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VOLUME XV. CAMDEN, SOUTH-CAROLINA, NUMBER 15. ~ ~ ~ ~ ' '* ' ll'ijmM|MBBMBg|BiB5BaB!gina3eni?i-f iJSMB? - ???? ????BBMmmmmBMBMMM??i??MBBBW> PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY * THOMAS J.WABREN. | XER.HS. Two Dollars if paid in advance; Two Dollars and Fifty Cents if payment be delayed three months, and Three Dollars if not paid till the expiration of the year. 0 ADVERTISEMENTS will bo inserted at the following rates: For one Square, (fourteen lines or less,) seventy-five cents for the first, and thirty-seven and 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. \^ Ihe nuraberof insertions desired must be noted on the margin of all advertisements, or they will be published uutil ordered discontinued and charged accordingly. 0 JHisttlliUttoiis. The Power of Couscieuce. What conscience is, and its power, we all know by experience, though not so fully as j we all shall know hereafter. "* T '* ' ?? k? ?i 4 /\ eooL* . \ II we UO wrong I1U tunuvi U?.1I iv/ libr inferior and worldly good, to tho neglect otf the eternal and heavenly, the secret moni* toij- perpetually condemns us of folly .and wrong. Iu jtiie intoxication of pleasure, or in the whirl of lousiness, its voice may not be heard ; but whenever th#ere comes a pause, whether we are jalone in the forest, or in our secret chamber^, or whether we wake upon our beds at midipight?whenever reflection comes, then conies also the voice of conscience, before which all our pride and worldly aspirations staijd rebuked, and we feel that when we are living merely for unworthy and worldly ends, we are sinning against our own souls and failing in the duties fbr which we are made. Then conscience asserts its prerogative as lord of the soul ; as though it were* not of ourselves, but a stern vicegerent of Jehovah entlfroned within us, without whose approval no^leasure can give us enjoyment, and at whose rebuke all (^mfort and peace must die. But when we are wise, when we aim at the ends which reason and God approve, then, how sweet the joy of an approving conscience ! a joy which no earthly applause or honors can ever awaken and which the gold of the universe cannot buy. "This is our rejoicing, the testimony of a good conscience." 2. If we have done wrong, then we have awakened an avenger from which we cannot flee. If we retire into the solitudes it is there. If we hide ourselves in secret places it is there. If we ascend into heaven it is there ; if we make our bed in Hell, it is there. If one has grown rich on ill gotten gaiift, the very stones out of the wall and the beam out of the timber shall answer it to his soul. If he has committed some crime?though the fear of human laws commonly fills him with perpetual apprehension, and though he suspects that every eye he | meets looks into his heart, and reads there the - story of his guilt1?yet froyi human laws lie may sometimes hope to.escape. But to what profit while the avenger i? within ! Men sometimes become hardened in villainy. Their consciences may become obtuse, seared as with a hot iron. Yet could we enter into their secret thoughts, could we see all the secret workings of conscience within them when they are alone before God, we should doubtless see that conscience does' not always sleep though they appear so insensible. Often it is but appearance. A man has gained somewhat by dishonesty.? His 6oul is troubled. lie tries,to forget it.? He hopes that time will wear out the remembrance. Year after year rolls away, but the wound in the spirit is not healed. He findsno peace till humbled aifd conquered ; unable to live in such tormo^, he confesses his guilt and makes restitution. # The murderer has perhaps eluded all human observation.' No trace of the crime points him as the perpetrator. * The minions of jus tice are completely baffled. lie thinks he has j escaped. Escaped ! There is no escape.? There is no eluding the stings of an avenging D ^ O O ~ conscience. What is wealth, what are honors, what are pleasures to him ? The rankling : wound is in his very soul; it is bound up in his very being. He roams to foreign lands, but his 'tormentor is there. He llees to the solitudes of the ocean, he removes to the lone desert, he hopes to hide amid the icebergs of the north, but his tormentor is there! lie cannot live. He cannot live. lie returns and i confesses his^rime, in hope of appeasing conscience, and gaining relief,-though by a felon's death. His soul "chooseth strangling and death, rather than life.".?Dr. E. Hall. Immortality.?The