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I lewism geiji'ft'oprietor } An Independent Journal: For the Promotion of the Political, Social, Agricultural and Commercial Interests of the South. j?2peeashuk,ih abvakce VOL 4. YOEKYILLE, S. P., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1858. ' 3STQ. 44. % Capital Sfctoij. CAU6HT IN HIS OWN TRAP, BY 8YLVANUS COBB, JR. 'Confound the boy ! What does he mean ? Does he think I'm going to be a father to him, and not be obeyed as a father? Does he think I'm going to give hira my money to spend in business, and take only ingratitude in return ? What can the young dog be thinking of. Plague take the youngster ! What business has he to go and fall in love with a poor piece of trash ! I'll?I'll fix hira ! I'll?but here comes the rascal!? the apurner of my counsels !' And as Captain Jerry Pieman thus spoke he sank into a great stuffed chair, and looked daggers: and twice he stamped his dumpy foot vehemently to keep up his stern purpose. He was a round-billed, jolly facedj redcheeked bachelor, just five-aud-forty. Most of his life he bad spent at sea, and had lately settled down ashore with an immense fortune, for the purpose of enjoying the rest of his days 'after his own heart,' as he expressed it. His pate was just bald enough to carry his jolly face high up over the brow, but yet he had a goodly quantity of dark curls clustering about bis short, fat neck.? The only near relative he had in the lower world was Jack Kendall, an only child of his only sister. Jerry Pieman had loved his sister fondly, and when she died?she was a widow then?she left a prayer upon the reoord that her brother would care for her orphan boy. For ten years he had provided . for his nephew, keeping him at one of the best schools for a while, and then paying his way through college. But now that he had settled down for a home, he bad Jack to come and live with him. 'Ah?you are here, are you ? growled the unole, looking up with a very dag ger-like expression. Jack Kendal was twenty-three, somewhat taller than his uncle, but with the same family look. lie was a handsome, good natur-J follnw flnrl ea, geucruuo, ou?uuu?i6 his uncle Jerry with his whole soul. 'Yes, unole-?I'm here,' he replied, taking a seat, 'and I know you are glad to see me.' 'Aye?I am glad, for I have something to say to you,' the bachelor resumed, looking some more daggers. 'Have you seen that baggage again ?' 'BdQQCige, uncle?' Baggage sir. I said baggage. Have you aeen her ?' '7/er, uncle? Baggayc??Her? Why ?what do you mean ? 'You know very well what I mean. I mean that piece of poverty?that hanger-on?that v?that baggago?that?t^at gal!' ?Oh! You mean Lizzie Brown. The girl that ' 'Thinks to catch you, and thus catch mv money!' interrupted uncle Jerry, emphatically. ?Jt is hardly fair to say that, uncle, seeing that I made all the advances myself.' 'Nonesense! Don't you suppose I know ? I say she set the trap for ye ! But I won't have it! If I'm to be a father to ye, you must obey me. Now I've got a choice. I C* /~1 1 3 ) want ye to uiarry whq ousau uurmuu. 'But sho'sa widow, uncle.' 'So much the better. She'll know how to make a home for ye.' 'And she's older than I by a dozen years.' 'Just five years. She's only twenty-eight. It's all the better for that.' 'But I can't love her.' 'Can't love her!' cried the uncle, looking an immense number of very sharp-pointed daggers. 'Can't love Susan Garland ! Can't love the woman who was the wife of the most faithful friend I ever had ! Let me tell you, sir, that when the old Gazelle was cast upon the rocks of Barnegat, Bill Garland saved my life, and lost his own ! He died in these arms, sir ! We sat upon the cold wet rocks, sir! and the last words he ever said to me were, 'Be kind to my poor Susan !' And I will be kind to her!' the captain added, wiping a big tear from his check. 'I'll give her a husband?a?a?graceless husband, perhaps?but with money enough to keep her above want. You must marry her, sir.' 'But suppose I should refuse.' 'Refuse! refuse your own uncle? You dare not do it, sir! I'd turn you out of doors in an iostant! I'd see you starve before I'd give you another penny ! I'd?I'd?take away all I ever did give you!' 'Ah?you couldn't do that, uncle. The education I have gained under your noble, generous patronage, is a mine of wealth of which you cannot rob me ! and I would not to-day exchange it for all the wealth you ever possessed. I can live by my own wits.' 'Aha ! You threaten me, do you ? You mean to rebel do you ? You mean to disobey me outright ? 'You do not understand me, uncle. You surely would not force me to belie my own heart. If you could know Lizzie Brown y 'Lizzie Fiddlestick!?I don't want to know her. I know Susan Garland, and that's enough, I've had my plan fixed ever since I came home. I promised Bill I'd take care of her?and I must do it?and how can I do it if you don't let me have her for a niece ?' 