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sAMT.^wrffnw, I Proprietors, A? Independent. Journal: For the Promotion of the Political, Social, Agricutural and Commercial Interests of the South. 1 lewis m. obbt, Pnwfate. I VOL. 2. | YOEKVILLE, S. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 3, 1856. NO. 1. J Cljotte f fletrj). ONE HUNDRED YEARS FROM NOW. This world is lovely, fair and bright. The sunlight sweeps our brow, 'Twill doubtless be as beautiful, One hundred years from now! The birds will siiig as sweetly then Their Springtide roundelays, The sunshine dance upon the hills, As in the olden days. The hauuts we loved in childhood's years Will^tyom as sweetly still; But otliar forms, unknown to ns, ! Our places then will fill; ] The streams vill glide as gently on, . With music sweet and low, Upon whose bauks at eventide, I Wc roamed so long ago. The same bright sun will still pursue, His trackless course on high, I And stars as bright and beautiful t C Will still gleam iu the sky; With lightsome step the Spring will come, With cool refreshing showers, s With laughing brooks, with singing birds, \ With sunshine and with flowers. c Although the earth will be as gay, S The birds sing on each bough, j They will not sing their songs for us A hundred years from now ! The flowers will then unfold their leaves, 6 But will not bloom for us, (j And though it seems a distant day, It surely will be thus J V - - S \ All living things upon the earth, ] Must wither, droop and die, wfl elialt ofinii linvA rtaQQad nwnv. ^^ke cloud tints from the sky ; C Faith points us with confiding glance, ] To realms where partings cease, , Where streams of love are flowing from . The crystal fount of peace. 1? . , s Then let us strive to win our minds From all the dreams of strife, * And strive to write our names within * The glorious hook of life; a And let us strive to win a crown, ? To place upon onr brow, " That it may all be well with us, " One hundred years from now. 0 iiiii?w maammmmm m mua?BMiiii gpga t ' %\x Interesting Stnrg. t? THfTvODNS tiisiC ' a A TALE OP THE CAEOLINAS. ^ BY J. N. SANDERS. V I Ln a small farm house, towards the close of ^ the year 1780, sat an old man, his wife and d an only son. The face of the father appeared t troubled ; at times he looked thoughtfully to 1 the floor, and then he would gaze long and F .v ? _ a? 1? i wistiuny at iiis sou, u uuc uiuui^ j*uuw ?. twenty. At length he said: s "David this is disastrous news from Cam- a den, God knows what will become of the * country now ! Congress needs every arm that is capable y *b ' nie, I wish this old wouu tTTl got in the French war had not lamed me ; but s for it I should now be shouldering my musk ec I . and marching to defcud my country." ; Both son and wife looked up at these words. The old lady ceased knitting, and looked inquir- ( ingly at her boy, and it was evident from the * expression of her face, that patriotism and 0 motherly affection were at variance in her bo- 1 som. The son, however, after encountering 1 his fathers eye for a moment, turned confused- 3 ly away. The old man's brow darkened, and c he exclaimed warmly : "David, why do you linger about the vil- ^ lage when your country needs your services so J much ? Why, my sou, I am ashamed of you. Twice before this have I spoken to you on [ this subject, but you appear to have no spirit. What 1 will you see us trampled upon by the ] brutal mercenaries of Britain, and still lie ' * * TV 1 /? _ J f 1 here supinely I For shame, uavia, lor suanie ; ; I will n<4t call you my son. Long since you ( ought to have been in the army." 'Joshua ! Joshua ! interposed the old mother, 'David is but a youth; then do not speak ; so harshly to him. He cannot yet feel what you feel, who have fought so often against your country's enemy?he is but a boy.' <A boy, indeed, Deborah ! Such boys as i David have already gained imperishable lau- 1 r rcls since the war commenced. I could name j a host of them !?why were it not for the boys > of this land, where would be our urmy, which j I dare say, is one quarter composed of boys of j his age!' The old man was excited and it was the first j unkind word he had ever used to his boy. David rose aud left the house. lie walked j some distance apparently iu deep thought. 'What will the woman do !' he at last muttered. 'Here I have been lingering about the 1 village when I should have been oil' long ago. And for what ? why, to meet a pretty girl andto listen to her musical voice; but now 1 will be to myself again!?what did he caJl me ?? was it not a cou ard ? Now, by Heavens, I will teach him that he has a son who possesses the spirit of his father. Away, then, with love,! for I feel that I am called upon to act; no Ion- j gcr dream ! ere another fortnight, my father 1 shall hear of me, or else I lose my life iu striving for it.' And with this resolution lie turned about and retraced his steps. When he reached home he sought the stable, saddled his horse, and mounting him, struck intoa gallop, which continued (orseveral miles. At length he stopped and iooiceo up at tnc window of a farm house, half hid between clustering trees. This was the residence of Mary Buukcr, the mistress of his heart; the * lights showed that the family had not retired, j and he resolved to pay her a visit before his J departure. She was alone when he entered, and a few words made her acf[uaiuted with his determination. When she burst into tears. <Xo, Man*/ lie added, you must not unman me. At first T resolved to leave you without a farewell, for [ knew how much you dreaded | iny taking an active part in the struggle. But 1 could not be so cruel as to desert you with- j out a word.' 