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< if " "^1 THE CAMDEN WEEKLY JOURNAL, j Volume xy. camden, south-carolina, Tuesday morning, November 28, inumber 48. 1 : _ * ; ?? 11 ...? I .u- i? n..in.;nn i PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY THOMAS J. WARREN. erms. Two Dollars if paid in advance; Two Dollars an** Fifty Cents if payment be delayed three months, and Three Dollars if not paid till the expiration of the year. ADVERTISEMENTS will be 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. HT The number of insertions desired must be noted on the margin of all advertisements, or they will be published until ordered discontinued and charged ac "cordingly. -* * ?- n> - - '< Jflisrtllaimms. THE MOQUIS. Far away beyond the South Pass, on the bead quarters of Gila River, lives Joltn Bridget a trapper of the plains and mountains for more than 40 years. It is admitted by all trappers that he is better acquainted than any living man with the intricacies of all the hills and streams that lose themselves in the great basins. While trapping oil the tributaries of the Colorado, an Indian offered to guide Mr. Bridger and party to a people living far up the desert, with whom he could barter. ,r" ?..V1 me prupOSIl<UII WHS oiiu auci providing themselves with dried meat and water, they struck right out into the heart of that great desert, where no white man has before or since trodden, and which the hardy .moon taineers will only venture to skirt'. After five days' travel the party arrived at three moan tains or butters, rising in grandeur in that solitary waste., These mountains were covered with a diversity of forest and fruit trees, with streams of the purest water ripling down their declivities. At their huse was a nuinemusag ricultural people,surrounded with waving fields of corn and a profusion of vegetables. The people were dressed in leather; they knew no thing of firearms, using only the bow and ar row; and (or mile after mile circling those buttes were adobe houses twjtand tlnee stories high. Mr Bridger was not allowed to enter any of their towns or hou-es, and after remaining three days, bartering scarlet cloth and iion for their furs, ho left them, not, however, Oelore being given to understand that they had no communication beyond their desert home. That these are the people that once inhabited the banks of the Gila and the Colorado, and left these monuments of*wonder, the " Casse Grand," which so deeply attracted the follow-' ers of Fremont and Donaphan, and then van ished like a dream, there can no l-urger be a doubt. Months after this conversation with Bridger, I had another with Mr.'Papm, the agent of the American Fur Company. He told me that another of the party. Mr. Walker, the mountaineer, after whom one of the mountain passes is named, and who is known to Ire a man of truth, had rriven liirn the same description of these isolated people, and in my mind there is not a shadow of doubt of their existence. According to Capt. Walker, through the very centre of the Great Basin runs the Rio Colorado Chiquito, or Little Red River. It takes its rise in the mountains that skirt the right bank of the Rio Grande, flows almost due west, and empties into the Colorado at a point on the same parallel of latitude with Walker's Pass. About one hundred miles north of this, and running almost parallel with it, is the river San Juan. Each of these streams is about 250 miles long. Between them stretches an immense table land, broken occasionally by sierras of no great length, which shoot up above the geaeral elevation. About half way be tween the two rivers, and midway in the wil derness, between the Colorado and the Rio Grandevis the cout^ry of the Moquis. Front the midst of the plain rises abruptly on all sides a butte of considerable elevation; the top of which is as flat as if some great power had sliced off the summit. Away up here the iflo quia have built three large villages, where they rest at night perfectly secure* front the attacks of the fierce tribes who live to the North and East of them. The sides of this table moon tain are almost perpendicular cliffs, and the top can only be reached up a steep of steps cut in the solid rock. Around its basH is a plain of arable.land which the Mnquis cultivate with great assiduity. Here they raise all kinds of grain, melons, and vegetables. They have also a number of orchards, filled with many kindT of fruit trees. The peaches they raise, Captain Walkersajs, are particulaily fide.? They have large flocks of sheep and goats, but very few beasts of burden and cattle. They are n narmles*, irronensive race, kind ana nos pitabie to