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4 ~ * * ~~r~ **Q?7 ' ^ " . ? * *' ' y ' ? K< t T " ; ^ . * ' * J?? ?..; - ** . . _v * * * * ' . * . ' .! * - * - > ? ** ' * .T\> - ,. . --? . - **' " ' ' ^^ TWO DOLLARS PER ANNUM I "tbb 3?n.iom or libbhty is btbbstaii vigiiiawoh." [PAYABLE IN ADVANCE, jj? BY DAVIS & CREWS. ABBEVILLE, S. C., THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 7, 1857. VOT. XIV vn a OOX OtfflHTHTtf MISSION?SPEECH OF HON S? v CALEB CUBHINO. * *?)u 'Jliursday last, Hon Caleb Cushing * ;late Attorney General of the United States arrived at bisjaomo in Newberryport, Mass. and was received with imposing ceremonies Mayor Dayjpoport welcomed liim in a briel peecb, to wlftuh Mr. Cusliing replied in Jfbe of the grandest efforts, it has ever boen our foltfine^q H&tcn to or to read. We would. gladly publish his remarks entire, if -'our. limits alio we J ; ^.must content ourcelvcs with tite followingeloquent extracts: It W?s my fortune, uot many years ago, ^ to traverse th'e*Pa$fio Ocean in its widest ? * 'expanse, from ll^e uContincq,t. of Asm to jfc that of America. Wo launched forlli upon fc it in our frail bark, as Columbus did on the r . Atlantic, with nothing save it, not to speak ^ of man's presence, jn that great world of sea and sty. It may have been that some ..colityrj, - daring hunter of the seas, from New Bedford or Nantucket, chased the whale in the distant bays of Kamschatka or the Aluetian Islands, or that some Rus sian coasted along the Straits of Behring ^ from tho Asiatic to the American Siberia; but otherwise, from the Sandwich Islands, V&neath tho Tropic Cancer, to tho ice-bnud foundations of the Polar North, we alone were out on that immense ocean. No; 1 forgot. There might have been a stray shin from TlnKlon fir K.-lIi-ln rwiiiifnlli' lecting a cargo of raw hides in San Fran.> cisco Or Sau Diego, or another from our city, with perhaps your present Mayor ami \ t others of your immediate fellow-citizens on board,.plnnting our country's standard on the banks of the Columbia; for, lie it remembered, Oregon was originally colonized by men of Newhuryport. lint no longer were the great galleons of Spain to be seen there, transporting the wealth of Mexico to China. It was a desert waste of water, its if awaiting the winged messenger of the ark to fly forth upon it, and seek a new resting place for the feet of another Noah. While navigatihg that waste of water? while sailing by its almost uninhabitable shores, the thought came to ine?how should it not ??Arc the invaluable riches of theoc vast reyions of earth never to j)roJit rnau ? Is that vnst ocean to continue thus barren-of use, with no white canvas of the mariner, no steamship, with its clouds by day and its pillar of lire by night, to plow the deep and breast the rolling waves, bearing the freight and wealth of the Western to the Eastern Indies. Time?and how brief a time!?has answered this question. The opulent State of California, lias grown up there, as it were, in a <lay?giving and receiving treasury of wealth, ami assuming its proud place in the galaxy of the Union. "A second State, Oregon, is about to take oil the robes of sovereignty as a coequal imember of the confeOeration of States.? A third, Washington, perpetuating the name of the father of his country in that ultimo tliulc of America, will not be oon seot to rcmaiu long without its full enjoyment of constitutional rights, and its due representation in the Senate of the United States. And that 60 recently unoccupied oceau of the North Pacific?how buoyant ly does it now bear upon its swelling waves those noble fleets of clipper ships of Ne\Vburyport and of East Boston, by tho side of which the galleons of Acapulco and Manilla were but unsightly hulks, and urluuu are iroglited with wealth such as ft poet never dreamed of to fill the-great Argosies of Genoa and of Venice ! Who, 1n so brief a time, wrought all ihcsc wonders ? Was it the work of legends of fabulous giants, marshalled to their stupendW0U8 task by tlie miraculous charm of the tffingOf Solomon, such as we read of in the picturesque legends of Arabia ? He who % , flaw it K18 it was ten years ago, and sees it as it is now, might well conceive "that nothing-short of supernatural power could have *. ; produced the marvelous change. It is m|faculous, it is supernatural?not a miracle pf demon slaves driven umder the lash of ^ome magaci#u taskmaster, but the'miracle . pf American courage, American genius and America^ virtue, working out our country'^ - great .destinies, under the(.pre ordained im pulsion 01 Aimigniy uoq. It waB>i)|y fortune, at another liine, to on 8umm,t ike lofty ridgo of . ^i^jcles tbo sources of-the MUs^jjm^i iroiq 4.hobo of ? Lakes Superior, UujMilkQnlario, having on my right " '? waters of .flint mighty river which aa.it flows on to (lie Gulf of l],? "cbeftt Vdiiejr-of cuIUtatablo,|#nd on, tfjo-faqp of ;*^<J/oV my jeft 'hand, tlmt ,5k? ^ppuiro sc^fcd oyer tho ricu tre.ss<a"of bou*} f^i *.?