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VOL. 3. YOEKYILLE, S. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1857. HO. 49.
jielericif |)oftni.
THE LORD'S PRAYER PARAPHRASED.
Our Lord and king, who reiga'st enthroned on
high :
Father of light, mysterious deity,
Who art the great, I am the last, the first,
Art righteous, holy, merciful and just.
In realms of glory, scenes where angels sing.
Heaven is the dwelling place of God our king.
Hallowed be thy name, which doth all names transcend
;
Be thou adored, our great Almighty Friend,
Thy glory shines beyond creations space,
Named in the book of justice and of grace.
Thy kingdom towers beyond the starry skies
Kingdom satnnic falls, but thine shall rise,
Come let thine empire, 0, thou Holy one;
Thy great and everlasting will be done,
Will God make known his will, bis power display
Be it the work of mortals to obey. *
Done is the great, the wondrous work of love,
On calvary's cross he died, but reigns above;
Earth bears the record in thy holy word.
As heaven adorns thy love, let earth, 0 Lord
It shines transcendent in the eternal skies ;
Ix nruised in heaven?for man the Saviour dies,
In songs immortal angels laud bis name,
Heaven shouts with joy, and saints hisloveproclaim.
Give us, 0 Lord our food, nor cease to give
Us of that food ou which our souls may live,
This be our boon to-day, and days to come,
Day without end in our eternal home,
Our needy souls supply from day to day.
Daily assist and aid us when we pray,
Bread though we ask, Lord thy blessing lend
And make us grateful when thy gifts descend,
Forgive our sins whioh in destruction place
Us the vile rebels of a rebel race;
Our follies, faults, and trespasses forgive.
Debts which we can ne'er pay or thou receive,
As we, 0 Lord, our neighbors faults overlook,
IFir beg thou'st blot out ours from thy memory's
book.
Forgive our enemies, extend thy grace
Our souls to save, e'en Adam's guilty race.
Debtors to the in gratitude and lore,
And in that duty paid by saints above,
Lead us from sin and in thy mercy raise
Us from the tempter and his hellish ways.
Not in our own, but in his name who bled,
Into thy ear we pour our every need,
Temptations fatal charms help us to shun,
But may we conquer through thy conquering Son
Deliver us from all which can annoy
Us in this world, and man our souls destroy.
From all calamities which men betide
Evil and death, 0 turn our feet aside ;
For we are mortal worms, and cleave to clay,
Thine lis to rule, and mortals to obey.
/? not thy mercy Lord forever free
The whole creation knows no God but thee
Kingdom and empire in thy presence fall:
The King eternal reigns, the king of all
Power is with thee?to thee be glory given,
And be thy name adored by earth and heaven ;
The praise of saints and angels is thy own ;
Glory to thee, the everlasting one,
Forever be thy triune name adored ;
Amen, Hosanna blessed be the Lord.
June 26, 1813.
Historical Slitters.
From the Mariou American.
THE PALMETTOES IN MEXICO. I
BY ONE OF THE TWO HUNDRED.
NEW SERIES?NO. VII.
" And then there was a little Isle,
* *? J!J
Which in my very iace uiu siuuc,
The only one in view;
A small green Isle?it seemed no more,
Not wider than a stone's throw o'er;
But in it there were fruits and trees
And o'er it blew the soft sea-breeze
And by it there were waters flowing
And on it were young flowers growing
Of gentle breath and hue."
I was con amore a sailor, and every day
I climbed the tall masts up the little rope
ladders, and under the shadows of the sails
I enjoyed the cool breeze, while below on
deck there was scorching heat. On the 5th
day of February, and the 8th day of our
voyage, I saw far out to the South a little
Islet. It was Lobos, the redezvous of the
army which was to beleagre Vera Cruz.?
Lobos is a sweet littc spot, two miles in circumference,
and formed entirely of coral.
Its soil is fertile, and was overgrown with
tropical plants, and trees and vine3 shootiug
in raok luxuriance. Here were lemons, aud
figs, banyan and palm tree3. Many of the
banyans were completely thatched over with
evergreen vines and formed coolandshaded
arbors, through which the sunlight fell in
soft and subdued rays, under which the cool
sea-breeze found its way, fanning our heated
brows with its refreshing coolness, and reviving
and strengthening us with its liealthfuluess
and purity. As in the distance I saw
this green little Islet rise from the waves,
and as a nearer view exposed its fruits and
clambering vines and shaded bowers
441 thought if there's peace to be found in the
world
The heart that is humble might hope for it here,"
But to be contented with such a home, a
man must be as fond of solitude as Alexander
Selkirk, for the Islet has seldom ever been
visited by the footprints of man. I have
heard traditionally, or perhaps conjectural!#,
n J
that it was the point or rendezvous iur "uic
British" in 1814, before theirattack on New
Orleans. A little fact may tend to confirm
this belief. On the Island there was a
grave, and ou a tree over the grave was a !
cut representing the British flag, and the J
figures IS 14. A fleet could not possibly
keep together in a voyage, so that a point of
rendezvous near the place of attack would
be an indispensable precaution. And as
there is no other Island nearer, which would
have been distant enough from New Orleans
for security, it is probable that Lobos was
the point of rendezvous for the attack on
New Orleans.
