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I " ufh# Wit h&tt tttft i^itt '-/jy C?^ v M/'i^v IM^8* H VJl-y 0 w?P !>- ^:,J ^ DEVOTED TO LITERATURE, THE ARTS, SCIENCE, AGRICULTURE, NEWS, POLITICS, &C., &C. ' ' TERMS TWO DOLLARS PER ANNtXH,] "Let it be I tiS tilled into the Hearts of your Children that the Liberty of the Press Is the Palladium of all your Bights." Junius. IP AY ABLE IN ADVANCE SY W. A. LEE AND HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 23, 1859. VOLUME VII.?NO. 21 HIKff OF THE HAHVE8TER8. We gather tliem in?the bright green leaver "With our scythes nnd rakes to-day, And tho mow grows big, ns the pitcher in heaves His lift of tl? "weltering liny, O, bo ! <\ field? t .r the mower's scytho Ilath n ring of bright destiny, Sweeping the earth of its burden lithe, And it sings in wrathful glee. "We gather tliem in?the nodding plumes Of yellow and bearded grain, And the flash of oar sickle's light illumes Our march oe'r the vanquished plain. Anon, we conic with the steed-drawn ear? The cunning of modern lows; 'And acres stoop to its olnnking jnr, Ab it locks its hungry jaws, We gather them in?the yellow fruits From the shrub, the vine, the tree. With their russet, and golden, and purple suits To garnish our treasury, And each has a juicy treasure stored All neath its tinted rind, To cheer our guests at the social board. When we leave our cares behind. We gather tlieni in?in tlii* goodly store, But not with the miser's lust, For this Great All Father we adore, Hath but given it in trust: And onr work of death is but for life, tn the wintry days to come? Then a blessing upon the reapers' strife. < And ft shout for their Harvest Homo 1 HON. M. L. BONHAM. This distinguished Representative lias ad- i dressed the following communication to tlie Charleston Mercury. Mr. Editor: On the first Monday in June j Inst I addressed a portion of mv constituents | ?t Laurens Court House. Circumstances ( diil not admit of my preparing a report of that address for publication. An extract i frotn the brief report. of my remarks hv tin' ' . Kditor of tlie Herald, having recently appeared in your paper, as indicative of my j views as to the policy of the South in tlie j approaching I'residential election. I deem j it not improper, llirougli lite same medium, 1 / which circulates extensively in the. Fourth ! Congressional District, succinctly but more ; j fully to state the views 1 expressed, ami now | ( entertain, upon that absorbing question. '. The debate in the Senate last February as i | to the true construction of tin- Kansas-No- ! < braska act and the rights of the slave States j ( in the territories brought the advocates of j the opposing constructions face to fnco in l( that hotly and before the whole country.? j j Subsequent discussions on the stump and ! j, tllTAIl irli lliP tlfuoj Iiavn K??? ' ' S, - I? "?" ? l?. II111KH I plainer the distinction. There can now he j no moro "cheating" or "being cheated," as to this question, unless the South choosen to bo cheated. For one,I rejoice that it is so. The mass of the democratic party North, with some few South, maintain that, although it is the right of the slaveholder to carry his property into the territories still ; the right is perfect in the people thereof, prior to the formation of a State constitution, by nrlveree, unfriendly, or hostile legislation, nil the same in effect, to make it > slave territory or free territory, no matter jc what may be tho decision of tlie Supreme ; j Court. If this be true?if a handful of | squatters from the over-populous States of j. Europe and crowded cities of the North, ; < pushed forward by Emigrant. Aid Societies j | into new territories, can, by unfriendly or ! t hostile legislation, exclude slavery, without I the power on the part of Congress, by the t passage of adequate laws, to restrain such t unconstitutional legislation, then would that ( act indeed be what its author is charged t with having said it was?"the best frcpsoil t . measure ever adopted by Congress." But ] is this true? The squatter sovereignty ad- ] Yocatea themselves concede th<*t Congress ( bas not the power to legislate slavery into \ Apr out of the territories, as is contended by t the abolitionists. j The notion, therefore, that Congress?an g ?gent?oan delegate to its creatures, the ter- ( ritorial