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I - -"if" ,r * . " ^ L~r ~~ ' ~~ ^ ^ ^ saSxV^melton, |ProPrietors' Ah Independent Journal: For the Promotion of the Political, Social, Agricultural and Commercial Interest? of the South. | lewis h. grist, pumam. \ VOL. 2. . YOEKYILLE, S. C., THURSDAY, JULY 31,1856. NO. 31. ^ -'" U' ' ' "* ' ?? I ??Mi I II il^ Select |)of{rii. THE HOMESTEAD. It is not as it use<l to be, - - When you ami I were young : When round each elm ami maple tree The honey suckles clung: But still Hove the cottage where I passed my early years. Though ot a single face is there That memory endears. It is not as it used to be! The moss is on the roof, And from Iheir nests beneath the eaves. ?. The swallows keep aloof. The robius?how they used to sing When you nud I were young: An A Kaw rliil tlif flin trilel W-J will or - - c The opening flowers among! Jt is not as it used to he! The voices loved of yor \ And the forms we were wont to->ee. We see and hear no more. No more! Alas, we look in vain, For^hose to whom we clung. And love as we can love but once, When you and I were young. rooks & ^winter. : SPEECH OF HON. P. S, BROOKS, OF SOUTH CAROLINA, On resigning his seat in Congress, delivered :n the ! House of Representatives, July 14, 1S5G. Mr. Brooks said: Mr. vSpeaker : Until this moment I have I felt that there was a propriety in my remain-1 ing silent, and in trusting my defence to j friends who are abler and more learned than j myself. I' have heretofore felt that other 1 and higher interests than aDy which affect me personally were involved in the proceedings of this case. The interests of mv con' * , V i stituerits/of this House, and of all, indeed, who are concerned in the Constitution itself, in my view, have been intimately and inseparably complicated. TTTpro Mr -Ttrnnlrs was interriinted bv Mr. ! Giddings, &c ] Sir, I am indebted to the House for even i this ranch courtesy. I was about remarking j that therp were higher interests than my own j involved in this matter. I have been con- j tent, heretofore, to meet, personally and in ! silence all the consequences of these pro- i ceedings. Sometime since a Senator from Massachu- j setts alloyed liimself, in an elaborately pre-. pared speech, to offer a gross insult to my j State and to a venerable friend, who is my ! State-representative, and was absent at the time. ?Not content with that, he published to the t world, and circulated extensively, this uncalled for libel on my State and my blond, j Whoever insults my State insults me. Her i history and character have commanded my ; pious veneration, and in her defence I hope j I shall always be prepared, humbly and mod-' estly, to perform the duty of a son. 1 should ' have forfeited my own self-respect, and per-! haps, the good opinion of my countrymen, ! if I had failed to resent such an injury, by j calling the offender in question to a personal account. It was a personal affair and in ta-; king redress into iny own hands I meant no disrespect to the Senateof the Tinted States, \ or to this House. Nor, sir, did 1 design disrespect to the State of Massachusetts. I was ' aware of the persoual responsibilities 1 in-, eurred, and was willing to meet them. 1 | knew, too, that I was amenable to the laws i of the couutry, which afford the same protec tn fill wliflllini- llirtvlid immitu.vf nlWntt gress or private citizeiis. 1 did not, and do not now, believe that 1 could be properly punished, not only in a court of law, but here also, at the pleasure and discretion of the House. I did not then, and do not now, believe that the spirit of Auiericau freemen would tolerate slander in high places, and permit a member of Congress to publish and circulate a libel on another, and then call upon either House to protect hitn against the r personal responsibilities which he had thus j incurred. But if I had committed a breach of privilege, it was the privilege of the Senate, and not of this House, which was violated. 1 was answerable there, and not here. They had no right as it seems to me, to prosecute 1 me in these J3alls,_nor have you the right in law or under the constitution, as T respectfully submit, to take jurisdiction over offences committed against them. The constitution docs not justify them in making such a request, nor this House in granting it If,1 unhappily, the day should ever come when sectional or party feelings should run so high as to control all other considerations of public duty or justice, how easy will it be to use such precedents for the excuse of arbitrary power, in either House, to expel members of the minority who may have rendered them-' selves obnoxious to the prevailing spirit in the House to which they belong. Matters may go smoothly enough when one House asks the other to punish a member who is offensive to a majority of its own body, but how will it be when, upon a prc tencc of insulted dignity, demands arc made of this House to expel a member who happens to run counter to its party predilections, or other demands it may not be so agreeable to grant? It could never have been design-; ed by the constitution of the United States ' to expose the two Houses to such temptations : to