On the evening of the 5th day of February
1847, and on the 8th day of our voyage,
the ship Oregon cast anchor on the South
side of the Island of Lobos. Six ships
with volunteers were already there. The
Ellerslie, with Major Gladden and 300 Pal15
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metroes, naa arnvea two aays Deiore us. a
part of the Louisiana regiments, and the 1st
Pennsylvania regiment under Col. Wynkoop
were also there.
On the day of our arrival at Lobos the
Abbeville company (to which I belonged j
lost its first victim to the severities of the
campaign. John Hall, a quiet, modest
young man, died on the 5th of February at
sea. He was buried on the Island on the
next morning. A detachment of pioneers
with pick-axes was also landed on that morning
to clear up a camping ground for us.?
This was a work of great difficulty. The
growth of trees and vines, and undergrowth
on the Island was dense and luxuriant. At
the very waters edge we encountered the
projecting and impervious thicket, and the
ramification of vines held acres of growth
knit and woven together. We would cut a
tree from its roots, but it would not fall, until
the ambiage of vines supporting it, were
cleared away. But after much labor an
opening was cleared into the Island, and on
the third morning we landed in force, and
renewed the work. The beautiful trees
were ruthlessly cut down, the roots uprooted,
broad streets were opened, and the declining
sun of the 7th of February saw a magic
city of canvass erected on the desolate and
untrodden Island.
On the 4th day another terrible norther
blew up, and fretted the gulf into a diabolical
tempest. Our tents were blown down,
and it required great ingenuity to fasten
them so as to stand the violence of the wind.
The waves rolled high and fierce, and were
dashed into clouds of white mist over the
breakers. Neptune and Eolus are in fierce
and terrible struggle,
" And the battle rages long and loud.
And the hollow winds do blow."
Our sufferings are excruciating?they rise
to the sublime of agony. There is no water
on the Island, and any communication with
the ships is impossible. Even when the
storm was milder, three separate attempts
were made to put a cask of water on a boat,
but they were dashed to pieces in the attempt.
Now, it would be worth the lives
of all the boats crew, even to attempt to
reach the Island. The ships pull hard on
their anchors, but being sheltered by the
Island, they escape a wreck. But we have
nothing to drink. Our salt pork increases
our thirst, our vitals are consuming with
heat, and we have no water. And yet a
wide expanse of water surrounds us, and
plays at our feet. There is
" Water, water every where
But not a drop to drink."
Dives in hell did not pray more earnestly
for a drop of water " to cool his parched
tongue" than I did during that storm on
Lobos.
Wn tried to find water on the Island, but
there was none. In the centre of it we
dug a hole into the ground which at the
depth of a few inches supplied a sufficient
quantity of the fluid, but it was hot and
brackish. It was disgusting and nauseating
to the taste, and it only inflamed our
thirst. Yet in our phrenzy and desperation
we drank it copiously. I think that I drank
two or three gallons of it per day. But it
only maddened and phrenzied us. We felt
as if the fires of a volcano were raging in
our stomachs and our throats were the craters.
I believe that if I had been a millionaire
and had all my gold in a heap before
me, I would have given the last dollar
of it for one glass of pure cold water. My
imagination mocked and tortured me with
memories of my native hills, and the pure
cold waters gushing from them. How bitterly
I cursed my folly, my ambition, my
chivalry, my love of adventure, that had led
me far away from the cool fountains of my
native hills, to die of thirst and fever in the
tropics. Never before or since have I suffered
such agony as during this time on Lobos.
But Neptune at last asserted the supre-e
i_i u?J
that then they should all change their verdict,
and find him guilty." Accordingly,
they returned a verdict of "not guilty."?
The astonished court refused to receive it,
and sent them back; whereupon*they rendered
a verdict of "guilty."
" The faithful Boswell," in his anecdotes
of Br. Johnson, relates that, during Johnson's
visit to Scotland, a person was execu
rnacy 01 nis inueui, uuu uju muuo uusucu
their fury. After the usual spell of three
days the norther had wasted its breath, and
there was a calm on the waters. Then we
had water, fresh water from the ships, and
our sufferings were ended.
ANECDOTES OF TRIALS.
