Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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?? - % V , , J' .4 . + , . -^ | -!,- ' ' ' aMMMHMHMMMMHnBHRHnBMi I ^ r i i, ; * * >< i ? -i ' ' VOLUME XIV. 1 ?m ? *??' ii pm wm mm O. fi-TO.W-N R8n^ EDITOR. J. 0. KtaHi ht'r. ul Editor 4 " CwmciuptIow Two Dollar* per annum. Auv*btu(K?knt? inserted at tbe raU? ol on* dollar per aquarr tf twele* Minion linci (thi* riled typ*) or lew for tlx* flrnl Insertion, fifty MnU M?h for the eecond nnd third inrvr itinna, m4 twenty-live nnti for iub*e<^uenl lineerttOM. Y*orly oewteneU t^ill bo mad*. All adv*rU*om*oto -mart bore Ow numbei -of inaertiona marked on tk*m, or tfcay will b? - Jmcrwd Ull ordercu out, and ct>nrge<l lor. UaluM ordered otherwise, livuUManli rill InriritUy " Jtapbjrrd" ' Obituary notice*, and *11 in attar* towln* 4* A* tb* benefit / any one, ?r* regarded u Advertisement*. dPS-S-W--?P? The Bivouac of ike Bead. r Tb* muffled drain's tad roll ha* beat Tb* soldier'* last tattoo ; N<? more on Ufa'* parade shall mcot The brave aad daring few. . Od Fame's eternal camping ground . Their silent tent* are spread, And Glory guard* with solomn round * The bltrouao of tb* dead. No Bttfwor of the foe's advance due awoll* upon UtO wind, "No troubled thought at midnight haunt* Ot lured one* loll bobind, Ko vision of tbo morrow's strife The warrior'*t^aaiu alarms; ; Ko braying bona ot aaruanalug ?f* . A' dawn shall edit to anus. . Their shivered swords are red with rust, Tbeir plumed bead* are bowed ; Their haughty banner, trailed in dust, Is now tbeir marshal shroud ; ' Aad plenteous fhoeral tears hare washed Tbo red stains from each brow, And their proud foams, in battle gMb?4> . . Are free from anguish now. '? The neighing atemi, -the dashing blade, Tbe trumpet's stirring blast, The charge, tbe dreadful cannonade^ Tb* din, and shout, are past. No war's wild nut*, nor glow's jteaV ' Shall .thrill with fierce delight, Those breasts thai nevermore shall feel The rapture of the fight. 1Ai the dread Northern hurrlcaoe That sweeps his based plate**, flatbed with triumphs yet to gain, Came down the serried fee. Our heroes felt the shock and leaped To.meet them on the plain. And long the pitying sky hath wept Above our gallant slain. Foae of our con seers ted ground. To mast not slumber there. TV here stranger steps and tongues resound l * Along tbedieedles* air. -( , , Your own proud land's beruie soil dhill be your fitter grave, Mm clsims from war his richest spell? * The ashes of her brave. (Bo 'nesth their parent 'f they rest. Far from the gory field < florae to a Spr.rtan Mother's breast On many a bloody sbiold. The sunshine of their native sky Smiles sadly on tbem here, , v A>d kindred hearts and eyes watch by The herd's sepulchre. Pest on, embalmed and sainted dead! Dear as the bloody grave ; Wu impious footsteps here shall tread To blame the lives yon gave j Nor shall your glory be forgot While (uae bar record keeps, (Or honor points the hallowed spot (t'bert) ralor proudly sleep*, ' * *? * " i * Yon marble inlostiel's roleelcse tone la d**th)es# song* shell Ull, many a vanquished age bath flown > The itvy bow ye fell, ffor wreck^ tutf change, or Winter's Might , Hur Ume'a remorseless doom, Shall dim on* ray ef holy Hght , That glide your holy tomb. i Letter to tho Ex-GoTrrnor o Booth Carolina. [Correspondence of tha Register ] Philadelphia, Fob. 22, 1808. jBx Got am or B. F. Parry, Graanvilla 8. O. My Oaar 8ir : I hara jaai raa< fOffT to O. N. Butlar, Esq, ii ,which t oo any 44 tbe negro ia po lufiga that industrious, useful and civil labor or which ba onca waa, bat an idle drew end paat to aoeiety. Inflated with hi uaw end m?rvelous nolitical imponanea )bfi ha# fUgpdoced bit former iaduatri ' ba^itfl and rpanda hit tima in at landing publfe pieeling* and ioya laagua gatbaringa by d*?? apd by night 7"ha wjjolc race seam disposed to oni jhejr jaorfc *P4 reipit to tba towna an< UVMJ OUI an Mil' And wretched existence in pilfering am pardon, 8ir, for this intrusion without solicitation, except from m; own anxious mind, for tho fsie of on who's country. When | escorted von jo to National Guards llall, it this citp, to addrass tba people on th< . greet crisis, I bad a hope that the en suing Congressional elections, woulc bate resulted different from what thai did, and tba tides pf rain be obecfeed putt? our grant disappointment, thi effort Ceiled. Bir, our efforts wen greatly emberraeeed and thwarted b; such Booihern statesmen as jo?r 4)or efnor Orr, who I also eondnetnd to Iftn fjoanl Guards daN in llfff, to add ran an nesensbiage of anxioee ooostitotioaa poioo men, all of shoe* were gnstl] rn. I a. I I ...? I ... ni., . nn 1 am. 4 . " -* V ' . * >' # Hp A. EEFLI i ?? i :.i~ I-Ui -L. M editied, nntl encouraged by. bis appeals te tbe common un?? of I hi people. 