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tt - *- - a DEVOTED TO SOUTHERN RIGHTS, DEMOCRACY, NEWS, LITERATURE, SCIENCE AND THEARTS. F ANCIS, Proprietor. TERIS--Two Donae v() 1.40 _ _ _ SUBIT~In Advanuce 15 1 V (). V. SUIMT E RVIL LE, S. C.,JUNE 15, 1862. TElMPERANCE. ADDRE.8. BY TiE loN. ,R3UND 'DILLAIKUNTY, P. 0. W. P. Ignorance is not a mere negation of happiness, but it is a positive evil, not a mere waterless and parched chann6I, but a corrupt and unhealthy fountain, whose turbid streams de. ferhi'the plains of human life and scatter in their course pollution, de gradation and death. It is not only the parent of error, but it has over been an active agent in generating those -crimes which has filled the world. with sorrow- and mourning. It is the tyrant's stay, and tho lever by which the demagogue elevates hitnselfto power ; and, allied to fear ful vices of idleness and intempe rance, becomes, the nYost deadly foe to human liberty and the rights of nan. Alan has a high destiny to work out on carth-nothing its than secu ring happiiiess in- this life and bliss beyond the grave. There are sor rows that. no art can evade, no scourge can overcome. Under the present constitution of things, nsatu ral calamity is the ultimate end of the physical and organic laws of man's existence. Sickness and death are the lot of all. Tender infancy, blahiug beauty, vigorous manhood aidenaerable age suffer a connon doom. But moral evil is the work of men. It is deducible from the light of natuie, from experience and sound philosophy, as well as from the Great Book of Life, that the God of the Universe created nothing in wrath nothing in the wild caprice of a so vereign will. The beauty, regulari hi majesty and po #0r. The garniture of nature, the fruits and flowers of earth, the glorious sun. the star-decked heavens and the rich and I mellow radiance of the evening sky, - all proclaim his tender mer-y and parental love. In the organization of man, his benevolence is still more conspicuous. The whole system of our nature, the nice adaptation of each portion of our mysterious mC chanism to the end designed, the beautiful symmetry of the whole, the strango and wonderful union of mat ter and spirit, the capacity of mind, its inighty energies, the "depth and force of the moral sentiments, the tender susceptibilities of human sym pathy,and the generous and enduring attributes of human affection, affjrd the most ample evidence that th2 pri meval law of man was one of su preme happiness. But this law was broken. The beauty of earth was marred.-Its sunny landscapes were overshadowed by clouds. Its fair surface long fanned by gentle ztophyrs and perfumed by the sweet odors of paradise, was now the theatre of the whirlwind and'the favorite abode of noxious weeds and thorns and brain bles. The human heart was made acquainted witig sorrow and anguish. Evil was mingled with good, and sad ness with pleasugs Innocence was * o l-ipl by guua% and helplessness) ,overwvhelmed by \violence. Iheart no longer answered heart in the cout tidence of love. 'l e sounds of r joicing were hushed ig the wailinags of sorrow. Man felt his weakness and exposure to danager, butt consciouis guilt made him fear to trust his God.) A well regulated seltf-respect, and aquiet cheer-ful temper ar-e essential einonts in every well-ordered place .of life. The mind is an indepenidenat enipire, wyhose means of pr-osperity iind success are toibe found in its own* internal resources. Withorut cheerfulness and self-~applrobation,. there can be no adlvancemnent towards rear good. So long as the mind is overshadowed by the gloom of mielan choly, and is visited by the reproach es. of conscience anel the stings of remorse, iL is impossible that the c-on solations of tranquility and hope should find a resting placo there. Hence we find many seeking enjoy ment where God has not placed it in ignoble listlessntess,or ina the haunts of''ice. Self-despised or self-con destined, they take no par-t in the world's busy stage, or fly from the A ~harthony of fireside affection, aind the! sweet' endearments of domestic life, and seek to slake their thirst for hap iness in the angry tumults of pias sio ttind the bitter strifes of appetite. A.lp t~of evils follow in the train of tlni tihig down the powers qf j~souu . ntemperance comes with its attendant evil;, idleness and mise. ry, profligacy and crime, to lay waste - the hopes of the palace and the peace of the cottage. It has been the shame and reproach of this great country. It has pervaded all class. ral es anl conditions of life-destroyed co, individuals, ruined families, corrupt. gr ed the vital air of society and threat- pa