Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page. It is also available as plain text as well as XML.

" ^E ^CmE^^^bSSLJ g^Lgi |^j^j^j*ijjf jg^W^gi ^UvJ^g] ^BJ j^J^^jjjjjjjj^J^jjjj^^j yjj^g21 ^IbmibSbLJ BmKS3 ^Kb sBLm3 BHfcis {p2wmibH^ fcl^ v '^? Ipijif fnutjitrn Cntfrpris ? UV^aT kTat7RSDAT MORMIKO, ?Y PRICE & McJPWKIN <.?v vVVvv r t VVT "t*'' T>t>Tr,t^ KJL?noirANt- PRUWCtKTOR. ^C. M. M'JUNKIN, r ft i>r tsr. Wk TEEMI. K Out TVvu.Mt and Firrr Caxra in advanee; Tw< "cufll" oM$?E and upwards, 0*b Doll a. tliA money In every instance to accompany th order. V vrW * ADVERTISEMENTS inserted conspicuously a the rates of 7? ocnU per square of 53 liner foi the first insertion, ami )7| cents for each subso qnent insertion. ^ Contracts for yearly advertising made reason able. * ^St ' AOEWTS. W. W. Waucw, Jr., Columbia. 8. C. l*KrRii Stradlkv. Fen.. Flat Rock. N. C. A, iL Fuirvicw P. O., Greenville Diet fmui C. Baicev, Pleasant Grove, Oreenvillr CaW. ft Q. A ni> **? >*, Enorce, Spartanburg. fclrrtcS ^irtrt}. > ~. ' ; - . rmr [Prom the Eplacopnl Recorder.] The Infidel and His Daughter. Suggested by reading a newspaper para graph describing the scene between tlx ' brave old Ethan Allen and his daughte r,dr the eve of hef* death, unett site nr-lced tlx stern infidel in whose faith he would hav< her to die?his or her mother's : "The damps of death are coming fast, Nit father, o'er my brow ; The past with all its scenes has fled, And I must turn me now To that dint future which in vain '*My-feehleetrea descry ; 1 Tell me, mv father, in this hour, In whose stern faith to die. - In thine 1 I've watched the scornful smile And heard thv withering lone. Whene'er the Christian** humble hope Was placed alarve thine own ; I've heard thee -pealc of coming death Without a shade of gloom. And laugh at all the childish fears That cluster round the totnb. {>? '? .... " Or is it in my mother's faith! How fondly do>| trace Through many a weary year long past That calm and saintly face! Ilow often 4o 1 call to tnitul. Now she is "neatli the sod, T1j? place, the hour, iu which she drew My early thoughts to God ! 44 Twos then she took this sscred book, And from its burning page Read how its truths support the soul In youth and failing aga; ? And bnde me in its precepts live, And by its precepa die, That I might share * homo of love In worlds beyoud the sky. 44 My father, shall I look above, Amid this gathering gloom, To Him whose promises of love Extend beyond the tomb I Or curse the Utsing who hath blessed This chequered path of mine! And promises eternal rest! Or die, my sire, in thine !" The frown upon the warrior brow Passed like n cloud away, And tears coursed down the rugged cheek That flowed not till that day. 44 Not, not in mine," with choking voice The skeptic made replv? 44 But in thy mother's holy faith. My daughter, may'st tiiou die 1" ?'j- '-J.... Msrtllntmma lltniiinn. - ' u ? . '. ' 1 -* ''* I Clay, Calhoun and Webster. . We give llie following ox tract from (ien UaxkelPs speech, St Charleston, the Olbei d?y: M For two years of my life it was my mos cherished privilege to have lived in almo* <inily intercourse with those intellectun giant* and most incorruptible stateamen ^ Ur. Cnlh.Wh Wis the rtfc. :t moc*cat, most un ^ pretending, the least obtrusive to catch thi public ear of nny man I ever saw, nnd hi was simple as a child iti his everyday inter course with men. When, as I have ofler seen him clunked of a cold day upon tbi street* of Washington, in bis unostftntatioui - i,~ ..ft ? k_J .. iiv vu';u (i^j|irunuuvu ? urwup mwiOllC ed, bet as the wliitper rose, that i* Calhoun 0Vtty tJ* fnjf (ti^rivd. every head ?nt un eet-ered, end to> rwch it we* n charm, the be bed hud the peeulie ^ fnce|ry of purorn?n/!in$ the Attention of eve ??there wee no one win ?v?r ?Nt wM? him on the eaute floor, the d3MK]8HW^ eiebet u> ?p* nk ; Ute of hie keen grey eye w* . :>(.;?gli to Sihow t Mt something moved hit 3D| the^nate, fie iw*er uttered one niugJe Wow thai did not eomwoHnd the brcaihlcu atten lion of every one wi*liin the sound of hi* t voice. When lie talked, there was the charin that it seemed to