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THE CAMDEN JOURNAL. _ _ ^ VOL. 10. CAMDEN, SOUTH CAROLINA, JANUARY 31, 1849. NUMBER 0.4 THE CAMDEN JOURNAL, _ PUBLISHED WEEKLY, BY T. W. PEGUES. From the Cheraw Gazette. Wo rnnv the following beautiful address frnin the Alabama Argus. If was delivered on flic occasion of the presentation of a Bible to the ''Sons of Temperance," bv the young ladies of the Masonic Institute, Dayton, Alabama. Its gifted nuthoiess is a native, we bel.evc, of this town. J lor nume rous relations and friends cannot fail to be gratified by a perusal of the address. ADDRESS OF MISS R. C. PEGUES. ? Gentlemen, Sons of Temperance: When man was first created and placed in Paradise, happiness and peace reigned supremely, for then sin and sorrow had not entered tiie rosy bowers where dwelt our' first parents. When the treacherous serpent enticed woman to taste the fin bidden fru't,' and by Iter influence man also transgressed, presence, even after the world began to be i peopled, and ignorance, and crime ha I f thrown their sable curtains o'er the face o| f earth, still, man was spared one Iransgr. s 1 , si??n, for the crystal fount furnished his only j leverage. But, when man had learned, haf i,i- nro4?in(f theornnc he would obtain I k '"y '* rv" - - rn juice pleasant to the taste?then was the intoxicating draught first sipped, and then too, was the drunkard's fate no longer un known. Without stopping to trace the effects of iutcmp'ranee upon the human family through the long lapse of past ages it will he sufficient for our purpose to view it in the 19th century and in Columbia "ur native land. A broad expanse ofcotintry, stretched from the heaving billows of the Atlantic to the deep blue Pacific, o'er whose surface is spread our cities towns and villages, quietly slumbering in delightful peace, the beautiful prairies, gently agitated by the passing zephyrs, the forest trees, covered with their1 green mantles, the rivers, whose impetuous ; waters rush with a mighty bound into the l>osom of the ocean and the smoothly g!i- j ding brooks and rills, all remind us of a fairy j laud. From the narrow confines of the - r. i ,.r .i,? I arciic ocean, in roe in'n ii ii<iiiu<iai?.o Anti-arctic, inav her Star Spangled banner lie seen proudly floating to ihe breeze, as it tells in stranger lands, 'America is the land of the free, and the home of the brave.' I <tit let us alight on her soil. Yonder is one of the Sons of earth, who seems overwhelmed 1. with some mighty burden, as clothed in the ^ vilest attire, and a victim of some horrid disease, lie seems as if'death stands dim behind him, like the darkened half of the moon liehind its growing light. Ask him the cause of his inL. ry, and his answer will be?intemperance. Proceed farther. Near a gentle fl ?w;ng rivulet, whose banks arc covered with the most luxuriant foilage; where spring ne'er hides her lovlicst lace; where nature's sweet songsters always dwell, and a place fit for angefs haunts, is situated a small cottage. Happiness seems here to have taken her ahode, but a nearer approach shows that the drunkenness of the father of this lovely family, has rendered thoni miserable, 'the big I tear, is in the wife's eye, and from within is , echoed a sound that is mournful and low,' like the song of (lie tomb.' But yonder is a beautiful town, where the setting sun as it casts its last faint ravs on earth, warns us of the approach of night; the streets ate almost empty, their silence Iter tl?/> Uift ClfilL'OC ( if* fill* OfllV IIIICl I %'J MIV mo% --- ? -- | blacksmith at his anvil, or ihc romps of ilie light hearted school-girl, and here fancy whispers, you wi'l find happiness. The midnight's o'er the silent earth, let us peep on this beautiful village, and we will find that this is the theatre whete the dealer and buyer of grog, are the principal actors. Here, then, Sons of Temperance, direct your efforts; teach man the way to happiness through the atoning blood of the lamb; show hitn the merits of temperance as promised in the book of divine inspiration; p tint him not to that broad road and wide gate thai leadeth to destruction, hut rather carry his bewildered iniud to that narrow way that leadeth to eternal life, and tell him to he one among the happy few that will enter therein?he must he temperate. But let us visit yon mansion. It is n death scene, and that of an aged man. His ! ? ? -M .t ? r . ..f | ha?r is silvered oer wim mc imsim many a winter, his visage is wrinkled, and mi his eyes, may be seen glimmerings of that deep remorse, which tells us, he lias not led