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p^t*0m\- , '^fT^f&SVnNkj'wKi *3^.' ,s-?a?(f umc! *ui ui, I Vw M tjf1 **Kpt ^lutptnt wuufnt, ,l ^ HkFLKX OF VOrULAR- EVENTS. "WiiaAin u>. ipas?a%*s* I .! ttfffOR ANO FSOFRIETOB. ?60, parable la idruM ; ft if detarod. UBS of FIVE and upwards $1, the moooy U svsnr iastaneo to uoonpsay ths order. ADVERTISEMENTS insortod conspicuously at ili( tatesof 75 cents per squirt of I# 11 tots, sad ? seats for soeh subsequent insertion. Con(MM for ytsriy sdrertising mads reasonable. A0KMT8. '1 * I, WiXA^fl, If. W. ?or. of Walnut sad Thlrd-st. fluladrlpkia, ia onr authorized Agent. W* W. WALKER, JR., Columbia, fi. C. PETER BTRAOIEY, ESQ., Flat Rock, N. C. A. M. PEOEN, Fairvitw P. O., Greenville Wat WM. C. BAILEY, Pleasant <3 rova, GreenvilleCAPT. R. Q. ANDERSON, Oder Fall.. Green v. 11# t-AJux#aeaBWMaMeaB?MeBi at i_il. __ >T OilARL.KS WILTON. Lei JoUnlt grieve for childhood's days, Amu only those look back Whose wasted wealth or shatter?*l health Betrays a shameless track. . I cannot join in mourning time Forever passed away; For, while I look on Nature's book, I'm thankful for to-day. The trees are still as fresh an?l orraeit As ever brunches were; And. still in prima! rigor seen, ' They ware tbeir arms in air. The rivers sing the self same song That they hare sung fur aye; 'Whose burden, as they glide along, K *God it here to day.*' * Tlisro's not a bird upon the bough, Or leaf upon the tree, But ia the summer twilight now As sweetly sing* to me. The bleakest wind that winter blows Can chase disease away, And shower blessings in the snows That bide the earth to-day. And every where a thousand gifts Invite us to rejoice? To grieve no more the days of yore, 1 < But raise a thankful voice; That tell us, though the world were fair 2 la years removed for aye, The earth and sky and sea and air ? As lovely are to day. * Theo tell me not that childhood's days Aleoe are fraught with joy; Thai manhood** fancy cannot raise Tim structures ef the hoy. b i The childish mind Is lost la dreams Of pictures Cm away ; But man beholds majestic themes, \ ?fc&wooder of fo'day, . O ye whose eyes npbreiding rise, Pronouncing fate unjust? 2 Wlmrnalk the earth with cherished hopes felling i? the dust! 4 f Discard u false, unmanly v *" one so weak a sway ; 1 > Bat hops in IJim who gave you all, #. j*. And thank Him for to-day. itliairiiuutuua KUnkhtg. toMt-til# o^JtitSbiRgioR. h it two masrxaa. PciWIAit Mr Mr. Jsrraasov.. I thtwk I know Gm. Washington inti mainly aud thoroughly; aad were I called ea to Mkwto^Ws eharaatar, it ahould be in "Ilk niod was. great aad powerful, without being of tba vary first order ; hU pane, tratlon strong, thongb not so acute m that of ? Newton, Bacon, or Looka; and so far a* hdHktw. ao judgment was ever sounder. It ' was sMr la operation, being little aided by iareggtioo or Imagination. Hence the com* men remark of his officers, of the advantage otbedariasd from oonneils of war, where, hear fogoll g^gtfe^^aalyed wbatevor wai 10 atatior i * % op > ? | [ # ^ WWWWH^BBHWWHWWff^BffW ! n?> ?rf? tW?w i wtiivV^ f i# .-nam k . wWyWeeWPSW'-UMW U J 8'T GREKNVILL) ?* * <-*? *'-?1 * ?> vvwiBOTrCttk E? >3CT7. rl I iin " in .? ? ; v j-vl.'.i ' ,l~T~rr * - r stance, every consideration was maturely Weighed?refraining when bo saw a doubt, but when once decided, going through with his purpose whatever obstacles opposed.? liis integrity wan most pure; his justice the most iuflexible I hare ever known?no motives of interest or consanguinity, of friendship or hatred, being able to bias his decision. lie was indeed, in every sense of the word, a wise, a good and a great man. His temper was naturally irritable and high-toned ^ but refaction ahd resolution had obtained n firm and habitual ascendency over it. If ever, however, it broke its bounds, he was tremendous in his wialh. In his expenses he wax honorable but exact; liberal in contributions to wbatevor promised utility, but frowning ami unyielding on all visionary projects and all unworthy call, on his charity. His heart was not warm in its affections; but bo exactly cultivated every man's value, and gave