-; - ' ** ' " . v^'j ^ : . -* - -?-- ' ^z--~?-'" ? ... - ? wrfsffiteslffi maiden, as she steps in the pride of her beauty and her youth. All that magnifi' cent scene however, was but a wilderness, j ' where the Indiau still roamed at will in his ' 1 native forests, or paddled his light canoe on river and lake ; and where no sign of cultivation, no mark of civilization, was to be seen, save in the glorious banner of the stripes and stars Heating over sonic niili. tary station or outpost, to be witness of the omnipresent power of the Union. Here, again, the thought camo to me,?can it be that all this-wealth of land and sea is to remain iosi 10 me uses or uuman greatness : and happiness ? It half tempted ono lo impeach the divine justice, to reflect that millions and millions of men were at that hour stifling for want of space in tho . ,oro*. t'cd couUlrica of Europe?"cabined, cribbed, confined," in narrow lanes, where industry had no field to work in, aud ambition was devouring its own heart for want of scope and object; and wives and children were pining away on the crusts of des- ! titutiou and misery?whilst here was earth j enough to be the seat of imperial dotniu- j minion, squandered apparently on a hand- j ful of untamed and untumuble Indians.? ' lint 1 i?~ i ?> - ' ....J..UUO nuuiu IliDU UL-L-II allCil II , thought?the foolish impiety of man's im- : providence siml ignorance. God's wisdom i is not our wisdom. lie had his own great i purposes to work out in his own good time, j and with the instruments of his own clec- ! tion. For now, there also American aetiv- ; itv, industry, enterprise, have been exerted; i iind yellow harvest fields on the prairie, ! busy mills at the waterfall, populous com- : munities by I ho riverside, have transfigured | tlie face of the desert; and another powerj ful Slate?Minnesota?has arisen there to a<M 10 ilie greatness ot tlie American 1 i ' L iiioii. Is not llial manifest destiny? Is not that i a providential mission ? Is not that one of j I ilie steps in the " march, march, march " of t the Union, which, when suggested by mc ! on a former occasion, as what the Union had perforce to do, was taken to be the personation of some awful monster shaking forth pestilence and death from its horrid j hair! Ay, in this pioneer colony of Massachusetts, doubled with l'lymoth, 011 the very rock of 1 My moth itself, where a free compact of self-government firsl found a foot-sland on earth, and from which point, together with the coeval starting point of Jame&towu, there moved the two parallel j columns of emigration which commenced America's march?at that very place, a j good and honored friend of mine felt called i . . . . - upon 10 proiesi against my suggestion of the onward " inarch, march, inarch," of the advancing hosts of civilization, liberty and power which follow the westward flight of the eagle of the Union. I stand to my thought. I reiterate it. I stick to the purpose which brought my forefather, John Cashing, from Ilingham, in England, to Ilingham in Massachusetts. I say that , every ship load of colonists which camo in the beginning to Virginia and to Massachusetts, and each one of us their descendants, who are but moving on with an acceleration of the original impetus which they gave us, and every ship load of colonis from Ireland and Germany, all and each one of us are but Lho humblo ministers of God, appointed to occupy, to cultivate and to civilize America. It is oppressipn seeking to be freedom. It was want | demanding to be want no longer. It is tho : strong man without air and without room, and determined to have them, or at least 'to die gallantly in the struggle for them.? It is the irrepressible expension of "overcompressed human energies. It is tho exodus of the nations. It is the outpouring of the too full blood of the old wprld into the all capacious veins of the new