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r , ; * ' v?' -. . ' . v . tfe- - -.' fes*> -'v *&'***' ~ ^ - ? ?% ... - ** ' - - " > . ' * ;- - - -"v ^ - . - -- = __ . ? - - p : pg 1 . .' '. I II " ~ " " " ' ' ... ) sSxVraSwr, |Pi-?prietors. Au Independent Journal: For the Promotion of the Political, Social, Agricultural and Commercial Interests of the South. j lewish.grist,pnbiuher.- \.&i i VOL. 2. YOEKVILLE, S. C., THURSDAY, JULY 24, 1856. NO. 30. ' . ?_azirz_ * Cljoixf I'Oftni. IS IT WORTH WHILE ? The following lines are the production of Mr. Martin F. Tupper, C. E. In a note to Mr. Robertson Gladstone, President of the Financial Reform Association, the author says : "Your-admirable address to our American cousins (though 1 will not endorse to the full a certain sentence about Prince Albert) induces me to volunteer a sympathetic 'hear,' which I trust you and those whose mouth you are will excuse and accept. A week ago and more I sent the enclosed to a London newspaper, hoping through its columns to show to America that wo spoke peace and reason ; but I suppose the newspaper in question was j too warlike, aud I have not yet seen it in print. I fancy the occasion is gone by, hap t i p?y; Dowevor, li any iujc ui jum jjuci^uwi papers likes to give the ballad ventilation, 1 so that from an English quarter it can get re- j printed in America, the sentiments may do good, and they seem to be so nearly your own that I thought it worth while to transcribe them for you. 'Do with it as you think tit.' j Patience!?0 proud and high spirited nations, j England, America?bear and forbear ; Patience!?if both of us will but have patience, All may be well by a triHe of cart). Only, instead of hot words with each other, Hear without striking, and speak without guile, | And, as to war between brother aud brother, Count up the cost of it?Is it worth while ? There should, indeed, be invincible causes More than a matter of pique or of pride, More than some questions and quibbles of olauses, | Partisan squibs and whatever beside? There should be wrongs aud much long-enduring, I Mutual uins in a black double tile, There should be evils past bearing or curing Ere such a war could be ever worth while. *' What? shall a blunder or two and a bluster, Got up by governments for their own ends, Or the fierce pranks of some shrewd filibuster, Turn into enemies kinsmen and friends? Both of us may be ambitious and jealous, Some even here In this tight little isle, M ich such as you, are intractable fellows? -But to be foes would be hardly worth while. Freedom's own children each other destroying, Raving in folly, and raging in sin ! Think how the despots of Europe enjoying Such u vile massacre gladly would grin ; Think of the b'.ood to h? pour'd out like water, j Blood to disgrace us as well as defile, Think of the havoc and rapine and slaughter All in one family?Is it worth while? Ruin without mitigation or measure. Ravaging all that is good in the world, Myriads of livos and millions of treasure Down to perdition remorselessly hurl'd; Liberty soaudalised, progress retarded, Commerce by wholesale oil bankrupcy's file, Countries laid desolate, cities bombarded, AH because pride says, a war is worth while 1 O that a spirit of better confiding, More than diplomacy's craft comprehends, Were the good rule of humnuity guiding. Governments how to keep People good friends : 0 that no slauderous evil suspicious, No bittep paragraphs brimming with bile, Made us all utterly had politicians, Breaming that such a war could be worth while ? All that is wicked on history's blazon Wonld 'e but innooence guaged with our crime; Guilt, such as wondering demons might gaze on, Wide as the world, and unending with time. For our carnage fraternal, gigantic^ Broadly would crimson for mile upon mile Both the world's highways, Pacific, Atlantic, Ay, and both hemispheres?Is it worth while ! Neither of us (we are both Anglo-Saxon) Ever give up, nor ever give in ; Victory neither have ever tnrn'd backs on, Always we perish, or always we win. Russians and Prussians and others like tissue Fight with a courage we wouldn't revile, - * * ? it put lor lUj IWII nin e la Wiiij uur iwuv, Doth must be conquerors!?I9- it worth while ? No we ere Giants, but sons of one Mother; Let not the pigmies rejoice in our strife; bet us forgive, us brother with brother, \ye, nn<l helD on one another in life, We onn do good by wholesale together Winning man's welfare anil Heaven's own smile, We oan do evil?the scale is a feather? Which is worth while, brother, which is worth while? M. F. T. ( $Mpiscfllaiiij. A TOUCHING STORY. From the New York Five Point's Monthly Ijcview, we select the following scene from real life: A few Sunday's since, at morning service, one of the most degrading specimens of humanity that ever greeted my vision, came staggering into the chapel of the house of Industry. His wild and frightful looks and ragged and dirty bcyoud description, his face bruised and swolen, rendered hini an object of disgust and terror. lie seemed to look at the children with wonderful interests, occasionally muttering to himself, "Beautiful! heai;tifgl| Q, that mine ^ere hefe i" He sat an hour or two more and then, with a long earnest look at the children, staggered out of the