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- ? ?: ~X*^fT^ttr .. ,? .-., ; r .; , ,,., *"""' * ? - JVllT '. ^ 11 |'M" Ml'J';11 ,ld".1 ^ '' "T ""' ~" " --- -- < ? - fffffflCW VOL. 3. GREENVILLE, S. C.: THURSDAY MORNING, JULY 10, 1856. ] .i; : ' ..'..JULU Lj. ! UL.-Lti^.?J-'-lilllk J.Yi4-il4J~~l?J-iLLi?LLi-l.J.?'_.?J. -J i ll'H I ''lilt' il " 11 i' 11 i III fe'llii'li' ' ' - >- 'l -' " $t ^outjrtra Cntorprfet, A.,KEFLEX OF, POPULAR EVENTS WU3?)Ud<AM IP. EDITOR AN0 PROPRIETOR. "YTo-i*?? ry ata mrhi ?* . |l SO, parable la advance ; #2 if delayed. CLUBS of FIV? end upward* $l, the luoney In over/ iaatanee to aeoorapany the order. AUVSRTHK^IBNTS inserted eooepieuourty at the rote*of It aeata par equara of U linea, oud 15 eenta for each anbaequaat inaertion. Cqatreeto for yearly advertising made reaaouablo. aa?KT?. H V. Cam, X. \V. cor. of Walnut and Third-at, Philadelphia, ia our authorized Agent. W. W. Walk**, Jr., Columbia, a C. I'*T*a SraADL^r, K?q, Flat Rock, N. C. A. M. FapKK, Fairviaw 1*. (X, Greenville Diet. Witt >? r II ... 1>I.. n?n??in. -- ivncuui VirviU, um'llTIUO Cift II Q Andkuox, Cedar Fall*. Greenville. $rltrMi ^ortrij. 5oug.~B JLe??or} if) 1 8 ti bii to t. hV MRS. SARAH T. BOLTON. A LKsSos m Itself suWiine, *f A lemon worth enshrining, Is this: "I take no uote of tirad Save when the sun h shining." These root to-words the dinl bore, And wisdom never preaches To human heart a better lore Than lids sjiort sentence teaches: As life is sometimes bright and fair, . - And sometimes daik and loucly, Let u? forget its pain tui.loaro, And note its bright hours only. There is no grove on Earth's broad chart ltut has some bird to eheer it; So hope sings on every heart, Although we tuay notAear it; And if to-day the heavy wing Of Sorrow is oppt easing, Perchance to morrow's sun will biiug The weary heart a blessing ; For life is souieliinos bright and fair, And sometimes dark and lonely, And lot's forget its toil and care, And- note its bright hours only. We bid the joyous moments haste, And then forgot their glitter ; We take the cap of life hiuI taste No portiou but the bitter ; Hut we should teach our hearts to dream Its sweetest drops; the strongest, And pleasant hours should ever seem To linger around us longest: At life is sometimes bright and fair, And sometimes dark and lonely. Let us forget its toll and care, And note its bright hours only. 1 - : I Tlio darkest shadows of the night Are just before tho morning. Then let u? wait the coming light, All tiding phantoms scorning .* And while we're p issiug on the tide Of Hums fust vhlfcng river,, . * Let*i pluck the blossoms by iu side And bless the Gracious Givkk: Aa life is sometime* bright and fair, And sometime* dark and lonely. We 11*01)Id f >rg?-t its |min and onr?*, ' Ana ?olC 4?? !:tur? onlj. 51 /rontirr Ikrtrli. ? - The Indian Hater# In the enroftwir of 1887, white on H visit to Teaaa, I ?u induced, by the favorable account* ( had received from the Went,' to reconnoitre that portion of lite 'Young Republic.' Travelling alone and unarmed, nt that time wm not ootte an enfo as an eveuing"* promenade down Broadway ; and accordingly, I was aJ vised to purchase u gun, the adviser baring one which he said would euit me exaetiy ; all that 1 had to do wm to pull the trigger, nod 'she wae thnr,' which, an I found afterward#, waa true enough, for 'nhe Wae thar,' but unfortunately, never trtom %be waa aimed. Having cnt a hole iu the middle of my blankvt, through which ,1 thrust my head, tied a 'lariar* round 'my fnustaftg'a made, and a couple of diminutive ox bow*, ta Ore shape of stirrups to my sad ilK 1 mounted and set off and iu the course of a few hours was fbrtoaate enough to overtake a oomnauy of some aeven or sight oih crs, who like myself, intended inokiug 'a loyr of observation' through the 'Went/ for sorersl days we j??gg?d along, oacouo fefiaf.ipMug in the way of adventure more the death of n deer, or an ooI 0 wian??l scamper after a drovo of wild hor-1 Ma. The country, however, over which we journeyed. ftdly compensated for thin dearth of 'incident by flood and field;' and we Camo unanimously to the conclusion that it fully merited the glowing colors in which it had been described to ma. Never before hud I seen such richness of verdure; such a happy blending of green undulating prairie, and park like woods. 