him a solid esteem proportional to it. Ilia person was fine, bis stature was exactly what one would wish, bis de|K>rtment creel and noble?the best horseman of his age, and the most graceful figure ! that could be seen on horseback. Although | in the circle of bis friends, where he could oo unreserved with safety, he took n free share in conversation, his colloquial talents were not above medocrity, possessing neither copiousness of ideas nor fluency of WOTfl*. In public, when called upon for n sudden opinion, he was unready, short, and embarrassed. Yet he wrote readily, rather than difficultly, in an easy and correct style.? This he had acquired by conversation with the world ; for his education was merely reading and writing, and common arithmetic. to which ho added surveying at a later day. His timo was employed in action chiefly?reading little, and that only in Agriculture and English history. His correspondence neoessarily became extensive, and with journalizing his agricultural proceedings occupied moat of his leisure hours within doors^ On the wbolo bis character was | in its mass, perfect?in nothing bad, in a few points indifferent; and it may truly be | . ?? hh? u?i?i uiu umur? nnu loriunc coin-' bine more perfectly to make n man great, J and to place him in the snine constellation with whatever worthies have merited from' man an cret tasting remembrancer' For hU was the singular destiny and merit of lead ing the armies of his country successfully through an arduous war for the eslablidtinetH of it* independence ; of conducting the conncils through the birth of a government, new in it* forms and principles, until it had settled down into a quiet and orderly train ; and of scrupulously obeying the law* thro* the whole of hi* career, civil and military, of which the history of the world furnishes no other example/' i?ortrait nr loud nnotrcnAM. ' With none of that hriiliant genius which dazzles ordinary minds; with not even any remarkable quickness of apprehension ; with knowledge lees than almost all persons in the middle ranks and many well educated of the humbler classes possess, this eminent person is presented to our observation cloth -1 ed in attribute* as modest, as unpretending, as little calculated to strike or astonish, as ir be had passed unknown through some secluded region of private life. But he had a judgement sure and found ; a steadiness of raiud which never suffered nny passion, or even any emotion to ruffle its calm ; a strength of understanding which worked rather than forced it* way through all obstacle*, removing and avoiding rather than overleaping them. If profound sagacity, unshaken steadfastness of purpoee. and entire fnbjngntion of all the passions which carry liayoc through ordinary mind* and at time* lay waste the fairest prospects of greatness? nay, the discipline of those feelings which are wont to lull or seduce genius, and to mar and to cloud over the aspect of virtue heraelf, joined with, or rather leading to, the most absolute self denial, the most hnbitual aod^exclusire devotion to principle?if these things can constitute a great character, without even quickness of apprehension, or resources of information, or inventive powers, or^any brilliant quality, that might danle the vulgar, then surely Washington was the greatest man that ever lived in this world, uninspired by divine wisdom, and unsuataiumI hv ilinMMliirsI virfiiA oaiiIJ ft.* human fancy create tho combination of n'itioi, even to the vary want* and doof tho subject, mora perfectly fitted for tho scene* In which it waa hi* lot to bear the ohief part; whether wo regard (lie war which he conducted, tho political oon*titu-l (ion over w hich lie afterward* presided, or ' the tempestuous time* through which ho ! hod finally to gnide the bark himself had launched. * "His courage, whether in battle or in , council, was aa perfect a* might be expected , from hi* pore and steady temper of soul.? , A perfectly just man, with a thoroughly f firtn resolution never to bo misled by othera . any mora than to la by other* overawed : , never to bo seduced or betrayed, or hurried i away by hi* own