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s m m mmmm wmm TWO DOLLARS PER ANNUM] 44 this phiob o f libbiity is 33ten.isr-a.ij viaixiaisroii." [PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. BY DAVIS & HOLLINGSWORTH. ABBEVILLE, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE 19, 1856. VOL. YTir n^r* o aJUUgiSiS'Jaiiaa. ills?? a. From the American Union. ANNIE LEE, 011 THE BRIDAL SONG. BY KATE RANDOLPH. Annie Lee was ;i poetess. Nature made Ijer one, and she sung as tlio biid sings, ?nd tl?j flower sends out fragrance. She 3ived with her parents in the beautiful country. Annie had many admirers. The old Hoved lier for her sweetness and simplicity. She had lovers, too, men of refinement and culture, who looked down into her young - . * - > * - * - ?v??t, auu qnw uiw treasure iiiai jay ill 1110 "bottom. But as yot Annie loved no one more than her parants; she sung her songs from out a gushing, happy soul, and rejoiced the hearts and made beautiful the Jives of all who came near to her. One summer day as Annio sat sewing and chatting with her mother, they saw 'from the window a stranger guest approaching the cottage. It was Earnest May, an old friend who had been absent for ten years from his native country, lie had returned with a mind richly stored with experience and knowledge gained from abroad. Ten years before, he had taken Annie Lee in his arms ar.d petted her as a pretty and gifted child as she really was. lie was then ? ,.r a....:. .. -i.:t i -< jvuii^, mail ui unjmv, i\uiiivj a miiu yjt seven years. Annie looked into tlie faec of their guest, and wondered liow she could have forgotten her old friend. Earnest looked into the beautiful poetic eyes of the lovely gill, ntul thought he had never seen, even under Italy's fair skies, a more attractive face. The visit was brief and soon came to an end. Earnest May went to his life of study and thought. Annie, still a cottage girl, went niorc often into the deep wild woods, to weave into graceful song the fancies that crowded her brain. A new inspiration had come to the young girl with the presence of the stranger. A cord hitherto untouched now thrilled in its strange melody, and ziiitnaa wns mure cuinpimu :uiu uarllious. Earnest may was not a declared lover, lie was ever calm and dignified in his affection for Annie. lie may have loved the beautiful child, but how well 110 one could icll ; perhaps lie thought only of her as a gifted child of song, and so lingered in her j presence c.haincd by sympathy of mind i over mind. Annie did not n*k herself if Earnest i loved her. She only felt his kindness, and was blessed in her own absorbing passion. One summer dny Annie was surprised by tho arrival of Earnest. She had not been "warned of his approach, and she sprang over the door sill with a light, almost wild step, to welcome him. "You did not tell me you were coining, Earnest, and now I am more glad that umi ilwl n.->f fix- .I.Jo ........ ? 1 " I have come sooner than I thought lo, for I have something to say to you, Annie. I love most tendcrlv, even pussionatelj', a lovely gill. Do not (urn your ?-yes from ine, I hid sure you are my good frii iid." "Is she very beautiful, Earnest?'* snid Annie, trembling. "Ah, yes, Annie, more beautiful than even your own wildest fancy ever wove into song. Will you, dear child, when you are in the glow of your highest imagination, write a bridal song ? and let it be more rich in beauty than the shy is at midnight with stars. Oh, Annie, she is divinely beautiful, for a gifted soul looks out of the soft features, and tinges the smile and lights the eye with more than a human beauty.? Will you not rejoice wiih 111c, that at last I can see with a lover's vision, that the scales have all fallen from dead eyes, and now everywhere see newness of life." Annie was silent; she did not say that fibo rejoiced in her friend'* happiness. ** Forgive me, Annie, for withholding this -secret from yon so long. It was sweet to ikeep it in iny own soul, and gloat over it and look at it with a miser's eye. You forgive me, Annie?" 