legislatures, a power which the Con- { fffASfl WaiilMAAo*nA06Ai.ii ^"A ?1 * K ..ww i'ul wmcn resides \ alone *rith the sovereign States, the crea- ^ or? of that Congress, would ?oem to he too , preposterous, for wriovjs argument. But it ] is claimed that the doctrine of non-interven- , tion in the Kansas Nebraska act precludes , Congress front Interfering to counteract this | unfriendly or lio*tile territorial legislation, j Nonintervention meant nothing'more nor , lest, at tlie passage of that act, than that - i i ? \x?njfTew nouio not legislate slavery inlo or out of., the. territories, bnt 'that the people thereof should decide/he question for thempdopting, their cotfstlttitions, .jjjth ?^q .adequate population, preparatory jo dmisaion into the Union. That wn* the held by all Democrats in CongraM? ttxoepi audi an seem to have bad a ttewfWll WaMlfOctipn for" fuloro um. No ?M (Imo maintained, Congrats that H implied the ripht of the territorial legisla <. tureMo, rerflde the Conrtitotion and the . dedwfon of rti? 8dpreme Couj-J, ant) exclude 1 slavery from tbe territories, with no power on th? parts$X&?St* in them.? lVk|? aoob a ooMtmotton that meairijre < ewiM'Mt bMj MrfiAanW ft* uppirt i .of.'wrpoi ral's guard ajnoog tenth erovnetB? be*, ******* ? " . ; . On the oilier hand, if all property, without distinction, should bo equally protected by the territorial laws, congressional legislation might not be requisite. Vlut if the ter ritorial legislature should discriminate in its laws against slave properly, either by omitting to afford it equal protection with all ' other property, or by positive hostile enact- ; ments, it would be the duty of Congress, j the common agent of all States, to atlord that protection which its agent, tho territorial legislature, had so withheld, in violation of the constitution and the decision of tho Supreme Court. No other doctrine is compatible with the rights of the slave States in the territories. And it is passing strange how any one can support the Fugitive Slave Law, which carries out the provisions of the constitution in sovereign States, and deny I < /-? ? mo jiuwer ui vxmgress 10 pass lavs to carr}' ! out those provisions in the territories, the common property of those soveieign Slates. These, according to my understanding, . are the opposing constructions?squatter j sovereignty and its opposite. On the for- j mer platform Judge Douglas has announced i to the democratic party that they can take ' him as their candidate for President in 1 800, I or not at all. This is hold and decided,and j u.;tt ;< So ??. i.? i i : - ? ? i ....I, IV I CI 1U u? (It>|icu, ni>pilt) !l IlKC spilll on the part of the South. Tlie issue is thus distinctly tendered, j Can the South decline to meet it without j in abandonment, of her rights? (Jan she ! i support Judge Douglas or any man hold- i ing the same views on this Question without i being concluded 3 think not?The issue being tendered, a failure to meet it subjects llie South to a decree by default, and new j crritories will be hereafter closed. Ilerown I |Uop!o would regard it as adjudicated. Nor ought the South now to ignore this i ssue siiid support a candidate who is uncommitted.?The question is ho fore the ;onntry. and even though it were hut an I detraction, tlie principlo is none the less j mporlant that there is no immediate np- , plication. No one doubts that the Indian j jr other territories suited to slave labor will J lie acquired by tlie Government? how soon 10 one knows ? and there can be no better : ,ime than this to settle the question. In tny nimble judgement, it is tlie duty of 1 he iouth, laying asi.le all issues, the agitation t S which will distract her councils without . M>n/1 1 *<? ???v ' ? ' ? 