'Why not have her for a wife ? asked Jack, quietly. 'Wife!?Me! Why you young rascal, what do you mean ? Me?marry ! Zounds, do you think I'm crazy ? I'm old enough to be her father !' 'Only seventeen years, uncle. Just enough to give you character as a husband.' 'Sillance, villian ! Would you have me make a fool of myself just as I am setting down for comfort and quiet ? Don't you never dare to lisp such a thing agaiq. I shall go and see Susan to-morrow, and I shall tell her that you will ha?e her. That's enough. 1 won't hear any more ! By the Big Fish ! but I'll keep my promise.' Jack knew that 'twould be useless to say any more at present, so he held his peace.? William Garland had been his uncle's first mate during his last two voyages, and the captain had not only liked him much, but he also thought much of Susan, having stopped at her home while her husband was living. When Captain Jerry came home with the care of the widow upon his shoulders, he had hit upon the happy expedient of making her his neice, by marriage, and thus having the right to care for her without exciting scandal. Jack knew how his uncle had cber- , ished the plan, and he feared 'twould be hard to thwart him. The old fellow was as stubborn as he was kind hearted, and where he felt that he had authority he would not yield. - . Fiually Jack retired to ponder upon the subject, and before dark he resolved to see the widow in advance of his uncle; and he , went that very evening. I Susan Garland was a pretty woman, with a plump form, and a dumpled, cheerful face, ( over which sweet, genial smiles were contin- 1 ually playing when she was happy. She had been alone two years. She welcomed Jack kindly, and after some common-place remarks, the young man came to the point. He related the conversation which had passed between himself and uncle that, afternoon, and expressed the hope that she , would help him. 'Surely you would not wish to take me ] from the being I love,' he said. I 'Of course not,' the widow replied, with an earnest smile. 'I should be decidedly ( opposed to any such thing. I know Lizzie , well, and I know, too, that she will make , you a good wife. You may depend upon my assistance, for I can tell your 1 won't, and that will be an end on't.' They chatted a while longer, and then 1 Jack took his leave. 'He'll' be here to-morrow forenoon,' the ' young man said, as he reached the doorstone. 'I shall be ready for him,' was the reply; ' and a funny light twinkled in the widow's eyes as she said so. About eleven o'clock the following day J Uncle Jerry called upon the widow. She < had left off her weeds, and now appeared as , fresh and fair a a maid of sixteen. She wel- ' joined the captain with one of her sweetest smiles, and finally took a seat close by him. By a dexterious turn she got him engaged in relating wonderful stories of his adven- ' tures at sea, and thus an hour slipped away. Of course he must now stop to dinner. '0?no, I must go home to dinner,' he I said. 'But before I go I have a little busi ness matter to touoh upon.' 'Then you must wait, sir,'pronounced the 1 widow, decisively. 'It is my dinner hour, 1 and 1 must prepare it. Wait, and eat with mc and then I'll listen.' And with this Susan drew out her table, and spread the snow-white cloth, and soon ' had the dishes in their places. Then she 1 went away to the kitchen, and presently the captain heard the pots and kettles rattling, | the meat sputtering, and a brisk, culinary racket going on generally. 'Egad,' the old fellow muttered to him- ! self, 'she's a splendid craft. What a clean build. If I had come across such a woman | years ago, I believe I should have made a ; fool of myself.' In due time the dinner made its appear- 1 ance, and the captain was invited to par- ' take. 'Now make yourself at home,' the widow said, with a charmiDg smile; 'for I look up- 1 on you as one of the very dearest friends I 1 have.' 'Egad ! If she ain't a beauty !' Uncle Jerry said to to himself, as he moved up to 1 the table. ' The lamb-chops were done as the captain 1 had never seen them done before. So juicy 1 ?so rich?so delicately spiced?and so splendid cooked. And then the little et 1 ceteras j and the pies; and the cake; and the rich, golden cofiee. But above all was 1 he entranced by the bright smiles and the ' It* ? ./ /? ? 1 i t spanning wit oi iiis iair nostess. ? 'Zounds!' he muttered, while she was 1 gone away with the dishes, 'aiVlshe charming.' Finally the widow came and sat down 1 by the captain's side upon the sofa. Her dimpled cheeks were all aglow; her bright 1 eyes sparkled with a beaming lustre; and ; o?er her pure white shoulder flowed a wavy, ! curling tress which trembled ever and anon, as though there were some strange emotion in the bosom beneath it. 