1Im> going over, iNlw^iMllr ' mid giving nut mid comfurl lo tb< Abolition mongrel*, took thousand* <? r voters fiom (he l>einooi Alt in ell tin 1 Northern State*, in 1867, Hie declnr 1. nlion* in support of (be mongrels sreri I. wtyreotyjied in nil the Umlicnl papers mul heralded into every finiDv, end , uiKZonea rrom every platform, no<f many pulpit*. People would sel'? loot \ ho re, I cannot vote against the Uadicals.when such BtB a* -Uovernor Orr i of 8outh Carolina, has gone square over to the eitpport of that Radical party." It was moae embarrassing than any opposition we bad to contend with ?veo tnaae Democrats refused to go tc the polls. You speak of the -condition and dia? position of the negroes as abuse, i wish 1 could Iwliuve we had realized the woitt of them. . 1 have read large amount of negro history as it hat transpired, wherever their feet hurt trod the roil. 1 have seen so-called .negro slavery, io many of the Southern States, in all its forms. I bare seen so called negro freedom in all their strongholds, both North and South. 1 have seen bitn in South Ameiioa where ail civil powers weie in their hands. I have seen them in the I-land of Ja inaioa, where the power was divided between the blacks and whites in pio< portion to numbers. And, in nil niy travels, I have been a close surface in veetigator of the black-/ace; aud J tel you, Oovetoor Perry, t&u in my opinion, you have only seen the bcgionlufj of wretchedness, insolence and beastly lownesa of the whole race, elien ir -estate of freedom, with civil power ir ' their bands. H" Negroes in slavery are industrious .obedient, useful aud honest ; and ever trust-worthy. Put ftee litem, and oiajfce them our equal* . before the law and we make them the most wicked the most insolent, the most lazy, th? most unscrupulous, the greatest thievei end huh wicked and hardened lavage* < on th? gW*a. They may be tuad* euna to the late Edward Evereti in scholarship aud lbkj will be ju*t that much worae 1 whenever they tie in large numbers as in your Slates, this will be the ioevi table result?amies* they shall be re dooed to subordination ppder the abut j population, and com pelted in labor juu dor sexero \ Agrant laws, as in 13arba< does. Wherever ihev are hi' Urp numbera, as in the' Southern Si a to* and there made equal to the (Jiuciuiai race before the law, that country ha sunk to rise no more, ' ftho respect aid* white people can live with them. Tlxi aH history inevitably demonstrates.? Some thing* X have aeeti, end m x?s amount of African history . has alioos brought rae to doubt that tbey are bn man being*, possessed with an i minor tal sphit. Hut yet, when I hare beei among them on the plantations. in tin South, and at their religious meeting* I have fait no urn-giving* on that point while they were slaves. And the rea sou why it was so, was becnu*e slavery i their normal condition, and freedom am political power itlheir unnatural condi lion. Uod made them so, and when ever we attempt to ravoke or amend hi wotk*, we shall be compelled to pa1 the penalty, and terrible will be ou fate. it wm with the Amlm wliei they took them (the negroe?) ia cm ai equality thousands of year a ago; am ho it lias been ever aince?whether th< n eg roe? were in large numbers, or an; of the inferior races, when mixed, 01 an equality with the white tace*, tlta country bjya Minfc to ij?e no moral. A in Mexico, Central and South Amerini f ?o will it be io this country unlew tlii tide of roln shall be checked, and lure ed l?ack, and the mongrel party oru*Ira out of power everywhere in tliia land. . ; . e . 