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- ti'J -. - ... -J.J 2jB ' ARE F L EX O F FOP IF L A R E V E N T S . ' ij "' - n ii i -"*-" ' ^ " i i ii DfootoJ to JDvojjvcss, tl)C ttigl)to of i\)t Soittlj, antr tl)C Diffusion of Useful CfnoroUfcgc nmornj All Classes of lUorhvrt0 iilrn. VOLUME IV. OREENVILLE. SOOTH CAROLINA. THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH II. 185ft .'y. .. NL'MIIF.H 'dd. <&\)i ^anrjtrn (iSnteriitisc; 18 PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY '1 W.P. PRICE & C. M. M'JUNKIN, Proprietors. 1 WILMAM P. PRICE, ( EDITOR. TERM?. 1 One Dollar a l'car, In Advance, *1.50, IF DELAYED. j AGENTS. Pki-kb SnsAnmr, Fx^., Flat Rock, K. C. < A. M. Kuirvif w P. O., Greenville Dkt Wiluax C Uaii.kt, Pleasant drove, Greenville. Capt. R. Q Avdkm->x, Enore#, Spartanburg. t G. W. Kixo, Traveling Agent. . ?"?"! ; LINES vrnitTicw row M Alcbdo." My hearth is brigtit but lonely, ' It su<w for iv gentle wife : I offer tliee?thee only. My heart, my lovct my life. | I Dearest, each bird is choosing now A partner to its mind, And this should give a timely bint To us of human kind. There is a light nround my path, As bright as ever shone; lhff I have found it U not good For man to he alone. I wear thv image in my heart, Not nine for actual bliss. A dearer rnpture to impart, I? one long, long sweet kiss. Angels attend thee ! May their wings Fan every shadow from thv brow ; For only bright and lovely things Should wail on one so good as thou. Lady ! ?o well, so tenderly, Thou'rt lov'd, ador'd by me, Fame, fortune, wealth and liberty, Wcie worthless without thee. Ay ! thou art puie,nnd beautiful and young. With thy dark tresses and thy neck of snow, * As limner e'er portray'd or minstrel sung. No shadow yet hath stained that lus trous brow. D. BILLET. Fairview, Dec., 25th, 1851. Coirire?pondence of Ifye . Grkksviu.r, Tunw., March 1st, 1858. Mr. Editor-*-For the present, I am a sojourner at this place, having been detained liore in consequence of bad roads and the want of a conveyance to get away. The eastern end of the Tennessee and Virginia Railroad is completed to within two miles <>f this town, and will reach theGrecniillo, Tennessee, Depot in the course of ten days. The western end is within eighteen miles, ; and by the first of Juno next the two ends will unite, and then there will bo one continuous lino of railroad from Memphis to Canada, and soon it will be completed from Memphis to New Otlenns. This is tlio great Central Railroad, running through tho very heart of the country, traversing the most i productive agricultural districts in tho United States, and curtailing greatly the distance and changes of any other railroad route. Already the effects are becoming manifest, both a* t<f the prosperity of the sections through which it is located, and upon the travel of (he Southern ami Great VVe*iorn 1 1*04(9$. The intermediate space between the * two points not completed is literally lined villi passengers, even at thin cold and in- ' clement season of the year, and every kind of vehicle, from a dozen stage coaches down " <o the coinmou ro,id wugon and ooe-hbrse , cart, is employed to convey p<u???ugor? ! baggage, and numerous passengers are coin- ] polled to take it on foot, packed tip in true ' OalfSy>*ii> alfta Tt?? *1 afffl rnurl in mnnv ' ?MU IVXU| IIIIIMJ pjlaocs. is impassable, nnd tho place of destination is readied from every point of the , eompaas. l'w* days ago, i saw a young i married couple leave this village for the J 'western end of the Road, Kitting upon their trunks, in an open common road wagon, ( just setting out on the honeymoon tour, and , the last I heard from them, the team had I stalled, and tho young and beautiful bride 1 ?nJ j$i|gr$eJhmJit>g their way on foot Mil rdi of tb<nra3BRtrhvel from Wes- \ tem NorthCafoilna U bow turned to (bis ?uiui, nn i wiieu completed, u must cut or liuth of that portion of Western North Carolina tlint has heretofore come to Green rillc, S. C., which, together with the com' plelion of tlie Blue Ridge nnd Spartanburg