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BAYA&fi TAYLOR IN ATHENS. Bayard Taylor, we perceive, lias turned Lis eagle cyo from the higli North to Southern Europe. He is now at Athens. _ In ascending to the Acropolis he braced his sensibilities, he says, with the following substantial reflections: ."You are now going up the samo steps where Pericles walked, saiJ Francois* Not only Pericles, but the curled Aleibiades, the serene Tlato, the unshaken Socrates, the divine Phidias, Soplncle*> and -Eschylus, llerodotrts, and TliemistOclcs, and?but why mention names, when the full sunshine of that immortal era streams upon our path. Way ? And what is it to me that (hey have walked where 1 now walk ? Let mo not l\o wheedled out of my comfortable indifference by the rythinitio ringing of such names. , "The traveler comes here expecting to ho impressed by the associations of the spot, and l?y ft strong effort he succeeds in impressing himself. Repeat the same tiames elsewhere, and he will produce the saine effect. But for ine, I am hardened against conventional sentiment. 1 have seen too much to he easily moved; I can resist the magic of ancient memories, no matter howclassic. What is it to me that Pericles Walked up these steps?that the gilded rohes of Aspasia swept up these Penteiican slahs ?that Phidias saw the limits of a god in the air, or Sophocles chanted a ch'Uis as he walked? They were men, and I am a man too; probably, in many respects, as good as they. Had I lived in llier time, T should, 110 doubt, have looked upon them vriihout the slightest awe?have slapped them on the back, and invited them to din ner. Now, why should their ghosts make mo shako with weak emotion, ami rob me of my cool judgment ? No ; I shall be indifferent." So meditating, he walked up the slops. But when he got up, his solid resoltions vanished. Ilis sturdy anli-sentimriitali/.ing was all to no purpose. The glorious Athens of the soul towered around him and lay spread out beneath him. ltesaVs! "The pillared portal, one colonnade rising above another, as the rock ascends, now received us. Capitals and architraves are gone, except those of the lust rank, and huge blocks of the superb marble lie heaped in the passages between the coluinua. Beautiful as these are, lightly as their tapering stems rise against lho blue vault, the impression created l>v the I'ropylon is cheerful and elevating. And when you turn, looking down through the fluted vista, over the Areopagus, over the long plain cf the Cephisus, shimmering silvery with the olive flrrAVAft nf tlin A/?iutnmv fr\ flan iviec nl' fl.n Daphne and the blue bill of Salamis, you ftel no longer the ik-solntion of ruin, but inhale, with quiet enjoyment, the perfect harmony of the picture. "The Propylon still foimsa portal which divides two world.*?. You leave modern and medieval associations behind you, and are alone with the past. Over the ramparts of the Acropolis, you sec 110 more of the mountains or ihe distant .'Egean Island than the oldest Greek?large outlines, sim pie tints, and no object distinct enough to tell whether it be new or old.- The last of the portals is passed ; you arc on tliu summit, alone with the 1'arlhcuon. You need no pointing finger; your eye turns, instinctively, to where it stands. Over heaps of juin, over a plain buried under huge fragments of hewn and sulptured marble? drums of pillars,-pedestals, capitals, corft ecs, friezes, tryglyphs, and sunken panel work? a wilderife3S of mutilated art?it rises between you1 rmd the sky, which forms its only background, and against which every scar left by the. infidel general ioi> shows its gash. Broken down to the earth- itf the middle, like a ship which was struck and parted, Willi tlie roof, cornices ami friezes mostly gone, and not a column unmutilatcd ; and yet with the tawny gold of two thousand years staining its once spotless marble, sparkling, with snow-white marks of shot and shell, and with soaring pillars imbeded in the dark blue ether, (and here the sky seems blue only because they need such a background,) you doubt for a moment whether the melancholy of its ruin, or the perfect and-mtijestic loveliness which shines through that ruin, is most powerful. j I did not stop to solve this doubt. Once liaving looked upon the Parthenon, it was impossible to look other where, and I drew nearer and nearer, finding a narrow lane through the chaos of fragments piled almost as high as my head, until I stood below the western front. I looked up at the iVoric shafts, colossal as befitted the shrine of a goddess, yet tender and graceful as flower 8tem8, upholding without effort the massive entablature and the shattered pediment, in one corner of which two torsos alono remain of all the children of Phidias, and? to my confusion I confess it?all my fine resolves were forgotten. I was seized with an nvemnworinff mi*inr/. ?!...? j? ?,- rtVMIU VM HIMt J'lilCSl and loftest admiration wliich is almost the same thing as love, and of unmittigalcd grief and' indignation. Well?consider mo a fool if" you like?but, liad I been alone, I should have cast myself prone upon tlie marble pavoment, and exhausted) ih some Hjstfcrical way, the violence of this unex pected: passion^ Ate it was, I remained grimly silent, not veiitnnrtg to npc?