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VOLUME XV. CAMDEN, SOUTH-CAROLINA, TUESDAY MORNING, JUNE 27, 1854. NUMBER 26. ;
PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY
THOMAS J. WARREN.
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JHisttllantnns.
The Strength of the Sonl.
Every human soul has some point on which
It rests. As every arch has its keystone, every
lever its fulcrum ; as every body has its centre
of gravity, which must rest on something, so
every soul must have-a point out of itself, of
stability and repose.
We cannot always tell what it is. A man
does not always know what, it is himself. Men
do not often ask themselves questions enough
to know what the strength of their souls is.?
Like the vital force in the body we know when
it is present and when it is gone, but not where
it is.
Here is a man full of activity and energy;
joyous, vigorous, the life <>f his circle. Suddenly,
as if struck by an evil eye, he seems to collapse
and wither?he loses energy and elasticity
; he does nothing, and is good for nothing.
No.body knows what has come over ths 'man; j
but the strength of his soul is departed, w Mat
has been touched? what has gone from him?
Oftentimes the world knows not; he, perhaps,
tells no living creature; all we know is, that
the man js blighted.
Nor, when the strength of a man's soul has
died out, does he always die. There are ma
ny men, and women too, who outlive the strength
of their souls. One may see in the western
forests girdled trees around, in wliym never
more vital sap shall ascend from a living root,
yet still, for a while, shooting forth blossoms
and leaves, from the mere habit of a past vital
ity?and so men, when the strength of their
heart is dead, often live on from the mere me I
char ?cai habit of living.
Sometimes the strength of a man's soul lies
where he does not look for it. He only discov
ers where it was by the blow that strikes it.
Here is a men of reading, a man of varied
intellectual resources, a man of wide accomplishments,
versed in art., and skilled in learning.
He shows himself friendly, and Iras scores
of friends be has a fair wife whom lie loves
passing well. A beautiful daughter prattles
and totters around his fireside?so tiny a crea
turo, so fair and fanciful, with her soft curls,
her gay ignorance, her sweet absurdities?the
little thing seems made t nly as the luxury and
ornament ot existence?its toy and plaything!
not its essential want. The roots of this serial
wind-flower seem too threadlike and fine to
strike into the deep and lower granite of man's
soul. The man plays with her daily when he
closes his book, or comes in from his business,
but he thinks of her as a pus-dug perfume, a
dew-drop, a bird song on a glad morning? a
merry song to beguile a passing hour. Alas!
there comes a day when the merry voice is silent,
and of all that life and beauty, there remains
onlv a noor. sorrowful wreck, white,
calm, and deadly chill. . He
rises up from his bed, to go forth as
aforetime. He tries all that charmed before?
what is the matter? Has he not all that he
had? The strength of his soul has departed!
Those threadlike fibres were wrapped about the
deep granite of his soul; the foundations of
his life have been riven in tearing them away.
Another man's strength lies in the companionship
of some human heart. The mortal
pilgrim goes on for years with a deep desire
unsatisfied,a craving unanswered; but, in some
fortunate hour, another soul is found to satisfy
the craving and answer the demand. An eye
beams on him as a star; another h.?nd clasps
his, anotherheartgives back thought for thought,
feeling for feeling?all that he had yearned for.
Now the strength of his soul is in this other
soul. But as an iceberg comes grinding be
tween two ships sailing joyfully in company,
so death rises up between these hearts, parting
for ever. The man awakes alone, and !o! the
strength of his soul is departed! Nature is
silent; for him the sun shines not, the birds
sing not; the beauty and grandeur of nature
exists only as life to the blind and music to the
deaf. The whole world of nature, art, poetry,
music painting?all are buried for him in that
one grave.
The strength of an inferior soul is in his
riches. The man loses a wife, and he is 6orry ;
his child dies, and he is sorry; lie loses his
friend, and he is sorry ; but still he bears up
bravely, and his life still has attractions; but
a stroke sweeps away his riches, his life's labor
of accumulation, and the man is crushed ;
be holds up his head no more; the strength of
Iiis soul has departed.