chapel, went up to the dark "valley of the shadow of death"?Cow Bay. As the bell rang for service in the afternoon, and while the children were cluster\ ing together, the same wild-looking man staggered in once more. lie surveyed pie fapes of the cbildreu with the closest scrutiny, and at length his eyes rested qu t\vo bright-eyed little girls, who were singing one of their little hymns, lie sat immovable as a static during the whole service, gating intently on the foces of these two children. The service closed, the congregation dispersed yet he lingered, and the tears came coursing down his face thick and fast. Dr. S. asked him "what was the matter?" "I am a drunkard! A wretch?an outcast, h9,ne^ess> anti without a penny. Once ? bad a hon^e pnd friends?father, mother, wife, children and hosts of friends, who joyed and respected inc. time parsed on, and I became a drunkard ! One friend after another left me; still I drank on, aud down and down and down I fell. Father and mother went down fro their graves with broken hearts. My poor wife clung,to me when all others deserted me. I still drank on, pawned one article after another till all was gone, and when my wife refused to give me her wedding ring, which she had clung to with the tenacity of a death grasp I foiled her to the earth, seized her finger, tore off the ring and pawned it for rum. Hint fatal j blow maddened her, and, in despair, she j drank, and together we wallowed into the glitter. Penniless, we begged our way from | Vermont to this city. Hco we hired a small cellar, in a dark and dismal street, and I sent our children out to beg. Many a weary day we spent in that dreary cellar, while our children were wandering in the streets, bogging for their drunken parents. About forty days since, my little children went out to beg, and from that hour to this, I have not seen them. Without food or fire, I have clung to my dismal abode, till hunger forced me out to search for my children. My degraded wife has been sent to Blackwell's j Island as a vagrant and alone I went to the j Island, to the House of Reform, to the I Tombs, and in despair I wandered to the rive Points, and fur the last few days I have lived in Cow Bay, amougbeggersand thieves. To-day I saw two children, who, if they had not looked so clean and sung so sweetly, I would have called them mine. ()! would to God they were !" "Tell me the name," said Dr. S. "and I will see." In a few moments two interesting little children were led toward him. At the sight of this fearful looking man they shrank back. The poor man sprang to his feet, exclaiming, "They are mine, my dear children, don't you know your poor old father?" Come to mc, my children. Father loves you; he won't hurt you. He reached out his arms; the little ones were titnid at first, but they soon climbed up their father's knee while the tears were streaming down his face. "Kiss your poor drunken father, my children." But the face of the man was so black and filthy, not a place could be found. | Soon tlicy forgot the dirty face, and remembered their poor degraded father; and each entwining their little arms around his neck, and fondly kissing him, the elder- one said, with a voice that touched every heart, "Fathj cr we are so happy here that we want to stay. Won't you oomo and live here too, papa? What makes you drink so? Dear papa do sign the pledge, and not drink any more. Mr. Pease found me in the street begging, and now we feel happy. Do papa, come and live here, and do as good as you used to be." The father's heart was overwhelmed?he sobbed and groaned aloud. For more thau an hour they sat together, till at last the old wan arose, still clinging to his children, mid exclaimed, "the pledge! the pledge! I will never drink again!" I gave him the pledge, and from that hour j lie has faithfully kept it. He is now a tn?n, I engaged in business, earning ten dollars per | ' week, and uotie could recognize in the well| dressed man?who still boards in the house ! ?the degraded original, whose portrait can I still be soon at the IIouso of Industry, da! gucrrcotypcd in its striking deformity and j squalor. ? " ? A LAND-TRAVELLING FISH. In the fourteenth number of the ZoolofjiI col Jonnuil there is an account of a peculiar species of mailed tish called the Dor on I Contain, which frequents tho fresh-water pools, lakes, and rivers of British Guayann. j It lives chiefly on aquatic insects, and its one of those fishes which possess the singular I property of deserting the water and travelI ling over land. In those terrestrial excur| sions, large droves of the species are fre[ quently met with during very dry seasons ; j for it is only at such periods that they arc i compelled to this dangerous march, which | exposes them to be preyed upon bv so many and such various enemies. "When the water is leaving the pools in which they commonly reside, i[\ct/arraicn (a speciesof Knox Linn.,) . as well as the second species of hnssar, to i which we shall presently refer, bury thetu: selves in the mud, while all the other fishes ! perish for want of their natural clement, or j are picked up by birds &c. Tbe flat-headec} ! hassars, on the contrary, simultaneously quit | the place and march over laud in search of : water, travelling for a whole night, as is