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"rfifTT? A !VfTAT?lVr TnTTTtlVT A "" P S| ? m~*\ i B , /j& W BBS B~^ ? m B B V I /jB B a -..>??*** * ?,r '%>? VOL. 10. " CAMDEN, SOUTH CAROLINA, JANUARY 17, 1849. NUMBER 3; ? ^ : ?? THE CAMDEN JOURNAL. I c u PUBLISHED WKKKtr, BY (I T. W. PEGUES. n ' ! ' - ' . '? . O A8KETCH OF LOUIS NAPOLEON I o The news of the election of Louis Napoleon to the Presidency of the French Republic ? will naturally excite 9ome curiosity in regard t<i hit history and public character. Hitherto n he has only been known through the foolish " affairs at Strasburg and Boulogne; his published works, notwithstanding the merits claimed for tiiem by his adherents, having u failed to enlarge his reputation. His life has i a Imon onmRU'li.11 eventful. nnd " 'f^T9l^uwiv.?^ wvv.. -- .... . he does not lack the advantage of varied > J!1 fortune and severe experience. Whether ' " he has profited remains to be seen. From : such hasty materials as we could procure, sl we hive arranged for the Tribune the fob lowing brief notice of his history: 1 Charles Coats Napoleon, sun of Louis, Ex-King or Holland, was born in Paris on the 20th April, 1808. il is god-parents were i the Emperor and Maria Louisa,.and during vv his childhood he was an especial favorite of t0 the, fonncr. On the return of Napoleon 10 from Elba, he stood beside liiin on the w Champ de Mars, and when embraced by ( ,r him for the last time, at Alaimaison, the j st young Louis. then a boy of seven years, j wis'tcd to follow him at all hazards. When , w the family was banished from France, his ^>( mother removed to Augsburg, where he re- ceived a good German education. He was IP< afterwards taken to Switzerland, where he 771 obtained tlie right of citizenship and com- ,f) ? Aftor W meneeu Q course C|| IIVV1II?11 Y 31UVI.UO. iiiu I j tlie July Revolution. by which he was a see-; ai ond ttme proscribed from France, he visited | Italy, in company with his brother, and in 'c 1831 look part in a popular insurrection against the Pope. This movement failed. 1 but lie succeeded in making his escape, and '* iiis bmther dying at Forth the same year, he c visited England, and aficrxvards returned to Switzerland, where f??r two or three \cars In lie contented himself with writing p ctica? { and military works, which do not appear to i 10 haw been extensively read. The death of w the Duke of Rcichstadt in 1832, gave a new impulse to his anib.tious hopes. IIis first revolutionary attempt at Strasburg, in Oc!<d>er, 1836 completely failed, but after a J short imprisonment in Paris, lie was sent to . hir country. The illness of his mother oc- !s? ?j .: r..n?:? ha CSSKHKU II IS rciurn IIIC iminn HIJJ i I.ai , Mini I after a visit to Switzerland lie took up Ins residence in England until his second at- 110 tempt at Boulogne, in 1840. ^ In this affair several of his followers were killed, and he was himself taken and sentenced to imprisonment for life in the Cast le of so Ham. The particulars of his escape in May, 1840, after an incarceration of six years, are well known. From that time until the end ' 1 of September last, when he was returned as a < a Deputy to the National Assembly from the Depart mdnt of Seine, he has resided in !a< England, A late London Journal, in de. JU: scribing his mode of life, gives the following *lr not very flattering account: J'" -lie was unscrupulous in contracting obli- ,)( gatkms which were wholly beyond the ''e toeans of repayment; and his most serious ,'1' pursuit was the study of alchemy, by which lie expected to arrive at the discovery of the J4" philosopher's stone. So vigor>usly did he *il iwosecute this science, at a house which he j SC1 iiad fitted up as a laboratory at Cambewell,; or and so firui was his faith in the charlatan empiric wliom lie employed to aid him in ~~ transmuting the baser metals into gold, that "(> lie is said to have actually appropriated his 'lc revenue in anticipation, and to have devoted WI the first milliard of his gains to the payment lo of the national debt of France, in order lo slc acquire thus an imperial throne by purchaser .The large majority by which lie was elected a Representative astonished every one, and gave his followers the first encour. tai agement to bring forth his name as a candid- nn ate for the Presidency. To defeat the ac- so| knowledgcd Republican party, he received |y also the support of the Legitimists and Or- ha leanists.and those combined influences have th< eL*ctcd him by an immense majority. The wi rest must bo Jeftlo Time and Fate. of N. Y. Tribune. th< ??? his Tne Death op a Child.?And no'one cu feels