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ZS" Any one advertising by annual or semiannual contract can change his advertisement monthly, if Tie desires. ? tar Subscribers to the paper who do not pay their subscriptions within tho year will be charg?d$i B0. [April 20, 1855 WPWBMWWWBWWMWBW???Wi MICELLANY. ^ A Coon HuntReally 'tis astonishin' what a monstrous sight of tniscHief there is in a^pitit of ruin. It* one of 'em was to be submitted to analy"zation, as the great- doctors call it, it would be fonnd to coutairi all manner of devilment that ever entered the head of man, from cussiu', stealing up to murderiu? aud whippin' liis own mother And nonsense enough to turn all the men in the world out of their senses- If a man's got a badness in him, it will bring it out; just as sassafras tea does the measles; and if he's a good-for-nothing sort of a fellow, without no bad traits in fiertikler, it will bring out all -his greatness, t affects different people in different wayssome it maketh rich and happy,? and some .poor and miserable; and it has a different effect on different people's eyes?some it .makes see double, and. some it makes so -blind that they can't tell themselves from a* 'side of bacon. One of the worst cases of rum' foolery .that I've beard of for a long time, took place in Hineville last fall. Bill" Sweeny and Tom Culjifepper is tire two greatest old coveys in our settlement for coon huntin'. The fact is, they don't do much of anything elfie ; and when they can't catch nothing,, you may,depend coons is scarce,. Well,one.ought, tbeyhad everything ready for a regular hunty'but owing to some extrpgpod Iprtln', ^om had. got a pocket pistof, ftrhei called itj "of-regu^r old Jimma key, to Iceep oft' thejumatiea.'' After takiii' a gook ptartin'^horn tliey went out on their hunt, with their litewoOjd^orch a blnzin' and the.dogs .& barjkin'^gnd yelpin'1 like forty Every 'riot*and"then stonpin' ib wait for the ddgs, tbey -wrould drinfc^ono another's health tilf't^j^beg^io feel very comfortable, and chatted away about one thing and .another* without mindipg muoh whiob way 'they wiMvff^oW-VBiineby they cum to a fent^j!^iWwyp'fbr;they^got^ withplit much ;4& * & /'Whoije Bili. ' It ''^^a^^M^9ptterfw stud Tow, "lets, take sameUnn^o df^y'/" ' ~ >*'' Afte* taking a drink they wept on, woni defing wJiat jpiti ^rth,^h%d ^eoome of the tlic^jiiii- to wasa Lwrfe bte ^d^hrauc?E^er: Rulling>thfaugl?: andfifiei\gwinc a jittie Ways tbey-iiuni tofauotherfence, monstrous I is wo got to, <pullever seed such a ce? ia these'j^irte." i all old Sturlio's lalimprovome^ n^ver^ mindjf we's Lie tbej^guir to ihetord^ T, ^7 ^fy - j|, ^_3 '_ - v^< ' y'' '' ' , ; 1^300^^ ^ * *; vi ?rr *'.? } * The next minit in Brtl went, up to his middle, in the branch. * v"jfc "Gum ahead," sez Tom, "let's go home." "Cum thunder, I in such a place as this, whar a man haiut got his coat tail unhitched from a fence, 'fore he'H over his head and ears in water." . After getting out and fceliri^about in the dark, they got together again, "lifter taking another drink, they net out forviome, denouncing the fences, and branches, and helpin' one another up now and then ; but they hadn't gone "twenty yards before they were brung to a halt by another fence. ."Dad blariie my picter," sez Bill, "if I dont think we is bewithced. Who unon yearth would build fences all over-creation tliis way I" It was about an hour's job to get over this one ; but after they got on the top they found the ground on t'other bide without much trouble. This tinio the bottle was broken, and they came monstrous near having a fight about the catastrophe. But it was a very good thing it was: for after crossing two or thro branches, and climbing as many more fences, it got to be daylight, and they found that they had befit climbiti' the same fencc all night, not more'n a hundred yards from wliar they first cum to it. Bill Sweeney sez he can't account for it 110 other way but that the licker sorter o'turned their heads: and be says he docs :e :? ?* .1 ivaujr uoucWf Ji iir uuuii t giii uui, iney q been climbin' the sauic fence and wadin the same branch till yet. Death of a Half Centary Convict. < An aged colored man, known by the name of "Old Bob," who has been an inmate of the Maryland Penitentiary, since 1810, died at that institution on Wednesday. The history of this man, and the circuinstauces attending his conviction and incarceration have frequently been rehearsed to the public, and were the subject of comment by Charles Dickeni, in bis "Notes on America," a work published after the gentleman llftH rfltnrnnd fmm ?l-- ? ~ .?V.? limning Clio LUUT of-this country. He belonged to a planter of Charles county, who was rather a severe master, and in 1802 placed him on board a