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^ * -V* ** . -* V>!''*i - ' *," " "* 5 "* > V '' > Jp! '^Fv*'5?crr3gv.- - 5- --''W ' .# .' ~ .?* ? ?5* ' /*** -*7^* * v ? ' C - 1 ' 1 ??????????^ ? ? ?J . Iamx^meSon }Proprietors. An Independent Journal: For the Promotion of the Political, Social, Agricultural and Commercial Interests of the South. {uwnx.our;mb*^^ VOL Q YOBKVILLE, 8. P., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1856. JSTO. 49t Cjwicc fjnetrf. SPEAK GENTLY. ] ? Speak gently ! It is better far .-> To rule by lore, than-fear? . Speak gently?let not harsh words mar The good we might do hero ! Speak gently ! Love doth whisper low ; The vows that true hearts biad; e And gently Friendship's accents flow; Affection's voice i* kind. J Speak gently to the little child ! Its love be sure to gain; Teach it in accent soft and mild ; p It may not long remain. Speak gently to the young, for they Will have enough to bear? j .Press through this life as best they may, 'Tis full of anxious care! Speak gently to the aged one, Grieve not the care-worn heart ; The sands of life are nearly run; Let such in peace depart! ? Speak gently, kindly, to the poor; Let no harsh tone be heard; They have enough they must endure, Without an unkind word! ' Speak gently to the erring know, They may have toiled in vain; Perchanco unkindness made them so ; ' Oh, win them back again ! f Speak gently! He who gave his life To bend man's stubborn will, When elements were in fierce strife, Said to them, "Peace, be still." Spcnk gently! 'tis a little thing j) Propped in the heart's deep well; The good, the joy, which it may bring, Eternity shall tell. oft r ~ , JUItgWUS. SOUTH CAROLINA CONFERENCE. ( Thursday Morning, Nov. 27. Conference was opened at the usual-hour j with religious exercises by Rev. W. H. Fleming. ^ The minutes of yesterday were read and corrected. On motion, R. Bryce, Esq., was excused from serving on the joiut Board of ( Finance, and Capt. James D. Treadwell was appointed to fill the vacancy. On motion the case of Rev. II. If. Durant was reconsidered, and he was made effective. The following resolution in reference to Rev. Dr. Crossand Rev. F. A. Mood, was passed : " "Whereas this conference has * ? j i -n- tv. learned mat ouresitumeu uicuucu, ^i. wseph Cross and Rev. F. A. Mood expect to visit Europe during the ensuing year, therefore Resolved, That while we are loth to sec these brethren leave the field of active service?though it be but foTr a time?we will pray the Father of Mercies to bless them abundantly in all their journeyings whether by Bea or land, and to restore them to us full t of strength and zeal for the great work in which we are all engaged. Thursday Evening Nov. 27. The Conference met this evening at the Chapel of the Female College, to close the business of the session and receive the appointments for the ensuing year. This is the most exciting occasion of the whole session. Having been together for several days ( and enjoyed that delightful social intercourse which usually marks the annual convocation of the Ministers, and having been kindly g entertained by the good people of the community, whose hospitable doors have been thrown open for their welcome, they now assemble to receive at the hands of the Bishop, ( their, destiny for another year. IIow peculiarly solemn and impressive is this occasion ! [ These devoted servants of God kuow not where they shall be sent the next year, but they are prepared to anticipate the mingled joys and sorrows which duty may call them to experience, and they are cheerful! Conference was opened with prayer by Rev. C. S. Walker. The minutes of the forenoon were read and approved. The examination of character was resumed, after which the following resolutions by H. A. C. Walker, were unanimously passed: j Resolved, That our gratetul acknowledgments are due, and are hereby respectfully tendered to the citizens of Yorkville for the kind and elegant hospitality extended to the members of this Conference during the present sessiou. t Resolved, That the thanks of the Conference be and they hereby are presented to the Commissioners of Public Buildings for the use of the Court House for our daily ses- ] sions. Resolved, That we acknowledge gratefully our obligation to the Trustees of the Yorkville Female College for the use of their spa- j cious chapel. x Resolved, That the fraternal feelings evin- 1 ced by the Pastors and members of the Presbyterian, Independent Presbyterian and Associate Reformed Churches in kindly affording us the use of their pulpits, are highly gratifying and are most cordially reciprocated. Resolved, That we respectfully present our thanks to those R. R. Companies which have passed the members