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* .. jno. l. hillee & co., proprietors, j An Independent Journal i For the Promotion of the Political, Social, Agricultural and Commercial Interests of the South. j lewis h. geist, mbuihn. , VOL. 3. YORKVILLE, S. C., THURSDAY, MAY 14, 1857. NO. 19. Original |^eirg. For the Yorkville Enquirer. SPRING. The snow has melted from the plain And lovely Spring appears again ; The husbandman resumes his toil And gaily turns the deep rich soil. The trees are dressed in living green And bursting buds may now be seen ; The birds skip lightly from each bough And swiftly skim the mountain brow. The flowers are springing all around Their fragrance casting o'er the ground; And softly mingling with the breeze That gently floats among the trees. The bee is humming round the flowers Now seeking food for winters hours And skillfully she fills her cells "" * * 3 ? tVinm r)?n11a mtn iooa so sweet tuut iu uivui uT.v..w. The butterfly in colours gay Now spreads her wings and soars away . All things are joyous, all are free, Sweet spring now holds her Jubilee. CARRIE. Yorkvillc, May 1st, 1857. Original Patter. For the Yorkville Enquirer. PRESBYTERIAL RECORDS CORRECTED. 11 There are n9 such things done as thou say est." Nehem 6: 8. <.' "To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord approrethnot." Lam. 3: 37. Messrs. Editors:?A friend, knowing that I was not a subscriber to the Due West Telef scope, kindly sent mc the paper containing the official report of the proceedings of the First Presbytery of the Associate Reformed Church at its late session at Smyrna in this District. I experience some mortification of feeliner in bein?r constrained, from a sense of o ?_ self-respect and a regard to truth, to say, that the account, given in these ecclesiastical records of the subject-matter of the memorial submitted by myself, is a gross, flagrant, and palpable perversion. "Col. W. C. Beatty submitted a memorial," says this official report, "of some length, (designing it to reach the Synod through the Presbytery,) complaining of the unconstitutionality of the act of last Synod in repealing the resolutions on Secret Societies, adopted oy the Synod in 1855. The Presbytery however declined to memorialize the Synod on that subject." The above paragraph is all which is given in the minutes of Presbytery in reference to the memorial. As Micah said of his peo, pie, "so they wrap it up." The memorial, proposed by me for adoption by Presbytery, does not complain of the unconstitutionality of any act of Synod in repealing any set of resolutions on Secret Societies. The memorial complained of the unconstitutionality of the act of last Synod, (185G) in adopting certain resolutions on Secret Societies. The distinction between the acts is great. The language of the minutes misrepresents every sentiment of my mind, and feeling of my heart. A Report ~e n oAmmittoo nf Scnnd in 1855. affirmed VI 4* bV/UiUiJivvvv V* SJ ? v ? J / of these very resolutions, of the passage of which the memorial complained, that it "must be obvious to ever// intelligent man that they were glaringly inconsistent." After the adoption by Synod in 1850 of these resolutions?repealing them by a large majority in 1855?and re-adopting them in 1856, the records of the First Presbytery now represent me as "glaringly inconsistent," as Synod has been, and as these resolutions fare in a variety of respects. To enable your readers to judge for themselves, will you please publish the memorial. I send you also for publication the resolutions : which some may have a curiosity to read. It may be necessary to say of the word, affiliated, used in the first resolution, that it does not mean, "oath-bound," as some would seem to imply. It means "received into a society as a member." Thus thejChristian Church itself is an "affiliated society," and the literary societies of Erskine College, of which the Faculty of the College and many Ministers of the A. R. Church are members, are, in the language of the first resolution, "secret affiliated Societies." Respectfully, W. C. BEATTY. Yorkville, May 7. To the A. R. Synod of the South. Mr. Moderator and Brethren :?The First Presbytery of the A. R. Church submit to you the followiug memorial. The Eesolu tions adopted by Synod, at its last session, ' ?