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From the Southern Guardian. 'A MAN'S IMMORTAL TILL HIS WORK IS DONE.' BY W. M. MARTW. Let Azrael* come at early morn, When the day is Just begun; Or come at the evening's close;?a man Dies not till his work is done. Let his nAme be sung in the marble bolls By Fame, In her loudest tone. Or let him dwell in the Pauper's hut Vncared for, and all unknown. Or let him fight for Truth and the Right, And die as a hero dies. And live again in the hearts of men, As saints to their Heaven arise ; Or let him strive in the Wrong to hide. With Error's dark cloud, Truth's sun, The avenging sword suspends its blow; He lives till his work is done. Then sorrow not for the budding rose. Death's frost has withered soon, And grieve ye not for the ripened stalk Which the Reaper cut at noon. And tremble not at the chnnon's roar, % Though thousands around you fall; Nor fear the breath of the venomed plagne When you go at Duty's call. Ana ieanessiy go uiiu mo juvuc wm, And heat of the Southern Snn: For the might of Death can ne'er prevail O'er man, till his work is done. And the man lives long who does his best For those whom he dwells among; But ho who lives for an hundred years If he doe# no good, dies young. The Death AngeL |ta. Small Pox in Winnsboro'.?We are gratified to learn from the Register, that this disease has not extended beyond the first and only case. Mount Zion Institute.?The exercises of the Mount Zion Collegiate Institute, at Winnsboro', S. C., suspended recently on account of a small-pox report, were resumed on Monday last. Premium.?The Independent Fire Engine Company, of Columbia, took the premium on the 27th ultimo, at the Mayor's parade in Charleston, throwing a stream of 184 feet 10 inches. Bishop Davis.?The Colleton Sun says that "On Sunday last, the Rev. Mr. Bellinger announced to his congregation the melancholy fact that the Rev. Bishop Davis, of the Diocese of Sooth Carolina, had almost entirely lost his sight. His only hope is by an operation for cataract. The Chess Match.?The telegraphic Chess Match between Charleston and Angusta, which has kept the admirers of the royal game, for some time past in considerable excitement, has just been concluded, and resulted in the victory of Charleston? the latter winning the third game, and the two first having been drawo. Preparatory Medical School.?We are informed tbat an unusually large olass is in attendance on the lectures of the Charleston Preparatory Medical School, which is now filling its eighth annual course. This school is efficiently organized under able and zealous instructors in ail the departments.? Courier. A Large Strawberry.?A fair hand has laid on our table the largest st^wberry of the season. It measured three and seveneighth inches in circumference, and partook strongly of the lucious character of this favorite berry. "A few more of the same sort" would meet with a like kindly greeting.? Keowce Couircr. A Queer Occurrence?Who can Explain it??We arc informed of a queer incident which oocurred in this place during the Odd Fellows' celebration. It seems there was a calf, some two months old, confined in a lot close to the Methodist Church, and when Capt. Lucas' brass band commenced to play one of those soul stirring airs which always aiouscs to the highest pitch the feelings and passions ef the huraau soul, the calf became intensely excited and began to danoe and leapabont and so continued te do as long as the music was kept up, until finally it became as if it were frenzied by the excitement and after making one er two tremendous bounds it fell and died instantly without a struggle. Will some of our wise savans and learned doctors explain this anomalous, this queer phenomnon ? Shakspeare says "music hath charms to soothe the savage breast" and it may be true for aught we know to the contrary?but the question is, as to the effect of music on calves. It might be well for some experienced doctor or dancing master to investigate this matter and let thrworld know the result.? Chester Standard. Meeting of the Grand Division.? The second quarterly meeting of the Grand Division of the Sons of Temperance, of South Carolina, was held on Wednesday and Thursday, April 27th and 2Stb, at George's Station, on the South Carolina Kailroad. The meeting was well attended by delegates from various parts of the State, and the business transacted was of an interesting character, especially to the friends and advocates ol the temperance reform. From the reports of the officers, it seems that the cause is on the advance, an interest being aroused throughout the jurisdiction. The demands of the temperance movement calling for the the services of a State Lecturer, the ques tion of appointing one or more was fully anc thoroughly discussed at this meeting. The discussion resulted in the appointment of the Rev. H. H. Durant, of Spartanburg; Rev John Culpepper, of Darlington ; Rev. S. L Watson, of York District; H. Judge Moore Esq., of Marlboro', as State Lecturers.? These gentlemen will hold themselves ii readiness to respond to all calls upon theii services from any part of the State. This i an important move, and will, doubtleos, resul in much substantial good to the order. Oi Thursday afternoon, a public meeting was heli in the Methodist Church, which was crow ded to overflowing. The speaking coutinuei about three hours, the interest of the audi ence being well sustained throughout. Th opening address was delivered by Mr. Sam uel L. Hammond, of this city, in which h sustained his reputation as a speaker, and zealous and efficient Son of Temperance.He was followed by Rev. John Culpepper of Darlington, who made a most huppy hit ii his own unique and original style. He i a host within himself, and his speech wil fKii inforocfo nf tKo nc UUUUUC53 ten u?nsu vww iuwivbw V4 vuv V.V.V.W in that section. After the singiog of ai ode, H. Judge Moore, Esq., of Beunetts ville, was called out, and made a brief, poin ted and animated address, delivered in hi peculiar rein, and amply meeting the de mands of the occasion. Rev. H. H. Durant of Spartanburg, followed, and in an eloquen and impressive strain, held his audienct spell-bound for an hour and a half. He i: an orator in every sense of the word, an( will make his mark on the public mind whatever cause he may choose to advocate The meeting adjourned to meet on the fourtl Wednesday in July, at Rock Hill, in Yorl District.? Charleston Mercury. Cjtt fflrkbille l^nqmrer, ?! w EDITED BT T( SAM'Zj w. melton. ;; YORKVILLE, S.-C. P j THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 5, 1869. t< . a Special Notlce.