41 Yes, yes, I forgive." Earnest and Annie did not meet again Jill the family circle were gathered for the evening. Earnest sat apart from Annie, and engaged the old people in pleasant conversation. Annie listened, but looked out into the night on the soft moonlight on the .green sloping bank. She was exerting a more Until physical power over her thoughts, and striving lo beat, hack the low rumblings of the tumult that deep down in her young Ardent nature was bursting into fresh rebellion. Tbe effort was too great. A dizziness stole over Annie's over-taxed brain. She 6a# the trees dancing, the brook waving backwnrd and forward, and the moonlight shadow swam before her eye?. She uttered a faint cry, and would liave fallen from her seat, hod not Earnest, who had been watching her intently, sprang forward and caught ber in his amis. They took Annie to her bed. The powerful excitement of the day, with Ber effort to conquer it, had created fever in -tar veins and ber braiu. For a week An Die lay in great danger. In ber unconscious sta*?, Anoio talked ccnetantly of i Earned of bia beautiful bride, an<? ^dt'ber "own gfjof. ?k>n?etjroea . she j) J would fancy she was preparing the bridal wreath, and would call for fresh flowers from the brook. Again she would repeat the words of Earnest : "Ah, Annie, she is more beautiful than your wildest fancy ever wove into song." Then she would improvise rhyme, saying. " this shall be the bridal song. 1 will not be the naughty child of my dear friend. I icill writo him a bridal song, and sing it too at his wedding." Earnest, at such times, would listen with the deepest feeling to all thore revelations of her poet soul. Ho wrote in his tablets each lino of sweet verse she had named the " bridal song." He was never absent from her side, and the first object J ness, was Earnest Mny. She held out her | j thin white haml to him, and tried to speak ! her thanks for his presence. Many weeks of weariness and languor j came to the poor sick girl ere she could ! leave her bed. There seemed to ho sonjrtliinjr holding her hack from health. Iler j mind was not quiet and at rest. Earnest read the soul of the young girl, j and on each day felt more than ever like a j i guilty wretch, who had crushed in his rude ! | hand a beautiful and fragile flower. Well j | as he had imagined he had understood her, he found he had no conception of the e>:- ! I I tremc delicacy and sensitiveness of her na- j : turc. No attention or kindness from him ' I could in any way wipe out the great wrong ' I he luid done her. lint what was in his : i power to give, he gave with earnestness and i | | devotion. It was ho who sat by her bed- I side, nnd strove l?v pleasant conversation i ' and reading, to entice her back to liealtli j j anil cheerfulness. His arm bore licr slight ; i frame from the sick room into the genial ' I sunshine. i Nor was Earnest wholly unsuccessful in lii~ efforts to restore Annie to health ; ami ! j when tlie soft air touched her pale check, there sprang up again in her soul a desire to live, if but to revel in the beauty of nature. ! One day Earnest bore Annie into the j garden arbor. Annie was still weak, and ; very pale, from the effect of her long illness. She seemed as fragile as an infant in ( i the arms of the strongman. How slight ! ! a breath might nip the beautiful flower ? j ! and yet a strong will was beating in her ! bosom, and a brave heat t was in that frail ' tenement, that was buoying her by 011 the j wave of destiny, and would surely bear her ! safely to some protecting harbor. Earnest drew from his bosom a tablet ! upon which were inscribed the lines of the ' song improvised in Annie's delirium. He commenced reading it to Annie, who sat 1 perfeotly absorbed in llie strange mystery. | . The rhyme. :lie thought was hers, but i | how could she account for the traceable j , lines ? Earnest closed the verso, and replaced the tablet, and then said in a low vuice:? 44 Annie, this is our bridal song." ... \ Annie turned her beautiful eyes into the face of Euruest, as if to read the meaning i ' of his words. 41 Dear Annie, why did you lot your wild, j 1 wayward hjfirt mislead vou, when 1 strove j to tell you of my love for you ?" "Your love for inc. dear Earnest! vou ! . i said she whom you loved was very beauli- i i fill and gifted." I t " And so she is, sweet Annie. Who, An- . c nie, but you, could have inspired sucli love ! 