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BY W. A. LEE AND HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C., FRIDAY. AUGUST 28, 1808. VOLUME XV1--NO. 18.
NO BABY N THE HOUSE.
No baby in the house, I know,
'Tis fur too uioo and denn;
Ko lopa by carcloss lingers thrown
Upon the floor nre P'.cn ;
No finger-marks nrc on tli?s pnncf",
No scratche3 on the chairs;
No wooden men set up in rows,
Or marshalled oft' in ]<nir?;
No little stockings to be darned,
All ragged nt the toes;
No pile of mending to he don??,
Made up of baby clothcs;
No little troubles to be soothed,
No little hand to fold;
No stories to bo told ;
No tender lii=sc3 to be given,
No n! ;l;iianic8, "Lovo" and "SIouso
No merry froliea nfter tea?
No baby in tlio liouae.
GAIETY IN THE HOME.
Gaioty is indipponpablo to childhood
and I doubt whotbor it can be dieponsodwith
in after life. Thoro is an innocent
craving for it even in old age.
God has scattered flowers upon our
fallen earth, and sent us tho songs of
birds. YvTby should \to turn away
from them ? Why should tnirth and
hearty laughter scandalize us?
Tr mor?^T r\P no /1a wnf Iawa
Afc VA UU UV ?IW IV/ Y VI VfUL
homes, the reason is far, far from explicable.
To tell tho truth, 1 havo
but a poor opinion of homeB whoro
laughter and morrimont, and jokes
and puns, nay, oven absurdities, aro
unknown. ATcasuro tho hearllessnoss
of that eonfension of Foiilonolio, "For
tho last half contury X havo neither
wept nor laughed." Tho two host
things in lifo, those which provo that
wo havo a heart and au imagination
ao well as a brain, wero loet to tho man
wboso univorso wa6 academies and
crawing rooms. Wca.ro quite aware
that thero is a forced gaiety and u '
forced laughter, than which nothing
is more pad ; and that this spirit may
bocome chronic, to tho annihilation
of ovory serious thought. It v.-ould
bo difficult to chooso between the Fun
tenollo, who never laughed, and the"!
man who ha always laughing; difficult
to say which of tho two had
sunk tho lowest.
Without seriousness family lifo
would hardly doseryo the name.
There is nothing bo serious as lifo;
nothing bo Berious ao happiness, duty,
responsibility, tbo education of childron,
personal education. Is thoro
anything so eeiiouB as our Bins, our
ropentance, our prayers 1 any ta&k
more sorion than the charge of bouIs
that we love?
Bat in proportion as seriousness is
gonuino, cheerfulness will bo bo too.
Thore will be "tbo time to laugh and
tbo time weep.1' Solomon tolls us that
the"wi8dom of a man makcth his face to
shine, and his countenance is no moro
Bad.", This is tho magic of wisdom ;
it is when the heart is lurnod towards
God that the countonar.co is when tho
boart is turned towards God that, tho
CQuptonauco is joyous ai:d beneficont.
A hearty laugh i6 ouo of tho best
and rarost of tilings; gaioty is tho
privilogo ot tho simple minded; is one
of tho surest symptoms of moral health
though of course this is a rulo by no
moans wjlhout oxceptions. Ennui
must? not bo classed among tho values
: wo must not givo way to mo^
rose and languid moods, I know
houses whero Micro is a perpetual
liighingovcr tho evils of humanity,
past, preBont, and to come ; after tho
evils oomo tho faults, and after tho
f&nltA tJin APrnrtJ <511 fKa
w?- ? - v> y-f vti* VUV AUUiUiUWUUilJ'
catalogue is .gone tbrougb; but that
doos not prevent; it figm being resumed
on the morrow. There are complaiutH,
political, rcligiouB, moral artistic
and literary, always in abundance.