0 i. May beeven bleea and vave the Soull I from the blighting influence* of Abol i lioititm. r Truly your friend in the great caua ' of constitutional liberty, ' % J. HELL K0BINSON, B No. 1380 North 18 h Street. ' [Boberfion ( Tenn ) RegitUr, Match I I Goon Coukbkl.?Sydney Smith on ibe fujlow lug from a newspaper an< 1 preferred it tor bim*elf: 1 M When you riae in the morning Toriti a revolution 10 uikk? ine nay happy one to a fellow creature. It i ea-il) done; a tuft off garment to th man who need*, a kind word to th orrowful, and encouraging rrpr**H<< to l^e *t?i?ing-t rillen in theimelvee ligb aa air?will do it, at leaat for tweptt four hour*. But if yoo are }oung, j)e pend npon it will tell when you are old and if you are old, rent aaaiued it wil end you gaUlly down the etreain o time into eternjiy. |)y the most ?ijn pie aritltioetiqgl eupt, look at the jreauli It you ??nd one pereog, only one, hap pily through each day, that three bun dred aud eitly flee a the comae of i year. And euppoeing you live fort] yean only after you oommeaee suck i eourae, you bare fourteen thoueand aii hundred beingo happy, at aU aveou, fo tttue." . <f a j4Bf| r J V ' rur l H (H H H* pB ? o ?i . ' i .11 * 2X'.. 0F P< .. fjf^v ?-* ,,j, [.j r. ; - -1 -- -1 -' '- - J'IL L ,L!. .GREENVILLE, .SOU M'L.U-L ^x?-aj-u^u- -?=*, r Spirit of Mm Radio*! Roligioaj s Preii and Pulpit. 1 ' , j A MOST RKM Urti ARI.K l.tTU.H. f We are indebted to the 8tateviW? * American, fur the following choice pro duciion. Mtfilnilrd to the .columns of ? the .St, JLrOuis " Christian Advocate," by the Kutertnd 8. Y. Waldro, one of the I devil, anointed pa I pit bangers and swag* goring pimp* of morality, who lead the : spiritual mind of thesadicaj party. It * should be remembered too, thai t)vi?r?v, ?rend clerical rascal, is not an iroluted r case, but that he is one ??f the u bright, I particular stars" of the radical religious i stage; represents the views of the great i mass of blasphemers, blackguards and ? thieves, who have "stolen the livery of heaven to serve the devil i?/' and are now fattening upon the corruptions of i the " saintly '* party of " progressive I religious ideas." Alasl for the couni try ! Alas ! for religious and political > freedom wheo such men rule. ' [ Wilaun (y. C \ PUxindealrr. I Chicago, III, Nov. 12. 1807. i To the K4itor of the Knoxeille Frtt Prtet. "I have noticed l?tely seveial (*dit torial) allusions in your paper to a hat I appears to be a matter of feeling among I the people of Eu?t Tennessee id regard to .Methodist Church property, and in I youis of the $lh inst., under head of v Loyal Church,' ae article signed ' Lover of Peace,' on the same subject. From all [ have seen and heard on this I subj-ct in tbe last three years, I con * elude that all the supposed trouble in [ Church prvpejly anoong Kast Teutiesr Means has grown out of (lie action of i Bishop Simpson in Church matters in i' that Stale ; and supposing I am right in. this, I beg leave to say a few words t iu drfuuse of Bishop Simpson, on the i ba-ia of ganeral principle. It is e*i> | UtJIlt, U> Ujy lUIUd. IMttl tile g'lll which ( separates llt? Southern Methodist from t the Northern Methodist, is much Jeepi ?r mid wider ill mi many suppose. 80 1 great indeed, ibat il wore, fully to al1 tempt to bridge it, or /or the two classes | ever 10 west, 1 of course, belong to tile Northern Melbodinl ela*?, ami feel t and speak in tbeir behalf, and, in doing ; so, I shall exercise tbat frniilcne>-* and candor of expression 011 the Methodist ^ affair* tlial Wendell Phillip* is wont lu do on political affairs. M lit the first place the Methodixl*, both North and South, need ' watering a very uiuch to bring lliein np to the , t>ue standard of courage and honesty, I. uecossaiy to assert plainly their tm? characters. Religion and politics are, ? ill fact, one hd the same thing, and s muni b# so con ode ted, (in all popular . govertnnenta especially,) in fact, relil gron ami politics have always been con t sideted one and the snipe in all nation*. Oura was the first, and only exporiinuni s we know of to treat the two aa disiiuci 9 elements in civil government, and w? a are fully joslified in Asserting thai the l, experiment haa been * failure; or si L..I il.j, ?,ruiilin?nl has kiit t l.a .? ? ? conflict thai hiu aiwayt before resulted from opposing ideas. 