collision, or to extend so far the discretionary power which was given to cither! House to punish its own members for the ! violation of its rules and orders. Discretion | has been said to be the law of the tyrant, ! and when exercised under the color of the law and under the influence of party dicta tion, it may and will become a terrible and insufferable despotism. This. House, however, it would seem from the unmistakable tendency of its proceedings, takes a" different view from that which 1 I deliberately entertain in common with many j others. So far as the public interests or constitutional rights are involved, I have now. exhausted my means of defence. I may, then, r '% be allowed to take a more personal view of j the question at issue. The further prosecu-1 tion of this subject in the shape it has now j assumed may not only involve my friends, j but the House itself, in agitations which might be unhappy in their consequences to j the country. If these consequences could ! be contined to myself individually, I think j I ant prepared and ready to meet them, here \ or elsewhere; and when I use this language, 1 mean what I say. Hut others must not suffer for me. I have felt more on account of my two friends who have been implicated than for myself, for they have proven that ''there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother." I will not. constrain gentlemen to assume a responsibility on uiy acoAunt xi*lnr?V? th?vv WAnlil tirif nri f li ni ? tvnuu u IIIV.H HIV J IIUIUU livi uu VUVIi own. ^ Sir, I cannot, on my own account, assume the responsibility, in the face of the American people, of commencing a line of conduct which in my heart of hearts I believe would result in subverting the foundations of this government, and in drenching this Hall in blood. No act of mine, and on my personal account, shall inaugurate revolution ; but when you, Mr. Speaker return to your own home and hear the people of the great North ?and they arc a great people?speak of me as a bad man, you will do me the justice to say that a blow struck by me at this time would be followed by a revolution?and this I know. [Applause and hisses in the gallery.] The Speaker announced that if any such demonstrations were repeated, the galleries should be cleared. Mr. Brooks, (turning to the gentleman's gallery.) If T have any friends in the gallery, T appeal to them to be quiet. At the same time, Mr. Speaker, 1 am not willing to see the constitution wounded through me; nor will T submit voluntarily to a wrong if I can avoid it. T will not voluntarily give my name to countenance parliamentary misrule or constitutional aggression. If I am to he tried again for the matter now before us, I will choose my own tribunal. I will appeal from this House to my own con- j stitucnts. If an expression of public opin-1 ion is to be invoiced in my case, let my con- j stitucnts and my fellow-citizens, pronounce ! upon it. From that verdict I will not np-1 peal. The temper of the times is not "fa- j vorablc for a calm and dispassionate judgment of the ease ; and if, by any act of mine, I can save the majority cf this House from the consequencesof a rash decision, the time may come when the good men who are pursuing me?and 1 believe there arc such in i tLe opposition?will admit that I deserve j their thanks for the deed. The axe that is 1 uplifted to strike me may fall upon others, and fall upon them after they have parted with the shield of the constitution to protect them. For myself, T have only to say that if I cannot preserve my self-respect and constitutional rights, together with a seat in this body, I must renounce the last rather than ! the former. T have no desire, sir, to continue an nrgu-1 mcnt which my friends have exhausted.? j The determination of the majority is fixed, j and ,-t is vain to resist it. I will make no j appeal to a packed jury, but protest against j its inconsistencies and its usurpations. During this session the charge was openly made by a member from the State of Pennsylvania, on thisUoor, that another, [Mr. Pearce,] who is his colleague, had been guilty of an attempt to bribe, and no proceedings were instituted in the case. Do the majority of this House propose to instruct the American people, from their high position, that bribery is excusable, and simple assault and battery a crime '( That is the lesson, and yon are the teachers. At the first session of the ' last Cong ess a member leaped from bis scat, and, whi'e the Speaker was in the eliair, he ' passed over several tables towards bis antagonist, who drew a weapon in defence, neither j gentleman was subjected to the censure of' this House. As was appropriately remarked ; by my friend from North Carolina, (Mr. j Clitigmnn,) the assaulting member and it is not for me to say a word against him, for personally I like him has now the most In- j crativc office in the gift of this House, and j was elected by the unanimous vote of tbe very men who are now conspiring to inflict punishment upon me. . And in whose behalf is this extraordinary stretch of coiictitutiuual power invoked Sir, I do not intend to violate any rule of this House, or of parliamentary courtesy, but it eannot be denied that he is,\ntr < xcel/tiiicr, the representative of a sovereignty J which is at this instant in open, statutory rebellion not to a simple rule of a single i House, but to the constitution and laws of the United States of America. .Massachusejts sits in judgment upon nie without a hearing, and presents me for a breach of privilege ! Sir, is it not strange that it did not occur to that sage legislature that its >! in<t,i<l.