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f * HE CAMDEN WEEKLY JOURNAL ?.u I.I -. ill i naoimm ni'i J -i - 1J!-1?1 ?L-j.'..U JLT TTS.VJ1J JUmjLj -.... ^?. j- ^ m- *V. -j^mn Wioa^J^ "V i^^TTWOTI ... ?*J iiyUiTTOggg^T^t^n. ']i-^JMMjBBWIBWBMWPJIi.iiiin MKan IIA . !! i1 ffP?1^^? VOLUME 14 CAMDEN, SOUTH-CAROLINA, TUESDAY MORNING AIMUL 12J&3. NUMBER 15, ITULISIIED WEEUl.V 11V |c THOMAS J. WARREN. J TL IIII S . Two Dollars if paid in advance: Two Dollars and 1 Fifty Cents if payment he delayed three months, and * Throe Dollars if not paid till the expiration of the year. : .it tlit. till- ' A I) Y K HTIB I'- ."5 wiu mc,.,... ... . . lowing rates: For one Square, (fourteen lines or loss.) j seventy-live cents tor the tirst. and thirty-seven ami a ', half cents for each subsequent insertion. Single insertions. one dollar per square: semi-monthly, monthly and quarterly advertisements charged the same as ' ' for a single insertion. !: The number of insertions desired must he noted ) on the margin of all advertisements, or thev will be j . published until ordered discontinued and charged ac- . cordingly. j ' iHisrcllanfotis. |i JABI1S MORGAN. j1 James Morgan, a native of Maryland, married , ? 1 ft? ?.'.1-1 Thv. 1 1 st .in eariy age, anu >wn .m-. kii?? . ant's station, in the wilds of Kentucky. Like ij most pioneers of the west lie had cut down the ! cane, built a cabin, deadened the timber, enclosed ' a field with a worm fence, and planted some j corn. It was on the 7th of August. 17S2.?The sun J! hail descended ; a pleasant breeze was playing ' through the surrounding wood, the cane b >w.-d j. under its influence, and the broad green leaves of the corn waved in the air. Morgan had .' seated himself in the door of his cabin, with his 1 infant on his knee. His young and happy wife Ij had laid aside her spinning wheel, and was husi-, ly engaged in preparing the frugal meal. That j1 afternoon he had accidentally found a bundle of)' letters, which he had finished reading to hi> wife i( before he had taken his seat in the door. It was j' a correspondence in which they acknowledged an 1 1 early and ardent attachment for each other, and j' the perusal left evident traces of jov in thecoim-! tenance of both; the little infant, too, seemed : 1 to partake of its parents' feelings, by its cheer- !' o.i ?:i,_. , i.1,.f1,i t,,,ninr ,,,?] int:i!itile caresses. ! , IUI >111 ilr>, Iimiiui .......v., Whily thus agreeably employed, the report cfj' a rifle was heard, another followed in ipiick sue- j 1 cession. Morgan sprang to his tVct, his wife!'" rail to the door, and they simultaneously ex- i' claimed," Indians." ' j' The door was immediately barred, and the ! j next moment, their fears were realized l?v a bold ! and spirited attack of a small party of Indians. I The cabin could not be successfully d f-nd'-d. j' and time was precious ; Morgan, cool, brave and : prompt, soon decided. W bile he w:is in the act j of concealing his wife under the floor, a mother's {' feelings overcome her?she arose, seized the in- !' fant, but was afraid that its cries would betray | 1 her place of concealment.?She hesitated? '' ffazed silently upon it?a momentary struggle )( between duty ami affection took place. She j * once more pressed her child to her agitated ho- !. som, and again and again kissed it with inipas- j sionate tenderness. The infant, alarmed at the i profusion of tears that fell upon its cheek, look- !1 ed up in its mother's face, threw it* little arm- | 1 around her neck and wept aloud.-?" In the j name of Heaven, Eliza, release the child, or be lost." said the distracted husband, in a soft and j " imploring tone, as he forced the infant trom Ins j J, wife, hastily took up his pin and hatchet, ran j . up the ladder that led to his chamber, and drew J ^ it after him. In a moment the door was burst open and the savages entered. liv this time Morgan had secured his child in a bag, and lashed it to his back ; then throwing j j olf some clapboards from the cabin's roof, he resolutely leaped to the ground, lie was assaul- ' ted by two Indians. As the first, approached, j he knocked him down with the butt end of hi> | ( trim The other advanced with uplift.-d toma i i :.. 1 < h hawk: .Morgan let fall liis gun ai:u cium-k m. . Tlx; savage m:ulc a blow, missed, but severed I' the chord that bound the infant to his back, and ! ' it fell. The contest over the child now became j warm and fierce, and was carried on with knives K only. The robust and athletic Morgan got the ' ascendciicv ; both were badly cut. and bled fivlv. ;! but the stabs of the white man were better and ' deeper, and the savage soon fell to the earth in death. Morgan hastily took up his child and j k hurried off. The Indians in the house, busily engaged in 1 drinking and plundering, were not apprised of the contest in the yard, until the one that had l)een knocked down, gave signs of returning life, I and called them to the scene of action. Morgan 1 was discovered, immediately pursued and a dog 1 put upon his trail. Operated upon by all the 1 feelings of a husband and father, lie moved with i' all the speed of a hunted stag, and so-m out 1 ' stripped the Indians, but. the dog kept in clo-e ' pursuit. Finding it impossible to outrun or i [ elude the cunning auimai, trained to hunts of 1 this kind, he halted aud waited until it coin.