doctrine of man's immortality, and this alone, unravels the myriad bewildering perplexities and entanglements of thought and feeling, produced by the spectacle of the inequalities of condition and partialities of allotment; the irrtertwistitigs of brightness and blackness, of justice and injustice, of beauteous order and grossest disorder, of thrilling i harmonies and hidehus jangling discords, which ' make up that strangest of conglomerates, Hu-j man Life ! For in laying the foundations and j commencing the superstructure of an edifice,: we must needs behold heaps of timber, stone j and mortar, together with rubbish of all descriptions, scattered about in unsightly confufion. But thought flies onward and beholds the completed building towering symmetrically majestic, with its dome cleaving the serener j skies and gilded by the more radiant sunshine ! of Eternity ! ' Remedy for the Bite of a Mad Dog.?As ! a cry of mad dogs has been,raised, the tollowing} which we clip from an exchange, may be worth a perusal: "A Saxon forester, named Gastell, now of the venerable age of 82, unwilling to take to the grave witli him a secret of such import, has j made public in the Leipsic Journal, the means i which he hyd used for fifty years, and where-) with he allirms he lias rescued many human j bci^'s and cattle from the fearful death of hy-1 dropriohia. Take immediately warm vinegar j - or tepid water, wash the wound clean there-1 with, and then dry it; pour then a few drops of j muriatic acid, because mineral acids destroy I the poison of t he saliva, by which means the I evil effect of the latter is neutralized." Louisiana Courier. ! th t if.i n nwg.viitiiia diniym iiiihi awa? Dos Trains. It is well known that the Lake Superior mineral region is situated in high northern latitudes, and is inaccessible in winter for steamboats, or overland by teams. The inhabitants keep up an occasional communication with the world by means of dog trains, which convey the mails and light articles of traffic. A correspondent of the Cleveland Herald, writing from Eagle River, gives an interesting account of this mode of travelling. After stating the different routes to the settlements, none of which present a beaten or even a welldefined track, he goes on to say : Such are the frozen spaces over which a score of Indian half-breeds and their dogs carry and draw the letters and papers destined for our amusement and our information. A man carries from 50 to 75 pounds, and walks 30 to 50 miles. Ilis two dogs go before him, with a sledge or shed with a flat board bottom, and draw 250 to 300 pounds.TLIo lrvo/1 linutaunr io ?ill lVittoi'c packages. All men must cat, and an Indian in particular, lie must carry a half' axe or hatchet, a plenty of blankets, and something (^r his dogs to eat, as well as himself. What can be more desolate than such a journey ? Yet many persons from here make the trip every winter on business, in company with the mail. Sometimes they have the trail of a previous party, but the snow, which falls almost every day, soon obliterates their footsteps. Perhaps there is a line of blazed trees which they follow, but more often they are guide'd through the forest by the " make of the ground," or by the sun, if it should occasionally peep out through the mists and snow of a winter sky. .Thus they go, from the first dawn of day to the twilight of evening; over lakes and mountains, through swamps and thickets, that in summer would be impassable, but now smoothed up level with snow. , The universal evergreen trees are bending to the ground with a load of snow on their branches that frequently obstruct the way. This dismal procession of Indians, white men and dogs, go in single file, a few feet apart, and for hours they travel on, at the height of their speed, without a word or a laugh. It is too much of a task to clear away the snow start a fire heat the water, thaw the bread and prepare a forest ineal, to stop for at noon. . But at evening, when the shades oj* a hyperborean night begin to gather among the branches of the-trees, and the northern winds howl more earnestly, the company look about for a shelter-place in some ravine where there is water, and some dry wood for a fire, and there deposite their load of blankets and provisions. They scrape away the snow with their snow shoes, down to the ground, thus making a wall of frost around them three or four feet high. Some cut wood for the night, others break off the boughs of the pine, balsam or cedar, and lay them dnwn for a bed. Another procures some birch bark that is dry