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The Book Concern of the Northern
Methodist Episcopal Chnrch published last
year over one million of volumes.
Gen. John Devreux died lately in
London. He raised the Irish legion which,
under Bolivar, engaged in the successful
struggle for independence in Colombia.
^. There is a carriage-maker in Providence,
R. I., who gives notioe that he can
make a carriage which will 'carry a man
into office or anything else,' and he also
fMnninn Mm'mMn in n /"'rmotifnfinna 1 nnf? I
'lG|WUO VNUlldgVO iU ** vvuw?v%??mwm~* ??
Union-like manner.'
The profits of the Memphis and
Charleston Railroad for the month of Februaiy,
as appears from an official report,
amounted to 990,482.49. This is certainly
unexampled by any Railroad in the United
States.
Dr. A. "W. Bivings informs us that
in exhuming some bodies at a family graveyard
nearhis father's residence, Crawfordsville,
lately, the body of a woman, buried
* some twelve or more years, was found in a
state of petrifaction, with each article of
dress perfect.?Spartan.
<V * The Augusta Evening Dispatch,
of the 28th ult., contains a letter from Eon.
-r - Howell Cobb, in which he withdraws his
name, unconditionally from the canvass for
the Presidency. The absence of harmony among
the Demooraoy of Georgia, in regard
to supporting him at the Charleston Convention,
is the reason assigned by him.
We are pleased to state that, in
traveling about through the country, we
find the fanners generally have finished
planting their oorn j and that the wheat
orops, which many thonght were sadly injured,
are now looking well, and promise
an abundant yield of the 'staff of life.'?
Sandersville Georgian, 28th ult.
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The Republicans and Democrats in
the Senate and House, it is said, are pairing
off for the Conventions at Charleston and
Chicago, so that if Congress refuse to adjourn
ten days for each Convention, it is
evident that there will be no quorum for
^ the transaction of business during the session
of the two bodies. Congress, therefore,
tcill Ko TTirtnollw rtrliAnvnn/)
n AAA i/g Tuvuoiijf aujuuiucu.
Some years ago there was a man in
New Orleans who, on week days, was a
cotton broker?on Sundays he was a |
preacher. There had been a week of unuA
anal excitement in the cotton market, and :
on the following Snnday our friend commenced
the services with a hymn, which
he annonnced as follows: 4We will sing i
to the praise of the Lord the 427th hymn? i
long staple!* 1
...... The lawsuit which has been pending 1
for some time between Davidson College 1
and the heirs at law of the late Maxwell 1
Chambers, Esq., has been compromised by
the parties. The college will receive something
over $200,000 from the estate. The 1
new college building is neary completed.? '
? Rev. D. Lacy, D. D., the excellent and efficient
President, has tendered his resigns'
tion to the Board of Trustee0. !
A letter from "Waco, Texas, about J
the middle of February, states that two (
Baptist preaohers who went to Rainey's 1
Creek to hold a protracted meeting, came j
upon a large drove of horses the Indians <
had stolen. The Indians gave immediate 1
chase and shot six arrows into one of the j
preachers and one into the other. They are
both shot in the body, the arrows penetrating
the lungs. Their names ore White
and Griffith.
...... A correspondent writes from Paris:
Experiments have lately been made at the '
polygone of Yincennes with the explosive i
ball of Deviame. The experiments were ]
made under the direction of Commandant 1
Nesler, director of the School of Yincennes, '
and in the presence of all the officers of the
Arsenal. The same ball as that used bv 1
Jules Gerard, the Hon killer, was used on 1
this occasion. The target was a cassion, 1
lined with an iron plate on the inside, and 1
placed at a distance of 130 feet, English. '
Twelve balls were fired, and every one of
them exploded inside the cassion. After this,
experiments were made with the improved
rifle of the Foot Chasseurs, with the new
ball of Commander Nesler. At the enor.
~mous distance of a half mile, sixteen balls,
fired successively, struck a target only a
yard square; one half the balls touched the
centre mark. This seems to be the last
limit in the perfection of infantry fire arms.
' r The town of Napoleon, in Arkansas,
is situated on a sort of peninsula at the junction
of the Mississippi and Arkansas rivers.
For a distance of several miles in its rear,
a narrow strip of land, about four hundred
yards in width, separates the two rivers,
and connects the town with the main shore.
It seems that within a few weeks past a
tram 01 powaer nas Deen piacea across this
neck or slip of land, and that on Monday
night last a match was applied, causing a
terrific explosion, whioh tore up the earth
to such an extent as to permit the water
from Arkansas to pass entirely across and
empty into the Mississippi. The result
has already been the introduction of a
strong current through the pass thus formed,
which is rapidly widening and deepening,
and threatening to isolate the town
entirely from the main land, and at no very
distant day sweep it entirely away. What
evil-disposed person perpetrated the act, is
unknown, but suspicion is said to attach to
a planter residing in the vicinty, whose
property would be greatly benefited by the
change.?Memphis paper.
According to Cicero, the debts of
A. Milo amounted to above 828,000,000;
Julius Caesar, when setting out for Spain,
is reported to have said himself that he was
810,000,000 worse than nothing. When
he first entered Rome, after crossing the
Rubicon, he took from the public treasury
85,500,000, but at the end of the civil war
put over 824,000,000 in it. He purchased
the friendship of Curio with a bribe of over
82,500,000, and of the Consul L. Paulus
with half that sum. Crassus was worth in
real estate, over 88,000,000, and about as
much in money, furniture and slaves. Seneca
was worth over 820,000,000. Lentulus,
the augur, over 316,000,000. Agustus
raised by the testaments of his friends nearly
8161,000,000. Tiberius left at his death
nearly 3109,000,000, which Caligula spent
in less than one year; and Vespasian, at
his succession, said that he required for the
support of the State, over 81,614,000,000.
Nevertheless, though greatly enriched by
her conquests, imperial Rome never came
into the full inheritance of the chief wealth
of the East, and the larger quantity of the
precious metals must have remained excluded
from the calculations of ancient historians.
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EDITKD BY
SAM'L W. MELTON WM. W. EAST.
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CONTRIBUTING! BDITOB:
JA3. WOOD D AVTDSON....Columbia. S. C.
YORKVILLEj S. C.
THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL *, 1860.
Special Notice.?All communications, on
matters connected with the paper, should be addressed
to "Thb Yobkville Enquirer and
not to the Editors or Proprietor, personally. Persons
desiring prompt attention to their favors,
must bear this in mind.
K& Capt. D. D. Moobe, Maj. Mtles Smith,
Samuel G. Bbown, J. L. Thompson, and Samuel
J. Kuykkndal, of York; John R. Allen, Post
Master at Chester, S. C.; Joseph Walkxb, 120
Meeting-street, Charleston, S. C.; and William
D. Cook, of Bennettsville, are authorized agents
of the Enquibeb.
TO ADVERTISERS.
Our advertising friends will place us under especial
obligation by sending in their favors as
early as Monday or Tuesday of each week.