1 |jici?umi jjimu, lu uem;inu ui me j leaiocratio party?not a "slave codo'*?an : igly name to mak? obnoxious a great con- j titutional light ?but a distinct recognition j :i tlie approaching Presidentinl contest, of j lie right on the pr.it of slaveholders to con- ; jressional legislation, whenever such legisation may bo needed, to protect their rights itjainst the unfriendly or hostile lrgidation >r any territory; and in default thereof,, to iiipport, Jor her candidate some statesman, vho is sound upon that question as well as >thers of vital interest to the South. She hould eschew all compromise on the qtsesion of slavery in all its bealings. The compromise of the constitution, vhereby threefifths of the labor of the j iouth only is represented, was an error, but j t is a part of that compact, and by that let ler abide. For the future the word coinpromise should be stricken from the southirn political vocabulary. It is time the j md known whether that party?the bulk i )f which is in the South?will risk itself before tho country advocating the constituional rights of the South. If it will not, he party should go down and a healthier >rganizalion take its place. It has been he boast of democrats that that parly is he only constutional parly of the country. \Tow is the time to make good that boast, t is better far to suffer defeat on a sound ;oustitutionnl nrinr.inlfi. tlinn to ni-hipvu ^ f 1?? *rictory by ita abandonment. We are not mmindful that wo hare true friends at the ^orth;but if they cannot Bustain themselves at homo on the principles of the '.onstitution, the sooner the people of the >outh aro made to comprehend it the >etter. For all practical purpose, the congressional legislation of Mr. Seward is no worse than the squatter sovereignty of Mr. Douglas; and whilst there is a widedifferjnce between them on many other impor ant questions, it tbe South is true to herself, she need not be subjected to the humiliation of having to make choice between two evils. If the doctrine of either can prevail, we can entertain no well founded liope of having the right s guaranteed to us under the constitution, and affirmed by the * Supreme CourL "guarded and protected"' in the Union. "W-i vr t ti~ ?w.;. rni AW. VUilllAM. Edgefield, ?ept. Daniel Wedbteii. Rev. Mr. Dwight officiating clergyman at the North Congregational Church, in tho course of hiu sermon, on Sunday evening last, related lb? following striking anecdote of ibe man of giant mind. Upon entering ehureh one Sabbath morning, a friend remarked neeringlyrV^lfc Webeter, you worship wber^twdwftrihe of 4t)oe In three and tbfe4 in Got? Mi b^heM." "My friend,* t?plt?frMr. Webater, *Wther you nor I, understand the arithmetic of he&vM/,<~+ flbntvdkt 'Tnfttfrrr. m BOUNTIFUL FRIEND. Edward, on returning homo after taking a walk on a fine day in tlio beginning of autumn saw a basket filled with beautiful bunches of grapes on the parlor table; some wero deep purple, and fome light yellow, like amber. "Oh ! where did these fine grapes come from V cried Edward, quite delighted, 'and whose are they ?' "They belong to you, dear Edward,'said his mother ! 41 for your grandfather, hearing that you were not very well, sent them to you with his love, lie says they are some of the first cranes that liava rinmifid in liis green-house," "IIow very good grandfather is !' said Edward ; "I will write to him without dehiy, and thank him. Oh ! if I could give him any pleasure, how happy it would make me." "I am glad you feel 60 grateful,' said his mother,"but what would you say if you had a friend who would Dot only send you grapes but all sorts of nice fruit.? Would you not he as thankful to him ns fn vnnrlrinr) <ri-nnil fatlior V 4,Yc'-t certainly, dear mother ; I would thank him with all my heart, and tryerary means in my power to please him." "But if this good friend,'' continued his mother, "were to send you a thousand other things not merely agreeable and useful but absolutely necessary to your existence, and which you could not get expect from i him !" i "Then," replied Edward, "I would be more j grateful to him then I can tell you, mother, j I would write long letters to him every day | til tlmnlr liim fitr cn n,o,\,? ?if(c o rwl T nm I ? J B""? ? """ * ; Mire I should never cease thinkiug of what j I couM do for him ; for, oh ! how great must be the love of a friend who could be so exceedingly kind and generous." "And," continued his mother, "what if he should not only send you these presents onco, but every day, and every hour, and : on ever)- iimiuiu s "Oil, mother! what a woudewul fiiend lie would ! lie must be so rich and powerful and full of love !' "And if, besides all these good gifts," his mother added, "there was another and a far greater sign of his love, to you ; if not satisfied with providing for you the comforts and pleasures of ibis life, he had devised a f?ir ririulnrr vaii Jnvc ,i. 1A !..