and some dry sticks, u?d -striking tiro by bis flint and steel, or his matches, has a cheerful flaine with 1 its grateful heat enlivening the place. It is also j necessary to build a lodge or house of boughs | overhead to keen off the falling snow, under i which they .ill gather and coifk their supper with great glee. If a camp of Indians has been passed during the day, there will be seen | some fiesh venison, that will occupy the best} position around the fire, suspended upon the J sharp points of limber sticks set in the ground and leaning towards the heat. There may he, | however, only some salt pork, or ham and j flour, made edible by means of a short-handled j frying pan and some water. It would astonish city people to sec the quantity of surli materials that disappear on such an occasion. ,The meal, or rather the feast, is really intended for the whole of the next twenty-four hours. When it is fini-hed the party begin to unpack their feet and their blankets. The various articles that the feet are sandalled in for winter are so numerous and so peculiar,. that I must defer the description until another time. The blankets being well spread, the fire made for the night, the dogs fed and the dishes washed, i the ffowd, animal and mortal, Indian and white, doubles itself together in most friendly contiguity, and goes to sleep. Long before davliglit the inmates of this snow-bound lodging are in motion. The sounds that issue from it are English, French and Indian, and all grades of a language composed of a mixture of theiu all. The -moccasins arc taken down from their drying places, the hasty morning repast, whicL was cooked the night before, is swallowed, th<^ packs made up, the dogs harnessed, and all i made ready for a start at the first light of day. What piteous bowlings these dogs s*et np as they are attached to the train. The human part of the cavalcade sling their packs, and all betake themselves again to the dreary labors of the day. It is thus that this communication will reach you, but before many years we hope to have an open road from scttlftnents, and a beaten path over which there would be the best of sleighing between four anthfive mouths in the year." No Place Like IIome.?"Pick out," writes Mr. Wajlace, the Naturalist, who has just spent four-years in collecting specimen^ on the banks' of the Amaztm, "pick out the loveliest spots where the most gorgeous flowers of the tropics expand their glowing petals, and for every scene of this kiqd, we may find another at home of equal beauty, and with an equal amou '. of brilliant color. Look at a field of butter cups and daisies?a hillside covivitli Ciorse Ilfld hrnntn *l mniinloin ri..l> with purple heather, or a forest glade azure with a carpet of wild liyacyntlis, and they will hear comparison with any scene the tropics can produce. I have never seen anything more glorious than an old crah tree in full blossom ; and the horse-chestnut, lilac, ami larburnunj, will vie with the choicest tropical trees'and shrubs. In the tropical waters are no more beautiful plants than our white and yellow water-lilies, our iris, an<L|flowcring rush." W Tears of compassion are like dew drops falling from roses upon the face of the earth. / Preparations for tlic Eastern War. The Paris correspondent of the Cincinnati Gazette, in reference to the preparations for war now being made by the Western powers, says : The new inventions for the moro rapid destruction of human beings which the war is bringing to light, especially in England, will surpass all expectations. The arsenals of England have for a Iqpg time been closed to visitors, even to members of Parliament, while these new and terrible .machines were heing experimented upon, and no knowledge of their existence even w^s permitted until now called forth by actual service. Many years ago the English Go\#rnraent had a proposition before thein to adopt Wagner's floating gun, and hesitated. A member of Parliament exclaimed : "lie demands but 300,000 pounds, and yet you hesitate ! Hasten to buy this this machine, 1 r? 1 :il declare war against rrance, aim y??u win uustroy lier marine in a few dn^' time !" No attention was paid to this apostrophe at the time in France, and nf^arenlly none in Eng-. land. Hut this terrible invention of which the public has teased to talk, and which was even ridiculed at the time, has been maturing in concealment in the arsenals of Woolwich, and is now read}' to go out on its work of destruction. j The Count Lavalette, captain of military marine in France, who knew the construction of