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Gtn.s will attend strictly to tlie sale of COTTON, BACON, GRAIN, And all other produce consigned to him. Ter Bonal attention giving to the filling of all orders for Bagging, Rope and Family Supplies. Liberal Cash advances made on produce in Store. June 24. 1859. 8 tf THE MARSHALL HOUSE. ABBEVILLE C. IL, S. C. TIIE UNDERSIGNED would respectfully inform the public thnt he has taken the large and commodious HOTEL, known as the ff nir a ucixjvr r ix/iTTcp ?? MXX1JIIUAXXVJUJU XJLUUUJU, situated on the .North-East corner of the Public Square. Having had many years experience as a Hotel Keener, heflntters himself that,.he -will he ahle to please those who may favofrhim witli their patronage. Hie table will alwavs be provided with the best the market affords. Every effort will be made to render his House home for the weary traveller. 1 . JOHNSON RAMEY. Pec. 16. 1867 33 tf VALUABLE H01SE&LOTFOU SALE. ri^HE residence of Mrs. Harrison, situated X, in one of the most eligible locations in Abbeville Village, J/t offered for aale on ren aunnujo lermB. ^ The Bouse contains ten rooms, Willi nil necessary out-buildings, ia a state of thorough repair. The Lot embraces five acre*; a large and handsomely improved Flower Yard, Orchard, Yineyard, Ac. There ia also a second building site on the premises. iy For further pnrticulors apply to JAS. M. PEKRIN, Esq. March 3, 1860, 45, tf HOWARD ASSOCIATION. PHILADELPHIA. A Benevolent institution ertablifhtd by special endowment, for the relief of the sick and Distressed, afflicted with Virulent and Epidemic Bisccuea. MEDICAL Advice given gratis by the Acting Surgeon t<> all whospply by letter with * description of their condition, {age/occupation, habits of life, <be..) and in caaea of ex treme poverty,Medicine furnished free of charge Valuable.lleporla on the New Remedies employed in tLe Dispensary, eeDt to the afflicted in sealed letter envelopes, free of'charfofr *T\W>_ or three Stamps for postage will h6. aSeptible. Address, DR. J. SK1LLIN HOUGHTON. Acting Surgeon, Howard Association, No. 2 Sauth Ninth Street,-PAiiadelpeia, Pa. By order of thQ??>irectora. EZRA D. HEARTWELL, President , Gzo. FATRcniLP, Secretary. [Jah.2Q,12m ^HE STATE -QrsOUTH GAROLINA. * ABBEVILife DISTRICT. In Eguity. X Samufli' jMcBryde, ) vb._- _ j josepti McUrydo, ) Bill for Partition. Joshua McBryde, v and others. ) IT APPEARING that James McBryde and the children of John McBryde (whose number and names are unknown,) Defendants in the above stated case, reside beyond tbc limits of this State, on motion of S.<fc A. McOowan. Comp. Sol., Ordered lhat saifd Defendants do annear. and nlead. nnnwnr nr ilnmm' ? ' Bill within three months from the publication hereof, or the same will be taken pro confesio againat them. WM. H. TARKER, A. D. Commissioner's Office,) Feb'y ?8, I860. J 45 3m J. Xj. olarel, .Jfp .BBFAIRKR OF WATHCHES, CLOCKS AND rJEWELRY, HO DOE 3' DEPOT, 8. 13 prepared'frith all necessary toolijmra'mal?r>al?tOido anything in his line of huni. rjes* af the.l&wart r?U*. AU work waij?nt#d to do well 'for twelve months, if not 6end it baok and it*iTlll bo done free of oharga. Give ine atrial and aatialy yourtelvea. Terms c?*h. . Juno 17, 1859,7-12io, iHS^MmFloEsE; Qa&ffyHsre WeU&flha^ott Office, Main St. ooiLixrqip^x^, s. c. *T7H18 irell kncate-EtjablUhment has been e X thoroogbljgMVtted and improvedyand i? qoV permanenf?open6d for the*, nwommodatlon of-the publw. -firrty attorttibn Will be givejl tosap^y the frahUi Mid comfort *bf Pa wwuo. wavCT ujuueraie. -r* 1 ' * * ,*rx. i, ' v G. T. |fA8Q?rt Proprietor. Apfil 6, JLBftO, %nt .. '.-??%* mmmmrn' < iVca befora you buy. aiigo',^ 1600,^^^^ THE INDEPENDENT PRESS, BY LEE & WILSON/ ABBEVILLE S. C. Two Dollars.y'ln Advance, or Two Dollars and Fifty Cents at the Expiration of the Yeartpgf All aulipcriptions not limited at the <ime of subscribing, will be considered n indefinite, and will be continued until arrearages are paid, or at the option of the Proprietors. Orders from other States must invariably be accompanied with the Canh.?