1 doubt if I should have been nt all surprised had I come suddenly upon some lurretled castle, with nil its moats, draw-bridges and frowning walls ; so nnu-h did these natural lawns and parks remind me of the description I had read of 'lordly domains' and 'regal estate*.' Hut as yet, saving tho> log houses of the backwoodsmen, (which heaven knows were few and far between.) nothing like civilisation was to ho seen. As we Tiad taken the precaution, however, nt Brazoria, to supplv ourselves with provisions and camp-cquipnge, \vc suffered no inconvenience on this account; but whenever inclination prompted, we pitched our tent, most generally upon the battle* of wane one of the numerous and beautiful little streams that intersected the country. Then, after staking our horses tttnong the luxuriant herbage, (au ear of onm u-rttiLl I.?i.a.. ? i_Jt -1 ? ? ?vi.. "w..m iimv riiiiii|ieue(i me wnole 11 rove.) and placing a guaid over them, we would build up a roaiuig fire, and attack such 'creature comforts' a* our larder afforded, with well sharpened appetites. In this way we travelled on, until we came to the La Nitcn, where we purposed resting a day to recruit our horses. That night it fell to my lot to stand guard over them.? The moon waa shining brightly, and, taking my gun in my hand, 1 sat down with my back against a fallen tree, in such a position as to command a ' bird's eye view' of the camp and its vicinity. I know not how lung I had been thus seated when all at once the inoon became e.-lipsed, and the horses seemed to increase in size, until it appeared to me they formed but oue huge shadowy nnimnl. 1 remember of trying to recall to mind whether or not I had seen in the late almanacs any announcement of such eclipse, and also endeav oriug to reason philosophically with myself upon the strange phenomenon of the horses ; but the next morning when 1 awoke, not a single horse was to he seen. With secret misgivings 1 hurried to the spot where we had staked them out, hilt all wore gone, saving my poor mustang, that lay dead upon ll.A ..........i ...M. ? - " -! v v ^ vxiiu, " mi "c>uni mruns Rlili kiicKlKg in hi* side. This explained ail. The Indians (who perhaps had been waiting an opportunity fo- several days to steal our horses) had taken advantage of the eclipse of the moon to do no; and as my mustang, no doubt, had refused to go any course except his own. (I had myself noticed that little amiable trait in bis character at times.) his j death wus the consequence. A council of war was immediately held, as to what should be done, and it wns resolved that some of us should return to a settlement, h few mites back, procure other horses if possible, and then follow the Indians. Accordingly, a 'committee of three* was appointed to wait upon the 'settlement,' and state our unfortunate situation to the inhabitants. lu the couise of a f??w boms lire committee returned, bringing with them u sutUcient number of horses to remount our.compuiiy ; but as most of theiu were vicious, half broken devih^jual taken from the prairies, it was some time before we could bring them into terms. Fortunately forme the one that fell to uoy lot was rattier less fractious than the rest, and 1 only received two kicks and a bit* before I was fairly seated in the saddle. A* soon as wo had examined our arm*, to tnako sure that all was right, we aet off in full gallon upon the trail of the Indians, which at first was plainly visible amidst the CT '.lit r'?'1 pnbries bordering the river. Wo had gone, I suppose, some three or four miles, when, perceiving that iny girth hnd become unbuckled, f dismounted to rcfftnten it. While cngHged in this operation. I heard the sound of a horse's hoofs and looking back discovered some one rapidly approaching on our trail. In a few momenta he eame alongside of me, and giving me the usual salutation of 'IIow goes it stranger V bo observed, that hearing in the 'settlement' of our fh'euded expedition, he had concluded to join us, if it wan entirely ngrecuble. I assured him that such a reinforcement to our rmall number would bo perfectly 'agroeable,' and remounting tuy horse, as wo rode on I had time to observe the 'pemonci' of tho strange specimen who had so unexpectedly added himaelf to oifr party, t He seemed to bo about forty years of ago; tall and rather spare made; and had a com plexiou very nearly the color of unburot ( bricks; at the same time, however, the great breadth of his shoulders, and the swelling I muscles of his arms which weie apparent aa he reined iu the fiery link* Mexican horse, gave token of strength and power of endurance, ile was dressed iu a hunting shirt and legging*, the usunl costume at that time of all classes, and his head was covered with a coon skin cap, the tail of which dangled gracefully on one side. A long rifle was balanced on bis shoulder, which, with a shot pouch, nnd a bunch of something hanging from his belt, that looked marvellously like human scalps, completed his equipments. , After we hail galloped on some time in silence, he suddenly observed,'Stranger, did you ever shoot an ingeft V 'No,' I replied, 'I never did ; but if 1 enn catch tho rascal that killed my mustang, I hope to have that satisfaction!' Said ho, why its a real pleasure to tumble over one of them yellow dev ils! IIow often have I waylaid their paths, for whole dn}snnd nights, living upon nothing but dried venison, and exposed to all kinds of weather, just to get one pop at tho varmints, and thought myself well paid, when 1 had knocked over a straggling rascal, and taken a tittle thing, like these (pointing to the scalps that hung at his belt) from tho top of his head! I believe I am getting used to il, though, now,' snid he, for (and he sighed to tliink how ballou* ho was lieeoiti trig) it don't star mo up lika it did at first, when I drew a bend upon an Ingen, and see him pitch headforemost from liis horse uj?on the ground. Then I used to jump out of my hiding place, and whirl my guu around my hend and shout tiil iny Wreath was gone, and stamp upon thorn with my foel and tear iho scalps from their heads ; but now, though 1 iiko to kill logons as much as ever, 1 am getting sorter used to it, and never take on so. Ah, straugei, (and he sighed again,) how I en\y you your ttrst Ingen!' 1 looked at the man in astonishment as he spoke thus, and for the first time-observed ' that wild and restless expression of the eye, which usually denotes an unsettled intellect, My suspicions were confirmed, when after a short silence, he said : 'Stranger, my name is Nathan Pnekctt, all the way from the old North State. l'lti a 'remote circumstance,' I know, and can't read nor write pen writing; but when it comes to I n gen-fighting. yon can set mo down for 'sewn chances !" Wishing to humor him a little, 1 asked ' him why il was he had such a hatred to the Indians, llul not seeming to notice the j question ho continued : 'Ileic of late they have got in the habit of killing otf whole gangs of Ingensat once ; that's a waste, and if ther kee|> it up, I shall soon have to remove further west. People ought to be more economical of 'em. Kill one or two occasionally along, as 1 do, and then let 'ein rest a spell, hih] the sport wouldn't be so soon over. I make it a p'nt never to average more than two full grown Ingens a month ; and if other folks would do the same, and not go in great crowds and drive 'em into the crooks of livers, and kill 'em oil' by hundreds at a time, tliev would last for years to come. O ! its a great waste.' '.fter a sliort >ilence. seemingly ruminating upon the great consumption of the raw material of which he had been speaking, he resumed : 'Now if 1 was only one of them great hud* I have heard tell of in tho 'Old Country,' and had one of their big Parks, do you think I'd stock it with deer and sich like game ? Yes, I'd have I firm too, but I rather reckon Ingens would be the most plenty. Then cv ery morning after breakfast, I'd throw my lirte on my shoulder, take a turn or so round the premises, knock over a Ivickapoo, and, if I felt light Ingenficd, perhaps a half grown Waco, and by that time I'd have an appetite for dinner. After dinner a couple of Tonke? ??, and a Lipau or so, would amuse me till night; and then, if their eyes would only slmie, I'd give Vni a small turn at fire hunting. Whoop ! wouldn't that bo spoi t, stranger!' A itiiur/tntlc ttutoli /ilofml Ksr -v"?'/ ,,,mvu vhmvai ?r? iiiirv iikiu *,' * I fori at castle building, ho put spurs to hi* I horse, and dashed cif at so rapid a rate, that 1 found considerable difficult}'in keeping up with him. Gradually, however, as the excitement wore off, ho slackened his pace, and repeating the question I had asked him a few moments before, namely, why it was he had such a hatred to the Indian race, he replied : 'Stranger, they killed my father, l.'