be one* own thoughts, it wis so nntutal. snd I never heard him any, what at the time 1 did not feel I could have said myself, and it was only when I sought, with unaided energy, to take the flight that 1 realized the heights to which I hid been carried. It was a glory and memory to hear Mr. Webster. His appearance, as be strode along the avenue, could rtot be mistaken or forgotten?blue coat, brass buttons, buff 0 vest, w hite neck-tie, gloves and gsiters?all were a part of him, find, as pale and sallow, e intent -on catching abstract thought, he Easseu along, the crowd whs still hushed in reathless notice of him, nnd hut few would ^ venture to accost him?hut when that had been done the pallor lefl him, Ins eye hiiglit* ened back to earth, the sun beamed out and thawed him, and his-expresc|v? "good morning n Was enough to kill you, for no one ever loved the morning better. Hut if you have seen old Hal as I have seen him, like me you never could forget it; magnificent in his bearing and magnificent( ly dressed he strode nfong chcciful ar.d hearty, with an eye for every one, and when passing he bowed as he alone could bow, there was not one who did not lake it to F himself. These were mighty men, those three old Statesmen. They differed in their forms of greatness, but to each there was the like volume, and each was excellent, to ) ItQA n finrtira u-KLiK ? ... w W U(VII nvHIVIMUQQ ULUll I S " U TI1Q 1 t would say that the genius of CIhv ww - like the rapid dashing of n foaming torrent, ! spanned with rainbows, Mr. Calhoun's, like a gentle stream, glided on, it parted into a thousand channels, and gliding noiselessly along to cheer the glado and feitilize the forest, but accomplishing its objects, the stieandets came again together; and were ready when occasion called with all its accumulated energies, to plunge with resistless power into the great ocean of thought.? Webster's was ono single stream, deep, still, sluggish, but broad, and seemed as though , it could float the navies of the world on its mighty bosom. To change the figure, I might say that Clay, liko a knight of old. came bounding on the attack with bearer up mid lance at rest. Mr. Calhoun, with ex act precision, wielded the sewnetar of Sn* ladin, while Mr. W ebstor bore ..own upon his objects with a sword of liichard Caeur do Lion " The Work of Creation. The Creation has spoken and the stars look out from openings of deep unclouded blue; and, as day rises, and the planet of morning jrales in the East, the broken cloudlets are iramfortned from bronze into gold, and anon the gold becomes fire, and at length the glorious sun rises out of the sea, and enters on his course rejoicing. It is a brilliant day?the wares, of a deeper and Koucr uiue man oelore, dnnce and sparkle in the light; the earth, with little to attract the gaze, has assumed n garb of brighter greeti; and as the sun declines amid even richer glories than those which had encircled his rising, the moon appear* full-orbed in the East, to the human eve the second great luminary of the heavens, and climbs slowly to-tlie aenith as night advances, shedding iu mild radiance ou land and sea. Again the day breaks; the prospect consists as before of laud and ocean. There are great pine woods, red covered awaiiip*, wide plains, winding rivers and broad lakes, and a bright sur. shines over all. Hut the landscape derive* its interest and novelty from a feature unmarked before. Oigantic birds stalk along the sands, or wade far into the waters in quest ot their ichthyio food, while birds of lesser size Hoat upon the lakes, or scream discordant in hovering Hocks, thick aa insects in the calm of a sununereveiling, over the narrow seas, or brighten , with the sunlight gleam of their wings the thick woods. An?T ocean has its monsters; great " lanniniii) *' leiupest the deep as they ueave their huge bulk over the surface to iu' hale tiio sustaining air; and unt of their nostrils gocth smoke as out of the seething , pot or cauldron. Monstrous creatures, arm r ed in ninseive scales, haunt the rivors or scour tire Hat, rank meadows ; earth, air and t water are charged with