-nfV?roinpe to Secret Societies constitute the subject of it. Its purpose is, to bring these Resolutions to your serious and prayerful consideration only so far as we deem them inconsistent with, and infracting the Constitution of the Church and a fundamental principle of Presbyterianism. To the law, then, and to the testimony. In Chap. G: see. 2 : art. G, the Constitution of the Church enjoins: "Rut no regulations intended to be universal and permanent shall be established, without previously transmitting them to the several Presbyteries, that they may have time to consider and report their judgment thereon." This requirement of the Constitution is readily comprehended, and needs no comment. This requisition of our organic law was not complied with in the adoption of the Resolutions referred to. Therefore the Resolutions, and regulations sought to be estab lished thereby, are palpably unconstitutional, k and have no binding efficacy. The authorift ty is conclusive, that the ark should not be ' moved even by a David, nor touched by an Uzza, except in the prescribed mode and bj the proper hands. Achan was not suffered to keep even a "goodly Babylonish garment." Why then should these Resolutions be suffered to remain on the records of Synod ? If Synod designed only permanency, and not universality in the regulations sanctioned by these Resolutions, this Presbytery in such case maintains, that such action violates an essential and fundamental principle of Presbyterianism : or in other words, if the Resolutions were passed with a view to enable each congregation through its representative organ, the Session, to enforce or not enforce according to its own will and pleasure, the regulations established by the resolutions, Congregationalism to a degree not warranted by our standards and ancient I landmarks is instituted in the Church, and ' " ? T\ 1 i .M .1 L "the torra or rresDytenai cnurca government," which you and we have solemnly vowed "to maintain and observe, as agreeable to, and founded on the word of God," is infracted and so far abolished. Rev. Dr Miller, on Presbyterianism, a work published by the Presbyterian Board of Publication of the General Assembly Presbyterians, distinguishes Presbyterianism from all other forms of church government in three particulars. One of these peculiarities is given, as follows. "Presbyterians believe, that the whole visible church Catholic, so far as their denomination is concerned, is not only one in name, but so united by a series of assemblies of these representatives, acting in the name, and by authority of the whole, as to bind the whole body together as one Church, walking hy the same principles of faith and order, and voluntarily, yet authoritatively governed by the same system of rufr and regulation. Presbyterianism, then, is a term which primarily refers to the form of Church government. That is a Presbyterian Chutck, (omitting the first two peculiarities) in which, by a series of judicatories, rising one above another, each individual church is under the watch and care of its appropriate judicatory, and the whole ' ^ * "A nn/1 /?Anfrnl Jo Doay, Dy a system ui review auu wuw?i, bound together as one homogeneous community." pp. 8, 9. Referring to the history of the Mosaic economy on this subject, Dr. Miller says : "Nothing like the independency of particular synagogues was admitted or thought of." p. 11. "The Presbyterian Church," this author remarks, "is persuaded that the New Testament most distinctly presents, as existing in the Apostolic Church, all the three features which constitute the peculiarities of her ecclesiastical polity, viz: the parity of her ministers; the government of the Church by Ruling Elders; and the attainment of unity and co-operation by courts of review and control." p. 45. "But parity among her ministers," also observes Dr. Miller, "is not the only feature which distinguishes the government of the Presbyterian Church. Her mode of conducting discipline in each church by a bench of Elders, acting as the representatives of the members at large; and by courts of review and control, admitting of appeals where parties feel aggrieved, and binding all the particular churches together as one body, walking ly the same rules of truth and order, and subject to the same uniform constitutional authority, are among her peculiar advantages." p. 59. "This form of church government," further remarks the authority we quote, "cannot indeed, of itself, infuse life and activity into an ecclesiastical body; but where vitality, and zeal, and resources exist, there is undoubtedly no form of ecclesiastical organization so well adapted to bind together a body consisting of many parts; to uuitc counsels; to invigorate efforts; and to cause a large and extended mass of professing christians to walk by the same rules; to mind the same things; to speak the same language, and to feel that they are in fact, as well as in name, one body in Christ, and every "one members one of another." p. 63. If then the design in passing the Resolutions, and establishing the regulations referred to, was to arrange for partial enforce- j rnent, or partial obedience, or for any purpose other than universality, or, particularly if, for that discriminating condition by which a member of the Church, entitled to church privileges in one congregation, is liable to be deprived of them in a neighboring congregation, and be made thus "to feel that he was not in fact, as well as in name," free of the earthly city of his God, the conclusion is inevitable, such resolutions, regulations, decress, determinations?call tbetn by what name you may?contravene, subvert, and abolish an essential and fundamental principle and peculiarity of Presbyterian church government. For a condensed view of the opinion of 'tbis