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, ' > devoted to utsratvrb, the arts, jbcxenci, agricom^rl, wsw?, politics, &c., TTtH-lTH?OWB TlOTTATt PUB. ATnTOlT,} I -Let It be Inrtilled into the Hearts of vfrnr Children that the Lttartv of jfta PreM^the ofmH ylZ ^ rPAV^W^^^^-Tiv^iy^ [ volume 2---n0.30. - abbeville c. h., south carolina, friday morning, decemirr i; 1854. . i-. -^^SSi^Shx- s ??h?? ?Md??ft???a?i - v Wi POETRY. * ? . - . , ? V I ' i i* i ' i ,i . 1.1 .i .1 Lovo On. ,* Lore on, lovo on, (he soul must have a shrine? H. The.rudest breast must have some hallowed spot; The God who formed, us left jio spark divino Yn litm TtrllA /IWflllo nn Aiirflt fln/1 lntrrtfK ' fecvotion's links compose a sacred chain, ^ Of holy brightness and unmeasured length ; The world with selfish rust and stain May mar its beauty, but not touch itsstrengtli. Love on, love on?ay, even though the heart We fondly build on, proveth like tlie sand ; Though one by one, faith's corner-stones de- ] part,. And evenjhope's last pillar fails to stand; Though we may dread the lips we oncc.belived, ; And know tlioir falsehood shadows all our , days, Wlio would not sooner trust and be deceived Tlion fttirn fha monn nnl/1 onirif flmf vo 5 ' ??w ? , r ..... . , Love on, love on, though wo may live to see The dour face whither in its circling shroud; Though datrk and dense the cloud of death mny " - he, Affection's glory j*et shall pierce the cloud. The truest spell that Heaven can give to lure, .. : Tli c sweetest prospect Mercy can bestow, Is the blessed thought that bids the soul ho sure k. "Twill meet above the things it loved below. Love on, love on?Creation breathes the words; Their mystio musiceVcn dwells around; The strain is-cchoed by unnumbered chords, i And gentlest bosoms yield the fhllest sound. As flowers keep springing, tho' their dazzling i bloom, i ? ' Is oft put forth for worms to feed upon, i So hearts, though wrung by traitors and Jfce < ? tomb, i Shell still bo prccioas, and shall still live on. 1 ' s MISCELLAyY. ! Doestioks Runs with the "Ma- i .v sheen." { 701 Narrow, street, N. York, Oct. f 30, 1854.?I am not known by the cogno- i men of "Mot>e," nor-do I answer to- the ,] * ^ name of "Skyesy"?neither, as a general < tiring, do I promenade tho middle of Brond- i : _!il. i_l! ,1 3 . TVftj \vuii my yiuiuuwua iiiio my j boots;* Still, by the way of a new excite- i ment, I lately joinc<l the fire department i and connected rayselt'with the company of i Engine 97. ] Bought my. uniform, treated the compa- { tiy, took, up my quarters in the bunkroom, g where X slept by night in a bed occupied in < " ' the daytime by a big yellow dog. First 1 night, went to J>ed with my boott on, ready > ' for au alarm.* At last it came?eeized the < rope with the rest of the boys fiitarted on } a run ; tugged and toiled till we g&ttior in- , * to the 11th-district, four miles and a half i v tromTiome \ toundtue alarm Had i>een cans- i ed by abarrel pf shavings, and the confla- < . oration had extinguished itself; bad to drag her clear -back; tired most to death ; it was . not/unoy at all J turned in; half an hour, new alarm ; started again?Hose 80 laid in . * the same alley*" got our apparatus jammed on the corner*, fight; 07 victorious; . got our machine out, Imd carried off the forewheelof 80's carriage on our tongue; reached the fire,; big nigger standing qg the ... hydrant; ^l<#te<ynyselr appraiser and auctioneer} tnockeeFhim down Without any bidder; tdf6t water ^gotoUr stream 'on the " vfirejVfun'; worked tiirmy arms ached; let go to rest, foreman hit me overthe head i . with atrumpet", andtoldtmeto go ahead; thought d?n; but kept at it; children in ' ;fT\*the garpet; horrible situation; gallant fire- . man made a rush up the ladder; battled j his way thro* the smoke?