~-AU communications, on matterscon- ? nected with the paper, should be addressed to "THE YORK- u ville enquirer;" and not the Editor or Proprietor, per- C' sonally. Persons desiring prqjppt attention to their favors, jl must bear this in mind. .. C^Capt. D. D. Moore, Maj. Mylej Smith, Sam'l o. hrown, j. l. Thomson aud Samuel j. Kuykf.ndal g of York; and william D. cook, of Bennettsvllle, arc au- p thorized agents of the enquirer. t] RELIGIOUS SERVICES FOR SUNDAY, MAY 8. J Methodist Church. f< Rev. L. A. Johnston, Pastor. Service at 10 A. J1 M., and 7 P. M. ? a Episcopal Church. , c Rev. A. F. Olmstrad, Pastor. Service at 101 fi ? *r sip v a I * II The ed tor has goue to Columbia. a tMHi ? a "CAUTION." fl We direct the attention of our District readers p to the advertisement of tho Messrs. Bloomhero & 0 Brothers, under the above caption. EUROPEAN NEWS. The Steamer North Britian arrived on Monday last, with Liverpool advices to the 20th ultimo. * The sales of cotton for the three days previous to the sailing of the Steamer amounted to. 14,000 ^ bales. All qualities have slightly declined, with I a dull market, and unfavorable news from Man- 0 Chester. There is little enquiry and prices weak. ' The latest phase of affairs is peaceful. D t SONS OP TEMPERANCE. The following persons baye been elected offi- ., cers in their respective Divisions for the current ^ quarter. j Bullock's Creek Division. No. 54.?A. J. Rob f erts, W. P ; A. H Furr, W. A.; J. H. Hood, R. )} 9.; S. L. Davidson, A. R. S.; J. M. Roherts, ' F. S.; C. O'Daoiel. T.; G. L. McNeel, C.; J L. r Guy, A. C.; P. Jackson, /. 5.; Davis Burns, 0. S.; Dr. B. E. Feemster, r. W. P.; Rev. R. T. S Russell, Chaplain. . Sharon Division, No. 55.?W. J. Stephenson, t W. P.; S. G. Brown. If*. A.; J. A. Neel, R. S.; _ ' I. M. Hope, A. R. S.; S. S. Brown, F. S.; J. A. Hope, T.; J. T. Suinmerford, C.; J. W. P. Hope, * A. C.; W. P. Wylie, I. S.; J. A. Brown, 0. S.; n J. M. Meek, J. P. W.P.; Rev. R. A. Rose, f Chaplain. ^ MERE-MENTION. J The Ashville News of the 28th ultimo, states that the magistrates of Madison County hare unanimously resolved to submit to the people g the question of taking $50,000 of stock in the j French Broad Road. The snow on the m ouo- 0 tains at Thornton's Gap, in Rappahannoch coun- p ty, Va., was so deep on Saturday last, that it had ? to be,shoveled from the roads, in order that the e i wagons and other vehicles could pass, Let- v tersfrom Utah say that Bbigham Young's health e is rapidly failing, and. that he means to fly the y conntry. David Coleman has been nomina- p ted as the Democratic candidate for Congress in ^ the district formerly represented by Mr. Cling- ^ man. The most.notable event reported in the 0 - European mails by the City of Washington?apart f, from the war prospects?is the death of the well tt known Alexis deTocqcevlle. 'EdwardG. t Palmer" is the name of a new engine lately built e for the Charlotte and South Carolina Railroad. c ;Saturday, the 23d ultimo, was the 08th an- ], niversary of the birth of the President of the tJni- I ted States. J. R. S. Bond, editor and pro- f prietor of the Mendota (111.) Press, has been elee- tl ted overseer of the poor. He says his long cx- 0 perience in the printing business gives him the u most admirable qualification for tbnt office. e A German writer, who has published an account d of men and things in the United States, says that r "the condition of the negroes in New York was at c one time very bad, but, owing to some reforms in- 0 troduced by Gen. Jackson, It is now considerably alleviated." Mirbs, the Paris Banker, 0 lately gave a ball which cost $25,000. Ho eotn- t menced life by selling old stoves?then, as now, a s grate financier. James Porter, the celebra- c ted Kentucky giant, was found dead in his bed at 0 kv on Mondav moraine last. He p | OUl^.ujpv.., , was about 49 years of age and 7 feet 9 inches high _ | Hiscoffin was the largest ever made in Kentucky, fl being over nine feet aoross the breast. Ad v vices from Washington states that in consequence c of the straightened condition of the finances of the government, the Tost Master General has decided h not to open any of the new mail routes in the d State of Virginia, North and South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, authorized by Congress in 1858. The eld routes will be continued as heretofore. ]( A lady called on a witty friend who was not at home, and finding the piano dusty, wfote j, upon it Slattern. The next day they met, and the j j lady said, "Icalled on you yesterday." "Yes; I n I saw your card on the piano." 0 STAMMERING. 1 Those acquainted with our identity will think !l queer things upon our attempting a paragraph i with such a caption; and upon our insinuating a i: i hint upon such a topic, one must be reminded of ( l the individual who asked another, in a horribly e l stuttering way, "why d-d-d-don't you g-g-g-go to j * the m-m-m-man who kick-cured me?" But we, i I of all others, have the right to talk upon and dis o i cuss the subject, metaphysically and physically, e | j And we have the right, too, to prescribe & sover- \ 5 j eign remedy?an unfailing preventive in every s , j instance?which we have taken from that excel- I . lent serial, "Hall's Journal of Health." Let every i | stuttering, stammering, tongue tied, tbroat-throt- i 5 tied, horror-bedeviled, and hopelessly afflicted in- t , dividual, try the thing on, and wear it persistent- ( ly! Any sort of a motion, we take it, will do the a work. As to the rationale of it, wo have nothing c j to say. Practically, it operates like a charm, ' j and that's enough. Dr. Hall says: ? Stammering is sometimes the result of habit ( I or carelessness, at others, it succeeds a long atr | tack of sickness. It is a kind of St. Vitus' Dance 1 s ; of the tongue. Not uofrequently it is brought ' ^ on by the harsh treatmeut, or the inveterate ill- r nature of parents, teachers, or superiors, in hub3 itually meeting those under them with threatenj ings, scolding, or fault finding. We have met be_ fore now with a most miserable class of human, ) , or rather inhuman beings, who scarcely ever enter , ? j a room where are children, or servants, or depen. dents, without the expression of some disappro ' 1 e batiou or complaint. This has very naturally the ' I j effect to confuse and intimidate a child, especially j \ ' } oue of a highly nervous or excitable temperament: , e while steadiness and composure are the very nnti- ! a podes of stuttering, which is essentially the throw- I 1 irig out too much nervous power, sending too much 11 nervous influeuce to the muscles which are em j, ployed in speaking ; the result is. a want of prop- | . - - 1?? ,i;_ I [j er control 01 muse musncj. u?u?, - v..