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/ ' nl ^Ss TV REFLEX OF POPULAR EVENTS. 9 laeegga ' 111 ' jgagfiaaaeu- , . . ' ' -i? " ' ', i j!' . . ? 'i i 1, u i i?bb J^.1 geuotcd to IJrogr^ss, the Rights o|f thq ?outh, and the giftifiion o)( "Ssefjal ?jitotrt({dge among all glasses of Morning Ufytt. - Sm '.'.V > * * ? ?? ? r ? , . . . . ??? ?,.^ ftil^, . Tj Jff ! ' 1 J ' T * .; ?? .-J ,; ?????????,1 J ? * 'Volume vf.- Greenville, south Carolina, Thursday morning, march 29. i860. number 47. _:..:l- .,. -.-. -_J_^L- *" THE SOUTHERN ENTERPRISE CA' ' la, laaoad. B?*rr TRhnraday Morning. by -M'JrUNKlN & BAILEY. y u ?. ^ , PROPJIIETOB9. 6. K. MoJunklix John O. BtUer. ??f ft Year, in advance; 91.50, if delayed ^ntfrq. An Hour at the Old Flay Ground. Ofli *4 * BY UKYRY MOBFORD. <?ll t*' t Bat ?n hour to-day. John, <* l)wM? the old brook atroam, V1'1 Whoro wo ware aehoolboy* in old time, When manhood waa a dream: The brook is choked with fallen leave#, * . The pond ie driod away? T scarce believe that you would know The dear old place to-day. ' ?> The school house is no more, John, Beneath oar locust trees; The wild roso by the window side No moro wavos in (be brccse; The scattered stones look dosolato, The sod they rosted on lias been plowed up hy stranger hands Slnee you and I were gone. V Tho chestnut troo (s dead, John, And what Is sadder now? # The broken grape rino of our swing Ilangs on tho withorod bongh ; T I read oar natnoe upon tho bark And found tho pobbles rare Laid up beneath tho hollow side As wo bod piled them there. Br.-' . Beneath tho grass-grown bank, John, i looked ror our old spring, That bubbled down the older path, Three spaocs from the swing; fMs ' Tho rushes grow upon the brink, The pool is black and bare, And not a foot, this many a day, . , It teems, baa trodden tlioro. I took the old blind road, John, I That wandered up tho hill; 'Tis darker than it used to be, ( And seem* so lono and still! "The birJs sing yet among the boughs Whereonoo tho sweet grapes bung, , But not a voico of human kiud Whore all our voices rung. I sit mo on the feneo, John, That lies as io old time, ( Tlio Mmji k,lf imha! in fk? Wo need so ofl to climb? And thought how o'?r the bar* of life ?? Our playmates had paaaed on, And.loft ma counting on thla *pot Tho faeo* that are gone. wwtiiatdlnnrana limbing. ? y , ... n . The Hiwassee Railroad?Gov. Johnson's Veto Message. Extract from the Veto Me*ang? of Governor "Herachel V. Johnaon, on returning ?o the Oerogia llotiM of Representative* the Bill to incor|>orate the Iliwaasce Railroad Company ITaving ehown that the lliwawec Railroad i* Ineonaiatent with both the system and design of our internal improvements, permit me to invite yonr attention to the irreparable injury which H win inflict upon grent inter eat* of Georgia, which may not be disregarded by nn enlightened Legia latnre! .',**1. Ita effects upon the WdUrlt and Atlantic. ' '"Railroad would be disastrous. There ia a single article of shipment, which it would cut otf from Jlhe State Road, that of Itaelf ought to be sufficient to eonaign it to final condemnation. 1 allude to eopi>*K. The amount received during the last y?r for Ihe transportation of copper ore over f the Western and Atlantic Road, must have been a ? nearly or quite (HA,000. The business ia yet in r Ita infancy, nod future yeare mttat bring a large- M ly incronaed revenue from this source. Rut thia o charter proposes to build a road from the copper ti mines, which will make the South Carolina roade t Cite means liy which it will find ita shipping at li Charleston. Are you prepared to surrender this a source of profit to our State Road f " 1 have said that the grand design of our In- ? ternni improvements is to make the boundless b productions of the great West tributary to the ii wealth and prosperity of Georgia. To effect this* u the 8tat? has expended (0.000,000 in the con- d at ruction of the Western and Allantlo Railroad e ftha wisely tapped this fertile region vt Chatta- G nooga, which is the most favorable |>oint near tl the termination of the great Mountain Chain, to 1 meet the Converging line* which pienetrnte the v Mississippi Valley, and Eastern and Middle Ten. b neeaee. That li the point at which the State 'I rr ^'r* "J *ul: ,MM*"W WM w,,,vU lv t tAxkt mainly rely for a profitable bnelnre*. Tbi* <> 4 tf th? poiut of competition, and the geographi* ' ?al position of th? St ite i* mcb, that her road, b ' without her conaent, never can have a formida- ll ? bla rival. The |rroduetione wo*t of that point * are aeeking the Atlantie. Now, they are eompell- . 