"UltKHOWK"
Has sent us an enigma without a responsible
name. Try a little more. We have an idea that
it is somewhere about All Fools' Day. We
did'nt publish the E-nig-Ma ! We did'nt!
ITOEUS*
The dwelling house of Mr. James F. Cabothibb,
on Catawba River, we regret to learn, was
destroyed by fire on Wednesday of last week.?
Everything in the house, except a coupie 01 Deas,
and a few hundred dollars of notes, cash &c.,
was consumed in the flames. The loss is estimated
at $1500. We have beard nothing as to
the cause of the fire.
"WILLIE LIQHTHEART."
We had the pleasure of meeting our graceful
and happy-hearted correspondent and storywriter,
Willis Lightheaht, in our sanctum last
Friday evening. 'Willie'is spending a few weeks
in Yorkville, until the convening of the Charleatoc
Convention. The first chapters of hiB entertaining
story?"Nellie, or the Fatal Gift"?
will appear next week in our columns.
MILITARY MEETING.
We have been requested to notify the Committee
heretofore appointed to select a parade ground
for the 84th Regiment, to meet at 'Yearwood's
Branch,' on the King's Mountain Road, at 1
o'clock, p. m., on Wednesday next. Inasmuch
as matters of very great importance will be
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uruugut ueiurc iuc uuiuuuitcc, a auw aucuuauuo
is specially desired.
JNO. R. JORDAN. '
Jno. R. Jordan, who was arrested some time
ago with J. Newton Floyd for stealing flour,
and lodged in the jail at this place, has, we
[earn from the Spartanburg Expresi, lately made
an attempt in that District to steal a horse and
perhaps a negro. He persuaded the negro to
meet him on a certain night at a certain place
with the horse; the negro informed on him; he
was waylaid at the rendezvous ; at a given signal
he was rushed upon and secured, and is now
:onfined in Spartanburg jail.
ELECTION FOR MAJOR.
An election was held on Friday last in the
South Battalion of the 34th Regiment, for Major,
which resulted in the choice of Capt. E. B.
Dlinton, by a Majority of 101 votes. The folowing
is the state of the polls :
E. B. Clxxtox. O. R. Btmeio.
Burris' Company, 3 166
Carroll's " 44 67
ffylie's " 38 25
NeelaDds' " 66 4
Dlinton's 14 104 24
Jenkins' 44 164 33
Total, 419 318
ONE THOUSAND SUBSCRIBERS I
Our clubs for 1800 have all been sent in, the
money therefor secured, and the day for awarding
the premiums to the successful competitors
passed. The Proprietor takes great pleasure in
mnouncing the result gratifying, as it is, to
himself and to the constant, true-hearted friends
who hare so generously entered the lists in his
behalf. The premiums, although equal to our
ability, are but meagre in comparison with the
energetic and untiring efforts of those who have
competed for them ; and we would deal falsely,
did we not ascribe these kind exertions to the
higher motive?a desire to promote our own and
the prosperity of the Enquirer; and we shall
be doubly false, if we ever fail to hold the friends
who have so signally aided us in grateful and
lasting remembrance.
Ti 111 V - r it. i:.l iL.l
ii win oe seen iroui me appeuueu nsi mai me
club subscriptions amount to the unprecedented
number of one thousand and fourteen names.'?
This is a success beyond our very highest anticipations,
and nerves us to do and to hazard everything
to deserve fully such a hearty and overflowing
patronage. For the next year?but we
will not anticipate. Let it suffice to say, that
for 1861 we are preparing a list of premiums and
a programme of attractions, which will prove our
determination to return four-fold the kind partiality
of our public!
The first premium is awarded to Capt. D. D.
Moore ; the second, to Col. W. B. Allison;
the third, to S. G. Brown, Esq.; the fourth, to
Maj. Mtles Smith ; and the minor premiums
have been distributed according to the following
'state of the polls,' which we publish with the
remark that many of the persons named did not
enter into competition for the prizes:?
Capt. D. D. Moore, 129
Col. W. B. Allison 114
S. G. Brown, Esq., 100
Maj. M. Smith 83
Maj. A. A. McKenzie, 68
J. L. Thompson, 68
Rev. W. W. Carothers, 60
Capt. J. J. Wylie, . . 53
W. D. Cook 43
W. C. Winn, 36
J no. White, 35
J. R. S. Meek, 34
Dr. E. H. Edwards 27
Capt. Sam'l Anderson, 26
J. M. Smarr 25
M. M. Culp 14
Henry Pratt, 14
T. D. Fulton, 14
T. M. Baxter, 13
t xt uoma;il 10
M i* iiCUi^lllil)a 1M
B. P. Barron 12
D. N. Mitchel, 12
D. J. Hill 11
W. B. Barron, 11
Total, 1014
WASHINGTON NEWS.
A considerable effort has been made, but
without success, to secure a recess of Congress
from the 20th April to the 20th May, in order
that Congressional delegates might attend
the Charleston Convention.
A Democratic caucus has been held ; and an
attempt made by the friends of Douglas and
Hunter to coalesce upon one or the other for
the Presidency. The attempt did not result in
any definite arrangement.
A proposal to change the boundary line of
Kansas, effecting the boundary also of Dacotah,
retards the organization of this territory and
the admission of Kanzas as a State into the
Union. The Pike's Peak Territory, a bill for
the organization of which is before the Senate,
is likely to be called Mountainia as suggested by
Judge Docgla9 about a year ago.
The population of Arizona is reputed to be
12,000; there being 8,000 voters. The people
of New Mexico are clamorous for the organization
of this territory.
The subject of the absorption of Utah by surrounding
States and territories is exciting muoh
attention. Mr. Scott, of California, asks a portion
to be set off to his State.
THE CHARLESTON MERCHANT.
A new monthly advertising sheet, we learn
from the Charleston papers, is proposed to be
issued soon by Mr. Joseph Walkxb of that city,
designed for gratuitous circulation throughout
the Southern 8tates. The objeet of this sheet
will be to furnish the Charleston Jobbers a medium
of communication with their customers in
all parts of the country. To secure this the
more thoroughly, Mr. Waikeb proposes to con
nect with his own issue a system of advertising
by which the card of each merchant patronizing
him will appear, also, in fifty or more newspapers.
This plan would work well for Charleston ;
and we hope Mr. W. will receive sufficient encouragement
to induce him to inaugurate the
enterprise.
POST-MORTEM BENEVOLENCE.
He who waits until he has one foot ilk the
grave, before he dispenses his charities, may be
said to give away that whioh belongs to another ;
for, as he come naked into the world, so he mnst
go out naked and possessionless. Every virtue,
properly exercised, has a two-fold influence?
I on the public and on the individual; but the latter
is lost in cases of post-mortem benevolence.
We do not condemn such charity?it is nobly
; well; yet charities ante mortem, given before
death, are better?better both for thk giver and
the public.