the life he should. His departing spirit is loath to quit his body, but as it finally leaves its earthly tatgjfuaclu he exclaims. Oh had I served my heavenly father as faithfully as I have the inebriate's God, thus 1 should not have died. Then he is borne to the Churchvard, and ns they lower him into the grave, pot a tear is shed o'er his bier, and the old sexton raises his voice, and sings alone a requiem for the fallen, the departed sire. To prevent such scenes as this, the Sons of Temperance should be the object of your benevolent operations. Death, the king of terrors is present everywhere, and liiuc as it rolls into eternity, without consideration, encircles the young, and the aged the talent?rl il>o ivpnltliv. and llie 1? autiful with its cold embrace. Then, oh! by your united endeavors, gel fathers, brothers, and al1, to join your society, then to many the grim monster 'death,' as it calls them to realms unknown, will have less terrors, and the silent valley of death, will be approached with more composure. Aided by your endeav. ors, and this sacred volume, they will learn to exclaim, with one of old, in view of eter nitv, 'Oh! death where is thy sting? Oh! grave where is thy victory? Then raise on high your banner, the banner of the good and noble, with its motto, Love, Purity and Fidelity,' telling all what your society is in reality. Learn from this holy, and best of books, bow to apply those emblems to practice, for they arc . ^ Vv those which will make your order what it should be. Those are sentiments from a pure undefilcd heart, from a soul that is 'generous ami mild, like the hours uflhe setting sun.' This motto inscribed on your banner, will wave triumphantly o'er the heads of the lover of wine and will tell in countries o'er the sea, that America has obtained a victory greater than that over proud England, that she has driven intemperance from her shores, and that her people now, truly govern themselves. This is the motto that the oracles of the Almighty Maker would au. thorize you to take, for Moses the great jew. ish lawgiver, and him that stood on the top of Mount Sinai, and heard commands from sacred lips has said, 'Thou shnlt not avenge porbcar any grudge against the children of thy people, hut thou shall love thy neighbor as thyself.' Solomon, too, who was endowed with wisdom from on high, tel's you that, 'Every word of God is pure, he is a sfreldunto them that put their trust in him,' and then the great apostle of the Gentiles, says, 'Without faith it is impossible to please f,.f tin tlint pnmpili nntii find, must be- I lieve that he is a rewarderof them that diii gently seek him.' Then let the sun as it ushers in day, find you at your desk, pouring over thc.se sacred pages, and let the oil of your midnight lamp he spent in searching out the truths, contained within its lids, for it is "The truest friend inan ever had, lis constancy, oh! try, When all arc false, you'll find it true, Thy counsellor and iuide. Tlic mines of cartli, no treasure give, That could this volume huy. In teaching you the way to livo, It tenches liovv to die" An now, hoping all may join in (lie noble cause of Temperance, we wish you success and happiness, desiring that when your elforts on earth are ended, when life's short span has expired, that your fame may remain, and grow l.kcthc 'oak of Morvcn,' which lilts its broad head to the storm, and rejoices in the course of the winds. From lho Columbia Telegraph. CAVAIGN \C AND LOUIS BONAPARTE. Louis Napoleon Bonaparte has received five and a half millions of votes, out of seven millions and a half, cast in France for the presidency. (,'avaignac has received one > million and a half. Louis Napoleon Bona- ' parte has lived abroad, has even a strong !'o "eign accent, and is admitted on all bands to be an ordinary man. If it could be doubted li's Boulogne eagle alone would prove it. Cavaignar, on the other hand, is admitted by all, even the Bonnpartists, to be a sterling man. He is a man, taken all in all, such as Franco had never yet turned up in all her political and social vicissitudes.? What then docs this fact mean? Bonaparte seven and a half millions of votes; Cavaignar u lm cnvi-il France. one and a half mil. lions. It means among other things this: Louis Bonaparte was elected solely liecause he is 4llie nephew of his uncle," and that that uncle's name has to this day an enormous hold on the whole French nation; and that this name has this hold, this grip on the French mind, proves that the French never conceived, and do not conceive In ' this day, what liberty is. For Napoleon did