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%t firtrtptnbtnt Jfamilji |enmri-gttettk iff fffliiits, jttto, litaato, i?c. BY james a. HOYtT ANDERSON C. H., S. C, THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE 7, 1866. VOLUME 1?NUMBER 51. TLie Intelligencer IS PUBLISHED WEEKLY $S.50 PER AJVIVUM:, IN. TJ. S. CURRENCY. Congressional. "Washington, ttky 28. Nothing was done in the Senate to-day. In the House, a resolution was adopted direoting the Secretary of the Treasury to report the amount of gold sold since the 1st instant, at what rates, and what agents are employed. Mr. Williams submitted a preamble and resolutions requesting information from the President whether any employees of the Government in the Southern States have offered public honors to the dead or living Confederates. Mr. Nicholson objected, and the resolu? tion was laid over. Thad. Stevens introduced a bill declar? ing that the States lately in rebellion have forfeited their rights under tho Constitu? tion, and can be reinstated in the same only through the action of Congress. It provides that they may form valid Gov? ernment, tho present one being continued for municipal purposes until they shall be duly altered and their Executive and Legislatures recognized. Their Consti-j tutions are to be formed by conventions and submitted to the people, a majority ! ol? whom is necessary for ratification; al? lowing all male persons above twenty one years to vote. No Constitution is to J be presented for Congressional sanction which denies civil rights to any person. The bill was committed to the Committee of the Whole on the State of the Union. Thad. Stevens offered a resolution in? structing the Committee on Pensions to double those of Federal soldiers disabled or killed during tbe civil war. Mr. Stillwell offered a resolution di- J rocting the Committee on Pensions to re- J port on extending the provisions of the ponsion law to the families of provost and deputy marshals and enrolling officers killed or disabled during the war. Mr. Stillwell declining to modify so as to make it one of inquiry, the motion was adopted by a vote of yeas 60, nays 55. Mr. Whaley offered a resolution direct? ing the Committee on Printing to report! a bill limiting tbe hours of labor,of em? ployees of the Government printing office I to eight hours per day. Rejected. Mr. Lynch, from tbe Committee on Banking and Currency, reported adverse? ly to the exempting the currency of State J banks outstanding on tho lstot July from j - the tax of ten per cent, imposed by law. Laid on the table! a I Washington, May 2D>. In the United States Senate, the Colo? rado veto bill was passed over. The reconstruction resolutions were consid? ered. Mr. Johnson moved to strike out the third, section, which disfranchises Confederates until 1870. The section was stricken out by a unanimous vote yeas 43 j nays none. Several amendments were offered em? bodying the views agreed upon in. Re? publican caucus. They exclude from Federal and State officers those who, having been members of Congress, legis? lative or judicial officers, took part in the insurrection, or gave aid and comfort thereto. Congress may, however, re? move such disability by a vote of two-1 thirds. In the House., the bill to continue in J force and amend the Freedmen's Bureau bill pas#ed?yeas 96, nays 82. The tax bill, which passed the House, contains a provision for an export duty on cotton of five cents each pound. The War Department will refund the amount collected by order of Gen. Dana j as a military tax of ?2 per hundred on cotton at Memphis, Tenn. Restitution will bo made to the parties or their legal heirs or representatives. - Washington, May 30. In the United States Senate the recon? struction resolutions were taken up and vaious attempts were made by the min? ority to modify the different sections, but ?very one wore voted down. Pending the consideration of the third section the Senate adjourned- There seems no doubt, from the unanimity of the Bepublicans to-day, that it will pass by a two-thirds vote in the shape reported from the Be publican caucus. In the House, the bill restoring the States lately in rebellion to their political rights was taken up and several speeches -made, but no final action. Both Houses have instructed their Military Committees to consider suitable measures to testify their respect to Gen. Scott. Washington, May 31. - In the Senate, Mr. Wilson, from the Committee of the two houses, reported a joint resolution of respect and veneration for the memory of