Presbytery on the matters embraced in this memorial, we submit the following resolutions. First: That Chap. 6, Sec. 2, Art. 6, is a component part of the Constitution of the A. R. Church. Secondly : That the passage of the Resolutions relating to Secret Societies by the last Synod, was effected in disregard of that portion of the Constitution, quoted in the second paragraph of this memorial. Thirdly: That regulations, to be constitutional, must be passed in accordance with the Constitution. Fourthly: That said Resolutions, viz: as to Secret Societies, are unconstitutional, and should be expunged from the records of ! Synod. Fifthly: That the A. R. Church of the South, embracing each and every congregation under her control, is, by her organic structure and should be in practice, "not only one in name, but so united by a scries of assemblies of representatives, acting in ! the name, and by the authority of the whole, i as to bind the whole body together as one r Church, walking by the same principles of faith and order, and voluntarily, yet authori tativcly governed by the same system of rule | h aud regulation." a S 1. Resolved, That we are opposed to all e Secret affiliated Societies. \\ 2. Resolved, That we earnestly and af- u fectionately warn and advise all the mem- t] bers of the Associate Reformed Church of ^ the South, against all connection with such ^ associations. d 3. Resolved, That any member of the ]j Church, who shall hereafter connect himself f( with such a society in the face of this friend- a ly advice, shall be viewed, as acting in an tj unirienaiy, ana unDccoming muuuur lunmui s, the Synod and the Church. We likewise r recommend: that, those members of the f Church, who, are already, in such societies, abandon the same. 0 4. Resolved, That the above resolutions a are not to be construed as requiring Sessions a to exclude such individuals from the church, h % Calf of .11 nil Jiff. I AN INCIDENT AT BOULOGNE, ? t< The custom which our fashionable Eng- e lishmen have of flying to the coast of France P when debts and the like mishaps render their own country too hot to hold them com- r< fortably, causes Boulogne and other towns ? forming the chief places of rendezvous on such occasions, to present, for the most part, s' a strangely assorted society, and to witness at times very curious scenes. We do not precisely ask our readers to believe the fol- ^ lowing romantic story in all -its details, though there is nothing very improbable in e< any part of them. ? Sir George Tindal was a young baronet ? of good English family, who came to Boulogne some vears aco under rather neculiar | r *~0 J C-. * circumstances. He had beeu left veryyouug r( with command of a good patrimonial estate, Cl but had given way so far to the fashionable follies of the young in high life, as to allow ^ nearly the whole to fly away on the turf as fast as a race-horse could carry it. He had still good expectations, however. A matern- si al relative, a merchant, and one of the rich- r( est in the metropolis, was likely, in the due e: course of things, to leave Sir George his for- tc tune, as his nearest heir. He was fond of d the young man, but had been gresjtlv and v; perilously alienated by the conduct and re- p: verses of the latter. It was while meditat- c< ing on this subject that au idea struck the b' nearly ruined baronet. "IJow successful," c< thought he, "my uncle has been by his spec- b< ulations in funds! Might not I have a p chance that way also? Might not I cast in c< ray poor remnant of means into the great fs lottery, and pull out a prize ? I may as well ci try it; all that I have now is scarcely worth o? thinking twice about. I shall try at least." Poor Sir George! He forgot that tho' w some seas may be deep, there are others ft which cannot be sounded at all; that how- ei ever deep one may be in the mire, there is a w chance of getting deeper. He did venture a; his all the stocks. He was successful once, tl and even twice. Getting inspirited by his w good-fortune, he thought he had but to ven- ^ ture further and win more! Alas! he was h a novice, merely, in the hands of vetern gam- a biers. Some of the very worst members of o the body who speculate in these matters got 1< him into their hands; and knowiug well a; what his expectations were, and where they ^ lay, -they led him ou by a nibble or two un- e til, by a series considered not iufamous only h on such a field of transactions, they at length ti got him placed under a load of debt which p even all his uncle's means would with diffi- ^ culty lighten. Holding biui bound by sig- ? natures and bonds, they waited coolly for his tl accession to his prospective inheritance, * knowing well that the same prospect would ? keep their victim also within reach of their i< grasp at any time. Sir George wandered about town for some J, months after these mishaps, like a man with js a rope around his neck. During that time j he had many reasonings with himself on an <i i important point. This point affected his whole prospective fortunes. Theyoung