>k *f" except when Francois, pointing to the des poiled pediment, said," All the other statues were carried away by Lord Elgin."? 41D n Loid Elgin 1" I exclaimed ; and I do not repent me of the profanity. "This once, I do not object to your using sn?h a ' shocking woid," said the woman at my side. * * V ^ . It is an extraordinary fact, that when people cortfe to what is commonly called high words, they generally use low language. * V * I THE INFIDEL AND HIS DYING CHILD. The following passage lins a touching interest. It is .extracted from Mrs. Mcintosh's "Charms and Counter Charms." Euston i Hastings, their father, is an infidel. The child's disease was scarlet fever. Ten days and nights of over deepening gloom had passed, and in the silent night, having insisted that Evelyn, who had herself symptoms of illness thvough the day, should retiro to bed, liluston Hastings sat alone watching with r. tightening heart the disturbed sleep of the little Eve. It was near midnight when that troubled sleep was broken. The child turned from side to side uneasily, and loooked somewhat wildly around ( her. " What is the matter with my darling?" asked Euston Hastings, in tones of melting tenderness. " Where's mama?" Eve want mama to i say, " Our Father !" i Euston Hustings had oflon contemplated | the beautiful picture of his child kneeling with clasped hands beside her mother, to j lisp her evening prayer, or since her illness forbade her rising from her bed, of Evelyn kneeling beside it-, taking those clasped hands in hers, and listening to Eve's softly murmured words. Well he knew, therefore, what was meant by Eve's simple phrase, "To say Our Father?"' " Mamma is asleep," lie said 5" " when she awakes t will call hohM "No?no?papa ; Eve asleep then." " 1 will call her at once, then, darling." and he would hive moved, but tho little hand was lain on him to arrest him. "Xo don't wake poor mamma; papa, say Our Father 1 for Eve." " \Y ill Eve say it to papa ! Speak ; then, my darling," lie said, liading that though , tho hands were clasnnd ?nd the sweet eyes devoutly closed, Evo remained silent. ^ " No?Eve too sick, papa?Eve can't J talk so much?papa kneel down and sayt Our Father, like mamma did last night? 1 Won't you, papa?" Elision Hastings could not resist that pleading voice, and kneeling, he laid his hand over the plasped ones of his child, and for the first time sinco he had murmured It with childish earnestness in his mother's car, his lips gave utterance to that ' hallowed form ot prayer which was given to man by a Divine Teacher. At such an hour, under such circumstances, it could not he uttered caielessly; Eiiston Hastings Understood its solemn import?its recognition of God's sovereignity?its surrender of all thing* to Him. He understood it. we say? but he trembled at it. His infidelity was annihilated; but he believed as the unreconciled believe, and his heart almost stood still with fear while '?Tliy will bo done on earth even as it is in heaven," fell slowly ' from his lips. ' Soothed by his compliance, Eve became still, and seemed to sleep, but only for a few minutes. Suddenly, in a louder voice ' than had been heard within the room for days, cl urtJaimed, "Papa?papa?see 1 there?up there, papal" Her own eyes were fixed upward, on the c ceiling as it seeme'l to Euston Hastings, for to him nothing else was visible, while a , smile of joy played <an her lips, and her arms were stretched upward as to somo ce- . lestial visitant. . " Eve coming," she cried, again. " Take Eve 1" 5 " Will Eve leave papal" cried Euston Hastings, while unconsciously ho passed , liis arm over her, as if dreading that she . would really be borne from him; " Willi her eyes fixed upward, and expending her last strength in an effort to rise i from the bed, Eve murmured to broken tones, V Papa come too?mamma?grandpa c ?little brother?dear papa?" ( The last Word could have been distinguished only by the Intensely listening ear . of love. It ended in a sigh ; and Euston Hastings felt, even while ho still claspcd lier cherup form, and gazed upon her sweetly smiling face, lliat his Eve had indeed left him forever. That she had ceased ^ to exist, with tlio remembrance of that last scene full in his mind, he could not believe. Henceforth heaven with its angels, the ministering spirits of the Most High, was a reality ; it was the habitation of his Eve ; and his ottrr heart heat longingly for it. Ilis proud, stern, unbending nature had been taught to tremble at the decree of " Ifim who nvnr itm 1. and among tire inhabitants of the earth.'