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. gggjjBfjjWj LADY BYBON'S REPLY TO LORD BYRON'S " FARE-THEE-WELL." Yen, farewell? farewell forever, Tlion tliyaelf linst fixed our doom, Bade h<>pc\* sweetest blossoms wither, Never mnrc for me to bloom. ?t tr..r. *i ? i _ ?.t uiiiur?i? nij; iiiuu iinut cull (1 me, Did thou ever cny "furgive f" For the wretch whose wiles enthrall'd thee, Thou didst teem alo ne tx> live. Short the span which time hath given, To complete thy love's decay; "My unhallowed passions driven, Soon thy heart wus tnught to stray. Lived for me tlint foelin^ tender, Which 6o well thy verse enn show, From my urms why didst thou wander, Aly endearments why forego? Wrnpt in drcatns of joy abiding, Oil thy hrenst my hend hath lain, In thy love and truth confiding, llliosl cuiiaot know again. When thy heart by me "glancM oVer," j First displayed the guilty stain, "Would these eyes have closed forever, ! e'er to weep thy ciiines again. J>ul, farewell?I'll not upbraid tlioc, Never, .never wish lliee ill, Wretched iho' thy crimes have inude me, If thou enn'st?be happy .still. CASES OF CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE. Evidence which has :?j?j cured suilicient to justify conviction, or even positive execution of sentence has in some cases turned out to be a simple mistake. The number of theso cases is very great. Looking to I Europe alone, nnd not going back for more than two centuries, we could bring forward at least two hundred cases, in a large proportion of which sentence litis been executed. We will notice a very few of these cases: One of the most interesting is that of Helen Gillet,ayoung, handsome girl, atBourg- j en Bresse, in France, who in 1G25 was condemned to death for infanticide. But pub. lie opinion believed so strongly in her innocence that even the executioner had not the courage to strike in cold blood, and thus twice missed his aim. Then a frightful scene ensued. The executioner's wife, fearinrr !?*?* , 1? n ' . MuuKuti niigiit iuao ills i'Ill|)IOV, DI'SC tried to strangle the girl, and not succeed- j ing, tried to cut oft' her head with a pair of 6ci-sors! It is the case of Eliza Fenning with a horrid aggravation. The enraged populace interfered by storming the scaftold, killing the executioner and his wife, and liberating llelen Gillet, who afterwards re ceived a free pardon from King Louis XIII, brother in-law of our Charles I. Urbine Grandier's conviction and execution nine years after, in 1634, for crimes he i never committed, is too well known to require any comment. Another case is that of the Marquis D'An glade, who, in lGSV, was accused of lheftt WAR Willi Mc wifii O i.:~u ?- 1 , ...... .?iU ifuv) ?? nvuii-, m^u ?j>uiicu woman, tlirown into a frightful prison, aud his judges not finding liiin willing to confess a crime which he never committed, was put on the rack, on which he died under tile most agonising tortures. A year after, his innocence was established beyond doubt. A story very much like the last is that of Jacques Lubour, who, in 1G89, was ac* cused of murder, and died under his tortures. A month after his death his complete innocence was proved. All these cases happened in France, yet there is no lack of tlirm in England either Take, for example,' the case of Colonel Chatteris ; lie certainly was a wicked scamp, but that did npt give the right to judge and jury to execute him, in 1731, for a crime which he never committed. Or taRe the other curious case of Jonathan Bradford* who in 1736 was executed for murdler, a case peculiarly instructive.? Bradford was so far guiliy that he had tho inteution 0f committing the crime, but he found the/ tark: done by another before Birp. The real murderer confessed on his deathbed, eighteen months after. In 1753, Elizabeth Canning accused a XIro WJ.K ? ? vuw, iu iiiwuuiciun, nuu Bume omers of complicity in a rape and abduction.? I'll* jury declared them gUilty, and nine persons were condemned to death, and were ordered for execution. Fortunately the ease to the satisfaction of all Ui% WWftM^tie ^eftoV convicted were perfectly lonocetit, mid tit at (hegir Canning had got up a story io account (pi an otherwise unaccountable child to wiionn lie afterwards gave birth. . "I " p ?i' ' - 'V [ A , . I Bui by Heaven's recording spirit, May Hint wish forgotten be. Life, though now a load,? I'd hear il For the hal:c I've borne to thee. Ill whoso lovely features (let me All my weakness here confess, While the struggling tears permit me,) All her father's I can trace. His, whose image neVcr leaves me, Whose remembrance, yet I prize, "Who this bitterest feeling gives me Still to love where 1 despise. With regret and sorrow rather, When our child's first accents flow, I shall teach her to say ''Father," But his guilt she ne'er shall know. Whilst to-morrow and to-morrow, Wako me to a widowed bed, In another's arms no sorrow IV* :l. . I r ii _ . - - > * * uo