1 as has blessed, and well-nigh wrecked my j f life." _ c 44 And is it me, dear Earnest, that you j t loved so tenderly, so passionately ?" And : | the poor girl buried her face in the bosom j of Earnest and wrpt, the first happy tears j j that had touched licr cheek fur many long weeks. t " You, and you only, my lieauliful child poet!" and Earnest raised the small head J from his hosoin, and kissed away the tears as he playfully said :? ( "Haste, Annie, and soon be well, for I , long to sing the bridal song." , Header, is the story told ? ( A Sad Picture.?O! were the tongue 1 dipped in the gall of celestial displeasure, I 1 would describe the case of a man expiring ! in the cruel agonies of unbelief. Ah, see ! ! Everything conspires to trouble me now. '' I am dying; I despair recovering; phyni- 1 cians have given mo over; the sighs and tears of friends are useless?the world can- ' U7I.!?I T ? ? nut, vuiu inc. >vimuer nm 1 going j What will become of my body ? My God wluit a spectacle ! The horrid torches, the dismal shroud, the coffin, the tolling bell, and tho subterranean abode ! Then what will become of my soul ? I am ignorant of its destiny; and I am plunging into eternal night! My infidelity tells me my soul is nothing but a subtile matter; another word, n vision, imtnoitality; a fancy and yet I feel, I know not what, that troubles iny infidelity. Annihilation, terrible as it ia, would appear tolerable to me, were not the ideas of heaven aud hell (o present themselves to me in spite of myself. I see heaven, that immortal mansion of glory, mIilit- Atminnt ine. I see it at nn distance. I see it, but my crimes forbid me to enter. I see hell?hell which I have ridiculed. It opens under my feet. I hear the horrible groans of the damned; the smoke of the bottomless pit chokes my words and wraps my thoughts in suffocating darkness, ' u' ' ' IN DEBT AND OUT OF DEBT. Of what hideous progeny of ill is debt the father! What meanness, what invasions of self-respect, what double-dealing ! IIow, in duo season, it will carvc the frank, open face into wrinkles; how like a knife it will stab the honest heart. And then its transformations. How it has been known to change a goodly face into a mask of brass; how, with tho miserable custom of debt has tho truo man become a callous trickster ! A freedom from debt, and what nourishing sweetness may be found in cold water ; what toothsomeness in a dry crust; what ambrosial nourishment in a hard egg; Bo sure of it, ho who dines out of debt, though his meal bo a biscuit and an onion, dines in "Tho Apollo." And then, for raiment, what warmth in a thread-bare coat, if tho tailor's receipt be in your pocket! what Tyrian purple in the faded waistcoat, the vest not owed (or; how glossy the well-worn hat if it covers not the aching head of a debtor! Next the lw.mn. .1 - <u?iu IUU UUI UUUI I UCI'iNl11<) 11 OI the free man. Tlie street door falls not a knell on li 13 heart; the foot of the staircaso through his anatomy ; at the rap of his iloor he can crow " come in," and his pulse btill beats heathfully, his heait sinks not in his bowels. See him broad. How lie returns look for look with any passenger; how he saunters ; now meeting an acquaintance, he stands and gossips, but then this man knows no debt; debt that casts a drug in Lhe richest wine; that makes the food of llio gods unwholesome, indigestible ; that sprinkles the banquets of a Lucullus with ;ishes, and drops sont in the soup of an Emperor ; debt, that like the moth, makes valueless furs and velvets, enclosing the wearer in a festering prison, (the shirt of N'essus was a shirt not paid foi ;) debt Lhat writes upon frescoed halls, thti hand- j writing of the attorney, that puts a voice >f terror in the knocker; that debt, the invi.-ible demon that walks abroad with a man, now uuiekcuing his steps, now making him look on all sides like a limited heast, and which bringing to his face the iialiy hue; of death as the unconscious pasMUiger looks glaneingly upon him. l'ovortv is a bitter draught, yet may, and jotiU'times can with advantage, be swallowed down. Though the drinker makes ry faces, there may, after all, be a whole onie goodness in the cup. l?ut debt, liow ver courteously it may be offered, is the , ::ip of Syroii; and the wire, spiced and j lelieious though it be, is poison. The tnan nit of debt, though with a flaw in his jer;in, a crack in his .shoe leather, and a hole u his hat, is still the son of liberty and Yeo as the singing lark above him ; but lie debtor, although clothed in the utmost jravery, what is ho but a surf out upon i holiday?a slave to he reclaimed at any ustant bv his owner, the creditor ? My son, if poor, see wine in the run inig see my mouth water at a last veek's roll; think a thread-bare coat the 1 >nly proper thing to wear; and acknowl r.lge a white washed garret the fittest housing place for a gentleman ; do this, and flee '> lebt. So shall thy