strangers, and make very little resis tance when attacked. The warlike navajoes, who dwell in the raoun tains to the northwest of them, are in the habit of sweeping down upon them, every two or three years, and driving off their stock. At such times they gather up all that is movable from their farms and fly for refuge to their mountain stronghold. Here their enemies dare not follow them. When a stranger approaches they appear on the top of the rocks and houses watehing his movements. One of their villages, Pnnf W ntl/Af oto trorl frtf OOVOPqI U XJQ Oil waiQU uninci ovnj yu iwi ovf^aoi \*%?jery is fire orsix hundred yards long. The houses are generally built of stone and m<?tar some of them adobe. They are very snug and com fortable, and many of them are two and even three stories high. The inhabitants are considerably advanced in the arts, and manufacture excellent woollen clothing, blankets, leather, basket work and pottery. Unlike most of the Indian tribes in this country, the women work within doors, tbe men performing all the farm and out door labor. As a race they are lighter in color than the Dialer Indiana of California. Indeed, the women are tolerably fair, in consequence of not being so much exposed to the sun. Among them Capt Walker saw three perfectly white, with white hair and light eyes. He saw two others of the same kind at the Zuni villages, nearer the Rio Grande. They were no donbt Albinos, and probably gave rise to the rumors which have prevailed or the ex istenee of white indians in the Baain. The Moquis have probably assisted nature in leveling the top of the mountain as a site for their villages. They have cut.down the rocks in many places, and have excavated out of the solid rock a number of large rooms for manufacturing woolen cloth. Their only arms are bows and arrows, although they never war with any other tribe.- The Navajoes carry off their stock without any opposition. But unlike almost every other tribe of Indians on the continent, they are scrupulously honest. Captain Walker says the most attractive and valuable articles may be left exposed and they will not touch them. * Many of the women are beautiful, with forms of fauhless symmetry. They are very neatand clean, and dress in quite a picturesque costume of their own manufacture. They wear a dark robe with a red border, gracefully draped so as to leave their right arm and shoulder bare.? They have most beautiful hair, which they.arrange with care. The condition of u female may be known from her manner of dressing the hair. The virgins part their hair in the middle behind and twist each parcel around a hoop six or eight inches in diameter. This iB nicely smoothed and oiled, and fastened to each side of the head, something liken large rosette. The "effect is very striking. The married women wear th eir hair twisted into a club behind. Tho Maquis farm in the plain by day and retire to their villages on the mountain at night. [ They irrigate their lands by means of the small streams running out of the sides of the mountain. Sometimes when it fails to snow on the mountains in winter their crops are bad. For j tfiis reason tney always Keep iwo or mree years' provisions laid up for fear of famine.?1 Altogether, they are most extraordinary people, far in advance of any other aborigines yet discovered on this continent. They have never j had any intercourse with the whites, and of ' course their civilization originated with themj sejves. What a field is here for the adventuj ou8 traveler. - ... . ... Disconthnted Mortals.- How universal i it is! We never knew a Juan, says a cotempo. ,r rary, who would say, "I-am content." Go j. where you will, among the rich or the poor, the man of competence or the man who" earns his bread by the daily sweat of his brow, you hear tire sound x>f murmuring and the voice of complaint. The other day we-stood by a i cooper as he was playing a tune with an adze j round a cask. "Ah !" sighed be, "mine is a hard Tot?for ever trotting round like a dog, and diiving away at a hoop." "Heigho," sighed a blacksmith, iu one of the hot days ,as j he wiped ihe drops of perspiration from his j brow, while the. red-hot iron glowed on his | anvil, "this is life with a vengeance?melting j and frying one's self over the fire."Oh! that I j were a carpenter," ejaculated a shoe maker, I as he bent over his lapstone; "here I am, day i after day working my soul away in making soles for oth ts, cooped up in this little seven by nine room." "1 am sick of this outdoor work," exclaimed the carpenter, "boiling and . ,u'dk;lu(j ?