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& ' ^ V* " t. ? ?hs - ^ samNlLwMmelton jProprietors. An Independent Journal: For the Promotion of the Political, Social, Agricultural and Commercial Interests of the South. j lewis m. gkist, publisher. VOL. 2. YORKVILLE, S. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1856. NO. 42. dHjMtc |)ottnj. THE HISTORY OF A HEART. Go?spread the whole wide universe Before your spirit, us a chart; You'll find no sadder study than The history of one human hea t; Behold it thrilling with delight? Then bound with misery's heavy chain : Wo have in sooth one common heart, Whose common heritage is? pain. In youth it strews the earth with tlowers, And sees but cloudless skies above : But soon there rises from its depths The Pre fence <>/* ih< wirburn Lore J A dim, delightful vision o'er The mirror of the soul is thrown: We own the magic of a glance? We feel the music of n tone. We stand in Beauty's smile, nor see The dark clouds glooming overhead; The bolt descends?the light returns? But the sweet hopes of youth are tied; Aral all is desolate within, Aud all is cold and dull without, . A shadow rests upon the mind? One feeling?universal doubt. And virtue seems an idle sound, ileligiou but a worldly strife, And love a frenzy of the brain? The Beautiful has gone from life Another hour?another change? Love takes ambition's steruer name, And from the chaos of the heart l/pspriues the bright creation?FainJt wearies?ami the laurel crown, Like a vile weed, i? tlung aside ; The hope of glory is fultill'd, Grown chill and harden'd into Pride Xext comes the lesson of contempt? To walk alone amid the crowd : Fate stands between us and our will? It yields, aud pride itself is bow'd. Yet in that lone and dreary hour A soiace to uic uvnu js " For Ifoj? has vanished from the earth ; But "out/fit its native home in lit arm Its voice is heard within the sou!, It caluis the tempest of despair ; The shadow passes from the brain, And, lo ! the love of Oo>l is there Oil. it is sad our human heart Must know the gloomiest moral night, 'Till, purified from earthly stain, It struggles into perfect light Then spread the whole wide universe Before your spirit as a chart, The strangest mystery of all Is that dark scroll?the human heart. political. From the Edgefield Advertiser. THE BROOKS DINNER. The Dinner, given on Friday last in honor of our Congressional Representative, was a complete success. The number of persons present was variously estimated at from five to eight thousand. Jne gentleman, who attended the King's Mountain Celebration, remarked that he thought the crowd at 'DO equal to the one which assembled on that occasion; and this we believe was put by some at ten thousand. The reporters of the Ord, however, agreed upon G000 as a fair estimate. J.... ? bright no?rAnnlilp nno. -L lie Uttjr true a mu^uv ; the place selected for the dinner extensive and well-arranged, the stand lor speaking i admirably located at the foot of an inclined plain thoroughly shaded by a grove of handsome oaks, the stand itself amply and strongly built, the barbecue pits in the background skilfully manned and managed, and every thing conducted from the start in the most remarkable good order. This indeed was kept up throughout the day ; for down to 5 o'clock iu the afternoon, we had not heard a drunkeu whoop, nor seen a drunkcu face. By 10 o'clock almost all had arrived on the ground, eager to witness the entire ceremonies of the oceasiou. A little after that hour an avenue of human beings was formed, from the '90 Hotel to the Sftand, some two hundred yards in length and from two to live thick on either side. Through this living street, Hon. Preston S. Brooks, arm in arm with Gov. Ai>ams aud attended by a number of distinguished guests, approached the platform at a 1 to 11, the whole cortege preceded by the Edgefield Brass Band aud directed by Maj. Z. W. C'arwile, acting Chief Marshal of the day. Then came the rush of the vast multitude towards the centre of attraction, and forthwith the exercises and actings of the hour * commenced in good earnest. After a few appropriate introductory re murks by Dr. Cain, President of the Day, General Samuki, McGowan advanced tc the desk and delivered, in a most impressive manner, the Oration the Committee of Arrangements had devolved upon him. It was altogether the happiest effert we had evei heard from this geutlemau, and produced a marked effect upou his immense audience.? lie spoke of the gratitude, so strongly manifested by the passing demonstration, as the rightful meed of a faithful representative, lie drew a distinction between the personal compliment it conveyed and its bearings as a solemn duty imposed upon a spirited con stitueney. He ably sketched the history oi the .Slavery agitation, in the course of whicl he alluded in truly eloquent terms to the war which brought us new territory froir , Mexico. During his comments upon the Kansas-Nebraska bill, a voice from the erowc exclaimed?"Let us fight"?repeating the expression several times with vehemence.? He spoke of the present Presidential strug gle, and, in regard to our duty in the mat ter, remarked?"While we shall certainh cast our vote for Buchanan, as a worthy standard-bearer of the sound democracy, w< will also war to the knife against that mixet rabble of Freemonsters, Freesoilers, Free negi es and Freebooters, who would blast and blacken iu ruins the fair fabric of A luerican Liberty."