heart be at rest and the 1 herilF confounded.?Douglas Jerrold. The Vine, the Olive and the Cotton Plant n Northern Italy.?Robert II. Lees, Uni- ( ed States Consul at Spezzia, in reply to a ircular February 20, 1856, issued from the 'atent Oifice at Washington, gives the bllowing interesting facts in relation to the :ultiire of colli>ii in Italy: During the oc- ( upation of Italy by the French under the , irst Napoleon, one of hit) projects was the ntroduction of the cotton plant, but it , ailed generally throughout Northern Italy; ind now cotton is not raised further North ban in some of the Papal States. The >rincipal agricultural products of this part >f Italy are the olive and grape, with which the whole face of the country is :overed, even up to the summits of the tiMmiiuiiiis, which been) inaccessible. Tbe kino and olivo trees are carried up and cultivated by means of terraces, constructed it great expense and labor, and tlie perfect beauty of tiieir appearance at tliis season, with everything in leaf and blossom, may easily be imagined. Tbe olive trees uro planted in groves very thickly, and requiro little caie beyond a simple scraping around the roots, and a stirring up of the soil early in the spring. Between the trees is plaulcd the vine, to which they seem as lattice work, festooned with its leaves and tendrils. The annual value of each tree is estimated at five francs, (about uioety cents,) ana lis naruiness is sucn, uiat while tlie vino for the last fivo years lins been destroyed or rendered unproductive by disease, tlie olive hat remained unhurt. A great blessing this has been to the peasantry, for had the olive proved as sickly as the grape, a fearful famine mu>t have ensused. m ? tar A very loquacious lady once offered to bet her husband fifty dollars that she would not speak a word for a week. u Done!" said the delighted hosband, staking the money, which she immediately put into her pocket, observing, very gravely, uiat sue would secure it until Uie wager was decided. "Why, madam," cried the husband, "I have won it already." M You art mistaken in the time," said the lady, "I mean the week after I-tun ba* ADDRESS TO THE AMERICAN FLAG. The following, by tlie profound "Sijuixsh," of California, was studdled up whilst acttin' onto the l'iazxy fense, watching of the American flog waivin' from the top of the liberty-pool: O, mity rag 1 O, hooteous peose of kloth ! i Maid up of red and white and blue stripes, And slurs pniuted on both sides? All hale! Again I'm settiii' in thi umbrajus I Sliadder, and admiriu' of the granger. And auckin' into my chist the gentle zofTers That are holdin' you out well ui onto Strate. (? real flag! whiyj I shet .Mi ize and look at ye, and think IIow as when you wos little, and not much limn i* ?' 11 "1 1 ? - i'ccqu ui Kiuin, alia Almost ns tender as a shetn of paper, you Was karried all thru the rcvolushuuAry war, and have som Tew times sinco Held lip your lied with difficulty, and IIow treinciijus you are now, I feel Jest us if I Hhud bust and fii nil round, and want To git down off the fense, and git shot, Or stab'd, or hit on the head with a stick of Wood, or hung, for my kuutry. Prodijus banner I wouldn't I sinilc to sec A Chinaman, or n small unnatehcrulizcd Forriner undertuik to pull you dowu ! If a Chinaman, I wud slai him, and kut Off his kcw, and benr it off in triumph ! Before I'd sec n slit tore in ye, or the sackrelijus I Hands of a fo a kuttin' yu up into a bullit Putchiti', I'd braBO my bak agin a waul (or a House, or a fense, or a bord, us it mite be,) And fltc, and scratch und i-:_i. ?1 i.:?- ? ? HivK, uiiu u.ic, uuu iure my moose, and ; Loo/.e mi lint, and hit iiim in the i, and On mi leg, (linrd,) and ukrost the smnul of Mi hitk, nnd fuul down nnd git up Agin, and koutinue the struggle for a huff or i Three-quarters of an hour, or until I got Severely wounded. Tvrriftlc omblem ! how proud ye look. And how aliuiiy sassy you waiv round, A snapping and erackin', and ekariii' of horses ; I spoaeyour almost tnrin' to get into a Kite with somebody, and satisfyin' your karNiverous dispersitiou by eatiu' a whole nnshun. (ireatflag! I don't know which mniks me J Feel tlie most patriotic?yu or the 4th of July ; | Yu aiut made of the same kind of stufl, ultlio' j Yu lire about the same age, and aro both Sublime and terrible to koutcmplale. Hut I must klose, slid wave my last adoo, However tryin* to my feelins it may be, And git down off of the fense, for already