animal life, and the sun sets on a busy scene, in which the un j | erring instinct pursue* unremittingly its few simple ends; the support and preservation of lite individual, the propagation of the i species and the protection aci maintenance # of the young. Again the night decend*, for the fifth day i has closed, and morning breaks on the sixth ? aud Inst day ol the creation. Cattle and i beasts of the fields graze on the plains, and thick skinned rhinoceros wallows iu the f marshes; the squat hippopotamus rustles amoug the reeds, 01 plunges suddenly into t the river; great heard* of elephant* seek their r food among the young herbage of the woods, . while animals of fieicer nature?the liou, the ) leopard and the bear? harbor iu deep eaves l till the evening, or lie in wait for their prey | amid tangled thickets, or beneath some ? broken bank. At length, as the day wanea i and the shadows lengthen, man, the respon. SI bin loid of the creation, formed in (rod's f own image, Is introduced upon the scene, I and the woik of creation eansee forever up. on the earth. Eft .* "" sst'sn ** i The night falls once more upon the pros1 pect, and there dawns yet Another morrow i ?the inorrow of God's rcst-^-that Divine ' Sabbath in which there is no more creative . tabor, and which, M blessed and sanctified" beyond nil the day* that hnd gone before, ha* as it* special object the mornl elevation and final (ademption of man. And over it no evening is represented in the record as falling, for its special woik Is not yet com plete. Such seems to have been the suhhme panorama of creation, exhibited in fit on* of old to ''The shepherd who first taught the chosen eee<l. In the beginning, how the heavens nud earth Rote oot of chnoe I" And, rightly understood, I know not a single scientific truth that militates against pven the minutest or least prominent of its details.?Hugh MWr. Reminiscence ol Napoleon. In 1810- that memorable year when | iioine, Amsterdam, Datitzir, Antwerp ami | Paris were cities of the shiuc proud Empire ?Naju^ym had brought his young bride to Brussels, and was received with great enthusiasm and pomp. Ot. the moiniug after his nrrival, he reviewed the troops of the garrison in the Allee Verle, ami at the ditto eul regiments passed, terns iked a granadier who bore the chevrons of a sergeant major. Tall and erect, his black eyes blazed like stars from a face, bronzed by twenty campaigns, while an enormous moustache rendered his ap|a?nrance still more fortnid able, or bizarre. When the line was re formed, the Eui|H*ior rode up to the rcgi meiil of grenadiers, and called the sergeant to the front. The he..rl of the old soldier beat high, and his cheeks glowed. 1 have seen you bcfoie, said Najsjleon? your nmuel Noel, sire, he answered with a faltering voieo. Were you not in thj army of Italy ! Yes, site ; tiruiutner at the Uiidge of Arcole. Ami you became a sergeant major ! At Matengo, sire. But since ? I have taken my share in all the great battles. 'I he Emperor waved his hand, the grenadier iclurnetl to the rank*, ami Napoleon spoke rapidly to the Colonel for a few mo meiits, the quick glances of his exes toward Noel, 'ho*itig that he was talking of him Ue IihJ been distinguished for bis bruxerv in several battles, but bis modesty had pie i l! " " ti-uicm nin wiiiciung aovaiict-nieiii. hikI lie had live11 overlooked in llie promotions.? The Emperor recalled him to his side. Yoii have merited the Cross of i he Legion of Honor, said he, giving him the one he wore. Yon are a brave man. The gienadier, who at this moment stood between the Emperor and the Colonel, could not speak; but his eyes said more than volumes. Napoleon mnde a sign, the drums I eat a roll, theie was n dead silence, and the Colonel turning toward the new knight, who, with trembling hands, was placing his cross U|K>n his breast, said wiiii a loud voice, In the name of the Emjieror, respect Sergeant Major Noel as sub-lieutenant in your ranks. The regiment presented arms. Noel seemed in a dream ; and only the stern immovable features of the Emperor prevented him from falling on his knees. Another sign was made, the