'Now, sir,' she said, I am ready to listen.' ! 'Well?well,' Uncle Jerry managed to 1 say, after a prodigious effort at clearing his throat, 'you must pardon me if I come right to the point.' ?0f course.' i 'Then here it is. You know I promised Bill?that is?Bill Garland?my old mate ; ; or, I should say, my young mate?that I would look after you?care for you. You know that.' 'Yes sir,' returned Susan with a grateful look. 'I know that; and I have blessed you 1 many times for your kindness to poor me.? Alas ! I don't know what I should have done, but for your generous bounty.' 'Tut, tut,?don't talk so. How could I ' help being good to you ? How could anybody help being good to you ? 'Ah?but everybody don't have hearts 1 like yours.' The captain rather liked the compliment; : and then it came from such an agreeable source, too. So he did not dispute it. But he made another prodigious effort to clear , his throat, and then said? ; 'I have tried to be good to you, Susan; and I hope I have been; but I can't do all 1 I want to do for you at present. I am com- ; ing right to the point now.' (Another clearing of the throat.) 'You know you are a widow.' 1 She did know it. 1 ? 'Andyuu know you are yet young and very beautiful.' Oh,?No. Not beautiful; and, surely, not very young.' 'But you are not oM, and?you ore beautiful. Now this won't do. Scandal will reach you. I?ahem?am not so old myself but the shaft of scandal might reach me, too.' 'You old?' uttered Susan, looking up reprovingly and yet admiringly. 'Why?you are right in the very prime of manhood. A man at your age, and with your genial, happy disposition, has just reached the full dawn of life at five-and-forty.' - - - - - - Uncle Jerry rather Jiked this, so he did not contradict as he had at first a will to do. Then, of course,' he returned, applying the compliment to bis own purpose,'it is still the more necessary that there should be a new and a nearer relation between us. I love you too well to have a single breath of suspicion rest upon you. Should you object to such a relation V The widow's long lashes drooped, and the dark tress upon her bosom trembled more perceptibly. 'If it is your wish, sir, I should have no apposition to make,' she said. 'And you'll come and live with me ?' 'Yes.' 'And we'll be as happy as kings!' Oh! I should be veTy, very happy,'she whispered : and as she did so her head rested upon the captain's shoulder, and the bright tress fell upon his hand, with several tear-jewels glittering amid its curls. 'What a time we'll have!' Uncle Jerry cried, winding his right arm around her plump form, and drawing her more closely to him. 'When you are Jack's wife, we'll } 'Jack I' repeated Susan, breaking from bis embrace, and starting to her feet: 'Jack's wife!' she uttered, dashing the tears from her eyes. 'Why?bless me, yes.' 'And have you meant for me to marry him r ,T ?.1 LI I ?L _ .LmU T ~ 9' 'jjuru uieos iuu nuu euuuiu jl uicau > 'And do yon suppose I would marrv with i mere boy ? Are there not girls enough for the youngster? Sir! you mistake my love?if you ;hink I could give my heart to pour nephew!' 'Bat?bless me! ahem?eh-h-h-m!?Jack is 'I know, sir?I know him well. He is & ine youth?a worthy youth, and may be ti aoble man if he lives long enough. But I ;an say no mere. I am sorry to disappoint; pou. I am?am?deeply grateful for all pour kindness to me, and I will pray to God for his blessing upon you continually. But ive had better part now. You have spoken aiy doom ! I'arewell!' 'But?Susan! Hero! Stop! Bless me! Susan did not stop, and Uncle Jerry found himself alone, ne said, 'Bless my soul!' forty-three tines, and then left the house. All the way home he muttered to himself; and when he met Jack at the supper-table, he was moodj and silent. When he went up to his chamber, he commenced to mutter again ; and he kept on muttering and pon dering until he fell asleep. Finally he began to dream. He dreamed that Susan Garland became his wife, and be held her to his bosom, and wondered he could ever have thought of such a foolish thing as allowing Jack to have her. But while he held her thus, who should appear in the nuptial chamber but Bill Garland, pale and cold, with 3ea-woed for hair, and dark, green morse for raiment! And the cadaverous presence said, 'Give me my wife!' The dreamer awoke with a sharp cry ef fear, and found the sunlight streaming into bis room. He arose, and sat down by the window ; and finally he said, in a deep ferment tone? 'Thank God, Bill Garland hasn't come back! For three whole days Uncle Jerry was like a newly converted sinner. He could not eat?he could not read?he could not sleep, and the burden of his remarks to Jack was? 