tnuu icei.?1.0 iciir win miimif For the world's applnnsi*, I sought not, W'lien I lure inyselfl'rom iliv, Of its praise or lilamo, I thouelu nut? What its praise or blame to me ? IIu in whom my soul delighted; l'rom Ins heart, my image drove, "Willi contempt my truth re<piiu-<l, Ami preferred?n wanton's love. Thou art proud, and mark me, Iiyron, I've a soul proud as thine own, Soft to love, but hard as iron, When despite on me is thrown. Of Admiral JLJyng's execution, four years after, we will not speak, as it was more a political than a judical murder ; and the same objection applies to tlio execution of Struensee, llio Danish Minister of State.? of all innocent persons ever convicted, Jean Calas has found the most brilliant advocate in Voltaire's pen, so that Jean Galas' name is eitcd now wherein injustice is mentioned. The case, however, of John Jennings who was executed in Hull, 17G2, for a highway rohbeiv, of which he was altogether guiltless, is quite as strong au argument against the infallibility of the twelve g' -otl men ami true.' Yet in England poor, innoccnt John Jennings is not half so much lamented as Joseph Lesunjues, who was innocently convicted and executed for highway robbery and murder in 1700, and his story has been made up in novels, ballads, and melo dramatic shows over and over again, in England as well as in Franco. Innocent, most probably, were also the three Aslicrofls and William llolden, executed in 181 7 at Manchester. l>alzac has proved ihc innocence of tl.e public notary, i t..i-i?! ik-iq r.?.. i?... I t ? I ?v,j \.?vv li ivvi ill 4 UVU IVI 1IIMIV.IV.I* I'UV no author yet thought it worth while to prove lite innocence of :i score of miserable .lews, who wore accused in Damascus in lfsio, 'of having eaten alive a reverend priest, the Padre Thomas,' and who were beaten and toitured until they confessed a murder which they "could not" have committed.?London Leader. . \yrx of our Distinguished Statesmen at their J)eath.?The following table will be interesting at this time, as showing the age of many of our distinguished Statesmen at the time of their death : Born. Died. Age. (lulloral Washington, 17;>2 1790 07 iHMtjumiu Franklin, 1700 175)0 81 John Adams, 17:55 1820 01 Tl - f il iNm ? ?... 1 I. ii<.iiit.ia ti ciicrauil, 1 l-l\i ijvjo tj-i | John Adams, 1707 ISIS 81 j Andrew Jackson, 1707 181.") 7S Henry Clay, 177S 185- 7."> John C. Calhoun, 1782 1S50 G8 Daniel \\ ebster, 1782 18.~>2 70 Thomas IT. I'enton, 1782 18."S3 7G I It will bo seen that Ilenjamin Krai.klin .vas l>urn at an earlier period than any Statesmen who figured in our Revolutionary history. He was the oldest man who signed the Declaration of Independence, being at the time seventy years of age, and had Oiled the allotted time of the psalmist. lie was tweutv-six yon is older than General Washington, and was thirty-seven years the senior of Thomas Jefferson. In the number of years that he lived, John Adams .. ..o (1..^ ..r ???-.? ? -1~! ?-?!%? ?uvi 1'iiiiiaiui u? ui 11 OliUOHIUIIj ilj'lllg at llic extraordinary ago of ninety-one years. He lived twenty-seven years longer than General Washington, who was appointed on his motion, in the Continental Congress, Commander iu-chief of the American armies during the War of the Revolution. His son, John t>. Adams, was also very aged, being eighty-one years old. The Adams stock was distinguished for its longevity.?Jin 11 imore A in crt cu n. Lovcul First Sight.?M. D'lsrael, in his Novel entitled " Henrietta Temple' gives utit:raneo lu the following novel idea upon this subject: " There is 110 love but luve at first sight. This is llie transcendent and surprising offspring of sheer and unpolluted sympathy. , All other is the illegitimate result of oh serration, of com promise, of expediency. The passions that endure, flash like the lightning: they scorch the soul, but it is warmed forever. Miserable man, whose lore rises by degrees upon the frigid morning of mind ? Some hours, indeed of warmth and lustre may perchance fall to his lot, some moment of meridian splendor, in which he basks 111 what he deems eternal sunshine. Hut then how often overcast by the clouds of care, how often dusked by tl ie blight of misery and misfortune! certain as the gradual rise of such affection, is its gradual decline and melaucholy ; set. Then in the chill, dim twilights of his | J n i soul he execrates custom; because he ha9 madly expected that feelings could be habitul that were not homogeneous, and because he has been guided by the observation of sense, and not by the inspiration of sympathy. Amid the gloom and travil of existence, suddenly to behold a beautiful being, and jis instantaneously to feel an overwhelming conviction that with that fair form forever our destiny must be entwined ; that there is 110 more joy but in her joy, no sorrow but when she grieves ; that in her sight of love, in her smile of fondnes?, hereafter is all bliss; to feel our flaunty ambition fade away like a shrivelled gourd beforo the visions; to feel f.nne a juggle, and postcri ty a lie; and to be prepared at once, lor this great object, forfeit and fling, away all former hopes, ties, schemes, views ; to violate in her favor every duty of society; this is a lover and this is love I Magnificent, sublime,^divine .sentiment 1. An.immortal flame burns in the breast of thafnaan who adores and is adortd / Ho is an otlierial being. The accidcnts of earth touch bin^ not.