drums beat, Htid again the Colonel spoke: In the name of the Emperor, respect sub lieutenant Noel as lieutenant in your ranks. This new tbunderatioke nearly overcame the grenadier ; his knees trembled ; his eyes, that had not been moist for twenty vears, were filled with tears, and lie wh> vainly en dcavoiing to stammer his thanks, wheu lie heard a third roll of the drums, and the loud Voice of his Colonel: In the name of the Emperor, respect lieutenant Noel aa captain in your ranks. After this promotion the Km|**ror continued hi-, review with that calm majestic air. that none who La-held him aver f..tcn.i Lii - - 1 "*' Noel, burbling into a Hood of tear*, fxiiice< 1 in lliu Him* of the Colonel ; while from the lurrhnent cnme h loud and united ghoul ol ' *. ive ITSmperenr iM ExrKAORDIN AMY SciKNTiriC ExPKHIltKST. The reporter of the Uonlon Traveler, while on bia wny to the Scientific Convention itt Montreal, witneaied an experiment by one of ilii. iw^rnc-d snenjbe?* of tmrt body. which be dtvcribei tliu*: "We had a laige bod v of4 aavnna * on tbo tram ; learned men, who, though mudeat, could not cover the cientiftc i'abit beneath any cloak of email talk, I saw one large, red face*I, burly gentleman preform an adroit experiment at White river junction. lie filled a tumbler bail full of water, and by discharging a pocket piatol into the Maine, changed tU color, into a brandy hue. Altt" holding the liquaUto the light, he de libei ntely drank it I i under*taml the ex p^-rnnent U quite a common one.*' A Yankxc 8touy.? . Boatoi correapondent ?Ute? that a man thereabout baa invent cd a aeareorow so utterly terrific and hideous that the crow* are buaity engaged in b?>?K' ing beck the corn which they *toi? two yearfl ago. ad 'v mm * A '* a b - - -1~J? [DY REQl'KBT OV A LADY.] Profanity. DY LI Alt Y FORRK8T. Tltii is. '.nphatically. an age of kissing. Every UkIv kisses every Ixxiy. Since the xnti fastidious days w!ien the old woman saluted her cow, such a time of promiscuous and inordinate lip-service was nerer known. The sign and seal of a " strange intelligence" lias become a hissing* and by-word; the plaything of witlings; the tool of satyrs; the lost jewel of the elect. Zambia's kiss- is the " h>ng and silent *" throb of her inmost anul?-unexpressed and inexpressible, save to those divinely akin; hut the chances to be one in the indiscrimi nate circle, nnd. as each member drops off, must bend her Matelv head to the puppet performance ? the kiss all round?which | would be most appropriately accompanied jliy the elegant air of " Top I goes 1 he Wctwl." Penelope herself is ol?ligo*l to look sharply to the dew on her lips, or ten to one it will be spirited away on aome graceless tnout (ache. The malady grows, and*i* becoming epidemic and chionic. That la?t evening, at the W s, the last stout woman in the file of leave-lakers well nigh finished ine. Zens and Juno! what an expressionless, cavernous mouth yawned over mine! Nectar and ambrosia! what a moist explosion ! For tbe next aix weeks I will not kiss a friend. In the meantime tbe dews of benven, the "milkfed lips " of babies, and my heart's l>eat prayers will, peihap*, bring back the ravished privilege. A ki?s should be one of the holiest demonstrations of the soul ; it should have a voiceless eloquence, an electric tranquility, an electiic reserve. It has no such thing. It pop* a good morning, it sputters a good evening ; whizzes and fizzles on the right hand, and on the left, here, there and everywhere. We are kept constantly on the do fensive. At last maiked, cornered, and set upon, we plant our teeth hard, and abide the shock the best we can. It is a highhanded sacrilege, and I will enter my protest. A ki--s is no more than an unconsidered trifle, to be rudely filched ? torn warm and Ideating from its nesting place, and flitted fr??m month to month?than is the purest prayer I offer, which God keep still invio late I if we would pieacrve till.