'Clear out, you rascal !' On the evening of the third day the captain made an extraordinary toilette, and then went up to see Susan Garland. She welcomed him with a warm greeting, and finally, at his particular request, sat down by his side upon the sofa, just as she sat before. 'Susan,' said he?he spoke bluntly, for bis courage and determination had been duly + im fk a oti olfi 1\ CT-TM1I n f. tipffirp tip U1 UU^jll 1/ U|/ tU HUV gvivatw^ M V>V W ..v . started, 'you said the other day that you | should be very, very happy to come and live with me. Did you mean that you would be willing to become my wife V There were a dozen tresses upon the white shoulder now, and they shook like aspens. That's a curious question, sir,' she replied. 'But tell me, plainly, did you mean that?' If I mistook your meaning, sir, you have no right to question mine.' 'But?Lord bless me! suppose I should asJc you to be my wife ? Answer me that.' 'You never did ask me, sir.' 'Then, by the car of old Neptune, I ask you now. Susan Garland?will you be my wife ?' 'Jerry Pieman?I will.' 'What!' cried the captain, starting back, and gazing into her blushing, tear-wet face ?'do you mean that you can love an old man like me ? that you can love me always ?' 'You are not old ; and as for loving you, I have loved you for a long while; and if you take me for a wife I'll love and bless you to my dying hour.' 'Then come here. Come here, Susan.? Come right here?and if I ever cease to love you, and cherish y ou, and be true to you? may?may?that sea-weed ghost come back.' About ten minutes after this, Uncle Jerry made the following very sensible remark? 'Why?bless my soul. We are acting like two fools.' The widow only smiled, and said? 'Two very happy ones?ain't we ?' Aod Jerry said? 'Bless my soul?we are.' * * * * On the following day, Jack happened to pass near the widow's house, and he dropped in. In a few momenta he was the happiest fellow imaginable. 'But,' said Susan, earnestly, 'don't misunderstand me. I.have loved your uncle? loved him well and tiTily?and I believe he loved me, but dared not say so. Had it not been thus, I could not have done this. I would have helped you ail the same by simply and flatly refusing you; but I would not have toyed or trifled with him.' He is a good man, Jack?'a good man.' <So he is,' replied Jack. And then he went home. The youth found his uncle in the library, -? i 1 i * 1 Mi l t witn a dook id Dis nana, saia dook DeiDg bottom-end up. He sat down and peeped wickedly out of the comers of his eyes, while a very ill-mannered smile kept playing around the corners of his mouth. 'What are you winking, and blinking, and squinting, and grinning at, you young dog?' asked the old captain, with tremendous ferocity. <1 was thinking of a story I once read,' returned Jack, quietly. 'A story, eh? What is it yon scapegrace ?' 'I'll tell you uncle,' said the nephew, with the smile and the twinkle more wicked than ever. 'It was a very funny thing?in fact, it is the funniest thing I ever heard of. A man once went to set a trap in which to catch a very respectable and honorable young friend of his. He bad got the trap all nicely set, as he supposed, when What do you think?' 'When what, you graceless rascal V 'Why, uncle, when the thing was all fixed, there was the funniest thing happened you ever heard of. Instead of catching his respectable, high-minded young friend, the old fellow got nabbed himself. In fact?he got caught in his own trap. Wasn't it ' 'Get out of my house, you youDg scamp. Out with you, reprobate.' 'But uncle?when I corne back mayn't I bring Lizzie with me to see, and participate in your new and deep felicity?' 'it you win De aecent, you oaring young villian, you may bring the queen of slatterns herself; but beware bow you offend me. I can't bear everything?and I won't. I won't put up with it. I'll?I'll kick you out of doors, you ungrateful traitor.' After this effervescence, Uncle Jerry's soul settled down to a clear, placid calm; and when Lizzie Brown finally appeared before him, he actually kissed her, and said she was ju3t the girl for his rascally nephew. And in a few weeks thereafter, Uncle Jerry had a wedding party. He was married first, and then he sat down and saw Jack married. 