- Revolution of empires, changcs "of creed, mutation of opinion, are to. him but the clouds and meteors of a stormy sky. The schemes and struggles Of maukind are, in his thinking, but the anxieties of pigmies, . and the fantastical achievement of ap.es. Nothing can subdue him. lie laughs alike at loss of fortjiijfy loss of friends, Iqss of > character. Tho deeds and thoughts of men i are to him equally. indifferent. > He does not mingTe in their paths of cal. loUS bustle. Or hold liimaotf " i tlio airy impostures before whwfeljhjtfj^bow t down, lie is a mariner, who, in the'eea of I life, keeps liis gaze flexdly on a tingle star; r (and, if that does not thine, he leta go the i rudder, and glpriea when his barque descends into the bottomless gulf.) ST. PEIER'S AT ROME. Translated from the J''ren ;h of Lainartine't Confidences, for the Charleston Standard. In my recollcclions of llome, two impressions efface, or at least predominate over all the rest?the Coliseum, the work of tlie Roman people?St. Peter's, t' o chef iVocuvre of Catholicism. Tho Coliseum is the gigantic trace of a superhuman people who, for the gratification of their pride, and indulgence of their ferocious pleasures, erected a monument capable of containing a whole nation?and rivaling in massive11 ess and duration even tho works of nature. The Coliseum will stand when tho waters of the Tiber shall have dried up within its muddy banks. St. Peter's is tho work of a thought?a religion of all humanity at one epoch of tho world ; it is not an edifice destined for tho accomodation of a vilo people?but a temple for tho reception of all the philosophy, all the prayers, all the grandeur, all the thought of man. The walls seem to arise and enlarge for Cod, rather than with reference to the people. Michrel Angelo alone comprehended Catholicism, and in St. Peter's we discern its most sublime and complete expressionIt is in truth the monumental transfiguration of the religion of Christ, its apothesos in stone. The architects of the Gothic Cathedrals were mblime barbarians. Micluul Angelo was alone a philosopher in his conceptions. St. Peter's is philosophic Christianity, from whence the architect has expelled supcrsti?i ?i 1 ?i ?? klUll MdlUIIUOO, <UKl lUj'lilLXU 111U 111 uy beauty space and unquenchable Hoods of light. The incomparable beauty of St. Peter's consists in its being a temple which might serve for the worshippers of any religion? a deistical temple?if I may dare to apply the word to stones, designed alone to invest the idea of (jod with all its splendor. Though Christianity should perish, St. l'eler's would still remain the universal, eternal, rational temple of the religion which might succeed that of Christ, provided that it be religion worthy of (Jod and human nature. One more abstract has never been constructed here below by mortal genius, inspired by a divine idea. On entering it we feel uncertain whether it be an ancient or a modern temple. No detail bewilders the eye ?no <;vmlml distl'ai'.fs 1.110. ihnmrlit.. Men nf r>vcrv v O "'"V faith might enter it with the same veneration. We feel that nothing can dwell (here but Iho idea of God, and that no other idea can fill it. Change the priest, lake away the altar, detach the pictures, still it is the house of God. A grand symbol of that eternal Christianity, whose germ exists in the morality and holiness of the successive developments of the religious principle in all ages, and among all men ; revealing itself to reason in proportion to the abilily which God has bestowed of communing with him iti its light, enlarging with the human mind, expanding without intermission, and gathering together all nations in the unity of adoration more and more rational, making of all forms of the divinity but one God, of all religions but one worship, and of all nations but one human na lure. Micha:l Angelo is tlic Moses of monumental Catholicism. lie has made an im" perishable ark for future times, the Pantheon of rational divinity. A Beautiful Idea.?Away atnoncr the Alleghatiies there is a spring, so small that a single ox, in a summer's da}', could drain it dry. It steals its inobtrusive way among the hills, till it spreads out in the beautiful Ohio. Thence it stretches away a thousand miles, leaving on its banks more than a hundred villages, and cities, and many n cultivated farm, and bearing on its bosom more than a thousand