* ( i Tho Being and Nalure upon which he had 1 hithcrlo speculated as grand abstractions, 1 become at olice unspeakably interesting 1 facts. Would lie contend with him in 1 wrath ? Would He snatch from him one 1 by one the blessings of his life, crushing ' the impious heart which bad rovilcd Ilis attributes and denied hi* existence??or * 4 was he indeed " so"long suffering," so " plenteous in mercy," that lio would prove even ' to him that His might wis the might of a Savior ? Such were his thoughts as with still concentrated agony lie turned from the grave of his cherished child to' watch beside the suffering Evelyn. She had tgkeri the lerri^ ble disease from- her little Eve, and lav for many days insensible to licr own danger or't her husband's agony. ]}ut God was mer\ > cilul, and her husband'and father receiv^J ? her back as from tlte grave. The heart whicltjudgementvfadf arousedj itoercy melted. A consciousness of his"oWfc'OllXvortbi- | ness of God's nleroy?a* fear that he*could not be heard?checked the cry^whiclr an-, guish would have extorted from , Euaton Hastings, and the firsWeal utterance from his heart to Heaven was in tbo language of lbuuksgiving. 1 " ? ifci'i' )?? " You see, grand mamma, W6 perforate . an aperture in the apex,' and a oorrespond^- < ing aperture in thebase ^arid by .applyingthe egg to the lip*, and forciOly inhafry? the breath, the shell js entftel j dijwh argicP > of its content*." "iftew my eoul,"'*rie<j the old ladjr, **what wonderful ^Improvements they do rm.ke 1 Ifcw'ta my youW dayo we just made a hole in'oach end, onjJ> " LOOK UP." A ship, balanced at sea, lay rocking lazily. A sprightly lad, tho captains's only son, notknowing what to do, began mischievously to climb tho mast, lie had got half way to tho top, when turning his eyes below to soo how far ho was from tho deck, ho suddenly grew diizy. " I am falling, I am falling," ho cried. 44 Look aloft," shouted his father, who at that moment was leaving hiscrfbin. TUobdy, accustomed instantly lo obey that voice, looked up to where tho maiutruuk swung against the sky, vecoveied heart, went on and was saved. Wo do not give tho anecdoto as new. Doubtless every ono of our readers has lieard it before. But tho story has a significance not always noticed. Others, besides the captnin's son, liavobeen saved by looking up. There como times in tho efc[icricnco oven of the bravest when the honrt is ready to givo up. Perhaps a favorite :hild has been suddenly stricken down. Perhaps a tcrVible cpidemic has destroyed more than ono little one. Perhaps the >viro of his bosom is no more. Perhaps by >110 of those catastrophes which occasionaly occur, his entire family has been swept nto eternity in a moment of time, in the .winkling of an eye. llo feels as if there ,vas no longer any object for him in life. tn the first shock of his agony ho would lot care even if news was brought to him .hat his fortunes were bankrupt, that lie ivas a displaced beggar. But, by-and-by, ? still, small voice within whispers, "Look up." lie sees that the key is still as bright us ever, the breezo as blessed, the trees as beautiful. He hears tho waters run, leap ing and laughing down hill side glistening in silver they go. The Ctirll) is not less i i? ii 1.. ? .? .1?.? ? iun.-i^ ui.-ui ueiure, LiiuKiaia areas numuerless, the ocean and mountains as sublime, llis fellow-creatures have the sumo kindly heart toward him. lie owes them the same old duties. Gradually he realized lhat he has much yet to live for. In time liven he regains a subdued and quiet happiness. lie has learned to " look up." A wife or mother is unhappy. She has [i husband addiclcd to intemperance : a man with superior talents perhaps, who might, if he could resist the cup, rise to eminence uid Wealth. Day by day her heart is breaking. I3ut let her not dispair. The erring 3iie may yet reforili; thousands have done it before him j patience, kindness, tact, and iQ'ection may dually recall him to himself. While there is hope of his restoration let ler not trive up. Or a mother sees her son juing lo ruin. She bewails, in secret, the lour lie was born ; and bowed down with ihamc she shuns society. Oh ! if she would jut " look up." While there is life there is lope. "While love can pray and watch, hero is a chance of repentance. Take ieartj wife cf mother; After the night :onies tfiorning. Look up 1 A great financial crists overtakes the trong man in the midst of bis schemes. Ie gathers up all bin resources, contending gallantly and desperately long after hope s over; struggling for his family rather ban himself. It will not do. The mighty vhirlwind, whose outer eddies lie has been itriving to resist, wheels down upon him in ill its power; he is torn up in an instant; ie is hurled on the ground, ho is left broathoss, bruised, and seemingly dead. At first, vlien ho regains sensation after the overvhehning shock, he is without hope. lie ias neither strength nor wish to resume his vorlc. He is willing that tile tempest shall sweep the wrecks of his fortune out of sight brever. It is useless, he says to himself, Jven to try to regain what lie has lost. At ast a