These charities, given by dead men to living
causes, may be of two kinds: they may spring
up in the mind, like a mush-room growth, on
the death-bed : or thev may have been the
purpose of a long and laborious life. The former
are like the sudden breaking of the setting
sun-light through clouds behind which the sun
had been struggling all the day?beautiful, gladdening,
but not redeeming the dark, perhaps,
penurious and sinful past. In the latter case,
when a man lives to make with the purpose of
giving when he dies, he is not an actual but an
intentional benefactor?a living miser, a dead
philanthropist. Such an intention is a dangerous
temptation, too; for he may excuse himself
for wronging his neighbor by thinking that it
will benefit posterity.
Here is a man who has lived, and toiled, and
amassed a large fortune. His brain has been
kept on a stretch; he has half clad his aching
and toil-worn body; he has stinted himself; he
has been up early and late?all to heap together
millions. He dies. His will splendidly endows
some college, Orphan House or like institution.
in ninety nine 01 a nunureu sucn cases, tne reai
will of the donor, perhaps, is in sorfie respects
violated. How much better to retire from business,
and devote the last five or ten years of life
to the execution of his own will. The active
personal engagement in the scheme of benevolence
would quicken all the unselfish feelings
of the heart. He would grow in love with it; the
execution of his plan would keep both mind and
body active; and a new train of joys and desires
would spring up around old age.
Another man is constantly on the alert for
some object on which he may judiciously expend
his charities. This it is that cultivates and ennobles
the man. Probably, during the whole of
his life, he may not expend a thousand dollars in
this way; yet do more good, by the unceasing
activity of his benevolence, than he who endows
a professorship or even a college after death.
"Power to do good," says Bacon, "is the true
and lawful end of aspiring; for good thoughts,
though God accept them, yet towards men are
little better than good dreams, except they be
put in act."
If we examine fully this thing of living solely
to oneself and dying to the public, we shall see
that the publio are often, like children who inherit
princely fortunes, idle, improvident and
profligate. Great cities will often ubo donations
to erect splendid buildings, &c., and thus do less
for real use than for show and ornament. Endowed
colleges tend to pervert the law of "diligence
making rich and are liable to have about
them a set of lazy professors who feed upon
the endowment, and care not whether the college
be in prosperity or adversity. The law of
life is such that the money distilled from the
brain and musle of one, purchases indolence and
luxury for another; so that excess of thrift and
money-making propensity is as bad as excess
of prodigality.
True wisdom teaches us to be diligent and
charitable both; and the two act as checks to
each other, and keep us in the 'golden mean'
which is the path of safety and virtue. "Certainly
it is heaven upon earth," says a wise man,
"to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in
Providence and turn upon the poles of truth ;"
either of which three things is a great virtue in
unity with the others, but taken alone would
run into vicious extremes. A man should court
the luxury of doing good while he lives; the
pleasure of seeing his charities springing up all
around him; the privilege, which is his right,
of deciding for himself who shall be the objects
or bis cbarity. fcureiy tbere is nothing more
divine on earth than for a man to see with his
own eyes and feel in his own consciousness,
while he lives, that the tendency of all his actions
is to conform earth to the likeness of heaven.
MERE-MENTIOJt.
We learn through the Herald, that W. D.
Simpson, Esq., of Laurens, has consented to
become a candidate for the State Senate.
The Bank of Chester has declared a dividend,
payable on and after the 2d April, of $1.25 per
share, being the value of 10 per cent, per annum.
The Boston Journal says : The first
contribution for the new monument at Lexington
has been made by Senator Hammond of South
Carolina, who has sent his check for fifty dollars
to the association. A Canada paper, the
Toronto Qlobe, says : The best thing the Yankees
can do for the world at large, if not for the
United States, is to annex Mexico as speedily
as possible. Gov. Houston, of Texas, is
preparing for an immediate and extensive campaign
against the Indiaus, and also threatens an
invasion of Mexico, in case the McLane treaty
is not ratified by the Senate. Both Houses
? 1 1 _ 1- Ml it ' ! A.X..
01 uongress unve passeu a dim numonzmg me
publishers to print on their papers the date of
the expirations of subscriptions. A letter
from Vera Cruz states that Mibamojt, on his way
down from the capital, imposed a forced loan of
$100,000 on the people of Puebla, and another
of $70,000 on those of Jaiapa, and what is more,
got the money?$170,000 in all. The
Spartanburg Express says: The friends of Dr.
Whiteford Smith in our town and our District
will be pleased to learn that he will return to
Spartanburg on the first of October next, and
resume the duties of the position he vacated last
July, as Professor of English Literature in
Wofford College. Our treaty with Paraguay,
which is now officially made public by the proclamation
of the President, concedes to us the
free navigation of the Paraguay River as far as
the dominions of the empire of Brazil, and of the
right side of the Parana River, throughout all
its course within the dominions of the republic
of Paraguay. The recently published state
ments that the Government will call on Spain
for explanations as to the fitting out of the Miramon
steamers at Havana is not well founded,
there being no official data to show that Spain is
implicated with Miramon, or whioh would justify
such a course on the part of the Administration,
even if there were no other reason why such explanation
should not be demanded. The
vote of Ceniial Italy, is overwhelmingly in favor
of annexation to Sardinia. By means of the
telegraph, news from Calcutta now reaehes England
in six days. Switzerland has sent a
protest agiinst the annexation of Savoy to
France.
The latet t accounts from Ecuador represent
that countiy as being on the eve of civil war.
Sir Moses Montefiobe, the distinguished
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memoer 01 i-ue jomsu muu iu uu^muu, um addressed
to a Jewish citizen of Washington, a
letter, handsomely-acknowledging his deep sense
of the liberality of our House of Represetatives,
in inviting a minister of the ancient faith to
offer prayei-s at the opening of the House on the
first of February, on which day the election of
a Speaker was effected Blondih is getting
his tightrope ready at Niagara Falls for the summer
season, and hopes to have the Prince of Wales
among his spectators. The election for
Mayor of Columbia, which ooourred on Monday, j
resulted as follows: Dr. J. H. Boatwbioht,
263; Dr. T. J. Goodwiw, 206; James D. Tradewell,
194. We learn from the Fairfield
Register, that the Court at that place adjourned
sine die on Monday, having transacted all the
pending business, and been in session the unprecedentedly
short time of si* hours. Professor
G. Wilson, has submitted a paper to the
British Association of science, in which he states
that out of eleven hundred and fifty-four persons
of all occupations, he found one in fifty-five
color-blind?that is, unable to distinguish the
colors, red, brown, green and blue. A
' grand demonstration in favor of the Pope is now
[coming off in the Vatican, Rome. Parties
' -i' A4a nMoant r\v?r?Ar t\f
suspuubeu Ul Uioaucvuuu wu tuu vovu. v*?v. v.
'things at Naples are being sent into exile.
The Patrie publishes a letter from Turin, stating
that the quastion of the annexation of Savoy to
France has been definitely settled. Also, that
the negotiations in regard to Tuscany are in a
fair way of reaching a conclusion.
EDITORIAL INKLINGS.