steamboats. Then joining the Mississippi, it stretches away and away some twelve hundred miles more? till it falls into the great emblem of eternity. It is one of the tributaries of the ocean, which, obedient only to God, shall roll and j roar, till the angel, with one foot on the sea and the other on the land, shall lift up his hand to heaven, and swear that time shall be no longer. So with moral influenceIt is a rill?a rivulet?a river?nn, ocean, boundless and fathomless as eternity. The celebrated Benjamin West ralated that his mother once kissed him eagerly when ho showed her a likeness ho had sketched of his baby sister; and ho adds, That kiss made me a painter." A beautiful inscription, it is said, ma} be found in an Italian graveyard: "lien lies Etallu, wlio transported a largo fortuiK to heaven in acta of charity, and has gon< thither to enjoy it." ^ mm On a physician admonishing a patient or one occasion against his supposed habit o eating too fast, and telling hiin that n{ the food was a bar to digestion, he said '* You speak ironically, doctor." " Read the biographies "of our great anc good men and women," says an exchange " not one of them bad a fashionable raothei They%nearly all sprung from*plain, strong minded women, who had as little to" d( with" fasbion&ras with the changing'o clouds." Of all the mean and contemptible mei ?or persons calling themselves mon?it this world; to?*thsi snealds tihrodgli life 01 tiptoe, with J?is ear at the keyhole of y body's tnisineg* proept hla own^tlie mdJ? to be detested. > -J ?. Mountains ?Mwn#fer3toJ9 up and dowi ' in Vermont, It U reUtod that sooactgQan driving up p^-w^i^L. If U:?^ijpjiH| on -the otheraikiel' "Steep" he answered V chain lightning rouldn't'go ddStfirft' vrith outbre^Ain'onP IDEAS OF WOMAN. A recent work published at Brussels, contains, among other interesting matter, a eollecliou of aphorisms by various authors, mostly French, of which wc append a few: Cltam/url.?In tho choice of a lover a woman considers more how he appears in the oyes of other women than in her own. Lovo is more pleasing than matrimony, just as romance is more entertaining than history. Bougucart.?If we spoak ill of tho sex generally, tliey will rise against us; if wedo tho same of any individual woman, they will all ngreo with us. Charles Lemcslc.?Most of their faults women owe to us, whilst wo are indebted to them for most of better qualities. Daniel Slernc.?Most women aro endowed with such naturally endearing charms that even their presence is generally beneficial. Madame dc Stael.?Love, in a woman's life, is a history; in a man's, an episode. Callant.?Only lie who has nothing to hope from a woman is truly sincere in her praise. Diderot.?There exists among women a secret, tie like that among the priests of the same faith. Tliev halo onrli nthr>r vni ? J protect cach other's interests. Stuhl.?No woman, even the most intellectual, believes herself decidedly homely. This self-deception is natural, for there are some most charming women without a particlo of beauty. Octave Fvuillit.?Providence has so ordained happiness of a man ; to love his own mother an J the mother of his children. l>esiiles these two legitimato kinds of love, there is nothing between the two creatures except vain excitement, painful and idle delusion. Alphonse Karr.?Say of a woman thai she is wicked, obstinate, frivolous, but add that she is beautiful, and be assured that she will ever think kindly of you. Say sho is good, kind, virtuous, sensible, but?very | homely, and sho will never forgive you in i her life. "She has a forehead of ivory, I eyes of sapphire, eye brows and hair of ebony, cheeks of damask roses, coial lips and ! teeth of pearl." Such a description, and it is frequently made, might tempt a thief but not an honest man. Madame ile Main tenon.?In everything that women write tliero will be a thousand faults against grammar, but to a certainty always a charm never to be found in the letter of men. Dticfos.?Great and rare offerings aie found almost exclusively among women ; nearly all tho happiness and most blessed | moments in lovo are of their creating, and t so also in friendship, especially when it fol j lows luVC. Madame Fee.?A woman frequently resists the love she feels, but cannot resist the love she inspires. J. J. Rousseau.?Men can better philosophize on the human heart, but woman can read it better. Michelet.?It is a universal rule, which, as far as I know, has no exception, that great men always resemble their mothers, who impress their mental and physical mark upon their sons. The Dullness of great Men.?Descartes, the famous mathematician and philosopher; La Fontaine, celebrated for his witty f.ibles; Buffon, the great naturalist, were all singularly deficient in tlie powers of conversation. Marmontel, tlie novelist, was so dull in society that his friend said of him, after an interview, " i must go and read his tales, to recompense myself for the weariness of hearing him. As to Corneille, the greatest dramatist in France, he was completely lost in society?so absent and embarrassed, that ho wrote of himself a witty coupli^ importing that ho never was intelligible but through the mouth cf another. Wit on paper seems to be something widely different from that play of words in conversation, which while it sparkles, dies; for Charles II., tho wittiest monarch that ever sat on the English throne, was so charmed with tho humor of " Iludibras," that be caused himself to bo introduced, in the charactcr of a private gentleman, to Butler, its author. Tho witty king found tho author a vfiro rltill comniiiiinn nn/1 u'an : ? .. ~ J "?