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All id oo^Uttle l^ottr.; ^ ...J Can send the-cqarte or-common thought \ Which common spirits know, Or. sheets with dullest sameness fraught Beginning alxeayg so? ? "I take this opportunity to write you a few lines to let you khow that I am weTl, and hope this may find you the same." * J ' " ~ j Distanco't^ltf canatafenihilatfe?- * Bring parted frieqd^ together? Change love to-deepest, wildest hate, . ' .Or bid iHaSt*fi5fereri>-"- * v vy -- .v? t . ?t? t *, ' -5 ' J ( And thou canst make a heart-felt wound, Then bid its healing flow? c'AJt % - .-A ,-r. * - 4 * And thop cans; hearts ana purses sound In letters reading so? , .*~ "Relying on the 'strong affection you have so often professed tor me, I request the loan of a small sum to rdteVe me froth, serious distress. <? > .* < J .. , p r,- *" Then ready Pen thtfu canst decline - " * * In terms so soft antpfoir, ' * ? ^ ? > Without an eye to study thine, And read the falsehood there. - Or thou canal trace.in ruder phrase, ~ r The blunt and onudid "no (n * **": And every future tope erase By plainly writing so?. _ j "Professing friendship is one thing, and lending money another; I need my foods for my own use." Immortal Pen ! thou canst record - .N Se ^rpH.the noble-deed, ? ?- < " ' ft lofty thought, and thrilling word Bestow sach glorious meed?. How thou canst cut with faintest proise All unfamed authors know, And throw a shadow o'er his lays ' By coolly'writing so? ' * 1"* ' "This poem is rather clever, but the ideas are hackneyed?the.rhyme defective, and the measure not pleasing-; however, we will- not discourage the writer, from whom we will be glad to hear again," __ , . i i. Triumphant Pen! apart?alone Within thy closet walls, Thou canst make kings thy power own, And nations heed thy calls. ' And thou canst scan the battle field And vict'ry's trumpet blow And tell how foemen fall or yield In brave words sounding 90? "Victory is ours, and the battle-field is strewn with dead and dying enemies?our soldiers have covered themselves with glory." Consoling Pen! when sorrows fall, Thou'oanst a comfort lend . And soften by imparting all To some dear pitying friend. And when earth's dream is nearly done, And life's pulse beating slow, Thou hast a prayer to each loved one, In hriof nrnr.-Jc roodinnr cn ? ??.V. e "Forget me not." Cot.cmbia, April 8th, 1859. Original Jjapeix For the Yorkville Enqnircr. UNREQUITED LOVE. BY TIIE AUTHOR OF "LOVE, COURTSHIP AND - -. MARRIAGE." "But the joy of the world is gone from me; I see no beauty in field or tree ; The flower that bloomed in my path is crushed ; The music that solaced my life is hushed." Don't sing that sad song, young man? forget the "flower" that grew in the past, and the thrilling music that bathed the bygone years in such floods of exquisite melody ; and lifting thine eye from the darkened spot where the flower used to bloom, and closing thine ear to the music which was and is not, resolutely face the future like a man ! Why brood over the past ? Why retrace the once flowery pathway of earlier life, and sigh because the butterfly lives no longer there? or because time has drank up the fragrance from the flowers, and left a desert where an Eden was ? Throw Byron into the fire? wipe away those tears which have been washing the rose tint from your cheeks?stop writing about "blasted hopes" and singing "Hours there were"?trample that little miniature beneath your feet?burn that lock of hair?do anything rather than surrender your heart to the dark curse of a bitter memory. Does it do you any good to turn ressurrectionist of the past ? Doe3 it contribute to your happiness to drag up from their graves the woes and sorrows of the long-ago, I and keep the troeonfined carcass before your [Vrsiotr forever ? * . - .' ? r "Pauline !'r Ah i yonbg man ! I koow the potency of that Dame f I can easily tin* rderstand the influenoe of its memory -ixpoti your heart aod life. Bat gather mp your moral and mental strength andshake offlbiit name/rom your heart at oDce; for it dings shout'thee, like the ^vy about the sturdy oak, only to eat out thy life and rob thee of^thy glory. What? TVou'ldst have me lift up the veil which seperates the,, past. Jrom the present ? -I am willing?let us do so. >"? " It was upon a long ago May morning in ;the far-away wiotcrless years which aTe gODe, that you first looked upon Paulioe. Your ^.ueatipc: had.bflt just beeu completed, and you had gladly thrown aside the musty tomes of classic lore, and gone back. to. the homelove and the home-music. Oh ! how mother's arms embraced her promising son, as : your returning feet fell upon the thresnoia I once again Y' How the old man's Kp quivered.as he half arose from the old arm-chair which had beeq drawn close by the window,, and pressed bis thin, sunken lips close .to your burning cheek. How lovingly did round white, arms of loving sisters encircle yonrvery Spul, and cherry lips kiss you into ^the most exquisite happiness ! Was that all vanity