- ; I minishes the nervous supply to those parts, what- J i 1 ever directs the nervous flow to some other part j 1 | of the body, diminishes the stntnmering in the e same proportion. This is the principle of cure in ] ' all cases, although we have never seen a reference 1 ' to it by any writer. Some twenty years ago, the ! , i-1 New York world was struck with dumb amazement . I at the instantaneous remedy for stammering, ; . [ which was tbrustitiga kuitting needle through the ' I tongue. But it cured only until the tongue got j ' ' well, because, while the tongue was sore from the : f barbarous operation, the extra nervous energy wus * expended in the instinctive effort to refrain from 1 any other than careful movemeut of the touguo. j ( 5 The expedient of Demosthenes in speaking with 3 3 little pebbles iu his mouth, was iu the same direc 1 tion. !' Ooe of the most inveterate stammerers in Lon- 1 ' don became possessed with a fancy that he would t . make a gook actor. On his first appearand*, the , 3 ; theatre was crowded, in curiosity. During the whole play, he did not mispronounce a single ( 1 ' word, did nut fail to utter distinctly a single syl < | lable, because his mind was eDgaged in another t Tort, was excited in another direction, the extra ervous power found vent in another outlet?preisely as in the more recently alleged accidental iscovery of a lady, that reading or speaking in a hisper is an instantaneous remedy ; because it >quires an effort to whiBper; themind's attention I directed to the act of whispering, and not to je distinctness of utterance. We will venture the saertion, that no man ever stammered in "poping the question" nor a young lauy halt out -ye-ye-yes. Instinct itself prompts a cure. Afjr a long illness from an accident, our Robert, ged three years, suddenly began to stammer tost vexatiously. His whole system was in a ebilitated and irritable condition. He hid never ome in contact with a stammerer. And believing iat scolding, or threat*,- or ridicule, would senw ) ) fix the habit for life, which would have been a | reat misfortune, we made an effort, without ap- j arent effort, todivert bis attention to some other uing than the stammering. For example, when e.-asked for any thing, he was told ; "Now, if ou nsk'forit plainly, you shall h?ve itand be>re we were aware of it, we found him. whenever e attempted to ask for any thing, striking his lit!e hand against his thigh, as he stood before us, t the enunciation of every syllable; and by enouragement, wo found the habit broken up in a jw months. As it is a life-long calamity to have son or daughter grow up a stutterer, we trust hese hints may be turned to practical account by hose whom it may concern. Anything else tone t the time of uttering each syllable, divides the Mention, gives two outlets to the extra nervous ow, and the remedy is complete; make a mark, ull a string, turn a leaf, stamp the foot?any one f them will effect a cure in a reasonable time. xocmw cnnRESPONDKNCE. Cheraw, April 29, 1869. Dear Enquirer:?After an absence of seven reeks, less one day, I in some measure arrived ere last Friday night And had the carriage een properly furnished with canvass and rigging, might have been transported from the depot to ay lodgings by wind power. This tremendous puff"- which I met on my return, however, does ot explain my partial nrrival. That will be beter understood when it is known tbat for the most art, I am yet on a visit to Chester. Therefore, t is "solitary and alone"?which means all alon i, iv myself, and nobody with me?that I have beun this epistle. Of course, if it should be wantog in some of the elements of good imposition, a addition to the usual explanations, it must be emembered that there is wanting an important ource of inspiration. I have been silent a long time?I will say for he benefit of Mrs. Wenzle and others?but I will lot offer any excuses now; Ishall contont tnyself rith thus reappearing without apology or expla lation, presuming that I have scarcely been misjed rom the diligent "corps," except by a few who rill not, I air. sure, advertise their literary taste y making an open complaint. But it is time to sake a beginning. During ray absenoe I sav, heard, felt and did a ;ood many things. But apart from a few which will not speak of now, there is nothing in my bservAtinns worthy of record. Of course I lasscd through the eft-repeated experience of 'being found st the depot"?beard with my own ars the wonderful embodied in the words "the v' ~-a Irnarr aknt it mpntlf bv that rnisue uicw j ?uu(nuv.. ? qnally surprising eveit so often noted in the rords, "and we were off." Of course, I Jeft bing8 "soon out of sight"?had clever, gentlelanly conductors and "a' that and a' that." I eg pardon, however, for thus classifying polite onductors with these other incidents of travel, or jiuch worthy aids and comforters to a traveler s conductors of the above description, deserve o be noticed, commended, and held up to public steem. I know several such ; and ae I am most oncerned just now with Cheraw and its environs, st me introduoe your traveling readers to our Arlington and Cheraw Conductor, Mr. Cross.? le is just as clever in his office as Conductor, as he valiant "Odo Saint Croix" was on the heights f Ascalon, planting the banner of Christian triimph there, and covering himself with honors nough to bequeath an enviable share to all his escendants. And the author of "A year in Eu ope" bus with most exquisite humor deduced the onclusion that all the Crosses are, and of right ught to be descendants of the illustrious Odo. By the way, I wish I could persuade every one f yonr readers to get that book?it jsSvell worth he price, and whoevef rei.ds a few pages will deire to read them all. I cannot undertake to bsracterize it just now, only to say that I know f no other man who could have written just the ike of it. It is that easy and elegant diction, -that spirit of life atfd good humor, that inlmitble description of character and scenery, which ritb many other things, renders the book so fasinating. A good many things, I find, have turned up ere within a few weeks past. Some have turned own, for example, the Town Hall. This huildng was on its way to completion, when lo! a terible Wow came and laid its architectural glories dw in the dnst. But we are not to be discouraged y slight obstacles?it is going up again. And it 3 hoped that it will be so constructed as to bravey dispute the track of the sublime March of aany a storm adown this famous stream, for years n years to come. The