gentle wife or sympathizing friend l.:^. - MUO mm nub LU uispHir. " JLiOOK up,'' iney say. lie looks. Al once lie is a mJW man. He recovers his'name and fortune. Ab ! if all would only look up. But some never hear the cheering words. Somedisrev'-ird them. Of the thousands who have failed utterly in life, or met only a secondary success, the majority owe their misfortunes to not looking up. In sorrow or disaster, remember the boy upon the dizzy iiiast, and " look up 1"?Petersons Magisinc. jBlackwood on Modem Manners.?Seriously, 6ays a writer in Blackwood, 1 do not Lhink the clubs alone have to answer for the decrease in eafly marriages. No sensible man, of moderate means, picks his wife out of a ball-loom, or an opera box, however much lie may like to see her there. A true woman has much more chance?wtfall know it?of winning any love that is worth her winning, in her own homo, in her un dress, in tier littlo nameless1 everyday unBtudied graces, sitting on a stil'o, loitering, by a brook, rattling in a railway carraige Or busy and' un'coft'acious amid common housbold duties, tban in wbatflie sex clioose to consider tbe especial scenes of tb'eir glories and Lbeit'triujQpbs. There waa much more chaiWe of early roarrigea, nn&happy ones too, hert* nftigbbprs of tlmt large class ifrho have cblldwj^tt their desire, Blit littld' substances to leavethettf, TffetM neighbors; Wben a^ftd cofitd fn JmlfniTCy witli another family, andvlearn to-call rthe girls by tlieir Cbiristian names wjltfout any fear pf being askdd bteint<#ftions ; when tlidrt wujre soch tbihgtf as" fisbitig-parties, afid l^mginain gardens, and conoiry rides and r^rpblefll&nlong atigjmer . imornin^, aW, family di opera and round gatd? on printer nights, not^O Bjteftk of <nc tempore dances, to wbiob t?o tfoe minded going and returnin^eigbfcor ten mites,' packed, into apyiW of con*<*yaiie<v ?* or^ert wrappea A WICTIM OF TYRANICAL LAWS. Mr. Robert Russel, who formorly lived iti Schoharie county, Now York, now resides in the cily of Albany, Russel appears to bo iho victim of unpropitious circumstances. Russel has an unhappy (acully of doing business contrary to law. On Tuesday last Mr. Russel was arrested for tho eleventh time sinco autumn sot in. We give his examination ; " Well, Russel," said the magistrate, "you arc here again, I perceive" Yes, sir. The fact is, Squire I'm a wic^ ...... v. um. liiow mo h i caro wiiat JJobby itussel does, ho is sure to wiolato somo law or oilier. When I come to Albany, I says to myself, Russel, my hoy, wo take a hunt tomorrow and try them fox hounds. Well sir, cut I goes, and what do you think ? Before I got to the next corner, l^arney Whnlcn tapped mo on the shoulder, and says, "That's agin the law ?"?I replies; and he says, " having dogs in the street without muzzles." lie accordingly arrested me arid brought me to the police court. Tlio result of that piece of fun was a fine of five dol lars. Well, what do I do then ?" M Can't say." " Well, listen and I'll tell you." I sold the fox hounds to one of M Aunt Put's friends for twenty dollars. With the proceeds I bought a sow and five pigs. I took them home, built a pen in the back yard, and thought all mv troubles were at an end. hut I was mistaken. Officer Brad well called upon uiq the very next morning, and says : " llussul, keeping hogs in the yard is agin the law." I doubted it. This riled ofliccr Bradwell, who had me arrested again. This time IJ was fined five dollars. " Well what did you do then ?" " I sold my sow and pigs, and bought a horse and cart, and undertook to draw wood. The very first load I put on drew the attention of policemen Sickles, who said that driving a cart without license was " agin the law." lie arrested me for that offence, which caused me another find of five dollars" " Well, what did you do next ?" "1 sola tne norse and cart, and bought the half of a charcoal wagon." " Well what success did you meet with after that ?" "The same old luck, sir. The first day T commenced peddling, policeman Snooks took me by the collar and says : " Itussel, that's agin the law, old feller." "What's agin the law, I said, lie replied " selling charcoal in a wooden measure. That cost me a fine of three dollars." "Did that drive you out of the charcoal business." "Yes, sir. Isold out and thought I would try my fortune in carrying baggage between the steamboats and railroads. What's the use? I only commensed workto-day, and yet here I am again." " Wliat for, now V' " For soliciting baggage without a permit froiu tbe Mayor. As I said before I'm a' wictiin. If I should save a man from drowning by jumping into the whirlpool, dash my vig if I don't believe the first policeman I met in coining ashore would up and say ; " It's agin the law, Russel, to go overboard without a lieensc from tho Coroner." The justice, having heard Mr. Russel t> the end, admitted tliat he was a " wictiin,'' and let him off without paying a fine. Rus eel left tho office, saying that he would go and kill himself, ix