asserted by the Indians, in search of their object. It has certainly been ascertained by j experiment that they will live many hours i out of water eypp when exposed to the sun's rays. J heir motion is described as in some | respects resembling that of the two-footed I lizard. Tliey project themselves forward 011 1 their bony arms by the elastic spring of the j tail exerted sideways. Their progress js | nearly as fast as a man will leisurply walk. I The strong sc?t<t pr blinds which envelope their bodies must grately facilitate their march, in the same way as the plates upder the bellies of serpents, "which are raised and depressed at the will of the reptile, in some measure perforin the office of feet. It is said that the other species, the round-heads, has uot been known to attempt such excursions, although it is capable of living a long time out of its element: but, as has been already observed, it buries itself iq tire mud j after the manner pf the yarrows when the 1 water is drying up. The Indians say that these fishes carry 1 water with theqr for a supply on their jouri ncy. 1'herc appears to be somp truth in this | statement; for the writer in the jSuutuyicu/ 1 Jon runt remarked that the bodies of the , hassar, do not get dry like those of other j tishes when taken out of the water; and if I the moisture be absorbed, or if they be wiped I dry with a cloth, they have such a power of J secretion that they become instantly moi^t qsrnin. Indeed, it is scarcely possible to diy the surface whijp the fish is living. ; The hassar, like some other species of fishes, : make a regular nest, iu which they lay their j eggs in a flattened cluster, and cover theni | oyer yvith great care. ^Tor does their soljei! tudc end here : they rpmaiu by the side of the ucst until the spawn is hatched \yith as much assiduity as a lieu guards her eggs, both the male and the female?for the hassars are mouogamous?steadily watching the spawn, and courageously attacking any assailant, Hence the negroes frequently take W \4 JP ~ "* *' I ----- ! them by putting their hands into the water : close to the nest, on agitating which, the : male hnssar springs furiously at them, and is j captured. The roundhead forms its nest of grass, the flathead of leaves; both at certain seasons ; burrow in the bank. They lay their eggs j only in wet weather. Observers have been surprised at the sudden appearance of numerous nests in a morning after rain has fallen, the spots being indicated by masses of froth which appear on the surface of the water over the nests. Below the froth are the eggs, deposited on branches of fallen leaves, or grass, if it be the littoral species, which they somehow or other cut and collect. By what means, however, this is effected is a mystery, as the species is destitute of cutting iv;v;ui. The flesh of the hassar is yellow, firm, and very savory, and is used by the Creoles in making soup ; which they prepare with the addition of several vegetables, such as the okra, calabao, and fow-fow, avain and plantains, boiled and pounded intoa sort of plain pudding. The whole is* seasoned with pepper, salt, and lime-juice, and forms, in reality, one of the best dishes in the country, although it is not at first generally relished by Europeans. THE BORDER RUFFIAN. The Kansas correspondent of the Abbeville Banner, gives the following graphic sketch of the "much talked of and much traduced Border Kuffian" : "Imagine a fine looking man, with a heavy beard and moustache, felt hat, red shirt, (no coat,) blue pants,"heavy boots drawn over the pants, immense Spanish spurs, a pair of water-proof scabbards, each containing a large 'navy repeater,' a Sharpe's rifle slung over one shoulder, and a large Bowie-knife stuck into the right boot or swinging to the same belt with the repeaters, charging down upon 3rou across the prairie on a fine bay, or a large Kentucky mule. As he comes nearer, you see that he is completely prepm-ed for a long march, rapid movements, and 'solitary entertainment' on the prairie. He rides a deep Spanish saddle, which, without appearing cumbered, is yet rigged with the greatest variety of articles. His horse-hair larraette, with an iron picket at one end, hangs from the* high pummel. A porte-manteau or a pair of saddlebags contains a change of linen, an extra red shirt (in case of rain,) aud two or three days' rations of bread, dried beef, ham, ground coffee and sugar. A pair of blankets, aud a military cloak, with cape and sleeves, arc tied on behind. A pair of pouches at the pummel, contain a flask or two of whisky (also in case of rain)and some other extras. A canteen slung over the shoulder contains water, and a neat leather box fastened to the belt is full of cartridges and caps. Besides all this, there is generally a number of leather thongs, fastened to rings in various parts of the saddle, to which hang a tiu cup, a small coffee-pot, sometimes a frying-pan, a hatchet, Ac., Ac. Thus caparisoned he can move with ease aud celerity, and like the brave knights of old, is ever j ready for tight or fun, aud is equally at home j in camp, in a squatter's shanty, or on the lonely prairie. Most of those with whom I had an opportunity to become intimate, had crossed the plains, to Santa Fe, or Salt Lake, 01 