'There,' said the happy old fellow, after the thing was all over, as he approached his nephew and handed him a paper: 'There is something to make up for the loss you have sustained in letting me rob you of the best woman in the world.' Jack opened the missive, and read it with tears in his eyes, for it was a certified check for twenty-five thousand dollars, with a little note attached, saying that, if he behaved himself, he might, at some future time, have more. Tiir Vnir PnMnnt?oo\f A w Tho A nilnr. JL I1U XI iU W WilUUJDOOiUaili A ??W AAUWV*son Gazette remarks, in a tribute to the member elect for the fifth Congressional District: Col. John D. Ashmore, as the majority of our readers know, was born in Greenville District, and lived there until about the age of 14 years, when he went to Pendleton, and became a clerk, we think, for a firm still existing there. He afterwards left this District and locating in Sumter District, pursued the study of law. Soon after being admitted to the practice of law, he married. At an early age, the citizens of Sumter sent him to represent them in the lower branch of the Legislature, which position they repeatedly ass gned him, and which he filled with marked and consummate ability. For several years, although a young member, he was Chairman of Ways and Means, the most important Committee of the House. In 1853 he was elected by the Legislature to the responsibls office of Comptroller-General of the State, the duties of which he discharged wiith admirable exactness and correct understanding. In 1854 he removed his family to our town, bought lands a few miles in the country, and while completing the term of his office, pursued at the same time the vocation of a farmer, in which, we have heard his immediate neighbors aver, he was most successful. As a politician he has ever upheld the nrincinles of mire, consistent. Jeffersonian r r ? r ' ? Democracy. In 1851 he was aco-operationist, and during the recent canvass he has repeatedly declared himself a State's Right Democrat, and willing to support the present organization of the Democratic party, believing it to be the only reliable party in the Union. In all respects, so far as we have heard his speeches, we see little difference between his political creed and that of our present Representative. Col. A. is fearless in the expression of his views, a ready debater, and possessed of all the energy and force of character which foreshadow the working and useful member. In person, Col. Ashmore is above the medium height, commanding figure, dark hair and black, piercing eyes. Affable and courteous in manners, he speedily wins the affections of hie fellow-men, and their admiration of him, where best known, amount to enthusiasm. As a public speaker, he has a gallant, dashing style, that interests the hearer, and asserts that he is imbued with the true graces of oratory. We predict for Col. Ashmore an honored career in tike Federal Legislature. PkdlaMtts Jleahiitg. BBEECH-LO ADING ABMS. At the fair recently held at Springfield, Massachusetts, the first premium?a silver medal and diploma?was adjudged to Maynard's breech-loadiDg carbine. This breechloader is the invention of Pr. Edward Maynard, a resident of Washington, and it is a strong endorsement of the merits of the arm that it should have won for him so high a testimonial from a committee of practical mechanics, in the heart of the gun-making region of the United States, and where he was personally a stranger." The committee speak of this rifle as combining, in an eminent degree, everything to be desired in a good fire arm. With a charge of forty grains of powdtr, it is effective for any distance up to 800 or 1,00 yards. It may be readily used with loose ammunition, or ordinary paper cartridges, though it is SDeciallv intended to be fired with a metal lie cartridge. This cartridge, which is absolutely water-proof, can be used any number of times, and, by means of a loader, can be recharged and the ball accurately set with great rapidity. The ball is in form a combination of the cone and cylinder, which insures its axis being always coincident with the axis of the barrel, so that the projectile cannot fail to start true from its bed?* desideratum of the first importance in sharpshooting, as is well known to every expert marksman. For military purposes a calibre of five-tenths of an inch has been adopted, but for sporting it is designed to put up in each case two extra barrels, one of larger and the other of smaller calibre than the military gun. By this arrangement, as the barrel can be detatched with facility from the breech-pieco, the sportsman will always be prepared for any game he may desire to hunt?the largest calibre being equally adapted for shoot or ball. The weight of this rifle is only about six pounds, and it is so portable that, with all its appendages and one hundred rounds of ammunition, it can be placed in a case some twenty inches loDg, nine inches wide,- and three inches deep. The arm is intended to be used with the "Maynard primer," but it admits equally well of the use of the ordinary percussion cap. The machinery for feeding out the primer is so arranged as to allow the primer to be returned to the magazine, if it be not required, and also to be fed out and returned by hand, in case of any acci dent to