.y mother, my brothers and sisters, and they would have murdered me too, if 1 had not l>een preserved l?y Providence to revenge their deaths. I'll never forget that day, stranger ! In the morning I had started out to kill some meat, and when I had left home, my little brothers and sisters we playing in the yard ; poor old mother was in the house a reading in the llible to my'grny-haircd father, and everything looked so peaceful and quiet. When I come back, the smoke was risen' from the spot where my home had stood, and near by lay the bodies of my murdered father, mother, brothers and sisters. I wus nlonc in the world. For a long time afterward, J wa'nt exactly right here, Buid lie, (tapping his head,)'nnd even now when Ingena is sca'ce, and 1 don't git ray reg'lar niimhpr I'm miirlitu tflnrliltr at litnAv' ' - ? *?ft"V "'?"V Iu u short lime we overtook the rest of the paity, who weic busily engaged in trying to recover tho trail of the Indians, which passing et the point over n hard rocky prairie, had become totally invixiblo, at least to our unprncliccd even. And now it was that the genius offiieud Nathan Wgan to show itacit. Dismounting, and lending his horse by the bridle he walked slowly ahead of us, every now and tbeu stopping to cxatniue a broken blade of grass or some half of a pebble, that scorned to him to have been displaced from its natural position. At length , lie catno to n dead 1mlt ; even lie, with nil | his wood-oralt being unable to detect any i further aigu of the Indians. Suddenly he | exclaimed : 'Ah 1.1 know what the red devils are ti|> | to 1 They have 'nquardered her*, and if we scatter too, and circuinninbinte around we will be apt to strike the trail ag'in where they come together.' His advice wan taken, and by circling ! round the point where ihe last tread of the trail had heoti lost, wider and wider each time, in less than an hour wo came on it 1 ..?i .... -I...... ?...? -? i? I ? J!' v..vv miuiv, MIIU n\j I^iam tutu WV limi IUJUII* liculty in following il as fast as our horses could go. From thence the Indians scorned to have lost all nppreliem-iou of Anther pursuit, and in a ?hor| time we caino to where they had encamped so recently thai their* fires were still burning. An hour's ride brought us to the Chiealete, a small tributary of the La Vaca, near which we discovered the blanket lei.Is of the Indians, and putting speed to our horses, the Indians had scarcely time to seize their guns ami bows before we were upon them. 1 say 'we,' hut unfortunate ly for the military renown I was about to acquire, my mustang took il into bis head to make his onset (after the manner of the Chinese.) by turning a couple of somersets and Hip Hap, and then commenced a series of 'pitching*' that would have done honor to a steamboat in a heavy seaway. At the first Citeh, away Hew one of my pistols from my elt; at the second the other follow ed suit, 1 at the third, my hat went by the board so i that bv the time wo had mtched into the j enemy's camp, Iliad nothing left but my rifle. Perceiving that the rest had dismouu1 ted and 'treed.' I thought it mlvi.sable to do the same, puiiiculurly as balls began to whistle in very uncomfortable proximity to unbend. I have read somewhere that a celebrated general once leitiaikcd, during a bat-; lie, that the whistling of bullets was to biiu ' tlte most melodious if sounds. It may have j I been so, but iu my opinion lie bud a bad ear > for inusie. lint to return. | Just ns 1 was in the act of dismounting, a i tall, hideously painted Indian stepped /torn - 1 ebinit >% tiuv, a few paces off, and drew, an arrow that looked to mo as long as a Maypole, directly upon me. Thinks I to myself, I'm spitted before I can say 'Jack Robinson ;' and so perhaps T should have been, but just at that critical juncture, my mustang, frightened bv the fhing of guns, and the yelling vi iiiu iiiuinin, iiimic i% uuauh imuii'.'ft, nil l'un con tinted into one which sent inc head foremost upon (he ground. I rose thirsting for vengeance and levelling my rifle at the ras cnl who shot the Mav pole at me, tired, and 'cut n considerable limb fioin the top of the j oak under which lie was standing. After a 1 few rounds, the Indians retreated, leaving two ' of their number upon