the death of a child as a mother fuels it. sm Even the father cannot realize it thus.? ho There is a vacancy in his home and a heavi- tin ness in his heart. There is a chain of asso. all ciation that at set times comes round with by its broken link?; their memories of endear-! cei ment, of endearment, a keen sense of loss, a i is j weeping over crushed hopes, and a pain of vil wounded a fleet ion. I3ut a mother feels thai Al one has been taken away who was still l>u closer lo the heart. Hers has been the of- W flee of const and ministration. Every grada- ga tton of fe.iturc has developed befire her eyes. She lias detected every new gleam dn of intelligence. Slie has heard the first ut- br< lerance of every new word". She has been sli; the refuge of its fears; the supply of its bh wants. And every task of affection has clc woven a new link, and made dear to her its a < object. And when he dies a portion of her qu own life, as it were, die*. How can she tct give it up with all these memories, these as- po sociations? These timid hands have so of- vy ten taken hers in trust and love, how can she | Ni fold them on her breast, and give them up de to the cold clasp of deadi? The feet whose wl wanderings she has watched so narrowly, fin how can alio see thein siaightened logo wl down into the dark valley? The head that ve she has pressed to her lips and her bosom, an that she has watched in burning sickness and ! re: peaceful slumber, a hair of which she would J "u not see harmed, Oh! how can she consign of it to the slumber of the grave? The form is ; that not for one night has been beyond her ha vision or her knowledge, how can she put it bo away for the long night of the sepulchre, to en see it no more? Man has cares and toils of that draw his thoughts and employ them; she blc sits in loneliness, and all these memories, all tai these suggestions, crowd upon her. How gai an she bear all (his? She could not, were na not that her faith is as her affection; and if ( to ic one is more deep and tender than in w aan, the other is more simple and spontane- ah us and takes confidently hold of the hand pli f God. | bu i sti Singular Incident to an English gn Traveller in France.?One summer eve- su ing, the writer?hot, weary, and uncom- ; at lunieatively disposed?entering a crowded , cs ife in the south of France to find shelter wi om the rain. An individual of peculiarly j wi nprepossessing appearance whom he had | Ce heady noticed, seated himself at the same i do iblc with the obvious intention of entering wl ilo conversation. He was a man of some fin ve and twenty years of age, with a coun- | ke inancc sallowed by dissipation, rendered tin nister bv expression of the eye and (!i>fig- be red by a scar. His dress was half civil and c0 alf military, consisted of a black frock coal . do uttoned up to his chin, of a red foraging I de ip, a red < r red-seamed tiouscrs. Judging : fja in to be a police spy from the manner in vie hich he seemed to be avoided, the writer nc ok up his ice and newspaper and retreated j i a small triangular table in the corner ' evi hich only admitted of one occupant, thus an ustrating the intended sociability of the cr ranger.. After the elapse of about an hour, ,c rain being over, he quitted the cafe; hen the individual in question rose, follow- off I him into the street, and stepping abrupt- lef forward thus a Idressed him:?"Monsieur j Jin; ?rmeltez queje vous disc, que votrc figure j wr edrplait soucerainencnl'"Sir, permit me in observe?" (t lie remainder of this phrase ter hich literally ran "your personal appear- wa ice is supremely displeasing to me, can scr i!y l>e conveyed to the intelligence of the pei w who do not understand French by the | fai irnaenlar in which it would he rendered) | erj hat the cut of your jib is not to my liking." det Mons'.cur,* n plied the writer, ljCn suis sha :.vo/c. I am shocked to hear it.'* "What," |jxi - i- i ?i ?I_??,I.. uu Ine sinngor, wnose naiiu uas outoui , uc; Ins pocket, "Is that all you have to an- j ihe vcr me?" "That is all." "But, sir, 1 mean ; wh ii.sult you; here is my card." "I do not prf atif your card.' "But have you no scnti- nm cut irhomcuri Won't y u fight?"?"No, hiti r, I never fight strangers; if you annoy yC| e any further I shall simply knock you i the >tvn." "Your answer is brutal, but I be- | cot :ve you are the strongor man. The fact ere I am weiry of life, and I would as soon ; at ivc perished in a dncl as through suicide, j on< nod day, Sir, I find I was mistaken in you lati ? matter a leap into the river is, after all, son lite as easy," and with these words the ow ro of the red cap walked away. T e circumstance and the mannerof man far however roused the curiosity ol the rilcr, that he was induced to cail him back, ch.i lay, my friend, you see 1 won't, fight and alv> won't be insulted; but as you addressed nth uraiuitous observation to inc, just excuse or y asking you whether you think that the out :t of your being weary of your own life fori st.fies you in jeopard s ng the life of a ryii anger?'