of this Conference over their roads for half-fare. Resolved, That we respectfully request the publication ot tnese resoiuiious m wc newspapers of Yorkville. Conference will meet next year at Charlotte N. C. The following are the APPOINTMENTS: CHARLESTON DISTRICT. H. A C. Walker, P. E. Charleston*? i Cumberland?W. P. Mouzon. Trinity?J. T. Wightman. Bethel?W. H. Fleming. Spring-street?W. E. Boone. St. James?W. A. Hemingway. Cooper River?E. J. Pennington. Cooper River Gr. W. Moore. A .. "S Black River Mission?To be supplied. St. Andrew's Mission?To be supplied. Cypress?W. H. Lawton, W. B. Curry. St. George and St. Paul's Mission?A Settles. Pan Pon Mission?TV. C. Kirkland?on o be supplied. St. George?J. T. Kilgo. Waltcrboro'?TV. TV. Jones, R. R. Pe ;ues. Ashcpoo and Combahec Mission?P. A J. Williams?one to be supplied. Prince William's Mission?TV. Ilutto. Black Swamp?S. Leard, R. W. Bur jess. Allendale?S. B. Jones. Savannah R. Mission?J. B. W. Crook ). A. Ogburn. Okatee Mission?To be supplied. Beaufort Mission?J. it. uoDurn. Edisto and Jehossee. Mission?C. Wilson GEORGETOWN DISTRICT. C. Betts, P. E. Georgetown?L. M. Hamar. Sautee Mission?J. T. Dubose, C. E iViggins. Sam jut Mission?T. Mitchell. Black River and Pee Dec Mission?J V. Miller, A. W. Harmon. Black River?W. L. Pegues, 0. A Metzberg. Black Mingo Mission?G. W. Stokes. Lynchburg?J. II. Robinson. Darlington?A. McCorquodale, J. W durray. Sumter?A. G. Stacy, J. F. Munds, sup Stonier Circuit?B. English. Bennettsville?H. M. Mood, W. Frigp. Society Ilill Mission?J. P. Hughes. Marion?D. J. Simons. Liberty Chapel Mission?J. A. Mood. Marion Circuit?L. M. Little, J. W Jrider. Conicayboro?D. W. Scale, A. J. Evans Waccumaic Mission?J. A. Minnick, J j. McGregor. Upj)cr TVaccamaic Mission?G. IC. An Irews. COLUMBIA DISTRICT. W. Crook, P. E. Columbia? Washington Street?C. II. Pritchard. Congurcc Mission?N. Talley. Marion Street?0. A. Darby. Medium Street? Columbia Circuit?D. D. Byers. Richland Fork Mission?A. S. Smith. Blackville?E. J. Meynardie. n 11 Til A namweu su. xx. xjiuc. Orangeburg L. M. Hanks, F. M. Mor an Lexington J. Bradley, E. A. Leman. Santce A. P. Avant. Upper Sanbe Mission W. Carson. llVjiMs&oio' J. S. Connor. Fairfield C. McLeod. Chcstervi/fe S. Townsend. W. M. Martin, Agent of Columbia Fe nale College. COKESBURY DISTRICT. R. J. Boyd, P. E. Cokesbury A. M. Crietzberg. Abbeville C. Murchison. Edgefield J. A. Porter, J. S. Hill. Aiken To be supplied. Granitevillc Mission W. W. Mood. Newberry A. W. Walker. Newberry Circuit T. Rayser, J. M Jline. Union S. H. Brown, C. J. Gage. Tyger Riveftind Enoree Mission J. Fin :er. Laurens M. Puckett, A. P. Martin. Greenville F. M. Kennedy. Greenville Circuit M. Eady, E. A )larke. Anderson R. P- Franks, one to be sup died. Walhalla Mission J. W. Zimmerman Pickens F. Smith. Jorassee Mission L. M. Scarborough. Piekeijjf^llc A. B. MeGilvary. Colccsbury School?J. TV. Wigtman. Tract Ayent?TV. A. McSwain. CHARLOTTE DISTRICT. H. C. Parsons, P. E. Charlotte?James Stacy. Charlotte Circuit?G. TV. M. Creighton T. H. Gleason. Concord?J. TVatts. Albcrmarle?D. May. Cheraxc?J. R. Pickett. 11 Wes&oro'?L. A. Johnson. Wadcsboro' Circuit?M. A. McICibben I. S. Nelson. Chesterfield?S. Jones. Camden.?TV. A. Gamewell. Waterce Mission.?J. L. Shuford, TV. S 31ack. Lancaster.?A. B. Stephens. Cataicba Mission.?A. J. Cauthen. Monroe.?Thos. TV. Ivey, one to be sup jlied. T. R. TValsh Prs. Carolina Female Col ege. SHELBY DISTRICT. J. TV. Kelly, P. E. Spartanburg.?II. II. Durant. Spartanburg Circuit.?C. S. TValker. YorJeville.?A. II. Lester. Yorlcville Circuit.?J. TV. North. Lincolnton.?L. Moore, M. A. Connely. Shelly?E. TV. Thomson. icutnerjora?r. r. lustier. Catawba?J. W. Puett. Lenoir?A. Irwin. Morganton?J. S. Erwin?one to bo su{ plied. South Mountain Mission?To be suppliec Columbus?E. G. Jones. Upper Broad River Mission?Josep Parker. W. M. Wightman, Presideut of Wolfor College. Whitefoord Smith, Professor in Woffor College. Charles Taylor, Professor in Spartanbui Female College. A. M. Shipp, Professor in North Carolir University. Benjamin Jenkins, Missionary to China. God does what he pleases. For the Vorkvillc Enquirer. THE TRACT CAUSE. Messrs. Editors: A few items in connec- j tion with the Tractjintcrests of the Church, may not be uniuterosting to your readers. j The Agent employed by the South Carolina ^ Conference for the year ending, makes the ( following report: Raised for the Tract Society by the Agent, a little over 82300; r< distributed S00,000pages Tracts; furnished J colporteurs S4.000 worth of books; donated ^ to Tract Societies and individuals, over 81.000 worth of books and Tracts. c The Tract enterprise is yet in its infancy, the society in connection with the South Carolina Confercnoe