California, several times, aud were, in consequence, the best ox-drivers, the best coolc3, and the most hardy soldiers that I ever saw. Bough in their manners, but generous as sailors, and sharp as travelers, they arc always welcome, and always manage to win the hearts of their fellows. They are from the border counties of Missouri, where they leave their families and come to the Territory occasionally to hold their claims, pay their taxes, vote legally, and, if necessary, fight. Most of them intend moving into the Territory as ! ioon as it is made a slave State. Such are ) the men about whom the whole negro steal| ing pack are raising their howl. Aud where I they are uot known, doubtless much capital | pan he made on the assertion of their forcii ble intervention in the affairs of the Territory, j But I am assured in what T assert, that more ' Frce-soilers' votes than Border Ruffians, wore polled here at the last election on the proslavery ticket. How jt happened can be readily accounted for. The true position of the border Mlssourians, in fact, is to look on calmly, and without interference, at the operations of the ballot-box, confident as they are of the success of our party; but that j when blows must be struck, to be rpftdy to i sustain us with their arms.'' HOW TO EAT WISELY, ! ii practice maicc ppflPPT, msuunna snouia ! certainly know how io eat wisely ; yet the i following excellent advice, from T)r. Hall's (ever suggestive) "Medical Journal," con! tains wisdom that will be new to lugst peoI pie ; [ "1. Never sit down to table with an anxj ious or disturbed mind ; better a hundred; fold, intermit that meal, for thprp ^ill then 1 be that much more food in the world for ; hungrier stomachs than yours; and besides, j eating under such circumstances can only, ! and will always, prolong and aggravate the ! condition of things. j "2. >(cver sit do^n fo $ meal after auy i in ton se mental effort, for physical i/nd mental injury is inevitable, and no man has a right i deliberately to injure body, mind, or estate. "Never go to a full table during bodily j exhaustion?designated by some as being I worn out, tired to death, used up, donp over, i and the like. The wisesf thing you can do i under such circumstances, is to take a crackI er and a cup of warm tea, either black or greeu, and no more. In ten minutes voir i will feel a degree of refreshment and Ijveli' nc?3, rvhich prill be pleasantly surprising to you; not of the transient kind which a glass of liquor affords, but permanent; for the tea gives present stimulus and a little strength, and before it subsides, nutriment begins to be drawn trom the sugar, ana cream, and bread, thus allowing the body, gradually and by safe degrees, to regain its usual vigor.? Then, in a couple of hours, you may take a * *V- \-'JS !'. ' -j- ' ' full meal, provided it does not bring it later ' than two hours before sundown; if later, J then take nothing for that day in addition to the cracker and tea, and the next day you will feel a freshness and vigor not recently known. "Xo reader will require to be advised a second time who will make a trial as above, while it is a fact of no unusual observation among untelligent physicians, that eating heartily, and under bodily exhaustion, is not. an infrequent cause of alarming and painful illness, and sometimes of sudden denth.? These things being so, let every family make it a point to assemble around the family board with kindly feelings, .with a cheerful humor and a courteous spirit; and let that member of it be sent from the table in disgrace who presumes to mar the ought-to-be-blest reunion by sullen silence, or impatient look, or angry tone, or complaining tongue, hat in thankful gladness, or away with you to the kitchen, you graceless churl, you ungrateful, pestilent lout, that you are. There was grand and good philosophy in the old time custom of having a buffoon or music at the dinner table." WHO MAKES THE BEST WIVES ? Not a few of our readers, we are persuaded, will be arrested by the caption of this article. The subject of which it troats has been one of universally acknowledged interest and importance ever since the day when it wa3 avcred by the wise man that "whosoever obtaineth a wife, obtaineth a good thing."? Bachelors as we are, our own views on such a theme, could amount only to speculation. The following, however, from the Philadelphia Ledger, must commend itself to general approbation from the tone of practical wisdom which pervades it: "By all means mnrry a woman with money," says careful fathers to their sons; "you'll find it as easy as not to get a suitable wife, who has a little fortune." "Give me beauty, grace and accomplishment," is the mental answer of enthusiastic youth, and leave mercenary consideration to baser souls." "We submit that neither is right. It is infinitely more important that a young man should choose a healthy, amiable, and intel ligent partner, than that he should select either a beauty or an heiress. The latter has usually expensive habits, and, by the time she has been married twenty years, has cost her husband the amount of her fortune in superfluities. Besides, heiresses are generally brought up in idleness, spending their , time in reading novels, lounging about on tho sofa, or acquiring