'I will compose myself/ said the fair girl I with au effort to smile. <1 kuow 1 have been wrong to persuade you to stay; but you cannot imagine the anxieties T suffer on accouut of my brothers, and I could not bear you to encounter their danger. But since this dreadful I defeat at Camden, I foethat every man is wanted for our country.; tio, then, dearest, and may God be with y<y My prayers shall attend you night aud da/ David pressed the wealuggirl to his bosom, snatched a hasty kiss at />e sound of approaching footsteps, wrung hf band and was gone. The next day he lA the neighborhood of his father's house arm" with a musket and mounted on a sturdy/20rse. His destination was the American drib then far northward; but as the intervenif country was filled with the enemy, he kuev^hat there would be considerable address re^ed to effect his purpose. Before his departuf he saw a few of his old >Iayroatcs who pr<flifeed to follow as soon as >ossible. ? Night found himjbear a lonely farm house, o which he nrocetfed boldly, in pursuit of odging. At first fe occupant received him ioldly, but a chaise expression convincing )avid that his hoslwas a tory, he affected the ame political crtd, aud was immediately rarinly welcomediThc royalist produced his ider after suppel and insisted that David hould join him iniis potations; this the young nan did, taking ere not to indulge too freely, yhile the farmers overjoyed to find what he upposed to he :? new recruit for his party, Irank without stint, and became more and aoro communicatee. To his horror, David oon learned thatijk party of loyalists, led by dajor Wilson, celebrated for his toryism and uthlessoess, wer^ to start early on the ensuing lay on an expedition to seize and hang the two Junkers, who haj made themselves particulary obnoxious to the royalist leaders. David mew enough of this pavtizau warfare to be asured that no mercywould be shown his friends. Ie also knew enough of the character of the lajor, that to.sokpect that some strong person I motive had Itfll to the planning of so distant n expedition when there were others nearer ome. lie accordingly set himself to discovr from his rfflf inebriated companion the ruth. Nor "wsj he long before success crownd his adroit c#ss examination. "Why, youfc," said the host, "I believe here's a little Icvenge for the slight received roui these -fejpws' sister, mixed up with the lajor's desired to catch the Bunkers. The irl is very pr^ty, they say, and the Major hen shg,was|lown here last year before the rar wanted toluarry her, but she would have lothing to do rith him. Ever since he has owed to mal her rue the day. You may lepcnd upon , lie will have her on his own erms now. lank heaven! there's no law to irevcnt an he est royalist from doing as he ileases to the! rascally rebels. But yonder s the Major low,' suddenly said the host, tarting up. 'I will introduce you at once? l merry fello|you'll find him Lr.nl love \uu, ic's as bravejs a lion. David, tholgh horrified at ilic diabolical riot he had ifard, saw the neoi-ssitv_of disenibling in~otder to hear more of the tory's dans, and find means if possible to circunirent them. He arose, therefore, and shook he Major's hand warmly; pjedgedhim iiumeliately in a hbwper, and so contrived to make ;he loyalist bflieve that lie was anxious to join troop and t(?:c part against the rebels. This uduced the Jiajor to be unusually civil, for ie wished to secure so athletic a recruit liimelf. It was not long before a bargain was included b I ween the two. David refused, lowevcr, to gu the agreement that night. Ie pretende that several others of his friends vere dissatii ed, and desirous of joining the oyalists; ai [ his object, said, was to secure a lommission f>r himself by inducing them to - - ? t ? i.d?i! *aa1? ? mninr nram. Qlli JL I11S Uilll IUUA, CliW .'xujvi sed a comnindin his troop in case of success, md Dawid ignified his intention of setting brth after li had taken a few hours rest, in )i*der to lusffiio time gathering together his recruits. ] The drcaj of discovery had been constantly before oujhero during the arrangement of liis negotia tin, for his person was well known i to many of Ac Major's troops; and if any of them had ciie up, his feigned name would not protect htu from detectiou. lie wisucd to get off that'uight as proposed; but to this I neither his hpt nor the Major would hear, and he was forcej to remain till morning. "What was his angish to hear that the Major had been gone soic hours, and was already on his way to Bunkfe with his troops. Dissembling his anxiety, livid partook of a hasty breakfast, and mountiugjiis horse rode slowly away. But when out of sght of the house lie struck into a fierce galloj which continued till he came iu sight(of a (loss road where was a tavern. Here he stopptf, and learning that the royalists had taken he high road, lie turned into a more narrow a*! circuitous by-road. 4 It is my onl chance to avoid them, he said, again dashing iito a gallop. 