In the autumn of 1821, a man, named
Desjardins, was tried in France, as an accomplice
with Louvel, the assassian of the
Duke de Berri. Desjardins confessed himself
guilty of the crime; but, on his defence,
contended that this confession ought not to j
be used against him, because he was so notorious
a liar that no ODe would credit a
word he said. He then brought forward a
troop of friends and relatives as witnesses to
prove this. They all testified to his bad
character in this respect, and the jury returned
a verdict of "not guilty."
Irish criminal history furnishes a case
almost identical. A man on trial for highway
robbery, cried out from the dock that
he was guilty; the jury, nevertheless, returned
a verdict of "not guilty." The astonished
judge exclaimed, "Good God!
gentlemen, did you not hear the man himself
declare that he was guilty ?" The
foreman replied: "We did, my lord; aud
that was the very reason we acquitted him ;
for we knew he was so notorious a liar that
he never told a word of truth in his life."
We may mention in this connection, a
cutting remark of Webster to a witness, who !
stated that he might have said more in his j
?u. u..j ;
tesuinouy, UUl UIUU^UI lie uau uuuy nun xu ;
keeping it to himself. "It was of no con-!
sequence," said the great man, "the jury
did not believe a word you did say."
Levinz reports a case in the King's Bench,
"wherein the jury, not agreeing, cast lots for
their verdict, and gave it according to lot;
for which, upon the motion of Levinz, the |
verdict was set aside, and the jury were ordered
to attend next term to be fined."
Cooke cites a case wherein the prisoner,
accused of murder, appealed, and rested bis j
defence on thegrouud that the deceased had i
highly provoked him by mocking him in his j
gait and speech. The opinion given by the !
bench was, that the crime was murder. The
jury deliberated for some time, and, finding
they could not agree upon a verdict, came
to .the following understanding: "that they
should bring in and offer their verdict not
guilty, and if the court disliked thereof,
ted to ple:se his laird. '-Before the lierita
ble jurisdictions were abolished, a man wai
tried for his life in the court of one of th<
chieftains. The jury were going to brin<
him in "not guilty," but somebody whis
pered them, that "the young laird had ncvci
| seen an execution,' upon which their ver
diet was "death j" and the man wan hangec
accordingly."
This deference to the authority of th<
head of the clan is only equalled by th<
story of the highland dame, who reproachec
her "gude man" with a want of respect ti
his chief, because, having been condemned
he naturally displayed some reluctance ai
sight of the halter. "Git up, Donald," saic
the "gudc wife" to her " ain guid man,'
"git up, Donald, and be hangit, an' dinnr
anger the laird."?The Prisoner's Friend
ruw* -/v i.
jlpstcHaneims ftcMtno
From the New York Gazette.
A BLOODY BATTLE IN GEORGIA
Brunswick, Ga., Sept 17,1857.
Honey-Gall?a small settlement 17 miles
from our city, and In Glynn county?was, or
Tuesday morning last, about the hour of 10,
the scene of one of the most deadly conflicts
and bloody tragedies in the annals of a lawabiding,
civilized community. It appears
that the neighborhood had for some years
been aunoyed with a band of thieves, whose
practice it was to live upon the farms and
stock of the honest citizens of the vicinity.
The thieves had successfully eluded the vigilance
of the sufferers, and escaped the
punishment prescribed by the statute, until
at last their conduct becoming intolerable
and their depradations alarming to the community,
it was determined, on the part of the
good citizens around Honey-Gall, to* remove
them at all hazards, and without the aid of
the law.
In pursuance of this determination, a band
of Regulators (a term well understood in
Florida, California, and some of the Western
States,) was organized some days ago,
and on Friday last proceeded to notify certain
parties that their presence in the county
could uo longer be tolerated, and that they
must take themselves away by Tuesday (last
Tuesday) or submit to the law of force; that
on that day they must leave the county ei
ther peaceably or otherwise, and that for
their crops, stock, &c., they should receive
an equivalent; and also have their passage
paid on the steamer to any point to which
they ruight desire to emigrate. Among the
parties thus notified there was a man by the
name of Moses Hornsby and his family?
wife, one grown son, Mike, and three small
children. Moses thought of the matter and
concluded not to go; but still led the Regulators
to believe that he would go willingly.
He played the old soldier on them, however,
as the sequel will show.
At the hour of 10 on Tuesday morning
fourteen of the Regulators appeared before
Hornesby's door?twelve of them with guus
and two unarmed. One of the two was made
the spokesman, to do their parleying with
the Hornsbys. He advanced to within a few
feet of the door and asked a neighboring
woman (by the name of Holland, who happened
to be there, or was so by design, and
who had been also notified to leave) if Mr.
Hornsby was at home. She replied, "Yes,
he is somewhere about."