1 * All government is bated on the re s ligious character of thote wbo form it and carry it on; and when there be a comes n conflict of views, in ite adminv ifttration, it arises of neoeedty from r religious differt noes, it is the ' religd ious mind 1 which makes and executor a the laws, arid shape* in ovary featuri J the legislation of a government. Thii a ia a f.?ct wbiuli needs no argunaast Lr prove because the oppoei'.e of th? n assertion eaunot be 'found to exist in >1 any nation on earth. The United s Stales forms no exception, though ir i, our ' system ' we sttempud it for eight] is years. Still ike religious power of tbi l- human mind would at last prevail ovei d ail tha other eieut?mla of the govern meat. Now, the stronger p>evaii*d and took possession of alt the proper!] Ii and appliances appertaining to the or [ ffsniaation of thu weaker. The word Ideihodbt, H ie true, is anplind to tin 4 two classes of people North sod South yet their religions is no more nhkr than either one ia like that of the IJindv>o. Bishop Simpaon represented the Northern uxmm tn taking possession uf property, fsjrlf won by conquest, in support and defeo?e of thorn rsligit ion,- as opposed to Southern relig (J kin, in the United States, aad in which Northern rehgion nearlr ail other suiail g denomitialious in the North agree and n sympathise, and have an intarest there fore in the property acquired. ? ' ** The Methodists of the North eon slitute the great directing powsr <?| ii reliuion in America: all the orhsr de I nomination* called J'r?>tw?i?ujiii though . differing in furm, in liiuwi ami other ( tpinoy points, yet Ml >w in substance ; lb? religious pours* romked out by lb< || great ruling power, iU? Northern Metb ,f odisls. You tuity m well say that an army has no right to th* aim* and supl.. aliea which it wins on tba hard-fought Held of battj* t? to ?ay that the Worth* ? era hfetbadiet Churolt b*4 AO right to a every church, ebou) house, and every f acre of laud formerly held by Southern a Methodists. Not only so, but it is just a aa wrong and pernicious for Northern r MetbodisU to permit Southern Methodiete to URttt and worship at all, aa it r ?- < >. ?. DPTJL^R, ' v ???I?????? 'TH CAROLINA. APRIL 8. It 1 vn'iLL. -j.r. LJM.I-. at I would I* to permit l^e or J ho?on to I in call togedief and <f?til their disbanded in man nude* arm*. < - Ik M Methodism in the South ?m ens lb i qHrrcd and subjugated, and henceforth -cn tllM i o claim* on anything UM'd or Iw' longing to it* former self. Even their al Bible*, hoojt* and print-tag establish- ?h meat* became the property of the ?ie> il? torn, and ought to be *o u?el. Did tu Spain allow Motion to continue iu reli/iou* exercise* after Curie* conquer* V ed it t Certainly not. Neither did hi any natioa or people ev?r concede tveli pi a privilege to the on* they had to *ub> of jugate. No more then ought the North h? concede auch to the booth. But you ?i< may *ay that the 8otllhe>n Methodist* tli ' and the Northern Methodist* are one i?i aud the same in religion. This'(a* J w ' have bifore said) ia not the case, and ul this will appear very clear frotu the In eery correct definition of die word. ' U'clatter ha", perhaps, done more w harm in bis elaborate comment* on or the meaning of tLe word religion than er any other author or writer. But Web B star even borrowed more than he oiig- 11 inatrd or even learned. r? M Religion then is rimply one's con- ? viction of duly to biur or herself, his Si fellows and his Creator. It hae noth- to iug to do with rewards and *pnni>htuents in tome other world, but belongs B 1 entirely to one's aivjoutn oo (bis earth. ?li It must l?e evident therefore that the yt man who can believe that hi* owning or aud selling, and buying, working and hi not educating a human being i* quite ru different froin tha belief of another man ' who believe* in his heart that bis duty ch i* not to own, buy or sell, uor to work 01 without educating his feUowa. Also, it ill i* obvious that tbo syscoui of Theology, sjj which is reconcilable with the lirst. tti 1 cannot form any. port of Uiu religion of N the Seeoiud. Now, tin. railed the | ?