?This sentiment wa: warmly received. General McGowan fur ther depicted the Sumnf.r affair iu a man ner at once feeling and graphic; and, in con elusion, presented to Col. Brooks a splendid golden goblet from the citizens of Ab beville, a massive silver one from Laurens and several sticks from other sources. Oth er testimonials were presented by other gen tleraen. "We understand that a pair of ele gant duelling pistols were on the ground fo I the Col's acceptance; but this was managee in private. After Geo. McGowak's address and th< J presentation of complimentary gifts, Hon. j P. S. Brooks made his appearance upon < j the front part of the platform, and was re- i " ceived with shouts and huzzas of enthusias- < ' tic. Much affected by this unmistakcable s ; manifestation of a most heartfelt approbation, he begau his speech in words of gratitude which his deep emotion scarcely allow- ! < cd him to express. But gradually warming j s with the thoughts that filled his bosom, he ' I at length took up his train of argument and , t for more than au hour enchained the atten- J < , tion of his hearers iu one of his best and j ] , most tasteful efforts. We have before us j 1 ' many notes taken down at the time; but, s I fearing we should do injustice to the speak-, t j cr by any meagre report of his remarks, we j t ! will not now make use of tlicui. In the con- j j elusion of his speech, Col. Brooks said : i | "The crisis is indeed upon us. The plans) ' of Black Republicanism are laid for uur ruiu j j aud degradation before the world. And, j i my fellow-citizens, will you submit to their ; I I rule ? Xo, you will not. Your honor, your , 1 , pride, your interest, your home affections, I I your religion, your best hopes of the future, : 1 j all prompt and will compel you to meet the j 1 | danger. How will you do it? I answer, j t tear up the already tattered Constitution, i f ; scatter its frairmcuts to the winds, aud i 'L jFOllM A SOUTHERN COXFKDKRA-! j CY. (fi'rcot Oft]/?ante.) But no one .State :11 i can, in uiy opinion, break up this Union.? j f . We need and must have southern co-opera-' v [ tiou to ensure our safety aud our triumph. . F That co-operation circumstances are rapidly j i bringing about. As for South Carolina, let; v j her, in the language of one whose ability is * j not rightly valued by his State, "stand as j o an armed knight, with her lance couched j ^ -111.5 nv.ii.ir fnoflinv ., 115 vnri n or in llnl- Tlllimn " ' ? | ....V! V.V.J .V.....V. ... ~v. J-.-?. i lie was for the Youth's doing something do- 11 I cisive to sever the 1'nion. If Fremont we?e j j elected, a good opportunity might arise. "If!s : we strike, let us make a rush and strike the * i lirst blow." lie was ready, and other mili- 11 | tary gentlemen around him were equally so, p to take command of any forces in any field that might be assigned him, if it became a necessary to assert our rights in battle array. Col. IJi.ooks ended with a classical com- ' . plimeut to the Hon. Honkut Toomjjs, of ! Georgia, who had honored the occasion with |11 | his distinguished presence. And amidst i ^ deafening cheers of welcome that gentleman P l J ' arose for the first time before a Carolina au* " dicuce. Mr. Toomjjs began iu choice terms of j ^ I compliment to the State of South Carolina, ^ j and at once launched out into a speech of i ; great power and effect upon the political to- i pics of the crisis. To say that he came up j j* j to the expectations of his audience, would j : not be enough. He rose high and higher j' 1 above them as he proceeded, until, excited ; ^ by his own rapid and clear reflections, he put forth a scries of sentiments, some poin- '' ted, some eloquent, all inimitable, which ^ were received by the entire assemblage with round after round of uproarious applause.? ! The stenographers ceased to take notes, the 1 crowd drew closer and closer together, the babblers on the outskirts stopped talking, ^ j even the ladies' fans became motionless, and ^ j all were intent upon the fine features and ^ : flowing oratory of the great Georgia Senator. ; lu tuc worus oi oue wno listened to mm witn ^ 1 absorbed attentiou, lie made "more tenstrikes in a quarter of au hour than any man ever did before iu South Carolina." To see 'j 1 and hear him was a high gratification to all present; and thousands will re-welcome Georgia's distinguished son to our midst, if ever circumstances shall induce him to make " . li oue ot us airain. I w iv I Dinner was now proclaimed, and the nc-1 g( i ccssary business of eating at once commen-j ^ i cod. Four tables, each one hundred yards ' ? j lung, were in readiucss for the multitude ; ^ i j geucrally; while three other tables in a dif- j _ II fereut part of the grounds awaited the lauies, j * their attendants and the invited guests. The , feast was abuudautly and superbly prepared. Every oue had enough, and all were satisfi- ^ ed. It was, iu fact, a noble barbecue, mu- q nificeutly provided and thoroughly cooked. t] i At the bidding of Mr. Cooper, the chief c j superinteudant of the cookiDg department, g we walked up and