At this instant a shot was fired from the
house, through a sort of rude and inartistic
port-hole at Foreman, missing his knee a
few inches, and striking his horse dead beneath
him. Another shot in quick succession
discharged a full load of buckshot into
the left breast of Mr. James Rumpt, one of
the Regulators. Mr. Rumpt on being shot,
wheeled, and crying out to his comrades to
scatter, galloped off a short distance and fell
dead. The firing continued rapidly, and
with terrible fatality, from the house for
some seconds?perhaps minutes. The party
scattered as quickly as possible, but left four
more of their number upon the field?two
by the name of Ratcliff?an old gentleman
and his son, the son mortally and the old
gentleman dangerously, if not mortally
wounded?a Mr. May, son-in-law to Radcliff,
dangerously wounded, and Mr. Foreman,
with his ankle fractured by the falling
of his horse. Three horses were also shot
down and killed. This was the effect of not
exceeding nine shots from the house.
In the midst of this firing, young Radcliff,
n brave and determined spirit fell. Satisfied
that his wound was fatal he determined to
have some little revenge, and, crawling to a
stump, rested his gun upon it, and fired
through a port-hole, emptying the contents
of one barrel in the face and breast of old
Horusby, giving him his quietus. Casting
his eye to another part of tho fortress he perceived
a human figure, at which he let slip
the contents of the other barrel. This shot,
it seems, took effect in the left side of Mr.
Hornsby's wife, and in the legs and hips of
her infant, which she held in her arms. She
was killed instantly?the child may probably
recover.
About the time these two shots were fired,
Mike Hornsby appeared in the piazza and
fired one barrel, and drew up to discharge
the second, when a Regulator by the name
of Morgan, and who at this moment stood
alone upon the field, defending the wounded,
cohort trnn nf a fallen comrade, and eau
tioned Mike if he fired the second barrel,
he (Morgan) would certainly return the fire;
Mike heeded not the warning, but fired, and
turned?to run, probably?when Morgan,
true to his word, blazed away, and dropped
Mike with a mortal wound. Thus ended
the engagement and thus closed the battle of
Honey-Gall. Two men and one woman killed,
and four men and one infant severely wounded.
The doctors think it possible that all the
wounded, except young Kadcliff and Mike
Hornsby, may recover. These two are probably
dead before this hour.
The Regulators were all very respectable,
peaceable and reliable men; and while their
- remedy cannot be justified, they have the
3 sympathies of our whole community, and the
j death of Mr. Rumptis universally regretted.
; It is a deplorable state of things that for
ces peaceable and honest citizens to adopt
r the "Regulator" system ; yet sometimes and
- under some ciroumstancea it must be done.
1
TOMB OP DAVID.
; The mysteries of the tomb of David are
5 at last revealed to the christian world by an
I ingenius ruse of Miss Barely, for many years
, a resident of Jerusalem. This adventerous
lady, after having visited the harem encloi
sure, at the risk of he{ life, determined to
I explore, disguised as a Turkish lady, the
? very tomb of the "Prophet David," for more
t than six ceuturies in the jealous custody of
the Turks.
Tko Klortlr Hornloo toKa lrnrvf flifi onfronnn
I A "V W1HVB JL/?1U10\. n MV VKV vuvtuuvu
to this sacred spot, was deceived by the fat
miliar use of the Arabic language as well as
1 the assurance of her friend, in the person of
: a liberal minded and very beautiful Turkish
girl, who intimated her as a pilgrim from
Constantinople, come to perform her devo
tions at the shrines of their Lords and Prophets,
David and Solomon. Her devotional
5 feelings were put to a strong test on obeserv1
ing this devotee of Ishlam take saturated
i wick from an oil lamp, and deliberately de>
vour it as an act of religious devotion. Af'
ter her form of prayer had ended, she raised
1 the splendid silken canopy, overhanging the
' tumultuous, containing the body of David,
1 and there, in royal state, was the veritable
sarcophagus of David, having its marble cover
adorned with the most beautiful festoons
of grapes?the emblem of the Jewish archi1
tecture?and other devices which she carefully
transferred to paper, yet to be present1
ed to the public in the pages of the "City of
the Great KiDgs," soon to make its appear1
ance.
( No traces of its ancient treasures remained
that have so often been pillaged by the
Eastern monarchs. Ilyrdanous, the son of Simon
the Macabee, is said to have despoiled
it of three thousand talents, prior to its exploration
by Herod the Great, who, when he
had penetrated these mansions of the dead
found nothing to gratify his cupidity, save
some furniture of gold, and other precious
treasures, which he carried away. At another
time rolling balls of fire are said to have
burst forth, and by the superstitious believed
to have consumed the seekers of bullion and
treasure said to be inhumed here even at the
present day. This interesting and tabooed
spot, as well as the Mosque Omar, will soon
be opened to Christian inspection, without
Turkish let or hindrance, as the writer of
! tki'n knetn olrnfnk /fnrnicViftd kr ATioo R ^ ic
biiio uaotj oagtvu ^iuiuiouvu uj riioo xj . j 10
already by personal experience in his exploration
of the latter, though not less sacred
edifice.?Ph iladelph ia Ledger.