Ambition is the strength of another man's
oul? to gain some station of dazzling emi?ianna?tn
h? ahnvft other men. The roots of
bis being all run into this idea; the man developes
from it; it nourishes him for years.?
Wife, child, literature, wealth, art?all these
ere well in their way ; they are very good, nay,
they are beautiful in his eyes, so beautiful, so
good, that one might sometimes think that in
them lay the vitality of his being. But these
fade, these change, these die and pass from
him, and though the man be troubled, it is but
for a season. lie is like a kingly pine; his
smaller roots have been cut, but the deep root
of all holds him upright. Now the axe is laid
to that, and the sound of his fall is as the
/.f a niinhtt* nin/> ... ,(.? .till C.rn.t
vrcaillllg VTI c* IiaigiaVJ |fMic an me ObiII iwiuoil
Sometimes a man seems to be chased by
sorrow, from refuge to refuge, from outwork to
outwork, bravely fighting all the way^acorning
to yield himself vanquished.. At last, he en
trenches himself in the very inmost citadel, and
here makes a desperate stand; If this be taken,
the strength of his soul is vanquished.?
Plutarch says, that in the plague of Athens,
Pericles lost his son, bis sister, his wife, andal
most all his friends who were capable of assisting
him in the business of the state, but
preserved an immovable tranquility. He neither
wept, nor performed any funeral rites, nor
was he seen at the grave of any of his relatives,
until the death of Paralus, his last legitimate
son. He at erupted, even then, to keep up his
firmness of behavior and serenity of mien ;
hut, in putting the garland around the head of
the deceased, his firmness forsook him, and he
burst into tears and low lamentations.
How blessed, then, is he, the strength of
whose soul is immortal, indestructible, perfect!
How secure lie who feels that the deep roots of
his affection have laid hold of what can never
perish and never change! This man may have
all maul) longings andall womanly tenderness;
he may desire a generous fame, a successful activity;
he may fold to his bosom a kindred
heart; he may joy in the flowers that spring
and blossom round his hearth-stone; in none
of these is his life hid. God is the strength of
his heart. Beyond all earthly love and beau
ty, beyond all fond desires, more than all that
eye hath seen, or ear heard, or heart of man
conceived, he loves and adores his God. Um
less God can chungej unless God can die, the
strength of his soul cannot be broken.
A poor, simple man once said?11 have lost
my property.it is all gone. I have Install my
relations; my last son is dead. I have lost
my hearing and my eyesight; I am all alone,'
old>?nd poor, but it makes no difference ; Christ
that the duties of life are more than life itself.
To live, comprehends far snore than the mere
eating, drinking and sleeping of every day existence.
Gifted, as man is, with an active, inquiring
mind; endowed with moral and intellectual
powers; with a heart sensitive and alive
to intellectual pleasure and sorrow; with an
immortal s >ul and an after destiny; the ends
and aims of existence are certainly as lofy as
the skies, and far above the little plans and
schemes of life and enjoyment, which now so
much occupy and engage the thoughts of mortals.
^Iiultcnonrn cnotilrc nf thu (t fnttoli nf nofitro"
which makes all men ''kin"?uniting thein together
by one common bond of brotherhood.
So live as 'to benefit the human race, rather
than to act as the bane and an injury, seems to
be the duty of every one.
Tltere is no doubt that an act of charity or
benevolence done to another, creates in the
human bosom a melody sweeter than the divinest
harmony, and brings a reward far more
precious than the diamonds of the richest
mines, or the wealth of the most golden
mountains. And in pursuing the journey of
lif,?a rugged and thorny pathway, truly, with
r..... a L. : 11
icw ituweia ui uc.iuuij uiiu ?iu?;ni it it is wen
to remember that all have cares and troubles
and sorrows, which a little kindneBs may alle
viate if not remove. It is to remember that?
Much of care
Every human heart must bear,"
and that true benevolence consists not alone in
go-?d wishes hut in active deeds.
