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VOLUME XVI. CAMDEN, SOUTH-CAROLINA, TUESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 6,1855. NUMBER 45.
I ?ritrteii Poetrt).
THE NIGHT.
I BY BARBY CORNWALL.
p O, tho summer night
j Ilatli n smile of light,
Aad sho sits on a sapphire tnrouo,
"Whilst the sweet winds load her
With garlands of odor
From the bud of the roso o'orblown
But the autumu night
FTaa piercing sight
, A nd a step both strong and free
And a voice of wonder
Liko the wrath of thunder
When ho shouts to the stormy sea.
And the wintry night
Is all cold and white
And she singeth a song of pain,
Till tho wild bee huminotli,
And the warm spring couicth,
When she dies in a dream of rain 1
0, the night! the night!
'Tis a lovely sight,
Whatever the clime or time;
For sorrow then spareth,
And the lover outpoureth
Ilia soul in a star-bright rhyme.
It bringetli sleep
To the forest deep,
The forest bird to its nest;
To care bright hours,
And dreams of flowers,
And that balm to the weary, rest!
Bliscrllattpiitts.
f Small Debts, or What Five Dollar*
? Paid.
Mr. Heniutt was sitting in liis office,oneday>
when a lad entered, and handed him a slip
of paper. It was a hi!! for five dollars, due to
his shoemaker, a p<>oi man who lived in the next
square.
" Tell Mr. Grant that I will settle this soon.
It isn't just convenient to day." The boy retired.
Now, Mr. Herriott had a five dollar bill in
his pocket; but he felt as if he couldn't part
with it. He didn't like to be entirely out of
money. So, acting from this impulse, lie had
sent the boy away. Very still sat Mr. Herriott
for the next five minutes ; yet his thoughts were
busy. ? He was not altogether satisfied with
himself. The shoemaker was a poor man, and
needed his money as soon as earned?he was
not unadvised of this fact.
"I almost wish I had sent him the five dollars,"
said Mr. II erriott, at length, half audibly.
" lie wants it worse than 1 do."
"The fact is," heat length exclaimed, starting
up, "It'sGrant's money,and not mine,and
what is more he shall have it."
So saying, Herriott took up his hat and left
his office.
" Did you get the money, Charles," said
Grant, as his boy entered the shop. There was
a great deal of earnestness in the shoemaker's
tones.
"Ao sir," replied the l:iu.
44 Didn't get the money f'
4' No, sir."
44 Wasn't Mr. Jlcrriett in ?*'
44 Yes, sir; but be said it wasn't convenient
to-day."
44O dear! I'm sorry !" caine from tbc shocinakcr
in a depressed voice.
A woman was sitting in Grant's shop when
the boy came in; she had now risen, and was
leaning on the counter; a look of disappointment
was in her face.
44 It can't be helped, Mrs. Lee/' said Grant.
441 was sure of getting the money from him, he
never disappointed me before. Call in .to-morrow,
and I will try and have it for you."
The woman looked troublrd as well as disap
pointed. Slowly she turned away and left the
ahop. A few minutes after her departure IJerriott
came in, and after some words of apology,
paid the bill.
44 Rim and get this bill changed into silver fur
me," said the shoemaker to his boy, the moment
his customer had departed.
44 Now," said he; as soon as the silver was
placed in his hands, 44 take two dollars to Mrs.
1 ju\ arift t lirec tn Mr. W caver, across the street.
Tell Mr. Vv caver that I am obliged to hiin for
having loaned it to mc this morning, and am
sorry that I hadn't as niurh in the house when
ho sent for it an hour ago."
" I wish I had it, Mrs. Elden. But, I assure
you that I have not, said Mr. Weaver, the tailor.
u I paid out the last dollar just before you
came in. Hut call in to-morrow, and you shall
have the money to a certainty."
" But what am I to do to-day ? I haven't a
cent to bless myself with ; and I owe so much
to the grocer's where I deal, that lie won't trust
me for anything more."
The tailor looked troubled, and the woman
lingered. Just at this moment the shoemaker's
boy entyed.
" Ilere are the three dollars Mr. Grant borrowed
of vou this morning," said the lad. " lie
says he's sorry he hadn't the money when y<?u
sent for it a while ago."