The Money Crisis in Charleston.?
Tn a very able article, on this subject, the
Standard says : "If we go on to inquire,
who shall bear the blame, of all this spreading,
needless ruin ??in reply every finger
points to New York. There the panic commenced,
and thence it has spread. In her
selfish pride and foolish policy, she imagined
that she was to stand as a breaker against all
the furious waves that could dash against
the country. Thus far she has stood but at.
the expense of every other point in connection.
She absorbs the products of the country,
and those products have gone to stregthen
her, whilst she refuses to enable her merchants
to pay for them. Heretofore sight
exchange on New York, drawn upon produce
shipped there, has been considered equivalent
to specie, But now her banks resolve
to protect themselves, her merchants fail,
.Southern exchange drawn upon them is dishonored,
and so the New York banks keep
their specie, the proceeds of our products,
whilst the Southern banks that counted upon
the hard cash for their matured bills,
drawn upon Southern products, have to bear
the brunt of the pressure, with such means
as they can command at home. This is no
idle tale. There is now due to Charleston
thousands upon thousands of such bills,
which ought to have been paid of specie
uow in the vaults of the New York Banks.
In refusing to give out that specie, they have
broken their own merchants, and will now
embarrass the finances of the whole South,
until either the New York banks shall change
their policy, or the South find means of
sending her staples to the consumers, without
risking shipments to or through New
York. Our crops can pay our debts and relieve
all embarrassments. If New York
will not give out her gold for it, then we
must prepare ourselves to wait until Europe
shall send for what she wants to buy and we
want to sell. The result will be that New
York will temporarily injure us, but will ruin
her own merchantsand herself. Meanwhile
it becomes us to be patient and considerate.
Our panics are injurious, needless and foolish.
The South can and will meet the squall
without any serious injury to herself.
Her foundations are too solid to be moved
by this pressure. There is gold enough in
the world, to pay for our cotton, and that
world can not consent to remain unclothed
rather than part with its gold. All that we
require is a little breathing time and the good
old ship at the South will right herself nobly.
T? r\?n it.
iVECirJS.?ijeriaiu iu vure me .L/iaeuse ui
Disunion?Take a trip to England, imbibe
freely of ignorant abuse of your country,
mixed up with considerable ridicule of American
books, American manners and American
institutions. Add to this a decoction
made up of British predictions that the
United States are going headlong to perdition.
If these do not operate, take a mixed
dose of experience in the lanes and alleys of
London poverty and crime. If you are still 1
a sufferer inhale the breezes of Italy, so red- i
olent of macaroni and beggars, and we will
wager a pair of trowsers for Mr. Greely and
a new head piece for the Charleston Mercury,
that you will advertise for an American flag,
with all the 6tars upon it, in every newspa- <
per you can lay your hands on, and after you t
get it, take locomotive to the nearest port h
and hurry home to your good old mother , f
country, as fast as the iron legs and fiery : r
steam of the Collins line can take you. r
Philadelphia Press. i e
ib
The Lesson of Life.?A cheerful old <
gentleman, between eighty and ninety years t
old, says the Hartford Courant, was in our
office the other day, and in the course of the
chat we asked him what was the principal practical
lesson he had learned in bis pro- t
tracted life. Said he, "the essence of what t
I have learned, teaches me to laugh when I <;
can and cry when I must. I have learned, r
-1? l _r 3 _ in. .,
ill&U, tu Ui'Waie Ul Hmi(irs|utr. j lUdU M
who invented endorsipg had ruined tens of n
thousands of business men. My principal v
looses were caused by attempting to help n
others. If an embarressed man comes to s
you for aid, the true course is, tell him to a
fail first; if fail he must, and you will help u
him after his failure ; and not before. The g
course of an embarrassed man is to stop ti
payment promptly. If you attempt to help n
a man, he will hate you. Men always hate p
those to whom they are under obligations.? d
If you expect gratitude, you deserve in- *
gratitude, according to the practical working g
of things." This was the experience of a il
man, who said, also, that "one of the prin-' y
cipal things I have learned isio take very it
coolly whatever comes along. The world w
keeps along about the same, no matter what si
happens." y
We thought of what old Grant Thorburu si
who is now in his 85th year: He says that o
men are fools who arc continually grumbling
over a "miserable world." (|
"I have seen as many years as most men
see in this world?this day I enter my 85th
year?yci I am not tired of the world, and tl
if it so will licaven, I would live my life is
over again, with all its joys and sorrows. ft
"1 think that Jacob erred when he told si
Pharaoh that "few ami evil had been the it
days of his pilgrimage." si
"It is sixty-three years and six months t(
since 1 first saw New York, coming from the si
hills of Scotland, where I was born. In all p
the period I have only been ten days eonfined a
to my house by sickness. 1 have shared in c
the trials of life and the vicissitudes of ii
business, but never grieved for losses in 5
trade. When a draft for 8500 came back 2
protested, 1 rejoiced because it was not a g
thousand. If I bruised my arm I thanked e
God that it was not my neck. In times of a
trouble, if we look around we will see mil- n
lions in a worse condition than ourselves.? t(
Therefore we ought to be thankful. I never si
felt a rheumatic pain. I walked without a h
staff, I sleep without rocking; and eat my il
food without the help of brandy and bitters.