General Scott, and that when the two houses adjourn to-day, they adjourn to meet on Monday; that a -Committee of seven Senators and nine Representatives be appointed to repre? sent Congress at the funeral to-morrow, which was unanimously adopted. A similar resolution was adopted by the j House. The third section of the recon-H Btruction resolution was passed as orig? inally reported from the Senatorial cau? cus. Several amendments wore proposed by Mr. Doolittle, but each one was re? jected by thirty-two to ten?which was the vote on the adoption of the section. The matter was laid over until next week; In the House, the Stevens' bill for the construction of a line of. railway from Washington to the Northwest; and, also, a bill for a railroad from Pittsburg to Cleveland, was passed. Further reports from Gens. Steedman and Fnllerton on the Freodmen's Bureau were received and referred. The bill for the reduction of officers' pay, and to regulate that of soldiers, was discussed until the House adjourned. Washington, June 1. Public business has been suspended to? day, in respect to the memory of the late Gen. Scott. Congress was not in session, both branches having adjourned till Tues? day. A contract has been concluded between the Secretary of the Treasury and the Adams Express Company, by which the United States agrees to employ the Ex? press Company as the exclusive agent for the transportation of all moneys and se curitieE belonging to the United States. -o From Washington. Washington, May 29. The United States Consul at Liverpool has officially advised the State Depart? ment that the steamer City of Dublin would carry back to New York 15,000 bushels of wheat of American exportation. The President has appointed William Faxon, Chief Clerk of the Navy Depart? ment, Assistant Secretary of tho Navy, vice Captain Fox, resigned. The latter has been nominated as additional Secre? tary of the Navy, for six months, under the law just passed. F. C. Comming8worth made an extra? ordinary run of 2,256 points in a game of billiards to-day. F. J. B. C. Smith, of Louisiana, has been appointed Consul at Athens. Tho Department of State has received despatches from the United States Minis? ter at Paris, which mentions that French? men who have been naturalized in the United States, and who may be in Franco, are liablo to conscription, but if they will report to the department in which their names are enrolled, and produce their pa? pers of naturalization, their names will probably bo erased. Washington, May 30. The State Department learns that no Austrians have been sent to Mexico, and that none will be sent. The national colors arc displayed at half-mast, from the departments and other public buildings, in respect to the memory of Gen. Scott. The clerical lorce of the Treasury is engaged in receiving transfer of deposits of dr.4utrr?ing officers from the National Banks to the United States Treasury and Sub-Treasury. Official orders respecting the death of Gen. Scott, and the honors to be paid to his memory, have been issued to the De? partments. A large number of the most distinguished officers in the servieo have been detailed to attend the funeral at West Point on Friday. . The Depart? ments and Custom Houses will be closed on that day, as a mark of respect to the memory of the deceased. Gen.* Grant announced the death of Gen. Scott in goneral orders, in which he says, as the vigor of his lite, whether in peace or war,fiad been devoted to the service of the country beloved so well, so in his age his couutry gave him in return that veneration, reverence and esteem which was the highest reward a nation can give. His memory will never fade from the minds of those who had rever? enced him so long. As a testimony of respect, officers will wear the usual badge of mourning for six months on the left arm and the hilt of their swords. - Washington, May 31. It is said that the report of tho Secre? tary of the Treasury, will show the total sales of nearly $30,000,000 Gold since the first, at 30i, and that no Gold was sold in March and April, for less than 27.? Amonfi; tho recent pardons, is that of W. D. Simpson, Congressman from South Carolina. The Senate has confirmed the appoint? ment of James Wilson, of Indiana, as Min? ister to.Venezuela. Wm. Taxan, (Conn.,) and Capt. G. F. Fox, as assistant Secreta? ries of the Navy. James Ready, of New Orleans, Assessor of the Intornal Revenue. It is untrue as published, that tho Presi? dent does especially object to the resolu? tion of the Reconstruction Committee now