down the extensive pits tj ( just as everything was nearly done. Never ^ ; have we looked upon a more glorious display j of browu smoking meats, uever snuffed au j { atmosphere more heavily fraught with high[ j ly-scasoued odors, never saw a display of the ^ j kiud so remarkable fur its superabundance a i and excellence. i J ; But dinner is ended, and our beloved ! j Senator, Judge Butler, occupies the stand. The Judge did not essay to make a rcgu-! p 1 i lar speech, reserving himself, as he said, for | a ; I some other occasion, lie would drop a few ' i -1 reflections at present, but without enlarging, I f= f i After allusions to the general politics of the , '-I i day, he came to the question?"If Fremont |< ; j be elected, what then V He spoke of the ? i man. He coutemned him in every light, e ;' "By birth a Georgian, [Mr. Tooms, "No, o I: no !"] by education a Carolinian, by trade i s ;! a Black Ilepublican, and in his life a Cos- j - j mopolite, he had never done anything to i t - entitle him to a stand of any prominence t -; whatever before the country. He had never I j j filled a single civil post of any consequence, f j j He had never held a military office from v j j which he was not dismissed. ITe had tiev- j ? 1 : er fought a battle?had never done anything \ .c .! of note, except, perhaps, his crawling over ! t t j the Bocky Mountains as an adventurer. If j e . i such a man were elected, who. at the South, ! c ; | would accept his offices? Who execute his ' . i edicts? What then V' The Senator here d I went on to suggest that, in the event of Fre- b wont's election, the Governors of the scve- s ral Southern States call their Legislatures 1 i - together to take counsel of duty and princi- i r , pie in the emergency. He was averse to a -; connecting bloodshed and civil war with j 1 j any separation that might become necessary. I a -1 He was for taking the high ground of Right | b r and acting out our part with the elevated a 1 calmness of a great people wisely maturing ? great ends. But he was still for prompt and i I effectual aotioa. < Tlie Judge's remarks weie, as usual, for- J nble and pertinent throughout. The late- j aess of the hour, however prompted him to J jut them short, with the promise of exprcs-1 ting himself more fullv before his return to . Washington. After he had taken his seat, one common ?all for (Governor A hams arose on every side, to which his Excellency yielded with :he ease and grace so natural to him at all ;imes. Stepping to the rostrum, he deliver- \ id a really beautiful speech, not exceeding , 15 minutes in length, but just the thing 'rom beginning to end. The wearied nsictubly were again electrified, and the day mded as it had betiun, spiritedly and enhusiasticallv. Much more would we say ; but our space j s lilled. TIIE UNION IS IN DANGER'! We copy the following eloquent and iui- j >re?sivc article from tlie Providence (11. I.) .'est:? "Tiik Union is Sthainino hkr Fasten- ; nils !"?Such is the language of (he old j ine Whigs of Baltimore, in an address to he people: ''The Union is straining her h listenings, and calls upon all patriotic citiens to come fo her rescue.*' i Truer words, it is our honest belief, were j icvcr spoken. The Union is sfraiuing her i astenings. The storm of fanaticism, now 11 rildly raging in sixteen States, threatens to 11 art her fastenings and carry her clown. ! i Our readers will boar us out in saying that : re arc not an alarmist. We have never ! hrcatened tire and sword, nor heeded threats 1 f civil war or disunion from others. We i lave had faith in the Union?in its stability i ?and almost in its eternity. Wo believe, t iow. that it is destined to stand. 11 Put we do not believe that it. could loug h urvivc the triumph of bitter sectionalism in I < he election of John (.'. Fremont. We do j 1 lot believe that any family can be prolitably i ept together after the members of it have i i llustrated their hatred of each other by opeu j i els of hostility. j I The question of the continuance of the i Jnioti is now reduced to this simple ques- j I iou : Whether the black Republican party, i a its avowed hostility to the .South, actualy represents the North, or a majority of the eople of the North ? This question will be ccided in November. If it is decidedly in the affirmative, then j re shall say unhesitatingly that the great | low of disunion has been struck. The I outli will not wait to be "sub/ngatetl." If j ill never trust itself to the tender mercies i f a party whose very existence rests upon j atrcd of it< people and hostility to its in- j titutions. Men of Rhode Island, you may as well )ok this fact squarely in the face! Xa /{/'?en Stat>s rf this f "niou?northern, southrn, eastern, or western?will sr. , submit to r tjorerncil hi/ si.rtmi olio r States, whose >'i'i'illpli has lui ii seeur 1 hi/ appeals tu prefliliccs ai/a iust their institutions and hp /notarnations of host!lit// to their citizens! Should John C. Fremont take the presiential chair to-day as the representative of lie party which placed him in nomination, nd which supports him by appeals to secional feelings and prejudices, lie would have ) sit there without a single cabinet officer rom any Southern State! Xa man in the ynith, with a partie/c of reputation, wonhl 