Mine eyes fail, but this defect is greatly
mitigated by borrowing the young eyes of e
my partner for life. She is an excellent fi
reader; is ever by my side; soothing my I
path to the banks of Jordan?the noise of
whose waters are sounding in my ear." I
? mw c
Goon News.?No poverty there! Mil- j,
lions of good men have left this earth poor, c
but never has one entered Heaven poor, p
Lazarus, the moment before he died was a 0
beggar at the gate, but in a moment after g
his death, his estate had grown so vast that p
the haughty worldling, still serving in all
his influence, in comparison with him was a j
penniless pauper. 0, poor believer, rejoice f(
iu the prospect of ybur great inheritance.? d
It is incorruptible, undeflled and fadeth not f,
away. It is really immense, inestimable, d
unspeakable, has it not been your endeavor a
to day up (for yourself) treasures iu Heaven.' w
Why not ofteu think of results there? Fear a
not. There is 'good news from a far country.'
Unsuccessful, as you may have been
on earth, your heavenly schemes have all w
prospered. "
The treasury of God overflows with your g,
wealth. And it is safe?perfectly safe.? t(
Neither 'moth nor rust' corrupts it; nor can Q
thieves' break through to steal it. More- e
over, it shall increase?forever increase. As t)
long a3 you live on earth you may add to ^
the principal, and its interest will multiply, a
beyond all computation, to all eternity.? a
Croesus was rich, Solomon was rich; Luculus
3 . u..* <
wild riL'llj cl LIU LUC 1VUU13UUIIUO flic 1 ACI1 j U Ut ^
the humblest heir of God is richer far thaD gj
all. It may be that the stores yoa have al- ^
ready accumulated in Heaven would buy
this town, buy the district, buy our country,
buy the world?and still be comparatively
untouched. Nay think not this extravagant!
I would not barter the heritage of the most tj
destitute of Christians for the whole globe <
and all improvements. Lift up your heart;
let it expand, and fill and overflow with bliss.
At the close of the short journey through N
time, you will see eternity open before you,
all radiant with the variety of your boundless ^
and endless possessions. Be not proud, in- fa
deed?alas, for the folly of all pride !?but rc
be glad, thankful, hopeful, and happy.
Stockton'a Sermons.
Cube for Shying.?If a lady's horse be ^
addicted to shying, I will give her a sure and g
simple cure for the same; one which I have ^
never known to fail. Let us for instance ?e
suppose the existence of a large heap of ..
stones on the near side of the road. The
horse sees an indistinct gray object, and pre- ..
nor.no fn oVitt nfr if. Thp mnmpnf. Via shnws I
j,a?v,a ""J "v *" ~ 3X
such symptoms, let his fair rider, turn both
her eys oil exactly the opposite side of the ..
road (i. e. the off side,) and look steadily a- ^
way from the offending heap, and I'll en- ^
gage that the horse will walk quietly by.
For many years, I have ridden horses of j
all tempers and dispositions, some of them tr
much given to shying, and have never yet jj(
found this simple remedy to fail in its effect. ca
Let those who scoff at me try it. The reason
is this : the human eye has doubtless, a
great influence on all animals, and there is CQ
a strong and secret sympathy between the
horse and his rider: the horse sees an indistinct
object, and looks doubtfully at it; the E:
rider becomes alarmed, imagining that the Q
animal is going to commit some eccentricity; ai
he fear is communicated to the nniuial, nod j
le starts in terror from the object which has
rightened him, whereas, if he finds that his !
ider sits unmoved and unconcernedly, he '
egains his confidence, and goes on, <in the
ven tenor of his way.' I believe that one
lalf of our horses are ruined for life by being
hit over the head' by grooms to cure them
hem of shying.
Thf. Way to oet on in the World.