ened destruction to civil liberty itself. thi How many has it brought to degra- ye dation and misery within the recol- W lection of each one of us? Iave atl we not all witnessed the wasting do away of the powers of the body and or the blasting of the energies of the th< soul under its withering influence, sio until the manly fibrm and the proud an spirit were humbled in disease and we crime, and grovelling appetite had vie supplanted every feeling of honor, aln until frieiAdship had lost its confidence an and love its sympathy, and the bitter ne grief of wives aid the helpless wail. ne ings of children pointed the stings of pr remnorse without arousing one eff.rt be to repentance, or exciting oe gene. th< rous straggle for amendment? In vai its terrible march, the proudest intel. to lects are leveled to the (lust and the of Purest affections are dried uip at their wh fountains, and the brave and the true, m( the beautiful and the pure, are made pr< to share a common ruin with the po base, the treacherous and the vile. ni2 To arrest- this fearful .scourge is a sot work in which we should all delight als to engage. Much has been done in ry times past. By the united exertions of philantlirnpists and patriots of all jOi orders and professions, its awful ra- bil vages have been stayed for a season wil But attempts are now being made to Cc open the flood-gates of its pent-up ev wrath and bury beneathatt\inogry ric itlo ,the--onoahn - 2 e hopes of helphess, uno- eq S- ucence. -In this struggle, col my brethren, let us not be content ke inith a cold neutrality. We profess sei to be friends of sobriety and order- mt to sympathise with improtected weak. pa ness and unmerited suffering. We lie justly boast our- decds of mercy in it visitiig the poor in their alition, in enr wipinig the tears from the widow's in eyes, and iniibtering to the sorrow- th: ing in his bereavement. Let us now foI do more, ly endeavoring to reclaim fr' the drunkard and restore tranquility Cc and joy to the mother whose heat t is Cc rent with inore than a widow's griefs, la and to the children whose timid th< glances aid squalid looks betoken thi more than an orphan's pain and an- i be gupish.a ye THI-: UiOCATiC CANDIDATES.- v It w'ill be seen by our telegraphiC gr news that the Deinocratic Coiaven- I tion, after an intestine struggle of long and painful duration, have at ma length succeeded in reconciling con. t flicting claims, by pitching all the estabhlished candidates out of the win. I dow, and adopting a man whose name of had been barely whispered before- . T n hand. Gen. Pierce of New Hilamp. It shire, will ba recalled by those who have good memories, as formerly rep resenting his State, with much credit, bl ini the U. S. Senate, where he washo very pop)ular arid considered a man of proinise. lbe left the position, we a bielieve, voluntarily. Sumbsequeitly lie was ne of Mr. Polk's gelne als ii the Mexican war, where lhe did good service, thuhhis explot endagerthereptaton f flius Caiesar and the Duke of Wellinigton. In polities he belongs to that respee. a table porion of the D emne~racy ofa New Hampshire wvhich has nmevei mnade terms with the Fm cesoilers amid v Aboitionamists, aiid lie is, we supposeu~, mn all respectis, as gooad a main foar the Ior South as any of those whowmhe has . Mr'. King, the candidate for V ice -m President nteeds no comumu-t. Ini fact, he would iiot bear mucli, bei:ig di formed of that flimisy, tinselly sort of stuff, that is intenuded rather- to lbe admiired than hanadledl. Hie is a good of mian but not good for much' tr 1For the rest, the Convention, it appears, has shouldered the Compr~o-I mnise bodily,--.a load which wo wish them joy. ---.. . -' - - ho Dr. Theswax, in his 46 Essay on he Women,'' says -" 1 have rmide wo- ly meni my study for a serios of years, mi bumt I never found one who stuttered. pr. I meet with any number of men, eve- i ry' day, who st-st-ammner, but never pc have I seen a woman who couldn't ga blIow an unbroken Eban POLITICAL. From the Southern Prone. Tine Free Farm Bill. Nothing illustrates. so well the pid progress of opinion in this antry as the debate on the hill to ant lands to the landless which has ssed the House of Representatives a session. It is only about twenty irs since Robert Owen, Fanny right, and a few other skeptics and eists began to preach here the etrines of communism in properly, promiscuous intercourse between sexes, and of a general subver n of our domestic, social, political rI religious institutions. They re then regarded as the wildest of ionaries, the weakest of sophists, :1 the most depraved of moralists 1 teachers. Now, we have wit 3sed the passage in