I remember once viaiting a lady who
was very deaf; gvory one made it a
doty to contribute something for her
amusement; the speaking trampetwas
passed from hand to, hand j. and
what were the themes that' passed
through it but the sorrows and oalamHfoa
of .the neighborhood how opo
poor gontleman bad broken his leg}
how some poor, tody had taken the
small pox, and another hud . lost her
child.. Thpmost communicative added
do tail t? of tho fial^(H^4* -exxitftttkoB
of tho govoriimon^v'C^f
tainod as to the oi
the atmdry attcm|^jy>?|ia jmd
the unfortunate his
oyes to Hoavon an^^^j^ piteouBly j
bht when tho eveniqg had' ended, every
one congratulatoiji hiraaolf en haying
bet^odto amuse'her.. Tor oh hour t
Ifl'-wereaaked for arocipefor
cheerfataew^l Vould^ayj Humbly efir
iov tho pood An/I- !? * tux?~
? ? ?^ o. ~ ' o r,-7 I "--V fuyoo
around yotj tcndorly, realise that amiability
is a binding Virtuo, and that yre.
arfc bound todiffuaejoj around as in
oar homes. Bat' theiro is just one
more item in my prescriptionwo
must bo willing to. anbond, oTon to
w
#
stoop to a littlo harmless folly. A
lovo for animals will cncourago this ;
tho very preficnco of theso true but
unrpesuming friends will do our hearts
good. Wo ma}* talk nonsense to them,
they introduce an clement of intel
loctual rcposo. Dogs, cats, horses,
poultry arc so many contributors to
the gaiety and f-imp!ieity of our daily
life. We cannot enjoy them without
them, lam not going to enter into
tho ranks of thoso who contend that
they hare souls ; still 1 hopo my
roador holds in equal abhorrcneo with
myself tho pystoms of Descartes and
Malebranch, which would make them
out to be more machines. We have
but to contomplalo the dog that follows
ub, watches our movemontH, eharea
our fatigues and perils voluntarily,
oiihor to sink at our side, or porhajis
to follow ub to tho p'iivo and die
tborc?to reply lo tho theory of rnero
mechanimn. Animals arc, in some
sort, members of tho family. They
aro the friends of your.g and old, and
young and old alike enjoy and bocofit
by their gleeful, irrational society.
Good-Bye.?Tlio editor of tho Albany
(N. Y.) Register comraonts upon
these siraplo words, so common, and
yet so full of eolomn and tender moaning,
as follows:
" IIow many emotions claBter
around that word I How full of sadness,
and to us how full of sorrow it
sounds I It is with us a conBecratod
word. AYo hoard it onco within tho
year as wo hope never to hoar i!. st-;ain.
It w;ir in tho ehambor of death, in tho
Klill hnnr nf litrrlW'a imnn Tt./>
tains io the windows wcro all closed,
tho lights wore all shaded, and wc
stood iu tho dim solemn twilight with
others around the bed of the dying.
Tho damps of death wore on her pale
young brow, and coldness wcro on her
lips, as wc kiased her for tho last time
while living. 'Good-bye, my daughter,'
wo wbisporod, and 'Good-byo,
lather,' camo from hor dvin<r lio*.
Wc know not that she ever fcpuko
moro, but 'Good-byo* was ibc Iaat, wo
ever heard of her sweet voice. Wo hear
that sorrowful word often anil oft.cn
as V7e nH alone, buried with the memories
of iho past. "Wo hear it in the
silence of the night, in tho bourn of
nervous wakefulness, as wo lio upon
our bod thinking of tho lorod and lofct
to us. Wo hoar it in our dreams,
when her sweot faco cornea back to
us, as it was in lovolinoss and boauty.
Wo boar it when wo sit beside her
grave in tho cemetory, whero bIic
sleeps aloDo, with no kindred as yet
by bor sido. She was tho hope of
our life, tho prop to loan on when
ago should como upon ub, and life
should bo runniag to its dregs- Tho
hopo and tho prop is trono. and we
carc not how eoon wo go down to
sleep bcsido our darling, beneath the
shadow of the trcen in the clly of the
dead."
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Da. Alek.vndeu as a Tkaciif.r.?The
following in the Sunday School Times, v.c
take to bo from Iho pea of the senior editor,
Dr. llart:
" Tbo prodigious iiiflueneo exerted by
the lato Dr. Archibald Alexander of l'rinceton,
upon the iniiul of the Fresbyterian
/~11 1 ? - ?1 TT . * ?
v^uurcu jo mo uimea Slates, was not duo
bo much to bis lecturcs in tho Theological
Seminary, for be lectured comparatively
little, nor to his published thoolocal works,
which arc lamentably few, but to his won
derful power as a eatechiat. In the theological
classroom, it seemed tbat tboro \va3
not a thought, or a perplexity, in the mind
of any etudent, wbich did uol lie open to
the penetrating ken of tho Professor, not a
power of thinking which the l'rofessor did
not stimulate into lively action. He seem*
cd to touch, a3 if with the wahd of an en
chanter, all Iho hidden spriugs of thought
and whatever of montal power was in a
man came forth. It was thus he moulded
; and developed alt thobe great minds which
! have exerted, and which are now exerting,
. such a controlling influence upon the doati*
nies of the Preebylerian Churoh in America.