pending tho Senate. Ho adheres to his own programme of reconstruction. Tho Consul at Liverpool, writes to tho State Department May 18th : Two weeks ago, I advised of tho shipment to New York of 15,000 bushels of Wheat, Ameri? can exportation. The steamship City Cork, which sails to-morrow takes 498 sacks of French Flour, and is the first in? stance of such a shipment for this Port to the Unitod States and is probably the first time that Flour was ever shipped from Europe to America. The Secretary sent to the House to? day in compliance with Gen. Whittlesey's request, the reports of Steedman and Ful lerton on the Freodmen's Bureau. Whittle8ey, in reply, denies that they made a thorough investigation or had represented the good it had done, and that their report is unfair and unjnst. ;-:-o ? " Logan," who was in Louisville, My., a few days since, in a letter to the Mississippi Standard, thus writes of Geo. D. Prentice, the world-renowned editor of the Journal: He is a homely and shabby looking specimen of humanity ; had on a pair of worn-out ?lippers, a dirty shirt, seedy coat, and evidently had not washed his face for several weeks. But such is not unfrequently the garb of genius; an ec? centric way that great men often adopt for being distinguished from the masses. I regret that my curiosity ever sought an introduction to George D. Pretico, for, whilo I cannot but admire him as a jour? nalist, scholar, poet and wit, tho remem? brance of his personal appearance must ever detract from the sublimity of his ef? fusions. From New York. New York, Juno 1.?A large number of prominent merchants and businessmen of New York have extended an invi? tation to President Johnson to visit that city some time in June, at his con? venience. It- is understood that no po? litical significance attaches to the invita? tion, these gontlemen bein? merely de? sirous of tendering the President a public reception and introducing him to the peo? ple of that city. The cholera at quarantine is said to be of a very malignant type, and is princi? pally confined to the German passengers. Eighty-four cases have been admitted on board the hospital ship Falcon, out of which number fourteen have died, leaving seventy patie'nts at last accounts under treatment. A revenue cutter is shortly to be stationed in the lower bay for the protection of quarantined vessels, and to prevent passengers detained there from escaping to the shore. New Yokk, June 1.?The . steamer Morning Star, from Rio Janeiro, May 4, has arrived. The news from the River Platte was important. There was a fearful slaughter, April 10, of 1,200 Paraguayans, on an island opposite Stapura. 10,000 Brazili? ans crossed the Xerona on the 16th, with? out opposition, and drove in the Para? guayan skirmishers. Next morning, they occupied Stapura, and captured four gen? erals and a flag. The whole allied army was transferred, on the 19th, to the Para? guay side of the Parona. The Paraguay? ans abandoned their camp, three miles on the road to Humantia, and retreated to that fortress, on which the allies were marching. Hermantia cannot be held, and a speedy end of the war is anticipated. The Brazilian Imperial Assembly has been convened. The Emperor's speech called especial attention to the currency. The custom house in Santa Catherine was blown up, and twenty persons killed. Advices from Rio Grande Do Sul state that tho old silver mines worked by the Jesuits have been re-discovered. -o The Southern Press. The Rochester {N. Y.) Union and American closes a recent editorial with the following tribute to the Southern press: Having watched with care the progress of events in the South since the cessation of hostilities, and having looked with no little solicitude to the press of that sec? tion with a purpose to know how the situation was accepted, wo are compelled in candor to concede that tho develop? ments, so far, are as favorable as true Union statesmen could expect, or the most sanguine hope for. The leading journals of the South accept tho situation in which they find their States at the close of a war that terminated adversely to their hopes, and regard the Union as in? evitable. They therefore have set them? selves about helping tho people to make the most and the best of their situation? to get into fraternal relations once more with the States that remained loyal?to enter the paths of peace, there to culti? vate the soil and pursue the avocations of civil life that will make them again com? fortable, ahd repair in some degree for? tunes shattered in tho conflict. No