world. It is the foundation in America of Rupufclieau empires to oytcount in numbers' and outvie in strength the parental States of Europe: I say that it Is the work nppoiuted of God for us to do, with the blessincr of God upon us, that work wc will*9o. If rivers ruuA across our path, we will bridge TUiem; if mountains rise up to stop us, wo' will tunnel them; if deserts appear, we will reclaim aud cultivate them ; if oceans intervene, we" will navigate.them, to which, last end, so long as there's .'an oak left oa earth, gallant ships shall continue to .W launched into the watfere of this, ^ Merniqap. No. Hiat^j^l obstacle cah arrest qur progress. Wo woo, this fair . nUlure which lies be&fe/BSf ibid ^we woo it'a^jf^ ('onquerer^ltce tfie vftingsof the.old .tinfliil r winning.thfiir Jb'rules ^pf* in , cqjiibat. r say, this in I'-nll nround tajjfe'Qal&fcf . tywtwi^ *><W?.. IBWW \WfVHim. fjm. >M iflK--,?OiM]N?W Oi J wifr uf.afrlwart Irms, and v^fth i p^jtontlew fcaffcrto fccjc tl^o), , pen* that raeDj nations,, ntcty may, nQoR ^ >vi1l pcreish- before ire. Tljnfris iqevrfhbl#. Tliero can bo no change for tho better, save at the expense of that which is?one generation gives plaec to another. Out of docay springs fresh life. Tho tribes of Indians who hunted over tho land, without occupying it, retire before us like the hunted deer and the buffalo themselves?deeper and deeper into tho innermost recesses of the Continent. And the Ilispano-Mexicans, wasting away by apparent incapacity of self-government, aro suffering one province after another of theirs to relapse into pristine isolation, ami thus become prepared to rcceivc tho people and the laws of tho Uuitod Status. All that is now history. Yet, wise men saw long before, that so it was to bo. From the present they inferred the future, and spoko of it with tho positiveness and prt-eissotf of inspired prophecy. ADVANTAGE OF BEING OUT OF DEBT. The advantage of being out of debt is illustrated by the present condition of tho money market. There has rarely been a period, for example, when so little was owing, by the merchants of the United States, on importation account; and lienco, though the Dank of England has raised the , rato of interest to seven ner cent., tho efF.'rt. I hero is comparatively unfclt. Two years j ago, when a similar advance was made, the | effect was to put money up to two per cent i a month, both in New York ami l'liiladel- ! phia, because at that time wc were largely j in debt to Europe Then, with ten millions t of specie on hand, the New York banks ( felt alarmed, though their discounts did not cxcccd eighty-five millions. Now, tho discounts were one hundred and fifteen millions, two weck3 ago, with only ten millions of specie in tho vaults, and one hundred and fourteen millions, last j week, with but twelve millions of specie, I yet no fears of a crisis are entertained, and : 1 .1? 1 iiiuiivj wiuiiiva-d icuuivciy iuwui man III Europe. All this we owe to our being comparatively out of debt. We say that money is relatively cheaper here than in Europe. l*or a seven per cent, interest at the Bank of England is equal to ten or twelve per cent. here. In point of fact, money is usually above one per cent, a month in the United States, when it is at seven per cent, in England, and would be so now but for our almost entire exemption from debt. How long this happy condition of things will continue, remains, however, to bo seen. If we could, or would, keep out of debt, thero would be no difliculty in the matter. But the indications are that there will be an immense importation for the coming season ; that the subtreasury will absorb seven or eight millions by the first of July; that the notion p.rnn u-ill f:i5l fr* t -w our purchasers; and that, as a consequence of al! those, there will be a heavy drain of specie on us from abroad, extending through both the closiug summer months, and rendering money scarce throughout the whole autumn. It remains with us, however, to say whether this will be so. If our merchants buy no more than the country needs, all will be right; but if they import excessively, as we tear they will, the penalty will have to be paid.?Philadelphia Ledger, THE FABLE OF THE WANDERING JEW. The legend of a J$w ever wandering nnd never dying, even from tlic crucifixion of Jesus to this day,,hat spread .over many European countries. Tho accounts, however, as in all fables,, do not .agree. One version is this:?When Jesus was lead to death, oppressed by the weight of tho 2rosa, he wished to rest himself a little uear tho gate before tlie houso of a' shoe-maker named ^.hnsueras. This man, however, sprang forth and thrust him. away. Jesus turned towards him, saying, "I shall rest, but thou sliftlt movo on until I return."