The consciousness of having made one heart
happier through the day, might well serve as
a reward for the performance of a good action.
The promptings of. a benevolent nature are
pure and lofty, and shed a tinge of tranquil
happiness over the whole life of him who possesses
it. As the morning dew arises to heaven
rich with the fragrance of the flowers it
lias refreshed and brightened, so true benevolence
ascends to the -skies, laden with the blessings
of all thoie upon whom it has shed one
little ray of warm and genial sunshine.
Qtorgia Home Gazette.
INo License.?it is a fact, not perhaps generally
known, that the commissioners of roads,
who have charge of this matter, have refused
grant licenses in this district The Town
Council and Commissioners both refusing license,
leaves Newberry without any templ^
lawfully dedicated to Bacchus.?NeioberrianI
It is now very generally understood thB
Gen. W. 0. Butter of Kentucky, has secure?
the appointment of Governor of Nebraska; afl
so that Governor Wright, of Indiana, has be^|
appointed to the Governorship of Kansas. B
Death of Momtgomkry, the Pof.t ?The
death of this good man and distinguished poet
was announced in the news brought by the
steamer Atlantic.
The death of this distinguished poet (?ays
the Charleston Mercury) severs almost the last
link *lif. unites the nresent dav with the a?e of
Byron. Of the bright galaxy of writers who
then -flourished, Samuel Rogers and Leigh
Hunt now alone survive. James Montgomery
was born in Scot'and, in 1771, and was originally
intended for his father's calling, that of a
Moravian Minister-; but preferring a single life,
he in bis youth arrived in London, and vainly
sought to find a publisher for his early works.
Heart-sick with disappointment, he left London,
and tock up his abode in Sheffield. Becoming
connected with the Iris newspaper, he was
twice prosecuted by the Government, and twice
imprisoned in York Castle for the too liberal
tone of his doctrines. His connection with
the Iris lasted upwards of thirty years, and
terminated in 1825. Many of his chief poems
appeared before that time, and he had long
become the most illustiious man in the city of
his adoption. The Wanderer of Switzerland,
[ The World before the Flood, Greenland and
Pelican Island, are his most ambitious productions;
but his song of Zion, a collection of
his sacred hymns, have added most to his fame
and gained him the proud title of the Christian
Poet. Montgomery was greatly heloved
by I he natives of Sheffield, and the .(iovernnieut
awarded him a pension of ?150 which
he enjoyed for the last years of his life. He
never married.
Death of "Fanny Forester"?This ex
cellent and distinguished lady, the widow of
the celebrated missionary to Burmnh, Dr. Judson,died
at Hamilton New York on the 1st. instant.
Her maiden name was Emily Cubbuck.
" Fanny Forester" was the nom de plume
used by her in her early literary 'contributions
to some of the northern periodicals. She has
since been favorably known to the religious
public as a devoted missionary, and returned
from Burrnah to close in her native land the
gradual decline of a life sucrified in that holy
cause.
A Dairy Shopkeeper.
Upon the banks of the Mississippi, in the
State ol Tennessee, tnere once a wen an oiu
chap by the name of YacJge?Tom Yadge.?
Now Tom had been an honest, hard-working
man, all his life, but he had never owned a saddle?
but as Tom grew old his wealth and importance
increased, and with it, a desire for a
hog-skin ; so he one day packed up a clean
shirt, stuffed a hundred dollars Into his wallet,
stepped upon a steamboat, and away he started
down the river for New Orleans, to buy him a
saddle. Now this was the first trip Tom had
ever made; he had lived all his life where he
\yas born, and had never heard any other language
than that of his mother's tong ue. In the
course of a few days he lunded upon the levee
at New Orleans.
k Poor Tom, littlo did he know what ho bad "
1) encounter. The Frenchman was there, the
I alian was there, the Spaniard was there, and
.a Ctai-miar? u'ne tliorp 4(11110 from all naitS of
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ic world were upon that levee, and there was
oin, with his eyes stretched, and ears open,
ompletely mystified and bewildered at the
trange jargon going on around him ; he stood
; as long as mortal man well could, and at last
l strui-k out, with his mind fully prepaied to be
'surprised at nothing he saw, upon his errand of
phe saddle.
