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??mmmm^ A' R~E~f L EX OF POPULAR EVENTS. , Dfucrtti) lo Progress, t!).e Big!)!? of 1 \)tSoul!), emir llje Diffusion of Useful BnoojUirge nmong nil Classes of Working itttn. VOLUME IV. GREENVILLE. SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 17.1857. ,a"~* , Cjn, f nntl)tm CnttrprisB i it 18 ISSUED 8TB BT THURSDAY MORNING, BY PRICE & McJUNKIN. ; mm WILLIAM P. PRICE, ! EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. , IP C. HTf'M'JUNKIN, ! W PRINTER. ] . r TERMS. i Oh? TVjllmi and Fiktt Cs.sts in adraoee; Two ( ? Dollar* if delayed. i CLUBS of ViVE and upward*, Oxb Dollar, ^ B the money in every instance to accompany the . * order. j I ADVERTISEMENTS Inaerted conspicuously at; J the rate* of 75 cents per square of '.3 lines for , the first insertion, and 37 J cent* for each aubse- _ quent insertion. ' Contracts for yearly advertising made reason. J able. > AGENTS. I W. W. Walkbb, Jr., Columbia, S. C. I I'ltrai rnadlbv, E?q., Flat Rock. N. C. ( A. M. Pbi>b*, Fairview P. 0., Greenville Dist i WtLU&tt O. IfAflslTi Ptaufttit Grove. Greenville. ^ C\rr. IL Q Anderson, Enoree, Spartanburg. ^rlertcii ^nftnj. [Froin the New York Evening Post.] Nobody's 8ong. Swift never wrote anything better in verse than the following lines, from an unknown t correspondent: J I'm thinking just now of Nobody, And all that NobodvV done, For I've a passion for tfoltody, That Nobody else would own ; I bear the name of Nobody, For from Nobody I sprung ; 1 And 1 sing the praise of Nobody, As Nobody mine has sung. ft. t In life's young morning Nobody e To me was tender and dear; j And my cradle was rocked by Nobody. 1 And Nobody was ever near ; ( I was petted and praised by Nobody, j; And Nobody brought me up; j And when I was hungry. Nobody t Gave me to dine or sup. t t in. I wont to school to Nobody, And Nobody taught ine to road ; I played in the street with Nobody, And to Nobody ever gave heed ; I icconnted my tale to Nobody, For Nobody was willing to hear ; And my heart is clung to Nobody, And Nobody shed a tear. IV. And when I grew older, Nobody Gave me a helping tnrn ; And by I lie good aid of Noltody I began my living to earn ; And hence 1 courted Nohody, And said Nobody's I'd be. And asked to marry Nobody, And Nobody married me. v. Thus I trudge along with Nobody, And Nolmdy cheer* my life, And I have a love for Nobody Which Nobody has for his wife. So here's a health to Nobody, For " Nobody's now in town." And I've a passion for Nobody. That Nobody else would own. ] j^nlitirnl. [Fi om the Washington Union.] Important Correspondence. To Hi* Excellency, Jatntt Buchanan, President of the United State*: The undersign*], citizen* of the United State*, ?nd elector* of tlie State of Connecticut, respectfully offer lo your Excellency this their memorial : The fundamental principle of the Constitution of the United Stales and of our polit ical instilminus. is, that the people shall make their own law* and elect their own ruler*. We see, with grief, if not with astonishment, that Gov. Walker, of Kansas, openly represents and proclaims that the President of the United states is employing, through him, an army, one purpose of which is to force the people of Kansas to obey laws not ikeir own, nor <f the United States, but laws which it is notorious and established upon evidence, they never made and ruleis tliey never elected. We represent, therefore, that by the fore going your Excellency i? openly held up and proclaimed, to the greatest derogation of our national character, as violating, in its most essential particular, the solemn oath which the President has taken to support the Constitution of this Union, wV ,We call attention further to the fact that your Exeellenoy is, in like manner, held up to thia nation, to all mankind, and to all posterity, in the altitude of M levying war against (a portion of) the United States " by employing arms in Kansas to uphold a bodjr of men, and a code of enactments pur "^Mmg to be legislative, but which never \ \ i had the election or sanetion, nor consent, of the people of the Territory. Wo earnestly represent to your Excellency that we also ha*e taken the oath to ohev the Constitution ; and your JExctllency mnv he assured that we shall not lefrnin from die prayer that Almighty God will make your idministration an example of justice and beneficence, and. with I lis terrible majesty, orotect our people and our Constitution. Nath'l W. Taylor. David Smith. , r. D. Woolsey. J. 11mwes. , flenry Dutton. James F. Rabcoek. | 2has. L. English. G. A. Calhoun. , f. II. Brochway. E. H. Gill?crt. ( ?li W. Blake. Leonard Bacon. | lli Ives. I II. C. Kings ey. , k Silliman, Jr. B. Sillinian. | foah Porter. Edward C. Herrick. | i'hoa. A. Thacher. Charles Ives. , . A. Davenport. Win. P. Eusiis, Jr. | V. Hooker. Alex. C. Twinning. | >liil.? 1ti?L? I w n:i.k I\v? ?""inn ?? . i 5. K. Foster. Alfred Walker. ! ). S. Lyman, James Brewster, olin A. Blake. Steph. G. IIul?l?nrd. i >Vm. !!. Basse!!. ITa* ley Ohnstead. k N. Skinner. Seag'ove W. Mngill. f Iorace Bushmell. Amos Townsend. j 'olin Boyd. Timotliv Dwijrlit. 