t.he baakst reached the bottom% anid thon summnoning a. oouple of thle workmen tp pregede him-w ith their~ lamfps ihe explored the various galleries of the nmde, and, having, made a plan. of.the svorkings, returned to-the bottom,ofahe shut, got irtto the basket, andigave eigt 3ial ioir the ascent. -.A~s lie pl&cedi hims, self in the basiemt,he nomarkedithe great thmickiness of thes rope which served D40 hoist; it, and calculated .that, the n ime being uinusually di'ep4 the.ascent ci uld *carcely be accomplished itn less thpusa He hadl been asecohding thus two or thuree ian.a wthan okanalna ini. his eyes, he espied what seemed to him to be an abrasion of the rope by which he was bemig drawni u. Startled by this appearance, he fixed his eves on a portion of the rope which had 'attracted his at,tjntion, and saw distinctly that the rope was cut a few feet above his head, just out of reach of his hand. I [is terror at this discovery was such that lie near ly fainted. Rousing himself, by force of will, from the stupor of su.pension. which had so nearly o.vercome him, he compell. ed' himselfto cInrness, and set himself again' to exisne the rope. Perhaps lie was m)istatk n'; be would look again. litt no ;. ;h was not mis'ake!i. The rope had rubbed against somo projotion of the rocky walils which hen)ed him in, and its ssriands were untwisting slowly but visibly. At the injured' point the thickness of the massive cable was al. read" reduced to les" than an inch. Tie fortunate man felt that his doom was sealed ; the conviction of the utter hopelessness of his position chilled him to the very marrow of his bones. lie tried to call out, but his tongue seened frozen. Moreover, he felt that, if he should make himself heard, (which was totally impossible, as he was now half way up,) no huian aid could rech him. Looking up wards he' could see dayligh.t at the mouth of the shaft, bright,. but dis tant, Like- a star. Gazing downwards, over the edge of the basket, at a depth that it made him dizzy and sick to look down to, lie could see, like so many glow worms, the lanmps of the miners.. And the basket ins the mean time, mnounto I higher and higher every instant, the rope cracking audi-. bly'ndor the ihoeltsinag straiot tie ascent.. The unfortunate engineer saw clearly that there. was: no possi bility of escaping the horrible fate awaiting him, and could alumst count the seconds that would elapse ere the breaking of the r ipe n.ust prceipitate him inito th'e fcurful void below. Such was the intensity of his anguish that he- was tempted to abridge its duration by throwing himself down at once, in stead of awaiting any longer the inevi table instant.. As he hesitated, long ing, yet fearing to take. the fearful leap, the basket reached the nuouth of the shaft.. I!c was saved ! With a loud cry he leaped from the' basket, awaking as he-felt once more- the solid earth beneith his feet. The horrible-adventure was only a dream ; but M. U was trembling, exhausted, bathed ini perspiration and incapable of isaking a movement or uttering a scund. At'oer a time lie re covered hiis self comnaund was so far as to,be able- to ring for help. The peoploof the- inn hastened to obey the summons, but could not at first recog nize their cumtomer of the previous evenitg, fot his inx.uriant raven hair had become ' perfectly gray. And, stranf e- than even this physical cvi dence o' the violence of the emotions lie had undergone during his troubled slumbers, there lay upon his bed, and evidenly drawn by his own hand,. a plan of the adjacent mine he was to visit the following day, but which he. had never seen, and of whose- internal arrangements lie, had no. idea ; ,and this plan,,so unaccountxtbly produced, iroved,.on examination of the nine, to be absolutely correct in. every par ticular. So much for the story vouohed for. by one of the five "leading journals" of this capital ; its exhination I teavse, to the. ingelnity