Dr. A]e*fcnder,1ike Socrates among the ancients,
has written comparatively little.
But hi# power pa 4 teacher was second, to
none, not even to that,of "Socrates, and it
will go on penetrating, and reproducing
itself for age# to come" . ,
Wokdebs of a Wori^.?That natural
hietory, especially that branch' of it relating
to animated nature, should receive so licUe
r - vi ' m *
HueauQii in popular euucftpon, is raarveioifiL'
lie facts are mprb wonderful .and
mora charming thab libraries of fiction.
The field of Ha wondora is boundless. Take
up tbo common ground-worm as it wwggfd?
aejjwjrouf mojnjngpath after a jaoid^JSWroTOSf^bowor..
A,a it tries loojr&wl
' off lB#^)aIru of jour band you experionce a
of rooghnesj on your skin.
If you.tako a pocket lens, and examine'
'carefully the. under side of the worm's belly,
youAviH perceiro aeveral rotfa pf fitra
fcbarp books, extending-from ono end to
| tin other,, eacb nnnulatod division (for the
worm'* body fo, as you doubtless know,
*
I . 1
! composed of ring*) being furnished with |
! our pairs of these hooks, which arc situaK 1
i upon small protuberances 011 the creature's
! skin. These minute hooks causc the rough j
j fcnsntion alluded to; ar.d that poiliotiof;
1 the body on which they are placcd corns-'
ponds to tho abdomen of tho higher animuh.
tho hooks themselves being u. thing more
nor less than rudimentary I c?-t to aid tho
worm in its progress.
Tt has, perhaps, never occurred to you to
inquire how it is, when you endeavor to
draw a worm from lint cnrf.li. flmf if. <vm
| ('fiur such resistance to your ('(Torts as nl!
most to necessitate your taking it in two
before you can extract il; and why, as I
soon as you relax your hold, it disappears
with such rapidity under tho soil. These
hooks aro tho cause; and they are retraotilo
at the will of the animal, and operate;]
so as not to impede its onward progress;
hut when a portion of its body is oncc extended,
and has penotrated into the soil,
they koep it firmly fixed, whilst the remaining
parts aro drawn after it by muscular
contraction.
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SPEED OF THE SENSES.
Thoro ftro thirty-one pairs of com
jivuuu iiurvuM in niu iiwman nouy, me
sonsory and motor fibres of which arc
so commingled asTo render it an impossible
undertaking to separate them
by any means at present known.
Now if, for instance, a needle be stuck
into one of the fingers, the sensory
fibers take the impression through the
nerve and the posterior root to the
spinal cord and thence to the bruin.
The command goes out to "draw the
finger away.'* The mandate travels
down lb-* spina! cord to the anterior
< ., .,.1 < 1 ...? < 1... i. < : * ?
i .'V't, tuMt i nv iha un;
fibres of (in: nerve to the muscles,
which immediately act. and the linger
hi at once removed- All this takes
place with great rapidity, hut ye!
with nothing like the celerity once
imagined.
The researches of Ilelmholt- ' a distinguished.
German Physiologist,
have shown with great exactitude
the rate of rpi\-d with which the
nerve-fluid travels;and other observers
vers have given a givat of time to this
and kindrvd questions, As the result,
of many deliberations, it was ascertained
that the nervous lluid moves
at the rale of about 1)7-1 feet in a seej
ond. Now electricity travels with a
speed exceeding 1,200,000 Rot in a
second, and light over 000,000,OuO.