'arc to accept, or wonhl want to accept an pjiointiiii lit as one of his ath'isirs! Could a President thus circumstanced adlinister the government thirty days '! Could c o command the respect of the army or ua-, i y thirty hours? Would Congress ever as- j i cuible to legislate for the country ? "With j c liirty senators and ninety representatives j?. oluntarily absent, what would its legislation j i e worth? With a cabinet and all the ini- j t ortant officers of the government appointed ; 'J rom the North, how long, think you, could j t liatgovernment be sustained? I \ It is folly to talk at such a time as this of i \ lie importance of the l uiori to the South, j o far as maintaining slavery is eoneerucil, j c lie South gains nothing by the I'liion, if we j xeept the occasional return of a fugitive.? j I lavery would stand on a firmer basis with j { be T'uion dissolved than it. does to-day. It i rould only have to expatriate its thousands f f free negroes, and send them North in a c ingle avalanche, to place itself beyond the < each of internal disaster. This done, the i Vest, followiug its rivers, would become its a lly: and in less than three years, A~*ic En- \ i fa ml icotdd stand ufom:?bankrupt un<! j 1 '?/ '< mx h ss. I t T ' We are told sometimes that it is not the j ( iurpose of Mr. Fremont and his friends to j t ttack the institutions of the South through j c lie machinery of the government. This asurance, sincere or not, is worth nothing.? ? die South kuows irhat (lmparty i>, and ?<7<o < fx leaders are, and ichaf is dm food it fires j 1 pan. And it will never wait?mark our 11 ords!?it will never wait to test the truth | < f this declaration. It has too much at j t take. 1 We shall not stop here to remark upon I i he vast importance and value of the T'nion j t o Rhode Island. It seems to us that a half! ] ilind fanatic must perceive it. As a raanu-11 acturing and commercial state, wnat could t cc do, even in a confederacy of all the free , t States? What could we do without the ' j south ? To say nothing of political and na- ; i ional weakness, what should we be as r. 11 ommercial and a manufacturing people thus i ( ut oil* from our best market ? j? We caution our people again not to he ; s leceived by the syren song of such as would lave us believe that the Union cannot be dis- j < olved. The necessity of separation is be-1 1 ug forced upon us by the action of the black-1 epublican abolition party. All the South ' < sks to know is, whether that party correct- . y represents the North. If it. does, then it 1 sserts and we believe that the breach has j i lecome a fixed fact. To cry peace at such i i time is a crime of which we will not be i juilty. "The Union is straining her fasten- ] ngs, and calls upon all patriotic citizens to i leme to htr rescu# I" 1 Select $fabntg. DIES IE.?. This well-known lyric, written by Thomas do f'elano, is perhaps the most, perfect in existence, combining, says the Church of England Quarterly, a perfect meter with perfect theology and perfect power. It. is perfect in its meter, because of the grand ma-1 jest)* of its scansion, so .^eminently fitted for its subject, ami especially because of the ternary rhyme, which falls, as it has been said, like the blow of a mighty hammer upon ihe heart, clinehiog each word irresistibly. It is perfect in its theology; for the aspect under which it represents the Judg-1 meut Day is one very prominent in Holy ! Scriptures. Tt is true that we are cncour-1 aged to think of it as the commencement of ! our eternal rest with Christ, and that beneath the shadow of His Cross we have no need for excessive alarm; but yet the invariable tenor of the passages in which the New Testament speaks of it, is one of solemn warning, as though we had to work out our < own salvation with fair and tambl'uuj, for ! "if the righteous samr/y be saved, where J shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?" Moreover, v.e know not what language but! that of this hymn could bo fitting for a penitent, in tlie the thought of coming retribu-! tion. Lastly, it is perfect, so far as a hymn j c-an be so, in its powerful meaning: it sounds : as the knell of the vanities of earth, and shines like a lurid beacon-light at an unknown distance in an unknown sea; it carries our souls forward on its tumbling thun- , dors to that last dreadful night of Time when j the vials of God's wrath shall be poured ful- I ly out, when the great white throne shall be | =et for judgment, and the ark of God's i Church be borne over the surge of the de- ] luge of flame to its heavenly haven. Of this wonderful hymn there have been ] many English versions. Here wc copy, from I the periodical above named, part of another j trauslatiou, which gives, we think, a better j idea of the force and rytlini of the original than any we have previously met with : ' | "Day of wrath ! 