IIow the faces of the tailor and his needlewoman
brightenej instantly, as if a gleam of
sunshine had penetrated the room.
"Here is just the money I owe you," said
the former iu a che erful voice, and he handed
the woman the three dollars ho had received.?
A moment after and he was alone, but the glad
face of the poor woman, whose need he had been
able to supply, was distinct before him.
Of the three dollars received by the needle
woman, two went to the grocer on account of
Iier debt to him, half a dollar was paid to an
old and needy colored woman who had earned it
by scrubbing, and who was waiting fur Mrs.
Elden's return from the tailor's to get her clue,
and thus he able to provide an evening and a*
morning's meal for herself and children. The
other half dollar was paid to the baker who
called towards evening to leave the accustomed
loaf. Thus, the poor needle woman had been
able to discharge four debts; and at the same
time to re-establish her credit with the grocer
and baker, from whom came the largest portion
of the food consumed in her little family.
And now let us follow Airs. Lee. On her
arrival at home, empty-handed, from her visit
to the shoemaker, who owed her two dollars for
work, she found a young girl, in whose pale face j
were many marks of suffering and care, awaiting
her return.
The girl's countenance brightened as she
came in; but there was no answering brightness
in the countenance of Mrs. Lee, who immediately
said?
"I'm very sorry Harriet, but Mr. Grant put
me off until to-morrow, lie said he hadn't a
dollar in the house."
The girl's disappointment was very great, for
I the smile she had forced into life instantly faded
and was succeeded by a look of deep distress.
" Do you want the money very badly ?" asked
Mrs. Lee, in a low, half choked voice, for
the sudden change in the girl's manner had affected
her.
0, yes, ma'am, very badly. I left Mary
wrappecd up in my thick shawl, and a blnnket
wound all around her feet to keep them warm;
but she was coughing dreadfully from the cold
air of the room."
"Ilavn't you a fire?" asked Mrs. Lee, in a
quick, surprised tone.
M We have no coal. It w,.s to buy coal that
I wanted the money."
Mrs. Lt:e struck her hands together, and au
expression of pain was about passing her lips,
when the door of the room opened, and the
shoemaker's boy came in.
" Here are two dollars. Mr. Grant sent them."
"God bless Mr. Grant!" The exclamation
from Mrs. Lee was involuntary.
On the part of Harriet, to whom one dollar
was due, a gush of silent tears marked the effect
this timely supply of money produced. She
received her portion, and without trusting her
voice with words, hurried away to supply the
pressing want at home.
A few doors from the residence of Mrs. Lee,
lived-a man who some few months before had
become involved in trouble with an evil disposed
person, and had been forced to defend himself
by means of the law. He had employed Mr.
Ilerriott to do what was requisite in th? case,
for which service the charge was five dollars.
The bill had been rendered a few days before,
and the man who was poor, felt very anxious to
pay it. He had the money all made up to within
a dollar. That dollar Mrs. Lee owed him,
and she had promised to give it to him during
the day.
For hours lie had waited, expecting her to
come in ; but now lie had nearly given her up.
Tlu-re was another little bill of three dollars
which had just been sent in to him, and he had
just concluded to go and pay that, when Mrs.
Lee called with the balance of the money which
j she had received from the shoemaker Grant.
I Half an hour Intel, and the pocket hook of
| Mr. llerriott was no longer empty. His client
| had called and paid his bill. The five dollars
i has come back to liiui?Home (Juzcttc.
A Mix's IIaxi? Bitten off nv a House.?
A surgical operation of a very interesting cha
racter was recently performed in Kngland on<fi
soldier named Tlios Dance, belonging to the
12th lancers, who had his arm amputated for
the second time, in consequence of the frightful
injuries lie received from hcing bitten by a fcro
cious horse in the Crimea. Dance was engaged
at Balaklava in drawing water for troops, and
whilst so occupied saw a horse, with inane and
tail erect, galloping furiously towards him. In
a moment the horse seized him in his mouth,
threw him down, and kneeling on his body w;th
his fore legs, commenced tearing his clothes oft*,
lacerating his breast and shoulder in a frightful
manner. The poor fellow put out his hand to
protect the lower part of his body, when the
animal seized it in his mouth, and bit it off?