T' How eagerly did you ask after your i old friends and conpanions! -What bad become of Eddie ??was Willie still at College ? was jPaulinc married? Sister saw the warm, hlood rash into your cheek as you asked that last question. What did she mean by that peouliar smile, as. she gently placed her little band upon yonr shoulder, and whispered "Pauline is not married ?" Pshaw! she was nothing, to you?you only asked whether she was married!?it made nodifference toyou! True, when you were a boy, Pauline was called your little sweetheart; but that was all nonsense} of course. ' Notwithstanding all this, you left ^our sisters side aod strolled out into the meadow alone. Yon only wanted to smoke a cigar?that was all!?and if you carved the name of Pauline upon the old beeeh-tree id the avenue, it wasoDly to while away a dull hour before dinner?you didn't care a cent .for her! Catch you going to see her! -All the'country boobies would lower your- name ^by-Coupling it with hens / After dinner yon I went up to your room?threw yourueu upon ; r the same old lounge that you used to-hide under when you were a boy. What made you take out your pencil and write a name upon a copy of Homer's Illiad r'twas Dot her book. She Dover heard of old Homer. What made you 'gb io' th e window and 'trace so long*" i n the direction of the white-washed cottage at the foot of the hill'( Pauline lived there; and of course you were not dreamiDg of a simple oountry girl?of course not! And -yet, it looked so pleasant and cool down the aveDue. that you put on your hat, and quietly t left the house. That old log udder the venerable oak!?you were wont to sit there with little Pauline many years ago; and, just out "of curiosity you searched for a name, whiob you had carved upon the smooth bark when you were last there. - . Was it exactly proper to. pass the cottage door, without stopping to enquire after the health of the old folks? Scarcely. But Paulioe might suppose that you"hsd only come to see her, and that would not do at ail. You passed on?poor,.proud, foolish man! Why did you thus reiu in the God-derived impulses of your heart ? You fot>ec2 JPau Hoe! You wanted so much to hear her voice again?to feel the pressure of her dainty baud, and pass your own, ever so tenderly, over her soft curls. - -" You passed on !?but 'what was it that shut out the beauty of the flowers ? Where went the sunlight after that'step away from the cottage? How came that tear upon your flushed cheek? And why. did you turn aside into the little footpath that led ? ? ' 1 O TV* J. away out luto the tangled wiiawooas r j-ua you sleep that night? How came those, thorns in the pillow that terrible night?? Whose face was it that peeped between the bars of sleep ? Whose silky curls were they that touched your fevered brow ? You were alone in your room?somebody tapped gently upon the door. That was a familiar sound !?could it be Pauline ? Oh ! as she bounded into the room and threw her dear arms around your neck, and imprinted a kiss | upon your pale cheek, and called you "dear Charlie !" how could you help smoothing back those soft curls and pressing the little head close to your heart! But?ah ! that terrible but!?there was a necklace around her neck, and a miniature rested upon her bosom. It was not licr minature?it was | not yours. She blushes when you take it in your hand and look inquiringly into her face.? You feel a cold shudder in your heart?a dark haud comes between your eyes and the light?the golden chain which you had thrown out into the future falls from your hand?you lift the beautiful head from your bosom?let fall the little hand from your grasp?she is not your Pauline ! She will be your friend?will love with the affection of a sister?but you have friends ?you have sisters; and the heart within you yearns for a sweeter tie than these. Ah ! Pauline is the name that came like a flower into your boyish heart long, long ago ; and ' that heart has so grown up around it-, thatnothing but death can remove it. You have never seen Pauline since that cruel day?did not, dared not,-atteufl her wedding. Many years have glided away since then-?gray hairs are coming among the black ones?a dark frown is forever upon your brow?a deep, chilling shadow upon your poor heart. You have read almost everything within the bounds of literature? travelled afar off in distant lands?gone ever an anon to the deceitful wine-cup in quest of something?you don't know what. Something that looks can not give you?something that traveling cannot procure?something that the blushing and damning bowl I caDnot furnish !?W0MAJ*6 LOVE ! Fellow wan, I meet you iu your.lonely j "walks through life with a.heartfelt eympa-thy. I point not'the-finger of scorn aod derfsiofl a| yon, and call you "old bachelor?'