-reappeared with | a child in each arm, and his pocket full of " teaspoons. ^ Old gentleman from the country; much exited; wanted to help, hut didn't exactly know-how; he rushod into a fourth itbry '< 1*3 fo^ ; tbrew tbemirror out ?f-tfjawin- -i dow; frantically endeavored to hurltho dress j ? ingiafcla after it.; seised the coal Bc??itfe,hur- i - < !/' Hieui avwn i <rri ? Jife^ttty?or]t| by & nt^terowex- ^ got back to the window; tried to go down; ladder broke under mo; stuck adhesively to the young lady; and, after unexampled exertions, deposited her safely in the next house, where I discovered that I had rescued from the devouring elements the only child of the black cooki T?; ?i ? i i!. _ ?_ riiv 111 n owicuuusc*~ivciii un uie rooi, explosion ; found myself in somebody's cellar, with one leg in a soap barrel, and. my hair full of fractured hen's eggs; discovered that I had been blown over a church, and had the weathercock still remaining in the rear of my demolished pantaloons: Fire in a liquor store?hoso burst; brandy "lying round loose; " gin "convanient," and oldMouongahely absolutely begging to be protected from further dilution ; Croton water too much for my delicato constitution; carried home on a shutter. Fire in a church ?Catholic?Kttle marble images all round tho room in niches; wall began to totter; otoHma . C. A_J 1 1-1 ISV?C??A I.W 1(111 f Ul. illlUlCH KUUCKCU my fire hat over my eyes; St, Peter threw his whole weight on my big toe; St. Jerome hit me a clip over the head which laid roe sprawling, when a picture of the Holy Family fell and covered me up like a bed quilt. Fire in a big clothing store?next day our foreman sported a new silk velvet vest, seventff the men exhibit twelve dollar doeskin pants, and the black boy who sweeps out the bunk-room and scours the- engine, had a new hat and a flaming red cravat, presented, as I heard, by the proprietor of tbe stock of goods, as an evidence of his appreciation of their endeavors to save his property. I didn't get any new breeches; on Lhe contrary, lost my new over coat and got damaged myself. Tell you how?fire out, nnler finnin "tnl-A nn OT W ->(T <1.~ . t' </ ) WUXV UIl IIJC liose ; turned her round; got the boys together, and started for home; corner of the street Hook and Ladder 100, (Dutch ;) Engine 73, (Irish ;) Hose 88, (\ankee;) and >ur company "came in coutact; machines ;ot jammed; polyglot swearing by the rtrength of the companies; got all mixed ip; fight; one 88's men hit foreman of llook and Ladder 100 over the head with i spanner; 07'fi engineer clipped one of 73's nen with his trumpet; 78 retaliated with a mving stone; men of all the companies went n; resolved to ''go in" myself; went in; vent out again as fast as I could, with i black eye, three teeth, (indigestible, I lave every reason to believe,) in my stomich. interinin<rlftf] \vitll mv eimnar mn mA . ' . o? ?j ?rr~"? "V ,v" ihirtjn cnrpct rags, and my knuckles skin:d, as if they bad been pawned to a Cliatlain street Jew; got on a hydrant and matched the fun; 88's boys whipped everyhing; YS'sbest man. was doubled up like i jack knife by a dig in the place where Jonah was; four of 97's fellows were lying ander the machifie?with their eyes in mournng; Ilpok and Ladder took home two-thirds )f their company on the truck, and the last [ saw of tlioir foreman he was lying in tho middle of tho street, with his trumpet smashid flat, his. boots under his bead, and his pockets inside out Four policemen on the opposite corner saw the whole row. On the 5rst indication of a fight, they pulled their iat$ down over their eyes, covered up their itars, and slunk down the nearest alley. Grot home, resigned my commission, made ?.:u i??i il. j-*?' ? ' ' - ? uy win, iviir lub company my rea srnrt ana ire cap. Seen enough, of fire'service; don't egret my experienced btrt, do grieve for my ostf teeth, and my new overcoat ^Sorrowing, sorrowfully yours, Q. K. Philander Dobsti'ckb, P. B. P. 8.?IJave jufet met the foreman of 73 ?he had on my lata lamented overcoat; un't Wg enough to lickhw^?magnanimousiy ooneluded to let him alone. ' + ? >r $&f" The Death of Randnlnh. Randolph, in fast declining health, reached Philadelphia, whither he went to .take nasiage ffom thatrjfoit! He waa too late or .the ^iverpctolpacfcet. He exposed himself to tl^a ipqlejjieaady ef the weather,".took sold, which aggravated his disease and hastened its fatal termination. \ He was pat to bed?his death-fed?in hi* lodgit)^ at the uny/notei. v-jine laio&yncracrea wmcn bad rhe sudden burets of petulance which df?iafte Witrigfr&ta interval of acute mii'erinc^ voice growing gradually fainter, as he pns^ed on into the thicker shadows of Park Valley, the fluttering pulse stood still, add John Randolph of Roanoke was numbed with the dead 1 (June 24,1833, aged sixty.) j.uvj vuintvi iiiin uuub. iu his aomary homo, and buried him?in death as in life, unsocial and isolated?in iho forest of Roanoke. In the soil of the Virginalio loved so well, they laid the corso of her faj^hful and devoted son. They left him to rest, after the long fever of his troubled vdream of life was over, in an-humble and sequestered grave, beneath two stately pines. Thero let him sleep on 1 The gloom of their shade, and the melancholy sighing of the tl.' l- il-:- i ? 1 niiiu uicir uougns, nvo nt emblems of the life which was breathed out in stiffness aud in sorrow. ..$? JACKSON. It may well bo doubted if the rccords of ancient or of modern times exhibit to us a name, more:distinguished for sublime and unfaltering^Courage, than that of Andrew Jackson. He nevoft seemed to*' rise to, but ever to stand level frith the loftiest exig^icies. There was nothing in the shape 6f danger or responsibility which he feared to bravo?not to meet merely, but to' go in nllAot rtf Mrtt 1 ijuvwv \j< Iivw ?AJ VltUUIUj UUL LU UC1JT HIKl master. IIo was chary of his fame. He loved applause; but when did ho pauso in the execution of a puqx>se to count its cast to his reputation ? Did ho ever falter when the chivalry and flower of his early and ..later supporters deserted his banner by b^allions? If anything can appal a politidfln's heart or stay his hand, it is civil war. But in case South Carolina, he contemplafed that result and prepared for.jt, with the coolness and determination of ,a common-place business matter. He stood forth a peculiar and original man, in the great attribute of conceiving and executing purposes and plans, from the very contemplation of which common-place politiuiaus shrink in dismay. Yet one thing this great man lackcd. He , lacked the crowning virtue of magnanimity. Generosity towards a personal or political enemy, and charity for opposing opinion, were not numbered among the virtues in his calendar. Wo are pained to be forced by truth to say that the