Alter meandering about the city for some
time, like some poor lost devil, he at length
found a saddler's shop. Torn with heart elate
walked in.
The first and only living creature which met
his vision was a buboon%f the largest species
sitting upon the counter, playing with the girths
which were hanging from a saddle immediately
over his head. Tom very politely addressed
him, 'How do you do, sir?' The baboon
grinned and nodded. 11 wish to buy a saddle,'
says Tom. The same expression from the
monkey. In a louder key from Torn?' I want
?.? km? n cnrtHIn * \ I'Bru nnlitn iTrin from till)
.... .,.v ? ? -- j r - f - baboon.
' I will give yo.i ?20 for that saddle/
says Tom, at the same time handing him a ?20
bill. The animal, having seen his master put
money into the drawer, took it, and hopping
along the counter made a depostof Tom's ?20
note. He returned, however, immediately to
his former position.
Tom?'Well, hand us down the pigskin/
Very little notice from the baboon. 4 D
it, why don't you give me my saddle ? I have
paid you for it, so hand it down, or I will take
it nfyself.' An awful chattering from the
baboon.
Tom, not intending to be fooled with any
longer, reached out and caught hold of his
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properly?UUC no sooner iwiu me pour leuuw
done so, than the nails and teeth of the monkey
were driven into his arm. Tom kicked and
swore?the baboon bit and screamed?until ut
last the owner of the shop, a Frenchman, with
long moustache, came rushing into the room.
4 What in the d does all this fuss mean?
What do you want in here, you d old rascal
? By gar you shall give me sa/isfacshune.'
Tom, not in the least daunted, but very much
exasperated, ripped out, 4 You infernal old
hairv mouth scoundrel! I believe vou wish to
.steal my $20! I came in here, bought a sad- '
die, paid the money down for it, and now when
I want to he going with it, your son there has
refused to let me have it, and has kicked up a
h? of a fuss about it.'
Tom, however, got his saddle, and returned
the next morning in a boat going up the river ;
hut' has been heard to swear it was the last one
he e*er wished to purchase. Nous Vtrrons.
N. Y. Spirit of the Times.
Singular Cause of Death.?The Athens
(Ga.) Banner, of the 20th ult., says that lshham
Williams came to bis death by being
stung on the arm by a wasp. He lived but
^M^iutes after being stung. The Banner bo
Tlie Rutabaga Turnip.
As the period for sowing turnip seed is drawing
near, it occurs to us that the substance of
an article upon the Ruiabaga turnip, which appeared
in the Southern Agriculturist fur March
of the present year, might he profitably presented
to our farmers at this time. The article
is from the pen of Mr. William S. Lyles,
a highly intelligent planter of Fairfield District.
Both Mr. Lyles and the able senior editor of
the Agriculturist maintain this turnip to he the
most valuable one we have in use. It is large
and sweet. Its tops make excellent greens for
negroes, good enough in fact for the "buckraV'
table when other vegetables are scarce. It is
I'nr.A F.tr n.ili-ti onus imnrovincr fhp
tfUIHI I U l/IC IWUV1 IV/1 iimivu vv.t W) ! ? ^ .MV
i ichiiess. flavor and color of milk and butter.
Col. Summer remarks that he has often fed
these turnips advantageously to cattle, sheep,
swine and poultry, and that they answer a
good purpose as an occasional change for horses
that are not allowed to giaze. They are moreover
a hard species, withstanding the severest
freezes of winter. Neither do they become
pithy. So much for the merits of this crop.
The mode of culture given by Mr. Lyles is
substantially as follows:
He cow.peti8 a half acre of land for a month
or two. (If there is too little time now left
for doing this fully, we presume a slight broadcasting
from the stable-lot would make all right.)