>* Ihc <>r-oxpotH}<J to the iuclaoo entries of the weather; if 1 woro Jowly a tailor." " This is too bad," perpetually cries the tailor, "to he compelled to sit up here plying the needle all the while?would that mine ; were a-more active life." Last of grace?the banks won't discount?customers wont pay what >hall I do?" murmurs the merchant; I ! had rather he a truck horse, a dog, anything." > "Happy fellows," groans the lawyer, as he i scratches his head over a perplexing case, or pores over some dry record, '-happy fellows, I ] had rather hammer stone than cudgel my brain | on a tedious, vexatious question." And through all ramifications c?f soceity all are complain ing of their condition finding fault with their ; particular calling. "If I were only this, or that or the other, I should be content," is the unN J versa! cry; "anything but what I am." So , wags the world, so it has wagged, and so it will wag Old Ilea til's Soil. "Seeing," continued Miss Smix, "that the old man was intent on getting his son in my school, 1 consented to take him. Many indeed most of the scholars were astonished to see ; '18-year-old-Heath,' as they called him, seated ' oh the first form, among infants in their A, B, i C's. He was badly shamed atfiot hut in play timu omuM narr\ so rnAiiv children at once. pig it.buck,' that they forgot his ignorance, in | hits humility and goodness. I confess my heart .' (like a mother's mind you,) yearned for and toi wards him? and many a time as I sat in the j school-mom, near dusk, looking at castles and j spectres in the dying embers, prayed that God would give me {tower und capacity to pick a way into his encrusted brain. He was not dull, in anything but mere letters. Cadmus in his head was embedecf a fathom deep. At last," and here the sweet face of Miss Smix brightened, and the glimmer of some intended smile played over it, *lI got him clean through the alphabet, and lie could point, out anyy letters.iiy name. In two weeks he got through his'ba he bi,' &c., and one bright Monday ? ' ' I . T I J J ?1 ' morning I put nun into ij-a la-a-y-ay- L.aay. I had to tell -hiru fifty times, the nature of syllables. but his brain was a opaque as a rock. '.Do you love pies ?" said I, in order to interest him. "Yes, ma'am." "Well, then, apple' and 'pie,' put together, spell apple-pie, don't they ?" "Yes, ma'am." "By a like rule 7a' and 'rfy' spell la dy?you understand ?" ^ "Yes ma'am!" "Mince' and 'ore' spell what then " "Mince- pie." "Right! 'Pumpkin' and 'pie,' what?" " Pumpkin pie." "Then what does 1-a la d-y dy spell ?" "Cxutard-pieV?N. O.Delta. Selection fop a Newspaper.?Most people think the selection of suitable matter for a newspaper the easieast part of the business. How great an error! It is, by all means, the most difficult. To look over and over hundreds of exchange papers every week; from which to select enough for one, especially when lhe question is not what shall, but what shall not be selected, is ho easy task. If every peroon who reads a paper could have either it, we should hear lest complaint, Not unfrequently > s m id it the case that an editor looks over all his exchange papers for something intesesting, and can absolutely find nothing. Every paper is dryer than a contribution box, and yet some- a! thing must be had; his paper must come out p with something in it, and he does the best he si can. To an editor who has the least care la about what he selects; the writing that he has d< to do is the easiest part of the labor. Every w subscriber thinks the paper is printed for his pi oavn benefit,, and if there is nothing in it that G 6uits him, it must be stopped; it is good for at nothing. Just as many subscribers as au edit- S or may have, so many tastes he has to consult, ei One wants something sound. One likes anec- cc dotes, fun, and frolic; and the next door neigh- m bor wonders that a man of good sense will pat such staff in a paper. Something 6picy m comes out, and the editor is blackguard. Next, si comes something argumentative, ane the edit- fri or is a dull fool. And so, between them all, af you see the poor fellows get roughly handled, re They never think what does not please them It may please the next man; but they insist,.if kt the paper does not suit them, it is good Tor m nothing.? Washington City Qlobe. ui ha The Courage to do Right.?What more or noble attribute of our nature than to do right, *? the fearlessness of truth, crucifying to the obli- 'tf gations which it imposes, all bypocricy, every ". principle which militates against the advance of 1,1 the soul. The mere jecoguition of wrong is 6 fully as much the ability of a wise man as that cc of a fool, and vice versa; but he who is iudeed J16 I'wise, thinks not 'what that recognition teaches 13 