vessel, with instructions to allow no one, not even the son of the master, to come on the vessel, and if any attempt was made to board the vessel he should strike them on the head with a handspike. In the evening following the issuing of tliis mandate, the son of his master, in company with two of his associates, approached the vessel and atI tempted to head her; he was warned not to come op board, by "Old Bob," who repeated the instructions of his master, and added that he jvould obey the orders he had received. The yO'ung man, regarding the language of the negro as a jest, rushed heedlessly forward, and gained a position on the vessel^; but no sooner had he landed than Bob picked up the hanrlsnit-n nn,i knocked him in the head, killing him instantly. Bob was immediately arrested and lodged in jail. He was tried for murder and convicted.' The circumstances of the case under whiqlj the deed had been perpetrated, so far secured the clemency of the Court as to commute his sentence to imprisonment for life.?Ho was first placed in the chain gang, where he continued until the erection of "the Penitentiary, when he was transferred', to that institution, where he re'mained until his death on Wednesday. The period of his confinement was about fifty-three years, and he was upwards of one hundred,years old at the time of his death. For a number of years past, he has been -11 I~I.?: ??? ? q^aicu ?m mwiiuua uuipioyraenr, ana passedhiatime in bmusing lii.mself in vapous ways, sucn as cultivating'-'flowers, raising pigs, fcmbking herring, Ac. So strongly had the habits of a life in prison grown upon him that on several .occasions, when he wgs liberated, to test* what might be his conduct, he refused to leave,.the institution, and when the gates were close# upon him, he would weeDjlike a child until/he was restored to hia fpfmerpositiofl; -His deportment'during wie tfhole period of his conflnement wt?$ found with bimis . .ryv w uira >cuuraoie convict a lesson may be learned by those who commandv|bat which should not btf performed. It is riglit and pfopejjthat slaves should be obedient utoto their masters. But in this instanco^anorder was given and performed, I winch causcd the death of a 0hild,mtsery ,to a parent, and the worst fonjiof servitude tiPone who was compelled to obey the injunctions of his maater<r-i?aZ(. ^Amer. Cabbage ^orws;?-The Merfcurytells U6 ohn Farrar^ne of the most prac From the New Orleans Delta. Song of the Dying. No more, no more, aweet summer, Shall my checks reflect the rose That flushes o'er thy sunny bower, And on thy green lap growa. The skies are blue and cherry? , Thy meadows rich and gay; But my heart and eyes are weary, And my voice repeat*, alway? Joy is gone ! v ' The robin sings in hedges, The eagle soar above 'Mongst gray rocks, and mists, and storms Of their strong and haughty love ; And I hail them with a rapture Too Strang for aught but tears; Yet again a chill comes o'er my heart, I knew not in past years? Ever gonej^ The evening airs are soothing, The morning skies are bright; But for me the dew is off the grass, And a blackness, as of night, , Darkness the sun's own glory? Dispels the water's sheen, And I sorrow for thy e<vrly time? The white hours that have been? Loved and gone! The wind is sighing grandly, . , The ocean breakers shout, And a rainbow spans the heaven*, 'i And a glory leaps about . From beautiful and gladiomo things, From musio and from love; ' But my heart sighs for the rapid wings Of the fond and earnest dove? Rest is gone I Yet the earth is bright as ever, No shadow-dims the skies; For the only tear now welling Bedews these heavy. ej-es ; k..A ? 1:? ? ll? 1U llllliniug God knows not of decay, And bis creatures shall be drinking Sweet joys when I'm away? Skyward gouel Ella. ?From llio CaroJinan.] Evangelical Lutheran Synod of South Carolina and adjacent States. , This ecclesiastical body held its thirtysecond session at Bethlehem Church, in Newberry District, commencing on the 8th instant, and adjourning the 14th. The attendance of both clerical and lay delegates was nearly full. The Rev. J. B. Anthony was elected Prcsi dent lor trie usual terra of two years; Rev. J. P. Margart, Recording, and Rev. L. Eiekelbcrgor, re-elected Corresponding Secretary. The contributions for missionary nnd other benevolent purposes were unsually largo. Reports on the extension of the church in buildings and congregations, besides increase of numbers in those heretofore existing, were very gratifying. Three young men, "graduates of the institution at Lexington, having served their time as Licentiates, were ordained to the Gospel ministry, and two recent crraduates were licensed to preach. The exceedingly generous proposals of Newberry and Walballa, to have the Classical Theological Seminary