If it were not for one thing." On being asked what that was, he replied that some policeman would discover it was " agin, the law to Commit a suicide," and undertake to' collect tho fine from his " misfortinit children." Russel's case calls foi- sympathy; What the Spring Saijs.?The seasons revolve ; Winter passes ; nnd Spring returns once more. Spring, with it? soft hazo and sweet breathed airs ; with its ascending sapbursting buds, peeping violets, and unfolding leaves ; Spring, the type of youth, and hope, and )ove, returns once more, touching the earth, and the hearts of men, with wings of fire. Each season brings its lessons, its suggestions of wisdom; and what say6 Spring? The music of woods, and bifds, and brooks, the voice of happy children, are the tones in which Spring addresses us, and wo uuuic wo near tter say?" Live and love! Be happy, laugh, pray and Bing. Lifeis not for to-mpn ow, or next year?but for to-day Do not be miserable How, witb the hope of being happy to-mortow, for to-morrow.ne^er Comes. Do riotli*p,.dt*dolfptraT)d wrong your soul to-day, promising yourself to be uprjgnt to morrow, lor to-morrow nerer cornea. Co not put off true filing ; do not ?&y,1 A little more gain, a little more engrossing care?then peace tio-morrow??for tomorrow never coirires. Do noj live for nome heaven afar off, in some unknown future, foY,ireafen is present; it lies here between iftb 1>lue sky and this'fair round earth ; it is Aowbere for you, if -jiot in your own heart. Liv??love?en}9y?taste the sweets of every flower befdfe it fades, other* sh&H" .come forth for you in due time without fall." Our IntcUwtual^Nature.?We suppose that wd caiVy out moral nature' to^fefioUjpr World, why not oar Ifotdlectual nature t?? Timber, why not our acquirement ? It is ptobab^thata man who has scorned here U'adTaetage.for 6')mmuniin with the WdHcs of God, is at once to be enlightened as if heh^doneins fluty to the intelligence Within him or abqgg hijg^t It may be no* tfcetf that as far asjve can dHtoern,. the same physio^i lawa^oveflF the most distant' of creation as'those which prevafl-helftl More- , pter, what^e call, Jfaturo, or Providence, ' Mjtbrifty as well m JflKsral has apparently P^^lfaatgpio saora fiwttjfcy than be fulno** aimiUir ^vij^efr^Igal^^ typerhap^ an ewtertiift element for the filrtn^ran<^ of' life, and the derelopmeot of l <fnergy^?p?fadecreation \?Arthur Helpt* , . . * w Young Afan, bt.j. ?You young man on tho way to tlio ball-alley, or billiard room with a cigar iu your mouth, and with an appetito for a mint julep?stop a moment. Aro you not in a dangerous way ? Will those places or your habits lead you to respectability or usefulness in society ? "Will you, by them, become moro moral, more virtuous, or intelligent? If not stop where you are, wo beseech of you. You have no blcncss of heart, perhaps and a generous disposiison. You may do good to those about you, if you will. Your example if it bo such as. will lead to virtue, will draw others after you ; or if it bads to vice or error, will also, and the moro readily cure others in tho way of evil. Then, young man, stop and think upon your course !? **7t . \> ncro is u lending? it to bad habits and low associations, stop instantly. Stand firm* Take not another stop in the dangerous way, but turn back while you have power, and seek the ways of virtue, the paths of intel ligencc, and you may do good in your day and generation, and ho esteemed by those who enjoy your acquaintance.?(fret tin Nut. Guard-. Laziness.?Laziness is a bad disease, and like many other kind, is often self-imposed In the case of many individuals, it is an inherited malady, and consequently hard to roust from the system. l*ut it is oftcncr the case that this disgusting temper is brought on persons by their own deliberate sulfisliness?by a vastly d iscred i table jd imposition to shirk the inevitable burdens incident to living a decent life. Laziness of this kind is one of the cardinal sins, and should subject the obnoxious oflVuder to the discipline of the treadmill. More particular}' is laziness 'ofleiisive in the young and healty. To learn to work, and work cheeifully is the central lesson of life. Begin to learn it early?eschew laziness as the most disgusting of all faults, and one that will surely end in hopeless misery ; for, depend upon it, none can be so insensible, ihmnnrli ln?l ? - o"* ness, as to be, in the ciul, incapable of suffering. Nature is in the event of a nonpayment of her demands, a stern and merciless creditor. Preserving Flowers.?Our fair readers, all of whom, we know love flowers?the season of which is now at hand?will be interested in the following manner of preserving them from wilting, which a cotemporary assures us is highly successful. The plan is this; Procure a flat dish of procelain, into which pour water ; place upon a vase of flowers, and over tin vacc a bellglass with ijs rim in the water. The air that surrounds the flowers being confined beneath the bell glass, is