?'Perhaps not, but it is verv we 1 for r you to talk in cold blood. The waiter its )ked askance at me, when I took shelter, . the cause I did not order anything. I hated I . . F it i iscwliodid. I hate llic worm, arm i am am :ary of it. I thought that you did not jper ow me and would fight mc?to kill or as i led, what matter??Because I have d tak reral lives, and i have a right to ta c fcrl two. ges 1 have been an officer?a man of honor ves I have served my country,?now do you per derstand/" and throwing open his coat cxp showed that lie was without shirt or trai tislcoat, and bursting into tears was about \ walk away. On subsequent inquiry, his con >ry proved to lie strictly true. of t Analogies and Contrasts. wai liot A QUARTETTE OF RASCALS. '"g Reader, have 3*011 ever in your ncquam. COf ice with the viler specimens of human can ture, seen a *Meg7" 0." if you are an uii- .nK!' |.?histicated country-nan, and do not readi- ,r! apprehended the mean ng of the term? P ve \ ou ever seen a professed gambler of "u * I O p.p. j lowest c!a s??one c f those gents who II pick the pocket of an inoffensive victim ma its vcrv last coin, bv a coup de main, .ugh not the legitimate way of inserting a i dige's directly into ti e r- ceptable of the rrent, and dexterous'y abstracting the ls c lie?' If not, and you are c urious to know mai ' ...I .... annnur and dpniM't ? tv UIUSU > l\,UIIII6\.l 3 ui.va .. , , J miselvcs in public, we commend to your an(' ention tlie following faithfuldaguerrotypc ,.J th" Picayune, The editor recently dos- | nded the Ohio in one of the steamers, and giving a picture of lour of these precious !>r lains who fill under his notice on board. , n lour large cities abound with the knaves; t it is on the steamboats that navigate our er estern waters, that they do inost corigrc- Seo te?there they literally''reek and riot: el "The one is a thick set individual of me- . im height, with a turnip nose, heavy eye- an. iws, sandy hair, sharp black eyes, and Wlt ghtlv stooping shoulders: he is dressed in av ick coat and pants, gav plaid vest, a neck th of a flashy pattern, passed once round PcJj lirty throat, separated therefrom by an e- , ally dirty shirt collar; a breastpin of por- , .' itous dimensions, with a number of sup ,nui1 rts in the way of small chains and a hca- ,ns* watch guard, completes number one. ; a nnber two is pretty much of the same J?rf seription, save that he has bushy black liskers, wears several rings upon the third " 0 ger of his left hand and a broad brimmed j?P lite bat upon his head?the brim cocked ry much over his left |cye; lie is fidgetty, " . rl apparently quick and irascible, hut in PH/ r - - anv tuty as com as n cutumuti, aim mu^.. p to snuff" as a tobacconist. The third .wo' this beautiful quartette of nice young men ,ni young neatly and plainly dressed in black, w" s a very new bat and unexceptionable c"c ots; bis countenance is pale, and under ? cb eye is a black circle, which tells a ta'c . many a night's bout over the gaming ts- nof !. The fourth of this set of brilliants is I, haggard looking, has a vcrv stooping I 'J it and a hang dog expression of counte- dow nee, as if he expected every honest man | kick him several times. He is the lure ho eggs on the victim, sometimes sitting i aof, and sometimes taking a hand to com- I etc the "polker" party lie acts as the i idly, too, and carries a very stout walking i ek. Such a party was recently congre- I ted on board a down stream steamer, and cccedcd in obtaining a victim for a hand I "poker. He was a young man, with honty in his very look, and apparently a hardarkitig mechanic. He was permitted to in several dollars at first, until it was as- t rlaiued that he had about two hundred hilars, the savings of two years hard labor, ) hen, having "sized the pile," they went at z tti, and giving him very strong hands, but \ eping yet stronger themselves. At length I a victim was given a hand that he was t ing plucked as rapidly as possible. Of i urse he was beaten, and got up without a z liar in the world. The oiher "gentlemen" 1 elincd playing any more, and got up very z ppy at their remarkable success. The :tim had the pleasant prospect of a jour.. cj. r i.