1 ?<1 to pace over our road in going either to Savan- ' K nah or Charleston, booking to the enterprises l' w in tontemplalion, n great line may be ex* H peettd, at *o very divtant dny, from Chalianoo- A go to Chempoake Bar. Thia will be a cnm|?eti' 1 4 ^a 1j ? B -* ?a ier, nui not lea Malty formidable. In mi hour of j ? iWofthtWa*generosity. our LfglMatme granted { fl the Habnn Gap charter, which giver Charlerton , a lino through Georgia to Knnxvllle. When I MMnpleted, this will h* another rival to our tit ate I Road, bat perhaps not one that cnn rupplanl ua t gl ?haU*i)oog*. Without our oonaeut, wa net er or,n h?v? any other*. Rut the bll under eon- j I aidoration propoeca to make the latter a rompe- , titof, Which will be nxwi formidable, if rot ruin- i ? oua. to our fttate Road, by making a eooneeted I lina at Chattanooga, through Hahttn Gup, to i ? Tf*?l?rtnn * I ? " It will not b? denied, other thing* being rqunl, tliat freight will take the shortest line to the tea. The rood proposed !>J thie charter will iaevitably result not only, as 1 have before shown, in n connected tine from Charleston to Chattanooga through the Rabun Gap, but a ?hort?r llnthan the route over the Western and Atlantic Railroad. I Itnve-before me the latest edition of DisturneH's Railway and Steamship Guide, published for March, 1656. It is doubtless as reliable as any work of the kind can be, and certainly sufficiently accurate fur the purpose in hnnd. According to this work, the distances are as follow : From Charleston to Columbia it is 1S8 miles. From Columbia to Anderson it Is 137 miles. In a right line from Anderson, by Clayton and Cleveland, to Chattanooga, it it 160 miles? So that from Chattanoogr to Charleston, 'by this South Carolina rente,' it is 415 milea, Frotti Charleston to Augusta It is 137 miles. From Augusta to Atlanta It is 171 tniles; and from Atlanta to Chattanooga it Is 1SS tidies, making from Chattanooga to Charleston 440 miles by the Georgia line, allowing a difference in distance of 81 miles in favor of the Charleston route by way of Clayton nnd Cleveland. " This comparison is based upon the supposition that the South Carolina rout* ?itl - >- r---? Charleston l?y Columbia, Anderson, Rabun Gap, and Cleveland, to Chattanooga. It will, however, be shortened by the proposed road from Aiken to Anderson, time making the competition still more ruinous to the Western nnd Atlantic Railroad. I do feci that there is nothing to warrant us to pq^in jeopardy this great road, built at such an immense cost by the common treasury of the people. As the guardians of the people's welfare, we are bound to protect this valuable State property from destruction. If the South Carolina line were equal to, or even a little longer, than the Georgia line, we should be compelled to reduce the rates of freight to a point which would leave but a small margin for net profits. How, then, can we bear the competition of a shorter line? Shall we invite it hy our legislation, when we have it in our power to prevent it forever! From the direction which public opinion is taking in Georgia, in reference to the Western and Atlantic Railroad, it is probable that nt r.o iistant day our successor* will offer it for sale. ?ix millions of dollars is now the lowest, sum for which a<ty man proposes to sell it; in a few years it will lie worth and w ill bring (8,000,000, if you will not felb r it with embarrassing legislation, ir build up a great rival for tho benefit, nf r.ti.?e States. But what w ill it command in market, if I I'liD allow h shorter linn to Charleston l>y the ivay of Cleveland nnrt Unban Gap? " 4. If the construction of the Hitrane Road 'hould not defeat all our contemplated roada in Northeastern Georgia, it will certainly give a wrong direction to the development of the re- | murce* of that section. In my judgment, it nuat inevitably do the one or the other. Yon i lave chartered a road Worn Athens to Clayton, jut where vfould he the inducement to complete 1 he Northeaalerti Railroad f Its stock vronld be i r?!'ielese. It would comnian<l no freight from < Tart Tennessee and North Carolina; it would