constantly moist with water, that rises into it in the form of vapor. As f;tst as the water becomes condensed it runs down the side of the bullglass into the dish; and if means be taken to encloso the water 011 the outside of the bell-glass, so as to prevent it evaporating into the air of the silting room, the atmos. pher around the flowers is continually damp. The plan is designated the "llopean Apparatus." The experiment may be tried on a small scale by inverting a tumbler over a rose bud in a saucer of water. Extracts from " Douglass ,/errol<Vs Wit?' Elegant Portrait Painting.?They painted me with a military cloak slipping of my shoulders, my hand, with ten rings upon it, supporting my head, my forehead an enormous piece of white paint and my eyes fixed upou a star, poetical 1)' placed in the corner of the picture within an inch of the frame. 1 was seated on a rock, with a very handsome inkstand beside me, and my right hand grasping, as if in a spasm of inspiration, an eagle's feather. Altogether, I made j a yuiji [irviiy biiuw. Accommodation Bills.?There is one objection to si bill?it puts another pair ol wings to the back of Time. Dogmatism is puppyism come to its full growth. An Exemplary School mauler.?It was his prejudice to prefer one slip of olive to a whole grovo of birch. Commentators.?Worthy folks who too often write on bookfe, as men with diamonds write on glai?s?obscuring light with scratches. ^ Gambling.?I never by chance hear the rattling of dice that it does'nt sound to me like the funeral bell of a whole family. A good character is, in all cases, the fruit of personal exertion. It is not inherited from parents ; it is not created by external advantages ; it is 110 necessary appendage of birth, wealth, talents, or station ; bill it is the result of one's own endeavors?the fruit nnd reward of principles manifested hi a coarse of virtuous and honorable actions.?Haiecs. - ^ ? "Mr. , I want to buy ashillig's worth of hay." " Very well, you can have it* Is it.for your father ?" " No, 'taint. It's for t^B boss. Dad don't eat hay." "Have you ever broken a ljorsol" in ouired a horse iockev. * Nr> nnt " 1 ? , v?i.v?J| replied Simon ; " but l'vo 'broken two or three wagons." - " In Arkansas, when a man desires to say that be would like a drink, be declares that if he bad a glass of whiskey, he would throw himself out-side of it, mighty quick I " What would you be, dearest," said Walter to bis sweetheart,*u if I were (o press the seal of love upon those sealingw%? lips" "Ishould be stationary." . An Irishman being nsked, on a rainy Iky, what be would lak$ to carry a met* tttge. from Bull's Head * to the Battery, an* swered; ' * fttutf, HI take ft coacW' x " ^ ? Who was Cbej^reaUst chidken butober according U> Shanpear*;! King Qlaaulius, in " Hamlet',", who di?. "Itawler tinost foul," m 3H)C Qlbbcuille Bcmxxcr, Published Every Thursday Morning, by . DAVIS d) OH33W9. W. O. DAVIS Editor T. B. CREWS Publisher. 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Those who come forward and settle before that time may save something, but. those who neglect until alter our rule goes into effect, may rely upon paying for their negligence the full amount, of the penally. l-'xperienee, too, has taught us that, there should be some eltargo made for 'bituarv Notices exceeding a certain length. We shall, iu future, charge the excess over one square, nt advertising ratib, to lie charged to the party who orders it in the paper. The above terms have been agreed to by the Proprietors of the Abbeville llamicr and ImLpeudrnt I V< ss. RATES OF ADVERTISING. The Proprietors of tlio AbbeVille Jlamirr and fiiil'/tnxli nt I'irs.t, have established the following rates of Advertising to be. charged in both papers: Kvery Advertisement inserted for a less time than three months, will be charged hv the insertion at One Dollar per Square (!? inch?the space of 1'i solid lines or less,) for the first insertion, and Fifty Cents for each subsequent insert i'm. wr Tli? Commissioner's, Sln-r.:i's, Clerk's ami <Inlinary's Advertisements will he inserted in both papers. each ehanrinir half price. Sli"i iir's l.?vies, One Dollar each. iw a iiuouueiiig a Candidate. Five Dollars. Ailvcrlisinir an Kstray, Two Dollars, to be pni>l by the .Mniristratc. Adverliseiiiriits inserted for three months, or longer, at the following rates: 1 H'jnare 3 months $ .5.00 I square 0 months 8.0t> 1 square 0 months lft.Oo 1 square. 12 months 12.00 2 squares .'I months 8.0n 2 squares t'? months 14.0(1 2 squares months 18.0m 2 squares 12 months Sn.'io 8 squares 'i months ...:. 10.no 3 squares (? months : 10.00 :{ squares !> months : 21.Oo 3 squares 12 months 25.no 4 squares 3 months 12.0u 4 squares (i mouths ;.... 2ii.no 4 squares months 2'i.0o j 4 squares 12 months 30.00 fi squares !! months 15.00 5 squares fi months 25.00 5 squares ii mouths J51.00 e squares 12 months 3.1.00 f> squares 3 mouths 20.0o ? squares li months 30.no (? squares '.I months StS.no IV squares 12 mouths 40.00 7 squares 8 months ; 25.00 7 squares t? months o5.n0 7 squares " months 41.00 7 squares 12 mouths..; 45.00 8 squares i? months SO.00 8 squares fi mouths 40.00 8 squares *.? months 4(5.00 8 squares 12 mouths :.... 