*< 1 fc> ? J"" J '.'" for ever, und exceed all you could imagine; and to do all this, had given his only Son to die a roost painful death !' ''Oh ! mother," &aid the child, beginning to see her object, "it would never be possible for roe to feci grateful enough for such wonilerful love?I should always think of that friend, I would do every thing I could to please him; yet still I could never love him enough." "No, truly, my child," said his mother, while she pressed his little hand in hers; .-.i ..".I -f r. ono who is never weary of doing good and of renewing his gifts, llo causes the fruit from year to year to swell and ripen on the trees, so that we and all creatures may not only live, but in our being. If you are thus thankful loan earthly friend for a single gift, how much more thankful should you bo to our Father in heaven, for his innum erable blessings ; and for having so loved the world that he gavo his only begotten Son, that whosoever believed in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." "Mother, what a wicked heart a person must have who could be ungrateful to God; how wicked it woUld be." "Very wicked indeed, my child," said his mother, kissing him ; "therefore bo careful not to be ungrateful to your dear friend, for all his benefits to you. If you do not love him, and strive, through the Divine Spirit,, to keep his commandment*, you will be the source of the deepest misery to me. I should weep for you as for a lost child ; we could no longer have any joy or peaceYou can have no happiness without the favor of God : nor could I have anv hone ? * r ~ for my Edward, if you nro not His ohild 1" The wisdom ov the serpent.?I observed timt when I began to preach several Frenchmen nnd young Creoles, having no great love for sermons, left Ihe church n/.d went to walk in my garden, where l ey amused themselves with making i it. _? ? ? wuqufia ox ray onoicesi nowers. r or some time I sought an expedient which, without wounding the livoljf sensibilities of those gentlemen, would oblige them to remain in tlie churcb and respect my flowers. : J found a very simple means of arriving at ' my end without betraying .my fateotions. Tn the mnnagerie, which I got up by degrees, ?ab a finis looking wild boar, which I bad trained upas a . watch-dog. On my going to say high mass I let him loose in the garden, At the sight of tbil n^w wander the marauders Kadi*' off with elf possible speed, afcdjMuH^feihe cligrob patiently to h tck. From the London Times. THE RESULTS OF NEGRO EMANCIPATION. At the beginning of the present month a public meeting was held in this city to celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the abolition of slavery. One of* the speeches delivered 011 that occasion has since been reprinted, and not without reason for it was fairly addressed to tho solution of a problem ou which most important interests have long been depending. Mr. llincks, the able ~r 1- - ^v/tv.uw. VI uui nniunmu iaiHIIU>, WJW IlC?t content wtih eulogizing the triumph of humanity winch tlio grand act of abolition expressed. lie outstepped this sphere of j superfluous panegyric and grappled with questions which still remain fur decision. The negro lias been emancipated, hut what ; have been "tho results of negro emancipa- j tion !" Justice to the black and freedom to | I the slave, no douht; but to the planter what? to tho colonics what??to the sugar-market what? The philanthropist need not scruple to entering th^bo supplementary questions, for in verv truth, their chief concern is wiLli philanthropy itself.?Slavery has been abolished not everywhere but in certain territories only, and unless abolition can be shown to have been uot partially, but generally a success it will to a certainty never be repeat- j ed in other countries. Arc Cuba and Lou- j isinna to follow in the steps of Jamaica? If j they are we must prove that Jamaica either I has been or can be a gainer by the experiment ! It was to this object that Governor Hindis j directed his observations, and to this we shall j now address our own. It is not onlr linf i maintained in the pages before us, tlint slave j labor is in reality dearer than free labor According to this argument, and indeed, to a body of evidence which we should be reluctant to doubt, cultivation ought to be cheaper and more successful in the British West Indies then