Some of his comrades coming to his succor,
armed with stout clubs, the ferocious beast was
beaten off. Before, however, the horse cculd be
secured, lie bit off the finger of another man,
and severely injured the shoulder of the veterinary
surgeon of the regiment, lie was of Arab
breed. Dance's arm was amputated just above
the wrist; lie was soon afterwards sent to linglaud.
It was found necessary to amputate the
remaining portion of the arm, and ho is now
'l! / L\... \
' UUIIIg nL'U. o^cicm'woic# n
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Magazine under the Redan.?An extract
of a letter from Sevastopol, professes to show
how the Redan escaped being blown up by
the Russians, like other forts: A sapper who
was exploring the batteries of the Redan just
as the Russians were evacuating the town,
discovered a large cable which he cut in two
by a blow of an axe, ami then called the atteu'tion
of the officers to it. On further examination,
it was found to he a thick metallic wire
covered with a coating ofgutta percha. This
wire led to a very large powder magazine dug
under the Redan, the discovery of which made
i the boldest tremble, when they thought of the
I frightful ^explosion from which they had esI
caped. The wire came from across the town
; as far as the sea, which it crossed to the other
shore from whence the electric spark was to
bo despatched to set fire to that volcano. It
] was disAOvcrcd just at the nick of time, as the j
! last soldiers had not evacuated the town when j
, the forts blew up one after tho other, filling the
I trenches with tho ruins. The Careening Fort,
! the FlagstalHlattery, the Central Hastion, the
i forts of the bay, the arsenals, and all the prillJ
cipal edifices, crumbled to the ground beneath j
uio commneu action 01 snoiis nro, aim mines,
The Redan and Malakoff alone remained upstanding,
the former saved by the sapper, as
just mentioned, and the latter saved by a shell
j which, directed l?y Providence, had cut the
j electric wire in two."
Seven years ago Myron II. Clark kept a one j
horse haidwaro store. In ISdO Myron II. I
j Clark was a deputy sheriff. In I8.*?0 Myron II. :
Clark was one of the marshals for taking the
' census of a one-horse village. In 185JI Myron
II. Clark was elected Senator. Myron II.
Clark is now (iovcinor of New \uik. Think
I of Myron II. Clark, and never say die. 'I he
I man who will lie President in 1870 is now
i peddling India rubber rat-traps. Again, wc
i repeut, never despair.?Alhtny Tribune.
The Last of the Randolphs?A IVeplicw
of John Randolph;
A Southern Correspondent of the Ilonu
Journal sends it the following interesting
sketch:
"Dining the summer of 1S54 I had sonu
business transactions w liich called inc to tin
county of Charlotte, in lower Virginia. /
mild and lovely Sabbath morning found m<
seated in one of the comfortably cushioned
pews of the village church at the Court House
As it wanted a few minutes to the hour o
service my eyes wandered over the large an<
respectable looking audience assembled, an<
was finally attracted by a very eccentric indivii
mil who was just entering?a rather aged man
tall, ofdark complexion long white hair waving
plentifully over bis shoulders, and an equally ven
erable beard flowing on bis breast. His stc]
was active and graceful, bis form erect am
manly. But his peculiar actions were in strik
ing contrast to his dignified appearance. A
first I thought him only eccentric, but a fev
moments of further observation proved to ?v
that lie was insane.
Immediately on entering the pew he knel
towards the wall, crossed himself and, appa
rently, repeated a prayer. He then sat dowi
drew out a white cambric, delicately porfutn
ed, wiped bis brow, removed bis gloves, strok
ed bis hair ami beaid, took up his Bible, kiss
edit and read, examined his cane, used hi
handkerchief again and all the time keeping
himself in constant motion. I say all the timi
but, occasionally, lie was passive for a fe\
minutes?his attention apparently, aroused b
some truths from the minster?but these time
** - i II I. I
were rare, ins countenance nssuincu an mini
of expressions. Contempt, alarm, pleasure
earnestness, sorrow and anger, flitted across i
in rapid succession. It reminded me more <
what children call making faces, than anylhiii;
else.