? And from that timo ^ie has had no rest, 'and is obliged incessaijtjy to wander about. 4i)otliev veraion.U that given by Mathiaa Parisiensis, a monk of the thirtgeaih (fenturvt Wfien Je?us was led from the tribunal of Filatus &?dc$th, tbe'door-keeper, 'named Caj-tafiliu*, pushed him from ^phiud with bis fe4t saying, '^Tulk on, JesOls, Quickly ; ;why ^lo#t' thou tarry looked *t him-gravely,;1'and said, " t[ walk on but thou all ait tarry tilj, I come." And ^his'man, 8ti]l?Aliver wanders from plaije to place in constant dretytf of the wrath.to?o me.? A third legend/adds that tills Wandering Jew falls sjck oyery Jrundrea yenre, but recovers, and rotiws his ^strengths heoco it is that, |veu nfyrr so maqysficcnturics,' he does ~j|Ot lop^ ^uphiotder ihiyi a sepluagcuari Not otio of. the nnH ^attf^rut^n^ikcs evpi), ^eo^n. of sjjch tn o<JjMriyr -?rim ftrst wha reports 'some pcb&fMfg jnorTkrtjf ti e thirteenth cenlt^f.k!J6w&,^he wtrid was fill-1 i^jnimflctiotw. However, tba *?U)fy llat Bpt^clfar,^> ttott'ifc haa boc4vn6.. T proVqrb, *bn3 about likfe a Wemjiro.pot wanting] ,p4^$p/^f0iO njaodffeT'Wo Acii aoeu U?o vwatkteHdg JeW.^, TJtotfwhen tKfeir eVi(Jhnc? % exmiA fy VM'tm.oi Uflt?rio*b> c^dibi!UyT?'V VfoU^^>lpm e *i?4to?tor M # ? THE ONLY SOUTHERN PARTY. In the South there is but one living political organization, and thut is the Democratic party. Here and there, to bo sure, ono may liud small aggregations of individual* j huggm" some old skeleton of an issue, or i cherishing some flimsy imposture; but thoy i are without vitality, ooheroucc or power, J are limited to out of the way localities, and, j at the end of their existence, struggle for tirtll.ii.rr l.nrl.u- ll.... ? ???? :? ? ? * ? ' in^wvi) VIUUI t* OV/ilb 111 lliu ture, or the mayoralty of a village. Tliey never think ot' attempting an independent part in polities, but are satisfied with the humble situation and scanty wages of the > scene-shil'ter. When they occasionally ap- ! pear on the stnge, it is in the retinue of a triumphant party, or to introduce some more respectable personage. Tf they but linger a moment, they arc sure to be drivon ofV with hisses and execrations. For instance, Sam made a magnificent debut, aspired to tread the boards as a monarch, and played the hero with quite as muc.Ii rant, and with as comical a gravity, ' as Taylor, or an- ' er pompous blockhead. J Hut, fur all that, it was a failure?a dead . failure. Sam was hissed off tho stage; and, ' like a sensible fellow, ho submits to his fate, ' strips himself of tinsel and feathers, runs ' about in rags, and is scarce generally. But, for all its poverty and imbecility, the lvnow-Xothing party is the only one in the South that pretends to any sort of organi zalion. The attempt lo rally a party in j this Slate, on the distribution issue, is a ? : * ?i " uujiciiui: vajiuiuiiuiiL ;nm win miscarry even | more shamefully than Sam's famous von- ! luro. Tlio thing is a patent absurdity?an i obvious impossibility. A stool with a single log cannot stand ; neither can a party j with a solitary principle. Party aspires to j the administration of government; but one ! measure will not suflice for the administration of government. For that, a complete and coherent system of policy is necesary ?a system which embraces all relations and every interest. There were other hands in the "foul and unnatural" murder, but Sam's death was due, in great part, to one- , ideaism ; and one-ideaism will kill the distribution party. Even supposing distribution to be approved by the people, it docs not follow that the people will put the party ; in power which proposes distribution?and nothing else. Concede all the importance which the opposition claim for their solitary issue; yet there are many oilier issues of at least equal magnitude, before the country. Shall all these bo subordinated to that one? It is preposterous; and the people will not hear of it. One-ideaisjn is nn evidence of insanity ; and instead of entrusting his fortunes to iho wisdom of the distributionists, a sensible peraon will ouly pity the overthrow of their reason. There is, and their can