having been formed but ' two years ago; yet its success has been marked, and the good it is accomplishing is incalculable. And should not the Church and ^ the friends of Christianity be deeply interested in it ? As insignificant as a little Tract a may appear in the eyes of some, bow often have these unpretending messengers sent j forth in the name of the Lord, proved the . means of converting souls ? Many of them, j originally sermons delivered by able and elo- ^ quent Divines, are published in this conve- ' . nient form for general reading. The anniversary of the Tract Society was ^ . celebrated on Monday night at the College j. chapel, when the report of the Board of j managers, containing the above items, was ^ read by Rev. Dr. Smith, and addresses ap- ^ . propriato to the occasion were made by Dr. Summers and Dr. Smith. The attendance ^ . was large, and ?300 wcro contributed for the O / Q prouiotiou of the good cause. OBSERVER. [ S fleet (Hcabing. THE PRESS. The following original Ode was written by s T. B. Aldrich, of the New York Home e Journal) for the centennial celebration at e Portsmouth, N. II., Cth Oct. 1S5G: t The Southern Cross, the Northern Bear, C The trembling si?ter Pleiades, n The many tingle J stars above,? The ebb anil flaw of purple sea?,? The pulse of flowers that throb through the Earth, V The lovely Seasons, changing place, A Ami all that God from Chaos wrought, Are but the tools of Time and space! !u The Mind a wider Orbit has s Than Sun, or Moon, or Earth, or Mars! . A Thought can grasp immensity, And wring the secrets from the stars ! The Elements arc slaves to Man : a He links the bills, lie spans the Soa, And be has made the Lightning fiend A tame and servile Mercury ? ^ His band lias taken the shapeless ore, And with a subtle skill, designed ^ A little '-font of type'' to bear s The impress of the deathless Mind! Go forth a pure evangle, Thought! Let War's red gonfalons be furled! Go forth, and with thy teachings break S The machine that bind the world ! Go forth with holy lips of Pence! Speak goldeu words of God and Death ! t And, like the good Samaritan, c Pour oil upon the wounds of faith ! A Tie in for the Printer's Art! 8 The toiling Brain ! the ready Pen ! s The hand that holds the peerless cup ] Of Kuowledge to the lips of men ! G LITTLE TO COME! r BY ELLEN LOUISE CIIADLES. 1 [This story is one of those rare pearls we y love to place before our readers. We can- t , not mention the publication in which it first r appeared, for some forgetful editor has fail- a ed to make the credit due.] I 'There were three of us?Kate, Annette and myself?and we were going into the old \ wood to hunt for strawberries. Oh! it was \ such a delicious day iu June. The birds t ' sang till the air was fairly vocal with their melody, and all the green trees nodded their J heads in approbation. The very brook seem- a ed to have caught the general iuspiration, s and danced along through the meadows, as ( if keeping time to a quickstep of the faries. Annette Summers and I had been invited ] 10 spend the half holiday with our schoolmate, Kate Harrington. Deacon Ilarring- < ) ton's old fashioned, brown house, fronted toward the South. Behind it stretched abroad, i green maedow, and still farther back was a ] densely wooded acclivity, famous for flowers t and berries in the geography of every child in Ryefield. I used to love to look at Dea- * ) con Harrington's old browu house, even in l those early days, when I had not a single J well-defined notion of artistic taste in my curly head. I know now that it combined, y to an eminent degree, the elements of the pie- c tcresque. The low roof, which sloped back- s ward nearly to the ground, was gray with c moss. Ivy crept about the windows, and s - over the rustic porch had twined climbing t roses, along with heavy clusters of trumpet y - creeper. ( There was a rude scat at the doorway, t made of little boughs of the white birch, twisted together in fantastic fashiou, and here ] grandmother Harrington was wont to sit, ( with her gray woolen knitting work. Oh ! j what a treat we used to think it to spend a half-holiday with Kate Harrington. 'Iwish I were you, Kate,' exclaimed Au- ] nette, after we had spent half the long sum- 1 mer afternoon chasing butterflies, and arrang- s inga vegetable baby-house with hollyhocks, ; ^%n. lartioe' n<irnsof<j nnd ten-riots maiiu I IS J V/ Ui IUM4VW ? J. ^ >- factured out of veritable poppy-pods. 