one can read the Southern papers with fairness?and without bias?and not admire their tone under the circumstan? ces. To charge that they are offensive, and are not conducted with decency aud propriety is, to say the least, very unjust. But these charges go out from a sourco where fairness cannot bp looked for? where there is not even that magnanimity for a fallen foe that characterizes tribes of men who are not classed as civilized. We know that now and then something offensive may bo found in a Southern pa? per; and this is of course seized and cir? culated and fed upon as a choice morsel by those whose aim is to disturb peaceful relations everywhere, and who in their madness delight to ride upon the whirl? wind they can create. Choosing a Wife.?Never many a woman because she has a handsome face or a well-turned figure, for we soon be coi.ie insensible to angelic forms and faces. If her countenance has life and intelligence?if her figure is passable?if her walk and carriage are modest and lady-like?and if the whole appearance indicate she has a mind, heart and soul, why she is worth all the simpering, flirt? ing, affected misses that ever brought good looks as their only marriage dower. If the fair one you are addressing is rich in houses, lots, farms, bank stock or rail? way shares, her wordly gear should not prove an insurmountable objection; but if she is poor like yourself, so much the better. There is nothing like a young couple, about the age of twenty, starting in life with warm hearts, clear beads, easy consciences and empty pockets. You have something to live for, to hope for, to work for, to love for. Your early strug? gles with the crosses of this cross world ! will only bind you the closer to your young, ardent and loving wife. And then those long, cold, cosy evenings? how delightful to sit by your humble hearth, after the toils of the day are over, conjuring up bright visions of the future, occasionally looking down to catch a look from a pair of dark, loving, sympathising oyes, that fairly dissolve your heart in oneswoct, gushing stream of tenderness, 1 affection, pure devotion and bright, joy? ous and undying love ! Never marry a girl without having some faint idea of hor temper and disposition. It is possible you have been visiting her nightly for a twelve month, but still you do not know her. Remember, evory time you pay her a visit, you put on not only your best clothes, but best looks, and you may take our word for it, that on all such occaBionB she is in the same predicament. H?HTE AND FBIENDS. Oh ! there's a power to make each hoar, As sweet as heaven designed it, Nor jieed we roam to bring it home, Though few there be that find it. We seek too high for things close by, And lose what nature gave us ; ' For life hath no charms so dear, As home and friends around us. We oft destroy the present joy, And future hopes, nor praise them, While flowers as sweet bloom at our feet, If we'd but stoop'to raise them. For things so fair still greater are When youth's bright spell hath bound us ; But soon we're taught that earth has naught Like home and friends around us. The friends that speed in time of need, When hope's last reed is shaken, Do show us still that, come what will, We are not quite forsaken. Though all were nigh, if but the light From friendship's alter crowned us, 'Twould prove the bliss, of earth was this? Our home and friends around us. In publishing the following verse, the Buffalo Express remarked that four lines more beautiful are rarely written t A solemn murmur in the soul Tells of the world to be, As travelers hear the biBows roll, Bofore they reach the sea. The Utica Herald adds a verse, and says that four lines more truthful are rarely written: A solemn buzzing in the ear, When you retire to bed, Tells you that swiUing lager beer. Is dreadful for the head. To which we can add averse, and four lines more touching are rarely written : A solemn creditor who calls And duns you every day, Of nuisances is worst of all, When you've no cash to pay. General Winfield Scott. - And Methuselah lived nine hundred and sixty-nine years, and he diod. This is the expressive record of Holy Writ. The oldest man that overlived died at last. The distinguished name at tho head of article had long since passed into history, and yet at the same time still lingered in the land of the living, and we naturally began to think that the old General would always occupy his place in our midst. But he, too, is goue. Eighty years of honor and distinction was no safeguard against