weakness or self-delusions k arty wore than by other men's ar'a never U . bo duboaiunbd by tho most complicated dlffi . cnities, any more than to be spoilt on th< > gWdy heights of fcrtuno. Mi waa thii , great teaa groat, preeminently great . whether wo regard him sustaining.alone tlx *T*VO iMwdb * d-+*4y u\ giflN hy&ij K Id Pfc Ej-S. C.: THURSDAY -. nn I I JIIJ jj? 1?LJ L' whole weight of tho campaign* all but desperate, or gloriously terminating a just warfare by hi* resource* and just courage? presiding over the jarring element* of hi* political cottncH, alike deaf to the storm* of extreme*?or directing the formation of a new government for a great people, the first time so vRHt an experiment had been tried by man, or finally retiring from the supreme power to which his virtue had raised him, over the nation he had erected, and whoae destine* he htul guided?retiring with the ! veneration of all purlieu, of all nation*, of | all mankind, in order that the right* of man might be conserved, and thai bit example ! might never be applied to by vulgar tyj ran ia. J This is the consnmate glory of Washington : a trilltnnhiinr ivairim- ?! ?? 1- -? r ?- ..?.wwviw iiiv nivffii sanguine ltiul a right to dcap?iir; a successful ruler in the difficulties of a course wholly untried ; but a warrior where- the sword only h-ft its sheath, where the first law of nature commanded it to be drawn ; and a ruler, who having tasted of supreme power, gently and unostentatiously desired that the cup might pass from liira, nor would be suf fer more to wet his lips than the most solemn and sacred duty to his country and his God required. To his latest breath did this great patriot maintain the noble character -of- n ui[imlu, ilia pemii uf statesman; the friend of justice. Dying, lie bequeathed to his heirs the-sword which he had worn in the war of liberty, and charged them 'never to take it from the senbbard but in self-defence, or in defence of their country and her freedomand commanding that | when it should be thus drawn, they should fnever shealho it, 'nor ever give it up, but prefer falling with it in their hand*, to the relinquishment tbrcof?words, tho majesty [and simple eloquence of which are net aur| passed iu the oratory of Athens and Rome. | it will be the duty of the historian and the sage, in all ages, to let no occasion pass of commemorating this illustrious tnsn ; and, until time shall be no more, will a test of the progress which our race has made in I wisdom and in viitne, be derived from the 1 veneration paid to the inunoi-tal name of Washington.'' I he fiuqirOiiin Dogii. A litiic ragged news-boy vhi( singing his papers along the streets of Hcslou. Ilis hands were red and the water leaked into hi* shoes. Sometimes the crowd ceases iu it* pul| sation for a monent, and eager visaged men caught at tho Traveller or the Times, and I went thoughtlessly onward. Then the newsboy w ould hitch up hie ragged irowser*, pull on more firmly the queer old "cap that hugI ged his crown, and start off w ith the dismal j nag-song peculiar to his vocation. His bundle had lessoned to a duplicate j I edition when his attention was attracted by u loud voice. Turning tho corner a motley group met his sight. Perched upon a temporary stand, stood a tall energetic man, lecturing the throng that seemed listening in spell-bound silence. One sentence shrill and sorrowful, struck the ear of the news-boy, stopped hi* dismal song and his step togetf) I or, so that lie was magnetized with the rest. It whs this:?"his father ia a drunkard ! puir, puir child," continued the lecturer, his slight Scottish accent .ending beauty to hit eloquence : "there's nuething at home for hi in?not even a crust in the auld cloaet. lie must work the day long, tramping through summer's beat and winter's storm ; he must hear the cursea of his father, and witness the tears of his mother, lie ha* warm clothes, and his little heart swells anigb to bursting when he passes the welldressed children of sober parents. And who pities him !" he asked, raining his hands and eyea to heaven. "Does the rumseiter! Na ?he laughs his teats to scorn. Does the rich msu I Na?too often he kicks him from his dooistep, and away from the sweet of smell of the kitchen, where the meat is roasting. Do tbo sng*-Is pity hiin I Yes, for trhai ahe but the w?ng* of (he angel* could, keep (he pair boy warm t Doesn't God pity hiin?O 1 dinna ask that question, for God is epteially the God of the drunkard's bairn." The nesrs-hov afoot! ititli l.U 1 ??