of your readers. IlN A No-r Smtiu,; -Gov. Jenkins, of' Georgia, thus epitomises thme objection to the cona-titutionail amenidment: "1' suibmit to injuirions chlainge's in the Constitution, whena forced upon a Siate, .Nceordinig;to the forms prescribed for ita,ameainmnt,. would he one thinug; t.participat9 in- making them, unidm-r -duress, against lier sense of- right and 'jist ice, vouild' be-a-very dli'&renit thing. TVhe difl@ronce in-Yrinciple is as broad .as.4hat 'which, distinguishes martyrdom ftom,uicide. l?ir better onlmly aw,ait a, returning-sgenisi,ofijtstice, ande a cons ggest refihir, of' t,he tidb now running 8 h vnit ' 'd n '> u Fossil Remains of a Kastodon 1chumed. About a month since, 'during the ox. cavations of a peat bed in Cuhoes, New York, for the foundation of a t ill now in course oferection by the l armony Manufacturing Company, the jAw-bone of a mastodon was discover'i about thirty feet below the . surfac4 of the eart,b. This relic of the ante luvian age is of imnmense proportions, a d has attracted the attention of geolois mtud students of nature from all partA of the country-letters of inquiry respewting-it and pe'-sonal exit miations htviig been made by som of the most distin lished s:wewatts of the United State4. t yes. terday even this wonderful d' overy was eclipsed by the excavation' f still further fossiliferous remains. wlti cons plete nearly the hone3 or frame rk of the mastodon ighty five feNt elow the earth's surface, and about 1Y- feet beow the place of the original di very, the workim"n yesterday caid n . the remaining bores, consisting as J ows: Two tusks, backhoneb, the upper jauv and cranium, a nitenber of ribs, the hip b".e, shoetlder blades, and the bonrs of the hind leg. The insks were eacl, rarly six feet long and about nine tn' es in diameter. One of them upon a nro to thelight crunmbl d to pieces like glay, resembling nst substance in npp4 Once anl texture. le r:bs, of which there wor4 'futur. teen feoil, are abot for fet long,'the largest being, four feet nine inches.,Thi upper jaw hone is four feet ninh -/olles long from the uxt remity of the meiqj h. to the craninnb, anele across tim for>,shettd measures about three fent. at Ih is it that it was with difotolty ,fons'i,4ni.. era eould movQ 't.e.i inaius, T'I'hsock"ts mo which originally w.ore located the eyes of the monster are Ithno4t large eetoutgh to aedmit the head of a man, 'lhe hip-hone is five ttt. loug aid weighs one lhtudred' pound ; the sh onldgp-blades menautre two feet. nin e inches. -m al weigh abount fifty ponnds each. The bone of tihe leg at the knee.joina measures Ihir teen inche in diameter The vertebra of the back-lxoe tret eight. iches in diameter. The Other fragnents funnd are in harmonious prsportion to those alreadv mlentioel. * Profess'r Marsh, of Yale College, vras present soon aler the discovery was made,. and pronotunced it.' the most re. ttuarkubrl- sciernti:ie evr'nt ofth.te age. Thie st ructure will now hit uented in its several parts by teans of wire, and thus a very adcuirre idea can: be furned of the-s az and weight 4tl.eo nonster to which it, b.-longed. After i se,paration of countless atns, probably, the several parts will' be re-united. Tm Fr .k.-As the gnat and the mustquito will leave us under the influ ence of cool weather,.. and the lively and persevering flea will begin to stir about to take lis plWee, we- will fore stallt hi arrival by some notes con cerni'ng observations wey have made of him under the microscope When a flea is made to appear as large as an elephant, we can se' all the wonderful parts of its formation, and are astonished to find that it huts a coat of armor much more complete than' ever warrior wore,and composed of strong polislfed plates fitted over each other,. each covered like a tor tose'shell,.where-they meet, hundreds of strong quills project like those on the back of the porcupine or hedge - hog. There are' the- arched