|g3 O.A NDIDATE S. For the Legislature. The friends of W, JAMES LOMAX announce liirn a candidate for the Legislature at llie ensuing election. The, friends of Dr. A. W. LYNCH reppect" fully announce him as a candidate for llic ?cx Legislature. MANY VOTERS. For Tax Collector. -& ?*&/ ^ Mr. Editors?Please announce W. R. Hilton aB a caudidate-fof the office of Tax collector as the ensuing election and oblige. ^ MANY VOTERS. The friends of Capt. G. M. MATTISON reopectfully announce him as a candidate for Tax Collector at the next election. The friends of JAMES A. McCORD respectfully announce him as n Candidate for Tux Collector at the next election. The friends of Dr. J. F. McCOMB respectfully announce him as a Candidate for Tax Collector at the next election G5^~" We are authorized to announce S. A. IIODGES as a Candidate for Tax Collector, at the ensuing election. The friends of Cupt. W. S. HARRIS respectfully announce him as a Candidate for the oHiee of T<ur L'olltvlnr of AMii>rill? llintricl nt the next eleclion. Z?T The numerous friend* of WESLEY A. BLACK Esq., respectfully nnnonnce him ns a Candidate fur Tax Collector at the next election. The friends of IIENIIY 3. CASON respect nlly. annqounce him as a Candidate for Tax Collector,atbe ensuing election. ii, For Ordinary. ra?" The friemln of .TOTTN A TTTTKTPIf . ? epectfully announce him a candidate for the office of Ordinary, at tlie next election. The friends of Col. J. G. BASKIN respcctfully announce liini a candidate for the ollice of Ordinary, at the next election. THE ONLY ARTICLE UNRIVALLED IN MARKET WITH IMMENSE HOME AND EUROPEAN" DEMAND. TIIE reason whv.^ia, that by Nature's own process it restore* the natural color permanently after the'jialr becomes gray; supplies the natural fluids, and thus makes it crow nn bald heads, removes all dandruff, itching, and heat from the Bcalp, quiets and tones up the nerve*, and thus cures all nervcus headache, and may by relied upon to cure all diseases of the eonlp and hnir; it will stop and keep it from falling off; makes it 119ft, glossy, healthy and beautiful, and if used by the young two or three times a week, it will never fall or become gray. then reaaer, read the following and judge for ^ourselves: Nbw York, Jan. 8 1858. Messrs. O.. J. Wood &,Ogr:;r-GentlemenT: Having heard a gooij deal aboife Prof. Wood'a Hair Rrttorative. and my hair being quite gray, I road* up my mind to lay aside the prejudices which I, in common with a great many persons had agdnab all munner of patent medicines, and a short time ago I commenced using j?our article, to test for myself. .The result has been so very satisfactory that i am very giau J (JJU,BO, ana ID JUSUCe W J'OU, as well as for the encouragement of others who may be as gray aa I was bat who having my prejudice without my jenfQpa for setting it aside, are unwilling to give your Restorative a trial till tliey have further proof,' and tho best proof being oocular demonstration, 1 write you. this letter, which you may show to any such, and also direct them to me for further proof, who am in and out^bf the N. Y. Wire Railing Establishment ovcry^ftay. My hair is now rjts natural color and much improved in appeaafljfe every way being jjlos sier and thicker and much more liealthy looking. I am, Yours Respectfully, HENRY JENKINS. Cor. Columbia and Carroll Sis., Brooklyn Livingston, Ala., Feb. 14. 1858. Fbof. Wood?Dear Sir.: Your Hair Restorfc tive lins dono much good in this partof.the country. My been slightly diminishing for several ^ars,' caused, 1 suppose, from - t ?? i-r??. T n o>i?i?v wui ii nucu ^ vr un UUIWJ Oil lUlDllli, L have been using your Hair Restorative for six weeks and I that I have a fine head o hair now growing, after having used all other remedies known to no effect. I think it the most valuable remedy dow extant, and advise all who are afflicted that way to use your remedy. You can publish this if j'ou think proper. Yours, Ac., S. W. MIDDLETON. Philadelphia, Sept 9,1867. Thok. "Wood?Dear Sir: Your Hair Restorative is proving itslf beneficial to me. The, front, and also the back part of my head alfbost lost its covering?was in fact bald. I 'JtfVe used but 2 halt pint bottles ,?f yoar Restore tive, and now the top of my head is well studded with a promising crop of yoapg hair and the front is also receiving its benefit I bavo tried other preparations, - without any | benefit whatever. 