.' No, ncT; yoqr sorrow is a holy thing;?yonr j love for Pauline an- evidence of the faitbfuU j neSf of yonr heart. May I talk with you ? | I know you run away from comfort? I know, j that your-proud heart -leads you fe# keep , down-the sigh, suppress the groan, ghd hidethe tears; but'I mutt whisper something to 3 you?must point out the hope that shines j for you in the future?must unstop your t ears to the distant mu9ic?must open yonr , eyes to flowers just ahead, with whose fra- * grance your life may yet be made' pleasant. .( I shall not take down from the shelf the , dusty tomes of Catallus, , Martial Ausonius, or turn to the writing of Horach or Juvenal j i neither will I administer the consolations of ; the lascivious and cold-hearted Ovid. Such A works as tbtse should be sealed looks to a ? man like you; and perhaps the reading of * them has increased,.rather than diraipished ( the despondency of yonr spirits. v II; is gos- ^ nihle for vou to love aeain. Believe it, and n thank God! Go back into society?woman!s L society; and learn what it is to be beloved. You know what it is to love?you know \ the heart-yearnings, the heart-adoration * ?( but Oh!, you do not know how sweet' it is? ? how unutterably blessed it is, to have the exquisite convictioa upon your innermost* soul, that somebody loves you?somebody's ? heart beats quicker at the sound of your ,'j voioe?somebody's eyes grow ever o bright ' when your hand lifts the. latoh. That if .*! what .you want-r-^a/ will lift the burden '< from the sore place?ih.at will briog back , the long forgotten music, and fill your heart " with the fragrance of an Eden. You may never forget Pauline?th'e fragrant memory ' of that loved one may linger about your heart even down to the "dark- days" of tot- \ tering life.: The- heart-page may forever bear the impression and retain ther color of the crushed flower ; and tbe echo-of the '' sweet hopes, which sung like a-bird in your heart, may reverberate away down to second ' childhood. The void in your heart occasioned by her tosfl, shall ever be draped kt darkness?never be filled by anothtir. The Idol which filled that niche has fallen and , lies in ruins, dnstand darkness; and though tho fall shook the very foundation of your life and carried away with it a part; of your ^ existence?still, still, even in its ruins it will ever be the idol to which you shall kneel until another oan he procured. ^ Ohl turn away from that dark chamber 1 ?^its darkness blinds you?its desolation makes you .unhappj;-7th$ fragrance of its crashed flowers are poisonous! It is because you remain there that yonr cheek has grown ? 1 ' so pale?your countenance so gloomy ana sad, and your whole life so pregDant with , despair. Itois because you remain there, that you see no flowers and hear no music. Oh ! shut it?bar .-it?come out again into the sunlight where the breath of flowers shall. refresh you?the warm, bright sunshine shall cheer you. and the deep, dark blue of summer skies shall bow beautifully over your wholelife. ?- .* That lock of hair, which you have:guarded, kissed and worshipped for so many years, must be kept no longer?it is thu Gordian knot- that binds you to the agony which is uiurdering you?oh ! cut it and become the ruler of your inner world. Bum'it 1 No I you comnot do that?but bury it where the > roses breathe their sweetest breath?where the sunlight lingers longest. -*J '* That miniature most bo yours no longer! ?camera like'-It is forever burning upon your heart, pictures'of scfinesund faces which ' does you no good to reinetober. Omsk it! grind it to powder beneath your heel!?but you would not do that. Well, go down to the river Bome moon-iflumined/night, ami where the hide waters sparkle brightly, let ' the miniature slip from your hand and go down, down, down forever* .1 know that it will cost you an "effort to do this?you dre mad if you do it net. " Bless your heart! there are plenty of blue, J" black and hazle eyes in this world?any pmount of little mouths to be kissed?an indefinite number of dainty hands longiog to be pressed. Suppose you, that two eyes may not be found forfeit to look into^^or ,two..| hands to glide arouad your neck?or,.one,., dear, sweet little mouth to call you "dear * Charlie" and to kiss yoiu? To be sure ! Let me see !?there's Mary, Carrie, Ida, Eva, Alice and Lulu?put on your hat and call upon every one of them. Do 60 ojT&n ?and take my word.fbf it, that before many weeks are over, you will be gathering flowers for one of them?taking moonlight walks with one of them.