< upon the Congress of the United .States, re- i lative lo a member, was a greater breach of privilege in them tlnn that complained of in the member himself? What right, sir, has the Legislature of Massachusetts * to make any demand upon this House ? She has not the right of oven instructing the most insignificant member from the State, and has by her resolutions but given additional proof j that sin; neither comprehends the theory of1 our (Jovernment nor is loyal to its authority. I have said, sir, that if I have committed . a breach of privilege, it was the privilege of the Senate. If I. have in any particular violated the privileges or properties of this j House. 1 am unconscious of it, and T chal- j lenge every member to specify a single disorderly or improper act. In my intercourse j with its members I have endeavored to observe a civil and respectful deportment. I rendered prompt and implicit obedience to its constituted authorities, and I can truly i say that which many who have recorded their j votes against me cannot?aud that is, that' never once, in the three years that I have | . " ? 4 -?/ * y. t - ..-x' J *' - - r r ^ . held n seal on thislloor, have Jbeen declared out o" order. If before the transaction for which a majority have declared me to be deserving expulsion, I have offended any officer or member, or been unkind even to an employee, L regret and am ignorant of it. And yet, sir, the vote which has just been taken transmits me to posterity as a man uu worthy, in the judgment of it majority of my peers, of a seat in this Hall. And for what? The member from New .Terse)-, (Mr. Penuiugton,)?the prosecuting member?the thumb-paper member?[laughter]?the Falstnflian member, who, like his prototype, was born about four o'clock in the morning, and if be has not the Laid beau, is graced with the corporal rotundity [great laugh tot*] of his predecessor upon his advent iuto this sublunary world?he says it was for making a ".murderous" assault with a "bludgeon and In?, forsooth, would have this House and the country believe, with an intent to kill. Now, sir, I see that a ytfry respectable and excellent gentleman front .Massachusetts has iu his hand a cane of the ordinary size for a gentleman of his ago, and [ beg him to raise it for the inspection of the fhcinber from New .Jersoy, [Mr 1 >e Witt elevated bis cane] Now, sir, I ask that meiuber to answer as a gentleman?I beg his pardon, that is a word which he cannot comprehend?hut.as a man on the witness stand, is not that cane double the weight and thickness of the one used by me, and which you have impudently and falsely called a "bludgeon ?" Mr. Trafton, (interrupting.) I have noticed several interruptions in the galleries during this discussion, and I wish to move that the Sergeant-at-Arins be directed to clear the galleries [Hissesin the galleries.] Mr. Wheeler. I object. The Speaker. The motion is not in order. The Chair announced some time since, that if 1 here was any further disturbance, the Scrgeant-at-Arms would have orders to cdear the galleries. Mr. II rooks. I again appeal to my friends in the galleries folic quiet. The Speaker. Order nuist, be preserved. Mr. Brooks, (resuming.) It' I desired to kill the Senator, why did not I do it?? \ ou all admit that. 1 had him in my power. Let me tell the member from New Jersey that it was expressly to avoid taking life that 1 used an ordinary ennc, presented to mo by a friend in Baltimore, nearly three months before its application to the''bare head" of the Massachusetts Senator. T went to work very deliberately, as I am charged?and this is admitted?and speculated somewhat as to whether I -hould employ a horsewhip or a cowhide; but knowing that the Senator was my superior in strength it occurred to me that he might wrest it from my hand, and then?fur I never attempt anything I do not perform?I might have been compelled to do that which I would have regretted the balance of my natural life. The question has been asked in certain newspapers, why did T not invite the Senator to personal combat in the mode usually adopted. Well, sir, as I desire the whole truth to he known about the matter, T will for once notice a newspaper article ou the floor of the House, and answer here. My answer is, that T knew that the Senator would not accept a message; and having formed the unalterable determination to punish him, 1 believe that the offence of "sending a hostile message," superadded to the indictment for a>sault and battery, would subject me to legal penalties more severe than would be imposed for simple assault and battery. That is my answer. For this act, which the Senate, with the solitary exception of a distinguished gentleman from Georgia, [Mr. Toombs,] have pronounced me guilty of a breach of its privileges?for the act 1 am complained of by that body to this House. Your committee have declared, and this House has now concurred in the opinion, that my offence is to the Senate and that no rule or order of this body have I violated. Xow, sir, let me ask why the Senate did not protect its own rights ? The argument has been made here that, <.