Ltond, must and will leave but h small por lion of the trade for Greenville. The people of Asheville are now having made a survey oil the south-ride ok tlie French Broad river, with the view of uniting with tlie East Tennessee nnd Virginia ltond, nnd with the Spartanburg or Green rille Road, as they may receive aid from uincr oi thoso point.?, and upon this final cruIi will greatly depend the futuro pros verity of Greenville or Spartanburg. These aro matters of local importance hat must l>e attended to, and which I have jivon pome consideration, although not cmit need in my reflections upon objects ol uglier magnitude; for, indeed, I pay but ittlc regard to small things, or tho opinion* >f small men ; but I owe a duty to the conn ry and to posterity, that /, as n paliiot and philanthropist, must discbargc, the opinion* if the vulgar to the contrary nplwithMnnd ng. It is onlv to bo regretted that igno anee and molivo involve so great a portion >f man kind in error, which, at no pctiod tincc tho dawn of civilisation nnd govern ment, has threatened the world with more lisastrous consequences than at the pre^enl uoment. ? I WI.U.I . JI 'J -I 'll- I JMificrllmifana 3A tatting. Anecdote of W. C. Preston. Savannah is the Southern city from which he same correspondent who sends the fol owing sketch has often dated, but be ha* r..-..:.!.?i - . .v. iui.i.-iiicm niijiiiiiig iiioio graphic tlimi bis capital incident in the experieuco of the rccomplished Prwhq. Those who knew .bat splendid orator and gentleman, can np predate tbc scene. Our correspondent says: " Many of our readers remember tlu itatelv presence, the dignified bearing, anil imposing manner of Col. William C. Pros ton, of South Caiolina. It was when all hese qualities we;o in their prime, and Pree on represented his State in the Senate ol .lie United States, that business or pleasure :allcd him to the West, and to take passngr lown the Mississippi river. In those 4 flu-di imes,' the steamers swarmed with boosters, jreen horns and gamblers, the latter politely Jcsignated 4 spoiling gentlemen,' the term gambler,' or 4 blackleg,' entailing on the ipeaker a pistol shot or a wipe from a bow e* knife. 44 The boat was on the eve of departure, ind our Senator, standing on deck and hold ng a small mahogany box, was observing, ,villi great interest and pleasure, the busy icenc on the wharf, when an individual,luxiriating in rather an ornate stylo of dress, ippronchcd him, and, in n subdued tone lemanded : 44 4 1 say, old feller, when nro you a going o commence!' UlA- 1 * " * * - v^omtncnco want, sir r asked the asonished Senator. 44 4 Pshaw, none of that gammon with me. Hie fact is, a few of us boys on board want i little fun, anJ we won't pile it on too trojg for you ; so como and open at once.' 44 4 Heady, sir,* replied Preston, 41 am to nlly at a loss to guess your meaning. Open vhat!' 44 4 Open what ? Why, the bank, of roursel May bo you think our pile isn't urge enough to luako it an object. Hut we ire not so poor ?9 all that, any how !' "The Senator meditated gloomily, but all van dark to him ; ho was plunged in a sen if doubt, and ho had never met any prob em, not even a political one, so hart) to tolve. 44 4 Perhaps,' broke in his pertinacious riend again, aftei considerable pause, 4 pertaps you will say directly that you're not a 'porting man.' 44 4 I certainly am nothing of the kind, tir,' rejoined Preston, rather angrily; 4 niul [ can't imagine what put such an idea intc four head.' 44 4 Not a sporting man t Whew w 1 1 rever liemd of mn-li a ?.f inr.rki?.1-~?... ? |'i?vv v? liii^KVICIIWV WeM, t/ von're no* i? Hporting mnn, wil pou plenae tell me why you carry the tooiibout w ith you V nixl lie pointed to th< mahogany box which the Colonel still cur ried. " A light broko on Preaton'a mind. 4 Tin mahogany box !' he cried. * All, yen ! ha tia! Very natural mistake, indeed, mj ood air; very natural, indeed! Well, I will aliow yon the content# of the box.