i not only destroy the so called Republic, (it was but a kingless state of things, but little of a republic,) but be drained France of every vestige of liberty. Liberty is projected individuality and freedom of action : Napoleon centralized and burvauoratized all France, to a ghastly degree. lie trod out the last spark of individuality, and organized the whole of Fran :e to the hidden corner of the humblest Ii *artli. All France was government. at d government was police. At the same time his iron sceptre led to glory, as the French call it, to victory as we call it. Iron sceptics are occasionally necessary; , such iron sceptres as Napoleon's was not, for it took away cv? n the elementary conditions out of which freedom might arise at a period when the ncccssi'y of the iron sceptre existing for the time, should have vanished, and when civil liberty should have her turn af?'*!-1 li?? ciriiHTfiiit inncdarinsm. But i? ran ted thai all Napoleon did was necessary ; there is a vast difference between holding; in honor die destroyer or preventer of liberty, 011 the one hand, and e.lecling his nephew to be president. now, when they proclaim that they want liberty, upon the sole and absolutely exclusive strength of his being the nephew of the crusher of fr? c I0111. An Englishman might "hold Cionwel in high honor, but , w< uld rather die than v >tc f >r his descendant as Chief Magistrate, when the question is of establishing liberty. Hut Napoleon boasted even to the last hour of his life; that he had given equality to France. It is true that in a considerable degree (though not s > much as he vaunted) he had preserved equality, cstablithed by the Convention. He established new nobility. Still equality was preserved by him in a high degree, and this equality the French mistake for liberty. Equality must enter asr an element in all liberty, so far as it goes, but it alone is tar from being liberty. The despot wants e .ualily too. There is more equality in Turkey, where the Sultan's barber may become grand vizier at any time, than in England, with her hereditary peerage. Is there more liberty in Turkey?? Variety is the law ofall liberty, all essential i f*- I.E..-!.. lifo Tim r\nli/ nkcrtlnlo Iil??CtllU IIUCJ IV (<> ilic* J IIV Mill f IIUO'MUiV equality reigns in the church yard. Now, Napoleon being mixed up with the reminiscences of equality, and the French confounding equality without the necessary adjuncts, with liberty, they confound Napoleon with liberty, at least many of them?and again confounding the nephew with his uncle, many confound Louis Bonaparte with freedom. It is logical but the logic of confused bare association of ideas, one teminding of the other, but not necessitating it. The unhappy confusion does not stop here. The quality of Napoleon was but the i systematized perfection?the flower of the steady, all-absorbing centralization which had fairly begun with Louis XIV, and had been prepared by Richelieu. The Conven. tu?n had changed little. It was always absorbing, directing central pnwer?power? and noihing but power. However differing the many parties and political theories in j France may be from one anoihor, all of j them agree in this point, that they expect everything from government, from orgaization by power. The Legitimist, the Bonaparlist, the Communist, the Socialist, the Red Republican, all agree in this point.? They have never yet dreamed of the fact that the essence of liberty is self reliance, ! protected in the free movement of individu ality by society or government. I have developed my ideas on this subject in an arti- i cle on Anglican and Gallican Liberty, which you did me the favor of publishing in one of your former numbers, and now find what 1 then said, slrongly confirmed by the pro- I gramme-speech ofM. Orhllon Barrot, prime j minister of France. He said, in the Ass'-m- j b!y, on December the 26th: '-Our society ! filial is France,) has contracted the deplo- j rable habit of always looking toward gov- \ crnmcnt for those endeavors and cares, for which individual activity provides with other nations." Yet the French hug the word Democracy. Their new constution declares the French 1 Republic a Democratic Republic, one and indivisible. The President has sworn to maintain the Democratic republic. All Frenchmen agree, no matter to what party they belong, that France?the pervading spirit of all the French-is eminently democratical. There is no inconsistency in this. It is only when the democratic principle pervading the institutions of a country, per rnancntly rests upon the infinitely more important basis