the Sharp pints of the pockets begin to stick me. And make me skriugeand hitch about, Ami threaten lu tare my kloase, ttuil niiike me ' holler. NEWSPAPERS AND THE SCRIPTURES. | It is reported that the New Yurie Bible i Society is meditating the plan of publishing the Uiblo in newspaper form for more general circulation. This plan, though novel in j our day, was partially adopted in past times, ' by tho printers of nomo of the English pa p :rs. When newspapers were first established, they were quite destitute of .advertisements, and nothing was more common than for papers to be issued with a blank page. The first newspapers printed in America had only three pages of reading ; matter, as there was not foreign or domes- | tie news enough to fill out all the columns. < In England, after awhile, a new method ] was adopted to fill up the space not re- i quired for the current news, by publishing 1 selections from the sacred Scriptures, and i many an old newspaper is now extant with < a whole page copied from tho Bible. Chap- i ters from the New Testament, were placcd } at tho head of the column, and the sDace . below was filled out with a psalm of the ( required length, lu the period which this, , Lo us, novel proceeding was resorted to, in , order to fill out the newspaper, the Bil?lo f was not so common or so cheap as at pres- , ent, and doubtless much good resulted < from the practice. What would some of , the subscribers to our popular journals say j if their favorite sheet was to appear with j *even or eight columns selected from the | Scripture ? Doubtless in some quarters, even in our da}', extracts from the Bible would be " news indeed!"?Boston Tran\ script. I NEWSPAPER BY-LAW8. j A cotemporary lays down the following . pithy code of newspaper by-laws. They ] are the best we have seen drawn up : 1. Be brief. This is the aero of teleorranh nnd stenography. 2. Be pointed. Don't write nil Around a subject without hitting it. 3. State facts, but don't stop to moralize. It's a drowsy subject. Let the reader do his own dreaming. 4. Eschew prefaces. Plunge at once into ' your subject, like a swimmer in cold water. 5. If you have written a sentence that you think particularly fine, draw your pen through it. A pot child is always the worst in the family. 6. Condense. Make sure that you really ' have an idea, and then record it in the Bhort- 1 est possible terras. We want thoughts in 1 their quintessence. 1 7. When your article is completed, strike out nine-tenths of the adjectives. The English is a strong language, but won't bear much " inducing." 8. Avoid all flown language. The plainest Anglo-Saxon wares are the best Never use stilts when legs will do as well. 9. Make jour sentences short. Every period it a milestone, at which the reader may stop aod rest himself; 10. Write legibly, Dod*t let your manuscripts look like tbo tracks of i? spider half drowned in ink. We shan't mistake anybody for a genius,, though he write as erabbedly as Napoleon. few 4 tuOrfe"of*Africa, who vieited Kngland afswyear* agcy when asked What ice was, said, H bim be ws|? fast Kfilji'.* V MECHANICAL PHRASES. A few days ago a couple of men got into a fight, and as a consequence, it being naturally tlio case, a ring of oxcited individuals got around the parties and each according to his own feelings in tlio matter, gave his advace: " Peg it into," said the shoemaker;? " hammer his upper leather for him?that's it, wax him my lad ; beat him ?" " Cut it into his fat, old fellow," said tlio butcher ; " knock hitn on tlio head !? You're a regular calf, you are! Knuckle him, now yer got him, and mako mince meat of him !" " Dress him well," said the tailor "see how lie pants! fell him ! givo liim a stitch in his rise! button up his lip, and knock him baii?r-ut?! "Tan his hide," said the currier; "peel the bark of! his noso?and damago his skin!" "This suits me exactly," said tho lawyer, " get his head in a chancery, and bleed him till he pleads, then bo's a good case." Then advancing to the other one, ho said : "lie's doing an injury?bo's perfectly ferocious, rake tho law on him, and, I'll look out for the remainder." " I saw him strike you first," said tho carpenter. " Nail him ! Knock his upper rights from under him ! cross cut him until he lies dormant I Til bet a basket of shavings on you, old chap !" " Plug him in the eye," said a tobacconist. " Get a double twist on him, and tlien chew him up. Don't let him stump you, give him one on his