the machinery. The rapidity with which the gun can be loaded and fired is likewise quite remarkable. In ordinary hands, twelve discharges per minute are easily made, and with a little practice there would be no difficulty in accomplishing fifteen rounds per minute. "We understand that the patent for these arms is owned by a company, composed principally of citizens of Washington, and that the Massachusetts Arms company, at Chickopee Falls, have a contract for manufacturing 5,000 of them, a small portion of which are now nearly completed, and will soon be offered to the public. A trial of the gun was made some months since, in the presence of the Secretary of War, and the results, we are informed, were so satisfactory to him that he directed the purchase of a number of the arms for the use of the regular troops. Washington Union. Yankee Doodle, a Biscayan Air.? The Newbury Daily News publishes a curi ous and interesting communication touching our national air. We condense the introductory portion of it. The writer appears, some years since, to have visited St. Sebastian, a port in the Basque Provinces, and there met with Sr. Queheille, an aged Spanish-Biscayan gentleman, who was United States Vice Consul. In reference to some difficulty in which the writer and his friends had found themselves surrounded by angry Basques, shouting, Mueran ! mueran ! (kill them!) Sr. Q.said: 'Had it occurred to you to whistle your national air it might have saved you.' 'Our national air!' his guests exclaimed. 'Yes,' the old gentleman said, and continued, 'had you but whistled it, I repeat, they might have taken you to be what they modestly esteem themselves?the cream of all the Basques for purity of race and purity of language, and indeed originality of music; for the air is so old they believe our great forefather Tubal brought the tune with him when he brought here our tongue. Many a man, you are both aware, has been saved by knowing the secret signs the Freemasons use. Caramba! hijos (my sons,) it would have been worth the trial.' 'But, sir, you are jesting.' <Un my word, no. it is most certainly an old Guipuzcoan air; I have known it from my childhood. I was amazed?amused, too ?years ago, when I first heard it in Boston. I asked a gentleman what it was. 'Oar National Air,' said he. 'No,' I replied, 'it is onrs.' He said you had got it from the British at Bunker Hill. I told him that might be, but that originally it must have come from the Pyrenees. He did not believe me; but I can prove the fact to you. Let me see. To-morrow is one of the days those gentry outside let their woman come in with vegetables. Come and take an early breakfast, and you shall be convinced.' His campanions, next morning, were punctual to the appointment. On proceeding to the Plaza they found it thronged with market women from the environs far and near. A woman of middle age, who had sold her supply, was preparing to depart. Accosting her in Basque, Sr. Queheille learned she was from Tolosa (the capital of Guipuzcoa, some 10 or 12 leagues south of St. Sebastian). On bis addressing her again, she smiled, and immediately began to sing. Her language was strange to her American listener, but the air thrilled upon their ears, familiar as their dearest household words. 'There!' exclaimed the consul, triumphantly, 'is not that the tone you play on the Fourth of ?Tuly, and when you go into battle V 'The very tune.' 'Come along?we have only begun the proof;' and Sr. Queheille hurried his companions from point to point of the handsome square, addressing here a woman from Vergara, there one from Oyarzun, until he had questioned the length and breadth of Gui* puzcoa. The result was invariably the same. Most could sing words to the tune; a few could only hum it, like the children in our nurseries, from the Penobscot to the Gila. The air, it was clear, was not only known in that region, but was universally known. BRIBERY IN ELECTIONS. The Darlington Flag makes some very strong remarks on this subject, from which we make the following extract: * A 1 1. _ 1 _.??./?. -if-- ?i 1_ _ A - 'Ana wnai sausiacuon can u dc 10 aBy honorable man to feel that he occupies the false position of one" "who has the name of representing a people, when he represents nothing save the perversions to which he himself is father ? It is right enough?nay, it is a courtesy which is due the people?that one who seeks to represent them should make himself 4nd his opinions known to them, and, if he chooses to manifest the genuine kindness and generosity of his nature, in proper ways, none can complain.? But when one, through pretended generosity, seeks to avoid being .known, by destroying the understanding of intelligent beings, and overturning the principles of truth, pretending to be a friend to the people, which the very act contradicts, he deserves to be Called an enemy to his country and a blur upon his race. 