< iim .<sifnh, this IIuUsC must have the power to protect itself. If that principle be true in its application here, why has not the Senate the same powers of protection? lint what i-itrht has this House to punish nie for offences committed out of its presence ? Again, sir, I challenge comparison with any member, aged or young, pious or not, as to the propriety of mv demeanor as a gentleman and a member. They tell me that my responsibility to th.is House is because of the general responsibility which attaches to every member. How far does your authority extend? Across the Potomac ? To my own home ? Why, sir, if I go to my home and find that one of my slaves has behaved badly in my absence, and I direct him to he flogged, 1 may be charged with?to use the language which is familiar here?"crime the blackest and most hoi nous;" and when T come back?and c?une back I will?maybe punished myself for inflicting' a chastisement which, by the common.law and the constitutional laws of my country, I have the right to inflict upon my slave, who is my property. "Where do you stop in this question of authority of the Mouse over its members? As we understand it, there is sense in this authority controlling a member while the House is in session and restraining him from disturbing or cnibarrnssingits pro codlings. If the Government was constitutionally administered, every citizen would have a direct interest in this much. But if your authority goes into the Senate chamber, and even when the Senate is not in session, why should it not go into the ant'e-rooins and down the steps of the Capitol ? Why not pursue me into the avenue?into the steamboat?to my plantation ? I take the gentlemen who have labored for my expulsion on their own declaration. They are committed to it, and they cannot now evade it. They say that my responsibility is not because of any offence committed in tho pre:->j6 - pence of or to this Hcus^Lut because of the I ceneral and necessary authority which the Mouse has over its ineraBfcfs. Now, it seems ! to me that, if my responsibility to this House i for an offence committed elsewhere is because \ j of my membership, it is a logical conclusion 1 ! that toy responsibility ceases when that rela- 1 i tion is dissolved. Whether or not the au-1 i thority of the Senate' reaches me after my i ; relations to this House If^ve terminated, it is ' j not for me now to inquire, but, in justice to ; J myself, T take ocensicrfrrb say to the country, j i llill 11 till* Cl'lliUV uiiw* C)T, I. ?ii<mi i*;cognise its authority. -, l^ow, sir, let, me inform the honornble masters wl\u have been pursuing me so fiercely, that my present at- | titudc was long since foreseen, and that I ! am altogether prepared for any of its eineri gencies. 1 knew with whom I had to deal, and ni)* resignation has been for more than ten days in the hands of the Governor of S. Carolina, to take effect the very instant that I announce my resignation upon this floor. But before I make the announcement, [ desire to say a word or two in reference to what has boon said of me in debate and elsewhere. I saw in some of the New York papers that a certain feminine gentleman from that State I [.Mr. Morgan] had applied to me the term "villian." Well, that was not a word "spoken in debate," and I only allude to it to advertise the indignant gentleman that T have seen the word, and know that it was spoken I in New York, and not here in debate. He j need not be much alarmed ; and, if h'e will i "hold still" when [ get hold of him, I'll not ! hurt him much ; and this is nil that I can ! say about that matter here. Your amiable colleague, (Mr. Knnpp,) ! who was presented by his constituents withj a revolver, intended for my particular bdne fit, yesterday declared that Massachusetts ! would ni>I- n.vn timn mid ulnnn" fn rn. I f*"-" *j sent what he and she both pronouueed to bo ! an insult and injuiy. I do not intend, Mr. Speaker, to utter an offensive, nnkind, or even a rough wurd to that gentleman? for ho is a gentleman, socially, J know?but ; I wish to say this to him, that I will never ; plead the statute of limitations in bar 9!' the ! wrath of Massachusetts. ()n yesterday, however, we had a violent ! demonstration from the gentleman from Connecticut, (Mr Woodruff.) who is now near I me, and who, with his historical accuracy, (?) j has asserted that the bones of Connecticut ! revolutionary soldiers now lie in the valleys | of the sunny South. That member, with a I show of manhood which elicited my admira- 1 I tion, in his written remarks, used the follow- j ing language. : <?Will not this Hall, with too touch rcaj son, continue to he characterized as a <ehan]1 her of assassins,' if we do not now unite to ; rebuke and emphatically condemn this monstrous violation of all honor and decency ? The country demands action, and the times are hot for some expiation of dastardly