this gun, it is said made endeavors to have it adopted by the Minister of Marine under Louis Philippe. It is simply a long congreve gun, which glides along on the water in a straight line till it strikes the vessel at which it is directed, when it thrusts into its side its iron head containing two pounds of fulminating powder of mercury. When the fire attains this reservoir it explodes, blowing a hole in the vessel ten or twelve feet in diameter, which it is impossible for them to close up as tnov do the round noies maae ny 'cannon balls; . In admitting that the Russians fleets shall retire under the inapproachable fortresses in Cronstadt; and Sebastapol, they*cannot be in sa ;cty from this terrible cong^lve gun, which carries to almost any distance within reach of any othg* gun. It cannot be prevented from passing through the most contracted straits where ships pass. "The submarine boats afe so perfected at this moment, that they can reach and attach a burner to an enemy's ship without running the least danger. Experiments arc also being made with an asphyxiating ball, which does not kill, but which paralyses an entire crew for several hours, or until they are made prisoners. They/ are embarking also ,p large number of burning explosive balls, which explode invariably when they strike, even in the body of a horse ; for CI icy inflame at the moment of dis charge from the gun, and fly burning like small congreves until the moment of the explosion, when they may apply fire to .the ammunition chests and other inflammable materials as easily and as surefy as if they were 10 mn mtv n stubble field. s The Peace Society have agitated the question in England of how far a nation is justified in employing other and more destructive methods in war than those employed by the enemy. Admiral Napier has replied to these propositions with irony: "If you fear to hurt the enemy, put into your guns balls of cotton, and into your cannons cakes of rice." The English HSft is largely provided with balloons, intended to carry inflammable materials to scatter over towns, villages and fleets, .when the wind favors such operations." "A thing of lleauty is a joy forever," says the poc". He uttered truth a moje literally exact and vastly comprehensive, than nrobably occurred to himself, lor it is an undoubted verity, that no good and beautiful person or thing thought or imagination, ever once shone upon and glorified our?existenco,. but is surviving now and without any other ?liange than' from "lorv to arlorv. What materials of iov then must he accumulated -already in the unseen immortal sphere?that sphere where, with augmented and ever increasing radiance, dwell all the bright and beauteous ones that beamed on our globe for a season, to demonstrate what humanity can he! Nor these alone, but where survive and flash and flame from mind to mind, like streams of electric light, all the magnificent and noble thoughts and splendid imaginings that ever started up in or ilitteiTathwart a mortal spirit since the morning hour of time. Yes, not cup of all these bright visitants has fallen back into nonentity. This cannot be. All yet survive and are garnered1 up in some spiritual storehouse to make part of thc*"angel's food" prepared for the immortal Idlest, "A thing of beaut}* is a joy forever," [Saturday Eve. Mail. ... - Powkii.? Power, in its highest manifestation : springs from the bosom of serenity,'and without noiseare its amplest and its surest tri umplis achieved. The grand movements are silent ones, and pence with unechoing tread leads on its most stupendous results. Thus the flood and the tempest, the earthquake and the thunder, are not the select symbols of material force. From their clangor and fury issue I only insignificant ami fleeting effects. Hut in the soft dropping dews and rains, the invisible air and heat, and the impalpable elements of electricity, magnetism and gravity, are "found I the agtnits wielding the most potent material energies. .Silently, peacefully they work, and beauty, benignity, and wonder put momently | forth, and the seasons go interchangeably by | in magnificent procession, and the great seas swing hither and thither, and the ponderous | globe whirls with thought like celerity on its J axis, and innumerable voids spin through the I infinite void, lie not then, the fool of the sen| ses, to fancy that energy is evinced by turbulence and fume, or results thus wrought either | the greatest or most enduring.?lb. ADVICE TO THE ItlSING OK NEK ATI ON. I i going to paities, just mind what you're at, beware of