* gift a swo t and holy token, beautiful ami sanctified to the Iteloved, we must use it wisely, with a noble chariness.? .Vew York Ledger. A [jOITOD IV a > L*n _?XI - *> ' ^ -- ?v.. . - ?. iii i. i/cinvwii, i rtMdent of tlie New York Stale Temperance Society, in liis recent address in lite capilol at Albany, dwelt mainly on the now pre vailing adulteration of liquors: * Within a few weeks," he Raid, M it has come to my knowledge, that n person whose conscience revolted nt his employment in a large liquor establishment, has left it for a ' moro innocent and creditable business. lie ' stated that it now only took ten, some say four gallons pure whiskey to make a barrel oft lie whiskey of commerce. To these are added rainwater, camphene and ortenic, the latter to restore the bend destroyed by the water. He said also, lliat brandy made to imitate the real French brandy, and of material of the most jroisotious character, was sold at $4 iter gallon, costing only 22 cents. That! all kinds of wines were imitated so closely that the beat judges could not discriminate ; costing but a trifle, and sold at prices to suit customers. The higher the standing of ' the customer, and the more particular as to ' nis wines the higher the price to satisfy him as to quality. The tnost celebrated brands 1 were made use of, and the name of the most celebrated European dealers given, as the source of supply ; and European dealers, be it known, are not much behind, hut much in advance of the American trader in their adulterations. lie quotes an advertisement of a chemist in New York, who is uow prepared to furnish the flavorings for every kind of liquor," . and the best Cognac brandy, etc. is produced. ^ ^ ir ~e .i si? /-* i *-? RanuAi.1., vi me iiew v/neans iicayune, Iihh hucli a lot of Chinese sugar cane growing on liia plantation in Texas that it re- I minds liitn of the fellow who won the elephant in raffle. He says : " Many of my friends iu ?!?? wUluii ?i8gui::s thftt iS'.u new grain or plnnt will drive all others out of the ground, or that will at least effect a perfect revolution in the way of fanning in western Texas. They are saving the seed 1 to plant ami for bread, they are making ?yrup and sugar of tha juice of the stalk, they are feeding it out as green fodder, and ' saving it up for dry. No part of it is wast' ed ; cattle, horses, sheep, and hoga, eat it clean, from the ground upwards, when the sulk is rip*, and gain strength and grow fat upon it. An immense quautity of it will be piauted next year." Form one upright, genuine resolve, and it will uplift into higher air your whole bo' ing. _ I 1 To be good, U better than to be great; 10 be both Is beet of all. L'ltfjj- I ... J ?UJ Ji.'j'Li'.'-'.L Tn? Gkf.kk Lovk or Hbautt.?N?tm 1 And climate, heaven, and earth, and ocem religion, and mortality, (lie stale and polil ' oh 1 life, all contributed to awaken and t strengthen in the mind of Greece a lore ft the beauty of the material, *a well an a lov for the beauty of tho spiritual world.? Kiitobulus, at one of Xenophon's banquet! was heard to say. "By the goda, I Wottl rattier be beautiful than l?6 King of Persia I This is n thorough Greek sentiment. Tii Grecian poet, in speaking of the four thing most desirable as a crown to llio happiner of life, places ptrtonal beauty at the here of bis list; lire o'.her llitee desiderata? k* Riches that do not give pain to anybody health and blessing of friendship w?com only in to serve as a setting for the diamom of beauty. The Greek mind tltfis became bright mirror, reflecting countless differen productions of nrt, the beauty of Grecin nature and of Grecian life. These words c nrt made the Hellenic breast swell wit proud joy and crloriottJ emotion, and the left, temples of \vor*l?ip of the beautiful hii monuments of delight to iho most distaii posterity.? Crayon. Gen. Gideon J. Pillow.?This gcntW man, whoso military exploits were a them for many a hearty laugh during the Mexi can war, is now a candidate for the Senat of the United States from Tennessee. Id letter announcing himself he comes squat up to die Southern line, lie savs : " In regard to the course of conduct shall adopt, if honored with your confident I liavo otdy to say, that 1 think I have git en proof enough of love of country to sati fy you that I will never intentionally