baro- tl netjwas naturally possessed of good scuse: ho p was well educated, and it may be said that his heart was good, and his intentions fair h towards all men, under ordinary circumstan- p ces; but his course of life, and the associa- j. tions he had formed, had relaxed his moral principles. This acquired defect came into a play. The point which he canvassed with a himself was, whether or not, after having most distinctly ascertained that he had been the dupe of his creditors, his engagements \ with them were binding upon him. His f, good seuse said yes, for they had acted with- t in the law; his sense of honorsaid the same, for they had bis bonds; "but theu," said the { other internal arguers, "they got these by base means, and they have not lost a shil- c' ling by me. The article experience was a what my folly bought from them at the price ** - if no ivi n r\ r\ rvr.nnrr , 01 ?l lair 1UHUUC, UlIU TT 11/11 11/ VI -uv UU^UUJ [ out of their pockets, Besides, if I pay these v harpies, T shall be beggared." The end of the whole was, that the uncle of Sir George [ died; the young baronet was left heir; and a within a few hours almost after being putin i possession of his fortune, which was the por- j table one of an old monicd hoarder, the j young baronet was on his way with it to [ Boulogne. The creditors stormed and vow- s ed revenge; but they at first knew not whith- a er he might fly, and there are great difficul- j ties attending the recovery of money from creditors on the continent in any cause. ] Sir George fixed himself in a small coun- } try-house near Boulogne. He had been v able to carry thither a sufficiency for per- t manent maintenance?above ?20,000, near- E ly the amount of his funded embarrassments, i after what he called "fair debts" were privately settled. He lived while in great seclusion, only occasionly appearing in public. ( The society which he then met was not of a ( character to trouble itself much about what T he had done, or what was about to do, so i mgns he maintained a fashionable appearnee and a gentlemanly deportment. So ir George led a very quiet and undisturbed xistence for a time, always excepting some ttle twings from a sense of violated honor, ntil love, the universal busybody, came in he way to overthrow the runaway's repose. L lady made her appearance in Boulogne, earing the name And style of the Baroness 'Estival. Report said that she was an Engish woman by birth, and the widow of a oreign noble; and she wasjyoung, beautiful nd reputed rich. Ere long, such attracions brought all the gangling Boulogne into ubjcction to the baroness, and among the est, our baronet saw and admired the lady, 'or a time, however, he was undistinguished v her. nor did he make an v marked advance n his own part. An incident brought round n eclaircissement. By a peculiar piece of wkwardncss, as it seemed, on the part of er servant, the caleche of the baroness was early overturned near Sir George's door, 'he young baronet sprung out; and the lady ppenriug faint and terrified, he entreated er to alight for a few moments. She cornlied. It was the hour of lunch, and they inched together. Sir George begged her ) view his garden, and they walked togethr. When the lady was at last about to deart, Sir George begged leave to escort er home in person, which was granted. The jsult of all was, that the baronet became an stablishcd visitant of the baroness; and aving declared his passion, received an autver which left him much to hope, while at lie same time it promised nothing positive. Sir George could not be long acquainted ith the fair baroness without discovering lat she had one remarkable and somewhat ccentric tnSte : she was so distractly fond of ngling?a perfect female Walton. She had ired for a season a large yawl, somewhat etween a fishing-boat and a yacht, and evef morning when the weather was good, she jsc with the sun to amuse herself on the jast with a rod. <I cannot comprehend the pleasure you ike in this occapation," said Sir George to er one day. <*It is a charming recreation," answered :i... u ?i, 1U ; *"?uu ucmuud, my pujroiv;wiua uavu 'commended me to take as much air and sercise at sea as possible. I acquired the istc through his cause. It is sometimes ull, to be sure, for the sailors and my serants are no company. But I have been ressed by a certain gallant major, and a ;rtain warlike colonel, to permit them to ear me company, and I think I must really msent some day." flow could a lover forear to entreat permission to occupy the lace of these rival suitors? Sir George, euld not. He begged and sued, and the lir lady gave her consent that he should acempuny her next morning on one of her dd excursions to sea. The day proved beautiful, and the pair ent abroad at sunrise. They sailed, however tr out to sea, and along the coast, ere any desire for fishing was shown by the lady. The ater was not favorable,she said, at one place, Dd then she declared that she no fancy on lis morning for the exercises. Sir George as rather pleased with this disinclination, hich was owing, he flattered himself, to er bciDg absorbed by his own conversation; ud she, 011 her part, seemed only to think f charming him by sweet discourse. At mgth a slight shower fell, and the baroness sked her lover to enter a small rude cabin, 'here a glass of wine and cakes were offerd to him. Here the pair sat hour after our, the lady enchanting her lover with ilk that caused him to forget all but her resent self. At length, he pulled out his ratch and started nn ?