Ho breaks up this half acre twice during the
cow-penning. About the middle of July he
prepares for sowing down his turnip seed. He
spreads broadcast over his half acre one hundred
pounds of Guano, mixed with a half bush
el of plaster and half bushel of salt, ail slightly
wetted to prevent it fl)ing about irregularly.
He then plows and cross plows, using a long
hiili.tunmie the Inst time. He then ridges his
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half-acre up by throwing three furrows together.
The ridges are two feet opart. He then
knocks the piow-hoe off the stock, and nails a
piece of thick plank three inches wide and two
feet long across the foot of the plow stock,
leaving about two inches of the foot below the
board. He runs this over the ridges, at once
smoothing than and opening a little trench for
the seed. He then mixes veil together a half
bushel of plaster and a half pound of turnipseed,
moistening a little. He sows this in the
drills before opened?covers with a ruke?and
laMly uses the most convenient means of pressing
the earth. After the crop is well up, he
shaves down the ridges or beds. In about ten
days after this, he sides with a short twisted
shovel and splits the middles out with a common
shovel. In about ten days more, he thins
out to twelve or eighteen inches in the drill,
drawing the grass away with the hoe. This
completes the cultivation. Having done all
this accurately and faithfully, you will reap an
abundant crop, " deo voleute."
Execution of theFngitive Slave Faw,
A Homey-General's Opinion.
In view of the late evidences of a fixed and
persistent determination of the abolitionists to
resist the execution of the fugitive slave law,
whether by moral or physical force, the opinion
of'Attorney General Cushing published in
our paper to-day becomes one of the most important
State papers that have emanated from
any department. It will be found to decide
the only question of difficulty in regard to the
successful enforcement of the law which re
maiiied open for adjudication. When President
Pierce announced to the marshull at Boston
that " the law must be executed,'' his
promptness and decision of action not only inspired
the country with new confidence in him
as its chief executive officer, but it gave assurance
that whatever power was vested in him
would be faithfully exerted in vindication of
the law. When the marshal received this endorsement
of his course, and felt himself sustained
by the power of the executive arm, he
was animated with new energy in the discharge
of his perilous duties. The spirit of infuriated
fanaticism was appalled and startled to
find its mad violence and treasonable passion so
piomptly and sternly met.
The opinion of General Cushing supplies the
only thing necessary to inspire the lovers of
law ami order with confidence in their triumph
in all similar emergencies ; it shows that whenever
the riotous or treasonable spirit of abolitionism
renders it necessary for the marshall to
call tho citizens to his assistance to insure the
enforcement of the law, they become themselves
officers and agents of the United States,
and as such entitled to be liberally compensated
for their services. This decision arms the
marshal with a power which enables him to
call around him a body of order-loving and
law-abiding men, capable of successfully resisting
the utmost efforts of mobs to thwart
him in the execution of his duties. Those citizens
will obey his summons not as mere volunteers,
but in obedience to a high and sacred
obligation that rests upon every man to serve
his country whenever its honor or the majeBty
of the law is endangered or seriously threatened.
They will rally around the officer and
sustain him in executing msauty, ?un nanowi
edge that they are in the actual service of the
government,and thatthatgovernmentis pledged
to compensate thein for all their labors and
sacrifices. He will seldom, if ever, be under
the necessity of resorting to the regular military
force?a resort always calculated to engender
prejudices and aggravate animosities?but
in every community the sober, fearless, patriotic
citizen holds himself ready to obey the
summons of his government whenever his services
are needed to resist aggression from
ulirnnd nr ri'hellinn and treason from within.
We give publicity to the able and conclusive
argument of General Gushing, because it is iin
portant that abolitionists should know that during
the present administration all their attempts
to defeat the execution of the fugitive
slave law by force will be met by'*a still more
powerful force thut will overwhelm them. This
is the assurance to be derived from the opinion
of the Attorney General, and in this point of
view it cannot lail to exert a salutary influence
throughout the country.? Washington Union.