0 day of mourning! f? ?c once iiiore the Cross returning. Heaven and earth in ashes burning ! "0 what four man's bosom rcndeth, When from hciivcu the .Tu<lfso desccnJeth, On whose sentence all dcpeudcth! "Wondrous sound the trumpet flingcth, Through earth's sepulchres it vingetb, All before the throne it bringeth. "Death is struck, nnd nature .pinking. All creation is awaking; To it-Judge an answer making ! "Do. the Hook, exactly worded 1 Wherein a!i lufth been recorded ; Tlicncc shall judgment be awarded. "What shall I. frail man, be pleading? Who forme be interceding? , When the just are mercy needing. "Righteous Judge of vctrihntion, j; Grant Thy gift of absolution, ( Ere that rcck'ning day's conclusion. "Guilty, now I pour my moaning ; i All my shame with anguish owning : . Sparc, 0 God, thy suppliant groaning! "Worthless are my prayers and sighing, Vet, good Lord, in grace complying. Rescue me from fires undying!*' Correspondence of the Xew Orleans Delta. I ^ IN MEMORIAM--J. C. CALHOUN, j "Washington, Sept. 19. 11 Leaving the dust and excitement of the i < :ity proper, I bent my steps the other even- j i tig to Capitol Hill, seeking a house which j i s now tcnantless, situated opposite the north-!: last corner of what are called the "rear ! < grounds of the Capitol." This is a misno-!1 ncr. The front of the Capitol is actually ' 1 o the cast, the hack being turned to the city. 11 Phis singular arrangement is an apt illustra- j < ion of the American character and of the j i iredilcctions of Calhoun, to whose memory j1 ve purpose devoting the letter. ,1 When the city of Washington was laid : iff, the ground front was eastward, towards i Maryland. The cxhorbitnnt price demanded , < or lots bv the holders uf real estate drove ; I )urcha.scrs into the Potomac valley, immc- i ] liately in the "rear" of ihc original "plot" ! or the Capitol. In this "valley" is now the j I >ity of Washington, with its avenue, Presi-; i leaf's house, and other Oovernmunt build- i 1 ugs. The Capitol, with its back turned on j < ill this, on the Potomac, on the public build- | ] ugs, on the city proper, on the White House, ooks from its frout out upon a few dimiuu- ( ,ive, scattered buildings, and at its northsast corner, upon the tenement from whence he soul of John C. Calhoun, of South Car)lina, departed this world forever. I The evening I took my way to this shrine, ] 'acred to every States Rights man, was splen- | lid and inspiring. Before me stretched the j )eautiful Potomac. I stood on the terrace i * vhere the immortal Southerner walked of sveuings, his arms folded, his back turned 11 :o the North, the gaze of his deep grey eyes [, jending southward, and his great mind look- j < ng calmly and clearly into our political fu-! i ure. Below me lay the city, busy with its j i jartisan strife. The Washington monument, {| i broken, unfinished shaft, barely reaches ] he sky-line of the opposite hills. The Capi- < :ol behind me remains unfinished. The sun i ;oes down over the heights of Georgetown, i ir.d the full moon "divides the day with < dim," as she floats into the sky, shedding j, lown upon the Tomb of Washington the :ame light, which, iu a few hours later, will : i silver the peaks of the Pyramids of Egypt, j: It was a fitting time to visit the spot where j i Calhoun breathed his last. The house is j low. being only two stories high, and in IS- i M),'o0,'51, wasocoupied mostly by the South i' Carolina delegation, with a few select friends, j As you enter there is a large, airy, comforta- i ble room. This was Mr. Calhoun's apart-11 tueut. Here he was accessible to his friends j ind admirers, whom he received without for-' rnality or ceremony, and yet with a dignity pleasing to those who approached him, and a part of the man and his high position. It has been my good fortune to meet, personal . ly, nearly all the great men on the public stage from 1S48 to this time?General Taylor, Scott, Clay, Webster, Everett, Marcy, Pierre, Crittenden, Douglas, Cass, and a number of others?in America, and many of the celebrities of Europe. Of all these Calhoun is the only one in whom was realized the ideal before formed by the mind.? Actual contact only dignified him. There was no frivolity?no littleness?nocarthincss about the man. Admiration and awe increased with every interview. Even in regard to Mr. Clay, actual acquaintance diminished the respect which distance had given to the mind. So also with Mr. Wehstcr. Calhoun was an exception to all other men in this particular, realizing our idea of an intellectual and moral hero completely, and sustaining that ideal which we all form of great men before seeing them. i will retrain trom a notice ot tiie L.uiioriiia i struggle iu 1850?of Calhouu's opposition t ?of his last, sad, solemn, heart-broken ap- c peal to his beloved South. Party men, par- t ty presses and party exigencies?the same s causes which drowned his voice then, con- 2 spire to shut out a tribute to his political t rectitude now. We have only to do with t the dead. f The approaching dissolution of the great j 1 man was anticipated. Partisans at the South i c tried to take the people by the throat, and ' r force them into party ranks. The people, ! a however, continued to wait for every breath t of news from Washington. "Calhoun is , dying," sighed like the wail of universal , 1 sorrow over the land. "Calhoun is dying," 11 came like the news of death iu a household i t upon the hearts of the true men of the I <1 South. "Calhoun is dying," was echoed j t through the pine and magnolia glades of f South Carolina?from plantation to planta- v tion, from city to city, from house to house, c from heart to heart, until the cry, "Calhoun s is dead," fell at last on the Southern car, ? telling of hopes lost, of honor undefended, ' of a future gloomy as it was awfully cer-! 