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Business Curds for the term of one | year, will be charged in proportion to the j space they occupy, nt One Dollar per line epaee. For all advertisements set in double vol- j vmu, Fifty per Cent, extra will lie added to the above rates. DAVIS <L- 1I0LL1NGSW0RTII, For liauncr ; ; LEE J: WILSON, For Pre**. j MISCELLANY. j Sam'l Johnson's Struggls in Life. Macauley.iu his rcccnt biographical essay ; on the "Lite of Sam'l Johnson," and at that j period when his struggle was severe and j ?.!- - 1 uis rcwaru seamy, savs: The misery ofluat struggle needed no aggravation, but was aggravated by the sufferings of an unsound body and an unsound mind. Before, the young man left the University, his hereditary malady had broken forth in a singularly cruel form. Ho had become an incurable hypochondriac. lie said long after, thsit he had been mad all his life, or at least not ' perfectly sane : and in truth, eccentricities | less strange than his have often been thought ] grounds sufficient for absolving felons, and for setting aside w ills, llis grimaces, his gestures, his muttering.1?, sometimes diverted j and sometimes terrified people who did not ' know hiin. At a dinner table he would, in a fit of absence, stoop down and twitch off i n lady's shoo. He would amaze a drawing | room Dy suddenly ejaculating a clause of the Lord's Prayer. He would conceive an uu- j intelligible aversion to a particular alley, | ?nd perform a great circuit rather (ban see j the hateful place, lie would set his heart I on touching every post in the street through which be walked. If by any ch:uice bo missed a post, he would go back a hundred yards and repair the omission. Under the influence of this disease, his senses became morbidly torpid, and his imagination morbidly active. At one time he would stand poring on tliov town clock, without being able to tell the hour. ..At another, lie would distinctly hear liis mnflmr wlin was many miles off, calling him by name. But this was not the worst A. deep melancholy took possession of him, and gave a dark tinge to all his views of human nature and of human destiny. Such wretchedness as he endured has driven many men to shoot themselves or drown themselves. Hut he was under no temptation to commit suicide. He was sick of life, l^ut lie was afraid of death ; and he-shuddered at every sight or sound which reminded 'Win of the inevitable hour. In religion he found but little comfort during his long attu fervent fits of dejection; fur his religion mrtOOk of ]>M nn-n rIM.? IS?I i , VMM VMUI (lUiOi b from heave i 6bonc on linn indeed, but not in a direct fine, or with its own puro splendor. The rays-had to struggle through u ffisturlnog medium ; they reached Win Refracted, dull and discolored by the thick gloom which had settled on his soul; and though they might bo sufficiently - clear to guide them, were too dim to cheer him. ? . <j * * A I>iuty smli.isck?-ffi^op, W?ad#v in Hie Southern Cliurohitian, gives an nc<cotmt of many'of tbe old families of Virginfa. Among these he mentions a insn toatted Watkins,, of whom the celebrated Jfohn Randdiplr, of Uoanoke, left a manuscript notice'. A part 6T that notice i? in these words :?^Without shining abilities, or tbe advantages of an education,- by plain straightforward industry, undBr the. guidance pf old-fashioned' hwjwty ami pntetf tieaKgpod sense, h6 accu^lS jple fortune, in whic&*tpi#j ftrmVy believed Ihsre ?u not one -jTaii'ik *nKf hogiely Saxon laggtnir*, but tof pklt and point. In RnmkrtpliS mltxd npe moM'h^ve Uea runntor aofte, Jfajnt Reminiscence of the apostle's ppra^ "fitty tacj)fr," ucfed mom fbati Xfooo ifU-bis tpis He*. -' " ; v -Hv- y.<fi trts buiioeli, ca^b.~pr3c^ W vvbtfft he panned to Air&CudBfn^ha^! The Bachellor's Button. CIIAI>TEIl KIR8T. Wliat Happened at the Concert. Some years ago, when I was a single man ami dreaming (as some single men do) of double bliss yet destined to arrive, 1 went to a concert at the Musical Ilall of Boston. Music is poetically and proverbially "the food of love," and in my sentimental state 1 consumed a good deal of it ; not that I had any object in view.? Mine was an abstract lovo ; 1 cultivated it, 1 increased my stock, so that I might have a good stock of the tender pas?i m in hand whenever 1 saw an eligible opportunity of investing it. Well, to return to the concert ; it was crowded to excess, and the rush, on leaving, to reach cabs and carriages, was very Croat. I wi>r? on 11?