hero's character, of such robust and stalwart proportions, and vital with such massive and masculine strength, was incomplete. Like some Gothic "tower, dimly seen by star light, i^Jeaves the impression of pojy(yj akin to the-terrific and subliiojLj but wants tiro pild antft&bf^ . ening light of" this absent grace tornakojdt i lovely to the'contemplation aipi j heart. ''-V CLAY IN At this juncture, -jRenry Cla^mbjt ^kis seat in The Senate. His very prcsalS^Sher# was.an event in the. political histore bfc.tfjjfr < country. The old light was brow, and in his eye and in hisjrvcfoewere the fire and the speU which could yotr save his country. lie 6cemed. in vi^jy of the new work before him, to breathe another youth. With tho ' 'om of his ripe a<re, he seemed to ha*T ught from the pasttuo lArt^ 1 ?^vi ?uai iuv> pi ma iiiunuiHi^ wc# There was patriotism enough in the country to 6avo it; but it was a dormant patriotism. Olay waked it up, L Clay was the medium that poured the electric currant of the. people upon the politicians and the public councils. Never before had he fully shown himself the man Gg(l had made him.'- For fifty years he had never foundarivaWor a whole session, as an orator and leader in a deliberative assembly; but"toeii had compared him to himself, and had noted how far/to Was,* in this speech or that; froqjjiis high-water mark of excellent NoW no was above himself?abi^re wjjere the flood ofhis sweeping and surge-li^4|bquence had evejrgone before. As a mere orator, ho left tho great deeds of his youth and middle age behind. But his oratory was thft least remarkable of his claims to HSttentiomanrlrati f nirta TIa was eloquent in every tiling instinct with el- oquenee, as if possessed by its spirit?in movement?in 'manner?in writing?in speech?lir tone?;-abbre all, perhaps, m* so* j cial intfer66m%a,trinsfas)ng j^jpaselt into others ; now in tbo clcraet, noraffc the mesa ta-' ble, Dow in the committee rtKm, ihIhe drjfe, <>n the street, Wty wherein evefy way? the fever andTanaUctfl^of eoul that cjrtW&3 him with but one objeot before ltim?^?d 1 'fk' arid^tf'tH^t that never for ,1, II I ll|l W.?. LJ. Cure for thiefootbaohe. Beauty has ohartn8.'.^^L^it has,-almost equal to mua& It mayrootho a savage u. Tl J:-- * - i/icuai. ituiu ouuuifvwf ouunn^a werman music teacher oife da^ last weofc^ BB waa channed with tl^eifeeauty of a liufy, Drigfit as a star, lovely a9 those who dwell beyond, or in the shining orbs. He saw, and she conquered. Ho paw her in the street,-apd followed. Other potfQlea ^&ave done the same. She entered a store, sordid he. Not because he wanted to buy goods, But ho thought an opportunity might occur for him to speak music to her, or hear the music-of her speech. Oh, what a voice! more sweet than .his otfn fid^e; nud its tones,vibrated to the vory bottom of his lager beer barrel. And her smile?r-i^struck him to th? heart, for he thought ite -smiled on him. Perhaps ,i;.i -* - e?i it_ "mv uiu. t? v pui^eu av a WUl iu liio j circus tlic other night. <She looked at Bilka ?lie tried to s\ut nimBclf with a new pair of gloves. Both were hard to suit, and time sped. At length" she left, and* took a stage for her homo up town. He took the same mode of getting away .from ni$ home, qfe&went up by tlio same c<onveynnce, without any definite place in view at whicji he should pulLthe strap... lie .waited patiently for the lndyio give the firetpull. She got out and entorod a brow* vatone front. Ho noted the spot, and ended hiSVid# at the next corn-* er, and came back and looked