'I wish i I were you, aud theu I could be happy all [. day long, with nothing to trouble me.' 1 'You could, could you?' and Kate's checks 1 h flushed, as she put away from them heavy < bands of blaek hair?'you think so, and 1 d that's all you know about it. I have a thous- i and things to vex me. There's Ilose, for i d instance. Mother ejects me to be constant- \ ly taking care of her, and she's the greatest ' g little torment you ever saw. By the way, girls let's start after those strawberries iu the ia wood, now she's out of sight for a minute, < so she won't tease to go with us !' "We were just about half-way cross the meadow, when we heard a sweet voice cryiing: m K ".a,. - 'Please, sister Kate; Rose wants to go .00.' I turned round, I remember, and thought low beautiful was the little creature coming oward us. She was very unlike her sister Sate. Kate was a brunette, but the little vhite-robed figure tripping across the mead>w, had a pale, spiritual face, and long curls >f golden hair falling to her tiny waist. rhere was a flush on her cheek, and a look >f eager, beseeching interest in her large, due eyes; and she stretched her dimpled irms toward us, and kept crying in her earnistness: 'Please, girls, wait for Rose.' A look of vexation crossed Kate's face, ind she called out in a tone of extreme irri 'Go back, Rose, you're too little to come! jlo back ! go back !' Kate always had a way of being minded, md the little one put her fingers to her eyes, md silently turned toward the house. We lurried on in the direction of the wood, with>ut giving a single glance backward. I think date's conscience reproached her for her selishness, and I know my own pleasure was poilcd for the afternoon. We found plenty if strawberries red and ripe, among their >eds of leaves. There were little blue-eyed ilossoms, too, that kept reminding me of losie, and I was not sorry when the sunset hadows lengthened, and wo turned to go loine. Wc had gone down the hill out of the rood, and crossed several rods of the meadiw laud, when Kate said, in a hoarse whis>er: 'See there girls, what is that white hing by the brock ? Do you sec it ?' Wc saw it, and hurried toward it. It was lose. At first we thought she was dead Scarcely seemed the faintest breath to steal rom her parted lips, and the pulsations of icr heart were so weak you could scarcely eel them. She was in a kind of tjance-like leep. It was sometime before we succecdd in wakincr her. and then her limb.? seem ? - O ' (1 chilled and stiffened by the subtile dampicss of the meadow-land atmosphere. She ould not stand. How many times that forcloon the little darling had begged us to make a chair' for her, with our hands, and re had answered that we couldu't stop. We uade one now. She twined her dimpled rms about our necks, and held on very tight, iut she didn't speak, except once, and then he only said, 'Ain't I most big enough, siser Kate?' Mrs. Harrington met us at the door with wild look of alarm. 'Good Heavens, Kate ! he exclaimed; 'what's the inatterwith Rose?' Ind taking her from our arms, she discovered that her clothes were almost saturated rith moisture. 'Kate, child, why don't you peak ? Has Rose been in the water?' 'Xo, ma'aui; but she went into the meadiw and got to sleep, and we found her there lecping.' ***** 'Oh, there were anxious hearts in Deacon larriugton's brown house that night. Very enderly was the suffering little Rose crallcd ou her mother's breast, but not once did he speak coherently^ Her cheeks burned, md her eyes sparkled with fever; her dirnped arms were tossed above her head, and (very little while, between her moans, she vould stretch outlier lands toward some imaginary object, and say: 'Please, sister Kate, sn't Rose most big enough ?' Three days passad?days of incessant vatching and weariness, and toward evening he little Rose opened her blue eyes, after a estless slumber. She seemed much better, md the mother glanced hopefully up to the cind physician bending over her. 'I caunot say she's better, madam. God mows I wish I could ; but Rose must die lefore midnight!' and the tears stood in glitering drops on the good man's checks. The mother's great grief was not noisy.? She quietly lifted her darling from the bed, md sat down with her in her arms. Kate ;tood by sobbing as if already the brand of }ain were upon her brow. 'Please, mamma, said the little one at ength?'am I big enough to go to Heaven?' 'Yes, darling,' was the tearful answer.? Jesus loves little children.' 'And, mamma, do you s'pose he'll forgive nc for sitting down in the meadow to watch ?atie, when you told me I musn't ever stay here ?" 'Yes, my pet, the good Saviour will forgive you for anything, if you are only sorry ; >ut ltosie doesn't want to go to Heaven, and eave mother, docs she?' 