~r i.: i ? i \ IU oi, l/'ua uciuiu nun. anu kiiiuih^ a- i >ng strangers suas /everything. lie bow-,. \ er, learned a lessen, though a dear one, I rl made a resolution never to touch anothcard." j Wonderful Sagacity of a Dog.?An I iccr of the army, accompanied by his dog, j i West Point on a visit to the city of Burgton, N. J. and while there becoming sick, ote to his w ife and family at West Point c relation to his indisposition. Shortly af. the reception of this letter, the family I is aroused by a whining, barking and t atchingat the door of the house, and oled to ascertain the cause, in rushed the a thful dog. After being caressed and ev- f attempt made to quiet him, the dog in ;pair at not being understood seized a j: iwl! lie then placed himself before her, n ng his gaze intently seized her dress and c jan to drag her to the door. The lady n became alarmed and sent lor a relative ? r io endeavored lo allay tier icars, nqi snc ( ivailed upon liirn to accompany her at t :c to her husband, and on arriving found c u dangerously ill in Burlington. lie is : indisposed. The distance travelled by ]< : faithful animal, and the difficulties enjnlercd, render this account almost indiblc, especially as the boats cannot stop y West Point on account of tlic ice. Any v 5 can easily satisfy further curiosity in reon to this remarkable case of animal realing by visiting Burlington, where the ncr of the animalis present. a. d. c- a b AMERICAN GENIUS. The great peculiarity of the American (| trader is, that its genius is inventive, and s; rays adequate to emergencies. Where f( icrs halt in the beaten pathway of pursuit (| profession: the American suddenly strikes a new coal, and drivis on to fame and h iune. Win would have 'bought of car- a tg clocks and ready-made shirts to China a market, or bringing Connecticut, with t| sharp-faced soil, into competition with j, age fortified innnufacturies of England. n Mo other man on the globe, with the same mint of means and chances, will or can (| form as much for himself and the world, a an American. Not to individualize, but (j c hiin in the national aggregate : Quick, ( lilc, and ever ready, be needs but a sug- j, lion ; the details which others must intiiratc before they dare to make the cx- b imcnt, he lets follow and illustrate the ^ icrimeiii, as the sparks of fire flow in the | il <>f~ the locomotive at night. >Vho ever heard ol an American being g ifounded by the intricacy or magnitude he cntcr|>rize? In the arts of peace and s, r alike the same prodigal flow ofinveni, the same sagacity, prudence and 'dar. , blended in a sort of hiitnanic-heroic fresmark the acts and aptitudes of the Ameri. n, i. His instincts are fresh where other tj weary; and tracing his developments ustrial, inventive, and philosophic, as dis red in the short life of the republic, it must g admitted he transends all other spcci- ? us of the genus homo. It is the result of |, uy causes.?His position, physical, men- c; moral and social, is favorable to activity g( I decision of character; and his political alitv of self-satisfying conviction that lie qual to the best of men on earth, as a J( n, gives him independence in action that st verywhere a dividing-line between him as I other men. in ralkof confounding an American with a so iculty or danger in enterprise, by sea or fi1 i?in art, science, mathematical problem, ^ metaphysical disquisition, or even a idle of" the first crop of hieroglyphics? idea would be ridiculous! He may nev- " iave seen a map of the world, nor read a grabhy, but lie will find, with a Naniuckschooner, any port on the globe, bv a rlcr cut than is laid down in the charts; sll I it he hnrls himsell in the West Indies c: ha cargo of bed warming pans, he will g; e the wit to strip off the covers, and sell di tn for sugar ladles, at an advance of ex- fa ted profit. ai The tactics of the American arc not laid th vn in books. In peace or war, his ingc- w :y frames the plan of operation on the ant, from the nature of the circumstances, if he is defeated it must be by sheer :c. To him the pillar of Hercules would 111 e been less than to the Macedonian; he ! w uld have guessed instantcr the riddle of lynx, and untied between his teeth and ;er a double Gordian knot. A writer in K, ckwood has well said, that if a sutficicnt ct te were oficrcd for the best treatise upon c| r subjee in any language, the American P( uld get it, even if lie nad to learn the Vv Sjungc, study the subject, and write the hi rk within three months. This universal hi rgy, endurance invention, and power to m pt himself to any and every end, give the v< lerican his