=?t orable night a blue coat with brass buttons, and 1 Haltered myself there were worse looking men in the ruom. I tell you candidly, I admired myself ; the other party I was struck with was a fine girl, with dark eyes and black hair, who sat with some young friends, a few forms distant. I "hoped she noticed me and my blue coat with 1 brass buttons. I looked at her often enough to attract her attention to both ; 1 and being, as my friends would say, in 1 rather a sjiooncy state, worked myself in a towe ring passion?of love, but how was 1 I to comc at the object of my admiration, 1 for I was as 'diflidcnt as devoted?"as shy 1 as I was vain," as an over-candid friend once said, "Hail Columbia," which con- ( eluded the cntt?>??rf tnrnf!??l "w. ? 1 j?. icvu 4?jvt UII^iu* pared as on mv first glance to "improve the 1 occasion," and the company were shoaling ' out, while I stood mutely gazing after the | object of my love at first sight. She and 1 her party eddied for n while by the inner door of the concert room, and were than 1 drawn out into the retiring current, and lost 1 to sight. 1 I followed quickly after, lest I should lose forever <(11 opportunity of identifying i 1 my idol ; but, nhis ! the lights in the out- j 1 er corridor were few and so far between that j ' "no glimpse of my star could I get. I push- ' ed and fiercely elbowed through the ( crowd, a view of getting to the outer door ' before my fair one's party had emerged, ami thus <rainii>!r on?*.u mnn> :i aiirl.i ^.r i 1 ? o -o? " ; sweeting. ! 4 "Hang it !" I muttered, impatiently, as . J I felt a tug of my'coat skirt, ono was in- i * stantly <otiscious of one of inv hind buttons having hitched to some lady's dress ; niy progress was sudden Unarrested. "How provoking," thought I, as I was brought, to t a stind, for I could not inovo without lo- j v sing a billion or tearing a dress; "how t provoking the modern fushions ; a lady I now has as many hoops, as many tentacles | about her apparel as a scaneinonc." It i _ \ as with some irrilalion I stopped to undo j *j the button, but my hurry made the task ; ^ more diQicult, and instead of undoing, Ij only bungled and more twisted the loop | c round the button. .v... uiu saiu liic lady j Herself, as I bungled the business ; she un- , gloved her hand?it was a sweet white hand?so L looked at her face. Stars and ? gaiters ? but it was a very, fair one, b:\lck j hair and dark eyes, T was in pursuit of. As she stooped over the entangled button, a sight flush tinted her cheek.?Oh it was . delicious. I hoped she never would undo the loop ; and indeed she never would or her fingers were twitching nervously, ^ and my heart was beating au libly ; I tried ^ to help her ; our fingers met. "l'lease to make way there." shouted a gruff voice behind. We were blocking up . the passage ? was there ever such an unlucky spot for so lucky an entanglement ? 4i "You hinder the people from going out, I Annie." extilniinml <> <? <>f l><?? ' 51 , V?iw Vi MVI \.VIIlpaillUI)M j . with some asperity ; "plague upon the I tiresome loop, break it !" and suiting the | !' action to tlie word, the speuker leaned for- 1 ward, caught the sleeve.of her beautiful friend's dress in one hand, and giy coat 5 tail in the other, and giving a quick and decided tug, severed us. The crowd behind bore on, and we were separated ; not how- 1 ever, before T gave my "star" a look which I intended to sueak volumes T ' * ^..a..4, sue dul not seem unconscious of my meaning?our eyes met, I knojv^ and' tlm wns ! the only consolation left me, fol immediateI}' -afterwards I lost her an)! heV party' to J view in the darkness outside. * CHA*?TEIl SECOND. , Hoie the Course of True Love did not Run a Smooth. * ? That night-1 hardly closed my oye? think- t ing of my "bright particular et?r,"nnd what f means I should employ to find her our. 1 knew little of the town, which was a.large t one, lo expect to know the o^noc of my fair 1 one by a mere desQfjptiou^ jwWhopeless, for r hjciu uuuuiirs nau? uo fi grout mjanj^wiLb T dark eyesfitid bl&k'b?V "Within the ''lit} Is I of mortality" tlftive ^s.eliiftwjiere, 2 ' My love fitgfew ijibre And more violent \ in.^hp coyrsq of t^t^tW; but, ttred out at ,? length* with my' se.iVu 11, I returned to Ibe ho- e Jfcetiand twK o'lit my d reus coat jrom my port- I uiauteau Co feed my.flame oven with the con* 1 temptation of the inanimate bpsineto button < that'lmdfl&taSried the "black*ey^d divinity" t so Jong. . It vyas.wiih no little delight I now 8 discovered what did not before catch my eye ??a fragment of the silk loop of ber dress J st*U adhered to the button, twisted ronnd.tbe 1 shank. T nrMM/t it *?? _ ... V?,.w vy. urj lips, II, WHS IliaC in color, and stoopecfto genlly disentangle 1 it fVoWj the a? g*nUy?R UioUgli it * 4*#p?a Cross of my-loved ope'? b?r#, wk$n { s3ffi#?hiug diftktxLin the skirt poolceC ,. I J sumkwed I had jgft Rome money there, ftwMn '< iny^>orturt)rttioii^Bod