1 tain. j t Calhoun met death as only a good and j ? great man can meet it. His intellect was |fclear to the last. Love for his country?love ( for his kind?love for the Constitution of 2 the Union, breathed in his last words. "Let J the equilibrium of the Senate be preserved," e he almost gasped in his last hours. In that s moment of deoarturc from life, his mind, lit I / ' by inspiration, asked for only a few hours? s ' One more effort for my country"?aud his a lips closed forever. 1 In vain, crreat soul, were your aspirations! c Insulted, vilified and slandered in life, your 1 spotless character could not save your motives c from the blight of party distortion. In death li there are tl'.o.se yet?a few honest, devoted v friends?who cherish your memory, aud up- f hold inviolate youi principles. a Thus, in the midst of the fury of the c storm of 18f)0. died Calhoun. li The morning after his death, his friends c and the "curious public" were admitted to 1 zaze for the last time on his face. His coun- f teuaucc was as calm as that of a sleeping t< child. The care worn look was gone, and n the dead face looked twenty years younger d than when in life. The lines about the t brow, cheek and month were calmed down, f or relaxed. Ilis followers stood around him p with that desperate soirow, associated in old p times with those who stood by to guard the * body of their chief. b His enemies in life dared to doubt his n motives ! A man who in purity of moral 1 character, in spotlessness of private conduct, c in earnestness and consistency of Christian h faith, was an exemplar of every noble good ? ind honest quality. IIis enemies dared to juestion his patriotism ! A man whose life was devoted to his country and who died for licr! They dared to denounce principles tl which never had been and never can be sue- ii cessfully refuted?dared to oppose their mud- s< ly minds and limited vision against an intel- g !eet as clear as a ray of light and stored b with learning, observation and experience. t' lie was held up to the South as a visiona- p ry, objectless, dangerous schemer. lie was 'I Jenounced in the South as a traitor, and e :hose who denounced him obtaiued their tl party reward. He was arraigned before the tl Southern Statesby a Southern partisan press, p by the edict of party managers, because he n defended the Constitution iu its integrity? d upheld the equality of the States, and de- n dared for "equality in the Union or iude- t! pendence out of it." Great Heavens!? ii What a tribunal, what a culprit, what a n orime! B. v HEROISM OF A MOTHER. il The Milwaukie American thus describes a the heroic resolution of a mother during the late destruction of the steamer Niagara by g Qre, with the loss of over sixty lives: a The greatest heroism displayed on the i si occasion of which we have any knowledge, ; fl was shown by a mother in her efforts to save J a the lives of her eight children, the eldest.; b of whom was only fourteen, and the young- j o est one year old. She was picked up by | tl the Traveller insensible, and nearly perish- j tl ed, but was restored by great exertions and ; it brought to this city. She did not know j v last evening whether or not uny of her chil-11: Jren were saved, but beard that three were j a taken ashore in the 0UI3- boat that pulled off | 0 From the burning .steamer. Mr?. Chalmers i ti jays that wheu the lire broke out she was } f< outside the steerage cabin on the main deck,; e with her husband and children. Site saw ti the stern boat lowered, and observing in it' tv a woman whom she knew, she thought, if 1 j'< die boat reached the shore, and she herself j did not, that woman would be like a mother i to her children ?o she commenced throwing j t her smaller children into it., intending to j r keep the baby by her, because she could ! a easier support it in tiic water than the oth- : 0 ers. She had thrown two into the boat when . it shoved off. She had one in her hands to j *Vrow, but it was too late to throw so large i ii a one to the boat; accordingly she seized the b baby, supposing she had strength to throw s it to the retreating boat. She had not, how* r erer; the baby fell into the water, a foot t from the boat; she screamed to the woman in the boat to save it, aDd had the satisfaction of seeing her reach out, and grasp it, ind draw it into the boat. She then directed her efforts to the five children about her. She pushed the oldest boy of twelve years into the water, with directions to swim after the small boat and diner to it if they would not take him in ? die thinks he did actually reach it, but canlot he certain. She then put her oldest hild, a girl of fourteen, into the water, in iiopes she could cling to something. She ins heard since arriving here that a girl of hat age was recuccl, and thinks may bo it was tins 0110. ?siic then had three small :lii Id roil remaining. Her husband got into he water, and she passed them down to tim, and he placed them on one of the c-npiized boats floating near. She then got down jy a rope. On reaching the water she found he waves had washed two of the children >1T the small boat. She managed to catch