a taste for fashionable dissipation; so that they are either absurdly romantic or out of health from want of exercise or from late hours, and, therefore, entirely unfit to make good wives. Beauties, on the other hand, mostly are vain or giddy, if not both. If wives were designed for playthings, or had no purpose beyond being parlor ornaments, a beauty might be [desirable, just as pictures are on fine furniture.? The piau who marries an heiress sacrifices his independence and ends by finding he is out of pocket also. The lover who weds merely for beauty tics himself to a doll, which has not even the merit of being sure to keep its painted cheeks. The woman make the best wives who combine common sense with good temper, who have been brought up to help themselves and who bring sound constitutions, , equable spirits, and a sincere affection as a dowry to their lovers A wife should be her husbaud'sbest friend?she should be competent to counsel him in difficulties, to cheer , him in sorrow, to render his evcrdny hearth the pleasantest spot to him to be found anywhere. If she has confirmed ili-hcalth 1 she cannp.t be all this to him ; neither can she if she has a crooked temper, or habits of indolence, or is deficient in practical sense. The woman ^hpse ?hole heart is ; devoted to shew, to company, or to idle accomplishments, may possibly make an in- ' teresting belle, but she is sure to prove a very different wife. We would not have young girls neglect the beautiful entirely ) but that which adorns should be made subservient tP sp.inejiiore solid superstructure. To know how to piny the last new air, yet be ignorant how to compound the last new pudding, is surely unpardonable. A man might as well neglect to learn a business as ; a woman refuse to acqy.fvc - knowledge of housekeeping. It is useless to disguise the fact that girls are too often directed to attract lovers rather than to retain the affections of husbands. TU:? i? :?11? 13 JJCl/ltW'J "Ut V* Hie UUU^ulio ui fnniillies above the necessities of daily labor. Mrs. F. the successful mechanic's wife, makes a virtual slave of herself by druding, late and cgrly, in order that Anna Maria may be "brought up," as she phrases it, "like a lady." The young Miss aeeprdtpgly, is crammed wit\i music, dancing, French, and other fiiddle-faddles, is told always to carry her ?hopl$prs bflck, and never to romp, and is taught to consider work as degrading. What sort of a wife can such a creature make ? If she marries any body hut & rich man, her idle fthd expensive habits keep him always popp. Jf she catches a prize, which, perhaps, ope ip P thousand may do, ten to one she disgusts her husband. In another case she is always out of health, the consequence of want of exercise in girlhood, and, if she has offspring, entails her ^eakn?S3 naturally on her pnogeny. Physicians do pot hesitate to say that a large proportion of female invalids of the present generation ?and their number if known to be Ipgion ? owe their complaints to the folly of parents in neglecting to bring them up properly. A Df.n of Thieves.?!fho roost astounding discoveries have been made between th^ee pr fppr weeks past, of the existence of a large and well organized band of thieves and robbers, who having their head quarters at or near the Gap, in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, have extended their operar tions over several States, and have their agents and accomplices iu New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland, and perhaps in other States besides.? These discoveries were made, it seems, by the Philadelphia police, through the revelations, of a notorious horse thief named Voung, who recently fell into their clutches. The whole matter has been kept as secret as possible, in order that they might capture as many of the gang as they could lay their hands upon. "We understand that about twenty of them have already been taken into custody, and that the officers are actively engaged in the pursuit of others, in various parts ot the country. Among the number already arrested is a dentist of Camden N. J., a lawyer of Lancaster; a reputed Methodist local preacher, of Lancaster or Chester county; a Quaker, or an individual wearing the Quaker garb, and several others who have held a respectable position in society. Several individuals in this county are implicated, and the police are on their track.? Elk ton Democrat COL. FEEMONT*S LETTEE OF ACCEPTANCE. Col. John C. Fremont has written the following letter to the committee of the Republican Convention appointed to inform him of his nomination for the Presidency : New York, July 8, 1856. Gentlemen : You call me to a high responsibility by placing me in the van of a great movement of the people of the United States, who, without regard to past differences, are uniting in a common effort to bring back the action of the Federal Government to the principles of "Washington and Jefferson. Comprehending the magnitude of the trust which they have declared themselves willing to place in my hands, and deeply sensible of the honor which their unreserved confidence, in this threatening position of the public affairs, implies, I feel that I cannot better respond than by a sincere declaration that, in the event of my election to the