neck,. the bright eyes, the transparent eases, piercors to puncturethe skin, a sucer to draw away the- blood, si. long legs,. four of which. are folded on the-breast, all ready at any mnomnt, to be thrown out with tremaondone force for that jump which bothers, one when they want to oateh him, and at the end of each leg hooked claws,.to enalJe himi to cling to whiatever ho alighta .stron. .A flea enn j'ump a huindred .tim -s hia own length,. whi'ch is theo same as if a man juinpod to the hight of seven hun dred feet ; and he can draw a load two hundred tinea liit own w'eightt.. Bether strange, aii't it, bult truo' nevertihees.. Never abuse one 'who was oncen your bosom friend, however.hitair nolw4. NEW O LASSES FOR WEAK EYEs.-A recent discovery, that was purely scientific inl its origin, has led to a fur ther discovery of means of relief for person who are troubled with weak eyes. Some tiirn" itce,, it was made known to the Phris" Academy of Sciences that a liens, or glass, covered with a thin fihn of silver leaf, would enable a person to gaze at the sun througIh it without the usual ;aint'nt dazzle and glare. More recently, the Academy received .a communication from another member, in which he do scribed an application of the above .mentioned discovery for the p.otcet it of weak eyes.. Iiis own sight had been lmpaired in the course of some client cal experiinents, so that the I glit had become painful to him, andi he had re course to the ordinary colored specta cles Used in such cases. le used spectacles with black glasses, at first he then put green glasses over tie black ones. These answered tolerabl j well, but he ultimately took a set of blue glasses, which he hatl covered, as above with a thin film of silver leaf. These answered the best of all, and afforded him the relief lie was sucking after.. A film of gold le:a over the glasses has a sinlar effect. The light transmitted is very pleas ant, ospecially in the ease of gold leaf. The latter, when yellow, lets green light pags ; when green, (that is, a1 loyod with silver,) the eye receives blue light. He, therefore, thinks that persons laboring under the incon venence of weak eyes will derive groat relief fronvspestacles so prepar ed. ~ . liti: EXPrANrToN OF I3ANst.-G - Old Mr. Lefevre, f.ather of the fl rmer sp.'aker of the lionge ofC'ummons. and tlh:! principle founder of Cur iis & Co., illustrated the simple theory of banking to a. cnt omer one day, in a manner ri vatli.ng the b "yt treaties on that subject. The etstomer in nnest.ion was ott of those men who find it. very conveiiimtit to ltve bad' miemrories, and very tant ali. zimg to have good ones. IIis account was anmost always over drawn, an.1 whenever sp' ken to on the iitch this occasionId', his answer was inivarmbilly 1he satne-he realty had forgotten liowv it stood. At. last, Mr. Lefevre w: tehed his opport unitry. caugh t him one day at the couiter and said' t , him : '.1r. Y-. you and I must uiderstand one anthter something bet'er Ihan we seem to. I am afrahil vo don't kno,w what. bankiag really is; give me leavc to tell vou. IL's my busmiess to take care of your money, bitl. I find you are nh ways tiaking cart. of' mn.e. Now, tim.-t is not bainking. Mr. Y. , it must he the other way. im the banker not you. You understand ime now, Mr. Y. ; I'm sure you do! " BEAUTIFUL,.--When the summer day of youth is slowly wasting away into the nighitfall of a" e- and the shadows. of the- past years grow deeper and deeper, as life wears to a close, it is pleasatt to look back through the vis ta of time upon the joys and sorrows of earlier years. If we have- .a home to shelter and hearts to rejoiee with us, anid friends who have been gathering around our firesides, then the rough places of our wayfaring: will be worn, and smoothed away in the twilight of life, while the bright, sunny spots we have passed through will grow bright er and more beautiful.. Happy in deed