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A rso. i. miller & co., Proprietor* j An Independent Journal: For the Promotion of the Political, Social, Agricultural and Commercial Interests of the South. |lbwib k. obist, Pabiuut. VOL. 3 YORKYILLE, S. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24,1857. STO. 38. Original IMrg. For the Yorkville Enquirer. near thee. I stood near thee that dewy morn among A gathered few. * We stood that summer morh Among the marbled mounds and grassy graves, Whose crowns of lettered stone and roral wreaths Lay silently on breasts whose 'restless throb Of agony no longer tell their throes. They rested. Wreath and crown bespoke a peace Unknown to sovereignties of earth, save one? * The majesty of Death. I stood near thee, And near a new-made little grave unfilled; There listened to the solemn ritual read, And saw, and felt, the act that answers back The final grave-side charge of earth, to earth?? Ashes to ashes?dust t<y dust; and through Thy faith beheld the solitary soul, In lonely loveliness and bouyancy, Ascending to its parent God, and peace. I stood near thee that aewy summer mora, And breathed with thee a common prayer for peace; And marked the touch of spirit-anguish sway Thy fragile form?a moment's tremor, past, And all was still?a moment'9 struggle in The breast where prayerful calm had been. Brief was the space we stood, for hastily They heaped the little mound: then .slowly turned To trace their several ways. Brief was the space, To them ; yet in it came to me a long, Long flight of struggling years?the all of past j Our blended days have known, with all the hope And anguish of that past. I saw thee as When first we met; when first thy radiant form Came like a presence from a shadow-dream My soul had loved for years. As dreaming youth, My spirit worshipped in its solitude , . With wild idolatry before a shade Divine I drew?the capo d'opera *" -R?a??;rnn UI my arUMivinut,;. X.VM...? . Years thus it hung. My spirit kneeling there W&sdeemed unconsoions (half it wat) of all The common sraHes that beam on us in life, And wake, each one, its hourly thrill?a flash Of passion's mad bewilderment: ?was deemed j A dreamy critic of the heart, and cold, Though waking oft to know that maddening thrill. ' The hour we met that altar-piece became A radiant life of loveliness ; in form The same, but living in thy life, and in Thy loveliness even more divine. I saw Thee as, when blended with that dream of dreams, Thy beiug seemed ascending like a star I must but kneel to in a bootless prayer? Like Saoian to his sun?a Deity But never to be mine. Again, there was A time when, nearer me, thou wast away Beyond the distance of the icy poles From this our sunny land, and yet wast fair. No dream poetic passion ever told Has bodied forth a form to me more fair. I saw thee when thine earliest glance was cast In half-inquiry towards this lonely heart, Whose living truth thou could'st but see, and feel, And know, in every trembling throb it gave ; For it was life of life that lived in thoughts Of thee. My love was like a memory " Of home?the one I earlyJoved and left:? So gratefully it lived, so life-to-life, So like a something earlier?always?known, It seemed ; so like a pnrt of being's self. I saw thee then ; and round thy beauteous brow Were coming shades where princely pride had sate: And round thy path ingathering gloom drew nigh. Shades gathered darker, and again?again? The hurrying sorrows came. I saw thee then, And loved the more that Grief had hallowed thee: For by that aid, I read thy heart, a scroll Unread till then. Capacity for love Is in the heart that knows?so proudly knows? A sorrow so majestic. The soul that bows It to the omnipotence of anguish deep As life and death, and rising smiles through tears As thou hast done;?that soul, I deemed, can love. United by the sanctifying hand Of sorrow, hearts, I deemed, may near Life's night together with a smile of peace. Brief was the space we stood that summer morn; Aud they, the gathered few, had quickly turned Apart their several ways. They went, and thou : And left me to my many thoughts, but these Were thoughts or thee. The gloom of grief around And mines of memory within disturbed The calm my spirit seeks to keep : but, these Removed, it trembles back in peace to thee. L'Ebmitaoe, 1857. $0cal <Matrs. From the Carolina Times. ROCK HILL AND EBENEZER, wv ouislihet. Dear Times :?Having a few leisure moments, I embrace the opportunity of dropping you a few lines to let you know something of my whereabouts. I am now quartered in York District, somewhere, probably not far from the centre of the Indian Land. A portion of country fifteen miles square, lying on both sides of the Catawba Itiver, in the Districts of York and Lancaster, was ceded to the Catawba Indians by the State of South Carolina. The Indians leased out all their lands in small parcels, from time to time, until they had none left. The Legislature, in 1838, passed an act recognizing the residuary right, as vesting in the lessees, upon the