1 I pray (loci I may reach the ettlcmcnt in time to collect a few of our lads, aid inarch to Bunkers.' There is no other hopenow left ! Night luid fnltn in, as they had expected, before the toricswerc able to reach the vicinity of the house hey were in search of. At length, however,;ifter a silent march through the woods it bruV; upon their view. A light was burunig 111 Oic of the windows, and when they arrived t-losi to the premises, the lively notes of a violin reached their cars, proving that the brotherswere not aware of their presence, but were cijuying theniselvcs in imagined security. < Now, men,' thispered the leaders of the torics, -when 1 gve the word, lire a volley at the house by wayqf introduction ; we will then surround the houe and enter it.' At that instant-he deep bay of a dog rang on their cars, andt large mastiff sprang from under the house a d rushed at the Major. < Virol' lie cried. Twenty guns broL upon the stillness of the night?the dog fell dad?every pane of glass in the windows were Jiiverod, and tories yelled like savages. In ai instant the lights in the house were exti^nishod, the violin as <iuiclcly ceased aud a r ise was heard at the door. The tories immdiatoly made a rush at it. lJut it was alredy barred, and being made of stout oak plait resisted all their efi forts. A rifle cracked from one of the winj dows, aud a tory fell, dsperately wounded.? Another report succeeded and another tory fell. Major Wilson was now fully aware that both Bunkers were at home, and wide awake. A shed turned the rain from the front of the house, and beneath this the torics, shielded from the hre of the Bunkers, went to work at the door. (Suspecting resistance, perhaps from his knowledge of their character?one of his men brought an axe, with which he commenced hewing at-the door, and soon cut it in pieces. Here a desperate battle ensued.? The brothers were powerful and courageous as they wore strong; and now with clubbed rifles they disputed the whole tory force. The door being small, they stood their ground for half an hniir. feeling, durinc that time some of those who had the temerity to enter first, but finally numbers overcome them, and they were flung upon the floor and bound. The tories inflamed to madness at the resistance that had been made, and at their own losses, now seized the mother and sister and made preparations to hang the .two brothers before their eyes. The ropes were already tied around the necks of their victims, when the Major addressed his men : 'Now, friends, as soon as these villains, are dead, we will set fire to the house?the old women there said he with a brutal laugh, may be left inside, but the young one I reserve for myself. , 'Hist!' cried one of the men in a loud voice. The Major ceased, and they heard a voice outside the house. Although the words were spoken low, the listeners distinctly heard : 'When I say fire, give it to them !' A man with a blanched check rushed into i the house, exclaiming; 'The yard is full of men !' 'Fire!' cried a deep voice from the yard.? A general volley succeeded, and so well had thr> aim hf>r>n rliroH-pd in tlir> ilnm* flint, sr>vr>rnl of the tories fell either dead or desperately wounded. In turn then the tories retreated up stairs, when David our hero, rushed iuto the room they had just left, and cut the ropes of the Bankers. May God bless you for this,' cried the grateful fellows. The two men?sprang up, seized their rifles, which had been left in the room, and prepared to retaliate the treati aent they had just received. Long and desperate was the battle. The tories fought for life?the whigs for revenge. But at length the latter triumphed, though not until their enemies had been almost exterminated. The Major fell by the arm of our hero, who sought him out in the hottest of the fight and engaged him siuglehanded. Xo language of ours cnu express the cinoiiun.s of TmvKI, ho V.-: betrothed wife to iiis bosom, and his heart went up to Ilcaven forhis timely arrival, when he thought that ft-rWrrj-rrf-hrrrtf lin Tiour would1 have consigned her to a fate worse than death. The gratitude of her brothers was expressed in many words, but licr's was silent aud tearful, yet how much more gratifying<1 almost called you a coward, son David,' said his father to him when they met, 'but you are a chip of the old block, and I did you wrong. Deborah, he is a boy to be proud gf ?is he not? You may founder one of my horses every day that you do such a deed? if lw>nf? nnvf.liinw T r>vr>v saw in the old French war.' David's gallantry in this act drew around him in a few weeks more than a score of hardy young fellows, who fought with him to the end of the war, when he returned and was happily married to the heroine of our story. UJiscclliiuffliis THE RESCUED CRIMINAL. A great number of persons who know the celebrated Dr. B?a pro/essor of the college of Surgeons, have often heard him relate I the following anecdote: One day lie had pneured the bodies of two J criminals who had bem hung, tar the purpose of anatomy, but not bdrg able to find the key of the dissecting room the moment two subjects were brought,be ort, red them to be deposit ed in an apa'rtinent contiguous to his bed-room. During the evening, Dr.U wrote and read j as usual previous to