-!1 within a few yards of him, fired and brought , ' him down. Ju a short time lie reached the 1 house of his brother, who resided near lbvaiit'* ' station, at Lexington, where lie left the child. ' Htwl the two brothers set out for the dwelling. i As they approached light broke in upon his view-? f ? his step quickened, his fear increased and flic 1 1 most agonizing apprehensions crowded upon |,js I mind. Kuierging from the cauebrake. lie beheld ' his house in flames, and almost burnt to the ' lrroiind. "My wife!'' he exclaimed, as he i * * ' * ? > - i i o pressed one hand to his torelieao, ;uki -i,,-,..,, the fence with the other, to support his t >tt<-i iut ' frame. Lie gazed on the ruin am! desolation J ' before him, advanced a f-w paces, and f. IJ , x. 1 hausted to the earth. ' Morning cainc, the luminary of heaven arose ' and still found him seated near the almost e\ i } piring einhcis. In his right hand lie held a ' small stick, with which he was tracing the name I * of " Kliza" on the ground, and hi- left hand lav ' f on his favorite dog, that lay by his side looking ;l first on the ruins, then on his master, with evi-1 1 dent signs of grief. Morgan arose. The tw.? I;| brothers now made search and found some bone* burnt to ashes, which they carefully gathered, '? and silently consigned to the mother ?-?rth, i?.. i> Heath wide spread branches of a vein-raid" oak. ' consecrated hv the purest and Indie.-' !< < <*' tioiis. Several davs after this, Morgan was engaged in a desperate battle at the lower J'lne lacks, t The Indians came off victor*, and the surviving . whit'-s returned across the Licking, pursm-d by t e ~ .lLionce of six and thirty mil"-. :i r 11 tioiuy IUI <? ? .1;mi' > Morgan was among flu* la-t who rrossr-d i ?!).-? r:\<-r. <1 was in llio r<-.ir until fIk* liil! w?i?s ( >!< -? Vln ;\< ii" 11?-- ii i;.1:.- \ ii tlio bridge, lie f< It ami saw his wrongs, ami | veoil.ctod the lovely object of his affections, lie urged Ills horse and pressed to the front. ' While in the a.t of leaping from his saddle, he ; ec< ivod a ritle ball in his thigh and fell; an In- j lian springing upon liini, seized him by the hair ind applidl the scalping knife. At this moment j Morgan ca?t up his eyes and recognized the l landkereliief that hound the head of the savage, ind which he knew to be his wife's. This added j vncwcd strength to his body and increased his j ictivity to fury. Ho quickly throw his h fi arm ! irouud tho Indian, and with a deathdikc gra-p nigged him to his bosom, plunged his knife in:o his side, and he oxpirc-d in his arms.?licensing himself from the savage, Morgan crawled under a small oak, on an elevated piece of ground, a short distance from him. The see tie f action shifted, and he. remained undi-cuvercd md misealpcd, an anxious spectator of the batlie. It \va* now midnight. The savage hand had, I ifter taking all the scalps they cotiM find, left i lie battle ground. Morgan was seated at t!: " j bot of the oak. its trunk supported his head. I lic rugged and uneven ground that surrounded 1 i l. ti, lllll Wys covercu ?un iih.-m.uh. .1.1. ind projecting rooks, Mended witli tin* rain am.] j sun of conturics, were crimsoned with blood that , tad warmed the lie-art and animated the bosom j if the patriot and soldier. The pale glimnier111; of the 1110011 occasionally threw a faint li^Iit J i|??ii tin: mangled bodies of the (bad, then a ! assing cloud enveloped all in darkness, and gave I ulditioiia! horror to the feeble erics of a few still j ingering in the la<t agonies of protracted deat!:, j vtid'-n-d doubly appalling l?v the hoarse growl f the \r'.?!I*. the varied shrill notes of the \\ild at and panther, feeding on the dead and the ! Iving.?Morgan b-h.-ld the scene with heart ending sensations, and looked forward in the; ipathy of despair to his own end. A large, ferocious looking hear, covered nil over ivith blood, now ap reaching liini, he threw iiiin- , iolf on the ground. <:l -ntly commending his so'd 0 Heaven, and in breathless anxiety awaited his ate. The satiated animal slowly passed without ' lotieing him. Morgan raN-d his head?was dioitt to oll'er thatiks for his unexpected pre-! ir-rvatioii. wlu-n a erv of a pack of wolves open, d ijioti liiin. nil-! awakened !i5m to a >oihr nf dan j J To placed I::- hand- over his ey < : f*ll i>ii ' lis face, and in sii.-ut at;**ny awaited Ms fate,j [Ic now heard a ru-fliti/ in tin* Lushes; step- j i]'|>ro.ie!i"l; a < < !.1 I'll ill ran ?>ver him. Ima*_ri-j latinii ?vas actively cn^a^i-il, death. the nio-t ' lorrible h, await*-'! liiiu : his linilis would in ill probability lie torn tVutn liiin, anU In"- ?lc*vt?im-?l ?li\II.* !'.