1 think froMfrlyLtOwn per Booa> recommendation,I c?trtb4WMBP?oy others to try it. Yours, recpectftffljTO^V D. EL.THOMA9, M. V, |No. 4$4'Vine Street. The Restorative is pat up inbottle# of three sizes, viz: large, medium. pdJHMitll; the small holds'^ a pint, and retail^ for of*- dollar wr bottle: the medium holda at leaat twenty per cent more in proportion than the smalf, retails for two dollars per bottle; the liflrge holds quart ?0 per ccut^paore in proportion, and retails (or |8 k ' 1 v : O. J. WOOD^^OJTropri^pjk, 444 Broadway, Nt^Yoil, and lH lJarkW^t.r St, Ktaie -l^ird soldby all cood Bmiwirf* 1 ' ?'""J"1 [Wom the Southern Field SkJ jFtre*ulf.~[ THE BATTLE OF HVgL The battle of life? With its whirl and its strife, Its thorns and its rosts so rare; The Geld of the slain? And the sunshine and rain, OhI who shall its secrets declare f 'Tis n myst'ry rnre? With its gloom and its glare, A race from its morn to its eve ; The living and dead? And the hopes that arc fled, ii,. ? ?i VU|U1?| VUU ?VU IT IIIUU W C WOllTC. Thfl glory of youth? With n semblanco of truth, Soon dies like a wave of the sea ; 'Tis riches and gold? In the hearts of the old, "The parasite sapping the tree. Th i buttle ol life? For the widow and wife, lias many a token of ill; And hopes of a dayLike the meteor's play, Flnol. o...l t:n . Tlic wino on tho lip? Yce, the sweetest we sip, Will leave, like the serpent, a sting ; For ihe joys and bliss? Of a world such as this, Depart like a bird on the wingt Clio. HOW I TOLD MY LOVE* ni. it _i?:? -r - ?- *?. - vu, liiu ^iunc? ui u Biuigu-nue in lue sparkling, bracing air of a Canadian winter I The sky clear and exhilirating?keenly bright, but with a different deg'ee of lucidity from that of a bright summer's day. Broad, expanding plains?the city receding behind us, as the horses, leaping onward to the music of the chiming bells, made for the broad, boundless country. The fir forests are clasped in a shadowy, ghostly slumber. Far away on our right nre those pathless funeral grove# where the wolves aggrerro n Sn linnri rn/la tlm Infl Iiao m ^|*%W *11 uuiiui uuo? JLV iuo twib I IV^O a i lU^c of liills sloping down to the river, which is looked upon in the iron manacles of the Winter King. Ahead, and right before us whither we are bound?over waste and plain and clearing?lies a snugly sheltered, spot the headquarters of the'lumberer'and the voyagcur. Our destination is not quite 80 far- .44Tbissaid deatinationJBra broadly spread, lowlying farmstead, witB its almost numberless oatbouses, consisting of cattle sheds and dairies, corn stores, rooffings for winter fodder, wood stacks, and other concomitants surrounding the dwelling, nil palisaded by zigzag fences, as so many outworks to protect the comfortable citadel. "Within it, warm fires blaze and sparkle from the huge ^nd odorous logs crackling on the broad bounteous hearth. T- *1. - - ir iu? great common cnamoer, ratted and picturesque as an antique gotbic ball, are warm hearts and flashing eyes. Bearded men and fair woman are there?laughing maidens and strapping young bunters, wbc -t?y|;just shaken the snow^off .their furs a* tbe portals. Despite the^atern, yet musical baritone of tbe singing wind, as it goes bj stinging cheeks, biting noses into^.pprple. wiu muKing toe uiooa ungip, shouts ot mirtn and l?ugbter rise Above tho boreal blasts ; and our leaping sleigh .gliding?lying along ratber?to1*the music of the soft musical b^lle, is fant fast, approaching ..its tcnnin 4t* ? us. ** 4In the meantime,' asks the reader, 'wlAi iwtnni?t flii? ?U!nl> 9' T .W .Mv.gn I jl uaaicu iv nuowcr First, there was your bumble servant, the narrator, Dick Harding by name, but a few months back from - the banks of the Isis with the 'bar1 in prospect. I add a few o! my personal items.?Rather good looking; a fair shot; can hit with wonderful vigoi straight out from the shoulder; am five