Presidency, I should enter upon the execution of its duties with a single-hearted determination to promote the good of the whole country, and to direct solely to this end all the power of the government, irrespective of party issues and regardless of sectional strifes. The declaration of principles embodied in the resolves of your convention expresses the sentiments in which I have educated, and which have been ripened into convictions by personal observation and experience.? With this declaration and avowal I think it necessary to revert to only two of the subjects embraced in those resolutions, and to those only because events have surrounded them with grave and critical importance. I concur in the views of the convention deprecating the foreign policy to which it adverts. The assumption that we have the right to take from another nation its domains because we want them is an abandonment of the honest character which our country has acquired. To provoke hostilities by unjust assumptions, would be to sacrifice the pence and character of the country, when all its interests might be more certainly secured and its objects attained by just and healing counsels, involving uo loss of reputation. International embarrassments are mainly the results of a secret diplomacy, which alius to keep from the knowledge of the people the operations of the government. This system is inconsistent with the character of our institutions, and is itself yielding t aually to a more enlightened public opinion, and tQ tho power of a free press, which, by its broad dissemination of political intelligence, secures in advance to the side qf justice the judgment of the civilised world. An honest, firm and open policy in our foreign relations would command the united support AP ih A nnfinn TTT V* AAA /IAIIUAWA^A ui mc uuuuiij n uuow uuiiuciaiu upiuiu&io \\ would necessarily reflect. Nothing is clearer itt the history of our institutions than the design of the nation, in assorting its own independence and freedom, to avoid giving countenance to the extension of slavery. The influence of the small but compact and powerful glass pf men interested in slavery, whu command one section of the country and wield a vast political control as a consequence in the other, is now directed to turn back this impulse of the Revolution and reverse its principles, The extension of slavery acro.s3 the continent is the object pf the power which now rules the government; and from this spirit has sprung those kindred wrongs in Kansas, so truly portrayed in one of your resolutions, which prove that the elements of the most arbitrary governments have not been vanquished by the just theory of our own. It would be out of place here to pledge myself to any particular policy that has been suggested to terminate the sectional controversy endangered by political animosities, operating on a powerful class banded togeth. or by a common interest. A practical remedy is the admission of Knnsas info the Union as a free State. The South should, in iuy judgment, earnestly desire such consummation. It would vindicate iia good faith. It would correct the mistake of the repeal; and the North, having practically the benefit of the agreement between the two sections, would be satisfied and good feeling be restored. The measure is perfectly consistent with the honor of the South and vital to its interests. That fatal act which gave birth to this purely sectional strife, originating in the scheme to take from free labor the country secured to it by a solemn covenant, cannot be too soon disarmed of its pernicious force, The only genial region of the middle latitudes left tp the Northern States for homes cannot be conquered from the free laborers who have long considered it as set apart for them in our inheritance, without provoking a desperate struggle. "Whatever may he the persistence of the particular class which seems ready to hazard everything for the unjust scheme it has partially effected, I firmly believe that the great heart of the nation, which thfobs with the patriotism of the freemen of both sections, will have power to overcome it. They will look to the rights secured to them by the Constitution of the Union as the best safe" * > - " * guard from the oppression of the class which by a monopoly of the soil and of slave labor to till it, might in time reduce them to the extremity of laboring upon the same terms with the slaves. The great body of nonsluveholding freemen, including those of the South, upon whose, welfare slavery is an oppression, will discover that the power of the General Government over the public lands may be beneficially exerted to advance their interests and secure their indepen4ence; knowing this, their suffrages will not be wanting to maiutain that authority in the Union which is absolutely essential to the maintenance of their own liberties, and which has more than once indicated the purpose of disposing of the public lands in such a way as would make every settler upon them a freeholder. If the people intrust to me the administration of the government, the laws of Congress in relation to the Territories shall be fnithfully executed. All its authority shall be exerted in aid of the national will to re-establish the peace of the country ou the