'Virtue and intelligence are the basis of all good republican governments. How, then, shall we expect our Government to stand, while its foundations ore being corroded by corruption and torn up by violence and misdirected judgment. These evilsand vices of which we have spoken, are the source of sincere solicitude to all who truly love the genius of liberty and the happiness of the people.' The Jews op New York City.^A New York correspondent of the Christian Register remarks: I am edified weekly in remarking the scrupulousness with which some of the extensive and fashionable establishments on Broadway, kept by Jews, are closed on Saturday; the sacrifice involved being more noteworthy from lllA *AV\nf A^tAn fllAOA a a vkt a ?\aa*\1a (ah bUC Ui tULOU ICliiUl&OUlO pcu^iu 1U1 money-getting. However, the poorer and less educated portion of the race avenge the ecclesiastically enforced reticence by keeping open their places of business on Sunday, as a walk through Chatham street, on that day, will prove. There are in New York now seventeen synagogues, among which the Shaariu Tephila, (Gates of Prayer.) Bnai Jeshura, (sons of Jeshura,) and the Temple, are the finest specimens of architecture. The number of Jews in New York is probably not far from twenty thousand. Of the States, Pennsylvania ranges next, South Carolina and Ohio follow. The number in trie worm is variously estimated at trom tour to six millions. According to the lowest estimate, two millions are apportioned to Europe, (of which Russia and Poland have six hundred thousand;) Asia eight hundred thousand; Africa six hundred thousand; and America one hundred thousand. Of the practical wisdom of the custom prevalent among even the most opulent Jews, and which they observe in common with many European monarcbs, of educating their children to some regular trade or profession, without regard to their immediate or presumptive pecuniary circumstances, I have in mind an illustrative circumstance. During the commercial revulsion of 1836, an eminent and wealthy Hebrew banking and brokerage house in Wall street was prostrated with hundreds of others. One member of the house, who had been bred to the profession of medicine, according to usage, but with no anticipation of engaging in its practice, was by this reverse of fortune thrown upon this reserve. He immediately established himself as a physician, and is to this day a popular and successful practitioner among his nation." Kansas.?The St. Louis papers contain a farewell address of Gov. Denver, to the people of Kansas, on retiring from office.? He says that henceforth the continuance of peace in that Territory depends more on the people themselves than on the Governor ; that they have an abundance of local civil officers elected by themselves without disturbance or interference; that they have just accomplished the peaceable election of a Legislature, and it makes no material difference who may be Governor. He does not think the Territory yet prepared for a State organization. Kansas has been unfortunate with its governors as it has been in everything else.? We agree with Gov. Denver that the peace of the Territory depends upon its own people, and that they are not yet prepared for a State organization. The politicians will scarcely however permit her to remain quiet. An Elective Judiciary.?TheNational Intelligencer believes it is now allowed by j.L? nf oil nnr+ioa in ftll fVlA I LIU UULLIUiUU WUOCUU vi w< ? w States where it has been tried, that the system of an 'Elective Jndiciary' is fast sinking into popular odinm and contempt, from which not even the surviving dignity and integrity of its official incumbents are sufficient to retrieve it. Do Bucks Shed Their Horns??"We refer the Administration party to the election returns from Pennsylvania, for a solution of this long mooted question. 4?" Kirwan says that a pious Scotchman used to pray, "Oh, Lord, keep me right j for thou knowest if I go wrong, it is very hard to turn me." Sanitary Condition or New York.? " The State Senate Committee appointed for Ifae- purpose of investigating into the sanitary condition of New York, met in the City Hall yesterday. The questions the committee propose to investigate are: Whether the health of New York is inferior to that of other cities ib this country or Enrope? whether the number of deaths is larger in proportion to the population of the respective cities. If so, what is the cause ? And the cause being ascertained, what remedy can be adopted ? Dr. John H. Gariscom made a very interesting statement of facts, showing that the mortality of New York waa greater than that of all the cities of Oris country of whfbh he had statistics, and