feet ten and growing, can piny the fiddle, a g?ipe of pool, and have the temper of an angel. I have been one of a party of adventurous sportsnfjfMgoing in* for some tiling worthy ot Alexander, and, with fishing-tackle, ("pears and shooting-iron* had done no inconsiderate execution among the denizens of tbeX&jyjlMiftnjrooda and sounding 'rapids,'and banted ttte bt^otii own bold and picturesqdct^Btiveasea^ Enough for myself. Now for my' companions. Place aux JQqnut, therefore-?for' foestlitigby my sift,trapped up in rugs and warm furt^-if Lola d'Arvilj^?a bright eyed, roMflpg. war ny U8imi?D, ?a Jovtlv a girl-Woma#WfiVenteen as gffttx^of man ey<a reated <^wj>acently upon. TOe Canadian mother and tbe TVrenchlHstter were expression her Q#hj^Jn?r playful, lambent eye? had oxe: cW?&" tfott sorcery upon, J^Efctipn ofV>oio? 'OW? /9*6 ,Dew* ? ?? great body fit our feet, and aided to keep < them warm. I bad known her brother in ihe Canadian Rifles?had killed a 'bar' at the'Saltlicks' with liim: had met T>otn nnrl her family on board 8 Lawrence steamer, i and was a guest at their bouse, enjoying their frank, bounteous, hospitality. 'Hurrah!' Through the keen, sonorous air, sleigh and horses bound along. 'Cling clang!' go the chiming bells. 'Crick? crack !' goes the long thonged whip, with a sharp, cheery, significance. My 'Mada waska Cariole,' a sleigh which is tbo perfection of locomotion, is not less perfection than the fiery steeds, with their sinews of elastic steel which I drive. Driving sleigh-tandem is the easiset thing in the world when you are used to it. I < was a member of the 'Tandem Club/ an^ reckoned a crack lmnd;of course. -.I ^jMulj r| ted in my 3kill as--1 bore my rosy compaiv ion through the air, and the whip ^ent 'crack?crack!' like a double-barrel going off anrl tlin accoot aonr* and .---iiliimAJ 'Ob! sweet echoeR of a far. distant wedding bell!' I thoiight^and tho crisp enow was split and shattereijloto diamonds under the grindings of thdiftofs?and the attrition of the 'runners,'and with an exhilaration I could not repress, I gave a vigorous 'hurrah!' which conveyed itself to Lota wrapped up in moose and bear-skins, and. warm as toast. A sweet, girlish laugh echoed my exulting shout. x uu ujipuur 10 enjoy iuis, Mr. Harding,' she said. ? 'If I don't?' 'Crack?crack !' filled up the hiatus. What a pair of beauties HPhoebus Apollo ndrejr^drove their like down the steeps of heaven. The wily Ithacan never 'raised'such cattle when be cleaned the stables of Rhesus of her horses. >,fCrack? crack !' and the horses neigh andHws'their arching neeks, and the bells are chiming and tinkling, and the mad, exulting rush uplifts one lika wino. I remark to myself thnt the slcy lias deepened into an intense, still, darkning blue? darkening with a strange, uncarlhly, tene.brous inkiness, betokening a coming snow storm."*-No matter?'Windy Gap' is right ahead, and the welcome lights will blaze out of^tlritfcaftements soon, for the afternoon is. wearing. On we go, but I do not seo them yet; and yet?but no, it's nil right. * t? 'Are you warm?quite snuc, dear Lota said I, half turning to look at the rosy, exquisite face peeping forth with so much furtive coquetry from its encamment of white cosy furs. 'Oh, go comfortable, ah3 answered, with a nestling movement, and a smile which made my heart leap joyously upward. But my attention was called away to the croepiog, crepuscular inkineas of ibe sky. 1 It wa^ffgbt, yet not daylight, but blue light to coin a war*!; that wintry blue of livid darkening steel, always the percursor to a ' fierce change in the weather. This only mo/^A f 1 unuu iwtci pittms oi.-BDOw gieam witu 1 a lustre the more dazzling and intense. I remarked this but wjth a momentarily di1 vided and wavering$ense. 1 I had never (familiar as we bad grown, > and I was 'honest as thoskin between your ' brows1 as she was in fact) I had never said ' dear Lota* before and the words were yet 1 in mine ears like a sweet old burfhen. 1 ? ' ---? ? 