- When that time comes you will be a better and a happier man? -1 flowers will burst into bloom where tears had hitherto fallen?stars shall be kindled even amid the clouds?and an unknown melody f shall break upon your ear and stir the depth * of yonr soul with a rapture more exquisite than the sweetest dream of youth?more lasting than the stars! Now, ye bachelors so dreary, Feeling desolato and weary, Crying "X have no one near me"? _ All alone. ( ? > Be advised in time to marry To some blue-eyed little Carrie, For you need no longer tarry All alone.... When at home, hove one to. kiss you; When away, have one tp miss you, Or the girls will soon dismiss you All alone. Have a loved one in your dwelling, Where the heart-notes loud are swelling? It will stop that solemn knelling? j... "All. alone Apple Trees.?A horticulturist of Bo- J hernia has a beautiful plantation of the best sort of apple-trees, which have neither sprung from seeds or grafting. His plan is to take shoots from the choicest sorts, insert them in a potato, aod plunge both into the j ground, leaving but an inch or two of the ( shoot above the surface. The potato nour , ishes the shoot whilst its pushes out roots, i and the shoot gradually springs up and be- | comes a beautiful tree, bearing the best of fruit, without requiring to be grafted. < Etlt tie YorktlBa-EnqtUnir. OTHEB DAY8. / ? It is always pleasant to look back to boy- 1 tiood. _ Don't let your glance fall on the in-,. ;ermediate space from then until now, forthere, is too oft^n some dark spot which dis--J Sgures. the beauty of tho picture, and will cause feelings of sorrow and pft^n of paip. Bat go back to boyhood orjoubg manhood, ? when your heart was overflowing with joy ind mirth and .you rejoiced in the simple consciousness, of being?the mere act of liv-> \ng; when, if you did do Strong things they . were not very wicked, b.ttfc" might be called the exuberances of life and youthful spirits; ind they were soon attotrett for and as soon I'orgotteD, and should as Boca have been forgiven. . .. ;? . - . . - ? i? it IT! 1 ?* I Io*e thus to JooK Daoa?lorinougn-ioaTe Bofseen many-lustres, I have a past te repert to?aDd think: over the soeBeS which, were then-witnessed,--and the deeds- then transacted;- I love to remember tha agents of those actions, as gay and 'careless andlighf-betfrted * set of seventeen year olds as ever'raised a row or went on abreese.? Closely allied were they, ay, closer than a band of brothers, and always ready for whatever mighttufn up, be.it fight, fon or frolic. ; That baud is dispersed now, and those boys iTe now then,' striving amid the ranks of warriors in the groat Life Battle. One is pursuing with rapid steps a path which leads to fame and glory. A rougb road is his \ but he has that radiant jewel called genius, which casts a bright light along the pathway. One is in the qbiet walks of liFe~ good, honest and upright, if not renowned. But he, though uoknown to fame, may Kc f greater hero than the conqnerqr in a hundred battle3. Ooealas! isffoing downward; fast and faster along a road 'smooth and de\ clivousandbeatitiful at first, with bright-huedffowers growing along the side; but ending in a gloomy cavern where the monster. RaiD dwells, and with a fiendish yell of delight welpoms his victims. * ^ ^ - -I' One h83 gone Bome. I would not wreathe bis memory with a cypress wreath, but I would twine around it garlands of lilies and roses, for-at last and in reality be is alive. They laid him ir, a coffin and clothed them in blank, and with tearfal eyes they said he* JT lrtrvbri/4 o r>/d anW ft PftltTl , WHS Q6SU* JJUV x iuwov\4 wu%* w?u r i_ MI smile on his face, the peaceful smile of -a sense of rest:?of eternal rest. And I did not weep for my heart reflected the Smile, and I knew he was now living by a streamwhere grow amaranthine lowers j a stream, whose bright water are the Waters of Life. I waa thinkiag to-night of these elcTtiines and scenes and friends, when an occurrence came before my mind's-eye which, for yonr amusement, I will proceed to relate. Not very many years ago in North Carolina, in a village that shall be "nameless here for evermore," there might have been seen not "a solitary horsemao," nor "a beautiful maiden by a stream.*' No ! dear reader, if you expect anything of that sort you had better quit at once. I repeat it, there might have been'seen ; that is, if any one had looked?and a great many did look??o T may as well say, there were seen a large crowd collected in'the public square before the Court House of ?<-3 on the 1st Monday in January of the year of Grace 185? :r In tbe midst of this crowd there was an individual elevated on a barrel; &Dd this individual clothed as to his outward man in a green coat of a Bbad belly cut, and all ornate with resplendent buttons of shining brass, was ad' dressing the assembled multitude on tbe incomparable excellencies andjpeffable virtues of a certain patent medicine,, which tfwld cure all the known ills to which poor suffering mortality is subject, and prove \,panacea for & thousand hitherto undreamed of maladies. He bad just finished apathetic and glowing account of a youpg and -lovely female, who had grown up amid tbefoetering care of a loving family, and was beginning to blasa her drome with the thousand sweefcintfueneeB.which a woman ever, scatters around Jietf; as a flower repays.