Thr liuciruooitr Tkkaty.?The New
B-unswick papers represent that the new reci^cal
treaty, lately negotiated, creates much
^^ation in that quarter. It seems that the
R^L>sed treaty providing partial reciprocity
j^Ken the United States and the provinces
^^Mrdod with disfavor.
Slave Emigration.
There have been meetings held at Indepen
dence and We6tport, Missouri, to counters?
the emigration from the free- States into th<
new territories, by slave emigration. The St
Louis Republican publishes the resolutions.?
Those of the VVestport meeting are as l<?lluw
"Having recently received intelligence ol
the passage of a bill by Congress for the organ
ization of the Territories of Kansas and Ne
braska, repealing the Missouri restriction, and
opening said Territories for settlement, equally
to all the people <>r the Union; and leeling a
deep and lively interest, esj ecinlly in the speedy
occupation of our border Territory of Kansas,
and the organization of a government in it
and the passage of laws which shall protecl
emigrants from every portion of the country ir
the possession and enjoyment of their proper
ty, of whatever character; and having heard
through the public papers, that organization!
are now on foot in some of the Northern Shiles
having for their object the colonization of th<
new Territories exclusively with eastern anc
foreign paupers, with a view directly to exclude
and.deter from the 6aid Territories^eiuigratioi
from the Southern States, and more particular
ly slave emigration from Missouri and Arkan
sas; and having also heard of a recent attempl
of a gang of Freesoilers, who held a meeting
within this Territory, and audaciously resolvec
that no slave property should be brought intc
the same; and being ourselves, many of us, de
termined to seek in Kansas our future homes
and to carry with us our property of every de
scription which we think proper; and being de
termined to hold and enjoy the same in peac<
or by force, we hereby organize ourselves iut(
a snrietv of Missourians. for mutual protection
and
- "1. Resolved, That we invite all well dispos
ed citizens, from wherever they may come, bui
more especially our fellow-citizens of the slave
holding Stjtes, to unite with us.
4'2. Resolvtd, That we will afford to eacl
other mutual protection in claiming and hold
ing lands in Kansas Territory; that we will 1101
. encroach upon the claims or rights cf each oth
er, nor will we allow any intruders to do tin
same; that until the country is surveyed nt
claim shall be made nearer to any other lhar
half a mile, securing to each settler a quartei
section of land, and that we will protect ant
defend the claim of each and every individua
of this organization, which may be staked of
and designated by the claimant in good fait!
and with a view to actual settlement.
"3. Resolved, That we will carry with us in
to the new Territory of Kansas every specie;
r\ C irnln/lmfr cl n t'OO n n#l tlint tirA mil
Ul juupciijr, il.tiuuiu^ oiutco, iiiiu wot n c ? it
hold and enjoy the same; that we will do s<
peacefully, and deprecate any necessity for re
sorting to violence in support of our just an<3
lawful rights; yet (in no spirit of bravado ant
with the strongest wish for peace) apprehen
sive of interference with our private and do
mesliu concerns by certain organized bandi
who are to be precipitated upon us, we notif)
all such that our purpose is firm, to enjoy al
our rights, and to meet with the last argumen
all who shall in any way infringe upon them.
"4. Resolved, That we recommend to oui
feliow-citizens of Missouri and Aikansas, more
especially of the border couuties, to organize
with these ends in view; and to each and ever)
man who leels an interest in the destiny of the
future State of Kansas, to be on the alert, thai
we mav avail ourselves of the erent advantage!
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which the contiguity of the new Territory al
once gives to us, and entitles us, in moulding
the government and institutions of the future
State in accordance with those of our own, and
thus guaranty for the future a good neighbor
and a firm friend, united to us by the bond ol
interest.