- I v .?/ ? r'r** "B" ing from bis arm, unit tears running f?*t and unwiped from his eyes, his lips hanging and quivering, and now and then a sob swelling up from his throat. Dismal, dism?l thought 1 he too, eras a drunkard's child. Uh back had borne tbo blows of a dtealten hand, and felt the kick of a drunken foot? alas! Preseutly be wiped the tears away with his ragged sleeve, and with a choking voice. took up the burdeu of his song, hut there was no heart in it. "OI mi at her, mistber, say something for , me father The lecturer bent hie head. A little upi turned face, wet with tears, looked wistfully ; in hie own ;?ne little bony band lugged at | his coat, from the other depended several ActI taring newspapers. Ia that young fees there > was a strange mingling of antvoaty, joy, hope . and misery, thai went to (ho strong man's > heart. > "Say n something forma father** whispered , the small voice Main; *tkn bans tolling him ? of yre, and mabbjr you can teehe nfm not * """ " i far ,\4 ~ dm a ||f $0f&w ' R ' *" + ^ f iii mi' jj^yV | [%^W: . ' *-r * TJtfL.f."' ^Tr >2* M2?M1 MORNING, MARCH C im-ii LigqgBiWipiBgipBBapipB to be a drunkard?oh I ^father, say MM thin9 for rm hiker/* Looking in the direction be pointed, the lecturer saw * wen dot bed Mi rag*, shame i fared end half hiding behind a pillar. Witb the pitiful look of the drunkard'# child far a text, bo launched forth again. Little by little the cowering farm made itself visible 1 the hand* catuc together with a tremuloue t c 1 iiHj), the Mood-abut eye* grew human with feeling, the soul of the drunkard had becu rouaed into something like life?hi# feeling* were touched?and at last hie eye* fell upou the child be had given life but to enree in its dawning. O 1 the remorse that cuine at once ioto hie haggard face 1 It was ahnoat awful to behold, iluddiing hi* rage together lie hurried from the soot, and the little news-boy with tears unshed, and sobs un *pokeo, went on his way crying tremulously, ?"era's Traveller?only two cento.** "I want to spake to re sir?God bless you,** said a innu in low fervent tones?and then lie added again, drawing a hard breath, "God bless ye forever, sir !** The man was well dressed, and held by the hand a boy whose form was clothed in new garments from head to foot. "Ah this my little friend." said the lecturer, kindly, laying his hand on the slidulder "It's me guardian angel, he is, sir," repeated the father, with a look that cannot be put on paper?"iuy guardian angel that's saved in? out of a pit of black destruction ;"*. said j the man, breaking down fairly as bespoke, tears running down over his rough cheeks.; Och ! blessed be to God, sir, that he ever : jgnve me the ctmthur. It's the patient kind j hoy he's been to me, sir, iver since he was that high and shatne to me before my God that 1 dtd'nt trate him with contmou humanity?but oh, air, yedont know what au angel he's been and again bursting into leurs, he struggled with his feeling*, while the honest lecturer was too much affected to speak. "lie's took me home of night*, sir, when I was that bad I'd a* frozen stiff afore the morning come; he' brought me my food, t-ir, when 1 laid sweat in' at him on nte bed? anil be'* that iwlitul, sir?ihsl?pstieDl, I that, that if 1 kicked him from one etui of (lie room to the other, he'd nirer turn about and say the bad word. Oil! has'ut he been my guardian augei every tuiunil of tno wicked, drunken life j" The boy stood looking fixedly at the grouud, hie cheek* red, his baud* in his |*wkeu, while over the quivering ii|> stole the tears. "Well, ray blend," spoke the lecturer, "this u good news-?glorious news T "And will ye come an* see me 1" asked the man, almost wringing the hand of the other, "It's uot only the new clothe* that