of self-reliance, that it is conducive to freedom?to unshackled action. Abstract democracy has never cared, never strives for liberty. The great aim of'pure democracy," is the power, the unrestrained power of the people. But in politics, the term people cannot, in the nature of things, mean anything but majority and minority; abstract or pure democracy, therefore, means unlimited power of the majority.? Woe to the land where it sways! Democratic absolutism is the fiercest of all, be cause it is reality; tnonarchial absolutism is but lent. Absolute democracy is the very negation of liberty, for it sweeps awav individuality. All periods of history, all the movements in this sense in our own age prove it. Already have the Communists in France openly railed against liberty an 1 substituted for it in the motto: Liberty, Equality and Fraternity: the term solidaiity, that is extinction of individuality, the making of society one solid unleavened mass, in which the individual sha'l and ought to use his individuality, even in marriage, and might be named by a number as our prison crs are in me penitentiary. i encc mcir inveterate hatred in Cavaignac, for he,they arc conscious, is a Republican, and loves to protect self-reliance, hut hales to make society a tiresome barrack to lodge mediocrity jn the fashion of Owen. What does it mean that Louis Napoleon has seven millions of votes, and Cavaignac but one? It means that in six months there will be another, and probably a bloody change, it means that the Communists who changed the government were a handful of Parisians, and France submitted, because acaustomed to receive governments and fashions from Paris, and that now, having an oportiinitv of snowing what she wants, or ;.t least w hat she docs not want has shown she dissents from the Parisian governmentdrafters. There was, we allow, an occasion for an cmeute, in February last, for the ministry would not go out; but there was none for a change of government. Had it been the vole would now be different; for the vote fur Louis Napoleon was avowedly (/gainst the Rcpuulic. Coi.umbiensis. Iowa Indian Buiiial Customs ?The Iowas sometimes place their dead on scaffolds, made by setting four posts in the ground, which rise high en ugh to he above the reach of ferocious animals; upon these posts a platform is made of sticks and hark. The body is then carefully wrapped in a blanket and buffalo skin, and usually encased on the outside with a roll of bark and laid on the top of this scaffold. There it is permitted to lie until the scaffold rots down, by which time the body is decomposed. The bones are sometimes collected afterwards and buried sllighly under the surface. The bodies 1 of children and infants are enveloped in this way, and often placed on the branches and in the tops of trees. This mode is, however, i growing out of practice and giving wav to a i mode more like that practiced by the while i people?that of putting in the ground, A narrow hole, scarce the length or breadth of ( the body, is dug in the ground, about three feet deep. The bottom is covered first with i bark and then a buffalo skin. Upon this : flic corpse, after haviiig been dressed and i wrapped in a blanket is placed, in some cases at full length on the back, and at other i times in a reclining or sitting posture. By i the side is usually put a bowl with a spoon < or ladle, a cake of bread, a cup or bottle of water, with some articles of clothing leggins, i &c. If lie is a brave or a chief, some of his < ornaments, with his favorite pipe and such i things arc given him. The warrior is provided with his bow, quiver, knife, and tomahawk bv his side. AH these seem to be intended tor the convenience of the individual on his journey to the land of spirits, and his use when there. The giaves are not filled with earth, as with the whites, but a covering of bark put over the mouth of the graves, which is again overlaid by a thin lay- i er of earth; this is again inclosed with a sort of frame work of wood, made of hewn slabs | set on the end, and leaned so as to meet together over the grave in the shape of a sharp or very steep roof. This is all surmounted < with a heavy coat of earth, or sods of prairie grass. This wood and earth-work is of- < ten badly done, and in such cases it some- t times happens that the bodies are dragged t from the graves and devoured by the wolves. I In their grave yards may be seen white I flags, displayed from long poles set at the < head of their graves. Some of them say t this is to assist the spirit in finding the body; ] while others say it is simply