"5. Resolved, That the thanks of this meeting
are due, and are hereby most heartily tendered
to all those Senators and Representatives
/i iL_ 1_J
in congress, who, in me arnuous struggle
which has so triumphantly closed by the pas
sage of the Kansas and Nebraska bill,so faith'
fully and gallantly adhered to ihe great principle
of popular sovereignty in the Territories
and States, and who, by their affirmative votes
upon the passage of the bill, sustained the onl)
true constitutional doctrine, against the inter
ference of Congress in moulding or altering the
institutions of States; and who, by their instrumentality
in this triumph of popular sovereignty,
will forever endear them to the country, as
having removed the last pretext for abolition
agitation in Congress."
Henry Clay iu the Senate after Cal?
honn's Death.
We heard Mr. Clay speak on the day wher
it was announced to Congress that Mr. Calhoun
was dead. 1 had been known to the city, the
day before, which was Sunday, and the nexl
day a great crowd had gathered in the galleries
ana on me noor. jx &uieinu eA|wciuiiuii c?i
dently perv;ided all, of hearing the mostimpres
sire funeral eloquence, from the most celebra
ted compeers of the great man who was dead
The whole scene was awe-inspiring. Bentor
was in hjs place?an iron-looking roan?und il
was whispered that in the new made grave, an
imosities would sink, und that his voice ever
would rise in the chorus of eulogium. At f
short distance from him was a single senator1!
chair, the only spot unoccupied in that thronger
hall. On the other side of the main aisle, sal
Webster, dressed in the deepest mourning, his
massive features set like stone, with a monu.
mental look; seeming far gloomier and mou
sepulchral than they looked, when no very lor.j:
time after, in full Senatorial costume his owi
dead form lay out beneath the mighty branches
of his patriarchal elm. Near him was Mr. Clay
When the formal announcement was made ther<
was a profound stillness. No one seemed willing
to rise first to give voice to the sorrow of th<
Senate. At length Mr. Webster turned hi'
head to Mr. ClAy as he if would say, that hi:
longer Congressional career entitled him pecu
liarly to open the great cadence of lamenta
lion. Slowly and quietly he rose. He hegar
venreen lv in instinctive harmony with th?
?r w * ? w
universal feoline. Hit rare voice, beaotifu
though subdued, and as it were muffled, ros<
gradually, as he pictured the younger scene;
of his association with his friend. And as h?
drew a rapid view of his domestic relations
and descanted on the virtues and agreeable ex
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cellencies of the wife who had cheered the
- long campaign of the political soldier, grateful
t recollections thickened on 1 his mind, 'the life
i blood began^to posh its way into dull memo*
. ries, and his eves began to shine, and his whole
form to sway about gently and gratefully,
: while the tone waxed louder* though not at all
r vehement, but rather more apd more pathetic *
and affecting. 1 Never shall our ears forget the
. touching melody with which he prononnced
I this closing period of a sorrowing climax, "he
was my junior in years?in nothing else;" and
i then he rested in the gentle tide of his words,
. he turne his eyes on the empty chair?a moment
of silence intervened?then his accumu*
i lated weight of feeling gashed foith in one
t brief, moving question, us he jeslured toward v
i the chair?"When shall that great vacancy be
. filled?" Forever shall those swelling worthy
t "that great vacancy" sound and resound in our
j ears. Their tone was the tone of a dirge, and
( of a. panegyric, a prophecy, combined.
I Supposed Murder of a Young Lady bt
j her Betrothed.?It will be remembered that
> some time during last spring an item went tbe
rounds of the papers, chronicling tbe suddefi
death of Miss Agnes Pbarr, of Covington. Va.<
t staling that she was within a few days of her *
\ marriage to one Dri Thompson, her father's ^
1 physician. We learn from a private source
> that it is so strongly suspected that her death
wascaused by strychnine administered by l)~r,T?
, that several public meetings of the citizens
have been held to consider the matter. The
circumstances seem to be these: Miss Pharf
i had been indisposed for some weeks, and bad
) been taking medicine from Dr. Thompson.?