death. Gen. Winfield Scott was born January 13,1786, in Petersburg, Va., and received his preparatory education in Bichmond High School and William and Mary Col? lege. He was admitted to the bar in Eichmond, and soon after visited Charles? ton, S. C, with tho intention of settling there, and practicing his profession, which plan, however, ho subsequently aban? doned. From his earliest boyhood he showed a predilection for a military career, and for* tune soon interposed to assist him. The attack of the British frigate Leopard on the United States frigate Chesapeake aroused tho indignation of the whole country, and a large force of volunteers was called out. Scott hastened to enroll himself in^the Petersburg Troop of horse as a private. His soldierly person and evident taste for arms attracted the atten? tion of influential friends, and he was commissioned captain of light artillery May 3, 1808. He was made Lieutenant-Colonel in tho war of 1812, and ordered to the Niagara frontier. Bofore the end of tho year he was elevated to the command of a double regiment, and in March, 1814, he was promoted to the rank of Brigadier-Gen? eral. The battle of Chippewa was the first of a long series of victories associated with his name. After the declaration of peace, General Scott was offered the post of Secretary of War, by Mr. Madison, which, however, he declined, and proceodod to Europe, in 1815, on a secret mission of tho Govern? ment. On his return to the United States he was assigned in command of the sea? board, and fixed his headquarters in New York city. Here he remained till the breaking out of the Black Hawk war in 1832. At the close of a brief campaign of a few months, he returned to New York, and in October visited Charleston on a highly important and delicate mis? sion. In 1835, his headquarters were trans? ferred to Florida. In 1837 he was sent to the Northern frontier, on the occasion of the insurrection in Canada. In 1841 he was made a full Major-General, and appointed Commander-in-Chief of the whole United States army; and on the 30th of November, 1846, sailed from New York for the Kio Grande, to direct the approaching campaign in Mexico. His brilliant victories during the two years of the Mexican war are too familiar to all orr readers to warrant any further allusion to them in a brief biographical sketch. He was nominated for the Presidency at the Baltimore Whig Convention in 1852. He was honored by Congress with tho rank of Lieutenant-General, which grade was revived in his person as a com? pliment, to his distinguished services to the nation. He was retired from the imme? diate comn?anl of the army, at his own: request, November 1, 1861. Since then he has been living in dignified retirement at West Point, wnore ho died on tho mor? ning of the 29th.?Charleston News. Gov. Walker, of Florida, has issued a proclamation in which he congratulates the people that the military has relin? quished all control over the civil affairs of that State. News in Briet ? Bev. Dr. Pise, pastor of a celebrated charch in Brooklyn, died a fevr days since, aged sixty-five. ? The Mexican Times, the late Gov. Allen's paper, will be kept up by Mr. John TJ. Edwards, and will continue to support the Empire. ? The City Council of Atlanta has expressed thanks to the City of Louis? ville for the aid extended to the poor of the former. ? There is a large freedmen's school in Coahoma county, Miss., taught by a lady of Southern birth and education. ? A correspondent of the New York Times state that there aro a number of " native ladies" teaching large schools of colored children in South Carolina. ? General Trotter, Superintendent of the Freedmen's Bureau, at Chattanooga, has discontinued issuing rations gratis. He found it impossible to prevent abuses of the custom. ? Capt. Terrill and one of his associ? ates, noted Kentucky outlaws, were cap? tured on Saturday last, near Shelbyville, Ky. Terrill was severely wounded and his accomplice in crime killed. ? Colonel White, of guerrilla" fame, having been olected Sheriff of Loudon county, Va., reached Washington on Monday in company with his military co laborer, Mosby, seeking a pardon. ? A call is published in Perry county, Ala., and signed by A. B. Moore, ex Governor of the State j J. L. M. Curry, ex-Congressman; and others, requesting a meeting of the citizens to devise some method of properly encouraging education among the negroes. ? Salem Dutcher, Esq., editor of The Constitutionalist, Augusta, Georgia, has been admitted to practice before the courts of that