50.00 Fractions of Squares will be chr.rgctl in proportion to the above ralcf. ?3T*]{usiiies3 Cards for the term of one year, will bo chained in propoitiou to the space they occupy, Jit Our Dollttr pet* line space. ?2?" For all advertisements set in thmhlr col umii, Fifty per Cent, extra will be added to the above rate.-5. DAVIS <t CREWS, /'or Hmnifr; LEE A H I I.SOX, For Pyrss. NATIONAL POLICE GAZETTE. Great Journal of Crime and Criminals B is in its Twelfth Year, and is widely circulated throughout the country. It contains al! tho Great Trials, Criminal Cases, and appropriate Ediorials on the same, together with information on Criminal Mutters, not .to be found in any other newspaper. U.T Subscriptions, $2 per Annum; ?1 for Six Months, to l?e remitted !>y Subscribers, (who should write their names ami the town, county mill State where they reside plainly,) To GEO. W. MATSELI, .fc CO., Editor raid 1'roprielor of tho National Police Gazette; N.fcw York City. April 3(t. 18f>7 1 if S. McGOWAN^ Attorney nt Law. ? ? 7 Office in Law Range, (Next Door to Thomson <0 Fair,) ABBEVILLE C. H Jan. 8. lSf>7. 87 PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY!! HAVING KOUUIIT the night, for this# District of II. II. Mouucc, for putting up* Otis' Patent Lightning Conductor, I woifld respectfully inform the citizens of Abbeville District, tlmt I nin now the Hole proprietor of this indispensable protection of life and properly, and nin prepared to execute, at short notice, nil onlerH for the snmc. Those wishing Work in my line will plcaeo ad dress inc at Ninety-Six. J. W. CALHOUN', Jr., Ninety-Six. August 13, 1857. If. tf Land for Sale. rpiIE Subscriber is the authorized Agent, of the J. parties interested, to sell the real estate of JOSKl'II AIKKN, deceased. The tract of Land is valuable, adjoins lands of Dr. W(irdIfiw, Dr. Livingston, and others, on Calhoun's Creek, nnd contains ahout iron A - ?i&w auich. Properly?negroes?as well as cash will be taken in payment. Applications for purchase can be made to the Agent, who lives at Coltosbury. JOHN W. SUBER. June 2 1857 0 tf Mackey Council, R.*. & S.\ M.*. ^PIIE Regular meeting of this Council will bo _L held the Third Wednesday Night of each Month. Extra meetings will be called at any time to suit tha convenience of Companions from the country. J. G. BASK IN, Recorder. Oct 20, 1857 27 tf Factory Yarn. RECEIVED, ALL NyMBERS, AT GRAY & ROBERTSON'S. March 4, 58 45 tf W. C. DarlSi Attorney at Uttw and Solictor in Equity Abbeville, S. o, Will promptly attend to all business entrusted tq his care. He oan Be found at the office of the AbbeviHeBanner"if '' Jnly 28 16 ' b&rbct^nT'hair^dresser. ? ,^ Abb?vUl? O. Hi, ' *7J7"<wLb respectfully state that lip is still WiV 'it hi* old stand, TyheVe he -will lake pleasuii Id wailing upon gentlwnen desiring his errKes. * .. April Hi 1858 51 6m >S. D. & H. W. SMITH, Manufacturers of Molodeons, Organ Molodeons, AND Pedal Sub-Bass II-A- IX 3VX OWIU nx ^, 511 Washington street, BOSTON. rI^IIE attention of Clergymen, Committoes JL Schools, Lodges, ?fcc., is invited to the new Fedal Sub-Bass Harmoniums, Made and Sold by the Manufacturer*. It ib arranged with two manuuls or banks of " Keys, the lowest set running an octave liigher than the other, and may be used separately, and thus get in one enso two distinct instrument* ; or, by the use of the coupler, the two banks of keys may be played at the same time by use of tin* front not. finiv 'Pi.So 1 ' ?" _ J. .?n ..UIIIICUICU Willi me Sub-Bass, will produce the efFect of a large organ, and ih suflicieutly heavy to fill a house thiil seats from lootl to 1500 persons. THE ORGAN MELODEON is designed for parlor anil private use. The construction is similar to the Church Instrument, heing arranged with two hunks of Keys, and when used together, by means of the coupler, is capable of ob great volume of power as the Church instrument, when used without the Pedals. Also, every variety of 11 F.LODEONS for Parlor use. Purchasers may rely upon instruments from our Manufactory, heing made in in the most complete and thorough manner. Having removed to the spacious Buildings, SI 1 "Washington Street, we have every facility for mnnufacl luring purposes, and employ none but the most I experienced and skillful workmen In short, wo will promise our customers an Instrument ecpial if not .superior to any Manufacturer, and guarantee entire and per/eel satisfaction. Music Teachers, Leaders of Choirs, and others interested in musical matters, arc respectfully invued to visit our Kooms at any time, and examine or test the instruments on exhibition for sala at their pleasure. As a still further cuarantee to the public as to the excellence of the jlIrlodcottH and JJarino7,iaWM from "VI - * , ..uiniiiiiuuiry, we oeg Icnve