removed from Lexington to one of those places, excited ; no little interest. Their claims fay sccnery^salubrity and continued support were ably sustained, while the friends of'Lexington wore not deficient in their commendable effort* to retain it, ' On the question of removal, it was decided in the afflrmatiye, by 35 to 20. ' On that of location, it was decided in favor, of Newberry. Such being the voice of a large majority, all personal and local prejudices were Ret aside by a unanimous vote to promote its best interests. ' -'"V A commute was appointed to procure plans arid estimates for building, to select the site, obtain a .new charter with the necessary powers, gain such information, and take the preparatory steps for a removal, reporting to the present Board of Directors, who will carry oat the resolutions of tbe Synod as soon as all the requisitions essential to A removal have been complied "witji, Gsn. Jackson once went to hear a notdcF backwoods preacher, named Uartwngnt, discourse, and one of fab parishioners, as be entered the church, wbispered iq tbe ear of the orator, "Hie old lteroi?in tbd^congregntion, .lay .teide your^bluntrifiM to-day,'' Cartwriffbt, who was never known to whisper, exclautedalotrd.. ^Wbocares^'Qeo. [The ?orijabo l>?^e<M^^U4tiaa *?k?d Horrible Affair. An esteemed correspondent sends us the following which we lay before the reader : Am sib who was raised in the edge of North Carolina, adjoining Lancaster Distriot, of this State, married last winter a daughter of Joseph Lewis in the upper part of this (Lancaster) District. SoM'-fcon tn IT TJ.??11 u.. \ ?J wmu A . AliCIICU UJf lllUUVJ HIIU his wifit separated in August Inst, and Tberreuleft privately. Some time during the preafnt fail, bia wife, who bad returned to her parental roof, received a letter from her husband, postmarked Tennessee, and welhtu Salesberry post office., ^ Sinool which time nothing has been known M Therrell, until yesterday (Sunday) his Mower-in-law, Mrs. Lewis, took a 'little son sotttfe twelve years old on a horse behind hofto ride out a few miles to 'visit a daughtef in North Carolina, and when some tvfp miles from home they saw a man running through the woods with a rifle gun on his shoulder. This man run out into the.roftd just ahead of them and proved to be her ion-in-law Therrell, and looked as though.lie had run a considerable distance. He made some apology for intercepting them in .this manner^by saying that hq. had mistaken her for her daughter (his wife) and asked Mrs. Lewis when she was going home and on being answered that she would return thai aftprnnnn ho rnniinnfo/1 Kiai- (nil bis wife on her return to meet him that evening at a specified place, that he wanted to have a falk with her before he went away again, t(jat he expected to leave that same night of next morning. Mrs. Lewis being alarmed at this unexpected meeting, the agitated: manner of Therrell, a*nd the rifle gun on^ Spncjay, hastily promised a compliance' with his request, and rode on to where her daughter lived. Having left at home Therrell's wife Cornelia, and her (Mrs. Lewis') oldest son Ediqund together with a young man in the neighborhood who seemed to-have been visiting Edmund as an associate. On old Mr. Lewis' return about 4 o'clock r. M. ana wnen she was within sight of her house, the heard a gun Are off apparently at the house, at which 6he quickened her pace and reached the yard she left her horse and was proceeding hurriedly into the house when she again eucouutered Therrell, coming round the house with the rifle still on hi3 shoulder, site asked Lira what that shooting meant, but received no answer and seeing no one else about she ran into the housd, found her son Edmund sitting by the fire cross legged with a book open on his lap erect in his chair, (witU;no traces of any disturbance having taken place,), perfectly dead, shot through the head with a rifle or pistol. This sight brought a scream from the old lady, at which her daughter, Ther-1 roll's wife came in, she having apparently been walking out, alone at the time. Cornelia on seeing her dead brother, likewise screamed with terror, in the meantime Therrell hearing his wife in the house ran in, seized her violently and started for the door, Blie screaming and be dragging her forward. Mrs. Lewis and her little son immediately set out to alarm the neighbors, and on their return, accompanied Dy neighbors they found all silent and th6 corpse alone. P. S.?Since receiving the above we learn from the^. Magistrate acting as Coroner, that the verdict of the jury of inquest, found the said Then-ell guilty of the murder of the young man Edmund Lewis. Thorrell ia af present at large but we hope He will be brought to Justice?he ia an ordinary size man, of lfight