Congress of a asure-which they were the first to )pose-of a measure which cannot defended for a moment except on principles of socialism they ad Iced-of a measure which amounts a ratification by this government their doctrine-of a measure ich is subversive, not only of the Iral system which has heretofore availed in this country, but of the litical relations created or recog ed by the Constitution, between :tions and classes, and subversive o of the right, and even of the ve institution of property itself. The public domain is as yet the at property of the States. This I grants it to the poor-a thing ich Congress has no right to do ngress has no right whatever, -n to discriminate between the h and poor. 01 1eople eo beh f e, and each Tiif0ii uial righ. to protection. If the nmon. property of both can be ta n away and given to one, then the jarate individual property of each in can be taken for the same pur se. If Congress can take the pub land and give it to actual settles, qJy take anly land of private own i'awl do the same thing; nay, if an lividual owner cultivates more land In Congress may deem necessarf - his subsistence, it ann take that in him and distribute it. True, ingress has no power under the 4nstitution to dispose of private ids is a trust to be exercised for 3 common use and benefit of all 3 States, and if such a trust can so abused as to bestow theu on a rticular class of people, then any wer of Congress can be easily per rted to similar objects, and it has iple powers to accomplish, without eater absurdity, the distribution of ivate property. It can be done rough the taxing power alone, with we facility and more plausibility iii in the manner now proposed of 'ing away the public lands. The pending bill gives a quarter a section to a man who is landless, d who is moneyless, or nearly so. takes the land which has been id for by the labor of the industri s, the money of the frugal, and the iod1 of the brave, and wvhichi be is chiefly to them, to a class long whom arc the lazy, the cow '11:y, the prodigal, the stupid, the ~ionis. Theli manl who has bee-n ini strious, self-dlenyinig and frgal oiugh to accumulate live hini'redl Ihars of prpe ty receives no' favor mi Government, however large his nly, and however depenident. But who has ailwuays beenu too lazy to emteialt live hiund red dollars of operty receives no famvor from Go. Simuient, however la rge his fmnilyv, d however dependent. IBut lie io has always been too lazy to work, too initemperate to save-hle whoi ay have squan-lered thousaunds in :o or in luxuu y', is presentted with a -m by Goverinmn. A t present the publliic :. ' a re ided into tracts of forty acres, the ice of which is lif'ty dollars. We Id that the man who is not caprable accumulating that eumi 1 r n s ', frugality, energy or talent, is t fit to have a farm, and would be miiserable incumbrance on onue ,-a atL to the neighborhood, aid an oh del to the rightful cultivator. We Id that property, as well as liberty, longs only to those wyho aire moral capable of their acquoisition and ditenance. Even bread itself is Limised] only to the childron of the ;hiteous by scripture. Tfhe wicked rishi. But the pending bill disre rds5 totally the moral distinctions tweon men. menet tha it~ .,v~ positive preference to the worthless, and offers a high bounty to idicuess, appetite, indulgence and vice, at the cost of the actual honesty, labor and property of the country. The principles of natural right on which this claim of land for the land. less is founded, will furnish a much better argument for a division of pri vate property than for this bill. If a man has a natural right to land he has a natural right to society-cer tainly to that of his kindred. What reason then is there for sending him away into the Western wilds to rea lize this right and to forsako his brothers, sisters, father, 'iother, neighbors and friends whe- re are at hand inany tracts o 0nd acres or more held byv ' lation of this prineli right T Why not tak of them ? If a man P right and to as much him, lie has a right toN land he can find which, by a different tenure right to take that of a rich neigh or who holds more than he needs. And if part of it is already cleared, culti vated and planted, why so much the better, the claimant by natural right will receive some indemnity for hav. ing been so long kept out of posses. sion. This bill not only discriminates between classes, between the poor, and those who are not, or rather in favor of the idle against tile laborious, but between sections. The North is groaning with actual and impend ing pauperism. The South is not. This is a-beheme to relievb the North by. giving to the