retirng to rest The clock 1 struck one, and all at oncelull sound proceed- i | ed from the room containing the bodies. Thiuki ing that perhaps the cat lad been shut up i | there by mistake, he wen to see what could i ! be the cause of the unexpected noise. What ' ! w.ts his astuuishnicut, or r* her bis horror, on i discovering that the sack w.Yli contained the i bodies was turn asunder, am on going nearer, ] he found that one of the botes was missing! ] The doors and windows had bt;>i fastened with 1 j the greatest care, and it appej-cd impossible i I that the body could have been st^eu. The good < ' doctor felt rather nervous on r;uarkiug this, t and it was not without an une,sy sensation i i that lie began to look about him. when to his j horror and amazement, he perceicd the miss- ' i ing body sitting upright in a c?-ucr. J'oor < I Dr. B , at this unexpected ap-u-itiou, be- ] j came transfixed with terror, which.as iiu-rcas- , ed by observing the dead and suuon Cycs of i ; the corpse fixed upon him?whicho,.r w,,y ]ie i I ,1 tl.....? Ai.r.9 4'AlI/in.nrl * . fill ZIIUVUU) IIIWU UlUlUlUi VJUJJ iui:u n ^V4jl 111. J.IIU } I worthy Doctor, more dead tlian alivi ,IoW }JC_ ( 1 gan to beat a quick retreat, witli^t losiii??- ;! sight of the object of his rerror; lie rented ; j step by step, one hand holding the ean|0> the J I other extended towards the door, t\;ch at ( length gained; but there is no esca:>> the i spectre had risen and followed him, whos.'iyij j features, added to the lateness of thcho...Iui a i the stillness of the night, seem to coiuj\. t0 y deprive the poor ] )octor of the little courag |IC ( J had left; his strength fails, the candle ,jjs from his hand, and the tcrfible scene is no1;,, t j complete darkness. The good Doctor 1^ y ' however, gained his apartment, and throd r . himself ( ii his bed ; but the fearful spectre h y followed him?it has caught him, and soiz. -< liold of his feet with both hands. At tin climax of terror, the Doctor loudly exclaim* cd, ""Whoever you are, leave me." At this' the spectre let go his hold, aud moaned feebly these words: "Pity, good hangman, have pity on me !" The good Doctor now discovered the mystery, and regained, by little and little, his composure. lie explained to the criminal, who lie was, and prepared to call upborne of his family. "Do you, then, wish to destroy me ?" exclaimed the criminal. "Iflam discovered, my adventure will become public, and I shall be brought to the scaffold the second time. In the name of. humanity, save me from death 1" The good doctor then rose and procured a light; he muffled the unexpected visitor in an old dressing-gowu, and, having made him take some restoring cordial, testified a desire to know what crime had brought liiui to the scaffold. Ho was a deserter. The Doctor did not well know what means to employ to save the poor creature. He could not keep him in house, and to turn him out would be to expose him to certain death. The only way, then, was to get him into the country; so, having made him dress himself in some old clothes, which the kind Doctor selected from his wardrobe, he left town early, accompanied by his protege, whom he represented as'an assistant in a difficult case upon which he had been called in. When they hud got into the open country, the wretched creature threw himself at the feet of his benefactor and liberator, .to whom he swore an eternal gratitude; and the generous Doctor, having relieved his wants by a small sum of money, the grateful creature left him, with many blessings and prayers for his happiness. About twelve years after this occurrence, Dr. B ? had occasion to visit Amsterdam. Having gone one d>?y to the bank, lie was accosted by a well-dressed man who had been pointed out to him as one of the most opulent merchants of the city. The merchant asked nolitelv if he. were Dr D . of London ; and 011 bis answering in the affirmative, pressed him to dine at his house, which invitation the worthy Doctor accepted. On arriving at the merchant's house, he was shown into an elegant apartment, where a most charming woman and two lovely children welcomed him in the most friendly manner: which reception surprised him the more, coming from persons he had never before met. After dinner, the merchant having taken him into his counting house, seized his hand, and having pressed it with friendly warmth, said to him : "Do you not recollect mc?" "No," said the Doctor. "Well, then, I remember you well, and your features will never be obliterated from memory?for to you I owe my life. Do you not remember the poor deserter ? On leaving you I weut to Holland. Writing a good hand, and being n good accountant, I soon obtained a s'frtnfio" ~ .v . My good conduct and zeal soon gained for me the confidence of my employer, and the affections of his daughter. When he retired from business, I succeeded him, and became his son-in-law; but without you, without your care, without your generous assistance, I should not have lived to enjoy so much happiness.? Generous man ! consider henceforth my house, my fortune, and myself wholly yours." The kind doctor was affected even to tears; and both these happy beings participated in the most delightful expression of their feelings, which were shared by the merchant's interesting family, who came to join them. MAMMOTH