The question of reuniting the Northern
and Southern wings of the Methodist Episcopal
Church is receiving some attention. A reunion
convention is proposed to discuss its feasibility.
It will probably result in nothing, as the Southern
wing will be apt to oppose a measure which
would be injurious both to the church and the
South in the end.
Xfntrni. Wnnn?Ppnwiwnn WooB of New
York city?is, they soy, sending a circular letter
to the delegates to the Charleston Convention
throughout the country, in which he (Mayor
Wood) makes a bid for the nomination either for
President or Vioe President. He is willing to
take the gilt of either office, but prefers the
presidency. Yet he is willing to be sacrificed
for the good of the Democratic party, and
though the delegates may feel it to be their duty
to vote for him as President to the last, yet he
wishes it to be distinctly understood that they
are at liberty, whenever the public good requires
it, to let him down among the candidates for the
Vice Presidency.
The Charleston Mercury gives an account
of a hail-stcrm passing over that city on Sunday
evening. It says :?"The month of April has
made its debut more like a lion than a lamb. It
opened yesterday morning with a mild shower,
bat towards the afternoon the skies in the north
assamed a threatening aspect, which gradually
grew darker and thicker, and about five o'clock,
with the wind at a high point, we were visited
with a hail-ntorm, accompanied with thunder and
lightning, which, fortunately, was of short duration
in the city. The hail stones were of exceeding
large sixe and irregularly shaped?some
round and flat, while others were large and cylindrical.
One hail stone, probably larger than
the average, measured one inch and a quarter
lengthwise and the same in girth. The shower
must have been spent before it reached Charleston,
and we fear it did much damage to early
vegetation iti its course."
Reports have reoently reached our State
that Hon. L. M. Keitt had been killed in a duel
with a Tenn*sseean. This rumor has been contradicted.
The following paragraph from the
Wa*hinaton Star will nrobablv explain its origin:
"The wonder-mongers of the country are just
now terribly exercised over a rumored regular
set-to, as it were, in a recent Democratic Senatorial
Caucus, in the Capitol. Seeing frequent
dark allusions to it in the newspapers, many of
them implicating parties as the belligerents, who
were not the men, and hearing all sorts of improbable
verbal stories concerning the affair, we
may as well say now as at some future time?for
such a cat nt ust, of course, sooner or later, get
i lean out of the bag?that we believe Messrs.
Clay and Clingman to have been the parties in
collision; and that, until separated, the latter
was very roughly handled. So says Madam Rumor,
in circles in which she not unfrequently tells
the truth. Ten to one, 'squatter sovereignty,'
in disguise, was at the bottom of the muss."
An exchange explains the rumor quite differently.
It says : "A gentleman of our acquaintance
explained the mystery of the report, quite
satisfactorily; it seems that the rumor first originated
in Wilmington, and ho suggested that
'Old Rip' had just awakened to a knowledge of
the difficulty between Messrs. Keitt and Gaow
some two years past, and dreamt that the former
was killed in the rencounter."
Some days since Mr. Covode, a member
of the House from Pennsylvania, offered a resolution,
which was adopted, for appointing a committee
to investigate whether President Buchanan
has not used 'money, patronage and other
improper means' to corrupt and influence members
of Congress. On last Thursday the President
sent a message to the House, protesting against
this proceodure. We give the concluding
paragraph cf the message:
"I do, therefore, for the reasons stated, and
in the name of the people of the several States
solemnly protest against these proceedings of
the House of Kcpresentatives; Because they are
in violation of the rights of the co-ordinate Executive
branch of the Government, and subversive
of its constitutional independence; because
they are calculated to foster a band of interested
parasites and informers ever ready, for their own
ndvantage, "0 swear before ez parte committees
to pretended private conversations between the
President and themselves, incapable, from their
nature, of being disproved ; thus furnishing material
for harassing him, degrading him in the
eyeB of the country, and eventually, should he
be a weak or a timid man, rendering him subservient
to improper influences, in order to avoid
such persecutions and annoyances ; because they
tend to destroy that harmonious action for the
common good, which ought to be maintained,
and which I sincerely desire to cherish, between
oo-ordinate branches of the Government; and
finally, because, if unresisted, they would establish
a precedent dangerous and embarrassing to
all my successors, to whatever political party
they might be attached."
We learn from the Charleston Mercury,
that W. W. Walker jr., proprietor of the Courant
while that paper existed, who left Columbia
last Fall ostensibly for the purpose of going to
England to recover a large fortune, has turned
htv in St. Louis as a witness for the Dlaintiff in
the Carstang divorce case, under the assumed
name of W. Alston. He accounts for his now
name in this wise:
"My former name has been associated with
that Athenaum affair, and a report has been
spread that I had acted dishonestly; and as I
came out West, I did not want that report to
cling to my name, as that might injure me in
what I should undertake for a living. I confess
that I hav > lived somewhat indiscriminately
heretofore, but now I mean to do better, and I
do not want a former report to injuro me in the
eyes of those with whom I may have dealing
henoeforward."
The Edinburg (Scotland) Courant says
that preparations are being made for a grand
meeting of scientific men from all parts of the
world in one of the antamn months?August or
September?of theensning year; and we believe
that, in addition to many of the continental savan8,
such as Bolcoblozi, Schcefer, etc., very
many of the scientific men of Great Britain and
America have enrolled their names. It will be
conducted on principles different from the British
Association, and it is intended to be held
annually in one of the capitals of the world, and
thus the advantages ensuing from British and
American Associations for the advancement of
seience, and the meeting of German Physioians
and Naturalists, will be combined with the greatest
advantages resulting from the meeting together
of representatives of science, literature
and art from all parts of the universe. By the
co-operation of the potentates of the various
countries of Europe, Asia and America, the
arrangements for traveling, etc., will be of such
a nature as not to debar, as is frequently the
case, the poorest students of science from mingling
in the brilliant throng of the aristocracy of
intellect. Fuller information may be got in
Edinburg from Dr. Struthers, who is to act as
interim Secretary, or from the Chairman pro
lem, our celebrated townsman, Prof. Simpson.
The New Jersey State Democratic Convention
met at Trenton on the 11th ultimo.?
Delegates were appointed to the Charleston
convention. Resolutions were adopted as follows:
'The first denounces the Republican position in
Congress as disregarding the provison of the Constitution
for the protection of slave property ;
the second says the Constitution must be sustained,
and a ready observance of the laws enforced
to preserve the Union; the third asserts
that Federal Legislation on slavery should be
limited by the Constitution?all that instrument
gives should be accorded, and all it withholds
should be denied; the fourth says it is the duty,
of every State to protect itself against invasion I
oy lanaucB, ana to pnmsn ouenaers in an exemplary
manner; the fifth is in favor of the Fugitive
Slave law, and in favor of the suppression of
slave-trade; the sixth re-endorses the Cincinnati
platform, and says we will consent to no unauthorized
interpretations of it; the seventh is for
a tariff by wise discrimination in favor of home
manufactures, and says the Government should,
for public uses, favor home products ; the eigth
recommends ffm. C. Alexander for Vice President;
the ninth recommends the delegation on
all questions to casta united vote; and the tenth
says the Administration of President Buchanan
has been statesmanlike and conservative.'