a mark of res- < pert, as onr grave stones. i By the graves of the warriors may be seen < on the trees, or on slabs hewn from timber, t rude paintings; a sort of heraldry of hiero- < glyphic representations, giving an outline of the most important events of the individual's mi _ _r_ i I?A., o lire. ine rim ire Ul a Human umiuui ? head, shows die number of heads he has cut 1 off. A body with one arm extended hold- i ing a string or a rope, shows a person which j has been tied and taken prisoner, and these figures are multiplied to show the number of I such feats. The figure of a foot or a hand t shows that a foot or a hand hasbeen taken t off in battle. The figure of the foot of a i bear, implies that a bear had been killed by t the person, which is considered a very brave t act, < These inscriptions are very rude, and of- I ten exaggerated, but they are about as sig- { nifieant and truthful as many of the flatter- t ing inscriptions which appear on the polish- I ed marble and tasteful columns which adorn \ thegraves of some of our own countrymen, t where selfishness and deceit moulder and I crumble beneath a plausible epitaph of vir- t tuc and benevolence. \ Rev. S. M. Irvine. i t A Warning to Wives.?We were much f amused by a little accident which occurred > within our remembrance at a tavern not far ^ from this city. I will serve as a warning to \ wives, termagant ones at least, and for the r benefit of such we will relate it. <1 A hard customer, whom we will call for a the nonce Bi lv Watson, was fond ol going r to the tavern before mentioned and indul- r ging in a cup of sack,' or other refreshment t of the kind, and one night in particular, i while imbibing the beverage, in walked his t lady, and in no mild lone of voice requested his company home, at the same time remarking she was an abused and misused wife.? Old Billv denied the fact of her being his* ' spouse with much apparent wrath and con- I siderable emphasis. The lady still persisting he threatened to call a watchman; and 8 eventually did so. The cream of the joke is. c Charley' averred that he had seen that lady before, and requested her to keep still and be oft'or he would remove her to quarters 1 which she had seen before. She continued f scolding, and the watchman took her off, j maugrc her cries, which were loud enough s to attract all the people in the square, but t failed to disturb the equanimity of her hus- t hand, who let Iter sleep, if sleep she did, c in the watch house, and next mording had i her released. I She never again went to that tavern after f Billy.? Cincinnati Despatch, < They tell a story of a man out West who had a hare lip upon which he performed an operation himself by inserting into the open ing a piece of chicken flesh?it adhered and filled up the space admirably. This was all well enough until, incompliance with the prevaling fashion, he attempted to raise moustaches, when one side grew hair and the other feathers. Considerate.?'John,' said a careful father, 'don't give your Cousin Simon's horses too many oats?you know they have hay.' Yetli thur,'said John, moving towards the barn. 'And hark ye, John?don't give them too much hay?you know they l.ave oats.' 2 An Attorney on capital punishment. ?The following oration was delivered some | where in Wisconsin, by one of the pmfes- c sion, who could seem to have quite an aver- a sion to capital punishment:? 1 'May it please your Lordship and Gentle- c men of the Jury?The case is as clear as H ice, and sharp to the doin' as 'no' from your a sweet-heart. The scripture sailh Thou shall 8 not kill,' now if you hang my client, you ^ transgress the command as slick as grease, and as plump as a goose egg in a loafer's 1 face. Gentlemen, murder is murder, wheth- ^ er committed by twelve Jurymen or by a humble individual, like my client. Gentle- | men, 1 do not deny the fact of my client's c having killed a man; but is that any reason p why you should do so? No such thing, gen- v tlcmen. You may bring the prisoner in c 1.-.