extinguishment of the Indian title. In 184<> the Indians by treaty made over to the State all the rights which they possessed, for a valuable consideration. The State in order to provide the stipulated amount, laid a special tax upon the land, giviug the lease holders the privilege of taking out grants for the lands covered by their respective leases; and finally in 1854 abandoned this special tax, for one, more in accordance with the prevailing system of taxation, so that the citizens of the Indian land are now taxed, as are the citizens in other portions of the State. After leaving the Rocky Creek and Fishing country, where I found an excellent crop of corn, and a spiritofogricultural improvement very generally diffused, I came into this region. The people around Fishing Creek Church, interested in agriculture,"' had just held their anniversary meeting. The meeting was very large, and a well arranged pic j nic was provided. The essays and addresses were well received, and a newimpulsegiven to the objects of the association. But as j the Society adopted measures for giving to : the public an account of their proceedings, ] I will say no more upon the-subject; ' The crops of growing corn, on Fishing creek, and Taylor's creek, are very good? the cotton has growth sufficient, but not so well boiled, and the gardens are almost burnt up. This is the case all along throughout this region of country. As far as I have seen however, I judge, that the provision crops will be ample?the cotton crop will undoubtedly be a short one. The country was never known to be healthier. T liotTA cnnnl onmo fima o hnnf RaoV Will JL Liavv# UV 111 V HUIV MVVUV J.VVVU -*-* k **} a station on the Charlotte and South Carolina Railroad. The placets of recent origin, yet it embraces a fine population, with various professions. It is located in a region of champaign country, proverbial for health and unsurpassed in beauty?surrounded by a wealthy and refined agricultural people, and as a place of business is possessed of decided advantages. It is the mart for a large portion of country, lying to the North, the East and the West, and no inconsiderable portion of the South, and is a plaoe of deposit for produce and for supply demanded by the surrouuding country. The village proper contains eighteen to twenty, private dwellings, all of them neat, many of them both spacious and elegant, with gardens, and all convenient out buildings, attached. There are three dry goods stores?and one grocery?one clothing store and one confectionery. There is one carriage shop, with all the necessary buildings ?one harness factory?one shoe store, two blacksmith shops,?two extensive cabinet shops with warehouses, and one livery stable, all separate and distinct buildings, front the dwellings, besides this, there is a tailor shop ?and tin shop?and in the vicinity a tannery and brick yard. There are two resident physicians and two physicians in fieri, besides a dentist, at regular intervals. But it lacks a grog shop. There is here also a spacious church recently erected, besides a convenient academy j in a beautiful prove, convenient to the vill- j age, under the superintendence of Gen. John A. Alston, graduate of the South Caaolina College, ^not unknown at the bar, and in the councils of the state) who has devoted a large portion of his life to public teaching. A visit to the school warrants the writer in saying, that the method adopted by Gen. Alston, is one, calculated to insure well drilled and' thoroughly prepared pupils. I noticed his particularity in drilling the pupils on the verbs, and his anxiety to make them familiar with the tenses or distinction of time. Whilst no authors are proscribed, using such as the pupils have been accustomed to use, yet his preference seems to be in favorof the series of Grammar put forth by Professor Bullions, who has been eminently successful in simplifying the principles of Grammar?the rules of Syntax, and the distinction of the various tenses. The series of Grammars English, Latin and Greek, by the distinguished Professor, comes recommended by such men as Dr. Nott, Bishop Potter, and all the Faculty of Union College, by the President of Gei neva College, Priucipal Beck, and others j of Albany. Professor Henery of the Smithsonian Institute ; Dr. Mason of the University of New York; Professor Alexander of Princeton, the Provost of the University of Pennsylvania, and many others; besides a countless number of Superiuten- \ dents of common schools, who certify pari ticularly to the advantages to be derived i from the English Grammar. More than sixty editions of the Latin Grammar have been printed. One great advantage in possessing the 1 mVx-ilo curios nriQfie frrim ttio nnifni'mitv ?if I language definitions and arrangements, so | far as the principles and idioms of the dif- i ferent languages will admit, so that apersoD, j having studied the English Grammar, will j | find in the Latiu and Greek, the same rules j i and definitions, in the same words, as far as j j possible, aud consequently the memory is ) ; uot burdened, nor distracted by a great j j variety of rules and definitions, without any j necessity. Gen. Alston is a ripe scholar?of great' practical experience as a teacher and gentle- i | manly in his deportment. He is at the ; ! head of a large and influential division of i j the sons of temperance, in which the names, J j of a large proportion of his pupils are en-1 J rolled. There is no location within the j knowledge of the writer, that presents so j many attractions favorable to a thorough edu- . cation as that of Kock Hill. Apart from j the universally conceded qualifications of the , Principal, there is the absence of many 1 temptations, too common in the vicinity of seats of learning. There is a strong religious influence prevading the community, and | access to preaching in different evangelical I churches, in the immediate vicinity or in 1 ! ? a__ mi _ TV -I A il . [close proxiumy. ine rresnyierians?me Methodists?the Baptists and the Associate Reformed, have regular organized churches, regularly supplied; besides occasionally services by the Protestant Episcopal clergy.? I The health of the place is uninterrupted. What an outlet, does this rural retreat, in 1 ; a sauitary point of view, present to the iu- ( | tramural youth of the cities, and to those ; breathing the pestileutial atmosphere ! pertaining to the marshes and fens of the low country. Ilcre, in undisturbed repose ?remote from the vices, and interruptions, and distractions of crowded towns and under the sacred influence of the sanctity and 1 hallowed observance of the Lord's day? < and secure against the evils resulting, both i to soul and body, from the traffic in ardent ' spirits, the youth receives instruction, and : will bless the day which dissolved his con- ' nection with temptations and burst asunder f the shackles of evil habits and evil customs. How solemn the thought to parents and i guardians, who are answerable to the ex- 1 tent, to which they expose youth! TKe ? very fact, that all drinking establishments ( are banished from this section of country, should commend this place, as a seat of i learning, to all who wish well to the souli : of their fellowmen, for drinking establishments are in their very nature, as lethiferous to the spiritual and physical part of . man, as the pestilential atmosphere of the , most pestiferous portion of the country, can ] be to the mortal part. Rock Hill, I learn, is the centre of a flourishing Agricultural Society meets j quarterly when essays upon agricultural sub- ] jects are read by persons previously appoint- ' /\ rl th a qaai af tt 10 /1iiti/]a/1 1 ntrt iaiit ooa. ] CU. JL UC 10 U1UUCU lUkU 1UUI CLUtions, and premiums, for the best managed ; farm in all its departments?for the best ] vegetable garden?and for. the best farm i stock in each division, are awarded, by a < committee of inspection, taken from an adjoining section, so that no committee will ^ pass upon farms, gardens, and stock in which any of the members bave a personal interest. [ These committees have just closed tbeir tour of inspection, and will report at the anniversary which will be held on the last- 1 Wednesday (30th of this month. At this 1 time there will be an exhibition of stock 1 and certain articles in the mechanical line, j for the best specimens of whch premiums < will be awarded. The anniversary oration will be delivered by W. I. Clawson, of Yorkville. The village of Rock Hill, it i3 thought, i would have been greatly extended, had a more liberal policy been observed by the proprietots of the land. In consequence of the high rates at which lots are held, many mechanics have been prevented from settling here. Had this illiberal policy been suspected. I understand that another location ( for a depot would have been selected. An- . other, and a more suitable location in the ' vicinity was once in view, and circumstances may yet conspire to call for a removal. In close proximity to Rock Hill, is the beautiful village of Ebenezer, celebrated as an ancient seat of learning, now enjoying the services of Mr. Shurley, averylaborous, experienced and successful teacher. The Academy at Ebenezer, is of long standing, and under the auspices of Harris, of Bishop and of Alston, (who was induced about a year since, to remove to Rock Hill,) sent forth many eminent scholars, who have been an ornament to the bar, the bench, the pulpit, and the healing art. Ebcnezer, besides a flourishing Male Academy, has also a flourishing Female School in operation, has a large Church, au extensive dry goods store, a well-stocked grocery, and a well-filled clothing estalishment, owned by enterprising proprietors, and some ten to twelve elegant private residences, occupied by citizens of great respectability, urbanity, and given to hospitality. But of this more in my next. In speaking of the Rock Hill Institute, I might have said, that I have met with a number of young gentlemen from Williamsburg, and Colleton, whose irreproachable conduct and gentlemenly deportment meet the entire approbation of the Principal, and cannot fail to be duly appreciated by the intelligent and kind citizens of the place.? Persons at a distance, who have sons to educate, might find it to their interest to locate for the time being in the vicinity. Residences will always be in demand, while a flourishing school is in operation. #3?" A correspondent of the Keowee Courier objects to the present system of keeping in repair the public roads. His objections are: 1st. It has an unequal bearing, for soinc sections of our couutry require more work than others; and, where most labor is required, it may be there are the fewest hands. 