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i VOL. 2. YOEKVILLE, S. C., THURSDAY, JULY 24, 1856. NO. 30.
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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.
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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,
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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"
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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.
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racks at Scutari, found the soldiers dying
there by hundreds, and so little care taken
of them?this was before Miss Nightingale's
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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^
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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.