*it a to'icli?tin; vital spark was al* j no<t extinguished?another touch nn.ro violent ' lian tin* first, an.I In; was turinal over. Tim j <?1?1 sweat rati down, in torrents?hi- liainls w-r** i :i-.l. ntly f.uc d iroin his face?the moon passed ( ioin under a cloinl?a faint ray beamed upon j lim : his eves involuntarily opened, and he la*-' u*!d his wife ; who in a S'-aive auddil** voice ex- j laiuie.l. ' Mv husband. my hu-band !"* and fell i poti ji is bosom. Morgan now learnod from his wife, that after, In* Indians enter*-.! tin* ln-n-.* t!my found >*.un* j pints. and drank fr.-ely. an altercation s?,on i . .k ! Iat??? tli'Mii r. e. iv. .1 a mortal .-tab and i ell, ami hi- b|o..,l ran through tin* floor on h>*r. ! Vlievin^ i' to 1..* tie* blood of h**r hu-bainl. -h?* ' iiri. ke.i alotnl and betrayed her plane of eoiiealinent. Sin* was imii|.*.!iat.*ly taken and bound. Tin* : art v. after setting tire to the house, proceeded . o l?rvant- station. On tin* day of tin* battle ' if tin* Jilin* Links, a horse with a saddle ami brille ni-h'-d by her. which she know to be her j ill-band's. I Miring the action t ho prison, rs w.*r<* j ft unguarded?mad** tlmir escape, and lay con- ' ale.! beimath some bitilms nud.-r the bank of Im river. After the Indian- had returned from j Imir pursuit, and left the battle ground, she with ' me other persons, who had escaped with h<*r. lotonuiiied te? make a search f<>r their friends.; md if on the field, and living, to save tlmm if; Hi-sib!., from the beasts of j.r- v. After search-1 n?r soim* time, almost de-pairiii'j; of siice.*-s, she ! orttiiiatcly discovered luui. Tli'' parfv of <'o!. Lo^ai) foun>l Morgan and -t ii< wife, and restored them to their friends, their i nfantaiid tlivir li'incs.?Mnrrixtown Jrr.*r?/ni'in. I Tin: 1 >im.K.?Tin* I5ih|e i- iIn- treasure <>f the ?oor, the solace <?l 111?. -iek and the >uj>j?<Tt of. Ii?- dviuir. aiid while other hooks may amn-?- and nstrtict in a l?->nir?; hour, it is tlie peculiar Hi-' iin[>Ii of that hook to create li^lit in tin"' inid-t >f darkin to :?!! -\:::to tin* sorrow whirl) admits | f no othi'i1 alleviation, to direct a h.-aui of ho|... i o t!ie heart which no other topic of consolation ' an reach: wliile ipiilt, de-pair and death van-!i at th" toiieh of its holy inspiration. There p - something in tin- spirit and dictation of the iihh*. which i> louinl periiliailv adapted to arrest he attention of the plain* si and uio>t uncnltiva- ' -.I miinU. Tli** -imp!** structure **f its smitiie nt-. ' ouihiin il with tli** lofty spirit of poetrv? t? familiar a!lii-ioiis t? <.cues of nature, and lfl.il In* tr;iiivt< !i >11^ ' ! ? ?>mmoti ji;< ?;in- ?hmi^iiiuii nt'-riu:\t:i: "I" narration with tin' d? < lrin.il [ M-rceptive jrt< ? :i!i'l tin- profusion (it* tn;i*:t?*tl-1 <ni- facts v.Li h < .tiV' il it into :i sort o| ehchan< '1 ground -its coiiSaiit of th- I ? i- j ' y, w|iiis" ji<rf?r-tioii- it renders almost \j-ibh? | 111it<- in In-towing upon it an i1111 r. -1. which at- ' ; acli's to no oth'-r performance, ;11i<t which, after i?iiiiiotis and repeated perusal, itiv<-t, it. with | iitie)i of the chaitn of novelty; like tin- ofi-at ; rl? ot ilav, which we arc wont to oa/.-- with una- i i iatcil astoiii-hinciit from infancy to o!.| ane.? ! | A'hat other nook 1 >?i?! -- tin- I>iI<1<* cotihl i ' , icard in pttLlie a -cuddies f.oin year to year, t villi an attention that n- ver tires ami an inter i -t that in vcr elov- ' Willi l<-w exception-, h t , , i portion of the saercil vohune he reeit. I in a j ni\e.| mult it tide, ainl though it lit- l.eeii heard ' . .thousand lim-s a iitiitervil .tillm-- en-i|e-. j very eye is fixed, and every ear i- awake and | , tfelltive. Select, if Volt call, MtlV oilier Colllpo- ! , itioii, and h i it l?* reinh i' d equally familiar to ! . In- mind, and ?-f whether it will produce this J , ffeef. I?KAt riI t I. St:\I'l>IK\T. ? W e live in the - -: l -1 i a' l.l.o-in"^ till we are utterly insensible i >1 tlieiroreatimss.and ol Ilie ?.iiic<- fmtn u hence I icy Hi i-.v. Wr speak of our civilization. ?>nr i irts, our freedom, our laws, and forget how I ar^'f a share is due to ('hri.stianit v. Idol | 'liiis'ianity out of man's history, and what i i \c ii Id his !a^ s 1> o < licmj ?what his eiviliv. lion? Christianity is mixed up with onr wry u! being and our very life: there is not a fatui!- o; i.-ir object around us which does not wear n j different aspect, because the light of ehris- j si tian love is upon it; tint a law which does si not owe its truth and gentleness to Chrisliaui- j tv ; not a custom which cannot he traced i:i j its holy, beautiful parts to the gospel.?Sir .1. j 11., A Sketch iti Rural JLifo. f [' It is Seldom says the Poabody's Chronielo " that we find a sketch ol rural life so graphi- J ^ call v. beautifully and truthfully depleted as , * the one we are about to give our readers. It ! j is a scene that Paul Potter couU transfer to j canvass, or Ucrard Dow <>r Tenners embalm ! in imperishable colors. And here it Is, and its source will be discovered before the reader - IP finishes tlie article: , . What art' the country people