him wisdom. The fool stumbles at tbe thre- .8'1 scold of light. He shuts his eyes at the picture that light affords of the true properties of his mind. By its low devices and desires, its I'8 unhallowed pleasuere, he is ever incited to delay w< nil argminatmn anrl flatter himself that iu his | ^? disguises can be no detection. . t.fi . tic Alas, that that nature which is bound to pro- ^ gress by its own origin, which claims connection with God, ever should pervert the bright prop- (. erties with, that origins has couferr'ed, from its uprooted progression to acousot with the things , of earth, to union of matter wtihcfut the spirit. ^ But joy, unspeakable joy,. when true to its relationship with eternity, trrue to its truth and . iategrit}T, true to its inate promptings, the soul claims to be heard against eveu itself, and boldly chastises when a wrong has been done: j?' when, couscious that its errors have beeu of its . own choice, it applies, without shrinking, the ,n just deserts which reason demands. ot The Belief of Supekstions Connected \\ with Odd Numbers.?The idea of virtue in odd te numbers is very ancient. Virgil mentions it in ^ oirrlith EHoirue. where many spells and 4,,u v,b"*" ??' v? > charms then practiced are recorded. The whole subject is a curious one, and would make an in ar teiesting work it all the opinions in regard to it q were given. Countrymen hold it au indispensa- j? ble rule to use an odd_number of eggs in setting ^ imen. Falstaff, in "The Merry wives ot vnnd- n{ 8or," permits himself to be entrapped a third ftr time, and remarks?" This is the third time.? I hope good luck lies in odd numbers. Away? as go. They say there is divinity in odd numbers, ^ either in nJMty, chance, or death." It is a u very common belief at the present day, in this ^ country, that the number thirteen is ominous, cj and that when thirteen persons meet in a room, _( one of them will die within a year. The superstition is supposed to have arisen from the pas- ai chal supper. The sevi nth son of a seventh son is account- er ed an infallible doctor"; and the number seven, g( by the way, is the most curious of all. The sev- <j< enth day was appointed as the one or rest, ana gj the seventh year was directed to be one of rest re for all things. At the end of seven times seven years commenced the grand jubilee. Pharaoh's B dreams foretold seven years of plenty and seven tv years of famine. Under the Jewish law, a man B was commanded to forgive his enemies seven 8U times; and under the Christian dispensation, w seventy times seven times. When Jericho was G was taken, they encompassed the city seven p, times. Elisha sends Naaman lo wash in Jordan a seven- times. Elijah, on the top of Carmel, sends th his servant to look seven times for rain. Solo- di mon was seven years building the temple, at ct the dedication of which he fasted seven days, al The children of Israel ate unleavened bread seven m days. David, in, bringing up the Ark, offered re seven bullocks and seven rams. The apostles ai chose seven deacons; and some inquiring per- C sons, who have investigated this subject tc a rr nicety, states that the Saviour spoke seven times til frdra the cross, on which he remained seven hours; tl that he afterwards appeared seven times, and in si seven times seven days, sent the Holy Ghost. ei The number nine is regarded with more or &t less superstition, particularly in connection with seven. Augustus Caesar was overjoyed when he passed his sixty-third year, because he considered it the climateric one, and that then be was to live a long life. Thi9 is nine times seven, and is said to bring great changes in the life of roan. The whole belief in anything of this kind may, be groasly superstitious, and yet we are not pre- ^ pared to say that it is.?N. Y. Sunday Times. . Scrap of History.?During the revolution n< ary war General La Fayette being in Balti- w more was invited to a ball. He went as re- 01 quested, as might be expected of a young P' Frenchman of twentv-two. and addressed the ladies thus: ~ 'Ladies, you are very handsome; you dance m prettily ; your ball is very fine?but my soldiers m have no shirts.' w The appeal was irresistible. The ball ceased ?the ladies went home and the next day a large number of shirts were prepared by the _ fairest hands of Baltimore for the gallant defenders of their country. ? # nr The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, m ? **?