'harlo* Kohinson. David M. Smith. t Jenry Peck. y Washington Citv, August 15, 1857. Gentlemen?On iny recent return to his city, after a fortnight's absence, your nemoiial, without <late, was placed in mv ' lands, through the agency 'of Mr. II uatio ving, of the Post Office Department, to vhom it had been entrusted. From the listinguished source whence it proceeds, as c veil as its peculiar character, I have deem d it proper to depart from my general rule {j n such cases, and to give it an answer. You first assert that "lite fundamental irinciple of the Constitution of the United J hate* and of our political institutions is that j( he people shall make their own laws and ilect their own rulers." Ycu then express { our grief and astonishment that I should tave violated this principle, and, through 3ov. Walker, have employed nn army, " one ttirpose of w hich is to force the people of 0 Kansas to obey lavet not their otrn, nor of ' he United State#. but laws which it is no- ' orious, and established upon evidence, they tever made, and rulers the)' never elected." v \nd, as a corollary from the foregoing, you ! epresent that 1 am " openly held up and unclaimed, to the great derogation of our . mlional character, a* violating, in its most tssential particular, the solemn oath which he President has taken to sujrport the Contitution of this Union" These are heavy charges proceeding from jentlemen of your high character, and, if veil founded, ought to consign iryV name to nfainy. llut in proportion to tK?-ir gravity, :ointnon justice, to say nothing of Christian :harity, required that before making them I fou vhould have clearly a*ceitained that hey weie well founded. If not, they will ehound. with witheiing condemnation, up>n their authors. Have you |>erformed this preliminary duty towards the man who, lowever unworthy, is the Chief Magistrate >f your country ? If so, eithci you or I are alniring under a strange delusion. Should Jiis prove to be your case, it will present a memorable example of the truth that policial prejudice is blind, even to the existence if the plainest and most palpable historical acts. To these facts let us refer. When I entered upon the duties of the Presidential office, on '.lie 4th of March last, what was the condition of Kansttn ? This l'erritory had l>een organized under the act jf Congress of 30th of May, 1854. and the government, in all its branches, was in full meratiun. A governor, secretary of the Territory, chief justice, two associate justices, & inaishal, and district attorney, had been appointed by my predecessor, by and with the advice of die Senate, and were all engaged in discharging their respective duties. A code of laws had l*en enacted bv the Vonilrvtiul lom^lutnro ' unrl I>a were employed in expounding and carrying I these laws into effect. It i* quite true that j a controversy had previously arisen respect ing the validity of the election of members of the Territorial legislature and of the laws passed by thein. but at the lime I entered upon nty official duties. Congress had recognized this legislature in different forms and by different enactments. The delegate elected to the House f Representatives under a Territorial law, had just completed his j terin of service on the day previous to my ( iitutwvtirtlinn 1 ti fuot T fiiittul llio mtcorii. " ment of Kansas as well established as that of anv other Territory. Under these circumstances, what was my duty f Whs it not to sustain the government ? to protect it from the violence of law leas men, who wete determined to either rule or ruin ? To prevent it from being overturned b? force??in the language of the Constitution, to u take care that the laws be faithfully executed ?" It was for this purpose, and this alone, that I ordered a military forro to Kansas, to act as a potte comitafut in aiding the civil magistrate to carry the laws into execution. The condition of the Territory at the time, which I need not portray, rendered this pre caution absolutely necessary. In this state of affairs, ironld I not have l>cen justly condcmnod had I left the marshal, unci other officers of a like character, impotent to execute the process end judgments of court# of justice established by Congress or by the Territorial Legislature under its press authority, and thus have suffered the government itself to l>ecomo an object of contempt in the eyes of the people f And vet this is what you designate as forcing u the people r>f Kansas to obey laws not their own, nor nf the United Statesami for which you Itave denounced me as having violated my solemn oath. I ask, what else could I have done, or ought to have dene? Would you have desired that I should abandon the Territorial government, sanctioned, as it had been, by Congress, to illegal violence, and thus renew the scenes of civil war and blood died, which every patriot in the country had deplored f This would, indeed, Imve lieen to violate my oath of office, and to fix \ damning hlot on the character of iny ad ministration. I must cheerfully admit that the necessity 'or sending the military force to Kansas to tid in the execution of the civil law reflects 10 credit upon the character of our country. 