2d. It is often the case that the hands are "warned out" when the ground is dry and hard, when they work to great disadvantage and oftentimes the labor is lost. P/t Smim hnnrls will nnt. wnrlr mnrft than half their time while others have to do it.? 4th. Overseers dislike to be rigid in the exercise of authority, hence a few willing hands bear the brunt of the fatigue and work, [n view of these objections, he proposes to abolish the present system and to tax the people, or the road hands?have a common road treasury, and let the roads out by contract. If any refuse to pay the road tax, he advises that the penalty be disfranchisement and imprisonment. ? A writer in the Christian Witness explains the verse: (It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven'? bv a reference to thehish walls aroutfti East crn cities. At certain points these walls were perforated by large passways lor the exit and entrance of inhabitants. Now, by the side ot these large entrances were very much smaller ones, used by foot passengers aud by those who had occasions to go forth or euter the city by night. They were called 'the needle's eye,' as Lord Nugent, an English traveler of modern times, when at Hebron, was directed to go out 'by the needle's eye/ that is by the small side gate of the city. The camel can go through the oeedle's eye, but with difficulty, and hardly with a full load, nor without stooping. JEPS The mau who don't believe in whistling should goa step further, and put a muzzle on bobolinks and mocking-birds. Whistling is a great institution. It oils the wheels O O of care, and supplies the place of sunshine. A man who whistles has a good heart under his shirt front. Such a man not only works more willingly than any other man, but he works more constantly. A whistling cob bier will earn as much again money as a lordwainer who givds way to low spirits arid indigestion. Mean or avaricious men never whistle. Who ever heard of a whistler imong the sharp practitioners of Wall street ? The man who attacks whistling, throws a stone at the head of hilarity, and would if he could, rob June of its roses?August of its meadow-larks. Such a man should be looked to. Let him be looked to. PisccIJaimtis grafting For the Yorkville Enquirer. LINES. How changed, ala9! that lovely flower, Which bloomed to enliven and cheer my heart, Fair fleeting comfort of an hour, How soon loved one we're called to part! \nd shall my bleeding heart complain For her whose ways on earth were love ? 3r, vainly, cherished anxioup pain For her who rests in bliss above ? * STo !?lot mc rather meekly pay FTumhle ohedirnpp tn His will. And with my inmost spirit say, "The Lord Most High, is righteous still." From adverse blasts and lowering storms, Her loved and favored soul He bore ; And with yoh brignt, angelic forms, She lives in bliss, for evermore. Why should I vex my heart, or fa9t ? No more on earth she'll visit me; My soul will mount to her at last ['11 there in bliss my loved one see. Prepare me, blessed Lord, to share, The joys, the bliss thy people prove ; Who round thy glorious throne appear, And dwell in peace and perfeot love. J. T. THE DUTCHMAN'S EXPERIENCE. BY REV. B. HIBBARD. The testimonies of our brethren who have attested that God is merciful and good, as I have often heard them in our love feast, are not only instructive but also always animate and cheer the soul. And although some of our Dutch brethren speak English incorrectly yet to hear them relate the means of their conversion, as I have heard some, at once ^vinces their sincerity and is the evidence of the work of God's grace in their hearts. I wish I could relate one as it was spoken in love feast more than thirty years ago, when the Methodist iirst began to preach in the northern part of the State of New York.? I have forgotten his name, but the substance of his testimony is as follows. He said, "Mine dear bredren, I want to tell you some mine experience. When de Metodists first rtnrfa T ^rvf T ttvo a /Ini rtre t?orrr CwlLLi U iUbU UCOC ?Jt4I lOj JL LWV j. HUO uviu^ ? well; for mine wife and I had two sons, Ned and Jim ; and we had a good farm dat Ned and I could work very well so I let Jim go out to work about fourteen miles off from home. But de Methodists came into our parts and Neddy went to dare meeting, and he got converted, and I tot we should all be undone; so I told Ned he must not go to dese Metodists meeting for so much praying, and so much goin' to meetin' would ruin us all. But Neddy said, lO fader, I must serve de Lord, and save my soul.'