- the care of him who rears it, by bloomiogjn bedhty and Bhedding around rich perfumes; when, as the flower is wilted by the simoon blast of Bumntevj' flhfe-tos stricken dowir by tlfe band of disease, "and the gloom of the Datk Talley was .already casting its forerunning'sfiadbws over her lovely features. This medicine was procured for her, it was taken?she "was healed. There was an evident sensation produced upon the^orowd. Their hearts were warmed and the people were beginning to buy tbe medicine, more as a reward for curing that beautiful girl, than for any self-benefitted advantages which might accrue. Just then a modeBt, mild lookingyoung man with flowing golden locks and an incipient (very incipient) moustache, who bad been standing 'I-- I 1 V\TT Kta TOflll lfirfld near Lilt; uurrei"auuuuj|/uu n,u uj ? *? ??? ? ? friend Cuff (now alas ! married,) attracted the attention of the crowd to himself by remarking that he had experienced the beneficial effeots of the medicine, and would like to give bis testimony in its favor. Taking np-a bottle and holding it between iris eye and the sun so as to mark its rich color, -fie thus commenced: "Though you behold me now in youth and beauty, proud in my youth and rejoicing in my beauty, [buzz in the crowd] it has not been very long since I too was stretched upon the couch of sufferiog,' for disease had laid its heavy hand upon me, and the insidious heralds of the Conqueror were driving the blood from ray cheeks which had hitherto bloomed red with the roseate hues of health. [Applause from a sentimental looking person with sleek hair and a dirty shirt.] Day by day I grew worse and worse. Physicians were called in, but all their skill was of no avail. The disease rapidly progressed, gaining one strong-hold after another, until it environed the citadel where the heart-drum svas feebly leating its alarum to call all the the forces and strength of the constitution to rally to the defence. ["Go it" said Cuff]. And now I felt myself growing weaker and weaker, and knew that the life-stream which - * -- ' ' - ' ' 1 ' had hitherto flowed sojhrightly along, was t almost exhausted. I bade a long farewell I to sorrowing friends. ' I felt the icy -grasp \ # the great " All Conqueror." I heatyf,the i hollow, tramp of the Black. Horses. And \ hoveritapfon -the Con fines of Time, I'- ctiuld c almost hear tbeflowyj^of the River andtfie' t music-of harps and the songs of angola.-*-* f?<JlofyM Atom an old-dady.] Just then'-a "i iheasenger came riding furiously on nsweafr- i covered,, mud^strained, foam flecked sie&d J c lie rushed into the room and presented a bOfc- ( tie of this glorious Elixir of Life. ^Wifhfee- t ble but-eager grasp,.I .sei'^cd the, bottle* e drained its contents aD<l ??i' -i "You recovered immediately" said the \ groeo'Coatod one wbo-.^ad been.,eagprly ,)ia- .1 ? !.L M' ii. l.'-Li!.- _ tening wun a smue ot sausiucciuu uguuug n his face. "No my friend" said- the youth, i "unfortunately I died I" ' 1 yell! a shout-! a.cry of "told"- was. t heard. A Bbowerof bottles darkened-the j afr; and" the. ?jftrgme ends of two very < straight coat tails were seen as the speaker i and his'friend CJnff evanished round a near corner. _Th6 youthful "orator?-I bluah jta < confess it?was* ' * ~ <i T- ' Your friend;'; 1UJBY. V i ? . ? -- = " ' ;? < . i 4- ........ --For th^yorkvllle EntjpJwr.. j * . ... ^ Air essay, - lj Rend before Saildy. River Division,No. 41, of the Sons of lemperance, Chester % District, S. C.y-April 1869. Brothers or our Order ^-Yow know de value of the cppunandopeot, iQUoh notr-? taste_.not. Knowing it as you do," can you ( consent cto stand idle, looking on $nd not , na.ake a farther effort to give the same kbowl- 1, .edge to :all men ? Most generally, I know' ( you will answer,-Na! We are. TeadyJ.- eye , ready, to extend the Temperance invitation,, * in the language of Moses, "oo.me thou with us and we will do thee good, for the Lord. ^ has spoken good concerning ns." i need notstate to you that the-Bible forbids the . use of strong drink. -?I will venture to gite ^ you one passage, which cannever be toooftfcn Repeated: Oiopk.not upon the wine wberi it is red, jfheuit giveth its color in the pup, ' When it moVeth itself aright; at last itbitetb like a serpeDt and STingeth like an Hddef.* Here we are commanded not alone to abstain from-strong driqk, but not even tolookat Jt,_that is, not to place ourselves witbirf its-' tempting influence... ? ? ^Odr Division" has met between three, and' four hundred times and we b&7e assailed 1he castle of intemperance. "' How -are We ,v '"speeding in oar atWcks?t each meetip'gjDf > our Division f Are the walls of afitemper- . nnce ernmbling and falling? To us it ap- i jjetrrs to he so, aod yet some of it9 defenders bold put, and appear to be determined to re main in their shattered and ruinous hold, until it shall fall upon them and bury them,,, iu its ruins. To many of them we Would offer honorable terms of peace, such as the mere abandonment of their opposition, but k to many, perhaps to" most of them, -wo have no other offer to make than that oftfttconditional submission, by giving up tbeir dramby ceasing to drink and be drunken. Let this offer be accepted, and no military chieftain-'ever sheathed his sword more joyfojly than we shall ours. Until, however,-4Ws is r accomplished, or until, oof year of warfare rbe ended, we nhftll jiress oor'nttycks wfth ' unabated vigor, , in the"confident bope.aoA . belief thateooneror /ater; wesnan oe crown- l"ed with $iwoes? tp'*8pp|>pr$ pf this coarse , and belief, wptcUe the following passage.of . :of Boripture? "lathe morning sow thy seed ' *od in the evening withhold not thine hand; fbrlfbou knowest not whether shall prosper, cither this or that, or whether they .shall he alike good.''