be, but one party in the South?and that the Democratic party. Now, what is the duty of the patriotic Whig or "American" under these circumstances? Is it to stand aloof in sullen exclusron-^-interruptirt'g the- unity of Southern sentiment, and impairing the efli ciency of the Southern party? By this course, what can lio accomplish for the cause which yvo all have at heart | Nothing; hi^he will do much to discredit and embarrass it. lie will rob the_So(Hh of tho self-protecting power whiuh it ipight command by the concentration of all its forces, lie will encourage the adversary with the spectacle of discord and jciilousv in our own bosom. . * On the other hand,.the patriotic Whig or "'American" may accomplish everything, by co-operating with the Democratic'party.? For the safety of the South, it is only necessary that its people be animated by a single \vHl, and aootemplate the same ohjcct. And this result is to be attained by no painful and -humiliating sacrifice?. All that is necessary is, that obsolete and inaig.nificant issues basulxfcdinated and postponed to-the "supreme interests of the South. Individual and party disputes should be suspended und^r the shadow of a common .^Utiger,' to be ^-dsuiped, if need be, under happier auspices. So in ancient Athens, , where the feuds of faction raged with the greal'ejjfcviolencp, a}l the difforenpes of party wer5 closed uj? to repel the foreign foo.? Arc we less capable of the highest efforts of* patriotism f Is not our necessity as gj'eat f Why tlxei) does any individual in the South sulk ip his solitary tent? If the patriotic Whig and "JV nifericau" had any ally in the North, he might urge some apoloev for refusin*c,to cmmraf* uitli *1.a I o r Democracy. But there is qo Whig, no ; ' Arnericaa" Party in tlie North. Everywhere ^lack Kopublicapisra is triumphant, or Is resisted only by the Democracy! To strengthon tlft Southern wing of the Deu^ ocratio parfy, ^ to reinforce our friends in the North; to ptcure unity here is to guar: ante??sc/&&racy tlrtre. . . ' < The necessity of a complete union of all parlies in the Sooth, is evident and unde^ irfabjp, 4t io^qijfdlg ofcviou# that eyerjr true friemf pf' the Sooth sbbulfotispend hit' .pwjudioi*<pd^jwJttjmo?iti^i*nd combine vstth the D^ocVAcy fo averting 4fc?com?* i, V "i /" '' * fyv-iiti i'i EXTRACTS FROM IDLEWILD LETTERS. Southern Type of Character.?I have often smiled since, at the forcible impression I received of man as a wild animal?the first time I have ever seen one in just that light?when a planter rode to the wilderness bank of the Alabama, to soe us pass; his rough clothing and broadly slouched hat most picturesquely settingoffhis Herculean frame, his gun over the pommel of his saddle, and his line horse, so completely a part of him as to be added undividcdly to his personal appearance. There is a race of these men at the South who (.lifter from tlio rest of us, as the giraffe, (which his combination of the excellencies of tho horse, the camel, the ox an<l the leopard,) differs from all the other quadrupeds of the desert.? And, with their open-air life, slump speaking, slave-controlling and other calls upon their outward and visible dignity and authorilativeness, there is a certain air of conscious superiority and easy self-reliance which is wholly peculiar to them. As the 1 ? eieiucniary substratum of a national manner, ami developing, too, with the superiority of stature which seems to be .1 magnolia growth of the climate, there is material, at least, for mankind's finest family on our side of the water. Let us keep our American eye upon it. Cubans vs\ Southern Men.?Until I crossed from Havana to Savannah, (on my return from Martinique, live years ago,) I thought the quickest and srtongest of this world's contrasts was to bo found by crossing from Palis to Loudon?the Frenchman and John Pull being as Arctic and Antare tic as imagination could any way straddle. ]3iit the ten or twelve hours, that bring one from the Cnbabyhood of that Spanish Isle to the Brobdignagnitude of out Southern city, make a still sUonger call upon the traveler's incredulous wonder. How is it possible that, just by crossing a gulf, you come to a race of people, any individual of whom would cut up into three of the crowd you have just left? In nine cases out of ten a Cuban and Sav.innese, running against each other, the Cuban would knock his head against the other man's knee pan.? And how is the