he ] Iiverted to Charleston, You have chartered a i -ailrnad from the copper mines to Marietta, or t ome point between Marietta and Calhoun But ] what would be the inducement to build the El- | ijay Itoadt The same remark is applicable to i lie road which you have chartered from Clarks | llle, through the llightower Gap, to the oopper | nines, and Indeed every road contemplated in ] hat whole division of the State. ( " But suppose it should not have tliis effect i ipon those enterprises; suppose that some of . hem should be completed, and that, through , heir instrumentality, Northeastern Georgia f honld be developed?what, then, might we ex?ectT Inevitably that region of the State, in- 1 tend of heinir triliiit?r? ?? I ? - 0 "J ? ?>v>ku>, n vuiu u aur x?rt the grout bulk of ila productions by the , iouth Carolina route. The interest and welfare ( f Kortheastcrn Georgia does not require legisla | ion which wi'.l lead to such results. It may be, ( o say the least, as well proteeted by a policy In i isrmony with the system and design of our , oheme of Internal improvements, ^ "8. The const rusHon of the proposed III was- f se Road would inflict serious detriment, not on- t y upon the immense amount of capital invested , >i the Westem-Wnd Atlantic Railrond, but also j pot. our great lilies that either direetly or in' ( irectly eonneet with It. Tlie State Road lias t ost aiiout #0.000,000. It is a great feeder to the leorgia Railroad, which has eost #4,000.0001 to ^ lie Waynesboro' Rond, which haseostabout #1,- , 00,000; to the Mncon and Western Rond, ^ 'Itieh lies cost aliout #1,100.000, and to the Cen. , rsl Rond, which Iihj cost about # t .000,000: so hot we have invented in theee work*, in round ? iqntKn f>! 6.200,<KK?. (hir people have laid f own their money in good fnitli for the construe- y Ion of these roads. They have operated mo>t , eneficially nju?n the wealth and prosperity of t lie State, and plneed her in advance of all her iater Southern Slates: Now, If the contemplated j. Iiwassee Road would tend still to advance the y real interests of Georgia, it would he some c ompensatiou for the Injury it would do to these g rent enterprises, end would furnish sonse justi- g ration for the sanction of this charter. But, g, usteed of thia, it wouhl divert to the South Car- p Una route much the larger portion of the ), nights on whirls these heavy investments are a iHpeudent, and lainentahly depreciate their value. f{ have too much respect for the intelligenee of j, lie General AeeentMy to advanee an argument , 0 show that any art of legislation it unwise ,] vhirlt will put in Jeopardy I6.i00.000 of the #] nnple. It U equally unnecoeeary to advene* ( my proof, that whatever would cripple the efli- ? leney of the reeds ronatr.ieted on the Urn of egislative eonsMoney and good faith, would be / 1 greet |>uhtic calamity. * It nay bo asked, whether the coamnoiUet, who are to be accommodated by the rtlwnsseo Railroad ore to W kept forever exclude*! from aeee** to favorable markets by (the mountains which interpose between them and the great thoroughfares through our State? ?" But to the question just propounded, I reply, that the communities of the State who desire the Illwassce ltoad, ought not, by any line of State policy, to be shut off from faTorable markets for their produce. There is no necessity for it. They can be accommodated in another way, consistently with a sound Georgia interest anil Georgia policy. How can this be done t Tide leedf me to extend a little more fully my views, in reference to our system of internal iinprovements, than is contains I in my bi ennial message, from which I quoted in the first part of this communication. " I said that Augusta, Savannah and Brunswick, ate the basis of our system, and that aid might be wisely extended to the completion of its general frame-work.. For this purpose, and the full development of our natural resources, I believe that each of these points of commerce should he connected by main lines with the great geographical divisions or sections of our Stale.? At present, neither of these eities Is connected with Nortli it???n-n fl... ?? ? ... V.V. g>?? anrjr ni V, Wr OUUII will be, contemplated routes, with Norih-we?iern, Western and South-western Georgia. Hence, what is needed to connect tliero all with North, eastern Georgia, is a road from that