State. Mr. Dutcher's name was presented by Governor Jenkins, who spoke in high terms of his attainments. The Constitutionalist, under Mr. Dutcher's management, is one of the best edited pa? pers in the South, and wields a groat in? fluence in Georgia. ? Lemuel Cook, the revolutionary soldier who died in Clarendon, N. Y., was not the last of the heroes of the war for independence. There aro two others still living, viz: Samuel Downing, of New Hampshire, and James Barham, of Missouri. ? The freedmen's courts in Tennessee have been abolished by the Commissioner of the bureau for that State, as the law making colored persons competent wit? nesses before the civil courts, has gone into effect. ? The Illinois State Democratic Con? vention will be held in August. ? Three of the Alexandria rioters, sent to the Penitentiary last winter, have been pardoned. ? At Fredericksburg, Virginia, sever? al Factories are being pushed rapidly to completion. ? Sumner in a Lite speech said the ballot was the columbiad of our political life, and every citizen who has it is a full armed monitor. ? Judge Nelson, of tho Supreme Court, delivered a decision in tho case of a prisoner in the Albany peniteutiary, that the trial of a civilian in time of poaco by court-martial is illegal, and their con? viction void. ? A Now Orleans paper cries out against the gigantic increase of prostitu? tion in that city, and says that the " most promising men in the community are be? ing enfolded within the hideous grasp of the monster." ? Judge Giles, of the Baltimore Dis? trict Court, decided the case of Bradley Bounton, a negro, who applied for injunc? tion against a railway company refusing him transit. The Judge said it presented no case for equitable action. The case was dismissed. ? When General Saxton loft tho De? partment of South Carolina he took away all the records, so that there is not a scrap of paper, showing the acts of his subordinates, by which Generals Steed man and Fullerton can investigate tho corruption, etc., of that department. -* The Episcopal Methodist Church.? Two or three weeks ago, we stated, think? ing it to be correct at tho time, that the General Conference of the "Methodist Episcopal Church, South," then in ses? sion in New Orleans, had changed tho name of the said Church to simple "Meth? odist." We were in error. They chang? ed it from "Methodist Episcopal" to "Episcopal Methodist." This Conference adjourned during the first week of the present month. It extended the pastoral term to four years. Twenty-seven thou? sand dollars were voted as the support of the Bishops. Of these we are under the impression there are about one dozen. The probation system was abolished, and members are to be received into full fel? lowship at once; while those who may be seeking the right path aro to be as? signed to classes until they give evidence of their qualification for membership in the Church itself. In regard to the finan? ces, also, the hand of reform has not been idle. Tbe old chapter in the Discipline upon this subject was stricken out, and the different congregations and district stewards left to provide means for paying the preachers. Tho Bishops' salaries are left in tho hands of the episcopal stew? ards. The Secretaries of Annual Con? ferences are hereafter to record "every action as it occurs." Whether these changes in the old system will be for bet? ter or worse, orhow they are looked upon by the clergy generally, wo are unable to say. Wise men, and good, have made them; and the prayers of all should bo that they may redound to the glory of God and to the purity, vitality and pros? perity of the Church.?Edgefield Adverti? ser. From the Jackson Clarion and Standard. A Scrap of History from the Official ? Record. On the 11th of April, 1848, as will bo seen by referring to page 610, Congression? al Globe, Mr. Palftey then a member of Congress from Boston, said, "He had lately known a charming boy whom God in his providence bad seen fit to take away, (voices " charming" " a charming negro/') yeB, said Mr. P., I said the word and I do not take it back on account ef the sneers of gentlemen. I repeat it, a charming and. most interesting colored boy. He was.fitted for the oldest Univer? sity in the country. But God took him away. Had he had been spared he would have been the equal associate, perhaps the successful competitor of Mr. P/s own son. Mr. P. could say for his son if he had not treated the lad with every demonstration of respect and good will, his father would not have felt for him that esteem and