eS&tcnoeni X orhjkted ' to tlfe pqtft pa taldn^. it ofTihe njcht i before. ?r thrukl nay band jntft tfjA poukfit. ^ Gr?oiona maft * *1?t JJ " -1 " 1 bIb romantic light, she put it down llint I was of the swell-mob, and Iiad purposely entangled myself in her dress to rob her of her jewelry. Here was an anti-heroic position to find one's self in, when I wished to be considered the most devoted of knights, to be remembered only a6 the most expert of pick-pockets! Was ever an honest lover in such a plight, and, to make it worse, I could not see how I was to escape from this inevitable dilemma. I must, go down to the grave remembered only iti that dear one's mind as the nefarious I put loiner of her bracelet. To find her out j was impossible ; but a bright idea struck I me as rav eye lighted on a newspaper lying i on thceofl'e room table. I rang the bell and ! inquired of the waiter when the local paper was published. "To-morrow, sir," ho answer- . I sat ; down and wrote an advcitisement ; it was j in the following words: 4,lf the lady whose dress got entangled in a gentleman's coat button, in leaving the concert last Wednesday, will call at or send to the Tremont Hotel, she will hear something to her advantage." There, I thought, as T gave the advertisement to the boy, ami five shillings to pay for insertion in the Traveller ; there, if that will not give me a clue to escape from a very unpleasant dilemma, and at the same time to know who my enchanter is, the fates nu>t indeed be very unpropitious. Mv plans being thus so far adopted, I 1 : -? - ' uim.iui, mm nitucu patiently, or at her impatiently, the appearance of tho icwspaper next, morning. It was brought ip to my ronni damp from the press, ami I hen read, in all the glory of large type, my nteresting announcement. But iny star ! nritli what an advertisement was it followed in the very same column. 1 only wonder that mv hair did not stand ou an cud as I read as follows: "*2 Rkwaiid.?Lost or stolen, on tho night of the concert, at tho llall, a Gold Uliaiu Bracelet. It is thought to have been akeu from the lady's arm bv a pick-pocket, Df gentlemanly appearance, who wore a blue ^oat with brass buttons, and kept near the ady on leaving the Hall. miy one giving sucti information aswill ead lo the recovery of the bracelet, or the; :apture of the thief, (if it was stolen,) will eeeivc the above reward on applying to S'o. 7, Cambridge Place." CHATTER THIRD. The End of It. TTere was a pretty plight?to be adverted in the public papers as a pickpocket, vhen my only crime was like Othello's, hat of "Loving, not wisely, but loo well." My determination, however, was quickly dopted. I went up stair.-, put on the very ' Iclmqucnt blue coat, so accurately descri- , i ...M. ? ?v., ...... .,1111 liiu paper id my naud pro- ( ended to No. 7, Cambridge Place. I knocked at the door, and asked the 1 crvant who answered, the name of the 1 imily. Having heard it, I said, ' Is Miss j taymond in ?" . 4,Yes, sir,*' replied the servant woman, who shall I say wants her 3" "Tell her," I replied, "that the piekpock t, with gentlemanly address, and blue coat, nth brass buttons, who stole her bracelet, ( i here, and wishes to return it to her." The woman started at me as though I ' /ere inad, but on repeating my request to J ler, she went in and delivered my message. Soon there came out, not my fair oue, "With nil that's best, of dark and blight* ( Meeting ill aspect and eye." >ut a stalwart brother. "That," said I, handing him the bracelet, is Miss lt:iviiii?ii<i'? nr..nnrti- nr..I J W . vrj/v.. j CII1U LilUll^ll) j s you preceive, I weur n blue coat, with | | trass buttons, and ain flattered to think my 1 iianuersarc not ujigenllemuiily, I am bound 1 it candor to say I ain not a pickpocket." I ' Then, sir, you shall have the reward," aid the brpther, taking out his purse. i "No," I replied, "for strange as it may i ppear, though I ain no pickpocket, I stole i lie lady's bracelet." < The man looked puzzled; but when I . kIJ <l>. t~.il. 1 - ? u>y tuv iiuui, nuii iKjiiui'ti io my auveriise- , Dupe in tbe siirae paper, aa a proof I did | lot want to walk oft" with the property, he | aughed heartily at tho whole story, and not j he least at hie sister's description of the gen- .