most wqrthless class of her people, the commton property of the South and Xn .j,',: e wogIg class of men could surprise us, that any of those who are so clamorous for the finality of the Compromise should advocate this bill. It is the very grossest infraction of that "set tileut" that could be perpetrated. The Compromise robbed the South of her right to colonize or settle the ac quired territory. And here it pro. lessed to stop. It (lid not rob the South of her right to property in all the public diomain -North and South. For a this was sold, the money was to go into the common treasury of the North and the Soutl;. But this bill robs the South of 'jer right cf property, and gives it to a particular class Of people, the landless and thriftless, of which it appears by the census of 1850 that the lp.oportion in the North is two or thn- times as great as in the South. 'iis is the sort of a finality we arc to have, even from many who cant continual about it. But we predicted the very session the Compromise passed, that this measure would succeed, And here again we witness the same mniserablo sort olidefence re peated, which the South made be fore. Then the bordei States de serted the common cause of territori al rights to get a better paper securi ty for the restitution of their fugitive slaves. Much good has it done thema. Now, the newer S'outhwe.5 ern States desecrt, for th.'v haive pub. jie lanids wijthin their imus. anad they arc eager to acqui-e jujation even ai p~opulation of la.wow. Thus treacery begets trcecv. and the bad fithi of Vijrin.a an t1'entucky' ini 18& is retortsd >y A habawa, Mississipp1i and Arkanis in m 185:. Tihe prgrs of the~ republic is pr' etty fast. Let this biillpas, and it n id require hut a few mr steps to bring uis to the necessity of deeldinig betweena a system of vksa and sec tional plundering, carried on through the conivenment mnstrumentality of a Coingress and a coup d'ceat by" some vigorous despot, who wilhave Sense enougi~h to k.ms, that~ un only the prop-t , butL the pat'*otismn of a eurj wvould prefer tI preserv-a tion of society evena by a tatidin~g ar my, to the ruin o ivii o by tho action of' all the lower a~qLi~et it of people thirough the bail0t box mn thu namne of liberty, equ~hity and fra termity. .- r Th .Jour~nal /r no. ree says, mn response to the dloet ii ery, for 'Som e of I th taiff pprs are comn plain iing of t he high lprice of termeris' produce. H ow long is it since they were pretendhing that the 'freo trade tar'tY,' as they called it, was ruining the termers, bay diich hi the home dlenuid ihr their proIua. Thus! Iii~, onie aftker anlot her, the nlrg eints of I'm.. Fruom the liouthern'Prmes. The Xssue before the Country." Under this caption the Union of Tuesday publishes an editorial in which the confession is frankly made, that the great living issue now be fore the country is the slavery ques. tion. This great truth which we have so long been reviled and de nounced for openly proclaiming, is now admitted at the eleventh hour by the chief of our defamers and as sailants, and the hypocrisy which so long cloaked and concealed it, now stands stripped and naked to the eyes of all nuen. A candid confession is good for the soul, and even a tardy penitence has its merits. So even at this late hour there is a saving grace in Ose admissions cf the Union, 7h wrung from it with pangs 4 those of parturition. Lis. S /choes the very doctrines need as "treasonable," and "sectional," !h the Southern o its admis SIn a iiihe plan of pacification"- i n "the settlement." T Ch nt" be no better evidence than evidence-the voluntary confession of accessories before the fact. If we required any justification for our previous and present cour3e, in re gard to that "plan," we would find it in this death-bed confession. But the facts and events have justified and will justify us. Thus speaks the Union: "In the absence of all excitement in regard to the old points of diff erence between the two great par ,te a .Trier examinatiorl f d P.TR issue iitore country, an n in quiry into the relations which those parties respectively bear towards it, would not seem at the present moment inappropriate or ill timed. "Strive to conceal it as we may -filatter ourselves as we are inclined to do, that all is peace and tran qui ity, and that the noble and beneticent institutions we enjoy are established upon a foundation that cannot be overthrown-it cannot be denied that danger has existed. doe exist, and will continuo to exist, as long as the elements out of which it grows are permitted to combine with oir political action, and enter into the composition of the public sen timent which it produces. "Gradually and slowly, but stead ily and surely, the great question of the day has for years been increas ing- in importance, until it has at length concentrated the interest and riveted the attention of the whole people of the United States upon one partioular point of issue, upon the decision of which depend not only their peace, prosperity and happiness, but their very existence as a nation. We are not, it is true, culled upon as yet peremp torily to rely to the query, Shil there be pegoe or war?