The committee of Ways and Means reported
appropriation bills to the House of Representatives
on Wednesday of last week, as follows:
*
"Pensions, $849,000; Military Academy,
<nan AAA. ?i Ann nun.
| iuuiau, 4}x,vvvjvuv i vuuouidi unu
Diplomatic, $11,000; Fortifications over $600,000;
Army, nearly $14,000,000; Legislative,
Judicial and Executive, $5,870,000; Civil Expenses,
nearly $3,500,000; Navy, $11,180,000;
Postal Deficiencies, nearly $6,000,000. Total,
about $45,140,000, being about $100,000 less
than the estimate of the Secretary of the Treasury,
There are, however, specific appropriations
which will swell the amount to over $53,500,000."
The 8umter Tri-weekly Watchman, a new
sheet of very neat appearance, emanating from
the office of the weekly, paid its first visit to our
sanctum on Monday evening. The Tri-weekly,
speaking of the Gas-light movement in Yorkville,
savs; "Yorkville is amonc the most imnortant
as well as ornate of onr up-country towns, and
its intelligent and refined citizens are fast clustering
around them the elegancies, and improvements
of modern mechanism, art and science."
The Governors of Ohio and Iowa have
refused to surrender two or three of the Harper's
Ferry marauders, whereupon the Virginia Legislature
has tabled and ordered to be printed the
following resolution:
Resolved, by the General Assembly of Virginia,
That the Governors of Iowa and Ohio, by refusing
to surrender to the Governor of this Commonwealth,
Barclay Coppic, Francis Merriam
and Owen Brown, charged with, and known to
have committed within this State, crimes of the
highest grade, wilfully and deliberately violated
fha Porlprtil PAmnftAf fho Pnmtfv
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which should exist between sovereign States, and
made themselves morally, if not legally, accessories
to the offences committed by these criminals
and fugitives from justice.
An exchange paper gives the appended
account of a cannibalistic massacre and feast in
one of the islands of Polynesia :
Late advices from Australia bring the aocount
of a recent Polynesian massacre. The schooner
Pearl, of Anitocum, formerly a well known yacht
in Sydney harbor, was captured and burnt at the
Island of Rubiana, one of the solomon group,
anrl KSa /?rotr nirrhf in nnmhpr hocirloa tKn Pon
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tain, were killed and eaten by the natives. An
attempt was also made to capture the Clarence
Packet. A similar attempt was made upon the
cutter Oberon. Two of her crew were murdered
while on shore, and then word sent to the Captain,
as if from them desiring to see him. The
plan, however, failed
The Charleston Mercury speaks of the
way the Gulf action took at Havana, thus :
The Havana Diario de la Marina of the 25th instant
contains a leader of twocolumns, devoted to
the outrage committed by American naval officers
on the Mexican (Miramon) squadron. It
is to be expected that an official organ of the
Spanish Government would give vent to its sympathies
with Miramon, whose rule in Mexico is
recognized by Spain, as well as by England and
France. The Diario sggrcely doubts but that
both the representation of the foreign diplomatic
agents in Washington, and the good sense of tne
American Congress, already much opposed to
the Juraez-McLane treaty, will cause our Gov
ernment to disapprove of the act. Still, even
should full reparation be tendered, the Diario
fears that the youthful impetuosity of Miramon
will not rest satisfied, particularly should he
succeed in taking VeraCruz. The present pur
suit of Cortinas on Mexican territory?which
individual also has the Diario'e sympathy?in
addition to the above mentioned outrage, causes
this journal to presage a war and the absorption
by the United States of Lower California, Sonora,
Chihuahua, Coabulia, Nueva Leon and Tamaulipas,
to pay for the expenses of t.hat war.
In consequence, the Diario casts a longing eye
towards the East, and earnestly hopes that the
European nations will soon be less busy among
themselves, hasten to settle the Western-question,
j At.:.i. .ti i / _
auu lucrcujr euiurcc luieruauuiiai juw iur me
protection of the weak against the strong.
Mr. T. S. C. Lowe, the aeronaut who is
now experimenting in Charleston preparatory to
a balloon voyage across the Atlantic in May,
writes, to the Mercury, of a late ascension, thus :
At a little past 5 o'clock, the Pioneer being
fully inflated, and having my instruments, ballast,
etc., in the car, I bade good afternoon to those
who had been watching my movements for hours,
and cutting loose the last cord that bound me to
earth, I, for the fortieth time, made my way far
above the clouds. At the expiration of ten minutes,
I had attained an altitude of 5600 feet.
As I gradually arose, the view that presented
itself waB much the same as on my former trip,
save that the approach of spring had rendered
the foliage more green and beautiful.
I first took a northerly course, but soon reached
that never failing current that bore me to
the east. * * * As I advanced in
that direction, I could but wish I were on board
my large balloon, the City of New York. How
quick I would change the scene from land to water,
and when day broke next morning, many
hundred miles would separate me from the western
shore. But I consoled myself by thinking
that the day is not far distant when I shall have
the pleasure of demonstrating the feasibility of
crossing the Atlantic and circumnavigating the
globe in one-eighth part of the time it now takes,
without danger, and as comfortable as if we were
seated in our parlors at home.
The Charleston Courier, speaking of All
Fool's Day, or the 1st of April, says :
A most reliable writer asserts with emphatic
confidence that we are indebted to the French
for the pleasantries and practical jokes peculiar
to the first day of April. This droll anniversary
has been traced back to the misty period of
French history and has been preserved unchanged
and perfect by successive generations. Those
who allow themselves to be gulled by the lovers
of fun are called by tho French, April Fish or
Silly Mackerel, the obnoxious nick-name being
suggested by that fish, which is so silly as to
suffer itself to be caught in the month of April.
A nameless writer, designing doubtless to throw
ridicule upon the attempts that have been made
to find oat the origin of All-Fool's Day, tells as
that the custom of making fools on this day originated
with Noah, when he sent the dove from
the ark before the waters were abated. This
delicate satirist contends thftt this mistake was
committed on the first day of April, and that one
of the favorite tricks of youngsters?the sending
people on sleeveless errands?is a pleasant way of
stirring np the minds of those who are so careless
as to forget tho interesting circumstance on
the day of its annual return.
The following item gives a general view of
money matters in our country. Our Imp says
there is a pile of money in the United States, for
him to have no more than he has:
"The Treasury Department has made its annual
report of the number of banks and branches
throughout the United States on the 1st of January.
The number of banks was 1,5G2; amount
of capital paid in, $421,880,000; amount of specie
in vaults, $83,594,000. The resources,
including lonas, notes, securities, and real estate,
are stated at nearly $1,000,000,000, and the
liabilities at $531,500,000."