greater than that of London, which was the only city of Europe with which he was prepared to contrast it. The reason he assigned was the miserable condition in which the lower classes lire, in total disregarded of the proper modes of life.? In this connection he detailed the condition of tenement bouses and their inmates in this oity. As a remedy he proposed that by legislation it be made compulsory that every sanitary officer, both legislative and execative, shall be a medical man, and fully competent to discharge faithfully the important duties which would devove upon him. This is in accordance with the sanitary regulations of London and Paris, respecting which ho furnished the committee with much valuable information. The committee contemplate holding many meetings, and making a thorough investigation into everything supposed to exert an influenoe on the health of the city.?N. Y. Nevot, 23d. Let that Hohse Dbink.?When a boy, I was riding in a one horse carriage with an aged lady relative, myself holding the reins. As we passed through a ford the horse showed a disposition to drink which I thwarted hu Iruinhincr him villi a whin. 'Stop, my soo, aod let that, horse drink,' said the old. lady. 'Why, aunty,' I replied,, 'he ia not thirsty; he only ma&es believe; it's not an hour since he drank.' 'Let him drink,' said she, he knows his own wants best. Whethe^rhe really needs it or not, you sea-it wmpleasefiim to be allowed to drinl^ and he does a great deal to please you..,- Always remember, my tan,that when you can gratify a dumb beast by doing anything so cheap as a drink of waierTro?4 running brook, it is very churlish to refuse*- % I have always remembered it. To this ^ day I seldom drive a horse through a fording, but I think of my gentle aunt, with that blessed heart of hers for the poor dumb beast, who knows his own wants best. fier admonition left a soft layer among the strong ledges of my human nature, and I hope I have been a somewhat kinder man for the bias which was then given to my feeling for the ol nl ooo UVl^/tVUUl How to put out Burning Tar.?-John Parr writes the following to a New York paper: 'In the month of November, 1850, Isailed from New Orleans, bound for Boston j there were about 130 passengers, including crew. When about four days out the cholera broke out among the passengers and crew, and the doctor ordered the ship to be fumigated with pitch. The second time of fumigation the iron chain, heated nearly red hot, aet the barrel of pitch in a blaze, which ascended, I should judge, fully six or seven feet high. Being myself looking on at the time, I seized two blankets that were lying in a bunk close at hand, and, throwing them on the flame, completely smothered it out in less than a minute. There was a great call for water, but when it came the fire was choked out by " .1 ? 1 T /? il.l !f A tne oianaets. x am connaem mat 11 water had been thrown on the flame, the ship wonld have been destroyed. I bad been informed by my father (when a boy) that a blanket was the best thing to smother a Are at the commencement of breaking out; consequently, I believe the slight knowledge on that point saved the vessel and passengers. The ship was the Silas Leonard, (of Portland, I think,) commanded by Capt. Thompson, a thorough seaman.' What it Costs to See Europe.?It is stated that ten thousand eight hundred and seventy passports have been issued since Gen. Cass was appointed Secretary. Allowing each to cover tbree members of a family, the aggregate made must exceed 32,000.? Taking the expenditure to be $1,000 each, we find that in thiB way thirty-two millions have been carried out of the country. This estimate does not include the old passports used, or those procured from the American Legation in the British Dominions. Washington States. What's a Visitation??Two farmers in riding together met a large number of clergymen, and one of them said to the other. 'Where are all these persons coming from ?' To this his friend replied, 'They have been at a visitation/ The other, no wiser than before, asked, 'What's a visitation ?' The answer was, 'Why it's where all the parsons goes once a year and swops their sermons/ His friend, thus enlightened, quietly remarked, 'Hang it, but our chap must get the worst on it every time!' t&* Here is a new way to get rid of a bad neighbor. A Mississippi paper tells how a fellow of doubtful character was induced to leave. Some of his neighbors made up s sufficient sum of money-for him to travel on, and left it lying about loose. He found it, but supposing be had stolen it, he left?not the money, but the county. r r} . ~ Lovers, whose only desire is to take long and romantic walks beneath the . moon are not long in discovering after marriage that they cannot subsist op moonshine. "R|., MMMM?t