prov faithless to the trust reposed in me. Upo the great question which now threatens tli Union of the States, I declare my attacl ment to the Union to be second only to tli rights secured by the Constitution to tli Slates. Upon this question 1 have no furtl er concessions to grant, no inotc coin prom i es to make. 1 consider the South as n ready driven to the wall. Further st ought not, cannot, shall not, retreat with in concurrence." ' ? Fisii.?The person who indulges in macl erel next wiutei will have to pay dearly fc them. Iudced, from present indication people will have to get along with less met and Itch than they have been in the habit < consuming, and use a larger quantity < bread and molasses, which promise to I chcsp. A correspondent ofdhc Boston Tiavelh states that the fisheries continue quite unan< cessful. Of the mackerel fleet several vesse have not yet returned from their first trij while those who arrived have but indiflferei fare, which indicates that the fish are n< vstett rvlontw Tl? a ??? * - a I W%'9J IA IIUW 13 Ull mackerel will lule high. The Labrador cc flishery is equally bad. Many of the vesso have not yet obtained half a fare. The ?n mon fishery, which has usually proved vei lucrative, has totally failed, the fiih liavir disappeared from their old haunts. LtncRTr of the Prksh.?A great fuss h been made in Charleston, recently, in regai to the liberty of tho press. The whole inn tcr can be slated in a few words ; the edito of the Mercury refuse to publish one or moi articles, and a great cry is at once raisedM tho liberty of the press is assailed !" A. ] tnay write what he pleases, and D., bein an editor, mutt publish it. This is liberl with ? vengeance! Wo can see our la w-m, kers might attack the " Liberty of the Press but how an editor, exercising his rights I receive or reject articles sent to his paper f< publication, can do so, is beyond our con Erehension. We claim the right which tl lercury has exercised, and as long as we di charge the duties of an editor, we will exe ciseit. That'* all.?Darlington Friend. Texas Fun.?The Palestine Advoca says tha on the 15th in>tn about nine mil< northwest of that, Mr. Arcibald Briggs killc a Mr. Brown. The circumstances were aboi as follows: " Brown induced the wife i Briggs to forsake her husband and live wit hi in. This arrangement was mado wit ma consent 01 hii concerned, ana mo pnru< left. After the expiration of two or tlm days, Brown visited Briggs and inform* liim that lie could take his wifo back, 'I was tired of his bargain/ or words to Unite feet. This appear* to have been a little U mush for the sensitive nature of Jlrisrjr*, an we are toid that be seized his shot gun, t marking, 'Brown, you have had your fu now I'll have mine/ took deliberate aim i him and tired kilting him almost instantly Sharp.?An old Indy in Connecticut collecting all the political papers she can la her hand* on to make soap. She says "tin are a desput sight better titan tube*?they a most as good as clear fie /** Mr. Hknry 8triko, of North Carotin [ advertised last month that ? gay young f? low bad run off with his two daughter*.ThU is the roost reprehensible instance ! two things to one beau we ever heard of. The turnkey will lock a roan up tigl ' but the whis key will make hhn " tig' tn v Hot CoW* and lrmo*at>*.? A girl,,in i?, iho full expanse of crinoline, while uetenlibh*?. lv pmndtng one of the thmongbfaie* of Ntw o York the other day, . pasted n t'ruit^aijd ?r where the ritdurttfpmlHtly who; kept it.Vc||? t cooking green corn for the i'inerant HdHjry. - The extended garments of the dninM^p^Srl s, over the furnace, when a spark ignited too rt liglit material and her i-kirts wcio soon in'a " blaze. The passers-by flow to the reec'tte, c hut no monna of extinguishing the Hathoa ;h could he dm ised, until n gentleman of quick is perception nn?l great presence of mind, seized d .* bucket of lemonade, which the industrious - widow dispensed at a cent a glass, and \ doused it over the blazing damsel and cxtine gtiiahed Iter. - ^ a Ma. Itaowsi.otv, of the Knoxville Whig, it thinks thai tli? o,.