* j " # i [ One-half of the enormity o?% moral evil which ohrserandinflicts Bociety, is ownr* to the passive silence, pf those "whose;duty it is -to-apeak out. Suoh silence, so for aa.intemperance is concerned, let us forever banish 1 from ?t?. Many an offending brother-man , loathing himself and loathed by fbe world,; is still waiting to he called back to virtue and his better-self. A ~^oice may he borue'' forth from theso walls, which ^hall reacb the ear and the consciences of many a miserable , victim, and shall tell him tbatsociety is- nob-in- , 'dffferen't to his destructive career; that there]ure those whose hearts bleed fez bis delusion and wickedness, and thatthej are ready and anxious to welcome hira back to'the paths of self-control; self-respect, holiness, and peace. Brothers, we are engaged in the noble cause of philanthropy and mercy, in humble imitation of him who went about doing good Let this gre^t object be ever before us, and it will serve to check every feeling of selfishness, of private jealously, and of every kind . of ambition, save that of doing good. Let it< lead us to bear with oold indifference, the ridicule of the weak, or the hostility of the wicked. Let the public good be the watchword of every sentinel and soldier in our camp. When the good and the brave La Fayette came to tender his services to our country in the hour of her utmost need, he asked only- for the permission of serving in so good a cause as a private in t.he ranks, and without pay. After a lapse of half a century he received his reward j a nation i welcomed him withaburstof grateful praise, i such as has scarcely ever descended on tnor- i tal man. Ours is a still higher cause, though i in an humble sphere, we have enlisted man- ! fully for the purpose of rescuing the fallen ) jnan from ruin. The ladies in our neigh- 1 borhood foremost in every work of benevo- l lence, have come to our resoue?they are a- i live to their duty?the work will be done, i Every enterprise must flourish, over which i woman sheds her influence. Whether she t be the apostle of truth or error, her eloquence j is ever successful. All orators are dumb t when beauty pleadeth, and it is truly en- 1 couraging to see her exerting her influence a in the promotion of a cause, the object of t which is to elevate the morality and contrib- c ute to the happiness of mankind. It is pe- c culiarly to her interest to remove the evils of a intemperance, for the inebriate neither respects her feelings, appreciates her worth, t ? ??* v ' i- - ..?; t s iar cherishes ibr her those gewal Tjomfi-em aimed affectioDf which inspireeo maay*le.-t * -atcd feelings, lofty aspirations, and node-' *< fled pleasurabfe ^motions/ Whoever see a ' dotim of t}ie grog-shop^ bat what the- image" * if a careworn, sorrowing wife presents itself* $ oqnr minds!'' l" ' r No tree friend of humanity can witness _ rithout pleasure, the pfospriety of the'Song - ' n oar neighborhood. The "progress of the-; lapse speaks "eloquently in praise Of the. in- ^ diligence and morality of oar community; sgit' nay it continue to prosper until evety per* f ion is enrolled under the banner jof Temper- ? toco/ I have the honor. 6f being a "meniber ? >f a branch of the Christian Church, Which t las over, been lealoqsty engaged i# the pro-. ^ notion of the cause of totel abstinence,-But j f my humble njmeJ^n infltfence but one ^ luman being, to abandon a vice wjtnch we j stririufgwr to-.suppress) or if;huW8? , ?outh can b.e warned and preventeji-fifom in- t *l*o twrnanilnifti Hanae>T: Amntft Will he , ... p. , my. reward.., - * . . Brothers, I have donej I hayB advocated ^ ?trr cause. however,. feebly, -but; with. all j ho-abilities God gave, me, but. had I the } ;oDgue of a seraph, and the voice of aD arch- j to pel, all, all,, with heart and soul oext to ^ ;be rejigion'bf jn^.ljrOcf, sKoutd^ lie devoted r. <o the cause of Temperance.. ' rB?,' . - -.* n For (ho YorkrlUc Enquirer. ? ' 'J LfcTTEB ^BOMTMBS. WEA^M. $ood gracious me! how sowy Tnth that 1 C jcfidh't see that Mississippi letter before.? 1 C doD't know how I catne to neglect it, and j the writer no doubt pining and fretting foe ? in answer. But I WaiTn't 'expecting any 0 ews from so. far. off, and I'm somethi qglike] i-young lady of my, acquaintance* who is 1 forever borrowing boots, and retdrningihenu J in so short a time that it seemed impossible- ^ fob her to have read them.*. So -Ooe day 1..^ asked her how she contrived to -read so fast* ^ "tfby, bless yoirf soothsaid .she, "I do?