>< Bible, ia often quoted iu support of i hv ciiher aide of thu que*.lion ; and. it i* j w true, ii doe* give evidence un tnv.ii m<1? a. ; tt? just a* one's min<l and one's heart in K cline ; but one mm forgets liinl ' pro- j i* gre**ive mind ' ie in 4acl the lite of any | ro religion, while the dead, iweit 'Utter |>? killtlh /' The Bible of the Southern ! M people we of the Notih want nothing to j ui do with. We have our own views end : er senliin-nta, which with us are the * ! Creator's views and dcsiu-s ns to tr n.% and being the stronger we an- in iHiunce our claitu, l>y t rod's law*, in ' to all tlia*e nicti and things which come ?c , iu our way. We, therefore, claim to in own in fee simple, every person and in i tiling in all the completed South in fy anywise ppertaining to the Southern hi people, whether while or black. The tu blacks belong to u* just as well as the gi whites; and if it were our religion to lL buy, sell and work ihetn as slave*, then ai it would be done unless a stronger pi religion should interfere to preveul u*. p< ** We therefore hold that the South- pi , em people, (not only Methodist*, but ll , all.) have no religion, end ought not to be allowed to assemble ai;her in former ri , churches or elsewhere. and we have uo id doubt the tluie is not far di-lxul wheti ct such prohibition will b? fully carried 01 out, end that too by our reiigtou grow- In ing up among you. c? ** The period is very brief ? b<*n any li mas, much less an editor, can ire per* nl i milled to assert that Northern Method* "* , isls ' Hlenl property, ?ko that ' belong* i to Southern Melbodi?t*' The fact is, i all the Southern people have fallen so i far behind the prog rent of the age in rr ? everything?not only io religion?that b , they aro really ignorant of the plainest V , truths as well as in the religion of the | present age. as in the discoveries of i science, aud their daily application to | c< ; the various arts of life. Religion Ireitig ; 11 a the essential element of all political j P r prpgreea, it most of necessity pet take of ^ * all the modifications which the progre*- 8 | site and educated mind* discover to be ^ r io accordance with the cleare*t lights U of the present age. *011111x10* * and "j , * lleterodo* ' are no lon<f"r arrayed '1 I against each other. Orthodox does not, ' t at the preceut day, among the tiuly I educated, presume to denounce as he* . rettcal or heteiodox, those who differ A i with the fotiner on religion or jxrli " i tics. Thro* perums in one (K>d, is no i more nor less than a figure of i 11 u >t ra " linn * tut a nt*vpr Pinlino h#*II 9 luiinrtil ^ . for hundred* of years by ?H Protestants, 0 i u not for a moment believed by the u I educated of tbe present day. Jt it true 0 | many ignorant people of ibu Method- * . bus as well us some other religions, really do believe in end lets torment for ' . the soul after death, but it in the work r of eeety well (Linking quod to be em **'' . ployed in removing such horrible no* " I liuost Doubtless 4he old Englidj trails' Ution of the Bible bad much to do i with creating this hurt id, sad and , i dreadful notion. Uul even the Uouiau Cat holies have always discarded il and V, i substituted a temporary punishment (a purgatory) from wbiob a liberal pay e* i uisui of money will release the victim. ? * But the whole inaases of the&outb i are steeped in the grossest and darkest tr ignorance aud worse than heathen su- ,r i perslitioo. The whole religion of the 01 i Boutharq people may be classed as one and the same, and that of tha worst possible l?Rdeo#i?*. Nor is there much jr ?ijn for hope iq the future. Putter, |C| lerfi E'VENTS ?68. itiwrtl, if every house and school Imu-e . i all the Southern Stale* were burned > the ground. and everv uative born j ler* forever prohibited from teaching t preaching a* yoj enU it. in this t?t teachers from the North Would | oe? give lu'Ht the rising gnnera'ion i eiy, and in le-s than half a century i ere would be religion worth the I utne. ' ( " Ji?