nigger head !" " Hit him between the eyes with your JCiT" said the Printer, " show liim no 1-4's till you 1-2 kill l.im ! batter his bold face and knock his form into pi." " What's the row ?" said the police, coming up after every one was gone. " Show lis a cliance to havo a grab at somebody 1" DOMESTIC PIETY. If there be one curse more bitter than another to man, it is to bo the offspring of an irregular home; of a home where the voice of praise and prayer ascend not to God, and where the ties of human affection arc not purified and elevated by the refining influence of religious feeling; of a homo to which, if the cares or sorrows of life shall bring religion to the heart in after days, that heart cannot turn without bitterness of feeling, without anguish and vexation of spirit. If there be. a curse to any country where the truths of religion are known, the deepest and bitterest curso whioh l<c inflicted on it is a multitude of homos like the one which I have supposed. Such homes send forth their sons unchecked in evil thoughts, unhallowed in their habits, and untaught in love of God: the name and cross of Jessus Christ stamped on their forehead, but not written in their hearts : and they send them forth to prey upon the land, and to become its curse and destruction. But on the other hand, there i<* a blessing to tho religious home, which no longue can describe. The home where in aarly years the heart is trained to a love of Clod, and to take pleasure in his worship iiid service, interwoven with tho existence if many holy affections which die not with the circumstances that gave them birth ? which last long, though they may be for a season forgotten and neglected, and which i? ? - ....... bauitisu .?u icnal nuiuu chuck upon 1110 jvil of tho human heart, aud often, may, commonly, recall it to hear again the word if God, and turn to tho paths of holiness *nd peace. How great, how unspeakable, s the happiness of a land where homes like this are common.?Rev. II. J. Rose. A WARNING. A few weeks since, in tho course of conversation with an eminent broker, who has been forty years acquainted with the leading moneyed mon of the country, we asked if he ever knew a 6cheracr, who acquired money or position by fraud, to continue iuccessful through life, and leave a fortune at death. We walked together about three minutes in silence, when he replied : " Not vie! I have 6ecn men," he said, " become rich as if by magic, and afterwards reach % high position in public estimation, not anly for honor and enterprise, but even for piety, wnen some small circumstance, of no apparent importance, Las led to investigations, which resulted in disgrace nnd ruin." On Saturday we ngain conversed with him upon the same subject, and he stated that since our last interview he had extend ed his inquiries among a large circle of Acquaintances, nnd with one solitary exception, and that doubtful, their experi ence was to the same effect ns bis own.? He gave a brief outline of several small and big schemers, and their tools, their nse and fall. Suicide, murder, arson, and peijury, he said, were common crimes with many of those who made M haste to be rich," regardless of the means; and, he added, there are not a few men, who may be seen on 'Change every day, ignorantly striving for their destruction. It is not, he said, so much the love of gold that leads tnanir himinAM mnn aatrnv m tlm be tbougbtsharp or successful. He concluded (bat fortunes acquired without honesty gttMcally overwhelm their posse mors withttfcoy.?Bo*ton Mla$. jy- l^aoini, tbo davgbtv 6l Enocb SABBATH PUBLIC W0B8HIP. No man can neglect it? 1. Without doing violcnco to a special, divine preccpt, which is as obligatory today as when it was first given to inon :? " Thou shall keop my Sabbaths and reverence my sanctuary." 2. This neglect puts ono in direct con irariety ot character and habit to all the wise and good men mentioned in tho Bible, from Patriarch to Apostle. 3. And it puts him out of the company and fellowship of the great body of the wiso aud good from the Apostolic days to ours. 4. It throws him out of the reach of influences eminently suited to stimulate his intellect, and excite and gratify a thirst for knowledge, and thus make him a wiser man. f?. And influences for making him a better man, a Christian and religious man, are lost by this neglect, which influences are among tho most precious and effective that can bo found in our world ; influences appointed by Infinite Wisdom, and most devoutly acknowledged as good by all Christian people. C. This neglect of public worship strikes a fatal blow at the Sabbath itself, which must inevitably sink, unsustaincd by this powerful agency in promoting due reverence fur it. 7. This neglect is painful to all who are sincerely desirous of seeing God glorified in his own institutions, and the best temporal and spiritual good of men promoted. 