"After thoapervices were over I ascertaine
that this gentleman was no other than th
nephew of John Randolph, of Roanoke. II
calls himself Sir John St. (Jeorge Randolpl
and is sole heir to his celebrated uncle. Rat
dolph , himself, remarked with bitterness durin
his Inst days that their blood flowed in the vein
of but one single scion, and he was (leaf^ dumi
The subject ??f this sketch?although physical I
and now mentally defective?had a mind cu
tivated in the highest degree. In his youth h
was sent to l'aris, were under the protcctioi
of a celebrated abbe, he received a thoroug
education. Having the capacity to receiv
and the wealth to command, no pains wer
spared in the improvement of his intcllectiui
faculties. Hut it was labor lost; for on returr
ing to his home in Virginia he met with ari
loved a young lady, whom he addressed bi
was refused on account of his physical defect!
On becoming aware of the truth he was plung
ed in ihe most profound grief, from which h
was at last aroused, but?insane.
"lie lias considerable wealth, which is mat
aged by bis friends; and being harmless It
comes and goes as he pleases, and is gratifie
in ail his whims. Wrecked as his mind is, h
still commands respect; and his peculiar inai
ncrs do not attract the attention of his n<
quaintnnces, or excite merriment us one wouli
suppose. H.
From the Leavenworth Kama* Herald.
The Election of Reciter in Kansas.
On Tuesday last the farce of Recder's clot
tiou came oii'at this place. It may be aske<
by some w hy was the election held? In th
first place, we deny that it was an electioi
at all. It is a well known fact, that the Leg
islature fixed on a day?the first Monday i
October?for the election ot a Delegate t
Congress. The election was held in accord
ance with the law on the day specified an
Gen. John \V. Whitfield was elected withou
opposition having received upwards of tlire
thousand votes in the Territory. There \va
nothing to call out the full strength of the pre
slavery party, there being no opposition t
Whifield, hence our vote was not so large as i
I would have been.
But Reedcr and his party held a meetingcaucus?at
I3ig Springs lie is nominated as
candidate for Congress?a different day fo
holding the election is fixed on and all the form
arc prescribed for holding this election by thi
self constituted legislative assembly of trieli
sters and wirepullers. The election comes ol
accordingly on the second Tuesday ofOctobe
and Reeder is elected?getting all the vote
given on the occasion alluded to, fur we pre
sumo no body else voted but Boeder's friend
and the nullifiers of the laws of our Territo
o- .
Recder will go on to Washington and clain
a scat. lie will proceed on the ground tha
there is no law in the Territory and that al
power resides in the people, they have in thei
primary capacity assembled and elected him t<
' represent their interest. This is the miscrubh
humbug and pretext lie and bis friends will se
up, relying for success upon an anti-Nebraski
majority in the Ilouse of Congress.
Fearing to open a poll at Kicknpoo and
other places in this country, their whole force:
rallied at this point to make a big show, ant
we learn did poll 5M votes! Over this victor;
they huzzaed, and burnt tar barrels, and cu
many fantastic tricks at night. Rut what o
this? at last it is only about half the vote:
| polled for Whitfield in this county.
A Windfall.?The Boston Telegraph i;
informed that one of the assistant female teach
ers in the Cambridge grnmmcr school, ha:
. .. , . . .. . \f
been It'll *7U.UUU wot til ol property by si ivir
S., at Para, Brazil, This bequest. so itnexpccl
ed, comes frotn a disappointed suitor of tin
lady wlie in ilispsiir at his rejection some cigli
) ears ago wandered away to South Americs
and made a fortune there.
??
It is reasonable to suppose that when a youiij
lady oilers to Item cambric handkerchiefs tor J
rich bachelor, she means to sew in order tha
she may reap.
#? ?
If you would not be disappointed take can
how you rely upon men in matters where thei
pecuniary interest conflict witji yours.
. Northern and Southern Enterprise.
It is a charge frequently made against the
South and her institutions that our people are
wanting in enterprise, and that in .this respect
' we are excelled by the people of the North.