1 ? * T ? .v? MU? OIUI ail lllf.l can UUU SOUl, Blll l ' bad neveivlold it. I yearned to tell her so now.; but I thoyght ulicarcely fair?not'up > to tba>mark of my manhood?to take wbat seemed an unfair advantage of tbe protect* , tion I was supposed to?xtend over her. I f magnanimously resolved'io wait?choking ; down the words?but not'fpr long. Meantime,'Crack, cracfcl' went the long I whip, ?nd still, 'cling' went the ch imiog i vbell?, and the horses beld on with unabated i pace and splendid vigor, but?where bad 'Windy-gap'gone to all this time? our time wasup aud we should be tbere by this time. goodness!' exolaimed Lota, all at once, i uow strange.(&e sky looks; we shall have more snow?jKbeavy fall, too. We are very long going, ITancy/'fhe continued re flectively, 'you naye'been driven there quicker then tfiis O,Heaven! she cried,, with a Buddennws of revelation, 'can we have lost the tracft. The klank question harped with a horrible jar on my most vivid nerves. Now or neve^jrM. the trrueto be quite oool. 'No, I th ink not,' I replied, wttkgpnroed carelessness,-'we shall jteSie to our frfndmark . presently. jgf' * A clump of ?*b ojd mill farther on.;. , .Yes,' she added* *1 fetoilect; but we should?' li ^ uave pHweo. um ion|,w una. UD, 1 Tear w#*re ?. - j '-L" ' *- ' A cold efeUl toistfroe m 1 ?4plit^ came all at or.ce from windward, wailing like a death-cry?a prolonged howling, and then it died away. The horses halted, trembling; only tho shivering tinkle of- the bells broke the death silence that fell like an eclipse over all. ? What is that!' asked Lota, in a shuddering whisper, as she clutched my arm. I listened. 4lt is the wind sighing and dying away in tho pine forest,' I answered. t A -.1 ? J ? ? - - - miu no uu not go near mo forest,' sfie raid. 'Uark ! there it is again. Ob, what ?tohal can it be f Again tbe indescribably hideous and lugubrious sound broge, clearer, nearer. It increased, it multiplied. The horrible eresCciidoJ bowling, shrieking, and raving was not that, of tbo wind this time. | "'Metcifiii God !' gasped Lota, 'the wolnever understood till that moment what the concentrated essence of literal, deadly borro might mean. I never experienced the shock before or since; and 1 have, in my hunting excursions faced ray danger and played out the game manfully. To have I A .1-- i * ... jusi me wny was terrible enough ; but the wolves! and Lota! An instant I was numb and dumb. It was true, however. The severity of the weather, the migration or scarcity of the animnls on which these ^unclean creatuies preyed, had made their hunger a raging devouring madness. They were encroaching on ^civilized territory, and losing their usual characteristic and craven cowardice where approaching the habitations of men, haunting village and settlement. Wo to those in their path. As the infernal howl rose lirigeringly again, the horses darted away with a shrill neigh of fear, and I guiueu luem beginning to recover myself in an opposite direction, while 'Terror,' my noble hound, stood up, with every fang bared, and every'hair on end, waiting for the enemy he had already scented. If my good horses bad gone on so admirably at first, they sped off now like -''Arrows from the bow, for the madness of fear adAaA ? : - - utu iu meir ?peea, as mat ot hunger did our pantling pursuers. I was .growing cold; Lota was pale, but calm. 1 felt proud of ber, though it was certain that if we escaped not speedily, the brutes world run us down, and then, horror of horrors ! what a fate for her ! T i. i l ? . - m. uhu two rines, a revolver, ammunition, ppear, and a wood hatched in the 'sleigh.' 1 conveyed my intention to Lota. 'Can you load these weapons with these cartridges! I asked. 'Yes.' WAS tlie answer? and alia a Fuller,* and a'Manton'with true hunter's skill. I took ona^riAe?look back?the pack was increasing. I fired, and Lota loaded; and one after another fell, to be 'devoured by tbeir ravenous comrades, and still tho horses sped on. The accu'sed things were for nil this gaining irround. Hnnlrfo f??? L OO IICIUUling, were at my heart as I turned to tbe sweet girl whose life or death were all in all to me,and 6aid : 'Lota! if we die together, remember that I loved you?nono but you ! I tell you now if I may never again.' 