wide-world prestige of supe*. AT V C..? ny as u man.?it. x . uiui. fho loss of the Potato crop in Ireland, is set ^ n as being equal to JE43,000,00(V (_ RUNNING DOWN THE BOASTER. A countryjfellow who was once boasting about the swiftness of his horse, declared that he could outrun any thing which went jpon four legs. A neighbor of his disputed it, and said he had a mule which could beat aim. "A mule?" said the boaster, "I'll bet you a hundred dollars of that." "Done !" said the other. "Done" said the boaster. "Now cover that," said the owner of the nule laying down a hundred doliars. The boaster began to he frightened at this He thought there must be something more ibout the mule than he was aware of, otherwise his owner would'nt plank a hundred dolars, to run him against a horse. He began o hitch about uneasily. He put his hand nto his pocket; he pulled it out again, and it last he said?"I don't know, 1 swow, n)out the tarnal mule he may be the devil ind all to run, for what I know." "Do you back out then?" "Yes I back out and treat." So saying le called in the liquor; but declared that his lorsc could beat anything which went on our le?s except the mule. "Why," and said the'bthcr, "i've got a ackass that can beat him." I'll hpf n liiindrnd rlnlhirs nf that." said the >oaster. "Done!" said the other. And "Done!" said the boaster. "Cover that," said the man, again putting lown. "Cover that!*' exclaimed the boaster, "so will plaugy quick, taking out his pocket >ook. "Well; cover it if you dare?and I'll put mother hundred atop of it. Why do you icsitate? Down with your dust I say." "1 don't know faith! *1 never saw that ackass of yours run," said the boaster, begin ling to hesitate, "he may be the devil and all m a race for what 1 know." "Do you flunk out then?" "Yes, I jlummux this time: but, by jingo, here's nothing else you can bring except lie jackass and the niule, but what my horse an beat." " A ha f/M* #vl tKof mV flTAfwI ilic >UU Ltf IU1II Ul IIIUI) i Ml T 0V/U IVI 3Wf "I think so, faith!" "Why, if you arc not quite certain, I'll bet ou something thai I've got a nigger that k*ill outrun him." "A nigger!" "Yes, my nigger Tom will beat him." "I'll bet a hundred dollars of that?there in't no nigger that ever breathed that can cat my horse." "Very well, cover that." As he said this lie man put down the hundred dollars, "but,' aid he, "if you back out this time, you shall jrfcit ten dollars; and if I back out, I'll do lie same." "Agreed," said the boaster, "I'm sure my orse can beat a nigger, if he can't a mule r n jackass." "Well,plank it! sol will?don't you fear liat."?Saying this, he once more took out is pocket book and began to fumble for the toney. "Come, man down with your dust.'said lie oilier taking out more money,?"for I m ready to hack my bet with another linnred dollars?or two hundred if you like, 'ome, why, do you hesitate? Here's three undred dollars I've ready for a stake." "Three hundred dollars?" exclaimed the oastcr, staring like a stuck pig; "three hunrcd dollars upon a mggcr! I don't know, swan." 44What, man! vou arc not fiichtcncd n ain!" Frightened! 01), no?-oh, no- it's no cay matter to frighten me; hut really?" "You mean to hack out?" ' 1 declare, neighbor, 1 don't know what ) tliink about it. It's kind of risky busicss." 'You forfeit the ten dollars,' then?" "Whv, yes, I 'spose I must, said the boas:r handing over the money, with an air ol real mortification?"better lose this than lore?-for there's no knowing how fast these lamed niggers will run. But any thing else tccpi the mule, the jackass, and the nigsr, I'm ready to run against." Joe's Failing Discovkkep.?Our friend >c is what is generally termed a had boy, and icceeded in blinding his mother for some time, i to his imbibing propensities, and one morng she said to him, after he had swallowed imo half dozen cups of codec, and as many asses of cold water, "Joseph, thee should ink something before thee goes to bed at ght. Thee is always so thirsty in the morng." Hut one night, Joe came in before the d lady retired. He sat down and with that ok of scmi-intnxicated wisdom, began conirsing about the goodness of the crops, tho late ifortunatc. outbreak in the meeting, and was ;lting on very well until he espied what he ipposod to be a segar on the mantle-piece, lie tught it, and placing one end in his mouth bein very gravely to light it at the candle. He civ and puffed until ho was getting red in the ce. The old lady's eyes were at last opened, id she addressed him?"Joseph, if thee takes noil C,f o crvfTir it I? tfmft tllPO ittV lUlipt !? IIUII 1UI U .. .w enl to bed." Awful Death.?On