* * - -* ? ?1 - ?fko foot ret reienng 10 119 murun?rjr rwuuru, uunwo >?? ^ that the mortality among physicians has been b unusually large of late, the editor having no ti recollection of reporting so many deaths with- ci in the same period of time. Many of those n thus deceased were men of distinction and in- e fluence, and had lived to ripe old age; while ft others were cutdown in early life, when the .ft brightest prospects for the future were before tl them, , c From the Carolina Timee: A Delectable Morcean. The subjoined article from the London Herld is in comfirmation of the telegraphic disatch published ir. yesterday's Times, which ated that the British were concentrating a rge fleet in the West Indies. There is -eviintly trouble brewing in that quarter of the orld. -Perhaps the English Government is eparing Jo-'take vengeance for the burning of reytowi, or more probably to prevent any tempts that may be made by the United tates or the filibusters, to invade Cuba. Whatfer may be the object, it must be a matter of msiderable moment to call for such an accu; ulation of vessels of war. The Herald is quite exultant at the prospect iat the English Government is preparing "a ight correction for our (their) go ahead ion^o M Snrolu if Kna nnt fnrcrnttftli that little Fair, the war of 1812, when the "slight corction" was given to his own Government? would be an impeachment cf the Herald's lowledge of the history of its own country, to timate that it had forgotten or ceased to smart ider the "slight correction" which was so indsomely administered by one Gen. Jackson i the 8lh January, 1815. It need not think frighten the peopltf of the United States by i bullying. We have heard John Bull bellow ifore, and have taken him by the horns, a Tie or two, and do not find him such a dan- j srous beast. He has a terrific look, kicks up insiderable dust sometimes, shakes his shaggy ad as though he could do great damage, if he not let alone, but after all be is "no great akes" at a fight. , Increase of the Squadron in the West dies and North America.?From the pre.rations actually made and in progress, it n m tlrof eAlYlA Wfftrlf Kua VlPPH flllt Ollfc UU.U n.c, ..v.? r the Baltic fleet during the winter. Our ansatlantic friends, true to their characters!9, have become to be troublesome now that ey fancy we have got our hands full; but it ould seem that England has not yet entirely ven up the fishing grounds to Brother Jonaan; they have not fallen in with the notion at Bermuda and the West India Islands ould be outside States of thd great Republic; >r will they permit any more filibustero invaDtre of Cuba, or cowardly* piratical attacks >on unoffending and, we regret to add, unotected independent territories. Our Yankeo iends have grown saucy with impunity, and solent with indulgence, and especially so the eri-of war's men with their puny shadow ofa jet. Because they do not see so many line-battle ships and frigates knocking about the fest Indies as they were want to see some u or a dozen years since, they fancy that, like 16 frogs in the fable, they can puff themselves ins big as John Bull himself% The piratical affair of Cuba, and the bullying id swaggering about the fisheries, the British overnnient could afford to treat quietly and dulgenilyr but now, In a state of war, the im is altogether different. Great Britain has iturally become more jealous of her dignity * < I >u more tenacious or ner rignts. The affair at Greytown, as cowardly an act i ever disgraced a man-of-war, and the insult > the British flag on that occasion, followed j by the shameless bragging of the captain of e Cyane, seem to have brought matters to a imax: and these little ci scum stances, with re>rts of American purchases of Russian terriry, American building of Russian men-of-war id the fitting out of American ships as Rusmi privateers, have moved the English Govnment to prepare a slight correction for our >ahead friends, which will do them a great ;al of good, and lower the tone of that offenve swaggering, which is only an affectation of al courage. With our hands full with the Baltic and lack Sea fleets, we have yet a man-of war or vo to spare to put the Yankees down ; and if rother Jonathan means mischief, he will asiredly have to pay dearly for his frolic. It is ell known that the Boscawen, 70, Captain lanville, came home early from the Baltic to roceed to Halifax. She is there and has the diniral's flag. Another line-of battle ship, - - -- - .t ?ir * ?? leUolossus, 81, is to proceea to tne wesnnes, to be under rear Admiral Fansbawe's >mmand. A screw frigate the Termagant, is ready on her passage there, to take the Comodore's broad pennant at Jamaica; and it is iported that an Additional line-of-Battle ship id three frigates (the Hannibal, 91, screw, ommodore) the Hon. F. W. Grey; and Cuicoa, 31, screw, Captain the Hon. H. F. Hasags amongst the number <Stc., will reinforce ie West India squadron. If these vessels muld be added to the force already there and i route, we shall have'the following on the ation: Hannibal 91, screw ship. Colossus..... 