A shooting star moves with a velocity
of 200,000 feet in a second, and the
earth, in its orbit aroun the sun, 100,AAA
A 1. .11 1
vuu, j\. cannon uan mis a mean velocity
of 1,S00 feet in a second; an eagle,
130; and a locomotive, 95. \Ve
thus perceive tho nervous fluid lias
no remarkable rate of speed?a fact
which, among many others, serves to
udicate its r.on-idenity with]] electricitv.
lVof. J)oiider?, of Utiveht. Holland.
has recently been making some
interesting experiments in rcgrad to
the rapidity of thought, v. itich are
: likewise interesting. J'?y moans of
| two instruments, which lie calls the
noemutaohograph and Ihe neo ma tachometer,
he promises some iinportant
details. For the present he ani
nounces that a simple idea requires
the brain to act for sixty-seven one
thousandths of a second for its elaboration.
Doubtless the time required
is not the same for all trains, and thr.t
by means of the instruments, we may
oinam ueuinite indications relating
to the mental caliber of oin* frindsl
For tlie eye to receive an impression
requires seventy-seven one thousandths
of a second, and for the ear
to appreciate a sound, one hundred
and fbrty-nino one thousandths of a
second is necessary. The eye therefore,
acts with nearly twico tho rapidity
of tho car.
Ciucap Pleasures.?Did you ever alody
tho choapne88 of some pleasures ? Do you
koow how little it Ukea to jnaka n multitude
happy ? Sucli trifles as ? pMiny, ft
word, or a pmil? Ho thn wnrfc. . Tharo art*
two or throe boya passing along-~givo
them each a chestnut, arid "how amiling-ihey
look 1 they will pOt be cross for some time
A poor widow lives in a neighborhood who
is-tho mothor of half a dozen children, send
them half a pock o( sweet apple?, and they
will all bo liappy. A'ohild has lost'his arv
'row?the world to" him?and he mQrn9
6addly; help hiin to find it, or niako him
another,-and how quickly wfll tho sunshine
play upon his sober fac& A boy has as
much as, ho can <3o to pile up a load of
wood; assist him.a few momenta, or.speak
a pleasant word to him, and, he.forget^bis.
Ia!I an/1 ^ li
ivii nuu nviu nnnjr witiiyut imiimug-n.
Your apprentico has broken a mug, or ou
tho VMf too large/or sb'gbtiy injured a
pi#*# of work say, TTon sooqpdrcl/ and be
feel* miserable; but remark, '! am.aotry,'
atid'bt:will-trjr.tO do botter. You employ
a man?-pay Eim cheerfully, and speak a
pkatanl word to liirrr, and bo leaves your
home willi .1 contented heart to light up
his own hearth with smiles and 0i.idncss
As you pass along the street, you moot a
familiar facc?say, 'Good morning,' a3 tho'
you felt happy, and it \fcill woilc admirably
in tlio heart of your neighbor.
1 Measure is cheap?who will not bestow
it liberally '( If thero nro smiles, sunshine
and flowers ad about u?, le! us not grasp
them with a miter's fist, and lock them up
in our hearts. No. Itather let us take
them and scatter thorn about us, in the cot
of tho widow, among tho groups of child
\ rcn in the crowded mart, where men of business
congregate, in our families and everywhere.
Wo can make the wretched, happy;
the discontented, cheerful: tho afflicted,
resigned; at exceedingly cheap rale.
I Who will refuse to do it?
THE MIRAGE.
IVofosr or Looinis, in his new workon
Metcorology, ain.1 thus alludes to
the curious illusions of the mirage:
Mirage is atmospheric phenomena
which produces an apparent displacement
of distant objects?sometimes
elevating and sometimes depressing
them ; sometimes leaving the image
erect and sometimes inverting it, as
when objects arc seen reflected from
a trinquil water. It is frequently observed
on Handy plains intensely heated
byjtho sun, especially in Egypt and
Arabia. Lower Kgypt is a vast sandy
plain, with occasional villages situated
upon small eminences. In the middle
of the day those villages, soon from a
distance, ap; ar as if situated in the
iiiidsi <;l u l:c . in whitii are seen llio
inverted images of housed anil trees.
The on (lino of llieso images i:? a little
indistinct. often exhibiting s?n undulatory
motion, as if reflected from agihitod
motors, As the spectator approaches
(lie boundary of ilio apparent
lake, the "waters seem to retire,
and the same illusion appears around
the next vilhiLje. Similar plu'iiomena
sire common in pome parts; of C-:d;for'
h?. ami are occasionally neon in all
i-nri- of the I'niti d Siat-'s.
Thi:? is explained in this way : Th?"