section to Athens, or some point on the Georgia or Western and Atlantic Railroad. To sncli an enterprise, I helieve'our true interest requires that State aid, in some form, should be granted. I did not hope to see this done by the present General AssemblyI have an abiding confidence that it will be done at an early period. To such a road, branches would be built in due time, thus developing that whole region, affording to it facilities for trans* porting its products to market, sad at the same time, making it tributary to the interest and prosperity of our general scheme. " Or, if those who seek railroad accommodation by this bill, believa Charleston to be the best market, and desire n connection with it, they should not he prohibited. It is right tlint every portion of the State be allowed aee< n, If possible* to the market of their choice. For this put pose, let charters be granted to connect from any snfo ] point, south of the Tennessee line, at Itahun Gap, or any point east, that will give the desired connection. But it is quite a different question, when a charter is asked, which yields, as this bill does, tlio right of way across a portion of the State, which must, result in a connection between points east and west, that will prove fatal to the interest of Georgia. " I trust 1 am not selfish in the disjointed views which 1 have presented for your consideration. 1 believe thoroughly in the doctrine of 'greatest guuu iu 11 m* greatest number,' and it i* under this influence that I have leit hound in withhold my sanction to the bill under consideration. "Nor am I animated by any hostility to the Interests and welfare of South. Carolina. She is now acting, and al?ray has acted, in accordance with the poliey which I advocate for Georgia.? By it, she Is stimulated to the nobleet efforts to reach the Weat by a route shorter than that through Georgia by the Western and Atlantic Railroad. She docs right in thus seeking to sustain her own publio works, and foster her own leaport. Her energy and sagacity command my idmiration. I respect her people. I venerate ler great men. I applaud her public spirit, and I cordially bid her ' God s|>eed' In her career of nterprisc. IWo not love her less, but Georgia uore. Still, however much I may rejoice in her [>rosperity. I confess to an ardent desire, that >ur Legislature shall uot promote it at the aaeriice of our own." "I Sever Expect to be Anxious Again." Such were the word* of one whose youth hud tot yet lost its bloom, She bad resisted the driving* of the Spirit of God, and she felt that te hud left her. Twice in her life time he hud !ome with especial power to her heart. Doubters she hud ninny thoughtful momenta when livening to the warnings of Sabbath sermons# alien standing by the solemn death bed and the >pcn grave. But more distinctly marked tbnn hese, she eottld recall two rcparnte occasions rhen she knew that the lltdy Spirit was pleadng with Iter. Repulsed or neglected at the first nil, he departed, yet came again. ^ second ime was heard the secret, whisper, and again he had refused to listen. Days, perhaps months, lassed on, and the Spirits voice was hushed while he who once Vept or prayed grew careless as lefore. until in indifference or despair, she could ny, " 1 never expect to be anxious again. Wc know not what mercy may do for even Its no*t determined rejector. rcrhnps,' through tod's grace, her spirit, renewed end saved, may j et slug the humble sor.g at the ransomed. B::t lie soul that repeatedly grieves the Spirit of rod invites a fearful danger, Ik-ar friend, has the Spirit's call been given to ouf Do yon even now hear a low whispering rithin you, urging you to make the Christian's Itoice T Oh, heed the summon* It were inratitude to turn away from the heavenly mes snger who comes to you in a kindness, that is nfficient for your need. It were running a fearill risk if you refuse to welcome him. lie may save yon, and is leaving yon none other on arth or heaven can give you help, Turn not rum him. Woleoma rather the pain which his and mny at first inflict?he is hut causing you o feel the wound he lias power to heal, l'ray hat, whatever else may befall you, you may be pared that ealamity?the Spirit's departure and he lose of your anttl. Delay not. delay not, the Spirit of Grace, I#oag gtleved andmststod, may take Us sad flight; ind kave thee la darkness to finish thy race, To sink in the gloom of steraity's night." [3. 