*tnriiing to Hi-hop Simpson, we ? ho know him are of the opinion that, ' is aily fault in dealing with you peo I e South has been in recognising any i you at all as detetving to be elapsed I i a religious body. So far from coa < tiering a Southern Methodist and i ieu a Northern Methodist aa elling in the South, the proper way i mild be to disregard all claa-es there Ike (because aU ere alike any way at fait ) ,1 " The only diff reace being the price i e have to pay f?r a very poor etfoil \ t the part of some to appear Norths I n in sentiment?even William O. towiilow, who, of late years, (since i SOI.) has professed to l>e Northern in I ligioo, yet we who knew him beat , Inle he " stumped the Western ales" in 1862 and '03, ate at t?o loss < me?-ure his relialiitily. , < ( l itis is the unkiudest cut of all ? I rownlow read out of the radical I lurch! However, Ucveteod sir, if < >n will not allow hnn to go " to bis I vtr place," your father and Iris father, t is given hiu) special permission to < in a side show in Teouesaee J < * Now, 1 hive spoken plainly and mdidlv, just what all Northern Mellt- I lists feel and l?elieve, but very few of J lettr have tUe^courage to come out asu t teak llteir true seuiimwnt*, Likewise ( le other minor denominations of the i or:b lime the s.ruje opinions of* (he >uth. The Ueligioo off the North is mud to itrie this Continent and ilm?u I < ho stand in the win ( t> you hII do in ' e South) must get out of the way.-? ' eligion to be such is progressive. It < no longer a dull, hutn drum, dry ailing of the Bible, and that after a culiar interpretation of past aen'uriea. odein science, and better euliglreneut of the human tuiud have discov e?l new sources of light and a far t<Je? tiald for the application of Biblical 1 utlis. The Bible, like constitutions, 1 met l>? auhji'Cted to the test of uxperilenl, and if found inapplicable it must be } studied as to reveal tbe maning and iterprclation* tnoie in harmony with iwn's progress. Wo have only recentbegun to discover the true powers id application of the Federal Coustilion. So, likewise, are we iu?t betiuiug to see aud coiiipreheud that < le Dt'ole is in fact the best constitution 1 ly Slate or nation can have, wb-'U ap lied to ever}' day life among luuti it* jliifcd boil/. We piopo-e io make a lopcr application- of our Bible to all ie Southern States nnd people. V \ bulyogatcd people Lave no more 1 ghl to apply ineir own peculiar moral leas than they have to use their physi d implements of war. Conquered in Dd they are conquered in all, and etice, for the present, (tnd some deidea to come.) you people ought to be ke children, ' seen but not heard,' in II r?ttitlioiU lllliflnva urhtali I K..f -?? > " mivh, na i uoiuiv tid, Hie really aUo political. respectful i v, H.'F. WALDUO." [The inspired John wr ote : ** If a tun siv, I love G<hJ, mil hateth his rot her, he is h liar." Such is Waldro. V'e tuuy notice (he " aaiul" again.] Sohkvouy relates h good story of a onpte of boys, who, having been l^unl 1g all" day, as ihev drew near home, **sed by (he old village meeting house. >ceing some object perched iipou the eeple, one of .be boys fired hi it, and rot.glit a huge owl tumbling to the round. Ijis younger companion, hocked at what seemed an act ol *mc ilege, exclaimed; "-Oh, lhll! you're ecu and gone and *lu>t a cherubim 1" Haunts or Smkkp^Kaisino in Tkxa.-*?A Galveston paper ears: "Coloei Shepherd, of Washington Countv, ought $900 worth of sheep five year* go. prom the sale of mutton and root he has improved his stock w hich ow numbers three thousand head, val ed at twvlve thousand dollar*. Two lipping*, the la-t and the one previous, luouted to ahout two thousand five undred pounds, which he ?old in Gab acton, which is the market, for $3,000. lit slock po?r, find what ho hps realu J f'OM) sales of ?keep and wool are et mated at $30,000, oerjyed solely from i? investment of $9O0." Th* word - Imrill " come* from the Id Moorish forties* '4'arifa, on a prom ntory at the strait* of Gibraltar. The loon occupied this fortress, and e*aclJ a duty on a)i merchandise coining in r going out of the Mediterranean Sea. A Nktr York paper says th it old isi.U ate on the increase in that city, ut it don't explain how they can in* 'ease and he old maids at the eaine me. It is l*e*l not to be angry ; and be?t i the ocX> pl?