-{vatnm of air \vhi( h ve-f.s upon the
:-and becomes healed 1a* it; this heat
* i ivnn< Jrt H?? i\? . .1 ^ l > ?- ?
try jiii! LitUi^ VUillIilUi:ji:UU'U l?J l!K! Mlperincumhent
strata, so that the densily
of the siir increases rapidly as
wo ri.;e above the earth up to a moderate
Ik ight. The olleet is similar to
I hat produced by 1 lie reflection of a
tree from the surface lake, and the
observer is thus led to imagine himself
to be surrounded entirely by water.
Mirage is produced at sea when the
atmosphere is perfectly calm, and the
air in contact with the water is colder,
and consequently denser than the
stratum of air immediately above
it; this second stratum is denser
than the one above it, and so on.
In sneli a case, an inverted imago of
a distant object, as a ship may be
seen with a distinctness almost equal
to that of the object itself, and this
object will be formed above the object.
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A Toccmxc Incident.?Tho following
inciilciit of travel is narrated l>y a correspondent
of the Daily Suralof/ain. It look
place on tlio Ilensbclacr and Saratoga Rail
road:
" When tlic train baltod at Saratoga)
among the paEsengers from tlie West cntuc
a mnn of about thirty years of .ago, elbowing
hj? way through iho crowd, and boaring
in his arras a child, lie was a poor
man; bis clothes wero poor; bo looked
oor. Around his hat was tied a pieco of
soiled, worn crape. It wa3 evidently all
the morning hi3 pcanty moans would per
rait; for the mother of tins child was dead
"This man was rou^h in extyior, yet his
face was an houe3t one. lie handled the
Dnoy awkwardly, yet, moro tv?3 a tenderness
in his ead look that showed iho parity of j?
father's lovo. The littlo follow lay asleep
on h'is coarsely-elad kneo; a stray sunbeam
glanced across its tired- face. They wore
both tired?the father and the child?-for
they; had come froro the far West; and as
be placed his hard, toil-worn hand* to.shield
it from the golden- rays, there was in feis
look'a mirfture of sadness and care, as if big
pent-up feelings had been so crowded back
into-the iner cells of his heart tbnf even
(ears could have been of no relief to the hid
den anguish thai "was making Lis life a
misery.
"The -poor child cried; it might be the
-little'thing was tifpd j'itihigfit be it missed
its molhef; perhaps ib was hungry; perhaps
it was sick, end bo it oried. The
teaM rnllaxl <)nnn if J Knktt /?h?nV? (l>?
er wiped irway tbe-dow dro?m fca they JieiH",
.and then tfigd to-feed-it He tr.at so'awfc
ward wifh the bottle?bis bad beofcia lifQ
of toil 6jid Tiai'dsbip?and {ie-krtew hot
how rto gi?e bi& 'darling its' noUrisbmott
A8*ba wada effort' aftaf effort to stiffo Hb?
orlas and obocI'thO tears of bis motheriess
babe, h'dW hi' must hava missed hoi^wbo
in hift lifo of 'labor and privation, tiad bdea
bis soluoo and comfort! An unbidden tear
parted to bis eye, but he brwbod it qniolc
y away. All who saw bim piticil him. 1
At length a woman, richly appareled, with
an infant resting on the lap of his nurso '
beside her?she hiul been watching the <
man?said in a gentle tone; "(Jive nio the
child." The poor fellow looked at her j 1
with a look of gratitude, for thorowasaji
mother's tenderness in her voice. "With , I
j humble resignation, ai though it wero pain
to part with him, even for a moment, he '<
gave her his boy. Tho woman took it; its ;
soiled cloihes rested on her costiy silk; its
tiny hea l was soon bebcnth her shawl, and
in a moment all was tlill. L?:ko the Grecian 1
daughter who, through the iron bars foil
her starving father, so <lul this high-liorn
la-.lv from her breast feed tho hungiy child,
and when on her gentle bosom the little ono
la}- in cr.lm and uimxed sleep, ?!iy jtut ;.3:.dc
the shawl.
1 .''The father's heart 6wclled with gratitude,
lie baiJ, as a tear welled in his eye, and
his voice was not thielc with emotion :
"Thank you; I'll take him now.' Then
tho woman's Jnaluro spoke forth, as she
gently answered : 'Notyet; you will wake
him ;' and for mile after mile tho noble
hearted woman held that poor man's child ;
and it was not until her own babe required
such nourishment as only a mother can
give, she gently rose and placed the stranger
boy with his father."