?To get on in this world, you must be conent
to be always stopping where you are;
o advance, you must remain stationary; to
;et up, you must keep down ; following
iches is like following wild geese, and you
uust crawl after both on your belly; the
ainute you pop your head up, off they gt
whistling before the wind, and you see nc
aore of them. If you haven't the art of
tickinc bv nature, vnn must nemiire it. hv
C- -J 1 J , " ~J
rt; put a couple of pounds of brimlime
pon your office stool, and sit down on it ;
et a chain round your leg, and tie yourself
) your counter like a pair of shop scissors;
ail yourself up against the wall of your
laco of business, like a weasel on a barn
oor, or the sign of the spread eagle; or,
bat will do best of all, marry a poor honesr
irl without a penny, and iny life for yours
* you don't do business. Never mind whan
our relatives say about genius, talent, learnig,
pushing, enterprise, and such stuff;
hen they come advising you for your good,
;ick up' to them for the loan of an eagle, anc
ou will never see thein on your side of the
trcet again. To do any good we tell you
ver and over again you must be a sticker.
rou may get fat upon a rock if you neve r
uit your hold of it.
Manufacture of Combs.?It is said that
te greatest comb manufactory in the world
i iu Aberdeen, Scotland There are 3(5
lrnaces for preparing thehorusand tortoise
hell for the combs, and no less than 120
on screw presses are constantly going in
tamping them. Steam power is employed
) cut the combs. The coarse combs are
taiuped or cut out?two being cut in one
iece at a time. The tine dressiug combs,
nd all small tooth combs, are cut by fine
ircular saws, some so fine as to cut 40 teeth
s the space of one inch, and they revolve
000 times in one minute. There are some
AAA P t i i *
uuo varieties or comDS maae, ana tne tgregate
number produced of all these diflsrnt
sorts of combs is about 0,000,000 aunully.
The annual consumption of hoofs aaounts
to 4,000,000; the consumption of
artoise shell and buffalo horn, although not
o large, is correspondingly valuable. A
oof undergoes 11 distinct operations before
; becomes a finished comb.
Bank Accommodations.?The money
ditor of the Journal of Commerce has the
allowing notice of a Bank operation in
'hiladelpbia:
There is much written and uttered about
he illiberality of the Banks, but those who
omplain most would be perhaps equally loud
n their condemnation if any trouble should
ome, through a want of prudence on the
iart of these institutions. We doubt if any
f our city Banks have been as "close" as
ome of their sister institutions in Philadelhia.
It is reported that one Bank there
iecame so costive that a customer, a little
ritated at the picayune policy, drew a note
ar five dollars at thirty days, covered it
own the back with first class endorsements
rom his fellow sufferers, pinned it to a ten
ollar bill, of the same Bank, as collateral,
nd then offered it for discount. This was
rhat Jedediah Tomkins would call "hintin'
round."
A Good Man's Wish.?I would rather,
rhen I am laid in the grave, that some one
a his manhood should stand over me and
ay: 'There lies one who was a real friend
a me, and privately warned me of the dangers
f the young. No one knew it, but he aid
d me in time of need. I owe what I am
5 him.' Or would rather have some widow
jlling her children, 'There is your friend
nd mine. He visited me in my affliction,
nd found you, my son, an employer, and
ou my daughter, a happy home in a virtuous
imily.' I would rather that such persons
hould stand at my grave, than tobaveerec;d
over it the most beautiful seulptured
lonument of Parian or Italian marble. The
eart's broken utterance of past kindness,
d the tears of grateful memory shed upon
le grave, are more valuable, in my estimaon,
than the most costly r:onument.?Dr.
Vmrpc.
Death of the "Child of Mount Ver
on."?George Washington Park Custis,
le grand-son of the wife of Gen. George
Washington, and the last survivor of the
imily circle of Mount Vernon, died at his
ssidence at Arlington, in Alexandria counr,
this morning at 10 o'clock.
We understand that the funeral will take
!ace on Tuesday morning next.
The above paragraph, from the Alexandria
entinel, on Saturday evening, conveys inlligence
of the snapping of another of the
w remaining links that bind this generaon
to the times of the Revolution. The
;ws will be sad tidiDgs to all the land, for
tells of the departure of one who, in the
niability and integrity of his private life,
) less than in his fervid patriotism and en?htened
love of country, no less tha'n in
te ties of family relationship, was of kin to
io immortal Washington.
16?" Zachariah Walker, to whom the couny
is indebted for the removal and safe
jeping of its records at the time of the i
pture of Washington in 1814, died in i
at city, on the 5th inst. He was one of i
e few who witnessed the laying of the <
rner stone of the national Capitol.