--shall the integrity of the Union be preserved or its bonids at once be severed, and civil str-ife and internecine slaughter take the place of fraternml good will andQ friendly domiestie relations? Th'le eneiowes of the pernlanlency of our institutions are not quite prepar ed as yet for a resort to the 'ndtima ratio' of republies as well as kings; they are not yet ready to dr-aw the sword or point the gun the de fenders of the Union anhd the Con stitutioni. Ut the question before us is p~reliinry, and neccessar-ily so, to the last ter-rible demand which fanaticism threatens to make upons patriotisry; and upon the naiture of the guswer given to that qjuestiomn depends whether that demand will ever be made, and one portion of the confederacy be cotupellcd to surrender its rights or stand to its tarms. "[t is unnecesar!y for us at this time to do more)V than merelv alhide to the atlarhimig progress of anti-slavery sentiment int the Noth. To adduce facts ini proof of its p~re valence, or to use arguments for the purpose of showing the dangerous character of its pretensions and deigns, would be labhor thrown away. '.[he arie their opptaints and the sh _ig r borne to us on every Northrni breeze."**** "Anti-slavery atgitation is to be continued--continued, too, in de fiance of each one and all of the inter-ests of the country, in opposition to sentiment political or purely pa. triotic.-cmr-icd on nn c...ied ou. without regard to consequences, however mbmentous-or results, however appaling. ' Mark, too, the extent to which the designs thus announced are made to reach. Anti. slavery agitation is no longer to be confined to purpcses of excluding the South from the territories. ruling out the admission of more slave States to the Union, and abolishing slavery in the District of Columbia. The termination of its existence in the country is the end now aimed at-an end which no sane man can contemplate without being conscious that it would be the end of the Constitution-the end of the re public. This then, is the issue. Shall agi tation for such an end be permit ted -shall anti-slayery agitation be any longer tolerated ? For to the same result it would load, no matter what the professed purpose of those who commence it or continue it. One would suppose that to such a ques tion the Anerican people would find no difficulty in returning a speedy and decided answer. Critical, indeed, must be the crisis -overwhelming the evidences of this feeling-when the organl pipes sich a t-rain, after its antecedents and protracted denunciation of this paper for sternly and unwaveringly declaring the same truth when it was not so popular or so prudent to do so as now, uhen it can neither- be disguised nor denied. Why, then, persist im the repotition of the stale slang of the "finality" of a series of measures of pacification, which have resulted in such peace as that chief organs so pathetical at~~j-i . C too song--it Tidih and the North too I peace and tranquility"--and tence now is almost too late, u the merciful spirit of the old creed be extended towards it, as in the case of the old sinner, when "a Beturit the stirrup and the groined, Mercy sought and mrcy found." The Demsaolerntklic Coniveastlon. 1UALT11oRE, June 4.-The 23rd, 24th, and 25th ballots for President were taken. On the 25th the vote stood, for Cass 34; Buchanan 101; Douglass 79; Butler 24; others but little changed. 26th ballot. Cass 8; Duchanan 101; Douglass 80; Butler 24; others much the same. The Convention then adjourned to 4 o'ciock in the afternoon. At the hour of adjourrlnernt the Convention re assembled and pro ceeded with the balloting. On the 28th ballot, Cass had 28; Buchanan 96; Douglass 88; Butler 25. 33rd ballot, Cass 128; Buchanan 72; Douglass 60; Marcy 25; lions ton 6; Hunter 1; Dickinson 1. The convention then adjourned to Satur day morning. BALTIMORE, June 5--The Con vention reassenabled according to ad journment and proceeded with the balloting, 34th ballot. Cass 130; Buchan an 49; Douglass 53; blarcy 33; Ilouston 3; IUutler 1; Dickinson 16. 35th~ baillot. Cass 131; others littlc changed. 