national pride so indifferent, I wonder! Why do not the dwindled Span'ards, ("hUlalt/on" no longer!) send their boys over to intermarry with those who are remarkably Zt////*-dalgos at the present day ' The first tall girl or two, of course, would get but a third of u husband ; uui Heroic woman, we an Know, is capable of enduring small allowance in a man ; and as successive generations would naturally improve tho stock, the martyrdom would gradually lessen, Our Government, it is to be hoped, (if we ever fairly fillibust tliut fertile jsle,) wjll offer a bounty on unequal matches?the taller the comparative " better half' tho higher the premium. Savannah Cemetery.?With the degree to which wo love and need you, my dear Morris, I cannot say that I hope they will take you to that wonderfully beautiful cemetery at Savannah I cannot say it, I mean without adding that I hope they will bring 1 1. I T>.-? - - juu uuuiv again: j>gi as a ir&V6ier you will go there, and .is a poet you will sigh to come away. I think of you as walking through those long aud shaded aisles of emerald light, at the moment that I am writing. And what a cathedral of soft, melancholy, tender solemnity are you finding in that wilderness of lofty trees, to bo draperied so majestically with folds of verdure ! The velvet moss, that is so strange an .overgrowth of every living thing, covering also, you will liave observed, the chains of enclosure around the graves?even the iron imprisonment of death softened and denied, as it were, by the undying verdure with which every dark link is so tenderly brightened ? If ever thero was a poem to take a walk in, and lie down in?a poem written in inoss. foliacre and shadows?it is tlmt etrango burial-place ! And, whatever maybe its effect on the strong and healthy, I should think that the feeling of hjward consent?of wishing that it were "time," aud that death were ready, since here is so wonderfully swept a spot in which to lie down and be forgotten?would be irresiatable to tho invalid walking there. The Pre-eminence of Women.?Even after death, nature respects her inherent modesty, for a drowned woman floats on her face, and a drowned man floats on his back. Tho noblest part of a human beiujr is the head ; but the man's head js liable to baldness; woman is never bald. The mau's face is often made so by a most odhftis beard, and so covered wjlh sordid liajr Cbat it is scarcoly to be distinguished from tho face of the wild beast! in woman, on the other hand? tljfr face alvyays retpSus pre and deoent. f Eor this reason women were, by the laws of the twelve table^ forbidden to rub their oheeks, lest hair should grow and obscure their blushing raod$sty. But the most evident J?rpof of the innate purity of the fern ale sex ia, that a woman having once washed 4s clean, and if shewashin *Wnd, ifcte'r, THE PRESIDENT AND THE OFFICE SEEKERS- | Tlio President is incessantly engaged, j until Cabinet meeting, in receiving niul list-, C oning to visitors. At an early hour the j v doors aro opened, and Jimmy, tlie polite j ( door-keeper, stands at liis post with a com-; j foiling word for evey applicant. " Can tho :i President l>o seen to day ?" " Oh, y c-e-s, ii to bo sure," is the polite reply of Jimmy, f] " only he is engaged with his Private Sec- fi retnry or some Cabinet officer." l'reseutly j there collects in the hall as manv as twentv c or thirty civil mid nervous individuals, of 11 various ages and aspects. Jimmy takes ^ their cards and trots up the stairway lu?d- s ing to the President's rooms, in the east end of the "White House. Quickly Jimmy 11 returns with encouraging answers?" The I1 I'rusident will receive you all in a minute, gentleineu." 15ut Jimmy's minute shaves j c flnsf-lv nn n liolf /-> - ? j V/. niitu-.ju.iiivia ui an | hour, when the anxious crowd at the foot j !l of the staircase, with their upturned faces, I v is suddenly relieved by the appearance of a j J1 red head over the bannisters, far up at the j '' head of the stairs, and the pleasing invita- j c tion, " to walk up, gentlemen." 