hem both with one arm, and hold them up, lill clinging to the rope with the other hand, ind maintaining her hold in the midst of all j he desperate struggles around her. At last | he rope burned off above, and she sank | lown, down, down, with others who had >een clinging to the same rope. When she j :ame up again, she had lost one child. She j Managed to throw her disengaged arm over i i stick and hang on to it with the child in j he other. She then looked for the child she had ; ost, hue although many heads were around i icr, and some of them children's heads, hey were all so begrimmed with the oil, md ashes and soot on the surface of the wa*! or, that she could not distinguish their oatures, and they sunk one after another, vithout her being able to recognize her! iwn. She then directed all her efforts to i avc the one in her arms, and she feels con-1 idcnt she could have done so, but some j nan?she thinks he was an old man?pul- j ed her arm off from the stick which suppor- j ed her. She regained her hold, and her | land was again pulled off and herself push-1 id away by the man. Then she sunk down, : lown, down again. She struggled to rise, j ud finally did rise, hut the last child was j ;one, though she thought, until she reachid the surface and saw to the contrary, that he had it still in her arms. She was then alone on the water without upport. She had floated some distance way from the steamer, but she saw her j lusbaud upon the capsized boat, holding j me of the children. That sight inspired i icr with fresh courage. Alas 1 she knew lot at that moment that the little one he icld in his arms was already lifeless, but it ras even so. At that instant a plauk struck icr breast; she threw her arms around it nd tried to reach her husband, but could lot propel herself in the water. She felt icr strength now rapidly failing. She was utivoly alone) she saw the schooner and the traveller, hut. saw also that they were far, ar away; she knew she could not hold on o her boy until they came up, but she remembered having heard that persons in Irowning always shut their teeth firm. She hcrefore seized her dress at the bottom in ront, brought it up around the plank, and ut it between her teeth, so that it held the ilimk fncf nr-vneu lir.r Krnnot SKa ^Aiinrl \t rould support her thus, and settled calmly ack to await the result. She remembered othing more. She was picked up by the traveller, and when she was restored to onsciousncss, had the happiness of finding er husband at her side. But her children, here were they ? Natural Curiosities of tiie South. -Jt is very surprising, says a late writer, liat two of the greatest natural curiosities i the world are in the Tinted States, and , larccly known to the best informed of our | eogmphers and naturalists: the one is a j eautiful fall in Franklin, Habersham conn- J f, Georgia; the other, a stupendous preciiee in Pendleton district, Souih Carolina, 'hey are both faintly mentioned in the late dition of Moore's Geography, but uot as licy merit. Tuccoa Fall is much higher liau the Niagara. The column of water is ropclled beautifully over a perpendicular ock, aud when the stream is full, it passes own without being broken. All the prismatic effect seen at Niagara falls short of lie spray of Tuccoa. The Table Mountain a Pendleton district is an awful precipice of ine hundred feet. Many persons reside rithin five, seven, or ten.miles of this graud pectacle, who never had the curiosity to vis: it. It is now visited by curious travelers, nd sometimes by men of science. On the Catawba, in Botetourt county, Viriuia, there is said to be a spring that ebbs nd flows with the tides of the ocean. It is ituated at the head of a ravine, which is j ankcd by two parallel ridges terminating in ! mountain of considerable elevation. A UDter of the neighborhood has the honor f its discovery. lie had killed a deer on le spot, and was proceeding to skin it, when ie spriDg, which till thij moment had been lvisible, came pouring forth a torren at his ery feet. Not knowing what should next ike place, he left his game, aud fled with II speed to the nearest settler. In the course f a few hours, or perhaps a day, they vended back, found the spring dry, hut, be:>re their departure, saw it again how aud bb, until it was no longer seen Since that ! uie its regular ebbs and flows have boon j itnessed by hundreds.?Lmiibnrg Citron- j ;fc. i Anecdote of Washington.?Mr. B. I..Lee, writing from Washington, Pa. corecting a statement in Gov. Wise's oration t Lexington, relates the following anecdote i f Washington : During Gen. Washington's administration | ?he almost daily attended his room, adjoin g the Senate Chamber, and often arrived efore the Senate organized. On one occaion, just before his arrival, Governor Moris and some other Senators were standing ogether convening on rariooi topics, and, amongst them, the natural but majestic air of Gen. Washington, when one observed there was no man living could take a liberty with him. The sprightly and bold Morris remarked, "I will bet a dozen of wine I cau do that with impunity." The bet was accepted. Soon after Washington appeared, and commenced an easy pleasant conversation with one of the gentlemen, at a little distance from the others. While thus