the ground; but as neither of tliem, upon inspection, showed any j I evidence of having been killed by a falling j limb, conscience does not accuse mo of being : at all accessory to their death. I am afraid, however, that Nathan could not say as inuch, ' for he pointed to a ghastly wound in the breast of one of thein, and remniked : "That's the kind o' hole my rifle always makes! At any late,' said he, 'I shall claim his scalp:' and using the action to the woid, ho coin nienced cutting it oft, with as much care as if engaged in some delicate surgical operation. At that moment the sharp crack of a rifle was heard, and Nathan letting fall the knife froin his hand, staggered backward against the trunk of a tree. 1 thought at tirst it was nil over with him ; but he quickly recovered himself, having only been stun-' nod by the concussion of the ball, which 1 slightly grazed his forehead. Looking round to see from whence the shot had come, he1 observed the other Indian whom he had sup | posed to he dead iu the net of sinking back upon tho ground, from whence lie had ' artially risen, in order to taken moio deiiher-j ale aim at his hated foe. Nathau casting I his eyes toward him as much as tosav, 'Now j .1 . ?i L - _ 1 mi . uuu i ue in h nurry 5 i n aueml lO your case piescntly'coolly ^recommenced his surgical j operations, Si: which ho had been so unexpectedly disturbed. Having finished it to j his satisfaction, he leisurely wiped the blood ' front his knife, returned it to the scabbard, i and picking up his title Le walked slowly ; and deliberately to the spot w here lay the | 1 wounded Indian. Placing the inuiuie di . luotly against hi.-, head, he pulled the trigger with as much sangfroid as if he had been a ' rattlesnake he was atx<ut to shoot. I turned away just as the guu was discharged, ami when J. looked again Nathan was culuily reloading his ride. After collecting our horses, which were tied to the neighboring trees, we shifted our saddles from those we hud ridden during the day and set out 011 our return, and about four o'clock in the morning arrived at the settlement, I' having Unveiled (with the exception of a half hour or so, where we came up with the Indians) more than seventy five miles without halting. That night a'Ulow - 2.. *i i I oui vv?v? given ill me A9iu?iii?iii, in uuiiur of our successful fumy, and notwithstanding the hard ride of the previous day, the vigor with which wo fooled it to the enlivening i tunc*, of'Hug 'em Snug,"Ki*? me swoet'.y,' waa no doubt long remembered by the belles , of La Vaca. On inquiring for \ nth an i ho next morning I wm to id tlu.t, having laid in his usual supplies ?.f ainunition, etc, lie had just started | off' upon another ''quiet, still hunt* after the j Indians. | mm^mmm^TmmTmmmmm^^f^l!^l!!^^l!l!lE!m^l!S!' I ftlistcllmirmts lUniiinfl. 11i)c JJiffefeqce to it i) q Wolrq \. Said oncb, with a sneer, a puree proud rieh man, just stepping into his carriage with his wife and daughters, bedecked in ! costly velvet and fur#, to h poor laborer on ! the walk "hovelling coal : 4Joe, if you had not drank rutn, you 1 might have been riding iu a carriage as good | as mine* for nothing the, but rum, coukl ! have prevented a man of.your talent, and I oppoiutilities for making money, from accuI initiating a fortune." i True enough," replied Joe, "and if you I had not sold the rum and tempted mc and : others to drink and become drunkards, you > might now have been my driver, for turn* 1 selling was the only business by which you ; ever made a dollar in your life!" 1 There are hundreds, not to say thousands. 1 of Joe's to-day in our State. At almost cvi ery turn you iind a Joe, but only here and there roll along in ease and wealth one of those who made litem what tliey are ; for v\hile ruin Is sure, if used to excess, to sooner or later scatter wealth, prostrate talent and business capacity, and reduce tbc onccl j,loved and respected to the ranks of the too r: v : i ?!-? - ? 1 iiiuvu u?