'Kill me first,' sho whispered. 'I hear your words; I echo them. You bave my L-l-i n? i - i uuuru mcuara?' Oil, Lota! best beloved ! what a moment to confess.'. And I know not if I felt pain or gladness most. ^. 'There are now no secrets between us,' v 7 said Lota, smiling; take Luis rifle; give me the pistol; one kisa?so. Tliev +, ?-J ~ me from them at any cost. I thought my ears wquld have split at their dreadful yells, forthe'y were now upon us,opening out out to amrpund us; and though the horses held bwely on, I dreaded every instant that sheer terror would paralyKft'iem. It is in ix?sit>lflto winoaif* unutterable horror tbat was circling us both; .young lovers wi.h besting hearts forever from tbat liqur, interchanged with each other.' With lolling tongues, eyes of Annie, hoarse deep growls, they bad ceased to bavjtpd howl?they wefatigtiVg in npon us.Wibroarked one hugpP^tfa#^ fci advarfce of the resi; bis object,' hying t^Jeap I um sitngo from mmj, 1 Bred? raiseed Lira! The next ^^ent Lis bnge bulk cams sorsrabl'mg over itya. paws were on me; bis fitly btfath on j my of our friends, and brought them out in hot haste to aid ns. We were eaved ; and as 1 bore bore ber fainting form into the hospitable hall, and clasped ber tenderly to my bosom, yoA may gness, how sincere was the gratitude I breathed in sitence to Heaven. It was thVprelude to a wedding, which occurred soon afterward ; and yon may be sure I never forgot my battle with the wolves how pluckily my noble Lota backed me, or the somewhat original but apropos mode in which 4I Told my Love.' NOTES ON NUBSING.-HINTS TO PLANTERS. P. C. J. W., of Hagley (whose initials will explain themselves to many of our readers,) lias contributed to the Pee Times a j review of Florence Nightingale's 'Notes on Nun.ing,' and bloses with tho following hint6 to planters.? Courter.% We have thus gone through Miss Nightin gale's little book, avoiding everything which did not seem of immediate importance to our community, and omitting, perhaps, the best and most profoundly Btudied part of her work. We do trust, however, that 'the Notes on Nursing' will have the sale it deserves, and will be made tho vade mecurn and manual of every planter an I overseer in the South. If so, it will not only be the British soldery who will have reason to blew* the name of Nightingale. """ : ' * A few words to uur brother planters before we conclude, which shall be drawn from our. own experience : Build a good hospital, in which light, fresh air, freedom from draughts, privacy Anrl lilfiatilinpRft ran ka Ahoui'o/I It will be Answered that hospitals cost money ; so does everything in this world. The price of one negro will build one suitable to a large plantation, and wo know ok a place4&.tthiuh there wa? a daiy addition of two acre*1 hoeing caused bo the erection of the hospital. Put the best woman you can possibly get as your plantation nurse; you will soon be repaid. ?. FitllAr Riinflrinfo/1 " ? ??uh imopuni jruurncii or get a suitable person to do so; Why should not the wives of overseers learn nursing as a profession 1 This would , on well regulated places, add considerably to thoir pecuniary means, and be of^Oxtraordinary advantage to the proprietor. We may hope, too, that the mistress and young ladies of tbdbpface will not disdain to give llieir personal attention to those by whose labors they are supported* Charming as beauty is at the ball or ' at the play; graceful as it is jo the calm -delights of the family circle,,we think it qowhere so fascinating as when WHtchjng by 1- -< ?- * ? -- ?v wui/u ui tun puor auu uiv wmicued, soothing the anguish of the* tortured body, and 'cheering the bid of death ?*itb the hope of immortality.' ^ ^ Lord Brougham.? The Scotchman very significant compliment to Air. UlsUstone'a oratory, and ayefy striking incident in itself, appears not to have been marked by our London cotemporaries. . We mean the presence of Lc? Brougham within the walls of tbe Ho a' ? Commons fur tbe first time during very nearly thirty y&ars? that ic, since he left it rn 1830 to tftcome Lord Cbancellorfit is - pretjrJgjUl, Jdah^^ttbatnLofd Brougham left tbe4B?