I've got. but a dacenl room for me w ife and child, and what's more, there's biead and meat in the closet, and Comforts about us. If ) e'U only say the word, it's the proud and happy woman Judy'd be, and meself iu the bargain ; yell come?say, and take lay with us. With a smile and a promise the good man went his way, and efcty ragged little newsboy he saw, he thought of the guardian angel.? Olive Branch. M. A. D. -JBfcssm*-? " JBHFe 1? #Mr ?? A rouxo nwn ?u arrainged the other day in the Circuit Court ot this city for stealing. When bin lawyer visited him in the jail where he was confined, ain<>ng other requests was that he would write to his mother, tell her ?f his condition, and ask for help. -Write to my mother F What words worn these from owe in that sit?lieu! What news this, to communicate to a moth- . er in tht interior of the 8t*tc of New York ! iter son, perhaps the idol of her heart, it may be an only *00, left her despite her entreaties. her prayers and tears, to wander off in the West, and almo?t the fin* news ?h? bear* of biu?, h ii is jtrill In jail for $ baling / / Stealing article h " ' not need?he did not want! Cod help that mother ! To hare beanl that bar too had died among strangers, and from strangers* band* rwsetred a decent burial, were joy compared with the news, A*Y in jail 1? Alas, alas! bow many thoughtless aud wicked children bring the grey hairs of their mothers with sorrow u> the gavel but there is anutbdr stow se-W?km Of this matter. Thai misguided youth knows, that though ho is among stranger*, in a strange place, though be is among criminals ooufined in jail?these is still one that feels for him. One heart that throbs with most intense snxiety for his welfare, Ms safety nod hnppi? lie known his moikir hen not forgotten him. His mother still loven and pities him. All els# may forsako, but *At will pity and love him still) "Writs to my mother* them b to other help far me oa earth; "Write to my mother,* though the n??? ?a*y brmk bmtt, Um wiU Mad fan fefntte* dUr a?l *WHtwlw ? / woihwf ibMbsvaMM?k ?B vhflB 1 4mw look, iiot>0 otb* trh?a I diir* uaei. A* will pky an? 4f? will 1Mb ? !- Akwl TWi . * v i*E#iSig555lSlM55555i^\. jESwmZzz^ m ZsK HJ-4i[/ Ztk i[..~ U-J-?-U^.,.,, LI?LL -;-- L'V** "j ""' ' , 1856. ^-" i * * - her name! Belter had she closed your lit ita eyee, and folded vour innocent band* in death, than to have tiad yoa thus, reproached and disgraced ! Dnt so it t?. She is henceforth to Iks miserable, and ffml rest only in the quiet of the grave, and you nre to ' go forth with a foul reproach upon you, per- 1 baps to be au outcast ami vagabond on the ' earth! Who lfnows to what Uieir children mny come ! Who know* what eorrow. what an- { guisli, what indescrediblo wi etched new they ( raav bring upon their fathers and mothers ! flow important wo all train up our chil- j dren in the nurture and admonition of the . Lord ! That we give tlieiu good precepts, J Kxi examples, keep them from temptation, | in bad compnny, and as far as possible, , from all bad influences. It is tad to think | of what mar be the result of the numerous , deleterious influences, "the wickedness of the | wicked" thiow around our children 1 The drinking house, the gambling house, the fashionable theatre*, the fashionable jimunemeul* of the age. a licentious press, to shy nothing of the overt acts of crime which ( meet them at eTery corner, ail like so many deadly serpent* eeek to crush in' their horrid coil!?St. Lauit Christian Advocate. EiiMqiion^of Tjjq I* t it d W o-, Tins recent occurrence* in Boston form the text for a sensible sermon by the Ilarifoul Courant. Tho tn>proj>er "flotations* fit the two married women with yotthj^ rHb'rl has blasted their character* forever, ckumh! the death of an aruiahle but weak young mail, nnd imprisoned the husbands on n charge of murder. Says ibe Courant: 4,'l he 'innocent flirtation' of married wo tnen is one of the abomination^ of tribdeMi' society. Even a desire for promiscuous ad ! miration is wrong in the wife. The love of j one, and his approval, should be all that she i should desire. Let her be ever so beautiful,! it is a