Saturday last, at the achine shop of Messrs Aldrich, Tyng & Co , i this city, Mr. Joseph White, an engineer, ent to blow ofl'lho boiler in doing which he ood in such a position that when he let off tho earn it struck him in the breast by which he as knocked down and instantly enveloped in parn and boiling water. Ho arose and walkJ a few steps, then fell upon the floor and exaimed. "I am scalded to death." lie linger i in great agony from G P. M. lo 3 A. M., hei. he expired. As his clothes was removed is entire skin, from the crown of his head to is l came oir with them; even his finger ails came off. Mr. White *as a man 52 jars old and in easy circumstances. lie :avos a wife and two children. Lowell Courier. Fanny Kernhle Butler, has gone to Stockridge, New York, to reside in the family of !harles Sedgwick, her relative. From the London Chronicle. Il is fashionable to speak disparagingly of Willis as a mere literary dandy, and he deserves some drubbing for his pestilent propensity to (rifle; but it is ridiculous to deny him high poetic merits. If the following stanzas fall anything short of troe poetry, we do not our. selves know what is. They were song at the dcdica. lion of the House of Industry and Home of the friendless in New York, on the 19th insl. When God, to shield from cold and storm, Gave trees to build and Arcs to warm, He did not mark for each his port, But gave to each a human heart. Each heart is told the poor to aid? Not told as thunder makes afraid? But by a small voice whisp'ring there; Find thou, for God, the sufferer's share! Oh! prompting faint, to careless view, Fur work that angels well might do! Bat wisely thus is taught below Quick pity for another's wo. The world is stored?enough for all. Is scattered wide, 'twixt hut and hall; And those who feast, or friendless roam, Alike from God roccivc a home. Each houseless ono demand of thee Can aught thou hast the poor man's be? -? And pity breathes response divine: T?t? ,?hni T hnr.e fmm God that's Ihine! For child, for woman's fragi o form, More harsh the cold; more wild ihc storm; Bat most they bless a shelt'ring door Whom dark temptations urge no more! A Home for these, O God, to-day, For blessing at thy feet we lay! And may its shelter, humbly given. Be but a far off door to Ileuvcn. PREPARATION7 FOR DEATH. The aspect of our subject suggests to us the importance of preparation. While it proclaims the melancholy truth, that death has passed upon all mrn, it reveals to us the pleasing intelligence, that if any man believe in Christ, though he were dead, yet shall he live. To submit to an inevitable evil, will find an apology in its necessity; but to perish, when by a single exertion, or a simple application of a remedy, we may live, betrays an unpardonable insensibility. The principle of death, with all its attendant evils, and the principle of eternal life, through Christ, with its derated enjoyments ; the fear of death, on one" hand, to alarm, and the love of eternnl life on the other, to persuade, are but different modes employed to accomplish the same object. There is a spirit of love in both, and to resist their merciful intentions, is to incur the highest censure. The loss of an object is not to be estimated by itself, but by the adverse evils which that loss inflicts. The loss of eternal life excludes the , soul, not only from its pleasures, but consigns it to the most excruciating remorse. Preparation for death is one of the plainest lessons taught by revelation, and one which the providence ol God has enforced more impressively than any other. For nothing else has there ever been such an august and imposing array of motives to bear upon the consideration of man. It seems as if \he wisdom of God had exhausted itself in striving to accorn* plish (his end. And when \vc look for a cor responding effort on the part of man, alas ! | there is a marked, a painful .negligence, nggra vated by a preparation for ever}* thing else. The death of a friend may excite a momentary ( fear, lest we may fall the next; but we soon ( recover our confidence, and float us carelessly upon the stream of life, as though there were no dangers to surprise us. Every day you live, not only brings you nearer the grave, but lessens your ability for preparation. That which you seek with so j much fondness at the expense of your spiritual good, will cover you hereafter with shame and /lltbnnnr. Tlu? pincrience of the World should teach you the vanity of all earthly advantages. The attainment of the highest distinction is no security against the evils of life, and nothing will he of any permanent advantage to