*t ^ undertake to read all of a book, I only pick J oat the love parts, and let the rest alone/' 1 And th'a$ the wayT do with year paper. " 1 pipk out what1 raits me, -anff let the rttt 1 go, tho' T acknowledge trotebwetimee I have ^ oOme very near picking out everything in it. 'J T always hegm withthd editorials, for they * are snre,to .pleasejh e; If -nothing-else does; 1 add-then I read the poetry?but letters, i ! am nor apt kL read, they have* dry look: aboat tbenr, and I read now only for amtoep- J ffient. I'm too did and impatient to he in- 1 sfcrnnted. nod bread to drown thought, for I ttedare that I do often. think bo long. and 'J deeply, that- wbeti I-rouge myaetf I*f$d tmd to death. I do believe that Inao build finer 1 air-castles, and keep them longer from tumbling down, than any other Irving woman, *' for I never let one go till it ia finished out- 1 side nod io, end {hut's what takes me So long; 1 and I-redress more injuries, resent morejn- ' suits, relieve more poor people, and spend more large fortunes?in injijgingtioB?:than 1 any one-else ever dreamt of, and I expect r nothing else but thai when I'm taken ?to heaven I mean) -'it will be in thei&ftldle of1 H one of them long thinks. v ? Botjo Tetorn to Mr. Punch. Wl}at an 3 odious nome that is, Mr Editor. How can 1 r open a correspondence likely to have such 1 important resold,, with a man who is so. affected ?..Me.might as well have been called , "Sanely) Papza," for be must look like him. 1 He's -obliged- ty-.be .short and thi<jk^ -No tailow -could make Ra Punch" look geDtyel, \ and-my-daughters are death on gentility, , particularly Jemima Jaue-- n He's obliged to have a big, bald, shining , head, and a great broad, fed, jolly facey. he ^ can't be refined and sentimental (bow could w a Punch b?jo) and my daughters are fttll-of ; sentiment, espeoially-Seraphiua Allicia. HeVobliged to waddle like a duck, end ' my daughters are famous for the graceful , way they lean upoD ?w gentleman's -arm, es- ' pecially Rosabel Eudora. I'm afraid it won't* do, Mr. Editorr for I am satisfied that , any one of my daughters would faint at the bare idea of taking a Punch ! But be can apply to the Legislature and get his name changed, and of coytsh wilbdo eo, wfcenbe knows ray objectiorrto it; And perhaps'ufter all, it isn't bis real name, and be may not look, as I have fancied. .People do make odd mistakes about named sometimes. When 'General Tom Thumb wus. here some years ago, bia parents dined with ns ODce when there were many other guests, and one yonog man who did not bap- , pen to hear their names, mentioned to some { friends tbat he had tbe pleasure of dining , with Mrs. Thumb. Now, this gentleman ' >tiottViq nn mflrd pnt.itilprl tnthe hideous name r. Mv">v -??? -? - I of "Punch," than was this lady to the ridicnlous one of "Thumb." At aDy rate, it won't hurt him to let a body know what hyi ] name really is, and how he really does look, ( and if he's coming to Columbia, and wheB j he will come, and which of the girte he likes best, and what he really believes to be the *| reason that "he don't take" about home, ( where the people know him. Now I don't want you to suppose that the girls are very anxious to be married?the ( anxiety is all my own, yet it is natural that 1 young things like them should be in a kind 1 of tittillation after hearing about the matter, ' fori assembled them all and read the letter i Co them, and I would like the affair wound i up at once. But before we go much farther, i [ should like to know if he's a literary man, c for they don't generally make the best hus- t bands?they are too anxious toshine abroad, i :o oare much about shining at home. And t :f he's a poet, he needn't say another word, e for I'd as soon put a rope round my children's 1 seeks and drown them like kittens, as give t ;bem to a poet; they might as well drown t ts starve, and they had better go at once, 1 ban to die by inches. I love poetry dearly, ? jut defend me from the makers of it?they t ire not fit for domestic life, "their souls have d heir content too absolute;" when they have a iontent at all, they are too independent of a >ther people in their happiness, for my use, h ind altogether too bigh-fiown every way. h In conclusion, I must say that I really do I hink it very strange that in a place where a; he Temperance Society is not doing wonders, be ladies should so obstinatelj refuse to ike a Punth. * Columbia, April 8th, 1859. i " it if ', i .rn ii?? : ' SONS. OF MALTA. . Withfn a short tifltt 'past, our ears haye iecome quite familiar vrkh the good deeds ierformed by the organization ifnown as the <8ons of Malta," which, though by no neaps , modern institution, has dMate years at* aioed a wide spread popularity in our conn* * ry, by the unostentatious manner in whioh t. Tuvnmpliahps its works of charity. We * lave on more than one occasion' made refer* s . i*. n 1 . mce to tne vraer, as opportunity presentea tself; bat, really, the repetitions of its good yorks which we frequently hear afe so nanferoas^ that to record them all would be ike a "tale twiee-told."