'I heard somebody say I must go, when I vas asleep, mother; a beautiful lady, with >h! such white, shining wings, and she itretched out her arms to take me, but I lid't go. I woke up just to kiss you and iisterouce more. Pleaee kiss me, Katie. Lit,le Rose won't never be naughty any more lp in Heaven, and I'll grow big before you some, Katie, so I can play with you up here !'j There were tears, sighs, a funeral and a ittle coffin. The rosebud opened its petals >n the bosom of Jesus. The little earthlower was 'big enough for Heaven !' Tiie Man of Words and Man of Deeds.?Avery good?nan was asked by a ;ong-fuced "professor," if he thought himiclf a "Christian," in a tone which implied i doubt. "I have nojeligion to speak of," was the meek reply. Who has any religion to speak of ? Have not all cause to blush for our want of heart piety? And who are they who are continually saying to their neighbors: "Come hither: Let me pull the moat' out of thine eye ?" Even they whose measure of grace is but as the millionth part of a grain of mustard-seed. Words cost nothing. True religion "speaks" only in the daily walk; in hourly deeds benevolence and love. It is manifest in visits to the widow and the orphan, in ministrations to the sick, in clothing the naked, comforting the sorrowful, forgiving the erring; not in vain pharasaical homilies about creeds and forms. "Professors" are numerous; possessors scarce. THOMAS JEFFERSON. In 1824, Mr. Webster visited Thomas t Jefferson, at his home in Virginia. At that i time Mr. W. kept a diary, from which the following is extracted: , December, 1824. ; Mr. Jefferson is now between eighty-one ; and eighty-two, above six feet high, of an , ample, long frame, nther thin and spare.? i His head, which is not peculiar in its shape, ' is set rather forward on his shoulders; and bis neck, being long, there is, when he is walking or conversing, an habitual protru' sion of it. It is still well covered with hair, I which, having been once red, jind now turr ning gray, is of an indistinct sandy color, s His eyes are small, very light, and now neither brilliant nor striking. Hb-ebio i? rather long, but not pointed. His nose small, regular in its outline, and the nostrils When we meet one of those boastful nol sy Christians, who have had such a power ful "experience," and have done so mucl for the gbod cause, that there seems to be, tc take their word for it, but little left foi others to do, we are reminded of those big, black wind clouds, which come blustering up the horizon about July or August, raising a dust, cracking off a thunderbolt or two, and away they go?the earth is as dry a? ever. Depend upon it friends, the man of many words is seldom the mnn of deeds. There he comes. "I do sincerely sympathise with you, mj dear friend, in your affliction. God's hand is laid heavily upon you, but remembei 'whom He loveth he chasteneth'?kiss the rod?look to Ilim for comfort and support? repent that he may not consume you?He 'doeth all things well'?let us pray,'?'Amen' and 'good-bye.'" He will come once more?to your funeral. Now comes the man of deeds. He takes your hand in his, with that earnest pressure which cannot be mistaken; his lip quivers, but his full heart finds no utterance- Slowlj he releases your hand?his own instinctively seeks his pocket. He extracts from thcncc a bank note; puts it into your hand, pressing it ouce more, and rushes from the house, That is our idea of piety. That is the religiou which the Great Advocate will account worthy '-to speak of" at the Court ol Heaven.? Olive Branch. A BLOODY REMINISCENCE. A correspondent of the Philadelphia Ledger, writiug from Camp Dade, Florida, relates the terrible circumstances under which Major Dade, with 110 men, were destroyed there in 1836. They had been detailed tc force their way through from Fort Kiug tc Tampa: Nothing of importance occurred till the eighth day. On that day they resumed the march from their last encampment, (aboul one mile and a half from this place,)and were about cutting down some very high grass when a most deadly and destructive fire wa; opened upon them by an unseen enemy which struck down every man of the ad vancc guard. Major Dade and Capt. Frazei now went forward to ascertain the cause ol the firing, when they too were shot down, anc the command devolved on Gardner, whohac his right thigh shattered. He kept his posi until he was shot dead. The rear guards under the command of Lieut. Henderson L on/1 nonl Oil ol DOW rCilUJf till; aiA'puuuucij auu ocuvouu thundering discharges of grape into the graa (for tliej had not yet seen a foe) that th< enemy were driven back nearly half a mile and Lieut. Dassinger, with a party of men commcuced the cutting of logs for the pur pose of making a breastwork for defence.? This is still standing. They were not, how ever, allowed much time, and had only rais cd their work about two feet, when the In dians, under Micanopy, came down upor them from another point. In