\Vhnt. !" cried lie. the day is advanced, and I don't think hey have ever put about!" The wind, too ras blowing nearly direct from the coast. Come, madam, if you fish at all to-day, it 3 surely time to begin." The answer startled the poor baronet. "I avc angled," said she quietly; "and, what 3 more, I have caught my fish." "What mean you?" cried Sir George.? 'What fish have you caught?" "Twenty thousand pounds!" answered he lady, with cooluess. Sir George grew ale, and stepped hurriedly on deck. "Distraction !" cried he, as soon as he ad looked around. "Put about instantly, lilot; that is Margate! Wc are off Engind !" "Exactly so, Sir George," said the lady t his back. He turned arouud and looked t her. "Your purpose, then, is to take me" "To London, Sir George," said the lady, nterrupting him with calmness, though a ;ratified flush on her cheek. Sir George urned to the sailors. "My purse !" said he; "twenty five louis or you, if you put about for Boulogne !" "Twentv.firo lnnis!" said the lndv dis v ? ?J ? lainfully, "when twenty thousand pounds re in the other scale !" "Barbarous, treacherous woman !" cried he infuriated baronet, as he looked around rith an eye that threatened peril to all, if ie but had the means to inflict it; but the laroness gave a signal, and in an instant his rms were pinned to his arms were pinned to lis side by two pair of brawny arms. The laronet struggled, but in vain; a cord was iroduced, and he was only saved from the gnominy of being bound, by giving his asurance that he would remain in quiet durmce in the cabin. It seemed to him that ie had nothing for it but to submit. Sir George, reduced to this condition, ooked with indignation at his captor. She lad checked the sailors for harshness in their isage of him, but otherwise she expressed io visible emotion. "Betrayed by you!" laid the captive, "you whom I loved so nuch!" "You love me!" "Yes; well you know it!" answered Sir jleorge. "Since you are an adventuress, ;ruel woman, would not my whole fortune, vith my hand, have better paid you than a niserable hire ?" The lady spoke not in re ply, aud Sir George also held a scornful sil- b ence from that moment until he landed in n the Thames. He was here put into the li hands of sailors, and conducted to a hotel, tl on giving his solemn promise that he would w not attempt to escape. Believing all to be w lost in any case, he was glad to be relieved d from the conGnement of a jail, though it ai might be but till his creditors wefc warned of bis capture. d It was night when this landing in the ei Thames took place. Sir George spent a g wretched night, moaning over that fate which li his conscience told him was not unmerited, fl In the morning ho drew up an act, briefly u giving up all to his creditors. He had scar- tl cely finished this when a visitor was announced. It was his betrayer, the baroness. a "Wretched woman ! what seek you ? said tl he sternly. "Is not your task done ? I have g now to do with others." tl "With noue but me," said the lady in a ei low voice, and with a timidity of manner tl most unlike her previous deportment. tl "What do you mean, madam ?" asked w Sir George. w "I am your sole creditor," said the lady; tl and she placed in his hands some papers, si which he at once saw to be his own redeem- p ed bonds. He looked up in amazement.? "You had a cousin once, Sir George," said cj the lady, with her eyes on the floor. si "I had?Anne Fulton," said Sir George; o L i TT7 r? worn nloirtnn too in 11 d h AAil " r? II W IIV/iL ^UIJ-UiUtLO IU VUUUIIVVUi i? "She went abroad, when a uiere child, it with her family !" continued the lady. u "She did," said the boronet; "and I have b heard, was married to a very wealthy plan- ir ter in the island where they settled. "It pain- tl ed me to hear it, for we loved each other b even when infants-." d "She wedded against her will," continued w the lady; "for she, too, remembered old it days. She is now a widow." A light had it been gradually breaking upon Sir George's n mind. He started hastily forward, and took fc hold of the lady's hand, almost throwing p himself at her feet. A "You are"? d "I am your cousin Anne," said the lady. It is needless to carry out the tale beyond ai the poiut when the imagination of the read- b er can do all that remains to be done. The tc lady had returned to England a rich widow; fa had learned thesituation and embarrassments cl of her,well-remembered cousin ; had seen F him at Boulogne; had contrived to overturn s< at his door, and made his acquaintance.? h She had only thought of the fishing scheme si through a spice of romance