The Boston Posts&ya: "Joseph A. Wood,
who had his leg broken in Quebec twenty seven
years ago, the same leg broken in South Carolina
ten years ago, and in New Hampshire two years
ago, was decending the stairs of a hotel in Worcester
on the 10th ult., when ho slipped and broke
it for the fourth time. After this he concluded
to have it cut off, and amputation was performed
without taking him to a hospital. There iB a
chance that Mr- Wood will survive his unfortunate
limb." If Mr. Wood survives, he will have
a wooden leg, we suppose.
The Macon Telegraph gives the following
account of a very old African-born negro :
"Dr. Horatio Bowen, of Clinton, Jones county,
mentioned to us the death of Sam, a native Afrioan
negro,*at the plantation of his master, Mr.
A. J. Billingsly, on the 24th of December, 1859.
When captured in Africa, to be brought to this
country, he says he was 45 years old. He landed
in Charleston, and was bought by the Lowther
family, lived with them in that city nearly
twelve years, and was in their possession till a
few years since. From Charleston Sam was carried
to Savannah?stayed there forty years,
and moved to this section about the year 1856.
At this time he came under the notice of Dr.
Bowen, as he had occasion to attend him to cnre
n Hatio falAn An V*?a fin/van onrl Kifl rmitifn/^Q
never ceased, but exhibited itself whenever the
Dootor came near him, in expressions half in
African, for he never learned to speak English
well. From the evidence of reliable persons,
and the negro's own statement, he is supposed
to have been over one hundred and forty years
old at the time of his death. This is the same
negro Sam, to whom, if we are not mistaken, an
allusion is made in White's Statistic* of Georgia,
as being a very old negro, and having died a
few years previous to the publication of that
work; but the record of his death was a mistake.
If the actions of men are always a better
index to their desires than their words, the following
may be regarded as
The Drunkard's Will.?I leave to society a
rained character, a wretched exampleand a memory
that will soon rot. I leave to my parents,
the rest of their lives, as much sorrow as humanity,
in a feeble and decrepid state, can sustain.
I leave to my brothers and sisters as much mortification
and injury as I well could bring on
them. I leave to my wife, a broken heart, a
life of wretchedness and shame, to weep over
my premature death. I give and bequeath to
each of my children, poverty, ignorance, a low
character, and a remembrance that their father
was a monster.
The Columbia Carolinian, speaking to
the 'Delegates to the Columbia Convention,'
says:
"We have been requested to state that, at a
meeting of the Bichland Delegates to the Colum
bia Democratic Convention, it was decided, in
consideration of the hoars at which the passenger
trains on the railroads arrive, that 8 o'clock,
P. M., of the 16th of April, be the hour for the
Convention of the Delegates from the several
Districts. Arrangements have been made to
obtain for the occasion, the Hall of Representatives."
The Washington correspondent of the
New York Times, speaking of the capture of the
Spanish vessels near Vera Cruz, says:
"It is now ascertained, on the authority of a
member of the Cabinet, that wben Miramon's
letter to his agent in Havana was intercepted by
Consul-Genernl Holm, and forwarded to the
Government here, it was transmitted to the
commander of the Gulf Squadron, with instructions
to arrest the steamers. This fact may
give a different complexion to the whole affair.
When news of the capture first reached here,
this member of the Cabinet declared to three
Senators that it was done in compliance with
special instructions to our officers. The Government
should then assume the whole responsibility,
and acknowledge that it is an act of
intervention."
We have promised to give our readers an
occasional extract from the 1st volume of Dr.
Logan's History of Upper Carolina. (Price
$1 26; address P. B. Glass, Columbia, or S.
G. Courtenay & Co., Charleston.) We annex
two or three now :
John Duncan:?When John Duncan built his
bouse in a cane-brake, on the creek, which bears
his name, he opened a path, some fifteen paces
long, through the cane to the stream, for the
convenience of getting water. In after years he
related to his children, that there was scarcely
a minute in the day that he eould not see some
wild animal moving stealthily up or down the
creek across that path. Sitting, one evening at
dusk, in his door, with his foot against the frame,
a bear slily approached the house, and threw him
for a moment into a great fright, by springing
suddenly over his leg into the cabin. Recovering
himself, he seized his gun, and before the
bold intruder could effect his escape, shbt him
dead upon the hearth.
Bears' Oil:?The Cherokee priests and prophets
were inducted into office by the unction of
bears' oil. "All the Indian Americans," says
Adair, "especially the female sex, reckon their
bears' oil or grease very valuable, and use it after
the same manner as the Asiatics did their
fine essences and sweet perfumes. The young
warriors and women are uneasy unless their hair
is always shining with it; which is probably the
reason that none of their heads are bald."
"Mostly'* Oak":?An old pioneer of the Pacolet,
near Grindal's Shoals, James Mosely, who
was famous as a hunter and woodsman, and at a
later day as an intrepid whig scout, waslate one
evening returning from a hunt in which he had
taken a small deer, that he carried on bis shoulder.
The wolves got a scent of the game, and
were soon howling on the trail of the hunter.
He heard them, and knew that an effort must be
made to save both himself and his deer. Turning
a little from the path be hastily sunk the
carcass in a creek, ana running some distance
further, just had time to climb with his rifle into
the branches of a post oak tree, as the pack
came up in full cry. It was now too dark for
him to use his rifle with effect, and he silently
watched them as they circled, incessantly yelping
and barking around him.
They bayed him in this manner all night. At
the approach of day, however, their circle began
to grow larger ; and as soon as he could see
through his sights he singled out the leader of
the troop and shot him ; the rest instantly ran
off to their dens. Moscly was afterwards asked
why he did not fire among them sooner? He
replied that he was perfectly safo in the tree,
but felt a sort of pride in waiting till day-light
that he might pick off the leader and the largest
of the zanir.
The venerable tree connected with this story
is still a living witness of the occurrence, and
known to all the surrounding country as Mosely's
Oak; no sacrilegious hand would dare approach
it with an axe. It stands immediately on the
road leading to Grindal's Shoals, and a short
distance from the house of Garland Meng, Esq.
A writer on Woman, in the Christian Examintr,
has the following which we think suggestive
and worthy of consideration. We do not
endorse bis views ; we do not oppose them ; we
simply quote:
"It is not the man of gallantry or the philanthropist
that most justly estimates woman: it is the
natural philosopher. He recognizes in her art
of pleasing a means of realizing what is not attainable
through her limited executive power ;
in her perspicacity he beholds a compensation
for the want of that philosophic method of reaching
truth that distinguishes the masculine intellect.
Nice observation is indispensable to minds
inadequately endowed with causality; where
emotion predominates, interest is absorbed in the
immediate ; delicacy of nerve and muscle imply
greater dependence; quick to see but slow to
generalize, with more tact than reflection, more
taste than philosophy, more receptive than creative
intellectuality. In all this, and much more
which physiology reveals, we find established
laws of nature which can neither be violated
with impunity nor ignored without fallacy.