3 Timsv. What * Suit of Clothe* Game To. " Mother," Mid George Maxwell, " there'* a poor boy in our school who I wltk had some of my clothe* The boys call him Pinch, he looks so pifiched; but he is real clean, and his knees and elbows are well patched; be was dreadfully cold in school to-day j 1 know ho was, he kept shivering so." "The poor do not suffer half so much from cold as we think for," ani>l his aunt; "they get used to it," " Lei's see you try it," cried George. "Hush, my son," anid his mother. "Welt, mother, as if flesh and LIo<h1 would not feel such weather as this, with only a thin strip of old cloth between them. Aunt is covered with flannel from head )o foot; no wonder site doesn't knoW wluit cold is." Oeorge and his aunt were not apt to agree, and the worst of it was they did not agree to disagree. "What is the hoy's name besides Pinchl* asked his mother. "Jed Little. I guess he has no father, and do not know where lie lives. I only know he is a good fellow, and rent pitiful (Ids Weather. "Well," said Mrs, Maxwell, "if you can do' any tiling for hint, I shall be very glad to have you." "Good," cried George, turning to his j book again ; "before tomorrow night I'll take the shiver out of poor Jed, if I can."* lie could | uuw eiuny UCIfer. Jed wns not at school the next afternoon.-? George asked where he lived; none of the boys knew, none nt lenst that he naked. After school tile tnnMer told him, and nwny he scampered to find him. It was in an old block of buildings in another part of the town, which he made n budnes? to search through and through when he got there. Presently there wns a tnp at one of the basement windows, and George spied Jed's face at one of the squares. " Hallo," cried he. Jed came to the door and peeped out* "Where are you konhd) down here!" he naked. "Looking up you, fellow," said George. " Mother is tinning my trowsera, and I've got nothing to wear while she is doing it," anid the boy; "I cannot go out, so you come in." George went into the little room where the Littles lived?a poor widow with four childr- n, whom the long and severe wiuter wns pinching to the very extent of their scanty menns. Such a box of a stove as George thought, and about n porringer of potatoes; and Jed with old summer pants on and blanket over his shoulder*; while his mother was basting strips of flannel in bis school-lronsers, and they the best be had. It wns the reality of poverty, which George seldom saw. * " I just thought I would hunt you np, Jed," he said, making as if to go, for he felt half ashamed of his thick coat beside his poor, half-clad selioo'? mate. M Thank you ever so much for coming,'* said Jed ; "it* good in you. Why, you see, I nl most froze in school yesterday, and mother did not want to go till she had time to fix me ? Hlie sews for the shops, and has to sew for us by piecemenl. I wish 'twas always summer, George, like the tropics geography tells about." " Poor Jed," snid George to himself, as ho ran hornet " poor fellow, poor fellow." "Mother," he cried, as he bounded into the house with his glowing cheeks, " I want to make up a bundle < f my dothes for Jed Little; quick, mother, quick.' "It is dinner time," said his aunt. " Dinner!' cried the eAger boy ; " what do I care about dinner when poor Jed Little is freezing!" Dnt ids mother quieted Ins impetuosity until after dinner, when she weht up stairs with him and gave him leave to aclect a full and comfortable suit for the poor boy. George shouldered the bundle, and took in hit other hand a tin pail full of dinner for the destitute family. "You are a good boy,1' said his aunt. "Goodt T ntn not good. I've not a sparke of goodness in me!" cried he, "My child, how you speak to your aunt," said his mother gently, laying her hand on his head.? "I know it, mother," he answered, in a gentle tone; "Oh, 1 know it, and it is so rough in me; aunt, will you forgive me for apeaklng sot"? "Go," said aunt and mother, hoth smiling. " I have had a good Visit," said George on Ms return, bringing home a serious, thoughtful and softened look with him, "Jed could not speak, he only looked and looked ; his mother did the thinking. I did not want thanks, only it seemed to do her good. Jed grabbed my hand when I camexofF, and sqneeaed it so; ' some time or other * said he?and that wni all he conld Twenty years or more passed away, rhd a poor miner was uiifn irom on* oi the Nacramento bonis and landed st S?n Francisco. Poor, friendless and sick, he was scarcely able to wnlk^ and saiili down on a box of goods under a shed In the hurry nobody noticed him, or noticing him, thought it worth while to inquire into his misfortunes. At last, when the bustle began to lull, a couple of men cHme along. "There's that poor fellow," they snid ; " lie's never likely to sec his home again." "Who is it?" asked a third, "Don't know hit name,1' answered one. "Maxwell, I think," said the other ; a down-eastcr." The name arrested the attention of a stranger who stood near the wharf looking ovif an invoice of goods, "Maxwell," he looked up and said, "Maxwell, where?" They pointed him to the sick man, who aeeiusd to have fdllen asleepHe went towards him. " A good deal older than any Maxwell I ever knew," he Mid. " Maxwell," he repeated, half aloud, and the name seemed to flood him with memories which took him far, far back to his boyhood again. "Max. well," he Mid again, sod again was drawn to the poor miner. " Vour name le Max well,H he Mid, seeing him awake. "That ia my name, elr; George Max well," answered the man; "wreck ?(l on a forlorn eoast." M George Maxwell," exe1alme9 the stranger, 1 grasping the miner'e thin hand In hia right hon. est, healthy grip, ' God bless you ; and who am , 1 bat Jed Little, able to oarry a dosen of yon on i my book I Coma, ooma, my home la yoor home. 1 It is all summer with me now, and you shall share my siiim ,er with nle, George Msnrtll."? Who can dr~<eribc the meeting or the wonderful faithfulness of Gad's providence, whereby a bundle of clothes, planted twenty or twenty-five years before, yielded an abundant hat-vest? friendship, food, hope, shelter, medicine, and a prospect of better business thnn minim; could ever be to one so delicately brought up as George Maxwell had been f Our Foremotherf. Some good-natured wag. real out for the honor of womanhood, has given utterance to the following tribute to Ills ancestors on the female side. It is well done, and well worth the reading : We bear enough about onr forefathers. They were nice old fellows, no doubt. Good to Work, ent, or fight. Very well, Tint where are their companions, their " chums," who, as their helpmates, urged tliem along! Who worked and delved for our lore-fathers, brushed ~ap their old clothes, and patched their breeches! Who ali most, invotvun fttismidlvM 11-? ? f HI--*-4 .H'triJI Who nursed nnr forefathers when sick, sang Ynnkee Doodle to their babies? who trsine<l up their bojs 7 Our foremolhers. Who landed nt .Fames River, and came over In the Mayflower, and established the other early settlements? Were there any women among them? One would think not Our Jtenkec neighbors especially make a wonderf^^ lk about the pilgrim fathers who squatted on Plymonth Rock, and there Is a grent ado over it every time they wish to get up a little enthusiasm on liberty, and refresh themselves liy crowing over freedom ; and the chivalry of Virginia are not a whit behind them, when they take a notion to vaunt themselves upon tho glory snd greatness of the Old Disunion } and our stnid Pennsylvania Quakers like to plume themselves, slyly, upon tho merits and doings of Wil.hini Penn and his associates; hut with all the "blarn-y *' plentifully distributed on all sides, what do we hear or .gather about our foremolhers? Didn't they land on a rock, too ? Didn't they encounter perils and hardships? And, after ad. didn't they, with their kind hearts, sustain the flagging spirits of their mute companions! Who ushered us into litis world?our forefutli crs? Bali ! No, indeed ; it was our foremothere. Who nursed George Waidiington, Anthony Wayne, Ben Franklin, Israel Putnam, and a host of other worthies, whose names will live forever, and taught iJiem to he men ami patriots? Didn't | our fnremotlurs? And who gives them the credit they deserve T Nobody* W? have our monument* commemorating, nnd our speeches, our toasts, and our public dinners, celebrating the wonderful deeds of our forefathers, but where are those in honor of our foremother* t We had better-be getting them ready. We talk ourselves hoarse nnd write ourselves round shouldered, while (toiling over with enthusiasm about the nice things our forefathers