<i ~e v ? T . ...... n.niin Ul UIU HOW n England State* and of tlje Northwest open.* >f wider and more inviting field at this tiirio It for missionary labor than llindoostnn, Sintn. y Ceylon, China or Western Africa, for the read son that the natives of these benighted lands, it who have been denied the light of the gos[>el, cannot bo held to as rigid a responsibility in the next world as those who see tho light i Hko the fiee soil population of the North, e and still love aud do the deeds of dnikness. i- We ought therefore to form in the South ,e association to be styled "TheMissionary Soa ciety of the Southern Statos for tho cone version of tho heathens and Fanatics of the f Eastern, North and Northwestern States." A Mwtakk.?The newspaper paragraph f now being published, saying ilie Bible on i- which Washington was initiated to bo n o Mason is now in England, is a mistake.-? n Ho wiis initiated in the Fredericksburg (Va.) c Lodge No. 4, wherein lie rcceivod the three i- first degrees, and was its master. The Bite blc still used in that lodge is the one used >? at Washington's initiation. At the laying i- of tho corner-Mono of the Washington Moos' umcnt in Richmond, during the Presidency I- of Taylor, that Bible was homo in tho Mate sonic portion c' the procession, and its hiay tory was alluded to by Robert G, Sootl in bis oration delivered on the occasion. , [Washington-Star. >r Tuk Kingstree Star extracts the following s? melancholy intelligence from a private Icl11 ter, dated Jolinsonville, Sept. 10th : ^ ".lessee Mai low, of Uritlon's Neck, committed suicide yesterday nibi'uing by slioot>e ing himself. There was no person in tho bouse at the time except a very small boy. ir One of his friends, heating a gun, returned c' to the house and found htm lying dead on the back piazza, bis gun lying by Ida side. I'< He was a very wicked man, ami it is sup " posca the Uevil got the upper hand of him." Kit 11 kb from ignorance, or a murderous , disregard of the lives of the people of Go, neva, the fattening influence of arsenic has , been brought to bear upon the chickens supr-v plied to the market of that city. The police one morning seized a quantity of deli* cate plump chicken*, brought in from a neighboring village in Savoy. The poultry was examined, and, to the horror of everyr( body, found to contain arsenic. A ^number of individuals were arrested, but nothing 18 further has been disclosed. re ? .. , ~ Labor Sales op Punuc Lands.?The ' President U understood to have signed proclamationa for the sale of two and a half ^ millions of acres of the public domain in *V, California; nenr four luindrod and fifty ' thousand acres in Missouri, and the tinloca? ted tracts in tbo Sious half-breed, on Lako jr Pipin, in the Tenitory of Minnesota. Tbeso ll* sales, in California, will take place during lC :ho month of May next, and in Missouri ana 8 Minnesota in March next. <o?-. Til r. Rev. Dr Tcaadale, of tbo Baptist dcnominn'.ion, has been preaching at Laurens tc C. II. and Chcsnul Ridge a series of elo* (>? qiient sermons, and attracting large conceal gaiions. IIo has nil extensive reputation, in and ia considered one of tho most eloquent of divines of his day. ,h Tup. Surplus.??It is estimated that the M surplus in me national treasury nt the end of ie the fiscal year will be fifty millions of dollar*. >d Wbnt disposition is to l>e made of tliis surie plus now engages the attention of financiers f. and statesineai. ^ Chanck ron Bachelors.?A boarding c. iioiue keeper m IbiUiimW(u iiuveniK* to iurw n ish gentlemen with pleasant and comforta| ble rooms, also one or two gcntleiucu with f wives. Distrkkhino !?Mr. Bimsley savs, that is among all the failures, there is none, " as fur iy as heard from," that distresses him so much ty as the grape fuiiuro in Maduiia. The New Cent.?Within tho past three months 8,ti00,000 now cents have been is? A sued from tho mint in Philadelphia, weighing 43 tons. " The Oldkht.?The oldest Post Master in the U. S. is John Billings, who has held the office at Trenton, N. Jn since the year 180j. ...... ?? it Too m ncli sensibility creates tinhappiness; r.*I oo mneh insensibility creates crime.