in her tempera- E ment, and that she might get him to England, where she might have his debts paid ti They wedded, and, lived happily, like all h lovers in stories; and we wish all were as it 4.../X ?U/V I .VMA o u ut; ?id uic picacui uuc. * pisffllaiteous?eHiiiiig; From the Charleston Courier. LIFE IN WASHINGTON. Our Southern home has gained astonish- f ingly in our estimation by our peep at New York ! How weary, stale, flat, and unprof- fi itable, and how beautiful, how refreshing, ei as we wjfrc borne homeward by the wings of j| steam, through woods and valleys that seem- c ed to revive us as by a bath of verdure, af- C( ter the stony desert of the great metropolis, b During our brief visit there we were struck h with the money-loving aud money-grasping n spirit which seems to pervade all classes of tl the community. The end and aim of life ti seems to become rich !?rich !?rich ! Pelf h is (<the one thing needful,"?a strong box tl "the ark of the covenant;" and the multi- 81 plication table, "the table of the Law."? a We have, we think, a proper estimate of the ]( worth of money, but we loathe the hard un- tl sympathizing nature that would make it a jj solitary monomaniac object of worship,?that f( would rest merely upon what he has for a a ground of supremacy. In our eyes such men, tl UI'C JU?d U1UU I1ICU IUUJT UIC LUULUlUItOj Vita- J-( ted by the galvanizing process of injecting 0 their very arteries with metalic fluid. We n would as soon expect to pluck a living fra- n grant flower from under the scorching lava b effused by a volcano, as detect a tender feel- J, ing in surh a heart. n It does not seem strange to us that that ft great city should be the field of a fearfully a loose and depraved morality?that social de- n velopments there should reveal a state of J things at which a pure mind shrinks back a appalled?when we consider that there the d doors of respectability and honor open on e silver hinges?that there every man is tncas- b ured by what he is worth in the world of ^ money ; domestic happiness, reputation, 0 honor, the prospects of the young, and the ^ peace of the old?all the finer feelings of ti human nature subserve to this worship. The j] ? ? r ?.iu i:i.? UllGCllUUS UIC 1UICOUW1CU nac yittVtc au au g( opera by the first one that comes with ready tl money in his hands. tl Oh! if we could unroof those princely ji "up-town" dwellings?how many would we f, find to he only stately sepulchres, in which J, all genuine feeling and simple enjoyment lies dead, and a chill of mutual distrust s{ breathes through the sumptuous apartments. 0 This worship of the molten calf is apparent f, everywhere. The children as soon as they 0 are out of long clothes fancy themselves on ti the road to become Rothschilds. We be- c lievo there are men on Wall street who tl would cause their children to pass through j fire to Moloch, to secure the stability of their c house of business, and we verily believe that t] were you to drop a New York speculator out c of a caravan in the desert, his first notion ], would be to establish a water company at the e nearest well. And yet many of these men g ruin, not only themselves, but involve thous- v ands with them, and die loaded with all the e disgrace of commercial swindlers. Then it is that the man who has kept up a false seeming of opulence is recognized as a knave? I the man of exquisite dissembling unmasked, t: that all may point the finger at his detection! d The very beggar at the crowing, who has o een wont to profit by his nlms-giving, would ot for worlds exchange the memory of his fe of mud and rags, hunger and cold, for aat of the man of purple and fine linen, ho had fattened on the good things of this orld, and commanded the confidence of upes to the amount of hundreds of thousads. New York is also emphatically i city of iversities?the diversities of extreme povrty and extreme wealth. Here sits the begar child with thin white lips and shivering mbs, and there goes a man of no better esh and blood wrapped in comfort and luxry. The moan of distress is heard beside ae glittering carriage wheels. The life of the poor of New York! What writer he would be who would burst upon :ie wondering world with a history of those loomy thresholds and desolate rooms ! Tell le heroic histories, write the unwritten potry, chronicle the unknown greatness, and le wasted bravery, the love strong as death, ae sacrifices deep as the grave, the lonely rrestlings with fierce temptations, just to rake a blaze to scare away tlie wolf hunger iiat is howling at the door for some beloved's ike ! How full it would be of peculiar oetry 1 What a picture to weep tears over! New York is also a city where a gTeat ause produces a small effect. During our tay, a fearful fire occurred in the vicinity of ur stopping place. The fierce element iged wildly for hours, sweeping onward in s wild might, shooting afar its glowing colmns, wrapping its folds around stately uildings, crackling and sparkling, or leapig upward in wild triumph, as the noise of ic falling pile proclaimed how impotent