cause of its fall was simlar to that which has laid many a human taberiacle to the earth?it was top-heavy. I need scarcely say that "he circus, traveling heatre, &c., have been along. And vain curiosiy paid willingly its halves and quarters infcc the offers of itinerating iniquity; while the loud ap>eals of humanity, and the heart rending wails of mmortality in ruins, might scarce have extorted me fourth the sum to raise the earth a little i:*arr heaven. Moreover, the church?the bride? vbich should be so spotles s and pure, how she uffers by contact with these wandering marvels ! low hearts are pained whica bad just been beatng high in hope of "times of refreshing ?" ' How aany are made to stumble at the indiscretions of heir curious brethren ? How the wheels of Ihurch government creak in their revolutions, and i redoubled motive power becomes necessary to ivercome the unwonted friction ? There have been, also, several lectures which ire favorably reported. The last was by Dr. }noss b?fore the Cheraw Lyceum, on "Rome and he Romans." It was doneiu his elaborate style, ind met with enthusiastic applause, except a parigraph or two on Rome ecclesiastical. He told J >f a sight or two which he had witnessed, and it turt a little in some directions. There nre a few jersons of the Romish faith here, and they are so nuch esteemed in the social relations, that some egretted the lecturer's allusions. The true ground of objection was, however, the rules regiluting these things. But no harm was done, I suppose, and it was hardly to be expected that a arotestant D. D., so recently from St. Peter's, ffould in a lecture on Rome and Romans, steer his :ourse clear of all offensive priestly customs. As the Lyceum has been mentioned, I may as ivell say something more or u ni once, n is an stablishment in tht3 place?has been in existence [ know not how long, and is likely to live on.? Tbere is a considerable library packed up in a lent little brick building?an annual income I hink fur the increase of said library?and the looks are of course let out on specified conditions, rhi re is, about once a month, a public lecture ; ind the first class of speakers in the country have produced, or re produced thiir beet tssayson these iccasions. I have heard but two, both by citi:ens of this place. Dr. C. Kollock?a man of indoubted scientific and literary claims, a capital ihysician and a christian gentleman?delivered an iddress on "Liberal Culture" and considered it with special reference to the constitution and tenicncies of American Societj-. I listened with the mpiejudiced ear of a stranger, and thought it ^ery fine. Every lover of learning and patron of ! the line arts would have been delighted with the | Dr's trtatment of this case. His utterance wis too rapid to allow in general, a pioper understanding and appreciation of his highly cultivated language, and his expressive and well rounded periods. But for that, the address would hove been much thore impressive and effective. The second one of these monthly feasts was furbished by our distinguished townsman J. A. Inolis, Esq. Many of your readers were made acquainted with his excellences as an orator several months ago, in the Female College, in Yorkville. How admirably he apeak? the /City's Egg? lisfc ! It does a genuine Anglo-Saxon good to bear his glorious old vernacular spoken out in the manner of this gentleman. It comes right out, unmixed from the "wells of English undefilod." For one, I am tired, almost sick of ezb tics in many of our leading writers and speakers. And these abominable foreign phrases and snatches of latin? who will help to put a stop fto them ? I am perfectly sdre that nineteen out of twenty of your oircle of readers?or any other circle?loo$e the ?.laU ? - c manw ft aanfAnaa Vvrr fit a Ycry JJ1UI ttlJU UiniTUTI Ul UI?UJ u ovuivnuv *ij vow use of these foreignisms. It is not any indication of extraordinary learning. Any body can take two or three common books (dictionaries) and in a few minntes he can memorize enough of these things to torment his readers or hearers with for a month. Let ns have the pure old strong English. But I must dispose of my speaker. His address was eren more admirable in argument than in language and delivery. The el era-' ted and wide-reaching views which he took of his subject and the unmlstakeable spirit of Christian morals which pemtffc thie whole?all wa9 edifying, strengthening, and calculated to make one better. Rev. Dr. Coanrrhai recently been installed as pastor of the Presbyterian Chnrcli in this plaoe. He and his excellent wife, so much admired and loved in Yorkvllle, her former home, are justly regarded as a valuable accession to our community ?social and religions. Bnt I must really close?good night. L. H. A. NEW YORK CORRESPONDENCE. Nsw York, April 28. The Odd Fellows celebrated tho Fortieth Anniversary of the establishment of the Order in the United States, on the 20th. The "grandfather of Odd Fellowship," Wildbt, was psesent, his hair bleached and his form bent by the storms or lire now reaohing to his eightieth year. In 1819, this veteran member called together four others and formed the first Order of Odd Fellows that ever was established in the United 8tates. The order has rapidly increased in some of the Northern States, since the abduction of Mokoan threw so much suspicion on the Free Masons. Forty-two entire Lodges, and a large number of deputations took part in the mammoth procession, and thointeresting ceremonies. Mr. Botlbton, of South Carolina, the orator on the occasion, delivered a^obaste and eloquent Oration in behalf of the Order, of which he is a prominent and talented member. After the address was over, they marched to the Astor House, where they partook of a eumptaous collation, especially gotten up for the occasion. In the evening, a grand ball at the Academy of Music, ended the festivities of the celebration. The St. George's Society, composed of Englishmen, celebrated the same day, as the seventy-third anniversary of the foundation of that Club. The usual amount of beef was eaten, and as many as commonly do, were thrown horse dti combat at the ending of the toasts. It is a good thing that the toast of "the Queen of England" comes first on the list; otherwise, if it came last, every Englishman would fill his glass full, no matter how drunken he should become thereby. TKo Valinnal Quarantine and Sinitarv Pnnven tion, composed as its name implies, of delegates from all the States, is now sitting at the College of Physicians and Surgeons. It has ju9t organized, Dr. Griscom, of this City in the Chair, therefore, nothing mach has been done. It