> leraanly pickpocket. /' , "Well," said he, "you bad better walk in j ind have tea with us, and my sister will be i ible to say whether she can speak as to < rour identity, after which it will be time < nough to canvass the propriety of sending | or a ^onitable" ,> ? You may be assured I acceptcd the invi- | ation. Need Igo further with the stnrv. i Plie young lady (to use the wordU of ll?e ] idvertiseinenl) captured the pickpocket Che bachelor's button no longer adorns my )lue coat, add now I have framed n"d gla?d over the fire-place the advertisement In 1 vhicli I am publicly described by my own v1fer "as a pickpocket with a gentlemanly ' iddte>s.n When I charge* her witb the j ibel, she always does what she bas just this ; noruent done, pay damages, for the elan- 1 ler id any amount of kisses, declaring ' bough notJt.pio^po^ket, I was a tbief, and Hole fier heart ami. pocketed her t^aceljt. So ends the et'ory of "A Bachelor's 1 iOTTOK.'* /1 f .? W: " '? : uV ' John G. Saxc. tha Iiuiimkuw Va?<ha>it ^ ---r? it . ir\ 'jyyny'F . ?oet,*k lecturing in Baltimore., lfeii tie- . bribed'** tall and athletic, standing over rix < eet in hU Blockings. , A roan of tbe wprld xifgre bo Uecama a man of letters, -bis ad- . Iress is franij apdea*y ;be lias great conrersational ppwers and tells a stoty iniroitarfy. 'He Vfcjutt sucb a roan ae Gnrfttopber !forth welcomed to &fa heart of learts^gl^bn man to have figured io tbe w \::u? | <4y|, !>>Wwli'- ll*V'. 1 . '?. -.!'1 ! ', -.- 'fJ'<l' ' Sfflj#flw?Ofr?bd i**m ^England, WoaM ?mlceA ?(6dW ^fbrlUB?r wttoi*. h? eotept 4ta*fV W ? , irrofr SverMr. Anrow?o)itb*iM) exhibit Itfto . So ' tfl ', .- .-jsf r\ Interesting from Nxcaicaoua.?The New York llorald publishes tlio following intelligence from Nicaragua, which il claims to l>e reliable. Gen, Walker's forces have licked the Costa Ricaus in four lights. The enemy lost several hundred ; our loss in all does not exceed ten. Col. Look bridge and Gen. Wheat have dotie well. The cannon, the i ton of powder, the caps and rifles from i New York arrived just in time at Grey- i ton for the men, and Cul. Titus and thev i re took in one day the boats (steamer in- i eluded) in the river and up to the lake. I Gen. Walker's forces have taken Sera pi- i qui and Castillio, and arc driving the enemy before them. lie has before this the ' i. ill ... wnoie uiKo ami transit route in his poss. ession. lie lias been re-inforced from the Pacilio side, and I ho English and American merchants in lVru have sent him aid and constrained President Camilla to deny assistance to tins enemy, liiiglish merchants in Liverpool and London have also shown that they understand the interests of their country and the advance of civilization better than their rules though the British government has not attempted to prevent shipment of arms and munitions to our friends. The Panama Company and the Costa llicnn speculators in New York, trying to sell transit stock, will suppress the facts and lie them down. So I write fully what you may rely on. Kinney has gone to Panama, and will do all he can against Walker. The Court of Common Pleas and General Sessions for Pickens distriel lias been in session this week. Judge O'Neal 1 presided, and dispatched business with rapidity and general satisfaction. In his charge to the grand jury, he recommended the establish- , ment of a penitentiary, nn-1 explained fully ( the duties of the jury, witli other matters. The time of the Court was taken up mostly f by the sessions business, the number of ca- ,, >es litigated being small. In the case of j the Statu vs. < /Sullivan, for murder, the in | ry brought in a verdirt of manslaughter, i The sentence was imprisonment for six : mouths and :i fine of ?30. Two or three ( culprits wens sentenced to imprisonment ^ and the lash for theft. The Court adjourn- j ed late in tin*, afternoon of Thursday. j A large number of persons were in at- f tendance on Monday and Tuesday. The . bar was well represented from the adjoin- , ing districts, and the week passed off pleas- t antly. The weather, however, wsis disagree- j able during the week.?JCeoiree Courier. , Gi:eat Excitement ix Soittiiwest Mis- 1 sotrnt.?Great excitement existed in nnd , ;ibout Golden Grove, ISarton county, Ia?t week, owing to a large company of men ^ willed "Slickers" going in pursuit of a man named Smith, an alleged horse thief. Those ''Slickers," it appears, all got drunk, nnd the St. Louis Intelligencer says they slicked near a dozen men on charges of liai boring * ar being friends of Smith?some of them ire said to be peaceable citizens. Some of I hem were whipped so severely that their 8 ives are despaired of. Two orthree females who interfered were bent nnd bruised up, ?nd the persons of several females violated. Neither a<*o or sex were spared during Moil- 1 jay ant} Tuesday. Tliey went to the house e )f E. Smith, and cut open his beds and pourjd out the feathers?took his meat and * :orn and throwed them to their hogs, and turned his wife and childereu out of doors. ' Hut on Wednesday they became alarmed ^ it their own recklessness, and ceased opera- ' lions after compelling the iuhabitants to fly * "or their lives. Povteii of the IIt'mas* Fvn.?George jPitt, afterwards Lord llivers, declared that r lie could tame the moat furious animal by .e looking at it steadily. Lord Spence-v said, t 'Well, there is a mastiff in the court yard 1 here which is terror of the neighborhood, will you try your power on hinjJ'^ Pitt | agreed to do-eo, and the eopjrpfiiy descended 1 to the court yurd. A secant, held the mas- a lilf by a chain. Pitt lmelt d^wq|a short s jistanco from the animaf) nnd . 