From (he Atiociute Reformed Presbyterian.
Leavisviixe, S. C., August 11, 18G8.
Mr. JOorroR :?I am again at "Low
isville, but expect to leave to-morrow
(or tho fertile fields and large hearts
in North Carolina.
Week before last I wan at Hopewell
attending the meeting ol" the Rocky
Creek .Bible Society, and on Sabbath
assisting at tho dispensation of the
Lord's Supper. Of these matters, 1
gave some account in mv last. I returned
to Union Church on last Friday,
partly to get rid of my mule and
buggy?to assist at the administration
of the Supper, and get some more
Iklpfor the College. At Jlopewell 1
received eight one hundred dollar
Mirjscrijiiiuii* arm may gci one or t wo
' iiioiv. At Union and Neelv's Creefc
U'-n one hundred dollar subscriptions
!iave boon secured. Some of these
subscriptions have been made by sin.4,1
o subscribers and some by several
: uniting. Eveiybody claims to be
poor, distressingly poor?but let the
poor in all the churches subscribe five,
ten or twenty dollars a year for five
years and the present plan of Endowment
will soon bo completed. Let
the churches do as well as those already
visited and the "Life of the
College" will be insured for five years
more and then.?
I am riding round among the good
people of Chester eating fine dinners,
and enjoying pleasant social intercourse
You, pooi- fellows, about Due "West
gnawing 3'our crust and looking blue,
will be wanting this ageney next year
1 nnrl W VAU nntr inA 1
* 'J *
will learn yon in "five lessons" how to
' got money out of poor folks for a
good cause!
Ah I borincc abont in 1113- buggy
ovor the rooks and gullies I ain forccd
somewhat to examine the geological
r character of old Chester. I have
come to the conclusion that hero we
have the "Flint Hock Formation."
, The geological savans may not havo
. discovered this formation ; it is too
. near the surface for men -who arc al.
vrsiyxpantering away down in (he lower
regions of the globe among shells
I and bones, trying to "calculate" the
groat antiquity of the earth. For
my part I am disposed to believo the
simple and plain statement of Moses
. that "God created the earth find the
heavens too in six days. It is supposed
i that ample time is allowed in Genesis
i i: 2 for the formation of the great
geological strata before the six days
commenced* May be so; but there' is
no such time allowed in the Fourth
I Oommandmont.?Ex. xx: 11. "For in
six days tho Lord mado heaven and
oarth, the sea and all tbatinthomia."
Hore it is clear that alf creation?
i heivven, earth arid ?oa, was created in
t six days?:ahd the strata about which
thcrro is bo much trouble, must have
been formed since; and with the
mean$ at command?rivers, rains,
floods", storm?*, and especially tho great
ocenn 'with its currents-?aiid' suiiririff
: - - . ^ . o
i lnllowft clashingagainst the sliore oii all
^jiiloBOr sweep ingoyor bjio hidden mountains
of the sea.and rortrfd her isle?all
r these; agents at -work would form, in
dertain'favorablo loealUiofr, Iho vallies
, "bf tile oottan-^voVy thick strata in a*
Very short time. "Whore ifi thO-uso oF
it t?Wrmiiial)ld age9 to accompliafy a
W^lfcihat' coultl ho comjloted in' a few.
hiindrcd J-oarB7" Why,"_\vhatra conti1
ncnt of mud Mias. gone down from
i; Oh6ster *aj?d all the country datuig'thc
,, fast cotatinry;T This/deposited in* the.
vales of *oa, and not sprCjwt over
th? whole floor of tho occaa, would
-.?noi\ ffarm vcry^lhifJk layers. If
vital eonhl lie done in tvii centuries?
Now, that T aid to bo absent from
he Stai\- lor si (iine, if you hear that
?'?)v. S^??(t :i!kI his Congress arc in
jiii'-' ol" si Stsi!?' fiei>higisl} yon can
? (. tin i ? know whore U? lind the right
man. IT there are any marl beds or
lime <|u:irrso? in the Stale porhsij'S
I hose making laws eosild ho jim i>rohttiMy
i nsj?h?yod in working these beds
und scattering manure a-? in ruling (ho
F->t :i( A ml i!' 'hey return to that
humble calling (hey v, it! need Home
one (o saiix'riptcinl sis heretofore,
t ,,^,....1 l t n..i . ..li
J till! lib X ?ll II VM1I,, UtIIIi'?l
iii honor of 31 r. Lewis, of this vicinity,
I suppose, and not in defer unco
to any of tho French Emperors.