TREE OP CALIFORNIA. "We published yesterday a description of the various monsters which make up the "Washintrfftn Mnmmnt.h Ti>h Or/wo" nf flnlifnrmo The finest, the most beautiful and symmetrical of these trees, (though not the largest,) has been cut down, and fragments of it have been exhibited here and in Europe by a set of speculators. From this beginning, unless the Got.hs and Vandals are arrested in their work, the destruction of this incomparable forest will probably go on till the last vestige of it is deotroyed. In this view, the point that we make is, that the State of California and the Congress of the Union should interpose to preserve these trees, as the living proofs that the boasted monarchs of the wood of the Old World are but stunted shrubbery compared with the for. est giants of our own country. We say that Congress should interpose, upon the presumption that these trees are public property, are on the public lands of California, ana because Congress has already interposed to protect the public live oak forests of Florida from the rapacity of unscrupulous speculators. These California monsters are, we doubt not, of the same genus, though perhaps not of the exact species, of the ancient cedars of Lebanon. The California grove is in about the same latitude, the same altitude, (4,500 feet above the sea,) and has the same climate as those mighty forests of the mountains of Lebanon; from which King Hiram supplied the timber for the building of Solomon's Temple. Of those Lebanon forests only some half dozen gnarled and shattered relics now remain near the summit of that lofty range; while in California we have a grove of the most magnificent specimens, coeval with Solomon and David.? There they have stood, and have continued to jrow, while kingdoms, empires, and dynasties, lave risen and disappeared; and there they >tand, the living patriarchs of three thousand fears ! To these venerable giants, upon a baas of seventy yoair., the discovery of America vas hut an affair of yesterday, and the birth of >ur Saviour an incident of some forty years igoI'The old "Hercules" of the group is still imongthcm, of the respectable height of 350 'ect, and with the extra-aldcrnianic cireuinfermcc of 107 feet! And there is scarcely one n this imperial family less than three hundred vet from top to toe ! What gooseberry bushes ire the forests of Kurope, and even of the Misissippi valley, compared with this towering icdar grove of California. We repeat, that it is the duty of the State if California, of Congress, and of all good citi;ens, to protect and preserve these California nonumcnts of the capabilities of our American oil. Lot it be the law that this Washington dammotli Grove shall stand.?X. 1'. Herald. fc-jy The citizens of Charlotte, N. C., have, y a vote 122 to 20, subscribed $15,000 to he Wilmington and Kuthcrford llailr<*ul. DON'T DEPEND ON "FATHEB." Stand up here, young man, and let me talk to you; you have trusted alone to the contents s of "father's purse," or his fair fame, for you e influence or success in business. Think you s that "father" has attained to eminence in his \ profession, but by unwearied industry ? or that c he has amassed a fortune honestly, without en- s ergy and activity ? You should know that the I faculty requisite for the acquiring of fame or i fortune, is essential to, nay, inseparable from t the retaining of either of these. Suppose "fa- i ther" has the "rocks" in abundance; if you i never earned anything from him, you have no ] more business with these "rocks" thanagos- 1 ling has with a tortoise! and if he allows you < to meddle with them, to the detriment of vour 1 own industry, he perpetrates untold mischief, i And if the old'gentleman is lavish of his cash i towards you, while he allows you to idle away t your time, you'd better leave him; you'd bet- i tcr leave him ; yes, run away sooner than be ( an imbecile, or something worse, through so i corrupting an influence. Sooner or later you 1 must learn to rejy on your own resources, or i you will not be anybody. 1 If you have become idle, if you have eaten father's bread and butter, and smoked father's c cigars, cut a swell in fathers buggy, and tried I to put on father's influence and reputation, you c might far better have been a poor canal boy, 1 the sou of a chimney sweep, or a boot-black? t and, iudeed, we would not swap with you the c situation of a poor, half-starved, motherless 1 calf! 'Miserable objects you are that depend i entirely on parents, playing gentleman (dandy i loafers.) What in the name of common sense t arc you thinking of? "Wake up, there! Go v to work, cither with your hands, or your brains, 1 or both, and be something! Don't merely have it to boast of that you have grown up in ttPotlmr'a" Vl ?