81, screw ship. Boscawen 7..70, sailing ship. Curacoa 31, screw frigate. Termagant 24, screw frigate. Vestal 20, sailing frigate. Calypso ;18, sailing corvette. iTith smaller steamers, sailing sloops, etc. We trust that this force will be quite suffient to induce the Yankees to draw in their *ns, and behave with decency to weaker as ell as stronger powers. If not, there are not ily means but inclination, we believe, to comel them. The impudent bully of the, Cyane, who was ?ry there was* not an English man-of-war at reytown larger than the schooner Bermuda, iay now huve u chance of picking up bis atch, if his gosprnment dare to entrust him ith a command. Inquest Twenty Six Years After Death. - 4 nrvnet o*trunrdinnrv nnnnrronoA haa han " J ?? r ened within the last few days at Redtrutb, in ornwall. As long ago as the year 1828, A liner, named Williams, was working in Pedandree mine near Redtruth, when he, fell toether with his brother, into the shaft. His rother, after falling about twelve feet, conived to stop his further descent, but the debased fell further down, and a quantity of jbbish toppled down upon him. Though very exertion to recover the body w^s made >r a period of two months, it could not be >und, and the shaft was then closed over. In lis state it remained until April last, when a nmnanv formed to resume the working of "r?i ~ ^ the mine, and, in clearing one ot tne levels me other day, the body of the deceased was found lying on its left side. It had on a blue coat, with metal buttons, a coarse woolen shirt, and shoes and stockings. On its being brought to the surface, the deceased brother, who fell with him into the shaft* and who was then present, was so affected that his conduct for a while was like that of a madman. The jury returned verdict of "acicdental death." The burial of th^ body was witnessed by upwards of 4,600 person.?London Times. Will Sewabd be Re Ewcted.?Al.togeth er tbe worst result involved in the late contest in New York is the election of a Senator by the lately chosen Legislature. Seward's term is nearly out?will he bo re-elected!?The whigs have the legislature,but can Seward control them? Such is manifestly the opinion of the Tribune?but not of the Egress. The latter says: , - -i. - "TheKnow,Nothing element now has so strong force in the Assembly, that Mi^ Seward, according to present indications, cannot receive the Assembly vote for re-election; bat Mr. Seward has prepared himself for such a crisis, by securing some very efficient friends, such as R. M Blatchford, esq., of this city, and soiu few others elsewhere. It remains to be nan whA?lia? tkaif oKlYlfvr QniY oltill /son AAflVOff. ?VVU TT UClklWl VUVlt ouuiy ?miu j?na?? vw?? ww.. ? ? ? a minority into a majority?and they can, he may be re elected, despite the popular verdict, as shown in Assembly election." The Herald thinks the Legislature is anti-Seward. Singular Occurrence.?In Louisville, Ky." a couple of foolish fellows having a lot ot knotty saw logs, butts of trees, &c. which they could not chop, saw, nor split apart, got them up in a pile,on Thursday evening last,at the corner of Twelfth and Main streets, bored a hole in the largest log, filled it with power, and blew up the whole lot wiln an explosion which* caused the splinters to fly in all directions. One chunk passed through a wagon standing on Main street killing two men who were standing on the sidewalk, one of whom was much bruised and his clothes nearly torn from him. The same splinter also knocked a hole io the door of a house, and another fragment demolished a window on each side of the house. ?l' . Lookout Mountain In a New Dress.?The rains of the past three days have turned into a slight full of snow as could have*been seen by observing the mountain on yesterday morning. A passenger on the train from Nashville informs us that the mountain, and especially the Raccoon range presented a decidedly wintry appearance?the trees having slight fall of sleet aud snow upou them. This may be con* 6idered an early approach of winter for this section of country, however, with this change may be expected the rise of the river and the commencement of the cotton and other river shipments. The formers are fast making ready for cold weather, most of the fall crops have been secured.?Chattanooga Advertiser. Another Crisis. It is ascertained that the recent election's in the Northern States have resulted in the overthrow of the Democratic party; but the full significance