and brutal outrages, whether committed in the Capitol or on the plains.of Kansas. "If there is not spirit or manliness enough ! here to promptly purge this body by proper | , and constitutional means, at all events let a trial be made ; let the vote come. We .shall then know who dare screen audacity or give | countenance to crime." "Again: "1 court no disturbance ; but the privileges ot his House shall not, so for as I am : concerned, be infringed. With an endeavor ! and design always to cultivate courtesy, I ! shall not hesitate here in my place, or elsc| where, to freely characterise as they deserve any lofty assumptions of arrogance, or any \ mean achievements of cowardice." I And again : ' [say again, let the vote come ; and if ! honorable gentlemen cannot wholly .rid < ! themselves of an unwelcome presence, they j can at least show their appreciation of an action wanting few of the elements of the j most audacious crime, and of a spirit equal j ; to deeds that I shall not name." His conclusion is grandiloquent. It is as ! ; follows : "And let me tell you, Mr. Speaker, that the spirit of true courage in Connecticut still i i lives." ! Well, sir, 1 confess to you that all other considerations escaped me when T heard the j ; expression of so much manhood. He went | through the motions well, nud when he had I finished, T could not resist an expression of | admiration of a spirit with which we have | not recently been familiar, and I involuntar- j j ily arose from my seat and made him a pro-; j found bow. I thought, sir that a gentleman who could ] j utter such sentcutiineDts so handsomely, was ' : a focman worthv of anvbodv's steel, and I I / tf J 7 I * determined, in a very quiet way, to treat | : him as a gentleman, for he spoke like a man. j The very lirst friend who chanced to conic | by me, after the gentleman had concluded, | was my friend from Tennessee, (Mr. Sav-1 J age,) about whom I happened to know some- I | thing in Mexico. lie was the very man T I . wanted ; and I asked him to present my j 1 compliments to the gentleman from Connce- ! i tieut, and say a word quietly in his ear in j my behalf. My friend did so, and here is a I letter giving a report of the interview : Washington City, July 11, 18.50. Dear Sir : I make a brief statement of j the main facts connected with my call on j | the Hon. Mr. Woodruff, of Connecticut, i who spoke to day in the House of Kepresen- j tatives. A few moral -is after Mr. W. con- I eluded his speech, you requested me to bear i him a message. I immediately went round to that part of the House wThere he fiat, just inside of the bar. I told him I wauted to speak with him, nnd we had better walk to the window, which he did. I then said in substance, "Col. l>rooks and his friouda? ?1 C .U?.. ,1 i.?.l uijauii aiuuiig inu nuuiuci?uuufisiouu yuu in your speech to hold yourself out as a fighting man, subject to the laws of honor, and I am requested to present you Col. Brooks' compliments, and inquire whether you are willing to receive a communication from him under the rules of that code?" He replied that he did not intend to be . i is : so understood. He jlid not intend to hold himself out as a fighting man, and if there was anything in his speech that would bear the construction, he, like Col. Bingham, of Ohio, would he ready to explain. I then told him that this declaration on his part ended my mission on the part of Col Brooks; but I would advise him to look over his speech before publication; that I thought if ( he would examine it carefully, he would find points and sentences that would indicate to , a man of honor and sensibility that he did intend to hold hituself out as a I'ghting man, subicot. to the code of honor. Tie venlied that. "he would do so," and thus ended our interview. i I was fully satisfied, as your friend, believing you to be as brave, that it could uot be your duty or inclination to press the matter fi'^her. I am, respectfully, your friend and ? <edicnt servant, John II. Savage. Hon. Preston S. Brooks. Now, sir, I have to say to that member as Tuole Toby (of Tristram Shandy memory) , said to the fly : "Go, little wretch, there is room enough in this world for both you and l, me," ( Immoderate laughter.) Another quotation has just come to me, and I will give him also the benefit of that: "V 'U can hurt 110 man's fame by your ill word; Your pen is just as harmless n? your swovd." I now desire the attention of my qwnrlrtm friend from Massachusetts, (Mr. Coniins.) He alluded in the opening of his speech to our past, personal, and family relations. I have to say to him that my attachments do not set so loosely upon me as to be cast off unnecessarily, and that. I yet take deep interest in the welfare of his excellent family. Had our relative positions been reversed, I should have said nothing, or I should have done more than he has done. From his place in this IIou.sc?in his representative character, and at the time armed to the teeth, and not with a rifle hypocritically and cowardly disguised as a walking cane, and carried in the hand of a paltroon and puppy, but with the genuine article?he quoted the language and endorsed the sentiment of the Chevalier Webb, of poor Jonathan