? But 1 said, 'you must do de work too.' So I gave him a hard stint on de day of dare meeting; but he works so hard dat he got his stint done, and went to the meeting after all. While I set on my stoop and smoked mine pipe I see him go up do hill to de Metodist meeting; and I said to mine wife Elizabeth, 'we shall be undone, for our Ned will go to dese meetings ;' and she said, 'What can we do?'?'Well,' I said, 'den I will stint him harder,' and so I did severaltimes when de meetings come. But Neddy worked hard and sometimes he got some boys to help him, so dat he would go off to de meeting; while I set on mine stoop and smoked mine pipe I could see Ned go over de hill. I said one day, '0 mine Got, what can I do?dis boy will go to dese meetings after all I can do.' So when Ned come home I said, 'Ned you must leave off going to dese meetings, or I will send for Jim to come home, and send you away.' '0, fader, I must serve de Lord and save my soul.'? 'Well, den I will send for Jim,' so I sent fnr.Tim; and when .fini come home, den I heard he had been to the Metodist meeting where he had lived, and was converted too. And Ned and Jim both said, '0 fader, we must serve de Lord, and save our souls.'? But I said to mine wife, <Dese Metodist must be wrong; da will undo us all, for da have got Ned and Jim both; I wish you would go to dare meeting, and you can see what is wrong; but Ned and Jim can't see it.' So de next meeting day de old woman went wid Ned and Jim. But I set on mine stoop, and smoked mine pipe. But I 6aid to mineself, 'I gess dose Metodists have got dare match to get the old woman, and she will see what's wrong.' So I smoked mine pipe, and looktto see dem come back. By and by I see dem coming; and when da come near I see de tears run down mine wife's face. Den I said, '0 mine Got, da have got de ohd woman too.' I tot I was undone, for da have got Ned and Jim and de old woman, and when da come on de stoop, mine wife said, <0 we must not speak against dis people of Got.' But I said noting for I had not been to any of dese meetings, so I was in great trouble. But in a few days after I heard dat dare was a Presbyterian missionary going to preach a little ways off; so I tot it would not hurt any body to go to dis meeting; and I went wid Ned and Jim, and mine wife, and he preacht but dare was noting done till after de meeting was over, and den dare was twoyoung men in de toder room dat sung and prayed so good as any body; and da prayed for dare old fader too. And many cried and 1 tot dat da prayed very wcel. After dis I was going out of the door to go home, and a woman said tome, 'Mr. you must be a happy man to have two such young men as dem dat prayed.' I said, 'Was dat Ned and Jim?' She said,'Yes.' 0 I felt so mad to 'ink da had prayed for me, and exposed me before all de people.? But I said nothing, b".t webt right to bed. But now mine mind was more troubled den ever before, for I began to tink -how wicked 1 was to stint poor Neddy so hard, and try to hinder him from saving his soul?but I said nothing; so I tried to go to sleep; but as soon as I shut mine eyes, I could see Ned going over de hill to go to his meeting, after he had done his hard stint, so tired and weary. Den I felt worse and worse; and by and by I groaned out and mine wife axt what's de matter, I said, 'I believe l am dying.' She said, 'Shall I call up Ned and Jim?' I said,'Yes.' And Jim came to de bed and said, '0 fader, what is de matter?' I said, 'I believe I am dying.' And he said, 'Fader shall I pray for you ?' I said, '0 yes and Neddy too.' And glory be to Got, I believe he heard de prayer for dough "* ' i. _ im i j i- _:_l. l ieu mine sins line a mounuuu iouu iu sum me down to hell, I cried, 'O Got, have mercy on me a poor sinner;' and by and by I feel something run all over me, and split mine heart all to pieces; and I felt so humble and so loviug dat I rejoice and praise Got, and I am resolved to serve Got mit Ned and Jim and mine wife, and de Metodists. m From the Marion American. THE PALMETTOES IN MEXICO. BY ONB OF THE TWO HUNDRED. NEW SERIES?NO. 11. . It was about the 20th of December, 1846, that the Palmettoes rendezvoused at Charleston. They encamped at the race course, three miles nbovo the city, where they remained about ten days. They were visited every day at their camp by the ladies and citizens ef Charleston. I remember with what interest the ladies came round our camp fires to witness our awkward attempts at cooking,"and with what grace they condescended to eat our fried- potatoes cooked by soldier hands. The city of Cbarlestom^gave us the regimental flag, which was "presented to Colonel Butler, in presence of the regiment, by T. Leger Hutchinson, 3Iayor of Charleston.? Upon our flag gleamed not the stars of union, and the stripes for foes, but upon its blue folds stood out a-single tree?the sad, desolate and solitury palmetto?a speaking, historical memorial of ancient history. Every neonle has its