- As the charities performed by-ii arO in accordance with the Scripture -injunction, to "let not thy left iandh know what thy right hand doekh," nauy-snrmisesaikl speculations are indulged a as. te its. dnjugs and object; and in-order hat our readers may be folly posted in rejvd to it-, k'ipay not be oat of place to give iu. short acconntr of- the Order, and from rfience h sprang : . > > '. s/.V la the year 1048 some-merchants of Memphis trading- to the Levant, obtained leave of ' ;he Caliph of Egypt to erect a house for hose whp^waJQt on,a pilgrimage toJerasalem4 fbey erected y hospital for the siok, A. D., UQ4, w'hep<tbey obtained the name of Hospitallers. A. they became ajniltary. or<Jer> and m agy persons-ofHobJe blood iot^red tlyeir ranks. After the Christians iid lost their interest in the East, and Je naalem was taken, the Knights returned to Sfargatt, Acre and Piecess, which they de eooed'in 1250, The order of the Sods of \ftflta, of which the Lodge in our city is a 1 3 ranch, and'which embraces sg magy of oar Bsti o^mslidd fellow-citisens, is a direct rqpreseotation of Orts fonfaerly military-religious yrder. TtfeTsTind Of Malta is still in possession of the,lrt8oDs 2of Malta," who rent it to {he British- Glovfirnment as a place of deposit for" military stores. II is', however, jootemplates by thjer Grand Lodge of th? Union to erect thereon a magnificent retreat to those whom long service io the order tad trftHrpe bOve enfeebled'. All "Sons" familiar with the histoty ofthe order, wilt remember tbaUit wsw-one of- the"early Sons of Malta, Poblius, who entertained, in the most hospitable maimer; St. Paul, when he wasahipwreoked on the Island whence they derive the name. We do-not know that he held ^ any office in the order,-but he is described as the "Chief Man of the Island." The Sons of Malta hare a deep desigi >in their organization. They may startle the world some ijay vpth an achievement so brilliant, having all the attribute* of nobleness anA rarity, which are the prime functions of the or&ft thai all .mankind will look on with-blessing \ and applause**. Many of their wonderful , uhjyitiea are known; to the wodd, bat very \ tQfmy remap secreJ; in the order.-?JBaiti' ' iruye <rtsA . * "Afr UoLY Cuss!"?A California paper walks into an unwelcome correspondent in the following rough shod style: "We have received"* communication, intended to damage a^neighbor, which the writer tries to bribe tft to publish, 1>y promishig tO'Subearlbe to the paper, on condition 5f his miserable article appearing. We're half a mind; yon cowardly villian, to toll your fiafte, and print the article, and get yon lrihmeus*dnibbing. We'll instruot you that yon have'deplorably mistaken the oharacter of the journal by which you would- diffuse your assassin like poison. Haven't yon courage tcujoofront your enemy and*tell him what ypu, skulkiog, anonymously, would print ef bun ? .You're one of the "grumblers" are you} You'd grumble at the postmaster, a. priest, the president. * * You'd bribe the village paper, which should be a messenger of peaoe, to stir up a quarrel'and dissension ip a neighborhood. Yon'd cause a faithful wife to shed tears of morti< fication by mnltiplyisg a lie about her has* baud ! Op, you're a beautiful specimen of the Creator's handiwork! Let's look at you. Sis feet high; dark hair; thick, full beard; downcast eye; cadaverous jaws; visage like a fellow who bad been bnried long enongh to let humanity and manhood out of him? you look just like the man who would pnt a widow woman "in the papers," and then abscond and leave tbe editor to a tar-and-fea1 TTT 'll x.il v.* A~ . LQeriOg. VY e II ten JUU nnai tu uu . r luvt i three-story ware-house; crawl aloug the ridge bole, discover a big flat rock, on a line dropped from the termination; tarn yoar moccasins up to the sun, and let yourself go ?the discovery of your brains on the rook below, will be conclusive and gratifying evidence that a nuisance has been abated." "60 Ahead."?In a reoent lecture of Greneral Shields, on Mexico, delivered before the Roman Catholic Institution of Balimore, the speaker paid a just tribute to the <go-aheaditiveness" of the American solders. "From Palo Alto," said he, "whioh vas the first battle, to the city of Mexico, we vere victorious; no matter under what oirmmstsnces, the Americans were always vieorious. I can't account for it. The enemy vere not cowards, for we used to say "that bey stood killing better than any people we iver saw." I cannot not account for it, uness it was that the Americans never counted u?jj. uront at it and took it foreran UO UUUOj WUW - o ed that they would be viotorious any how. The Romans have said, and they were great igbters, that men who think they can do a hing generally do it. Andaoity does wooers, and French andaoity fooght all Europe nd came near oonqaering it too, but the udaoity of the American beats them all-* is motto under all circumstances is "Go-aead." It is fully as effective as both the totnan aod the French audacity, and is abort adaweet."