Cilley notoriety, as follows : "Lookiug at it solely as an insult to the country, a trampling upon the constitution, aurl an outrage upon the sanctity of the Senate chamber, it was an outrage which merited death on the spot from any patriot present who was in a position to inflict the punishment." Now, sir, I say to that gentleman that no man has the right to wear aims who does not iutend to use thorn. In my country the cock that crows and won't fight is despised by the hens, and even by the pullets, who know a tiling or two instinctively. (Great laughter.) Ilis chivalrie spurs dwindln before the charges of the chivalrous gout, and his place is?out of sight. I feel, sir, that ' 'the blood more stirs to hunt the lion than to*chase the hare;" but if my qnandom friend has any ambition under the direction of the Chevalier Webb, to play the "patriot," let or 1r.pro.nx Chevalier, separately or together, or backed by the whole black-republican crew, come take the life which they say is forfeited. Now, Mr. Speaker, T have nearly finished what [ intended to say. If my opponents who have pursued nie with unparallelled bitterness, are satisfied with the present condition of this affair, I am. I return my thanks to my friends, and especially to those who are from the non-slavcholding States, who have magnanimously sustained me, and felt that it was a higher honor to themselves to he just in their judgment of a gentleman than to be a member of Congress for life.? In taking my leave, I feel that it is proper that I should say that I believe some of the votes which have been east against me have , been extorted by an outside pressure at home, and that their votes do not express , the feelings or opinions of the members who gave them. To such of these members as have given their votes and made their speeches on the , constitutional principles involved, and with- , out indulging in personal vilification, I owe ( my respects. But, sir, tboy have written me down upon the history of the country as , worthy of expulsion, nud, in no unkindess, I must tell them that, for all future time, my , relf respect requires that I shall pass thein , as strangers. ] And now, Mr. Speaker, I announce to you and to this House, that I am no longer , a member of the Thirty Fourth Congress. | [Mr. Brooks then walked out of the F~use | of Representatives, and was soon surrounded | by his friends.] APPENDIX. The imprudence of evil disposed persons, who by newspaper articles and in private ( conversations, have done injustice both to j ( the linn. Mr. Burlinghamennd myself, rtn- J dors it necessary that tin1 subjoined mentor-, ( anda should be appended to my speech :? j j "Mr. Burlinghame in a fair and manly . way, admitted his responsibility for any lan-: gunge used in his speech, and disclaimed j any intention to reflect upon the personal j! character of Mr. Brooks or to impute to '1 him in any respect a want of courage; but j' discriminating between the man and the act; I to which he was called upon to allude, he ; 1 had characterised the latter only in such j I manner as his representative duty required \ him to do." The above is a statement made by Mr. ll Burlinghame in reference to the passage in his late speech which referred to Mr. 1 Brooks. It is the handwriting of Mr.-Spca- f her Banks, and was acknowledged by Mr. * Burlinghame in our presence, and was satis- t factory to us as friends of Mr. Brooks. c W. W. Boyce, ? \ Tii. S. Bocock." July 15, 185G. , 11 *. t JSST 'Doctor/ said a loquacious lady, 'why j have I lost my teeth?' 'You have worn a them out with your tongue, ma'am/ replied t the dentist. The Iudy vamosed. g ' - "* -,-isr"r t -id/' Select Ipsrdlan]). From the Southern Presbyterian. YORKVILLE F. C. INSTITUTE. The annual examination of the Yorkville Female Collegiate Institute and other exercises of its Grst commencement took place an the 1st and second days of July. Ittras my good fortune to be present on that occa:inii nnrl tn Tritnosc ill ite OTor^iooa A rn. riety of considerations influence me to make a statement ot' my impressions of this Tnsti- 1 tut ion, and its claims as a place of educa- 1 tion. Yorkvi 11c is situated on a high and heal- ' thy ridge, and has always been a village rath- 1 er distinguished for its moral tone and the i steady habits of its citizens. Since its con- " ncclion with Columbia by Railroad, itsgrowth 1 has been rapid. Many of those who have 4 been added to its population are among the I hotter citizens of the country. There arc in * the town five churches, viz : a Methodist, 1 Presbyterian, Independent Presbyterian, Associate Heformed, and Episcopal. AtitsAu- | tumual sessions in 1852, Bethel Presbytery look incipient measures to establish an institution of high order for the education of fe- . males. Yorkville was subsequently chosen . as the place for its location, and the Rev. J. 1 M. Anderson was appointed Principal of this C school. Under his guidance with the ener- c getic co-operation of a Board of Trustees chosen by the Presbytery, a beautiful location was procured in the village and a building j sufficient for the accommodation of three hundred pupils has been completed. At the i recent commencement a classof