*Vv to ho quickly recon M- ',. ja * * W * . ' ' J ' * V r.. ;. ', * . _ JJJ ,?"P NO. 46. '* - * How Maskrats Swim Under the Ice, Mu-krau have a curious method of . traveling under the ice. In their Win- * ler excursions to their feeding grounds, ?hieh hi? frequently at great distances *' ^ from their holes, they take in breath At darting and remain under water as long as they can. They then rise up lo ilie ice, and breathe out the air in [heir lungs, wlijch remains in bubbles (gainst the lower surface of the ice ? I'bey wait till this air recovers oxygen Void the water and ice. and then take it agHin, and go on till the operation lias to be repeated. In this way they can travel almost any distance, and live any length of time under the ice." The hunter sometimes take advautage of this habit of the inti.dcrat iu the follow ing manner : ,? ? When the marshes and poods, where the mu-krat abruinds, are first frosen jvur, and the ice is thin and clear, on ttriking into hour.es with his hatchet Tor the purpose of netting bis traps, he frequently sees a whole family plunge, into the water and swim away under the ice. Following one of them for lome distance, he sees him come up to renew his breath in the manner nbor<* J escribed. After the animal has breathI'd against the ice, and before he haa lime lo take bis bubble in again, the liuoter striiuMi with hi* kauhai directly iver him, and dlives bim away front nit bre th. In this case he drowns iu iwiinming a few rods, and the hunter, :nlting a hole in the ice, takes him jut. Mink, otter and beaver, swim under the ice in the same way ; and hunters-' have frequently told me of taking ot'er in the manner I have described, wboti iliese animals visit the houses of the tnuokral for prey. Bankrupt Act?Tut 50 pkr cent L^acbk.? Mr. Editor: There is some touui among your readers as to tb* iroe (lie fifty per cent, clause goea iuto jperat ion. An opinion was submitted to Hon. r. A. Jenckes, tbe author of the Act, lie replies as follows: ' Washington, March 3d, 1808. " ?. M Dear Sir?Yonr opinion concerning the time when the fifty per cent, clause of the Bankrupt Act takes effect, is iu accordance with that of lav erv member of the Committees of both Houses haviug charge of the subject of amendments to that law. iiespacifollv yours, T. A. Jknckeh. Tbe opinitn submitted, was that the Act went "into operation" on 1st June, 1807 ; and that the 50 per cent* clause lakes effect on 1st June, 1808. f Fairfield Herald. - # ??? What we Love a Woman For.? Seme one, speaking of a beautiful giil with enthusiasm, said he was almost in love with her, though her understand* ing was by no means brilliant. " Pooh !** saiJ Goethe, laughing, " a* if love had anything to do with understanding 1? We love a girl for very different things than understanding. We love her for her beauty, her youth, her confiding ness, her character, with its faults, cap* iices, an.I Hea*en knows what other inexpressible charms; but we do not love her understanding. Her mind w? esteem (if it is brilliant) and it may . greatly elevate her in our opiniou ; nav more, it enchains us when we already hive. But her understanding is not that which awakens and inflames our passions," At last we have it on irrefragabia tea* tiruony, from Ogdensburgh, that old Grimes' pulse baa finally ceased to beat. A few mornings since, when the thermometer was nearly played out, a ragged little beggar stopped at the door of Judge J 'a aud plaintively suggested victuals. As the benevolent la* dy of the house was empty in g a few into his basket she asked '. "What is your name, my son I* " My name is Grimes." " Is your father living f" " Yes. marm." " I thought " Old Gitonoa " was dead long ago." "That was mv grandpa !" And the youngster waddled o(FA thinking what " g<*od old soul " the lady was. Givivo Thanks.? Let us bo thankful for life, and work, and enjoyment ; that we may. live now and hereafter ; that our wyes see what ancient prophets foretold, and ancient saints longed 1o wi-ness ; that duty and opportunity A I .1 ' /I . 1?J. . alone nre oui?, aiui uie reruns uoai ; that we can calmly heboid all change* knowing " the removing of those thing* that are shaken " in only that ihe?e thing* which ean not be shaken may remain." Let u? be thankful for .Go?l our Father, for Jesus, our Savionr, for the iloly Ohoei.our Comf'vrter, for the (Vrrnmutiion of Saiota and the hope of life eternal. . .?M. A Ci .KROVMAN an id he addressed hta congregation of ladies and gentlemen a* hretheron, because the brethercQ embraced the ?