- .1? U.namnn mnv rln Ilia ,l,ifv. Kn? n 'guiny; me iiuiigiiiun ? ? ? ..v ..ic -u, uu> u will lhat exonerate you? No such thing, u In that case you will all be murderers! Who ii among you is prepared for the brand of Cain 1 to be stamped on his brow to-dav; who, free- a men, who in this land of liberty and light? #v Gentlemen I will pledge my word not one l! of you lias a bowicknifc or a pistol in his pocket. No gentlemen, your pocket; are odoriferous with the perfumes of cigar ca- j ses and tobacco. You gentlemen,can smoke (] the tobaeco of rectitude in the pipe of a peaceful conscience; but hang my unfortu- (l nate client, and the scaly alligators of re- t| morse will gallop through the internal prin- j, ciples of animal vertebrae, until the spinal h vertebrae of your anatomical construction is u turned into a railroad for the grim and gory v goblins of despair. Gentlemen, beware of r committing murder! Beware, I say, of i mcdling with the internal prerogative! Be- c ware! I say. Remember the fate of the man who attempted to steady the ark, and 1 tremble. Gentlemen, 1 adjure you by the ^ manumitted ghost of temporal sanctity, to do no murder! ] adjure you by the name of woman, the mainspring ol the ticking time- ( piece of time's theoretical transmigration, to ^ do no murder! 1 adjure you by the love you have for the esculent and condimental 0 gusto of our native pumpkin, to do no mur- ? dcr! I adjure you by ttie stars set in the fly- a ing ensign of our emancipated country, to t do no murder! I adjure you by the Ameri- | can Eagle, that whipped the universal game t cock of creation, and now sits roosting on I i * he magnetic telegraph ot l ime's illustrious ransmigration, to do no murder! And lastv, gentlemen, if you ever expect to wear ong-lailed coats?if you ever expect free logs not to bark at you?if you ever expect o wear boots made of the hide of the Rocky Mountain buffalo?and to sum up all, if you ;ver expect to be anything but a set of ineaking, loafing cut-throaied, braided, small ;nds of humanity, whittled down to indisinctibility, acquit my client and save your :ountry!' The prisoner was acquitted! Inaouration Ball.?The Washington tVhig states that the most extensive preparitions are on foot to make the Taylor inauguration ball worshy of the occasion: A pavillion, one hundred and sixty feet ong. fifty feet hroad and twenty feet high o the square, is to be erected forthwith, for he dancing room, on the open space west of ind after t hey were driven from their makers he City Hall. The floor, which is to be of he best North Carolina pine, will be as mooth as glass,and the ceilingand wails will )e lined with white cotton cloth. The whole irea will be without a column to obstruct he movements of the company. The ga)Ie ot the pavilion will be opposite the large .vest door of the City Hall, through which he companv will pass in entering the BaM Room. The public offices of the city auhoritics, on the second floor of the west ving of the City Hall, are to be converted nto dressing rooms, for the occasion and he spacious Council Chamber on the same loor will be used as the supper saloon. The vholc premises will be brilliantly lighted up villi camphine and thoroughly warmed vilh stoves. The entrance to the dressing ooms will be through the large south door ?f the west wing of the City Hall, thence ilong the corridor of the first fl'>or to the nain stair way thfit leads to the second stoy. The price of.' ickeis lias been fixed at pn dnllnrs. and if there be anv surplus, af erpavingallexpcnses.it is to be divided >etwen the two orphan Asylums in the city. Remarkable Fact in Natural History ?The following account of a cross breed heween a stag and a mare, we find in a late condor) paper : A hybrid filly, seven months old, was found l short time since in the New Forest, and is widently of a mixed breed, between the horse ind the deer. Her dam, a pony mare, was ibserved to associate with some red deer stags, n the New Forest, for some months, and at last his loal was seen by her side. The nose hows a proximity both to the stag and horse : ler forehead is round like that of the deer; legs lender and distinctly double ; hoofs pointed, ind partly double; color brown, lighter under he belly, and tail like a deer. This extraorlinary animal is the property of T. G. Attwaer, esq. of Attwater, at the village of Boden iam, three miles from Salisbury. Dr. Fowler, >f that city, has inspected tho hybrid, and is juite satisfied of the correctness ol the preced ng statement; and Col. Buckley, a keeper of he New Forest, has likewise seen the animal, tnd is of a similar opinion. Daughters.?When a young woman be. taves to her parents in a manner particularly enderand respectful, 1 mean from principle as veil as nature, there is nothing good and genle that may not be expected from her, in whatever condition she is placed. Of this I am so horoughly persuaded, that, were I to advise iny friend of mine as to his choice of a wife, I enow not whether my very first counsel would lot he, 4,Look out for one distinguished by her ittention and sweetness to her parents:" The iind of worth and affection indicated by such jehavior, joined to