^|iim;u incuiai ; scarcely less euro if j it th.it rum selling does not often bring i with it riches nnd nftiucncc. "lie that digl getli u pit shall surely fail into it," and the . exceptions to this proverb, aro rare and far j between, in the case of the pit-digging ruin | seller. Seven eights of all who have boon in tho business in this Stato for the past twenty five years, have either been ruined i by it themselves, or soino of the children , have been thus ruined, and degradation and 1 poverty has followed. Of tuo remaining eighth, not over one half, or one sixteenth of the whole number, have come out of the business themseives sober men, with money | in tlioir pockets. This may bo considered ; an uuvvarratital lo statement, but investigation.proves its entire truth, as all may ascertain by-carefully gathering the statistics of the traffic. Tho "truth of history" is, that while rum-sellers may "wax fat and kick" for a time, living lavishly-on their counted ill gotten gains, the day of retribution comes and their fall and infamy is complete. Hut what of the Joe's! They have been and still are numerous enough, to have their sail fate a warning written in "characters of living fire," over the door of every drinkingliju.se in the laud, and proclaimed in thun<1 or-tones, in the ears of every one yet free, undying hospitality is the accursed system thai so debases and mars God's noblest woi Kinan?inj?. "If you hud not drank rum," drc. llow ' ! many endowed by nature with intellect* sua! ceptible of the highest cultivation, possessed ! of rare social virtues, would have occupied i 'he place for which-they were apparently dej signed, but for rum, i. c. the traffic; while | those vastly inferior in every respect, after having led them 9tep by step along the road j to ruin, scornfully spurn and tantalize thein i over their fall, and what they might have ; been, but for runt. "If you had not sold!" words full of dreadful import; the whole truth in a sen [ tence. Sell, diiuk, shame, poverty, death ! Strange it is that those who vi>it for purposes of drink, the liquor sellers infernal pre cincta, should not have found out llio close | connection between the sale and their own i ruin; that their money and the rufferiug of their own families, tills the rum seller's till, and feeds and supports hint ; that he gives his money the power to- lord it over | him. Blrange did wo say that they do not know it I They do not know it! Then why do they drink ? Accursed appetite, dreadful infatuation, leads thorn on. The fatal wand of tho rum-seller's fell spirits is over him ; he would not drink, and yet doe<11 ink ; he would be a man. and yet makes hiivnclt tho brute! What then can save him? Just such a I law ?..* Inhibition strictly enforced, as that now- 011 our statute book. Ii steps in between tho victim and Iris destroyer. It lays its strong grasp upon bottles, decanters and barrels, and moves them from his reAch, it stretches further ami wider its hngera, and seizes ujhmi the person of him who is the front and head of the mischief, and, if needs be, puts him also out of the way ; goes still | further, and closes the doors of the iazar ; house. Appqtitc impels the victim to seek | for its wonted stimulant, but seeks in vain, j At last it yields to necessity, reason returns, | fieedom is gained, and he who but recontly I was a slave, now rejoices in thrioc welcome i deliverance. I Glad result! Friends of temperance are you not willing to labor with increased diligence to accomplish it. Thero are hundreds of Joe's yet in the State, bound hand and foot iu the galling bondage of the trt'.flkker. It is for you to save thorn. There are still scores of the foul fiends who coutinue in so crct places and daik corners to ply their enginery of dentin Seek them out, apply the remedy, and save them from self destruction. Heed not their threats or whining*. Find them out! so shall you prevent double sacrt* * floe. '< V ' "4r "*'! Ii)e '2h(js' of *U .G*$| If Tub Scientific American thus givg* Che following summary of a recent ankle iu tin* Bibliotlicc* Sacra ; by Prof. Dans, of Yale College, in the luirinony of science and.rev- * elation iu regard to the creation ; *. ' We will now endeavor Co present the substance of Piof. Dana's account of iLefst-ilory of creation, because ft u the latest, dear- * est and best we have seen, and must be of interest to every son of Adam, lie says that ireolocrv nrove* our t> ? ? .! o oj I."