J t .*< "l is tlint t ho xvifo of one of
the Chc.-!er ''lJjirneys" walked to this
place a few days ago with a lndf
bushel of wheat on her hack. Now,
a man who is getting six dollars a day
and mileage. ought to do better than
thai. "What! a Representative of
'Sdd Chester" along for miles with a
poke of wheat to selll But better
days arc expected for Airs. J>.,
counts on such a heavy tux on land
that tho owners will bo forced to sell
and then tho darkies will sceuro a
"homestead." If Barney's constituents
had the money to purchaso lands
thus forced to sale, the troublo would
be to keep thoin, unless they had
money enough to support their families
without selling the homestead.
The best thing for tho negro is to discard
politic.*, got a home with goml
men who have good lands, and who
will give good wages, anil furnish supplies
when needed.
1 have reached the. hospitable homo
of I):*o. Chalmers, but more of this
again. On the train I met with Mr.
iiosser, of the firm of Sanders, House
r & Co., cotton factors and commission
merchants, Memphis, Tennessee,
a worthy gentleman, an Elder in the
Presbyterian Ctfnrch. I commend
this firm to friends in ^ennessee who
trade in Memphis.
n.
From tlic Associate Reformed Proabytoiian*
Tho Way of Sin Down HILL
To any ono who has obsorvod thoir
courae, it muut havo been apparent
that 111 o last Congress war. making
rapid strides in the path of crime and
daring infidelity.
When men throw off tho restraints
of prinoiplo?when thoy no longor rogard
tho binding obligation of an
oath?when they practico, unblushinglj*,
tho doctrino of "rulo or rain"?
when thoy aro apparently abandoned
of God, it is frightful to witness their
rapid and sudden descent to tho
depths of crime nnd infamy.
Not patiefiod with trampling on all
tho principles of right and justico,
overriding tho Constitution?violating
their Eolemn oath?theso mon
crown tho long, black list of their
crimes by holding their last session
on tho Subbath. Thus showing to tho
world, what has long bcon apparent,
that they neither four God nor rogard
inan. If it bo truo that "when tbo
wicked rule tho peoplo mourn;" need
wo wonder that lamentation, mourning
and d of pair should darken and
consumo tho light, and joy, and poucc
of our Buffering country '(
In tho light of suoh facts, how can
an onlightonod and Christian peoplo
contiauo to sustain and parnpor Bueh
a sot of mon ? Such corruption should
stink in tho noetrils of all good mon.
"Whom tho godH will destroy thoy
first mako mad." Everything at
prcsont iudicutes that tho destruction
of this peoplo draws nigh.
It id tho duty of all good men to
rnrav that A hnM.rsr mind mit*r ftinnn
Ihom, and that tho awful doom may
bo avortcd.. > k. .
B* Kind To Yooa Sistbob.?Boys
bo kind to your shitors. You may live to
bo old, and never God such tender, loving
frionda as these aistere. Think how many
thioga tboy do for you; how they love you,
in spTto of all your ill-temper and .'rudeness
; bowthoughtful thoy are for .your
comfort. Try and bo thoughtful of (heirs.
Be over ready to obligo. them ; to perform
any lililo oflico for them that lioa in
your power. _ Think what you can do for
lucip ; anu- u moy exprqsa a wisu, ua
ready to g/at!fy itlf po9aibIa. You do
not know Jrt>w much- bappluoss you will
find in ro doing. I nevor yet know a
liapp/aqd reapepldd man who was i;ot,in
youlb- kip? to hia-aislcrs. Tkero is a
beautiful poem which- eays: %
"Be kJqH toyonr aistors?not many inay ktioy,i
Hie depth of true a!stei>ly Iovo^
Tho. wcaltV-of tbeoccna lfles fathoms bclofr
"Th o Bntfaco that sparkles above.1' *
Wiee stings us Won in our
m'C?t but
*uv pntne.?
CHILDREN.
BY MRS. E. D. PECK.