> ? "MO vi ISj'llllUU, i with many'others, that so stupid a fellow could nover lmvo written so clever a hook. Addison, whoso classic elegance has long been considered the model of style, was shy ! and absent in society, preserving, even beJ fore a singlo stranger, stiff and dignified 5 silence. In conversation, Danto was taciturn and satirical; Gray of Alfieri seldom x talked or smiled. Roaseau was remarkably f trite in conversation ; not a word of fancy , or eloquence warmed him. Milton was unsocial, and even irritable, when much ' pressed by talk of others. I " Why are tlfore ?o few convicts in the . Michigan penitentiary this year?" asked . Sara's friend a day or-t'wo sirtce. ... " Why," Baijl^ara, " they sand tbej^by ) tbo Pd^liflio ninFoad, and their time expires f before tbey gathers/1 ^ ^ >. ?r. * -A IpTft'sraiUfc^fefaffeiiaab; after conversi iojgWl^e withib^ dulcineri on the iuteri asti^g topi^wmatriraony, concluded at but i with a deolftratioj^JMidJMit tbo Very empttrt tic question ofi & ^ill'you have me ?" I am lady^nnrt hope will givo you pain ; but I must aaawer?no." " Well, 1 well, that wjU dc, madam," said her phil? oBopblcal r6Ver, P rfbd n&ut suppose toe changt } the 8ubfeet.n J ? The tiftla of 1Kb aro tbo testa which ?fc3certawtMw ?uoh,gold thqre is in us. i. a . .. ^ # THE SEA SHELL. " Tli.it is tliu roar of the oconn that you hear," said our hostess us wo lifted from the centre-tablo a beautiful shell and plnccd it to our ear. It is truo there was a low murmur, liko the roar of tho far oft' sea*, rising and falliug, rs if bore upon waves of air; now clear and distinct as the dash on the beach, and again, low and tremulous as the dying winds. Wo closed our eyes and listened to the murmur of tho shell. As we lisLened we dreamed. *?Vo stood 011 ilii! bcacii as it stretched away, tho restless swell curling with loam, and dashing wearily upon the sands. Solemn, almost sad was the murmuring anthem which sobbed 011 the still air. It is a sublime scenc?tho ocean. The throbbing pulse of the mighty element beats slowly at your feet. Ten thousand fleets have swept over thee in vain, for as far as the eyo can see, there is not a track where their keels have been. It is a trackless waste. Xot even a cross is scon to mark tlie spot wnero criino has been. There arc no monuments where thousands have boon laid down in the yielding waves. "Where are the gallant sea ? Where did the gloomy billows open to the ill-fated ]'resident! There was the gallant Arctic, steaming homeward under full sail, ami warm hearts beating faster under deck at the thought of green hills, soon to rise from the waters. 1 >uL the shock came, and fast the remorseless waters rushed into the ill-fated steamer. Slowly, like the inarch of fate, the huge babric sank. One wail went up to <?od, and downward went the Arctic with her living freight, with sail set. Secure from storm and decay, she is anchored beneath the sullen waters. ITer satis are filled by the dark green waves as they ebb and flow. No smoke cutis from her chimney tops, for her crreal iron heait. has cea-ed to throb Undisturbed, the dead ones still rcsL upon tlio slippery deck. Holland is still by tlio side uf lii:. gun, match in hand. The womanly locks lloat out in the waters, and the damp checks rests cold and still in the clasped hands. Man!}* faces look tip sternly among the shrouds. The stripes and stars and the cross of St. <reorge lift wearily in tlio ehl? and How of the tide. And wherever there is a heart which longs for the loved ones under tlio waves, the shell will bring sobbing to that heart. Thickly strewn arc the dwJIers on the occan bud. Its steps and deep dark gVns, arc all peopled. Uut they dwell in peace. Tlio inarch or fall of Empires is not heard. Rust has gathered on tin? blade and in the council's month. The inhapitants of the deep, and gambul unharmed about the battle craft, whose oaken libs have shivered with deadly broadsides. No monuments 011 the ocean. Man lias piled the earth with the structure of his genious and ambition. Earth's greatness is commemorated in marble and upon can* down and unseen are the monument buildvas. lint the soa has no tale to tell, l-'ar eis, the coral; and the waves, as they throb to the shore, bear no record of the dead. Neither has the shell a word from the ocean sleepers. It murmurs only uf the -...1 - ?? 111^ UIUUO Iliiu WilVW. Will you givo me them pennies now ? said a big newsboy to a little one, after giving liiin a severe thumping. No I won't exclaimed the little one. Then I'll give you another pounding. Pound away. Me and Dr. Franklin agrees, Dr. Franklin says: Tako caro of the ponco, and the pounds will take care of themselves. A farmer being once asked why he aid not subscribe for a newspaper, Because, said he, when father died, ho left me a good many, and I have not read them through yet! To dream of ti millstone round your neck, is a sign of what you may expect if you get ;j3ui extravagant wife. "This is a groat (grate) prospect," as the prisoner said, in peeping out of his cell window. "I can marry any girl 1 please," said a young fellow, boastingly. "Yes, but you can't please any girl, retorted a companion. Squibbs wants to know if doctors, by looking at the tongue of a wagen, can tell what ails it. "Come, Billy, it is time to go to bed."? "I han't had my supper yet." "Well, why don-'t you eat your supper?" "Cos I don't want to go to bed." "Who's there ?" said a patrol to a passing figure, one dark night. "It's I, patrol, don't bo afraid," kindly replied an old woman. "What did you hang that cat for, Isaac?'* asked tho school inarm. Tbo boy looked up, and with a grave look, answeredj "For meta-tiny, mar no." , The following names afft said to be in the Cincinnati (Ohio) Directory : Messrs. Gunn^ Cannon, Pistol, Fusee, Shutee, Builitt, Sliott, Muskett and R. Tillory. * Some genius has conceived the brilliant idea to presB all the lawyers into military service in case of war?because their charges are so great that no one could stand'them* At ft shop Window in tho Strand there appeals tha (ollowing notice :-r-"Wanted, J' who shall Be treated ns one oftbe flmiify.* "Mary, is your master at homo?" "No, sir, heVoul." **I believe it." "Welh theq, fc|jjUrfom1) down and tell you himsilif, perhap^^n'll believe him." 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I The above terms have been agreed to by the i I'rnpiiclors of tin; Abbeville /limner and J title* /tcntlrn/ /') . RATES OF ADVERTISING. The Proprietors of the Abbeville Jinn tier and I ml' pendent /Jr>x*, have established the following rales of Advertising to be. charged in both papers; . . . . I | I-.very Advertisement inserted tor n less timo t]isin three montli.-*, will be charged by the inscr' lion at, One Dollar per Square (1? inch?the space of 1*2 solid lilies ?>r less,) for the first inserI lion, ami Fifty Cents for each subsequent insertion. I'tf" The Commissioner's, Sheriff's, Clerk's and Ordinary's Advertisements will lie inserted in both |>a|?er.s, each ehartrim; half priee. <i~?s" >herill"s Levies, One Dollar each. * j'/" Annoilncii)'; a Candidate, Five Dollars. Advert s-dnii an Kstrav, Two Dollars, to he ' ! paid I?y lh" Magistrate. j Adverli-?-ii?? nis inserted for three months, or | ' lon^"r, al the folinv.-injr rates: | 1 square moiii!u? ? 5.00 | | ! square > months. S.thi j i I square '.i months 1 ().() j j 1 square 12 months 1;2.iim j "I s.pi.uvs .'I months S.On i squares t> inoniiis 14.00 ! squares inoulh* 1 S.00 i 2 squares 12 monlhs 2<i.'in j :t sipnres uionihs 10.00 squares ti months 1(5.00 :: Mpiar<-s months- '21.On :: squares 1*2 months 25.ot) I .. .... . ii... " . , 12.WO I squares <> months 2(UJ0 J squares mouths 2'i.fli) } squares I'i months 30.0O 5 squares 3 months I">.<i0 squares <! mouth* 2S.llu squares ? moiillis 31.nl) e squaivs 1:2 11> >i>tlis 3a.u0 t> squares 3 u.nnths 2'?.0o <> squares ii months Illl.im (i squares 'J inoullw 3t?.<i0 i". squares 12 months -10.00 7 squares months 2a.ii() 7 squares (> months 35.0(1 7 squares It mouths 41.00 7 squares 12 mouths 45.00 8 squares 15 months 30.00 S squares (? months 4i?.0o H squares 0 mont hs 40.00 squares 12 months 50.00 Fraction? of Squares will be charged in proportion to the above rates. J Jusi.tess t.'ai'ls for the term of one year, j will bo charged in proportion to the space they occupy, at One Dollar per line space. car Tor all advertisements Set in double rolKiiiH, Fifty p?r Cent, extra will be added to the above rates. DAVIS it CREWS, J'or Ilnuvcr; LEK it WILSON, 1''<>r Press. PR.IKTTIN" GrriMlF, Proprietors of the Abiikvili.k TJaxnkk L wtfuhl respectfully inform the public that they are prepared to execute all kinds of Jol> Work with nentness and dispatch. Having incurred considerable expense for printing materials, tlifcy have no hesitancy in saj-ingthat they are as well prepared, and can do as neat work as unv other establishment in the iin.niumi?B .Sonili Carolina. They will also keep on hand a complete assortment of " of which wo have now on hand the following List, to which wo shall contiuuo to add until wo got a complete assortment: Sum. Pro.; Fi. Fa. on