Lieut. Maury in an.address, recently delivered
[ before the Literary Societies of Virginia University
thus repels the charge:
"The fairest estimate to be made of the enter*
prise of a people is based on the average
amount of property held by each citizen in the
j. State; for the wealth of the people in the agj
gregate, is the wealth of the State. According
I to the statement of Professor Tucker in his
j admiiable papers on the Progress, Population,
and Wealth of the United States, whic h
^ statements are based on the census returns
3 it appears that in 1850, the average value of
the property owned by each white person -was
j ?234 per head in New York, against ?127 in
Virginia. In Pennsylvania the average value
^ of each one's share was ?231 while for Georgia
it was no less than $G52. I take these States
because thev are the largest of the old thirc
. o
teen.
"Should we not therefore cast about and
seriously think of luking lessons in the study
of enterprise, the development of State resources
and the creation of individual wealth, from
Georgia, instead of holding up the example of
New York and Peusylvania in a false light,
and thus assisting with our voice to give cur'
rency to that egregious popular fallacy about
3 the superiority of Northern over Southern en;
terprise as it is called.
"The geographical distribution of labor is
^ regulated by natural laws, which we may not
with impunity ignore, wherefore, in seeking to
foster this or that branch of industry, tlnse
' laws should be carefully studied. It is they
j. which impress the peculiar traits upon the industrial
pursuits oi'this or that region. Many
D people iu New England, for intance, find it
j easier to make a livingat sea than then they do
when they attempt to wrest one from the so
vcrc climate and stingy soil of their native
State; consequently they take to the sea and
'* become sailors. Hut in the Southern States
the converse obtains. Here the climate is gea
nial the soil generous and the laboring man
^ instead of being driven away from it to the
' sea is invited to stav and din.
'* "You never hear of a man forsaking his
j* home in the Mississippi valley and going to
sea to make a living as a common sailor. But
such things are common at Cape Cod. What
I 'is the reason? The solution is in those laws
of climate and soil which regulate the industrial
pursuits of people; and it is in consequence of
j those laws that we have the absence of sea
faring communities among us; that the eye of
j the political economist, when contemplating
i( the industrial landscape presented by Virginia,
misses and longs for those very attractive
^ scenes which the business and stir of the seacalling
always impart to it.
"That southern youths do not therefore, like
the yankee boys, take to the sea and follow
'* it for a livelihood, is no indication that there is
j lacking any spirit of enterprise or energy
among us. Thev prefer the land to the sea
I life, it-is in obedience to the laws which regu1*
i
laic the geographical distribution of labor, that
j" one goes and the other tarries, and it was
owing to the force of those laws and not to
any superior enterprise, energy, or public spirit
that the business of manufacturing took such
; deep root at the north while certain branches
, of it have always withered or led a sickly existence
among us at the south,
j" "That the people of Virginia and the south
have not gone as extensively into manufacturing
as those of New England have, is no more
II
r an indication as to any want of enterprise on
'* our part, than it is want of enterprise on theirs
tliar the people of New England have not gone
as extensively into the cultivation of cotton and
j rice as Carolina has.
"We bulge of northern enterprise in a great
it ?/ o ? w
measure by their works of internal improvement
and by their ventures abroad; yet ihe
1 first steamship bat crossed the ocean was sent
over by the south; and the first locomotive that
^ ever blew its whistle in the United States was,
I believe, first unthrottled upon southern tracks.
???.
a ? #
{l Tub "\\ jirat Cuoi'.?Various estimates of the
r wheat crop for the present year have been made
s which vary at least 1,000,000, bushels?some
g giving the amount at 13,000,000, and others
as high as 230,000,000. The Washington cor
(] respondent o*' the New York Courier and Enr
quircr is under the impression that the lowest
s figures are nearer the mark than the highest and
, in support of this view he notices the fact that I
s the extreme drouth of best fall prevented the
h sowing of a large quantity of ground which had
been prepared for that grain. The scarcity and
? high price of seed, he seems to think, also loads
t to this conclusion. "I know," lie observes,
j that the past season is generally supposed to
r have been one of great productiveness, and that
j many believe the average yield per acre to have
j been from one sixth to one quart? r above that of
t ordinary years. I have not overlooked this item
but have not inserted it in the estimate, because
it is more than counterbalanced by otlier conI
siderations. The number of non-producing residents
of the country was never so great as now,
I the number of foreign immigrants since 1S50
^ being not far from 1.750,000, the mass of whom
t are not yet mingled with the agricultural popuf
lation. The extent of ground sown i3 less, I
. think, than ever before in proportion to the iium
her of inhabitants, and the quantity of wheat retained
from consumption for seed, is large beyond
precedent. I lie almost complete exhaustion ot
s the ordinary surplus remaining at harvest from
the growth of preceding years, is also a fact
5 which must exert a great influence upon the
' market."