your head, and take care of your hat, Lost you find that a favorite son of your mother i 1 as an aeit" in the one and a hri^k in the other. | History.?How few of our young peo^N lead history! It requires but a cursory ob* 1 Jervation to convince us of the fact. We nevi <r hear theni allude to historical authors in ' heir conversation, or to any of the great wrij brs of former times, whilst it is common elough to hear a pretty free expression of opin; on in regard to the ephemeral productions of .he day; and it is easy to learn from the gene;al tenor of their remarks that even theso are 'end in many cases, mostly with the view of icing fashionable, aq^J not from a hearty relish or any kind of reading. The truth is that the profusion of cheap and< nercenary books has produced a kind of satiejj of feeling in the reading public, and there b far less steady, patient reaching in any class *t society than throe was in old times. There b so much news, anecdote, and miscellany of iverv description constant! v encrarriiij? the rea ,/ | - " - J O CJ fJ ier s attention, that those who have a taste for iterary enjoyments, have little disposition to withdraw themselves from the scene of cotemJPOrary affairs, to survey the wonderful, phanj torn-like procession of generations long departed, even though the Iwuid of genius lias embellished the drama with the most splendid decorations of art. Such i3 the false and delusive influence which present events exercise upon the imagination, that it rcqujjes considerable self-control to resist their power. The last political movement, the last explosion or collision, or the last reported case of murder, forgery or seduction, are the topics which gene1 rally interest the private circle and engross the > conversation of elderly acquaintances, whilst the last novel of Dickens, Buhver, Miss Bronte Havthorne, Thackeray, or somebody else ejusdemrjeneris, is almost the only literary subject which our belles and exquisites will conde scend to notice. The rising generation, educated under such influences, is insensibly suffering an immense loss. They know not how j vast x store of instructive facts and elevated j enjoyments they have abandoned, nor upon I what chaff they are feeding their immortal .minds. They have, perhaps, inferred from the few historical lessons they have received in a catechetical way at school, that history is like j grammar, rhetoric, and logic, (too often taught j in the same way) a very dull study, and one | by no means calculated to fit them for fashion able life. But this only shows how profound I is their ignorance, and how desirable it is that i it should be effectually dispelled. Let any of our young friends, who arc wil< ling to take a valuable hint, but tfct the thing | practically for a year, and our word for it, they will not at the end of that time \\jjllingly j abandon a course of reading atCnce so delighti ful and so improving. Let them try. Scholars.?No one can be made a scholar; almost all persons can make themselves schol' ars. Labor saving machines do not apply to ! the mental world in the same sense as to the ( physical." It is not among vast libraries, surrounded by numerous teachers and professors, i 'hat nrtil'unu* of IcnrnioS al"c produced. "TTTe j jjctiiMi who in youth learns to exercise his own i powers of miiid, is sure to turn out a scholar, and a useful practical man, if he lives to the ; middle period of life. If he does not learn to 1 think for himself, as well as to read books and j receive facts from others, he will never become i really learned. Who ever heard of a scholar ; made by lectures, or by teachers in any form ? : Has not every scholar who has yet appeared in i the world become such by his own efforts?by j personal application?by the patient and perI severing use of the machinery within him? i Who ever heard of hereditary learning, or of i ideas manufactured like cotton cloth?by steam j or water power? The history of American ( colleges, for the last ton or twenty years, fully proves that students who perform the most ; mflital labor for themselves and not those who j hear the greatest number of professors, make ! the strongest and most valuable men. A large I library is another facility in education, which j by abuse, is liable to do injury; which has 1 done much injury to students. A great reader, ; and especally a miscellaneous reader, is seldom a good scholar or a useful man. lie may have a large mass of materials collected, hut he has no power to use them, either for himself or { his fellow men. His mind is tt mere lumber! yard, and himself an intellectual miser?a ( blank in the beautiful and harmonious creation i around him. Free Schools and a Cheap Press. i Educated foreigners who visit this country j soon discover the leading causes of the supe' rior intelligence, skill and independence of our ' - - -1 --- I-! 