*? And, laoghing heartily, he oponod the boi n qaeation, which wh?, in faet, hia dre*ninr aae, and displayed the uaual parade o brushes, eotnba, razors, soap, etc., whicli jaually fill tliat article of traveling comfort * Otlr friend looked at the case, then ai I'rcaton, then at the cane, then at Prcator igain. Then heaved a long sigh, and then ae pondered. * v 44' Well,' ho broke out at length, * I 4hl ???? F take yon for n sporting gentleman? 1 did ; ! hut now I sec you nro nothing but ft barber, and if I'd known it, hang mo if I'd spoke to you 1' nnd so sating ho vamosed."' Fancy the feeling* of our honorable Sen ! ator as ho assumes these various characters in the eyes of nn anxious stranger. [Harper s Magazine. The SouthWo maintain, boldly, that the South can maintain her independence and accuro her i prosperity and progre s better out of the . Union than she can in the Union, without the observance of tho Constitution and regard for her right* secured by it. It is con 1 tended that tho world would combine to gethcr for the annihilation of the South and tho destruction of slavery, if she existed a? a , separate Republic. Such a proposition bears not (be semblance of probability upon its face. What has the world to do with the internal police nnd government of any scpnr rate sovereignty ? The United States might J as well invade Russia bec.-iuso it is an miin . cratic Government and tolerates serfdom, or! organize an expedition against England be ennsu of her white operative slavery and 1 mixed monarchical and aristocratic Govern? inent. No civili/ed nation on the globe arrogates such ft surveillance and authority as this. A war waged upon such grounds as this 1 would be subversive of all national sover' eignty and contrary to the first principles of the law of nations. The civilized maritime > powers have interdicted the slave trade, but [ have never either claimed or exercised to in tcrfcro with the internal aflairs or domestic institutions of any State or power. If the North were separated fiom the South she would bo compelled to recognize the iinle pendent sovereignty of the Southern Slates and cease to interfere with our domestic af fairs, or to forego all traffic and intercourse j i with us. Which alternative would she pre-1 fer I Which would England, France nnd i Other nations prefer! Which would they i find more profitable to them?intermeddling j > with our affairs, or ft lucrative and active ' trn le with us ? It would be the height of fatuity nnd : madness to violate the laws of nations by I ! invading the territory of an independent SuVI ereignty, to silence the looms and spindles i of the manufactories, to attempt to lay ?aste I the fairest noitinn nf ! <> J V. ti.v Mil III IIUU uc?iniv the most valuable product of the world, by f striking down the only system of labor ' which can cultivate it, ami thus ?o crush ' their own lucrative commerce and abolish a i trade which gives food and clothing to mil, lions of the free laborers of Euro|?c and tip ! hold* order and comfuit in their own do-! i mir.ions Can any one believe that the en-J i lightened Government of Europe or of thi* continent would ho guilty of such suicidal madness nnd fanaticism ? Can it be credit, ed that they would thus set a precedent which would, sooner or later, recoil upon , themselves bv throwing open the gates of national sovereignty, and breaking down the I harriers which now protect the special insti- | , luiions of every independent nation on tho , globe ? Would the nations thus trample upon their own interest, and finally crush out ; their very existence, by tho rebound of their OW!l IfltvlounAo moi-nli- t.\r tl./? f, ...i - 7 ? ?