Hence the protest of both men of science and men
of sentiment against some of the ironically called
t
'strong-mindedP women; hence the physiologist
declares that excessive mental labor in woman, as
a general rule, would 'require a development of the
head which is often fatal in parturition, and would
repress that sensibility which makes them so superior
to men in sentiment and affectionOn the
same principle Rousseau declared, Bring them
up like men, and the more they resemble them the
less they will govern them.' Their need of lore,
their imperfect friendship, their alleged curiosity
and inability to keep a secret, the resentment
which follows a wound to their self-lore,,
the restless union of remarkable talent with feminine
sentiment, as Do Stael, Charlotte Bronte,
and others, the resort to artifice, and the pressence
of mind, which, in common talk, we ascribe
to woman, are directly traceable to peculities
of constitution, to facts of nature and temperament
in which consists her essential individuality.
They insinuate no lesson of inferiority,
but proclaim that the Creator laid in the deep
and absolute foundation of instinct the vital and
moral interests of humanity, too precious to be
confided to the wayward reason and the uncontrolled
will of man. 'It is a universal rule,' says
Mitchelet, 'which as far as I know has no exception,
that great men always resemble their mothers."
| Our lady friends of taste will find in the
[ annexed 'beautiful experiment,' a useful hint for
I adorning their parlors with a natural ouriosity,
ana & means, perhaps, or relieving me ieaium
of some idle hoar: "If an acorn be suspended,
by a piece of thread, to within half an inch of
some water, contained in a hyaointh glass, and
so permitted to remain without being disturbed,
it will, in a few months, burst, and throw a root
down into the water, and shoot upward its tapering
stem, wi?h beautiful little green leaves.
A young oak-tree, growing in this way on a
mantle-shelf of a room, is a very interesting object."
"Palmetto," of the Columbia Carolinian,
writing from Washington, gives the following
exemplification of shuffling, intrigue and crabcrawling
at the capital, and of the intentions of
the Republicans, when put to the test!
"On Monday, the House was thrown into commotion
by a resolution offered by a Mr. Blake,
of Ohio, for the Immediate abolition of slavery
every where under the jurisdiction of the United
States. This means all the Territories, forts,
dock-yards and the District of Columbia. The
Southern members were delighted at this move,
as they wanted the Republicans to show their
hands, especially as they have been fighting quite
shy'of late. This Mr. Blake represents Oberlin,
where the philosophy of the Republican party is
carried out in regard to the equality of the races,
in the notorious Oberlin College, where both colors
mingle in the sohools. The most sagacious
of the Republicans tried their best to avoid a
vote on this resolution, but in vain, for Speaker
Pennington stood up to the rules and they were
obliged to vote. The result was that sixty of
the party registered themselves in the affirmative
i on the resolution."
The appended resolution (with preamble) is
the one referred to above:
Whereas, the chatteling of mankind and the
holding of persons as property are contrary to
natural justice and the fundamental principles
of our political system, and are notoriously aTeproach
to our country throughout the oivilized
world, and a serious hindrance to the progress
of republican liberty throughout the notion* of
the earth; therefore,
Resolved, That the Committee on the Judioia;
ry be, and the same^re hereby, instructed to in
quire into the expediency of reporting a bill giving
freedom to every human being, and interdicting
slavery wherever Congress has the constitutional
power to legislate on the subject.
The UK. G. C's," or Knights of the Golden
Circle, are likely soon to create stirring
events on Mexican soil. The following, in relation
to the origin, object and extent of this
organization, will prove of interest. It is taken
from the New Orleans correspondence of the N.
Y. Herald:
"The order was instituted in Mississippi during
the year 1854. Its original object was the
cultivation of a martial spirit among the young
men of that State, and for a long time the number
of its members was quite limited. Within
the last year or two, however, its leaders have
adopted new plans, and these have given it an
impetus by which it has slowly but sorely spread
over seventeen States, including the whole South,
but more especially in the States of Tennessee,
Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas. It now comprises
nearly thirty thousand members. Its ob
jcul is i.u umruu iulu ajjluxico, cruau toe juramon
taction and place the Joarez Goverment fairly
upon its legs. In doing this, the K. 6. C's contend
that they are isolating no treaty or neutrality
law, bnt that they are Bimply assisting a legitimate
and formally recognized friendly government
to snbdne a band of factious outlaws.
This done they mean to assimilate the Mexican
republic as nearly to our own aa the different
habits of the two races will permit. They disclaim
the character of filibusters, and declare
that they will march down to the levee and embark
in the broad daylight. The time for the
departure has not yet been fixed. Probably
their force will be separated in two divisions.?
One will cross the Bio Grande to suppress the
disorders along the frontier, and then march direct
to the Mexican capital. The other will go
to the relief of Vera Cruz. This is the present
programme, but it is not finally determined upon,
and may be altered by the tnrn of affairs at
vern nuy aucmpt on me pail 01 opain
or any other European power to interfere in the
struggle between the factions will precipitate
the departure of the E. Q. C's. The pecuniary
resources of the order are on a scale proportionate
to the number of its members. In the State
of Texas alone no less thao four hundred and
ninety-eight thousand dollars have been contributed,
and a division of twenty-five hundred
men have been armed and equipped besides.
"The number of E. G. C.'s now in this city is
about 2,200 men. The companies are composed
of fine looking young men, mostly between the
ages of twenty-five and thirty, and their drill is
said to be excellent. The commissariat is in
charge of a number of gentlemen of experience
and means. What astonishes me most in the
movement, is the perfect confidence evinced by
everybody concerned in it, that it will prove successful.
They declare it will only be a running
fight, and that the campaign will not last six
months. Of course, there are a great many
whose names and influence are enlisted in the
enterprise, but who have no idea of accompanying
the expedition. Yet the E. O. C.'s expect
to hurl a sufficient force upon Miramon's army
to overwhelm him at once. A great deal of enthusiasm
was created the other day by the arrival
of a large squad from Maryland and Virginia.
It is said that they have a number of reornits
from Harper's Ferry, each man of whom is abie
to make his own musket. I shall keep you ad
vised of any farther steps taken by the order."
Smilis, in his recent book, "Self Help"
says many good things, and many things worthy
of mature reflection. In one place he says:
The highestcultare is not obtained from teachers
when at school or college, so mncb as by
our own diligent self-education when we become
men. Parents need not be in too great haste to
see their children's talents forced into bloom.?
Let them watch and wait patiently, letting good
example and quiet training do their work, and
the rest to Providence. Let them see to it, that
the youth is provided, by free exercise of his
bodily powers, with a full stock of physical
health; set him fairly on the road of self-culture;
carefully train his habits of application and perseverance
; and as he grows older, if the right
stuff be in him, he will be enabled vigorously
and effectually to cultivate himself.
For the Yorkvllle Enquirer.
Springfield, York Dist., 8. C., \
April 2, 1860. J
Messrs. Editors: I observe in the last number
of your journal, my nomination as a Candidate
for a seat in the House of Representatives. I
gratefully acknowledge and appreciate the compliment
paid me by "Clay Hilland especially,
the very kind and flattering terms of its exprea
aion.