[tf ( ^HKraimons, tb preside over lb# 126^6. of Lords, *'Uh tbe utmostjpain add reluctance ?thRtim own most earp?j^jftlrro was Dot to XJt?|t any office whic^'neodsitftted the al*flS?>,|?fc position'j# iriTiemb?r fdr Yorkshire, and ^at'iid'^fook a portion nominally ana muiariy btgher only at (be most urgent entreaty and rirtual-commat)<1 of bis party. Since his removaHtbC' fljS never once been to enter as auditor* tho-e walls whjch bod so often echoed *4$ hjs eloquence. On.^PrlnaV fflght for*2?tf first time be overcame this remarkable reluctance, aqdtbep tooj,Jbr the first time'it .if undersUXK^^l^jjljp tbenoan wtf6^*.o<^ cupies the posiUon'he hitDBoIf to lorfg held abrivalled . JH$ i^jdisputed?the orator in tbe^itisnjlogite^ddnitDSoy^ AmKRICA, AS B^bTa MSPtCAL JtAN. ?A vigorous and ^certainly!) fCtj plfcin ipoken *M. ihat ^Ucoar^ t^^ We are ft nation o^jgluWafl*. oarprefloherai nre ordained g)utftm?, t tailing l'Sjj^lBar* ^WfflyTIH 8J /y^ - "7 o PEB JUEY AMOHQ THE CHlHXtS. When a Chinese is examined on oath, the formula of cutting off the head of a white cock is performed by the witness, who is told that, if be do utter the truth the blood of his family will alike that of the cock,, be spilt and perdition overtake them. My long experience of the Chinese compels me to believe no oath whatever? nothing but the apprehension of punish* menl?affords any, the least security against perjury. In our Courts In China, various forms have at different time& been used? cock bnllMiltnrr tlifo ^ ** ? ?y ?uw vivaniug VI ? JiiWAJ V* pottery; tlio witness repeating imprecations on himself, and inviting the breaking op of nil his fallacies if he lied ; the burning of a piecc of paper inscribed with *a form of oath, and an engagement to be consumed in hell, as tbat paper on eartb, if lie spoke not the truth;?these and other ceremonies hare utterly failed in obtaining any security for veracity. While I was Governor of llong KoDg an ordinance was passed abolishing the oath-taking, as regards the Chinese, and punishing them severely as perjurers when they,/gave false testimony. The experiment has succeeded in greatly fortifying and encouraging the i utterance of 'truth and in checking, obscn rity and mendacity. I inquired once of an influential person in Canton what were the ceremonies employed among themselves where they sought security for . truthful evidence, lie said there was one ti&mple in which a promise made would be more binding than if made in any othferlocality ; but he acknowledged their tribunals bad no security for veracity. There is a Chinese provero wincn say*, ".run tali, pull clmou," meaning "Without blows no truth," and. the torture is constantly applied,to witnesses in judicial case?. The Chinese religiously respect their written, and generally., their ceremonial, engagements?th$y,jUlose face," if these are dishonored. But little disgrace attends lying, especially undetected., and unpunished, and the art of lying is ondxroi the best understood arts of government. Lies to deceive barbarians are even recomi mended and encouraged in some . of their classical books.?A Visit to this Phillip' pine .Islands. By Sir John Bowringt S. s. d., f. r. s. %; VLOVE OF COUimiY, ^ There is a love of country.- wliich Comes uncalled for, one knows not who. It comes in the very air, the-bye/lhe^Mkr; tho'^nstinctp, the first taste of mother's railk,th? : first beatings of* the heart, the faces of brothers and sisters, aqc$ the; loved father and mother?the Iaucrh nf.nl?vm*(?i.c>tKi> ywni* - . ?;r * ,r > : old wiRdir tree, and well, and school-house, the bees at work in the spring, tho note of the robin evening,' the lujf^ivjfy the cows -COta^^borne, the siuging* t>oojr, tlio catechism, the visits of neighbors, tho general training? all -things which mako childhood lir.ppy, begin iJ,; and then;-' ao the*ago of love and the' boom of home and security md of property ,?nder law^^oihesto life^ j^od as the stoi^gbearouo&,and a^vtfae book.o* newepnper relatea-jho less" fa?a|$]LJfi** & otljer lands, and tUo publio and the privatB 5 ^ J&JpZr-,+_..<kr -Jot/.