~V ? of a fanatical sentiment ? Russia, England, France, Austria, Prussia ami Spain, know too well their own safeguards to venture upon so fatal a policy. They would not ex1 ist one year agninst the inroads of external force, if this cordial principle of international law were supped. Why have they not attacked Brazil and Cuba ? Because they understood too well their own palladium ' and have studied too deeply their own into test. i We have "bmiltcd any defence of the strength of the South on account of her own boundless resources and the spirit, chivalry, and powers of her people. It is sufficient to1 I have shown, in this connection, that the ,! dangers supposed to exist are the creatures of a morbid fancy and ignorance of the mo, lives which control nations. [Memphis ( Tenn.) Appeal. Give rr to 'Em.? Dr. Andrews, of the Geoigia Citizen, is down on those editors ' who have been publishing part of a story from the New Yorjc Ledger, at 3 cents a line. We are. glad there are some editors who refuse to deceive their readers and adj vertise for a Northern man for nothing.? We notice the stories in many Southern pa ' per?, nnd we'll wager our best hat that not r I...... ,.r e? . - - VIIV VI Iiivna WVIIIM nuvcilhc liM iii ?"l price. Yet this is nothing more nor loss than nn advertisement, which they publish for about ono third what they would charge their neighbors and friends ! Wo would be very glad to get even 3 cents a line for our r reading matter, but we prefer to mako onr I own selection*, and not smuggle in nn adver tisement for a Northern rimn, whore wo t should put something interesting toour rend j \ ere. Them's it I?Southern Mercury. i A okktlrmax was recently regretting the . low of his tirsl wife in the presence of his t second. M My deer," said the lady, H no one mourns I her decease more than I do, for to that un timely event, i attribute uiy present un ' pleasant situation." ' Col. A. H- McClung?His Suicide Then- is not, we presume, a single man i in the South who has noi heard of Colonel ' McClung. We picked up an exchange this I 1 morning and found the following Ode to i Death l?y this great man, which is certainly the mwt nohle ehaunt of manly sorrow.? t Col. McClung was known as a duelist, liav ing killed as many as four tnen, we believe, < in duels. Notwithstanding his chivalry and i intrepidity, he Was gentle as a child. With i the ferocity of a tiger htj combined tbc gen- I crosily of a lion; with the dat ing of an eagle, < lie united all that is great in man. lie l walked the earth like a Titan, but left behind him many an able characteristic. lie < wore a noble heart, full of generosity. i McClung had genius of the first order? I was honored, loved, and almost worshipped by a host of friends. Wearied of life, (lis ' appointed and satiated, lie wed the cm < briees of death, and, with the hope of being > slain, he enlisted in the Mexican war. Ili* gallantry on the battle field at Monterey is < ^ known to all. lie was sciiottdy wounded, ! out G<'nui cainc not to his relief. At lUtcnn Vista ho was carried on a litter to the battle i field and exposed his life again ? but Death i still eluded him and refused to recognise i his earnest votary. Despaiiing of finding i death on the battle field, he returned to i Mississippi, and lived until life became a burden to him, and then committed suicide by blowing out his own brains. A few months before bis death lie wrote the following lines,overflowing with the vocal and rythmical liquidity. It is the melody of despair?the la^t lay of the iniiotrei.? As has already been reinaikcd by our friend Posy, the swan, tlio distinctive presentiment of death, sings its own dirge, and the vigor of death lends inspiration and sweet iless to its song. Liko the dying swan, J & I poor dying McClnng sung his own sweet and j beautiful invocation : Swiftly speed over the waves of time, Spiiit of Death ! | In manhood's mom' in youthful piimc, I woo thy breath! | For the fading hues of hope have tied Like the dolphin's light, | And dark arc the clouds above my head As the starless night! Oh ! vainly the voyager sings for the rest Of the peaceful haven? The pilgrim saint for the homes of the Most And the calm of heaven ! The galley slave for the night wind's breath, At the burning noon ! But muie gladly I'll spring to lliy cold arms, Dcnth come soon ! [Memphis Advocate. Tnk Bible.?"Tell mo where tlio Bible is, and where it is not," observes an American clergyman, who has returned from a tour on the Continent, " and I will wiile a moral geography of the world. 