*am hn?va t\ n 7 "xuuuui q liuuou tuat juu wave vcgoiULUU as other green horns! but let folks know that you count one 1 Look about you, you well dressed, smoothfaced, do nothing drones. "Who have worth and influence in society? Are they those that have depended alone on the old gentleman's purse? or are they those that have climbed their way to their position by their own industry and energy? True, the old gentleman's funds, or personal influences may secure you the forms of respect, but let him lose his property, or die, and what are you ? A miserable fledgling?a bunch of flesh and bones that needs to be taken care of! Again we say, wake up?get up in the morning?turn round at least twice before breakfast ?help the old man?give him a generous lift in business?learn how to take the lead, and not depend forever on being led, and you have no idea how the discipline will benefit you.? Do this, and our word for it. von will seem to breathe a new atmosphere, possess a new frame, tread a new earth, wake to a new destiny? and then you may begin to aspire to manhood. "THE OLD WOMAN." It was thus a few days since, we heard a young stripling of sixteen designating the mother who bore him. By coarse husbands f we have heard wives called so occasionally, though in the latter case the phrase is more < often used eudcaringly. At all times, as com- ? monly spoken, it jars upon the ear and shocks t the sense. An "old woman" should be anob- i ject of reverence above and beyond all phrases J of humanity. Her very age should be her t su rest passport to courteous consideration.? e The aged mother of a grown up family needs no other certificate of we-th. She is a monu- f mentof excellence, approved and warranted, t She has fought faithfully "the good fight," 1 aud come off conqueror. Upon her venerable a face she bears the marks of the conflict in all v its furrowed lines. The most grievous ills of 1 life have been hers; trials untold and unknown, e save to God and herself, she has borne incessantly, and now, in her old age, her duty done, s patiently awaiting the appointed time, she e stands more truly beautiful than even in youth! more honorable aud deserving than he who ' has slain his thousands, or stood triumphant i upon the proudest field of victory. Young man, speak kindly to your mother, n and even courteously, tenderly to her. But a I little time and you shall see her no more for- r ever. Her eye is dim, her form is bent, and h her shadow falls graveward. Others may love a when she has passed away; kind-hearted sisters, perhaps, or she whom of all the world e you choose for a partner, she may love you warmly, passionately; children may love fond- tl ly, but never again while time is your^ shall n the love of women be to *you as that of your b old, trembling mother has been. ri In agony she bore you ! through pulling, helpless infancy, her throbbing breast was h your safe protection and support; in wayward and touchy boyhood, she bore patiently with t< thoughtless rudeness aud nursed you safely through a legion of ills and maladies. Her ^ nana it was mat Datnea your burning Drow or a| moistened the parched lip; her eye that lit up K the darkness of wasting, nightly vigils watch- 11 ing always in your fitful sleep by your side, as c uouc but her could watch. Oh, speak not her ci name lightly, for you cannot live so many n years as would suffice to thank her fully.? la Through recklessness and impatient youth, ai she is your counsellor and solace. Up to b bright manhood she guides your improvident tt steps, nor even there forsakes or forgets.? tc Speak gently then, and reverently of your ? mother, and when you too should become old tf it shall in the same degree lighten the remorse Vi which' shall be yours for sius, to know that ci never wantonly have you outraged the respect k due to the "old woman/' Di ***** ci Only Six Milks.?The gap between the oi two ends of the North Carolina Kail Road has ti been reduced to only six miles, and the work V of laying the rails is progressing as rapidly as bl possible. A few more days and the iron band w which stretches, rain-bow fashion, through our d< State will be completed, and then we can trav- ai cl "like a streak," from Maine to Texas!? su From Salisbury to Raleigh the fair will be only 84 GO ; and distant, in time, only five or six hours.?Salisbury Watchman.' th sn Miss Jenny Campbell, aged 115 years, died sv in Orange county, Ya., on the 6th instant. ds SHARPE'S RIFLE. This recently invented weapon, if it posseses one-half of the power and capacity claimid for it by its proprietor, is destined soon to upercede every other weapon for warlike pur)oses now in existence. It is the most effica:ious and terrible firearm in existence. The imall carbine now used by the United States Mounted Men throws a ball with deadly accu acy one quarter of a mile, and can be fired en times per minute. It is not complicated n structure, is easily cleaned, and suffers no njury from wet weather. Mr. Sharpe is now preparing models for four new species of his weapon, namely : A small pocket pistol, callulated to throw a Minie ball one hundred yards ; a cavalry pistol, with a range of five hundred yards ; a rifle r.iitable for footmen, vith a range of on. mile ; and a large gun to ;hrow a two-ouncc hall or a small shell one nile.a'nd a half, or as far as a man or a horse mn be seen to advantage. With this latter veapen Mr. S. declares he can set on fire a louse or a ship at a distance of nearly two niles, and prevent the use of field Artillery by tilling the horses before the guns are brought vithin good range. This rifle, in the hands >f a good marksman, is equal to ten muskets, jayonets and all; for, place a man six rods' listant with a musket and bayonet, and before le can bring the bayonet imo use the rifle can >e loaded and discharged ten times. They :arry balls with great