in any slave plantations, bo they where they may. Mr. Ilinnks, however, j well knows that as a matter of fact this is i not generally the case, * * lie tells U9 that the advantages possessed by Cuba and Louisiana arc nj^-possessed 'through iheir j slaves but in spite of them. At this moment j labor is clearer in Louisiana than in the j Northern States of the Union, high as tlio rate stands in tliose parts. What the Louisiana planters gain is bv their astonishing economy of means combined with Wonderful excellence in manufacture, the trade being also protected by tariff. The safety of Cuba again lies in its virgin Boil though in this advantage it is rivalled by Trinidad. Apart however from these considerations, Wo are distinctly assured that whereas the labor consumed upon every pound of sugar produced may be estimated in Cuba at 3 cents aid in Louisiana at 3 2-10 cents in Trinidad it does not exceed 2 cents ami in Darbadoes reaches only 1 4-10 cents. These assertions are l>oth consolatory and stigges- j live nn<l we give th<yn publicity with all the greater willi ngness because whether sustainable or not they do at any rate proceed on fair and reasonable principles. The^ do not assume that enfranchised blacks are the only creatures to be regarded in calculating the results of emancipation. They do not ignore the prosperity of the colonies or, above all the claims of the blacks who are not emancipated yet. They are guided manifestly by the conviction that until we enn prove that the abolition of slavery while Krinnrinn; liKurto fViia nni?i-A Koo *\ #-?* MK<xinl>t ruin to agriculture our example will not be followed, and that until it is followed tlio work of philanthropy will bo but half performed. These principles we recommend to the carcful attention of obr Anti-Slavery Socioty at home. The members of that Association seem sadly in want of nn object and here is one made to their bands. Let them agitate against slavery in Cuba, by improving the results of freedom in Jamaica ]jet them help to prove, what Mr. Hincks /lonlarnt iKaf aiiw w!anlnwi /*" * ?nnl!?? ' uvviuivo bumfc uui |iinuioio v> t* 11 ICdliV ucm slaveholders out of the field by cheaper and better production. Io doing that they would be once more discharging the functions they profess, for slavery will got be long maintained either in Ouba or elsewhere when it is found to be a losing game. Tns parish minister. The author of Adam Bede, in sketching the rector of a parish says, bo was oot much of a preacher, lie preached abort moral sermons. But then be acted pretty much up to what he said. Qe dtdn\ aet op for being so different from other folks one' and then be | is iiko ere R> iwo pens we rost, anu tie made fdHcs love fcftd respect htm. Mrs. Poyaer t?ed to aay, be vu Iiko to-good raenl-o' victuals yoa were bolter for'him, without thinking onjtf > ' ' U Passing along the Weetmuinier Road, London, wbero the pavejnent is occupied by the tooUra of rival photographic estabiebments, Brown Mid.to Rebioeon, "Take care of yoor pockets, old boy.*^-Wfcy P adkod Jones, wbo wae, oa the party.? replied Bvowtt, f'bee*?? tkat torn? potat:?g picture?*^ y&:r' * 4 WILL POWEB. The power of the will over merely physical obstacles, cause us a succession of surprises as wo pass through life. Tliore is scarcely a difficulty it cannot surmount, short of those barriers placed between man and the Infinite, and every day, as science and human knowledge progress, these seem to recede, and man dives further into the recess ot mysteries once supposed to be bidden forever from liis gaze. Desires to know, aspirations for knowledge are useless without tliis propelling power. As well sent yourself in a car to which no locomotive is attached, and desire to find yourself ; nt the end of your journey. As well cinl j cosily into the recesses of your easy-chair, j and wish to look upon tho shrines of the old world. One who has just gotie frotn tlie world one of America's greatest sons, has well, exemplified in his life tho idea wo wish to convey. Few indeed, like Prescott, have j triumphed over obstacles that seem insur-j tnountable. Few from whom the gift of j vision has been wrested, or to whom it has | been denied, have lived to bless and instruct j the world. Out. of his darkness he has : made li<rht. to illuminate other minds 1 nnd though liis