national armorial signets r -~r ~ w fraught with an inspiration or a memory, and its armies go to battle under banners inscribed with them. Tho traveller who has sailed along the coast of South Carolina, has seen along the margin of the sea the bleak and sad palmetto, marking the blue outlioe with its branchless, leafless and barren trunk. There are few landscapes that look so desolate as the sandy coast of Carolina, fringed with groves of palmettoes. The palmetto grows from thirty to forty feet high, and resembles nothing so much <13 3 tall cabbage. It has no limbs or leaves, and has nothing but a bunchy, thick, short excrescence of blades at the top. The bark is rough and ugly.? Such is the exterior of the tree, but the interior yieLds a soft, pleasant and nutritious substance, which is very good for the table. It yielded much of the food upon which the soldiers of the Revolution kept body and soul together. Such is the palmetto, but it has a history which consecrated it in South Carolina as a sacred tree, an armorial signet of her soldiery, and an emblem of her sovereignty. In May, 1776, before the Declaration of Independence, Sir Peter Parker, with a large fleet, came bearing down on Charleston.? Without any help, but from themselves, the Carolinians prepared to give him battle.? With nothing but militia, untrained and un mi i .i ?o_ r._i. 1 i SliWiea, caey inrew up u. ruuu iuri> in punumto logs, on Sullivan's Island, and with apprehension, but without fear, awaited the unequal conflict. The quaint and simple historian, who was one of the combatants, thus describes it: "The island of sand no longer seemed a dreary waste. Brighter rolled the blue waters of the ocean beneath the golden beam, and sweeter murmured the billows on their sandy beach. My heart rejoiced with the playful fishes, as they leaped high, wantoning in the air, or with sudden flounce returned again, wild, darting through their lucid element. Our work went on in joy. The palmetto trees were brought to us by the blacks in large rafts, of which we constructed for our fort, an immense pen, two hundred feet long and sixteen feet wide, filled with sand to stop the shot." Such was the palmetto fort, the only bulwark between brave men and their graves; the only barrier that opposed the entrance of the invader to the only maritime city in the South. And how well the palmetto logs stood the shock and concentrated fire of three hundred cannon,' let our historian tell us : "Such a sudden burst of flame and thunder, could not but make us feel very queer at first, especially as we were young hands, and had never been engaged in such an awful scene before. But a few rounds presently brought us all right again, and then, with heads bound up, and stripped to the buff, we plied our bull-dogs like heroes. "The British outnumbered us in men and ........ laoct fViroo fn nnn Vmf. tlipn nnr ^uua, at ICUOU UUAVV VV V-W, ~w ? guns, some of them at least, were much the heaviest, carrying balls of two and forty pounds weight; and when the monsters, crammed to the throatwith chained shot and infernal fire, let out, it was with such hideous peals as made both earth and ocean tremble. At one time it appeared as though, by a strange kind of accident, all their broad sides had struck up at once, which made the fort tremble again. But our p lmettoes stood the fire to a miracle, closed up without sign of splinter, on their shot, which was stopped by the intermediate sand; while, on the other hand, every bullet that we fired went through and through their ships, timber heads, and iron anchors, in their furions course. And thus was the order of our bat j tie?there, a line of seven tall ships; and j here, one little, solitary fort?there, British discipline ; and here, American enthusiasm ,?there,, brave men fighting for a tyrant; and here, heroes contending for liberty !" Such was the fight, and the result was a I victory the most glorious in the history of ! the Revolution. Gathering a remnant of his shattered and dismantled ships, Sir Peter j Parker, sullen and crestfallen, retreated from ! Charleston, a whipped man?whipped by raw 1 militia, behind a rude, hastily built fort of palmetto logs; and thus, while the Continental CongTess were at Philadelphia debating and hesitating about a declaration of independence, on the 28th day of June, 1776, and six days before the declaration of,national independence, South Carolina had already declared her independence and announced the fact to the world in the diapason music of her Cerberian thunders. Such is the history of tho palmetto, and how it became a consecrated tree?a proud historical memory. And when Carolina sent her regiment to Mexico, she sent them un der the palmetto Hag, which streaming above them in the battle, would inspire them with the memory of 1776, and remind them that j its lustre must not be dimmed by them.? i When our venerable Governor reviewed us, and parted with us, he pointed to our flag, and said : "I now see in the prospective the palmetto banner floating triumphantly over the storm