had een every effort to stay the violence of the estructive torrent. And yet though a hole street burnt down, there were numbers i the hotel who continued quietly snoozing l their beds, or mentally denounced that ohy engine between naps; and before the dlowing night, the whole affair seemed to ass from the minds of all but the sufferers. l dozen hearses go by their windows in one ay, and nobody seems sobered by it. With regard to the gentler sex, both old ad young, seem occupied solely in striving, ustling, and elbowing each other, in order ) obtain front seats in the gaudy theatre of ishion. Their life seems really a battle of hairs, and mirrors of plate, and equipage, 'eople may talk of the wars of the two Ro;s, but we doubt whether they occasioned alf the care or outlay produced by the grand trugglc between the fair rival battallions of "ifth Avenue! For ourselves, we would rather be a "coun y curate" in Washington, than the "sub'mc Sultan" in New York. Pleasant was ; after the dust and drought of Broadway, nd the Arabia Petrea of a New York hotel, ) inhale the fragrance of the sweet briar and onev suckle of the Capitol grounds, listen ) its birds, and set foot on its elastic turf nee more. M. J. W. CAPTURE OP A SLAVER. On the 16th inst., the British brig-of-war, irab, spied a suspicious looking schooner off 'almouth, Jamaica. The Post says: She was closely pursued, and the captain, nding that there was no possibility of esapiug from the "Arab," deserted her, takigwith him in a shallop his crew, money, hronometcr and other useful articles. The ojnuiander of the Arab dispatched his gunoat with 15 men, under the command of is first lieutenant, with under the com)and of his first lieutenant, with orders for fie capture of the shallop. The chase coninued for nearly three hours?and a shot ii v i Uq uwuuvt'u uiu tuuuui ui til v oiiaiiu^j be captain, who was owner of the slaver, urrendered. Two of his principal slaves, ud an interpreter, were taken from the shal>p, and the crew were left in it, to make be best of their way to Cuba The first eutenant then boarded the schooner, and )und her filled with young Africans, males nd females, to the number of 373, no less ban 120 having fallen victims to the horars of the middle passage during a voyage f twenty-nine days. The poor captives were i a wretched condition?all of them were aked?and the greater part seemed to have ecn half-starved. They were packed close|r together, and covered with dirt and verlin. On the arrival of the schooner, in St. inn's Bay, several gentlemen went on board nd their sympathies were excited at the lisery they witnessed. Messrs. Bravo & trother suggested measures which were dopted, and with their usual liberality, orered a steer to be killed, and soup prepard for the sufferers; other gentlemen furnihed ground provisions, bread, &c., and rhile the food was being prepared, the whole f the human cargo was brought upon deck, rashed, and had blankets given to them unil clothing could be procured. Thirty of bem were in a d^ing state. The slave uhooner has two decks, and between them be captives were packed in such & manner bat they had scarcely room to move. Durn /-? nft rtVi rlnrr flin tTA?rnr*A lV? enf in <1 nun. Jg catu uajr vi cue lucj oai iu a yarnal posture, eighteen inches only being aljwed for each to tarn in, a deck-room of birty feet in length 300 human beings were towed away, and brought up, in platoons, nee every day, to get a small portion of resli air. The schooner draws but six feet f water, is of great breadth, and flat botomed, and was thus built to enable her, in ase of pursuit, to run into a port where here was not much depth of water. The nterpreter [states that when slave trading aptains cannot escape cruisers, they make heir way to a particular point of land on the luban coast?run the vessels ashore?and jave the slaves to perish. The place alludd to is surrounded with rocks?none but at-bottomed boats can get in?and the rhole of that portion of the coast is blanchd with human bones. Antidote for Strychnine?Mr. C. jeavitt, of Rockville, Connecticut, in relaion to the use of coffee in neutralizing the leadly effects of strychnine, says: A friend f bis had a valuable dog, which was poison ed by strychnine, and was fast sinking under its influence?being unable to stand? when Mr. Leavitt saw him, and being informed of the cause, be suggested that a strong decoction of coffee be given to the animal. About half a pint was administered, and it soon began to get better, and ultimately recovered entirely. We recommend tbis to the attention of physiologists, who may experiment upon animals for the purpose of discovering an antidote. Let some experiments be made with coffee. It has been said that lard is an antidote for strychnine; Knt fViiQ ViftQ on V*TT vKA /? ? VMM MUW wvvu wvusvu wj ^vtovuo n ?V hare tried it. Strychnine is sometimes made into pills with lard for poisoning foxes and wolves. MEN WITH TAILS. All the scientific research bestowed on Africa fails to confirm the reported existence of a caudated race