are' they whiose- intercourse w ithi the world hats not changed the course of their holier feelinigs or lirokeni those n.usical cliords of the-lieart whose vi brati~ons are-so mielodious, so tender andi touching in the oveninig of age. Coxa Tir Wau. -To- measure I corn in the crib, 'savys the Rutral New Yorker, multi .ly together the lengt h; breadth and p4th jn fee t, and dividet by 12. T1he qpotient will'be the inimber of barrels of shelled corn. Muhiij.ly by 5 to find the number of bushels, W.HAT AFINE WOMAN isIsiE-A fine woman is like a locomotive, be oa.usoshe drawna train after her, scat ters the sparks and transports the males. * II1ouRs OF Tr[E FAMINE IN INDIA. The Rev. J. Buckley, an England Baptist missionary, stated at Cuttack, Orissa, writes : Orphans have been brought dying to our -loor, and nnyiv that we have re ceived have becn too deeply famine stricken for nuiig and medicine to restare.. After a few short days death has closed the scene. Tender and deli Cate women lying in our verandah have implored rice, or money to purchase it, with cries that pierced our hearts. Two cases fit eating.luman flesh have been repirted ; in the one case it prov e-l that the peison was insane ; in the other a child was found eating its dead father's flesh, whicl had been roasted, and a fuw days after the child died. Motlcrs have left; their children in the maidei (dung !iill) to die, or have sold them. for a few pice. In one case, ant only sc:n was sold for a pint of milk : the mother eagerly drank it, gave up l'cr eh ibl,.v.qdlked a few steps and then idro;ped- dead.. The dying and dead have been socin lying in our streets ;.tough tis has not, been so mineh at Unttack as at Balasore and some other places. At PIoorce it has been conmlo for the police to find,. mor: iing after morn ig, in the streets and lanes, sixty, seventy, eighty, or more corpses ! In the Cuttack district, :3,O00 deaths from faniin e and pesti lence were reported in one week, and it is generally believed that at Bala sore abd Peoree the distress has been severer than here.. Wu Q tArewzt .c.-:,Tho.. fol lowing novel qpdation has been. .sub mitted to its tor- Iublication-: Sup pose it miaw and v girl were to get married ; the iman thirty-five years old aml the girl five years ; this makes thy' mnain seven tines as old as the girl, anl they live together until the girt is ten years old, this makes the man forty years old, and fonr times as old as the girl ; and if they still live to gether until shte" i.+ tifteen, the nmn would be forty-fie ; this makes the man three times as old, and if they still live on till the girl is thirty years old, thii makes the man sixty, only * twice as old, and so on. Now, how long would they have to live to make the.girl its old as the man, at the same rate of reasoning ?-.Ala{na latdeh Toe wrote from the country ti John that he was "constantly employ. ad in breaking colts.' Johnt wrote in reply that all lie had to say was "to "save the pieces." "Can you do all tiorts of castings here ?" said a soleii'n-looking chap at the ii-on works the other day.. "Yes;' said Frank,. preparing to take hi #order ; "all sGats.' "Well, tlon!''ret nrted the solemn inquirer, "I wor"ld like to- have you rast a shadow.!' .l(. was cast out.. fchedulc over the South Carolina R. R, EFNEtAI. Siup'Ts OriEr, (f[A R fEsToN, S. C., NOV. 3. n N andlaiter Wednesday, November 7th i he l Passenger Trains of this road will rn he folic wing sohedtle Leave Chnrlesion, 8.00 a in Arrive at lolhin bia, . 3.20 p mu heave Cohninhia, -61.60 a at Arrive att Uiuttleston, 41.00 p. am. TiRtJoUWM3AIL TRAIN. LeBave Auguistia, 65 i Aurlvte it Kingsville .5ai Arrive at. C,ohnnbia .1a Leatve Cn,nbia . 20)pa Ariv ail Kingsvilie 34 i It TV. PE.\ KE, Gm' iL nov.50-ptm Lumber,Lumber, 05mae m T lE sbiciht.r ega toI .0r 0 lia mnd. aLumberng aLumber,oas* timber. h ead th "Llluit crUres.Nd, tRde G& P. HIOFFMA.. sent. 4-13m jtw. ___________