of war. Go, and the God of battles go with you." And it was fulfilled. At Vera Cruz, Contreras, Churubusco, Chepultepec and Belen the Palmetto banner did wave, "Like a pale, disastrous planet, O'er the purple tide of war." And though mighty hosts assailed it, and its bravest men fell thick under its folds, it was borne on every field, the oriflauime of victory. I have been thus minute, to give the history of the palmetto, and how it came that the Carolina Regiment was called "the Palmetto Regiment," and why this history is headed "the Palmettoes in Mexico." A LADY FREEMASON. The Hon. Elizabeth St. Leger was the only female ever initiated into the ancient mystery of freemasonry. How she obtained this honor we shall lay before our readers. Lord Doneraile, Miss St. Leger's father, a very zealous mason, held a warrant, and occasionally opened lodge at Doneraile House, his sons and some intimate friends assisting ; and it is said that never were the masonic duties more rigidly performed than by them. Previous to the initiation of a gentleman to the first steps of masonry, Miss St. Leger, who was a young girl, happened to be in an apartment adjoining the room generally used as a lodge-room. This room at the time was undergoing some alteration; amongst other things, the wall was considerably reduced in ODe part. The young lady baviDg heard the voices of the freemasons, and prompted by the curiosity natural to all to see this mystery, so long and so secretly locked up from public view, had the courage to pick a brick from the wall with her scissors, and witnessed the ceremony through the first two steps. Curiosity satisfied, fear at once took possession or her mind. There was no mode of escape except through the very room where the concluding part of the second step was still being solemnized, and that being at the far eud, and the room a very large one, she had resolution sufficient to attempt her escape that way; and with lightbut trembling steps glided along unobserved, laid her hand on the handle of the door, and gently opening it, before her stood a grim looking tyler, with a drawn sword. A shriek that pierced through the apartment alarmed the members of the lodge, who, all rushing to the door, and finding that Miss St. Leger had been in the room during the ceremony, in the first paroxysm of their rage, her death was resolved on; but from the moving supplication of her younger brother, her,life was saved, on condition of her going through the whole of the solemn ceremony she had unlawfully witnessed. This she consented to, and they conducted the beautiful and terrified young lady through those trials which are sometimes more than enough for masculine resolution, little thinking they were taking into the bosom of their craft a member that would afterwards reflect a lustre on the annals of masonry. The lady was cousin to (reneral Anthonv St. Leger, governor of I " "" ~ ~~ * ^ ' ? St. Lucia, who instituted the interesting race and the celebrated Doncaster St. Leger stakes. Whenever a benefit was given at the theatres in Dublic or Cork, for the Masonic Female Orphan Asylum, she walked at the head of the freemasons with her apron and other insignia of freemasonry, and sat in the front row of the stage-box. The house was always crowded on those occasions. Her portrait is in the lodge-room of almost every lodge in Ireland.?English Paper. THE FLYING FISH. Among all the smaller inhabitants of the sea, the flying fish is one that attracts the moo* nnmialified attention. To passengers "*ww* -?1 ^ ? confined for a long time on shipboard, these little expert creatures skimming over the surface of the sea are a source of infinite amusement. They are never known to grow larger than a herring, and very little is known of their habits. The enemy of the flying fish is the dorado, very slender in form, though often six feet long, and by the aid of several pairs of fins, is capable of passing through the water with immense rapidity; on the other hand, the flying fish is furnished with only two pairs of fins, one of which is larger than the body, and act, if necessary, for its preservation, as a pair of wings.? No one can look at a combat between the dorako and flying fish without interest.. The "sea bird" never leaves the water while it has safety in swimming, but finally, becoming fatigued, it has recourse to another expedient for safety, which is, escape by flight. The long fins which begin to grow useless in the water, are now exerted in a different manner, by which means the timid little creature rises from the water, flatters over the surface of two or three hundred yards, and then sinks again into the waves. By this time, however, the fish has acquired a fresh power of renewing its efforts in the water, and to proceed with increased velocity in swimming; still, however, the dorado keeps in view, and drives the flying fish into the air; at length the little flutter is seen to dart to shorter distances, to move with greater effort, and at last, entirely helpless, drops down into the very mouth of its