6tatejT him t iternlv in tli? fmu? TliSw nltotiii.l<l?i?>3- "i i ;i signal given, the UD^aUjf was let loosp, and | ruahed furiously toiwAfitfij^ then- sudden- c iy checkedhis pk^'teemed confounded,, j find leaping oVer Pfyt'sbe^, xan awayThnd j was no.t seen for manjQ^fs after! During 3iie of my visits to Italy, winle I was walk- r ing a little before my carriage on the iroari not far from Vienna, I perceived two hnge jogs bounding towarJs me. I recollected what Pitt-had done, and trembling frotirf ^ liead to foot, 1 yet had resolution 'Chough to stand quite" still and eye thefn wUh'n fixed look. They gradually relaxed their speed t from a gallop to a trot, came up to me, stop- g aed for a moment and went back again. JRoaer9i'TaJfte Talk*. J IJrap.?lit: v. Dr. Cfilwin Colton, Profes- ' K>r of Policiciil Economy in Trimly Colhfge, 1 Hartford, Connecticut,- died in Savannah, ' Beorgia, on Friday Inst. He "fees a gradu- ? ate'of Yule CoHcg?, Mrt<?achanett4, noj| after > beiiig'a Presbyterian Minister, t<x>k:Vor4ere * ife tbe Episcopal Church. H$* aft?iward? 1 edited the True Whig in Washington; city, J and becamo well known as the writeri&jhe * ^unitf** letter dnrlg^jLhe IftfjriRon- :crtW- I paigf?*.?Aji iho tiine of hij'^deatb*, Ije . ?g^? < engaged in writing tbo lift.df Iteory CUy, I for wbicb he had procured abundant materj- i ai.- , <tt , /, " . | '' Extra Gocrt.?Gonft jufJoimieSatAfl- J derson on. Saturday fast, lmving been occO- . pied aUnpst exclusively witU^UteTabu?ip^a. , Sixteen ffaiwoD$ *ere sent J?jwJj6j>r .wriou8 ( ati<fe %'ihd* ititfHefttibrf 6f t' 'An for" Tueadajr . the 11 th, July next, to .eentinue for five davs < if .to oriwfe- TU<i twr j u vellna ?o??Q \ ^******^1^ *^vii'r ** i />?.. a - **** Parting Friends.?Tbo corresponden of the Baltimore American writes fron Washington on the Otli inst. A pleasing incident transpired at the Ex ecutivo Mansion on Tuesday. Mr. Atloe President of the Common Council, was (lis missed from the Treasury Departinen! more than two years since, upon the charg< of being a Know-Nothing. The clnrgo wa: untrue, and Mr. Atlee appealed to tbo Pres ident for redress, assuring the latter tha iltliough he had forty ears been in favor ol .. v ? ...... ? native xmiericaii distinction in tlie dis Lribution of Government offices, lie wa; not, li.'ui he been a member of tiie Know Nothing order. The President replied thai 'a person who had sworn to tell a lie was not to be belioved," thus placed a charge jf perjury and a falsehood upon Mr. At lee. The latter at various times appealed tc [Jen. Pierce to move the imputations; bul no notice was taken of the letters. Hut or he day mentioned, when ihe Corporation ind a larger number of the President's per wmal friends had assembled in the East I loom, and the addresses and responces had ;ieen made, Gen. Pierce walked up to Mimi,./ i .J i - ? . ins naiiu in silence.? \Ir. A. said, '"Mr. President, I wish you all iiture happiness." "Mr. Atlee," said Gen I'ierce, "I thank you ! And if. at any .iine, I have marred yours, I here ask youi lardon." The speakers tliemselves were jotli deeply affected, and most of those pre iont, being familiar with the circumstance; >vhich elicited the response, were compelled o give way to their feelings. This little episode stamps Gen. Pierce as n man o nuch feeling and great magnanimity. The Office Seekers and the Pkesi jest.?A Washington correspondent o ... i>I.:I~.I i-i.:- ?? i iu x iiiiiiuui|)iuu yv.ii)uncnn savs : I'ensylvania luis, by all odds, the nuincrica idvantageover other States in representation it Wellington just now. Whole hosts of >atrioU from the interior swarm the hotels ine the avenuej, and almost besiego the kVhite House. There were never so many udividual men before, who by their own levoted efforts decided a Presidential elecion. The sufferings of the President arc ntolerable. lie is beset, night and day, by lungry applicants, who made no allowance or the necessary tortures of official routine, md less for the physical debility consequent ipon the vestiges of a scourging epidemic. Still he bears up resolutely, and it is feared >y his real friends, with too much effort, to neet tlie requirements of exacting politirians. Tlio re-establishment of his health leeds repose, nnJ lie gets only excitement. STo constitution, at Mr. Buchanan's period if life, can stand this constant strain upon he energies of mind and body. Harrison md Taylor were both victims of the Presidoninl office, notwithstanding all the medical easons that were alleged to prove a differ:nt theory, and it is to be hoped Mr. Buchinan, for his own sake, and for public eoniderations will first consult his duty to himelf before yielding to the pretended claims if desperate office-seekers. The Wife of Senator Douglas.? rito Washington correspondent of the (Jlevland 1'laindealer thus notices this lady :? "It was ''reception" day, and Mrs. Douglas rose upon our entrance, and with i charming grace of mauner and high >red courtesy welcomed us to her home. Vbovetbe medium height, her form is urge, elegant, and striking. Iudeed it vould he difficult, if not impossible, to ind auotber so faultless and perfect iu protortious. IIor face is kindness and simplicity itself* with features regular nnd atreeable. Iler eves are dark. emrcRsIvn , r \ ^ ' 4 * ' "I iud when lighted up with interests or pleasire, sparkling like diamonds in the suu>ght. Her complexion might fairly outvie the ily in purity, rind her?geninl, hearty child ike Iaus*h displays a-'>et of snowy teeth, md makes the room ocjio with its clear ind silvery ringing. .Her brown and luxiriant hair wAs purled in the middle, and Irawn without ornaments .across the forelead. Add to this tli'e splendor of the most :ostly apparel silk embroidery and exquiste laces, and all without attempt at dis>lay, and vou have Mrs. Doilgias as she A < I..---LI 1- ... m yuwr uullIUje SCrVHIIC OI) 11)18 nemorable morning. Tub Next House or Representatives. ?The iniptession prevails to some extent bat itie Democrats have already chosen n mffltfent ntiriibeV-of mrtttjbew fo insure n nrtjority in tho ne*t' HoiHte of ' RepreaetitfcW&T. The'Washington tJn'ron, IibweVer, hows that this impression is not onfy woneous, bnt that tlu-y have yet to gain even members over their strength ia - the ARt House. Tho gain,.too,.ja,to 'be in the hirteen - States yet U> elet-t/ which at tin aat congressional elections return forty-seven lemooraU to. thirty, three opposition* u I < <.? #? ?, ... I 1 ( - flicAimgnti-TRIBUTfrEft TllE MtiiORY otf 3iu Kanb.?Rwyt -MfiOIiapio, delivtting-1 ?cture Intely iti Bostoo,~ took occasion to ipoak of the death <of I>j;Kane, in couneo ion; wilW aH allusion to the gfnvo of tlu liscoverer of- America< ^T^iej johkftd," wid je, ^frofl? which have just be?u , Rafted tl^ ieHMi or of ^Bother. di&coverer wfco, in JKf ?an>? of science and philanthropy carried nto the nialm of Artie mystery a Big*CU>y ^nobleness. a religious orithuaiasn^eqyal U: POW Slte?t plaoefor wight and lo&6 hv tliA flfthflft or jm+yi-. jr-/ " * ' *' *" .-dtihiiifm CliArlotto^ 13^ knv^n^ a* "Cor^ t Flowers. H They opring unnoticed and unknown, Mid rocky wild* they bloom, They flourish mid the desert lone, They deck the silent tomh, They cheer the peasant's lowly cot, L Adorn the monarch's hall, 5 They fill each quiet, shady spot? s O, who can tell them all. ^ Some o'er the mnrm'riug streamlet (ling Their blossoms bright and fair, And there, in veneral beauty, spring, ? Fanned by the fragrant spring. Some'ncalh the ocean's rolling waves l In silent grandeur grow, . Nor heed the storm which o'er them raves, j But still in beauty blow. Sonic where the eagle builds her nest, Where man has never trod, > Where even the chamois dare not rest ! Upon the crumbling sod? 1 Yes, there, e'en there, wild flow'ruts grow, ? In richest drees arrayed, And o'er the clamorous englcsl throw | Their light and graceful shade. Mid mountains of perpetual snow, By icy girdles bound, | Some, rendered doubly beauteous, glow, A ...1 1 I- .1 e .mm ucch i-iic irozcn ground. And mill cold winter's angry storm, Tlie snow dn p reins its head, And shows its pure, unspotted form When other flowers have fled. Some on the breezes of the night Their grateful odors send ; ' While others, children of the light, F . ? To-day their perfume lend. Some bloom beneath the torrid Kone, 'Neath India's sultry skies; 'Mid Iceland's mountains, chill and lone, The forms of others rise. 1 The stately fern, the golden brooiu, l The lily, tall and fair? AH n.