at, this wcatli- ' j or? We menu the people who live so far into ; the country that they cannot take a daily pa-1 per ami have the news of the whole woiM's morning poured into their ears after breakfast., Well, the sun rises when about an hour high , in such places, generally. And before the lar-1 .' titer lias finished his breakfast of buckwheat ' cakes and fried ham, it is time for Henry and | little Sarah to be wrapped in their warm com-' fitters, their niee woolen mittens warmed, and they to be off to school. Here is I nele Ben, j , juvt passing with his sled-load of hogs, on the ! . way to market. The little ones can clitnh "P i j to Ids seat in front, and, burying themselves iti the buffalo-skin till nothing hut tle-ircrimson " noses and -parkling eyes show out-ide, ride to I . the very door of the old school-house. The ) smoke curls up lazily from the chimney, but it ' j is a very copious smoke, and it there is not a , neater inside, little Sally lias missed her guess. 1 The boys have built a fort outside which is j " aliuo-t as high as their heads, behind which, '' sale from the missiles of the enemy, they can i c..,. infu till! foe. The down* '' Jill* nil li .HIW.I ..I..,./ - _ towm rs have got possession lliis morning, and !l i i j jj oven now tin* slnruy up-towners are pre pan 113 to assault it. The word is {liven, and the at-' tacking force is in motion. The-snow-balls flv > into their faces, tilling their coats ami bo-oms, Init they only inflame the ardor of the up-town- j j5' ers the more for victory. They have mieint. il 1 ' the slippery wall of the fort, and are jits! about I S.' tu leap within, when the rat-tat-tat of the mas- 1 ^ tor's fertile upon the door-sill brings the battle . to a stiildoil conclusion. The assailants and j 1 assailed brush oil'the snow hurriedly,ami with " glowing faces and hands rash in to the stmli- j ' mis contemplation of dog's-eared (irammars '* and Arithmetics, (deographios, Spelling books, and running-hand copies in penmanship. The farmer lays a larger line log on the j a(i<i! 1 nits, uiul goes out to fodder. He chops . up a few pumpkins for the milch-cows, deals 0 out a measure of corn for old ' brimlle' w hich r must die in a week to-day to till the beef-barrel. throws a lew nubbins to the working oxen that tliev may be in .*1 winking condition for ' the Spi ing work, and then mounts t lie hay mow. The farmer knows what lie's about. There is ! a warm stable for each of the cattle, and even , the calves have for every two a stable of their 11 own. Tli" still conies out. so bright to-day, he ; !! opens the doors, lets down the bars, and per ) . mils them to stioll for a few hours in the coin- ' ? ' 'I'l... 1-.,.I.- fil!,.,| wlili liiniithv IllHil \ ? I i I ill MIVU .? WJ and the farmer pumps a trough full of water lor their u.-if. II wiry. old gentleman, or before ! you have given the liens their corn and roplen I ' isliod tlieir cu[? of lime water, curried down . (lie horses and fed tliem their oats, given the v I>igs?alas! tlieir lathers ami mothers were 'l m ole pork uf a otolith ago, and though they . are of a tender age. and little aide to .support the. digiiiticsand responsibilities of the porkers, they must do it, for they have no betters now, > ' ? greased the wagon and put new straw into the sleigh.bottom, the hell will ting r dinner. ' After dinner, some stalks must he given the jl cattle, and then mustrnmc the promised sleigh ride, when mother will take down a basket of ]' eggs 11 get some sugar with, and a pound of that beautiful yellow butter?which the board- '' ing-lioiise keeper, whose invention of ye! ow j >spectacles, to pass oil' lard upon his hoarders * for butler, never dreams of buying, it eonies so high in the market?to barter for a calieo dress. (Jet in with them and ride down to the a store, 'l'he Post Ollicd is there, and there are (' all the liangers-aboul who have no cattle to I fodder, and the slack farmers who stack their ' corn stalks in tlieir barn yard, that the eat tie 1 t! may help themselves, and leave the bars down, w that they may go to the spring to drink, when t-, they clio.>-e?there the idlers and the lazy do w congregate. They champ p> a-nuts and erattueli b apples over the red-hot stove, and at odd spells b lhey play a game of backgammon. They talk n over village gossip and loeal polities, mid one, ci nunc wi<L> than the rest, win * has leu-rowed the I ii farmer's N. ^ . W eekly Times from the news- I , | [taper box in tie' Post t tfliee, reads on asioliallv ' a paragraph from it. perhaps, ali<nii the caloric ii ship, and then they lanjjh ahmit the Arabia t| wliieli did not heat the lialtie, and het that we ' vi will have Cuban members in Congress In-fore Lr I he new im ctiiji Imii-e is paid l<?r. ,? ibd t!ie mmd woman ha- made law purchases, ' tl and lie- farmer has '! hi- paper and the news, tr so I lie i;re V mare is headed lor home. We j ei must slop at the shoe->hop tiioiioh. and leave tl I >icl? S ?hoes to lie mended. \\ hew, Ii -w hot ' d these shoellialiers Keep it ! Alld the