will adjourn at an early day, probably after hammering out two or three truisms which hare been acknowl edged by all reasonable men, ever since the foundation of the world. To-day, Brooklyn is celebrating the introduction of water into that city. Every body, individual, corporate or politic, has a place in the pio ture. The procession'is so long that Booklya can not bold it all at once. A number of fountains are playing the long hoped for element for the gaze of the people. The water has been brought in pipes, a distance of about twenty-one miles from a series of ponds, which will give a never ceasing supply to cleanse the filthy ljttle city.? To night there will be a grand display of fireworks and drinking. The termination of the Sickles' trial in a verdict of acqultal of the prisoner gives general satisfaction. The suit for divorce will be carried through very quietly and without any unnecessary publicity. A young girl fifteen years old, ran off from home in Massachusetts a few days ago, and went to Boston, and from that place come here. After seeing "the sights," for which purpose she said she come, she reported herself to the Police HeadQuarters, requesting to be seat home. She was sent home accordingly, having made a miraeu lous e scape from the bands of the harpies, who are ever prowling about the streets. The professional "farcy," otherwise called boxers, fighters, drinkers, rat catchers, dog-trainers, racers, spungers, Ac. ko., have grown into public notice and favor. In the course of time, it will be a greater honor to be called "one of the fancy" than it will be to be dubbed a gentleman or a foxhunter. One of tbia class wagered $800 that he could walk four miles, ;fcir heel and toe, in thirty minutes, which he did not, thereby looting the money by one minute find forty-three seconds.? Herman, the Benicia Ecy, whom Morissey beat so soundly a short time ago, has challenged Ton Savers, the champion of England, to fight him [ for a thousand dollars and the belt of Championship. He is accepted, so tho "fancy" are all agog. Should each one kill the other outright, the world can verv well do without them. BETH. For the Yorkvtlle Enquirer. THE TEMPERANCE PLEDGE, "TFc pledge ourselves that tee ivill not use as a beverage, make or traffic in intoxicating drinks." Such, in substance, is the pledge adopted by the adrocates of total abstinence. I wish to present it to the readers of the Enquirer, with the hope that some of them may be induced to adopt it practically. With your permission, Mr. Editor, I will accompany it with some remarks; and if the advocates of this good cause will allow me, I will offer a suggestion to them. I rppreciate their zeal and know that they desire to do good | to their friends, and I am persuaded they are | anxious to find out the best way to accomplish j this end. Some do not begin exactly at the right | point, in their endeavors to make converts to the i temperance cause. By argument and otherwise, they strive to prevail on them to join a society? objections are made and a discussion follows, and j sometimes, the opponent congratulates himself that the argument was in his favor. Let me suggest a change. Take your stand on the pledge ?make assent to it the turning point. Fight the battle on this ground alone, and you at once get clear of many of the objections brought up against you. True, every Bociety inclades the pledge?but it includes miore. It covers more ground ; and you find a targe proportion of objections to b? not ? gaipst tbe pledge, bat the Society, or some of its members. I can find three men who will assent I to the pledge, where yon will find two who are i willing to oome into a society. Then take the po- < sition which is most tenable, especially When it | ( secures all that is essential. In the end, all you i desired will be attained. The best advocates of ; a good cause are not the rash or impulsive, who i often act without reflection or knowledge, but the 1 cautious, considerato and look-before-them clnss, who must hear and consider before they act. But i haviag made a decision they may be relied on in any -emergency. Such advocates are needed in( the eause of temperance. Sometimes a man of this class is found to see his way clear to take one step forward, though ho may not have light enough to sec clearly the whole course of duty. If he will bat take one step in the light direction ?encourage him. Get his assent to the pledge1. This brings him into the region of total abstinence where the apnosphere,is pure and bracing. Being an upward road, his vision improves?the light increases?the path pf duty becomes plainerstrength increases?objections disappear, and he finally is brought to correct conclusions. Prevail on men to assent to the pledge. They are then for us?pledged to total abstinence. If they talk At all, they mast talk on our side?against drink rag. To be consistent, they will wish to do more than talk?they must act; and having committed themselves, tbey will act with the friends of temperance, and very aoon, many of them will find it expedient and desirable to have their names enrolled with the active, working men in this ckuae. Take another view of the case. It is a mistake to suppose that joining a society will make a man temperate. A temperance society is an association of men who, anterior to this, have formed a purpose in their minds to abstain from all that intoxicates, and in consequence of this deterraina tion, bare united together, under the pledge, for their mutual support and encouragement; and to enable them, to concentrate their efforts against intemperance. Of oourse those who hare similar views and have made like d&terraihations, will be gladly admitted ; not to make them temperate, but because they are tempefate and keep them eo. Men who have been properly instructed do not ??ek admission to the christian church to obtain religion.? For this they nlU9t go to the great Fountain. Hating obtained it, then tbey seek a place in tbe ? - - - - ? - a 1 1 J ? Household ot Faun, ana are namoereu wim iue people of God. So in the case under consideration. To adopt the pledge with purpose of heart is the first step. The next is to carry it ont practically for personal good. Then to act for the good of others as a souse of doty may dictate and cironmstsnoes allow. Ih my next, I will consider some of the objec-" tions made against signing the pledge. wV "" For th? Yorkvilte Enquirer. LEISURE SKETCHES. BY J. WOOD-DAVIDSON. NUMBER IV. THE INFLUENCE OF PLACES. In connection with the Pysiognomy of Plaeet, I wish to throw ont a few suggestions on the influ ence of place upon the character of the