2
t A teacher in a Sunday school was lecturing
t a class of liltlo girls on the influence of pious
instructions in the formation of youthful character.
'Ah, Miss Caroline,' said ho to one of
the class,'what do you think you would have
' been without your good father and pious
mother?'
1 suppose, sir,' answered Miss Caroline,'1
should have been an orphan.'
i If you would know your true friends, turn
r to those you have made in tip*, day of your ad>
crsity.
lleitry A. Wine to the Boston Negro
Stealers).
Only, near Oxancock, )
Accoinac County, Va., Oct. 5, 1855. $ i
Gentlemen:?On my return home, after an
.absence of some days, I found yours of the 19th
ult., 41 respectfully inviting me to deliver one of
the led ures of the course on Slavery, at Tremont
Temple, in the city of Boston, on Thurs
day evening, January lOlli, 185G; or, if that
time will not suit my engagements, you request
that I will mention at once what Thursday evening,
between the middle of December and the
middle of March next, will accommodate me."
Now, gentlemen, I desire to pay you due respect,
yet you compel me to be very plain with
you. and say that your rc'qucst, in every sense,
is insulting and offensive to me. What subject
of slavery have you 44 initiated" lectures upon ?
I cannot conceal it from myself that you have
undertaken, in Boston, to discuss and decide,
whether my property, in Virginia, ought to remain
mine or not, and whether it shall be allowed
tlic protection of laws, federal and State,
where it may be carried or may escape in the
United States; or, whether it shall be destroyed
by a higher law than the constitutions and slat
utes I
Who iire you, to .assume thus such a jurisdiction
over n subject so delicate and already
fixed in its relation by a solemn compact between
the States, and by States which are sovereign 2
I will not obey your summons nor recognize your
jurisdiction ? You have no authority and no
justification tor thus calling inc to account at
the bar of your tribunal, and for thus arraigning
an institution established by laws which do not
reach vou and which you cannot reach, by calling
on inc tc defend it.
You send me a card, to indicate the character
of the lecturers. It reads:
" Admit the bearer and lady to the Independent
Lectures on Slavery. Lecture committee,
S. G. Howe, T. Gilbert, George F. Williams,
Henry T. Parker, W. Washburn, B. B. Mussev,
W. B. Spooner, James W. Stone."
It is endorsed:
"Lectures at the Tremont Temple, Boston,
1854-5. November 23, Hon. Charles "Sumner,
Iti'V. John PiernonL ooct. December 7. Hon.
Salmon P. Chase, of Ohio. December 14th,
Hon. Anson Burlingamc, December 21, Wen
dell Phillips, Esq. December 29, Cassius M.
Clay, Esq., of Kentucky. January 4, Hon.
Horace Greeley. January 11, Rev. Henry Ward
Reecher. January 18, Hon. John P. Hale.?
January 25, Ralph Waldo Kininerson, Esq.?
February 8, Hon. Nathaniel P. Banks, Jr.?
February 15, Hon. Lewis D. Campbell, of Ohio.
February 23, lion. Sam Houston, of Texas.
March 1, Hon. David Wilmot, of Pennsylvania.
March 8lb, Hon. Charles W. Upham."
All Ilonorablcs and Squires, except those who
are Reverends! The card does verily indicate
their characters by simply naming them. And
your letter gentlemen, is franked by "C. Sumner,
U. S." With these characteristics, I am
at no loss to understand you and your purposes.
You say, " during the next season, a large
number of gentlemen from the South will be
invited," <fce., <fcc. 1 regret it, if any others can
be found in the slaveholding States to accept
your invitation. You plead the example of
General Houston. It is the last I would follow.
I have no doubt that you accorded very respectful
attention to bim last winter, and were very
grateful for his services in your cause.
You offer "one hundred and lifty dollars to
be paid to the lecturer, he bearing his own expenses."