vision could not rest upon it, | has written his name high upon the scroll . of Fame among earth's noblest sons. And-whilewe were thinking of him, with sorrow that his career wiw so suddenly cut short, wo looked upou another, who though scarcely known to fame, has j earned its laurels bv his achievement: a I man, blind from his birth, who is n pro- i found scholar, a lucid and powerful thinker, j cheerful, buoyant, hopeful under his great j misfortune, and looking forward with the ' undimmud eyo of his aoul, to a future of toil and worthe deeds. Ilia eloquence, holds a large audience enchained, as with masterly skill he elucidates philosophical or scientific propositions, or more singularly still, speaks of the descriptive history of nations and of countries he can never hope I to see. And shut out thus from many of 1 the keenest pleasures of life, dead to the j world's beauty, to the loveliness of the hu- ; ninn fnnA tlwi IVPIiYA e\ f iKa lllimon f/\Pm fll(l ! glory of sunset?, and the grandeur of stormy, unable to draw for his own use from the fountain of knowludgn, clogged by the slavery of constant and utter dependence, the mind, the giant will of this man, all unfaltering, has not ceased to aid him onward lo achievement which many another, tin- ; trammelled and unopposed, world long since= have shrunk from. There is scarce a physical or a tnoral obstacle which may not be surmounted by perseverance, which is the fruit of powerful and well-directed will. From the Country Gentleman. BRINK A CURE FOE WARTS. Messrs. Editors: Having seen in the March number f llie Cultivator, a recommendation of a method of curing warts on horses, which seems lo me to be very cruel, I am induced to write my experience in curing them, believing that warts have on origin, and are the same, and the same remedy will cure, on whatever animal they may bo found. It is some years since t saw a young man in Salem, Mass., the back of whose hands were literally-covered with warts, manjT-of tliem larger and seedy, and very troublesome. I told him to go and wash his hands in tho tide flonm, (lie worked in a tide mill,) three times a day for one week, and to use plenty of soap and in a few weeks his warts wonld bo nmonj; | the missing?.He took my advice, and the warts left him in about two months. Cows often have warts on their udders I havo seen many, and some very had, which. I have cured by simple washing them after milking, for one or two weeks, with brine, wninh is my only remedy, and has rever failed of a euro. Markesan, Wis. S* P. A voting rrpntlflrrmn nnmnlaininir. n few ? j D D 1 n> - evenings ago, that a shower-bath bad been administered to him tbe evening before at a trial of one of our steam engine*, "elicited the remark from Miss??, that as he was so bright, perhaps tbey took him /or a fire, and that he ought to thank his start .that they did not utterly extinguish bim Whereupon the young gentleman laughingly declared he w^ more put out by her remarks than by the ducking he bad received A spirited woman caught her husband Jo the .act of b&aking op her hoops. The , exertion, op sometbiog else, had a singular effeot upon bim, for bis hair flew out by nnoaiuis. An Irwbmau who ?aa engaged at a drain and bU-pickaxo raised in-tbe air just as tbe clock eU*ok 4ire1?e, determined to work no more odtiTAffe* dinnor, let go tbe pickaxe and left it hanging there! Papa, reading in bearing of an intelligent child?"The men were then miutered on the deck preparatory to the di?ei?fcailtation.H ?*Ob, papa," width* cbild,?how fapny the nuen maarhete Wei; iHmr Mr urar OBIGIN OF VARIOUS PLANTS. Every geutlemau farmer onglit to be j somewhat acquainted with the origin anil history of nil ordinary plants and trees, so ! as to know their nature, country and con- i dition. Such knowledge, bes'uhs being 1 a source of great pleasure, and very desi- | rable, will often enable him to explain | plienomelia hi tho habits of many plants that otherwise would appear inexplicable. i Wheat, altliiuUgh considered by some as | a native of Sicily, originally came from tins j central table land of Thibet, where ii yet exists as a grass. Barley exists wild in tlin moiintnins rif Mimnlnv. brought from Xorth America. Millet, ' one species, is a native of India; another of Egypt and Abyssinia. Maize (India corn) is of native growth in