eleven young | ladies received diplomas. In the progress of this Institution the corps of instructors have been increased to seven. Those now connected with it arc the following: Mr. Anderson, the Principal, a native of York District, and a graduate of the South Carolina College. He abandoned the practice of law in Yorkville with flattering prospects in that profession, and was licensed to preach by Bethel Presbytery in the fall of ISifi. lie was subsequently pastor of the churcli at Ebenezcr till compelled by disease to abstain measurably from public speaking. ? He now fills the professorship of Rhetoric, Evidences of Christianifv. Tntellpctnnl Phi losophy, &c., in the Institution, which he contributed much to'originate aud bring to its present position.. His method of teaching shows that he has somewhere made the intimate acquaintance of Dr. Thornwell. The Rev. James M. IT. Adams fills the professorship of Mathematics. He is a na- ] tivc of York District, and a graduate of the ( University of Georgia while that institution > was under tlie Presidency of Dr. M.. Wad- ] dell. After leaving college he spent sonije j time in teaching, and completed a regular , course in the Theological Seminary in-.Co- | liimbia." Since that time he has constantly . been engaged in the work of the ministry in , North Carolina and this State. In the j Spring oi* ISO! he, took charge of the church ( in Yorkvillo and established a school of which I he present college is but an expansion. ] Mr. Matthew Elder is professor of Ancient l Languages and the Natural Sciences. Mr. , Elder is a native of Chester District, a Ru- , ling Elder of the Associate Reformed church } aud au instructor of long experience in his , native District. His scholarship, skill and , fidelity are beyond qucstipn. , Miss Anna Warner Curtis teaches the French language, Natural History, History, , Music, or ahythiogelsc that may be needful ( in the regular course of college studies. Miss Curtis has had a considerable experience as j an instructress in New York and various parts of this State, and everywhere has pro- ( ved herself highly efficient in the business ( of instruction. The department of music is under the ( special direction of Professer Ivern assisted by the Misses Underwood and Curtis. Of ( the qualifications of this corps, 1 am not com- f petcnt to speak with confidence; being a [ stranger to all but the last, and having no ( skill in music. Their instructions have, how- t ever, given entire satisfaction to the comniu- [ nil.y and patrons of the Institution. In ad- a dition to her services in the department of \ music, Miss Underwood gives instruction in c drawing, painting and other branches of or- f nninontal education in which her services are \ highly appreciated. c The preparatory department is under the a direction of Miss MeElwee, a young lady of j fine accomplishments, and who, also, is said 2 to have received a very substantial educa- ^ Lion. 0 The examination and other exercises of t the occasion, made the impression on iny d mind, that the instructions imparted in this c institution arc solid ; of the kind adapted to dc *cl 10 the intellectual powers and train :hc n.:jri to close application, and that pa- 1 rents who wish their daughters taught to c hiuk for themselves; and to reason corrccty, may safely entrust them to the care of v licse who have charge of this Institution. The location is fortunate. The building p stands in a beautiful prove, having the town n front and a majestic forest in the back tj ground. The religious privileges are am- | )le. In addition to the religious instruc- _ v # # IT ions afforded in the Institution itself, the mpils have access to all the churches in own. There is a weekly prayer-meeting and p sabbath school in the Presbyterian church, I md preaching every babbath day. There is no Steward's hall in which young h adies are required to board. But the pre- si >aratiotis for receiving boarders are ample, ol dr. Anderson resides within a few yards of ai he college building, and is prepared to re- II :eivc a considerable number into bis family. 5J number of families witlijn a convenient fa listancc, are prepared-and willing to accomuodate boarders on reasonable terms. With ] hese families young ladies, may not only en- " oy comfort) but many advantages for soeia] nd religious improvement. With t^em gi heir morals and deportment are carefully at yarded. _ si *' . rP v-: ' * Some twelve months ago Bethel Prpsby-' ery thought proper to tender a part of {hie? " iversigbt of this institution to one of the " At' Presbyteries of the Associate Beformed Syiod of the South ; a Presbytery covering; in jart the same territory with Bethel. TKa? . 