1 wiiDhow ! what, in all particulars, is the physical con- j dilion of that people. One glance of yowr eye will inform you where it is not. Oo to [ Italy?decay, degradation, suffering, meet, you on every side. Commerco droops, agriculture sickens, the useful arts languish.? Theie is heaviness in the air ; you fed cramped by some invisible power ; '.he people dare not speak aloud ; they walk slowly; an armed soldiery is around their dwellings; the! armed police take from the stranger his Bible, before he enters the territory. Ask for I the Bible in the bookstore?it is not there; or in a lorra so targe mm expensive as (o bo j beyond the reach of llie common people.? . j The preacher takes no text from the Bible, j Enter the Vatican, anil inquire for a Bible, anil you will bo pointed to some case, where it reposes among porhibited works of Diderot, Rousseau and Voltaire. But pass over the Alps into Switzerland, and down the Rhine into Holland, and over the channel into England and Scotland, and what an amazing contrast meets the eye! Men look with an air of independence; theie are industry, neatness, instruction for children. Why ' this difference? There is no brighter sky ?there are no fairer scenes of nature?but thoy have the Bible ; and happy uro the peoplo who are in such a case, for it is righteousness that exalteih a nation." Bums is Japan.? Bit da are (rented very kindly there. They are never killed for I sport, and little troughs are scooped out in the tomb-stones, which priests till every morning with fresh water lor their drink.? During the stay of Commodore Berry's ships a number of officers started one day to go gunning. As soon as the Japanese saw the ! cruel murder of their birds, ibw want to j the Ct inmodoro and be?*g?l him to put a Htoptosiu.il conduct, 'lliere was no more I bird-shooting in Japan by American officer* | after that; and when the treat}' between the | two countries was concluded, one condition ! of it, was, that the birds should always be ! protected. Take care of the birds. Thatjs what the farmirs say wo must do in this country. Unless we do, good-by to fiuit, for the insects will get the upper hand of us, and oat it up. Let the birdies live, and they will not only cheer us by their beauty and their songs, but destroy tho insects and preserve our fruit. ,-nrr' ?. f Life is a farce to the rich ; a comedy to the wise; end e tragedy to the poor. Wearing the Bear ClotiiAn American conospondent of (lie llomo JoiiitihI, who was present at the l;ito royal wedding ,lius quietly describes one of his very iiiitu nl mistakes J "There we set, o wnll of human bin-lta, until twelve o'clock. Owing to i>u obese lounger on one side, end Fred on the otlij?% I didn't breathe easily for two interminable hours. In the meantime, inv eves were industrious enough, nnd my tongue, loo, ns Tor thai matter ; but I made so many huli irons mistakes with the latter fvlicittous nriielc, that I gave tip in despair, gazed, nnd mid nothing. Like J)aine I'artingon, 1 w.nldn't open my mouth but I put mv foot into it. Twice only my rebel tongue was too much for me. " ' Fred,' said I, after a prolonged t-ilence, ' who is that distinguished nobleman just opposite?the ono all gold lace and siik -lockings I' "' Thnt,' replied Fred, living to hush town a malicious laugh ; ' that is Lord 11 'a footman ! "' O, Lord!' thought I. 'Well, then, Fred, 1 venture again?whose footman is that /' nnd I pointed with my bouquet to n moderate!v-<!reused m?r. i?li? ?. *?? ?? against a pillar beneath us, nn<l locking at everything with a pair of cold grey eyes. 1 Who*? footman is that?' "'That,' said Fred, 'is Lord B. himself T " After that I kept still, hut I thought to myself, ' What a land is this, where the footmen wear all the good clothes.'" Coci.dn't " Foot, " IIim.?Professor Adams, of Amherst College, was a great entomologist, and had the largest collection of insects that was ever nccumtilated by a>:y private individual in this country since the days of Noah. Some wicked students thought to quiz tlio