precision and force..? Mr. Sharpe intends these rifles to* become a mtional weapon; and should Congress, by ising a little liberality, purchase the patent, he country would be possessed of a means of warfare unequalled in the world.?St. Louis Democrat.. They Shall not blush for their Father.?Two men had entered into an agreenent to rob their neighbor. Everything was ilannod. They were to enter the house at nidnight, break open hie chests and drawers, _ J ^?C ~11 i.L 1 J J *1 ,t 1 J iuu carry uu an me goia ana silver tiiey coma ind. ? He is rich and we are poor," said they to >ach other, by way of encouragement in the ivil they were about to perform. " He will lever miss a little gold, while its possession rill make us happy. Besides, what right has me man to all this world's goods ?" Thus they talked together. One of the men lad a wife and children, but the other had no me in the world to care for but himself. The nan who had children went home and joined lis family, after agreeing upon a place of mectng with the other at the darkest hour of the joming night. * . " Dear father," said one of the children, dimbing upon his knee, "I am so glad you have come." - - * The presence of the child troubled the man, ind he tried to push him away, but his arms dung tighter about his neck, and he laid his ;ace against his cheek, and in a sweet and ?cntle voice, Riid: " I love you, father." . Involuntarily the man drew the innocent ind loving one to his bosom, and kissed him. There were two other children in the man's Iwelling, a boy and a girl. They were poor, ind these children worked daily to keep up he supply of bread, made deficient more through dleness in the father than from lack of emdoyment. These children came in soon after heir father's return, and brought him their larnings for the day. ? 0 father!" said the boy, "such a dreadill thing has happened. Henry Lee's father fnr M4*vwvv?* kv UUJ 4W* AWh/AUg* A UV/J tVVA iim out of our shop, when Henry was there, md carried him off to prison. I was so sad vhen I saw Henry weeping. And he hung lis head for shame?for shame of his own fathir ! Only think of that 1" The man did not reply to the words of his on, but turned his face away to conceal his xpression. "Ashamed of his father!" thought he.? 'And will my children hang their heads also n shame ? No, no, that shall never be." At the hour of midnight the man who had 10 children to throw around him a sphere of letter intention, was waiting at the place of endezvous for him whose children had saved iim. But he waited long in vain. Then ho aid : "I will do the deed myself, and take the ntire reward." And he did according to his word. When he other man went forth to his labor on the t ext day he learned that his accomplice had een taken in the act of robbery, and was al- ^ sady in prison. ( "Thank heaven forvirtuous children!"said j e, with fervor. " They have saved me.? lever will I do anything that will cause them ) blush for their father." J Deatii and Vanity.?The St. Louis Her- ( Id of Wednesday says :?"Some of our fash- j mable ladies, owing to an excess of vanity, 1 order to give tone and permanency to their 1 Dinplexion, or, as they say, "to improve their imnlAvinn " orn In fta linViif olrinrr orco- I ic in small doses. Within the past week two 1 idies of this city, members of wealthy families, ! ad ladies of fashion, have died very sudden- 1 r. Their nearest friends and relatives say 1 lat they were "arseniceaters;" but, in order v > guard aguinstscandal, the real cause of their ( eath has not been made public. However, lose same persons do not hesitate to say pri- t itely that an over-dose of arsenic was the real ? iuse of their death. Out of respect for the ving relations, we forbear mentioning the ; inies of the ladies, and only allude to the j rcumstancc for the purpose of warning others f the great danger and risk they run in connuing such a dangerous and baneful practice, anity must indeed be an almost uncontrolla- e e passion with persons who, to gratify it, q ill hazard their very existence. There is no j )ubt of the fact that this practice is general c nong our fashionable butterflies, at least to 1 ich an extent as to become alarming." I ??n a J?"* 'Tom,' said a man to his friend, <1 link it highly dangerous to keep the bills of aall banks on hand now-a-days.' <Tim/ an- i rered the other, <1 find it more difficult than tngerous.' I THE JfdBMOltS* Horace Greeley, now in Washington, writes to the Tribune that he recently met $-,geiitIeman not long from the Salt Lake. He says; -'^jj My friend gives a horrible Account of the H* moral and social condition of the Mormons, with whom he spent some months. He fefc :k them wallowing deeper and deeper in tfie. slough of filthy sensuality, with a certainty of going from bad to worse till theirirhole fabric of imposture is exploded by the miseries it creates and diffuses. "He says the. woman are i nearly all anxious to fly from the horrible den; especially those who have been "sealed" as the "spiritual wives'' of the scoundrelly hyp- 'A ocrites who propagate and uphold this mom Btrous delusion. - Nearly all the-leadersbsfe ? J from three women each up to Brighjun Young's seventy, some of whom make a poor living by washing the clothesdf the U. States J. soldiers. Hundreds of these decamp abused nnmcn