inhabitants. If places have physiognomy, the permanent effects of that is the matter in hand. I wish to pnsb the question to its legitimate conclusions ; because, if places have a character in themselves, it follows that men reared within the influence of that character must receive some impression of it ?must become, to some degree, like the places they inhabit. Look at the mdiginout (I speak relatively) dwellers in the Sand Hills around Columbia? the regular Sand Hill crackers?and you have an example of the influence of that sterile, thirsty, sun-blasted, desolate, and hungry region npon its inhabitants. They are perfect counterparts of the soil they vegetate upon?too lazy to till. They are uncouth, rawboned, disfigured, squalid, dirty, cadaverous, dwarfish, ragged, gram visaged, scrawny ; and look, in every item of their personnel, unqualifiedly mean. They are in all these things like the sun-blasted, poverty-stricken sand-' bills wtncli tocy aweu on. xney no nuiamg, ? the soil does nothing; and for the same reason ?can't. Fail is the fate of both. Fail is legiible in every ray that lights the pitiable faces ef the poor Sand Hill Cracker. If he <conld be mo ed to a more genial soil, he might do something; bat there hia doom is matured. And he clings to to it with an instinctive patriotism that finds a parallel in the wretched Esquimaux?who, cnt off from every apparent luxury and even comfort of life, lives, Suffers, and dies in his desolate snowhouse. The explanation inbeth cases, by the way, is the same?they have become adapted by the soil to it, and cannot live in a better place. Bnt let urf look elsewhere. Compare the mountain Scot, erect, active, hardy, and adventnroas, with the Englishman of the level part of the Island, lympbatie, pblegmatio, beefy, and rotund. Compare the Alpine Swiss with the adjacent valley dwellers bard by? " An Iron race (he mountain-cliffs maintain, Foes to the gentler genius of the plain." Compare Bceotia, as known to history?cold, stolid atnpid?with the dashing Thesealian not far north, bat in a widely diverse surface. Compare the Netherlands with France?Genius, some saitrist dares to predict hereafter may ' even m Holland rise." But that is aside from my theme.? My idea is that genius may rise anywhere, but that the scenographical character of the locality wSl give charmoter to the genius. Hoic eomes this influence? In every tear/. The soil determines the food of the inhabitants, their occupation, their habits. So npon soil depend the animals, as food and assistants of man. The air receives from the soil something, from the vegetation something, from animal life something?all these operate up| on the life that is maintained within it. But I design my suggestions as suyyetlions merely; and throw them out with the hope that some one may be led, thus incidentally, to the great science that the future has in store?the greatest of undeveloped sciences? Morphology. Of other things again. CoT.rMBIA. S. C. MISSISSIPPI CORRESPONDENCE. Ripley, Miss., April 23, 1859. Dear Enquirer:?As it seems to be your desire that I should "mix up another" letter for you, I will with pleasure make the attempt, but in what manner I shall succeed, let "time and chance determine." But if I should fail to please you or any of your readers, I assure you, it will not bethe resokcf any design on my part, for I always wish to please, especially when it does not eest ! too much trouble. But I do fail very often, and , should such be my fate on this occasion, I hare no apology to offer, except a Bheer want of ability to do otherwise, and I hope on such grounds, j your charitable readers will grant an excuse. Our town is, at present, as destitute of news j as the Polar Sea is of orange groves. Everything I remains quiet, notwithstanding the efforts of our enterprising merchants to start a breeze concerning the many pretty things they have "just received from the North." As an indication, however, of the health of this vicinity, a druggist near by, ha-t just remarked that his sales of late have been alarmingly short. Our physicians also complain piteously of a malady technically termed the "blues"?a disease which seems, as a general thing, to attack persons only who are of idle and inactive habits, and for which it is maintained there is but one remedy?active exercise and prosperous business. . ? The present season, with its variableness, seems ? baffle *11 the wisdom of oar weather-prophets 1 md renders their pretensions to foresightedness jaite an absurdity. We bare alternate visitations | jf.warm and cold weather, wind and rain?someLimes singly and then again rather mixed. On , yesterday, for instance, after a few days of very j fine 8pring weather, it was oold, blustering aid rainy until night, when it ceased raining and clear- j ed off, but remained cold; and tbis morning frost j and ice in abundance were to be seen. Fruit, I learn, was generally killed by former fjro?ts, and I fear the wheat, which in many places has beaded out, is injured by the frost of last night, but in case it is sot, there is a fine prospect for a botmtiful erop. More anon. ^UKCif. For the Yorkvlllo Enquirer. ? t i.Tviri.n mni.R. A beautiful blushing rosebud?a moss rosebud is something like a little girl ; only something like though, for Earth does not-possess in its fairest gardens or richest treasuries any flower half so beautiful, any jewel half so radiant as a graceful, lovely, innooept girl. Modest as is the violet half hidden beneath the grass and spangled with dew drops, it is not mofe modest tfian she iq. Sweet as is the perfumed breath of the Jessamine swaying and rustting its golden bellp, it is not more sweet than the fragrance of virtue and truth, which is bounteously sbed around her. Bright as is the light which gleams from the diamond sparkling pre-emineqt in a carcanet of gems, it is not more radiant thnn the lore-light which illnmes and beafns forth from her eyes. Light as is the prattling and babbling of the streamlet as it goes leaping and gliding along in its flower-decked banks, it is not more joyous than the silvery sound of the musical laughter which comes welling up from ber mirth-laden breast, and wreathing her cheeks and Hps with sunniest smiles.? Pure as are the Pearls whitely gleaming from the ocean cavesr or the Lilies bowing to the salutations of the breezes whieh come bearing the tribute of rich edors gleaned from flower beds over which they bad flown, they are not more pore, nor is purity itself more holy than the heart of a. little girl, fit shrine f&e the indwelling of heaven's choioest perfections. He must be very wicked and Bin-pollnted