Let me tell you that Tremont Temple
cannot hold wealth enough to purchase one word
..I* .1 DlAHA IfltAtltAH nilnA llOI'rt
*J I IIV1H LIIV.I Cj ? 1IC11ICI Iiiiiir. IIWIV)
shall Lc mine or not; but I am ready to volunteer,
without money and without price, to suppress
any insurrection, or repel any invasion
which threatens or endangers the Suite Rights
of Virginia, or my individual rights under the
laws .1ml constitution of Iny country, or the sacred
Union, which binds Sla\e States and Free
States together in one bond of National confederacy,
and in sejxtrate bonds of Independent
Sovereign t ies !
In short, gentlemen, I will not deliver one of
j the lectures of the course on Slavery, at the
Tremont Temple in Boston, on Thursday evening,
.January 10th, 1850; and there will be no
Thursday evening between thcffllrUle of December
and the middle oMIarch next, or between
that and doomsday, which will best accommodate
me for that purpose.
1 give you an immediate answer, and at my
earliest convenience, indicate to you that " the;
particular phase of the subject" that I will present
is, deliberately : to l unrr if wk most.
Your obedient servant,
IIENUY A. WISE.
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Bulling up Stoves for the fall and winter, is
;ui important duty now being performed by
many. Hence anything relating to the manner
of burning anthracite coal will be of service to
some if not all our readers. An Albany paper
says* i i
"There has been a great deal said and written
on the true principle of burning coal. The
art of burning coal is not yet properly understood
as it ought to he. Too much coal is
usually placed in the stove, by which the I
draft is destroyed, and gasses are imperfectly
consumed. Stoves should be constructed with
air tight doors, and moans of supplying air
to the top of the coal fire as woH as the bottom.
The feed door should never bo opened
except to supply fuel. When open, of course
cold air rushes in and eools the sides of the
stoves, wasting coal. When too much air gets
in at the draft door ash-pit, the draft is so
strong, that either your stove becomes too hot
or you x?pen the feed door to correct the evil?
losing heat. When no air is supplied to the
top of the fire, about half of your coal escapes
as vapor of carbon, unburn! for want of air,
without which, combustion cannot be perfect.
Small tlues should he in the stove, to admit a
stream of air heated by contact with the stove
and distributed to mix with the gas on the top
of the fire."
Dr. Clark, the owner of Congress Spring, at
Saratoga, is said l?> derive from it the very hand
some revenue, yearly, of $(?f?,000.
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There is beauty enough on earth to make a
homo for angels.
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WOiat they Think oris.
| When Southern men are told that the pa*t
' submissions of the South to wanton aggre^siuu
[ and insult have fixed in (lie mind of the Norflh
nn almost coutem|>tuous disliust o?~tfrrtr ability
or spirit ever to resist?that the insolent assertion
of G id dings, the South cannot be kicktdf
out of the Union," is daily becoming t he jirinci
pie upon vliich the North u-iiturcs i?? act?they
! reply, for the most part, in tenjis of incredulity
1 or indifference. They will not, for a moment,
j admit the idea that their power or courage' cau
i ever be called into question. And yet we every
i day see before us the proofs, loud and practical,
j that this idea is possessing the North, and pro;
boidening it for aggression,
j Our attention was forcibly arrested to tho fac',
| by the recent letter of Mr. E. R Hoar, (not
I Samuel Hour, the emissary,) who has been
! nominated by the Republican party of Mas6a'
chusetts, for Attorney General in that State.
Mr. Iloar, in accepting the nomination, says:
"That the Republican party is sectional, ir.