just principles which have heretofore received the sanction of the Federal Government, of the States and the people of both sections.? Such a policy would leave no aliment to that sectional party which seeks its aggrandizement by appropriating the new territories to capital in the form of slavery, but would inevitably result in the triumph of free labor?the natural capital wh:ch constitutes the real wealth of this great country and creates that intelligent power in the masses alone to be relied on as the bulwoak of free institutions. Trusting that I have a heart capable of comprehending our whole country, with its varied interests, and confident that patriotism exists in all parts of the Union, I accept the nomination of your convention, in the hope that I may be enabled to serve usefully its cause, which I consider the cause of constitutional freedom. Very respectfully, your obedient servant. ?T. C. FREMONT. A TRUE CIVILIZER. It is told of a late missionary to Turkey, that finding his converts proscribed in their relations as business men, by the authorities of the church which they had left, he borrowed ten thousand dollars, bought a flnnr mill, and engaged in the making of bread, in order to give employment to his neophytes. The bread he manufactured proved so much superior to that generally sold at Constantinople?for it was there that he sought his market?that, before long, he had so large a demand for it as to give a livelihood to nearly all his converts. When the Eastern war broke out, and the British troops landed at Scutari, good bread could not at first be had for the soldiers. In this emergency, the missionary stepped forward and offered to contract to furnish bread to the English. His tender was accepted and a contract signed. The Sultan, finding that good bread was made for the British army, sent for the bakers who supplied his own, and compelled them to imitate the missionary. In the two years of the war, the mill, thus begun to feed a few converts, earned thousands of dollars, which have been worthily dedicated, we believe, to building school-houses in Turkey. TKin anma IVHaeinnnrTT vioitlnnr ttia * x1* ?uui vuuij j injinu^; i?u^ uai racks at Scutari, found the soldiers dying there by hundreds, and so little care taken of them?this was before Miss Nightingale's ? C arrival?that their linen often remained unchanged for weeks. He found also that the refuse clothes were cast into a separate apartraent, where they lay festering, rotting and tainting the atmosphere. He asked why this was. The British authorities answered thai they could get nobody to wash the clothes, for fear of infection, He offered immediately to undertake the job. But the prejudices of the Turks proved greater than even he, who had lived among them for eighteen years, had been led to expect.? They cried out, when they saw the clothes "The plague, the plague," and refused to work. In this crisis, he invented a rude washing machine, which he fixed on the side of a ruuuing stream, so that the articles might be partially washed without the intervention of hand labor. After this there was no difficulty. The labor saving washing machine of the Yankee Missionary is still in use at Scutari, and will probably remain so, while there is washing to be done, even though the original necessity for it has passed away.?Phil Ledger. DEATH OF A h^ISER. Some four weeks ago, there arrived in this city by the western cars, in the the extreme of destitution, an old lady who gave her name a9 Mrs. Catharine Alberty?her age she said was 75 years. She was miserably clad, and was bent by age and want. She had been passed over the road, from Salisbury, free of charge, as an act of chari ty, and on her arrival here, rented a amail back room from a tenant of Mr. John Kane's. She had no visible means of providing herself with the commonest necessaries of lifr and had not, she said, a penny in the world. The attention of the neighbors was soon attracted to her and she became at once the recipient of their sympathy and bounty.? Her health, however, rapidly declined, and she was gratuitously attended by Dr. W. P. McKee, and pecuniarily assisted, also, by him and others; but. on Monday last, at noon, death ended her sufferings. After her death, in searching among her miserable rags, making arrangements for interment, a large sum of money and the evidences of other property to a considerable amount were discovered in an old barrel.? In two or three filthy bundles was found, in gold and silver, the sum of 82,500; also, amongst her papers, the scrip for 20 shares of stock iu the New Albany railroad?letters relative to her plantation in Kentucky, and a maoc nf nfVior nrnnnrfv Vinth MlIinnB and valuable. A small sign-board was also found with tbe inscription?"Mrs. Catharine Alberty, Indian Doctress." She appears, too, to have added the mastery of .. of fortune telling to her profession, bat from her feeble health was unable to follow either. She had told some of her neighbors that she was originally from France, which ' country she left when about two years of age; that she had been raised at Lexington, Ky., but that latterly she had been livingf ,?f in Columbia, S. C., and that in this latter place she had recently been robbed of money to#the amount of 82,400. Their appears to be some truth in this last statement, as a . letter from the Sheriff of that District, had been found, informing her of the arrest of the robbers, and of the probability of her recovering the major portion of the stolen money. A letter, apparently from her busHflnH hflfl nlcrt lioon- fmtnrl- -raw- wlaiwls ii* Sm # w? spoken of as "Capt. Alberty," but beyond this, no clue is yet obtained to her relatives r or friends, if any. Her affairs are not yet all arranged, but they are in the hands of gentlemen who will see them properly at- > tended to. The deceased appears to have moved in what is termed good society, with, however, but few of the advantages of education.