hi/. I lei- O lows wli" lieloiifj oiit-ide? they ttor.ol hard s: noii'jh la-t siimiiier?sit smohieo t| h- pipes, I I lelliuo stale Stories, and yawning ail In* day. I p! I tut, you vagabond-, into the fiv-h .?i r, ami itaive the honest eol.lders the room \ mi o e.ipy ; a! have a o.'inie at snowballing, and ual>e \our-elves up. True, \mi can't jp-t uap-s for \our work at this season, hut win not be ripheiirio ,| it borne, or Knitting on the S'-iiie ^ ^our rood ,,, aid father lias been at il every b i-me hour. |n and will sit uj> till nine o'clock ! > iii^lil to hur |j, rv it aloiiir. Uri^ho! it is almost sunset now!',|, We must baek a^ain to our t' ddeiiiij;, and || lijolit will overtake us before we are IIn<m^l?. |i And n ?w supper the simple -tone, ,,f 11?. |j: lie folks, the apples and nut-, the s'orliiue tj k11i11i11If iu one eorinw, and tin seine Knitl in" v, in the other, tie piece read Irons tin- paper and I he comments on it, and the" lb" hall IJiblc" ; hioii'dit out, and a ?:!oiioi> p-alm r? ad li. l'.ie i .v.. i ,i... i t I" i*vclii?ijl |"; Vi'i's, ;::m <im.- .... il iv in tlif v. I'\ .'vK (!|i- |;j,. is i I buried up on the hearth. 11st: lights are jmi it. niul pleasant dreams, if any, haunt tli iiiul sleep of I ho ?.io I country people. 0 ;di are the rural districts, and such are tli news of the republic. 4k It's no <'oitreria of jTIiiio/' A> I was passing through Nassau street, no mg ago, on the way to my oliice, I found in regress somewhat olistnieted by sundry nui inct's on the sidewalk. If 1 rceollect aright me persons were building a sewer in ill reef, and, as is often the case in such cii im-tanccs, these, persons were less careful fo le interests of (he passers by than for tliei wn iutersts. 1'or some reason or other?in tatter what that reason was?they had placei wide board on the sidewalk, whieli wassuj orted at, each end by a joist some four or liv iclios thick. Now it so happened that tlii oard was not confiod to the joist, and, more ver, that it projeeted so far at one end, tha hen a person stepped upon it, it lifted iiji tli tlier end, thus endangering the limits of an tlier person who might be approaching it i ie opposite direction. I saw one man luir i tliis way. So I asked a gentleman?if gen email he was who showed such an ungeiitl pint?statuling hi irunl ui uicuwi ear by, to give me a hammer ami a couple o aih, that I might confine the ends of tlii nanl. and thus prevent another accident sinii ir to tlie mie which had ju-?t occurred.0T! o 1:0 such thing,"' said the man, gruJlly, "it' o concern ol' mine."' I have thought a good deal of that rctnarl aice it Ceil iijioii my car, and I have made ii| ly miial that nothing cunhl have dictated i ut a very selfish spirit. And yet I am afraii lat this spirit is too common to mankind. "It" o concern of mine."' IIo\v often do \vc so cople act in accordance with this notion, ii mie such circumstances as those which I liav cited ! Hut. dear reader, is it no concern o man, when lie sees a danger llireaieneu n is neighbor, to help that neighbor, especially hen lie can do so with very little trouble? 11 you the Kible doesn't teach any such doc iue as the Nassau street man advanced. I iys, "Look not every man on his nwi. thing* ut on the things of others." Itjtells lis, to b ire, of a certain priest who passed by a mai lat was lying wounded and half dead, bocaus laf man's troubles were no concern of his, am tolls us, too, of a Levito who did pretty inch the same thing: but as nearly as I eai .'collect, it doesn't compliment either tli riest or the Levite very highly. "It's no concern of mine," says the man wlv ; selling gin to a poor drunkard ; "it's no con rn of mine." llut is it no concern of his le knows that that man, who has just wnlkei ut of his store with a bottle in his band, wil et drunk on its contents. He knows it. II iiows, too, or, at any rate, lie has good reasoi > think, that there is a poor family not fa If. who are siillering for want of the mono hi. ;, bought this gin; that the liipior wil take a mnlman of that father, and that, ur er its inllueiice, he will go home and mak is wife and children wretched. Then in i o concern of the man who measures out ill pior, fills the bottle, and puts the money i is drawer? Will the Judge of that man, i te last great day, accept of such an apolog <r the deed { "It's no concern of mine," an apotliocar light say, while in the aet of selling the mo* eadly poison in his shop to a man who h new was weary of the world, and was goin commit suicide, lint is it no concern < int apothecary Would he dare use sue mgiiage at the bar of his .Maker? "It's no concern of mine,'" people sometime iy, as they sit in their splendid parlors, sut lunded with wealth ami luxury, when they ear of siillering ami wretchedness going o: ii *i r.titnii t!i, r11 Ibii is it im concent of theirs i there not !n this remark somewhat of th -Ifishiiess of the priest and the Levite, wh parsed hv on the other side," having inor rcssing business on hand than bestowing tliui empathies on a