Whilst I tender to the citizens thereof, my sincere
thanks for this mark of their confidence
and esteem, I beg leave most respectfully to decline
the nomination.
Very truly yours,
A. B. SPRINGS.
,tai, / *
For the Yorkville Enquirer.
Messrs. Editors : You will please withdraw my
name as a candidate for the office of Ordinary. ]
deem it unnecessary to give my reasons, through
your columns, for adopting this course. I also
take this opportunity of returning my thanks to
those of my Mends who have proffered their
support. ' J. C. MILLER.
I
CONTBIBTJTORIAL.
The St C. College.
The April Examination of under-graduatea
commenced on 8aturday. These examinations
are written, searching, thoroogh, and to dances,
a terrible ordeal. To the mass, it is the Cape
Hatteras of the year?hard to pass.- We will
hare a word open it when it is over: The Man
about Town told as that one of the students remarked
to him that in some of the departments,
thoy were likely to hare pretty 'tight papers'?a
College phrase meaning, we believe, here, a rigid
examination. The Man about Town observed to
as in an undertone that he was not sure what
was meant by 'tight papers'; but from some
noisiness he heard one night, he half-suspected j
that he knew what it meant.
To K* T.??A Reverjr*
I have a little song for thee,
IS- T? AlJUf
ray ocmuiui, ivrujguv.
As light as thy gentle soal is free
And as free as thy form is light
It is not aglow with passion's gleam
Nor wild with a lover's vow
Bat fond as tho radiant soal that beams
In light on thy lifted brow.
It is not an estiva! day as wild
As a poet's midsummer lay
Bat an April's genial morn, my child,
With a promise of more for Kay.
. ' . V I ' 1> ? 7
My little song should bid thee know
How often there comes a smile
To gladden my booI when it's lonely and low,
And to soothe and to teach it the while.
And anon I tarn to the past where He?
Like leaves in life's volume for aye?
My dreams of thy presence; till almost a sigh
Flutters in to whiff them away.
And pare are the dreams as a prayer oan be?
As pare as thy faultless brow;
And they come with athrill when my spiritis free,
| And linger as fondly as now?
As now?while I gase on this shade of thy form,
wnatever or aearness 11 own ;
Bat I find in the memory a vision more warm
Than the shadow oan bring me alone. ' '
'Mid moonlight and starlight, my child, though
afar
The poise of thy being may beat,
I read in the radiance of every star
A message of thee thatis sweet. . ,fc.
"V ' * ' *
For tby sister?the Beautiful?lowiy or high,
Always speaks a fond message of thee^ SfUit
The Beautiful, regent on earth and in sky,
Wherever God's antogrsph be.
g? . ;
The soft April flower, the line, the tree,
Oft the same gentle tidings impart ;
The path, too, the rill so lonely and free,
Speak a language well known to the heart.
These few simple trifles of art that cheer
My book mantled walls so lone
Have a voice?they are dear?that my spirit can
hear i'j >
For their beauty's akin to thine own.
Steep,
8ince the days of Alexander Smith'* Life
Drama ire have seen nothing in poetry that-more
nearly (ills the idea of the along term 'steep'
than the following stanza. It is qnite resent,
and by a young ladyat that?western, of oomree,
however.; Read:? : jv* ?i
"The haughty thnnder often swears
Hia passion in the ear of June; . . <#
And ocean's giant bosom wears
The piotnre of the moon !"
That beats Alexander Smith's distich?
"And Wind, the grand oldf harper, smote
His thunder-harp of pines."
Or this? 1
_ ; "-?She covered me
,With her wild eorro*? as an AprU cloud
With dim dishevelled tresses hides the hill
On which its heart la "breaking." "
The Prtee-Fifht. " V"'
J oat now there is qnite an interest in the pending
fisti-cuffs. Heenan and Sayors .are heroes.
The pictorial newspapers are nervous to be first
w uiuairaie me ueiaus. II mere IS tveri UStU
when we are ashamed of being Americana, it-is
when we see each a taste rife among as. Ilia
the tone below the lower ledger-line of the vilest
vulgarity. Disgust, contempt, pity, are all feeble
terms to express the feeling when we see the
mania for such things coming upon the confines
of respectability through the press.
"Let dogs delight," &c.
Harper's Weekly is very savage upon it, and
yet profits in its advertising columns thereby.
Next above such things is the present rage for
scandal, upon which the pictorials constantly
batten. See, for example, the pending breachof-promise
trial iu St Louis?
Th* CariUa|-8h?w cue.
Harper's Weekly illustrates the affair?giving
likeness of the fair plaintiff, view of the courtroom,
&c. The evidence is given in circumstantial
detail?details, personal, questionable, and
unquestionable. Those who have a tasteforsnch
things wonld better send for Harper's Weekly,
while that trial lasts?some weeks perhaps.
And those, generally, who dote and gloat on
recitals of crime- -the specifications of vice?the
Spicy details of scandal?the shivery horrors of
blood, daggers, and slung-shots?infractions of
the seventh commandment?and. in fine, railtv
horrors of all sorts?horrors such that
"LewU nerer wrote or borrowed
Any horror balf so horrid
all those, we say, who have a taste for these
things, and are willing to sacrifice decency to
gratify the taste, can best do so by subscribing for
the Police Gazette, at once. Those who, however,
do not want anything of the kind, would better let
alone the Police Gazette and those piotorial weeklies
that get up such nice illustrated masses of
minced scandal. ,
But this Carstang-Shaw case in its legalaspect,
is an important one, we believe. The present is
a new trial, after a verdict of a hundred thousand
dollars for the plaintiff last spring. Then,
it appeared that the promise was distinctly made
and as distinctly broken, and that the defendant
was wealthy and shonld be made an example.
The jury returned $100,000 damages. Now,
however, in the new trial, it is about to trans
pire mat me wnoie transaction between the parties
was entirely in the way of business; and
that the professional prospects of the plaintiff
will probably not be mnch injured by the breach,
certainly not to the amonnt of a hundred thousand
dollars.
Tke Flowers.
We hold our breath amidst this floral heaven
of ours?vernal Colombia?in the hope that a
prettier pen than ours will tell you, readers, of
these things.
Books.
We see on our Columbia book counters a new
book of travels. It is 'Letters.from Switzerland'
by the Rev. Mr. Prime?the Reverend Samuel
Irenaeus Prime, who has written other boota of
travel, and has his circle of admirers. We have
not read Mr. Prime's book, but we infer its merits
from a notice of it in the Saturday Prat, a part
or wmcn notice runs in this wise,?'Moreover
he slept in Basle overnight, and ate breakfast
there in the morning. Subsequently, at the
town of Constance, he slept again?this time in
a bed which he assures us had 'linen sheets.'?
On several occasions, and at various places, he
i repeated this process of sleeping; once he slept
where there were fleas. Also he frequently ate,
t drank, walked and rode. At Zurich he met an
' English lady and gentleman, who were delighted
with the landscape. On the verge of the lake of
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