8. And said neglect gives countenance and comfort to all persons wishing to cast off religious restraint arid livo reckless of all laws, human and divine. 9. Neglect of public worship shows a light estimation and leads to disregard of one of the most efficient of all agencies of enlightening the public conscience, of imparting the most important of all knowledge?the knowledge of God and divine things?of sustaining the general interests of education, law and order among men, repressing crime, and advancing virtue. Certainly, then, a most heavy responsibility is assumed by all persons who indulge themselves in the ne'rlrr.f. of ?li? ?O ? I "V worship of God. ^ ? LIABILITIES TO DEATH BY LIGHTNING. E. Meriain," lIih philosopher of Brooklyn Heights," writes to the Now York Journal of Commerce, as follows : In some years, more persons arc killed l?y lightning than in others. The year 1811) had the fewest, and 1845 tho most, in any one year in a term of thirteen years. In the month of July, 1854, we recorded thirty-nine deaths by lightning and thunder 6torms, within the field of our research, on twenty-seven of tho thirty-one days of that month. Our record in the last fourteen years gives an aggregate of seven hundred and fifty deaths by lightning on tho land, one only of whom wiis killed in a building furnished with lightning conductors, and that one iu the summer of 1855, at Little Prairie, Wisconsin. In relation to this death, we have had a considerable correspondence with the person who put up tho conductor. There were three buildings burnt by lightning which were furnished with conductors, last year?one was a barn in Westchester county, another a dwelling house in Richmond, Va., and the other the house of Mr. Van Rensselaer, in St. Lawrencc county, New York. Our records continue to witness that in no case lias there been Iosb of life by lightning in steamboats, railroad ears, iron ships, iron buildings, vessels furnished with metallic conductors, or building furnished with lightning rods, with the exception of the house at Litlle Prairie, Wisconsin, named above. Mute testimony, but conclusive, that metals aro not dangerous, and that lightning conductors afford protection to life. Use. Minutes.?It i6 asked, says Chauning, how can tho laboring man find time for 6eif-culture ? I answer that an earnest purpose finds time. Seizing on spare moments, it turns fragments into golden account. A man who follows his calling with industry and spirit, and uses his earnings economically, will always find some portion of the day at bis command. And it is astonishing how fruitful of improvement a short season becomes, when eagerly seized 1 .1 *1 ? - - ? ' i?iiu iitiiiiiuiiy useu. it uhs ouon uoen observed that those who have the inost titao at their disposal, profit by it tho least. A single hour in the day given to some interesting subject, brings unexpected accumulations of knowledge. ?3T A witness was examined in a case of slander bofore a Judge who required him to repeat the precise words spoken. The witness hesitated until he bad drawn the attention of the audience; then fixing his eyes earnestly upon the Judge, he began : "May it please your honor, you lie, you steal, you get your living by stealing."? The face of the Judge reddened, and be interrupted the witness by exolaiming, "Turn to the jury, sir." ' ? * ? JE2T " Sam, why you no tell your massa to lay him up treasures in Hebbin P? "Why for, Cuff! What de use ob him i? j? _?? i? jay uf wdoouio uvio, truer 0 110 DflDDCT 00 more see um agin, cb; nigger t" VAPORGRAPHIC GLASSES. An ingenious person may afford no end of amusement to himself and friends by the aid of a few dozen vaporgraphic glasses, on which are invisibly delineated a variety of I questions and answers of an appropriate I character, such as love questions, conundrums, drc. lieal dissolving views may also | be depicted on these glasses, possessing an I interest according to their artistic value, j Glass valentines may also bo made in tho i samo way, which may have invisibly iinI pressed