--. She died in the midst of strangers, in misery and in want?denying herself what was... needful for her sustenance?pleading poverty in its most abject form, but with ample means about her for rendering herself and others happy and comfortable. An awful picture, truly, of the withering effects of avarice.?Raleigh Standard. Power op Conscience.?Our readein.? f, will generally remember the case of Sidi V. Howard, the interesting and piotis young gentleman who so ingratiated himself with some of our best citizens, that Ke s position in the State Bank, whereby enabled to steal fourteen hundred dollars^'. He was hunted with a good deal of energy and perseverance for some months, but hemanaged to elude all efforts to capture him., In the apprehension that he was being pur-;, sued he travelled over the whole country, > % sometimes, be says, iu the very cars with those hunting for him. After nearly two years, of this unhappy life, he went to St. Paul, Minnesota. Worn out with dread, he went to the Marshal- of ? the Territory and told his case, and askedio be arrested. The officer remonstrated ,* toW him he had no authority to make an arrest;a that the affair was forgotten, and if he internded to make his remorse good for anything, r he had better set to work and earn money he had criminally got and spent, and pay the bank and those he had swindled ; ibat^ - * he would be better everywhere than going to the penitentiary. But Howard was resolute to be arrested. The officer wrote to this city, and a requisition was .procured, upon which he was brought here on Tuesday afternoon. We believe an indictment-is pending against him for the larceny. P. S.?We learn that Howard was sent to the penitentiary, on Saturday, for two years. He plead guilty. Jndianopolis (/nd.) Sentinel: Sleep.?Observation confirm the fact that the bruin is nourished, repaired, during sleep. If then we have not sleep enough, the brain is not nourished, and like everything else, when deprived of sufficient nourishment, withers and wastes away, until the power of ^ sleep is lost, and the whole man dwindles * to skin and bone, or dies a maniac? % The practical inferences which we wish to impress upon the reader are two : 1st. By all means sleep enough, give all % who are under you sleepenough, by requiring them to go to bed at some regular hour, and * to get up the moment of spontaneouswaking in the morning. Never waken up any on?; especially children, from a sound steep, unless there is urgent necessity ; it is oruel to do so; to prove this, we have only to notice \ how fretful and unhappy a child is) when waked np before the nap is out. ). 2d. If the brain is nourished during sleep, it must nave some vigorin the morning, hence the morning is the best time for study; for it.. i l Iv. men, me uraiu uas moai sirengin, most ae^ tivity, and must work more clearly. A "the midnight lamp" which floods the world m with sickly sentimentalities, with false nror- % als, with rickety theology, and with all those harum scarum dreams of hnman elevation, which abnegate Bible teachings.?Dr. BalVs Monthly. The Southern Railroad Convention. ?The Richmond Dispatch contains the closing proceedings of this body. We copy the following: The committee on fixing the price of a through ticket between Washington and New Orleans, reduced the price to $48.? The former price was $53. The report "of the committee was adopted. A resolution was adopted, fixing the rate of speed on the roads, exclusive of stoppage, at 20 miles per hour. A discussion, very generally participated in, took place with regard to the express business on railroads, and the propriety of roads taking it into their own hands. No resolution was adopted, as it was argued that each company could control the matter to its own interest. A committee of three was appointed to confer with the officers of the road north of Weldon, and urge the re-establishment of the second train on Sunday. A committee was also appointed to collect information upon the most feasible plan for the construction of a Southern" railroad^ to the Pacific, and to inquire into the'prae^ . t M*. 1* .1 i * _i? #1 . N ? 1 I tieaDinty 01 me construction 01 a road, on which the greatest possible expedition between the Atlantic and the Pacific can be attained. Capt. Wm. B Phillips was appointed the New Orleans agent df the several roads, at a yearly salary of $5,500, out of which he is to do all the advertising of the route. Several other matters were disposed of, when the convention adjourned, to meet next May at Augusta, Georgia. J^Marriage is the nursery of Heaven.