America. Rico was brought from Africa, whence it was taken to India, and thence to Ku- ; rope and America, L'eas ate of unknown. ! origin. Vet?hes are natives of Germany. , The garden bean is from the East Indies, lJiu-k wheal cam*1 originally fiom Siberia and Turkey. Cabbage grows wild in Sicily I and Ni:j.les. The poppy was brought from } the Kast. The sunflowers from l'eru. ' Hops came tw perfection as a wild flower ! in Germany. Satl'ron came from Egypt, j The onion is also a native of Egypt, j Horseradish from South Europe. Tobacco j is a native of Virginia, Tobago and Cal i:r :_ a >i i. ... i .... i iiiurmu. AiuiiiHii species was aiso uei'ii ; found wild in Asia. Tbo grasses are most- ! ly native plants, and so are the clover*, j except lucerne, which is n native of Sicily. The gourd is an eastern plant. The potato | is a well known native of Peril and Mexico. Coriander grows wild near the Med iter. \ raneau. Atiisa was brought from the ! Grecian Archipelago. Genius and Laiiou. ? Alexander Hani-* ilton once said to an intimato friend : "Men give mo some credit for genius. All the 1 freriins llml I Iimvo lips iusf. in lliis ; When i I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. I explore it in itu boning*. Mj n;iinl l>ccomea pervaded with it. Then, ?be eft'orf which I make is what the people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought. Mr. Webster once replied to a gentleman who pressed him to speak on a subject of |1II|JUIUIWLU . i 41C aui'jdb IIHCICaiJl j nic deeply, hut I have not time. There, sir,'"pointing to a large pile of letters on his table, "is a pile of unanswered letters, to which I must ri pIv before the close of tinsession. (which was then three days ofT). I have no, time to master the subject so as to do it justice.11 "But. Mr. Webster, a few words from you would do so much to awake public attention to it. "If there l>e such weight in my words aft you represent, it is because I do not allow myself to speak on anv subiect till I have imbued mv mind J * * with it.' Demosthenes was once urged to speak on a great ami sudden emergency. "I am not prepared,''eaid he, and obstinately refused. The law of labor is equally binding on genius and mediocrity. CitBDini.e nobility*.?Parisian gossip speaks of a young now-made Italian count, whose dashing equipage in the streets of the French metropolis excite* no little curiosity and remark on account of his carriage panels conspicuously displaying along with his crest the number seventeen. It appears that, his father a poor fisherman, began his tV?rfnnr> with sj>venti'fin of the nettiesL Italian coins, by the means of which iulroilly turned in trade and (speculation he accumulated an estate of several millions. A record of Ins riso showed the curious coincidence ofseven teen and seventeenth being the measure of sums and dates of months and yenrs by which, and on which his repeated and remarkable successes ensued. Dying he 1>?0 m f,-. ?tlinn ' n (lA 11 n 1 Ut'ljUt'UllK'M UI3 llllllicuoo IUUIIIIO Hi parts to an only son and three daughters, Tho son, not averse to bearing a t^Ie but more anxious show tbe world the source of it and at the same time establish a memorial tribute t^a number which his father had reverenced almost religiously, purchased a countohip for the. purpose of dotting tho number seventeen on the shield of his coat of ar{n9.* Of course, a man so (paAv to exoose the obsourity of bis origin can have do greet regard for the distinct- , tioD of tL tide tbire Acquired ; and yet, For tbe very spirit dictating Bis courageous act* we should judge him of a temper jit for any patent of nobility. . ?? "Many a true heart that would ha7e come back Hke a dove to tbe aric, after its first transgression, btd" been frightened beyond recall.by the angry look and menace?the taunt, the savage charity o?an unforgiving spirit Tn* Family house of (he American"presi' dent, Thomas J^fferto* wn? burnC down dnring bis ab?enee?, '?Were none "of my books saved I" he atittod a fatbrite black serjraftLTrMNo raas^W^ ' tUo ftpljr, *'bot wo tavcd the flddle.Mv 1 HOME. It is when tlio intluenc.es at home are pure and good, that they are sublime and holy?but when they are impure and vicious, how wretched and fearful must he tho results! The heart that carries fond recollections of kitid monitions, encircled with a glorious halo of a father and mother's love> has an inward fountain of happiness, as pure and generous as the gushing tide from Lloreb to the famished Children, ll was this that gave tho inspiration to the author of 4,LIome Sweet Home" to indite those lines so dear to the weary Children of Toil in this busy work-day world although he was a wanderer upon tho broad lace or tno earth without a spot which he could dedicate as the sanctuary of the heart ' Home Sweet Home." "'Tis liome whore o'er the henrt it, Where e'er its living lr>'f>sur?