stranger, though dying to ant of their eare {? Youth's Cabinet. Ciii\i:<k TitAinriox ok tiik Dki.uck.?I n address lately delivered in Dublin. I?v Di iut/lalf, a.nong other things. h> made the fol wing statement : 4,ljet them now look to the cast of Asia, an n re on its shores, washed hy the I'aeilic, the on Id find China, an ancient nation, which ha tained its customs lor over two thousand year ith a strictness ;nul attachment that would d oiior to hotter tilings. In fact the Chines ad a continual lii-tory, even trom the delng p to the present time; they had writers in al ircunisiaiiees. and lliev had a language whirl i its esseiila! parts, had undergone very litfl laiiL'e lor the past two thousand years. ' ('liinese history stated that there was at on iin- a great deluge, when the waters rose t ie h<-1veiis, and that the empire was then eon cried into a swamp, which a king called Shir ' 1 1 efin;d?_ ulmse mouth I I'";t111 i in iii> , | <>l11*<| inln the seas and livers. The date < lis event ??n!v dill'i red a lew tears frnin tlia eiierallv assigned to tint delude. It was iilirtiialioii ? !" tin* truth nf I Inly S'liptun tal so distant ;i ti;itinn as the t 'hinese, wlr id nut know limn the IJihle <?f the eciirivne ft he ?:eat water-lall, should yet record tli line event as tliatspiikeii <i|'ill llnly Writ.? here were eniiieideiires also, such, fir exain e, as the reenrd of a nreat starvation, whirl ok plaee almiit the time when Joseph \ta hunt minister nf lyiypt." Tin: I.milimm? oi Tin: Minh.?Tlmi|e|il j ie eh el riiit \ nf l he krain ; it sin ml- In tie' re i> >|e-l |ie| |ni|- nf |li-t il*\ , all*I I illelies | he lirik of life. It || l-hes | !|lnl|n|l | ||e e|. ||l" ll|s |[ air. eartii and water. Ii |-n ivil. In tli [ tli n| kient ledye. and ri--> In the nates n an ii. It is an iiilinil" !v small lav nf tie i!\. I --tinted nil Inimaiiii \ : it ret nrn in 11 in > 111 a enrriljit ll'le In a - J111 i 111:. 1 c\j<.|e!ice. (ill vale it. and t.ui will I< leliiie.l; le-deel it, ain el will in- deha? d. -*? ? > Viiljvn |i|iv-ieialis lilt*) it hard to net illti : hut tln-t xvid s'lveeed it |!ie\ n.ilv i/-it, 'I ?fiicral ileitis. j e ! F.u.r. ok tiii: 1'i.ovn ilorsE.?Tin* Macon Journal ami M'-ssoncreV of tlio Utli in<t. savs: "A singular incident occurred in our ritv yes- i | terdav ahoitt 11 o'clock, a. in. It has been no-1 { ticed f?.r several days j.ast that tin* South-east' ? end wall cf tin* Floyd IIoti?e had buljjeJ near j \.1 the ground, ami on Friday iiiornimr last, a nor I tion of it, about ten f-ct in height and width, j j fell into the alley on which it was located. No j .. serious apprehensions were entertained fur tin* ! r safely of tin- building, :iu<1 the wall was beinjj r re-built. Vestonlav tiioniiiiif. however, tlie ?1:iii} ijer becoming evident. the occupantsof the room [ [| > at that end of the building had retired from ! t. them, and the workmen from their labor on (he , c. f wall. A considerable number of people were I s present watching the result. v hen the entire end, i .. wit!) ahotit twenty feet of the front and back' l walls and roof, tumbled to the ground. No per- ! t. sonal injury wa? sustained by any one. A vain-1 i able stock of < n icerics, in the lower story, owned i i) i by T. ('. Ibmipsey, is under the ruins. Eijjlit j t j rooms, in the second and third stories, with val ; uablc furniture, generally belong n?r to theoccu- 1 L. j pants, are destroyed. The accident is probably j,' owiiur to the loiij* continued rains, and the na- i I-' tare of the s..il (formerly a pond) on which this ' - -? < ?I - a. 1 I. ]..._ ! s : cm I 01 ttio IlllllUmg was locuu-u. ji mm WI.-VH , i. i croc tod about twor.tv-live vears." , _ ^ I s A while man named Stephen an Pelt, was j arrested in Richmond, Va., on Wednesday after- i k noun at thed'-pot o' the liiclimondaiid Petersburg j) Rail Road, upon the charge of picking the pocket i t < of a gentleman named II. F. Adieke, a merchant! ii at Vorkville, in this State, while the laiter was ] s I in the act of getting into an omnibus at the de-; e p'">t in Ih'oad'-street. The accused was brought, 11 before Alderman Evans, examined upon the' e charge, and committed to prison until the 2d of if April, when he will take his trial. y Bkuoaks OrTwiTTKD.?Many years ago an 1 ingenious plan was adopted by the Grand Duke to rid Florence of beggars. It was proclaimed t ' that every beggar who would appear in the ; grand plaza at a certain mentioned time would e j be provided by the Duke with a Hew suit ofj a , clothes, free of cost. At the appointed time i e the liege a rs of the city all assembled, and the ' d (hand Duke, causing all the avenues to the v square to ha closed, compelled the beggars to a strip oil' their old clothes, and gave each one, I e according to promise, a new suit. In the old 1 clothes thus collected, enough money was ' - ? ? I I . L ? .1 ! 