? " *w ""'v fW' at one time a fiery bail in apace ; then dry land and seas appeared, with a tiojdvar dime, over the whole globe. At a brfer period, mountains began to enlarge/ die" dry land to expand, a temperate climate begin to gather about tho poles, and tribes of animals became more localized. Then,' in the last age before man, the continents tako iheir full .breadth. ; rivers dow, every where valleys are formed, the zones of climate became nearly like our own, and every region of the globe has its peculiar fauna, Fiuallr tho features, and climate, and life, n'tiin M * their present variety, as man appear* to tako his place at the command of his Maker." '"His ideas regarding the produc.ioit of light are peculiar, and as we have seett tho same views before, and now find them endorsed by Prof. Dana, we presume they are accepted as the most correct theory of light by all who have paid nnv attention to tho subject. He says, without- mutual molbeular-action, there could bo neither light nor heat. Hut let it be endowed with intense attraction of different degrees or conditions, and it would produce light as the tirsi effect of mutual action begun. The command, Let light be, was the summons to activity in nollA, TI.A *!..! I *.t ? i - ntv.. A HU |J1<S1I1 UJCit 111 llg UI Will* W, lllftl the matter composing the earth was hi existence before the law of giavity, and that when it (matter) was endowed with gravity, the mutual action resulting theref.om produced light ; in other words, light is an effect of the law of gravitation." "The records of the rocks, Prof. Dana asserts, declare that the creations of the auimat kingdom came not forth all at once, but in long progression. There was an age when shell-fish, such as cuttle-fish, eoiula and trilobites, were dominant. The earth was then too \varin,and the atmosphere too imgure for more exalted forms. This w as the ilurian ago of geological science. The next age was when fishes filled the sens, which is the Devonian age?of geology. Tl;en followed another, when reptiles, frogs and salamanders commenced. Laud plutils then came forth, and were of exuberunt giowtb, to extract carbonic gas from the atmosphere and purify the air. The vo^tetable products of that age are now found in our coal fields. After this came the Reptilian age, when theic were reptiles larger than w hales in the water: leviathan reptiles uu land, and flying reptiles in the air." ' "In each of these ages there were distttfei creations succeeded to exterminations of previously existing life. Through the Silurian, Devonian, Carlionifoious and Reptilian ages in America?fifteen times, at least, the seas were swept of their species, and in the succeeding epoch not a species of " (he former occurs. At! this occurred during the fifth day of Genesis, according to geologists, which may have occurred a period of more than a million of our years." "The next epoch, the sixth, was tho advent of man, and the more perfect mammals, and Prof. Dana assorts, with other genln/viufa .. L -1 - * - ? - * " " * % uink mv n II JIC plHH ( I CrCHllun 118(1 evident reference to man, as the errd and crown of I lie animal kingdom, and scienco has no evidence that arry living speeies kavti been created since his appearance on this globe. ''There is Ao dispute whatever in regard to the order of creation ; geologists assert that the order* of creation described in Genesis, exactly accord \\ ith geological "science, and the records of the rocks and Scripture ttte in perfect harmony. The only subject of dispute, then, is in rcfeieuee to the question of time; there is noL, and cannot be ntff conflict between Science and Revelation. A Wondrisvi l Fact.?There is lining W# Kentucky, about two miles from Cincinnati, a German woman, the mother of rhieo chHdren, aged respectively about tw fcnty foftf twelve, ami thnc months, ail of whom slur lias nnrvd nt th6 breast f/om their birth; one of the most remarkable cases, physiologically, to be fluirtd, as wo believe. One 6lh~ er circumstance i- t> be added. With the nnlionsl ta<te for heer, she is obliged (O ftHRtain from the beverago, because the user of it iiiaktss inure milk than 'he three ?uck-c*a>sive biibics can consume. Our eyes have seen the b;il>ivs?our cais have beard tMe mother's story. It is true. {Ifami Hon (O) Telegraph. w/vv i a i w .? ? /* vilt.ikur.ii i** I A-?> Ham*.?During tl'? delivery of the apoech of Henjamiu Ku-h, Esq., of Philadelphia, at Funcuil Hall, three lotul and' hcartv cheers wore given by the audience for SouthCaroliun, in rosfyouae to h?iiio eloquent nllu* aions to the great men and former liUtoiv of that State.?Petfritburp Exyrc*^