Up to ,t1&ctdd walls, and thought?yes, he thought effithe warm heart withiu, and the sweor fecflj'tu&t smiled?was it at or for hiin 9 Hope told a flattering tale.!' ' and he thought if he could ofdj^Bntor4jbat portal, he could win "the citadel. But how ? what excuse shouldJie.make; or whi^anquire for, when*thed&or was opened ? fortune came' to lm ahF, flhd showed ifeim a dentist's sign. sj^s?. <, ^ " Ah, t?k?," said he, ^1 have a decayed tooth and-^ talked boldlyvtrp and rang the m\. Fortune favored him afcain. The lady herselfr-opened the dctor. Had she watched him from the window as he watelwd the house, and unwilling to let him be eeoteby a servant,- flown hareelf 'to the dog*. Perhaps; ;wo have scon such thing#-36^foR". . " le tljp doctor at home ?" V' -* *>wuu ti wiiv lu-rvuiif ujwk wait ior hf59P& ^ . - r* ' Oh yes, certainly, jn your eompan^nnv length of time?if lie<6hould nofrjgftnc till niglit?or morning." The lndv led the way to the part?#*Both, were seated upon the sofa, and time,\yent off t$t.tho wings of?love! jjftV.l, he Uioughf, Ho thought that^flffiy Somali that smiled4ipon him wawfi^Rde to loV<*\ Perhaps he offered his to Iyer acceptance. ^ f Sh? fid not- accept, but that only served to make HfeBtrobger. So flew time, till (i iou^JSfetiof SShWoor bell ? r^A r ^ha^ftdy ran to open the'd6fth ^n<l;stopped f0r?/t' Few hasty the : co me r,' "-and then, came.^.ir and - said to eee^^just aa.m^c\ him into a snare^$&5' she'6ini^^-'|^i^*^ ^ , Criminal X, efar, and fne Pottttontiary System.- * ' The revisiou of th# criminal code of the Stato Las .become an ijop^rious necessity. The severity of tliat cow has not diminished the frequency of crime. On the contrary, the passions which led to eriminat excesses appear to be under little or no i*a stramt, from the disproportioned penalties imposed by law, and winch arc no^enfoVcod from the indisposition of juries to gpnvict. The pardoning power is occasionally'exerted improperly, even when juries convict, from the same cause. To descend -to particulars is unnecessary. There is not a court of criminal sessions, in any judicial district of the State, that does not furnish examples. Harmony, therefore, between the law and its administration demands a.revi?ion of our criminal code, if not required on consideration of policy and abstract justice. For the severe punishments, which were devised at an early Q?riod of our history, mere was, perhaps, sufficient reason and necessity. But with the change of circumstances, there sliould bo a conformity between crime its penalty. There are some offences punishable with death' that should no longer remain"on the KtatilWbook of South Carolii^asm-conflfqt-wilh public opinion. between law and popular "When tile enforcement of its punfeltoehts ia impossible, is calculated to brir>g--Sil? behests into general dis! repute. J3ut tjjye roforra^^onr ranal code woujfl bifttnndPffect. uulopfi nrfniaiftmiiioil 'h&^W.in stitntion of apenitxmtj^i^- There flf a cMfes of crim^^wMqfepan 1>e atoned for in no way ehorC?<^jB?^r, but with regard to same offehces to^nrch this penally, is affixed, in' the criminal law of this StftW?"there \ ought long jjnog"to have been jfltxJiRc'atjon, in oonf^mity with the humanity*t>f tlie agc.f '.j jK We tru&tjbat thea'e jwigg^ttJouBrvyjll bo foifbd deserving th attrition *of our ?nexl j Legislature. Let ub not be.so ul.tra conffe&- \ ative*as to refuse admi&atir.1*> Aose.