you. that is disconnected with your duty toman, and your duty to God. The secret of human happiness cons:sts not in wealth; not in human honor; not in sen?ual pleasure; hut in a sanctified affection. This, and only this, can arm you for that painful crisis, which will occur in the history of every man. Had we nothing j by which to determine what sphere of life God intended us to move in, Gut our capacities for enjoyment, we would select heaven as the pro- j per element of our being. It is an unpardonable disregard of our inter- ' est to prosecute these objects that degrades such capacities. The costly expenditures of divine grace never would have been made, were our importance like that of the brute that perisheth. ' Rise, then, to the station which Gof designs ' you to fill. There is a real and a solid dignity in such a station. It liberates you from the j servitude of sin. It elevates you ahove the ignoble fear of death. It unites you to God, by a relation the most pleasing. It clothes you with honor, glory, and immortality. Rise! my perishing fellow creatures, rise! The hour of death is at hand! The day of grace is ebbing to its finish! The grave is almost open to receive you! Your triends are almost gathering around your remains to pay you the last testimony of respect! Your funeral requiem is al- F most ready to be sung! The bell is almost a tolling your funeral knoll! Another month, 1 another day, another hour, and all may be a c reality! "Time is short! ask deathbeds, and * they will tell you."?Suarcs Sermons. ci Firmness.?Man should be firm?woman c should bo firm?all our decisions and doings should show firmness and reason. What can we effect by a liifling vibrating course? Docs an) one know of a man who became rich or 1 happy on account of there being 110 depend- ^ ence to be put in him? We presume not.? c "f "l.ni-not/ir />?rr!i<s .1 man 1 hrouirh ' 1 II ililiv .^o \ji \.t)uinvivi w*?i i ? ... n the world easily and makes him respected by ' all, gains for him a good name and sheds c around him innumerable blessings. Without it lie is despised by his friends, led into a thou, sand snares by his enemies, enticed from vir- i tuo by those wo least expect, and finally may < commit crimes for want of firmness to resist al * lurcrnents of vice. < Firmness of character stamps the imago of ? man with something more than animal. It t raises him above temptation from the path of < virtue, above all pretty feelings of the heart.? < It is the main composition of a General?the i necessary accomplishment of a Priest?the j making of a Judge?and finally the security of i men and pretty women. | Wheat Chop in South Carolina.?It Its gratifying fact that the planters in the middle c ountry of South Carolina hare it/6 winter sown fully twice as much Wheat as ha* *ver for merly bepn put in in one season hereto!?,*. We learn that in Fairfield, a District which ^as never grown a large amount of thfa grain, extensive fields have been seeded?ooe planjer having sown three hundred acres. Others, di? verting their labor from the cotton culture to grading Railroads, have sown their su plus lends in small grains. Greater pain* have been bestowed on the preparation of the ioil than usual, and the crop, from this cause, as well as from the mildness ot the weather, is rerr promising everywhere. The verdant fields promise an abundance (o the industrious, which should make our citizens happy and contented, even in " Old Sotilh Carolina."-?Columbia South Carolinian. THOROUGH TILLAGE. All will agree that the basis of improve meat lies in a more thorough tillage. Now one great hindrance to this, is the strong and aniversal tendency among farmers to own aad Cultivate too much land. I am well aware tfttt I tread on disputed ground, and that there are -hose among us whose opinions, we tare ready*, and urith good reason, to esteem irimaafr agjifra- . "jgs c!cs, who, 'have no sympathy with this fOtaM farm theory.' But with due deference to Aeir opinions may 1 not start, with this bet, that the case so commonly occurs to make it a gessnt) rule, that our very large farms are very poorly r?iitfi vatofl 7 Ta llio no int vvliioti V llOVO in i m v hiv jn/'ui tf uivh * w?r>? > ? ? view, is the apologue ol the vine-dresser, wkd * had two daughters and a vineyard. Whenhie oldest daughter was married, be gave her a third . part of his vineyard as a marrtage'portMM, not' withstanding which, he bad t%e same quantity of fruit as before. When bis yoongest dangbfer was married, he give ber half of what re* mained, still the prodcce of his vineyard was not undiminished. The secret was simply this,, that the