who does not love little girls. I love them of all sizes, except when they are about six feet high and weighaboat three hundred. Then, sweetandgood as tbey are, they become rather too much of a good thiog. Now there is one little girl whobrings thd light of snnbeanre and the odor of roses whenever she comes near me, and I have promised to t$ll her 4 story, and as I would not for the tforld tell her a ttory, here goes for the performance of the promise. (If it turn out to be a rery poor story or no story at alt, yon must remember that I said, I would not for the world tell a ttory.) A Stoby foe Tnrr. Weil, the winter had Come and all the beanfifnl flowers were dead and the birds had down away and carried their sweet music to gladden the hearts of those who dwell in the more genial regions, where the sun langbs all the year round with a broad grin of summer. The melancholy sighing winds of Autumn had come and condoled with the trees and these lad cast their sad colored leares over the graves where the seeds were buried, waiting for their resurrection.. The little life-germs of the future leaves and flowers were all sleeping, covered over with their brown and rueset bed clothes; and thus though the winter winds might blow coldly and the sleet might rattte chilly, they were all warm and cosy. Sometimes when it grew very cold, the Great Father would send down his gently falling, soft, fleecy snow, and a warm white quilt would then be added to their covering. So the wiuter passed on and the germs slept on. Now the sun who bad been wrapped up in clouds as if he too feared the cold, began to^peep out and wink at the tree tops where the icicles were hanging, and the trees were so glad that tbey wept for joy, and threw away the lee-diamonds which the Frost King bad given them, (for I am sorry to say they bad been 'coquetting outrageously with old Hiems?that is Jack Frost?while the sun was gone, and had received many beautiful presents of diamonds &Dd pearls and all kinds of precious jewels) and forthwith they began to rustle their branches and straighten out their twigs and primp np generally a nd extensively. Then the tittle golden notes which glide up and down on the snnbeams began to gather around the trees and nestle on therr wide spread arms, and they whispered to the germs and buds to come forth and play, for the old winter was dying and they mttet come forth and prepare the palace and tb? throne for the reception of the young and rosy spring. However, the trees were timorons and rather afraid to let the buds oome out so soon and so they ynited just like people doA to see who would lead the way. Then an audacious little Plum tree came out one morning, and not only in summer costume, but actually all in white as if to show its contempt of danger by derisively sporting the livery of Winter. No sooner did this occur tb%n all the Peach trees resolved not to bo outdone, and here tbey came nodding and bowing and courtesying, all dressed oat in their finest blush colored raiment. That is to say, I thought at first ihat they were dressed as I have just doscribed, but a little fffiry who happened just then to bo fluttering past whispered to me that this was not the drese of the trees, but that they had heard the sweet singing of the birds and spring zephyrs and had looked out and smiled with flowers, and so the trees were only clothed with beauty. (I expect that is what made the Peach trees blr;h so violently.) Finding that beauty, however becoming, is not n very substantial clothing, they then did drees themselves in earnest, or rather in green, and the fruit trees had their clothes adorned with rows of round, bright, green, velvet buttons. (I suppose the other trees fastened their clothes with strings and ribbons and pins, but about this I am not certain.) Thus they were all smiling and bright and happy, when snddenly there was heard a low, rumbling, mattering sound from afar off. The trees heard it but played on and smiied on as brightly as ever. Then the clouds who saw the coming of danger came and wept over the earth for they knnw that trouble was near. The old cowardly sun hid himself qnickly and pat on his night cap of mists and went to sleep again. The trees played on and smiled on, but they began to tremble and look pale, for they heard the clarion notes which the heralding tempests blew. Then came the army of the Frost King with sharp, shiningspears and white plumes, and they marched up in dreadful array and made prisoners of the trees. Then John the great King of Frost and ice and .enow put on his ermine robes aud pronounced sentence on the shivering, trembling prisoners. The sentence was 1st "That all the trees who had been caught dressed out in fine array to do honor to the young prince Spring, should have their buttons cut off and their fine dresses scorched and torn as a mark of disgrace." 2nd "That the Plum tree, the ringleader, should be beheaded immediately if not sooner." Loud were the lamentations and sighs of the poor prisoners. (Some people, stupid people, said that it was the wind blowing through the branches, but I knew better than that.) There Upre many friends to sympathize with the trees, and many fellow-sufferers to weep with them, for upon the toes and ears of some4ittle persons were the marks of the cruelty of him whom people contemptuously call Jack Frost. And I grieved V too. Tiny, for I thought, alas! alas ! whore now will be the Plum-jelly that I hare loved so long and well; where the pies whose flavor rejoiced my palate; and where the sweet-milk-and-peaches dearer than all ? ^ Now, Tiny, as to the meaning of all this, simply told, it is this, the trees put out their flowers and leaves too soon and the Frost came and nipped them. You may ask why I did not say so, then, without all that talk about dress and trumpets and diamonds and so on. The reason is, because I am very fond of talking and writing when I get any bpdy to listen to me and read .what I write, so I took the opportunity to say as much as I could. And now good nifht, I suppose yea won't be very anxious to hear any more stories from tiresome and tired ? t RUBY. For the YorkviUe Enquirer. TOM H0BS02Y. NUMBERt t HIS PHTSICAL DEFECTIVENESS. In the year of the world, no matter when, and at what particular locality "this deponent oaith not," lived Tom Hobson, the best edition of a dolt extant, and the latest style of clownish uogracefulness. At the age of twenty, wo are accustom* ed to look for physical maturity and mental pro gression. At tunc penoa it is expected mat me mediant dtatare of the homo species will be reach ed: bat unfortunately in this case, the fact was