untiring pursuer. But not the dorado alone?all animated nature seems combined against these little fish, which seems to possess doubly powers only to subject it to grdater dangers, for though it should succeed in escaping from its enemies of the deep, yet the tropic bird and albatross are ever on the wing to seize it. Thus pursued in both elements, it sometimes seeks refuge with a new enemy, for it is not unfrequent that whole shoals jump on board of the passing ships, when they become objects of intense curiosity. J i How tt feelr to be iianged.?An acquaintance of Lord Bacon's, who meant to hang only partially, lost his footing, and "wis CUl Clown SI/ me idm cj.t>iemiijr, umiug imily paid for his curiosity with bis life. He declared that he felt do pain, and his only sensatiou was of firo before bis eyes; which changed first to black and then to sky blue. These colors are even a source of pleasure. A Captain Montagnac, who was hanged in France during the religious wars, and rescued from the gibbet at the intercession of Viscount Turenne, complained that, having lost all paiD in an instant, he bad been taken from a light of which the charm defied description. Another criminal who escaped by the breaking of the cord, 6aid that, after & second of suffering, a fire appeared, semap it the most beautiful avenue of trees. Henry IV., of France, told his physician to question him, and when mention was made of a pardon, the man answered coolly that it was not worth the asking. The uniformity of the descriptions renders it useless to mpltiply instances. They fill pages in every book of medical jurisprudence. All agree that the uneasiness is quite momentary, that a pleasurable feeling immediately succeeds, that colors of various hues start up before the sight, and that, these having beeD gazed on for a trivial space, the rest is oblivion.? The mind, averted from the reality of the situation, is eogaged in scenes the most remote from that which fills the eye of the spectator?the vile rabble, the hideous gallows, and the struggling form that swings in the wind.?London Review. Where They Learn It.?"I don't see where my children learn such things," is one of the most common phrases in a mother's vocabulary. A little incident which we happened to witness, may perhaps help to solve the enigma. We smiled a little at the time, but we've thought a good deal of it since, and we trust not without profit. 'Bob," screamed out a bright-eyed little girl, somewhat under six years of age, to a youngster who was seated on the curbstone, making a hasty-pudding out of the mud in the gutter. "Bob, you good-for-nothing little scamp, you come right into the house this minute, or I'll beat you till the skin comes off." "Why, Angelina, Angelina, dear, what do you mean ? Where do you learn such talking ?" exclaimed her mother in a wondering tone, as she stood on the steps, courtesying to a friend. Angelina looked up innocently, and answered: "Why, mother, do you see we are playing, and he is my little boy, and I am scolding him just as you did me this morning, that is all." - . Texas Fun.?The Palestine Advocate says that on the 15th inst., about nine miles \ northwest of that place, Mr. Achibald V. Briggs tilled a Mr. Brown. The circumstances were about as follows: Brown indaced the wife of Briggs to forsake her husband and lire with him. This arrangement was made with the consent of all concerned, and the parties left. After the expiration of two or three days, Brown visited Briggs and informed him that "he could take his wife back, he was tired of his bargain," or words to that effect. This appears to have been a little too much for the sensitive nature of Briggs, and, we are told, be seized his shot gun, remarking, "Brown, you have had your fun, I'll have mine," took deliberate aim at him and fired, killing him almost instantly. j^,Gen. Gadberry has written to the Unionville Journal, another letter, in which he asserts positively that Col. Woodward knnwq nnthinc ahnnfc Kansas and its affilim He says that he roomed with'him, dined' with him, walked with him and talked with him, during his stay in that Territory, and haying this knowledge, he is not mistaken in saying that he was never more than 300 yards into the Territory. Mr. Gadberry farther says that Col. Woodward is an avowed Know-Nothing', and that this letter to Mr. Hill of Georgia, was written to help his brother Know-Nothings in his canvass as candidate for the governorship of Georgia. J&* The following resolutions were passed by the Board of Councilman in Canton, Mississippi: <1, Resolved by this Council that we build anew jail. <2. Resolved that the new jail be built out of the materials of the old jail. <3. Resolved that the old jail be used until the new'jail is finished/ Could Dublin or Cork beat that 7 16^ The manner in which they weigh a hog oiit We8t, it is said, is to put the hog in one scale and - some stones in the. other, and theh guess at the weight of the atones. JQrtToo much sensibility creates nnhap* piness; too much insensibility oriatea crime.