old gentleman, nnd, with a good deal of caro and labor,succeed ed in manufacturing a nondesctipt insect, by taking the body of n bcctlo and gluing it ! to the legs of a gravli >pf>er, the wings of J the butterfly, and the hoins of the dragon I fly. With this new style of bug they proceeded to the study of the Professor, and told him that one of their number had found n strange animal, which thev were unable to classify, and requested him to aid them in defining its position. Tlio Profos sor put on his spectacles, and after examining the specimen carefully, said : * Well, young gentlemen, this is a very curious bug. indeed : I am inclined to ili'n>k il id what naturalists call a humbug." -? IIcmroldt.?Tlio aged and illustrious Huron Von ITuinboldt, now in his OOili year, but kiill fiesh in intellectual and con verantional powers, attended a ball given in Berlin, on the 20ili nit., in honor of the royal wedding. The Baron allows neither his advanced age, nor his great acquirements and world-wide fame, to entitle him to any dispensation from the minutest and most scrupulous attention to etiquette and costume, and willingly condescends, on occasions like the one in question, to as suine his chamberlain's costume, and bis' numerous orders, with nil the careful attention to exterior befitting the mo-t youthful and most aspirant Jo Court favor.? Mis health, liov*ever, gives frequent occasions of uneasiness to his friends and admirers, though lie rallies from each attack with most surpiiaing rapidity. \_PIiiladcfjih!a Iuq u ier. Literary Mkn and tiikiii Wivks.?I do maintain that a wife, says Sarah Culeiidge, whether young or old, may pass her even ings most happily in the presence of her husband, occupied heiself, and conscious that lie is still better occupied, though he lliav but sneak uittli l>??- ???' ' 1 v , ...... I'V. nMM WI.'I lti.1 i:\ C.H j upon her from time to time; that such evening* may l?e looked forward to with great desire, and deeply regretted when they are passed away forever. Wieland, whose conjugal felicity has been almost as celebrated as himself, says, in n letter written after j his wife's death, that if he but knew she was in the room, or if at times she but stepped in and said a word or two, that was enough to gladden him. Some of the hap piest and most loving couples arc those who, like Wieland and hi* wife, arc hotli too fully employed to spend tho whole of every evening in conversation. *??-?- ? Anecdote ok a 1)oo.?As the play of "Jesse Vera" was being pvrfotmcd at Woolwich Theatre, and when a scene in the third act had been reached, in which a " ler rific struggle " for the profession of ft child tftkon place hot ween the fond nioihei and two*' hired ruffians," h large Newfoundland dog, which had by some mean* gained admittance, with in owner, into the pit, leaped over the heads of tho muMcians in the orchestra, and flew to tho rescue, seizing one of the assavsina, and almost drugging him to the ground, lie was with dilHvully removed and dragged off the stage. The dog, which is the property of the chief engineer of her Majesty's ship Ihiftalo, hfts been ac customed to tho society of children, for whom he has, on many occasions, evinced strong proofs of affection. Tiir 1.0sokit the saw < ( contention i* kept in motion, the hotter it grows. ^ * " **' - . Verv Conscientious.?A tradesman of Pari* lost in l!?e street his license to trndo, in which was folded up a hank note of one hundred francs. A few hours after, he received by the post a letter enclosing the license, and stating that the writer, who had found it, being in distress, had, after a short sti aggie with his conscience, resolved not to npprbpiinte the note It contained, but to I narrow it for n time, in the hope of being ablb to nmeliorate his position. " When," added the writer, **I shall have attained toy o' ject, I will send you back your money, with my excuses and my sinccro thanks, and you will have the sat inaction of having tendered service to a conscientious tnatt !" - - A Virginia Editor describes the following scene, which ho asserts a3 strictly truo. \Ve don't think it could have occurred in any other Slate, llo says that " ho taw a team of four animal*? a horse o ?