4 Presbytery has accepted the tender and is tow a joint patron with Bethel in sustaining his Institution. The attendance of pupil* las always been large. The collegiate year rear closed with one hundred and fifteen, and ' uture prospects are very favourable for a arge increase. The present. Senior class lumbers 27, all of whom, it is understood, Till return and finish the course. In passing among the friends of the Institution during the exercises of its first com' ^ lienccment, I heard but one opinion in xerard to it: "It has done well and nobly." Many contemplate greatly increased facili,ies not only to meet the present wants of -" he Institution .and enable it to maintain its . jrcsent respectable position, but'to elevate if ;o ground still higher and higher, till it liects every desideratum of female educa,ion. What is to hinder the two Presbyte- ies, and the town in which it is loofttecf, rom putting together their strehgtb, a^weU^ . ^ is their wisdom, and lifting it right up .to lie first class of Institutions in oar country?. [ doubt whether it is now surpassed by any n the State in substantial advantages, Jbufc I * ;an see that its facilities can be greatly in-w . :reased. "Visitor. LOSING AN INFANT. A beautiful and touching poem by Lowell contains a lesson of consolation'wbfbl^^v Till win its way to many a bereaved hcfcrt. ,1 [t was addressed to a female friend,-whd seen called upon to part with a belp^ed^;'^^'r < :hild. We extract from it the following^ story of the Alpine sheep : ' 'They in the valley's sheltering care, .' ^ 'vi iSoon crop the meadow's tender prime, e- ''\ And when the sod grows brown and bare ;' . The shepherd strives to make them climb. ^ 'To airy shelves of pasture green \ That hang along the mountain side. ^ jk> Where grass and flowers together lean, *" And down through mist-the sunbeam slide. V w *" " r\ Vi' But nanght can tempt the timid things " That steep and rugged path to try, , Tliough sweet the shepherd calls and sings And seared below the pastures lie. ' '1r Till in his arms their lambs he takes, . Along the dizzy verge to go, ' Then, heedless of the rifts and breaks, < .>& Thev follow on. o'er rock and snow.-. 1 - - ? 'And in those pastures lifted ftur, More dewy soft-tban lowland mead,!... / The shepherd drops his tender care, And sheep and lambs together feed.' There is truth, too, as well as pathos and(^j|. beauty in the following paragraph and abmmpahying comments of a cor temporary.? * rhe dead child ! What bereaved parent's iieart but feels to its inmost core the dread- ^ ml significance of those words, so light and' * inimportant to the common ear ? How many learts there are around us" whose chambers ire desolate, aDd whose portals sits themsk tncboly raven, uttering?"Nevermore !' 'Let ;hem read these words of hope and consolsion : . ? ' * "Losing an Infant.?Those who have ost an infant arc never, as it were, without' in infant child. The other children ?rew jp to manhood and womanhood, and suffer ill the changes of mortality j but this oneV ilone is rendered an immortal child ; for ' leath has arrested it with his kthdly hareh?^^4" oess, and blessed it into an eternal image, of fouth and innocence/ "We know not who is the author of the ibovc thought, but it is as beautiful as it is . ;rue. Many a mother, who has wept in pas-_rvv? donate agony over a dead babe, has lived tb> ove the memory of the lost one better than^ she loves the survivors. We speak no.t how )f the unhappy instances, when those .whooi^ .1 a i j A- i.. .leaui uua spuruu grow up 10 ue ine pain < i parent's existence, but of the mofo'-fre- " juent cases where the ties of gratitude?, so itrong in childhood, gradually.become weaki\ ?* ?ned by absence, where the mother is almost' ^ 'orgotten by the child, where babe gro,ir nto the stern hearted and emotionlfess )n such occasions the parent .can scarcely-^ ealize that thesteru, selfish man whastands. ' icfore her, was the babe she dandled in" her irms, and who then smiled gratefully '.upon > ler, and she may well recall, as she often Iocs, the infant who died, and who still is tp ler the prattling, happy babe. Thus/ even j|, 11 sorrow there is consolation. We lay the**-1* ihild in the tomb, and weep tears of agony s we do it; but we forget what temptations t. escapes, what changes it is preserved from, i. for is that all. We doubt if there is 'a ' nother livingwho docs not love best to think f her children as pure and holy infants, han as men full grown, even though honors nay thicken around them, and thousands all them great.' Most Melancholy Occurrence.?It ;rieves us to the heart, (says the Edgefield Idrertixer,) to have to record a most melan- J. holy occurrence which took place ia our illage on Monday night last. -/We allude 5 the death of Mr. J. Henry Christian, who -as shot in a sudden affray by Mt. George ). Tillman and pvnirod vprvsnnn nftorwnrdfl 'he verdict of the jury of inquest was, that ic deceased came to his death by the disbarge of a pistol in the hands of G. D. Tilllan. . .. We forbear all comment. The affair,svte- resume, will undergo judicial.invcstiga^on.,'. . 'or tho present, hovever, Tillman has loft ad is not yet arrested. Mr. Christian was well known to us, as e had been for several years engaged in jperintending a number of^mechanics andtlier hands in our employment, JWe drop a unfeigned tear of regret at h^Sad fate.? [e was an independent and an honest man. [ay God protect his widowed; relict and therless daughters 1 - 1 * ' ^ imi ? . jgjuThe Newbnryjport' Herald says:? Three quarters of all the mechanics in merica are worlcing themselves to death lyfortb.e.'follies of fashion for themsbrof id their families." That's a fact, and V iame,'too.