disgusting, an appalling sight, to ?ee her decorating that beauty for the public gnxe?to see her seeking the attention of all the senseless fops around her, and rejoiceing in the admiration of other eyes llisu those . of licr husband. Her beatiiv should be for , liira alone, not for the gaze of* tlife fools that' flutter arouud lier. There is nlwayVahihngthe sedate and the wise a sensation of disgust wliefi a married lady attempts to ensnare and entrap young inen by a profuse display of her cliarme or an unlicensed outlav of her entiles. Such charms and such entiles are loathsome to the indifferent beholder?'the trail of the serpent is over them all.' Such wirM dinnlil lrncur if iW <lr? mm ! know it already, tluit their influence over j the virtue ami the prudence of yotihg then j is us deleterious n* if lliev were the nu?t abandoned of wotm-n. They lead tliein to believe there i? no purity in the sex?that married virtue i* but au outside show?and delicacy and propriety are but mu>k?f<?r outside d reuses. The effect of1 their character is' (bat it silent corruption. snap(?ing the fouti- j dation of honor, and probity and truth. Let' tliein reverse their charms and the fascine ti?>n of their flattering Httciili<"> fc?r the hus- j band to whom tftW belong, and if they must j ue admired, let it be na faithful wives as j self-deuying mothers, ah the educators of a f trtnbli of young immortal*." ? , i V>. - mi f . . , ? xpe t imenl. A fr*t itnd easy looking customer applied 10 the storekeeper for a pint of rum "for tne chanical purposes." It was furnished him. Mtd be dt-uppenm], bat not long afterwards ffflifl nvMMtfml littTitu?If ?il tli* ri.nritnr Lti another pint. "What are you going to do with (hit p naked the bar tender. "0 " Mad the customer. "we nre using it J for mechanical purposes just up here in the 1 next at re?M." The liquor wan measured out, paid for, and disappeared. In the course of an h< u the same customer once more appeared for a third pint. Thia the agent thought h<*>| to rtfnae liitn until be was better satisfied of the uae to which it *?? to l?e appropriated. "What are yon doing with no much rum P "O, its all right; ? party of us are try iug an experiment, ami are obliged to u?e thi> In carrying it ont successfully." The agent handed ont the lienor, and asked, aa his customer received it, "What is your experiment f "Why, the fact is." said Mr. Coon, jam roing the bottlo safely into iim pocket, "a ooupe of us are trying to see whether wc run get drunkon your rum. We have punished a quart of it so iar without much success, aad either m or the rum will have to give it up ob this bottle.*1 ii m? Jut cost of the smallest locomotive in use ie mi tt? eight thousand dollars. TH? Imgwt, ukieh can draw a train of sixterr 4?r*? holding eleven hundred person*, i Ufa)** thousand dollars. A first elsre pamaaar oar corte three thousand dol eighteen hundred ; freight car, W>htn**hwd - ^+*-4 ' . '**? V" * : V * a.** * V' f J& * fit MvX '< V-X -*\tT** NO. 43 " ?nvinriiiffrr' , 1 ?'y.''''y ** Tj. . . * i f ."r*1"' **V'^Tr Sibiqg qqd fieeeioiirg Jirc.jseqf 3. A jvdiciocs correspondent (a Ifcd'y. ?vileii'ly,) of the New York Hovtit Journal, wv* that this matter of Indies giving and reviving presents, is a subject upon which many of the sex have never bestowed a .bought, upon which many more are in er? ror, and which few, perhaps, view in juet ihe right light; and the writer proceeds W ?ay what follows: I think it is ? safe rule of every yonng lady to adopt?never to lay hen-elf uudcr pecuniary obligations to unmarried men. not sotinected with her by ties of blood, or family. for any gift whatever, except tbe very titling. appropriate and . emblematic one of a boquet of flower*. \\ hat'ever may be the relations of the parties to each other at the lime of giviug and receiving the present, circumstances may subsequently occur which will make it extremely awkiml ami unpleasant to tlie liulr tb remain under obligation^, and equally impotable f??? her to ounce! the obligation in any whjt. Indeed, 1 think-a lady of native refinement, delicacy and proper celf-respect, will always \<e unwilling to iiicur jwculiiary indebtedne s under any circumstances, and the conseiotisucfts of being deeply indebted to any other than * dear f.icud, for any gift or favor, is never ?gie< able. Ladies?and,very young-ladie% especially ?ofteti occur iinpio|>er obligations, by allowing gentlemen to jmv tbeir travelling or other expense*, wh n they are accidentally thrown upon tile protection of gentleman.