too obvious, that if natare intended to produce a medium specimen of the male order, it was a ha* initiating and deplorable failure. And often would the pleasing reflection console Tom, that he was like the small gold coin among the dollars, occupying less din><;p;:nr,s in space, but far surpassing tbem in >?h?e , and yet as often would the unwelcome, perplexing and impertinent suggestion arise, that he, too, might be likened unto the diminutive stiff-cared ear, snapping and" barking unnoticed, at the feet of the proud, majestic mastiff. And always, both in daylight and dreams, this hateful image of the snarling cur was tormenting him.? In vain did be stretch, and yawn, and gape, and imagine that he felt himself rising from the earth. In vain and sorrowftilly did he compare his shadow with those of his own age. Ia vAin did he try to feel bsdixxsd as he looked down to the terra fIrma from which he hoped he was rising.? All such efforts were fruitless, for there seemed to he a tenaciousness between the crown of Tom's head and the soles of his feet, whloh defied the lapse of time tod the force of a jack to part asunder. And notwithstanding the frequent and heavy deposits of divers unmentionables, placed within the reach of the digestive organs, with the hope of increasing the distance between bis apex and pedestals, yet despite bis most strenuous efforts, there seemed to be an affinity, a boraogenity, between the nasal protrusion and the great tees of his understanding, which baffled his skill to dissever. His stubborn extremes were like the will of woman?when she will, she will; and when the wont, the wont. For after he bad taxed bis mental faculty to the utmost, to find means of extending his physical form?after he bad tried the nostrumamf Tankeedom?after he bad forced :?t?A liia o#mvna/vVi naholnm in nniinrffcv trtH fttiAllhr enough to satisfy a large speoimen of the bovine . tribe?after he had swoag himself to the joists, and there bang hi painful suspense with weights attached to bis feet, in order to draw oat his corporosity, yet a dogged obstinaoy was maintained to the last; for after the lapee of more than a score of summers, and every conceivable agency had been employed, his stubborn and determined extremities had scarcely separated more than three English cubits?a singular verification of the truth of Holy Writ, "that man by taking thought cannot add one eubit to his stature." Bat wide as nature missed the mark in producing & medium specimen of a man, yet art in its decorations failed more signally. It is true, the beholder might debate in bis miad as to whether the extremities of Tom's acooustio organs were tend, ing to the asinut tribe, or to the canine species above mentioned. It is trae, that the aperture in the face occupied all the space nature intended for it, and seemed somewhat disposed to invade the province assigned to the outer ear; and at intervals displayed an apparatus for masticating, oud a facility for concealing, which to flies and other insects, must have been destraotive. Bat when Tom's emotional was touched and his risibility stirred, there commenced a series of exhibitions, which wonid rival the stage in the height of its glory: 1. There was the hissing, wheeling, croaking, guHeral, unearthly sound, wbioh his friends knew to be a laugh. 2. There appeared at intervals, "in rank and file," an array of dental mechanism that was truly astonishing, and the amnjiug velocity with which they moved up and down, was at the first sight alarming. But when he made the highest and lowest swoop? when he sent the upper file to the highest point, and brought down the lower rank, then, there was discovered in the back-ground, a vortex which, to j the uninitiated, was terrible; and woe to the luck less gnat that happened in me immediate vicinity. Alas! for his friends who were near on such occasions, for there poured out of that rortei, a compound mixture, which went indiscriminately upon friends and foes. It is true, that his olfactory prominence was long and fat, acid at the terminus whetted to a point, and from appearances, might be used as a succesful weapon in a clenched combat. It is true, that the region where pabnlum was deposited, instead of sending oat its sabetance to the crown and pedestals, seemed determined to absorb and waete the extremities, and to make itself the "chief end of man." It is true, that nature intended, in this instance, to produce an illshaped dwarf; yet who shall lay anything to ker charge ? She has variety and diversity in every other department, and why not in man's ? Bat the fact could not be disguised that Tom's artistic embellishments were ereo more defective and less graceful than his natural structure?which will furnish a subject for another chapter, JCVANBM. Report of tV General Superintendent. To the President and Directors of ths King's Mountain R. R. Company : Gentlemen:?I have the honor to report the operations of your Road, and my aotion as Superintendent, since the 10th of January last. The Road bed, by reason of continued rains, I found in bad condition; it is now safe, and with favorable weather, it can shortly be put in good running order. When I took charge of the road, eight and a half miles of the track bad reoeutly been relaid, seven miles with new croee ties. A portion of the new Road having been raised in the re-laying, has required mnch trouble and labor to keep np daring the wet weather. I have discharged the Overseer I fonnd upon the Road, and have in person superintended the Road hands. I found twelve hands, one of whom not being able to do fall work, I discharged on the 17th of January, and on the 12tb and 19th of Vnroh. two other hands were taken from the Road by their owners, leaving my present force nine negroes ; with this foree, in thirty five days, I relayed two and one half miles of new tr&ek?the balance of the time I have employed the hands repairing the track. There yet remains twelve and one quarter milea to re-lay ; this will require 18,000 new oross-ties, using such old ties as are suitable. There are forty-three Stock Guardi on the Road; thirty five of the number will require re building this Summer; this will take 5,000feet of 2 or 3 inch plank?a small portion of suitable plank is at the Depot. The Platforms at Chester and York are much decayed, they require overhaulingand re-building. This work and the Stook Quards I can do with the Shop and Road negroes. The Platforms will require from 20 to 25,000 feet S inch plank and joists; an exact estimate cannot be made, as some of the old lumber may answer. The pump house t the York Pepot needs re-building, and some : *