0 round concealed to duiiu a oenuiuui onug.i uut . i- the Anio, still called "the beggars bridge." and ? the city, for the time being, was relieved of the j 1 beggars by which it had been previously overI run, as none would give to the well dressed in- j e dividuals who implored charity, not believing a ! their tale of distress.?Portland Advertiser, i V Messrs. Foote and Benton.?These two il gentlemen, who have very little in common,: i- j seem to agree in the determination to give as ; e j much trouble as possible to the party to which j II they profess to belong in their respective States, j e ! Kaeh has announced himself a candidate for 1 n the I niteii States Senate, and one of them | n ' (Koote.J has already taken the Held in advoca- ! v ; cy of his claims. We find the following item ! j in the New Orleans True Delta, of the loth y I ult: >t I " Governor Koote, of Missis.-ippi, has taken e the stump, to ask the people to electa LegMag 1 tare favorable to his election to the U. States i 'f. Senate. He was to coiuinence his tour of the | h i State by addressing the people of Hinds county, | at Raymond, to-day." s i What mav we expect to see, as the result! " of this supremo sollisimcss or vindictivencss ? I v lor ouo or tiio other feeling must prompt the' ii movement. There will probably he opposing ? democratic candidates in each of the counties e ut the State?between whom not a few Whigs o ! will be run in the Legislature. For if Fnote e i succeeds in bringing out candidates pledged to r | Am support, will nut other aspirants have friends r I in the field pledged to their support 1 The ' 1 probable conseipience will be the perpetuation i of Democratic dissensions, and the return of ,, a Whig to the I"uited Stales Senate. r> | W e are led to notice the course of Ciov. |. I'oote because we think it should receive, at i I once, a pointed rebuke from every Democratic J paper ol the I nion. We <fc> not blame him , I tor desiring to go to the Senate. 1 Lit we do uiuajuivoeally condemn the course bv which , he seeks to bring about his election. If a true Democrat, he should be content to wait until | 1 the Legislature is clmseii and assembled, and (< then submit his claims to a caucus of his par- j .a J ly. If nominated by that, caucus, and duly! elected by the body, let him go as Senator to ] Washington. If not, let him stay at home. Simtnihth (i\'ori/iun. j 1 ()t rtJAin'ors Swinomxi;. ? One of the most i " outrageous transactions that have taken place l under the lute administration is the swindling j " of the Indians in .Minnesota, by (ioveriiorj s. Kamsev and a Imrde ol leeches under liiin, out '' of a verv large sum ol money intrusted to the parties bv the government, to be paid over to , :l certain tribes, to comply with treaty stimilalions. The t iueinnati Kmpiircr says the sum " i< as high a* s\>ar>.000. which the-e di.-honesf 1 oliieials have pocketed in this instance. l" it seems that they robbed them in a double j form. Thev lirst obtained the money in spe- ; eie from tin- government, and exchanged a large ' '' sum of it Ibr spurious paper, the Hank oft America, pretending to be an institution at Washington eitv. This they took out to | .Minnesota, and palmed upon the unlettered In- j -1 tlians as good moucv. whieli Ilie.v now cannot J "'get rid of at any price ? the agents them-j ' selves refusing l<> touch it. 1 his was one ' source of (lie swindle, and of prolit to the in- i famous oliieials; for it cannot he supposed' 1 thev exchanged coin for utterly worthless rags ' ' will)..ill getting an immense premium for the J 1 former. Tle-\ robbed ihcm by another process, i ' i They provided lictilious claims, from which i ' : 1 on.?v from the chiels. in tlipi IIU'V I'll .Hill II _ , iiaim* Hi' tin- (riln-s. alli-r lirst mnkiiiir J , ilninlt ami ?li>|irivin? lln-m of abililv to rait I'l lliriv "\v!i itili-riwls. \iiil t)u-11 tlmv ' I-ai'l 11111:11-y in n-rtain amounts anil IrauiliiliMtl ly got tin- Indians to sign receipts lor much larger stmts, and themselves divided and pocketed the differences. J it t lie meantime the poor Indians, unable to provide supplies with the rag trash in their hands, are suffering with cold, starvation ami disease; and the scoundrels who rioted upon their means of subsistence, instead of being in cells, nro defended as honorable men. lJelroit Free Press. \ Extensive Conflagration. . A lire broke out yesterday morning Ik-J ween two and three o'clock, in the rear of Mr. William I-hitler's dry goods store, west side of King street, a few doors north of Morris street, which, from tlit! rapidity with which it spread, ami the combustible nature of the buildings in the neighborhood, for a time, had a most alarming asj?cct, and threatened an extensive conflagration. As it was, a great many buildings were burned, and an unusual number of families left houseless, occasioning much of individual hardship and distress. _ .... , The flames were first discovered in the stable < \ I T i . I 1 I . ! 1!