less than twen ty minutes, the work of death was so rapic that every officer but Dassinger was eithei killed or mortally wounded, and only sever men left unhurt. Lieut. Keys was shot ir the head,and exclaimed, "Oh, God! Ian a dead man !" seated himself at the foot o a tree, where he remained until his head wai split by the tomahawk of a savage. Dr. Ca tlin, who had both legs shattered, was drag gedintoa little work,-seizing a double bar rcled gun, said, "I have two barrels fo: them vetbut. Door fellow, he soon ceaset ' J " / ' i to use them, as a ball from a rifle entered hii heart, killing him on the spot. Lieut. Das sioger now emerged from the work to picl up what guns he could, and as he was abou to return he was shot down, with his \ 0. aud one arm shattered. He, however, reach ed the enclosure with a few guns, and fo: near half an hour, he and three privates kep back the savages. At last, they were all en tirely disabled but himself and private Clark The fire having slackened, the Indians nov approached, and contented themselves witl rifling the bodies of the slain; Dassinger ant Clark all the time feigning to be dead. Having taken everything of value the; could find, the Indians now retired, whei Clark and Dassinger consulted on what wa to be done; but alas! scarcely an hour elaps ed when negroes, half breeds, and a few In dians returned and commenced mutilatinj the bodies of the slain in a most barbarou manner. Lieut. Dassinger, on seeing this, raisei himself up, and, appealing to a huge negro who spoke English, begged them to spare hi life for the sake of his wife; but a hundret axes were immediately raised on him, am Clark says they literally cut him to pieces Clark remained quiet till they had left, am although with eleven wounds, waited til night, when he set out on his return to For King. This place he finally reached, and i now in New York, pensioned by the govern . c ment on me puuui sum ui cigut uvuam po month. Such, gentlemen, was the massacre o Dade and his ill-starred command. I havi examined the whole ground for one mill round, and cannot imagine a more suitabli spot for an ambuscade than the one the In dians selected. About two months after th massacre, a detachment, under the commam of Major Bonneville, visited the spot an* buried the dead, the officers in one grave the soldiers in another. The officers' gray is now entirely under water; nothing of i can be seen but a board at the head of th grave. A Long Story. A man up in Net Hampshire went out gunning one day thi spring he saw a flock of pigeons sitting oi a limb of an old pine, so he dropped a bal ;_i.- I.: j J rpL- u.u *i. lull) Xiu> guu (iuu uicu. J. at? uan opixt uu limb, which closed up and caught the toe of all the birds in it. He saw that he ha< got them all. So he fastened two balls tc gether and fired j cut the limb off, whicl fell into the river j he then waded in am brought it ashore. On counting them ther were three Htmdred pigeons, and in his boot were two barrels of shad. * . . , , ~ * * i a little elevated. His mouth is well formed, and still filled with teeth; it is strongly comi pressed, bearing an expression of contentment and benevolence.1 His complexion, formerly light and freckled, dow bears the marks of age, and cutaneous affection. His limbs are uncommonly long; his hands and feet very large, and his wrists of an extraordinary size. His walk is not precise and military, but easy and swiogiog. Ho stoops a nine, dot bo raucn irom age as iiuiu uuiu ral formation. When sitting, he appears F short, partly from a rather lounging habit, of sitting, and partly from the disproportionate length of his limbs. His dress, when in the house, is a prey surtout coat, kerseymere stuff waistcoat, with an under one faced with the same material 1 of a dingy red. His paDtaloons are very long I and loose, and of the same color as his coat. ? His stockings are woolen, either white or > grey; and the shoes of the kind that bear his name. His whole dress is very much ! neglected, but not slovenly. He wears a ! common round hat. His dress, when on t horse-back, is a gray straight-bodied coat 5 and a spencer of the same material, both > fastened with large pearl buttons. When 5 we first saw him he was riding, and, in adi dition to the above articles of apparel, wore round his throat a knit white woollen tippet r in the place of a cravat, and black velvet f gaiters under his pantaloons. His general I appearance iudicatesan extraordinary degree ' of health, vivacity and spirit. His sight is t still good, for he needs glasses only in the 3 evening. His hearing is generally good, > but n dumber of voices in animated conver 1 sation confuse it. 3 Mr. Jefferson rises in the morning as soon i as he