of negToes in the interior of Africa. Mr. T. J. Bowen, who spent several years in the interior of Central Africa, as a missionary of the Southern Baptist Board, makes the following reference to the subject in his recently published narrative. In speaking of Nasarau, the executioner of the King of Llorin, (an interior oity of at least 70,000 inhabitants,) and others with whom he conversed, he says: The Moors and Arabs who had been everywhere, had told them wonderful stories of still other countries and tribes far off in the east. Somewhere on the other side of Yakobu is a tribe of people called Alakere, none of whom are more than three feet in height. The chiefs are a little taller than the common people. The Alakere are very ingenious people, especially in working iron, and they are so industrious that their towns are surrounded by iron walls. Beyond these are a tribe called Alabiru, who have short inflexible tails. As the stiffness of their tails prevents the Alabiru' from sitting flat on the ground, every man carries a sharppointed stick with which he drills a hole in the earth to receive his tail while sitting.? They are industrious manufacturers of iron bars, which they sell to surrounding tribes. All the fioeaBwords in Sudan are made of this iron. The next tribe in order are the Alabiwoe, who have a small goat-like horn projecting from the middle of their forehead. For all that, they are a nice kind of black people and quite intelligent. A woman of this tribe is now in slavery at Ofia, near Llorrin. She always wears a handkerchief around her head, because she is ashamed of her horn. There are other people in this "Doko" region who have four eyes, and others who live entirely in subterranean galleries. These wonders were attested by natives and Arabs. ? Bather tough. But Mr. Bowen does not seem to regard this testimony as conclusive.* God in History.?It is because God is visible in history that its office is the noblest except that of the poet. The poet is at onoe the interpreter and the favorite of heaven. He catches the first beam of light that flows from its uncreated source?he repeats the message of the Infinite, without always being able to analyze it, or why he was selected for its utterance. But history yields.in s -dignity to him alone, for it not only watches all the great encounters of life, but recalls what had vanished, and partaking of a bliss 1m- _ a.\. - - * use mai 01 creating, restores it to animated being. 1"he mineralogist takes special delight in contemplating the process of crystalization, as though he haa caught nature at her work as a geometrican; giving herself up to be gazed at without concealment, such as she appears in the very movement of action. But history, as she reclines in the lap of eternity, sees the mind of humanity itself engaged in formative efforts, constructing sciences, promulgating laws, organizing commonwealths, and displaying its energies in the visible movement of its intelligences. Of all pursuits that require analysis, therefore, it stands first. It is equal to philosophy; for as certainly as the actual bodies forth the ideal, so certainly does history contain philosophy. It is grander than the natural sciences; for its study is man, the last . \ work of creation, and the most perfect in its > relation with the Infinite.?Bancroft A Model Dun.?An editor out west thus talks to his non-paying subscribers and patrons. If this appeal does not bring in the "pewter," we think he need not dun the second time: "Friends, Patrons, Subscribers and Advertisers :?Hear us for our debts, and get reaay mat you may pay; trust us we are m need?and have regard for our need for you have long been trusted?acknowledge your indebtedness, and dive into your pockets, that you may promptly fork over. If there be any among you?one single patron?that don't owe us something, then to him we say, step aside?consider yourself a gentleman. If the rest wish to know why we dun them, this is our answerNot that we care about cash ourselves, but our creditors do. Would you rather that^e go to jail, and you go free, than you pay your debts and all keep moving ? As we have agreed we have worked for you as we have contracted, we have furnished our paper to you, but as you don't pay, we dun you! Kosciusko.?The following aneodote is related of this celebrated Polish patriot:? He wished to send some bottles of good wine to a clergyman of Solotharn; and as he hesitated to send them by his servant, - lest he should smuggle a part; he gave the commission to a young man of the name of Zeltner, and desired him to take the horse which he himself usually rode. On his return, young Zeltner said he would never ride his horse again, unless he gave him his purse at the same time. ^Kosciusko asking what he meant, he answered, "As soon as a poor man on the road takes off his hat, and asks for charity, the horse immediately stands still, and won't stir till something is * given to the petitioner; and as I had no money about me, I was obliged to givesoigo* thing in order to satisfy the horse." *