1 ?J ...M. j mechanics unu woruiug ci.ibsl-s, uuuip.uuu wiuj I the same classes in any country in Europe. I The public schools prepare our youth for readj ing and investigating, and the cheap press awaj kens and stimulates the desire of knowledge, i The cheap press is the great educator, of the i people. It brings every variety of knowledge within their reach, and gives activity and eni joymont to all the faculties of their minds. ; Mr. Whitworth, in his report on the New York , Industrial Exhibition, published in the London j Times, thus speaks of our free schools and ol I the cheap press: | "U rarely happens that a workman in the , United States who possesses peculiar skill in ! his craft is disqualified from taking the re| sponsible position of superintendent by the i want of education and general knowledge, as i is frequently the case in this country. In every State in the Union, and particularly in the j North, education is, by means of the common schools, placed within the resell of each indi vidual, and all classes avail themselves of the opportunities afforded. The desire of knowledge, so early hnplantcd, is greatly increased, while the facilities for diffusing it arc amply provided, through the instrumentality of almost a universal press. No taxation of any kind has been suffered to interfere with the free development of this powerful agent for promo| ting the intelligence of the people; and the I consequence is, that where the humblest labor; or can indulge in the luxury pf his daily paper : everybody roads, and thought and intelligence ! penetrate through the lowest grades of society j The benefits which thus result from a liberal system of education and a cheap press to the I working classes of the United States can hard | ly he over-estimated in a national-point o i view: but it is to the co-operation of boil ><hat they rausl undoubtedly be ascribed, I'or J^Njecting a proof from among the European StarafcjL colldition of Prussia be considered, r it will that the people of that couik 1 try, as a bodyJN^vp not made that pro gress I j which, fro^i the gKyf attention paid to the ? education of all-classegjs^ght have been an- r ticipa'cd ; and this must ceS^jy he ascribed ' to the restrictions laid upon theS^s, which { have so materially impeded the ad- 1 vancement of the people. Wherever eductt*iqn and an unrestricted press are allowed full scopel i to exercise their united influence, progress and n improvement are the certain results; and among i the many benefits which arise from their joint i co-operation, may be ranked most prominently tlie value which they teach men to place upon intelligent contrivances, the readiness i with which they cause new improvements to be i received, and the impulse which they thus una- i voidably give to that inventive spirit which is i gradually .emancipating man Irom the rude I forms of labor, and making what were regard! ed as the luxuries of one age, to be looked upon in the next as the ordinary and necessary condition? of human existence." Poor Widow. I was just rising from dinner, wheira widow desired to speak with me. I ordered her to be shown into my study, "My dear sir, I entreat you to excuse me," she said ; "I must pay my hoiwe rent, and I am six dollars too j short. I have been ill a month, and could hardly keep my children from starving. I must have six Tlollars to day or to-morrow.? Pray hear me, dear sir." Iiere she took a small parcel out of her pocket, untied it, and said, "There is a book encased in silver; my husband gave it to me 'when I was betrothed, It is all I can spare, yet it will not be sufficient. I part with it with reluctance, for I know not how I shall redeem it. My dear sir, can you assist me?" I answered, "Good woman, I cannot assist you!" so saying I put my hand accidentally, or from habit, into my pocket, I bad about two ! dollars and a - half, "ihat will not be suth1 cient," said I to myself, "she must have the whole sum ; and if it would do, I want it myself." I asked her if she had nt> friend who would assist her. ! She answered, "No, not a living soul ; and I would ratfier work whole nights than beg. I have been told yen were a kind gentleman. If you cannot Mp nic,-1 hope you will excuse me for giving you so much trouble. I