^Q..... -;?i. s? ? v..?av ? Iivu ouuwasiuii UiU<HK, , And scent tlie summer nir. i In secret doll, by murm'ing rill? In gardens bright and gay? I Within tlie volley?on the hill? Flowers elieer our toilsome way 1 Flowers image forth the boundless love God bears his children all, Which ever droppeth from abovo ' Uj?on the great and small: Each blossom that adorm our pa'.h^ So joyful and so fair, Is but a drop of love divine, That fell and flourished there. Daring Outuaoe.?Last nighf, between eight ami nino o'clock, Mr. MeCrt'izlit, attached to llio oilitntinl /I..: w . . men I of this office, on his way to depart for Camden, with n carpet hag in liis hand, was struck down in Hayne street with a j1 bludgeon, by some persons who approached ;' him from behind, and during the insensi- 1 bility which followed the blow, was robbed of his purse and watch. There was a vi- 1 olent concussion of the brain, and ho did ) ; not recover his senses for several hours after. But Dr. Raoul, who was called in, : expiessed his confidence that there would < > be no fatal result. It was ^idently a < simple case of violence, for Ine sake of < robbery. Such things are rare in Charles- I , ton, and we trust that the city authorities will use their best exertions to make them I still more rare.? Charleston Mercury. - >. A Water-proof Mixture for Leather.?Take one pint of tanner'a oil, half a pound tallow, a lump of good rosin, the size-of a common shell-bark, bnrgundy pitch, size of a lien's egg, lamp black, three cent's worth?mixed together, and "' melted gradually over a slow fire. When to be applied, the mixture should be made about milk warm, and put on with a clean SDOUCre. TIlO lentlmr man ? I!mI~ _j . mmmmwj wv UIIIUV (1 iiu1u damp, not wet. The above cement, when applied to boots and shoes, will effectual ly prevent their soaking water, and keep the ' leather pliant, and the feet of the wqarcr warm and dry. Eyery fiirmer who regards comfort as a desideratum, should supply himself with this artiqle, and apply it to his boots and shoes. Germantuwn Telegraph. ? Covervor of Kansas.?Secretary ' w--i :? - - " ' fiuuuauM,mnut) mo resignation or Uov. |i Geary, is discharging tlie duties of Govern | or of Kansas. IIo tins, on several occasions ; been called on to net in tlie same position; and has always discharged his duty efficient-' * ly and faithfully. .We should be very glnd to see Mr. Woodson appointed Governor, " ' fojr lie is thq only executive officer }'et sent to Kansas who see/ns to combine stability and moderation of character with tho re quisit^ capacity. It is true, he is a native of Virginia,'but he is no ultraist, and, as t!|e North has hitherto'had all the Govern1 ors of Kansas, non&>of whom have given i satisfaction, it would do no lmrtn to trv a - C-L?l ?V n .1 uuveruur iroin mo ooutii. Richmond Dispatch. t Movements of Troops on the Plain**?. " ?Troops are to cross die plaint 'this spring for tiie protection of the overlaid emigrants botind for California and Ore-; , gon. Orders have been issued for the 4lit I IaftHiti y, now stationed in.. OregtJji^to move across the country cons'ruciiag the road for which approprwtio^ ha? . beeu . made-- Thecowpaniee of the Qfcblnfan try, uowr^kt Forts Kearney and Lauren worth. ; W;K> falte* up tU? lJi*LtQ JB (be pJU I 0{eg9U. ttpV, aU4 go through, iU moun[ M?of$.P*88. The ^opqpaoie# M*-.? f are lp Am '' at Fort 1 Xf^^nffWrUH M (^gMa,|n??ouri ,fu f reroniq un, $ rfi1.eve4 Vy tho ^^atry, soma time l!fcthP;*VWk w!?JS6^.too, will wove . mr^wm^r *"? "' v .^'^ " f^T # SfefeV*4* finfc\.i'jk 5^5yx^fiE655ei!Kr '?S^w Vfc?X*[-:i2'jL&\&iifiZ*> <1 Fjrf> ,. ?VifL*i& '- ' ' '-, ' ' ' ? * -- ( i Adams and Webster. lion. Kufus Choate recently delivered a lecture in Boston, ou the sul>ject of "Deliberative Eloquence, ?s affected by times of National Revolution." We extract from it tho following eloquent tribute to the great orator of our Revolution ?the elder Adams, and Daniel Webster : "Again you beard that eloquence, with a higher hope of a more splendid result, in 1770. The lender in (hat great cause was our own John Adams, of Massachusetts, llo was the orator alone of the revolution in which the nation was born. Others cooperated splendidly with him?Samuel Adams, Samuel Chase, Thomas .Jefferson, Patrick Henry, James Otis?in tho earlier clnnrnc V.w.l. *' * * w...?v,o. ijticu unu 01 uiese went auroau and scattered broadcast the seed of life in tlie waiting, virgin soil. Jefferson (lie magic of style, tlie power of touching the feelings with those fair ideas of freedom and equality, dear to nan, ;-o irresistible at that time. Henry, the indescribable spell of speech, which fills the eyes,stays the blood, turns the cheek pale, instilling into the soul the sweet madness of battle. Samuel Chase, the tone of indignation, the proud defiance, and the extraordinary art of inspiring courage 1 I I - 'i ...i.j iiujiu. .1 u:tu Junius mono seems to liavo met ovtrv demand of the time. "As a right, as a question of prudence, as a question of honor, as a question of feeling, as a question of conscience, he knew it all through ; and in that mighty debate, which b'-gau as far hack as March or February, 