>??*? - y -i ? rv,7? inulc, nnd a bull. The horse had the heaves, tho pony wiw blind, the ranlo was lame, and the bull had no provision for fly time. In the wagnp there was a white titan, a crippled nigger, and a tame skunk, frailty bound with a wi.-p of straw. The white man held the lines, the team held its own, and tho nigger held the skunk, and they nil moved forward." Tsif. Married Max.?How is it thai girls can always tell a married man from a single lone! The fact is indisputable. The philosophy of it is beyond our ken. Blackwood says that " the fact of matrimony or bachelorship is written so legibly in a man's I appearance, that no ingenuity can conceal it. Everywhere there is some inexplicable insinct that lolls ns whether an individual (whose name, fortune end circumstances are totally unknown) l*? or not a married man. Whether it is a certain subdued look, such as that which characters the lions in a menagerie, and distinguishes them from the lords of the dovert, wo cannot tell ; but that the truth is so, we positively affirm." A Prospect ok Growing Large Men. I)r. Holmes, the Boston anatomist, has given us a new theory for manufacture of men of a laigo growth. lie says: "In Kentucky, Ohio and Western Vermont, men grow to a large size, because of the limestone formation under the soil. Tarts of families have emigrated to those regions, and tho result in tho next generation has been a larger bone development in those who left Massachusetts, than in those who remained. Kentucky, Ohio and Iowa, will grow large men. The finest figures in the world will he found in tho Valley of the Mississippi, in a few generations." Wanted, a Washington Squaw.?The Wa-hington States gives an account of the first reception of the season nt the White House, from which we extract the following S - i ue sons or l ho forest, 'painted aud plumed in battle array,' ivero ranged along one side of the room, and gazed with stoical I apathy at the novel sight. They were eviI dviilly very vain of the nttention shown them l?y many of the ladies, and one old fellow, very finely painted, confidentially remarked to liia interpreter, when one blooming lady was introduced ; ' 1 give 'cm three horses for squaw? very nice squaw? " Picture of Life.?In youth we seem climbing up a hill, on whose top eternal sunshine appears to rest. Ilow eagerly we pant to gain its summit! Hut when wo have gained it, how difletent is the prospect on the other side ! We sigh as we contemplate the waste before us; and look back ! with a wistful eye upon the flowery path wo j have passed, hut may never more retrace.? I Life is like a portentous cloud fraught with i thunder, storm and rain ; but religion, liko those streaming rays of sunshine, will clothe it with light as with a garment, and f.ingo j its shadowy skiits with gold, -<?> . Takk nt:f, iirst and recrkatiow.?i | heard a good husband at his book say, that to oinit study some time of the year, made as much for the increase of learning as to let thn laud lie fallow for some time niakclh for the better increase of corn. If the land be plowed ever) year, tho corn cometh up thine; so those which never lenvc poring on their books have oftentimes as thin invention nr other poor men.?Roger Ascham. Ifion and Low Ciirncii.?One of th? argumentative hair splitters lately called on the clergyman of tho Floating Episcopal Church.and ??.k"d hltn scijouslv, whether nis church was to he considered a High or a Low Church. The answer he received from his reverenco was?" It depends enliiely upon the tide." A Son of Aaron Hons i.v Onto.?A close student of tho l?iblo suffgeats, in tho I Marietta Intelligencer, that there is reason for supposing tiiat one of llic descendants of Aaron, the High 1'iiest, was a native of Ohio. See Ezra vii, 4, which reads : 44 The son of Zerahia, the son of Uzzi, the son of (n) tttikii Tiik mill cannot grind with water ilia* Is prst.