-trio^fft: ? cations and Coq^pevamen criminal law, And ite'correspondeQ^i^lItteef * as mark general amelioration in the^ftyUUH^ of publw^unislltents.?Charleston i\W. ? Savethsipead Leaves. **F Verjr-tew )W2?SwM?fe. ^ould be emltar of so, . aa waste I ."flTrfhurc. * Biitthsv are almost aK^jw^, of a Effete notJfe: whit'less excusable* We , 'meajv the w.-tste'of dead leaves that fal^ at \ tliispsete)n .of the yearj^fbm trees and ^hrol^s , ^o^Ualonds.. Jf every horticulturist would h^mqin^at on the -nature od^theag. p contain* n<? only th^'( ye^mtahle nftwl^^ot oarthy salts; lim<vpot- -j a9^i|^jieed<j4'T)ror the next. Be asop'flgro^Si n ijr-and thftt^ tob^'exactly in tha<ffroporticn IrequirW^ihe vorytree or plant from which , theytwl^aajiy, mgwfeif they wouldyiotjsid^ if in this way, bje^eH , nTlliMfl wnr'i folllr<i^lo?o?if * The British Banner, wMTe a- _ s-' gaiiiBt tho attempt of the Gor'eiTOp^Ht of Victoria to establish public drfnlqofc m>n*e? in the good fields of Austrafia, bii* ttifrfcjlowing: 7.'i Tt* a ' * - xi our AastraiTori JLesrisIaloril^liot above taking a lesson nom Transatlantic Stftte*- - - ;:j, men, we would set beforethem the opfeional Kof the Hon.' .Edward. Everett, 5?fofcssor Stowe, at the great? Temperance Meeting, held last week, in the taberoacltj, Mobrffelda, in referring to the philanthropic ?bors of that gentleman, stated, that Mr. Everett wasr beyond most living men, a prudent, patient inquirer, pre-eminently a man of tacts, autf who was, therefore, more than most mefrr '' * trustworthy, in all his vkwaand atatejmuitH. The Prnfiwssnr ?li? ?iJWL J- ?V "' Everett had, for many years, paid partionlar - " > v attention to the subject of intemperttfee in the United States, and- that thogeneraf con- " ? elusions ntwhich he had arriVed V^ri9 substantially the following: 1. It has cost th? nation a direct eipente of six hundred millions of dollars, r 'M .2. It has cost the nation anindirect'eae* .?. - '-t p^nse of six hundred millions of dollars 3. It has destroyed threO hmidjred thotSir> 4. It has 6ent ono hundred Aot&UM-fehU- 'M dren tgjhe poor bous^ 'k-* ^ v : 5. K has consigned at least; one Hundred % v\;S>'1 and fifty thoiisand p?r8on& to..tB^*j^/and '/ * .v . State's prisons. . V.' , ' . , " G. It has made at least on? tbpnsftnd ma- v?*r$ &?* . '3 7. It lias instigated to tho comgj^sion o? *- : "$ ono thousand five Tmndred'murdcxB^t * vi 8. It lias caused two'thousaud persons to- " ooimryt suicide. ?.' . ~' V& -' j 9. ft has .burnt or otherwise, destroyed , . ' , |j property to the- Amount of ten miflion&ttf 10. It has made two' liund^lp''thousand widows and one hundred thoua&ni3 dhfolimobvious,; the editor of the Banner . ^ *= ^e^arks, that, on one or two of these , . Mi U^a-diffiouIttosBB^k withanythiritcoren ax>- . preaching to ; but the re?t oolna* * g 5nqtf? frhhiri the limns of orreot ipquiry. Vmk;'such facts, theji, before mankihd,ft". .Jw| srfcrely becomes them to' beware b?J*r tMjr ftdogj- n^easprt**to^nulti|lly, thecau?e* of *omo<*^nTfolty. ^ ^> ,v On One Oondit&m- - v . -; S ^^^jpe years ago, wtj^j^e L^gisfBtcife'df a ono ot tue middle 8tat?&*ere' fnwtomj ? Constitution, fhe diacuasiort of ftaaflu|pua * proviBfbfta was-warm aqd obstinrt^^ljmjy " * c!ay$ had been Mjgnf in fierytfet^j jjpd' ; the-vote yraa at length aboir^ttf ^liBfe ; .*<? ^ J anion ilivl nnnofitntlAn' aeavotsq, to makfe a coaTert-o^ffl^^yj? y# -*'< all means," said he. H -*Tll think of ij,w sa^the ^ T aBut yon most makeup yoqr^W^afc ^ once, man, for ihg vote is about W'tg^w^ "M Tfcffl country ^member SltdW^^Jjeadi =;- ' > * '* mm.T cr^r^r.,1 ^''l. jWLJP, "V "l"-' , ? ?> KPI^ ? - , '^^??3^HaWy^E^3