1770, to its close, on the 2d of July, he . presented it in all its aspects to every passion and a flection?appealing to the sense of wrong, exasperated, at length, almost beyond control by the shedding of bloo J?to grief, to indignation, to self-respect, to desire for happiness and safety, to the sense of moral obligation, to the fenr of Curl? ing out all other fear?to all these ideas and all these passions lie appealed lor months, day after day, until the result was attained, the'record of which he has left in a letter to lis wife. [An extinct from this ic'tcr Mr. Choatc read, giving expression t > the exultant feeling ; of tho elder Adams at the signing of the Declaration of Independence.] Not a single reported sentence of all his speeches has come down to us. The great spokesman of an age unto an age is dead. And yet of these last words, is not our whole America one immortal record and reporter still ? llow they blaze on the pillarsoftho Union! IIow their deip sense is unfolded and interpreted by every passing hour ! How they come out to life, and grow double, as it were in the brightening rays of light which were revealed to him, as the fabled invisible harp gave out its music to the mountains! Yes, they have perished ; yet all things around us?our laughing harvest, otir songs of labor, our commerce whitening every sea, our secure homes, our school houses, our churches. our nappy people, tlie stainless, radient flag ?how they toine pealing," pealing, "Iudolendenco now, and independence forever [Prolonged applause.] "And now, said Mr. Clionte, in conclu" sion, on a review of this series of the' most eloquent of men, and these circumstances of their lime, does an exceeding love deceive us, or have we not ourselves seen and followed mourning to the grave one man who, east upon times so troubled and so high, would have enacted a p:u t of enual splendor, and won a fame as lii.-torical?our own Webster ? [Loud applause.] "Was [hero ever a cause to bo pleaded before an assembly on earth to which lie would not , have proved himself more than equal ? Consider that lie was cast on a great, quiet, civil age; on an age and land marked by law, order, contentment, healthful ^progress, by intellectual growth and beautiful, rnateriaf""pro.<|)L'rity, resting on a deep and stable freedom. We saw that great ocean, Daniel Webster, wliyn in its calm, but how if a strong norther had blown over it, or a lijjrricane of the tropics had stirred its unsbtyhded depths ?- 'JNjat mighty season ; ihht majestyxjrecdom, th.nt sovereign brow un/1 !.?? - 1 * .r, luiuiiaiii i?i t'loqucni telling, passi6n, imagination, which seems to mo never to have been completely comprehended upon earth, fathb'uieas as a sen, and like that xlcmniiding llie breaking up ?f-tlio rrtohsobn <jr (lie attraction of those greatheaveVily bodies, the lights of tho world, to-raise them fully and adequately, to what triumphs of eloquence man ever witnessed, were these mighty faculties uneqnel.4 * [Applaud.] Assisted "by that UT?rivtd or?an, iho Creek Jan?rtin?? <>f "T>?- * ^ ? o o -- "" mostliencse, would ho not IjaVo rolled ati equal thunder and flashed nn equal flame f ? ; Would lie not have breathed virtue into decaying Greece,' and turned back for;B time the inevijablo hour? And when the '<pl|turs of Roman liberty were shaken, would not th<ijr last great champion khvo wclcoihed him as an alley worthy of tho caused A?W was he not the mip to Stand by Adams, anfl second tho motion which has niado U? illustrations^ moreover itnrriortnl among nielli n* rights of the colonies, tho violation of those rights, th? larger rights of j fna0, and tho violation of thn riirlita M ii? , *; - *r? v,t "1|* 1 Clonal' ljfe?ttoulcf her not linve stated those vie\vs as with the clearness of ft ftuiirben in?traospiiKji', definite, exact ? W hotf reason was convinced, the conscience in- -i rttructed, would he not have swept, with h'a all comipanding ^r-wer, tho grander f>assrons of grief; indignation, self-sac riflee and tb<i-love of coffhfry ; nud then rs tho vifrf<?n of the independence of Africa gliihmored through the future, would he not, rtriih rt-sdul'ns a triumphant, ft tongue as confident, and a heart prophecy as sure an ori a Tpter festive day, he did on .tho rock nf the T'ilrrfntricr Ui/1 ?* ? y.vi uminnb gCIIl'[llllOm> MJEfrul and comof" [Enthusiastic np-. - ^ jlliluse.] ?* ' The Him. Mr. Venahle, formerly a Demo* emtio moruljer of llio U. ?. House of Representatives frdro North Carelinivis amoug tho ' large number,oiDernoc ratio ex-mecdbtfrir of Congrcro now iij Washington. His matyr $ personal friends iu ibis^jregiou will be glad U16 hear, that time hps indeed dealt lightly J by him, judging from his appearauco. j