Children arc tender buds?"their
sweeUnl loaves yet unfolded"?ehield?.(!
and wrapped by tho calyx of a
HKilher'n lovo; if tlieso buds do not
properly expand, and open to perfeo
lion, they will never yield tho goldof c
fruit in tlie autumn of life.
Their minds have been compared to
sod ciay, that at first can bt) easily
V. lVilHrJi f. 111.1111 ntwl nrt/Nil I#I#i s\ .?1.~
r>"*w ??icu ujjjt
form, or fashion, but as the years increase
they bccomo hard and cannot
bo remoulded.
Upon thoir fresh minds aro engraved
those pure precepts that will
lead them homoward; or thero will
be engraved, in ineffaceable characters,
i dark stains that will blur thosoul, and
make it unfit to rcfloct tho imago of
i God.
j Children aro busy as booe, collecting
| ideas; these bocomo fixed in tho mind.
! Tho most trivial occurrouco oftimca
conduce to bias their minds for good
or ovil: thoy never forgot first imprcBsions;
thoy aro deep and lasting,
ana aro linDuod Ixko tho dow, as
rain is by tho floworB.
Studies should bo given thom oa
thoy arc ablo to digest thom; innocent
healthful plays should bo intorsperecd
and minglod with theso.
I havo thought that tho most suoccssful
educators of childron, wero
thoso who dismissed their pupils early
from tho cloao confinement of tho
school room, and took long rambles
with them through tho fields and
woods; and who pointed to tho niOBt
insignificant objects beforo them, and
explained all their intricato mystoris.
Why, even tho littlopcbblo that wo
spurn from our feet, as wo walk along
the path, can furnish us food for much
thought. It has been in existence
ever since God spoko tho earth into
being. Volumes might bo written
about its formation, ero man "walked
the earth. If it could sco and speak
it
" Might tell ub , (
llow the world lookod whon it waa fresh aad
green:
New worlds have rison, wo btvo lost old nations
;
And countless beings have into dust been tumbled
;
Whilst scarce a fragment of itself haat Grumbled."
It might tell of Davids, who havo
clung it with stifliciont forco to slay
Golialis?of citios that havo flourished,
and then crumbled into ruin. Yea,
how many volumes of history might,
ho -\vrittou of tho wonders that it
eoiilil iv>v??nl
Even tbo flowors, that childron
gather with bo much delight and then
carelessly throw away, aLinnams could
upend a life time in examining into
their species, and analyzing them.
Let us as parents ho over on tho alert*
in instilling knowlcdgo into tho minds
of our children.
Littlo children have hecn called tho
poetry of life; and thoir laughter
may bo tho music.
Precious littlo children! tjicir innocent
prattle beguiles us of our dull caros;
they teach ur patience and forbcaranco.
" Unless wo become as littlo children,
we shall not enter tho kingdom of
lleavcn"?"for of such is tho kingdom
of lleavcn."
Then let us instead of warping
their tender minds and moulding
them into tho cold unfooling beings
that wo ourselves aro, strivo rathor to
lcifivn frnm f finm Tintrr in cmiln
amidst our tears. Let us learn to have
the samo trusting, confiding love for
lleavonly Father that they havo for
us; and loarn to kiss tho hand that
chastisosuB.?Richmond Christian Ad*
vocate.
,?o . Beautiful,?The
hot few hours of the
i venerable D. NoltV life were peculiarly
irapreseive. He sank into * second childhood
thai wob peculiarly tender. He lay
on his bed, blind, and apparently unoon?
r ecious. His wife sat by his bed tide and
sang to him day ;by day the songs of hie
childhood. He Vfas hashed to repose by
them like an infant on itipillow
, Many a true heart that would hate come
back like a dove to the ark, after its first
transgression, h?s been frightened beyond
recall,by tby angry look and msnaoe, the
taunt, the savage charity of an unforgiving
spirit... % . . .: "
* ' i -MBK fit "i"
Tho BhariffV-^fRoe of EdgeSeld Dial riot,
S; O.f Las tx5oa r*bbad of thirty-one huix*
dred dollfcrp?^ ' ~
- Mifee O'K^ly had an offloe worth f?0,dOO
per annrfco. Ho made a great tufa.Jails*
ito
Boston.?^Butler was braised seriously B
,te<A,faIl frt>m a carriage. I
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