of the fact cannot be understood without a reference to the circumstances of the canvass. The repeal of the Missouri restriction was no sooner effected, than an agitation for its restoration was organized throughout the Northern States. In respect both to the extent of its operations and the intensity with which it raged, this agitation surpassed every antecedent auti slavery movement. Every party and faction in the North, suspended its peculiar jealousies and aims, and merged its individual existence in the great confederacy against the Democracy. Whi^s, Abolitionists, Freesoilers, Know Nothings, and Maine Law men, were as* sociated in the enterprise and cordially co-operated in pursuit of a common object. The immediate aim of the coalition was to secure a representation in Congress, but their subsequent movements were determined and proclaimed in advance. These are, the restoration of the Missouri restriction, the repeal of the fugitive slave law, and the establishment of the principle that no more slave States are to be admitted into the Uuion. Upon these issues the recent elections in 'the North were suspended, and the result satisfies us that an --- " - - - -If C I effort will be made to carry out tne poncy ui the coalition. It is time the people of the South were preparing to resist this meditated assault upon their rights and institutions. We are admonished of the designs of our enemy, and we have abundant opportunity for reflection and preparation. It is an indisputable fact that the reverses which the South has heretofore sustained, precipitated upon it by the divisions and dissensions of its own people.' In no single struggle with Abolitionism, has the South been thoroughly awakened and united. The nearest approach to unanimity was in the recent contest touching the Nebraska bill, and the issue of that struggle should teach Southern men the no/toeoitv nf Kirmnnv. and insDire them with a '" """'V " J ' r confidence in their strength when roused and concentrated. If we are trne to ourselves, we will command the sympathy and support of the patriots of the North, and will appul our enemies by an aspect of perfect unanimity and of resolute devotion to our rights. Congress would not dare to enact a measure against which the South protested with united voice. In view, then, of the crisis before us, it is of the first importance that men of all parties in the South, profiting by the example of the en emy, should so far suspend their mutual hostilities, as to unite in a resolute resistance to the threatened attack of the Abolitionists. Every Southern representative in Congress shoukl oppose the re-enactment of the Missouri restriction; for, whatever may be'iis view of the policy of its repeal, he cannot co operate with the Abolitionists in the attempt to impose it upon theSouth again. By universal concession it was unjust to the Sotfth in the first instance, and it is certainly not less offensive since it has been incorporated in a platform of anti-slavery agitation. In regard to the projected repeal UI IUO I* ugiuir wiofc ijavr^ null mo ^AV/tugivu j of slave States from the Union, the represents* 1 tives and the people of the South will be animated by a common impulse of determined J resistance. y, | Firmness is not less essential than unanimity; / and fortunately the struggle in which we are about to engage, does pot admit of any "com* * i promise" or "adjustment." After assaming its position the South will jiave no alternative but unconditional surrender or resistance to (he ^ utmost exiremxiy.'^-Richmond Enquirer* m qj Kostiischiu) and Palestine.?It isrjimored in Paris that M. d? Rothschild had offered fb accept the terms proposed for the Turkish loan ^ or even to advance a large sum, provided a' mortgage was given on Pulestine. " This rumor is highly suggesive. Every reflecting Christian must have had frequent thoughts Ul me Jcvra ui rtucauu^'aiiu ui tuc fncvivuo promises and prophecies /aid up.for tbemjn . ' . the Bible daring the thickening of the war plot which now must inevitably involve all Europe. The great Battle of Armageddon?rthe. angel standing, the sun calling alj- the fowls ' to the ^ Yeast of the great God?the treading ef. the wine press without tbetity, and the blood com. ing to the horses' bridles, and passages of Holy Writ that come up betore the mind with awfnl grandeur, clothed with the idea of a possible fulfilment within a short time!