confidence which he now felt. Mr. Johnson, of Tennessee, (now Pres? ident,) desired to interpose one question. The gentleman (Mr. Palfrey) told them. if that " charming" young negro had not been called hence he would have beon j the associate of his son in one of the old? est Universities in the State. And if his son had not treated his associate with proper respect he would thereby have for? feited the confidence of his parents. Now his question was, " would the gentlemen from Massachusetts be willing toseethat interesting, talented and " charming" ne? gro boy become, the married companion of his own daughter V Mr. Palfrey replied, in substance, that he would introduce no one to the female members of his family who on account of any controverted rules of society might be disreputable to them. On the I4th of April, three days after (see page 637,) Mr. Palfrey became very indignant, saia Mr. Johnson had intended to insult him. He might retort offensive? ly, but would not abuse the indulgence of the Houso by doing so. Mr. Johnson replied at 6omo length, in which he disclaimed any purpose to in? sult Mr. P., but instead that if the " charm? ing" negro boy was the equal of the son he must be the equal of the daughter, &c. Mr. Palfrey said, " an answer to tho gentleman's present remarks is rising , to my lips but I suppress it." Mr. Johnson continued, he knew the gontloman's theory and practice must be very different and that his true sense of honor and the high tone of his morality would forbid his ever putting his theory into practice. Having tested the sincere ty of the gentleman's theuiy he had noth-;>,\: ing more to say. This little scrap of history is valuable chiefly as showing that eighteen years ago, the blackest of all the black republi? cans rejected with scorn all idea of ming? ling the races in marriage, and that An? drew Johnson at that day came forward voluntarily as the champion of the Sou*' em side of the question, and wo" .e most in holding up the detestable uieory of social equality among the races to pub? lic reprobation. . ?-;-? . Prentice on Brownlow Again, The following is Prentice's last shot at Brownlow: Old Brownlow was never in but ono place where he deserved to be, and that was the rebel prison. If he has any more lying to do, perhaps he had better make haste to do it in this world, as he will get his pens and paper scorched and his ink boiled away in tho next. Ho has a chron? ic diarrhoea of lies. He could no more breathe an air unfilled with his own lies and curses than one without hydrogen or oxygen. If he were off the earth, it j would compare much more favorably j than it does with its sister planetB. He is no writer?simply a brawler, a bawlor, a he-vixen, a male-termagant, a mascu? line-virago. He is of tho clusu of "com? mon scolds," who, by an old law of Great Britain, were ducked in horse-ponds. He is a viliifior, a traducer, a calumniator of men, women and children. No excel? lence, no purity, no helplessnoss is a protection against his veno? mous, assaults. Ho aims his vengeance alike at the living and the dead. His venom seeps through the cold-sandsjof the grave to find its victim. A buried body is no more safe from him than from other grave-worms. "I have lost a day," said the good Roman Emperor, when he remembered to have done no good deed. "I have lost a minute," Brownlow might say, if he remembered no malignant thing. His heart and life blacken as his old nead whitens. His father's hoof is split?the son's cars, nose and tongue should be. Ho deserves to be kicked until, like the pit he is going to, he. is "bottomless." Brownlow has all the worst qualities of the Devil, but the latter, if ho has any redeeming qualities, is, in comparison with the "Parson," a Christian gentle? man. Brownlow is a rattlesnake, with his rattles at the wrong end of him. He is a hog, with the kink in his head instead of his tail. If bayonets bristle at him, he can turn the back of his neck and bristle back with interest. "We have ground him until he is a ground-hog. We have hedged him till he is a hedge-hog. He is ? a small man, but a great 8wihe; ho may? be a rich man; but he is a poor devil. He is a "porcupine rolled up the wrong way," thus pricking himself to death with his own quills. The more he writes, the flatter ho gets; just as an adder's head flattens as he becomes furious. If bis head were not a salamander, it would long since have been consumed by the hell-fire in his bosom. ? The President has pardoned James Kelly, of Florida, sentenced to be hung for murder.