-? J.. m ,\ir. miner, .'inu wore aimosi immeumieiy tunimuiiicnted to the stables of Mr. John Wilson, who. by extraordinary exertions, succeeded in extricating ten of his horses, while a horse and mule perished in the flames, and all his drays, ten or twelve in number wore consumed. The dames rapidly extended to Mr. Wilson's dwelling on King-street and thcncc south to the dry goods store i>f Mr. Win. I'>utlor,and the fine new threo story wooden building at the comer of King and Morris street, occupied by Mr. Levy Moses, all of which were consumed. All of the foregoing were owned hv Mr. Moses, as was also a one store tenement north of Mr. Wilson's which, with A . 1 1 J _..J \,.A I .. \i_ IIH3 uIT ^uuus siurt; uwnuu ;iiiu uaui;ii:u uj iw*. J. P. Reed, a two story wooden building, owned and occupied by Elias Gardner, (colored) and a one story wooden building, occupied by II. Williams, and owned by Mrs. Plum, were also consumed. The lire terminated here on the weal side of King-street. On the east side, the grocery store at the corner of Read street, owned by Mrs. Davis; a large two story wooden building, owned and occupied by Mrs. Anthony, and an extensive brick tenement in the rear, occupied by Dr. Wm. llummel and other families, aho owned by Mrs. Anthony, a one story wooden building, occupied by Mr. J, O'Neill, shoemaker, and two or three small buildings were consumed. The range of tenements, sixteen in number, extending from King street to the Railroad track, and occupied by a large number of poor families, were rapidly enveloped in flames and destroyed. They were all owned by Mrs. Davis. On the north side of Heed street, the store occupied by Mr. Appier, at the corner of King, and the bakery in the rear, and a two story wooden building, occupied by Mr. Tynsley, all of which belonged to the estate of Penoist; and two small wooden buildings, owned by Mrs, Wharton, one of which w;is occupied by Mr Desmond, were also consumed ; but two new frame buildings, between them and the Railroad track, were saved. The loss may-be estimated at about $40,000, of which $23,000 were covered by insurance in the following oHices, viz: $10,00(J in the Athens (Cn.) Mutual Insurance; $4,400 in the Ilartfof? 1 Insurance Co.; $4,100 in the Charleston Insurance and Trust Co.; $2,800 in the South Carolina Insurance Co.; and $1,700 in the South Carolina Mutual Insurance Company. Charleston Mercury. Cuuious Suit.?The widow of Professor Ilinkcl has brought suit against the trustees of St. Peter's Church, at Cincinnati, for violating the remains of her dead husband. About two weeks since Professor II. died, and was buried in St. Peter's Catholic burying ground in that city, the trustees supposing that he was a member of the Catholic Church. On ascertaining afterwards that the Professor was an unbeliever in tlie Christian religion, it was ordered that bis reiiniiis lie disinterred and removed to a portion of the yard not consecrated, which order was complied with. The Freeman and Turner Society, of which he was a member, ascertaining what bad occurred, turned out in n large body, and going in procession to the cemetery, exhumed his remains, and conveyed tliein to another grave yard. The process was entered against those who fir.-t disturbed tho body. The 1 >ivision of California into three Slates di-linet and separate, is now comtemplatcd and liiessed there. A maioiitv of the Lcinslatme. it r ------ j ? ? is said, will order a state Coiiven.ioii, and upon that manner, and boundaries of division. The tlnvo States are to be named "Sierra," the mountain division, which has about 2.1,000 inhabitants, by the last census; "California" which has 20", '!$ <: and "Tular," the Southern State, including Los Angolosand San Diego which, has :M. 1 " ?> inhabitants and about seven and a half millions of taxable property. This southern State of Tulare, in the division, it is contemplated by many of the occupants to make a slave State of?and one of the objects of pressing the division is to establish slavery there. The State debt of California is about three millions of dollars; and this debt, divided among the New States, would give California $2,333,333; Tulare $400.Uo(); and Sierra $2(it?,0r>7. Tin: Elka/.kij Wii.u vms Hi'miuc.?The New York IIcra'd of llie Ji'lb, has the following remarks oil tliis rccfiil plausible but ridiculous tale, publish* d originally in 1 'uttnam's Magazine. "We have recently received a document written bv a highly distinguished \\ e>tern statesman who has personally known something of Klcazcr Williams and his history for the last thirty years in reply to the narrative and the argument of tin* liev. Mr. Hanson, in behalf of this half breed In.lian's pretensions to tin- orowii ot tlio Bourbons. This reply wo propose to publish to-niorro\v, lor ill.- hem-lit of tlio two or three learned divines interested in the project of restoring the llev. Mr. Williams to hi< rightful iiiheritanoe of the Tuilleries. The eminent citizen who has thus found time to attend to the claim of Mr. Williams, proves him. we think, to he either the dupe of a Strang.* halliiueiiiatioii of his own creating. of lie* victim of the spiritual rappers. Nov. i scolV at religion ; it is not only the proof . fa wide I heart, hilt ! *? breeding.