3nt let the blame fall upon the heads of the ruilty. Whence .did this necessity arise? \ portion of the people of Kansas, unwilling o trust the ballot-box?the certain Ameri:an remedy for the rediess of all grievances ?undertook to create an independent gov irntnenl for themselves. Ilad this attempt irovetl successful, it would, of course, have nhveited the existing groverntnent, prcscirbd and recognised by Congress, and substi nted a revolutionary government in its tead. This was a usurpation of the same haracter as it would be for a portion of the eople of Connecticut to undertake to estabish a separate government within ita eliarered limits for the purpose of redressing ny grievance, real or imaginary, of which hey might have complained against the fgitiinate State Government. Such a priniple, if carried into execution, would desroy all lawful authority and produce unicrsal anarchy. I ought to specify more particularly a ondition of affairs, which 1 have embraced inly in general terms, requiring the presitice of a military force in Kansas. The Congress of the United States had most viselv declared it to ho " the true intent and neaning of this act (the act orgnizing the territory) not to legidate slavery into any territory or State, nor to exclu eit therefrom. >ul to leave the |?eople thereof perfectly free 0 form and regulate their domestic instiluions in their own way, subject only to the Jonslitlition of the United States." As a intinal consequence. Congress has also precribcd by the same act that when the Teritory of Kansas shall be admitted as a State t "shall be received into the Union, with ?r without slavery, as their constitution may rcscribe at the time ot their admission." Slavery existed at that petiod, and still >xis*.s in Kansas, under the Constitution of lie United States. This point has at last neen finally decided by the highest tribunal known to our laws. How it could even liave been seriously doubted i* a mystery.? If a confederation of sovereign States ncqtihe 1 new Teriitorv at the expense of their cone lion blood and treasure, surely one set of he paitners can have no tight to exclude he other from its enjoyment by prohibiting Item from taking into it whatsoever is re ognized to he property by the common :<>iiKtitntioii. Hut when the people ?the loan Jute residents of sui-h Tenitory? pro i . r - c.-.. *- ?-? :eeu 10 ii'Hiue a oxaie constitution, men u is heir right to decide the question for themelves whether they will continue, modify, )r alailish slavery. To them, and to them done, dives this question belong, free from ill foeign interference. In the opinion of the Territorial legislaure of Kansas, the time had arrived for enering the Union, and they accordingly passed a law to elect delegates for the purpose >f framing a Slate Constitution. This law ivas fair and just in its provisions. It conerred the light of suffrage on "every bona Ude inhabitant of the Territory.'* and. for lie preventing fraud, and the intrusion of diizetis of near or distant States, most prop nly confined this right to those who had re.?ided therein three months previous to the -lection. Here a fair opportunity was patented for all the qualified resident citizens >f the Territory, to whatever sides they migh have previously belonged, to participate in the election, and to express their pinions- at the ballot la?x on the question jf slavery. But numbers of lawless men still continued to resist the regular Territorial government. TIsev refused either to lie registered or to vote ; and the member* of I he convention were elected, legally and ^..i? I...:. -ri.. i* , " iiu'-ui men * cm ii nit ur Convention will rood Assemble to peiform ilie solemn dtitv of framing a Constitution for themselves and their posterity ; and. in lite state of incipient rebellion which still ex ism in Kansas, it is my im|>erative dttty to employ the troops of the United States, dtonld this become necessary, in defending lite Convention against violence whilst framing the Constitution, and in protecting the "bona fide inhabitants" qualified to vote under the provision* of this instrument in the free exercise of the right of suffrage r* I - ~V iLe people of the several States. Yours, verv respectfully, JAMES BUCHANAN. Rev. Nathaniel Taylor, I). D.. Rev. Theodore 1). Woolsev, I). D.. L. L. D.. Hon. llenrv Button. Rev. David Smith, D. D., Rev. J Ilawes, D. D., and others. 