did, and yet notiiing is snid about our foremotliere, to whom many a viituous act and brave deed mnv be ascribed, such as any hero would be proud to own, We wisli not to detract. Ail hail to the noble old men, our foi c fa there, say we. May theglory of their deeds never Its less; but the good book tells us to " render unto Ctesar," etc . and we wish to speak a word in season for woman generally! and especially for our noble and self-sacrificing foromothers ; lest time and the one-sided page of history, sliull blot them forever from our memories. "AH Aboard." I had taken my plar.e in oai of the Western express trains ami sat watching those who flood outside, when I heard the shrill cry of the conductor, "All Aboard! all aboard J" At the summons, many started and took their scats at. once | some lingered a moment to say a last, farewell to friends, while others loitered still a moment longer at tha refreshment-table, till a more imperative cry brought the last tardy loiterer running to jump on just as they began to move No, not the very lust) for ns the wheels began tb revolve more rapidly, we saw a man running with all his might, lint lie was too Intel quicker and quicker becntne the swift motion j and a* the conviction that lie was left came over him his face assumed a dreadful expression of mingled ragennd disappointment, and as the cars glided out of sight, he stood on the track fiercely shouting and gesticulating. Poor man I Perhaps he was separated from wife and children ; perhaps thousands of dollars would he lost by his failure to meet an engagement; perhaps his dearest frieiul lay at the point of death. " Good enough for him ; why w asn't he here In timet" exclaimed one near me. It was nil hi* own fault; yefchi* look of distress h.Anted me. and us we hastened on, my thoughts dwelt uu tho folly of delay in other esses. There is another Inurnaa t? I... * .!??? K? ......? human being, another passage to ba secured. We nil intend to go to heaven; the rood is open, the conveyance sure, the Conductor ready.? " All aboard!" is tlu urgent, cry ringing in our ears. How is it receiyed ? Some are wise enough to enter immediately ) other#, enticed by the voice of friendship, linger till they bare Insecure a scat; while others, alas I come rnnning in breathless haste when it is just tOo late; in tlfne to see many de|>arting for the promised laud, while themselves are left behind. To secure some poor morsel of food, some paltry pleasure not worth having, they linve lost heav en, lost'it forever, In vain they now see their folly, aud shriek aloud for uid. Faea Ncoaoas to bb hxcl.unrn r?-1? Mtaaorni St. Louis, Thursday, Marsh 8 ?The bill excluding free negroes from the Slate, under the penal ty of becoming slaves, pisse-l the Senate yesterday. It hail previously passed the House. The Mine bill passed Imth Houses at Inst session, but foiled to receive the lignatwm <rf Advice to Yonnf LttdiM. It is very natural, ?*ys Timothy Titeomb, tof young women to got in the habit of treating only those young men |>olite)y whom they happen, for various reasons, to fancy. They don't ears what, the majority of young men think of them, provided they retain the good trill of their particular pets. They are whitnsieal. and take on special and strong likes and dislikea for the young m<-n whom they meet. One is perfectly hateful, and another la perfectly splendid, and so they jtracced to make fools of themselves over both parties. Now, there is nothing Upon which a young mini is so sensitive as this matter of being treated with polite consideration by the young women of his acquaintance ; and I know of nothing which will tend more certain to raaka a young man hateful than to treat him as if ba were so. There is n multitude of young men whose self-respect is nurtured, whoee ambition la quickened, and whose hearts are warmed with a genial fire, by those considernte recognitions on me pnri ni meir lemnle acquaintances which assure tln-m that they have n position in th? esteem of those with whom they Associate the sweetest hopes and happiness of life. To be ent for no pood cause is to receive a wouniT which is not easily healed. The duty, therefore, which I would inculcate* is thst of systematic politeness. If you know a yonnp man, bow to him when yon meet him.?