11 The invitation is promptly accepted, and j the miscellaneous crowd liuiricdly ascends | 11 the long stairs, at the top of which a door, | ^ wide open, leads into a very plain room, ; 'x one side of which is filled with shelves of; law boohs, and which contains a round ta- I bio with writing apparartus, a starding | '' desk in the corner, a very cheap and com- a moil clock, and is carpeted with a very 0 showy imitation of Jirussels, doubtless fur- 1 i nishcd to Uncle Sain, from Connecticut, as t the rcyulur article. Near tlie centre of the v room stands tho President, in his velvet 1 moccasins and his invariable white neck- 1 cloth and vest. In a very philanthropic 1 manner he receives the gentlemen ; and 1 as each one enters the room, shakes hands ' very cordially with him, ami if anything *' private is to be said, ho leads the inquirer 8 to tho standing desks, where ho hears his s petition and makes his response. The other 0 visitors form themselves en queue, and each h one in his turn presents his requests, or his ll case to tho President, and passes out iu the fi opposite direction. Very probably the (jucuc is a long one, and the hand of the clock warns of the . rapid approach of the fatal hour of eleven, when the Cabinet will meet and tho Presi- ^ dent is compelled to lump all his visitors ^ in one general expression of good will and kindly regard, coupied with distinct hints at j the necessity of his withdrawing into the adjoining room, where seven inexorable ? Ogres are demanding his presence. At ^ this signal the crowd melts away, pouring ^ slowly down the winding staircase, and q emerges from those sarcastically and de- . lusively wide-opened doors, where the in- ^ variable Jimmy wishes them a good mor- t liing, and receives with a very roguish ex- ^ pressioi) several dismal efforts to be smart, ^ funny and fatjjiHar, on the part of some ^ despondent office-seeker. { aiier ujo vjainnet assembles, his Excellency is " sealed" for the remainder of the day. Special friends, or those who want a private talk, may have a chance l>y previous agreement, after 8 o'clock, P. M. Such is i? the daily life of the President of the United n States, and such the weary and humiliating t routine of the office seekers. And yet, let L no one who goes into that business imagine v that Hercules will help hiin without his ^ puling his shoulder to the wheel. That is il a very prcuy conceit, lately so ridiculously c paraphrased by our Know-Nothing friends > ?" the office should seek the rpau, not the t man the office"?but it is certainly the wild- s est Eutopiapism of the day.? Cincinnati) r Enquirer. c ? e ThaCs a Fact.?A venerable old man ^ says: " Let the slandered take comfort? n it's only at fruit trees that thieves throw n stones." v The old man is right. Who ever saw ^ thieves throwing stones at the birch, maple ? or elm tree. The move fruit the tree bears Q and the richer it is?the more it is likely j to attract the attention and hilars of the . thief. j, INo mnn that tries to do his duty to his p fellows?and endeavors so to live as to bear | ^ the fruits of truo religion in ]>ia daily con- j( duct, can, for a momet suppose that lie will ^ pnss along through life without being slau- t dered more or less. Such a man will, of necessity, have some enemies, am] these euemies will try io every way to injure * him, aud among others tliey will not bo ? slow in stirring up the polluted and pollut- a ing waters of defamation and slander. ? A ijjan who has jj.q enemies is ii^%$ly f a milk and water?nothing. We would c not give a fig for such a man. t He who is anything?who makes his i mark in the world, who does good?will i have enemies?and if he Las them, bo wit) 4 be sura to be clandered. t fM him thep be comforted iq the refleb- <. tion of the venerable old man quoted above: 1 "It is onljr at the fniit trees the theivee 1 throw stones."? Olive Branch. ,] . To rnajoe WhiUwanb thai will n&frub of.^Wix up b?K a ptifrfifaf lira& asj'd wjfi- . r, take ,j oqa0u ??4<m?r an<? wrter; then' powr on it b>TO?*t?r rtofficient to itUickim 4tf'~ po?r-^lfl|i^j|iol intd^lbo -1 tfliitew?ah i -frtir fli wrtftbj ptlwr, and it js | r ... . V. <?. THE LAW OF D008. At tlio general term of the Supremo Jourt at Oswego, iu July last, an ?pi?eal vas brought from a judgment of tlio )tieida County Court affirming that of a ustiee of the peace. The actio;) was originlly brought to recover dam ages for alleged ujuries received by plaintiff* dog in u iglit with a dog or dogs blunging to do? Qiidant. Judge Allen delivered the opinion in the aso and it was concurred in by his assocites on the bench, Justices Pratt and liacon. Ye copy from the opinion, coudeusin?j omewhat: This is the first time I have been called ipon to administer the law in the caso of a iuro dog light, or a light in which the logs, instead uf"the owners. ivnr? Mm - ?