sandythair, being very well knowHt>,^tn'0 neighborhood we presume he^'Hr-be in before long. Lditfiaster Ledger. ? < i ? . Native Oeorgia ^Olne?A Fair Trial. On Mopday, thej^th inuL, quite a large party of gentlemen of this city and its vicinity, assembled at the store of Messrs. Dawson and Skinner, for (hd purpose of fuimnlinor iw'ina VafivA Ku W? --?t ?o iU1*. Cbarlea Axt, at his vineyards in Wilkes county, Georgia. The Wine offered was the pure jifcce of the Catawba Grape; only about sight weeks from the press, and of the quality know'naA "Still Catawba." It was very impartially tested, side by side with several older brands, from some of the most gjoted Ohio vinters, and- the best judges rapresent u nanimously pronounced it superior To aroma and purity of flavor to any native samples yet presented to their notioe; and predicted for it the highest degree of. exceltetace. when it shall nmrv. er Age. : ' . . " r*:V; ; \The business q| orape growing and wine niaking. maj - now^be considered most auspiciously starU^jn Georgia and the[South; and it o?Iy renSini /or those!-wbo prefer th^ A Touching Inoldont. A little girl, in a family of my acquaintance, a lovely arid precious child, lost her mother at an age too early to fix the lovely features in her remembrance. She was as frail as beautiful, and as the bud of her heart unfolded, it seemed as if won by that mother's prayers to turn instinctively heavenward. The sweet, conscientious, prayer-loving child was the idol of the bereaved family. She would lie upon the lap of the friend who took a mother's care of her, and, winding the wasted arm about her neck, would say : "Now tell me about mamma?" And when the oft-told tale had been repeated would softly ask, "Take mo into the parlor, I-want to see my mamma ** Tlin runnuct ? ???? J - AUW ?T(W IICVCI ICIUSVU f and the affectionate child would lie for 'hours, contentedly gazing on her mother's portrait. But "Pale and wan she grew, and weakly? Bearing all her pain so meekly, That to them Bhe still grew dearer, As the trial hour drew nearer." That hour had come at last, and the weeping neighbors assembled to see the little one die. The dew of death was already on the flower as its life sun was going down. The little chest heaved faintily?spasmodically. "Do .you know me, darling?" sobbed close in .her ear the voice that was dearest; but it awoke no answer. All at once a brightness, as if? from the upper world, burst over the chsld's colorless countenance. The eyelids flashed open, the lips parted, the wan cuddling hands flew up, I?? : I iu vuu i vno vuuo iiidt iinpuibivu enort, ns she looked piercing into the far above. "Mother," she cried, with surprise and transport in her toue?and passed with that breath into her mother's bosom. Said a distinguished divine, who stood by that bed of joyous death: "If I had never believed in the ininistra- ' tion-of departed ones before, I could not doubt it now 1" "Peace I leave with yon," said the wisest Spirit that ever passed from ^rth to heaven. Let us be at peace, amid the spirit mysteries and questionings on which His eye shall soon shed the light of eternity. . National Era. ^ I _ A Young Tobacco Ohewor Cured. r\~ 1 1 -?-t- j \ju uumu miip, oue aay, we were stowing the hammocks, when one of the boys came with his hammock on his shoulder, and as he passed, the first lieutenant perceived that he had a quid of tobacco in his mouth. "What have you got there?" asked the lieutenant, "a gum-boil? Your cheek is much swollen." "No, sir," replied the boy, "there's nothing at all the matter." "O ! there must be; purhaps it is a bad tooth. Open your mouth and let me see." Very reluctantly the boy opened his mouth, which contained a large roll of tobacco leaf! "I see I see," said the lieutenant, "poor fellow! how you must suffer! Your mouth wants' overhauling, and your teeth cleaning. Pwish we had a dentist on board: but, as we havo not, I will operate as well as I can. Send the armorer up hero with his tongs." When the armorer made his nppearauce with his big tongs, the boy was compelled to open his mouth, while tho tobacco was extracted with this rongh instrument. . - . "There now!" said the lieutenant, uI'm euro that you must fool better "already. You i^ever could hav'o any appetite with each stuff in your mouth. Now captain oM^ejafter-gua'd, bring a picce of old can- v some sand, clean his teeth nicely." The captain of. the after-guard came for? 4 ward, and grinning from ear to ear, put the 1 boy's head oetween his knees, and sorubbed ] his teetji with canvass and sand for two or ! three minutes. "There, that will do," said the lieutenant, ] "Now, my little fellow, take some water and rinse oat your mouth, and you will ' enjoy your breakfast. It was impossible for you to hare eaten anything > with your mouth in snob a filthy condition. When. 1 you are troubled in tfie same way again, i oorae to me, and I will be your dentist" 1 The lad was completely cured, by the ridi- ' cuie of this occurrence, of the habit of tobacco-chewing.?dCaptain Marry ait, .. . . / 2 Utah .?A .private lAter frotii Proyo City,. Utah county, U. T., (fifty miles from .Great ' Salt Lake,) contains the fojlowing items of intelligence: * '*>. . t . "We livo in sight oftwiow^the year roan^? | We canvas it wqre, pick. Boweni -wiib ono biiod and gather, snow with the other. It U. warm intbevalleys, he*ltbyyp}easant,'fruitr . M xwUh . seldom ; atir rain,. Mt we bare BxoeUior. Higher! is a word of noble meanings the inspiration of nil great, deeds?the * sympathetic chain that leads, link by link, . :, the impassioned soul to.its zenith of glorji * nnd still holds its mysterioos object standing among the stare. * Higher! lisps the infant that clasps its '-> parent's knees, and makes its feeble essay to rise from tho floor?it is the first inspire- ' ^ tionof childhood?to burst the narrow con* fines of tbe cradle, in which its sweet moo- . menls have been passed forever. * i Higher! laughs the proud school boy at his wings, as he climbs the tallest tree of the forest, that he may look down on his v. less adventurous companions with a flash of exultation, and abroad over the fields.of V his nativo village: Ho never saw no exteoded a prospect before. ' ; . a , Higher 1 earnestly breathes the student of philosophy and naturebe has a host of rivals, but he must eclipse thorn all. The midnight oil in his lamp burns dim, but ho finds light and knowledge in the lamps of heaven, and his soul is never weary when the last is hid behind the curtain* of the morning. p " " And higher! his voice thunders fcrtfc wben tlie dignity of manhood has invested / his form, nod the multitude is listenine'V with delight to his oracles burning -with eloquence and ringing like true steel in tbV cause of freedom and right. But wben tifrie has changed his locks to silver, and! r when the world wide renown is his; when the maiden gathering flowers by the roadside, and the boy in the field, bow in reverence as he passes, and the peasant looks to him with honor?can he breathe forth from his heart the fond wish of thepaBtf <:?- , v"vHigher yet! he has reached the apex of earthly honor, yet his spirit burns aa warm as in youth, though with a steadier ,,m4 paler light, and it would borrow wing* atui soar up to high heaven, leaving its tenement to moulder among the laurels he has wound : r ?u~ ? jiiri. _r aivuuu a, iui me iicicr-cuuiug jtiury IV IW readied only in the presence ?F Ibe Most High 1 . + Incident.?A few months since, a My belonging to this city wenC to New York, and put up at one of the Broadway hotels. After going to her room for the night, she took out her pocket book and watch, laid * them on tho table, and then sat down to "* read. While engaged in reading, she thought > , she heard breathing from Bome one .apparently near by, but finally concluded it must v. be imagination.?Soon after, she commenced making preparations to retire, and ia adjusting her hair, she dropped one of her hairpins. While stooping to piclc^ it OJVu she discovered a hat under th? bed', and y" a closer observation revealed to her sight the fullrlength figure of a man. Without evincing any emotion, she quickly threw a * shawl over'her shoulders, weo,t o?t of .Uie " i room, locking the door after hert and - > V _ ping into the hall, she rang the" bell, which , jj summoned to tar assistance the propriptoq^ t who called in the services of a police oflJaif^;. and the intruder was arrested. There .wa? . '] found on the prisoner a bottle of chloroforra. , He was convicted on the testimony Gfcthe-r lady, and sent to the State prison fot si* . months. The Sequel of tKo whole ^was - a dropping the hair pin. $ Nw Haven Journal. , ' J HKARIKG PftAYKBS TBIOOOH A CHACBT. '' < ?The following from the Bangor Jotjmal r *. \ well illustrates the quality of aome J^ople'W pietv:? ~ . ? . - *' -,)i r: ''-'!.''' ' 9 ^Recently a girUyune from the. eodntiy ?f. to tbis^ityHowpririqa family that worship , I . - J ^ in one of the. tall stecpled eberphefe A?. & f , morning prajfenr the uoor of ttye footh is. /: *' which the-family reading of thei13ity?McE prayers were had; communicating t& the ' *' *k?' At kitchen, was opened about twoincbea in , ? . owlet* that eb^jnight &s*ft|beprivilege of,, )/ bearing. Shp'that theldoo^!^ Jtywas agahi i' ; i owwped in the same manner, when ft":tfsp r ind^nantly shut. The next tnofmnjg tTO . girl requested, leave to, return fiony^ not Sooustomed to haatfnj' >jpaj?rt V. 1 tbroSfj. a crack, and ahsdidjaotdSptO : fiXi EQI ?jri fA^^MByrlff^PnBBMBP^^B|Bws|ft||fBMSBP^;^ -'^