more thorough tillage which he ?u enabled to give to the remaining third parti tripled his produce, while at the same (mm it reduced the cost of cultivation. Now Re that cultivates themost land, or produces the greatest crop, is not the l>est fanner, but he that em ds it with the least expense. In Massadiusetfa the high price of labor is an insuperable objection to large farms. As it is, men musf nof only not be able but must work at all tfmec, and under all circumstances work to the bestadvantage, or the proceeds of their labor wiff not pay their wages. Upon large fhrimst mnaerous and long lines of fence are to fce&epr'fn repair, taxes to be looked after, weifc cannot he econoraieally done, because much of rt fa ai a distance, and a large number of' laborers must of neeessitv be emoloved. whe to ase an old adage, if they are not very carefoHy looked kfter will be likely to drink ont of the broad end of the tunnel, and hold the little oar to their employer. I must not be understood to say that no man can profitably manage a-large farm-here. All rules hare their exceptions. But I do say, that there are very lew Bona, partes in agriculture, and that the great body of us are fit only to serve in the ranks. It is doubtful indeed, it these large forms are I he most profitable any where; for in countrieswhere the cost of labor is almost nominal small (arms are said to produce the largest income. Stretching along at the foot of the Alps, those ever memorable mountains, whose loffy > mits, white with eternal snows, reach far above the clouds, the birth place of the glacier and the avalanche?is that province of Italy) which has been oficn called the garden ofEorope.~ Its inhabitants are farmers, and very few forma contain more than 75 acres, yet the best authority asserts that those small farms bring more to the market'than the large ones, and that there is no country in the world, which ears Jispose of so large a proportion of its production as Piedmont. True, the soil J* rich, deep if you nlpase. alluvial. The climate ? rnahrf, I ' . and the situation af the land makes it oscepti ble of being easily submitted to irigatfoo- After all, (lie main spring of this abundant fertility id thorough tillage which consists on small farms.?Pax/son's Address before the Essex Agricultural Societyt. Something New.?The Cincinnati Commercial says that Messrs. Koble & Miller hare sn establishment in that city, "whose whole business, employing some $10,000 worth of capital, is preparing sausage skins for the European mailcets; ihey attend all the slaughter bouses, obtain the in'ards of all the hog*v W?pare, and rhen ship them across the" Atlantic, realizing a large profit in the transaction. We were never more astonished than in leaning hat such a branch ol trade was earned on in >ur city. The people of Kb rope1 receive these ausnge shins, ready for use, as imported foons Cincinnati, flut this is not all. Western Avenue has another establishment, not a whit ess singular! It is the es'sMishment of a title German, whose name we did not learn, whoso entire business is cleaning hogs bladders. ind making them fit for holding lard lo ship l? ho English market. VV'e learu that he was i* i fair way to get rich, sending ofT per annum >vor 150,000 bladders! ~~~~ Map Dogs.?The appearance of a dbg sop. >ospd to be rabid, has occasioned considerable ilarm in this corfimnnity. Tt^ said he passed hrough this place, bit a promising ??oy at Lk?. :o!n Factory, and afterwards, passing southvard, attacked Dr. Asliury and some other perons. before he was killed. The Doctor inuneliutcly removed the slight wound of the dog,,by utting out a considerable portion of flesh. The ?ther cases were treated in a similar Maimer, omc hours after the bite. Many dogs have, doubtless, bceo bitten by his animal, and. therefore, every caution tboufri >o observed. No dog that could have come in :onfaet with the rahid one, should be permitted o run at large. To tis, an nttack of hydropho>ia appears to he the most awful calamity thai :an overtake humanity.?iV. C, Republican. ? ' >. Sympathy.?ft is sweet to turn from the hilling and heartless world?the worldlhit so iften misjudges our motives?to seek in aorta lympathizing heart for conso'ntion?to find jongeniaI souls that can feel our sorrows, can ihare our joys; can understand and appreciate he feelings which actuate us. In sorrow', bow Mttsoling is the blessed voico of sympathy. fK >ur greatest trials it lightens.our burdens-linking smoother our pathway before us, ktid souring a healing liajm ii?V> our wounded beasts uid our lesser afflictions are forgotten in ifs presence.