3fii0trllmitoti3 H tailing. ODE OLD GRANDMOTHER. BIe?>ed he the children who ha?e an old fashioned grandmother. As they hope lot length of days, let them love and honor her for we can tell thetn they w ill never find an other. There is a large old kitchen somewhere ir the past, and an old fashioned fire plact therein, with its smooth old jambs of stunt ?smooth with many knives that had beer sharpened there?smooth with many littlt fingers that have clung there. There art andirons, too?the old andirons, with ting> in the top, wherein many temples of tlamt have been builded, with spires and turrets of crimson. Tin re is a broad, worn hearth by feet that have been torn and bleeding b\ I the way, or been made " beautiful," ant walked upon floors of tesselaled gold.? There are tongs in the corner, wherewith wi grasped a coal, and " blowing for a littii life," lighted our fir.?t caudle; theie is j snovei. wnerewun were drawn tortli tl> glowing embers *n which we saw our firs fancies ami dreamed our first dreams?th shovel with which we stirred the sleepy log till the spaik* rushed up the chimney as i a forge were in blast below, and wished w had so many lambs, so many marbles o so many somethings that we coveted ; ant so it was we wished our first wishes. There is a chair?a low, rush botton chair; there is a little -vh.ee! its the corner, i big wheel in the garret, a loom in thecham her. There are chests full of linen and yarn and quilts of rate patterns, and samplers ii frames. And everywhere and always the dear oh wrinkled face of Iter whose firm clastic ste] mocks the feeble Raunter of her children1 children?the old fashioned grandmother c twenty years ago. She the very providene of the old homestead?6he who loved us al and said she winhed there was more of us t< love, and took all the school in the IIollox for grandchildren beside. A groat, expan she heart was Iter's beneath that woollei gown, or that more stately bombazine, o thai sole heir-h>om of silken texture. We can see her to day?those mild bin eyes, with more of Identity in them thai time could touch, or death do more thai hide?those e\os that held both smiles am teais within the faintest call of every one c us, and soft reproof, that seemed not pax ?ion hut regret. A white tress has escape* irom Deneawi tier snowy cap; she lias jn* ie-toifil a wandering lamb to its mother she lengthened the tether of a vine that wh >t raxing over a window, a.i she came in, an< plucked a four-leafed clover for Ellen, Sh nts down by the little wheel?a tress i running through her fingers from the di? latr* disheveled head, when a small voie cries, 44 Grandma " from the obi red cradh and " Grandma I" Tommy shouts from th top of the stairs. Gently she lets go th thread, for her patience is almost as beaut fill as her charity, and she touches that li tie ml baik in a moment, till the youn voyager is in a dream again, and then d reels Tommy's unavailing attempts to ha nexa the cat. The tick of the clock rut faint and low, anil she opens the myterioi door, and proceeds to wind it up. We ai when it shall I e submitted to tliem, for tliei approbation or rejection. I have entire confidence in Gov. Walkei that the troops will not he employed exoep to resist actual aggression, or in the exeeu tion of the laws ; and this not until the pow er of the civil magistrate shall prove una vailing. Following the wise example o Mr. Madison towards the llartfo:d Conven tion. illegal and dangerous, such as that o: the Topcka convention, will not he disturb ed unless tlrev shall attempt to perforrr some act wh'ch will biing them into actua collision with the constitution and the laws | In that event, they shall he resisted, and pui down by the whole power of the govern ment. In performing this duty, I ehall have the approbation of iny own conscience and. as I humbly trust, of my God. I thank you for the assurance that you wii " not refrain from the prayer that Almightr God will make my administration an exam pie of justice and beneficence.*' You enr greatly assist me in arriving at this blesser consummation bv exerting your influence it (allaying the existing sectional excitementot the subject of slavery, which lias been pro ductive of much evil and no good, ant which, if it cou'd succeed in niiaining it! onject, would ruin the slave as well as lii: master. This would be a work of genuln< philanthropy. Every day of my life I fee how inadequate I am to perform the duties of my high station without the continued support of Divine Providence; yet placing mv trust in IIim. and in IIim alone, I on tertain a good hope that lie will enable mt to do equal justice to all portions of the Un ion, and thus render me an humble instru ment in restorini/ iw>ho> nnil limmnm) ?m""? r all on tiptoe, and we l?ep i? ? breath to b< lifted up. one hv one. iiud look for the bun .f dredth time, upon the tin eases of tlx j weights, and the poor, lonelv pendulum which goes