An Old Postmaster.?Robert Shaw,
sq., the Postmaster at Buckingham Court 1
ouse, was appointed by Thomas Jefferson, I
id has filled the offioe ever since. i
A K tin a Way Match.?Elopements are
not vewy common now-a-days, when women
have become snch very dear creatures, tha?r'
matrimony is getting too expensive. But
we heard of a couple the other day who ran
off to get married, and came back to the
bride's house, where she humbly sued for
the forgivness of her father, kneeling at bis
feet, all Honiton, crinoline, and tears. 'Forgive,
forgive me, dearest father 1' sobbed
the lovely suppliant. 'Forgive yon !' exclaimed
the old gentleman, 'why, I'm only
too glad to get rid of you; and I should
have favored your wishes, if I uad not
known that you were so contrary, that if I'd
encouraged you in the least, you'd have refused
the man of your heart. Your ill temper,
extravagance, and idleness have been
the plague of my life, and make your marriage
no loss tome, my dear child. So take
her,' added the old gentleman, generously,
addressing the happy man, 'and may you be
happy!' 'Fancy the feelings' of the interesting
young gentleman, on being thus assured
from the lips of the most competent
judge in the world, that he had 'caught a
Tartar,' and 'married in haste to repent at
leisure.'
Wanted, a Live Woman.?Pnnch thus
expresses his distress at the disappearance of
women from the face of the earth :
There are no women now-a-days. Instead
of women we have towering edifices of silk,
lace and flowers. You see a milliner's large
advertising van that slides along, with arustling
sound, and you are told that it is a
woman; but as you cannot approach within'
several yards of the monster obstruction you
cannot tell what it is beyond something that
looks like an entire shop front put in motion,
with all the goods in it exposed for sale. I
really believe, if any showman would open
an exhibition, where one could see a woman
?such as women were in my young days,
when they used to be fair, slim, slender,
graceful, well-propcrtiooed and everything
that was beautiful, instead of the animated
wardrobes, and unrecognizablcs of fine clothes
that they now are, I really believe that an
enterprising showman like that would rapidly
realize a large fortune.
Not so Slow.?The editor of the Polo
Transcript is "one of 'em." In his last issue
he gets off the following:
Another Editor Dead.?Wm. Fisk,
Eso.. editor of the Medota Prpus ?a ?
Mr. F. was a poet of no mean pretensions,
as our readers will testify from the specimen
we have given them. From some rea-1
son or other, Mr. F. did not like our views
upon the merits of his poetry, and so cut us
from his exchange list. We however continued
to send him the Transcript, and yesterday
it was returned to this office, marked,
"send this paper to hell." This was the
the first intimation we had of Mr. F.'s death,
and we suppose he left word with his son to
send his exchanges to his new abode.
SQF It is estimated that there are four
millions of female snuff takers in the United
States, using on an average two pounds each
per aunum, or eight millions of pounds, at
an expense of two millions of dollars!
The dear, pretty creatures! No. wonder
so many young men eschew matrimony nowadays,
and occupy single bedsteads daring
the cold winter months. Eight millions of
pounds of old toba<5co chews and stumps of
cigars, in a pulverized state, eaten by the
fair daughters of America! ''Pah! our
gorge rises at the thought! "Prithee, good
apothecary, give us an ounce of civit to
sweeten our imagination."
Hoops Triumphant.?It is said that
one hundred and seventeen years ago the ladies
wore as large hoops as they do noW;?~^ \
Sir Robert S trance, fleeing from pursuit after' \
the battle of Colloden, was protected in the' 1
crisis of his trouble by: a young lady, who
concealed him under the ample folds of her
hoop skirt. The result of this concealment,
either from Jove or gratitude, suggested to
Sir Robert the propriety of offering the
young lady some token for ber kindness in
thus seoretiog him from bis foes, so be of*
fered bis heart and hand, and tbey were
married. Hoops being triumphant in this
case as they are now.
Relieving Choked Cattle.?I will
give you a very simple, yet very certain
mode of getting a potatoe or apple out of a
creatures throat. People frequently resort
to harsh remedies, and sometimes lose a
valuable ox or cow thereby. My plan is to
fire a gun under the animal, when the
animal makes such a desperate spring that
the wind from the stomach throws out the
obstruction in the throat at once.?North
icettern Farmer.
Condensed Argument.?A very oele*
brated Scotch divine says: "The world we
live in must have had an origin ; that origin
must have consisted in a cause; that cause
must have been intelligent; that intelligence
must have been efficientj that effioienoy
must have been ultimate; that ultimate power
must have been Supreme; and that whioh
always was, and is, Supreme, we know by the
name of God!"
I?" The Greensboro' Times says the
Branoh of the Farmer's Bank, located in
that town, was run upon when the news of
the suspension of the parent Bank reachedi
that place; bat that public confidence fc
firm, and the bills of the branoh pass as current
as gold.
Three men, named Smith, McCoy
and Hedgepeth, the first charged with uh
sault with intent to kill, the second wfth
negro stealing, and the third with motfder,
neaped from the jail of Lowndes cdnnty,
Alabama, on the 28th alt.
i mi ...j
Faesfikld Bahk.?The Stockholders art
held responsible for doable the amount of
the oapital stock of this Bank. The Capital
stock of the Fairfield Bank is 1800,000. 1