can see the hands of his clock, which ; is directly opposite his bed, and examines > his thermometer immediately, as he keeps a regular meteorological diary. He employs " himself chiefly in writing till breakfast, which is at nine. From that time till din ner he is in his library, excepting that in fair weather he rides on horse-back from 1 seven to fourteen miles. Dines at four, returns to the drawing-room at six, when cofl fee is brought in, and passes the evening till nine in conversation. His habit of retiring at that hour is so strong that it has become essential to his health and comfort. His diet is simple, but he seems restrained only by his taste. His breakfast is tea and coffee, bread always fresh from the oven, of which he does not seem afraid, with sometimes a slight accompaniment of cold meat. He enjoys his dinner well, taking with his meat a large proportion of vegetables. He has a strong preference for the wines of the Continent, of which he has many sorts of excellent quality, having been more than commonly successful in "his mode of importing and preserving them. Among others we found the following, which are very rare in this country, and apparently not a* all injured by transportation; L'Ednau, Muscat, o??J tji?T : n;?^ ouuiiuiij uuu i;mm;uctbc uc juhuuua. juiu" ner is served half in Virginia and half French style, in good taste and abundance. 7 No wine is put on the table until the cloth is 1 removed. In conversation Mr. Jefferson is easy and natural, and apparently not ambitious; it is ^ not loud, challenging general attention, but usually addressed to the person next to him. The topics, when not selected to suit the character and feelings of bis auditor, are those subjects with which his mind seems ? particularly occupied; and these at present may be said to be science and letters, and j especially, the University of Virginia, which is coming into existence almost entirely from g his exertions, and will rise, it is to be hoped, j to usefulness and credit under his continued j care. When we were with him his favorite subjects were Greek and Anglo-Saxon, his^ torical recollections of the times and events i of the revolution, and of his residence in t France from 1783-4 to 1789. s Joiin Hancock.?One who saw John r Hancock in June, 1782, relates that he had the appearance of advanced age. He had f been repeatedly and severely afflicted with e the gout, probably owing in part to the ouse torn of drinking punch?a common practice 2 in high circles in those days. As recollec ted at this time, Hancock was nearly six feet 0 in height and of thin person, stooping a lit3 tie, and appearantly enfeebled by disease.? 1 His manners were very gracious, of the old style, a dignified complaisance. His face e had been very handsome. Dress was adapt ted quite as much to the ornamental as usee ful. Gentlemen wore wigs when abroad, and commonly caps when at home. At this time, about noon, Hancock waB dressed in a v red velvet cap, within which was one of fine s linen. The latter was turned up over the a lower edge of the velvet one, two or three 1 inches. He wore a blue damask gown lined e with silk, a white embroidered waistcoat, s black satin small olothes, with silk stockings 3 and red morocco slippers. It was a general i- practice in genteel families to have a tankard h of punch made in the morning, and placed 1 on a cooler when the season required. At e this visit Hancock took it from the cooler s standing on the hearth, and drank first himself and then offered it to those present.? " ~ His equippage was splendid, and such as is ": not customary at this day. His apparel was sumptuously embroidered with gold, silver/ lace and other decorations fashionable among men of fortune at that period, and he rode, especially upon public occasions with six beautiful bay horses, attended by servants in livery He wore a scarlet coat, with ruf-? , , fles on his sleeves, which soon became the . . prevailing fashion. ' , MM* HEWSPAPEES. yi Did you ever pick up a newspaper, old -aa- < yourself or older, and look over its columns, especially the advertisements ? How queer it all seems! How suddenly all immediate . surroundings vanish, and you are carried far ' % back to the times, of other days! What would one not give for a newapapex printed in old Rome, or Athens, or Babylon,? or; Nineveh! How an Editor would gloat over the "Orient's" aceount of the preaching pf Jonah! How he came into the city, barefoot, clothed in sackoloth, and girt with $ coarse girdle and pronounced woe upon it ! The terror and scorn of the inhabitants, their_ weeping and wailing, and laughing and. jesting ! Then drop that and come on down long ages ago, and read the morningY issue of the Administration Journal of Julius Caesar ! Then turn to the "Plebian" the journal of the opposition. How delighful to note the fierce scorn of its articles, (thatia, C if they allowed the freedom of the .Press,), its bitter taunts and unrelenting forgiveness, ; and savage predictions of the ruin of the j?e- ? public. But this cannot be, Newspapers *. " were unknown in those days. The gentleman in morning gown and slippers, as. he lolled in his easy chair, if he had one, could not call for the morning paper. Suns,. end Mirrors and Advertisers and Enquirers and. Times had no existence then. Men lived' and died, made money and spent it, and ?1| \ the affairs of the world went on without -'. UC?rap?p?JD. ?