will try how I.will extricate myself. God has never yet forsaken mo, and I hope will not begin to. turn away from me in y sixty seventh year." My wife entered the room. Oh, thou traitorous heart! I was angry and ashamed. I should have been glad to have sent her away, : under some pretext or other, because my coni science whispered, "Give to them that asketh of thee, &c. My wife too, whispered in my I ear, "She is an honest, pious woman, and has irrcrnrmv?? :11 . j. i.n.;r ..n.. .m ?' I Shame, joy, avarice, and the desire for asI sisting her, struggled in my heart. I whisperj ed, "1 have but two dollars and she wants six. I will give her something ai\d send her away." My wire, pressing my arm with an affection-ate smile, repeated aloud what 013' conscience had been reneatin<r. Hiivc.to him that asketh O? of thee," &c. I asked her archly, if she would give her ring to enable me to do it. "With great pleasure," she replied, pulling off the ring. The good old woman was too simple to observe, or too modest to take advantage of the action. Whew she was going, my wife asked her to wait a little in the passage. "Were you in earnest, my dear, when you i offered vonr ring?" said 1. "Indeed I was," she replied. "Do you think i j I would sport with charity? Remember what . I you said to me a quarter of an hour ago. I , entreat you not to make an ostentation of the gospel. You have always been so benevolent. Why are you now so backward to aid this poor woman 1 Did you not know there were six dollars in your bureau, and it will bequar tor-day soon I" 1 pressed her to my heart saying, "You are more, righteous than I. Keep your ring ;#I thank you.1' I went to the bureau and .took the six dollars. I was siezed with horror because I had said, "1 cannot assist you." The good woman at first thought it was only a small contribu1 tion. "When she saw it was more, she could not utter a word at first. "IIow can I thank you," she exclaimed. "Did you understand me ? I have nothing but this old book,audit is old." "Keep the book and the money," said f hastily, "and thank God and not me. I do not deserve your thanks, because I so long lfcsitatod to help you." I shut the dobr after her, and was so much ashamed I could hardly look at my wife. "My deaf," said she, "make yourself easy ; you have yielded to. my" wishes. While 1 wear a j golden ring, you need not tell a fellow-crea; tare in distress that you cannot assist him." i I folded her to my heart and wept.? Life nf Rev. J. G. Kavater. i Killed hy a Rattlesnake.?We regret to record the death of Mrs. Long, wife of Nathaniel Long, residing on Krog Creek, about lf? miles south of this place, and near Alifa. The circumstances attending this melancholy event arc as follows: her husband was in a woods near by getting shingles, and siie, desi, rous of calling him to dinner, walked around so as to call him, afid in stepping over a log : tvas bitten in the leg. She was carried home 1 where she died in a few hours. Sjie was only 19 years of ago.?Tampa (Fla.) Herald. A Norii.k Boy.?A touching incident occurred recently at a steamboat sinking in the , Missouri river, near St. Louis. Among the s persons who w'crc swept overboard were a wo. man and a boy about twelve years of age. A I man on the steamboat seeing the boy buffeting ! the waves just beyond the boat, threw him a - rope, and called to him to take hold of it. The f little fellow replied "never mind me?1 can i swim?save niama." They both were saved. I Tlie Commercial Convention. ^ A larg? number of delegates to this body, to issemble in this city on the 10th instant, has ? jeen appointed in various parts of the South ; ind if they all com?, we will have an immense gathering. Extensive preparations have been nade for their reception and accommodation. Fhey will find such hospitality,amusement and -. jayety as can be extended and provided, li will be a commercial carnival. This will be the third nfteting. The first was at Baltimore, the second at Memphis. In* tere*t seems to have grown, and the coining session" will probably be one of increased size and significance. The gcperal purpose of this Convention is understood to be the promotion of the prosperity of the staple States', and the commercial independence of the South. In what way theJio desirable and great" ends are to be attained, does not so distinctly-appeal; nor has it y et been illustrated that they are readily forwarded by the action of Conxention. We have not been informed what propositions will be submitted, nor what schemes urged. Only a vague hope seems to prevail, that from such a multitude of counsel there will he some wisdom eliminated. It is to be presumed that the Convention, in. its organized capacity, will eschew nnlifios nnrl InrnnrA nnncli^ornfimia r.f mnr? in. dividuals, classes and localities; yet of course outside discussion will embrace them all, and self-advancements ill work them in as material * J in the construction sought to be reared. We ma}' fairly speculate upon what will be . the subject matters of action.. The following occur to us: The promotion of Southern direct importation.