Sum. Pro.; Cn. Rn. on Sum. l*i??.; Suit. Writs; Sub. Tickets in Lnw ; Sub. Tickets in Equity 5 fi. Fii.; Ca.:?a.;Ca. Sa. in Case ; Copy Writ 111 Case ; Deeds of Conveyance ; 7>eclaration on Nolo; Commission to Examine Witnesses; Judgment by Confession in Assumpsit.; Judg. on Writ of Enquiry, Damages Assessed by Clerk?Debt or Assumpsit, Judg. by Confession in Debt, 011 Single Hill; Judgment on Writ of Enquiry, Damages Assessed by Jury ; Judgment in Assumpsit ut Issue. Plea Withdrawn ; Postm Judgment on Issue Tried, Verdict for Plaintiff; Mortgage for Personal Property; Mortgage of Real Estate: Magistrates'Summons; Do. Executions ; Do. Recognizance ; Summons to Defaulting Jurors NATIONAL^OLICEGAZETTE. TB1IIIS Great Journal of Crime, and Criminals -l is in its Twelfth Year, nnd is wid<tlv circulated throughout the country. ]tf?outaius u|! the Great Trials, Criminal Cases, and appropriate Ediorials 011 Uto same, together'with information on Criminal Matters, not to be fquajl ip anyother newspaper. t,...,,,. ' fi O* Subscriptions, $2'per Annum; ?1 for Six Months, to be remitted bv Snbscrib?r?r^iho should write their names' and the town, qoutity I ...t ii mill I.'MI/U n lieu' nicy rehire JHIWlliy,.* To GEO. W. MATSELLA. CO., Editor and. Proprietor of tho National I'olico Gazette," New York City. April 30, 1857 1 tf S. McGOWAN, Attorney at Law, Office ' in Law Range, (Next Door to Thomson <k Fair,) ABBEVILLE C. H Jan. 8, 1857. r' 37 PR^MTTOUTPROPERrlTr " "M* AVI NO BOUGHT the RiRlil, for this of u. If. Wbtmcc, fur putting up ; Oti?' Patent Lightning Conductor, ' T woriM respectfully Inform the citizens o( AbbevillJf District,'that I riW now the solo proprietor of this indispensable protection of life and pr?porty, and am prepared to execute, at short notice, ^lLorders for the dame.. Those wishing work in my liue will please address me at Ninety-Six. . ? ? "J. W. CALIIOUN, Jr., /'J Ninety-Six. Aliifiinl 11 10"7 1 " ?-o ? ^ Land for Sale. : , THE Subscriber is the authorized Aeant^of the parties interested, to sell tbo ra^l estate of JOSEPH AIKKN.deija^sed, The tract of Land is Valuable, adjoins lands of Dr. >Wardlaw, Dr. Liringston? and others, on Calhoun's Creek, and contains about . ' '*720 Acres.' Property?n'pgroca?as well as cash win be taken in payment. Applications for purchase can be made to the Agent, who lives at Cokeabury. *" ' ''i ' .JOHN \V. SUPER. June?,!^-' 6 S. D. & H. W. SMITH, Manufacturers of Molodeoiis, Organ Melodeons, A iV J) Pedal Sub-Bass II n. OVt O 3NT I XT 3VC S r 511 Washington street, BOTON. rllK attention of Clergymen, Committees Schools, Lodged, Ac., is invited to the iicw Fedal Sub-Bass Harmoniums, Made and Sold l>y tlio Manufacturer*. It is arranged witli two manuals or banks of \eyn, ilie lowest set running nn octavo higher liaa the other, and may he used separately, and litis get in one caso two distinct instruments ; ir, by the use of the coupler, the two banks of keys may ho played at the same time by use of tho front set only. This connected with the Sub-Bass, will produce the clfcci of a largo organ, and is sullieieiitly heavy to fill a houso that seals from limit to loull persons. Tllli OIUiAN M IS LOT) EON is designed for parlor and private use. The construction is similar to the Church Instrument, being arranged with two banks of Keys, and when used together, by means of the coupler, is capable of as great voluineof power as I lie. Church Instrument, when used without the l'edals. Also, every variety of MELODEONS for Parlor use. Purchasers inav relv unn? ?<~ * j . , ....... . uiviim irom our Manufactory, living made in in tho most complete and thorough manner. Having removed to the spacious Ijiiildiugs, 51 I Washington Street, we have every facility for manufacturing purposes, ami employ none hut the most experienced and skillful workmen In short, wc will promiso our customers an Instrument equal if not superior to any Manufacturer, and guarantee entire and jii r/ict satisfaction. !\I usic Teachers, Leaders of Choirs, and others interested in musical matters, are respectfully invitnl to visit our Knoms at any time, and examine or test the instruments on exhibition for sale at their pleasure. Asa still further guarantee to tho public as to tlio excellence of the Ah h/dcoim ami Harmoniums, fiom our .Mailt:factory, we betr leave to refer, i?y permission, to the following Piano Forte Manufacturers of Huston, who have examined our instruments', and will give their opinion when culled lipon: Chickering ?fc Sons; "\Vtn. I'. Emerson; Geo. llews; 11allett & (.'illusion; Ilrown it Alien; Woodward ,L Hrown ; T. Gilbert & Co.; A. W. Lurid it Co.: Newhall tfc Co. Mclotleons illlil irjirninniimi? Uimfa.l . ... livilltu> IVivoiis who wish to liiru Meloileonsami Harmoniums willi a view of purchasing at the end i>l' tips year, ems have the rent credited as part paynii-n' of the purchase money. This matter is worthy of special note, as it enables those who desire a fair lest of the instruments before purchasing. to obtain it :it. the expense of the liianul"acuir>rs, to the extent at least of a year's rent. < >r?h-rs fiom any part of the country or world, sent diivet t?