to refer, by permission, lo the following Piano Forto Manufacturers of Boston, who have examined our Imtrument-*, ami will give their opinion when called upon : Chicke? ing it Sons; Win. I'. Emerson; Geo. IIimvs; Hailed iV ('ninslon ; Itrown it Allen; Woodward it Urown ; '1'. < ilbcrt & Co.; A. W. I .add it Co.: Ncwhall it Co. Melodcons and Harmoniums Rented. Persons who wish to hire Melodeons and llariiioniiiius with a view of purchasing at the end of the year, can have tho rent credited as part payment of the purchase money. This matter is worthy of special note, as it enables those who desire a fair ti-st of the instruments before pur- . chasm", to obtain it at the expense of tho manufacturers, to the extent at least of a year's rent-. Orders from any part of the country or world, sent direct to tho manufactory in Boston, with cash or satisfactory reference, will he promptly attended to, and as faithfully executed as if the parties were present, or employed an agent to select, and on as resonahlc terms. Pi'ico List. Scroll leg, <1J octave ? 60 Scroll leg. ft octave 75 I Piano style, 5 octave, 100 . I'iano style, extra finish, f> octave, 115 ( I'iano style, carved leg 126 ( l'iauo style, ~ sets of l eeds, 150 I Piano style, G octave, 1H5 ' J Organ Melcleon, 20f> Organ Melodcon, extra liuisli,: 250 Pedal Suh liass Harmonium 275 Letters, Cert ill cries ami notices from the press, from all pails of the world, may he seen at our I salesroom. Descriptive circulars sent free to I any address. | " S. 1>. ?t II. W. SMITH, 511 Washington fit., (aenr Boylstbn) Boston. July 0, 18.77 11 ly GREENWOODCLOTHING HOUSE. Everybody Run Here! Now is Your Time?Pilch In!! Dont Tr>o Scarod ! ! S A CHANCE FOR INVESMENT!!!! A.SIM.KN1M) opportunity is now offered my friends and customers to invest their money, if not to make a fortune, at le^st to make themselves comfortable, l?y buying some of the neatest, handsomest atui iiuesf Winter Clothing ever ofii.TC?l in this latitude. If you wish to ' shine onlt" pain respect or make an impression 'ipon the .sweeter sex, just nail in at my establishment, and 1 will rig you oir s<> neatly that you wont know yourself. 1 have a ijood Tailor in conucction with my House, and jjoods can he made up to order. T. C. CREWS ii CO. Greenwood, S. C., Oct. 1-1, 1857 25?ly ~~ BYTHEWOOD & COWAN, GENERAL COMMISSION Mox'cliaiits, Wo QOd T> ? " " "* ?HVi| ^uwvu<ui5b nuw, v/uiuinuia, O. l(,| I*OR (lie sale of Estate ami Negroes.? Also, Cotton, Wheat, Bacon, Lurd, Whiskey, Sugar, CoITm, Molasses* Flour, Butter, Corn, Hay, uml produce generally. 4flP* Strict personal attention paid to "the sale of any of t1u< above. Liberal advances made, and prompt returns. Mattiikw W. Bytiieood, James M. Cow ax. August IT, 1857 18 ly ABBEVILLE MARBLE YARD. r|"MI E undersigned liaving dissolved his copartJL neraliip with J. It. LEAVELL, takes pleasure in announcing to the public generally and to the citizens of Abbeville District in particular, that ho tins a large stock of VERMONT & ITALIAN MARBLE on hands, and from which ho proposes to manufacture, to order, Every Variety of MONUMENTS AND TOMB-STONES. lie would respectfully SNy to the public that ho has secured the services of the Most Eminent Marble Artists, and hopes, by close attention to business, to merit a reasonable share of public patronage. J. D. CHALMERS. Abbeville C. H., Aug. 20, *57 ly 1Independent l'ress copy 8m. 'ihe State of South Carolina, Abbeville District.?In the Common Pleas. Ilonry C. Farnell, ") Attachment. vs. > Wm. B. Lloyd, j McGowan, Pl'ft. Att'y. WHEREAS the Plaintiff did, on the sixth day of April, eighteen hundred and fifty, eight, file his declaration against the Defen* dant, who, (it is said,) is absent from and without the limits of this State, nud has neither wife nor attorney known within tli? nan?- -* . ??vi >i|>uu wnuia ft copy of the said declaration might be served: It is therefore ordered, that the said Defendant do nppenr and plead to the said declaration, on or before the seventh day of April, eighteen hundred and fifty-nine, otherwise final and absolute judgment will then be giVen axd awarded against him. . ' <' 6 MATTHEW McprOWALD, c. o. p. Clerk's OfBf.e, April 8,*^808.>80 ly The State of South Carolina, + Abbeville Ditlrict?In (fo Common Pleat. F.W. Davis, 1 \ ~ vs. > Attachment * Henry Jones. j t, WHEREAS/ the Plaintiff did, on the tftfm ty-firqt 4ay of October* J?8''' fil# ^ia Declaration against the defendant;'who (as it is aid) i? absent from and wi thoutUw limils of this Stale, aud has neither wife njttwtonMy knoWn within the same, upon whom * oqpy of th? atid declaration might bo served* It u therefore or* derod, that the said Doforidsnt jis kfpMf and plead to the ?aid declaration, on or Won? the first day of JWtwnber, whlch win be hS^the year of our lord Q#p Thousand jW-Htoar*alg?d Fifty-Eight, othorwise fianl and, ?baotv|?-> Jwf mout will then- be given and awarded against ^*5rr* " MATfHEW MoBoMfoVaar, Cork's OffjcCNov. 27,1837. ^8^^ ^