any obnoxious sense of that term, we may safely
! deny. In the first place, there is no danger that
I any party which can show itself strong enough
! to cjiitv the North, will not he able to secure a
j reasonable and sufficient quantity of southern
support. But, more seriously, our objects are
such as affect the whole national policy of the
Government, and our action is ujkmi strictly sectional
issues. There are many wise and just men
in the Southern States, who have denounced the
repeal of the Missouri Compromise, as impolitic
and dishonorable, and who would unite with any
manly and vigorous effort to redress the wrong.'*
" There is no danger that any party which
can show itself strong enough to carry the North,
will not be able to secure a reasonable aud sutticient
quantity of Southern support." Mark the
phrttse, "any party uq matter how deadly its
hostility; or how tierce its aggression.it will still
enlist in the South a "sufficient sup|*>rtstill
man o tnAtv r? lie t r\ /l/\ Will Ki?W rliWVIl
; iiiivi iii'iii uo i.v viw ii4 "iii^ v"?? viv"?tj
and kiss the smiting rod. Verily, it is a humiliating
picture. But has it not at least some foundation
of truth in the past conduct of Southed)
men ? Have we not always had apologists of
Northern monopolies, Northern measures, and
Northern assaults?men
" Whoso treason, like a deadly blight
Game o'er the counsels of the brave,
To blast them in their hour of might?'1
It is they who have dragged the South down
from her high position of independence and defiance?they
who have chained her to the foul
wheels of corrupt parties,-and sold her rights
and honor for office and personal promotion?
they who have made the glorious creed of States
Rights as a " sounding brass or tinkling cymlal"
?they who have put shameful, tieacheroqs
compromises upon us?and they upon whom the
North relies again to do the work of submission
and betrayal. *
The " Republican party"?the Abolition-put?
ty?"any parly" which can carry the North,
and control the patronage of the Government,
need not fear of the want of Southern support.
This is the estimation in which we are held,
Charleston Mercury^
A Beautiful Tribute to a Wife.
Sir James Mackintosh, the historian, was rtiar,
ried in eaily life, before he attained fortune or
fame, to Miss Catharine Stuart, a young Scotch
lady, distinguished more for the excellence of
her character than her charms. After eight
years of a happy wedded life, during which she
became the mother of three children, she died.
A few days after her death, the bereaved husband
wrote to a friend, depicting the character
of his wife in the following terms:
"I was guided (he observes) in my choice
only by the blind affection of my youth. I found
an intelligent companion and a tender friend,
a prudent monitress, the most faithful of wives,
and a mother as tender aschildren ever had I he
misfortune to lose. I met a woman, who by
the tender management of my weaknesses,
gradually corrected the mostperniciousof them.
She became prudent from affection and though
of the most generous nature, she was taught frugality
and economy by her love for me,
'During the most critical period of my Jifp
she preserved order in my affairs, from the care
of w hich she relieved nic. She gently reclaim-;
cd me from dissipation; she propped my weak
and irresolute nature; sne urged my indolence
to all the exertions that have been useful and
creditable to me, and she was perpetually at
hand to admonish my lieedlesness or improvidence.
To her 1 owe whatever 1 am ; to her
whatever i shall be. In her solicitude for my
interest she never for a moment forgot iny
feelings or my character. Even in her occasional
resentment for which I but too often
gave her cause, (would to God 1 could
recall those moments!.) she had no suilenness
nor acrimony. Her feelings were warn>
and impetuous; but she was placable, tender
and constant. Such was she whom I have lost
when her excellent natural sense was rapidly
I improving, after eight j-enrs' struggle and dis|
tress had bound us fast together and moulded
! our tempers to each othei; when a knowledge
I of her worth had refined my youthful lovo into
I Iriend.-hip and before age had deprived of it
[ much of its original ardor. 1 lost her, alas! the
j choice of mv youth, the partner of my misI
fortunes, at a moment when I had lhoprosprc$
of her sharing my better days.
Home Journal.
It is said of Jolm Knox, the great Scottish
I .. .. I. _ ......... iVtrtl. fie 1I..1 111 *i 11 is
lUUUIigr \\ 110 JUKI lining inuimb ???iw .......j
enemies, that it was his frequent custom while
in his own liouse to sit at tlio head of a table,
with his back to the window. t)u one evening
however, he would not take his usual seat, and
gave a positive command that no one of his
family should occupy it. lie took another
chair in a different part of the room} and shortly
afterward a gun was fired die bullet of which
passed through the favorite window, grazed
the lop of his vacant scat ami shattered the
candlestick that stood upon his table. This
was not the only, though the most wonderful
escape jie had Irom his inalieiousniid determined
f OS,
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Inoculation (or the yellow lover is reported
to have liceu tried in more than 0110 thousand
cases at Now Oilcans during tjiopast summer
\vith period success.