sooretlv Attain nfc to Kact thn nrivilMR * j? r~ ? -~o .? v~ of coming away with the troops and trains "fl passing from time to time through or. coming- V9 from Salt Lake City, but this cannot be allow- I cd. Nearly all would get away if tbey could * Such pictures of -distress and despair^ as are ,fl presented by many of these deceived and abu- fl sed women can be fonnd no where else than in ~'vfl Utah. Hundreds of them never heard near fl dreamed of the "spiritual wife" syBtem until fl it burst upon their amazed vision on their ar- . fl rival at Salt Lake. And such a mixture, of 'fl profanity and blasphemy, nonseifee, impudent ; assumptionand buffoonery, as is contained in fl their sermons and other religiotttjexcrciaea fl cannot be paralleled in the world. -A "Gaa-^B tile" of any account is carefully watched from j the hour he ventures among tbem, and the* is little scruple* as to the means M troublesome intruder is disposed of. I Sale op a Wipe?Ttye peace loving tni .fl law abiding oitizens of the towiv of Wgbstet flH had their ideas of morality rather agitated a ' few days since, by the announcement that cae\B amongst them had sold his wife to another fat-JK a consideration. It seems that the man with 'fl his wife was the tenant of another, and -& < ^jfl wife, who always said that she did not intend fl to die until she got on the upper shelf of so- fl ciety, who was probably a member of the free fl love association, was drawn towards ihe land- fl lord, who is, or rather was, * single man, by. fl "nassional attraction." and demanded, an in- H stant return. There is no doubt bufcwbat the demand was complied with, whereupon he be- ' M came quite dissatisfied, and hinted as pmoh.-? I Things grew no better very fast, untilthekua- vflj band notfinding his hints weifc regarded, spoke fl right out and objected to the way matters were fl progressing. This opened the way for a nego- I tiation , and after a long bickering and banter. ing, the husband agreed the landtof9^9Roav^H have his hog, his wife, and garden "sass" for fl five hundred dollars and writings to thatoffectrfli were immediately drawn up, sealed, wgned I and delivered, and the woman was transferred fl forthwith to the arms of her fortunate posses sor.?Rochester Advertiser. '^fl TheUndecayed Dead.?A gentleman of I undoubted veracity, writing to a friend in this flj city gives the following_particulars winch appear to us worthy of notice by scientific meh, fl whose studies have enabled them to ihvestigate j and understand the c&nses which produced the fl effects related: :i I On the 13th inst., the body of Mr. M. 0'- I Brien, who died in Milledgeville about turn fl years ago, was disinterred, and, upon opening fl the coffin, was found in the same~ condition as fll when hurried. There was no appearance of flfl decomposition, and no unpleasant odor. The^^fl body had retained its former weight and rise, the features were perfect the hair firm as in life, arms, hands, feet, and in fact, the whole man in every particular as he was when com. ^fl mitted to the tomb. Mr. O'Brien was, at the H| time of his death, about sixty years-old, aiid weighed near two hundred pounds. He was buried in a black walnut coffin which was en. closed in a box, and the whole enclosed 4n a tight vanlt. Some part of the. outside box had decayed, as well as the woolen eloth with wliloli thfl /if.fflr van (Kirornil Tho oilt ntmna and stockings, which were on his feet rem tin* ed unchanged, even in color.? Coluubtis Enquirer. ^B| Postmaster General and. the Know- flB Nothings.?''Homo," the Washington con I respondent of the Pennsylvania Enquirer, fll says : "There is some little excitement among?i^Bfl legislators attached to the 'American Order,'"^BB caused by the refusal of Postmaster General Campbell to appoint a gentleman Postmaster in a small town in North Carolina. They re- '^^B port it that the Hon. Mr. Puryear of th&^^^B House of Representatives, waited upon Judge^^Hj Campbell, and presenting to him a strong recommendation, signed by many respectable people in the neighborhood where the office Is located, of a particular person. Mr. Puryear. ^Hfl ivas asked by the Judge if the man named for ^Kj ;hc office was a 'Know Nothing V To which ^^B le replied he did not know, but he would respectfully inquire if he did belong to that or- BW *anization, 'would it be a cause for withhold- Hff eg the commission from him.' Judge C. re- ^HE plied unhesitatingly, that under no circum. flfl \l 1J T. - ' 4. - iTT XT _xl_ i iiaucu, wuuiu nt' appoint a. 'xvuow notuiug UJ 86?* The following resolution was passed by ^^R ho Grand Lodge of Free and. Accepted Ma- flH ions of Alabama, on the 4th inst:; IRR <<RcsoIved, That the retail trafio in alcohol-- ^RR c drinks is demoralising ita its tendency; op. HI josed to the principles of our Order and there- ^HR ore inconsistent with the Masonio character." ^^9 An Affecting Appeal.?An unftulnnatar^H iditor in Kentucky, thus addressee his de!i&*?^^R [uent subscribers:?Friends, we are ahraf^R^H >enniless?Job's turkey was a miOxonai&jS^I ompared with our present depressed treasu^^^^H ro-d ay, if the price of ?^}t was two cental - arrelfui, we could not buy enough to I?- "Ned, who is ihat^iri X saw you Dg with 7" "MiSs Hogg " 4 , "Hogg, Hogg?well she's to be fntifw&rJKM avine such a name." . ..