|crv.?- V Did you ever think of it, reader? S.op^ pose all the printing presses bow in opera- * ' * tion, and all the newspapers were to stop to^ ^ day and remain so for twenty .years. Who can tell the change? who can tell what a* .different face the world would put on by that * * time ? IIow could the affairs of the govern- . raent be conducted ? Politicians are iou^ of talking about a crisis, but here would be one with a vengeance. Why, it would -be just as well for the sun in the heaveosio stop shining at once. But the printing presses cannot stop, newspapers will contfone.te ** visit every house in the land. And there is 1 great hope for humanity in the thought:-** Although the newspaper is frequently ft'reticle for every thing impure) although editors are frequently corrupt and hare a cor- , rnpting influence, yet the good resulting infinitely over-balances the evil. Absolute ^ perfection is not to be looked for; the son has spots upon its face, and imperfection,* (as we see it,) fcxists in every department of-nft^ ture.?Newberry Sun. HOW MTTDAT DIED. '* The sentence of the military commission ,rwas read to him with due solemnity. He - -? listened to it as he would hare listened to * the cannon of another battle during his military life, without emotion or bravado. He. neither asked for pardon, for delay, nor for. appeal. He had adrapced, of his own accord, toward the door, as if to accelerate the -catastrophe. The door opened on a narrow * explanade lying between the towers of the castle and the outer walls. Twelve soldiers, with loaded muskets, awaited him there.? The narrow space did not permit him tft 1 -x?J -x ?* J:?xx?~ x? Siauu iit a guiiiuit'ub uifluuuc iv uc|?ifo um death of a part of its horror. Marat, in' stepping over the threshold ofthe chamber, found himself face to face with them;. He refused to have his eyes bandaged, and, look-? ^ ing at the soldiers with a firm *nd benevolent i mile, said: "My friends, do not make me suffer by taking bad aim. The narrow space compels you almost to rest the muzzles " ; of your muskets on my breast; do not,tgem- 1 ble, do not strike me in the faooj aim at art" " heart? here it is." As he spoke thus, he placed his ri m hand upon his coat to indicate-the position of his heart. In his left hand he held a small medallion, which contained in one focus of love the image of his wife and four children, as if he wished thus to make them witnesses of his last look. He fixed his eyes " on this portrait, and received the death blow in the contemplation of all he loved on earth. His body pierced at so short a distance, with twelve ball's, fell, with.his arms open, and his face toward the earth, as if still emb*a: cing the kingdom he once possessed, and which he had come to reconquer for hi$ tomb. They threw his cloak upon his body, which ( was buried in the Cathedral of Pizzi. Thus died the most chivalrous soldier of the imperial epoch, not the greatest, hut the moat heroic figure among the champions of the new Alexander. , ~ '.V Extraordinary floral Phenomenon. ?Ie the garden of Dr. Patenson, Bridge of Allan, is a plant Called the cachugrandtflora, which only flowers once in seven years, 'i and then at sunset, closing at daylight in the morning.. One evening, recently, it was observed to put forth its fibres, whioh gradually extended until twelve o'clock at night, when it was m full bloom. The fibres surrounding the centre of the flower are stated to have been of a straw color, the heart of the flower being pare wbite. xne doctor, who had been attending Kossuth's lecture in Stirling, returned in time to witness the flower in a state of perfection. Daring the evening great numbers had flocked to witness it?so much that they had to be Admitted by turns. After midnight it gradually faded away, and in the morning the beautiful floral phenomenon had altogether passed away.? The plant must undergo a probation of seven years before it again lifts up its adornedhead '' to the still midnight. | J9*The fool fell in lore with a lady's 4 1 hoop-skirt.