engaged, Morris stepping up, in a jocund manner tapped Washington on the shoulder, in | a very familiar manner, and said, "Good morning, old lellow. Llie General turned, i and merely looked him in the face, without a word, when Morris, with all his assumed effrontery,?stepped hastily back, in evident discomposure, and said, <lCJcntIenien, yrm have wou the bet, I will never take such liberty again!" The writer received this from one who was a member of the Senate ami present. TARRING AND FEATHERING. The punishment of tarring and feathering, in popular commotions, has been considered peculiar to America, and alone practised by the whigs against the toriesin the revolution. The first instance on record in our country, was on the 8th of March, 1775, six weeks before the battle of Lexington. It was practised by a party of the 47th British regiment, on the person of au American, au inhabitant of the town of Billerica, in Massachusetts, about twenty miles from Bostou. The selectmen of the place immediately sent a j strong, but respectful remonstrance to the j Governor, which may be read in the Lon dun lleuicmhrnuce, of 1775. What attention was paid to this complaint, we are not iuformed, but the example having been set by one of the highest British otBcera in America, it soon brought clown retaliation ou the heads of their adherents in America. But the fact is, that tarring and feathering was practiced in England, four or live hundred years before the cruel punishment at Bcllcrica. It w:.s even sanctioned by law in the reign of Kichard I, as the following extract from one of his enactments testifies : "If any one of the crusaders going to Jerusalem, shall be convicted of stealing, his head shall be close-shaved like a prizefighter, melted pitch poured upon him, and then he shall bo covered with feathers that lie may be known as a thief. Afterwards jf he shall be put on shore at the first lancing place made by the ship. With these examples, it is not to be wondered at that the A-.;mericans, when sorely provoked, should follow the example of their rulers, and wish to do more. The following toast may show it. "May feathers anl tar be their next birth-day suit, And the block be tho fate of North, Mansfield and JUUIV. Iu June, 1775, two men were proved to have threatened and ill-treated another fur taking the part of the executive committee, whom they were abusiug. The secret committee ordered these men to be tarred and then seut out of the country. This having been entrusted to porsons of discretion, was executed without rioting or other personal injury to the offenders. But Drayton gives several instances, some of which caused great disquietude to the late crown officers and non-associators. The executive committee now saw that the mob would take the matter out of their hauds unless immediately restrained ; they, therefore, put a stop to further proceedings in that disgusting punishment. A ROYAL LADY. Our lady readers will be interested in the following description of the English Princess Royal, Victoria's eldest daughter, from the pen of a correspondent of an Aberdeen Journal : "With the remembrance, as if it had been yesterday, of the boom of the guns which announced her birth, I was scarcely prepared to find her a fine grown wotuen, taller by a couple of inches than her mother, aud carrying herself with the ease and grace of womanhood. It is no stretch of loyalty or courtesy to call the Princess Royal pretty.? She is porfcctly lovely. The regularity of her features is perfect. Iler eyes are large and full of intelligence, imparting to her face that sort of merry aspect which indicates good humor. The nose and mouth are delicately and exquisitely formed, the latter giving effect of great sweetness. The Princess is more like her father than her mother. She is like the Queen in nothing but her nose. In all other respects she is a female image of her father. I should add, as interesting to your lady readers, that she wears her hair slightly off her forehead; not pushed back in the Eugenic fashion, but brushed latitudinally from the temples, and raised at the sides above the ear in bandeaus (really the ladies must excuse me if I am taking nonsense, for I have not given that hostage to fashion which would enable me to speak ex cathedra.) Well, at any rate, the princess is fair enough aud lovely enough to be the heroine of a fairy tale, and the Prince Frederic should consider himself a lucky fellow." Queer Names.?"What queer names some unfortuuate mortals are blessed with ! We heard of a family in Detroit whose sons were named One Stickney, Two Stickney, Three Sticknev, and whose daughters were named First Stickney, Second Stickney, and so on. The three elder children of another family were named, Joseph, And, and Another, and it has been supposed that should they have any more, they might have named them Also, Moreover, Nevertheless, and Notwithstanding. Another family actually named their child Finis, supposing it was their lmjt, but they happened afterward to have a daughter and two sons, whom they called Addenda, Appendix, and Supplement. Another parent set out to perpetuate the Twelve Apostles, and named the fifth child Acts.? A man in Pennsylvania called his seoond son James Also, and the third William Likewise.