, Oil the morning of her death, Dr. T. wrof$
her a note, asking a postponement of her voir
riage/and urging her to take the remainder of
t the pills he had left for her. Among these
- pills there seems to have been one considera*
bly larger than the other, and this was the
i only oneleft, Miss.Pharr having refused to take
- it.
t Upon this last request she took it, and fa
' fifteen minutes was a corpse. Her denth w*t
5 then p/onounced similar to that produced by
> strychnine, but there was no suspicion of toCrl
1 play until the ladies engaged in' dressing tbe
r body discovered certain signs, which weft
1 more than cpnfiimed by the further discovery
I of a box of ergot pills. When the suspicion
f aspumed a public character, Dr. Thompson de>
manded that the body should be disinterred
and examined by a committee of physicians
* named by himself, but when the consent of the
* parents of the unfortunate girl wa$ obtained,
1 he refused to have any thing to do with it, alle- ' V
> ging as a reason that he did not wish to wound
- ihe feelings of the family. These are the facts
I as they have been detailed to us by two gen*
> tlemen of standing. If they be true there is
* certainly good ground for demanding an in*
* vestigatiou. If Dr. Thompson be guilty, no
- % -1 l-i ~ * L.
s tune should oe lost in ridding me wona 01 suca
t a monster; if innocent, his character as a man
I will Le satisfied with nothing less than a "fall
t free arid triumphant acquittu). The father of
Miss Pharr is a Presbyterian Minister, and is
i* said to be one of the most upright aimable
' unsusspicuous persons to he found anywhere.
* Lynchburg (Va.,) Republican.
5 Tnn American Squadron.?'1 he proposed
L withdrawal of the United States squadron from
* the coast of Africa, as made by Mr. Slidell from
' the Senate committee on Foreign Affairs, it
> is supposed has been assented to by England;
' for under a clause of the Ashburton Treaty
both parties were bound to keep up a squad'r
rou on the African coast for the suppression of
the slavo trade. The squadrons have beeu
of no great use, for the slave trade has becu
very active since the adoption of the treaty.?
' But as Spain and Brazil are now supposed to
1 be in earnest in stopping the slave trade, there
' can be no further necessity for keeping up the
' squadrons. The withdrawal of this force and
the return of the Japan squadron will add considerably
to the naval force at the disposal bf
' the Administration.
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Cure for Hydrophobia.?The Newara
IN. J A Advertiser is requested to publish the
' following, said to be a preventive of hydropho*
bia, as discovered by a French physician, M.
( Cossnr:
"Take two spoonfuls of fresh chloride of
lime, mix it with a half pint of water, and with
this wash keep the wound constantly bathed
the lotion being frequently renewed. The
chloride gas possesses the power of decomposing
the tremendous poison, and renders mild
i and harmless that venom against whose resisti
less attack the artillery of medical science has
> been so long directed iu vain. It is necessary
; to add that this wash should be applied as
> soon as possible after the infliction of the bite.
The following are the results 6f this treat*
ment: From 1810 to 1824, the number of
the patieuts admitted into Breslau hospital
was 184, of whom only two died; 1784 to 1B24
into the bo.-pital at Zurich, 223 persons bitten
by different animals, (82 by dogs,) of whom
only four died."
West Point.?The annual examination at
this institution was to havfe closed on Saturday.
The list of the graduating class comprises
forty-six names, among whoth we find
from this State Wnt. M. Davant, Stephen D.
Lee, and John B. Villepigue, all of whom will
likely be appointed to thj Dragoon arm of the
service. *
The present graduating class entered the in?
stitution four years ago with about one' hundred
and ten members: of thrse only fortytwo
remain; the other four belong to the next
higher class, and have been turned back inf
this for various causes during the three years.
Carolinian*
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Suicide.?An inmate of the Lunatic Asvlum
named Martha Pearson, committed suicide
on Friday, by lying Prostrate on the floor of
her room, and olacinc the bed Dost on ber
I neck in such a position as to produce a coin*
- pression of the windpipe and consequent Strang*
' ulation. D. H. Miller, esq. held an inquest on
the body, and the jury returned a verdict in ac*
? cordance with the above facts.
Columbia Time*.