36th ballot. Cass 122; Douglass 43; Pierce 30; others unchanrged, 38th ballot. Cass 107; Tuchanan ;Douglass 83; Marcy 84; Tierce 289th ballot. No material change. 945th ballot. Cass 9G1; Marcy 97 --being ahead of all others. All is still doubtful. 'Th e 46th ballot showed little change. On the 47th the vote stood for Cass 75; Marcy 95; Pierce 49; others ,xmuch the same. 48th hallot. Cass 72, Pouglass 89; Marcy 55. it became pretty cer tain now that Pierce would get the rzomination TJhze 49th hallot was talien at 2 o'clock, and resulted thus: Pierce 283; Cass 2; Buchanan 2; Marcy 1; 1 ouston and Dickinson 9. 'The Convention then adjurnod to 4 o'clock. The nomination of Gen. Pierce of' New Ilamnpaluire. was re ceived with great rejoicing and the firing of cannon. In the afternio.on the Convention re-assembled and proceededl to vote for the candidate for Vice-IPresident. On the 2d ballot the klon. Win. U. King, of Alabama, received the nomination having 187 votes. The Convention then nnimanaly adopted the old party paf i i the addition of the (joWpromiseC*. After deciding that the next -repi, dential Convention should be heMmlda Cincinnati, the then adjourned.'" fie, at 8 o'clock, p. , BALTrmons, June "G-DieOsip have been received frow 0,0g4; ton, Butler, Buchanan, an4. :andidates, approving of G.eu, ae's nomination for the Preheidppf and pledginghin tirc support, a ANOTHER FiLJBUSTeRI 31G DITXON PROBABLY.-The brig -A couver, at, New York from Oubp, reports as follows; 'No date, in the Bahama Chane 3aw a steamer (painted similr t Long Island Sound boast,) roundtQ ander one of the keys near Gi"6 [sland, anchor an4 ,lsnd tW4, loads of men, who immediately. .. i fire;. but we were oblige to. affshore, as the wind was dying aw Ly 4nd we were in shoal water and j'gb coming on; we saw the light-of he ire all night. They did not appea. like a pleasure party, as the ptodan, ide deck was deserted the r time, while the main deck WWi Dd with men.' There is certairly somethn a picious in this, taken ioone4W with the recent rumpors Witi to a new expedilon for the gu jg )f Cuba. IMPOUTANT rPRoW --i / OcEAN.-The following-is an egtspt From er. dated Hong. .Kdtg, There have been noqljem en w rs from_-tim ir John Frarnkln is , hat he has got through the ice bar rier into inner waters, where he *ill* not be reached until a mil4 peason arrives; which they say the presqL will be. Most of them have now de, parted, They say Frnl4in. will noty suffer for want of food, They give' strange accounts of the Fquigan vibrating from the Asiatic to IM, American continent an4 back carrying their boats, made of vkii and whalebone over the jcq, *ih4 launching them when they meet.11' Dpen water. They all conr at0. rNct that the whales found iM'- he ring's Straits and in affin's Say oft the same species, proving the exist ance of a passage; for a whale of ta Asiatic species, they say, bas never been seen to the south of 22 degreet )f latitude; so they cannot have dou bled either of the Capes (of Goo4I Hope or Cape Horn,) and the whale is under the neessity of making hil presence known by cogning eq the iurface to blow. #bil A late philosopher says ba rore people take the leap through the wedding-ring, they should be quit aertain that the blanket ot conubI contentment in hol4 tight on the h side. TEXA8 CROPS.--*-Crops of evey kind in this county, we are informed look remarkably promising, but .are begining to suffer for rain. In majoity of cases our faruners have 'laid by' their corn, and with a re, freshting rain soon, an unusually heavy crop may be expected. And we are informed that the crops i4 Bastrop, Uays, and in all the sur~ rantnding counties look unusually well.-St'ate Gazette. Ep-' rThe Mormon Bible is a curtN asity of literature. Tne tbllowli dte scription of the vesses in which the chosen people crossed the Atlantic, ls a thir samnple of its contentsi \T'hese barges weore built after a manner that, they were exceeding tight, even -that they would hold v~ater like a dish, and the bottom thereof was tight lik~e tuto a dislh. and ijbe sides thereof were tight like untQ a dish, and the ends thereaft were peaked, and the' top thereof- Ms tight like unto a dis&h. sund the leiigth thereof was the length of a tree, am the door thereof, when it *asarhte was tight like unto a dish. Anda thd Lord said unto thte brother of Japdf b~eholtd thou shalt make a hole :in: t top thereof; and also in the bottor thereof, and when thou slwde suffer 'for air thou shalt unstop the hole thereof and receive air, and if it be so that the water come in' upon thee, behold ye shall stop the -lick thereof,' that yo may not perish in.the 4lood. * Itd~tht iac e stabli1 mnenL a4tN onde over ig thousand ~lare in the pr prt of last year.opca~