* The establishment of direct packet lines, steam and sail. Railroad lines and connections, embracing the question of the route to the Pacific. The improvement of the harbors and bats of the Southern seaports, and'hereimof Charleston. The adjustment of our financial and banking operations under such a system, as will lessen ? our moneyed and commercial dependence on the North and England. Opening a more direct and extended- commerce witli South America, the WestTndies and the Pacific. The improvement of Agriculture and the increase ofnkmufactures. The improvement of the cotton trade, and herein encouraging an increase of competing markets for its purchase. These, no doubtj Will be objects of discussion and concert If any good can be .effected on any of them, the Convention will have deserved well of its section. We have no greit > confidence, however, in our local advancement, until our bar is sufficiently and permanently deepened, and a first rate line of steamers established to Europe. Five millions, if necessary, expended on these objects, will insure to -> ^ the South "all the remainder.. They will furnish il > - i--. .. ?.1 it iJM The South can never have commercial and financial independence, withopt a great importing seaport; and of Southern cities, Charleston . a most combines the advantages essential to such emporium.? Charleston Eve. Netcs. A Relic.?The following anciefit reminder that Franklin was for once one of the people, and wore unmentionables and things, is found ^ in the old Pennsylvania Gazette of Feb. 22df . 173S. In the glory that is thrown about great ... h men we are apt to forget their humanity, and necessity for small clothes :? ' % " Stolen, on the 15th inst, by one William Lloyd, out of the house of Benj. Franklin, an half-worn Sagathee Coat lined with Silk, four homespun Shirts, a fine Holland Shirt, ruffled at the.hands and bosom, a pair of black broadcloth Breeches, new seated and lii^l with Leather, two pair of worsted Stockings,'ono a ~ dark color, and the other a lightish blue, a coarse Cambric Handkerchief, marked with an F in red Silk, a new pair of Calf Skin shoes, a boy's new Castor Ilat, and sundry other ? .Thing's. * v /''' N. IL?Hie said Z/oyrf'prctends to under stand Latin and Greek, and lias been a school, master. He is an Irishman about 30 Years of Age, tall and slim. Had on a lightish Color'd Great Coat, red Jacket, a pair of black silk Breeches, an old felt hat too little for him, and sewed on the side of the Crown with white Thread, and an old dark color'd Wig; but may perhaps wear some of the stolen Clothes above mentioned. Whoever secures the said thief so,thnt he ? may be bi ought to Justice, shall have Thirty Shillings Reward, and reasonable charges paid by * ' B. FRANKLIN. Philadelphia, Feb. 2'2d, 1738-9." Another Planet Discovered.?The Lon- p don Times announces the almost simultaneous discovery of another planet, between Mnrs and Jupiter,' by astronomers at Bishop's and RadeliU'o observatories. This is, we believe, the twenty-eighth planet now known to e.xi.-t between Mars and Jupiter, eight (or nine?) of which were discovered by Mr. Hind, Mr. Bishop's principal astronomer, and now another by an assistant theie. ? ?-?>? Tno D ? nntvpti Vu tun. Tim SnnIn rnm inittee on the Gardiner fraud, have submitted a short report, which, although itdocs not enter much into details, has let in some light which may direct the enterprising explorer in further discovery. The worst feature in the case is, that although the matter is now, both by tin? finding of the jury, and the conclusions * of a committee of the Senate, pronounced an unmitigated swindle, }'et no one hears a word about the refunding ot this stolen money, by the distinguished parties who jiave it in possession, and who are apparently .disposed to shelter themselves in a highly dishonorable manner, under some legal technicalities. .V. Y. Eee*BosL The woman who undertook to scour the woods, has abandoned the job, on account of the scarcity of sand and the high price of soap.