- > Palestine is the Lord's inheritance, reserved for the seed; ^ of Abraham, The Turkish power holds it. Its downfall is imminent; and who next shall own Palestine? Evidently the Jews. * The. world has wondered at the wealth of the Rothschilds. They are Jews. Why has Provide nee raised ijbem up and placed in therr hands * an amount of. wealth equal to many an entire * kingdom? May it'notbeforsuch a time as this. The Turkish power straightened for money ?p fight against Russia, comes to one oj* the-Jews, to borrow?be.eeks ^mortgage onPalestineupa^ this condition otters more money man 4. jiraejr-. asks. The Sultan, knowing Palestine is one portion of his dominions on which thp^mperor^ of Russia has fixed, his covetous eyes, that lie , may command the Mediterranean and Red Seas rand also, the mouths of the Nile, would the' more readily mortgage k to Rothschild, toput it as far from the enemy as possible, and identify ' it with the interests of Western Europe and by this means the more effectually secure the aid of France. In the event Turkey is swallowed up the mortgngejies unredeemed-;-Palestine is. once more the property of an Israelite. But Russia is determined to have Ft; but to obtain it she must fight ul! ove Europe?and the last great conflict is ou this sacred ground. New forms of government arise all o\er Europe, and the Jews return to their fatherland under the deed of Rothschild. These are thoughts that quickly sprung up in our mind upon reading the above few lines? Vermont Chronicle,, Allegorical.?A traveller setting out on s long journey, was assailed on the road by ours, mastiffo, and half grown puppies, which come . out of the kennels to hark at him as he passed along. He often dismounted from his horse to drive them back with stones and sticks, into their hiding placeB. This operation was rtf' peated every day, and sometimes as often as twenty times a day. The consequence was that more than half the traveller's time was consumed in chasing these dog puppies. At last he was overtaken by a neighbor, who was going the same road, but had set out a long time after him. The latter traveller was very much surprised to find the other no further on his journey; and on hearing the reason exclaimed ?"Alas! is it pousibh; that you have lost your time and wasted your strength in this idle oc- , cupation! These animals have beset me all along the road, but I have saved my time and labor in taking no notice of their barking, while you have lost yours in resenting insults which do you no harm ; and chastising dogs and puppies, whose manners you can never mend." * The Book of Proverbs.?What ft book is this?that of the Proverbs ! forget that we were ever obliged to repeat them mechanically in our childhood; read them as they stand in ail their breadth and richness of their meaning with our better experience of lite, and nothing short of utter astonishment and admiratiou will be our feeling. Such gems of wisdom in such golden settings from one who lived and died before the name of wisdom was known among the nations from whom the world's sages have since sprung! What ehrewd percep- . tions of human character under all conditions and moods?what comprehensive exhibition of life in its whole compass, and of Divine Piovidence in its moral aims and sure rewards and punishment?what counsels to frugality, industry, moderation, prudence, benevolence, peace! What varied illustration from man and beast, nature and art! How terse and polished the t H Atu thi* tlwiiinrhi* I Tn think of rending the little book through in a day would be folly, although its lines may be run'over in an hour. Each line is a sermon, and gives food for new .reflection every time we recur to it. Who is VicToarA ??Victoria is the dangh. terof the Duke of Kent, who was son of George the Third ; who was grandson of George the Second; who was the son of Princess So| hia; who was the cousin of Anne; yho was the sis' ter of William and Mary; who was the daughter and son-in-law of James the Second; who was the son of Charles the' First; who was tha son of James the First; who was the sorvof xi.. ?.i,? M.no tlio <Tpnnd HflUfrhter of Moan. itioi j | wuw ??" b ry - ; t?" ret; who was the sister of Henry the Eighth; ' who was the son of Henry the Seventh ; who-, was the son of the Earl of Richmond; who was ih^o'n of Catharine, the widow of Henry the Fifth; whp was the son ot Henry the Fourth; who was the cousin of Richard the Second; tvtin wna the orMndsnn of RHirnrH tl-o Third ? who was the son of Edward the Third ; who was the eon of Edward the Second ; who was the son of Henry tlw Third, who was the son John ; who was the son of Henry the Second"; who was the sou of Matilda; who was the daughter of Henry the First ; who Wtt* the brother of William Rufos; who was the son of WiHiam the Conqueror; mJio was the bastard son of the Duke of Normandy, by a tanner'* . daughter, of Folate,