* lie will not bow to you first, for he waits for your recognition. He does not know whether you esteem him of sufficient value to be recognized. If you pass him without n recognition, you say to him, in a language which he feels with s kccnnc?s which you cannot measure,'that you considered him beneath your notice. You plant in hie heart immediately a prejudice against yourself. Yon disturb htm. Yotl hurt him, and this, too, let me admit, very frequently without design. You arc sensitive yourself, and are afraid he has forgotten yon, and Would not like to have you notloe him. There is a good leal of this kind of thing, but it is nil wrong.? There is no man who will not return your how, and feel the better for your smile; and if the young man receiving the attention is poor, and hi* position in the world to win, and feels that he has not as many attractions, personal or circumstantial, as others, you have made his heart light, and awakened toward yourself a feeling of cordial pood will, akin in many instances to gratitude. Extkr xot into Tkuptatiox.?A young man -to?d gazing listlessly in at the windows of a i4v ngiiten rmoon one evening, when tie felt a gentle inp on the shoulder; he turned. And a friend of his, taking his arm, Mid " Come, I'm going in here a few moments; will you not entile?*' lie hesitated, his mother rose before him a> on her dying bed, he promised her that lie would never, never, never sit at a gambling table, or look upon the wine cap. But the tempter still urged; the first downward step waa taken. He entered. A few years passed away. Stretched on a bad, is a poor, bloated dying man, with frenaied eyea and writhing limbs. It is not necessary to fo!? low him in Hit downward course of sin and misery. lie had lost nearly all, and he drank that he mi-lit still the accusings of conscience; ha drank until ha was struck with delirum tremens* lie would point his attenuated finger towards the door, and eaelaim ? "There they are, don't you sec them I Oh, keep them off, keep them iff. There, they have got me. Yes, yes, wilt play one game more with you, for you have my soul, 1 know you have. I will win it back.**? Thus he would rave, ever thinking he was play* ing with demons, that he might win back hie soul, which he said they had got, until death palsied Ids arm and chilled his blood ; when the strife was ended, and the gambler draakard waa no mote.?Am. Met*. Tr.*tis a Mark or Power.-"-There is a tnerednru iii tears. They are not the mark of weakness, hut of power. They are messages of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, of nnspcakahle love. If there were wanting any argument to prove that man was not mortal, I would look for It in the strong, convulsive emotion of tho breast, when the soul has been agitated, when the fountains of feeling are rising, and whenteaf* are gushing forth in orvstal streams. Oh ! speak not harshly of the stricken one weeping in sihcoel Hreuk not the solemnity by rude langhter or intrusive footsteps. Despise no woman's tears; they are what make her an angel. Scoff not if the stern heart of manhood is sometime* melted into sympathetic tears; they are what help to elevate him above the brute. I love to tee tears of affection. They arc painful tokens, but -till most holy. There is a pleasure in tears?an uwlul pleasure. It there were none on earth to shed tears lor me, 1 should be loth to live; ami if no ?ne might." weep over my grave, 1 could never die in peace.?Dr. Johnhon. lioMSPirs vjtotns are ooconung so m*TifW|? nlde niil) bufinM men lhal the factories in different parts of the State find it impossible, with their present facilities, to fill the various orders that pour in upon them. Our people are learning to discard broadcloths and cassiinercs, and to adopt in their stead the beautiful Southern goods to be seen on the streets every hour in the day. [Richmond Diapatch. As exchange makes the following quniut ?ompar Won: " Careful ohaervation and calculation from reliable statistics show that mora wires of Northern men, in pro|?ortion to the number, annually run away front their husband*, than there arc slaves who flee from their masters." Cost or Jon?! Brown's Uau>,? According to of. I Acini statement, the John Itrown raid has already co.-t the Slate Uic sum of two hundred and sixty ihousand dollar*, hesidt* the valuable live* Unit. Were save it) oe J by thnl maraud. r and hu cans. f We Lansit himwmu* v ,