the habits of duty and conideration thereby contracted, being transferred 0 the married state, will not fail to render her 1 mi d and obliging companion*?Fordyce. The Toils of a Newspaper.?Newspaper iterature is a link in the great chain of mira:lcs which proved the greatness of England, ind every support should be given newspapers. The editors of the papers must have an enornons task. It is not the writing of the leading irticle itself, but the obligation to write that irticle every day, whether inclined or not, in ickness or in health, in affliction, disease of >odv or mind, winter and summer, tied down o the tagk, remaining in one spot. It is somehing like walking a thousand miles in a thou, and hours. I have a fellow feeling, for I now how a periodical will wear down one's xistcnce. In itself it appears nothing?the abor is not manfest, nor is it the labor; it is onlinued attention it requires. Your life ipcomes, as it were, the4 publication. One vork is no sooner corrected and printed than n comes another. It is the 6tone of Sysiphus, n endless repetition oi toil, a constant weight pon the mind, a continual wearing upon the ntellect and spirits, demanding all the exerions of our faculties, at the same time that you re compelled to the severest drudgery. To rrite for u paper is very easy, but to edit one i to condemn yourself to slavery.?Maryalt. Kern Retort.?Atterbury, Bishop of Ro. hesler, alluding to a hill brought into the louse of Lords, said "he prophesied that the iill would be attempted in the present season; nd ho was sorry to find that he had proved a rue prophet." Lord Coning*hy had desired he House to remark that one of the reverends ad set himself up as a prophet, but for his part e did not know what prophet to liken him nto, unless to that furious prophet, Balaam, rho was rebuked by his dwn ass. The Bishop eplied : "Since the noble lord has discovered 11 our manners such a similitude, I am well ontent to be compared to the prophet Balaam; iut, my lords, I am at a loss how to make out he other part of the parallel. I am sure, I ave been reproved by no one r>ul his torusmp. i burst of laughter followed the casligalion. True Friendship.?Perhaps friendship is he most sensitive of all affections ; the first oubt?the first neglect?the first seeking of nother for that sympathy which we thought it iur special privilege to give?these are mo. nents which burn their traces on the heart; ,nd leave a scar which, though it may possess he dubious advantage of callousness to ojture mpressions, inflicts agony ere it hardpns. And r> such wounds friendship is specially liable. jOve confers an equality, whether real or I imaginary; there is ft balance nf feelings; Mi very essence is rectprocftfof. But friendship* are for the most part uneqoftb existing between persons whose characters are dUtimfratr, either fundamentally, or in the aspect which they present to each other. The keen tenderness^ the watchful reference, the fear, the passion, are not equally divided, and moch must he suffer, in whom they predominate; much mast he forbear, long must he persevere, ere tbo bond of full and perfect confidence is finally established. But, if there be indeed that hidden basis of sympathy, without which no troa friendship is conceivable, it is well worth tho strueele, for the reward shall overpay the labor. Forbearance, trustfulness, hope,?on theso three oillars mar the temnle Tw> renr?rl .tat if one of these fail, especially if the second (ail, there will be nothing but a shapeless rain I The Benefit of Ap?bentice?hi?.?Tbowr is an important feature in tbc regulations of a master mechanic, which is frightful to awn kind parents' hearts; and that is the (ire loser, en years'apprenticeship the boy who learns* trade must sjbmit to. But it is an excellenf discipline. It takes the lad at a critical period of life?when be perhaps has & disposition* averse to steady employment?when he hhk clined to roam at large, amid the co? aminau ting influences about him?and puis him tow steady round of duties?severe, at first, bat sooar becoming, from habit, agreeable; and, whear his minority expires, his steady habits and im* dustry are established, and he cornea forth * man, the master of a trade, of fixed principle* and good habits, a blessing to himself and titer community. If parents would but look at it aright, they would declare that, bad they many anna, they should learn trades. Contrast the youth just alluded to with him who, baring a horror ofu apprenticeship, is allowed to ran at large. Al the most critical period of lite lor terming nanus, he is forming those that are the reverse of industry. He is not fitting himself to be * man, but wearing away bis boyhood in idleness.