-? I"'"' ij>iil actors. I sun coustrained to admit total ignornee of the code duello among dogs, or that constitutes a just cause of offence and ustities a resort to arms, or rather to teeth, >r redress. What violation of the ruies of titjueltc entitled the injured beast to insist pon prompt and immediate satisfaction I now not, and am glad to Icuow that no ice question upon the conduct of the couii.? ?- - - ,vu vmi iiiu fink ui me principal actors rises in this ease. It is not claimed upon either side that lie struggle was not in all respects dogko and fair. Indeed I was not before ware that any law, human or divine, moral r ceremonial, common or statue, underook to regulate these matters, but supposed hat this was one of the few privileges vhich this class of animals still retained in he domesticated state; that it was one of heir reserved lights, not surrendered when hey entered into and became a part of the lomestic institution, to settle mid aveng, 11 their own way, all individual wronga ;iid insults, without regard to what Black toue, or any other jurist, nsigki write, peak, or think, of " the rights of persons'* r tho " rights of things." I have beet) a rtn believer with the poet in the instruc011. if not. -< i - , -- u.ouu aigllli Ul UUgS iq glit, and with him would say? " Lot dogs delight to bark au J bite. For God liatli made them so," &.c. The evidence is slight that the dog died. 1 consequence q{ this fight, put, as this ucstion is left in doubt by the evidence, je judgment of the justice is conclusive s to the cause of the death. I can, how? ver, sec no just grounds for the judgment. I can only bo supported upon the broa4 round that wheu two dogs fight and one i killed, the owner can have satisfaction >r his loss from the owner of the victorius dog; and I know of no such rule. The \yncr fit" the dead dog would, I think, be [early entitled to the skin, though sonio, iss liberal, would bo disposed to award it o the victor, and this rule would ordinarily ? ? e..~ ?s?i?- - - 1 v h ><ii c^uivmeui, iur iuo loss ; and witty liat, unless the evidence differs materially rem that i? this case, he should he conent. The judgment of tlie County Court is re? ersed.?liochcslcr (iV. ir.) Democrat. Fanny Fern on Dress.?It is my opin:>n, after all that is said, that women dress nuch more with an eve to their own SP*, han to the other. What mnn, unless ho kj a dry goods merchant, knows whether a ?oman wears IToniton or cotton lace?--r >Vhat man else knows the value of tlio ininty handkerchiefs with which ladies so istentatiously polish their pretty noses f Vhat innn else knows, or cares to know, he value of the camel's hair shawl, spread o carefully over their shoulderB? J}y thp ood!?not one. Bqt tho delighted pea? ock possesor rejoices that every feminine ye which rests upon it, computes its.value o a fraction. Yes?women dress much lore for each other's .eyes than won J J ever knew a man, whose opinion war .orth asking, who did not prefer to see i rctty woman (and I imagine the most dc uure of \cm do not loojf at Any other,) a(Anln(iAiiol(T on/1 - 1 - "v * ..v.iw>i?ugiJ nuu Iijuuesiljr uresscu j SD' never saw a woman who did'not >1?oV. trettior in the plainest home dress, thai) ft . icr most elaborate adornments. But alas}. i>r plain hojjio desses?where are they f iVhere is the pretty de Jaine, and ueat cab co, nona too good for little climbing feet now fashion banished ?) Echo aqswe^-rr ohere? ' ' Tlie. Mother.?Pespise not Xhy mother vheu she is old. Age may wea/ itndVyaete i mother's beauty, strength, limbs, senses, ,nd estate; but her rejjtfjot) p mother i? * is the sun when It goes forth in her might, or jt> always In the meridian, and fepow. iu no evening. TUe person may be gray leaded, but her motherly relation is erejr D its flourish. It may be autumn, yea, fiqter, with a woman, but with the wot^ey, ? mother, it is always spring, Alas, bow litlje do we appreciate a raothr ir's tcnde;nes* while living 1 How heedr ess are we io all her anxieties an4 kind* tees i But, when she is dead and gone?yhen the-cares and co)d&ot? of jllie world joine withering to our hearts?when ire ?*.^erienoe how hard it ia to find true svibdh thy-rhQW few bw u* for oursotrM^iiAw fiawnwill befriend us \fl roisfortaije?t^ep it is that we think of the toother wo b/we lo* ^ ,; TLe roan wlio is without an idea .genejfr $Hy lias tlw greatest idea of hjawd? 40