to and fro hv its little dim win. dow, and never coine* out in the world ; and . our petitions nre granted, and we are lifted f up, and we al! touch with a finger the won. derfui weights, and the music of tho little f wheel is resumed. '* Was Mary to he married, or Jane to be , wrapped in a shroud I" So meekly did she | fold the while hands of the one upon her still bosom, that there seemed to be a pray. I er in them there ; and so sweetly did she . wreathe the white rose in the hair of tlie I other, that one would not have wondered had more roses budded for company. How she stood between us and nppreI bended harm ! llow the rudert of us soft. ened beneath the gentle pressure of her . faded and tremulous hand ! Fiom her ra , I pacious pocket that band was ever with* j ; drawn closed, only to be opened in our own, , ! with the nuts site had gathered, the cher, j ries she had plucked, the little ogoj she had . | found, the " turn over" she had baked, the j | trinket she had purchased for us as the pro} I duct of her spinning, the blessing she had , j stored for us?the oflVpiing of her heart. , | What treasure of story fell from those old I I lips?of good old fairies and evil, of the old , | times when she was a girl; and we wonderI ed if ever?hut then she couldn't be hand,Isomer or dearer?hut that she ever was '("little." And, then, when we begged her , j to sing ! " Sing us one cf the old songs , j you used to sing mother, grandma." " Children, I can't sing," she always said ; . and mother used to lay her knitting sofllv down, and the kitten stopped playing with the yarr. upon the floor, and the clock ticked lower in the corner, and the fire died , down to a glow, like an old heart, that is , neither chilled nor dead?and grandmother sang. To be sure, it wouldn't do for the fiarlor and the concert room nowadays. >ut then it was the old kitchen and the ol.l fashioned, and the old ballad, in the dear old times ; and we can hardly see to write for the memory of them, though it is a - hand's breadth :o the sunset. Well, she sang. Iler voice was feeble . and wavering, like a fountain just ready to r fall, but then how sweet toned it was; and it became deeper and stronger: but it . could t't g?-o?r sweeter. What *'joy of grief" it was to sit there around the fire, all , of us, except Jane, that clasped a prayer to j her bosom, and her thoughts we saw, when . the hall door was opened a moment by the , wind; but then we were not afraid, for . wasn't it her old smile she wore??to sit ? there around the fire and weep o\er the . woes of the " Babes in tlie Woods," who > lay down, side by side, in the gieat solemn i shadows ; and how strangely glad wo felt when the robin-redbreast covered them with leaves; and last of all, when the angels took | them out of the night into day everlasting. We may think what we will of it now; a hut the song and the story heard around a the kitchen fire have colored the thoughts n and lives of most of us ; have given us the e| geims of whatever poetry blesses our hearts, it | whatever memory blooms in our yesterdays e I Attribute whatever we may to the school s and the schoolmaster, the rays which make if that little day we call life, radiate from tlx c God swept circle of the hearth-stone, r Then she sings an old lullablv she sang ] to mother?her mother sang to her; hut she does not sing it through, and falters ere ! 'lis done. She rests her head upon her n hands, and it is siicnt in the old kitchen. . Something glitters down between her fin it gers and tlie firelight, and it looks like rain n in the soft sunshine. The old grandmother is thinking when she first heard the song. ] and of the voice that siing it, when a light|, haired and light-hearted girl, she hung a around that mother*', chair, nor saw the ,f shadows of the days to come. Oh ! the e days that are no more! WIihI spell can |j we weave to bring them back again ?? o What words can we unsay, what deeds un v do, to set back, just this once, the ancient . clock of lime ? 11 St> all our little hands were forever cling r ing to her garments, and staying her as il from dying, for long ago she had done live ing for herself, and lived alone in us. lint n the olel kitchen want-i a presence to-day n and the nish-bot?oined chair is tenanlless. ^ I low she used to welcome us when w( ^ were grown, and came back once more tc l' the homestead. We thought wo were men and women but we were child-en there. The old fash ' ioned grandmother was blind in the eyes , hut she saw with her heart, as she alwayi did. We threw our long shadows tbrougl the open door, and she looked dimly up anc saw tall shapes in the door-way, and shi says: " Edward I know, and Lucv'a voice 1 can hear ; but whose is the other ?" Itinusi ' l?e Jane's?for she had almost forgotten th? folded hands. " Oh, no, not Jane, for slu . ?let me see?she is waiting for mo, isn* ! she!" and the old grandmother wandore< and