-? lb siiclt n'case, no tnan of'the woil I, acquainted with the u-ages ofgood society, will o lige a lady to remain in his debt by iefus ing to accept payment from her. It often happens, however, that men of generous impulses, and even well-bred men. will dyvline being remunerated. Under such ctieumslatices, from a mistaken idea of the ? qni;emeuts of ilollteness, a lady should iiiw.i'ijibly, iusist iijhui his receiving the price of lutf ticket, even at the link of offending tlie gentleman. I hare known inuances in which ladies have been obliged to incur obligations of thin kind to the very person*, of all others, to whom they would least wi-h to be indebted; and, on the oilier hand, in which gentlemen have been dinw n into an expense for those. of all'oihvin, for whom lliev would l>6 lbHfct' willing lo tuako any |*cumaiy aacriliee. True Heroum. Tue followiii<r interesting anecdote we clip from an exchange paper. T ile *ul j^ct would make a capital panning. Tile riiote tliait Hoinan tunnies* of the bov, wild, tent* ill hi* eye*, refNtgd lii* ( inngn! father the riieati* ot hi* degt auction. lie had te* ceiyed Ilia order*, had pioihised to oliey, and although iii immeueni peril of his life, he would not yield, and by his decision and ti. in iie?s raved hi* father. .What noble daring, and In w itehly wa? the youth retr'aidfd! "A wealthy, intelligent man, who did not drink in irnnety, nor habitually at honte^liad'tv room in lo* mansion in which, as of* ted its titled or flair time* a rear, lie would goige himself wtili liquor. When he found In* ciavitig for rum wining on, lib would lock himself up in that room uuiil "the scale" was finished. The appearance of tltin inorvt Ht the close of oile ul tlie*e snreea wan di* guslihgly tilth v. A friend who knew hi" habits remonstrated with him, bul wap told that reform was imputed Me, to ii resistible w?s his craving for iuiii at certain times. Hi* friend begged him to try. Hi* two sons, fifteen and seventeen years of age, earnestly pressed the appeal. At last the man con* tented to try, and drawing from lys pocket a key, baul to his older ron : ''Here is the key to the closet; you will take it and prou.tso me on no condition, and for no violence which i may threaten you, to give it up wiiiirl demand ill** The boy, knowing how Union* liis father was oil the*e occasions, declined tile trust. The father then asked the younger son, n boy of uncommon nerve, the aaulfc question, and lie promptly replied "1 will." For n few weeks things went oil snicothly, but ctso day the father came home at mii unusual lloiir. Ills manner betokened tllnl his appetite was gnawing and craving. He called his younger soli and deinauued the key to the liquor-closet, but was retu?ed thinly. The retinal mnddencd hiin, and seizing-sortie weapon sprang at liio rani. For n iliotuent he stood over iiiin with glaring" eyes, aifd interne with rage, out thd young hero never quailed. Fixing In- tii ill Out tearful eve* tipon his father, he ?.ad ; Kattftr, Ipiomnad you that I would not give you the key no matter what violence you might threaten, ami now you may kill me, but I never will give you that kev P Instantly lite weapon t!r>pj?ed front the man's hand, and a* lie hiitiseif expressed jt, \be appetite tot l.quor" aeeliied to almudon tne Utoie the noble timi'tiess of my aon."*? lie wn? reclaimed add never fell. Llia one aim radical and thorough. Aud tlieie m many a man with'a* strong- an appetite ttr uiii as this lUgii, but wl.d i* not so (brtblimq as to have the Witine law so summaiely at, 1 ,iiinly admrnistered at the tight time.-Cotfiil Ilia outside help only have lartr iiaiul, many thousand* of drunkard*, On i app:u ently refoi rued, would not betilling^.ihonorer! grr.-et. . * . OH 1