-s dwellt In cahin or in princely hall, In forest hiuint or hermit eel!. "The lu-nrt gives life its herulty. Its warmth, its radiance and it? power, 'Tia sunlight to tlie rippling strenni, Alul ?<>ft dew to its drooping rtuwer " How careful, tlien, should we be without Home-Ties?not rudely break those golden cords that bind oilier hearts to out own. ltotoain a perennial source of purity and freshness to the mind. It clears aw?y the cobwebs J it qualifies tlio bot, rich draughts of sentiment ; it freshens up the sated edge of appetite ; it flows through tho whole bring like a babbling stream with verdure always green upon its banks* Without humor, we are either hot simooms or arid plains. Your Keats and your She!leys burn themselves out for want of it ; your Shakspcares and Dickenses are bo? irrigated by its delicious coolness, that they endure green and fresh forever. ? Oliver. During the prevalence of-the fatal miasma at Brrsoia, a Zouave hurrying into the mess* room, ioui iiis commanding omccr thai nis brollier had been enrried off two dajs before by a fatal malady, expressing his ap? prehension that the whole regiment would be exposed to a similar danger in thecoufse of tho following week. "Good heavens !rt ejaculated tho officer, "what, then, did lie lie of?"?"Why, my colonel," paid the Zouave, "lie died of a Tuesday." Singular ignorance.? During a recent trial there was a larce number of ladies prea, ?,i.? ?..,i ?.i.. ti it? ciiit w iiu liiu^cu a ^uiiuc Kiuiiuiiiiiig an iud wljile. Tlio usher calico out repeatedly. . ' Silence!" when llie judge mildly said, "Mr. Uslier, don't you know belter than to call silence when ladies are in court t" At a late agricultural show in England, an American exhibited a fast-trotting Amer* ican horse, which cantered and trotted re markably well, but which was a bad walker. A person looking on, after having admired the trotting and cantering, asked, about the walking?"?"Walking!" Raid Jonathan, "well, really don't know about that. We're not so tarnation slow in the States as to notice that." Modern* schooling.?"What are y writing there, my hoy!" asked a fond p^t rent the,other day of bis hopeful son, a shaver of ten years.?"My calnpothith^on,th^r.*, "What is the subject ?"-"Tnternational law, thir," replied the youthful (irotuis. "But^ really, I shall be unable to concentrate roy ideas awl give them relation if I am conthnntlv interrupted in thith manner by irrer* alent inquiries." m ? ? Modern English at Worcester.?An old lady of Worcester, descanting on a fight between two othpr lailies of the tribe, said, "If her had hit ns her had hit her, her had A killed her, or her her!" Such is the modern English in the old district of C?r*raft? B00, Time is precious, life is short, and consequently one must not lose a moment. A man of sense knows how to make the moat of time, and pots out his whole sum either to interest or pleasure : he is never idle, hot constantly employed either in Amusement of in study. A watrrv foundation.?The following question having been plnced on tbe paper Tor discussion by the members of the Leicester Young Men's Christian Association, "Does teetotaliem rest on a solid huswl*? *?ag answered it by writing underneath, "No, on a liquid A lorer received the following note, ao* companied by * bouquet of Dowers:?"Deef ?. I send bi the boy a bucket of flairs* They is like my love for a. The nke shajd menes kepe dark. The- dog fenll manes I am ure slaive. Itosis red And potis pail | mi luv for n shall never fa!e.w Marvellous.?The v#f last cnriotHy upokbn or in.the papei?, w*, wbeel HMWBH off n dog's tail when it *as * vtoggW. fit roau who discovered it iMwretir^jVpia ^jb* lio Hfe t? l?v0 on what 'mi owwk 5,1 ' ? ?; r To kqep your^wrt ponn?e1?jp^ 'ijjUo? chancery suit, and boMl Iivq upon 70^4 ? -