> the manufactory in Huston, with cash or satisfactory reference, will lie promptly attended to, anil as faithfully exeeuted as if tlio parties were present, or employed uu agent to select, anil on as ivsonahlc terms. Fi'ico Lint. Scroll letr, -I V octave, $ CIO SlMo'.l leir ..fl !>? ? _ in l'isiiiti style, 5 octave 10(1 i'iaiiu style, extra 5 octavo 115 l'iano st \ l?i, rarved let;, 125 i'iano stylo, ~ sots of ict'ds, 15'J I'iano style, (> octave, 135 Origin M<-!?''|IM)H, 20i> (Irtrati .Meloileon, extra finish '250 lY.lal Snli llass Harmonium 275 IjCttefs, I'erliiicrtes and notices from the press, from all |iatts of the world, may lie seen at. out* salesroom. iKsi-ripUvc circulars sent free to any uiljress. S. I), .t II \V. SMITH, 511 Washington St, (:iear lloj lston) Boston. July 'J, 1h,")7 II ly Cliicli. Springs, GroenvillA THstrinf MTII1-! Subscribers having purchased fijiTJV that well-known ami long-established Summer Resort, Chicks Springs, within li> nii'oH of Ornenville, have put the premises in the most thorough repair. TJujy aro. determined to spare no elforlu to make tlio S PIUS OS nil that can l>? de?ire?l, whether to th<' invalid seeking health, or thi)se in quest of pleasure. The salubrious and invigorating qualities of these waters having heen well known to the traveling public for the last twenty years, it id deemed unnecessary to enter into detail; but any further information or reference will bo carefully furnished upon application to either of the proprietors. The IIOTKL will he open for the reception of visitors on tin- 1st of June, and will be kept open during the season. It gives us pleasure to add that the fornjer proprietors, the Messis. CIIICK, will spend tf\eir summer at the Springs, and will be glad to se? their many friends there- ... J. T. IIKNERY. F. TALDIRD, J. BUUSEY. Ho! for Chick Springs!! J. P. l'OOL A CO., will be ot, the Greeh ville Depot with pooil Conveyances und careful I>riven?, to curry Passengers and thoir Ilngguge to the Springs. *They will also run A DAILY LINE OF STAGES To ami from the SpringH, leaving GrieuviHe at 9 o'clock, A. 1W. Fare$l. " ' ' ' May 14, 1857 6 tf | To Mechanics, Inventors, and Manufacturers. "* IN ANNOUNCING the THIRTEENTH An. iinuI Volume of the SCIENTIFIC AlIERjt-' CAN, the Publishers reppec! fully inform the pul>lie that in order to increase and stimulate Uio formation of clubs, they propose to offer Otto Thousand Five Hundred Dollars in Ca*7i Prei??J ums for tlie fifteen largest lists nf subscribers sent in by the 1st of January, 1858 ; said premiums to bo distributed as follows: ? For the largest list, ?300 ; 2d, ?250; 3d,$200;; 4tli, S1 .^O ; 5th, ?100; Clli, SM; 7th, 880} St.lt, ?70; 'Jtli, ?60; I0tli,?50; 11th, $40; 12th. ?3.*>; 13til, ?30 ; Milt, ?'25 ; 15th, |20. Names of subscribers pan be sent in at difTcr> ent times and from different Post Offices. Tho essh will lie paid to tho orders of tho successful! competitors, immediately after the 1st of January 1858. * Southern, Western, and Canada'niancy -wilf bo taken for subscriptions. Canadian subscribers will please to runut Twenty-six cenla extra on each year's suliscription to pre-pay pbstngfe. Te/wt of SubscruHop.-=-T\yu.Dol l&LB,a, Year, or One Dollar for Six Months. - U X i. Club Hat a.?Five Copies, for Sis Months; Five Copies, for Twelve otoliths, $8; Ten Copies, for Six Months, $8; Ten Copiesifor. Twelve Mouths, $15; Twenty Copies, for Twelve Months-, $28. ' For all Clubs of Twenty and ovfcr, the yaarly subscription is only $1.10, .--.i The now volutno will bft printed upon, fine pa> per with new type. > \ The general character of the Scientific American i* well known, and, a8 herelbforc.^ifcifcill be cliieily devoted to promulgation of information relating to thtt vajjooa Mcc ft animal JwQpftcriiical Art*, Manufactures, Agriculture, P'utcnt* Invent tiona. Engineering,-Mill Wor) which tho lif^rf to ndvanoe. It fSfm for biuding; it contains annually - from ;50flf tarty finely executed Fngr.aviiiK^ a^d NatioeAofWrK. ican ana Kuropean imprp,vejBQnM^ tog*tyt*.l?Jtb an Official List of American ?aVe?l pl^ima pubt fished w/eokly.to advaooepfi itfl,oU>cnr papers. 8>s{, II th? aim of tj>?, JEdjtoTa of A'mrhican to prupent all pubjecU.dwuwHlJ1! ifc? colnmn8 in a pracUcol.twJ-ypylW will also endeavor to maintain^,kaatyiiiA-fein(lg80nc83 in combating pnd expoHing/qlBf^lbwriesand practices in Seientific.and MechahicaL.maUerp, and EnterW??ngl?nWJW?i? " * 5 MUH?Tco'^4fcilMjj? uUfKttfit Itf?E ' - ' AT .?*' n'a'irfti17. ,','Tr *A ns? "!* SA')ffi*Mrlrtw ,?-rj!HH! jajJ Attorney at Law and IMicM <t? Will prompUy a^^ Vqfi{l hit oa^c. lie eap?fm found at tne office oT the Abb?v?lleBann^.'1 2p