upon them any written theme, poo; try, or initials. Breathe on thiH glass, and you'll divine The portrait of your Valentine. I i no vaporgrapliie glasses are very easily ; inado and at a cost not worth mentioning. When finished, they have nothing peculiar in their appearance to indicate their lalont graphic powers; hence, to a stranger to tho mystery, they only appear ljIcq ordinary glass. The secret is tins: Procure a few pieces of window glass, about the size of an ordinary playing card; then \vrite or draw on them whatever may be thought proper with a quill pen that has been dipped in hydrofluoric acid, using this watery liquid just as you would in(c. After iho design has thus been depicted upon the glass for about two minutes, the glasses are to bo washed in clean water, and polished with a silk handkerchief, or a dry soft cloth. Tho drawing or writing will now be perfectly invisible, but if breathed upon the pictures , or letters, become " as clear as noonday." I The same effect is observed if tho glasses I he held over tho stiem of hot water; hence their name, vapor, or steam j graphic, rela; ting to writing. Hydrofluoric m-irl n? i? j eats iulo glass, is sold in leader bottles by j the labojatyj ian chemists. Septimus Piesse. ?Scientific Atnerican. A Touching incident.?The saddest story that wo ever read was that of a little child in Switzerland, a i >t boy, just as yours is, reader, whom his mother, one bright j morning, rigged out in a beautiful jacket all j shining with gilt and buttons, and gay as a mother's love could make it, and then permitted him to go out to play. lie had scarcely stepped from the door of the Swiss i uottage, when an enormous eagle scooped liim from the earth and bore him to his nest, liigh up among tlie mountains, and }?ct within sight of the house of which he had been the joy. There he was killed and devoured, the eyiie being at a point which was literally inaccessible to man, so that uo relief ! could be afforded. In tearing the child to ! picocs, the eagle so placed his gay jacket | in the nest that it became a fixture there, and whenever the wind blew it would flutter, and the sun would shine upon its lovely trimmings and ornaments. For years it was visible from the low lands, long after the eaglo had abandoned the nest. What a sight it must have been to the parents of the victim. j Study of Mankind.?In order to love mankind, expect but little from them ; in order to view their thoughts without bitterness, we must accustom ourselves to pardon them, and to pcrceivo that indulgence is a justice which frail humanity has a right to demand from wisdom. Now, nothing tends more to dispose lis to indulgence, to close our hearts against hatred, to open them to the principles of a humane and soft morality, than a profound knowledge of the human heart. Accordingly the wisest men have always been the most indulgent.?Jiulvcr. Courtesy.?No inan is a gentleman, who. without provocation, would treat with incivility the humblest of his species. It is a vulgarity for which no accomplishment or dress can ever atone. Show ino th? man who desires to make every one happy around him, and whoso greatest solicitudeis never to give just cause of offeuce to any one, and I will show you a gentleman by nature and practice, although be may never have worn a suit of broad-cloth, or even have heard of a lexicon. ftZff" A young and pretty girl stepped into a store where a spruce young man wba had long been enamored of her but daro not speak, stood behind the counter selling dry goods. In order to remain as long as. possible, she cheapened everything. At last she said: " 1 believe you thluk I am cheapening you." "Oh no," said the youngster, "to roe you are always fair." " Well," whispered the lady, blushing as she laid an emphasis on the word, "I would not stay no long bargaining, if you wero not so Dear." tST An old lady who did not know whether her plantation was in Virginia or ixortb uaroitna, found when the lino whs drawn, that she was a resident of the Tormer. 44 Wal," said she, MI am glad I don't live in North Carolina! It -was always such a sickly State!" X3T A beautiful thought this, which we find in one of oqr exchanges; 44If theft is n man who can eat hip bread in peace with God and man, it is the man who has brought th'at bread out of the earth. It is cankered by no fraud, it is wet by no tears f it is stained by no blood* I i ? i i g3T Ceremony is necessary as the work and defence of roanooR),