wept. j. M It is another daughter, grandmothei r. that Edward has brought," says some oo< is * f?r >'t>ur blessing." is " Has she blue eyes, my son ? Put he re hand in mine, for she is my latest born, tb iiuiuur.u iy. - child of my old age. Shall I sing you a song. children I'1 Iler hand is in her pock c-t an old ; she is idly fuinblirg for a toy, a , welcome gift to the children thai have corro ' again. I One of us, men as we thought we were,is weeping ; she hears the half suppressed sob ; she says, a<? she extends her feeble hand? ** Ilere, my poor child, rest upon your grandmother's shoulder; she will protect you from all harm; come, children, sit around the fire again. Shall I sing you a song, or tell you a story f Stir the fire, for it is cold ; the nights are growing colder.'1 The clock in the corner struck nine, the bed-time of thoso old days. The song of life was indeed sung, the story is told ; it was hed time at last. Good night to thee, grandmother. The old-fashioned grandmother was no more, and we miss her forever. But we will set up n tablet in the midst of the memory, in the midst of the heart. Rnd wiit? nn " , w.? V WHIT HHP SACRED TO TI1E MEMORY or THE OLD FASHIONED GRANDMOTHER. God bless h< r forever. English Manners. I find nil Englishman (o ho him of nil men w ho stands firmest in his shoes. Thev have, in themselves, what they value in their horses, mettle and bottom. On the day of mv arrival at Liverpool, a gentleman, in describing to me the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, happened to say, " Lord Clarendon has pluck like a cock, and will fight till he dies; " and what I heard first I heatd last; and the one thing the English value is pluck. The cabmen hare it ; the merchants Slave it; the bishops have it; the journal* have it ; the Times newspaper, they say, is the pluckiest thing in England ; and Sydney Smith had made it a proverb, that little Lord John Russell, the minister, would take command of the channel fleet to morrow. ***** * It requires, men say, a good constitution to travel in Spain. 1 say as much of England, for other causes, simply on account of the vigor and brawn of the people. Nothing but the most serious business could give any one a counterweight to these Raresharks. though they weie only to order eggs and muffin for their breakfast. The Englishman speaks with all his body. His elocution is stomachic, as tho American's is labial. The Englishman is very petulant and precise about bis accommodation at inns and on the roads ; a quibbler about his toast and bis chop, and every species of convenience, and loud and pugnant in bis expressions of impatience at any neglect. His vivacity betrays itself, at all points, in his manners, in his respiration and tho aiticulate noises he makes 111 clearing his throat; all significant of burly strength. The vigor appears in the incuriosity and stony neglect, each of the other. Each man walks, eats, drinks, shaves, dresses, gesticulates, and in every manner acts and suffers without reference to the bystanders, in bis 1 own farhion, only careful not interfere with I -them or annoy them; not tliat he is trained to neglect the eyes of his neighbors; lie is really occupied with his own affairs, and does not think of them. In short, every one of the.'e islanders is an island himself, safe, tranquil, incommunicable. In a com* panv of strangers you would think him deaf; his eyes never wander from his table and newspaper. Introductions are sacraments. He withholds his name. At the hotel he is hardly willing to whisper it to the clerk at the book-office. If he gives you his private address on a card, it is like an avowal of friendship; and on bearing on being introduced to you is cold, even though he is ' seeking your acquaintance, and is studying how he shall serve you. [Emerson*s English Trails. Joke fou a Farmer.? A Western New > York farmer wiitcs as follows to a distinguished scientific agriculturist, to whom he felt under obligations for introducing a P variety of swine: Respected Sir: I went yesterday, to tho ' fair at M ; I found several pigs of your species ; there was a great variety of ' beasts, and I was astonished at not seeing you there! > Praiswortiiv Act.?The Abbeville Partner informs us that, lion. J. F. Marshall of is:-..:-- i -- - f in?i, i/ianin, nas, at nis own expense erected a monument over the grave of Lt., F. W? , Selleck of the Palmetto ltegimenl, who was 4 the first to plant the American colors on the , city walls afier the battle of Gareta do Pell i en. i True politeness may be cherished in the t hovel as well as in the palace, and the most ? tattered drapery cannot conceal its winuing ? charms. I Ir* man should sot out calling everything by its right name, ho would be knocked ilown before he got to the coruor of the ' street. Council Bluffs is the only city north of ,r St. Louis, or west of Iowa city, that sustain* e * daily newspaper.