-** The partial parent sees ibis, yet bas not fbrt& tude to avert it. At twenty-one years ofagd' when the first-named lad comes oat a good'mechanic. it is wonderful if the other has not fastened habits upon him that will be hit raii^if he is not rained already. More than one excellent roan in oar community can say Wttjk thankfulness, that it turned out so that, to hir half dozen years' apprenticeship, he is indebted? for (be bsbits of industry and sobriety he ha? obtained, that, when he was put to a trade, he was on a pivot, as it were. Had it not bestf for the firmness of his parents, he likely wookf have been a ruined lad ere bis minority expired* This was the turning point. Hekoisx.?We find in the following thrilling narrative in the Hagerstown (Md.) News. On Thursday night lust the bouse of Mr. Christian Hawbecker, situated in the Clearspring District, was entirely consumed by lira# The circumstances attending this calamity ire of a painful character. The wife' of Mr* has, for some years past, been a maniac, (root which circumstance it became necessary to keep her chained, to prevent injury to herself and those around her. When discovered, (he r t _i _ . 1 * 1 __i_ i i < ? a . nre naa compieieiy enveiopea ner apanmenw*-' Tbo husband, notwithstanding the iramitteng peril of his own life, determined upon her rescue, and rushed into the fames. By the aid of an axe her chain was severed, but by this time escape by the doorway had been rendered Impossible by the rapid progress of the flames. He accoidingly attempted to extricate her through the window, and had nearly succeeded, when she broke from him and fell backward into the burning building. To again attempt her rescue seemed sure destruction. Yet tao faithful husband faltered not. Despite tbo entreaties and eflbrts of the only neighbor "tvbo bad arrived to witness his calamities, and yet too late to aid, be determined upon one more effort. Again springing through the window* now enveloped in flames, be succeeded In reaching the object of his perilous undertaking. A short and desperate struggle ensued?-ft was a struggle of life and death, but the superior strength of the husband triumphed, and again he appeared through the window, fhh frme bearing successfully the object of his deration and peril. Strange as it may seem, the wife was bat slightly injured. Mr. CI. however, suffered severely. His head, hands and body were hadiv burned, though we hope not fo such aa extent as te render his recovery doubtful. A Folding House.?We bate beard tell o^. folding doors and folding window*, but a fol d ing house is something of a noteify* Day. the New York India-rubber dealer* has got up a portable house and boat for gold* finders. Among the peculiar advantages of this invention for travellers rn> California, i*lha facility with which a boot of nine feet loeg, by six feet wide, can be converted info a bouse of eight hundred and eleven feet, sufficiently high to allow persons to stand upright. 1'he nsero disconnecting of the sheet of rubber cloth from the cylinders, turns the boat into a comfortable house. The whole weight of one of them is only seventy pounds?andean be packed a4hy in an ordinary trunk. Day says, that should the traveller he detained at Panama, with a large boat of this kind, which can be so arran* ged as to spread a sail, a party may embark -t n 1 u.. -? upon the gentle racmc, anu, nj cam nig aiung the shore, can reach the ralley of the Sacramento, and even penetrate to the gold region itself.' " Trouble is Georgia.?There appears to be considerable exditerttent in Henry county, growing out of the result of the late election hi county for Judges of the Inferior Court. Tl? returhsof the election, which were deposited in the mail to be forwarded to the Governor, are said to hare been abstracted from the mail-bag; two setts of Judges are now in power?two Clerks of the Court of Ordinary, appointed. It appears that the election for Clerk was tho point upon tvbich the election of Judges turned, and the principal cause of the present excitement. The Gorernor has refused to issue commissions for either set of the Judges, and will lay the matter before the Supreme Court for adjudication.?Angusta Republic. To Stop BtKcoirra at th* Nose.?0r. Negrier, & French surgeon, says that the simpie elevation of a person's arm trill always atop bleeding at the nose. He explains the fact physiologically, and declares It a posit Ire if me* dy. It is certainly easy of trial.